So Kris Allen won American Idol last night!!!
How exciting!
What's really cool about Kris is that he's the worship leader for his church. Danny Gokey is a worship leader. I just thought that was kinda neat how two worship leaders made into the top 3 in American Idol.
With that said....I am again thinking about auditioning for American Idol this year and Nashville Star (I hate country music, but it's a good show lol)
That's basically all that I'm thinking about right now....how God might use me in any of those shows, so...yeah that's all I have for today.
Have a great day!!
Blessings,
-Liz Hitt
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Friday, May 8, 2009
How I feel
At this very moment I honestly feel like I am very far away from my Lord even though He is right next to me.
He's been there this whole time and instead of turning to Him, running into His arms and choosing to experience His love, I choose my agenda and the agenda of other people.
I'm honestly sick of living like this. I keep wanting for God to break me big time, but His Word says to "humble yourself" (James 4:10) and somehow, I can't let go of what I keep doing every day.
I feel like giving God my attention takes too much energy and in all reality is does...and yet it doesn't, but it's worth every single bit of my time and energy! Why can't I grasp this?! God created us to use our brains and our hearts....I don't understand why it's so hard to just focus on what He wants and let Him take the wheel of my heart and drive!
There's one song that I led in SpiritWing this year and it's called Lead Me To The Cross. I never thought that I would get attached to that song like I did "None But Jesus" , but it still sticks with me because the message is something that I truly long for. Without the Cross I would not have been redeemed from sin and Hell. You wouldn't have either.
Anyway, there's one phrase in the song that says "Everything I once held dear I count it all as loss"....HMMMM......
At SpiritWing's last concert when I sang that phrase....I kind of choked up because I knew that what I was singing was not true of my own life. I still count everything in my life as things with value....when in fact....they aren't, compared to the things of God.
I'm sick of struggling with this and am not going to anymore.
Here's a prayer that I might continue to pray until it happens:
God,
Whenever I try to live life on my own I ALWAYS fall short of your glory. I'm tired of living like that! Please grant me a new mindset....a new way of thinking. Give me the thoughts of You and Your plan for my life...not my own.
I know that this is a risky request but please break me so that I can be fixed by You and only You. Not my friends, family, music, or anything else but You.
I don't want anything but You.....cause in all honesty You are all that I need. You alone are enough. Help my deceitful heart realize that You are all that I need, that You have everything under control, that Your plan is better, that everything that I hold dear needs to be counted as loss, that my delight needs to be in You so that I can live my life anew in Your plans, that You are Supreme....above all else.
Lord, let me see Your heart for my life....please forgive me for putting earthly/temporary things before You.
All I need from You is to be broken by You, only to be fixed by You. I need Your help...no one else's....just Yours. There's no one else for me but You!!!!!! Nothing else can satisfy like You can. I've experienced Your love and mercy before and I long to experience it again and again until the day that I die.
I am Yours.....
-Amen
Sorry if I seemed like I was venting, but I just needed to get this off of my chest and all of this is truly the longing of my heart.
I need to start being more vulnerable anyways....no more of this sissy, sugar-coated, stuff, but the real deal.
Have a blessed day,
-Liz Hitt
2 Timothy 2:13
He's been there this whole time and instead of turning to Him, running into His arms and choosing to experience His love, I choose my agenda and the agenda of other people.
I'm honestly sick of living like this. I keep wanting for God to break me big time, but His Word says to "humble yourself" (James 4:10) and somehow, I can't let go of what I keep doing every day.
I feel like giving God my attention takes too much energy and in all reality is does...and yet it doesn't, but it's worth every single bit of my time and energy! Why can't I grasp this?! God created us to use our brains and our hearts....I don't understand why it's so hard to just focus on what He wants and let Him take the wheel of my heart and drive!
There's one song that I led in SpiritWing this year and it's called Lead Me To The Cross. I never thought that I would get attached to that song like I did "None But Jesus" , but it still sticks with me because the message is something that I truly long for. Without the Cross I would not have been redeemed from sin and Hell. You wouldn't have either.
Anyway, there's one phrase in the song that says "Everything I once held dear I count it all as loss"....HMMMM......
At SpiritWing's last concert when I sang that phrase....I kind of choked up because I knew that what I was singing was not true of my own life. I still count everything in my life as things with value....when in fact....they aren't, compared to the things of God.
I'm sick of struggling with this and am not going to anymore.
Here's a prayer that I might continue to pray until it happens:
God,
Whenever I try to live life on my own I ALWAYS fall short of your glory. I'm tired of living like that! Please grant me a new mindset....a new way of thinking. Give me the thoughts of You and Your plan for my life...not my own.
I know that this is a risky request but please break me so that I can be fixed by You and only You. Not my friends, family, music, or anything else but You.
I don't want anything but You.....cause in all honesty You are all that I need. You alone are enough. Help my deceitful heart realize that You are all that I need, that You have everything under control, that Your plan is better, that everything that I hold dear needs to be counted as loss, that my delight needs to be in You so that I can live my life anew in Your plans, that You are Supreme....above all else.
Lord, let me see Your heart for my life....please forgive me for putting earthly/temporary things before You.
All I need from You is to be broken by You, only to be fixed by You. I need Your help...no one else's....just Yours. There's no one else for me but You!!!!!! Nothing else can satisfy like You can. I've experienced Your love and mercy before and I long to experience it again and again until the day that I die.
I am Yours.....
-Amen
Sorry if I seemed like I was venting, but I just needed to get this off of my chest and all of this is truly the longing of my heart.
I need to start being more vulnerable anyways....no more of this sissy, sugar-coated, stuff, but the real deal.
Have a blessed day,
-Liz Hitt
2 Timothy 2:13
Saturday, May 2, 2009
A Prayer (song of healing)
On April 30th at midnight, I was just sitting in my bedroom thinking about some stuff and out of nowhere I got some inspiration to write a song.
I wrote it as a prayer to God and when I looked at it after I was finished I was like "wow.....someone, somewhere might be praying this".
This is actually the first "Prayer-like" song that I have ever written and it's not half bad. It's still being tweaked, but here is what I have so far.
A Prayer
by Liz Hitt
Dear God,
It's me again
I don't know why I keep failing You
You deserve so much more than what I can give
My life is a mess
I keep trying so hard to do things on my own
I just dig a deeper hole than before You were in control
Chorus:
Take my heart of stone
And make it Yours
I've lost the will to go on anymore
Only You can heal
Mend and fix
This broken life
And make it real
Dear God,
No one likes me
Or if they do well it's hard to notice
Where is the love that I once felt?
That love of no condition, no regrets, but of compassion
Oh I give up
I am running back to where that love was this whole time
I need You
And in You my life is restored, renewed and reborn
(chorus)
I don't know why God put these words on my heart, but I am glad that He did because hopefully it will mean something to someone. It will give comfort to someone who is hurting. It will give them hope that God is going to redeem them back to Himself and heal their broken lives and make them real.
As I said before, I am still tweaking this song, but what you just read was the un-tweaked version of it :)
I would love to hear your input on it.
Have a blessed day!
-Liz Hitt
I wrote it as a prayer to God and when I looked at it after I was finished I was like "wow.....someone, somewhere might be praying this".
This is actually the first "Prayer-like" song that I have ever written and it's not half bad. It's still being tweaked, but here is what I have so far.
A Prayer
by Liz Hitt
Dear God,
It's me again
I don't know why I keep failing You
You deserve so much more than what I can give
My life is a mess
I keep trying so hard to do things on my own
I just dig a deeper hole than before You were in control
Chorus:
Take my heart of stone
And make it Yours
I've lost the will to go on anymore
Only You can heal
Mend and fix
This broken life
And make it real
Dear God,
No one likes me
Or if they do well it's hard to notice
Where is the love that I once felt?
That love of no condition, no regrets, but of compassion
Oh I give up
I am running back to where that love was this whole time
I need You
And in You my life is restored, renewed and reborn
(chorus)
I don't know why God put these words on my heart, but I am glad that He did because hopefully it will mean something to someone. It will give comfort to someone who is hurting. It will give them hope that God is going to redeem them back to Himself and heal their broken lives and make them real.
As I said before, I am still tweaking this song, but what you just read was the un-tweaked version of it :)
I would love to hear your input on it.
Have a blessed day!
-Liz Hitt
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