Chains be Broken, Lives be Healed!

Chains Be Broken

I have decided I have resolved
To wait upon you Lord
My rock and redeemer shall not be moved
I?ll wait upon you Lord

As surely as the sun will rise
You'll come to us
As certain as the dawn appears

You'll come let your glory fall
As you respond to us
Spirit reign flood our hearts
With holy fire again

We are not shaken we are not moved
We wait upon you Lord
Our Mighty deliverer my triumph and truth
I'll wait upon you Lord

Chains be broken
Lives be healed
Eyes be opened
Christ is revealed

Today has been a world wind of emotions. That may not surprise most of you though, for I am always very emotionally in tune =)

However, the Lord taught me some amazing things today! Honestly, I don't know what I would do without the love of my Heavenly Father! He is my Savior, Redeemer, All in All. I have, and I am nothing without Him. That becomes more apparent to me every day! Sometimes life can be tough, but I don't mind being reminded that He is ALL I NEED. For to be refreshed and renewed by the spirit of the the living God, well...there simply isn't anything better. He is more than enough!

Tonight I went to a church that I occasionally attend in the evenings. Wow how the Lord fed me! We talked about the "story" that is being told by our life and our example...

Is my life an announcement to the world that there is something so much BIGGER? Is MY LIFE an announcement to the kingdom??

That's the big question.

Well, I will say that I want this to be my motivation for every day that the Lord allows me to be on this earth. My prayer is that EVERY ASPECT of my life would manifests HIS KINGDOM. I have tired for a really long time to get to that point where I could just "have it all together." Ha! That's not going to ever happen, because NO ONE DOES. I am realizing, and honestly being joyful over the fact that me and satan are going to go in to battle together every day. He wants me, but he can't have me! Each day, I will deny myself and put on the armor of my precious Father, and each day will be a VICTORY!

The night concluded with Baptisms outside the front of the church in a blow up pool. Interesting huh? Yes I agree, but Praise God! Children were called by their Heavenly Father, and they were immediately obedient.( delayed obedience, is disobedience... thank you Brother Rod) It was truly amazing, and so encouraging to watch each person crawl into that pool, fully clothed I might add, to pour out their testimony and what is was they were needing to be freed from. The song I posted above was so perfect for this occasion... Chains were broken and lives were healed! It was simply indescribable! I didn't know any of these people personally, but I COULD NOT have been prouder of my brothers and sisters in Christ! What courage they displayed!

I just wanted to share this story with you all and the truth that the Lord had spoke into my life tonight. I pray that you will be encouraged and renewed by the strength of Jesus. Praying for you and trusting God's continued grace and mercy will carry us all the days of our life.

Wanting to leave you with this question...

Is the kingdom of God being proclaimed even when you aren't saying anything?

I'll be thinking, hope you will too!

Love,

Savannah

New Day

Good morning Lord. Thank you for this beautiful day and for chance to live my life and live it to the FULLEST! Give me the courage to do so. I love You.

Exodus 14:14

Every day is full of surprises... some days you have to look a little harder for them, and then some days they are so big you cant help but enjoy them.  I have had a an interesting couple days.... full of big and little surprises. If someone would have told me 10 years ago that I would be sitting in this "chair" of life, I never would have believed them! You Got Me God!!! =)

Anyway, last night during my quiet time I read this, "the Lord will fight for you; you need only be STILL." Exodus 14:14

I don't know about you, but that simple verse made my heart rejoice!! Enjoy the surprises and the unexpected days! Cover them with prayer! And most importantly be CONFIDENT that YOUR GOD will protect you. He will guide you! I speak to myself when I say this, but so much of our life is spent worrying. So easy to justify that we have a RIGHT to worry. But every so often, the Lord reminds me that my worry is a SIN. It is my pride thinking that I should take over so that I can know all the answers... WOW.... and that would be really bad if I were in charge. So to my readers... HOLD ME ACCOUNTABLE to my own words. Be Still and Know That My God has me wrapped in his arms and in His perfect plan. He will continue to fight for me and for you! I'm going to be STILL.

On another note... I heard this song today on Pandora (so awesome). I have a new love for Lady Antebellum, and this song just made me love them even more. 

Home is Where Your Heart Is

I felt I was spinning my wheels
Before too long the road was calling
I packed everything I own
So sure that I was leaving this small town life behind for good
And not a single tear was falling
It took leaving for me to understand
Sometimes your dreams just aren't what life has planned

Mama said home is where the heart is
When I left that town
I made it all the way to West Virginia
And that's where my heart found
Exactly where I'm supposed to be
It didn't take much time
It's just south of the Mason Dixon line
It's just south of the Mason Dixon line

I worked third shift at an all night diner
Only stayed to save a little money for
Enough gas to make it to the east coast
That's when I saw the brightest pair of
Deep blue eyes walking straight into my life
And every night we talked till it became so clear
And I could feel those dreams inside shifting gears
Cause love brought me here

Mama said home is where the heart is
When I left that town
I made it all the way to West Virginia
And that's where my heart found
Exactly where I'm supposed to be
It didn't take much time
It's just south of the Mason Dixon line
It's just south of the Mason Dixon line

And I'm standing in my veil about to say I do
As mama smiles with tear drops in her eyes
And then I realize there's something mama always knew
Love is what I really left to find

Being still!

  Savannah

Writing in Pencil...thank you Anna.

"...and I feel like my smaller, quieter life fits me just about perfectly for now. To my deep surprise, I don't very often find myself longing to return to the way I lived for so many years. At a certain point, I have to wonder about my judgment or my sanity. How can I continue knowing so definitively what the future will hold, and then continue being so totally wrong? This is my new thing: I'm going to write in pencil.
Life with God at it's core is about giving your life up to something bigger and more powerful. It's about saying at every turn that God knows better than we know, and that his Spirit will lead us in ways that we couldn't have predicted. I have know that, but I haven't really lived that.
There is a loosey-goosey feeling to the future now, both a slight edge of anxiety, like anything can happen, and a slight bubble of hope and freedom that, well, anything can happen.
There are moments when I feel, suddenly lucky and thankful and shocked at how happy I am. I have called this the hardest season in my adult life, which it is, and it is not what I had planned in the least, but it is also a secretly beautiful, special season at the same time. It's hard, because some relationships still feel broken, and because we have a lot less money, and because I am afraid, sometimes, about the future, but at the same time, I surprise myself with how okay it is and how okay I am with not knowing exactly what will come next.

... Every season that I thought was stable and would be just how it was for a long time ended up being a preparation or a path to the next thing. When you decide to be on this journey with God, everything is interim. Everything is a path or a preparation for the next thing, and we never know what the next thing is. Life is like that, of course, twisty and surpristing. But life with God is like that exponentially. We can dig in, make plans, write in stone, pretend we're not listening, but the voice of God has a way of being heard. It seeps in like smoke or vapor even when we've barred the door against any last-minute changes, and it moves us to different countries and different emotional territories and different ways of living. It keeps us moving and dancing and watching , and never lets us drop down into a life set on cruise control or a life ruled by remote control. Life with God is a daring dream, full of flashes and last-minute exits and generally all the things we've said we'll never do. And with the surprises comes great hope.
When it comes right down to it, of course, it's always been in the interim. We've always been in the middle space, the not-yet-heaven middle space, the yearning and groaning.We construct elaborate castles of business cards and Pottery Barn catalogs, and craft armor out of skinny jeans and insurance policies and text messages, beating back the sense that we are not enough, that life is not offering us enough, but we are not and it isn't.
All of life is in the interim, and if we're honest and tender with ourselves, if the armor is off and the castle has crumpled, we feel the ache of the meantime. Our permanent records are a mess of marks and offenses, and we are laid bare to the ache of what's coming.

... I want to arrive. I want to get to wherever I'm going and stay there. That's why I was such a ferocious planner of my life. But I'm learning to just keep moving, keep walking, keep taking teeny tiny steps. And it's in those teeny tiny steps and moments that I become, actually, who I am. We won't arrive. But we can become. And that's the most hopeful thing I can think of.
Thank God I was wrong about everything I had planned. Thank God we weren't on my schedule, because even though I dragged my heels and checked my planner every five seconds while I watched my life change in his hands, I really like the place we've ended up, and the things I've seen along the way. Now when I think about the future, I try to write in pencil."

prayer

Precious Jesus... you're love is more than enough! Why is it that in this dark and cold world we become so jaded that we loose site of your promises! How is it that we let Satan sneak in when we are at our weakest and try to rob of us of the one thing that keeps us running hard after you!

Lord! I beg you, please teach me! Please teach me more and more every day about how to shine for your glory... shine for your grace....shine for your love and mercy that you are constantly pouring down on your children. Lord, even when I feel defeated help remind me that I AM NOT. That through you I can conquer all! I can keep going on no matter how hard each day is! No matter what bad news greats me with the rise of the sun... you are my God! My Savior! My Redeemer! 

Lord help me to be an encourager. Help me to be a vessel of your love... Let satan stay where he belongs, and please keep him far away from me and the witness that I long to be for my Father! 

Thank you Father for hope! Thank you for LIFE! Guide me step by step so that I may live it according to your perfect plan!

My hope is in you, my trust is in you... You are my God, and that is ENOUGH!

"Heel my heart and make it clean. Open up my eyes to the things unseen. Show me how to love like you have loved me! Break my heart for what breaks yours! Everything I have is for your kingdoms cause, as I walk from earth to eternity!"

My Jesus....

Today I am frozen in my tracks.

I cant walk another step unless you physically put one foot in front of the other for me.

I simply cannot do it on my own.

I'm tired, scared, confused... yet somehow there is still a ray of hope and excitement inside of my heart. There is only One that that hope and excitement can be contributed to, and that is you, my Savior, My God.

Without you I truly have nothing. Thank you for your promises. Thank you that you are my Father and that You Are, and You forever will be! Thank you for knowing the ways to break and mold my heart as to make me a better woman... A better servant for your kingdom!

The brokenness is never fun, but the reward is always an abundant blessing! Please give me the strength to keep pressing on.... one day at a time.

Amen

Thought...

If you are waiting for God to provide, consider this...

He may be waiting for you to take the first step to demonstrate just how important your need is.