Finding A Way Home

 We often think how is it that we sometimes can feel lost? How can we find the way home again?

Well see there's a Pureflix Series called Going Home but there's a theme in the beginning of every start to the episode with a song called The Way Home by Aaron Morgan.

Now to me, the song makes me smile when I hear it, and I feel  it’s an encouraging reminder song that no matter what you’re facing God will always show the way home.

The Troubles that you carry, keep your love from reaching out and I know this can be scary but I can help you lay them down, a life well lived is not the end when we let go we live again, the ones you love that have come and gone are the lights that you see leading you back home lighting the way on this winding road, you won't walk alone, I'm right by your side to make your way home.

When I think of these lyrics, I think of how God is leading the way back home even in our struggles.

When we struggle with grief, when we struggle in pain, when we struggle in suffering.

God always points us in the direction of finding the way home.

Sometimes finding our way home leads to finding our way back into the home in which one day where we all want to  be which is in Heaven with Jesus.

John 14 verse 1-2- Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?

John 14 verse 6- Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Ephesians 4 verse 11-12- So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up.

1 Thessalonians 5 verse 23- May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Colossians 3 verse 4- When Christ, who is your[a] life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

Philippians 4 verse 7- And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Hebrews 11 verse 1-40- Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for.

By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. By faith Abel brought God a better offering than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous, when God spoke well of his offerings. And by faith Abel still speaks, even though he is dead.

By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God. And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that is in keeping with faith. By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. 

By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God. 

And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she[b] considered him faithful who had made the promise. And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.

All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth. People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. 

If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son,  even though God had said to him, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.

Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death. By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to their future.

By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph’s sons, and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff. By faith Joseph, when his end was near, spoke about the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and gave instructions concerning the burial of his bones.

By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict. By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh’s daughter. 

He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward. 

By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger; he persevered because he saw him who is invisible. By faith he kept the Passover and the application of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel.

By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to do so, they were drowned. By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the army had marched around them for seven days.

By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient.

And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephthah, about David and Samuel and the prophets, who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions, quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword; whose weakness was turned to strength; and who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies. 

Women received back their dead, raised to life again. There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection. Some faced jeers and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. 

They were put to death by stoning; they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves and in holes in the ground.

These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised, since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.

Philippians 3 verse 20-  But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 6 verse 23- For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in[a] Christ Jesus our Lord.

2 Corinthians 5 verse 1- For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.

John 1 verse 1-  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

1 Corinthians 12 verse 27- Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.

 

Isiah 32 verse 8- But the noble make noble plans, and by noble deeds they stand.

Joshua 24 verse 15- But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”

Matthew 7 verse 25- The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.

2 Samuel 7 verse 29- Now be pleased to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever in your sight; for you, Sovereign Lord, have spoken, and with your blessing the house of your servant will be blessed forever.”

Colossians 3 verse 14- And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

Psalm 91 verse 1-2- Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.  I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”

 Micah 6 verse 8- He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly[ with your God.

In a lot of these scriptures we see how even God can bring us back home, we see how He can bring us back to a place where He is not done with us yet, and shows how even while we are still doing what we are called to do on our Earthly Home before we are called Home to our Eternal Home that we need to act justly, love with mercy and walk humbly with Him each and every single day because walking in the Light of Christ even if we sometimes fall short of finding our way home, God will still leave the 99 to find the 1 and bring them back, because we have a merciful and loving Father who loves us a lot.

When we are called Home, well that is when Christ will tell us well done good and faithful servant.

Sometimes it can be hard to minister to people who may not know Him and maybe while they are trying to find their way home, that is maybe where God is stepping into our lives to help them.

When I say help them, it could mean to pray with them to find their way back home, it could be talking with them, whatever the case may be, we know that God's Will, will be done and He has a plan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJxs-v0KWQo

I'm sharing a link with this study because I want all of you to be able to hear the lyrics of this song.

I want you all to take in what these lyrics are saying to you, into what Christ is speaking to you.

You never know what someone may go through, so let us go out and pray for them.

Pray that we don't lose sight of Home, pray that we can help others in a way to find their way back to home.

Home is Where The Heart Of God is and The Heart Of God is Where Our Forever Home is.

I hope that this encourages you in your weekend and week, to know that you are never alone and even if you get lost from home or you know of someone or don't know them and they can't find their way home, we can trust that with prayer and conversation with them and with God, that God will always bring them back Home and that He will bring us back Home when we get lost at times.

Let us always remember these things so that we can uplift and encourage one another daily.

When We Feel Alone Even When We Are Not

 Have you ever experienced a time where you felt alone? What did that feel like? How did you handle it?

When have you ever felt alone to where you felt like you didn't have a friend that you could talk to?

You see Jesus is our friend, He knows our hearts, He knows our thoughts, and He helps us know we are loved, He helps us know we are cared for, He helps understand who we are, and He gives us strength.

In a moment and an instance, we see how God gives us the strength we need to over come obstacles.

We see how God shows us that in the times we felt alone, where the obstacles of feeling alone has been hard at times but we see how God gives us courage to take the obstacles of feeling alone to turn into good.

The feeling that when God turns things around, we don't feel alone and we can see how we are accepted.

We are accepted and loved by God for who we are and who we are made to be because God made us.

He made us in His Image to know that we are never alone when we are with Him in every single way.

Psalm 147 verse 3, Joshua 1 verse 9, Romans 8 verse 28, John 16 verse 33, Isiah 26 verse 3, Psalm 139 verse 17-18, 1 Peter 5 verse 7, Psalm 23 verses 1-6, John 14 verse 27, Luke 5 verse 16, Psalm 28 verse 7.

In these scriptures when we feel alone, we can take these scriptures to see how we are never alone.

We are never alone when we have God by our side, I learned this from a best friend of mine that told me that I am never lonely when I have God by my side. You see when we have God, we are not alone.

God is our refuge, He is our strength, our provider, and He helps us to know even when we feel alone we are not, because no matter what we continuously face in life, we will never be alone because we have God, we have family, and we have friends that become best friends who all have our best interests at heart and when we realize that, we see how God can always continually move mountains for us.

Let us take this to heart each and every single day, and let us realize how God can turn how when we feel alone even when we are not, that we can always overcome when we feel alone cause God is with us. God will always be with us and when we know that, we know how Christ will always be our friend.

Being An Advocate For Awareness

 I want to talk about what it means to be an Advocate for Awareness. The reason I chose this topic is because of the month we are in which is September and September is Hydrocephalus Awareness Month. It's a month that holds special meaning to my heart. So, what does it mean to be an advocate? What does Awareness mean? Well let's look at scriptures that talk about these two words as we learn together.

John 14 verse 26, John 16 verse 7, John 14 verse 16, Hebrews 9 verse 24, Proverbs 31 verse 8-9, Leviticus 19 verse 2, Luke 6 verse 27, Galatians 6 verse 2, Acts 1 verse 8, Zechariah 7 verse 9, Matthew 24 verse 40, 2 Timothy 1 verse 7, Matthew 5 verse 3, Proverbs 20 verse 5, John 3 verse 16-17, Romans 8 verse 31.

In everything we see how the scriptures show us how to bring awareness in being an advocate for Christ. We see how the scriptures show us how to be an advocate by bringing awareness to what matters most. Without God being our advocate and showing us what awareness in His Truth is about we will have nothing. We would be lost and we would feel like we wouldn't have a place to go, because we feel sad.

Although God shows us how we can be an advocate and bring awareness not only  for Him but for our own lives. 

We see that in everything, God can give us the opportunities to share  because we have the strength to have courage to share our testimonies.

I told you earlier that September is Hydrocephalus Awareness Month, well for me I am being an advocate for Awareness Month by telling others what Hydrocephalus is and why it's important for me to share about a condition I was born with. So, what are some ways this week and throughout the week that you can be an Advocate for Awareness to something like Hydrocephalus or an advocate for spreading awareness for something else that you go through or that you know others go through where there isn't a cure?

How will you be able to make a difference throughout the week to spread awareness and be an advocate?

All reflection questions to think about and to figure out for yourselves how you can bring awareness to something that could help others greatly in their own life and maybe even in your own life too.

Listening is crucial to both prayer and advocacy.

In this quote we see how it can be important that when we are being an advocate and bringing awareness to something or to someone that its also crucial to pray on how to go about it as well when needing to say the right things to someone.

The Awareness Of Our Own Strength Makes Us Modest.

In this quote we see how when we realize our own strengths and weaknesses and how we are aware of everything happening around us that what can make us modest in Christ is knowing how we can share what it will be like to not only advocate for Christ and bring awareness to how Christ helps us make a difference in the way we can see how the words we say can make differences in others lives. 

Blessing

Exalt

Inspire

Noble

Grace

Admire

Nice

Admiration 

Delight

Valued

Open

Care

Admirable

Truth

Exalted

Faith

Onward

Rise

Aligned 

Worship

Adoration 

Respected

Enlightened 

Saved

Savior

In all of these words based off the acronym I made from my study title we see how all of those are traits that we need in order to keep encouraging one another in order to keep being an advocate for awareness in the things that are important to our hearts but to help others who may be going through struggles. 

How To Overcome Milestones

 When we think about Milestones, we think of the good, happy, and great achievements we can celebrate.

Although here is something that people may not realize, that sometimes there are milestones that we might like to forget, the milestones that are baggage, weight on shoulders, the milestones that can weigh heavy on our hearts, the milestones that weigh us down just as much as we would love to forget the bad milestones, the horrible milestones from past moments whether it be growing up, or whether it be something we struggle to let go of, those are the ones that God wants us to give to Him. Those are the type of milestones that we can't always face alone or on our own. We need to give it to Him and just let go.

Hebrews 11 verse 1, 1 Corinthians 13 verse 1-13, Jeremiah 29 verse 11, 1 Peter 5 verse 10, Philippians 4 verse 6-7, Romans 8 verse 28, John 14 verse 6, John 6 verse 53, Matthew 8 verse 26, Matthew 6 verse 33, Joel 2 verse 32, Romans 12 verse 3, Psalm 23 verse 1-6, 1 John 5 14-15, 2 Peter 3 verse 1-18, Psalm 1 verse 1-6. 

So where's this peace you promised? 'Cause right now it feels like fear, I'm hanging on, but if I'm honest

I can't even feel you near, So won't you come and take this? I'm begging you to take this, Oh, won't you come and take this?, I'm begging you to take this, My life was built on this, This wreckage can't be fixed, They say move on, but I feel, Like I'm bound here, I thought I had his love, Why wasn't I enough?, Tell me you have a plan, 'Cause it's not clear, no, So where's this peace you promised?, 'Cause right now it feels like fear, I'm hanging on, but if I'm honest, I can't even feel you near, So won't you come and take this? I'm begging you to take this, Oh, won't you come and take this?, I'm begging you to take this.

Every second you spend wishing God would take away a struggle is a forfeited opportunity to overcome.

Don't be bound by the past and it's failures. But don't forget it's lessons either.

God uses no one until He first puts them through the storm. The greater your mission, the greater your storm.

In so much of this we see how it's simple enough to celebrate the great milestones in life that we celebrate, but we also see that with God we can see how to overcome the milestones that lead us in a path of are we enough? Are we living for Christ? The answer to that is, yes we are enough and we are living for Him, but we must truly live for Him and pray that He not only helps us celebrate the good milestones in life, but to overcome the milestones that weigh heavy on our hearts, the ones we need to let go, the ones that Enemy would love nothing more than to say don't celebrate good, celebrate sadness, the bad things that happened, we as beloved children will never get to that as long as God is here and near to our hearts and how He shows unconditional love to each and every single one of us.

Benjamin Disraeli says: Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Howard Zinn says: If we remember those times and places and there are so many where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act.

In so much of these last two quotes, we see how sometimes when we believe so much of what the Enemy would love to say to knock us down and to make it feel like we can't overcome the milestones in which we all have our moments of feeling like why did this happen moment, it's then we realize we have become stronger in our relationship and Faith walk with Christ in order to overcome the difficult milestones that aren't always meant to really celebrate but to let go of, so we can celebrate the good.  

How God Shows We Are Not Burdens

 I want to start off with how this study happened. I had been listening to a song called Burden by Citizen Soldier and as I heard the lyrics I realized this is a topic that needed to be shared because so many times we place ourselves in the category of being hard on ourselves, of thinking we need to people please and sometimes we think are we a burden or do we share our burdens of what bugs with others too much? You see as we dive into the scriptures and everything else tonight we are going to see how God shows we are not burdens, but how we don't have to carry that burden, how we are never burdens in the body of Christ.

You can talk, you can talk to me, Even down in your darkest place, Don't ever be ashamed of your needs, You are not a burden to me.

When the night comes, when you’re all alone, When there’s trouble stirring in your soul And if your world is falling apart, Just hold on for the morning break to dawn, Come and lay your burdens down to the place where freedom is found, At the feet, at the feet of Jesus, Come and lay your burdens down.

I've carried a burden, For too long on my own, I wasn't created, To bear it alone, I hear Your invitation, To let it all go, Yeah, I see it now, I'm laying it down And I know that I need You, I run to the Father, I fall into grace, I'm done with the hiding, No reason to wait, My heart needs a surgeon, My soul needs a friend, So I'll run to the Father, Again and again, And again and again, Oh, oh, oh, You saw my condition, Had a plan from the start, Your Son for redemption, The price for my heart, And I don't have a context, For that kind of love, I don't understand, I can't comprehend, All I know is I need You, I run to the Father, I fall into grace, I'm done with the hiding, No reason to wait, My heart needs a surgeon, My soul needs a friend, So I'll run to the Father, Again and again, And again and again.

Galatians 6 verse 2, Matthew 11 verse 28-30, Psalm 55 verse 22, John 16 verse 33, Matthew 23 verse 4, Psalm 46 verse 1, Philippians 4 verse 6-7, Galatians 6 verse 5, Jeremiah 23 verse 36, John 14 verse 6, Psalm 68 verse 19, Psalm 138 verse 7, Romans 8 verse 18, John 7:17.

In all of this, we see how God is merciful and how God shows us we are not a burden or burdens to Him. We see how we are not even a burden or burden to others that enter our life.

In fact, we can always leave our burdens at the foot of the cross and know things will be ok.

Sometimes on this journey, I get lost in my mistakes, What looks to me like weakness is a canvas for Your strength, And my story isn't over, my story's just begun, And failure won't define me 'cause that's what my Father does, Yeah, failure won't define me 'cause that's what my Father does, Ooh, lay your burdens down, Ooh, here in the Father's house, Check your shame at the door (ooh), 'Cause it ain't welcome anymore (ooh), Ooh, you're in the Father's house, Arrival's not the end game, the journey's where You are, You never wanted perfect, You just wanted my heart And the story isn't over, if the story isn't good, A failure's never final when the Father is in the room, And failure's never final when the Father is in the room, Ooh, lay your burdens down, Ooh, here in the Father's house, Check your shame at the door (ooh), 'Cause it ain't welcome anymore (ooh), Ooh, you're in the Father's house, yeah. 

Don't carry burdens that God never meant for you to carry.

In this we see how God gives us not a spirit of fear but of a sound mind.

We see how God will always carry us through any storm or trial that we face in life.

At other times we also see that we are never a burden or burdens to others or to Christ.

We don't walk this Faith journey alone and we are not about to start doing that now.

Let us keep hoping for the best, let us remember that we are not a burden or burdens.

Let us take with us that we can do all things through Him that gives us the strength.

In all circumstances let us also try our best to be the best version of ourselves and have the mindset in place of thinking how we could be a burden or burdens, and have the mindset that we are not that but how we are children of God who are deeply loved and cared for.

Take your burdens to the Lord and leave it there. 

Knowing we will be with Christ forever far outweighs our burdens today. Keep your eyes on eternity.

It is my hope and my prayer each and every single time out with all of you that we can apply what we have learned and put it into action and place it into action for others as well.

I also hope and pray that we remember that as a child of God we are never going to be burdens or a burden because God takes those burdens and baggage and lifts it off our shoulders and so that we don't ever have to carry any of that and we can just live for Him.

Finally, let us remember that Christ lives in us always and no matter what He'll help us.

Living For Christ

 We Know It In Our Heads But Do We Really Own It? Is Jesus Christ Really Who We Are Living For?

Do we live for Jesus? Have we continued to live our life as Jesus would want us to live?

What are we doing to live for Him? How are we making Jesus happy in how we are living for Him?

Where do we see ourselves in living for Christ? Is there something we can do that honors Him?

Romans 12 verse 2, Matthew 22 verse 37, Galatians 1 verse 10, Romans 8 verse 28, 2 Corinthians 5 verse 17, Romans 14 verse 8, 1 John 1 verse 9, James 1 verse 2-4, Hebrews 4 verse 12, John 14 verse 6, 1 John 5 verse 20, Luke 11 verse 28, John 6 verse 57, 2 Timothy 3 verse 16-17, John 3 verse 16-17, John 7 verse 38, Jeremiah 29 verse 11, Philippians 4 verse 13, John 8 verse 12, Isaiah 41 verse 10, John 4 verse 24, Psalm 33 verse 4, Mark 16 verse 15, Hebrews 11 verse 6, Deuteronomy 8 verse 3, Psalm 119 verse 7.

In everything we see in scripture we see how it can be important to Live for God. We see how when we go through trials in Faith, how we go through storms in life, how we handle things that can overwhelm us, is where God reminds in the scriptures we read tonight that when we let go and let Him handle it, we are at a peace of understanding. A peace that gives us that hope to overcome, and a peace that allows us to be still.

Sometimes it can be hard to be still. Although with God, we don't have to be afraid. We can overcome.

No matter what we go through, God has us in the palm of His Hands. He holds us close to Him. He reminds us that we are loved and cherished. Remember the quote, and the questions I asked earlier?

Well, when we think about it and we really think about it, we know about God, we know about our Faith but are we really owning and living for Him? Are we really doing the best that we can to do so?

Sometimes we all struggle in that, but then again no one is perfect, we won't always get it right.

We will sometimes fall down, but God is the one that picks us back up again and turns it around.

If we all were the same, if we all had the same testimony, where would any of us be currently?

How would we go about living if we were all the same, and had the same story?

I know these are a lot of reflection questions but here's something I want to get across.

Nothing can separate us from God's Love. Nothing can take us away from how we live our life. Nothing can take us away from how we walk by Faith and not by Sight. The one thing that remains in all of this is Jesus. Now, if there's anything I know it's we all have different walks in our life but all of us are still believers in Christ, we are all living for Him, and it's up to us to share Him and His Word with others who may not be a believer and we just have to keep trusting and hoping in Christ Jesus.

God will always help us amongst what we go through, God will always be our refuge and strength.

He won't ever leave us and because of that, no matter how we are living for Him, let's do it in Love.

Let's do it in Faith, Hope, Perseverance, Strength, Humility, Kindness, Compassion, Hope, and Joy.

Love

Inspire

Vessel

Inspired

Noble

Grace

Faith

Onward

Respect

Compassionate

Hopeful

Risen

Saved

Truth

We Love and Inspire with our words and within our heart. We are a living and breathing vessel that is inspired to do great things through Christ. We are Noble in Grace and Faith, and we move onward in our walk with Respect. We are compassionate in our words and hopeful to share how Christ has Risen and how we are Saved because He brought His Son to die on the Cross so that we could be forgiven. We know this is truth and that we are doing our best every day as His Child to live for Him daily.

The Key To Who We Are In Christ

 I remember watching a Pureflix movie where it was talking about how the Bible is and was the only road map we would need in life. 

1 Peter 2 verse 2-3, 2 Timothy 2 verse 15, Ephesians 4 verse 12, Luke 21 verse 28, Philippians 4 verse 6, Psalm 122 verse 6, 2 Peter 1 verse 2, 2 Peter 3 verse 9, Luke 1 verse 37, Proverbs 3 verse 5-6, 1 Chronicles 9 verse 27, Acts 14 verse 27, John 3 verse 16-17, Matthew 7 verse 7-8, Colossians 1 verse 10.

 I'm using my Bible for a road map, Then Commandments they tell me what to do, The twelve disciples are my road signs, And Jesus will take me safely through, There'll be no detours in heaven, No rough roads along the way, I'm using my Bible for a road map, My last stop is heaven some sweet day,

I'm using my Bible for a road map, The children of Israel used it too, They crossed the Red Sea of Destruction, For God was there to see them through.

There'll be no detours in heaven, No rough roads along the way, I'm using my Bible for a roadmap, My last stop is heaven some sweet day.

In a lot of this we see how the scriptures and lyrics can bring us to the map we need to guide our life. We see how the key points of scripture remind us that the map we need, the compass we need, the time we need to cherish is with God.

Faith does not eliminate questions. But Faith knows where to take them.

What the world neglects, The Lord accepts.

God uses no one until He firsts put them through the storm. The greater your mission, the greater your storm.

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

God's Word is a map you can safely follow as you travel through life.

God Has Called You So Decisively That He Prepared A Road Map For Your Life Even Before The World Was Created. 

So in everything, we see the key points in all of this that if we don't have God being the road map in our life, in our journey of Faith, and in our Relationship with Him, we open the door to allow the Enemy to try to steal, kill, and destroy not only our joy but our happiness and peace. We allow the Enemy to make us feel like we need to be hard on ourselves, go back to our past, because that's what the road map and key points would be for the Enemy, cause the Enemy would like nothing more than to knock us down and not follow the road map of who Christ is but who Christ wants us to be and has called us to be.

We are God's Children, we have the choice to choose between the key points to who Christ has called us to be and follow the road map to Eternal Life, or we can choose to follow the key points toward the Enemy and follow the map to sadness, despair, hurt, our past, past hurts, deceit, dishonesty, being hard on ourselves, and not have any joy or peace in our hearts.

I am always going to choose the key points to who Christ has called not only us to be, and follow the road map to Eternal Life but we as followers of our Savior need to stand strong in our Relationship and Faith Walk with God, now more than ever because if we don't we can go down a dangerous path. A path that leads us to the other road map and key points of following the Enemy.

We don't want to do that, we want to keep on trusting God and following Him.

Because Following Him is the best thing any of us can do and what we should continue to do each and every single day to help others come to know Him.