Fighting For Me

Good Morning Ladies!


I pray that everyone had a great week! How many of you have been letting your light shine, allowing God to use you for his plan and purpose to change the lives of others? This is one of my daily prayers and desires is to be able to allow God to light my path and allow him to use me to light a path for someone else. That's why at the end of every post I tell you to stay encouraged, inspired and motivated, because if you are it's easier for you to help someone get there.



The more we walk and talk like Jesus did and allow God to live in us and shine through us the harder our lives will seem. As I said the other day, this life is a BATTLE! We will have battle wounds and battle scars, but they definitely can't even come close to Jesus' battle wounds and scars. Sometimes living for God means you will stand alone. You'll be the only person out of your group of friends, family or even co-workers that stands up for what's right. It's hard doing that, especially when it would just be easier to go the other route.



In Matthew 11:27-30 Jesus says "The Father has handed over everything to My care. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son wishes to reveal the Father. Come to Me, all who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest. Put My yoke upon your shoulders-it might appear heavy at first, but it is perfectly fitted to your curves. Learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble of heart. When you are yoked to Me, your weary souls will find rest. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”



The bible is SOO amazing and powerful that I just want to cry every time I read something awesome like that! If we are yoked to Jesus our burdens will be light because he will take over the load. He said that the yoke might appear heavy at first, but it’s perfectly fitted to our curves! He will never give us more than we can bear! He is there to help lighten the load, but we have to let him. We have to stop trying to carry all of our sorrows, frustrations, pain, confusion and a million other emotions on our own, and realize that God is here to help carry the weight.

In Micah 6:6-8 Paul says “What should I bring before the Lord when I come to bow before God on high? Should I come before Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves? Would the Lord be please with thousands of rams, or with ten thousand streams of oil? Should I give my firstborn for my transgression, the child of my body for my own sin? He has told you men what is good and what it is the Lord requires of you: Only to act justly, to love faithfulness and to walk humbly with your God.”

All God want’s from us is US! He wants us physically, to work for him by serving others. He wants us mentally to think of ways to draw people closer to him and his kingdom, and he wants us spiritually so that he can speak through us to guide others. I don’t think that God is asking for too much from us. When I started taking my daily walk seriously again about a month ago I had no clue what it would lead to. I remember I was in the car and a song came on that talked about allowing God to consume us as Christians and not to be afraid of allowing him to take over our lives. I remember crying and praying and asking God to fully consume me and fully use me for his kingdom, and I remember wondering what took me so long to reach this point? Why was I so afraid to allow God to fully consume me and use me? The rest of the song went onto say that it’s because of our pride. I included some lyrics so you could read it. The song is called ‘Fighting For Me’ by Anthony Evans. Please check it out! It’s pretty awesome.

When I first met you I must admit
I was fighting and losing
But I wouldn’t tell You cause
I knew that You’d take over
I wanted to undo all my mess
So it looked like I did it on purpose
You had my solution
But I knew that You’d take over

I wouldn’t let you in cause
I’d have to begin
To let it go
And I held onto my pride
Cause I wanted to be in control
But then You showed me

You’re fighting for me
Now I don’t have to anymore
You’re love is holding me
When I can’t hold on anymore
My heart was breaking
But it doesn’t have to anymore
I don’t deserve it but you’re showing me I’m worth
I’m worth fighting for
Oh, oh, oh
I’m worth fighting for

Like I was saying, we allow pride to get in the way of so many things. The thing I learned is that I don’t have to be prideful when it comes to the Lord. All the things I’m thinking, feeling and my next move are old news to him. God knows us so intimately, so we don’t have to put on a “show” like we might have to do in front of others. He wants the real us and he wants to use the real us. We have to be a reflection of God. We have to allow his light to shine through us. The way we act as believers are reflections of our AWESOME God. If we are in the store cussing out the clerk or fighting someone in the parking lot, that doesn’t really speak “Hey, I believe in Jesus and I’m living for him”. Of course those complete strangers won’t know your beliefs because they don’t know you, but they should be able to see the Jesus in you. The way you walk, talk and act should be different when you’re trying to reflect God’s light unto this world. It speaks about all of this in Ephesians Chapter 5. It basically talks about how a change should happen when we begin to follow Jesus. I def. recommend that everyone check it out! :)

Ladies, this walk with Jesus and trying to live in his image aren’t easy. It will probably be the hardest thing you’ve EVER done, I know it is for me, but it’s also very rewarding. Plus you’re not in this battle alone because God is ‘Fighting For You’ and we are all in this together.

I pray that everyone has a wonderful weekend and that you will begin to allow God to fully consume your lives.

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Stay encouraged, inspired and motivated today and help someone else do the same! ;)

Raynisia Nagel

A Woman After God’s Own Heart