This is probably the first time in my life that I feel completely like an adult?

For those who reads this, which is few, please pray for me.

1. Pray that I give up my life and allow Him to tell me where I am going... which leads to where/what I am to be in loving Him.
2. I don't know if I'm called to be a layperson or to jump into the water and swim in full-time ministry. Pray that I allow God to be Lord over my life if He was to call me where I don't want to go! 
3. Pray that I love Him every single day, from Morning to Night. Pray that I love Him and hang out with the Holy Spirit that dwells in me and to delight in His love and His presence.
4. Pray for me that I will endure all the deep things of His Heart with ZEAL! Whether I'm at work or school, pray that I endure and persevere with LOVE and zeal from His Heart. Pray that I will let the river of the Holy Spirit pour out from His dwelling place (my being) and that I will bear His fruit.

Thank you.

13 Questions to Diagnose Your Idolatries

Taken from DesiringGod.org

1. What do you most highly value?
2. What do you think about by default?
3. What is your highest goal?
4. To what or whom are you most committed?
5. Who or what do you love the most?
6. Who or what do you trust or depend upon the most?
7. Who or what do you fear the most?
8. Who or what do you hope in and hope for most?
9. Who or what do you desire the most? Or, what desire makes you most angry or makes you despair when it is not satisfied?
10. Who or what do you most delight in or hold as your greatest joy and treasure?
11. Who or what captures your greatest zeal?
12. To whom or for what are you most thankful?
13. For whom or what great purpose do you work?

Awesome: Acts 4:23-31

The Believers' Prayer

On their release, Peter and John went back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them. When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. "Sovereign Lord," they said, "you made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and everything in them. You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David:

" 'Why do the nations rage
and the peoples plot in vain?
The kings of the earth take their stand
and the rulers gather together
against the Lord and against his Anointed One. Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed. They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen. Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. Stretch out your hand to heal and perform miraculous signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus."

After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.

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This is awesome. After reporting back to their own people about how they were persecuted, nobody sat around and groaned and complained or got angry or conspired or even hated these people. They went straight to the Lord!!

This was on their hearts: "Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. Stretch out your hand to heal and perform miraculous signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus."

They wanted Jesus, they loved Him and all this persecution was not a distraction for ill will on their hearts or to even want to kill or fight back. They trusted God and LOVED His POWER! There's no fighting on who's right or wrong-- they just want the Lord to bring His people back to Him and to speak of Jesus boldly.

Awesome. His Holy Spirit is Awesome.

Quotes

"God is far more interested in my stewardship than my success."

"Humble souls are fearful of their own strength." - William Gurnall

"Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches." George Whitefield

"God says, 'I'll always say yes to the man whose heart is broken, whose spirit is contrite'; man says, 'I'm fine without that, & without You.'"

"When God told man that He would never deny a broken heart & a contrite spirit, man should have pursued those two things wholeheartedly."

Quote

"Without the power of God flowing through us, personal transformation will always remain a mirage."

A Hard Quote to Swallow

If your life does not bear any of the fruits of righteousness, then it’s time to stop pretending that you know Jesus. - James MacDonald.

John 14:15-21, 25-26

"If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him."

"All this I have spoken while still with you. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you."

Thank You for Your Indwelling Spirit, Jesus.

I want this promise.
"If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you."
John 15:7

"When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me. And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning."
John 15:26-27