Avianna Lemonier's Blog, page 7
March 25, 2024
March 24, 2024
Psalm 31:24
Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the LORD.
Psalm 31:24 (NIV)
March 22, 2024
Prayer
For the most part, I love spending time outside. I love being in nature and soaking in the wonder of this beautiful earth that God has created. It is a marvelous thing to consider that the same God Who has crafted this world with such care and intricacy is the same God Who hears our prayers.
March 4, 2024
Yet Not I But Through Christ In Me | CityAlight
“The night is dark but I am not forsaken
For by my side, the Saviour He will stay
I labour on in weakness and rejoicing
For in my need, His power is displayed
To this I hold, my Shepherd will defend me
Through the deepest valley He will lead
Oh the night has been won, and I shall overcome!
Yet not I, but through Christ in me”
September 24, 2023
The Year I Was Determined To Have My Way
2018 was one year that definitely taught me the pain and destruction that comes with stubbornly attempting to live my life on my own terms instead of trusting God with my future.
It was one of the darkest years in my life and I felt abandoned by God.
So I decided that I was going to live my life by my own standards.
I decided how to use the talents and abilities that God has blessed me with. I decided which relationships were a good fit for my life. I decided what my priorities were. I decided what right and wrong was and when to make exceptions to certain rules.
And the results were disastrous.
Instead of feeling empowered, I felt more lost than I ever had before. I allowed toxic, dangerous relationships into my life. I tried to force my way into places that I didn’t even belong in.
I almost totally ruined my life and the enemy gladly took advantage of the poor choices that I had made.
It is only by God’s inexplicable grace, mercy and love that all the bad that came out of that year ended up redirecting me toward the things that He wanted for me and toward a deeper, more mature relationship with Him.
But in many ways, I am still living with the consequences of 2018.
By being determined to do things my way, I allowed so much unnecessary pain and trouble into my life.
Society says that life is best lived when we live it on our own terms.
Society is wrong.
Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV) state, “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight”.
God’s way will always be a million times better than anything we can come up with on our own.
September 22, 2023
You Cannot Mix Christianity & The New Age
Years ago, during one of the most rebellious phases of my life, I thought there was nothing wrong with mixing new age practices with Christian beliefs. I was confused about life and where my future was headed. I was hurt and angry over past trauma. I was angry at God because of negative experiences that I had had with people in the church.
I knew that I needed Jesus, but I did not want to turn to Him.
I was lost and willing to experiment with other beliefs.
Very quickly (and sadly due to seeds that had been planted in my life long before any of this even happened), astrology became a source of “guidance” in my life. Then, tarot card readings. Then, even witchcraft. At the time, I honestly believed that all these things were helping me in some way, shape or form – even protecting me. But all they were really doing was drawing me further and further away from God and putting me in danger.
When I finally stopped resisting God and looked to Jesus for the healing I needed, I still did not want to let go of the new age beliefs that I had embraced for so long.
So I kept holding on to them thinking that I could lean on both them and Jesus Christ until, one day, I had a wake-up call that God used to show me how dangerous that idea was.
You cannot mix the new age with Christianity.
1 Corinthians 10:21 (NIV) reads, “You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons”.
Jesus Christ is the only way.
