What is new?

Lots and a little is new... I am currently swamped to the max...Yes, I am currently procrastinating as I write this post. School, work, and church are my schedule's sole controllers. I have moved positions at work, moved from one house to another, and I have started school online ( also a new experience) Needless to say, I am adapting to all of life's changes. Of course, I have my days where I cannot even think due to exhaustion, but God is keeping me. He is so good! Well that is all for now. Until next time ;-)

Off to Church I go

Happy Sunday everyone!!!! Let this be a day of rest and strength. Go to church and receive all you need from God. It is the church that has truth not the World!

Growing up and Choices

It is a well known fact that with age comes wisdom. I learned this first hand...

I was talking to someone of a considerable older age than me. We were discussing the pros and cons of growing up. It puts pressure between parent and child, which pushes the child to independence. Both reactions are natural but can be, at the same time very painful, confusing, and even tragic. As we discussed this topic, the well respected elder looked at me and said "First, find yourself, love yourself, respect yourself. Secondly respect and love others. Lastly, follow your heart through prayer and God's word." I learned a valuable lesson that day. I learned to love myself.

Growing up is about finding yourself. Everyday we ask ourselves these questions: What am I doing with my life? What is my purpose? Am I making the right decisions? Should I get that job or go to college? Should I date him or her or stay single? Questions fill our minds until we go practically insane.

Mark 12:31 "...Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these." Clearly we must love ourselves first before we can love someone else. It is not pride to love yourself. It is simply accepting and thanking God for his creation. Being unsatisfied with your personality, looks, and talents is like telling God he didn't do a good job. He created you special, and He does have a purpose for you.

Instead of choices being based on what others want, think, or assume, our choices should be based on our desires given to us by God. They are based on solid relationships through Godly council. They are based on prayer and God's word. Once this lesson is learned we can be free to make choices that will propel us into our "God made" future. Our choices become us and through them we find open doors to God's will and blessing.

I am not alone

For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Romans 3:23

BUT...

I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:14


Be encouraged everyone makes mistakes, no one is perfect, but like the song says "we fall down, we get up, for a saint is just a sinner who fell down, and couldn't stay there, and got up" Donnie Mcclurkin.


Jesus is forgiveness. He is love. He is all I need.

A passion for the christ

Pastor Johannes preached a message from his heart, ministering to mine. How true it is that I have fed my spiritual tank hording all that God has done for me waiting for the day when "I am ready" to give everything to him. A passion consumes a person becoming their waking thought and every desire. I realized tonight something very important. Something you must be willing to see before it can take seed in your life. I saw my life through God's eyes. I saw how I dissappoint him. I replayed every time I prayed saying "God I give you my life use me" but only to fail by consuming myself with life and never truly "Giving" to God. Giving your life is trusting him with those things most precious like your dreams, aspirations, relationships, and future to him. "I will give you all" is not just a song, it is a lifestyle, a day to day routine of establishing trust and faith in God.
Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God, but faith without works is dead. In other words faith comes by every day reading and obeying God's word. To have a passion for something is to be consumed by it. It is getting to the point where nothing else matters in life. How can I be passionately in love with Jesus when I don't read my bible and I struggle to obey its every word? How can I lay hands on the sick if I have no faith? How can I let my light shine if I have worries and things I am not giving to God? The answer is I can not do any of those things.

God forgive me! Help me to remember how many stripes you bore for my sins, the blood you shed for my redemption, and the death you suffered for my eternal salvation. Help me to remember that I have a responsibility to share this good news. Help me to focus on you and to give you everything. Jesus you must be my one passion in life!!! Like David prayed "create in me a clean heart oh God and renew a right spirit within me.." Amen

Chick-Fil-A (hmmm I am hungry)

Check out Tim Hawkins on tangle.com. He is hilarious and christian.

New Job

I am so excited to start my new job at CHASE bank. I start next Monday June 22nd. God is really blessing. He is my provider!