Surrendered

Jesus has never ever asked for us to be perfect. He simply wants us perfectly surrendered. I often pray, “Oh Jesus… I am such a mess but I am Yours. Show me… help me… forgive me… reassure me… and pour your tender mercy upon me.”

And He does. And He always will. My imperfections are safely tucked within the reality of His perfection.

~ Lysa Terkeurst

Worship Wednesday – Yours Forever

My life is in Your hands, Lord
My times are in Your hands
Though nations shake and storms they roll
I will trust in You completely

I yearn for more of You, Lord
Your grace alive in me
My life is nailed to Your hands that bled
In Your love my soul is free

You took my place, You took the fall
You took the nails that I may live forever, live forever
You rose again, You made a way
You broke the chains and now I’m Yours forever, I’m Yours forever

I worship You forever more
In joy and suffering
Until the day I see Your face
My whole life to You my offering

You took my place, You took the fall
You took the nails that I may live forever, live forever
You rose again, You made a way
You broke the chains and now I’m Yours forever, I’m Yours forever

Oh Jesus, Jesus, death could not hold You, freedom abounds
Oh Jesus, my Jesus, I sing of Your mercy, the power of the cross
Oh Jesus, Jesus, death could not hold You, freedom abounds
Oh Jesus, my Jesus, I sing of Your mercy, the power of the cross

Fearlessly Surrendering

 

If we actually could comprehend the depth of HIS love for us we wouldn’t be white knuckling things like guilt and fear and insecurities. If we were seriously confident in HIS love for us we would be encouragers and champions to absolutely EVERYONE… not just the easy people who aren’t threatening to us in any way. The thing about surrendering and submitting is they come across as week sounding by the world’s standards… almost like you’re giving in and giving up. BUT… there is HUGE freedom in saying yes to HIM… and trusting his love is ENOUGH… and then just letting it all go.

 

"If you truly believed God loved you, what would it look like?"

from The Fearless Experiment

Surrender Sizes

 

"Each ‘small’ step of surrender that we take confirms that God is worthy if our trust and prepares us to trust Him with bigger surrenders that may be required down the road."

~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss

 

 

 

 

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My Life Is Yours

there are songs – or snatches of songs – that sometimes speak right into your heart – that speak indeed what your heart is thinking at the moment… and today in the background i have a mix of cd’s playing as i tidy the house, wrap birthday presents for 4 people (busy month!), and sort out kids things to pass on to friends wtih new babies – and blog…  and I Adore You by Jesus Culture came on….  i love Jesus Culture but confess i usually preprogramme a playlist that has this song near the end…  today the lyrics really jumped out – and into me – MY LIFE IS YOURS…. MY LIFE IS YOURS… at the time i was writing a post on the call of God, springboarding from this martin luther quote… ”God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing. He can make something out of us.”My life is God’s.  My life is Yours God.  i belong to God.

You are not your own.  For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.  1 Corinthians 6:19-20

That my eyes focus on Your beautiful eyes
A million tongues could not express
How beautiful Your holiness

My life is yours and will be forever
My love is yours

Taking Up My Cross

preaching notes for young adults service sunday 9th august:

Paul says EXAMINE YOURSELF:  Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. 2 Corinthians 13:5

How are you living?

Who are you living for?

What is your purpose?

Are you living an intentional life?

What does your life say about you?

Life is more than breathing.  We are alive for a purpose and a reason.  For such a time as this.   And we have been chosen and called by the Almighty God to demonstrate his love and glory and grace to those around us.  We are not Sims characters or robots.  We are not aimless purposeless beings.

Life is intentional.

HOW we live and WHO we live for is important.

Paul says take a hard look at yourself.  Examine yourself.  He asks us to think about how we are living our lives – to make sure we are in the faith… to make sure we are living as God would want us to live… knowing Him.

• Matthew 10:37-39

³⁷If you love your father or mother or even your sons and daughters more than me, you are not fit to be my disciples. ³⁸And unless you are willing to take up your cross and come with me, you are not fit to be my disciples. ³⁹If you try to save your life, you will lose it. But if you give it up for me, you will surely find it. CEV

³⁷ He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. ³⁸ And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. ³⁹ He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.  NKJV

And he who does not take up his cross and follow Me [cleave steadfastly to Me, conforming wholly to My example in living and, if need be, in dying also] is not worthy of Me.  Amplified

⁶You cannot be my disciple, unless you love me more than you love your father and mother, your wife and children, and your brothers and sisters. You cannot come with me unless you love me more than you love your own life.     ²⁷You cannot be my disciple unless you carry your own cross and come with me.  Luke 14:26-27

Take = to seize, take ahold of

Follow after me = to be in the same way

When the Roman Empire crucified a criminal or captive, the victim was often forced to carry his cross part of the way to the crucifixion site, carrying his cross through the heart of the city.

The picture is of a man, already condemned, required to carry the beam of his own cross to the place of execution. Disciples from Galilee knew what this meant, for hundreds of men had been executed by this means in their region.

The cross was an instrument of death and total sacrifice.

Jesus seems to be saying that just as a condemned man is forced to carry the crossbeam of his own cross, we are to “take up our cross.”

Denying self requires us to give up anything that we would want or seek that would hinder our doing the will of God. This does not mean that, if we want something, it is necessarily wrong. It means we must take our wants and desires down from the throne and place Jesus and His will as the governing power in our lives.

Whatever He wants with my life is what must be done with it.

Paul knew this – He LIVED it!   He made it real.  He says I HAVE

• Galatians 2:20

I have been nailed to the cross with Christ. ²⁰I have died, but Christ lives in me. And I now live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave his life for me.

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

So how do WE do this in real life?

You probably don’t need me to give u a list of “good crucified behaviour” – a check list of good character traits…   You have the Holy Spirit within you to transform you and teach you and to tell you when you’re walking the right road and to warn you when you’re heading into dodgy territory…

You have the Word of God that shows us who God is and how he acts and what Jesus does – he is the one we model our lives on and follow.

Paul is pretty clear on what a Christian should do and not do…  as well as that it isn’t about rules and regulations but about our character being the outward expression of our inward obedience and love for God and desire to please him.

The 10 commandments show us what the big NOTs are – do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal etc… and Jesus unpacks it in Matthew 5-7 about how that looks in real life, that anger = murder, that lust = adultery, that selfishness and coveting = thieving….

So we’re blessed to have the Word of God and the Holy Spirit of God to show us and teach us….  We just need to be open and listening and reading and learning and surrendering and following…

We sing all the songs….  “All you are, is all I want, I want to see you etc…” we need to LIVE it!  we need to LIVE it!  lets not just sing the words but lets put it into day to day practice and day to day life.

So HOW?

How do we carry our cross and follow Jesus?

How do we live the crucified life?

How do we seek first the kingdom of God?

How do we love God with all our heart, all our mind, all our strength?

How do we be real Christians?

For me there are 3 keys:

1. The Word
2. Love
3. Make the Choice

• The Word.

I talked about the Word of God showing us how to live our lives above.  The Word shows us how we should live – who we should be – characteristics and principals

Psalm 119:9-11  With what shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to Your Word.  With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me wander from Your Commandments.  I have hidden Your Word in my heart, so that I might not sin against You.

How does a young person keep from sin?  By hiding the Word of God in our hearts – by reading it and learning it and loving it and listening to what God reveals in it and doing it and thinking about it and being challenged by it….

Hebrews 4:12  For the Word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing apart of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

You want to know how to live a life that pleases God… read your Bible.   Its all in there and God will speak to you and challenge you.

• LOVE

John 14:23 Jesus replied:    If anyone loves me, they will obey me. Then my Father will love them, and we will come to them and live in them

1 John 5:3  We show our love for God by obeying his commandments, and they are not hard to follow.

You might think God is a killjoy sometimes.

That he wants to restrict our lives and make us wear gray and be boring.

But that is so the opposite of who God is and his heart for each one of us.

He is the amazing Creator of the Universe – the universe is tucked into his hands – he speaks to us and teaches us and lives within us and uses us and heals us and transforms us…  he gives us dreams and desires – he has a plan and a purpose for us that doesn’t suck but is the kind you hope for.

“God is not merely the best version of you that you can think of.  God is far more than that, above and beyond all that you ask or think.”

Living a crucified life is about loving God.  Knowing God and loving him.  Loving him and following him.  Day by day relationship with him.  it is about sacrifice and obedience, yes, but done because of love, not because of “must do” or “should do” feelings, but because of love.

• Make the choice.

Living for God is a choice.  Living a life surrendered to him is a choice.  Living a life that takes up the cross and says that it is no longer I that live but Christ that lives in me, a life that pleases God is a choice.  A choice that is made every day, sometimes many times a day.

Romans 8:3-10 But God set you free when he sent his own Son to be like us sinners and to be a sacrifice for our sin. God used Christ’s body to condemn sin. ⁴He did this, so that we would do what the Law commands by obeying the Spirit instead of our own desires. ⁵People who are ruled by their desires think only of themselves. Everyone who is ruled by the Holy Spirit thinks about spiritual things. ⁶If our minds are ruled by our desires, we will die. But if our minds are ruled by the Spirit, we will have life and peace. ⁷Our desires fight against God, because they do not and cannot obey God’s laws. ⁸If we follow our desires, we cannot please God.       ⁹You are no longer ruled by your desires, but by God’s Spirit, who lives in you. People who don’t have the Spirit of Christ in them don’t belong to him. ¹⁰But Christ lives in you. So you are alive because God has accepted you…

We make a choice to follow God and obey him.  We make a choice to deny what our selfish desires want and to reject them and to obey God.

Sometimes the choice is obvious – do I shoplift or not?  Do I go and get drunk or not?  Do I go mess around with that boy or girl or not?  Do I swear or not?   Sometimes the choice is a bit more gray and comes down to us managing our emotions more than our actions… the whole anger/lust/selfishness thing…  Its still a choice.

Make the decision before you go into life to obey God.  Make the decision to be one that follows God.  Let that colour every decision you make and every action you do.  Let that influence who you are and what you do.

It is about abdicating my will to Gods.  Not making me a robot – in case you were wondering… but yielding what I would naturally want to what God would want…

Lets just put it black and white.  Christians are ment to know God and be in relationship with him and do what he says. HE is God and we are not.

Crucified living may not feel pretty all the time and it may hurt.

It may not turn out to be a life of ease and comfort…  God will challenge you on who you are and what you do…  he will call you to live outside your comfort zone… but it is worth it… it is worth it….

Sometimes following Jesus isn’t all happiness and roses… it is loneliness and suffering, discipline and sacrifice. There are times when God works on our character that just aren’t pleasant… when we feel like we are walking through the fire and flame,   Obedience can be painful. Obedience can strike at the heart of the things we want to hold onto the most. It can cause us to walk in a direction we hadn’t planned on, and maybe even don’t want to. Obedience can put you in a circumstance and place that stretches your heart and faith. But obedience has a reward. Intimacy with God. Obedience I believe does please God.

And I want to throw this out there… there are rewards and consequences for how you live your life….  Matthew 7:21-23 ²¹Not everyone who calls me their Lord will get into the kingdom of heaven. Only the ones who obey my Father in heaven will get in. ²²On the day of judgment many will call me their Lord. They will say, “We preached in your name, and in your name we forced out demons and worked many miracles.” ²³But I will tell them, “I will have nothing to do with you! Get out of my sight, you evil people!”

EXAMINE YOURSELF…

We live our lives as a response to the love and grace God has poured out upon us.

I live my life in obedience as a response of thanks and awe and gratefulness to God for his salvation and love.

For God so loved me that he gave his only Son that I would not die but have eternal life.

It is not that I first loved God but that He loved me first and sent Jesus to die on the cross to pay the penalty for my sin.

My life is not my own….  It was rescued and redeemed and paid for by the blood of Jesus shed on the cross, to pay the penalty for my sin and rebellion against God.

LEAD ME TO THE CROSS:

Tonight… examine yourself.  Test yourself.

Are you living as Jesus calls you to live?

Or are you living for yourself?

Tonight though we can make a fresh start.

Tonight we can come before God and repent – say sorry and then determine to live a changed life – and start fresh.

If you have turned away from God and have been living life your own way and rebelling from him – tonight you need to come and start again.

There are consequences for how we live our life.  Consequences that are either rewards or not.

God is calling you to come and know him and to live for him pleasing him.

Start now.  Start now.

Take Up Your Cross

You cannot give place to the world, to your passions or your laziness. Words are not enough to claim the kingdom of God. It takes strength and courage and violence. You must violently resist the tides of the world. Violently give up all that holds you back from God. Violently turn your will over to God to do His will alone. This violence is what I pray you will come to know, for how else will you know anything of the life of the Lord Jesus? Fenelon from 100 days in the secret place

The violence that Francis Fenelon is talking about in this above quote is not about arrogant rough hit and punch violence.  it is not the voilence we see on tv or read about in the news.  it is not filled with swearing or expressed with fists.  It is the passionate pursuit of ones goals – in our case – the Kingdom of God. With force and decision and resolve we must resist the desires of the flesh and hold onto the course before us – the narrow path of holiness and surrender. It takes guts to follow Christ. Jesus himself said:

Matthew 16:24-25 If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life shall lose it, and whoever desires to lose his life for My sake shall find it.

Sometimes following Jesus isnt all happiness and roses… it is loneliness and suffering, discipline and sacrifice. There are times when God works on our character that just arent pleasant… when we feel like we are walking through the fire and flame, and feel like we are walking those paths alone. God seems distant and prayers unanswered.

i was watching Rob Bell’s Nooma dvd NOISE today and i was again stirred by Elijah meeting with God on the mountain top – not Mt Carmel, but a forgotten, hidden mountain where he had run away too.  he had run away from his ministry and the people and the opposition – he was running away from life.  While on the mountain there was an earthquake, a mighty wind, a raging fire – but God was NOT in the fire or the wind or the earthquake.  he was not in the loud demonstration.  he was in the small quiet voice… Rob Bell pointed out that this really means SILENCE.  God was in the silence.  God is in teh silence we face in our lives, when he seems far away he is so near.  do we hold on and hear him and find him or do we continue to run?

Take hope in the words of the Bible, that say that God IS with us through the fire and the flame (Isaiah 43) and that He does hear our prayers always.

1Peter 1:6-7 in which you greatly rejoice, yet a little while, if need be, grieving in manifold temptations; so that the trial of your faith (being much more precious than that of gold that perishes, but being proven through fire) might be found to praise and honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

Our faith is regarded as being much more precious than gold to God. It does go through the fire of refinement as we are shaped into the character of Jesus.

We must be committed to following God, to allowing His way in our lives and to walking one step at a time forward. We must be committed to making God-decisions, not just good ones, and to rejecting the things we must reject. No one ever said it would be easy, just worth it. Eternally.  we must press on, as Paul said.

A Crucified Life

Living the Crucified Life

Paul says EXAMINE YOURSELF:  Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. 2 Corinthians 13:5

How are you living?

Who are you living for?

What is your purpose?

Are you living an intentional life?

What does your life say about you?

Life is more than breathing.  We are alive for a purpose and a reason.  For such a time as this.   And we have been chosen and called by the Almighty God to demonstrate his love and glory and grace to those around us.  We are not Sims characters.  We are not aimless purposeless beings.

Life is intentional.

HOW we live and WHO we live for is important.

Paul says examine yourself.  Test yourself.  He asks us to think about how we are living our lives – to make sure we are in the faith… to make sure we are living as God would want us to live… knowing Him.

I have been nailed to the cross with Christ. ²⁰I have died, but Christ lives in me. And I now live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave his life for me.

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

Matthew 10:37-39

³⁷If you love your father or mother or even your sons and daughters more than me, you are not fit to be my disciples. ³⁸And unless you are willing to take up your cross and come with me, you are not fit to be my disciples. ³⁹If you try to save your life, you will lose it. But if you give it up for me, you will surely find it. CEV

³⁷ He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. ³⁸ And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. ³⁹ He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.  NKJV

And he who does not take up his cross and follow Me [cleave steadfastly to Me, conforming wholly to My example in living and, if need be, in dying also] is not worthy of Me.  Amplified

⁶You cannot be my disciple, unless you love me more than you love your father and mother, your wife and children, and your brothers and sisters. You cannot come with me unless you love me more than you love your own life.     ²⁷You cannot be my disciple unless you carry your own cross and come with me.  Luke 14:26-27

Take = to seize, take ahold of

Follow after me = to be in the same way

There are rewards and consequences for how we live our lives.

Galatians 5:19-21 ¹⁹People’s desires make them give in to immoral ways, filthy thoughts, and shameful deeds. ²⁰They worship idols, practice witchcraft, hate others, and are hard to get along with. People become jealous, angry, and selfish. They not only argue and cause trouble, but they are ²¹envious. They get drunk, carry on at wild parties, and do other evil things as well. I told you before, and I am telling you again: No one who does these things will share in the blessings of God’s kingdom.

Revelation 21:8 But I will tell you what will happen to cowards and to everyone who is unfaithful or dirty-minded or who murders or is sexually immoral or uses witchcraft or worships idols or tells lies. They will be thrown into that lake of fire and burning sulfur. This is the second death.

Matthew 7:21-23 ²¹Not everyone who calls me their Lord will get into the kingdom of heaven. Only the ones who obey my Father in heaven will get in. ²²On the day of judgment many will call me their Lord. They will say, “We preached in your name, and in your name we forced out demons and worked many miracles.” ²³But I will tell them, “I will have nothing to do with you! Get out of my sight, you evil people!”

So how do we do this in real life?

You probably don’t need me to give u a list of “good cruicified behaviour” – a check list of good character traits…   You have the Holy Spirit within you to transform you and teach you and to tell you when you’re walking the right road and to warn you when you’re heading into dodgy territory…

You have the Word of God that shows us who God is and how he acts and what Jesus does – he is the one we model our lives on and follow.

Paul is pretty clear on what a Christian should do and not do…  as well as that it isn’t about rules and regulations but about our character being the outward expression of our inward obedience and love for God and desire to please him.

The 10 commandments show us what the big NOTs are – do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal etc… and Jesus unpacks it in Matthew 5-7 about how that looks in real life, that anger = murder, that lust = adultery, that selfishness and coveting = thieving….

So we’re blessed to have the Word of God and the Holy Spirit of God to show us and teach us….  We just need to be open and listening and reading and learning and surrendering and following…

We sing all the songs….  “All you are, is all I want, I want to see you etc…” we need to LIVE it!  we need to LIVE it!  lets not just sing the words but lets put it into day to day practice and day to day life.

So HOW?

How do we carry our cross and follow Jesus?

How do we live the crucified life?

How do we seek first the kingdom of God?

How do we love God with all our heart, all our mind, all our strength?

How do we be real Christians?

We live our lives as a response to the love and grace God has poured out upon us.

I live my life in obedience as a response of thanks and awe and gratefulness to God for his salvation and love.

For God so loved me that he gave his only Son that I would not die but have eternal life.

It is not that I first loved God but that He loved me first and sent Jesus to die on the cross to pay the penalty for my sin.

My life is not my own….  It was rescued and redeemed and paid for by the blood of Jesus shed on the cross, to pay the penalty for my sin and rebellion against God.

Tonight… examine yourself.  Test yourself.

Are you living as Jesus calls you to live?

Or are you living for yourself?

Tonight though we can make a fresh start.

Tonight we can come before God and repent – say sorry and then determine to live a changed life – and start fresh.

If you have turned away from God and have been living life your own way and rebelling from him – tonight you need to come and start again.

There are consequences for how we live our life.  Consequences that are either rewards or not.

God is calling you to come and know him and to live for him pleasing him.

Start now.  Start now.

Crucified Living

So HOW?

How do we carry our cross and follow Jesus?

How do we live the crucified life?

How do we seek first the kingdom of God?

How do we love God with all our heart, all our mind, all our strength?

How do we be real Christians?

For me there are 3 keys:

1. The Word
2. Love
3. Make the Choice

• The Word.

The Word shows us how we should live – who we should be – characteristics and principals

Psalm 119:9-11  With what shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to Your Word.  With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me wander from Your Commandments.  I have hidden Your Word in my heart, so that I might not sin against You.

How does a young person keep from sin?  By hiding the Word of God in our hearts – by reading it and learning it and loving it and listening to what God reveals in it and doing it and thinking about it and being challenged by it….

Hebrews 4:12  For the Word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing apart of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

You want to know how to live a life that pleases God… read your Bible.   Its all in there and God will speak to you and challenge you.

• LOVE

John 14:23 Jesus replied:    If anyone loves me, they will obey me. Then my Father will love them, and we will come to them and live in them

1 John 5:3  We show our love for God by obeying his commandments, and they are not hard to follow.

You might think God is a killjoy sometimes.

That he wants to restrict our lives and make us wear gray and be boring.

But that is so the opposite of who God is and his heart for each one of us.

He is the amazing Creator of the Universe – the universe is tucked into his hands – he speaks to us and teaches us and lives within us and uses us and heals us and transforms us…  he gives us dreams and desires – he has a plan and a purpose for us that doesn’t suck but is the kind you hope for.

“God is not merely the best version of you that you can think of.  God is far more than that, above and beyond all that you ask or think.”

Living a crucified life is about loving God.  Knowing God and loving him.  loving him and following him.  day by day relationship with him.  it is about sacrifice and obedience, yes, but done because of love, not because of “must do” or “should do” feelings, but because of love.

BREATHER/ILLUSTRATION:  I love my husband and my children.  There are sometimes I don’t feel like making dinner or doing the dishes or washing a trillion socks…. Or getting up in the middle of the night because someone needs to go toilet and cant see in the dark, or reading the little yellow digger for the 376^th time… or the other unmentional messes and things I have to do as a mum.  But I love my family and I don’t want them to starve or have no clothes to wear and I want them to love me and have joy in their lives.  I could choose to be selfish and just do what I want… but I love them so I don’t…

• Make the choice.

Living for God is a choice.  Living a life surrendered to him is a choice.  Living a life that takes up the cross and says that it is no longer I that live but Christ that lives in me, a life that pleases God is a choice.  A choice that is made every day, sometimes many times a day.

Romans 8:3-10 But God set you free when he sent his own Son to be like us sinners and to be a sacrifice for our sin. God used Christ’s body to condemn sin. ⁴He did this, so that we would do what the Law commands by obeying the Spirit instead of our own desires. ⁵People who are ruled by their desires think only of themselves. Everyone who is ruled by the Holy Spirit thinks about spiritual things. ⁶If our minds are ruled by our desires, we will die. But if our minds are ruled by the Spirit, we will have life and peace. ⁷Our desires fight against God, because they do not and cannot obey God’s laws. ⁸If we follow our desires, we cannot please God.       ⁹You are no longer ruled by your desires, but by God’s Spirit, who lives in you. People who don’t have the Spirit of Christ in them don’t belong to him. ¹⁰But Christ lives in you. So you are alive because God has accepted you…

We make a choice to follow God and obey him.  We make a choice to deny what our selfish desires want and to reject them and to obey God.

Sometimes the choice is obvious – do I shoplift or not?  Do I go and get drunk or not?  Do I go mess around with that boy or girl or not?  Do I swear or not?   Sometimes the choice is a bit more gray and comes down to us managing our emotions more than our actions… the whole anger/lust/selfishness thing…  Its still a choice.

Make the decision before you go into life to obey God.  Make the decision to be one that follows God.  Let that colour every decision you make and every action you do.  Let that influence who you are and what you do.

Lead Me To The Cross

am in the process – and it is a process of prayer and thinking and reading and preparing – of preparing and writing my next preach for our young adults service.  we have 7 topics that rotate and i am assigned A Cruicified Life as my topic for 9th august.  this song is my springboard.