Be Brave

BE BRAVE

This phrase keeps washing over me day after day these past few months.  For years, I have tried to find that bravery in my own strength, always falling short, always feeling that I just didn't have enough to face all that I was up against.  Bravery always felt like something to achieve, something to strive towards, something to work towards.....one day...one day I will be brave.

Today is the Day.  Today is your Day to be Brave.  Your Greatest Battle is at Hand.

Lift up those hands.  Surrender your own strength.  

Your Bravery sits not in your hands but in your heart.  

Overwhelm your heart with the Love of God.  

His Love for you is your strength.

He pours out His strength over you.

You have a heart of a warrior.

You have the strength of a Lion.

Your God overwhelms you with His love.

Your Bravery is not in what You Can do.

Your Bravery is in remaining in the presence of the One

who longs to fight your battles for you.

Our Victory is in Surrender...not to the battles at hand but 

to the One who reigns Victorious over all the Earth.  

TODAY IS THE DAY. TODAY IS YOUR DAY TO BE BRAVE. 

YOUR GREATEST BATTLE IS AT HAND.  

To Be Brave is not the absence of fear, it is remaining in the presence 

of the One who casts out all Fear.

When the Spirit Cries (Out)

Its a natural release to cry--when our bodies are overcome, whether it be with joy, sadness, longing, or exhaustion.

Have you ever been so overcome, that your Spirit longs to cry out?

Set aside all your circumstances
Set aside all your earthly feelings

Have you ever just longed to set it all aside and be so consumed, so overwhelmed by God's Presence?
You scream, you sing out--purging all earthly emotion--crying out, screaming out, singing out for your God--The Lover of Your Soul.

I long to push all this earthly emotion aside...
Scream out for my Savior
Scream out for His clarity
Scream out for His Presence

Oh God, reveal Yourself to us.  We scream out for your revelation, we fall to our knees in desperation--for your joy can not be contained.
All that I am screams to you.  

Take this weary heart and fill it with passion for greater things.
I can't contain this stirring for you...

My inner Spirit needs to scream out.  All that I am--Is all for You.
All that I need--I seek from You.

My life is your creative canvas--create in me something new.  

My cry is to be a vibrant display of just a glimpse of you. 

There is a passion that stirs, a desperation that cries out,
a scream so deep my heart quakes for You.

Just a glimpse, just a glimmer...Lord, we long for you to deliver..Just a word, just a touch, just the feeling of your presence.

Whispers on Your Heart

God has spoken something over you--something that seems impossible--

something you can't comprehend with your own understanding.

Do You Believe His Promise?

Do You Believe He is Capable?

What is Your Response?

Have you Penned a Song of Praise?

Write a song of praise to God today for all that He has whispered into your heart.  You may not understand the timing, the specifics, or the how--but God hasn't asked you to.  God asks for a willing heart, an obedient heart, a heart that believes that He is who He says He is.  

Sit down and pen a song of praise to God.  Sing that song out everyday and everyday sing it louder and bolder.  When the seeds of doubt threaten to take root--fill your heart with so much praise for who God is and all that He is capable of that there is no room for worry, fear, or anxiousness.

Your song is your testimony.  

Don't sing of what you don't know...

Sing of who you know. 

Your God has filled your heart with purpose, He has whispered words of promise over you.

Sing Your Song of Praise because your God is Who He Says He is...

What He has spoken will not come back void.

Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty,

but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

He is capable--though He may whisper...

He is powerful--though He may be calm...

It is in the gentle whispers, where His calm presence overwhelms our hearts, 

where His power transforms His promise into something of great purpose.