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I went to YouTube for some encouragement- to be spoken into by the words of those whom I respect and listen to. I always go directly to Sadie Robertson's channel to see if there's anything new. Of course she is amazing, and her video that I clicked on led me to this video. There was no reason for me to watch this video- I would rarely click on a video this long, and I'm not even a huge ambassador for Bethel. But God knew exactly what He wanted to say to me, and He showed me through this video. I am going to spend some time with Him directly after I write this, but I feel like I just need to share this with you. Kristene tells us in this video that she was asked when she was 21, Why is God Jesus? At the time, she didn't know how to answer that. She realized that she didn't have the answers- why was she even a Christian? Why did she believe in God? I'm not doubting what I believe right now by any means, but I have been challenged recently to look into what I believe, and why I believe it. It's also ironic that Kristene allowed Christ into her heart when she was 3 years old. I was also 3 when I decided I wanted Him to always be with me. This does create quite a challenge in our hearts because we were so young when we accepted that. But God has said that we should return to a "childlike faith". I believe in Him because I can't imagine living without Him. It's not because I was young when I chose to love him, it's that I've tried to make decisions on my own, or think of what would happen if I didn't consider His words, and I can't see it going anyway good. We NEED a leader, a mediator, a SAVIOR. I am so glad that He loves me, and that by loving me, He gives me the power to freely and absolutely love others, and share the incredible, unexplainable love and FREEDOM that is ONLY FOUND IN THE ONE WHO MAKES US NEW. I understand her experience/thoughts on a level that I can't describe.
---->Hope is alive today, because HE is alive today. ---->LOVE transforms way more than religion. ---->He is very present in people's sorrow. "I realized that everybody I would meet the city already know that God's real, they just don't know His name" "Unless the Holy Spirit says something to me, I don't have an answer...personally." "[I was thinking] the promises that were spoken in my life, in this Bible, they need to be for me, I need this to be real" "I'm not gonna listen to these lies anymore... I'm gonna wake up and choose to believe that God is who He says He is...I don't have any options. It's something really beautiful that happens, when God becomes your only option." "I was meant to carry a lot more than I understood, or believed that I could." "I needed Him to be outside of every idea I ever had of who He was......I needed a rescuer." Have you experienced a similar moment with God? Tweet me @lifeasemilyhope
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