Surrender

Happy Sunday. I can't believe it's been two years since I've created an entry. Forgive me for my absence. Since I've written last, I guess life has happened. Good things, difficult things, joys and trials. Failures and victories. I am grateful for them all because these moments have brought me to today. Today: May 15th, 2016. This week has been one of letting go of my plans, my hopes, and what I wanted; as well as earnestly seeking God in ways I haven't in quite some time. You see, instead of choosing to truly seek my King oh however long it's been, I was choosing to seek my own needs out of fear. Fear that God wasn't going to do the good in my life that He has promised He would do. I was choosing to take a shortcut verses doing things His way (which sometimes can take much longer mind you), because my sin was clouding my perception of how good and how great my God truly is. He is good. He has incredible plans for my life and your life; better then we could ever pen with our own hand. I felt lead to write on here today because of the message that has been revealed to me by God which is SURRENDER. In the devotionals and music that has been placed before me today, God is telling me to surrender my life to Him. Easy in theory, difficult in practice. I think we as Christians want to say that we have surrendered all things to the One who can do wonders in our lives, but sometimes, there are still those "rooms" in our "heart's home" that we are keeping closed to the Holy Spirit. We have the furniture arranged how we like it in these rooms and we are not quite sure if, when we surrender and let Him in, He will not change everything around that we have worked so how to put in place! My advice: let Him into those rooms and let him rearranged them as he sees fit. He is Creator God-look at what He can do (sunsets, babies being born, relationships be made new!). Dear brother and sister, when we say "Yes" to Jesus coming into our heart's home, don't we mean for him to take up complete residence? To surrender our entire heart to him? Today, I have asked myself: am I'm surrendering my entire heart to He who is God, to the Creator of my heart, to Love himself? My heart that intensely desires to be a wife to an incredible Man of God, to make a family with this man and be a mommy and to bless the lives of others as a photographer? My desires and heart's dreams? Are you, Beloved? You who either 10 years ago or just today asked the Great I Am to take residence in your heart, are you allowing Him complete access and full surrender of every facet of your life? What is God asking you to surrender in this moment? Please know that I am right now praying for you, and myself, that today will be the day we let Him into each room of our hearts' home. That we allow Him to do what He desires, to say as Jesus said, "Not my Will, Father, but Your Will be done."(Lk 22:42). And what came of this proclamation was our chance to be new. To be like Christ in this life and to get to spend eternity with him. Yes Beloved, surrender everything to Him, and watch what He can and will do! NEW things!! Magnificent things! I can't wait to see what he will do in the days to come. I am anticipating incredible things that can only be explained because God reigns, and because I've finally chosen to surrender. To say "not my will, but Your Will be done, Father God." Be blessed, Beloved. Know I am praying for you as you give God access to all the rooms in your heart's home. And if you have not allowed Jesus Christ to take residence in your heart's home, would you do so now? I promise Jesus is the best person to allow into your heart. He cares greatly for your heart and will take the best of care of it. I promise he is worthy and most definitely the most amazing roommate:) He longs to make your heart His home. Would you ask Him today, to take residence in your home as your Lord and Savior? I am praying for you to say YES!and watch Him take your heart's home and make it fresh and new! If you did decide to let Jesus into your heart, go to the person you know who loves Jesus or connect up with Living on the Edge Ministries (http://livingontheedge.org/) or InTouch (www.intouch.org) so they can encourage you in this new journey! All my love, Crystal Joy