In this crazy life, and these crazy times, it's you, it's you...

     So, I have finally decided to start this blog thing! As a college-girl, wife and mother, I can honestly admit the fact that my life is anything but ordinary! This leads to not much time to "blog". Many call me crazy, and don't see how I do it, but the Lord is so faithful and so rewarding when you pursue Him even in your weaknesses or failures. I've had quite a challenge to face this past year and some obstacles that the enemy must have for sure thought would take this little southern, God chasing girl out.
    Can I first off just say how thankful I am that our identities are not in our failures or our "mess-ups" and sins? Our identities are found in our pursuit for Jesus Christ and the lives we honor Him with, I will never allow the enemy to convince me that my failures have identified me. Everyone sins. It's inevitable. We have choices though, and we are called to make those choices wisely. Sometimes we aren't always going to make the best choices and sometimes we're gonna make such smart ones we wonder if it was really even us that made them. I've experienced both. 
     I have slowly* realized that devotion time, worship time, and true prayer time are  huge factors in making any choice. I say "true" prayer time, because it takes more than a 5 minute prayer before bed as we yawn half way through it to create a strong force against the enemy as he tempts us. Trust me, I know. I've walked the radical devotion life and also the complacent, stand-still, 5 minute prayer life. I have also experienced the differences and the different consequences of those choices we make during those periods. But by the glory of the Lord and His grace, hallelujah, let me say, God can take His plan b and make it better than your plan a ever would have been!
     Through these crazy times of my life and crazy adjustments to my "teenage" girly self that I have had to make, I have become so much more care-free for the world and the expectations and desires of it. I could care less to be "most popular" or the "funnest" to be around. I have quickly realized that the world tends to attract itself to the "fun and popular" things and people. Those fun and popular things will get you into trouble real quick, and you better be on guard with your praying battle ax in hand when you are faced with the choice to go for them. It's so easy. I mean hey, its fun, and A LOT of people are doing it and getting away just fine by it. Deuteronomy 30:14 says "But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it." I pray that you will have the radical devotion life and the desire to stand against the enemy that WAITS for you, get the word in you, that you can make the choice to do it! The bible also says that tomorrow is promised to no man, so don't be one of those who sin today and say they'll ask forgiveness tomorrow....

   Eph 6:10-11 "Be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes."