A New Year's REVOLUTION

Living through two decades you sure do experience a lot. There have been so many ups and downs in my walk with Christ from just knowing and believing in him to completely falling in love with him. I have been so blessed to encounter many different experiences that have brought me to the point that I am at in my relationship with him today.

It wasn't until this time last year did I fully understand what it meant to surrender EVERYTHING to my Lord. I mean everything from school to work to family to friends to finances to boys to future plans to ANYTHING you can think of! It was because of this book I read by Leslie Ludy called "Set Apart Femininity" did I begin to comprehend what this looked like. Over this past year the Lord has stretched me beyond measure from going to Africa all alone, experiencing what a Godly relationship looked like, managing a heavy schedule, beginning to think about future plans...which has brought me to the point which I am at today.

Towards the end of the year I began to develop a passion...

As a fashion major I started to notice how completely superficial and worldly the industry really is. It is filled with nothing but falsehood. The girls you see in the magazines are fake, the pictures are completely altered, along with the unhealthy sizes of models. I began to get frustrated with my major and wondered what I could do with this in the future. After much prayer the Lord placed it on my heart to begin to share with others my heart.

On Thanksgiving I shared this with my boyfriend's mom and cousin. Honestly not thinking any more about it, Derrick's cousin, Lauren, called me around Christmas time to share with me a song she had heard.  Might I add Lauren is a freshmen in high school and I am completely blown away for her deep desire to grow more with the Lord.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ks3R2BwyO0&feature=fvw

This song "More Beautiful You" By Johnny Diaz depicts a story of everything I had expressed as my frustration with this world. I think it is just so neat to see how the Lord quickly placed it on Lauren's heart to call and share this with me.

My favorite part of the song is where it says :

"There could never be a more beautiful you
dont buy the lies disguises and hoops they make you jump through
You were made to fill a purpose that only you could do
So there could never be a more beautiful you."

These words are so true!!

This conversation led Lauren and I to want to do something, start some where, reach out to girls, share what the Lord placed on our hearts, but we just didn't know where to begin. After spending an amazing week celebrating the New Year in North Carolina with Campus Crusade for Christ the Lord brought me back fully rejuvenated, motivated, and ready to seek his plan which leads me to today...

Lauren and I were planning to meet for lunch today and I decided to look up scripture which then led me to check out the set apart femininity blog where I found a blog called..."TRUE BEAUTY"!!! How perfect! The Lord was already beginning to work...

http://setapartgirl.com/set-apart-thots.html

This blog was beyond perfect, beyond encouraging, beyond...I'm SPEECHLESS!!! She stated everything that is on my heart and more!  She quoted from John 3:30 "He must become GREATER; I must become LESS."  Lauren and I came up with some ideas and are just praying to see how the Lord is going to work it all out.  We are hoping to start with a small group of Lauren's friends and then see how the Lord leads it.  

And my day doesn't stop there...

At church tonight, Kyle Idleman spoke about instead of having a New Year's Resolution and having a REVOLUTION!  The scripture that he used was John 3:30 " He must become GREATER; I must become LESS."  He said that when you have a Resolution you simply focus on specific habits to change, but a REVOLUTION focuses on EVERYTHING!  As Christians we are called to be filled with the Holy Spirit (Luke 1:15) and many times I forget to be led by the Spirit.  He encouraged us to pray a simple prayer..."More of you, less of me, fill me with your Spirit."  I know that God was just telling me to trust him and the rest will fall into place.  

So....I am ready for the REVOLUTION and to see where the Lord leads me.