My life changed when I decided for my old me to die and rebirth to Jesus Christ!
This was not from night to day, it has been over a year, little by little God has made a transformation in me when I reached to Him ever single day more than one time a day, in constant praying, building a relationship with God has been my greatest joy of whole my life. The Bible is a light and instructions book to all our lifes. I will keep stubborn but this time to not give up, I will be continuing to serve Him and to be for Him even if it hurts. Because when we focus on Him, He guides , teaches us on how to be and what to be.
Emotions are a world thing it drives us away from God's ways and we focus only on ourselves.
I learned that when, God filled me with His peace and happiness that I never had. I suffer sometimes obviously as we all go through battles but is knowing that we have God bigger than all that, we lean in to Him to His wonderful grace and mercy and learn self control, grateful and learning that change starts from ME. Love Jesus, Love His people, He wants everyone to be saved. I am thankful to Jesus, my blessed family, my church. God bless you all
Post made on my instagram last year
When the man saw that he would not win the match, he touched Jacob's hip and wrenched it out of its socket. Then the man said, "Let me go, for the dawn is breaking!" But Jacob said, "I will not let you go unless you bless me." "What is your name?" the man asked. He replied, "Jacob." "Your name will no longer be Jacob," the man told him. "From now on you will be called Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have won." "Please tell me your name," Jacob said. "Why do you want to know my name?" the man replied. Then he blessed Jacob there. Jacob named the place Peniel (which means "face of God"), for he said, "I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been spared." The sun was rising as Jacob left Peniel, and he was limping because of the injury to his hip.
Genesis 32:25-31 NLT
Has been a year since I shared my rebirth. I feel like Jacob fighting with God. Apart from that I have done many times, trying to get His blessing on MY way. I am still stubborn and I have faith. Because I know He has done it before , so He will do it again. (check the link, sing and dance along) .Yes we have emotions , fears, God has emotions too, just read on the scriptures. We just need to apply them where they should be. I don't know about man but me as a women there is that time per month that our hormones can be all over the place. So embrace grace and it would be good to keep some discipline as much is possible. And other times I mostly miss the physical community. So on a travel to a new destiny Jacob fought with God , got a physical condition and a new name.
I am too travelling into a new destiny. Perhaps all these months since moving country have been a constant fight where I am getting scars to had to the collection , even limping , stumbling here and there I will keep faith. Learning to Trust He knows best. I know I will have a new name is already in His book that He wrote how my life will be.
As Jacob was curious , fighting for answers and blessings. We too do that. I do that a lot with Him , on my knees, laying in bed, seating as an egg with tears on my eyes.
Israel (Jacob) is not much talked about afterwards in the scriptures however his legacy did make a mark through his generations.
The adventure continues...
Something else that I wrote
When the Holy Spirit leads you, you will never be bored. He will take you in very crazy roller-coaster that will mold and shape you into the masterpiece that God always intended you to be.
It will hurt a lot because that is what happens, when you get out of comfort zone and put pressure aiming to grow.
But with Jesus and the Holy Spirit this hurt, pain will be bearable because He already carried it for us.
'Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you. '
Matthew 5:12
https://my.bible.com/bible/111/MAT.5.12
by: Elisabete Morais
