My seeeester comes home tomorrow!!

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Responsibility

juliannejoy:

“People who must always have someone else pushing them will never really do anything great. Those who only do what is right when someone is looking won’t get very far either. We must be motivated from within, not from without. We must live our lives before God, knowing that He sees all and that our reward will come from Him if we persist in doing what He has asked us to do.”

—Joyce Meyer

Ouch!! Heart check! Proverbs 6:6-11.

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What Is Beauty?

This is a question I’ve always struggled with. I’ve had trouble accepting my own beauty because I have struggled with body image since I was a kid. Trying to calorie count, worrying about how much my thighs touch each other, and wondering when I raise my arms, if everyone will recognize the extra skin underneath. These are things I worry about from a day to day basis. As I judge my own body, I look to other women and see “perfect” and “not-so perfect” bodies; either jealousy or judgement fills my brain. I find myself wasting so much time and energy letting this burden and really, sin, taint my life. The other day I got so fed up with yet again, finding my thoughts back at body image avenue, thinking that I should go on a  six mile run to make eating okay. (Six miles is a lot. No one needs to think that running, or doing anything that much every day will make eating or anything else okay. The things we turn to besides God are empty jars of nothingness, that will never make anything okay. Only Jesus can do that).  So, I opened the back of bible and looked up every verse that talked about beauty. Here they are (there are quite a few, but take the time to read them all).

Psalm 27:4 

One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, the gaze upon the [beauty] of the LORD and to seek Him in His temple. 

»Who is beautiful? The Lord is, and we are able to gaze upon His beauty. If He is beautiful, and is inside of us, what does that make us?

Psalm 45:11

The king is ENTHRALLED by your [beauty]; honor Him, for He is your LORD. 

»The KING, the KING is enthralled by your beauty. (I looked up the word enthralled, and it’s definition is: to captivate…our beauty is so…pure and lovely to Jesus, that it captivates Him. Think about that for a second!)

Proverbs 31:30 

Charm is deceptive, and [beauty] is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised. 

»”Earthly beauty” doesn’t last. It is fleeting, and goes a way. It’s the beauty of our heart’s that Jesus is so captivated by. A woman who fears the LORD and has a heart for Him is a woman to literally be praised. Wow.

Isaiah 33:17

Your eyes will see the KIng in his [beauty] and view a land that stretches afar.

»Again, we are told that the King is beautiful. Jesus is radiating beauty, and the scriptures want us to know that.

Ezekiel 28:12 

Son of man, take up a lament concerning to king of Tyre and say to him; “This is what the sovereign Lord says: “You were the model of perfection, full of wisdom, and perfection in [beauty]. 

» Do you understand? We’re not talking about a beautiful body, beautiful body features, or any type of worldly beauty, we’re talking about beauty of the soul and the beauty of truth. 

1 Peter 3:4

Instead it should be that of your inner self, the unfading [beauty] of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of GREAT WORTH in God’s sight. 

» It’s our inner self, our heart’s condition that shows either beauty or and unpleasantness of a persons’s aura. 

God cares much more about the condition of our heart that the condition of our outward appearance. So many people are self-conscience about body image. I myself, like I admitted earlier, have dealt with this burden for years. The covenant I am making NOW is to work on the beauty of my heart. God is more concerned with this than any other thing. He wants to define you. He wants to speak beauty into you, He wants to be the thing that makes you radiate. 

With Much Love, 

Ana

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
-Audrey Hepburn

The Love of your Creator. 

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"Worry will kill you. More than one doctor has said to me (and I’ve read it in periodicals), “There are more people in mental institutions, and there are more people in the grave because of worry than any other thing.” What do people worry about? Circumstances. They worry about tomorrow. They worry about the things they face. I’ve been tempted to worry about tomorrow and about things I know I faced. But then I remembered what the Bible said is inside of me. I didn’t even have to pray about it. I just looked trouble and seeming impossibilities in the face, and I couldn’t help from laughing, praise God. I said, “If I don’t make it over you, I’ll make it around you. If I don’t make it around you, I’ll make it under you. If I don’t make it under you, I’ll make it through you, because THE GREATER ONE IS IN ME. And, you know, while I was laughing, that circumstance went off and hid! THE GREATER ONE IS IN ME. THE GREATER ONE IS IN ME. GREATER IS HE THAT IS IN YOU, THAN HE THAT IS IN THE WORLD. Well, who is in the world? The devil is the god of this world. What else is in the world? Sin is, but the GREATER ONE is in me. He’s greater than sin. He conquered sin. He put away sin. What else is in the world? Sickness is in the world. It’s not of God. It doesn’t come from heaven. There’s no sickness up there; it’s of this world. There won’t be any sickness in heaven. The GREATER ONE is in me. He’s greater than sickness, because He’s the healer. What else is in the world? Trouble is in the world. People are always talking about the trouble that’s in this old world. But He that is in me is greater than the trouble that’s in the world. What else is in the world? Adverse circumstances are in the world. Seeming impossibilities are in the world. But I’m not of the world. I may be in the world, but I’m not of the world. My citizenship is in heaven, glory to God! And while I’m down here in the world, I have the GREATER ONE living in me. He is greater than he that is in the world. He will put me over. He will make me a success. Hallelujah, I cannot be defeated. That’s my confession. WORDS. Those are the kind of words that I have been talking for 40-some years. WORDS WORDS WORDS."

Kenneth E. Hagin

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"These everyday words identify you:
1.The words you speak identify you.
2.The words you speak set the boundaries of your life.
3.The words you speak affect your spirit (your inward man/woman."

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Elizabethtown. I love this movie. (Taken with instagram)

Elizabethtown. I love this movie. (Taken with instagram)

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Please don’t get to the end of your life and have a list of “I wish I would have’s”. Today, my best friend’s mom came over. My mom and I sat and talked to her for about a half hour or so. Having my best friend’s mom in my midst made me think of her. Her name is Grace. She’s in Kenya right now serving the youth there [http://www.madeinthestreets.org/]. She has wanted to go to Africa for so long. She found out about this opportunity, and chased it. At first, Grace was denied the chance of going. The spots were filled and she didn’t make the cut. A few weeks later, Grace got a call saying that someone else had dropped out and she was next on the list. Grace didn’t know what decision to make. Whether to go or to stay. She prayed for a few days, and decided to go. Now, she’s in Kenya for a month, and for most of the remainder of her summer, she will be traveling around the U.S. raising awareness about her experiences in Africa. It’s crazy. All of us have our crazy dreams, the ones we think about; our goals, our hopes. I’ve been so inspired lately to chase me own. I’ve been looking at grad schools for the past couple days. One in particular in Colorado. I don’t know what God has in store. In the next week, month, year, or ten years, let alone tomorrow. But I know He wants me to chase my dreams. I know He wants me to pursue the desires He has put in my heart, despite what my family, friends, professors, employers, or anyone else tells me. I know deep inside of me that God desires this for each of us. We were never meant to be held back. Jesus was a fighter himself, until the end. He had so much passion for us built up inside of Him that He sacrificed Himself. He fought until death. Jesus stayed true to the things He was passionate about, even to the death.  So don’t have a list of “I wish I would have’s” . Fight for the things you love. Chase after the things you are passionate about. Bring glory to God while doing so. If Jesus was so passionate about us, let’s be just as passionate about Him, let’s chase our dreams and let Him work through us. 

Please don’t get to the end of your life and have a list of “I wish I would have’s”. Today, my best friend’s mom came over. My mom and I sat and talked to her for about a half hour or so. Having my best friend’s mom in my midst made me think of her. Her name is Grace. She’s in Kenya right now serving the youth there [http://www.madeinthestreets.org/]. She has wanted to go to Africa for so long. She found out about this opportunity, and chased it. At first, Grace was denied the chance of going. The spots were filled and she didn’t make the cut. A few weeks later, Grace got a call saying that someone else had dropped out and she was next on the list. Grace didn’t know what decision to make. Whether to go or to stay. She prayed for a few days, and decided to go. Now, she’s in Kenya for a month, and for most of the remainder of her summer, she will be traveling around the U.S. raising awareness about her experiences in Africa. It’s crazy. All of us have our crazy dreams, the ones we think about; our goals, our hopes. I’ve been so inspired lately to chase me own. I’ve been looking at grad schools for the past couple days. One in particular in Colorado. I don’t know what God has in store. In the next week, month, year, or ten years, let alone tomorrow. But I know He wants me to chase my dreams. I know He wants me to pursue the desires He has put in my heart, despite what my family, friends, professors, employers, or anyone else tells me. I know deep inside of me that God desires this for each of us. We were never meant to be held back. Jesus was a fighter himself, until the end. He had so much passion for us built up inside of Him that He sacrificed Himself. He fought until death. Jesus stayed true to the things He was passionate about, even to the death. 

So don’t have a list of “I wish I would have’s” . Fight for the things you love. Chase after the things you are passionate about. Bring glory to God while doing so. If Jesus was so passionate about us, let’s be just as passionate about Him, let’s chase our dreams and let Him work through us. 

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I’m reading

Not A Fan [http://www.notafan.com/] by Kyle Idleman right now. It’s the book we are reading this summer for College Life. Let me tell you, this book has convicted me over and over again, and I’m not even on the fourth chapter. The last chapter I read talked about knowing about Jesus vs. actually knowing Jesus and being intimate with Him. 

“When is the last time you’ve had a moment with Jesus like this woman in Luke 7 had? When’s the last time you’ve poured yourself out before him? When is the last time the tears streamed down your face as you expressed your love for him? When is the last time you demonstrated your love for him, with reckless abandonment?”

After reading this, I put the book down, and turned on my back and looked up. The tree’s were going crazy in the wind and everything was real quiet. The last time…was right then. 

So I leave you with that. Re-read the paragraph above and let the questions sink in. 

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(Taken with instagram)

(Taken with instagram)

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Train Pandora, yes yes yes yes yes.

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