May we remember that EACH time that we pray, Jesus does hear us. May this year be a year that we find more peace in this thought. Jesus is at work in our lives. He's already active on the prayers that your heart just released in your life. Please, at the onset of this new year, I pray you find more and more of this understanding in your life. Pastor Daniella

As this new year rings end, I pray that there is a blessing granted over 2014. I pray that Peace of Mind becomes the main stable of our thinking this year. I pray that we remember to praise even when it seems there’s nothing to praise about. I pray that when our hearts are tempted to doubt, we press forward and remember that it is Jesus Christ we are doubting and He’s already died to show you the level of commitment He has to you. I pray we remember He is the Lord who seeks to lift our heads, and build us up. I pray that dreams are fulfilled for each of us this year. God’s fullest blessing for all of you. Pastor Daniella. Https://Twitter.com/PastorDaniella

The Lord Jesus works wonders in our lives, but many times they're preparations are done in secret. Jesus loves to surprise us with the break seemingly spontaneous gifts of the Lord Jesus. It takes great faith for us to believe that more than just frustrations await us in the near future, it just does, but trusting Jesus that He knows what blessings will benefit us most, from whom they will come, and when they will be applied in our lives, will provide great peace to our lives. His ways, aren’t our ways (Isaiah 55:8-9) and due this fact, we must trust that blessings are coming, even if we can’t see them on the horizon...for what we would make obvious, the Lord does in secrete. God’s fullest blessings for you this evening. Keep your head up, the Lord loves you more than you’ve yet come to understand and all that love is directed at helping you. Pastor Daniella https://Twitter.com/PastorDaniella

When is the last time you saw the onset of trouble on the horizon and all you wanted to do was run the other way? It is interesting how troubles of life quickly make us feel isolated from the comfort of others. One of the most important areas of life is starting fully believing that you aren’t in the life alone. You may be excluded from the empathy of others at different points of your life, but you are NEVER without the consistency of the Lord Jesus Christ’s love, comfort, and support. Where we falter is by applying restrictions on what this love, from Jesus, should look like. Too often we think that the exclusion from difficulties is a sure sign that Jesus’ love is faithfully available for us. Yet the Bible counteracts this thinking by trying to pre-warn us that troubles are a part of this life, but that this trouble NEVER defines His thinking over you. I know the hollow feeling that can creep into my heart at points of life where I would start to feel as if there was no hope for comfort with the onset of a problem. Yet Jesus, more than anyone else in the history of mankind, has tasted the bitterness of separation, abandonment, betrayal, gossip….. We cannot allow ourselves to apply others failures onto the character of our Lord Jesus Christ. He loves us not out of an obligation more rather because He would settle for nothing less. He placed His body upon the cross and spilled His blood in order that there would never again, in all of history, be a time that we couldn’t reach out to Him. So come to Him, no matter the trouble on the horizon, come to Him. If you are confused how to start coming to Him, start first by realizing that Jesus is big enough to handle all that you need to throw at Him, so if you need to dump a life time of hurt on Him by communicating all that you feel is wrong and painful in your life, then dump it! He’s big enough to take anything you need to say. Stand/sit/walk/run/drive/swim….whatever position you need to be in, just start talking with Him. That ABOVE ALL else is what He is looking for…that daily contact within you. It is out of this constituency that you are offering Him, that you will find the comradery you are seeking and due to this…the next time that troubles face you, you will start to feel more will come out of your praying with Jesus than will your running away from the troubles. Pastor Daniella

Each of us have heard some variation of the idea of placing our burdens upon the Lord, or bringing all we are and placing it at the feet of Jesus, but does this idea mean for our lives? There is a cross roads in life that many of us come to where we are faced head on with a true realistic view of who we are and what we would be without the Lord’s love in our lives. Yet, so many of us ignore truly what that reality is to produce in our lives. Some to these cross roads, turn and run in the other direction-willfully ignoring the need to see the Love of Jesus for the transformation that it is offering you. For other, they come to the cross roads, see the Love of Jesus for what it is and determine that they cannot be worth such love. Then there are the few that come to this cross road between SELF and the Love of Jesus and they are transformed. Humbled by a Love so great, and yet sustained in their desire to know more of this love in their life…they press onward. It is here, in the heart of those who press forward in the Love of Jesus Christ, that true life WITH Jesus births sustenance in your life. Jesus seeks a relationship with you that is VERY PERSONAL. I call it a “Finger Print Relationship”. This finger print relationship refers to those of us that are seeking to walk with the Lord with such vigor in our hearts that we are unwilling to give in to the human nature to run away in shame of past sins, or pride that we don’t need the intricate involvement of the Lord in our lives. The fingerprint relationship that Jesus is seeking with you is so personal that you being to seek it above all other influences in your life. We aren’t just loved, we are wanted! We aren’t just wanted-we are desired above all else. We are desired so much that the Lord Jesus placed His life on a cross and died to bring the reality of our daily relationship into fruition. You see, Jesus has already given His FULL commitment to us. We aren’t waiting on Him to keep His end of the deal and He isn’t waiting on us to keep ours. What He is doing, is loving you, right where you stand, right where you find life right now….just loving you. When you decide to place your burdens on the Lord or bring all you are to the Lord, you are allowing yourself to become in AGREEMENT with Jesus that you TRUST Him to be what you cannot be for yourself. We are in desperate need for the Lord Jesus Christ, but until we are willing to see that statement for all that it is…we will be stuck in our own form of “wilderness wandering”. When you place yourself in agreement with Jesus that you need Him, He doesn’t hold the fact over your head and beat you down about it. Instead, he immediately begins repair on your heart’s pains. He aids your ability to start learning more deeply of what it means to have HIS LOVE as the sustenance of your life. He draws near to you and works to let you know that no matter what you have done in life….you are His and He loves you. Personal note: I know this journey is a very difficult one, but I am trying to aid your walk. We are more loved than we understand, by the Most High Almighty Lord Jesus. This love with transform your life from whatever it HAS BEEN to whatever it is going to be. The Lord Jesus is very patient and more than willing to build a binding/lasting trust between you. He knows it takes time, after all…He’s the One that made you. God’s blessing be with you this evening. In Christ, Pastor Daniella.

Tomorrow is a blessing waiting to unfold.  Place your faith in this hand's of the Lord Jesus, asking that your eyes be gifted in seeing the day as the Lord sees it.

He sees the potential for growth in every event.  We just see discomfort.  It is when we start to understand that everyday's events aren't always go according to plan, that we can truly start to live with the mentality that every day is a blessing.
Pastor Daniella.

Tonight, I feel like sending out a prayer. 

Jesus,

Thank you again for being the light of our lives.  Thank you for being the positive within the negative, for being the drive within us to better ourselves and the world around us.  We want to come to you and ask a blessing on each of us reading this for the coming year.  We ask Lord that you will walk before us as we strive to understand more of your love and how to live within it.  We pray that you are our guide within the trying times, the stamina that we will need to keep pressing forward and allowing past troubles to lose their power over us.  Each one of us is in need of your love to become so very real to us in our lives.  We don’t want to just understand you as a matter of the mind, but more rather experience you as a matter of the heart.  We once again praise you for all that you are and we lay this prayer at your feet knowing that you have heard us and that you are fast at work to aid us where we are in need of you.  You are our best friend, Lord, and Savior. Please grace us with the patients to face each day in its fullest state.  In your Name, Lord Jesus…Amen. https://twitter.com/PastorDaniella

In Christ, we’ve been shown mercy when mercy should have failed.  We’ve been shown grace, when none should have been offered.  We’ve been loved when love……….but that’s just it.  We’ve been shown Love.  Real love, not just the type that we write about in a romance novel, or slap on the side of a product.  I speak of real love, the type that alters lives. 

The more my life becomes healed of the hurts, the more I become so occultly aware of the Love that Jesus is offering us.  My mind’s eye isn’t as focused on all that has failed me, but more rather captivated by the Love the Lord is offering.

We overcome evil with good.  With the love that we are being offered from Jesus Christ, we are living this statement first hand. You can’t alter the past, you can only press forward to make sure that the future is not effected by them.  In Christ, this is possible.  His love can fill in holes that have been left by the pains we’ve suffered.  It doesn’t mean that you forget what’s taken place.  You don’t. What one of us forgets painful abuses, abandonment, betrayals…? More rather, you find that His love starts to mean more to you than holding on to the hurt does.
This healing that I speak of is possible for all of us.  It takes time.  But the Lord Jesus is a patient healer.  He knows the difficulties you face when you trying to allow painful events to pass on. It is He that already extended the offer of healing to you.  He’s willing to take His time with you. Please, trust that there is more to life than having to walk around with the weight of a painful past upon your shoulders.  I pray blessings on your life.  Pastor Daniella https://Twitter.com/PastorDaniella

Each day, we should seek to do right. Not because we think it will cause us placement within the Lord’s heart…but more rather because we’ve been shown love when we didn’t deserve it.  We’ve been shown mercy, when mercy should have failed.  We’ve been shown grace, when none should have been offered.  We are loved just as we are.  We are the light of the Lord’s heart.  He rejoices over us.  Look at yourself, do you find areas to be rejoiced over within you?  The Lord does and honestly…that’s all that matters.  His love is pure and unselfish.  His love gives WELL BEFORE it takes.  His love heals the brokenness within us, but we have to be willing to allow the Lord’s love to become the reality that we stare at in a given day...not listing all that is failing to go the way we planned it.
God loves you.  It has taken me years to more fully understand what this statement means to our lives.  Sure, we’ve all heard it, but it isn’t until you start to place this statement as a foundation within your heart and mind, that you start to see the effects of it.  It is His audience that we should seek first.  It is upon His passion for us that we should rest our head.  It is His Love that your head is Lifted. God’s fullest blessings upon your evening.  

There is no temptation too deep, no failure too large that the Lord Jesus Christ isn’t willing to love you out of.  We are loved by the Lord. That statement seems untrue when you are neck deep in pain, but it is true.  Jesus loves NOT as others love.  He knows where life has taken you, and what you have done and with all that on His mind, He walked to the cross and placed it upon Him.  He placed it upon Him in order that you would be able to live a daily life of connection with Him and the love He has to offer.
Please know, I understand that sometimes it seems a joke that the Lord could love you where you find yourself now.  But, He’s just that good.  Above all, please allow yourself to believe that a love that powerful lives in Jesus, and He wants to share it with you. God bless your evening. Pastor Daniella https://Twitter.com/PastorDaniella 

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I sat down tonight to write my Blog and all that was on my heart was a small prayer. If you'd like to join me.

Thank you Lord for this past year.

For mindsets broken, and dreams set a fire.

For troubles diverted, and trials lifted.

For changes set in motion, and hearts mended.

For Peace granted, and Kindnesses shown.

For surprises of your greatness, and moments of quiet meditation.

Jesus, you are our Lord, we ask for your blessings upon this newly coming year.

We ask for strength where the road seems to be crumbling

And support where solutions seem to fail us.

When you see our last hope start to flicker, please help to ignite us again.

Where we struggle for answers, please grant us the Grace to choose Peace over understanding.

You are the Almighty Lord.

You have loved us first, there will never be a way to thank you enough for such an act.

Amen.

I hope you have a blessed evening. Pastor Daniella.

Jesus didn't promise that we were going to understand all that He was going to ask of us, instead...He promised that He would give us a Peace that would pass all understanding.  This Peace many times comes in the form of a renewed Spirit that we take on.  This Spirit helps us to feel that we don't have to understand in order to trust. Instead, we start learning that we are going to trust even though we have an utter lack for the understanding to the plans of the Lord.

Human reasoning wants to understand before we go forward.  Yet with Jesus, He stretches us and MANY times...He asks for faith when it seems there is no reason to apply it.  He asks for trust, when you feel as if you have little to offer.  Jesus stretches us.  But, I want you to take heart in that statement, because what Jesus asks of us, He always has GIVEN us a supply of well in advance. 

He will not ask for something you are not capable of giving.  I know it seems this an impossible statement at points in your life.  I understand, I’ve been there too.  But, Jesus knows us better than we know ourselves and it is from that well of information that He makes His requests. He knows He’s not going to let you fail, but we don’t.  We try to place trust in all that we believe He will do for us, all the while we question…”will this be that time that I fall flat on my face? Will this be the situation that I fall beyond the Lord’s reach on?” 

Jesus is Faithful. He will not ask for your trust if He hasn’t already shown Himself to be trustworthy.  He won’t ask for your faith if He hasn’t already shown His faith……and He has.  Remember, He’s the One that walked to the cross in the ultimate show of Love for you.  Take Heart, Jesus is here to lift your head, sometimes we just have to learn what it means to look up.  Pastor Daniella https://Twitter.com/PastorDaniella    

Most of you reading this remember when you finally reached driving age. The anticipation of this date is one of those more landmark periods along the timeline of your life. For me, this date was going to hit shortly after my return from summer camp.  I was in great anticipation of this event. One because honestly, what teen isn’t, and Two- I am a Petrol Head, I love cars.

The entire time I was at camp, I thought about this momentous event coming to fruition in my life. When I returned home from camp, my father came to pick me up from my friend’s house. Prior to our walking out the door, he told me that he had bought me a car to start driving. My eyes lit up. I rushed out the door.  What await me was a Monte Carlo SS. I was beside myself. (for you fellow car people out there, it had a Corvette engine that had been dropped into it--it was a JET) Okay, back to my story. This Monte Carlo was an utter surprise.  I had been asking my dad what I was going to start driving well before camp and nothing was really coming of the asking, or so it seemed!!

I bring this story to light because I am often reminded of it when I start to wonder if God is hearing my prayers.  You see, for months I had pestered my dad due to the curiosity of what I was going to be driving, but it seemed that the answer was not coming.  Discouragement wanted to set in. Questions began to mull through my mind…”Wasn’t he excited about my starting to drive? He was the one that got me excited about cars at young age, why was he seemingly dragging his feet now? Questions bombarded my teenage mind as to the determination of my dad to find me a car. I started to become  sure that his lack of action meant that he wasn’t planning on doing anything to solve the matter. Don’t we do this to God?  We start assuming that His perceived lack of action means His desire not to assist us, at all ?  We look for tangible things to give validity that God wants to bring something to fruition in our lives, but many times…just like with my dad…He is working behind the scenes.

The car that my dad bought me has been the favorite of my life. Years have gone by since I received that gift, and yet I’ve never forgotten the lesson behind it…just when it seems that God hasn’t heard your prayers, just when it seems giving up is the only reasonable answer in life…God surprises you with a greater gift than you thought imaginable.  Wait upon the Lord, He’s got more planned for you than you were originally thinking. Pastor Daniella https://Twitter.com/PastorDaniella or my website http://pastordaniellaministries.weebly.com 

Beauty can be found among the thorns of life. Many times, it is a matter of changing our perspective. What at first may seem a curse can in fact come to be a blessing. 

The stumbling blocks of today, May be the FOUNDATION that you build upon tomorrow.  Please keep your head up. Pastor Daniella.  https://Twitter.com/PastorDaniellahttp://pastordaniellaministries.weebly.com

I often think on what damage it is to us that we don’t fully understand that Love that Jesus Lives to give us. The word Love seems almost deplete of its meaning now days. How is it that the same word “Love” that drove Jesus to a cross can be the same word used to describe a candy bar? Life has served me some pretty hard hits. Many of them have been very damaging to my soul…but through them all, Jesus has shown a constant love for me.. The Love that Jesus has shown me has honestly changed my life. NOT in a “great slogan for the next Christian sign” type of way. No, in a REAL LIFE APPLICATION way. You see, the Love of Jesus Christ came FIRST to love me. In other words, He saw all that I wasn’t going to be and loved me with all those frailties attached. He knew the places in life where the damage from pain in my life was going to be a stumbling block, He knew that there would be times where I would war greatly against doubting that all would work out for my good, and none of it changed His mind against me. The SAME holds true for each of you. Jesus knows you, better than you know you, and still He Loved FIRST! He didn’t tell us to change and then come…instead, He just said, “Come…Just as you are…I love you for Who you are, right now.” This love is a One of Kind that only the Lord Jesus can extend. We are so fortunate to be loved by the Lord. Loved-accepted, wanted, forgive (just as you are), cared for, treasured, needed, rejoiced over, cherished…. To each of you that reads this, please I know life has been hard. I’ve been there too. The trials seem to flow quickly into our lives, but there is ONE thing that is never changing and that is the Love of the Lord Jesus Christ for us. Please, no matter how hard life pushes, don’t let it push you away from the Real Love of Jesus Christ. Pastor Daniella https://Twitter.com/PastorDaniella or http://pastordaniellaministries.weebly.com/index.html

A book, a spread sheet-seemingly a mile long-lay before me. Written within this book, each time that I had fallen short of where I needed to be, the numerous wrongs I have committed, whether intentional or accidental, they are all written within these pages. My eyes read down this list…so long, so embarrassing, so numerous and at the end of the book, I see written in pen- I don’t keep records of your wrongs. Of course, there is no book like this, but I say these things in order to make a point. We look over our life’s story and our mind drifts to focus on all of the wrongs committed and feel that these wrongs will eternally keep us from being a pleasure to Jesus. Yet this is just not true. But this feeling of inadequacy quickly strips us of a relationship that Jesus is waiting to have with us. We do sin, each of us, and we shouldn’t want to have this in our lives, but it is. I think what saddens the Lord more than the sin is that we allow the sin to keep us from His love because we consider ourselves unlovable. The Lord’s desire is to share in a life with us. Don’t allow a list of wrongs that have already been wiped clean by the Lord’s blood, to keep you from the full relationship that the Lord wants with you. Trust me, Jesus isn’t focused on it, why should you be? Pastor Daniella https://Twitter.com/PastorDaniella

When the difficult times arise within your life, and you start to understand that you are not going to be delivered out of the problem, but instead made to walk through it...what thoughts float through your mind? Do you still believe Jesus a Mighty Power? Do you still view Him Faithful? The ways of the Lord, in many cases, seem foreign to us. We see trials in our lives, and quickly start to look for the release. Jesus sees trials as a chance to bring us closer to an understanding that He, and He alone, is our life’s strength. Where we see pain, He sees change. Where we see fear, He sees assured security. We panic, He rests. We are being loved by the Lord, but I think we honestly forget just WHO the Lord is sometimes. His Mighty Power: The Lord who is in our lives is the very One who came, walked the Earth and with such immeasurable compassion poured forth a love so powerful, so immeasurable, that it broke the hold of Death Forever. His love so omnipotent that not even the strongest army of Hell could overcome it. This powerful Lord, This compassionate, tenderhearted man is the very same One who comes to minister to us when it is our time of trial. The very same man who walks with you during the dark hours of life and celebrates with you when even the smallest of your dreams starts to come to fruition. His Faithfulness: There is no equal, for when we fail to hold our own against the storms that rage against us, He never loses faith in us nor His love for us. To be loved by the Lord Jesus Christ is like nothing else you will experience in your life. His commitment to you has already been shown, He was nailed to the cross for you. His love for you, continues to unfold. Life’s difficulties don’t always make sense, most of them I am still trying to sort out, but what I do know…I know that Jesus is my Lord and that He and He alone is the source of my life. He loves me broken as I am at points, and His commitment to me far outweighs my troubles of this life. When troubles come your way, please take a minute to remember just WHO the Lord Jesus Christ really is. Pastor Daniella https://Twitter.com/PastorDaniella

Think of the last time that someone blessed your life by believing in you. We all possess the gift of encouragement. We just have to be willing to step out and say something. Please be that blessing for someone tomorrow. Pastor Daniella https://twitter.com/pastordaniella

Worry, Doubt and Fear will war against your dreams the closer you get to seeing them coming to fruition. When these emotions flood your thoughts TRUST that if Jesus placed the dream within you then He means to see it through to the end. Trust that no matter what reality seeks to dictate to your future, it holds no weight upon it. We cannot stare more at the elements of life that seek to break you than the Lord Jesus Christ who seeks to build you. I know just how hard it is to dig deep and allow your Trust in Jesus to lead you more than you do the fears, worries, and doubts, but through this journey of trust, you will find a relationship will develop between you and Jesus that NOBODY can ever take away from you. Pastor Daniella https://Twitter.com/PastorDaniella

We are told not to worry, and yet we do. We are told to pray about everything, and yet many times, it is the last resort effort we take action in. Tell God all that we are in need of….do we? Or do we find ourselves putting on a “BRAVE FACE” for the Lord? Do we stop short of laying it out on the line of what we are in need of? If there is any place in life that we should be showing the entirety of the souls needs, pains, worry, doubts, and brokenness, shouldn’t it be with the Lord Jesus Christ? Why do we fall so far short of allowing Jesus to BE all He can be for us? Honestly….it is because so many of us have not yet truly come to an understanding that we are LOVED AS IT! We are loved right in the middle of the doubt. We are loved directly in the center of the utter failure of efforts that are crashing down upon us. We are loved even while we are not even sure if He will ever want us. We are just loved! Life isn’t like this, is it? We are too often loved for the actions taken or the things we offer to others, not just loved for LOVES SAKE. But that is the sort of love being offered to us from Jesus. Why is it so hard to believe in? Because it is a ONE OF A KIND type of love. It is the authentic, real deal, one of a kind love of the Lord Jesus Christ and only He knows how to use it…and He is seeking to show you just how glorious His love is. The next time doubt wars against you telling you that you aren’t good enough for the Lord Jesus Christ to fuss with, war against that thought and remember…YOU ARE LOVED AS IS! Pastor Daniella https://Twitter.com/PastorDaniella or MyAlabasterBox.org

The Lord Jesus Christ never fails to show up to assist us.  Sometimes the assistance will not look as you were hoping. Most of us hope for deliverance rather than endurance.  Jesus sees where we need to be for future blessings, and due to this He knows where the hardships that we face in the present are ones that will be walked out or ones that we can be quickly delivered from.    
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Jesus offers His love to you with a FULL understanding that it is HE that is perfect, not you.  Jesus knows that you are going to have days that go better and days that all seems to fail.  He created you so that He could have a relationship with you.  Relationships aren’t perfect all the time, no instead the beauty in a relationship is found in the camaraderie that comes about during the journey of the relationship.  Yet you are not going to enjoy this journey with the Lord Jesus if you continue to think that Jesus is upset with you when your actions fail.  His heart is not the heart of a condemner, His heart is full of tenderness, compassion, patients, and kindness. He cannot deny the very nature of WHO He is. When we fail to be all we can be, His FIRST reaction towards us is to offer us LOVE.  He doesn’t have to talk himself in to showing this compassion, no instead, it is His nature.   Please,  The next time that you find yourself on the flip side of wrong actions, don’t beat yourself up…instead.. come to Jesus, tell Him you are sorry and then spend the next few minutes letting your spirit be filled by remembering just how much you are loved with Jesus.  You are not a surprise.  He knew all that you were going to do in life, and still chose to give His life for you.  Pastor Daniella You can feel free to follow me on Twitter. Https://Twitter.com/PastorDaniella or find me on the web at MyAlabasterBox.org
 

If you are finding yourself in a state of confusion tonight, please take heart. Jesus loves you even while you are doubting Him. Jesus seeks to lift your head, but He will be patient with you as you learn what it means to trust not the world, but Him. If you enjoyed this, please feel free to follow me at Twitter: https://Twitter.com/PastorDaniella or visit my website: MyAlabasterBox.org

" Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. 7 If you do this, you will experience God's peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6 NLT

Fear is the tool the Devil uses to shackle our dreams. I spent multiple years of my life fighting greatly the calling that the Lord has placed on my life. Why would I fight such a calling? Honestly, it was due to the fact that life had broken my heart to such a degree that I was not sure how someone in so much pain could be used by the Holy Lord God. Then life started to change. The birth of my children came and a healing started in my life. I saw that broken people can love deeply and more than they ever thought possible. I saw that out of damage comes understanding. I was allowed to glimpse that Jesus wasn’t in love with me for what I gave Him, but more rather what He wanted to share with me. You see, all I could offer Him was a box of shattered beliefs and hopes. What He could offer me was a lifetime of patiently putting me back together in order to be stronger than I ever had been before. Jesus was more than aware of my brokenness, but He also could see into my future and knew that with His love at my side, I would share with the world just how much healing is available in a relationship with Jesus. Jesus had more faith in me than I have ever had in myself. I found Peace in this understanding. I saw that Jesus was unlike other love I had in my life. In place of my pain he sought to fill me with a rightful understanding of what it means to be loved by the Lord Jesus Christ. This has and will continue to be a very long process, but each day my brokenness finds a little bit more wholeness. To be loved not based on action but instead just solely on the fact that you belong to Jesus, honestly… I have never had so much PEACE. Praise you Lord. Pastor Daniella. Please feel free to follow me on Twitter https://Twitter.com/PastorDaniella or my website MyAlabasterbox.org God's fullest blessings be with you.

Jesus promises never bring more on us than we can handle. This statement seems a myth at points of life doesn’t it? When we are at the heart of a troublesome time in life, we often find it very hard to observe with an optimistic eye. Frustrations come to rest upon our shoulders and we clench our teeth, and trudge through them all the while seemingly gasping for deliverance. I know I have found my life in this circumstances more than I can number. Jesus doesn’t want us to merely endure this life. He died in order that we would not only Have life, but that we would enjoy this life and have joy to such a level that it would outpour from us. (liberties taken with John10:10) Yet in our natural state we picture reasons to have joy and while many of those that we would list are not incorrect in their provision of joy, they are not the source of joy. Circumstances are as temporary as a fading sunset. There for moments of utter bliss only to dissipate with the passing of time. Try applying this statement to your own life. Think of the last time you were on a vacation and although it be that your circumstances were nearly perfect, an event of disruption takes place (a missed flight, a wrecked rental car, a lost wallet) and within minutes you relaxed vacation derails. If we depend on our life’s circumstances to be the catalyst to our joy, we will find ourselves not only in a very temporal existence. We’ve been fed a lie by life. This lie… Joy is a feeling and not a choice. The truth is the polar opposite. We are to have joy by choice, not by feeling. Joy that is applied even when all the flights are cancelled. Joy that allow you freedom to apply peace even when faced with one of the most difficult life circumstances you’ve been up against. Joy when all else seems to be failing in your life. The source of this Joy is found in knowing that you don’t have to understand the WHY of all of life’s events. Joy found in the ability to realize that you only live under the illusion that you have control over all that goes on in your life, and instead the One Who is in control is the VERY One Who went to the CROSS to save your life. I understand that struggle it is to apply joy in life. I too have faced many difficult situations. I am facing one right now, but instead of falling down in fear, I am applying JOY out of choice. Jesus knows the needs that I have facing me, as well as the ones that I will require next week/month/year. I would like to share one of my favorite scriptures with you. Please, if it ministers to you as it does to me, allow it to penetrate your heart and seed itself deep within you. From it, you will receive such strength. “I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.” John 16:33 God fullest blessings for you. Pastor Daniella. Follow me on Twitter https://twitter.com/PastorDaniella or my website: MyAlabasterBox.org

The events of life that seem to be blowing us off course, many times are the ones actually sent as “course correctors”. It seems that more than enough events come into our lives without any forewarning. We see this lack of awareness as being caught off guard, Jesus sees an opportunity to work within us without preconceived notions as to what the solutions will be. This sort of ambiguity can be very difficult on the human spirit. We feel we exert faith best when we have a glimmer of where the deliverance will come from. But what about those situations in life that come to haunt us where no glimmer of deliverance seems on the horizon? Jesus Christ is no stranger to the struggles that we face here on Earth as we fluctuate between Faith and Despondency. His prayers in the Garden of Gethsemane are proof to His understanding of this fluctuation. He loved each of us with such profound love and knew that the only way to save us was to die, but His flesh warred greatly within Him to save itself from the agony that awaited. Faith requires belief. This belief burns like an unquenchable fire that is fueled by an acceptance that above all-Jesus is good, good even when current circumstances leave you wanting for more evidence to this fact. When we are reaching out to Jesus in those times when it seems that all you are able to conjure up is meager Faith…We are offering our Utmost to Him. You might envision this act of Faith as weak, but in reality, Jesus knows what you place within His hands is a precious gem. When you are broken by life’s circumstances and standing stripped of control over your life, vulnerability is very heightened. Jesus is fully aware of what you place in His hands when you offer faith to Him even when all reality tells you not to play that card. Jesus is, by nature, GOOD. No matter what your life’s circumstances are right now, it has no weight on the reality that Jesus lives For You at all times. The same Love that Drove Him to the Cross is the Same Love that He lives out Daily for you. Above all else- Jesus is Good and it is out of that Goodness that He offers love. Pastor Daniella. Follow on Twitter https://twitter.com/PastorDaniella or my website:http://pastordaniellaministries.weebly.com/

Clarity to life's issues does not come through our unobstructed view, but more rather through our offering TRUST to the Lord Jesus Christ. Many times the deliverance that awaits us will not be provided where you expected, but instead by an avenue that the Lord has anointed to assist you. Our inability to SEE where the deliverance will take place has no effect on the reality of it being there. We serve a Mighty God. Sometimes in life, you need to just learn how to let Him show you just how Mighty He really is. Pastor Daniella Follow me on Twitter at : https://Twitter.com/Pastordaniella or my website MyalabasterBox.org

You are loved-As Is. This statement seems a lie, doesn’t it? After all, so many of us have been loved based on performance, or lack thereof. A battle takes place within-a struggle- to believe that we are loved by Jesus Christ in the state in which we are found…it seems the making of a great let down. We’ve all loved and lost. We’ve all wished only to have that diminished. What one of us hasn’t believed only to have the belief seem to make a fool out of you? These events of life can easily become the building blocks by which a foundation of beliefs about Jesus is formed. Too quickly we place the discouragements brought on by the failures of others in our lives to Jesus. Jesus loves NOT as others do. The love of Jesus Christ is WHOLE upon presentation. Jesus does not offer love only to receive it back. He IS LOVE! He offers the entirety of what Love is and in return only makes one request…. Please believe that my love is ALL YOU NEED. I remember the first time that my daughter got her heart broken over a difficult event in her life. I sat at the table with her, held her hands and asked her to look into my eyes. I told her of my love for her and that NO matter what took place in her life that I would never change the love I had to offer for her. I tried to help her see that the opinions of how others saw her would never be the foundation of how I would see her. My attempt at a comparison does fall quiet short seeing as He is the Almighty Lord Jesus, and I am merely a human, but I hope you can see the reason for the example. We are loved by Jesus by a self-sustained love. He doesn’t wait around for your actions OR the opinions of others to dictate to Him how He is going to see you. Instead, He arms Himself in love and then offers it freely. I have said it before, but it warrants the repetition, one of the GREATEST harms of life is that many people have NEVER experienced the REAL love that Jesus Christ has died to offer you. Tonight, just for practice, say to yourself….I am loved by Jesus Christ. Not for WHAT I do, but for the MERE fact that HE WANTS TO LOVE ME! Broken, addicted, betrayed, heart sick, confused…..there is not a state of emotions that you find yourself in that the Lord Jesus isn’t willing to BE love for you. The largest step forward that you can take is to just believe in the LOVE. Whether you can understand Why the Lord would want to love you makes no difference to the reality of what He offers you. Personal Note: I’ve been there. Broken and in desperate need for repair. The Lord Jesus’ love has saved my life in more than one way. Pastor Daniella Https://Twitter.com/pastordaniella or follow my webpage: http://pastordaniellaministries.weebly.com

Jesus Christ does not see our lives here on Earth as the finality that we are naturally inclined to see them. Due to this fact, many of the actions that take place here seem upsetting to our human nature. They will be this until we are granted a further understanding into His thinking. Until that time...the Earth and we created by Him Groan for His coming. Pastor daniella

There is no way to reason loss. My prayers are with the family of Paul Walker. I offer comfort and support also to his friends. There is no way to reason pain of this nature. God bless you all with His comfort.