#14: THERE IS NOTHING ABOUT YOU THAT'S PLAIN

 I have had this feeling weighing heavily on my heart recently and I really want to jump out and tell every single girl: when you are put down by people that you care about,  have taken a verbal beating by a boyfriend about how you look, or have been criticized about what you like or what you stand for... GOD SEES IT ALL!

   God is very heartbroken when He sees what you are going through.  You are His child. He created you and He loves you.  He loves you too much to leave you where you are at! (That's awesome in my opinion!)  God sees you and cries with you. Most of all He gets you when no one else does!  You can take comfort in that.  He knows what you are desperate for and He is desperate as well for something that is much more important... He is desperate to take care of you and be your Father, and have an intimate relationship with you.  He wants you to turn to Him in every situation, problem, victory, and sorrow time(s).  The reason that He WANTS this between you and Him is simple--- HE LOVES YOU!

   He wants to intervene every corner of your life. He promises to ruin your life in the most beautiful way. Not to scare you or anything, He wants to show you the places where only HE can take you. When you ask Christ into your heart, you receive all of Him. When that happens He is ready to make changes in you and through you. 
   You don't want your communication with Him to stop right there. You can make Him your best friend right from the start. When you make that decision, He immediately puts a crown on your head and heart only He can see; He makes you his royal princess! He is so excited to do what He has planned for your life. He will take care of you and He promises that. In the Bible God says in Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you...plans to prosper and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future..." When your relationship grows with God by reading the Bible and praying and being quiet so you can hear Him speak to your spirit, He will help you make the right choice to cut toxic relationships and friendships out of your life.  He has healthy people in His plan for your life that will build you up, not break you down! (Can you imagine all the happiness that is in store, just for YOU?!)

   I can tell you from my experience that it is extremely hard! But what I can reveal to you is that God has not failed me once with peace that follows with cutting toxic relationships out of my life.  I was knocked down, pushed around, and dragged through a lot of people's insecurities that actually attached themselves to me; even after I let those people go. I found out that I still struggled with a lot of insecurities that other people had when I met them that I didn't have before. It hurts at first, but through faith of one drop of blood from the hole in His hand was enough to make me stand up and do what was right for my relationship with God. I knew I had to do it after God started working in me. I started to not want to be around people that didn't care about themselves and talked down about every person that cam up in a conversation.  I felt so good when I made the decision to leave my past friends in my past and WITH my past; I went full force and headstrong to change my future with full trust that God would provide healthier people to enter my life that cared about themselves and they let Christ's love shine through them.    

    He showed me a side of Him I was not familiar with when I completely surrendered and repented for not looking at Him but at the world for satisfaction. He immediately surrounded me with mercy, grace, and love!  I will never go back to the people that emotionally beat me senseless. God gave me that confidence and change of heart because I simply trusted in His salvation, protection, and love for me. No one will ever take that away from me...or you. That, my friend, makes us ANYTHING but plain!  

   God wants to be your hero, take care of you, and love you. You are, and always will be His little princess; also His beloved daughter. All you have to be is His and all you have to know is that He is just a breath away! He loves you so much, He cannot take His eyes off of you! You are His precious creation. If you let His love overtake your entire being, you will see His hand come up in the most unexpected ways in your life!

"Plain" - ZoeGirl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_rCnPtbeO4

"I'm Beautiful" - Beckah Shae

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVHBIHUsKys


"Anything Is Possible" - ZoeGirl -- This song is from God's perspective! ENJOY!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUDDbLazsuw

#13: SOMEONE WANTS YOUR BURDENS

    From my heart to yours. I don't know where you are at in your recovery, but I want you to know that there is someone who wants everything that is bothering you and hindering you from moving forward in your life. I can tell you there is a life that you are meant to live and to be lived to the fullest,  by "fullest" I mean full of blessings and a great relationship with that someone.
   The Someone that I am talking about is God. He is VERY real.  I want to start by saying that He loves YOU so much. I know the second you read that, you are immediately filled with doubt. I can tell you that that is a HUGE lie. You were created by God and He sees no flaw in you simply based on the fact that He created you.
   God is so in love with you that he paid a price for your heart. He wants to change you life to what it can be without all of the hurt, confusion, depression, and most of all loneliness. He wants to replace your dark days into lovely days. He knows how much it is hurting you right now. It breaks His heart that you are in pain, but there is good news that follows this; He can, and will, crush any pain or discomfort that you are experiencing... only if you come to Him completely broken and humbled and if you allow Him to.  There is no better feeling than to be humbled and giving the reins of your life to the God that has the power to take our breath out of our bodies. 
   He knows what happened in your past and that you have seen the wrong side of humanity. He has seen your pain, your tears, and most of all He has heard your heart cries.  I can reassure you that there is no prayer that falls upon deaf ears. God even hears your enemies cries, what makes you think you are not worthy of being heard?
   The price that God paid for a relationship with you is that He took his one and only son, who was a perfect, gentle, honest, and holy; He sacrificed him on a cross so that you are able to have forgiveness and to live a life completely opposite of what you have been living. But the price doesn't stop there, he rose from the dead  so that you may know that He is alive and waiting in the corner for you to let Him into your life and most of all, your heart. He wants to clean every crevasse of your heart so  that you will know what it feels like to love yourself because the God of everything loves you, and He will live in your heart!  I promise you, my friend, it is the best decision that you can make for yourself and for your life. I guarantee blessings will happen. The only thing you have to do is confess that you cannot live your life alone, and you want Him to take over EVERYTHING in your life. I know this may sound scary, but what is even scarier is putting your own life in your own hands. We are so weak and feeble that we break at every disappointment that comes into our life. What he is offering you is to let him make whatever disappointment or discomfort that approaches you: have it CROSS our path, not to be CARRIED by us on our path. He wants to carry it for you.  When we put our life in our own hands, it is constantly a worry of how everything will turn out. Don't you think that is a waste of energy?  You are supposed to be joyous and not worry until the next ugly circumstance comes along. Life is hard as it is. He knows that. He wants to take over so you don't have too.  When we put our life into God's hands, we are trusting that He will take care of it, and us. That, of course doesn't mean to kick up your feet and do nothing. It means that He wants to take the stress off of you so that you can finally rest within yourself and His presence. He wants to be your heart's little pillow to lighten your pain. The best quality that He has is a best friend that you can depend on. 
   In the Bible Jesus says, (Matthew chapter 11 verse 28-30) "Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart. and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."  Cast your cares and worries onto Him, and you will find the rest that you have been seeking so long by yourself.
    I know I am not perfect, you are not perfect, and oh my gosh, not even my mom is perfect. But we can do this together and fight against the evil thoughts that we have towards ourselves. I can tell you now that God only has good thoughts towards us.  There is no room for evil when it comes to Him.  Take comfort in that, for His yoke is easy and His burden is light.
   You are beautiful, smart, and amazing in every way.  I ask you to step out for yourself and give your life to God and ask him to come into your heart and change it. He NEVER delays with that request.

I'd rather give my life to a God that conquered death above all things for my heart. There is no other greater love than this!

You are worth dying for!


  "Take Me As I Am"- Lecrae
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po3k6sPHeX0

#12 FORGET THE MEMORIES... THEY ONLY HAUNT

   Memories can be infectious and poisonous if you let it infest within you under the foundation thought of remembrance.  We hold onto memories in hopes that the people that contributed to the memories would not forget us.  We are so worried that we will be forgotten, when the memories are the things we NEED to forget. There is a way to forget all about the pain within the memories that they carry.

   First we have to identify the immediate pain that they hit us with once you feel them creep up on you. You are not in that moment anymore. If we do not allow moments that ended up in pain to stay in the past, life cannot be perpetuated. Of course, a little something remains from the past.  That doesn't mean every memory is bad or hazardous to your mental health. It's where you put the thought and where you want it to reside within you.

    Man has the ability to keep the painful past as a memory, but also can be separated from it with forgetfulness.  There needs to be a balance between "I remember" and "I forgot".   That specific balance enables us to walk towards the "new".  When we dwell in the past, we are hindering ourselves from the blessings that naturally come into our lives when you "forget" the pain that lingers with the memories. That doesn't seem fair, does it? We are so obsessed with other people being fair to us, that we blindfold ourselves from what we are ultimately responsible for: being fair to ourselves by caring about our own feelings and depicting who is allowed to get to know us.  

    All of the memories are just paragraphs within the chapters in your life. I completely understand and know it's very hard to turn the page.  But again, if you love and care about yourself, your actions will show that if you KEEP the past painful memories in the PAST, you will get to know yourself and what you deserve.  You can treasure the feeling you had in those memories, but if you keep moving forward, you WILL see that Time is actually on your side, not against you. 

   When you remember a lot from the past and put it in front of your moving-forward feet, you will find a lot of impediments on your way to the "new".  Memories, wounds, and habits from the past definitely poison the present. Continuing to reminisce of the painful memories creates a vacuum within yourself which leads to the absence of the present and the loss of the future. 

   Natural forgetfulness, which occurs automatically, causes us to forget whatever is unimportant, just the daily routine. Thus, most of our days are forgotten. There is a different memory loss that we can approach and eventually make it attached to ourselves. What can help us with that is forgiveness for the ones that hurt us and ourselves for letting the memories haunt us to the point of infestation within our memory. We were being very unfair to ourselves to what we actually deserved.  We definitely do not deserve pain in any way shape or form. Pain is a part of life. You cannot fight it from coming into your life. There are going to be moments where people will hurt you and you cant prevent that from happening, but there is one thing you can control, its the way you react to the pain and how you want to get over it....quickly, I hope.

   

"Don't Need You" - Letoya Luckett
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvpv4gsNlA4