Excerpt from Form Me, Fire Me, Fill Me

...Always strive, always persevere to fulfill the calling that you are given, and leave the results to Him. The work that He has given you has been designed for you. When you carry it out faithfully and obediently, the result will be what He has planned. Listen to His voice and follow His guidance. Even those who are wise do not completely understand the purpose that He has designed for you. Often they have enough trouble understanding and following their own. The masterpiece that He has designed for your life is made for you alone, and you are the artist to complete it...

Copyright 2017 Lynn Lacher

Excerpt from Form Me, Fire Me, Fill Me

...His grace shall always prevail against any temptation, threat, or circumstance. It is my choice to live an obedient and holy life, and His grace empowers my choice. There will always be battles and adversity, but by His grace, I shall prevail through any temptation that comes my way. Broken and spilled out for me, I am completely healed by His obedience at Calvary. I stand strong in the miracle of His grace because I have been set free by His love, which knows no limits...

Excerpt from Form Me, Fire Me, Fill Me

...If what you face right now wearies you, how will you stand when something harder comes? If you falter without strength today, how will you manage in tomorrow’s barrage? Life always offers a harder issue...

Copyright 2017 Lynn Lacher

Excerpt from Form Me, Fire Me, Fill Me

...What does it mean to be changed, Lord? I want to change, but so often, I am not willing to surrender control. Sometimes I don’t even know what binds me because I have denied the Holy Spirit complete access to my life. I am in bondage, unable to reach for freedom. I know the result of that bondage is anger, hurt, pain, and bitterness. What does it really mean to lay all of myself down? To let go of all of myself? To want only you, your peace, and your joy? I long to allow you, Holy Spirit, to change my attitude, my outlook, and the way I think. I yearn to give you access to my deepest feelings, emotions, and deep places I have held back from you. What I try to hide can never be hidden. What I try to change in my life in my own way and on my own strength can never be changed. You transform me when I allow it...

Copyright 2017 Lynn Lacher

Excerpt from the devotion "Masterpiece", Form Me, Fire Me, Fill Me, page 103

...He knows you intimately—your heart, your character, your capability, and your greatest potential. When He directs you to do something, it is done with full knowledge of just who you are. Do not allow hardship and circumstance to pull you from your course. They only have the ability to refine you for greater purpose. When you follow Him and give Him your best, the result is glorious and rewarding beyond anything you can imagine...

Copyright 2017 Lynn Lacher

Excerpt from the devotion "Benefit of the Doubt", page 82

...Nothing has the power to create emotional turmoil as something that happens between friends who do not speak openly and honestly with each other about their feelings. Friendship is a gift, but it is a gift that requires work. If anything has any value, it is worth hard work. This work can be painful. It can be sacrificial, and sometimes it can be brutally honest. Friendship that endures Satan’s lies and life’s pressures is a friendship that has been fired in the kiln of life and stands strong. Friendship requires more than just one person working at it. Just one person trying to bridge a gap will never make a difference. Two need to share their feelings; two need to lay down their preconceptions; two need to be willing to listen. A friendship is only worth how much two people work at it. If it lies dormant, that friendship will die. Open, honest, and even painful at times, that friendship can thrive. Real friends can share how they feel about an issue or something that has happened because they want to understand the reason...

Copyright 2017 Lynn Lacher

Excerpt from the devotion "Risk to Receive" Form Me, Fire Me, Fill Me, page 117

Disfigured, dressed in tattered rags, his face hidden by rags, a man watches Jesus. His body is covered with leprosy. Risking being stoned to death, the leper rushes to Jesus and falls down with his face in the dirt at his feet. Without raising his head, he entreats, “Lord, if you are willing you can heal me and make me clean.” This leper knows that because he is dirty to get within six feet of someone who is clean means that he risks death. Both his determination to come to Jesus and his statement “if you are willing” reveal remarkable faith...

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Excerpt from the devotion "My Passion" Form Me, Fire Me, Fill Me, page 81

...Have you surrendered to His passion for you? What are you doing with what God has given you? He uses flawed people. I know because He uses me. Commit to serve Him. Surrender to His purpose for your life. Abandon who you are. Just like Elisha, let nothing hold or call you back. We want our faith to be easy. Surrendering to Christ is costly. Just as it cost Jesus His life, it will cost ours. But with that surrender comes the greatest fulfillment—the amazing realization that you were created for that very purpose...


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Excerpt from the devotion "I Choose You" in Form Me, Fire Me, Fill Me

...You are God, and I am not. You are my Savior, and I am not. I never create or save. I pray to always be your available instrument, but, thankfully, I am free because I know that you are in control. Thank you for believing in me when I can’t believe in myself. I choose to believe who you are in me. Self is on the altar, and even though self wants to be picked up, I leave her there. And I choose you...

I Have Him

Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.

—Hebrews 13:5b (NIV)

No matter what I face, I am never alone. He upholds me.

No matter what my weakness, I have His strength. He gives strength to the weary.

No matter what I feel, I have a spirit that rests in His Truth. Feelings will waver. His Truth stands firm.

No matter what my struggle, I have peace that He is in control. He takes care of what I was never meant to handle.

No matter what my failure, I have victory in His purpose. No weapon that tries to defeat me will prosper.

No matter what my sadness, I have joy in His unchanging promise. His timing is not mine.

No matter what my lot, I have faith in His faithfulness. He will always take care of the concerns of my heart.

No matter what, it doesn’t matter.

I have Him.

Copyright 2017 Lynn Lacher

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Excerpt from the devotion “Overwhelmed” in Form Me, Fire Me, Fill Me, page 205

…My heart felt overwhelmed today, Lord. It was stretched beyond what I thought I could bear. The emotional pressure and stress would have been too much if it had not been for you. I cried out to you, Lord, and your Spirit prayed for my comfort and healing from within the depths of my own broken heart. My spirit clung to yours. I could feel your Spirit rising within me. I could feel your heart beating from within my own, calming and finally imparting peace to my battered soul…

©2017 Lynn Lacher