The little things.
Delight in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.God is very much into the little things.
- Psalms 37:4
He knows my deepest heart desires and He knows my dreams. He knows the specifics, the exact details, and even those little things that I would like to have but don't really mind if I didn't - I can't believe how blessed I am right now: He's given them all to me.
God is into details, He is into blessing his children, He's into answering prayer, and he is into giving us the desires of our heart. When you put Him first in everything, He works miracles in your life. I know this because He has done this for me. Time and time again he has demonstrated His faithfulness to me, He has shown me His greatness and love for me.
This time He has given me something so tangible that to just simply realize it, see it, or acknowledge it fills me with awe. It makes me want to fall on my knees and declare His sovereignty. It makes me want to praise Him, shout his awesomeness and power; He is faithful. He is Holy, Holy, Holy.
I am filled with gratitude, that He would want to give a sinner like me, a blessing like this.
Patience's promise.
I am patient.
I am expectant.
I am waiting,
on every promise
You will bring to pass.
On a night like this.
Its raining outside and I can't sleep.
I feel like I have butterflies in my stomach. My mind is racing, all I can think about is what just happened to me a few hours earlier and how faithful God is, and continues to be to me. It makes me wonder if I even deserve this?
God knows my heart; He knows my dreams and desires. Tonight God presented one of these to me. I am so overwhelmed, I am so in awe and I am so thankful. I feel like a one person worship service. God honors a heart that seeks Him. He honors a heart that is patient and trusts Him. God always keeps His promises.
I felt like an absolute princess tonight.
I feel like I have butterflies in my stomach. My mind is racing, all I can think about is what just happened to me a few hours earlier and how faithful God is, and continues to be to me. It makes me wonder if I even deserve this?
God knows my heart; He knows my dreams and desires. Tonight God presented one of these to me. I am so overwhelmed, I am so in awe and I am so thankful. I feel like a one person worship service. God honors a heart that seeks Him. He honors a heart that is patient and trusts Him. God always keeps His promises.
I felt like an absolute princess tonight.
All that matters.
Its such an exquisite feeling when a promise is kept. Or when an expectation is fulfilled and the outcome is as expected.
"Somehow all that matters now is, you are Holy"
- Nicole Nordeman, Holy.
As someone who puts much weight in a promise, it is such a comfort to know that God always keeps his promises. Everything He has done, and continues to do just proves to me that God is awesome and powerful. So much is happening in my life right now with uni, work, church and friendships that I have (and continually) commit to Him. And exactly how Nicole Nordeman says in her song, regardless of what is happening in my life: all that matters right now is that He is Holy.
Goodbye 22, Hello 23!
I have to say last night has been my best birthday yet! I feel totally blessed by these people that I am so priviledged and honored to call my friends. Its funny to think that only a year or so ago I didn't even know their names or vice versa - God never ceases to amaze me.
The moment I walked into church people wished me happy birthday and the girls I look after gave me gifts that I absolutely loved. Those girls are such a blessing to me - I stood in the worship thanking God for them the whole time totally overwhelmed by their gifts, hand drawn cards and poems.
I spent the afternoon watching one of my girls in her ballroom dancing competitions, then I went to Retrobettys for dinner. Dinner was great, I can't even believe how many presents I got, or that so many people turned up. It may sound silly, but I have honestly never had a birthday where I didn't have to organise myself, and to have my girlfriends want to organise something for me, is monumental. If it wasn't for them I would of honestly done next to nothing for my birthday.
As I was driving down to dinner Natalie Grant's song Held came on the radio:
This is what it means to be held.When I heard that song I was so overwhelmed to tears. I've never felt so special in my life. Its one thing to know that people care, its another to be shown that people care. God showed me what it was like to be loved through His people, and He continues to restore to me the years the locusts have eaten.
How it feels when the sacred is torn from your life
And you survive.
This is what it is to be loved.
And to know that the promise was
When everything fell we'd be held.
I am nothing but thankful.
