Finish!

Welcome to Pray! you whore, a blog, that takes you on my personal journey of repentance, reconciliation and redemption. What if Jesus had quit? Jesus, the son of God just decided that it was too hard, not fair or just plain dumb? Have you ever imagined what the world would be like today... What your world would be like today? This humbles me because everyone reaches a point where they want to give up or quit in life but God reminds us in I Kings 8:61 "“And may your hearts be fully committed to the Lord our God, to live by His decrees and obey His commands, as at this time.”

Today was a healthy reminder to stay fully committed and to trust in God's plan for my life. Celebrate the wins and how far you have come in your walk with Christ. As we approach a brand new year I am taking time to review and evaluate all that I have accomplished this year. It is so easy to focus on the negative and what you haven't acoplished or what you still need to do that we often forget all that we have completed. in my life I hae struggled with finishing what I have started but this year I challenged myself to quit smoking cannabis (completed), read the entire Bible for myself ( completed) and get baptized (completed). I am so proud of just those three accomplishments and I wanted to take time to share and write this down before I bombard myself with a list of New Year resolutions.

It is is so important to finish what you have started and what God has told you to do. As I sit here on my couch contemplating, reading and writing down what I am learning today. Holy Spirit is revealing to me how important it is to be fully committed. Oftentimes we find ourselves justifying the grey and the instability that comes with one foot in and one foot out. I am preaching to myself always in hopes that someone can relate to this feeling of confusion. I stumbled across I Corinthians 13 " Concerning Spiritual Gifts" which confirms why we are often confused and in the grey. We often don't fully commit to the truth and that leaves doors open for the enemy to sew doubt, deceit and shame. However, when you stay fully comitted to truth then you gain wisdom and understanding a spiritual gift given form the Lord.

Now that I have read the Bible from beginning to end, I no longer question the Sprit that is within me and us if we choose to recognize it. In I Corinthians 12: 8-11 it confirms by saying" To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues.All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines." Imagine a world that doesn't question truth but embraces there role in the Kingdom and brings others out of the gray into the light and into the truth. After this year of study, I am learning to prepare and embrace the training that God has us all in today.

I am glad to commit to God fully in my life and I am so excited to see what God has prepared for me now that I have decided to make a conscious decision to finish what I have started in the Lord. The Lord has revealed to me through my engagement this year how much more I am changing and learning. In Ephesians 5:21 "Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ," I am learning how important it is to walk with the Lord and have a relationship with the Lord. When I humble myself and look at my relationships, children and spouse through Gods eyes it becomes clearer how Jesus truly had to sacrifice and become human so that we can finish what God has started. I am honored to love as Christ did and continue to learn how to be as selfless as Jesus was. I am still in training and I have not finished becoming what God has called me to be.

Before, I would've felt pressure and overwhelm but now I find comfort and peace in walking with the Lord. Just take one step at a time and let the Lord guide you by asking him daily to give you your daily bread and help you become what God has called you to be.... LOVE! In I Corinthians 13:4-7 "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Most of us cannot truly understand or apply what we have learned until we experience. So embrace being put to the test and let the Lord refine you and remove all dross in you.

I am so glad that I have finished what I have started with the Lord. I may have not completed my career, fitness or business goals but I did complete my soul goals. I kept my Word to the Lord Jesus Christ and thats all that matters in my life. My life is completely surrendered and it feels so good to no longer be in the grey but wailking in Spirit and in truth. Like Ecclesiastes 3:11 says" He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end." I let the Lord be my Shepherd and trust that he is doing everything he says in Psalms 23.

The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
2 He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
3 he refreshes my soul.
He guides me along the right paths
for his name’s sake.
4 Even though I walk
through the darkest valley,[a]
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.

5 You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
6 Surely your goodness and love will follow me
all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord
forever.

KISS XOXO (Keep it Simple & Sanctified)