What Lifts Your Spirits?

I’m being attacked from so many levels, but spiritually mostly.  Satan is grasping at my ankles.  I keep kicking him off, but he comes back, sometimes stronger than before.  And I keep kicking him off.  My faith is strong, so incredibly strong, but there are times when Satan appears, when I least expect it and I falter.  Fortunately for me, I have an Army of supporters, I have people to lift my spirits and I have a God that is bigger than any problem that I face, any stress that weighs on my shoulders, and events in my life that I have no control over, or things that I’m trying to gain control over.  It seems as if everything is coming at me at once.  If I can compartmentalize things, I’m okay.  If I’m able to deal with one thing at a time, I’m okay, but when it all hits at once, I stumble.

I falter.

I start to lose faith.

I start to doubt.

And I hate it.  Because I know how AMAZING my GOD is!  I have pages and pages written of things that He’s done in my life, things that I’ve asked for that I’ve been given, questions that I need answered, advice that I need given, and I have records — I’ve written things down — I can SEE what He’s doing in my life.  I can SEE it.  You can’t deny these things.

And so I KNOW, I KNOW that my God is an awesome God.  I know that He is bigger than all of my worries.  I KNOW that He is there and in control.

But that satan?  He knows where to strike and he knows when and he knows how.  He’s good.

But I won’t let him get me.  I won’t.

And I have found ways to remind myself, I have discovered music to lift my spirits, my soul, my faith.  The music is deafening when it comes to satan.  I can’t hear him and from what I can tell, he doesn’t like it at all.

There are songs that I can put in and know that it will change my mood.  I call them my “Life Soundtrack”.  I put them in and I play them LOUD.

And it’s funny…when satan attacks, these songs pop up on the radio, or on my iPod.  They are there.  They are there when I need them to be.  And I know why… because HE, my God, KNOWS that I need Him.  And He is there for me.

I didn’t mean to write all of this, I really just wanted to share with you the songs that fill me, that change me, that get me back on track.  I felt it heavy on my heart to share them, knowing that someone needs these today too.

Today is the Day

Only the World

I’m Trading My Sorrows

All Things Are Possible

No One Like You

Lose My Soul

Be blessed.  I know that I am.  I refuse to tell God how big my problems are… instead, I’m telling my problems how big my God is…

31To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. 32Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:31-32)

3Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4perseverance, character; and character, hope. (Romans 5:3-4)

Until next time…