What's love got to do with it...Everything!

My word for the year is "falling more in LOVE with JESUS"
and I know that this is going to rock my world.
It is still in the early stages of the year and God is already doing something amazing through this. It is a hard thing to grasp how much God loves me and why he wants to bless me just because he can or give me the best because he thinks that I am worth it.
I am NOT a burden to him, but a BLESSING.
I am worth everything to him. I am worth being known and loved.
I am learning to accept that God has the best for me and he is going to bless me because I am worth it to him.
My husband is going to pursue me, not because he has to, but because I am worth being pursued.
I have been inspired to dream again,
and dream bigger than ever before for things that I haven't really been passionate for.
I am learning what it looks like to LOVE.
I cannot wait to see what God has in store for me as he brings me into a new stage of my life. This is going to be the best year yet!

Perseverance and Victory

Just when you think that everything is going super well, things start to fall apart. I have been feeling lately that everything is going really well and my financial life has gained some stability. I was stoked to find out that I would be making more than enough this month for the first time in a while. Just when I was feeling awesome, I was told that my income may become scarce. This was a super hard thing for me to hear. I mean I know that God is going to provide because he always does, but taking away my main source of income is a hard hit. Seeing beyond the current circumstances is not an easy task, but I am going to focus my eyes on God and let Him guide me.

I hate job searching, it makes me sick. I know that God is going to use this as an opportunity to give me something even better, but I thought that I had just found a job that I really love and am paid enough to do. This is going to be a time of character building for sure, but I am going to continue to be faithful and give it all to God. He is the one that will help me to make it through the fire to come out on the other side triumphant. My words for the year are perseverance and victory after all. I believe that there are better things in store for me ahead, but I need to have patience to let God do His work in His time.

Just the Beginning...

My journey is only beginning. I am seeking out God to find out who I am in Christ. In life one of the best things is getting to know people and being known by them, especially in our spiritual lives. I have come to realize lately that it can be quite difficult to really let others know you when you do not even known who you are. I am in that place right now where I am seeking to discover who I really am and who I am being formed to be.

I no longer want to be the person who is only molded by what others see me as. I want to be a woman formed by God to fulfill his purpose for my life. I am so excited to see what He wants to use me for and give myself over 100% towards His good and perfect will. At the pastor's encounter I really felt like I got a verse from God that will continue to move in me for the rest of my life.

Jeremiah 1:5 says,
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."

God is where I need to start for He is the one who formed me and created me. He declares that He knows me and I am going to seek out what He knows about me. We are a people formed in the image of Christ, so if I seek to find out who He is I will slowly but surely come to know myself as well. I am excited for this journey and am so very glad to be able to share it with you.