https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haQOQm-uGmQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDA8TQCsGNM
If there’s one thing I recommend that you do this week, it would be to set aside time to watch one or both of these sermons. If you only have time for one, I recommend “Victory Over Sin”…and then I recommend you watch “Surrounded” next week (heehee).
I watched both of these sermons last week, and let’s just say by the end I was down on my knees repenting to the Lord. I’ve been asking the Lord how to practically run this race (not the world race, life) with all that I have in me without burning out. I want to run hard and fast all the days of my life, but sometimes it seems like it’s just so hard to focus or keep up. I’m learning that we all have the same 24 hours. It’s how I spend it that will decide the way I run.
My team has been reading in the Word that not everything that is lawful or good is beneficial. I’ve had convictions throughout the past couple of years that I’ve ignored to satisfy my flesh and others. I’ve realized that sometimes I’ve made my family an idol. Sometimes I’ve made FOMO an idol…sometimes it’s entertainment or sleep or work or school or my team or the race. It’s hard, but I’ve made the decision to be even more intentional with how I spend and who I give my time to. I’m all about balance, but I feel the Lord calling me deeper into relationship with Him. My prayer today was that the Lord would help me walk deeper into surrender with Him.
I would be devastated to come off the race (this time I do mean the world race) and be unchanged. And yes, this is 100% possible. I want to choose in. The race creates this beautiful space for an abundance of time to be spent with the Lord. It’s high time I grab ahold of it and run.
If you spend enough time with me, you’ll figure out I love me some conviction. And these sermons did just that. I felt convicted to give up every word, thought and action that isn’t edifying towards the Lord. Idols have to go. I have a cloud of witnesses cheering me on from Heaven, and I’m not about to disappoint.
Until next time, this is me lacing up my shoes. LOVE Y’ALL!
-Bailee
