Twenty Nine

Today I am 29, today I am one year older than the year before, one year closer to 30 and one more year wiser than the one before.
And as I sit and think about life in all it's beauty I am thankful, thankful that four and a half years ago my mighty God picked me up from the mirey clay and placed my foot upon his rock, I am thankful that he has taken me beaten and bruised and transformed me to a refined work of art transformed for his glory.
I am thankful for all that I have and all that I have had, the life experiences, the victories, the looses, the battles and the celebration I am so blessed!

Not so blessed just because I feel that is a good thing to say but blessed because I look at my life and I am blown away, blown away by the goodness of God that he has poured out on me regardless of effort he just has because he can!
I am so thankful for all that I have a sound of gratitude rising from deep within my heart, As I sit and I take in all that he has done, the change that he has brought around as I have allowed my creator to draw a picture with my life as I have surrendered my own will for his, as I have allowed him to be the artist and I am the canvas... he has added colour and change and I am humbled!

I was not worthy of any of this I didnt deserve it but somehow he saw in the the potential to use me to create ripples of change wherever I place my foot, God I am so so thankful!

And as I sit and smile as I realise that at 29 years of age I am being used by the creator of the universe what an honor I dont take it for granted I dont take it lightly he is the alpha and the omega and at the great age of 29 I wouldnt want to be anywhere else doing anything else I am right where I am suppose to be.

Standout

What does it mean to stand out?
What does it mean to be bold? does it mean you are to shout at the top of your lungs and make a fool out of yourself, does it mean that you need to be so different the you need to become a weirdo, does it mean you have to be so unique that you also forget who you actually are, does it mean you have to dress so people stare at you?What does being bold actually mean? what does being stand out actually look like?

We are all on a journey to becoming bolder. We live in a world that forces us to settle for status quo a world that pushes us in a direction that says this is the way to go, a world that shows us being like everyone else is what you need to do a world that tries to make us fit in boxes that they have set for us, a world that causes us if we are not secure to loose ourselves in the present moment and forgetting about what lies ahead!...

I have decided that being bold comes from within, it comes from a place of deep security that is built in the identity that our maker sets out before us, it comes from knowing that you know that you were created to stand out!

To be bold is to stand out in a room because you have a confidence that radiates out of you because you know who your God is, being bold is standing for truth in the face of persecution and opposition. Being bold is going against the grain being the fish that is swimming against the tide cause you know the tide is going the wrong way, being bold is declaring the promises of God over your life even if at the time they don't make sense, being bold is stivking your head above the crowd.
Being bold is being the one that breaks the chain in a family for the generations to come.
Being bold is knowing who you are in Christ and claiming it as your foundation!

We are called to Bold, Bold is knowing who your God is, who he created you to be and who he has called you to be it is when you know this to be true you can truly standout!

This is where I belong

I want to write I dont know what but I have the urge to allow God to take over as I write and inspire via a copmputer screen inspired by the love and hope of God, as I sit here and center myself in his pressence as worship fills my house and turns an ordianry house into a house filled with the pressence of God, as I inhale and allow the spirit of God to rest on me I feel calm, I feel an extraordianry comfort as I sit in the pressence of my creator! Oh how I love him, Oh how I am moved by him, oh how I am found in him, suddenly the weight of the day, the attitudes, the fear all melts away and I am vunrable and hungry for more of my GOD!
And he comes, he comes like a flood and fills my heart with his love reminds me that he is here, that I am never alone that I can stand and feel alone and feel empty but he is here all along!
As I sit in his pressence in a house that is built on faith and love he invades me and nothing else matters apart from trying to capture this feeling of my God coming to me in a desperate moment and he is is here and I wait...... As the words show me your glory flood my ears I can feel nothing but peace and love. a tear tries to escape my eye at the incredible feeling of saftey I now have.
I am focused only on him... He is all I desire I feel his arms embrace me and saftey is here, comfort is in my reach... this is where I belong in the pressence of my God in his hand. All I am looking for is found in his pressence, all I need is here in his pressence, all is restored as I sit in his pressence, all is well in his pressence.. His pressence oh how I love his pressence and as I inahle again and expect him to go he is still here my constant steadfast source.. This is where I belong I was made to love him, I was born to serve him this is where I belong....