Living Sacrifices to God

Good Afternoon all of my fellow bloggers,
     I would like to share with you a very powerful Bible Verse that I had come across while I was reading my devotionals last week at some point.  

   I chose this Bible Verse because it jumped right out at me the other night as I was reading this.  My thoughts and reflections on this Bible Passage are this:  when I was reading this particular passage, I had quite a strong and powerful experience that overcame my entire body, this probably sounds crazy, but the truth is it's not.  When God speaks to you it is an enormously powerful blessing and gift coming down from The Lord.  Let me ask you a question; Do you want to hear The Lord speak to you on a daily basis? If the answer is yes, then I'll be the one to tell you how to actually go about doing that.  Here it goes: First, you have to be ready and willing to hear God speak and you must always have an open mind and an open heart that is fully ready and fully committed to The Lord, did you get that? Okay, let's move on.  In order to receive His Word, you need to find a quiet place to get closer to Him, He often speaks to us through His Word, through another person, and pretty much any possible way that He can actually speak to you.  Sometimes, He'll just come and talk to you in General, you won't see Him, but you will hear Him, trust me.

     When I was a lot younger than I am now, He was speaking to me in my quiet and calm house, there was nobody home and it was just me, the cat, and a muted TV.  Mind you this was way before I was saved.  He kept trying to talk to me in person and I didn't want to listen to what He was saying, so I just completely ignored it and unmuted the TV.  But boy was I regretting not being able to accept His Word, had I been saved back then, I would have really enjoyed being able to hear specifically what His message was trying to tell me.  However, now that I am saved, I'm forever grateful to Him for saving me before it was too late.  Back then both my heart and my mind were closed to so many things, it was pretty sad, believe me.  I just wasn't having it and I could not understand or even try to comprehend what it was that He was trying to share with me.  

So finally one day, I came to my senses and I let Him save me.  I let Him save me because I passionately hated what my life was like back then, it was just a disaster waiting to happen.  I just wanted to be done so that I could feel good again and have a happy, healthy, life full of love from Him and from everyone else around me too.

    I dedicated my body and my life fully to Christ.  A few years after I was saved that is when I met Derek and knew that he was the one I'm going to marry one day.  Here we are two and a half years later and still going strong.  I just can no longer imagine my life without Him, my family, or Derek.  Anyway, we're getting off the subject here, let's get back on topic now.  I began doing daily devotionals, having long conversations with The Lord, going to church, singing with the praise band, etc.  In addition to that, I started to really focus and listen to what Father Mike was and still is preaching about to this very day.  Since I've become saved, The Lord has been and always will be good to me, I just have to remain faithful to Him in order for these things to continue to happen to me.  I'm proud to say that Father Mike has and will always continue to teach me all of these new things about God that I never could understand before.  To this present day, I still don't fully understand some of the things that we've been talking about recently, but that's not going to stop me from continuing to learn them and to understand more about Him in the future.

     It brings me great comfort and joy knowing that He will always provide for me; for us rather, no matter how complicated certain things get.  He has always been there for us through good times and bad, richer or poorer, and through thick and thin too.  Please trust in Him, He knows precisely what He will do for us in His perfect timing.  We need to pray and listen, Trust Him fully and completely, be dedicated, and pray, pray, pray.  Then and only then is when our real revival will come.  Amen? God Bless!

~Emily P.