Hi!  It's Kelly Savage and Welcome to all things HIM podcast!   

Where we take a few minutes each day to explore scriptures whispers, and prayers. 

All Things HIM is about getting real, being real and staying real with our faith walk and building a community that encourages everyone in their Christian walk, no matter where they are. 

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Today, I want to pray.  But not before I tell you about the whisper I got.

This podcast is about the scriptures that are truth and help guide us, whispers that we hear from the Holy Spirit and prayers that we give with a surrendering heart to the one who loves us like no other. 

The last few weeks have been rough for me.  Not only with the medical condition that I have had to endure for almost a year now, but getting quite sick right before my vacation that kicked my butt for a bit which I am not quite used to something affecting me enough to make me lie down for days. 

But enough about me.  I say the last few weeks were rough, due to 6 or more people that I know very personally that have been very sick, hospitalizations, and it seemed like most I knew are going through some pretty trying times. 

The whisper I got was "pray".  For anyone who knows me, I believe in the power of prayer. Always have throughout my life and the passion of prayer has never died. God hearing our prayers and working through them is one element I live by along with faith, hope and love. 

So when the whisper to pray came, that was no big shock.  The shocker was that I realized I haven't been releasing it to God or surrendering things like I have going on and people I know.  Apparently, I thought somewhere along the way that I am in control or should be and should do this alone. 

We do have choices.  All the time we have choices.  But even surrendering our choices let along our struggles and prayer requests are what our Heavenly Father wants us to do.  Not so He can be controlling.  Ultimately, God always gives us the choice to do things or not do things, even when he speaks to us in our hearts and through His word.   

Still, in the end, we have the choice to obey, surrender, turn away, or shut him out or leave Him in. 

So, after asking for forgiveness for thinking I should just handle everything and shut Him out, and then hesitating again (come on, have you ever done that with Him?).  Remember, this whole podcast is about getting real and staying real with our Christian walk.  

So, after I recognized that I needed to ask for forgiveness and received that forgiveness, I still hesitated!  And then some more.  Why?  I really don't know!   

But when I leaned in and chose HIM, things changed.  

Prayer changes things.  Come and listen to realness in my life and a prayer for all of you.

What will you choose today?