How Does Prayer Draw Us Closer To God?

In our spiritual life it is important to continually be moving forward and growing stronger in our faith. In our relationships with family and friends, our connections grow as we talk with each other. We share dreams, desires, and struggles with them, they do the same, which causes our relationships to move forward and onward. The same is true in our relationship with God. We grow closer to God as we spend time talking to Him through prayer.

James 4:8 says, “Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.” As we pray to our Heavenly Father, we draw closer to Him, and in turn, He draws closer to us.

As we communicate with God, we become more in tune with what He wants us to do and how He wants us to live. The deeper we get into prayer the easier it becomes for us to love others well, to make wise decisions and to become a light in a darkened world.

Waiting To Die Continued

My last post was me having a breakdown. I still have these every so often. I’m human and everyone has bad days. I watched a video that was a trigger for me, and get it shut off in time.

No matter what happens in life we have to be able to get back to life at hand. At uplift ourselves. No one is going to do it for us. We have to realize we all have something to live for. We have to pick ourselves up and move forward. Every living thing has worth and are useful even if we don’t feel like it sometimes.

I could have went back and deleted this post, but that’s not how I work. Take responsibility for who you are and work on improving your life. Tell yourself everything will be okay, because it will. Time doesn’t stop just because you’re having a bad day. Time keeps going and so should we.

Don’t give up when everything seems depressing or scary. Keep moving. There’s a quote that says “A rolling stone gathers no moss but it gains a certain polish. Always be a rolling stone and you’ll become polished and shine like a diamond.

Waiting To Die

Does anyone else feel like they’re just waiting to die? I don’t mean feeling like to actively want to end your life, more that you just don’t care about anything anymore and wouldn’t be bothered at all if you died right now?

I’m not suicidal but I do feel like this sometimes. It’s like I care so little about everything, including dying, that I’ll just passively do nothing until my time is up. I wonder sometimes if more people feel like this than cate to admit.

I don’t want to sound like I’m ungrateful for all the blessings I have in my life, but I’m 55 and I don’t have much to live for. My children being grown and going on with their lives and careers, my husband just wants to sit in front of the television after he gets off work. I cook, I clean and that’s the basis for my life. I don’t have to worry for nothing, I have a home, food, a vehicle, in other countries I would be considered rich. But I know deep down there’s got to be something more.

We all need something to keep us going. In today’s society with so much happening it’s hard to find hope in anything. Everything changes, all things will pass. At the end of the day we have to be comfortable with ourselves.

Many people have settled for money, fame, pride, work, unjustified ethics or ideals. But where’s the balance? Right now I feel stuck.

I think the solution is to just get out of my comfort zone. I haven’t done that in a while. Time to try new things, get out there and explore and try some new experiences. Find a new passion, something that excites me.

I have to believe that sunshine is waiting on the other side of this.

Weakness: The Window Of Strength

Confessing our inability to do something is the power that is ever found in Jesus.

Our Problem Is Not Our Weakness

Our problem is our delusions of strength that keeps us from seeking what we need- Grace. The grace that strengthens us in our weakness. We just don’t like to be weak. We don’t like to think of ourselves as that way m and we don’t want others to see us that way. So we act as if we know things that we don’t know and we don’t ask questions we need to ask. We act as if we can handle things that we can’t. And we don’t seek help that’s available. We act as if we’ve conquered things that we have It is all filled with for a self congratulatory glory of independence.

But we are not independent. None of us are. We are not created to be independent. We were formed to be dependent on the One who made us, and we were recreated in Christ to be dependent on his grace. God does not hold you to a standard of independence strength. God does not expect of you what you do not have. He knows who you are. He is never shocked or dismayed by your weakness. He has moved toward you and Grace because you are weak and you would have no hope in life and death without him. The person who was shocked and dismayed by your weakness is you. It bother you, embarrasses you. It makes you want to hard cover yourself, It causes you to play act in public and to deceive yourself in private. Your weakness will drive you crazy unless you understand the gospel of Jesus.

What is that message? It is a story of a strong and able to figure who showers his powerful grace on people who are fundamentally weak and unable. He confronts you with your weaknesses so you will run to him for a strength. He called you to Mountains to big climb so that in your inability, you all look to him. Did you do your face value so that you’ll find hope in him. He works with prove to you how weak you really are so that you will gladly accept your invitation of enabling grace. Perhaps it’s not such bad thing to come to the end of your rope if it’s the end of your rope you find a strong and willing Savior.

So don’t be afraid to cry out and weakness, because when you affirm your weakness, you are kicking your heart to esteem and celebrate the grace that can make you strong. Sometime in the near future, you will be confronted with your weakness; when you are, you either work to convince yourself you’re strong or you’ll run to the one who is.

Exodus 15:1-18