"A Loud NO...A Quiet YES"

So I was reading tonight and came across an amazing passage - one that I have read before, but tonight I read it out of the message and it spoke to me in a completely different way...

James 4:7-10
"So let God work his will in you. Yell a loud NO to the Devil and watch him scamper. Say a quiet YES to God and he'll be there in no time. Quit dabbling in sin. Purify your inner life. Quit playing the field. Hit bottom, and cry your eyes out. The fun and games are over. Get serious, really serious. Get down on your knees before the Master; it's the only way you'll get on your feet."

Talk about redefining yourself! I have been sitting here now reading that passage over and over again and each time it is speaking something new to me...whisper that you need him and be assured that he is at your side - sometimes I lose sight of the fact that I am not doing this thing called life on my own, God is here - he is right here with me each step of the way. Christ lives in me and I must confidently believe that in Him I will always win!

"Purify your inner life"...my inner life - my thoughts - my heart - my words...these verses have so little words and yet say so much.

A Loud No...and a Quiet Yes

Wake Up!!

This whole blog thing is completely new to me, but I figured I would give it a try...I am definitely one of those people who always has a lot going on in my head and now I am ready to open it up and 'blog' about it all (well maybe not all of it)! I am a 24 year Christian woman who is desiring nothing more than to ruin the old me and take up the life of the cross. I am a worshiping partner at The Rock Church of the Quad Cities and it is there where life change has happened for me. I am no where near perfect - in fact this is one of the biggest areas of thought going on through my mind as we speak...this is where I will begin.

I have recently made quite a few changes in my life, ones I know needed to be made and some easier than others. I have been a 'Christ follower' now for 3 and 1/2 yrs and from the moment I first stepped forward to the alter up to this point it has been a growing journey and one that I know will never reach its full potential, in other words be PERFECT. This past Sunday we heard a message titled 'Wake Up'...since then I have not been able to get these 2 very simple words out of my head. I am at a point in my walk with God where I am wanting more, I am desiring to take off spiritually and become more on fire than I ever have before - I want to quote on quote wake up and realize that if I am wanting life change to happen it is up to me! There are things about myself that I don't quite understand - characteristics that I question where they came from - and thoughts that I want to conquer and overcome...right now my mind is nothing more than a battlefield of thoughts and I am about to win them all over with the help of Christ!
"Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit..say the Lord Almighty" Zechariah 4:6