Redeemed 🩷

  Isaiah 3: 8-11 

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God Gave me a bunch verses in my mind ( I had more written, but I only felt compelled to share this one.)

In this verse it's talking about a people not obeying the Lord and mocking Him. 

They're in love with their sin and are very proud of it, basically laughing at the idea of needing to repent.

 Since they feel absolutely no conviction about anything, at all. .. 

It goes on to say "They have brought destruction on themselves." 

Then He went on to talk about how the Godly will be very well off and they earned the reward they're receiving. 

This just kinda hits different, it is pretty heavy. Real. Serious, God really hates sin, because it hurts His people and causes the world to be the way the world is because of the sinful nature & our free will, but our free will is a sign of Gods grace, true loving kindness and sincerity of character, God wants our hearts

If there was no free will, we would all be like robots, but God gave us a choice.

So.. that brings some peace and honestly motivation to keep staying in alignment with Him and it also brings Grace, mercy & forgiveness to my heart because my "straight and narrow' has been a little bit rough in the past, before I really gave my life to Him. I’m not perfect and I will never be but I truly was struggling before with my identity and I had so much pain, that I wasn’t coping with and was just pushing down and one day I just couldn’t take anymore, I didn’t want to live, I had enough I was lost, broken and looking to the wrong things/people to take away the pain I was experiencing, yet Jesus really was/is the only healer. I still struggle with temptation like it’s normal but thanks to Him we have the authority and power to overcome & endure it (1 Corinthians 10:13) 🥰

So I get it, the whole idea of surrendering what I genuinely loved to God who I barley know and at the time wasn't even sure what I believed but I did know this I wanted joy, peace and the fruit of Gods Spirit but I just didn't know it was Him. Until I received Him in my heart, which I would encourage you to do the same. Try. Call on the name of Jesus. There’s so much power in that !!! 

( So much more to this but for another time..)

..Until I had a real encounter with Jesus and started following Him I didn't realize wow, He has always been there, even when I didn't know Him,

Before I even went to Jesus I tried many things, "beliefs" and countnerfiets. It's like yeah I knew Jesus and I didn't realize how important this was at the time but I genuinely did feel Him all around me, all the time, as I tried other things I still knew He was there idk why idk He was this constant thought in the back of my mind. (He was calling me.) Yet still I didn't just go to Him seamlessly but now through the highs & lows, I have a powerful testimony and can relate to more people and the Lord can/will minister to them thorough me. Reminds me of Revelation 12:11 & Genesis 50:20. God is amazing. ♾️

My best advice for those numbing the pain with weed, nicotine, partying, or alcohol or just distractions or in love with materialistic things (money, clout,stuff )  just go to Jesus, don't try to look for detours, just surrender.  Save yourself time, pain and just let go & let God. There’s nothing like the feeling of the Holy Spirit, and it doesn’t take anything to get there, you just have to bring yourself and like it’s so cool God meets us where we’re at, He doesn’t want us to feel like “we need” anything to “enjoy moments more” or “have more fun” like He gave us all we need. He is joy like that’s a fruit of His Spirit ❤️

 It’s just nice & refreshing to sometimes reflect & take a look at our habits and really think about the reasoning behind what we do, what we do, even to how we treat ourselves, how we think, how we speak to ourselves & others and just open our eyes to look a little deeper :) 

The more I love God the better I can love others and myself to treat my body as the temple it is, and to realize I don’t need anything but God & He is the best cure & “high” 😌 The Holy Spirit y’all, just fr hits different 😭😮‍💨

God truly meets you where you are and He transforms you into an entirely new person, internally and externally, He legit gives you a New Mind, Nourished Body, Fresh start, healthy relationship with regulating emotions & submitting them to Him! You walk in Freedom.

 “Soul Free” being gifted, eternal life. ♾️

( Again, full surrender comes with time, growing in Him, keep going, God wants you and we all gotta start somewhere, He wants your heart & He will prune you, convict you & lead you, just abide in Him.) 

Something I found comforting about that verse was all the work. 
Yes we are ONLY saved by what Jesus did, it's by grace through faith you're saved.'
It's a FREE GIFT. 

It’s really refreshing to know that when we surrender the things of our flesh (which is extremely painful sometimes) God carries us, takes on our burdens and we are actually closer to what we’ve always been searching for, He’s removing all the lies, harmful habits/thought patterns.

Learn from me instead of running away, run towards Jesus

No matter what you’re going through, no matter what you’ve done, no matter what you believe.

You belong before you believe, God wants your heart. He doesn’t want some cleaned up version of you. ( you don’t go to the shower 🚿 already clean, you go to get clean. 🧼) He wants your authentic self and He will transform your life from the inside out. 

He will revive, restore, redeem and set you free. The best part is that it’s already been done by what Jesus did done on the Cross. Jesus paid it all so no matter what we’re going through.

We always have access to joy, peace love goodness and so much more. God is love. Love doesn’t exist without him. God is purity. It’s hard to wrap our minds around that kind of holiness.

He calls us to become like him and walk in his likeness because of his loving kindness, grace and mercy; We are not consumed by the things that we’ve done or even what others have done to us, but we are made new we have an entirely new identity. 

God says he will remember our sins no more ( Isaiah 1:18) 

He looks at us for who he called us to be not by our sin. 

Jesus is the only way.

Learn from me. Don’t waste your years or any more of your time running from true love, true peace, true joy, that no matter what you’re going through or who you are, where you’re at or what’s been your battle, nobody is too far gone and anything you’re searching for in the façades is all found in Jesus. And He will surpass all of that & so much more 💓💓