We Do Need Each Other

James 5:15-16 says: And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. 

Tonight I experienced something very liberating. With God's help and push, I was able to be honest with a close friend of mine and allow her to keep me accountable. I believe that is the purpose of verse 16. We need to be honest with our brothers and sisters in order to receive the kind of help we need from them. Tonight were able to put this very verse of confessing to one another and praying effectively for each other into action. 

God doesn't give us advice that might work. His word never returns void! (Isa. 55:11)  So...it's really a beautiful thing when it is put into action. Tonight, thanks be to God, I've found freedom in my mind, in my heart, and in this very important relationship.

Woo! I literally FEEL better. :)

Thank you Jesus.

Anything you've been trying to hold back? 

I know it's definitely not always easy, but as always said, I think honesty really is the best policy. I know I can't do this on my own. Let's help each other out the way we were intended.

"I'M IN LOVE! I'M IN LOVE! ...AND I DON'T CARE WHO KNOWS IT!"

I usually like to write in depth, kind of lengthy, at times-thought provoking blogs. haha But tonight- I am just dying to make one simple yet very complicated point...I AM IN LOVE!!!! I am so deeply, madly, crazy, passionately in love with a God that knows exactly the song of my heart. He sings over me and showers me in his love, leaving me with no choice but to retaliate. He uses the simplest of things to turn my world upside down. He literally paints the sky just to put a smile on my face. He aligns every step of my day so that I might just pass that sign at the right moment, or hear that song just when I begin to doubt. He is doing everything He can to show me how he feels. I want to sit and be with him, gaze into his eyes, listen to his voice and consume his every word...forever. Tonight, I laugh at every obstacle that may try and take this love away-I pray against it because you know what, its going no where. This love is a forever, eternal, never failing LOVE.

  

GOD, take me deeper. :)         

This morning I woke up with this thought...Why is it that when you're in love... I mean really in love...you feel so compelled to write a letter? And it's like you can't just type a letter, or speak to the person, or show them through actions how you feel. I mean, yes, that is all a part of the expression of love. But on top of all that, it's like this compelling urge that rises up out of a person-to WRITE about it. 

As this generation often does when looking for an opinion on a subject- i googled it. "Love letters"...found this quote-"Often letters are preferable to face-to-face contact because they can be written as the thoughts come to the author. This may allow feelings to be more easily expressed than if the writer were in the beloved's presence." Hm...interesting. I write my letters to my beloved, in his presence. He stays invisible enough for me to appear as if I'm alone but in reality he actually holds me as I pour out my heart. His presence actually helps pull the beauty and truth of how I feel for him out from the depths of my heart. I write and write and its a great release. But in the end, it's more than a feeling. It's more than I can express in words. I have to give him everything, all of me, all of my heart. He works everyday, softening my heart, melting me, to the point of complete surrender. My favorite part about writing to my beloved is that with every word, he has this way of making me love him more by the end of the letter.

Recommended read: 1 John 4

verse 16 says this: And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. 

As Paul prayed for the Ephesians- I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.