Don't Give Up

Guess what? Your sin is not a secret to God. Every struggle, every battle, every time you feel overcome by temptation; God sees you and loves you. If you are anything like me then you’ve heard over and over again, God can’t bless a mess. I’m here to tell you that is exactly what He does.  Where you are right now in your life is not a big surprise to the One who created you. Long before you were conceived God knew this moment in your life would be this moment in your life. He also knows the next decision you will make. Do you? Probably not but God does. That is one of the mysterious beauties of life. Regardless of the path you will choose to go down God is already there. Of course His desire is that you choose Him and His ways in all things but regardless of whether we do or not, when we belong to Him, He is still there cheering us on when faced with our next decision. I remember the season when I came back to God after suffering from a deep depression. I desperately wanted to please

Gulp! Time to come clean. I have a confession to make. I mean the bible says in James 5:16 “Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.” And if confession leads to righteousness and that leads to powerful and effective prayer then who wouldn’t want to confess?!? So here goes. ~ I spent many years being fake. Man that feels good! I love getting stuff off of my chest. I spent the first part of my Christian walk convincing everyone that I had the perfect little life, with the perfect little family and that God answered all of my prayers in a nice timely fashion. While in the meantime I was buried in debt, fighting with my husband and crying daily in my pillow. It was a tough season. But I had been taught to “speak those things that are not as though they were”. There is some truth to this but there is a correct way to do it and a very wrong way to do it. I was doing it all wrong.