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You will not have to fight this battle. Take up your positions; stand firm and see the deliverance the Lord will give you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Go out to face them tomorrow, and the Lord will be with you.
~2 Chronicles 20:17
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I just have to keep reminding myself, is all. Some battles are being won, while others are bound within a soul tie that only the Lord himself can allow to be broken, as ungodly; or redeemed, if godly it should truly be.
I'm just at the end of my rope in many ways, from feeling disconnected from everything and everyone, in life. Being completely held down by it. Of feeling like I have so much more to give, so much more to do, and not knowing where or how after all this time. Of knowing what it's like when someone is sent to walk with you, that one person you waited for, and then ultimately only knowing the same distance you knew before it all. I saw what could be in the harvest, but not the waters or earth to grow in. I didn't know them, yet. I'm striving to be made worthy, but above all I need His wisdom and grace. I know I'm being slightly redundant from previous posts, but the one certainty is that I'm being made ready for something, or someone. Or just one thing alone; salvation.
God wants us to worship Him...but how we live, every day, is the greatest avenue of worship. Colossians 3:23 is where it's at. Personally, I find great joy and great peace in worship music, but it's never about the music itself... just as any other outward actions of worship are not what's revered. Music is just the way some best express the spirit of God; the way some best share it, and spread it. Song can be another way the Lord displays His glory, through us.
God looks at the heart. Worship is born from within, not without.
keep digging deeper, deeper, for the wells of joy....
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And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
~Revelation 21:1-5
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