It does not take a long time to get things… God has a plan and a calling for your life! I realized that just now and reflected on how far I have come in the past year since I found out just what the plan is… When God created me he created ME not to be this or that but to be who he called me to be… When you seek approval of God he will never fail you, when you seek approval of others then they can fail you, when you seek what you want then you can lose yourself!! God’s grace is amazing!! We are not perfect… We are sailing in boats with patched up holes… But Jesus is forever guiding us in the right direction!! Go!! Follow him.
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Climb…
Sometimes we ignore God, especially when we try to keep carrying things that keep weighing us down. All he is trying to do is protect us from hurt. “We cannot rewind our lives and erase our mistakes, but we can sit down and pray with God and he can remind us that we are not who we used to be, that we make mistakes, that he loves us, and he forgives us… We can always start over and climb the mountain even when there are distractions and temptation pushing us down. Go ahead… Keep climbing… God wants you to reach the peak… So you can give your testimony and help others climb their mountain as well.” Stephanie said this. Don’t live in fear, pain, and doubt… Let go, don’t let ________________bring you down.
You Learn The Hard Way…
Hello readers, how is it going?? I just wanted to post a quick post to give everyone a shout!!
I hope that you read my blog TheInkIsFull and get inspired from my poetry or my words on this blog somehow. I truly believe that God works in mysterious ways… I too get inspired from my work from time to time. God works through people, circumstance, and through the word of God, and so many other ways…
Today I have been reflecting on the simple thought that God knows everything before we even think about putting it into process. That he knows us from the inside out, no matter how far we try to step away from him he keeps pulling us back in. We cannot escape his grace. We cannot escape from his love, his plan for us. There are no detours…
I have been trying to do things that go against I know what God has planed for me, and let me tell you this… YOU FAIL!! You cannot take detours, no matter how you long for love, compassion, a friend, a companion. You cannot find it, God will bring it to you. There is beauty in the wait. There is no escape.
You cannot have your way. IT IS WHAT IT IS!!!!
YOU ARE FIGHTING A WAR YOU CANNOT WIN!!
I don’t know what I was thinking, but the power of the spirit is so strong it is leading me away from the worry and the doubt. I have nothing to worry about. God is and always will be in control and will make things work out when we cannot see a way out.
feeling refreshed!!
Happy Tuesday!!
don’t forget, you are not alone… you have to go thru’ the test to have a testimony… don’t let satan overpower you. In the end the devil will always fail!! No one can stand against God. He has you in his hands and will not let you fall…
listen to him!! be on guard!!
-Stephanie
Bullying…
Kids don’t need to be ignored; depression is not okay, anxiety is not okay, doubting yourself is not okay, not loving yourself for who you are is not okay, feeling like you are alive for no reason is not okay, bullying is not okay!!!! Kids need hope and encouragement, to be determined!! Everyone has a purpose and everyone has a life for a reason no one is a mistake!! #bullying#whatarewedoing
What Is Missing In Your Life??
I was given a suggestion today to write about something people desire. For example, if you were the richest man in your city and you had it all, but you still felt something were missing. When I thought about it at first my instinct was to say, Jesus. He is all we need. Follow him and we will have joy in our hearts and that is way better than. the short term happiness from the pleasures of the world. Then on another note if you have the gifts of the spirit, shouldn’t you have all you need?? (Galatians 5:22) So we can say to sin, I don’t need you I have faithfulness, and self-control and to those who get angry at us, we have patience, gentleness, and kindness, and so on… And grace… We have desires, my life would be perfect if _________. I myself desire to have a husband, a partner that fears God, likes the thought of kids someday etc. What do you desire?? What is it that you feel is missing in your life?? Think about it, what could make you feel whole?? Don’t money, material item, or a home.
Trust in the Lord and do good. Then you will live safely in the land and prosper. Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you your heart’s desires. (Psalms 37:3, 4 NLT)
“That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Isn’t life more than food, and your body more than clothing? Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are? Can all your worries add a single moment to your life? (Matthew 6:25-27 NLT)
“But blessed are those who trust in the Lord and have made the Lord their hope and confidence.
“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? But I, the Lord, search all hearts and examine secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve.” (Jeremiah 17:7, 9, 10 NLT)
Started Small… and God Is Providing The Growth…
Hello all, and thank you for stopping by my blog.
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Lately I haven’t been updating this blog as much as I like. 0_o
I have been facing challenges in my life. About 2 months ago, I started doing a bible study for teen girls. It is coming together slowly, but I think that every good thing has a slow start. If you start something out fast and you think that you will get far, then you are wrong. Good things take time, and a lot of prayer, and allowing God to prepare the growth. He knows who will be impacted by whatever you set out to do, because he gave you the talents to begin with and he wants you to be rooted in faith before you go on to do things without putting him first always.
It took me a long time to accept that God is in control of my life. The fact that he knew who he would create me to be and the life I would live before he built the world. That puts me in this moment of humble ahh… because he loves me that much. Everything in my life is for a purpose, the people I work with, the guy I see in Books A Million like twice a month at random, the barista’s at Starbucks that know me well enough to know what I usually order, the cashier’s at Walmart that don’t have the patience to check out my items and bag them to my liking… Think about it, everything, every single day of your life… happens for a reason.
There is no way to explain life, other than God.
I also have been thinking of doing spoken word and working on songwriting, spending some quality time with my guitar.
If you are a Christian, everyday is a battle… remember that!!
Nothing will be easy for you… harsh, but true.
Once you label yourself as a Christian it’s like people try to break you down, and test you…
You just have to remember to pray, seek God and his will and judgement alone.
SN: I must include a library in my house in the future, I have accumulated a lot of books over the past year… I guess they are what keep me going, thirsting more and more to bring others to Jesus and making an impact in this world.
Christians have the most powerful source of communication available to the whole planet in their hands. It is time we start using the internet to glorify God!! 🙂
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Have a great day!!
-Stephanie…
Thinking About Life…
It’s funny how we tend try to control our lives, but we make mistakes, we overlook people and things, but eventually God will reveal what we keep searching for. Life is a highway, which way will you go?? Do you have to turn around??
TheInkIsFull, Ch. 2.
So, my pen that I made custom for TheInkIsFull… ran out of ink. Well sometimes you just have to go on to the next chapter. TheInkIsFull Chapter 2. I don’t know what I will write about in this chapter, but I feel as if I am ready, I feel as if my life is in a new season as well, in life we have to know where we are going, we have to have some sense of direction, but we also have to… more than anything, follow God’s will and his plan. We have to know when to stop, and when to go. Life is like driving in traffic, you have to know when to stop, when to look back, and when to go slow, and when to go a little bit faster. I am excited to see where I am going to go in this season/next chapter.
TheInkIsFull… GODSAIDTHIS…
-Stephanie… 🙂
Have Faith…
Nothing formed against God can stand. When we are weak he is strong. What else should we look for, for encouragement, for a feeling of being whole…
We often put our trust in someone, but putting our trust in someone else is not what God wants us to do. They may know us, but they don’t know who we really are. They don’t know what we were created for, and they don’t know the reason we are hurting. We can try to go to loved ones for comfort, to open up to them completely but that will not make us feel whole.
What are some ways that you try to feel whole??
Who do you turn to, when you feel incomplete??
Do you turn to a person, or food, alcohol??
God does not want us to do this. He wants us to give ourselves to him, to go to him for comfort, and love.
His love is the greatest, he sees us for who we are, not because of our imperfections, our battles with sin, our battles with doubt, our frustrations with trying to please others.
He wants us to have FAITH…
(go to blog post, Have Faith, I wrote this poem a few months ago.)
See, Matthew 17:20.
Monday, Tuesday, all day, everyday…
Hello blog readers. How is everyone doing so far this week?? It is Tuesday, another Tuesday has come and is almost gone. Time sure does fly by. Where I live it has been cloudy and raining the past few days. Icky weather… the sun is out today though. It is quite pleasant. Today turned out better than yesterday, “weather wise” that is. It is funny how the weather can effect everyone’s take on the day. You can have a great day, or an awkward one. Well, yesterday I had an okay day. At work it felt like everyone was trying to bring me down 😛 for no apparent reason. It felt somewhat annoying but I just kept smiling and it made the day feel all the better. Isn’t it funny how people can just stomp on your case for no reason; like saying… “You are always so, bla, bla, bla…” “Why can’t you just…” Yeah, fill in the blank on those… You see, to me when people try and act like they are better than you, and can stomp on you for no reason at all, it just makes me feel happy. You know what I am saying?? Like that saying, haters make me better… It is almost like that. If you can stomp the ones that just want to hate on you for no apparent reson at all, or just stomp you with slander and degrade you, then nothing can get in your way. You are superior to no one. No one in this world can tear you down. That is just how it is…
This brings me to the rest of the day. Oh wait, it gets better… 🙂
Yesterday I felt like everyone was coming to me for help with a problem. Like everyone was just having issues with stuff. One of my friends lost something very valuable, and another just needed someone to motivate her and give a positive insight. Those are the good days, I am telling you… I could be a psychologist. That would be a good job, but then again it is not the easiest job to find, or have. Although I do enjoy helping people.
Yesterday, I was even faced with a battle of my own, but then I remembered a song that is a favorite of mine… “Stronger” by Mandisa. I love that song, the chorus goes… ” when the waves are taking you under, hold on just a little bit longer, he knows that this is gonna make you stronger… The pain won’t last forever… Things can only get better… Believe me, this is gonna make you stronger…”
It reminded me, that God has a plan for my life. A wonderfully crafted, beautiful, creative plan!! No doubt I was created to serve him, and glorify his name. I am so thankful that he reminds me in the midst of craziness 😀 that he has his hands on me, that he is watching over me, and guiding me to a fulfilling life. I am thankful, and blessed for all of it, I am not worthy, but he sees me for who I am, his daughter that he crafted in his image. All of my flaws, my sins, everything that brings me down, he helps me out of it. I am free, because he paid it all. I don’t have to be this perfect girl to the world, I don’t have to bring myself to the weaknesses, and lows of this world. Life is much more than the money, cars, lust, and sinful pleasures. It is about him, not about me. God is enough!! He is more than enough!!
On that note have a great day, and week everyone!!
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-Stephanie…
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