The other day, seemingly out of nowhere, I heard God speak over me, “Zion.”  I couldn’t figure out why, but that’s what He was calling me.  Internally, I wondered if it was ok that God called me that.  It’s funny how I could even question the voice of God over my life.  If He called me that, then it is legal and there is a reason.

A day or so later I came across this scripture, and it all became much clearer.

Those who trust in the Lord are as Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but abides forever.  As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds His people from this time forth and forever.  Psalm 125:1-2

Wow!  God knew I would read that scripture a couple days after He spoke to me, but imagine if I had rejected His word over me because of some sense of false humility?  I would’ve missed out on a love note from Him.  A love note that I desperately needed.

Since that time, I’ve come across multiple scriptures speaking of Zion, and because I allowed God to speak over me, each time I read a scripture that references it I feel loved.

I wonder how often God tries to love on us and we don’t notice, or reject His affections?  This thought sticks like a burr in my mind.  Every time I roll across it, I am reminded to wake up and pay attention.

There is a common phrase being thrown around with pride lately, “I am woke”.  Honestly, I find it very annoying, but if I am gonna be “woke” about anything, let it be to God’s voice over my life.  Awaken me, My Love I am listening.

Prayer Moment:  Take a minute to seek God’s face.  When you look upon Him, what does He say or do?  When He reaches out to touch you, do you pull away or do you embrace Him?  What is your natural response?  If it is to pull back or turn away, then I encourage you to determine to change that.  Give in to His love.  Imagine how you would feel if you reached out for a loved one and they pulled away from you.  How terrible that would feel.  How much more does the Father want, no long, to lavish His love upon you.  Will you receive it?

The Sovereign Lord has given me an instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary.  He wakens me morning by morning, waken my ear to listen like one being taught.  Isaiah 50:4

The Lord redeems His servants; no one will be condemned who takes refuge in Him.  Psalm 34:22

For the Lord has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His habitation.  “This is My resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it.- I will bless her with abundant provisions; her poor will I satisfy with food.  Psalm 132:13-15

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation; gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.  Zechariah 9:9

 

I know I’ve touched on this concept a few times, but I felt we should really come face to face with it today.  Our inner dialogue.  What do you speak over yourself every minute of every day?

Are your thoughts largely positive or negative?

I can tell you this, your thought life is one of the most important facets of your faith walk.  How you see yourself and how you perceive the world around you will likely shape how you live and the way you treat others.

For instance, if I am constantly criticizing myself internally, then I’m likely to speak negatively about myself to others.  This speech will undoubtedly begin to shape the way others see me.  And there you have it, you’ve created what you believe.

If instead, you have Biblical truths trained to run through your mind constantly, then the outflow from your mouth will likely be more uplifting and positive in nature, thus causing others to feel more confident in you and more willing to interact with you.

Like speaks to like.  We attract those who are most like us, normally.

May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in Your sight, Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.  Psalm 19:14

I pray those words over my life a lot.  I long to have a thought life that brings me joy and life, and then extends out to bless those around me every day.

Prayer Moment:  I am going to leave you with some scripture to meditate on.  Spend some time today assessing your thought life.  What goes through your head most, positive words or negative?  How can you make strides to change, if your thoughts are largely negative and fearful?  Ask God to renew your mind every day.  That’s a really good place to start!

Surely You have granted him eternal blessings and made him glad with the joy of Your Presence.  For the king trusts in the Lord; through the unfailing love of the Most High he will not be shaken.         Psalm 21:6-7

Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.  Psalm 23:6

The Lord your God is with you, He is mighty to save.  He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.  Zephaniah 3:17

Because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”  So we say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid.  What can man do to me?”  Hebrews 13:5b-6

At church recently I heard God say to my heart, “Dismantle”.

Dismantle: verb:  Take (a machine or structure) to pieces

Immediately, I saw a picture of me standing with four individually supported walls around me.  These walls were separate expectations.  One was an expectation of how God would work in different situations in my life.  Another was how others perceived my situations.  The third was how I felt others perceived my actions.  And finally, the last one was fear of the future.  These walls were limiting what I could imagine God doing for us and they were hemming me in during a time that I should be reaching out and grabbing hold of all of Him.  In short, they were between me and God.

I said, “God, dismantle any and everything that stands between me and You.  I want to know You more.”

I know I’m not alone in this struggle.  I believe we all have places where we struggle to let go of our own ideas, and instead let God have full creative ability in, around and through us.

God, I long to have all those walls dismantled and to live in freedom and creativity with You.

The Bible says this:

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.  For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”  Where is the wise man?  Where is the scholar?  Where is the philosopher of this age?  Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?  For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know Him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.  Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.  For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.  Brothers, think of what you were when you were called.  Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth.  But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.  He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things-and the things that are not- to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before Him.  It is because of Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God- that is, our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.  Therefore, as it is written: “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”  1 Corinthians 1:18-31

All the walls I mentioned earlier had one thing in common, fear.  And specifically, more than one concerned fear of man.  The above verses should strike down even the faintest glimpse of that worry.  What is there for me to fear?  My greatest fear would be to have a sliver of distance between me and God, all else can fall away, dismantled.

Prayer Moment: Take a minute and ask God to show you any walls that you may have around you.  Walls that prohibit you from walking out in confident faith.  Things that throw a shadow on your faith.  Then, if you are willing, ask God to dismantle each of those walls!! Freedom is awaiting you!

 

As I was worshiping at church a few weeks ago I had a vision.  I saw the redwood trees that are in California, and God took me under the ground to see their root system.  I know I’ve mentioned it in the past, but the redwood’s roots are huge!  They are wider than the trees are tall, and I’ve seen those trees, they are really tall.  Then God spoke to me that I must have a deep and wide root structure to support all He will do with my life.  It was an awe-inspiring and humbling moment.

This exercise of writing daily devotionals, especially during this season for my family, has been extremely vulnerable, but I feel with each week that He is honoring that willingness to be vulnerable.  I also see Him using my writing as a way for me to purge all the difficulty and challenge that’s been coming my way.  It’s in His grace that He set all of this up during this time.  He knew I would need an outlet, and then He honors that by using it to encourage others and bring glory to His name.

I will intentionally stay steady during this season, because I long to have deep and strong roots.  I don’t want to be tossed about by the wind and waves.  I don’t want to be a stunted Christian who “knows enough.” Or has “had enough healing.”  I want to be fully His, fully willing, fully healed and fully mature, lacking nothing.

To achieve these things, there is a cost.  A high cost.  My pride.

As I lay down my pride each day, and don’t entertain the thoughts of “I wonder what people think when they read these vulnerable devotionals?”  Instead, I just say, “Yes” to God.  You have it now and always will, God.  You have my “Yes”.

Prayer Moment:  Have you allowed God to root you?  It can be so easy to get caught up in self-promotion or to be swept away by the praise of others.  But the only thing that really lasts and sustains itself is God alone.  His presence.  His encouragement.  His leading.  His timing.  His promotion.  Is He your all in all, or have you allowed people around you to begin to call you out before your time?  Others won’t know if you begin to move outside of His timing, oftentimes, until it’s too late and a major pruning must occur.  I would much rather be pruned day by day, wouldn’t you?  Spend some time with the Father and ask Him to show you your root system.  Then ask Him to grow it deeper and stronger, but be prepared because it might be a wild ride.  But isn’t that what life is all about?

Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.  James 1:4

And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow Him.  Let your roots grow down into Him, and let your lives be built on Him.  Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness. Colossians 2:6-7

But He gives us more grace.  That is why scripture says: “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.  James 4:6

 

 

Anguish: Severe mental or physical pain or suffering.  To be extremely distressed about something.

Recently, I realized that my emotional struggle right now has become much more intensified.  I find myself warring in the spirit constantly, no matter where I am or what I’m doing.  My prayers have been without ceasing.  I have been presenting my requests to God constantly.  I have been practicing thankfulness and joy.  I have been worshiping no matter how I feel.  I’ve been maintaining a peaceful atmosphere at home for my children.  I have been in the middle of one of the biggest battles of my life, thus far.

Then, one day it hit me….I had come to the point of anguish.  When I heard God speak this word over me, I had two responses.  First, I felt it was absolutely true.  Second, I felt embarrassed because why should I be so dramatic.  Then I remembered Jesus.

Then He said to them, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death.  Stay here and keep watch with Me.”  Going a little farther, He fell with His face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from Me.  Yet not as I will, but as You will.”  Matthew 26:38-39

That moment in Gethsemane, reminded me that He knows how I feel.  He’s not irritated that I’m struggling.  In our day and age, the struggles our family is having are very real.  This is our current struggle, not just the job stuff, but also all the “normal” teenage and preteen things I’ve been walking out with my kids every day.  There is so much.  I cry out for them all day long.  My mind is not only focused and praying over one thing, no, I am waging war on many different fronts, and quite honestly, it leaves me feeling emotionally exhausted sometimes.

Don’t get me wrong, I am so grateful to be called as an intercessor, but I have to constantly remember that intercessors should remain joyful and be always handing the problems over to God.  I often see it like this, the world hands us a problem and we hand it over to God.  Intercessors are like the “middle-man”.  This is my pleasure, not my burden.

Sometimes though, life is extra.  It’s more than what we expected, and it can cause us to be anguished at times.  That’s ok.  When I heard God speak that word over me, I immediately began to feel lighter.  Sometimes we just need to have our level of discomfort validated.  That’s not wrong.  After that, I took my anguish to the Father.  I laid it before Him and reminded Him of my requests, then I walked away.  I went out looking for joy.  I began to search out the beauty of my moment.  It really grounded me again.  I began to see my kids in a new light and even found laughter again.  All I needed was to be aware of what I was feeling and then to let it go.  Like a balloon floating off to unknown places, I released that anguish to the Father and in turn He lifted my head.

Prayer Moment:  God, I thank You for being the lifter of my head.  I thank You for holding me so closely.  Thank You for not allowing me to wallow, but instead You bring language to things I’m feeling and then help me to release them.  I thank You that You have called me victorious.  You have called me daughter.  You have called me Your bride.  Thank You for loving me.  I give my all to You, both today and forevermore.  In Jesus name, Amen.

Many are saying of me, “God will not deliver him.”  But You, Lord, are a shield around me, my glory, the One Who lifts my head high.  I call out to the Lord, and He answers me from His holy mountain.  I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the Lord sustains me.  Psalm 3:2-5

In Christian circles we often say and sing, “There’s Nothing Our God Cannot Do!”  We boldly proclaim this mantra over our lives and use it to bolster our faith.  Some of us say it without really believing He will do things for us, we hope it’s true, but aren’t sure.  Still we sing and join in on the faith statement with others.

Then the rubber meets the road, so to speak, and real life happens, and our friends say, “God can do anything.”  And it feels different.  This is the moment that your own personal faith becomes real.  I’ve had these moments.  I’ve faced all sorts of situations in my 42 years of life and I’ve seen God do really amazing things.  I’ve witnessed miracles, I’ve seen Him come through time and time again, but something different occurs when you’ve walked out a really long season of waiting, hoping and believing.  Suddenly, the friends that bolstered you with cheers and songs of, “With God all things are possible.” fall silent.  What do you do when your struggle or season of waiting on the promise outlasts those around you?  That moment when He has confirmed, yet again, that you are on His path for your life, but it’s just taking longer and is harder than expected.  This is a pivotal moment, it’s a moment when true character begins to develop because friend, anyone can have faith for a moment, but what I’ve discovered by studying those who have experienced true moves of God that ended up shaping our world, is this….it took time.  It took a lot longer than many of us would be comfortable waiting.  It took an unrelenting passion to see the exact promise come to fruition.

This is where I am.  And here is what I cling to every day.  There is in fact one thing that God can’t do….

God can’t lie.

Let that sink in.  Have there been things in your life that you are 100% confident that God has spoken over you, yet you still haven’t seen it?  Have you received prophetic words that your spirit bore witness to immediately and God confirmed multiple times, but still they haven’t happened yet?  Well friends, that’s the time to dig in your heels and hold onto that promise with all your heart.

Multiple times over this last few months, I’ve had opportunity to settle for less, in one way or another.  Sometimes, just in my prayers.  I would begin to want to pray for lesser things because, well then, we could just get by and that would be good enough.  But would it?  God didn’t make me for lesser things.  In scripture He said I would do greater things.  That’s a promise.  I believe it.

Faith- believing in things yet unseen.  That’s what I have.

Prayer Moment:  Do you find yourself taking the easier road after time has passed and things just don’t seem to be working out?  From studying revivalist and evangelists of the past, I see that this is one of the main things that separates them from the rest of us.  That tenacity.  I want that.  I want to hold out longer than others.  I want to be found seeking with all my heart.  I want to be seen as crazy for believing and then watch as God proves Himself, all in the hopes that it will lead at least one other person to fall as in love with Him as I am.  I don’t want my fear of a bad reputation to hinder me from following God wherever He chooses to lead me.  I’m all in.  Are you?

I’m doubling down.  I refuse to settle.  I will hold onto hope…….until…….

Now to Him Who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.            Ephesians 3:20-21

 

This Sunday, as you head to church or wherever it is you are going today, I encourage you to remember that this temporary world has no hold on your eternity.  When you walk in the salvation of Jesus, you are set free.  We can walk free now because we know that heaven awaits us.  We can receive freedom within each day because we know we are but a breath.  Take hold of the One Who is holding you.

One day this earth will pass away.  One day Jesus will return, and in an instant everything will change.  One day, in Heaven, there will be no more sorrow.  No more tears and sadness.

I am constantly stretching out in this life, trying to reach into Heaven.  Inhaling the Presence of God with each moment, so I can sustain myself until that moment when I will walk the golden streets.  The day I see my name in the book of Life.  The day I stand in the holy of holies and cry out, “Yahweh, Yahweh!  Worthy is the Lord!! Worthy is the Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come!”

Until that day Lord, keep my eyes focused in Your direction.  Let every step I take on this earth bring me one step closer to living in Your Presence and keep the thought of eternity ever before me.

Prayer Moment:  I encourage you to take time to meditate on the scriptures below.  Remind yourself that we are but a breath, and eternity is worth our current troubles.  We are walking toward places yet unseen with our earthly eyes.  Eternity awaits.  So, await it.

 

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.  No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.  As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away.  That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.  Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left.  Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.  Therefore, keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.  But understand this:  If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.  So, you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect Him.  Matthew 24:35-44

The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.  1 John 3:17

What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?  Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?  Matthew 16:26

I have found so much beauty within my journey through life, especially lately.  I recently had a conversation with one of my children and it went something like this.

Child: Momma, I am glad that I’m learning how selfish I have been in the past and how I’ve wasted money on things that don’t matter.  This person was telling us at school about how they were about to get another expensive pair of shoes, and momma they don’t even need them.  They have ___ many pairs already.  It made me really glad that I have all that I need.  And I know I don’t need all of that extra stuff.

Me:  Do you know that even when we’re making plenty of money again, I won’t be buying you just heaps of things, but it’s not because I don’t love you.  It’s because I do.  I want you to have all that you need and some of the things you want, but you don’t need to receive every single thing that you want.

In that moment, I felt such a heavy Presence of God.  A Sovereign moment.  My children are having their eyes opened, not to a poverty spirit, but to realizing what’s truly important and becoming more grateful!  How amazing is that?!  I couldn’t hope for more than that, in all honesty.

There is beauty to be found in every situation.  You just need to look harder for it sometimes.  That evening I found eternal beauty in the heart of my child.  In that moment, I felt that my legacy might just be something worthwhile.  Oh, how I long to leave a faith filled legacy for my children.  A legacy of living content, while always longing for more of Jesus.

Prayer Moment: God, I thank You for revealing beauty even when our life feels like it’s been burned to the ground.  You make beauty from my ashes.  As I lay my life on the altar, You consume it with holy fire and something beautiful resurrects.  Thank You.  I am so grateful for Your Presence.  I love You.  I pray that You will continue to remind me of that conversation with my child for years to come.  Help us to live from and for Your Presence, Abba. I am Yours completely.  In Jesus’ name.  Amen.

 

To bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair.  They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of His splendor.  Isaiah 61:3b

He has made everything beautiful in its time.  He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.  Ecclesiates 3:11

Isaiah 61 in my Bible is entitled, “The year of the Lord’s favor”.

This morning while having quiet time with Abba, I asked Him, “Did I lose Your favor somehow?”  Immediately, I felt a warmth over my shoulders and the Presence of God filled my body and I heard Him say, “No, you are directly in the center of my favor right now.”   I saw something that looked like a long tube that extended from heaven and came directly over me here on earth.  I saw all the storms raging around me and it was then that I realized, He alone is the reason I’m not being overcome right now.  He alone is holding me.  He is my constant Companion.  He has created a shield about me with that tube of favor extending down over and around me.

It’s the favor of God that has made finances that should have been used up by January, extend into February.  It’s His favor that has left me with so much unnatural peace every single day.  It’s His favor that has allowed me to continue to walk in joy with my family.  It’s His favor that told me a few weeks ago that the enemy was attacking me.  It’s His favor that has allowed me to feel full in this time of being stretched so thin.  It’s His favor that wraps around every note I sing or play in worship right now.  In fact, the second my fingers touch the piano right now, I immediately feel the strongest Presence of God.

I think we’ve made mistakes a lot in the past when looking at people’s situations and assessing them in our earthly way and with our finite minds.

Friends, I am living in the year of the Lord’s favor.

Prayer Moment:  I challenge you today to reassess your life and current situation.  Have you wrongly defined what favor looks like?  One of the most impacting things someone told me once was this, “Lisa, you think (this person) has favor simply because they seem to get their way all the time.  That’s not God’s favor.”  That moment was well over a decade ago and still it took until just now for me to really see what God’s favor really looks like.  Ask God to readjust your heart and mind to really see what His blessings are, and if you are indeed living in His favor this very moment, when you thought you were living outside of it. What a revelation.  A walk with God is not all sunshine and rainbows, it’s character building and stretching because that’s how we discover more of Who He really is and it refines us so we can hold more of Him and be trusted.  This is all worth it.

The spirit of the sovereign Lord is on me; because the Lord has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor.  He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion- to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair.  They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of His splendor.  They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations.  Aliens will shepherd your flocks, foreigners will work your fields and vineyards.  And you will be called priests of the Lord, you will be named ministers of our God.  You will feed on the wealth of nations, and in their riches you will boast.  Instead of their shame my people will receive a double portion, and instead of disgrace they will rejoice in their inheritance; and so, they will inherit a double portion in their land, and everlasting joy will be theirs.  “For I, the Lord, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity.  In my faithfulness I will reward them and make an everlasting covenant with them.  Their descendants will be known among the nations and their offspring among the peoples.  All who see them will acknowledge that they are a people the Lord has blessed.”  I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God.  For He has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.  For as the soil makes the sprout come up and a garden causes seed to grow, so the Sovereign Lord will make righteousness and praise spring up before all nations.  Isaiah 61

There is a type of worship that we will only be able to give before we get to heaven.  The worship from a broken heart.  The praise of one who is crushed in spirit.  In heaven all troubles will be gone, so we live in a unique opportunity to bring to God worship through every season of life.

I feel led to again have you read a large chunk of scripture.  I can’t explain why God’s been leading me to do this so often during these devotionals, but since they are led by Him, I must follow.  Let’s read this:

I will extol the Lord at all times; His praise will always be on my lips.  My soul will boast in the Lord; let the afflicted hear and rejoice.  Glorify the Lord with me; let us exalt His name together.  I sought the Lord, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears.  Those who look to Him are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame.  This poor man called, and the Lord heard him; He saved him out of all his troubles.  The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him, and He delivers them.  Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him.  Fear the Lord, you His saints, for those who fear Him lack nothing.  The lions may grow wear and hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.  Come, my children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.  Whoever of you loves life and desires to see many good days, keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking lies.  Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.  The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and His ears are attentive to their cry; the face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.  The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them; He delivers them from all their troubles.  The Lord is close to the broken hearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.  A righteous man may have many troubles; but the Lord delivers him from them all; He protects all his bones, not one of them will be broken.  Evil will slay the wicked; the foes of the righteous will be condemned.  The Lord redeems His servants; no one will be condemned who takes refuge in Him.  Psalm 34

I hope you will read this above Psalm, over and over again.  There are so many keys to victory and so many promises tucked into those words.

Prayer moment:  Whether you are in a mountaintop season or feel the pressure of the valley, I encourage you to find time every single day to worship.  Give Him all you have while you’re on this earth.  He is worthy.  By continually worshiping Him in every season, you will continue to be filled. Isn’t He wonderful?  This King of glory, my God and the Love of my life.  Turn your heart to Him in surrender and awe filled worship today.