Hi friends hiii!!!! It’s me Sav, the girl who loves Jesus, Taylor Swift, strawberry cupcakes, and cat socks (that I’m currently wearing!!)
Okay, I’m just gonna be completely honest, I have been stressing so hard about what this blog is going to be about! So today I’m gonna try something different. Personally, I have found so much joy in being/ becoming the woman Jesus created me to be! In Zambia so far I’ve walked through a crap ton of freedom of being that person! I love myself and all the the things that make who I am, because he hand crafted me ladies and he loves me (something I’ve also been walking through)!
I’m going to share 10 hings I love about Jesus/ how he changed my life!!
1). He took an angry, selfish, worldly heart and set it on fire for who He is. He broke down my walls and loved me on my worst days, the days I yelled at Him and told Him I never wanted Him. He took the world from me and gave me a passion to never put Him in my back pocket for the world again. He took my pride, my all about me attitude and opened my eyes to the world and the brokenness.
2). He gives me life through Him everyday. Without my sweet Jesus I would still be the same hurt little girl I was two years, instead I get to experience the joy and the absolute peace and serenity that comes from my dad. Everyday I get to wake up and feel His breath in my lungs.
3). HE TAKES ME ON ADVENTURES!!! we do fun things together. About a month ago ,I was going through a rough patch of feeling really homesick, but also dealing with some forgiveness stuff, my emotions were just WACK. Anyway, I LOVE pizza. One night I went to help our host with dinner, she had me roll dough. While I was rolling the dough I started praying, the next thing I know Jesus has taken me to a a kitchen and we are making pizza together! We made pizza…and we talked about the hard things. I cried. He cried. He loved on me and I listened.
When I was walking through being His bride, during my quite time, He took me to a bridal shop and I got to pick out my dress that I would soon be marrying my Jesus in! After I was ready, I was brought to these massive doors that were white, show gold lined all around it, when the doors opened, I ran as fast as I could to the altar and Jesus told me “Savannah, just like a groom wants to dance with His bride on her wedding day, I want to dance with you like that everyday”.
When I felt alone and distant from Him he brought me to a dark room, where a spotlight shined on me. He showed me myself wrapped in the chains Satan had put on me (set free from that bondage, can I get an Amen?!) he showed me, trying to work so hard to get out of them that I wore myself down and just laid on the floor, I gave up. I just kept letting Satan attack me because I isn’t have anymore energy to fight him. At that time he showed me what it was like to have Him fight for me, not try to do it myself. He told me “I already fought that off for you, walk in your freedom”.
4). He took a heart that wasn’t capable of loving, put me on the world race (India is where I walked through love the most) and showed me what it’s like to have a seat for everyone at my table and an open door policy aka have it tattered and ripped in ways I never thought were possible, just so he could rebuild it. He opened my eyes to the beauty of His people all over the world and set people I my path to wreck my heart with how much they loved me (a complete stranger) just so my eyes would be open.
5). He tells me the hard things. Jesus isn’t afraid to smack me in the face when I need it, or knock me off my high horse. He tells me when I’m being selfish, when I’m not letting go of something he’s asked for repeatedly, when I’m not giving all I have or whatever the case my be. Last night I was chatting with him very briefly, I went to play on my phone and he straight said “Hello? Do you think you can talk to me for more than 3 seconds today? Put your phone down now”. Cool:)
6). He meets me where I’m at. When I’m experiencing a high with Jesus he’s right there, walking it out and celebrating with me! When I’m in a low, He sits in the pit with me and tells me whenever I’m ready to come out, He’s ready, but he NEVER pushes me to go somewhere I’m not ready to go. He doesn’t ask me to run a race to get to Him, He runs beside me.
7). Nothing I can ever do can separate me from His love. I can tell at Him (which I’ve done several times), ignore him (guilty), disobey (….done it). None the less, He doesn’t love me any more or any less for it.
8). He satisfies me. The world we live in is broken, full of sin and hurt, false happiness that’s temporary. The love I experience and the wholeness I experience with Jesus is no longer an option to put in my back pocket, the world. Doesn’t even come close to comparing to even what a little Jesus gives me on the daily!
9). I LOVE that Jesus knows every little intricate parts of us. He knows the deepest things and the smallest things. He knows when I need to see a giraffe on an African safari (WHICH HE NOT ONLY LET ME SEE ONE BUT ABOUT 15 AND A BABY!) and he knows when I’m hiding from Him because I’m going through something really hard. It seems to me like he works overtime to make sure that we even have the small things that make our hearts swell. If that’s not love I don’t know what is baby.
10). I love that I get to praise such a mighty God. I love that he’s given me his eyes to see our world. I love that He’s given me his heart to feel the heartbreak that he feels (I’m sure I only feel a small part of what He feels every second of everyday). I LOVE this BEAUTIFUL world that He worked so hard on so that we could see pretty stars every night and oceans! Everything time I look out side I think “God you created all this for me, just so my eyes could be blessed!” I love that he’s not only not only my best friend, protector, provider, but I also sit in awe of what a good dad I have.
I think that turned into more than 10 bits it’s fine because there’s just so much!!!
Okay, so now I want to know what you guys love about Jesus or something that he changed in your heart! A gift that He’s given you to use to bring kingdom? Something you struggle with? You can share as mush or as little as you want! I love hearing from you!!
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