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No Longer Dismayed Joshua 1:9 – Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. Lately, I have been feeling a little discouraged. I’m discouraged because I just feel so inadequate for this task the Lord has given me. I keep asking God, Why did you choose to send me here, I know I am supposed to be here be, but why?” How can I give them my all if I can’t even speak to them in Spanish? How can I impact the people here if I can’t get to know them or vice versa? But after asking God what seems like a thousand questions, He tells me, “Have I not commanded you? And that’s when he tells us in our time of need, “Be strong and courageous.” My need is Him. I need Him to surround me and tell me that everything is going to work out for the good of those who serve Him faithfully. Then he tells me, “Do not be afraid.” In other words He said, I got this! Stop trying to control it all on your ...

It Starts with You Leviticus 9:6-8 - Then Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded you to do, so that the glory of the LORD may appear to you.”  Moses said to Aaron, “Come to the altar and sacrifice your sin offering and your burnt offering and make atonement for yourself and the people; sacrifice the offering that is for the people and make atonement for them, as the LORD has commanded. So Aaron come to the altar and slaughtered the calf as a sin offering for himself.              Aaron and his sons have just finished up doing everything that that Lord had asked them to do. Everything come down to this moment. The last thing Aaron had to do was publically make offerings for Himself and then the people.  I was wondering to myself, why did he have to make a public display of his sacrifice? After thinking about it, I think God was trying to show Aaron how to be humble himself before the people. But also, to ...

November 14th, 2017 Atoning Sacrifice Leviticus 1:3-4 (NIV) - “‘if the offering is a burnt offering from the herd, you are to offer a male without defect. You must present it at the entrance to the tent of meeting so that it will be acceptable to the Lord.  You are to lay your hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted on your behalf to make atonement for you.’” So I have started the book of Leviticus the other day and I can tell you that I, like others, have thought Leviticus was just a book about offering sacrifices, procedures and what not. But, the more I read this book the more I see what God is trying to convey through it for me. It all just kind of unfolds before me. One of the things that God laid upon my heart while beginning to first chapter was, everything they did had a spiritual significance behind it. I chose these two verses because they hold depth to them. You’re probably thinking, “This girl is crazy!” But wait, hear me out first (ha...

A Listening God  Psalms 5:1-3 - Listen to my words, Lord, consider my lament. Hear my cry for help, my King and my God, for to you I pray. In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait expectantly. Lately, I have had a lot of things on my mind. Things that I have been worrying about and things that I have been trying to get under control for some time. This morning I was laying my heart out before God and I finally just gave it all to Jesus. I can tell you that after reading this, I know that God was comforting me and telling me that he hears my cry of distress.  Currently, I have been struggling with my breathing a lot. Besides from changing a few things in my diet, there isn’t much I can do.  I don’t want my breathing to affect my ministry or hold me back from playing with the kids the way I want to. I want to run with them and give them piggy back ride and so forth, but that’s really hard for me to do in this kind o...

He Will Zephaniah 3:17 – The Lord you God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take a great delight in you, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing. This is a powerful verse. It is powerful to me because it starts with a promise. The Lord IS with me. It’s doesn’t say He is there sometimes, it’s a constant and everlasting promise that He will never leave me. He is there through it all.  I need to have trust that he will save me from myself and the physical and mental things that try to keep me back from fulfilling my purpose. It also a comfort to know that God takes great delight in me. I have no earthly idea why I am a delight unto the Lord but I am.  I am not worthy to take joy in, no earthly thing is. But, when we recognize that we are nothing, then which allows God to show us how much He can truly use us for. We are like pencil you see. We are useless unless we are picked up by the hand of a creator to put it into motion. The Crea...