Thankfullness~

I have been reading a lot about this. A few of the blogs I read have had posts about this in the past few days. With thanks giving fast approaching, I think its very important! I got this idea from my friends blog. To write 1,000 things thank I am thankful for. I started it today. Whenever I start to count my blessings its easy for the first few, then it seems to be harder. Why? Why is it hard to find things to be thankful for?

I have been going through some frustration lately. I have been physically unwell, and no one seems to be able to figure out whats wrong with me. I'm emotionally and spiritually drained it seems. But today I have made the decision to find the things in my life that are worth fighting for. That I'm thankful for. To pick up my cross every day and carry it. To never forget what my LORD did for me!

I will never let satin steel my joy and peace! That has been the hardest thing. Finding peace in this time when I don't know. I'm kind of a control freak. Not to the extent of a lot of people. But I don't like not being in control. That's something I have to let go of.

We are supposed to praise Him in the good times and the bad times. There is ALWAYS something to be thankful for! No matter what is happening!

Pain and sorrow, last for today. But joy and love will reign tomorrow!

So where ever you are, whatever you are doing. Stop and look around you and find things to be thankful for. Dig deep and find the things you don't usually think of.

Thank you LORD for everything!

~Greatly Blessed~

Rachel <3

We Will NOT Compramise!

You hear it all the time, "cant we all just get along?", "cant we live in peace with each other?". The answer is no, sorry, but its not Gods will for us to just "live in peace". I'm not saying go start a war. But come on Christians! We are in a spiritual war here!

Why is the church, and individuals, so willing to compromise with the world? Why are people of other religions so willing to proclaim domination, but we are not? Muslims are the worst. They take a different approach to getting converts. Convert or die! Ofcourse there are not many here who go to those lengths, but their out there! And with this knowledge, how is it that we as Christians are the ones doing everything the world does. Saying "the way we get them is to do what they do". What? That is not what the word says we are to do!

We are to be an example for the world, set apart! We need to offer something different. Not say "see we are cool too!" I get so annoyed when people say things like that! Other religions don't back down! Atheists don't back down why are we?

Compromise is something we as Christan's should not do. Plain and simple. If we are always compromising how is our life style better? Different? Its not!

So that's just something that was stirring in me today. Thanks for listening!

~Greatly Blessed~
Rachel <3

I Let Go

Lord, I let go. Of my hopes, my dreams, my desires. My everything. I give you control, take all of me. Use me for your kingdom building. Help me to get over my insecurity's, to be able to be the witness, the woman, you want me to be. To be able to put everything else aside.

Strip me down, to the core. Teach me the things You want me to know. I don't want to treat You like a religion. You are my Savior, my Friend, my Everything.

Don't let me fall into what everyone else wants. What the worlds idea of a "Christian" is. The only thing that I desire is to please you. To soak in everything you are. Not to fit You in. To fit everything else in my life around You.

Help me to see Your will and not my own. Help me to follow the story You have written. When people see me I want them to see You. Not the broken down old thing that I am. Apart from You I am nothing, I have nothing, I will be nothing.

But through Your love, Your great sacrifice. I am healed, set free, changed. And I comit my daily life. I take up my cross, I live to serve You.

Not to be a good Christian girl. But to be wholly and completely sold out, for the work of the Lamb.

~Greatly Blessed~
Rachel