Choose this day.

These past few days I've been silent on my blog. I don't know if it's writer's block or I am just so amazed at the Lord is doing in my heart. I have desires to do things I never thought I would want to do, good things. I have goals this year too. I'm not ready to share what most of them are on here yet, but I'm so excited about them. I am overwhelmed by what the Lord is doing in my life. Jesus showed up this week. He showed up for Passion, but not really through the speakers/worship leaders as He did just through little things I experienced. And the further I get away from Passion, the more effects I feel.


Jesus showed up the week after Passion was over. Here is something I learned/ realized. Satan was on the prowl at Passion. For me. And I knew it. I felt so convicted as Passion was getting closer to make it a point every morning to spend time in His Word ALONE. Yes, I was getting feed by so many, but at the end of the day it's just me and the Lord. And so I did. I got up every morning before the girls I was rooming with, got ready and sat in the hotel hallway to spend time with Him. I say this not so you are impressed. I could not care less about that. My thought process was, "If I can't make time for personal time with God at a Christian conference, what the heck am I making time for?" Corporate worship and fellowship with other believers is so key, but personal time with Jesus essential, life-sustaining, mandatory. So I did. 


On Sunday morning, I was reading my Beth Moore study, 90 Days with Paul (it's really awesome, ps). Day 17, the day I was doing, was called "Exposing the Enemy." The passage for the day was Acts 13:4-12.

⁴ The two of them, sent on their way by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus. ⁵When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. John was with them as their helper. ⁶ They traveled through the whole island until they came to Paphos. There they met a Jewish sorcerer and false prophet named Bar-Jesus, ⁷ who was an attendant of the proconsul, Sergius Paulus. The proconsul, an intelligent man, sent for Barnabas and Saul because he wanted to hear the word of God. ⁸ But Elymas the sorcerer (for that is what his name means) opposed them and tried to turn the proconsul from the faith. ⁹Then Saul, who was also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked straight at Elymas and said, ¹⁰ “You are a child of the devil and an enemy of everything that is right! You are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery. Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord? ¹¹Now the hand of the Lord is against you. You are going to be blind for a time, not even able to see the light of the sun.” Immediately mist and darkness came over him, and he groped about, seeking someone to lead him by the hand. ¹² When the proconsul saw what had happened, he believed, for he was amazed at the teaching about the Lord.

That's intense, right? Especially verse 10. By the way "the two" in verse 4 is Paul and Barnabas. Mention number of the devil and spiritual warfare. The next mention was again by Beth Moore, in her main session. She was talking about renewing our mind, how crazy cool our brains were, and discerning the will of God. She mentioned Satan's ploy to distract us (I don't remember exactly what she said, but she said something about it). And then in her breakout that day, she was talking about Psalm 37 (delighting yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart). She references Luke 10:17-21.

¹⁷ The seventy-two returned with joy and said, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name.”

 ¹⁸ He replied, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. ¹⁹ I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. ²⁰ However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

 ²¹ At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do.

"I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven." What?!?! Crazy! What a sight that would be. Beth said that every time we are empowered by Christ and celebrate that, that's what happens to Satan. Ballin'!!!!!


Three references by Beth Moore, three different circumstances, between 8am and 3pm. Attention gotten, for sure. It was so awesome.


Three was the number for me this weekend. Three times I had to go through something, hear something, before the Lord got my attention. Humbling that I can't figure things out the first or second times. 


Each Satan reference was dealing about how he doesn't want us to accomplish God's will (duh Katie, that's what Satan does). I know, I know. But think about it. When you sat do to spend time with the Lord today, how many times did you look at your phone? How rushed were you? How many times did you get distracted in your praying and think about something else? Have you even made time for the Lord today? It's Sunday, yes, doesn't mean your personal time with the Lord gets a Sabbath.


If I may be honest, today, I texted during my time with the Lord and I got lost in thought, not about the Lord, at least 3 times in prayer. DEVIL DISTRACTION ALERT. He wants to do anything and everything to distract you, to take you away from the plans the Lord has for you. You can beat him, you don't not have to give in. I don't have to either. But the question is are we letting him win? He doesn't do it without our permission, whether we actually notice or not. How many times has Satan fallen from heaven this week in your own life? Has he fallen at all? Or is he choking the life out of you?


Choose this day whom you will serve (Josh.24:15) and who falls, in your life.