Costly Faith.

To be a disciple of the Lord, it costs EVERYTHING! I am doing a bible study with some girls and we are going through a book called Experiencing God. Its been really good and has impacted me so much. It has been a great reminder of the foundational truths that I so often forget. It has challenged me to look at what my faith looks like and how my life is suppose to be a living testimony of the God I serve. It has challenged me to a deeper, intimate love relationship with my savior. I have been convicted over and over again about the sin in my life and God has been telling me to lay it all down... Over the past weeks- thats what I have been doing. Before I can join God in the work He is doing- I have to be right with Him. Lay down my flesh and take up the cross. I need to Know Him before I can tell others who He is. This weeks lessons was all about the cost of following Him and how you can't stay where you are and go with God. Its gonna cost you and others around you something. It requires total dependence and obedience to God. The cost, honestly, scares me. But I am trusting in His provision and saying YES to what He has called of me. I might not know what the costs are yet but I am saying yes- "Lord, whatever you may ask of me today or in the future, my answer is yes!". Below is a prayer by David Livingstone (was a missionary in Africa) and I pray that it would be the cry of my heart. God has a plan and His purposes will prevail. He wants to use us- all we have to do is say Yes and sacrifice our lives.

"Lord, send me anywhere, only go with me.
Lay any burden on me, only sustain me.
Server any tie but the tie that binds me to thyself." -David Livingstone


"Remember the former things, those of long ago;
I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like me.

I make known the end from the beginning,
from ancient times, what is still to come.
I say: My purpose will stand,
and I will do all that I please.

From the east I summon a bird of prey;
from a far-off land, a man to fulfill my purpose.
What I have said, that will I bring about;
what I have planned, that will I do."
-Isaiah 46:9-11