Mexico

If there is one thing I have learned in the past several years of my life it is that His plans are way better than mine.

 I never really believed people when they said things about how God took their plans and changed them into something better...but ITS TRUE. 

God really does take our plans and desires and changes and molds them into something better, at least that is what he's done with mine. 

I want to tell you about just one of the instances in the past year that this has been true.

End of 2012 and the beginning of 2013 I decided on a plan for the fall of 2013. I was going to go to Word of Life Argentina. It seemed like an awesome opportunity, didn't cost that much and I would come back after a year being fluent in Spanish. But...that obviously is not where I am. And you know what? I'm glad. I ended up coming to New York and this year has been amazing. God has taught me so much while being here at 2nd year and I definitely needed to be here. 

This year is almost over and from here...i have to go somewhere. I've been thinking and praying alot the past couple months and there have been several options I have been seriously looking at. A couple weeks ago I started looking into a cross cultural internship with Word of Life and last week I got the exciting news....I'M GOING TO MEXICO. For two years. I will have the opportunity to serve in Mexico...and do you know what happens when you live in a foreign country for two years? You learn their language. I'm so excited to continue to see where God takes me. I know He will continue to tweak and change "my" plans, but I know that no matter what...His plans will always be better. 

The heart of man plans his way,
    but the Lord establishes his steps.

Proverbs 16:9

October 31, 2013

His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. 2 Peter 1:3-4

Jesus always had time for others

You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you. Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD, the LORD, is the rock eternal. Isaiah 26:3-4

Don't say you're ready to die for Jesus until you're ready to live for Him.

Yet, you, Lord are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter we are all the work of your hand. Isaiah 64:8

You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:13

October 27, 2013

Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Romans 12:12

Jesus doesn't just come first...Jesus should be at the center of everything I do.

I made known to them your name and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them and I in them. John 17:26

My life is not determined by what I want, the goal I set or the dreams I have but by the choices I make.

And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lords glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. 2 Corinthians 3:18

February 19,2013

Psalm 19:1-4
"The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
 Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they display knowledge.
There is no speech or language
where their voice is not heard.
 Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world."

Galatians 1:10 "Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ."

John 13:14-15 "Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you."

"Salvation is by grace through faith + absolutely nothing."

"The church isn't an organization, it's a living organism that needs organization."

February 18, 2013

"There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. We love because he first loved us. 1 John 4:18:19

Psalm 34:3"Glorify the Lord with me;
let us exalt his name together."

"For they loved praise from men more than praise from God." John 12:43

Philippians 1:3 I thank my God every time I remember you.

"We have one message to declare-the Gospel"

"God doesn't just see my actions, He sees my attitude."

February 15, 2013

Exodus 39:30 "They made the plate, the sacred diadem, out of pure gold and engraved on it, like an inscription on a seal: holy to the Lord."

"Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant will also be." John 12:26

"I know what it is to be in need and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want." Philippians 4:12

"Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written." John 21:25

"God's word can transform your life."

February 14,2013

"Look how the whole world has gone after him!" John 12:19b

"At once he began to preach in the synagogues that Jesus is the Son of God." Acts 9:20

"Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence so that we may recieve mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need." Hebrews 4:16

"Do everything without complaining or arguing." Philippians 2:14

"Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves." Philippians 2:3

"I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:14

"You have granted him the desire of his heart and have no withheld the request of his lips." Psalm 21:2

"Be still and know that I am God." Psalm 46:10

"Who have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever." Psalm 73:25-26


"We become like Him not by what we do, but what He does through us."