P.S. I still love you...

"I bet you've had a hard time walking into a room full of people on your own, right? Yeah. I know that. I know what it is not to feel like your in the room until he looks at you or touches your hand or even makes a joke at your expense, just to let everyone know... you're with him. You're his" 




He wants to let everyone know your His... "sigh" 

Even when I feel unloveable...  morning breath, zits, crazy laughing fits, snapping off

... just to name a few

He still loves me.

How awesome it is...

 How He sees me as the real me; not the nineteen year old that everyone else sees on the outside. 

Still He loves me for me. 

His love NEVER fails.

His love NEVER gives up.

His love NEVER runs out. 

It makes me want to belt out singing or dance a jig.

It makes me want to know him more and more.

 give him my whole heart... 

wow...

I

love

Jesus.

"I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge-that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever!" -Ephesians 3:16-21

"Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. The person who refuses to love doesn't know the first thing about God, because God is love—so you can't know him if you don't love. This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him. This is the kind of love we are talking about—not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they've done to our relationship with God."    

-1 John 4:9-10

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JesusFreak

Here is a few Bible verses that I hope will encourage you 

today... about who you are in Jesus Christ. 

Feel free to share.

I am complete in Him Who is the Head of all principality and power (Colossians 2:10).

I am alive with Christ (Ephesians 2:5). 

I am free from the law of sin and death (Romans 8:2).

I am far from oppression, and fear does not come near me (Isaiah 54:14). 

I am born of God, and the evil one does not touch me (1 John 5:18).

I am holy and without blame before Him in love (Ephesians 1:4; 1 Peter 1:16).

I have the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16; Philippians 2:5).

I have the peace of God that passes all understanding (Philippians 4:7).

I have the Greater One living in me; greater is He Who is in me than he who is in the world (1 John 4:4).

I have received the gift of righteousness and reign as a king in life by Jesus Christ (Romans 5:17).

I have received the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Jesus, the eyes of my understanding being enlightened (Ephesians 1:17,18). 

I have received the power of the Holy Spirit to lay hands on the sick and see them recover, to cast out demons, to speak with new tongues. I have power over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means harm me (Mark 16:17,18; Luke 10:17,19). 

I have put off the old man and have put on the new man, which is renewed in the knowledge after the image of Him Who created me (Colossians 3:9,10). 

I have given, and it is given to me; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, men give into my bosom (Luke 6:38). 

I have no lack for my God supplies all of my need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19). 

I can quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one with my shield of faith (Ephesians 6:16).

I can do all things through Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:13).

I show forth the praises of God Who has called me out of darkness into His marvelous light (1 Peter 2:9).

I am God’s child—for I am born again of the incorruptible seed of the Word of God, which lives and abides forever (1 Peter 1:23). 

I am God’s workmanship, created in Christ unto good works (Ephesians 2:10).

I am a new creature in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17).

I am a spirit being—alive to God (Romans 6:11;1 Thessalonians 5:23).

I am a believer, and the light of the Gospel shines in my mind (2 Corinthians 4:4). 

I am a doer of the Word and blessed in my actions (James 1:22, 25).

I am a joint-heir with Christ (Romans 8:17).

I am more than a conqueror through Him Who loves me (Romans 8:37).

I am an overcomer by the blood of the Lamb and the word of my testimony (Revelation 12:11). 

I am a partaker of His divine nature (2 Peter 1:3,4). 

I am an ambassador for Christ (2 Corinthians 5:20). 

I am part of a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people (1 Peter 2:9).

I am the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 5:21). 

I am the temple of the Holy Spirit; I am not my own (1 Corinthians 6:19).

I am the head and not the tail; I am above only and not beneath (Deuteronomy 28:13). 

I am the light of the world (Matthew 5:14). 

I am His elect, full of mercy, kindness, humility, and longsuffering (Romans 8:33; Colossians 3:12). 

I am forgiven of all my sins and washed in the Blood (Ephesians 1:7). 

I am delivered from the power of darkness and translated into God’s kingdom (Colossians 1:13).

I am redeemed from the curse of sin, sickness, and poverty (Deuteronomy 28:15-68; Galatians 3:13).

I am firmly rooted, built up, established in my faith and overflowing with gratitude (Colossians 2:7). 

I am called of God to be the voice of His praise (Psalm 66:8; 2 Timothy 1:9).

I am healed by the stripes of Jesus (Isaiah 53:5; 1 Peter 2:24). 

I am raised up with Christ and seated in heavenly places (Ephesians 2:6; Colossians 2:12;). 

I am greatly loved by God (Romans 1:7; Ephesians 2:4; Colossians 3:12; 1 Thessalonians 1:4).

I am strengthened with all might according to His glorious power (Colossians 1:11). 

I am submitted to God, and the devil flees from me because I resist him in the Name of Jesus (James 4:7). 

I press on toward the goal to win the prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward (Philippians 3:14). 

For God has not given us a spirit of fear; but of power, love, and a sound mind (2 Timothy 1:7). 

It is not I who live, but Christ lives in me (Galatians 2:20).

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Valentines Trap.

Here is a dirty little secret that most will deny around Valentine's Day. It happens all throughout the year but the "urge" gets extremely tough in the month of February. 


Lust.


 "Your heart can be corrupted by lust even quicker than your body. Those leering looks you think nobody notices—they also corrupt."-Matthew 5:28


So, when all the candy hearts come out... keep your heart pure. Focus on the one who really holds your heart. Whether in a relationship or not... 

I used to think that only guys lusted after girls... but not at all. Because girls... lust to be lusted after.  I had to realize that I needed to focus and make "The ONE" be... "The TWO" and make my relationship with Jesus priority. 


Valentines Day doesn't need to be a trap... Just have fun and guard your heart from lustful  emotions. 

"God, teach me lessons for living 
      so I can stay the course. 
   Give me insight so I can do what you tell me— 
      my whole life one long, obedient response. 
   Guide me down the road of your commandments; 
      I love traveling this freeway! 
   Give me a bent for your words of wisdom, 
      and not for piling up loot. 
   Divert my eyes from toys and trinkets, 
      invigorate me on the pilgrim way. 
   Affirm your promises to me— 
      promises made to all who fear you. 
   Deflect the harsh words of my critics— 
      but what you say is always so good. 
   See how hungry I am for your counsel; 
      preserve my life through your righteous ways!"-Psalm 119:35-37


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start-to-end

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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