One Word 2012

"You won't relent until you have it all....

....my heart is yours."

I have been asking the Lord for weeks to show me the OneWord that He would have me focus on for this year. I have made lists after soaking in sermons, reading blog posts, meditating on various Scriptures, and listening to worship.

I have pondered and prayed.
I have processed and prepared.
My mind.
My heart.
My soul.
For what He has for me.
What He wants to speak to me.

You see last year, the year of Redeemed, transformed my life, and so that is a lot for this next little word to live up to, and I wanted to make sure it was His word, not mine;
His leading, not my direction;
His heart, not my will.

"You won't relent until you have it all....

....my heart is yours."

So, because I am ME, I psyched myself out a bit....and I realized I needed to take a step back.
And then I wrote a post on New Year's Day about my first lesson in grace, and I had a new bloggy friend tell me, "Maybe GRACE is your word for this year."

And I thought, "Really God? Grace was like 2010 and then has sort of been the underlying theme anyway..."

Then suddenly I realized..."This is my decade of grace."

(which REALLY excites me by the way)

That brought me to the place of asking the Lord,

"What aspect of grace do you want to teach me this year?"

On Tuesday night, I went to our church's annual Answer the Call, 21-days of corporate prayer and fasting, and in my spirit, I prayed that the Lord would show me His heart for me, my life, my family, my future this year.

And suddenly there is was.....

"You won't relent until you have it all....

....my heart is yours."

Relentless

Existing or occurring without interruption or end: persistent, around-the-clock, ceaseless, constant, continual, continuous, dogged, endless, eternal, everlasting, incessant, indefatigable, interminable, never-ending, nonstop, ongoing, perpetual, persistent, round-the-clock, single-minded, tenacious, timeless, unabating, unceasing, unending, unfailing, unfaltering, uninterrupted, unremitting, untiring, unwavering

His love is unwavering.
His mercy is endless.
His grace is indefatigable.
He is relentless.
in His pursuit of my heart
in His expression of His love for me
in His never-ending, single-minded determination to show me that I am HIS.

And He teaches me
to be tenacious in my relationship with Him
to be constant in allowing His grace to flow through me
to be dogged in my resolve to surrender my life at His feet
to be persistent in my journey of faith & trust in Him
to live perpetually in the grip of grace
to relentlessly remember His love holds me, His grace binds me, His mercy revives me daily.

He has been relentless to redeem my broken pieces,

even when I wanted to give up.
And I find myself caught up in His passionate tenderness

to me, for me, in me,

and through me.

This year.

2012.

A journey.

That is.

RELENTLESS.

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