Power of the Word

" Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation. and grant me a willing spirit to sustain me."- Psalm 51:10-12

Do you ever feel like you just don't get it? Like you'll never get it. By 'it', I mean the absolute deep understanding and passion for and of Christ. The task and great burden I often feel (or sometimes don't feel) to share the Gospel is sometimes so enormous, I get discouraged that I am the Christian that I should be or more importantly, my relationship with Christ is not what is should be. That's when I become either one of two things- overwhelmed and compartmentalize God or overzealous and burn myself out with so much time in the Word that I don't have time to live it out.

God revealed two big things in the midst of transition and a spiritual battle that continues to rock my core.  One- the thoughts are placed in my head are just words, words have no power like Jesus does. The lies that Satan places in my heart and head are not who I am-they are who Satan wants me to be.
Two- in the midst of any spiritual battle, my focus in prayer becomes solely about His deliverance from the problem and therefore my thoughts focus on the problem and not the Healer and the Solution.

I always have a problem with discipline in spending time in the Word, but days outside of it are tortuous. The one thing that has held true throughout this whole battle, two weeks and counting, His Words are the life that is breathing into me. I am breaking a barrier from head knowledge to heart knowledge. I can see the fruit of being in the Word like never before.

It is my prayer that my heart revealed today is a heart that is routed in You, Jesus. That others maybe encouraged through my journey and that your glory would be revealed.