Striving To Be "Christ-Like"!

For the doctors who said I'd never make it.... For those in school who said I'd never make it... For college professors who said I'd never make it... For those in the work place who said I'd never make... For previous bosses who said I'd never make it... For those in previous churches who said I'd never make it.... For friendships that didn't work out and they said I'd never make it... For the lying enemy who said I'd never make it... But God.♡ I am looking towards the future with hope and a fresh vision for year 34. The devil set out to kill me last year, but God reached down and saved me. He intervened once more. Through facing the hardest battle of my life in year 33, being in housed (hospitalized) a week for depression treatment and sucidial thoughts, I know that great despair, pain, and loneliness doesn’t need to end in death. Through my pain and journey brings my desire to educate and help others overcome the sterotypes that surround mental ill...

Many, including myself, have given the devil far more credit than he is due. Hello? We seem to spend more time focusing on and talking about what the devil is doing to us than we spend taking about what God is doing for us. According to Isaiah 14:16 (KJV), we will one day “narrowly look upon” the devil. In other words, we will squint - as if we cannot believe our eyes! We will stare at him and think or say, “can this really be the devil?” Because he is so unimpressive that we will not be able to fathom how he managed to deceive anyone! Why wait to see the devil for who he really is? Jesus Christ defeated him on the cross of Calvary. As you submit to God and resist the devil, you can enforce the victory that Jesus won over satan. “Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 15:57).

I am officially in the last week of being 33 years old. I have just been thinking on and off all day of everything the Lord brought me through over the last 33 years... 34 surgeries/procedures, multiple hospitalizations, deep depression, loss of loved ones, multiple diagnosis's of incurable diseases, the list could go on... but most importantly God has brought me through victorious and healed, as I am confident of who I am in HIM. I continually overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of my testimony! I am most thankful that I have grown in Him, that I have went through the refiner's fire, though painful at the time, and laid down sins and habits and separated myself from the ways of this sinful world; learning what means to live sanctified and separated from the ways of the world. I am thankful for the ministry opportunities He has given me thus far, and I am thankful for the lessons learned. I know everything that I have come through and all the healing I have experienc...