New blog :) I have to say, Thursday was a great day when I found out that blogging would be the main portion of our grade for a worship class this year. How.Great.Is.My.School. I love having this outlet to share what the Lord is doing in my life and I get so inconsistent, so writing here on a regular basis will be incredibly healthy for me.

The Lord has been hunting me down for some time now, but I've been avoiding Him like no one's business. And now at the beginning of the school year I am finally in a place where I am ready to listen to Him, and sort through all of my weaknesses and struggles with the One who knows me best. I want to get back to true worship, which has absolutely nothing to do with music and lyrics, buildings and stages, or bible studies and sermons. But it has everything to do with walking like Christ, and sacrificing daily for the love. 

My hope this year is that I learn to be constantly filled with the Spirit. I tend to decide otherwise, but I long to be like David, who was constantly pouring out his heart to God and to others, because he knew and understood the relationship he had with the Father, and the meaning of fellowship with other believers. I love the verse in Jeremiah 29, which talks about the Lord's plans for us and the hope we have in Him. But what I love even more, is the scripture that follows says this:
                  " 'Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all of your heart. I will be found by you', declares the Lord..."

I love it. "When you seek me with all your heart. All of it. This is my desire, to seek Him with all of my heart, so that I can find all of Him, to be all-consumed... 

I hope that what the Lord shares with me each week is something that will impact more than just my heart, but others as well :)
               
~Laramie