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This song is all about Hannah Kerr's new song Warrior. I absolutely love this song and what it's about. Take a listen

Today's topic is about marriages being restored. A marriage is meant to resemble Christ's love for us and God knows that we can get lost along the way. Humans aren't perfect, we mess up, luckily we have a merciful savior who realizes this and provides a path for us to take towards recovery - restoration. We may walk a way for a time but with God, what is broken can be restored. This marriage has definitely had it's moment in this: checkout Mathew West sharing this wonderful story behind his song Restored and see how God brought a marriage to success.

We are all so focused on our own problems in our lives that we aren't reaching out to others with their problems. We are the church and we hold hope in our lives by loving others but we aren't doing that. We focus too much on ourselves.

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How is your relationship with God? Are you hiding anything from Him? Are you speaking daily? Do you have full faith and trust in Him? Is there any shame keeping you from Him? Cast it out into the sea, so you can be together again. Remember when you first got saved? When God became your first and most true love? It's always good to go back to when it started. I'm always surprised to watch marriages and relationships in this world become so similar to the relationship God has with each of us. Of course it's not the same but the similarities are so hard not to notice. The bible really means it when it says "the husband is the head of the wife just as God is the head of the church." "Man should lay down his life for his wife and "sacrifice" just as Jesus did when he gave his own life on the cross." See the similarities? It's crazy! It makes you feel truly blessed to experience it. I look at marriage as a play or movie  that God has created to...

Dear readers, today I am going to bring up a topic that is very important. As you read, please think about what is being said. Past Mistakes How many have made mistakes in their past that cannot be taken back? I can bet we all have at some point. The great news for us is that God can forgive us and we never have to hear about it again...or do we? Parents, your kids are going to make mistakes. Their going to do things they shouldn't do. Does that mean you should always remember what they did? You may never forget, it might be too hard, but the one thing you can do is not constantly bring it up and shove it in their face. Think about them first

So many people turn away the gift of eternal life because they're afraid it's too great a risk. "How do you know it's all really true." The question isn't what if there's nothing to gain, it's...what is there to lose? Follow Christ and you save your life "spiritually", deny Christ and lose your life (physically and spiritually). Yeah it could be a risk, it could be for nothing...but the alternative is for nothing also...so why turn away and accept knowing death, than accept the gift and receive everlasting life through faith. We don't have any proof heaven is real, but by faith we can know it is so. Weigh the cost, which would choose? Being a Christian (Christ Follower) comes with a price

We all have our priority list. Things that are important in our life.The thing is, God usually becomes before family...right? Well the bible does tell us that God should be the most important thing in our lives, which is true, but sometimes God becomes an "excuse" instead of an importance. We can't just pull the God card whenever we want to do something or even get out of something. We can't just neglect our family because of God, cause he would never want us to.

God has called us to be brave in this fearful generation. Will we choose to be bold or crumble under the pressure of evil? For many Moriah Peter fans they know her song Brave...here's a video of that song! It's a very great song and I absolutely love it. It's all about us being brave and courageous. Becoming warriors and soldiers for Christ!

Dear readers, please listen! This is my most important message I am going to be posting. So many people scream and shout in prayer to God saying "Why does God allow all this bad stuff to happen." I know this so well because I have been there before. I have been spiritually enlightened in my soul that He is not sitting by without care to our problems. In fact, he is beyond saddened by the way things have gone and the state we are in. When we are hurting and blaming God, he isn't shaking his head telling us to walk away...he's crying from his heart desperately trying to bring us home. He wants us to return to him  but it is us who are creating the gap between us and his loving presence. Think of all the heart breaks that could turn into healings, all the pain that could turn into prodigal parties. God wants us whole but without him we are in pieces and he wont stop until we finally find our way back home. Lets give God some rest and do the work ourselves...turn to God....

That is the topic. What are kids for? What would your answer be? Were they really given to us to serve our every need? "Well they can learn something from it." Well what if they were meant to really teach us? I think I may have gotten some head scratches right there...but it's true think about it. How many times do kids say things that just shock or surprise us. Maybe the reason they learn so easy is because they are teaching tools to help us parent them...What if moms and dads lived the way they would want their kids to live? How many times do you notice your kids do something and you think "Where did you pick that up from?" more than likely they'd reply "you mom/dad." Please if you have any questions or need advice about this, contact us! Families every where should know that your kids behavior depends on your own behavior. How can your child be calm with hectic parents? Think about it

What do you think God wants from you? Do you think he wants you to be perfect? To find the best job, buy the best car, find the most expensive house? What if he just wants YOU...to be here with him. I recently watched the new Winnie The Pooh movie called Christopher Robin. In the movie, Christopher Robin was an adult and worked a lot. He tried to get the best for his family and he had a great job, but his family wasn't satisfied with him. It had appeared he had failed them, what more could he do? I think the best answer is "just be here." In the movie his wife stated how he was never there anymore. "I haven't seen you smile in a long time" she stated. "How could she be so unpleased if he was so successful?" The problem is, he may be successful career wise but he wasn't succeeding his family. They didn't need him to win some promotion or climb the financial ladder, they simply wanted his presence. What if that's what God wants from all o...

Do you ever feel like your pain doesn't matter to God? Like your voice is too small for God to notice your shouts of pain? I am here to tell you that He does care. Let me share my story: When I was about 12 my family moved about an hour from where we were living. I had mixed emotions about the situation. In the beginning I thought it would be terrible like in the movies (you know, when the kid moves and has to change schools and loses all their friends). Then I began thinking, "I can probably invite friends over more." When we first moved everything was okay for a few weeks. As months passed by, things became not as great. My original fear began happening. I lost all the friends I had grown up with, we left our "school" and our church. Suddenly I found myself living like in the movies. I had lost it all and I'd lost myself in the midst. The loneliness and pain gripped tightly to me, wrapping me in a mental darkness. I found myself lonely, depressed and blam...