The Holy Ghost Movement...

I was sitting with my friends tonight in "the holy of holies" (the name we have for our kitchen table) chatting about really truly knowing a 'good guy' when you see one. As we sat I listened to the usual banter of "you can never really know someone by seeing them" and I don't know he is a good Christian young man" when it hit me. We will know if he is a decent young man or not. How you ask? If the Spirit of the Lord lives within you, you will be able to tell. God gives us the Spirit of discernment but not only that, the Holy Spirit will enlighten you as to who this person is. Often we rely on ourselves to show us these things. But how about trusting in the God who knows the past, present and future of you and the individual to lead you. I have learnt that there are somethings we leave up to God but there are others that we try to do ourselves as if God will not be interested in the little things. I have realised thought that God is concerned about me holistically. He is interested in every part of me even the things that I don't think matter. Even the things that we believe are not big enough to handle, When we give God our ALL we think it to mean we give him the big stuff or the bad stuff that we cant deal with. I am here to let you know that God wants everything. ALL meaning the good, the bad and the ugly. The big things, little things and the ones in between. Give God ALL and watch him workout everything. Put him to the test, I am sure you will not be disappointed.

Trusting in you

Trusting God is one of the most difficult things for me to do sometimes. Why you wonder? I have been pondering on it for awhile now and I have come to the conclusion that it is because of my lack of faith. If Faith is the substance of things hoped for, for things that I do not see then that is so why I do not trust God very easily. It is very easy for us to believe what we see. It is so easy for us to believe the gossip we hear in passing. It is so easy for us to believe our politicians and earthly leaders; however it takes so much more out of us to trust in a God we do not see. A God that many deny exist. A God that we only know really because we have experienced him and seen him work in our lives. Isn't that enough though? Isn't the fact that God has shown up in our lives and situations enough for us? Isn't the fact that he has done it before enough? Well I can safely say that it is enough for me. I have doubted God long enough. I have allowed the enemy to pay mind tricks on me. I am fed up. So I'm trusting in you Lord. I am by faith believing that you can and will do what you say you will do. You have said it and that settles it!

No More Masks

I was once at a place where I hid myself from others I even hid myself from God. It is interesting because looking back I had no idea what I was doing. To me, I was hiding who I really was from people so that they couldn't hurt me. In my mind, the only way to protect myself, was to build these walls. These walls soon became masks that I couldn't take off. The walls blocked not only people from coming in, but God from working on me.
We sing the song Brokenness is what we long for, Brokenness is what we need but do we have a clue what this brokenness is? I didn't until it happened to me. Until I arrived at a point where I could do nothing but cry. Fall on my face and be naked and unashamed before God. Until I came to the place of complete surrender. Until I became vulnerable to life and others, trusting them with who I really was. I am in no way saying that people didn't hurt me when I did, but God was able to heal. I thank God for the opportunity to be broken before Him. I thank God for healing me, I thank God for rebuilding the correct mindsets. I praise him that now, I have no more mask.
It is really difficult to be vulnerable to human beings. Mainly because,lets face it, we are human beings. But God isn't. He is the only one we can confide in and be 100% sure that He gets us. We can lay our all at the alter. Our everything. Vulnerable and broken before Him and watch him heal!