Living in Victory

     A battle is not over till you see the fruits of the victory overflow in your life. 

    After crap in your life happens you need to come in to a place where you can call a victory over that situation. You can do that, the only other option is to not overcome it and just sit in the crap. We need God to come and heal all the wounds of the past, He will come if you ask. When we live in the crap of the past and not look at the possibility of a victory we get depressed.

   
   There is evil in this world and it wants to destroy us, our families, and friends. Sometimes victories are hard to see, we forget to look for them. When your in the hard times you cant see how far you have come. That can make you want to give up but remember there is a victory to come. Once you get your victory look at how far you came to get there. 
                                                    God is VICTORIOUS

    If you don't see the fruits of your victory you might not be living in it. How do you live in your victory????  When I say living in the victory I mean look at what you have done, what has happened, and move forward in the truth that you can defeat it. Lets say you are afraid of spiders and one comes next to you. This time you decide to kill it with your shoe it dies you move on. The next day another spider crawls up next to you its the kind that you killed yesterday. You have a choose live in the victory know that you can kill a spider or forget and run away. I think we can and should be Living in the victory.   


                                                  God has big plans for you. 

                       Its time to be victorious to move forward in your purpose. 

Thanksgiving

        Now is a time we set aside to be with family and friends. All coming together to thank God for everything he has done and will do in are life. I know that sometimes its hard to be thankful for things when things are down and out. If we look at the negative we wont see a positive. 

A few years ago i made up a skit with friends. It was The family who built their house on a rock and The family who built their house on sand. It was very creative. One day both of the family's got robed. The family who built their house on a rock was OK in the end, yes they where sad that they got robbed but their life/happiness did not depend on their stuff what they truly cared about was family. The family who built their house on the sand was not so good in the end for they put their worth in what they had. when what they had was gone they fell apart.

Now i know that it was a silly kid example but its true. We cant store up things on earth for they will but fade away. We must store are treasures in heaven. For those treasures will last forever. 

This thanksgiving i am thankful for God and all that he has done for me. I am thankful for my family and friends who i love. For the purpose God has given me.  But what i am the most thankful for is that Jesus died for me.

         Happy Thanksgiving 

Sorry that this is kind of late =(

A Little Princess

      Growing up my idea of a princess was not very good. Almost all examples of what a princess was in my life where brats and ditsy. They got what they wanted and they did not care about people less than them. So i was a little proud that i was not a princess.

     When people would say "you're a princess because you are a daughter of Christ", i would be like yes, but i am no princess. I could not see myself as who God made me.

     Some weeks ago i read a book called A Little Princess, By Frances Hodgson Burnett. At first i thought that this book was going to be about a brat so i don't know why i read it. As i read this book it made me rethink my role as a princess.


      This book is about a girl named Sara who got everything she wanted growing up but chose to act like a real princess. One who loved everyone, put others in front of herself, and did not care about herself or how people looked at her.


    Sara gets in a bad way, with no money and little food. When Sara finds some money on the street she asks the baker if she knew who dropped it. She would not even buy food with it if she thought she could find the owner. The baker told her she did not know who dropped it. Sara gave the baker the money and the baker gave her 6 roles even tho she only had money for 4. Then Sara went outside and saw a poor young beggar on the street. Sara gives her 5 of the 6 roles even tho Sarah could have eaten them all.

   I love how this paints a image of a real princess. Lately people at church have been telling me that i am a  princess and now i want to be a princess, a child of God. The way people call themselves princesses and yet don't care about others tell me that they are not real princesses. The reason i like the picture to the right is because all girls are princesses. Some girls just don't act like it. Your father is telling you that you're His daughter.


    Some people want to be like the princess that only cares about herself. But God doesn't want us to live for are self.  Matthew 10:39    Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. The whole chapter is amazing the whole bible is amazing! God is so good and he loves us. God calls us his sons and daughters. I want to be Gods daughter, not the worlds kid.

Fulfill

     Life is full of trouble. But with God all things are possible. Sometimes we think its too hard or to far to try to make it to the promise land. The promise land is where the fulfilment of your purpose is. You where meant to live in the fulfillment of your purpose. If we let are problems stop us from getting to the promise land then we are letting the enemy win. 

     I don't want to be like the Israelites and wonder for most of my life. Making it to the promise land is what i plan on. Learning what i need to know before i get to the promise land is ok with me, but i won't stay there. 

    When you are going thru hard times God is using it to prepare you for your role in life. There is hope in hard time. Because God is with us and He loves us. 

Prupose

   For my public speaking class i had to write a speech, so surprised. I decided to write it about purpose. Here it is (well just the main points). I hope you get something out of it.

                                  Purpose 

                by McKenna

You don't need a plan.

  God has the plan its in his hands. where could you get a better plan than from God who knows all. We need to trust God to show us the way.


God gives you your purpose and passions

      A lot of people think that what God wants for you is something you will hate. Not true God has placed your wants and passions in you. God has made a way for you, His purpose is suited for you.


When you find your purpose life starts.

   The word purpose means to strive for something, the reason why you are here, to aim. WOW life without that is nothing. Without purpose you don't have something to aim for. How can you hit your target if you don't know what it is. If you aim for nothing you will hit it. When God gives you your purpose you have meaning, something worth living for.


God will make your purpose happen


       Sometimes we think well i want to do this, but it could never happen, so we don't try. God will make it come to pass if we follow Him but we need to take that first step and try. Before January i had no passion or purpose. I could not draw but God made a way, i picked up a pencil and tried. I had no art skills but it did not matter He gave me what i needed. Just try.


Finding your purpose.


       Pray about it. Find what you like. What makes you excited about God. Ask people to pray for you.   God will reveal what you are made for.




God picks the unqualified, He will give you what you need to fulfil.

        You are made for more then just living. You are more then what you've done and no matter what as happened in the past God has a purpose for you.


                                     you are more

                                     



                            Find your purpose its worth it.

I am still Learning and Pursuing

      I have been trying to spend more time with God, but life is getting in the way. Sometimes i get close to just hanging out with God. Then i want to do something else. Its this strange struggle where i know that i want to be with God but other things look more entertaining.

       Just a couple weeks ago God asked me to give up TV, Books and Face Book, to only spend time with Him. But at night i want to spend time with my family so i watch some TV. I don't want to give that up but i will try.

       Face book is so addicting and i don't look at it as a loss to not be on it. Giving it up has freed up like an hour or two of my day. 

      The hardest thing to give up was books.  I have found that i spend way to much of my time reading or thinking about books. When i read a book i don't want to do anything but read that book. I fell back and did read maybe half a book. Working on that has been hard, but i don't think i know how to be still and know that he is God. 

     God is not something i can schedule in to my day. But i can plan on it and try to look forward to spending time with God. God loves the effort and the pursuit, so if you want to spend time with God just try, don't look at how successful your time was but how your heart was looking. 



  

 sorry i am not the best writer or speller but i want to share even when words don't always come to me. If you understood what i wrote and liked it, please comment.

HEY

 My name is McKenna and I made this blog to show others what God is doing in my life.



 Growing up in church I had the idea that to be a good Christian meant that I needed to be the BIGGEST GOODY TWO SHOES EVER!!!!!!! That was fun to me cus I got to be all bossy and like I'm better then you and I never do anything wrong. That idea stuck around till I was 11. I went to a church in Australia and it changed my mind.I found out that there was more. Well, I did not totally stop thinking that I needed to be perfect and being bossy. But God kept showing me that he loves every one, that all sin is equally evil. 


   In January of this year God moved into my life to stay. Before that, for over a year He had been showing me that he is real, strong,and moving. Not just in so small of ways that you need to carry a around magnifying glass to see God moving. But in every day life. I have seen people that I have prayed for been healed right in front of my face. The power of God is alive and moving, it never stopped. 


  When God moved in my life, my life changed. Before January I had nothing to pursue. When people asked me what I wanted to do with my life all I could say was, "ummmmm follow God, do stuff".  Then in January, my brother and his friends prophesied over me ( I will explain prophesy later). They said I was going to be an artist. If you knew me and heard that you would have busted out laughing cus my drawings skills were 1st grader. But after that I tried to draw and all of a sudden I could draw. I was like dciughefdsklabhudIHfnaehgosi what!?!?! 

  
 Now God and art are in my life, and I want to share what that is like with you.