Thursday, June 6, 2013

Stand

Life's like a novel. You don't always know how its going to end. The next page is always a surprise with something you didn't expect..Some days i lose my place and its a fight to keep my faith. When my heart is hurt too much. Feels like I've reached the end.  But I won't turn and run, this battle inside me will be won....


Have you ever felt like this? I know I have countless times. Honestly there's always a battle going on inside you. You feel like you're being torn in two different directions. One way looks like the right way to go, but in reality its not. Because its not the direction God wants you to go. In all honestly, its hard to to follow the direction you're meant to go. If you look at it your friends may be going one way, and God is pulling you to go a completely different direction because he has a path for you to follow. Yes, it's your choice to follow it. But he's still watching you and keeping you safe even if you don't go the way he wants you to at that time. It all happens for a purpose. Sometimes its people in your life, or jobs, or just anything. God has a plan for each and every one of us. But here's the thing, we have to trust and follow. Yeah, that can be extremely hard. Especially in this day and time. We all want to fit in with the "popular crowd", or have a ton of friends. Each and every one of us goes through this at some point in life.. I mean after all it's life. 

In 1 Timothy 4:11-14 its says  11 Command and teach these things. 12 Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity. 13 Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching and to teaching. 14 Do not neglect your gift, which was given you through prophecy when the body of elders laid their hands on you.

This verse really speaks towards teenagers. But I believe a lot of us just glance at this verse and just continue on with how we are living our life at the time. I'll be the first to say that I've not lived my life according to this. But, God still have a plan for my life. No matter how bad i screw up with anything and everything he will ALWAYS be there with arms wide open, just waiting to catch you and help you back up. He is the reason we are here. He is keeping us together, and alive. We all need to start living like what the verse says. Yes, I know actually living that way will be hard, because you will judge and people will try to bring you down. But that's trust comes in place, and you just give it all to him and he will handle. He will always be there to hold your hand, to be that shoulder to cry on, to just be your friend. He wants to be your friend. Yeah, you've heard that many times I understand because so have I. But it's the truth. You won't always have the same friends that you have now. Everyone has a different plan for their life. It's just a way of life. People come and go all the time. Not just in regular activities, but in church as well. We just have to learn to trust God in what he's doing at this time. Because he's not trying to hurt us. He's trying to help. I've been there when stuff like that has happened to me. And, I'm glad that i listened and trusted God with the decisions I've made in my life. I wouldn't be the person I am without him. What I'm trying to say, is to Stand for what you believe. Because times are getting tough. Life is getting harder. Pain is becoming more painful than before. But trusting God during all this HE will get you through it. You don't always know how the book will turn out with just looking at the outside of it. It's always filled with surprises, good and bad. Don't ever judge a book by its cover. Because you could be judging your life at the same time. 

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Living Right

Thinking a lot lately and reflecting on the past year and about all the choices I made whether right or wrong. We all make wrong decisions and right ones, we're not perfect. Simple as that. In the past year so much in my life has changed most for the better and some seemed to have been temporary. I graduated, got a new job, started goin to a new church, lost friends, and then went back to the church I started at. Crazy, huh? God did all that in my life for a reason, don't know why but it doesn't really matter. I believe he lead me to a new church so I could meet new people who have had so much impact on my life the last couple months, and for the transition my old church was going through. He saved me from the emotional pain that I could have received from what was going on. And now as the transitions are still happening to an extent I am back where I started. And honestly, coming back now was the best time. Not because wow got a new pastor, or the fact that th youth pastors were leaving! But because God knew it was time for me to come back, not exactly sure why yet but I will find out. Because this year I am growing stronger, trusting, believing, and learning more about God! That's my goal is to become a strong woman in faith so that.I can witness to people so that they will want to be more like him!  Our pastor preached Sunday on "Building Solid Lives in 2013". He challenged us to challenge ourself to grow stronger in our spiritual life, and to start out with just a relationship with Christ! But honestly the way I'm looking at it as is I have a relationship but its not a friendship or anything like that, its more of just a acquaintance... Yes, I know that sound bad! But you got to start somewhere. What's crazy is the fact that I've been going to church since I was a baby, but that doesn't mean I've made the right choices or lived like I should have! And I'll be completely honest. I haven't lived for Christ. I'm not pleased with myself for that, but I can't change the past I can only live for the future now. And my future will be filled with joy, happiness, and faith with a relationship with God that I am going to works on for the rest of my life. Another thing about what my pastor preached about on Sunday was the 3 basic materials to build a solid spiritual life: prayer, bible reading, and last but not least journaling. With those 3 things you will be on your way with an amazing way to start your new year, your faith, and believing in God! I challenge this to whoever is reading this to do this with me! Just commit yourself to God that you will follow his word everyday and live by it! So others will see the joy in your life and will want the same thing! Be a light in this world, and spread the word by living by it! Don't forget the most important thing, pray, and read your bible and soak in his word. Don't just read it and say you are living by his word when you aren't even trying to understand it and learn what you become! That's all for my preaching of the night! Ephesians 2:10 is a great verse about this. It talks about letting your life be the canvas and God is the artist painting your life it's going to be! Remember that! I'm gonna close this out with a prayer,  and I hope that when your reading this that you will also pray with it! " Dear Lord, I want to thank you for dying on the cross for my sins, and forgiving me for it everyday. Lord I pray that as I start to learn more about you that you will give me the strength to not give and not  let down! Amen"