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How Do I Keep My Thoughts Pure While Being a Virgin?
Sex is literally everywhere. It is almost impossible to get away from it in our everyday lives. From billboards to advertisement on television, one would be lucky if they can go 24 hours without seeing, listening, hearing, or reading something pertaining to sex. So how do you keep your thoughts pure while abstaining from sex? The answer can be a lot of different things to many but for me, it is staying connected to God. To be honest, I did try to fast from watching shows, reading books, and listening to music that contained any sexual content, even if it was as simple as a kiss but the fast did…
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Learning to Extend Grace to Yourself
“As far as the East is from the West, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.” Psalm 103:12 So what is grace? Simply put, grace is something that we do not deserve. Grace encompasses kindness and compassion to those not worthy of it. God does not owe us any good thing. The good that we experience is a result of His grace. The blessings that we experience in our life is because of His grace. Because God extends His grace towards us, we have to learn how to take that grace and extend it towards ourselves. Ever heard, “We are our own worst enemy?” Well that statement is very true.…
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A Message to Singles and Childless
Scripture tells us that marriage and children are a reward from God from the beginning of Genesis. Therefore, it can become very confusing and disheartening to a single person who desires to be married or a couple who desires children and it hasn’t happened. If you have never experienced dating and/or being in a relationship, if you have experienced dating and/or being in a relationship and it wasn’t a good/healthy experience, or you’ve tried countless of times to have a child with your spouse and it has yet to happen for you, you often feel a wide range of emotions: disappointment, anxiety, helplessness, anger, insecurities, self-pity, guilt, depression, etc. The…
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Speak It Into Existence
As we embark on the start of 2022, I am believing for a prosperous year for myself as well as for you. A lot happened in 2021 that could have completely destroyed us and caused us to give up on life if it was not for the grace, love, and mercy of our Heavenly Father. Despite those storms and shortcomings, we made it. We are here today. Everything that took place in 2021 was to prepare us for 2022 because things are about to start shifting! Let this year be a year like no other. Let us make up our minds that we will speak our desires and needs into…
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Truth To Relationship Lies Part IV
Lie: I am not making myself available enough to “be found”. Truth: I have heard this all too often. “You need to go out more” is a phrase that never gets old. Trust when I say that if you were meant to be found by now, it would have happened already regardless of if you are a social butterfly and like social events, or you are an introvert and homebody kind of person. If you are the latter, God could make it happen where something breaks and/or needs fixing in your home and you need to call maintenance, and the maintenance person is it. You realize you need a few…
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Don’t Stop Being You!
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. Ezekiel 36:26 Don’t ever stop being you because of what someone said or did to you. All too often, when we are taken advantage of, taken for granted, abused, neglected, violated or whatever it may be, our first response is to shut down. What comes out of that response is a hardened and numbed heart. A heart that does not allow people in. A heart that does not forgive. A heart that creates dysfunction in our thoughts and actions. You…
