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WOW! Wow! Wow!

I arrived in Montana Friday, September 21st and from the MOMENT I stepped foot on this beautiful campus, I immediately felt His overwhelming presence. These wonderful people I have the honor of doing life with have quickly captured my heart. I seriously already consider them family. They are kind, trustworthy, fun, and loyal. In the past, I’ve had a hard time trusting others but within a few short days, I KNEW in my spirit these precious souls were the kind of people I can and have opened up too. This feeling of perfect peace, being in the direct path of God’s Will for my life has gotten my attention. I am so grateful to have said YES to God!

As I am learning and growing in His Truth, I want to pass it along to those who have faithfully supported me and those who are interested to know.

We start our morning early with a personal devotion.

Today, mine was on Luke 5:17-28...

One day Jesus was teaching, and Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. They had come from every village of Galilee and from Judea and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with Jesus to heal the sick. 18 Some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat and tried to take him into the house to lay him before Jesus. 19 When they could not find a way to do this because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.

20 When Jesus saw their faith, he said, “Friend, your sins are forgiven.”21 The Pharisees and the teachers of the law began thinking to themselves, “Who is this fellow who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”22 Jesus knew what they were thinking and asked, “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts? 23 Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? 24 But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the paralyzed man, “I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.” 25 Immediately he stood up in front of them, took what he had been lying on and went home praising God. 26 Everyone was amazed and gave praise to God. They were filled with awe and said, “We have seen remarkable things today.27 After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him, 28 and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.

After reading this multiple times, I asked, “God, “why? Why, Lord this passage?” It’s just a Bible story I have heard multiple times. As I asked Him, He began to reveal that He forgave his sins BEFORE He healed that man. This caught my attention and I began digging deeper. The Lord said, “friend, your sins are forgiven” while the other four men started to doubt God and His works. The SAME four men that carried this man TO Jesus, doubting Jesus would even be able to heal him. It didn’t make sense to me. My head was spinning with questions, “would God have healed the man if the four other friends didn’t doubt Him?” My belief is that God used this situation to show them that He is God and can do anything at any time and to never doubt the Power of Him.

Another thought, God forgave him before the healing came. That told me that forgiveness of sin is the main need for us all. Jesus is after the heart’s of the people. He was after this man’s spirit and needed that healed before his physical needs were healed because He didn’t want the man to die and face the righteous judgement. His main need was forgiveness of his sins not physical healing. My mind has been blown away from this Truth!

Spending these mornings with my Savior and witnessing the Bible come to life has been way more than I could ask for. This journey has just begun. The remainder of the day was spent in lecture halls learning about God’s character, developing and learning how to intercede, worshipping Him, and growing in His Truth’s. I cannot wait to share more of this journey and I pray you will stay with me as I pour out all that God reveals to me. There is so much more I want to share! Stay tuned...

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“If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” -Paulo Coelho

Today, wow I never thought this day would come. Tomorrow morning I leave first thing, and honestly I don’t know how I feel. It’s a mixture of emotions. I’m more than excited to embark on this new journey but in all goodbyes comes nervousness, sadness, and just a fear of leaving your Ioved ones behind. I know the Lord has something amazing for me planned when I get their so all the jitters and nerves will come to an end once I get over to the unknown, it’s just the step I have to take and I’m ready.

The amount of support that has gotten me to be able to take this step has been so overwhelming. I couldn’t thank everyone enough and I only ask to keep me and the crew at ywam Montana in your prayers. I’ll be starting the training first thing on Saturday and from then on up until February I’ll be working towards what the Lord has planned for me! I’m so excited and I’m so humbled that everyone who donated there love, financial support, or gifts truly believe in me and what I’m doing.

I hope to update throughout my time here and just talk about what’s going on, what we are working on, and how the Lord has impacted my life through this experience! So stay tuned love you all ❤️

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                                                  Comfort Zone

Think about your current lifestyle and your goals for the future. What do you want to do or what do you believe God is calling you to do that you are not doing? Is it because of financial reasons? Oh, maybe it’s  fear? No.. could it possibly be because of other people in your life determining your current path without you even realizing it?!

    Recently, I felt a huge calling in my life to do missions work. Specifically for women who feel guilt, shame, and worthless. I want to be able to show them that The forgiveness of our sins and the removal of our guilt is only possible because of the incredible loving sacrifice of Jesus Christ. He gave His life to pay our death penalty for us.

This wake up call in my life is due to my past.  The  last 3-4 years which were the absolute darkest, loneliest, most emptiest times of my life. I can look back and say with FULL confidence because I  have known despair; I value hope. Since I have tasted frustration; I value fulfillment.  I have been lonely;  so I value love.

God has opened up my eyes to this incredible life I have been given. I am so ready to do whatever the Lord wants me to do.  

    I look back on my life and know without a shadow of doubt I am alive, and awakened to the truth because of my steadfast family who have loved me unconditionally, who have showed me Jesus on a daily basis, and who are the same people inside of home as they are outside.

    I also have another friend I can thank a million times over. He showed me a group of young adults who do live holy lives. I began attending his church and eventually made it my home church. I had good, Godly christian friends for the first time ever. It felt so good to be “doing the good christian thing.” Unfortunately, their influence in my life, even though it was positive ended up being negative. We were checking the “Christian” checkbox. We were going through the motions. We were complacent, doing nothing for His kingdom. My heart began to break for the things He was calling me to do. I saw for the first time “me” walking in disobedience and I needed to please Him, instead of worrying about if my friends and church would leave or support me.

    I am forever grateful for those friends being in my life for that season. God used them in a mighty way to open my eyes. I know longer felt comfortable being comfortable. I was ready to pick up the cross and follow Jesus wherever He leads me. I am ready to go!!

“We cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are. We can only change our life, if we are brave enough to be out of our comfort zone. Because the first step to change in your circumstances is a change from within you.” - Maria Lourdas

Today, I am not comfortable with where I am at. I strive to do more, be more , and act more all in God’s Will. I am working on myself and working on building relationships that I will be able to grow with not stay stagnant.  Life begins at the end of your comfort zone! Step out! See what all God has planned for you

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CHOOSE LIFE!

A person is a person NO MATTER how small

On the topic of abortion I have gotten so confused on why the Christians of this world are even second guessing this new law that I pray passes here in Florida. I mean if we are Christians then the ‘rule book’ the ‘answer book’ is all in the bible right??

The main argument “ ITS NOT A HUMAN YET”

What!?!?!? That’s the argument you want to go with! Please flip with me to Jeremiah 1:5

There is absolutely no argument against that! Not one bit.

Now yes, I understand the people who don’t know God and who don’t believe in a higher power. They have no hope no meaning in life so of course they won’t have a conscience about murdering a baby that is not yet born.

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About a week ago I wasn’t fully aware of how big this topic has gotten. I kinda assumed that most everyone knew that this was a spirit of murder so I didn’t really think much about it. Well one night I was laying in bed, and if anyone knows me I go to bed early! 8 or 9 if possible! Well for some reason I felt so heartbroken and was pulled to look up and research about pro life and pro choice... my mind was BLOWN. I had NO idea how insane and crazy this has gotten and honestly I was sitting staring at my phone at 2 am crying and asking God why I was up looking at this? It’s not like I can do anything about it right? Why did I have to look this up why did my eyes have to be open to the evil of this world!? No joke, the next day I went into work to take someone’s shift and the first thing they said was “ if this abortion law gets approved I will move out of here”

I kinda chuckled because all of this information was still fresh in my mind. So I immediately said “ tell me why?” She looked at me as if I was a Murderer!! She said because what if I was raped and got pregnant why would I carry that thing around with me? I simply shot back with

Rape victims are 4 times more likely to die within the next year after the abortion, with a higher rate of suicide, murder, drug overdose, etc.. As someone who really cares about rape victims, I would want to protect them from the rapist, and from the abortion. A baby is not the worst thing that could ever happen to a rape victim...an abortion is. We need to educate the public on the truth in this matter and not make public policy based on myth and misinformation.

She didn’t have much else to say so she just said “ it’s still cruel to make the woman do that”

So once again I said “The Supreme Court has said that the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment for rapists and that rapists don’t deserve the death penalty. I don’t think the innocent child conceived in rape deserves the death penalty for the crimes of her father. It seems to me that is what is cruel and an unusual punishment.”

Our debate went back and forth for a while and she was very civil and as was I. When we came to the end she said “ you were the first person I understood and honestly I got every single thing you said.” When she left I immediately thanked God. He was preparing me for that debate and if I didn’t stay up that night I would have had nothing to say at all.

I say all this because it’s heavy on my heart still and I felt like I needed to say this. There isn’t much I can do, but I know for sure you can still make a difference small or big it all counts!