To live with a belly full of Hope is to live in a constant belief that you are not living a life of stagnate situations. When we are full, we have no more “room” for anything else. When we fill up on Hope, we are not allowing room for anything less to enter in our thinking. Is it easy to live in this status of constantly being full of hope? No, many times it is not. Doubt wars a great battle against us. But we are not fighting this battle alone, we are in this battle with all the powers of God right beside us. How can you implement the help of the Lord into your life? 1. Talk with him over what it is you are going through, daily-hourly if need be. In my case, I talk with God more in a “play-by-play” term throughout the day. Since I never know exactly what’s to come, I try to allow myself to share daily life with the Lord. Frustrations, joys…they each get equal focus in my talk with God. If I don’t allow myself to release my frustration to God, then I am limiting where He can help me. If I don’t spend time allowing God to know that what He does for me and others is special to me, I am not living in a thankful heart. 2. How do you find the time? Honestly, I just talk with God even while doing everyday actions and events. I do spend time in knees to the floor prayer, but I, just as the rest of you, have many situations in my life where kneeling down every few minutes that something comes to mind to pray about, would become very hindering to the accomplishment of tasks. So, I started just praying when thoughts came to mind. 3. Understand that No circumstance is too small to be out of the interest of the Lord Jesus Christ. When I was growing up it was taught to me that many of our “small” life troubles or interests were not of a concern for God, so why involve Him. Once I started reading the Bible for myself, I came across the scriptures that talk of my Lord being concerned to every little need of the animals of the Earth. I quickly saw that if God was concerned over the needs, then He would be concerned over all of my needs as well. In turn, I began to involve Him and made a point to stop the thinking that starts to creep in that tells me that I don’t need to share something with God. 4. Be willing to be fed by the Lord Jesus Christ. He wants, with the greatest of desires, to share His love with you. It is a beautiful thing to allow yourself to express all aspects of life with Jesus, but it is imperative that you learn to let Jesus share with you how MUCH He loves you. It is through this love that you will find a BELLY OF HOPE FORM! We cannot allow anyone but Jesus to be the One who feeds us. Through Him, we can keep a positive outlook on life. When we start to feel ourselves “running low on fuel”, Jesus is a bottomless pit of encouragement, joy, peace and love that we are all seeking. Turing to Him, sharing with Him, and being Filled by Him, these ideas can help us to stay full of the Hope and help us to understand that this battle against doubt is never fought alone. Daniella.

Where you would doubt, Jesus fills you with Trust. Where you would worry, Jesus empowers you to execute Faith Where you would run away, Jesus steps forward to rescue Where you would fear, Jesus protects Where you would dream, Jesus would encourage it. We are loved by the most astoundingly loving man in the history of life-Jesus. It is His love that we are living for daily. Invite Him in. Don’t over formalize this-just start talking to Him. He seeks to Lift you! Daniella.

You are never beyond the Love of the Lord Jesus Christ. No matter what has been told you, you are loved by the Lord Jesus. Many of us have experienced the hand of those who would taint the Love of Jesus Christ to appear so staunch and harsh that the belief that His love could be afforded you still, seems far beyond a dream you should grasp for. Yet it not as they painted it. God is LOVE-- Love that is extended you no matter what your life looks like right now. I feel so desperate to communicate this to those of you who are hurting. The Love of others can fail us, harm us, betray us, disappoint us, break us…but the Love of Jesus Christ is unlike that. I paint a more human picture. I will draw a few scenarios that take place in our modern day world… You’ve wrecked the family car, it’s utterly totaled. You lost your dad’s wallet, while on the family vacation. You dropped your mother’s wedding ring down the sink. You failed to close the deal that your company has to have in order to stay afloat. If I asked you to attach the anticipated ending to each of these scenarios, you would more than likely have imagined each person’s action being met with anger. And with many people their action would be anger…but NEVER would it be that from Jesus Christ. We become so convinced that we’ve stepped out of the Love of Jesus Christ that we shut Him out. Jesus is the LIFTER of your head. No matter what your life looks like, His love is already in action. Never once has He stopped loving you. No matter how many times you’ve questioned Him, doubted Him, turned from Him….HE was/is loving you. He knows what you’ve done, where you’ve messed up, where you are messing up now and yet all He wants to focus on is your coming to Him in order that you learn of His love. Why? Because it is His love that heals life’s worst pains and fears. My prayers are for you, whoever you are this evening reading this. I know what it’s like to be taught that God doesn’t care for those who do anything less than perfection. It breaks your human will to want to come to Jesus. But I also know what it is like to be in a relationship with Jesus where you trust in His love more than you do the pain of what has taken place in your life…and that alone is worth the journey you are contemplating on taking. Blessings-Daniella.

Each of us fear similar and very diverse subjects in our lives. Fear can provide both good and bad in our lives. Good how? What about fearing to run in to the road, or jump in front of a train? These are things that fear keeps us from. But where I come from this evening is more the focus of when Fear is our hindrance…no I want to state that in a more deliberate way. I speak this evening of the FEAR that builds within us to a point that we allow it to KILL the very dreams we are believing for. If I were to ask you to picture something in your head that you have really been hoping for, a purchase you’ve been really excited about having: an awesome car, the newest tech devise, a great purse, tickets to some greatly anticipated show…I would get an array of answer in return as each of you shared what you were thinking of. Now, pretend that I told you that tomorrow morning you were going to be given the money to rush out and buy that very item. Excitement would FILL your heart, you probably would not sleep this evening----but you would NOT be losing this sleep out of Fear would you? No---it would be out of great anticipation, gratitude, thrill, excitement, or joy. Okay, hold on to that thought a moment. Now let me take you to a dream that you’ve held DEEP within your heart. You don’t need a minute to conjure up on. Why? because this dream is synced exactly to your very core being. You know the dream I speak of. It’s that one that’s been written on your heart even before you knew of its existence. That dream that serve as motivation to your very essence- where your dream being and you end have become seamless. I want you to keep that dream in your mind right now. Do you feel that? Do you feel that STIR of emotion right now? That part of your being that is almost utterly scared over this very idea coming true? Listen to what your inner dialogue is right now: Questions like, What if I do succeed? Do you I honestly have what it takes to make it? Once there, do I have what it takes to keep it afloat? Do I really believe that I have something special to bring to others? What will people think of me? Will they like me? Will they continue liking me? What if I can’t live up to others expectations? What if I can’t live up to my expectations? What if I’ve been lying to myself this whole time and really this dream is just a stupid thought I had once that I have desperately clung to” The myriad of questions that we ask ourselves is as diverse as the people asking them, but there is a common thread that weaves amongst each of them….FEAR! I asked you above a few paragraphs ago to name off a purchase that you were greatly looking forward to owning at some point. At the end of the paragraph, I asked you to picture yourself being told that you were going to be given the money to purchase your item. I asked you to picture your night before the purchase, and the emotions that you would be feeling. I named off anticipation, gratitude, thrill, excitement, or joy. So what’s my point??? We would never think to place FEAR among the emotions of something as amazing as finally purchasing a greatly anticipated item. In fact, if Fear were to try a rear its head within our emotions, we would be quick to question its existence, and to shut it down in our thinking. We would see the Fear for what it was trying to do----STEAL!! Steal from the experience, the gratitude, the joy, and the thrill. So why then----do we allow FEAR the open door to our dreams? Why don’t we apply the same application of identifying Fear as the horrid dream stealer that it is and quickly fight to shut it down? We do this because we don’t fully trust that if God has written it on our hearts---we will see it come to pass. We do this because we allow the Fear to speak to our thinking more than we do the Faith that what God starts He will bring to fruition. We do this because somewhere along the line we started to let doubt creep in and take hold. We permit this because we are human beings in need of their GOD to breathe daily life in to their dreams. We NEED GOD! He is the One who empowers our hearts. He is the One that stokes that fire deep within our bellies that burn so hot for the dreams of our heart to come to pass. He is the One that we are supposed to receive from daily and when we stop allowing Him to serve in this role, we quickly start looking at our reality more than we do our God and Fear quickly devours the dream. Allowing God to be God of your dreams. In other words, Trust God to such an extent that you stop questioning your role in your dreams, and instead---just prepare for the GOODNESS that is coming your way. Apply Joy, excitement, thrill, anticipation, gratitude—instead of Fear. May God be the blessing of your evening. Daniella.

If someone has treated you in a manner that brought darkest of hurt into your life…if someone made you feel that you weren’t worth it….if the PAIN of life has driven you to an addiction….if right now you sit here reading this feeling hollow inside…please know that you ARE loved by Jesus and you are worth it! There is no hole too deep within our lives that Jesus can’t help you from. No matter where you are tonight in your life, you can open up to Jesus. You don’t need to put formality in to this---just talk to Him. He is the lifter of our heads, and His love is unlike any you’ve ever experienced. Daniella

This is a short blog this evening. But, something has been on my mind today. I have been thinking of validity of our fear towards the Lord Jesus being involved in all areas of our lives. So many of us surrender to Jesus the easy things of life, but guard, with great protection, those areas of life where we’ve been caused the most pain. Convinced that Jesus couldn’t possibly understand just how HURT we truly are, we keep the Lord at arm’s length treating Him as if we feel that the same cruel uncaring heart of the people that we’ve encountered could possibly be housed within our Lord. I’ve been guilty of this action in my own life. The hurt of my child/teen life so evidently alive within my heart… I was sure that I could never truly trust the Lord with those pains. Then I started to read the Bible differently. I saw the Bible as a trusted friend who was unfolding through dialogue the Heart of my Lord and King. Not just an act of healing came out of the Lord, but the act of mercy, love, compassion, tenderness… Not just a man walking to the cross for my sins, but truly a man so determined to never again allow something to separate Him from those He loved, that He would lay His life down as an offering of eternal binding that could never again be broken. I truly started falling in love with Jesus. I became so humbled by the Love that I found within Him. I started to slowly allow the pains of my heart open to the Lord. Of course He had always known what they were, but the act that I was offering was that of involving Him. I asked Him if the same love that He offered to others could be applied to the pain that lived deep within me. Through this act, I have started to feel healing in my life. Are the painful memories still there? Sure…but the pain is not my focus anymore-the Lord’s love is. Blessings--Daniella.

Years ago, my husband and I were on a vacation with my husband’s best friend in the mountain of California. One morning while on a hike, I watched as my husband’s best friend fell to his death right before my eyes. It truly was one of the most devastating moments of my life. The pain was deafening! I felt as if my faith were unraveling around me. I ached for answers from the Lord Jesus. I could not understand why He had chosen to take a life so young. I was angry that He would do something so terribly cruel to those of us that loved him. The details of our friend’s death, I will not linger on. I will just state that they were gruesome. Due to the nature of these details, and all that I saw, I was riddled with nightmares and daily memories haunting my thoughts. My heart seemed as if it could bleed pain. At the memorial service that they had for our friend, I sat with my head in my hands, utterly broken. I just couldn’t believe what we were living through. Minutes before the tragedy, we had been sharing such laughter and plans of new trips we would take. Now, we sat in a service trying to say a “forever goodbye” to our friend. Human reasoning failed to provide any answers to me. Human encouragement offered was nice, but were empty words to my soul. Beautiful on the outside, but once unwrapped, their meaning did nothing to heal my pain. Nothing offered me was going to cause me to “agree” with God that we were better off without our friend. To agree with Him would have been to lie to Him, and I wasn’t going to do that. In order to agree with God, it would require “God sized understanding” and that I didn’t have!!!!!! I only had a broken, desperate, angry, confused human spirit to offer. I still remember coming home from the memorial service falling to the floor and saying, “All I have to offer you is a broken spirit full of confusion, anger towards what you have allowed to happen, and my very frail, unraveled faith. I know you are good, but it doesn’t look like it right now.” An enormous weight was lifted off of me. WHY??? Let me explain. The weight being lifted was this, I began to understand that God wasn’t asking for my agreement, He was asking me to offer Him my brokenness. It was during this event that I realized for the first time that God NEVER expects that we put on a pretense with Him. He wants nothing less than our true emotions, our real fears, our actual worries each of these being offered are music to Him. Not because He wants to see us suffer, but because He knows that a relationship is built on REAL trust and if you cannot trust Him with the reality of your thoughts, your relationship with Him will always be prohibited. It is now some 20 years since the passing of our friend and although I have no human explanation for our loss, I made a commitment on that day of prayer that I would forever be REAL with my Lord. I would no longer feel that I had to “dress my thoughts up for the Lord”. Instead…I come to Him raw every day and wait for Him to fill me. Personal note: human pain such as this event provided in mine and my husband’s life are never going to be explained in this life time. Death is one of the most difficult events we face in life. If you are going through such an event right now in your life, I offer you my deepest respect. May you be blessed even if by one word of this blog. Daniella.

Whether someone else believes in your dream or not really doesn't matter. What matters is if YOU believe in it. Remember it is the Lord Jesus Christ that has written you dreams across your heart. What He authors, He brings to pass. When it seems nothing is moving forward towards your dreams remember that out nothing Jesus Christ created the EARTH. Your reality is not a limit to the Lord Jesus Christ. Stay positive. At the times when we least expect it, the Lord rushes in to turn situations around. May you be blessed this evening. Daniella

I was thinking today about how much we war against doubt in our lives. Such a blanket of emotional discord is sewn within our heart as we swing like a pendulum between faith and doubt. We can awake so full of hope that the dreams we wish for are on fast approach, and before nights end we can be complete defeated as we lay our heads upon the pillow. I know that each of us deal with outside influences. We war with the words of the doubters in our lives daily. We struggle to see beyond the restrictions of our current reality. Each of these and many more are instigators of doubt within our lives, but this evening, I speak more of the battle that each of us are living with our inner dialogue. Have you ever been sitting in front of the T.V., a show be on, and yet be so deep in thought that you have no recollection of the program’s premise? What about the last time that someone was talking to you and yet you were far from “present” in the conversation, so deep in thought that their words drifted by unnoticed? Each one of us listen more to our own assessments, opinions, emotions, determinations….than anyone’s. We have daily access to the love that Jesus Christ holds for us, it’s readily available in the Bible, but the Words are just words in print until you start to allow yourself to believe them for what they are. If each of us spent more of our day believing that Jesus was the One who believes in us, is the author of our dreams, the comforter of the broken heart that we never allow the world to see, compassionate beyond reproach, the best friend who never turns their back, the one who never betrays, and the lifter of our head….we would start to allow a change of heart to spark such a fire within us that when doubt came to war with our faith, we would quickly meet it with such a positive inner dialogue that the doubt would be quickly drowned out. We aren’t supposed to live swinging from one emotion to another. Hebrews 13:8 reassures us that Jesus is the SAME yesterday, today, and FOREVER. This means that the same unbridled passion that burned within the heart of the Lord Jesus Christ the day He died for you, is the same passion in which He views you with today. His love is NEVER any different…it is the love that NEVER fails. No matter how dark your hole in life, no matter how DEEP the pain, no matter how shattered and broken it appears to you….He rushing forward toward you with perfect love, willing to help you. One of the first evidences that He is there helping is that He will lead you to thoughts, people, scriptures…that will start presenting you with the truths of His love. Through this understanding, you will find that your head is being lifted up and you start looking more into the eyes of your Lord, than the difficulties of your present day life. On a personal note: I know the difficulties that you are facing trying to move past the troubles in your life enough to WANT to start listening to anything different. Yet we cannot expect changes to take place if we aren’t willing to start changing something. Don’t feel like you have to change everything at one time. Each strong hold in our mind is broken down over time and a trust that is being built between you and the Lord Jesus Christ. He knows this, understands this, and is willing to work with as the two of you go living in a relationship with one another. Blessings-Daniella

Where does my message find you today? Are you hurting? Do you find life seems to be pressing in more than you feel you can handle? Are there worries in your life that seem insurmountable? Past hurt, do they creep into your everyday thinking seeking to devour any hope you are clawing to? Have you been questioning the dreams you have for your life? Discouragement, has it become synonymous with your self-esteem? Do the painful words that have cut you like a knife try to raise up to cut again? The cycle of doubt, worry, fear, hurts, pains, doubters words…they cause such cavernous emptiness in our lives. And at points, we find ourselves feeling broken. When you find yourself at this juncture in life, desperation can easily start filling your heart. I remember when I reached these cross roads in my life. I still remember falling to the side of my bed and crying out, “How do I heal me? I’m broken. I don’t even know what I need?” Yet it was in that utter desperation that my life took the most powerful turn. I finally saw that there realistically was no way for me to fix myself. Healing my hurt was up to Jesus. I became broken at an early age. Before I even knew what it was like to be “whole” I found out what it was to be broken. I lived in a home of an alcoholic. Although he was a good man, the alcohol spoke louder than his heart. Along with the alcohol came his rage. This rage broke me. I became positive that I was all the reason why his life had come to the state it was in. Many years were lived in this environment. Although I refused to become anything less than a happy person, I lived with an enormous underlying pain within me. I think many of us live as I have, hurting immensely, and yet not willing to trust Jesus enough to start fixing the pain within us. Why would we do such an action? I truly believe it is due to the fact that at some juncture of life, we were taught very misleading information about the love of Jesus Christ. Somewhere along the line, someone discouraged you from being “real” with Jesus (stripped of all formality, raw in your emotion, and truthful of just how much life had hurt you) type of “real”.) I’ve been in love with Jesus Christ since my earliest years, but I kept not letting Jesus Christ be in love with me. I trusted Jesus with almost all of my life, but when it came to the true pains of my life, I decided that the only one that I could trust with that pain-was me! But I hit a brick wall, after many years of trying to hold all the pains of life within me, I came to my point of desperation. I fell to my knees, as I spoke of above, and cried out, “How do I heal me? I’m broken. I don’t even know what I need?” That breaking point that I reached was VITAL to my walk with Jesus. You see, out of that breaking point, I came face to face with one of the most life altering understandings I have ever experienced. I saw, for the first time of my life, that I could no longer trust myself with my pain. I came to a true understanding that I honestly could not heal my own pain. Through seeing this, it concreted my understanding that I WANTED Jesus to be the Lord of All things in my life, not just the areas I thought I could trust Him with, but EVERYTHING. What does this mean? It means that I stopped trying to shut Jesus out of my life due to the fear that He just wouldn’t truly understand how deeply HURT I really was. I slowly started to see that He would be gentler with me than I ever would have been with myself. Where I would spend hours in condemnation of myself, He never once rubbed my nose in my failures. I started to trust that Jesus not only cared about my pain, He was committed to being the healing that I was seeking. I am a work in progress, but I have full trust that Jesus will continue to be gentle and loving as He and I walk this life together. With each step of life, I am learning more and more of the utter love that Jesus truly is for us. On a personal note: When I write to you in these blogs, I share my life’s lessons. I hate to see people hurting. I was hurting for so many years and I felt captive within the pain. I don’t want this for anyone else in life. I am no more than what the Lord Jesus Christ makes me, but in Him…I can offer encouragement to you, and I couldn't be more thankful of this. I praise you, Jesus. You are my love, my friend, my life, my Savior. Blessings be with you this evening. Pastor Daniella. If you are interested in following my Twitter page: https://Twitter.com/PastorDaniella

For tonight's blog, I am sharing one of my past articles that several people have mentioned enjoying. A Life Walked Out, Step by Step Picture Remember being a kid and reaching up with arms out stretched in that universal signal children give of "Pick me up"? You, the kid, were so tired of using your own will to walk around, and instead you wanted someone else to do it for you. Laziness, not really, just a realization that someone else was there that could, in fact, make life easier. When you become a follower of Jesus, you feel the same sort of "relief" is being offered to you again in your life. Yet, we don't always get carried everywhere, do we? What do I mean? Think over the past four years of your life. Make a mental note of the events that have taken place in those years. You might have just listed some very powerful miraculous events, but more than likely, you also listed several moments that didn't feel so miracle filled. Let's leave that mental list on hold for a minute. Instead, follow me in a thought... In life, an incorrect perspective can form. This incorrect perspective can cause a follower of Jesus to feel that Christ is not rendering help unless He is carrying you out of a situation. Remember above I asked you to make a mental note of the events that have taken place in the last four years? Many of those events that you noted weren't situations where you were carried out of the trouble, were they? This didn't mean that Jesus wasn't there for you. Those times you weren't carried were actually times where a deepening of your trust was forming in your relationship with Jesus. The Bible teaches us that we can only please Jesus through faith. Faith is a very difficult idea to maintain in life, isn't it? We fade in and out of this idea many times over the course of our walk with Jesus, but there has to become an underlying base of faith. A foundation that starts to form. The foundation becomes a faith not based on whether Jesus is there for you in a miraculous manner, but rather a firm understanding that Jesus is there for you all the time, no matter what the natural looks like. This faith forms when we start exercising out trust towards Jesus. Times in life when we are not being carried out of a situation serve to further a more personal relationship with Jesus. Remember those times when you were young, when you did ask to be picked up by a parent, and they told you instead that you were going to have to walk. At first, you didn't take it so well. You might have even thrown a bit of a fit at the idea, but as fatigued and frustrated as you were, you still made it. Don't we feel a bit the same way when we realize that the trial we are facing is not going to be one that Jesus will be carrying us out of? What one of us wants to hear that we are going to have to walk out a difficult situation step by step? Yet, if we yield our spirit to humbly learn from Jesus moment by moment, we will find that an inner strength is birthed. This strength is fortified by the relationship that you and Jesus are building as you together walk out, step by step, of the trial you are facing. A new relationship between you and Jesus is taking new form. In place of wavered faith, a new foundation is forming where a vital trust for Jesus is coming to the forefront of your life. This strengthening helps us to understand the very personal relationship Jesus wants from us. Which one of us really wants a God that only shows up for the miracles, and then walks away? I know I don't. I love miracles, but I will not allow life's precious moments of tender help from Jesus pass me by. Pastor Daniella

We often look at the troubles that we are facing in our lives and start wondering WHY the Lord Jesus would allow such troubles in our lives. I remember when I first became a parent, I held my daughter in my arms and vowed I would be all the protection and support I could be for her for the rest of my life. When she first started learning to walk, we would walk hand in hand as her small legs would struggle to build the strength on which to eventually support herself. I still remember the day that she let go of my hand and walked out in front of me, of her own volition. My eyes wide with surprise, joy, and fear. No longer would she need my hand as her guide. No longer would her steps be limited to the path in which I walked. She was on her own. As time passed, her feeble steps would cause her to stumble. With each stumble, I would comfort her, encourage her and give her the support that she needed. Yet I knew that the process of learning to walk often involved these little stumbles. Our relationship is similar to this picture that I have just painted you. Jesus sees our life in the larger picture. We think we do, but honestly…due to our being human we are still limited in our view point of life. Jesus sees the trails that are taking place in our lives as the building blocks that each of us need in order to become all the HE knows we are made of. We look at these trials as insurmountable, He sees them as a part of the process. Had I rushed to my daughter, during the time that she was learning to walk, grabbed her and refused to let her learn to walk out of fear that she might trip…I would have kept her from all she’s gone on to do. One of her favorite experiences has been Irish river dancing. If I had refused her the learning experience, she would never have participated in this exciting event in her life. Jesus sees much this life the same way. I have suffered many difficult events in my life, honestly…they have been so hard. But, due to these events in my life, Jesus has allowed me to share encouragement with many. Jesus knew that these trails that I suffered were not going to be the undoing of me, instead He knew they were going to be what built me in to who I am today. He knows the same of you. What you are facing today are the building blocks for your tomorrow. Jesus knows that He cannot deprive us of all learning experiences because we won’t be correctly ready for what His plans are for our future. The Bible speaks of a Peace that passes all understanding. (Phil. 4:7) Many times in life, I have had to lean on this scripture in order to maintain a trust that although there seems no reasoning to the trials in my life, they all further me towards Jesus’ dreams for me in life. A personal note… Jesus knows the powerful struggle that wars within you to mistrust Him during the troubled times in your life. Please know He loves you even in the middle of this struggle. His love for you never waivers or fails you. If your faith fails you at points, remember His is the same today, yesterday, and tomorrow. He will not turn from you, even if all the trust you can muster is what you are borrowing from Him, He sees this, honors it, and loves you. Blessings on your evening. Pastor Daniella. https:/Twitter.com/PastorDaniella

Where you find your knees buckle with fear. When you find your faith failing, remember we are loved by the Almighty Lord Jesus Christ. He is here for comfort, strengthening, and a borrowing of the immense strength that He can be to your life. Where you can’t, He can. When you strive to for understanding that will justify the frustration, He offers Peace in the interim. When you find that reasoning fails, He knows how to guide you in a trust that will begin to birth within you a strength far beyond what you feel you could ever muster. We are loved by Jesus. This is not a statement, it is life blood to our broken souls. May that Lord’s peace be your abundant guide this evening as you seek to reach out to Him. Pastor Daniella. If you are interested in following me on Twitter https://Twitter.com/PastorDaniella

Daily we battle to keep our minds set in the positive and not the negative. Daily the frustrations mound around us that quickly seek to devour our belief that we are little more than the reality that we are surrounded with currently….and yet we are so much more. Each of us have dreams that are set aflame with in our bellies. Every one of us needs to protect these dreams with the same fervor you would your front door…granting entry only the closest and trusted of friends. We cannot allow ourselves to become consumed by frustrations that quickly come to feed upon our dreams. Frustrations are a part of accomplishment, they are not meant to be the undoing that destroys us. The dreams that are housed within you are ones that the Almighty Lord God has placed within you. Where others would seek to place doubt within you, He wants to build you up. Where still others would place within you fear, He places in you a fervent desire to see your dream through to the end. We cannot allow the whispers of the negative doubters in our lives, become the voices that we listen to above the Lord’s help. It is He, and He alone that is to be the guide that we seek in life. Please, the next time your heart is tempted to give up on your dreams….place within you this question….who is the one telling you to give up? Is it you or God? Most likely…it is you. He means to see your dreams through to the end, but He needs you to believe in Him to bring them to pass. Pastor Daniella.

What holds you back from coming to the Lord? Do you feel he isn’t interested in what you would have to offer? Do you worry that He is someone who will fail you, more than someone who will uphold you? Is your pain speaking louder than anything else in your life? Whatever be the reason, I only want to encourage you that He is patient to work with you. One of the more important understandings that we should come to in life is to accept that Jesus is unlike anyone you’ve ever experienced. Where others would fail to reach out to help you, He ran forward to die for you. Where others would fail to love you, He assures you that there is nothing that can ever sever you from His love. Where others would practice little mercy, He not only practices it, but replaces it with new mercy for you daily. Too many, the Lord Jesus Christ’s name has been no more than a written text in a Bible, left long ago. Many know nothing of a relationship with Him that is current, daily and purposely thriving. The Lord Jesus is so much more than a name in the Bible. He’s the author of love, laughter, joy, comfort, kindness, patience, tenderness, mercy…everything that you wish the multitudes were for one another, He is for us. He seeks a relationship of daily support with you. Daily involvement in your life, not out of wish to control you, but more rather out of desire to love you, to share with you, to strengthen you….to comfort you. Jesus is kind, patient, gentle and willing to give you the time that you need to continue to learn about Him. He wants you to open up to Him, but He knows that it takes time for these actions to unfold from a matter of the mind to a matter of the heart. His love is powerful enough to cover you, while you are on your journey. Pastor Daniella.

Have you ever had a situation in your life take place where, in the natural, someone had every right to be completely upset with you, and yet the refrained for this very action? When this takes place in your life, often…you are struck speechless. Questions soon start to follow their refrain from reacting…bewilderment to why the application of grace is difficult for us to understand. Often, we have been subject to quite the different reaction, haven’t we? In fact, more than not, we find ourselves in the company of the overreaction to our failures. It is here, in the overreactions, that we start to condition our thinking to how Jesus must feel about us. We, at points in our lives, decide that our action is so grievous that even the Lord’s love won’t be able to practice patience upon us so…in turn, we start to harden ourselves against Him. So utterly convinced that He couldn’t love us through a painful situation, that we convinced ourselves that we are left alone to solve our own troubles. Jesus is not the interpretation we have of a hardened Lord. Instead, He is the author of patience, grace, and mercy. He wants a relationship with you. If you have apprehension to a relationship with Jesus due to the fact that you feel He wouldn’t want you, then please understand this is just not the case. He loves you. He will rush to meet even the smallest glimmer of belief that you are willing to offer Him. You are wanted! He does love you and He isn’t just being kind to you in order to suck you further in for the lowering of the boom. This is the way of those who seek to harm, not the way of the Lord. I pray you are blessed by this evening. I know how hard it is to let go of the notion that Jesus wants that relationship with you more than anything. You are not a surprise to Jesus. He seeks all, knows all and LOVES you in full knowledge of it all. Pastor Daniella https://Twitter.com/PastorDaniella or my website: MyAlabasterBox.org

The Lord Jesus Christ knows that it takes time for us to grow into a trusting relationship with Him. Jesus Christ is a very patient God. He will take the time to walk in this relationship with you committed and faithful to your needs. Jesus knows the past pains that are written on your heart. None of what you are surprises Jesus. He understands why mistrusts have developed in your thinking. He knows why the idea of love has become tainted for you. Please, I think too many times in life, we are made to feel that if we don’t just instantaneously trust Jesus the minute we hear of Him, that we are lesser followers of Christ. This is not the case! We are in an ever evolving relationship with Jesus. Time builds relationships. As we continue on our journey with the Lord, the history of our timeline with him starts to fortify how we truly see Him. Where others told you to give up, Jesus encouraged you to press on. When others failed you, Jesus upheld you. When the false foundations that your life was built on started to crumble, Jesus rushed to meet you and remind you that it is He that you can build your life upon. Each of these scenarios are ways in which we can see that it is our journey with the Lord that begins to feed our trust for Him. What we can do in the interim? Trust that He is all that He says that He is and then allow yourself to be open to the relationship that He is greatly desiring to have with you. I know that many of you are hurting in your lives. So many of us are facing confusing and troubling issues. Yet we cannot allow ourselves to keep the Lord at arm’s length. We were designed to live in a relationship of being constantly fed by the Lord’s love. When we don’t allow trust to develop between ourselves and the Lord, we are neglecting the very One who has been sent to help us. To trust is difficult for many of us, but Jesus has already given His life in order that you would never worry that He wasn't committed to you. God’s blessings for your evening. Pastor Daniella https://Twitter.com/PastorDaniella

I pray that this year we are able to progress in our ability to see the good in people long before we focus on the bad. I pray that the Love that Christ is providing for us daily is something that we allow ourselves to find shelter in. I pray that as His Love becomes more of a focus for us, that we start to find ourselves able to allow more healing of our heart’s aches. Although many of the pains we have endured cannot be fixed, they can have the Lord’s comfort placed over them and in turn a Peace is allowed to be birthed within us. I pray that we find joy where is seems frustration is all that is on the horizon. I pray that we remember that dreams come about due to the Glory of the Lord, not the validation of others. I pray these things because the Lord Jesus Christ has made it possible for us to come to Him every day/hour/minute of our lives. We love you, Lord. Amen. Pastor Daniella If you would like to follow me Twitter https://Twitter.com/PastorDaniella Blessings on your evening.

Protect your dreams in the same way you would your front door...let only trusted people in. A small thought for the moment. Pastor Daniella.