Satan is bigger than I am and should I choose to fight him, I will lose.

Every day the battle within me is whether I should fight him or not.

Every day!

I get so tired….so, so tired.

You don’t understand!  Maybe you do!  But some days I just can’t stand it.

Satan wants badly to affect my days.  I think he laughs at my struggles.

He also knows what I have done in my life.  He knows of my lies; he knows of my cheating; he knows of the pain I have caused others.

He knows I can’t escape my past.  He knows it and wants it to be strong in my mind EVERY DAY.

Satan is bigger than I am

But God is even bigger.

I know this!

Satan, you can’t have me.

My God saved me from my past so I don’t have anything to escape from.

My God controls me.  I am His and He is mine!  Through Him I can accomplish anything!

My mind is His!

My heart is His.

GO TO HELL SATAN!

There will be days where you think you have me; when you smile cuz you think I am weak.

Yes, Satan, I am weak; I am broken, but you’re not just dealing with me.

Jesus Christ has my back and even as I sit, weak and broken, He is my strength.

Do you hear me Satan?

The same power that rose from the grave is in me!

I’m not the boy you used to toy with.

I’m not the lost soul that let you control his every thought.

I’m not that guy.

He is dead!

He went into the water and I came up.

New with the power of Christ within me.

Never again!

Dear God,

My heart is yours!  My mind is yours!  No one else will do.  There is no other place I want to go.  Fill me with Your Grace.  I need you!  Give me strength to NOT fight.  Give me the strength to say no, raise up my hands and let you fight for me.

Thank you Jesus!  Thank You for pulling me out of the depths of evil living.  Thank You for making me new.  Thank you for the awesome people you have put around me.  Thank you for covering my family with Your love.  Pull them closer to you Lord.  I pray their hearts are open to you.  I pray they come Home.

Lord, work in the hearts of those who come here.  Lord be with them all, but Lord, for those who come here and just read and leave…..Lord, they’re hurting.  I feel their pain.  I know it’s hard for them Lord.  Give them peace; give them comfort; weigh heavily on their hearts today Lord.  Bring them Home!

It’s in Your Son’s precious name I pray!

Amen!

I know you’re here!  You are why I write every day.  You are why I live. I know you’re lost.

I know how hard it is.  I know what it’s like to have a life you’re ashamed of.  I know what it’s like to cry every time you go to a church.  That sin will eat you alive until you give it to Him.  Accept Him into your heart.  Ask Him to forgive you.  LIVE with Him!

Life is so much better!  He will never let you go.

He loves you!  I love you!  And if you need help in your walk, you let me know.

Email me!  No more “I’ll start tomorrows”.  Today!

PEACE!

When you were first saved, or as you grew in your walk with Christ, you probably told God that you surrendered all of your desires, plans, skills, talents, relationships, and resources to Him.  (If not, stop reading and consider doing that now.)  That pledge is a serious one, and most of us have made it with all sincerity and even enthusiasm.  We’ve begun to see ourselves as His possession, available for His purposes.  We gave Him the keys to our lives–keys that we wrongly held on as our own.  And, according to His plan, He probably began to test our devotion.

That’s the catch.  The thought of letting Jesus have our all was liberating and relaxing when we first had it.  But when He began to take our word for it, we balked.  Did He remove a loved one from you?  Let your peaceful circumstances erupt in chaos?  Threaten your financial security?  Limit the use of your time or talents?  It hurt!  It had to!  He has to make our devotion more than theoretical.  He will not let us live under an illusion that we have surrendered all to Jesus when we haven’t.  In our hearts, we have to let everything go but Him.

It’s often a shock that God would take us up on some of our offered sacrifices.  When we tell Him we’ll go anywhere and do anything for the glory of His Name, we have to mean it.  He already knows whether we’re authentic in our devotion, but do we?  No, we have to notice our own reactions to be sure.  When we develop hard feelings toward Him because He has not given us what we wanted, He has opened our eyes:  We wanted some things more than we wanted Him.

Did you mean it when you told God, “I give my life to you”?  Then His removal of your props should be no surprise.  We cannot “give” Him our lives and then complain when He takes them—or painfully touches them, or seemingly deprives them.  Our lives are His.  What business is it of ours if we are uncomfortable under His management?  He has higher purposes that we do, and we trust Him.  We’ve surrendered all.  Chris Tiegreen

That kinda makes this post long enough as it is, but I would be curious to know how many of you feel slapped in the face by that?  I know a lot of Christians stop by here.  Did you mean it?  When you said, “God, I surrender all”, did you mean it?  Did you only mean it until you came to a bump in the road?  Has the fire you once had for the Lord slowly faded?  Just curious!  I’ve been there!  I’ve been filled with the spirit in church and walked out the door and quietly said, “sorry God, I have to put You on the back burner for a bit…talk to me next Sunday.”  Thank God, praise God, that He always wants you back, always welcomes you back; He’s always there, no matter how many times you run away.  I love that about our God!  It’s 3am and I have all the energy in the world! Thank You Jesus……Thank You!

Did it hit you like it hit me?