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Our Unstoppable God

Hey!
  Whew it’s been such a long time since I’ve been able to sit down and write here!I am coming to find I am not a very reliable blogger, and for that I apologize. Anyways after too long a time here goes…
                I am not going to lie and say that these past few months have been the easiest of my life, there was loneliness and missing those I love during the Christmas time, a lot of stress and uncertainty about God’s plan for my future, and some discouragement as well. I battled, struggled, and fought, and in this place I came to know our God in a way that I have never fully experienced before, a God that fought for me, battled with me, and fiercely loved me.  

This love is a love that floors me over and over again, a love that is characterized by selflessness, relentlessness, and the inability to fail. In the times that I have felt the heaviness of this world weighing on my heart,times where I missed all that was familiar, and the times I felt so useless, God gentle took ahold of me, and said I won’t stop…I won’t stop forgiving you…I won’t stop chasing after that rebellious heart of yours…I won’t stop reminding you of who you are in Me…I won’t stop being faithful…I won’t stop guiding you…I won’t stop working through you…I won’t stop loving you with all that is in Me, You are mine, and I am yours…And that will never stop.

As I am brought through this storm I am filled with a new hope, a renewed peace, a desire for more of my Beloved Father, and a joy that is truly indescribable. I can feel God calling me deeper and deeper into true life, into a life that is lived completely from and through Him. I know this doesn’t mean that I will never struggle or battle, actually it probably means that I may have even more battles and struggles. However, now I can rejoice in them because I know it just gives Christ another opportunity to show me more about His goodness and faithfulness. My situations may not be changing, it still is hard and I still feel tempted to feel discouraged and useless, but the Holy Spirit is changing my mind, letting me see things the way He does and is encouraging me in the ways only He can. I know I am being refined by a holy fire, and all I need to do is trust in His skillful hands and masterful plan for me.

A part of that plan that God has shown me, is that He wants me to start a bible study with the girls from the youth group. Through several different situations, He has made it very clear that the girls need some kind of discipleship. So last week I felt very convicted to look up a book that I love in English called Captivating and see if it was available in Spanish, and what do you know it was! So I am starting the process of figuring out how all this would work. Right now we are still trying to figure out who could come, when they can come, and where is the best place to have it. So in this time of preparation, I would ask if you all could please be in prayer for the girls of the group that their hearts will be ready and open to knowing God more deeply and to hearing His truth, and that all the details that need to be worked out will work out.   

 Two girls from the youth group Danielle, Noelia,  and I. 

"I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in Him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit." -Romans 15:13

"Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see." -Hebrews 11:1