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Are you a Victim or Victor?

I don’t know if you have ever experienced the messiness of life, but it can be tough sometimes to want to continue to keep moving forward. I want to ask you, what do you do when you face trials? When you lose your job? When your boyfriend or girlfriend leaves you? When you feel like…

It is better to _, than to __.

It wasn’t until I went to Africa that I found out that living in a western culture, that was filled with abundance, numbed me to how oblivious I was to walking in the ways of this world. Although I didn’t come from an extremely wealthy family, we had more than any little African child could…

WHY ME?

The older I get the more I realize how hard this life can be. Things don’t always go according to plan and when things are really good, somebody is always there to stomp on your parade. Sometimes we even encounter things in life that can be a huge blow to us, like death or disease;…

Anything Beyond is a Blessing.

What if you could change your entire perspective on life and everything around you started to take a different shape in how you saw things? What if you started to look at the things you have, and those items became enough? Over the last couple years God has really been doing that in my life. …

I am to blame, not you!

Pride can come in many different ways, but no matter how you look at it, it is still stemmed in selfishness. I look back a long time ago when I was together with my ex-girlfriend and I knew that it was time that the relationship was coming to an end. We just were not a…

FRACTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS

You might call me weird, but from the start I have always been a math person. There is something about problem solving with a definite answer that I loved to try and figure out. I started with learning how to count my ninja turtles, then moved into the more advanced stuff as I got older. …

I don’t need God

I grew up in a small little town of Central California. My Mom and Dad both worked full time jobs to provide for the family and although there were times where it was extremely tight with money and things got hard, they were never in a position where they couldn’t handle things on their own. …

Words Came out!

Recently God has been showing me the power of speaking words and how they really can effect people. So many times I have been talking with somebody and all of a sudden words start coming out of my mouth and I can’t stop them!! Sometimes they have been really wise and totally from the Lord,…

You did WHAT? For free?

Almost 3 years ago God called me to leave everything behind and just go. Not knowing what I was getting into I soon came to realize that the visa that I ended up coming to New Zealand on was very specific. As long as I worked for the church and was paid through them, I…

HE GAVE UP :(

I have read the letter from Paul to Timothy countless times and never have I read this part until last night. For the first time God was opening up my eyes to this one line that had so much depth and meaning in it. I can’t find much about Demas in the bible but we…