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Look down at the Small- Stand up for what's big.

The most incredible things happen in your life, when you say yes to God. 
The most unexpected and unbelievable things happen in your life, when you say yes to God. 
If I was to sum up my entire Christian faith into 1 word, I believe I would choose surrender. 
In all reality, that is what surrender means- saying yes to God. 
By doing so, I wake up and start my day, with the confidence that I believe God knows what's best for my life-way more than I do, and I am willing to trust Him with anything and everything that comes my way.
By saying yes to God, I am willing to go along with what I understand to be His plans for my life. 
Saying yes also does another thing-- it causes me to have to say no to myself. 
Because in all honesty, what gets in my way everyday is myself. 
When I get in the way of a specific thing God is calling me to do--yeah, that's when it gets real dangerous. 
For the past week I have danced around both, saying yes to God and saying no to myself. I honestly don't know why...maybe I thought if I just didn't answer it exactly, the right answer would just happen. 
News flash. It doesn't... 
All God was trying to do was answer what I have been praying like crazy about. Talk about being stubborn sally. 
Answering yes, meant leaving a ministry I love so much. 
Answering yes meant walking away from something so promising and comfortable, and walking into something so blind and new.
WAKE UP LEXI- that's what you're called to do!
ha-oh yeah it is isn't it? That whole surrender- faith thing I have been rationalizing..that's awkward.
Finally, I stopped playing dumb.
I sat in my room, closed my eyes, and focused on nothing but my breathing. I eventually had no thoughts, worries, or desires running through my mind. All I could get out was, "Yes. Okay God. I am ready to hear what you have to say."
Needless to say, God has never been so clear and evident in my life before. 
When I said yes, things started happening.
Multiple prayers were answered and all day I caught myself asking, "Is this real life?" 

God. is. faithful.--when you think He's not, you're not letting Him be.


The more I think about what God has shown me this past week, I realize how saying yes is the door through which knowledge and love enter my mind.  


Learn to say no to the good- so you can say yes to the best.