Its been a while--stronghold

Hello Blog world...

I haven't written in a long time. I miss writing but I lack the time really. Anyway, my very first blog was inspired by a concert called the rock and worship road show that I went to in 2009. I just went to it again in 2010. This year there were so many great bands again and I enjoyed myself. Again I went with Jen Aguilar who I have become very close to and many other ladies joined us from Flipside. It was really nice. David Crowder band is amazing and of course Mercy Me is awesome too.

I just started a Revelation study and it is great! Beth Moore study she does an amazing job!

I am also reading the Bible chronologically in a year. This has been really great for me. I haven't read much in the Old Testament so this Bible reading plan is really rocking my world. I have experienced so many amazing people Moses, Job, Deborah, and now I am reading about David. It has been really nice for me to see David life unfold. I have always heard about him a little hear and there but now I am reading about him sort of as he grows up.

Recently I came across the word stronghold and felt confused about how the word was being used in the OT. I am used to hearing stronghold in relation to like a spiritual struggle or sinful behavior like addiction. The stronghold in the OT is a safe place, a fortress, a place that David goes to sort of hid from the war or hide from the enemy. So I got stuck in these passages. I started to realize that God was revealing something tyo me but I couldn't tell what exactly until I had a conversation with Dante and I asked him what he knew of strongholds. He said there are safe places to go to rest/hide from the war and that is when I realized that God was showing me that I need to rest from the warzone that I am constantly exposed to. This warzone is in my head mostly but it can be exhausting. I feel like I have been challenged to find a stronghold(safe place) to go within me. I need an internal stronghold. Another way of saying this is I think I need to find more peace in my life.

With all that said I am gonna get to bed. Dante just got home from a mountain bike ride and a small cinco de mayo celebration with his friends. I want to go hangout with my handsome awesome husband!

So thankful for that Jesus continues to reveal himself to me. Pray that I can find more peace in Him. Pray that someone I love that isn't following Christ might read this and want to know more.

Hebrew 12:1 Therefore since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us

Forever in Christ--momma avila