….and that is when God is glorified !!
So I’ve been preparing really hard for a Ladies camp that is coming up next weekend. I have never worked so consistently hard at something, that I can remember….being an instinctive or conditioned procrastinator, I’m pretty okay and good at working and excelling under pressure. But what a journey I’ve been on. So exciting and so challenging and so rewarding. It really is great to work hard for God!!
We have such a humble worship team and we’ve been stretched, really stretched but its been so conducive to growth. Like pruning a tree.
And yet, regardless of….or in fact BECAUSE OF this I have had and continue to have my fair share of distractions. As the time draws closer, I don’t become anxious because I know my God and I know what He has promised:
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but I begin to feel powerless and so totally incapable of sidestepping the distractions, temptations and attacks on my self-worth that some, rightfully so, nervous opposer of God’s work (aka Satan) and his fox terrier cronies relentlessly direct at me and I find it crippling to stay focused and effective in completing what needs to be done as we approach the weekend and time is running out.
But true to His promises God reveals to me that this is the truth of the situation, just as I’m about to doubt my calling and give up on my hopes and dreams….last night we sing….
JESUS, ALL FOR JESUS
ALL I AM HAVE AND EVER HOPE TO BE
ALL OF MY AMBITIONS HOPES AND PLANS
I SURRENDER THESE INTO YOUR HANDS
FOR ITS ONLY IN YOUR WILL THAT I AM FREE
Quite something eh?….and then Paula bought a DVD for the camp and on it is the most powerful and profound music DVD & song I have ever heard and experienced since I Belong by Kathryn Scott.
You Are More
(If you can, rather watch the video it is life changing)
There’s a girl in the corner
With tear stains on her eyes
From the places she’s wandered
And the shame she can’t hide
She says, “How did I get here?
I’m not who I once was.
And I’m crippled by the fear
That I’ve fallen too far to love”
But don’t you know who you are,
What’s been done for you?
Yeah don’t you know who you are?
You are more than the choices that you’ve made,
You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,
You are more than the problems you create,
You’ve been remade.
Well she tries to believe it
That she’s been given new life
But she can’t shake the feeling
That it’s not true tonight
She knows all the answers
And she’s rehearsed all the lines
And so she’ll try to do better
But then she’s too weak to try
But don’t you know who you are?
You are more than the choices that you’ve made,
You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,
You are more than the problems you create,
You’ve been remade.
You are more than the choices that you’ve made,
You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,
You are more than the problems you create,
You’ve been remade.
‘Cause this is not about what you’ve done,
But what’s been done for you.
This is not about where you’ve been,
But where your brokenness brings you to
This is not about what you feel,
But what He felt to forgive you,
And what He felt to make you loved.
You are more than the choices that you’ve made,
You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,
You are more than the problems you create,
You’ve been remade.
You are more than the choices that you’ve made,
You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,
You are more than the problems you create,
You’ve been remade.
You’ve been remade
You’ve been remade.
You’ve been remade.
You’ve been remade.
Be blessed, dear reader if you’ve wandered here….it was for a reason!!
*I’m just a girl called to be real so that in and through that He can be revealed, lives can be transformed and He can be glorified*
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