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dream.

It's so easy to look at what went wrong in the past and how I could have done things differently. 

Pleasing others... listening to false accusations that beat me down.... insecurity... 

Just to name a few...

Looking at past experiences and not noticing what God has placed right in front of you. It can destroy every dream that is there for the future.


Just know that not all dreams and desires are not from God.  {John 10:4}  The devil, our enemy, does attempt to speak to us in the night season. It is up to us to know the Word of God as well as the Holy Spirit  order to discern what is of God and what is not...  The kingdom of darkness will try and tempt us to sin, discourage us, lie to us, scare us, and many other things. 


Seek Truth in the Bible.

Greater things have yet to come.

Pursue your dreams, because many had dreams but they never accomplished them. You can do it! 


"I can do all this through him who gives me strength."- Phil. 4:13

While I was  high school... I dreamed that I would graduate, start a business, go to Bible school, shake up the media world, be pursued by an amazing man of God, married, have cute kids... etc.

Today, I've accomplished some of those dreams and all of those desires will happen in the right time. Also, while time passes by more and more dreams are planted in my heart. I am so excited for what is to come and to see the dreams, hopes and desires of others who are actively doing what God has created them to do...happen.


Sometimes all someone needs to reach their dreams that God has place in their heart... is encouragement. 


Dream a little today. 

"I know what I'm doing. I have it all planned out—plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for." - Jeremiah 29:11

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rain.

Sometimes, I feel dryer than the Atacama Desert. All these thoughts come to my head,  I feel like just maybe... I'm doing too much and it would be easier to just go back to the easy old way of doing things. 

But then I really realized...

Mankind wasn't created to be this way.

To be sleepwalking people wondering around  in the desert. Just waiting for something to wake us up.

To have a purpose in this life and not just go through the motions.

It's a choice.

In Exodus, There was a group of people who were set apart for something greater. But old mindsets and choices held them back from the promised land. They wondered around a desert for forty years and it really  only a few days to journey to their destination. Eventually, they reached the place that God has promised them but it wasn't in their time... it was in God's timing. 

It might be a drought now but remember that rain is coming .

I was in a conversation with a friend about the calling on my life and one thing that he told me really stuck out ...  

"90% of successful christians... are NOT comfortable and constantly pursuing what God has called them to do"

It freaked me out...

Because I knew right then... I was on the edge of being comfortable and in the desert.

I needed to change old religious mindsets and be the person who I was created to be. 

I shouldn't be comfortable with the world.

There was a choice.

Change.

  




Just remember God always hears you... and loves you. Whether you feel like it or not and the Holy Spirit is always speaking. Draw yourself closer to him in prayer, reading the Bible, and just taking a few seconds to focus on Him and not what the world wants from you. We were not created to be deserts but waterfalls with water coming in and water coming out. Also, that He wants to wash everything away and make you new person inside and out.

"I only know that in every city the Holy Spirit warns me that prison and hardships are facing me. However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace." -Acts 20:23-24




 "Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,  fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.  Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart." -Hebrews 12:1-3


  "Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever."-1 Corinthians 9:23-25




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Bucket List.

I was asked by a friend to write my bucket list  (a list of things you want to do before you die) a few months ago... so here it is.

I want to...

~  Encourage others in their relationship in Jesus

~  My prophetic photography published

~  Get married to a strong christian man who burns with a great passion for Jesus like I do 

~  Have at least 3 cute kids 

~  Go on a mission trip to downtown Tulsa or just whereever God call me too ;)

~  Own a Canon EOS 5D Mark II (camera) all-in-one zooms, fast zooms, wide and tele lenses, and macro lenses

~  Get better at public speaking  

~  Be  Raptured

~  Go swimming with the penguins at the Zoo

~  play in the ocean

~ Help a stranger 
~  Read more

~ save someones life

~ stop biting my nails

~work on a movie 

~speak infront of 10,000 and not stutter

~go to Israel 
~help someones dream come true

~do something no one has ever done before
~

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