How is Your Heart?

I was just wondering. How is your heart? Is it focused on the world and what it can give you in relationships (temporary fun, hurt, and sadness) or are you focused on Jesus and simply waiting at His feet...and falling in love with Him. "Now Tiffany," You may say, "I'm an eligible single person and I'm lonely." Have you ever thought about how Jesus was single and alone. But yet He was not alone.. He had God. I know a lot of us are called to be married. But that's not the greatest calling of our life. The greatest calling of your life is to fall in love with Jesus. Here lately I have needed Him more and more. I have discovered that He is the greatest Prince I could ever have. He is there in my pain and truly knows how to comfort and heal me. I know that there is a great guy God has for me. But I am not in hurry to meet Him. I am not going to be like Martha and be bustling around trying to see what kind of single preacher guy I can get. I am going to wait at Jesus' feet like Mary did. You know what Jesus told Mary that she had chosen the greater part and it would not be taken away from her. I have expierenced lonliness and I still do. Especially when I am around all the married and dating people at my church and when I see all the love going on on Facebook. I have learned to say "Jesus you come fill my lonliness and you have a plan and I trust in You." Now I realize not everybody is going to kiss dating goodbye. But PLEASE take careful time in what you do. Seek God and see what He has for you. I know I thought I would have met the one by now and be planning my wedding. But instead God is leading me to bible college close to 850 miles from my home, friends, and family. I don't understand His ways but they are higher than mine. I'm going to close with these thoughts my friend put on FB.. "Are you putting your relationship on hold for God, or are you putting God on hold for your relationship."

Thankful

So yesterday I was on my way to my aunt's house. We were going swimming. So here I was going down the road and a really good song was playing. Anyways all of the sudden I here this loud crack. I look behind me and an object had hit the backseat window right behind me. It had been shattered by some kind of an object mostly likely a rock because I had just passed a man lawnmowing his yard. If I had been a second earlier it would have went in my window and I could have been in some serious condition. I could have went off the road and had a wreck on top of that. But God's merciful hand.... He is so gracious!!! He is full of compassion :D He is my keeper!! That is my motta when driving... The Lord is my Keeper (Psalm 121) My heart is so thankful!!!

Today's service at church was Awe-Some :D It was all about having the love of Jesus come through our hearts and life! Offering mercy instead of judgement and critiscm. Jesus came to save the lost. But the church has seem to have lost that. But so thankful that Jesus is opening our eyes to the Truth :D Love, Love it

Blessings and Love
Tiffany

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He Says I Love You

Hey all you bloggers =) I need to get back into blogging. But I am so very busy these days doing housework and hanging with friends. I'm aleady missing them and I have only been graduated a week and a day! But I am so excited for what is ahead of me only 87 more days till I have to be at college =) God is leading me and it makes me happy. Omw I got my Simply Modest swimsuit in the mail this week! I cannot wait to go rock Holy in the water!!!!!! So yea summer here I come =)

So to my topic.... On FaceBook there is constant gushy goo love "I love you so much." Between the girlfriends and boyfriends) Anyways I was like you know wishing for that in a way. I was like God can't really send me a FaceBook message. But then I started thinking about how He will paint the sky in my favorite colors.... He says I love you. When He does just the little things like a verse or just a cool wind on a hot day He says I love you. When I feel like giving up He sweetly strengthens me... He says I love you. What a wonderful Prince! I am His Bride and He is my Husband =)

Blessings and Love,
Tiffany

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Wow :D

So it's been nearly a month since I last posted something! A lot has been happening! I have finished school and tomorrow I am graduating :) I can not believe I have made it this far. God has been such a wonderful Father to me and Jesus such a wonderful Prince. Gracious I look back on this past year and I am amazed at God's love and His mercy. So my mom has been having a rough time with her back but Jesus has taught me so much through all of it. He is my teacher and I am learning slowly but surley. I am so thankful for his patience. Oh how I am thankful for all the trials and tribulations it teaches me patience, patience comes expierence, expierence comes hope!!!! Praise the Lord!!

Well God has provided money for me to go to college =D I am so excited!!!! Only 96 more days and I am ready to start the path God has laid out for me :)

Oh and guess what I was able to order a simply modest bathing suit!!!!! I am thrilled and cannot wait to get it :)

Anyways I guess I'm going go just thought I would let everyone know I'm still alive :D

Love and Bunches of Blessings,
Tiffany

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Simply Modest

I am actually blogging from a computer :D at our lovely public library. So the other day I was looking up modest clothing and came across modest swimwear website. Yes...I really really want one! Usually when I go swimming I wear capris and a t-shirt. That just gets annoying. Plus..this summer I am going to the beach with my cousin and her family! So this would be so perfec! I like the little girl's purple print but I think I would like a more neutral color like the green. I'm not a big "bright colored kinda wearing" girl. So here is the website if you want to check it out Simple Modest Swimwear

Loving Revival

Wow.. So where do I begin.. We started revival Monday night. The very presence of God had visited us that Sunday. It fell so great and people were delivered and people were crying. I was playing the piano, and I started crying. The Spirit of God just fell on me so strong. I fell to my knees and just cryed before Him. I remebered how the woman who came and cried at Jesus' feet and wiped them with her hair... Gracious just to think how Jesus was... Man it blows my mind beyond all capacity. Like David said in Psalms 139.." Such knowledge is to high for me I cannot attain unto it." I know that now it is possible to be a Little Jesus. But it blows my fleshly side away. WOOHOOO!! My heart is just full of joy !

So this is the 4th night of Revival. A couple of nights ago my Pastor's daughter got deliverance from her sin! Oh it was so amazing. We know God is going to get rid of our church form and just let Him move!!! Last night the preacher ministrered about how we can't get any anywhere with God covering up our sin and having oughts against our brothers and sisters. The loving convicting Spirit of God came down and we went to the people who we had fought or had something against them. Forgiveness and Love just poured forth. It says if we don't forgive trespasses that our heavenly Father will not forgive us. It was so wonderful!! Now God can move and bring in sinners. Because if we aren't in unity there can't be anything to be done..
More Later :)
Blessings and Love,
Tiffany

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The King

"Little girls dream of marrying royalty, that one day their prince charming will come and sweep them off their feet.. I had this dream and it became a reality, but it's not what you think..."

You know as little girls we all have the dream of being swept away by that handsome Prince into the beautiful setting sun. Or that total cutie Ken Barbie doll in his 4 wheel drive Jeep. Take your pick :D Laugh Out Loud :D

My point is that we do have a King that is just dying (Which he actually did die for you) to make your fairytale dream come true.. No not with an earthly man... But Him :D It says in Psalm 45:11 "So shall the King greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou Him." Wow he desires me, he desires you....

I think about how relationships between a guy and a girl or I'll see a Facebook status about their "love" about how they can't stop thinking about them... Well I've came to know a King who's thoughts about me are more than the sand (Psalm 139:18) I've came to know a King who knows my downsittig and my uprising. (Psalm 139:2) I've came to know a King who is my shield and my buckler from the them that try to harm me. (Psalm 18:30-35) I've came to know a King who gave His very life because He had so much love for me.

Why would I not want to travel into the sunset on that straight and narrow road... Into my Loving King's arms..

Blessings and Love,
Tiffany

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The Set Apart Young Woman

The set apart young woman not only acknowledges Jesus to be her King, but her heart is fulll of loving devotion to Him as such. Nothing can make her heart leap like the name of that august, that more royal name. She remebers what Jesus did, how He loved her, and gave Himself for her; she looks to the Cross and remebers the streams of blood whereby she was redeemed, even when she was an enemy of God. She remebers Christ in heaven, enthroned at the right hand of the Father, and she loves Him there, and it ravishes her heart to think that God is highly exalted the once- despised and rejected One, and given Him a name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth. She pants for the time when the Crucified shall come in His glory, and rule the nations as their liege Lord. She loves Jesus so that she feels she belongs to Him altogether, bought with His blood,
redeemed by His power, and comforted by His presence; she delights to know that she is not her own, for she is bought with a price... She loves her King, and loves Him with ardor unquenchable, for many waters cannot drown His love, neither can floods quench it." ~ Charles Spurgeon

(Leslie Ludy changed the masculine pronouns to the feminine in this quote)

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A People With Such "Thirsty" Souls

This is a true story I read in 'Tortured for Christ' by Richard Wurmbrand.

"An Orthodox priest, a friend of mine, telephoned me and told me that a Russian officer had come to him to confess. My friend did not know Russian. However knowing that I speak Russian, he had given him my address. The next day this man came to see me. He longed for God, but he had never seen a Bible. He had no religious education and never attended religious services (churches in Russia then were very scarce). He loved God without the slighest knowledge of Him.

I read to him the Sermon of the Mount and the Parables of Jesus. After hearing them, he danced around the room in rapturous joy proclaiming, "Whg a wonderful beauty! How could I live without knowing this Christ!" It was the first time that I saw someone so joyful in Christ.

Then I made a mistake. I read to him the passion and crucifixation of Christ, without having prepared him for this. He had not expected it and, when he heard how Christ was beaten, how He was crucified and that in the end He died, he fell in an armchair and began to weep bitterly. He had believed in a Savior and now his Savior was dead!

I looked at him and was ashamed. I had called muself a Christian, a pastor, and a teacher of others, but I had never shared the sufferings of Christ as this Russian offficer now shared them. Looking at him, it was like seeing Mary Magdalene weeping at the foot of the cross, faithfully weeping when Jesus was a corspe in the tomb.

Then I read to him the story of resurrection and watched his expression change. He had not known that his Savior arose from the tomb. When he heard this wonderful news, he beat his knees and swore- using very dirty, but very "holy" profanity. This was his crude manner of speech. Again he rejoiced, shouting for joy, "He is alive! He is alive!" He danced around the room once more, overwhelmed with happiness!

I said to him, "Let us pray!" He did not know how to pray. He did not know our "holy" phrases. He fell on his knees together with me and his words of prayer were: "Oh God, what a fine chap you are! If I were You and You were me, I would never have forgiven You of Your sins. But You are really a very nice chap! I love you with all of my heart." "

Wow.. This humbles me and calls me... Oh my word God's people WAKE UP!!!

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Mercy

Today is Friday!! Wooohoo!! Oh and by the way I have decided that Woohoo is the new word of the century for excitement. I have picked it up from my Economics teacher.. And I was walking out of a classroom today and I heard a teacher say "Woohoo" So now that we have that order of business out of the way...

Mercy.. Yep we have been given it and we have heard it, and we have read about it countless times in the Bible. The other day I was listening to a certain worship song and the Lord shed a whole different stage light on it in my understanding. The song verse went something like this "Your Mercy calls me to be like You." Wow... I have always seen mercy as getting all my sins forgiven and my mistakes forgiven by God. But why does He give us mercy.. Not just to save us from that burning firey death... But to become Like Him!!!!! Whenever I make a mistake God shows His Mercy by showing that I did wrong... Not just to get my sin forgiven and go back out and do it again. But to show me I have done wrong and that He is wants to make me like Him. Like those verses that say "Whom the father loveth, He correcteth."

Mercy calls me to be like You, Thank You Jesus....

Blessings and Love,
Tiffany

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