Never allow the words of the doubters in your life take residence within your heart. You will encounter many people in life that will not share the same dream for you as what has been placed in your heart. I think that many of us can easily be discouraged from our dreams when we look for other people’s opinions to give validity to the dreams housed within us. The trouble with this thinking lies in the fact that it is only God that we are to look to for validation in life. God is the author of your dreams. They reside inside your heart because He placed them there. He believes in you more than you do your own self. When you look to God for validation of your dreams, you are looking for the very ONE who authored them to be written across your heart. Allowing Him to be the fuel by which you set fire to your dreams, is to tap in to an endless well of support. May God be the fuel you are seeking for your dreams this evening. I wish you the very best. Pastor Daniella.

There are so many times in life where it feels that our human will and the will of the Lord Jesus Christ have come to an impasse. The will we were born with seeks to rush forward in order that quick resolution is made of any difficulty we are facing. The will of Jesus, doesn’t always align itself with us. It is in these times that many of us have to cling to the belief that when we yield our will to the Lord we are actually opening up doors for Him to further in our lives. One of the worst parts of this yielding is the waiting period. That period of time where you are yielding and yet you seem not to be seeing any results from your actions. When you are feeling yourself begin to question the Lord’s commitment to resolve situations in your life…when you are feeling yourself begin to worry more than trust...please keep your head up and involve Jesus. Don’t feel that you have to place a false face of bravery on for Him. Involving Jesus means that you share with him all the troubles you are facing, where you are beginning to feel yourself fail, and how you need Him. We are loved more than we truly understand, by the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the lifter of our heads. Allow Him in. Pastor Daniella.

 I know that it is a daily struggle to believe for the best. 

Each of us is living with circumstances in our lives that can, if focused on long enough, steal our sense of Hope so quickly. I cannot encourage you more to please, hold on tight to hope.  

I grew up in a home that was being such dry of hope daily.  A loss of hope is one of the most astoundingly large black holes.  Many times in life, hope is not a product of your current circumstances.  In fact, many times in life...Hope is a result of a deliberate decision that you fill yourself with.  I often say that hope is what we choose because we have decided that nothing less with do.

If you are someone struggling with great difficulty to hold on to hope, please first of all do not feel you are the one this happens to.  Secondly, know that holding on to you hope is very important.  Getting in to agreement with doubt is not the answer.  Doubt is not a merciful thought.  Doubt will seek to break not only your hope but to utterly deplete your life of anything that you could use as fuel to start hoping again.  

What steps can you take to hold on to the of hope that you do have right now? Above all, involve Jesus Christ...ask him for the help you need and that he would bless the steps you are taking in order to keep your hope alive. 

• Set in your mind that you will not allow loss of hope to be an option. Decide that nothing less than Hope will be something that you will accept from yourself.
• Try your best to listen to that quiet voice within you telling you that you are right to keep hope for better things to come.
• Each time you start to feel the urge to doubt remind yourself that you have the power to choose what you thoughts you entertain.  
• Find inspirational things that breed hope within you.  

ideas: 

Read scriptures that give you cause to believe that God is more than in control of your life and loves you.

Find music that moves you to believe in the good that is to come to your life.

Read books about astonishing things that people have overcome.

Place words around your house that inspire you.

Find a need that is not being filled in your community and try to fill that need. (volunteer work is very empowering to the soul)

Please remember, hope often times is a choice.  Yet to live with hope is one of the greatest gifts we have as believers.  Jesus Christ is so merciful to give us the ability to hope. 

I pray blessings in to your life. 

Pastor Daniella 

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Jesus Christ knows where your heart is at tonight. He is such powerful love. He knows if you are struggling to place faith before fear. He knows if one is winning the battle over the other. Please, if fear is winning this evening, don’t allow it to be what keeps you from praying to Him tonight. Not sure where to start talking to Him tonight? Maybe just start by asking Him to help you start seeing all the ways that He loves you. Try maybe asking Him to be the sustainer of your Faith as you stumble your way in to His arms of Grace. No matter where you are in life, you are NEVER beyond the Love of Jesus Christ….NEVER! I know life can be a struggle, but the struggle does not have to be fought alone. Please allow yourself to start involving Jesus Christ—He honestly does love you and seek to Lift you, not harm you. Pastor Daniella.

So many of us can easily be misled in to thinking that we must FEEL something in order for validity to be assigned. This thinking does serve its purpose at points. I know as a performer, my choices as to what songs to do were often based upon whether I “FELT” them or not. I don’t just want to sing a song, I want feel an emotional journey with it and in turn perform it. Yet early on in life, I started applying the this need to “feel” everything. At first, you might think this idea of mine wasn’t faulted, yet let me purpose a question for you. Have your feelings ever mislead you? Relationships turned sour that you never felt would end, impulsive purchases, off the cuff comments birthed out of feelings of frustration that in turn ended a friendship…each of these and more could be a prompting for your memory to conjure up examples of why feelings can mislead us. I remember early in my walk with Jesus, I started to understand that Jesus Christ knew how fleeting, misleading, and volatile feelings of a human can be. When I saw this, I began to comprehend that Jesus wouldn’t want to use such a temporary medium as feelings in order to paint his presence in our lives. If Jesus’ love, faithfulness, comfort, mercy…. were dependent upon my “feeling” them…my relationship with Jesus would be very tumultuous, a rollercoaster of highs and lows. Jesus Christ is offering stability to our lives. Something that many of us have thirsted after for years. Through his stability, we are offered permanent love. Not love based on whether Jesus Christ “feels” something, but instead based on the FACT that HE IS LOVE--His very nature can be nothing less. The validity of Christ’s presences in our lives has nothing to do with our feelings and EVERTHING to do with His promise to never leave us—His Faithfulness—His devotion—His Life Giving Love. Our Feelings cannot be the fuel we seek in our relationship with Jesus Christ, due the fact of the frail nature. Instead, we must remember that it is He that is He who has given the validity to His love for us…Not our feelings. May God be the blessing you are seeking this evening. Pastor Daniella.

It is Jesus Christ, alone that gives our dreams wings. Instead of thinking that our dreams don't matter to Him, realize that He is actually the author of the belief that you hold within you for amazing things to take place in your life. He does care. In fact, He is impassioned with an absolute love for you and your life.

I know at times there can be such Fear that rises up within us towards the idea of continuing to place Faith in the idea that Jesus is in fact working in our life. With a feverish pace, this Fear can quickly overtake our Faith. I was thinking this evening though just WHO it is that we are placing our Faith in. When we are placing Faith in Jesus Christ, we are placing Faith in the One who….healed this sick, turned WATER to Wine, Saved the LIVES of everyone who has ever Lived, Is Living, or Will Live, the One Who spoke the World and the Universe in to existence…. I think that we quickly lose our sense of AWE in life, and in turn we can quickly forget just WHO it is that we are placing our Faith in. Tonight is a quick blog. I guess this idea has just been on my heart a bit today. We truly are blessed beyond all we could ever ask for, to be allowed to place Faith in such a Perfect Life Giving Jesus Christ. I pray your evening is full of Jesus’ comfort. In Christ, Pastor Daniella.