Day 272: Chains of Freedom

We as humans have a bad habit of holding on to toxic things. We hold on to the very thing that’s killings us as if it’s going to save us. We sometimes find it very hard to choose salvation. We sometimes choose to be stuck in our chains even when we have to key to release ourselves. It’s like we’re running from what is freely given to us but we run towards the things that will cost us our life. Why is that?

Today I want to talk about this human condition. Let’s talk about it.

Ephesians 2:8-9

“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.”

Salvation is a gift from God, freely given to us. We just have to choose to accept it. We have to choose to accept Christ into our lives. This is often the hardest decision to make for us as human beings. It’s a huge life changing decision, but our lives will change for the better. However we sometimes find that committing to Christ is extremely hard. It requires us to live for someone and something other than ourselves. The thing about salvation and gifts is that we choose whether or not we want to accept it. Even though it’s free, we still think there’s a catch or there’s some sort of cost. No, salvation is free, Christ paid it all on the cross. Somehow, even with that knowledge we still seem to be on the fence about accepting God’s love and salvation. A lot of that skepticism has to do with Ephesians 4:22-24,

...throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception. Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes.  Put on your new nature, created to be like God—truly righteous and holy.

Wait a minute! Hold the front door! You’re telling me that once I give my life to Christ or accept His gift of salvation, I have to change? That’s exactly what I’m saying. Surely we did not think that we could still go on living in sin, when Christ died so we wouldn’t have to...  Here’s the thing, change is scary. Stepping out our comfort zone, no matter how toxic it is, is scary. We seem to have gotten too comfortable in our life of sin. So when we finally come to Christ, letting go of it is hard. Because sin brings pleasure, and a false sense of freedom. However when we come to the understanding of who God is we see how toxic that lifestyle is for us. The sad part is, sometimes we just decide to live with the fumes because letting go is too hard. Why do we stay in the same situation we are in even though it’s killing us?   

Romans 7:15-17

I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate.  But if I know that what I am doing is wrong, this shows that I agree that the law is good. So I am not the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.

I have heard so many people say, “when you know better, you do better.”. While I agree with that 100%, I also agree with the fact that knowledge doesn’t change who we are. It changes what we know. We can know everything there is to know about God but if we decide that we aren’t going to change, that knowledge can only go so far. We can talk about much faith we have but if at the end of the day we have not laid our sins at the cross and let them go, does it really matter how much we know? Knowledge isn’t going to get us through those pearly white gates. Salvations will, a life lived in Christ will. It’s hard to let things go, sometimes sin is living in us and we don’t even know it, or we choose to ignore it. We don’t see it until we do the very thing we promised we weren't going to do. The problem with that is, we are trying to rid ourselves of our sin. That’s a paradox in itself, the sinner cannot free themself from sin. Which is why we need Jesus a perfect man, 2 Corinthians 5:21 says,

“God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”

The more we try to do it ourselves the more we will fall deeper into it. When sin lives in us, we act based on what it is our hearts, no matter how much we try to suppress it. Suppressing sin and actually being freed and delivered from sin are two completely different things.

Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

All this to say, is we are sometimes constantly running from that which is free in order to run towards something that will cost us everything, even our life. Why walk in chains when we are free. We have to stop running back to the chains of bondage when life gets to hard for us. What I’m saying is, our chains are comfortable, and sometimes we find ourselves sadly running back to them. For some odd reason we view sin as freedom. We don’t commit ourselves to Christ because we want to be free and do what we want. Salvation is freedom, there is more freedom in salvation than anything. Sin gives us a false idea of freedom, it seems free until we have to give up our soul. Living in sin can only take us so far. It will give us fun and pleasure but at the end of the day it will have consumed our life, Leaving us empty and constantly wanting more. Sin will never fulfill us in the way that christ can. Salvation and eternity is free, don’t be so afraid of change that you die never knowing the freedom you could have had in Christ.

Reflection

1. Are you afraid of change?
2. Have you found yourself running back to your old like when things got too hard?
3. What’s stopping you from submitting your life fully to Christ?

Prayer Time

Allow your answer to the above questions guide your prayer today, and continue to respond in whatever way you feel led. Talk to God about what we discussed today, whatever is on your heart. Whatever is tugging on your spirit respond to it with prayer. Be honest with Him.

I love you and I hope you have an amazing day or evening! Be sure to share this with someone and come back tomorrow for day 273!

Day 271: All You Know

1 John 3:20

in whatever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart and knows all things.

Psalms 139:1-6

O Lord, you have examined my heart and know everything about me. You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I’m far away. You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do. You know what I am going to say even before I say it, Lord.

You go before me and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to understand!

Hebrews 13:8

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

2 Timothy 2:13

If we are faithless, he remains faithful— for he cannot deny himself.

Romans 8:38

And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love.

Have you ever found something out about someone and it changed the way you saw, viewed, or acted towards that person? I mean sometimes our knowledge of things or people allow us to ostracize them. Whatever it may be. Maybe it’s a friends who we found out did something we deem really bad. Maybe it’s  significant other you found out cheated on you or cheated on a previous partner, that’s going to drastically change how you see that person. It’s going to change how you feel towards that person and how you move on with that person, if you decide to. What about love, have we ever loved someone less because of what we know about them? I think we can all agree to this and say that their are certain people in our lives that we have to love from a distance. There are certain people who we don’t let close to us anymore because they’ve done us wrong and showed their true colors far too many times. I can name a few off the top of my head, I’m just being honest. Now what if God loved  us and treated us the way we treat other people based on what we know about them?

God know so much about us, yet He still loves us. He knows us better than we know ourselves. He knows the ins and outs of our hearts and thoughts, He knows what we’re going to do before we even do it. He knows our thoughts. He knows how many strands of hair is on our head. He knows it all. He is all knowing. He knows when our hearts are not pure, or when we a being hypocritical. He knows when we are lying, and deceiving, others may not but He does. He knows every little thing about us, down to the tiniest detail. He sees through the masks and the facades. Yet His love for us never changes. He loves us no matter what. He continues to love us even when we refuse to love Him. He loves us, even when we don’t love ourselves. God’s love towards us never changes. Even with all He knows. God you know everything about me, my past, my present, the things I’ve done that I’m not proud of. Yet you still love me. It almost raises the question how? How can you still love me even when I slammed the door in your face, when I walked away from you, when I hurt your children. How can you still love me? I imagine God will say something along the lines of, “I still love you, you are still my child, my greatest creation. Nothing can stop me from  loving you.” When I think about that it’s mind blowing to think that the one person who has every right to hate me. The person who could walk away from me. Ther person who could isolate me and treat me different because of who I am, what I’ve done, and who I was, that’s the one person who doesn’t.

All this to say, nothing can separate us from God’s love. In the midst of everything we do in our lives, and every place we’ve been; from the highest moments to the lowest, His love never changes. His love stays the same.

Response/Prayer Time

Take the time to respond to what we discussed today. Take in God’s love, and understand that the person who knows everything about you and would be justified in hating us and treating us how we act, doesn’t. Instead He loves us. Talk to God about it, thank Him for His love and respond to Him in whatever way you feel led.

I love you and I hope you have an amazing day or evening! Be sure to share this with someone and come back tomorrow for Day 272!    

Day 270: Why Worry?

Philippians 4:6-7

Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.

Let’s talk about worrying.  This is all too familiar to many of us. Why do we worry so much? There’s so much stuff for us to be anxious about, so much to be worried about. So many things to get us in a frenzy. Especially in our twenties, we’re graduating from college and figuring out what we’re going to do with the rest of our lives. We’re still figuring out who we are, and we’re constantly changing. Or maybe we’re making life changing decisions, coming into life changing responsibilities. Things are constantly changing around us. We’re just trying to stay afloat (life is so much more than just staying afloat, but that’s another topic for another day). We’re trying to live a normal life, working, going to school, paying bills, keeping in contact with family and friends, marriages, kids, and for those of us who are single, trying to have some type of love life. Maybe we’re trying to find the one (they’re always at church or coffee shops lol). On a serious note, there is so much for us to be worried about, so much for us to be anxious about, and losing our minds about. Many of us find ourselves in these places. But the passage of above tells us not to worry about anything but pray about everything. Really? All of my problems can be solved with prayer? Yes they can! It’s that simple, I’m not sure why we as humans like to complicate things (But that’s also another subject for another day). The next line goes on to say, ‘tell God what you need’. Remember when Jesus came and said, come to Him so He can give us rest?

Matthew 11:28

Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.

He doesn’t want us carrying those worries around. It’s a heavy burden, He says let me give you rest, put that burden down and take mine, it’s light. When Jesus was nailed to the cross He took all of our burden with Him. We don’t have to carry them.  Pray about it and leave it with Him, trust me He can handle it better than we can. We worry so much and that often takes the place of prayer in our lives. But God is like, ‘no, tell me what you need. I got you. Don’t worry about it, talk to me about it and let me handle it.’ Instead of worrying, I’ve learned to thank God in advance, thanking Him for the things that He has done and the things He is going to. Putting all my faith in Him, because He sees far beyond what my eyes could ever see or imagine.

Sometimes we’re focused on what’s right in front of us that we kind of forget who God is.  We have to sometimes look at the grand scheme of things, the bigger picture.  We begin to worry because we cannot see past our situation, that thing staring us right in the face. But the thing about faith is that is gives us the opportunity to see through the situation and see God.  We get so caught up in what’s in front of us that we cannot see beyond that to see that God has it all under control.  I think of it this way, why worry when God already has it figured out. I can worry about what I’m going to do with my life, but I know that God already has a wonderful plan for me, and even though I don’t know what that plan is, I’m going to trust Him to lead me. I may not know exactly where I’m going but I know that where I am isn’t the end. I know He has gotten me thus far, so I’m going to continue to put my faith in Him. We worry when things don’t go as planned. Even in those moments we must realize that God is moving. This is why we must keep a loose grip on our plans, because even in our greatest dreams, God is always doing something greater and bigger. If we truly believe that God’s plan is far greater than ours, why are we worrying about the little things that we think we have control over? Why worry when God does far beyond what we can ever think, ask, or imagine? I have come to the conclusion that with this understanding I have nothing to worry about, God has already gotten it figured out and it took me a while to finally get it.

There’s something about being worry free that makes life so much easier. We enjoy life more when we’re not in a constant state of anxiety and worry. It’s a beautiful feeling. We see the beauty of life when we begin to understand that God is completely in control. He has it all figured out and He’s guided us through it all. There’s comfort and peace in that.  We may not know or understand what God is doing in that moment, but there is beauty in it all, even in the unknown. The mystery of it all keeps us following Him. Just as the scripture says, “...Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand.”

Well how do i just pray and not worry? Faith. Take a chance on God, leap and the net will appear. All it takes is a little faith to step out. Just take a chance and I promise He won’t let you down. Our faith cannot grow if it’s not tested, Our faith is tested most when we are going through hell on earth. It’s the moments when we feel like there’s no reason to pray or trust God. In those moment just trust Him, give Him a chance, jump, He will catch you. Trust me, He won’t let you fall.  

All this to say, have faith in God. Don’t worry about anything, instead, pray about everything.

Reflection

1. Are you a worrier?
2. Do you sometimes focus on the situation at hand as opposed to God’s plan?
3. Are you willing to take a chance on Him?

Prayer Time

Allow your answers to the above questions guide your prayer. Talk to God about what we discussed today. Have a honest conversation with Him. Lay down all your worries at His feet and leave them there. Take a chance on God today.

I love you and I hope you have an amazing day or evening! Be sure to share this with someone and come back tomorrow for day 271!

Day 269: All Loss for One Gain

Philippians 3:7-8

But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ

Paul was on to something in these scriptures, he saying something along the lines of, ‘nothing compares to having Christ in my life’. Everything I had, everything I have gained, I would count it all lost just to have Christ in my life. I would lose it all, if it meant I would gain you. I would rather lose everything before I lose you. This almost seems like our response to God leaving the ninety-nine to find the one that wandered away. Christ gave up everything, His throne, His life, so that we may live. This concludes that life is so much greater than what we gain or lose here on earth. There is a greater purpose, a mystery to it all. That mystery is Christ. How great it is to gain everything through Christ, even when we’ve lost everything in the world.

How many of us can say that we are willing to lose everything for the sake of Christ? If we had too or if we were given the choice. I’m not telling you to go and give up everything you have, what I’m saying is that if we had to, if we lost everything it will have been worth it, just to gain Christ. Just so we can have a relationship with Him, and experience the love and freedom He has given us. I believe that this is what Paul was saying. He’s saying none of it matters if I don’t have Christ. I will rip up my credentials, and give up all my earthly possessions because truly if I do not have Christ, what do I have? I have nothing.

I remember when my sister and I were sixteen, it seemed like our world came crashing down. My mom, my sister, my brother, and I fell on very hard times. We lost everything. From our house to our car. We put everything we owned into storage and then we lost that. Everything we owned, thousands of dollars worth of stuff, heirlooms, everything! All we had were the bags of clothes we needed and the clothes on our backs. We were living in a motel at the time. As someone who grew up very sheltered and spoiled, I found myself at the lowest point of my life. I thought we couldn’t get any worse. But it was in these moments that Christ found me. I would love to say, I found Him but I wasn’t looking for Him, if I’m being honest. It was when I had nothing that Christ gave me everything and I don’t mean materialistic stuff. I mean He showed me that there was a reason to live beyond what was tangible. He showed me that I had a greater purpose, He gave me life when I was dying. Everything I could need or ask for He gave it to me. I found it all in Him, all the answers I needed, all the healing, all the grace, everything was and is in Him. Going through all of this sucked, it was very hard, but if Christ didn’t find me, if He didn’t meet me where I was I would not have made it through. Going through much more than just losing everything I was dealing with some dark emotional, and mental issues at the time, and battled with suicide. Even went as far as planning my suicide, multiple times, but He never allowed me to carry out the plan. If He hadn’t found me, where would I be? I would have died at my own hands. So yes, I lost everything but it was all worth it just to gain Christ. I would not go back and change anything because through it all I receive my salvation and an eternal relationship with my heavenly Father. I might have lost everything, but in reality I truly gained everything.

-Dyamond

All this to say, sometimes we have to lose everything to gain Christ. Maybe not on that grand of a scale but we must come to realization that all of this can vanish at any moment. We must not put our faith in what is disposable. This doesn’t mean that we dismiss everything that is tangible, or things that are disposable, but our faith, our lives, our devotion belongs to Christ. When we put Him first, everything else will fall into place. The biggest lesson I learned from that experience is, I can live without these worldly possessions, tangible, and even sometimes intangible things that make up my life here on Earth, but I cannot live without Christ. I cannot do it.  At the end of the day, none of this can save us, whatever ‘this’ is. It cannot save us and it cannot give us peace or life. We have to get to a point where we hold tightly to God, so that when other things fall away we will still be standing because of our firm grasp on God. We will not be shaken or moved. Even when we have everything we ever wanted we will still have a solid foundation in Christ. Because like I said before if we are not living in Christ, are we really living?

Response/ Prayer Time

How do you respond to what we discussed today? Are you truly living? Maybe you’ve had a similar experience, maybe not, but respond however you feel led today and let that guide your prayer. Have a conversation with God, just you and Him.

I love you and I hope you have an amazing day or evening! Be sure to share this with someone and come back tomorrow for Day 270!

Day 270: He Humbled Himself

Philippians 2:6-9

Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to. Instead, he gave up his divine privileges he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. When he appeared in human form, he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal’s death on a cross. Therefore, God elevated him to the place of highest honor and gave him the name above all other names,

humble-having or showing a modest or low estimate of one's own importance.

My favorite part about this passage is when it says, He humbled Himself in obedience to God. Because Jesus is God in the flesh, He is the Kings of Kings, and God sent Him down to earth to be a servant. It says ‘though He was God, He did not think of equality with God as something to cling to.’ He gave up His throne in heaven, he gave up His divine privileges in order to be in and obey the will of God. Because of this wonderful act of humility we have received the gift of salvation. Because the king decided to give up His throne and die a criminal’s death on our behalf we are saved, we are set free. Because of this God honored Him. It says God elevated Him to the place of highest honor.

Sometime we are seeking honor without humility. What I mean is that we are often walking through life arrogantly and seeking honor in our arrogance. Honor comes from God and we cannot walk arrogantly before Him and think that we should be honored. If Jesus Himself who was fully God and fully man humbled Himself before the Lord, who are we to walk as if we are better than anyone. We do not require honor, as a matter of fact we do not deserve it. If anyone should walk in humility it should be us, we were dying in our sin until Jesus came. We could not get ourselves out of sin, and for that reason we should walk humbly and obediently before God.

A lot of times we’re seeking honor and glory from God over looking the relationship. Overlooking the fact that we must humble ourselves before Him. He is not going to honor us in our arrogance and conceit. He’s looking for people that will humble themselves before Him. Stepping off our high horses to serve Him and His people. When I think about this, I think about the fact that we are seeking worldly honor. That’s the problem, we are seeking honor from man and not from God. That’s where we go wrong. We try to elevate ourselves among man, and when we get it we act as if we are better than the next person or above someone else. We start to idolize this idea of importance, honor, or fame.

Something I constantly pray for is humility, because I never want to get into the mindset of thinking that I am better than anyone else, or too good to do the dirty work or even worse, that I don’t need God because I can handle it on my own. Everytime I get on my high horse God knocks me right back down to earth, because I want to live and walk in humility with HIm. If we do not humble ourselves before Christ we cannot grow. How are we going to survive if we cannot grow in Christ?

All this to say, if we want to walk with God and live like Christ, we must humble ourselves. Yes, we all have a specific importance, and a purpose but that does not warrant us to walk as if we deserve honor. We must take the example from Christ and humble ourselves in obedience before the Lord. Jesus gave up a throne, and took on the death of a sinner, so we can have salvation. When we think of that we can climb down off our high horse and serve the living God.

Reflection

1. Can you say that you are truly walking humbly before the Lord?
2. Can you remember a time when you were arrogant?
3. Do you think that we can grow in Christ if we are arrogant and boastful in ourselves?
4. Are you clinging to worldly honor?
5. Or do you want to be honored and elevated in Christ?

Prayer Time

Allow you answers to the above questions guide your prayer. Talk to God about walking humbly before Him, ask Him to search your heart and bring to your attention the things that are not like Him. Spend time with Him, confessing and glorifying Him.

I love you and I hope you have an amazing day or evening! Be sure to share this with someone and come back tomorrow for Day 271!

Day 269: Exposing Darkness

Ephesians 5:11-14

For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light! For this light within you produces only what is good and right and true. Carefully determine what pleases the Lord. Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness; instead, expose them.  It is shameful even to talk about the things that ungodly people do in secret.  But their evil intentions will be exposed when the light shines on them, for the light makes everything visible…

This statement might be familiar to some of us, but I remember when I was younger, a way my mom scared the truth out of us or stopped us from doing things we knew we weren’t supposed to do was by saying, “What’s done in the dark will come to light.” Every time she said this to us I would freak out, like I would have a few mini heart attacks. Thinking about all the things she would find out, I started freaking out about things I hadn’t even done, but I was convinced that I would get in trouble no matter what. This was a life lesson, it kept me an honest person, and someone who was willing to clean my closet before all the skeletons fell out. God knows what we are doing when no one else is looking. He sees the things we do in the dark that we try to hide from everyone else. The difference between God and my mom is that I could hide things from her, there’s nothing i can hide from God because He is all knowing. He. Sees. Everything.  

God is calling us to live an honest life before Him. He’s calling us out of darkness and telling us to take no part in it, as a matter of fact shine a light on it and expose it. Here’s the  thing about darkness is, it is only the absence of light. That’s literally the definition. So simple yet so profound. Seeing that Jesus is the light, He is telling us to only take part in things that are of Him. Taking part in darkness or living in darkness means we are living outside of the will of God. We are trying to navigate through life without our Savior. When we shine a light on the darkness that was once our lives, we begin to see clearly. Christ can now clean up the mess that was our lives. There’s no use of trying to walk through darkness because we will never get to where we are trying to go. In darkness we have no direction, no vision, nothing. There’s too much in front of us that we cannot see causing us to fall and stumble. Christ wants us to expose that, all of it. Now I know when we think about our sin being exposed our minds go to humiliation, but Christ is not in the business of humiliating us, in fact He would rather be humiliated so we wouldn’t have to. He was humiliated for us. He wants us to bring our sin to Him so He can clean us off.

The scripture says, once we were filled with darkness but now we have light from the Lord. What that means is God gave us direction. He gave us salvation, He sent His son so that we would no longer have to navigate in the dark. When Jesus came He did not come pointing at people and embarrassing them for their sin, but He offered forgiveness, He gave us a way out. He turned us away from a life that was leading to death and gave us an eternity. But here’s the catch, the people had to be willing to accept Him, the had to be willing to accept His forgiveness and walk in this light that He has given us.

Sometimes we are so consumed by our sin that it seems nearly impossible to give up. We tend to hold on to the very things that are killing us as if they could save us. We have been walking in darkness so long that the sight of light doesn’t give us hope, instead it irritates our eyes so we turn away from it. What I’m saying is that sometimes darkness feel too good to us to give up. Everything that feels good isn’t good, I think we can all agree on that. We know this, we know that the things we are doing is not okay because we are trying to hide them from God, so why do we continue to live in darkness as if it can be overlooked? It poses the question, would we rather God expose us for our sin or would we rather come to Him and confess? Lay it down at the cross and accept salvation. I don’t know about you, but the latter seems to be the easier road to take. Jesus doesn’t judge us, He died so that we wouldn’t have to live in darkness. He gave us His life to do away with darkness, why would we go back to it after we’ve been set free?

There are some things in our lives that are so hard to let go of. We all that one thing that stays creeping up on us. As I’ve stated before, that thing for me was pornography, I could go to church, read my bible everyday, pray all day, and still be struggling with pornography. Even when I thought it was gone, it came creeping up again. Sometimes us Christians are walk 95% in the light. What I mean is we sometimes have a closet with a few skeletons lying around, making appearances every now and then. We just tend to overlook them as if they’re not there. What I’m saying is, there’s corners in our lives that could use some light.

All this to say, walk in light and when I say walk in light I mean walk in Christ. Do not be consumed by sin. When we invite Christ into our lives we must allow Him into every part of our lives, so that He can drive out darkness in every corner and crevice of our lives.  There is nothing we can hide from Him no matter how hard we try, so there’s no use in trying. There is always room at the cross to lay down our sins and expose the darkness in our lives. Sin was defeated by Christ, darkness was defeated by light. So if we want to defeat the darkness in our lives we must shine a light on it. If we want to get rid of the sin in our lives we must accept Christ into our hearts and give Him every part of us. Letting go of anything and everything that is unlike Him.

Reflection

1. Are there things in your life you are overlooking because you can’t seem to let them go?
2. If so, what are they?
3. Take the time to respond to what we discussed today, in whatever way you feel led.  

Prayer Time

Allow your answers to the above questions guide your prayer today. Talk to God about whatever is on your heart, if you want to confess to Him take the time and do it. This is between you and God, whatever is on your heart release it. If you want a way out, here is it. If you want God to shine a light on you so that you are no longer walking in darkness take the time to tell Him. If you want to make that decision to accept the Lord as your Savior or rededicate your life to Him, now is the time to do it.  

If you want to make that decision today, pray this prayer with me.

Jesus I declare that you are my Lord and Saviour who died for my sin and was raised three days later. I repent of my sins and I give my life to you. I believe in my heart that you are the true living God. I pray that you shine  light on me and bring me out of the dark. I love you Lord. Thank you for saving me. In Jesus name, Amen.

If you made the choice to follow Christ, rededicate, or to submit your life to Him fully, Go to Romans 10:9-10

If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.

I love you and I hope you have an amazing day or evening! If you made a decision to follow Christ, congratulations! Get plugged into a church and don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions or prayer requests. Im praying for you on your journey. I love you, be sure to share this with someone and come back tomorrow for day 270!

Day 268: Recap

Day 260: What You Need Me to Be

Today we talked about the lengths that Paul went to brag the message of Christ to all people. To make sure the everyone heard the gospel. We talked about how we as people often overlook people who are in need of help, and we must be willing to go to the places no one is willing to go, just to bring the message of Christ to someone. We focused on 1 Corinthians 9:19-23.

" We are so concerned with containing our Christian composure and making sure that our spirits are not 'tainted' that we are not really doing all we can to make sure someone’s soul is set free."

 Day 261: A Way Out

Today we talked about how God always provides us with a way out. We talked about how He will not allow us to be tempted pass what we can stand. We talked about how we sometimes decide to sin and then blame everything but ourselves. We focused on 1 Corinthians 10:12-13.

"Who you are in Christ is much stronger than your flesh and it’s worldly desires."

Day 262: Our Way

Today we talked about a classic biblical story, we discussed Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar. We discussed how sometimes we think or act like we know more than God. We act as if He does not know what He is doing therefore we must take matters into our own hands. We also talked about how we decide to move on our own when we get impatient with God. We focused on Genesis 15:2-5, 16:1-5: 18:10-15, and 21:1-5.

"We do not know more than God. It’s easy to take matters into our own hands because we think we know what we’re doing, but when we compare our knowledge to God’s we literally have no idea what He has in store for us."

Day 263: The Split Personalities of Christianity

Today we talked about how we often put our life as a Christian separate from our everyday living. We treat our lifestyle as a follower of Christ as something that can be turned on and off at will. We discussed how we are a Christian at all times, in front of all people, and our lives should not be separated into two categories. We also touched on how we often act as if our humanity is stripped from us because we are Christ followers. We focused on Galatians 2:11-13.

"We are so concerned with how people will see us and what they will think or say that we allow ourselves to put up a facade. It’s like putting on a mask that we remove from time to time to reveal and cover who we really are. We allow ourselves to create a separate identity that is only unleashed when “we don’t have to be Christian”. Once again, there is never a moment when we are not Christian."

Day 264: Our Set Time

Today we talked about how God has set a time for each and every one of us. We talked about how sometimes God is allowing us to grow and mature, he is moulding us into the people He needs us to be before He pours out His blessings upon us. We talked about how we must be patient and trust His timing because we will always to come the realization of how perfect His timing actually is. We focused on Galatians 4:1-2.

" I feel like sometimes God is telling us to wait a little longer so we can mature a little more. He’s teaching us as we go, He’s making us into the people He wants to be so that whenever we receive what God has for us, we will be ready."

Day 265: All the Time #WasteTheirTime2017

Today we touched on relationships a bit and talked about how sometimes people only want our attention so it's not given to someone else. We talked about how sometimes someone who doesn't really want us in their lives will do everything they can to keep us, just so we won't be a part of someone else's. You gotta read it. We focused on Galatians 4:17-18.

"Like Paul says, it’s alright if people want to do good things for you, but let them do it all the time. Let them be the same all the time. Let them do it in private just as in public."

I love you and I hope you have an amazing day or evening! Be sure to share this with someone, go back over what we discussed this week, and come back tomorrow for Day 269!