I dare you to get out of your comfort zone today and tomorrow and so on for God!
Is society your God? Or is God your God? That might sound silly but when you are at
church are you scared to put your arms up during worship because someone might
make fun of you? Or go down to your knees because people might stare. Who are you
trying to please? I struggled with this for a long time. I had fights with God, but I finally
said "Danielle! Are you ashamed of God? Are you ashamed of God." Am I? Are you?
Society is NOT my God and I am not going to live my life to please it! Are you?
Romans 1:16
New International Version (NIV)
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.
Lecrae really likes this verse and he mentions it in a lot of his raps and songs.
I would sing a long to these songs not really realizing what I was saying until
one day, I did, I realized I was saying I am unashamed of God, shortly after
this thought when I would sing worship songs I felt God overwhelm my heart
to go down to my knees and praise him! What would people think if a
teenager went down to her knees with her hands held high in the air, they
would think of me as a weird human being someone that is so abnormal they
will go to there knees risking social suicide. When I first felt God overwhelm my
heart I was at a concert, and I fought with God and told him I can't do this
everyone will stare,it will be embarrassing! But I did it... but I was ashamed. I
quickly went to my knees acting like I was getting something out of my purse
said a quick prayer and got back up. Somethings wrong with this picture that
was not an honorable act to Jesus that was a wimpy Christian move. The next
Wednesday at
youth group I felt God overwhelm my heart but I fought with him until worship
over, I told him that we will talk about this after church. On the car ride home
I told my mom and sister about this and they both encouraged me to do what
God was telling me to do. Not what I wanted to hear. And the next Sunday we
visited another church we sat far back and on one of the last songs I made
myself get down to my knees with my hands held in the air, but all I could
think about was everyone around me. The following week on Saturday my best
friend spent the night, I told her about how God was overwhelming me to go
to my knees in worship, I was hoping she would discourage me from doing
this, but no, she told me that if God wanted me to do it I should. The next day
which was Sunday:) I went to the nursery at my church and helped out
because I wanted to avoid worship all together. And this all leads up to today
but I have to go to last night first:) So Saturday night I was laying in my bed
thinking about a Beth Moore sermon I watched, Beth Moore was at an airport
and an old man was wheeled in from a flight attendant he had long hair that
was ratty because he had been at a hospital for quite sometime and no one
had fixed it, well he was heading home to see his wife. Beth felt like God
wanted her to brush his hair and she was humiliated asking this man if she
could brush his hair, especially because she didn't have a hair brush! He had a
hair brush though and so she brushed through his hair until it was smooth.
Then she asked him if he knew Jesus Christ and and the man answers that he
does and his wife actually would not marry him until he became accepted Jesus
as his Lord and Savior-- So this might seem like it was an embarrassing waste
of time, but the flight attendant ends up coming out of the plane after
wheeling the man to his flight and she is balling and she asked why did you do
that? To Beth, Beth ends up getting to share the word with this women. But I
was thinking what if she was to ashamed to go brush this mans hair, the
women would have never learned about God,
God has us do stuff for a
reason, he overwhelms our hearts for a reason. That night we got 4 inches of
snow and the following morning we just weren't going to go to church, but my
best friend called me and asked me if she could pick me up so I could go with
her, so I went and then when worship started the first two songs came and
went and it was a wonderful time of worship but when the third song came I
felt God speak to me, my argument was short this time I told God I will go to
my knees next week, just let me stand, but then I remembered who am I
pleasing? I moved my stuff and went to my knees and I became more and
more oblivious to the world around me. Who is your God?
Prayer: Lord, please help me to except what you want me to do and do it with a cheerful heart, please help me to please you with every step I take and every word I say, please help me to speak life and not death, please help me to get out of my comfort zone and live for you! Lord I want you to be my everything. In Jesus's name Amen!
Lecrae really likes this verse and he mentions it in a lot of his raps and songs.
I would sing a long to these songs not really realizing what I was saying until
one day, I did, I realized I was saying I am unashamed of God, shortly after
this thought when I would sing worship songs I felt God overwhelm my heart
to go down to my knees and praise him! What would people think if a
teenager went down to her knees with her hands held high in the air, they
would think of me as a weird human being someone that is so abnormal they
will go to there knees risking social suicide. When I first felt God overwhelm my
heart I was at a concert, and I fought with God and told him I can't do this
everyone will stare,it will be embarrassing! But I did it... but I was ashamed. I
quickly went to my knees acting like I was getting something out of my purse
said a quick prayer and got back up. Somethings wrong with this picture that
was not an honorable act to Jesus that was a wimpy Christian move. The next
Wednesday at
youth group I felt God overwhelm my heart but I fought with him until worship
over, I told him that we will talk about this after church. On the car ride home
I told my mom and sister about this and they both encouraged me to do what
God was telling me to do. Not what I wanted to hear. And the next Sunday we
visited another church we sat far back and on one of the last songs I made
myself get down to my knees with my hands held in the air, but all I could
think about was everyone around me. The following week on Saturday my best
friend spent the night, I told her about how God was overwhelming me to go
to my knees in worship, I was hoping she would discourage me from doing
this, but no, she told me that if God wanted me to do it I should. The next day
which was Sunday:) I went to the nursery at my church and helped out
because I wanted to avoid worship all together. And this all leads up to today
but I have to go to last night first:) So Saturday night I was laying in my bed
thinking about a Beth Moore sermon I watched, Beth Moore was at an airport
and an old man was wheeled in from a flight attendant he had long hair that
was ratty because he had been at a hospital for quite sometime and no one
had fixed it, well he was heading home to see his wife. Beth felt like God
wanted her to brush his hair and she was humiliated asking this man if she
could brush his hair, especially because she didn't have a hair brush! He had a
hair brush though and so she brushed through his hair until it was smooth.
Then she asked him if he knew Jesus Christ and and the man answers that he
does and his wife actually would not marry him until he became accepted Jesus
as his Lord and Savior-- So this might seem like it was an embarrassing waste
of time, but the flight attendant ends up coming out of the plane after
wheeling the man to his flight and she is balling and she asked why did you do
that? To Beth, Beth ends up getting to share the word with this women. But I
was thinking what if she was to ashamed to go brush this mans hair, the
women would have never learned about God,
God has us do stuff for a
reason, he overwhelms our hearts for a reason. That night we got 4 inches of
snow and the following morning we just weren't going to go to church, but my
best friend called me and asked me if she could pick me up so I could go with
her, so I went and then when worship started the first two songs came and
went and it was a wonderful time of worship but when the third song came I
felt God speak to me, my argument was short this time I told God I will go to
my knees next week, just let me stand, but then I remembered who am I
pleasing? I moved my stuff and went to my knees and I became more and
more oblivious to the world around me. Who is your God?
Prayer: Lord, please help me to except what you want me to do and do it with a cheerful heart, please help me to please you with every step I take and every word I say, please help me to speak life and not death, please help me to get out of my comfort zone and live for you! Lord I want you to be my everything. In Jesus's name Amen!
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