October 31, 2007

            This past week has been really good in The Word. The Lord is taking me through Romans. He is reaffirming a lot of truth to me. It's been a time of asking the Lord to get rid of any self-righteousness / anyway I try to do things on my own strength. I long to live and breathe -walk in each day by the leading of the Holy Spirit, and they only way that it can happen and walk fully in The Spirit is if I die to self and let the Lord mold me. If I am trying to do anything- life, ministry, etc on my own strength then my actions are denying God's grace/ The Cross and what Jesus accomplished on it. Jesus fulfilled the law when he died on the cross. My own human effort cuts me off from grace. By faith I live and move in The Spirit.

So Christ has really set us free. Now make sure that you stay free, and don't get tied up again in the slavery to the law. Galatians 5:1

These past few days have been a time of surrender for me. The Lord brought me on my face. I had to drop my pride. Everything I wrote in my journal this morning lined up with everything my mom told me tonight. My mom had been fasting for me. The Lord spoke through her and exposed my junk. It was rough. I had definitely prayed this morning that the Lord would "place within me a teachable spirit"… The Lord is good, faithful, and has a sense of humor.

You have no obligation whatsoever to do what your sinful nature urges you to do. For if you keep on following it you will perish. But if you through the power of the Holy Spirit you turn from it and its evil deeds, you will live. Romans 8:12-13