Saturday, January 16, 2016

Watering my Faith



Sometimes things happen to test our faith. I most certainly feel that my faith is being tested right now. I am determined to hold on. It's prayers and speaking good over and into myself that's helping me. This morning thoughts were going through my mind and here's what I had to say to myself today:


Despite the horrors of our yesterdays (years etc)
despite nightmares that appeared in our realities.....
God is able to heal and renew us (even in ways we would not imagine). 
Do not lose hope. Do not lose faith. 
Do not let the enemy talk you out of that mustard seed portion of faith you're holding on to. 
People do not realize the extent of your trials, 
but that is how it should be. 
When it is over, 
you will have that life changing testimony that God meant for you to share. 
You will have the credentials that cause an unbeliever to try the Almighty in his/her own life. 
Yes, it is hard -but all things are possible with God.
Are you grateful for those life changing testimonies you've heard? 
Don't you want to experience God for yourself? 
Don't you want to see how you look as gold when you come out of this fire?
It's not those who start the race that get the reward,
it's those who finish.

**I cannot be the only one being tested, I am sure. If these words resonate with you, please let this be an encouragement to you. We shall and we will get through, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

Friday, January 1, 2016

Ending 2015

December 31, 2015 I attended Watch Service at my church.
As the time went by, I grew more and more emotional and so many thoughts were going through my mind. I couldn't keep singing, I stopped and I wept!! I wept because I know I don't know what the future holds. I wept because I was afraid of losing people that I care for. I wept because I don't want to make the same mistakes in a new year and maybe I am leaving 2015 without blessings I should have by now. I scribbled out letters to God and I just couldn’t stopped crying.
I decided to make lists. (I love lists)! One list was titled 2015 and underneath I jotted some of the amazing things that happened or that I did that I had never done in years prior. The next list was titled 2016 and underneath it was a mini prayer to God. It actually cheered me up some. I know that all things have always and will always "work together for the good of them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose" (Romans 8:28).
While I did not foresee the good that came in 2015, the days still had come and gone. I do not know all that 2016 has to offer, but on this January 1st I claim more good days --in Jesus name. I want all the God has planned for me.
Ecclesiates 3:1 "To everything there is a season, and a time to every person under the heaven."