My Heart

Above all else, guard your heart,for everything you do flows from it. ~ Proverbs 4:23

Guarding my heart has not been my strong suit....I'm a honest person, so I take people for their word...period. I sometimes play like things don't bother me or I don't care...when deep down I really do. If I'm tough on the outside they won't know how I'm really feeling in the inside. 

So giving my heart to God is the only way to guard my heart. To protect my heart I have to be obedient and submissive to The Lord's voice and will. I need to stop...to be still and let him lead the way...

Here and now, I lay my life and my heart before You. Please give me the discernment to know when it is safe for me to let someone into my heart. Please make my heart ready to accept and love who You place in my heart. Only allow someone who lives for and loves You with all that he has and all that he is to enter into my heart. I trust in you O'Lord with my life, my heart, my everything. Let the words that come from my mouth bless and not curse. Let the thoughts in my mind be pure. Let the desires of my heart be the desires You have given me. Let me rest in Your peace with my head on your chest knowing you love me enough to protect me all the days of my life. 

Be Not of This World

After a twenty minute discussion with my ex about what is appropriate or not for our daughter to wear to school my eyes were opened even wider to the issue of the world fighting against who we were created to be. Ugh!!

The "inappropriateness" of this outfit was nothing more than "that girl made fun of her" and "I don't want her getting labeled". Well, hello world!  We all get labels from others!!  The key is not to let those labels stick!  We are not who the world tells us we are...we are who God created us to be and walking in that truth is one the greatest weapons you have against the enemy. See, God saw who you were even before you were conceived here on earth. He has a plan for your life that is far greater than you can even begin to imagine. He knitted you in your mothers womb. You are not a mistake...you are fearfully and wonderfully made by God Himself. 

Don't let others decide on who you are...that isn't their decision to make. 

Don't fear what others may think or say about who you are....ask yourself who does God say that I am??  

Walk in the joy of knowing that you have a Heavenly Father who loves you exactly for who you are right now!!  Once you have that truth in your heart and you know who you belong to and it only matters what He says of you, will you find the freedom of being who you were created to be!