permission

remember when you were a little kid and you had to ask your mom and dad for permission for every little thing?? ask to go outside and play, ask to go swimming, and ask to eat. well, i think this is the coolest thing, the devil has to ask permission from JESUS to do any little thing to us! ANY LITTLE THING, he has to go ask JESUS if he can. if he wants to give us a mean thought, ask JESUS, if he wants to commit a sin, ask JESUS and if he wants you to hurt someone, ask JESUS. he does not have the power on his own to mess with us, he has to go ask permission like a little kid from our ALMIGHTY GOD the FATHER. i think this is absolutely rad. i love JESUS!
"be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour." 1 peter 5:8

GOD'S perfect plan

it took me a long time to realize that GOD has a perfect and precise plan for my life. HE knows what i will do for HIM and HE knows what i will do to go astray. but what blows my mind is that HE has already planned my life for me before i was even born. HE knew when i was going to take my first steps, HE knew where i would go to college and HE knows who i am going to marry. i know that i try to go my own way and do things that i think are good for me and my life but i am usually wrong. in the last year, i have realized and grown so much and now i know that GOD has a plan for me. it may not be what i want it to be right now but sooner or later i will realize what GOD has in store for me and why HE has called me to do, go, and be who, what and where i am today.
"for we are HIS workmanship, created in CHRIST JESUS for good works, which GOD prepared beforehand that we should walk in them." ephesians 2:10

how we see JESUS

today in chapel we did a really cool thing. we gave everyone that came in a plain white tee shirt and proceeded to tell them that today chapel was going to different. it was going to be an ichapel but none like we have ever had. everyone is going to put on the white tee shirts because this symbolizes the body of CHRIST and how we are all one. we then told them to write on there people's shirts how they see GOD in them. so everyone was to go write on other people's shirts and encourage them by writing how they say GOD in their lives. the turn out was amazing and i feel truly blessed to have been apart of what GOD is doing here on campus.

dear JESUS,

"JESUS lover of my soul, JESUS ill never let you go. you've taken me from the might place. set my feet upon a rock and now i know. i love you, i need you. though my world my fall, ill never let you go. my SAVIOR, my closest friend, i will worship you until the very end." this song has been stuck in my head for days. my hope is that i am living out this song for CHRIST and not just going through the motions. i want to be a doer of the word and not a hearer only.

HIS princess

i have this devotion book that i have just started going through this year. the way that this devotional is set up, it is like love letter writ en from GOD to me, HIS princess. they all talk about different things each day and are all signed differently by GOD. my favorite recently is this one. "you never need to doubt if I am in the midst of your circumstances. remember, I did not put you in the fire to burn you out. trust in ME with your troubled heart, and watch ME do wonders for you in the midst of the hottest flames.
love,
YOUR KING and YOUR REFINER"

my everything

GOD is my everything. GOD is amazing and awesome covered in His glory. GOD is able, capable and almighty to do whatever HE may please. GOD is glorious and exalted in HIS greatness. GOD is alive and living in everything and every one of HIS people. GOD is alpha and omega, being at the beginning and the end. GOD is beautiful and incredible in HIS creation. GOD is bright and shining brighter than any light in this darkened world. GOD is busy and at work in HIS people. GOD is clean and pure being without any form of sin. GOD is complete, holy and divine in nature. GOD is consistent and faithful in that HE never fails us. GOD is greater than death and is not bound by that. GOD is our deliverer. GOD is eternal and will be everlasting. GOD is our heavenly FATHER and will never leave as some earthly fathers do. GOD is forgiving and full of grace. GOD is our rock and foundation. GOD is freedom from sin. GOD is healing through our pain. GOD is Lord and King of our lives. GOD is omniscient lacking no knowledge at all. GOD is living water and life for our souls. GOD is love, a lot of it. GOD is merciful and kind. GOD is peace from war and pain. GOD is praised at the top of our lungs. GOD is present and sitting right next to us, every moment of the day. GOD is promises that continue to be fulfilled. GOD is protector and defender over us. GOD is purposeful and has great plans for us. GOD is a rebel to the world, in that HE is different from what society says is normal. GOD is our redeemer. GOD is resurrected and cannot be held down. GOD is righteous. GOD is the shepherd of our life, guiding us along every step of the path. GOD is the lion and the lamb being stronger than anything yet gentle to us in every way possible. GOD is my everything.

prayer

if the power of prayer is so great, then why do so many christians today go about their day without it? by definition prayer is a spiritual communion with GOD, as in supplication, thanksgiving, adoration, or confession. prayer is so powerful and i am still coming to understand how great and astounding prayer is. to be able to come before our almighty GOD in direct communication with HIM is a blessing in itself. to not only talk to our heavenly FATHER when ever we want to but to see HIM answer prayers and totally come through is breath taking for me. i can not explain how ecstatic and passionate about how i feel about the power of prayer but believe me when i say that prayer is powerful!