myfaithisnotdead.

"We live close to death, but we are still alive. We have been beaten, but we have not been killed. Our hearts ache, but we always have joy. We are poor, but we give spiritual riches to others. We own nothing, and yet we have everything."

I will never forsake you

Jesus

“I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave of sin. A slave is not a permanent member of the family, but a son is part of the family forever.”

This thing that you’re struggling with is not forever.
I AM.

John 8:31-32

There’s no place I would rather be than here in Your love.

This is what You do: You make me come alive

Spirit of the living God, come fall afresh in me,
come awaken me from my sleep.
Blow through the caverns of my soul, pour into me to overflow,
Spirit come and fill this place

We let our sin and shame cover up the blood of Jesus dripping from the cross when the very opposite was His motive for the sacrifice that He made.

riseaboveliveforlove:

Hmmm. Wow. *Thinking of the SSJ team heading to Liberia next week…

“It’s not complicated to stop for the one.” Heidi Baker

You alone are worthy of my heart Lord,
You’re the only one fit for it’s praise.
Nothing in this world can satisfy it like You,
Nothing in this world can love me like You do,
You alone are worthy of my hear Lord.

And I said to all the things that throng about the gateways of my senses: “Tell me of my God, since you are not He”. Tell me something of Him.” And they cried out in a great voice: “He made us.” My question was my gazing upon them, and their answer was their beauty. And I turned to myself and said: “And you, who are you?” And I answered: “A man.

Saint Augustine

The sacrifice You desire is a broken spirit. You will not reject a broken and repentant heart, O God.” - Psalm 53:17
God I am broken before You, an empty man with nothing to give You that isn’t already Yours. Take me as I am: Divided, unfaithful, dirty, broken and weak, and use me for Your own purposes. I don’t know what You can do with what I am, but I want You to do whatever you can with this lump of clay. I desire to be like You, to be the man that You made me to be. I desire to finally be the man who was made in Your image God.

Love,

Your divided, unfaithful, dirty, broken, and weak son.