White Flag

The Passion CD finally came out 10 days ago, and it's seriously one of the best CDs I've heard in awhile. I mean, I'm biased because I heard all these songs at Passion in January, but they are such good anthems to the Lord.

Lately, one of the songs I'm obsessed with is Christy Nockels singing "Revive Me." It's become my prayer.

Here are the lyrics...

Chorus:
You revive me
You revive me Lord
And all my deserts are rivers of joy
You are the treasure I could not afford
So I'll spend myself till I'm empty and poor
All for You
You revive me Lord

Lord I have seen Your goodness
And I know the way You are
Give me eyes to see You in the dark
And You face shines a glory
That I only know in part
And there is still a longing
A longing in my heart

Chorus

My soul is thirsty
Only You can satisfy
You are the well that never will run dry
And I'll praise You for the blessing
For calling me Your friend
And in Your name I'm lifting
I'm lifting up my hands

I'm alive
I'm alive
You breathe on me
You revive me

I just love the lyrics, only He can revive us, and He is so good and faithful. I just love this son.

Check out the whole CD, every song is amazing.

Be blessed,

Change of Plans

Things are completely out of our control most of the time. We change residences, we change jobs, and sometimes these aren't out of choice. This recently happened to me.

Remember how I got that job I thought I was supposed to be at? Well 3 weeks later I'm not working there, not by choice. It was a really strange situation, but that's where trusting in the Lord came into play. I had to completely trust Him that this was going to work itself out. 3 days after losing a job I'm working part-time at a different one, He is faithful.

This theme of trusting Him has been so prevalent in my season of life right now. Trusting Him in that my parents are helping me make wise choices with my money, trusting in Him with my friendships, trusting in Him with the decisions I make that shape my future. I think in the last 22 years of my life I've really not trusted Him 100%. I know that. But the last month has really taught me to just trust HIM. Things will come and go, people will stay and they will go, but our God is FOREVER. He will always be there, even when we don't trust Him.

A quote keeps coming to mind regarding this, and my season of life: When you worry that means you aren't trusting God 100%. OUCH.

Those who know me, know I worry allll the time. It does me absolutely NO GOOD, in fact it probably hurts me more. Philippians talks about going to God in prayer and petition, and not being anxious about anything because He's got this. I fail to remember that daily, hourly, minutely. I try and try to plan my whole life out, and thing I'm going to be somewhere for awhile, then BAM, that changes in an instant. When God closes a window, He opens a door. Just gotta trust Him.

I've got so much going for me, I have amazing, loving parents, a great family overall, good friends who are there to listen to me cry and laugh, and an amazing God who loves me beyond all comprehension.

This season of life is teaching me so much and I'm so grateful for the trials and joys I have been going through in the last month or so in my life.

With a full and grateful heart,

72 days

February 27th 268 Generation started 72daysforfreedom.com to combat and make known the significance of human trafficking in the world.

Most people have no idea that this is a major issue in the world. Before I went to Passion 2012, I had absolutely NO idea that it was this big of an issue. Human trafficking was happening right there in Atlanta. It was mind blowing really, that 27 million people are in modern day slavery. Who would have thought?

So back to the 72 days. It's a campaign that includes prayer, donations, and the rising of the Freedom Art Installation. It's a hand that was created at Passion 2012 that has prayers and numerous other things written on fabrics created by slaves and such. It was on International Plaza at the Georgia Dome during Passion 2012, but came back down. So Louie Giglio worked with the city of Atlanta to get it up again, and it's up right now for 72 days at Passion City Church. It's truly a testament to so many things. One being how Passion 2012 raised 3.5 MILLION dollars for slavery. Incredible!

So I encourage you to get educated on this major issue, to go to the 72 days for Freedom website, and see what they are doing. Whether you are Christian or not, this is a modern day issue. Learn about it, get educated, see what's being done to combat it. It's truly inspiring to hear some of the stories. The Freedom Film is posted on the website and I encourage you to watch it. It'll truly make you think twice.

Here's to 72 days towards FREEDOM!

In Christ,