Wake up my Heart!

I'm in the middle of a Beth Moore study on Believing God and this week my mission is to be on the lookout for miracles. I didn't have to look far. In this time of craziness, when despair would be easy and lots of other negative things justified, I feel ridiculously blessed. I'm getting better at finding beauty in the broken. And this is possible largely due to a simple change in my prayer life. Before I get out of bed in the morning I ask God to make me new. Every day. And thanks to a word study on the different constructs of "create", when I pray that, I'm asking God for the "BAM - poof into existence" kind of new. I want a pure heart and a steadfast mind. Every day. New. Sorry for that repetition, but repetition is exactly what I need. This lady is often mind-led instead of spirit-led and if I don't try to get myself in that "I am the Lord's" mentality every day, it doesn't happen. Have you ever been told by someone ...

Well hello strangers! Here's my ramblings of the evening: at church on Sunday. The pastor said something small - but magnificent. We are not human "DO-ings" we are human "BE-ings." Ah. So simple. His point was this. Churches these days (and the world most of the time) like to tell us we need Jesus AND something else. Our works, mainly. But that isn't biblical. It's the opposite of Biblical. According to that source, Jesus is ALL we need. So, pardon my poor grammar here, it isn't what we DO that serves to get us into heaven, it is simply who we BE. And who we believe in. And it is that Jesus component, at least in my life, that tends to get lost. I focus on "being a good person" (and failing most of the time, mind you). I focus on what Paul in Scripture tells me. Or what I learn from the Old Testament. Those things are all great, but who is this Jesus and how do I focus on HIM? As I was reading today in John, I came across that famous ...