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"Consistently trusting in Me is vital to flourishing in My Presence."

-- from Jesus Calling by Sarah Young

There is no peace apart from You.

I know this so well

because I wander so often.

Why I think I can do better,

why I think that You expect me

to do it all on my own,

I have no idea. 

I know that it is only by Your 

precious Grace 

that I am 

saved,

forgiven,

restored,

redeemed,

justified....

Why I think I can 

do anything apart from you,

I have no idea.

I try to be like You

but I can't.

Only You can be You

in me.

Teach me 

how to be available,

available 

to You

for You are all I need.

"The only limitation 

on what God can do 

in you and me 

is our 

availability.

Be available to Christ, 

and His divine dynamic

will be released."

"The Christian life is not about 

our own capacity and ability, 

but about God's; 

not about who we are, 

but who He is; 

not about what we have to offer, 

but what He offers, 

which is all of Himself,

 if only we are as available to Christ 

as Christ was available to His Father."

-- from The Indwelling Life of Christ by Major W. Ian Thomas

Blessed are you

who give yourselves over to God,

turn your backs on the world's "sure thing",

ignore what the world worships;

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My help and glory are in God

—granite-strength and safe-harbor-God —

So trust Him absolutely, people;

lay your lives on the line for HIm.

God is a safe place to be.

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