Meadow
10-19-2008, 12:04 AM
Jeremy,
Last night was amazing! The worship in the rain Friday night was incredible! I could feel the Lord’s presence among us moving, a wave of peace washed over me. The new songs are incredible!
This morning the Lord woke me in tears which was strange to me, but I immediately could feel it was His disappointment in me for not speaking His truth more boldly with love. After I read my morning devotion it was so clear. I also could see your testimony in this devotion this morning.
Last night you talked about “Speaking Up, Speaking Now, and Speaking Loud” in God’s truth and love. You said you hope if you were walking down a road of death that someone would love you enough to speak the truth to you. You said so many are so worried about offending others so they don’t speak the truth. You’re so right. Jesus said many will deny His name and it is true.
In 2001 I started to see the chapter of my life coming to an end and God opening a door for a new beginning. In late 1998 my marriage of six years was over. I feel that those six years of my life were here and gone in a blink of an eye, but then seemed like a lifetime of bitter emotion that now I’m finally free of those chains. But was it all in vain? No. It’s like that song “God Bless the Broken Road”- “they were just northern stars leading me straight into your arms.” All the broken roads we take eventually lead us right back to where we need to be with God. I was trying to cover all my insecurities with someone else’s love for me or what I though that would fill that void. It took several broken roads before my eyes were opened. He “justified” His love for me. The Lord showed me I can’t love someone else or be loved by someone until I truly knew what His love was all about intimately. That’s where your music takes me to a deeper place with God. God’s words began to flow through me after the first concert of yours I went to in 2003. “Justified Love” was my first poem that God birthed through me. What amazes me so many times the words He gives is a testimony to His love for me constantly reflecting upon my life.
It’s been like a book He’s been writing special for me to really know Him so I can share His love with others.
We all need to take the world out of ourselves and salvage the heart of Christ that so desires to beat for us. He saw that each of our hearts was fit for salvaging even though we are sinners. He has shaped and formed a special plan for each one of us all for His glory. I want to know my Creator, my Savior, my lover of my life and understand the truth of His word inside and out. I want to be in the truth of God’s word not the word of man. Sometimes I feel like I’m so blindly seeking His truth and trusting and believing the word of God, but yet so perplexed sometimes by man’s teaching. I desire for my life is to reflect Christ in every aspect. Thank you for being a blessing in my life and blessing so many lives!
Breathe Him ~Leigh
Colossians 1:9
*****My devotion this morning quoted from:
Praying God’s Word Day By Day by Beth Moore
“God will give us victory, but sometimes he will require every ounce of energy and cooperation we have in the process.
Blessed, merciful God, Your Word promises that those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy. If I go out weeping, carrying seed to sow, I will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with me (Psalm 126:5-6).
Help me to see that the promise is not made to those who simply have tears but to those who are willing to sow seed in the midst of their tears. Your Word tells us in Luke 8:11 that the seed is the Word. If I’m willing to keep believing and sowing Your word, even I am desperately hurting, You will bring me forth from this difficult season with songs of joy I will draw water from the wells of salvation (Isaiah 12:3).”
Last night was amazing! The worship in the rain Friday night was incredible! I could feel the Lord’s presence among us moving, a wave of peace washed over me. The new songs are incredible!
This morning the Lord woke me in tears which was strange to me, but I immediately could feel it was His disappointment in me for not speaking His truth more boldly with love. After I read my morning devotion it was so clear. I also could see your testimony in this devotion this morning.
Last night you talked about “Speaking Up, Speaking Now, and Speaking Loud” in God’s truth and love. You said you hope if you were walking down a road of death that someone would love you enough to speak the truth to you. You said so many are so worried about offending others so they don’t speak the truth. You’re so right. Jesus said many will deny His name and it is true.
In 2001 I started to see the chapter of my life coming to an end and God opening a door for a new beginning. In late 1998 my marriage of six years was over. I feel that those six years of my life were here and gone in a blink of an eye, but then seemed like a lifetime of bitter emotion that now I’m finally free of those chains. But was it all in vain? No. It’s like that song “God Bless the Broken Road”- “they were just northern stars leading me straight into your arms.” All the broken roads we take eventually lead us right back to where we need to be with God. I was trying to cover all my insecurities with someone else’s love for me or what I though that would fill that void. It took several broken roads before my eyes were opened. He “justified” His love for me. The Lord showed me I can’t love someone else or be loved by someone until I truly knew what His love was all about intimately. That’s where your music takes me to a deeper place with God. God’s words began to flow through me after the first concert of yours I went to in 2003. “Justified Love” was my first poem that God birthed through me. What amazes me so many times the words He gives is a testimony to His love for me constantly reflecting upon my life.
It’s been like a book He’s been writing special for me to really know Him so I can share His love with others.
We all need to take the world out of ourselves and salvage the heart of Christ that so desires to beat for us. He saw that each of our hearts was fit for salvaging even though we are sinners. He has shaped and formed a special plan for each one of us all for His glory. I want to know my Creator, my Savior, my lover of my life and understand the truth of His word inside and out. I want to be in the truth of God’s word not the word of man. Sometimes I feel like I’m so blindly seeking His truth and trusting and believing the word of God, but yet so perplexed sometimes by man’s teaching. I desire for my life is to reflect Christ in every aspect. Thank you for being a blessing in my life and blessing so many lives!
Breathe Him ~Leigh
Colossians 1:9
*****My devotion this morning quoted from:
Praying God’s Word Day By Day by Beth Moore
“God will give us victory, but sometimes he will require every ounce of energy and cooperation we have in the process.
Blessed, merciful God, Your Word promises that those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy. If I go out weeping, carrying seed to sow, I will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with me (Psalm 126:5-6).
Help me to see that the promise is not made to those who simply have tears but to those who are willing to sow seed in the midst of their tears. Your Word tells us in Luke 8:11 that the seed is the Word. If I’m willing to keep believing and sowing Your word, even I am desperately hurting, You will bring me forth from this difficult season with songs of joy I will draw water from the wells of salvation (Isaiah 12:3).”