What a week! Lauren came down and visited me this weekend. I love her, she's the best! We had such a good girl bonding time. We hung out with people a bit, watched the final and were extremely disappointed. but mostly spent some quality time together. It made me really miss home. During the week, well Dwayne Roberts is amazing. Its hard to figure out the sequence of what I have been learning. I'm sorry if this is all scattered. Let me see, were talking about the desires God has placed in our hearts. God created the human spirit with seven longings that draw us to Him and reflect His glory in us. These longings are common in all of us. They are the longing for the assurance that we are enjoyed, the longing to be fascinated, the longing to be beautiful, the longing to be great, the longing for intimacy without shame, the longing to be wholehearted and passionate, and the longing to make a deep and lasting impact. These longings are put in your heart by God BUT the devil prays on these God given desires. The longing is not wrong it is the way that we sometimes satisfy these longings that is sinful. Think of the ways each of these perfect longings can be twisted by the devil. To play off of what I wrote last time. The way to free your heart from the domination of sin is by delighting in God. To say No and abstain from something is so you can say Yes and get a fulfilling reward. Right now I am trying to rid my life of distractions. There are times that I have been so consumed with with my own priorities and goals. I'm trying to realize that I'm not supposed to be number one. Another thing I really enjoyed hearing was that Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I loved knowing that God views me differently than I do or that man does. He actually loves me for who I am and that He doesn't care about how I can mess up sometimes. This is my verse of the week. "If you cling to your life you will loose it; but if you give up your life for me, you will find it" Matt 10:39. I honestly spent 40 minutes during worship on friday meditating on this verse over and over. I'm starting a process of writing down who God is whenever I come across a verse. Just to understand more. I'm also starting to write down who I am. I'm trying to define myself as God sees me. Its pretty cool. If you look at Judges 6:12 God called Gideon a mighty warrior but at that time he was hiding away, clearing not being a mighty warrior. But He said what Gideon would become in the future and that is how he addressed him. I'll share 2 of the things I have discovered about myself. One I am a magnet of people, no surprise there, God has shown me how He will continue to use that in my future. Another on is that I have a heart of a lioness. A lioness is bold, a warrior(hunter) and has a loving heart. She will do anything to protect those she cares about, like a mother protecting her pride(that's what lions travel in right?). I'm not sure what this is for my future but I'm pretty excited . Id love to write more but Steph and I watched Remember Me and now I'm so tired. I do not recommend it by the way. Horrible ending, too many injustices. Over and Out
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