Peace of spirit.... ahhhh....

Have you ever gone through tough times?... lol... I know, that's a joke! Everybody has gone through tough times in their lives and if you haven't... wow! Are you ever sheltered and spoiled! (ha).  Tough times seem to have followed me around like the black cloud that follows the cartoon character Ziggy around when everybody else is walking in sunshine. Bad luck? ... karma?... cursed?... I don't believe in those. But I do believe that the devil likes to play with professed Christians in an attempt to shake their trust in God. To wear you down to make you think that God isn't real and that He doesn't care about what you are going through down here on Earth... which of course is NOT true; but the devil would love to make you believe that and shake your faith. And if you, as a Christian and follower of Christ, are not strong enough in your belief of His love for you, and are easily swayed to believe that God isn't real and doesn't care... then... Satan wins. Hands down.
I personally have given Satan a run for his money over the years. He's won a few battles, I'll admit... but he has NOT won the war! 
I have made the mistake of not keeping God as my center... and when that happens poor decisions are made. I'm keeping God as my center from now on... satan will have an extremely hard time to shake my faith now because these last months, years... have only made my faith stronger and all the 'bad luck' I've gone through has just proven to me that God IS in control of my life and He DOES love me! 
Getting rid of the things in your life that bring you down, or allow satan to mess with your mind help in giving God the ability to show you just how much He loves you and wants to be your number one.
God has brought me into a place of extreme peace of spirit... my soul is at peace...and wow! Does it ever feel amazing!...Putting God TOTALLY first, EVERYDAY, without fail; praying for those people that cause you hurt and stress and not allowing them to effect your faith in God... is amazing.

"Vow" by Kutless


Another year has come and gone but nothings changed

I've wasted another year doing the same old things

I want to break out of this and turn my life around

I'm going to make a vow to repent an turn to you.



[CHORUS:]

I'm crying out to you now as I make my new years vow

I'll tell you I love you and I'll honor you somehow

Hear my promise to you in this new years vow I give

You all of me

You'll be all of my life and I'll never think twice to

do all that you have for me

In my new years vow



Lord I'll do my best to do, all that I say

I'm not perfect but I know, that's OK

If I stumble you won't condemn my shame

I'm going to make a vow to repent an turn to you


[CHORUS]


Its a new year this year is different

From the other ones...



Because I will no longer allow anyone to move my God from his first place in my life... made that mistake before... I've learned... I've also allowed non-believers to effect my life in negative ways... I've allowed people that exude evil to influence me... I will never again allow that to happen to me. I've learned...

By learning... and by getting back to center... I am now at such peace in my spirit which is the most AMAZING feeling, because I've always had  peace in my spirit, despite all the horrible events that I have lived through in my life, I've had a peace about me...because God has always been in my life and He's always gotten me through everything,  but this new level, new depth of peace is almost indescribable! God loves me! This I KNOW! There is NOTHING and no one worth losing this depth of peace in my soul over!
I've learned...