Filled Joy!

Just wanted to say how much Joy God is filling me up with! I am loving being in love with God! He's got a perfect plan for my life and I am content, knowing Hes got it all under control, even though I have no idea where Hes leading me! Ahhh! Its just so great being filled with more and more of Gods Joy every single day! God is just soooo Gooodd! Thanks God for giving me a smile and an unexplainable joy everyday! I love LOVE! 






This Video just gets me super happy too! Check it out, its a really cute video! :D

Greatest Valentine Of All Time!

I used to dread Valentine’s Day, and would always have a bad attitude because I was single; but today I have received a new perspective on this 'Day of Love'! Valentines Day has been about going on dates, getting flowers from your boyfriend/ Husband and being in-love with that person you are with. That is why the people who are single hate this holiday; and honestly I thought I was going to hate today too. But I have awesome news to all of you singles: 

JESUS LOVES US! His Love is bigger and better than any love, gift or date we could ever have with any other person! I finally realized that today! We have something to celebrate, and that is the fact that we have The Love of Jesus Christ! His love is perfect and even though we don't deserve it, He Still Loves Us! His love is never ending, and it never fails us. God is Love and that is all we need! 

1 John 4:8

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Some of you might say, "Well, how do you know Jesus loves us so much?" And well I'm here to tell you that I know because Jesus gave up his life for you and that is REAL LOVE!

1 John 3:16

We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to give up our

lives for our brothers and sisters.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8a

  Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

He died for us so that we can have life and have joy and hope when it’s hard for us to keep going. We are sinners, but Christ took the beating for us so that we can live a life of abundance! And there is no greater love than that!

1 John 15:13

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

He gave his love to us so we can love others like He so dearly loves us!

1 John 4:19

We love, because He first loved us.

1 Corinthians 13:13

Three things will last forever--faith, hope, and love--and the greatest of these is love.

So today, don't think you are forgotten, because believe it or not you have the greatest Valentine of All Time, and that is Jesus, and HE WANTS YOU! The Creator of all things is Jealous for you! And the best part about having Him as your Valentine is that He loves you FOREVER! So you have a NEVER ENDING VALENTINE! So Praise Him today and go out and spread the Love because He first Loved You!<3

Song of Songs 8:6

Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm: for love is as strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave

Psalm 139

 ¹ You have searched me, LORD, 

   and you know me.
² You know when I sit and when I rise;
   you perceive my thoughts from afar.
³ You discern my going out and my lying down;
   you are familiar with all my ways.
⁴ Before a word is on my tongue
   you, LORD, know it completely.
⁵ You hem me in behind and before,
   and you lay your hand upon me.
⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
   too lofty for me to attain.

 ⁷ Where can I go from your Spirit?
   Where can I flee from your presence?
⁸ If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
   if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
⁹ If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
   if I settle on the far side of the sea,
¹⁰ even there your hand will guide me,
   your right hand will hold me fast.
¹¹ If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
   and the light become night around me,”
¹² even the darkness will not be dark to you;
   the night will shine like the day,
   for darkness is as light to you.

 ¹³ For you created my inmost being;
   you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
¹⁴ I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
   your works are wonderful,
   I know that full well.
¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you
   when I was made in the secret place,
   when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unformed body;
   all the days ordained for me were written in your book
   before one of them came to be.
¹⁷ How precious to me are your thoughts,God!
   How vast is the sum of them!
¹⁸ Were I to count them,
   they would outnumber the grains of sand—
   when I awake, I am still with you.

 ¹⁹ If only you, God, would slay the wicked!
   Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!
²⁰ They speak of you with evil intent;
   your adversaries misuse your name.
²¹ Do I not hate those who hate you, LORD,
   and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?
²² I have nothing but hatred for them;
   I count them my enemies.
²³ Search me, God, and know my heart;
   test me and know my anxious thoughts.
²⁴ See if there is any offensive way in me,
   and lead me in the way everlasting.

I Just Don't Understand

Why is life so hard sometimes? I just don't understand why people you look up to always end up disappointing you, and why right when you think your back on track with things, everything seems to flip upside down. I don't understand what God is trying to teach me through all of this, have faith?, well I have been having faith and things go good, and I see God using me, and then all of a sudden, I get pulled away from all of those things God is using me in. I just don't understand why when I am doing something good, something to bring Glory to God, I get pulled away from it. Why when I work really hard to save up a lot, does He change his mind on where He wants me to be. I just don't understand why life seems so difficult right now and why I just feel useless and sad. How does a girl trust that God has a plan, when all she sees is everything in her life falling apart? How does a girl keep her faith when everything seems so wrong and confusing? Guess I'll just wait for God to show up and show me why; Cause right now, I just don't understand.

God should be the only opinion that matters!

Why do woman care so much about what other people think? Its so annoying! Even me, I always say I don't care what others think about me, but then why do I dress thinking about if people will judge me if I wear something different, or go a day without make up? Its just so hard, I want to just say that I don't care what others think about me and I only try to impress God, but I know that's not true; but I want it to be true! That is why I am making the decision tonight, to try and instead of thinking about what other people think, i'm going to ask myself will what I wear and what I do Glorify God? Maybe if we start asking what God will think, then maybe what other people think won't matter.

Starting Over

Starting over can be hard, really hard. And I guess I'm not completely starting over, just starting school again after taking a semester off; and i'm going to a community college and not at Indiana Wesleyan, so for me, its kinda like a new step in my life. I'm nervous, but I know that God has a plan to use me while I'm home and at a new college. I know He has a plan for this new step in my life. I've also made some changes in my life lately that is making me take a few steps back, but those steps back are steps toward a new me, steps that is leading me to becoming a better woman completely sold out for God. And so, those step backwards, are steps just leading me to a better path I guess you can say. So I guess Starting Over or changes in life are scary, but they are also exciting, because you never know how God can use you in what seems the scariest changes in our life, so instead of asking God to help you not to be scared, just tell Him that you trust that what Hes doing is good, and ask him to use you where ever He leads you!

Remember: He Always Has A Plan! 

There's a Place for Us By: Carrie Undewood

There’s a place out there for us,
More than just a prayer or anything we ever dreamed of.
So if you feel like giving up cause you don’t fit in down here,
Fear is crashing in, close your eyes and take my hand.
We can be the kings and queens of anything if we believe.
It’s written in the stars that shine above,
A world where you and I belong, where faith and love will keep us strong,
Exactly who we are is just enough
Yes there’s a place for us, there’s a place for us.
When the water meets the sky,
Where your heart is free and hope comes back to life,
Where these broken hands are whole again,
We will find what we’ve been waiting for,
We were made for so much more
We can be the kings and queens of anything if we believe.
It’s written in the stars that shine above,
A world where you and I belong, where faith and love will keep us strong,
Exactly who we are is just enough,
Yes there’s a place for us, now there’s a place for us
So hold on, now hold on,
There’s a place for us
We can be the kings and queens of anything if we believe.
It’s written in the stars that shine above,
A world where you and I belong, where faith and love will keep us strong,
Exactly who we are is just enough, exactly who we are is just enough,
There’s a place for us.