I watched this video a friend shared on facebook - http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/video/video.php?v=158348990848143&ref=mf

It's really good if you want to listen to it but kind of long at 16 minutes. I don't see anything explaining where she is but from her speaking I got that she is in another country and they are voting on something invloving Abortion in their country. Gianna survied an abortion and has an amazing story to tell - I read her book years ago.

Two things caught my attenion. One was her boldness in proclaiming Chirst and her reasoning for not keeping quit. She told the assembly that they did not have as much poweer as they thought they did because it is not they who make their own hearts beat but God she said "It is the mercy of God that sustains you - even when you hate HIm." How profound is that! Christians often want to tell people God hates them becasue of what they do but in reallty those people would not exist without His mercy being showered upon them. He keeps thier hearts beatting and gives them the breath of life wether or not they return his love.How bold she is to stand in front of a room filled with politicians and tell them they are not powerful, they whether they wnat to believe it or not depend upon God for their very life. Her boldness will not be overlooked in heaven for Jesus said ³²"Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven. ³³"But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father who is in heaven. (matthew 10).  I pray that I would have the same boldness in my life and not back down when the time comes for me to stand and speak or sit silent.

 At the end of her speech she address the men and the women very directly. The quote that caught my attention was a question. She told the men to ask themselves. "What sort of man do you want to be? A man obessed with your own glory or a man obsessed with the glory of God?" This is a question we should all ask our selves as a reminder that what we do is not for our glory but for God's. We were created to do his will. Ephesians 2 says ¹⁰For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Let us not forget for whom we work and who desreves the glory - not us but He who sustains us and gives us life. 

Lord thank you for this life you have given me and let me live it not for my glory but as one obsessed with Your glory.