~Verse of the day~

Psalms 40:5

"You have multiplied, O LORD my God,

your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us;

none can compare with you!

I will proclaim and tell of them,

yet they are more than can be told."

~Dani

~Verse of the day~

Romans 15:13

"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope."

~Dani

~Verse of the day~

Romans 8:38-39

"For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."

~Dani

~If God is with me..~

Today as you're waking up to face reality, no matter what the circumstances may be or the worry on your mind of all the issues that you are finding yourself face to face with, 

I want you to start today by praying this..I'm sure you've tried it every way there is but why not ask God for help this time? Pray this with me..

"I am a child of God, He is with me as I wake up and as I lay my head down to sleep, there's no place that I can go where God cannot find me, therefore there isn't anything that this world could throw at me that God cannot get me through! I trust in you God and I know that though life seems harder at times..you are never changing and you are always with me! Help me to have the strength to face whatever this day may hold..because I know as long as I hold on to you, everything that I need is going to be provided into my hands just as you hold me in your hands..in Jesus name, Amen!

I felt led to share this verse to go along with this prayer today, I hope it speaks into your life or your situation today whatever it may be that you're facing..

Romans 8:31-35

"What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?"

~Dani

~Verse of the day~

Matthew 5:3-12

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you."

~Dani

~Verse of the day~

Psalms 28:7

"The LORD is my strength and my shield;

in him my heart trusts, and I am helped;

my heart exults,

and with my song I give thanks to him."

~Dani

~Verse of the day~

Psalms 29:1-2

​"Ascribe to the LORD, O heavenly beings,

ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.

Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name;

worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness."

~Dani

~Verse of the day~

Psalms 30:5

"For his anger is but for a moment,

and his favor is for a lifetime.

Weeping may tarry for the night,

but joy comes with the morning."

~Dani

~Verse of the day~

Jeremiah 29:11-13

"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart."

Dani

~Verse of the day~

Psalms 84:1-2

"How lovely is your dwelling place,

O LORD of hosts!

My soul longs, yes, faints

for the courts of the LORD;

my heart and flesh sing for joy

to the living God."

Dani

~Verse of the day~

Psalms 84:11-12

"For the LORD God is a sun and shield;

the LORD bestows favor and honor.

No good thing does he withhold

from those who walk uprightly.

O LORD of hosts,

blessed is the one who trusts in you!"

Dani

~Verse of the day~

1 Chronicles 29:11-13

"Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. 

Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all. 

Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all. And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name."

~Dani

~Just Pray, He'll make a way!~

There are many of you who are parents..parents who are praying for your children..

you've been praying for them to return home, to go to church and to fulfill the calling that God has upon their lives..

Don't give up on that, it's going to come to pass! 

You've taught them in the way they should go and they will return to God someday! Don't give up the fight for them and continue to pray for their safe return to you and to God!

I felt led to post this verse and I feel like it's a timely word for someone to tell you NOT to give up..they WILL return home because of YOUR prayers!

Jeremiah 31:16-17

"Thus says the Lord:

“Keep your voice from weeping,

and your eyes from tears,

for there is a reward for your work,

declares the Lord,

and they shall come back from the land of the enemy.

There is hope for your future,

declares the Lord,

and your children shall come back to their own country."

~Dani

~Verse of the day~

Isaiah 41:10

"fear not, for I am with you;

be not dismayed, for I am your God;

I will strengthen you, I will help you,

I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."

~Dani

~Verse of the day~

Romans 10:17

"So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ."

~Dani

~His Purpose~

I wanted to share this with you..

I had prayed and desired to reach out to the lost souls out there ever since I was a child, it took many years but God finally revealed to me how I could reach out to people and that way was through my blog!

I may be shy to speak to a random crowd of strangers but through modern technology, God saw my desire to reach out to those in need of encouragement and he made a way for me to be able to reach thousands out there!

God has a purpose for all of us and he is making a way for us and is preparing us for that purpose through life's journey and even our failures are helping us to get prepared for that purpose! 

God will make a way for you to be able to fulfill that purpose and nothing is going to stop that plan if your heart is in love with God! 

The devil can try and stop us but he cannot stop the train that is coming through! God's train of purpose for our lives is coming through..GET READY!! Have your ticket to ride in hand because God is going to use you when it's his timing! You just need to be obedient to his calling over your life! I cannot tell you how good it feels to be doing something for his purpose! When it happens to you..you will know what good feeling I'm talking about! I love to walk in God's purpose, it surpasses my own purpose in life and his plans are unstoppable..because My God is unstoppable!!

Job 42:2

“I know that you can do all things,

and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.”

~Dani

~Verse of the day~

Jeremiah 31:13

"Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance,

and the young men and the old shall be merry.

I will turn their mourning into joy;

I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow."

~Dani

~When you can't understand~

The misunderstanding of other people's actions makes us to better understand our own actions, 

it makes it all seem much more simple when we focus on the betterment of ourselves than it does trying to understand and explain the decisions and actions of those around us.

If we can somehow focus on becoming a better person everyday then that alone will lead us into our purpose and turn us into the very best that we can be!

So when you can't understand what or why your neighbor is doing things the way they are doing them..put it out of your mind, focus on what YOU need to do..focus on WHO you need to become and PRAY for your neighbor that they will have their eyes opened to those things in their life!

~Dani

~Verse of the day~

Jeremiah 31:3

"the Lord appeared to him from far away.

I have loved you with an everlasting love;

therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you."

~Dani

~Beyond Your Control~

Some things in this life are uncertain and even beyond our control,

When these things happen..we cannot change certain things, for instance..we cannot change the weather, no more than we can change someone's mind on a matter..

However, the only thing that we can change is our response and attitude to the mysteries in this life..the things that are beyond our control.

We cannot allow things or even people to control or to alter our outlook on life, we mustn't change our values or even our personality merely on the fact that someone isn't comfortable with you acting a certain way or even responding a certain way that is different from the way they respond.

Be yourself, be the person that is confident in who they are in Christ, learn that nothing and no one should cause you to lose your integrity or to tell you that your dreams are too big..those are the negative things that you should never listen to because if someone truly cares about you.. they will not challenge your values, question your dreams, our even cause you to question who you are or what you think about the world, 

We are supposed to encourage and lift up others around us, we are meant to benefit the ideals of our friends and family, if we cannot do that, then what are we doing with our time? 

What is the point if we aren't lifting others up? 

What do we accomplish at the end of the day or at the end of our lives if we cannot make other people around us want to grow and become something even more at the end of our lives or even pass a smile along to them..what are we doing to others? 

Are you leaving a good legacy behind? What will you be remembered for? 

It's quite simple for me..

The legacy I want to leave behind is..

#1. That I cause people to question their disbelief in God and come to realize that  he is real and loves them.

#2. For people to remember me as being kind and always smiling even through life's struggles.

#3. That I helped someone through a hard time in their life and in result they didn't give up.

#4. To leave behind this world being a successful Wife, Mother and perhaps even a grandmother..I want them to remember me as being a woman of faith and always a speaker of life to those around me..not just to my family but to everyone I met in my life..even those who weren't so kind to me, and I want to teach them to never give up hope..even when others around you are saying that it's hopeless.

That's the legacy that I want to leave, that's the most important thing in my mind. What is the legacy that you want to leave? Are you causing people around you to gradually grow or are you causing people to slowly pass away?

Proverbs 18:20-21

"From the fruit of a man's mouth his stomach is satisfied;

he is satisfied by the yield of his lips.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue,

and those who love it will eat its fruits."

~Dani

~Verse of the day~

Psalms 63:6-8

"when I remember you upon my bed,

and meditate on you in the watches of the night;

for you have been my help,

and in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy.

My soul clings to you;

your right hand upholds me."

~Dani

~Doubt Kills~

"Doubt" the very sound of the word has a very bitter taste to it.

It means that no matter how good something is right in front of you..you allow doubt to take control of your mind and in result doubt takes away the opportunity from your path for you.

Doubt is something that holds you back from so many things in this life and it sometimes disguises itself as a "voice of reason" oftentimes it causes us to fall short in many areas, to doubt also means to say that "you just can't see it happening" when there is doubt there..there cannot be any room for hope because hope doesn't want to dwell in a place where it doesn't feel welcome.

Doubt also means that you can never rise to your full potential because in the back of your mind there will always be something holding you back and keeping you in the same place, and if you're kept in the same place then how can your life ever change for the better?

Satan loves it when we no longer have a positive mindset and that we no longer have the ability to see that every mushroom cloud has a silver lining and more than that we do not have the ability to hope in the unseen anymore.

There is a way to fight back though..

You can start speaking with your mouth the things that are going to happen in your life! You claim the right things to come your way and believe that God doesn't send mistakes in your path! God only sends what we need in our lives, that means that we need to dismiss the feeling of doubt and we need to instead grab onto hope and to also choose to not settle for mediocre in our lives but to instead move into something greater..something that we weren't looking for but ended up finding.

Leave no room for doubt and no one will ever have a reason to doubt you either. Be positive and hopeful that everything will workout and in the end..it will workout, 

in this life we have to be fully committed to seeing things workout and if they don't then at least we can continue to grow as life goes on and the peace of mind in knowing that we gave something our all..leaving no room for regret.

Remember.."Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will"

Leave no room for doubt but instead move in confidence wherever life decides to go.

~Dani

~A Greatful Heart~

There are moments in life where we get so caught up in the ideal of things that it ends up taking away a certain feeling of the thought that went into an act of love, 

It reminds me of the story in the bible when the disciples saw the act of love and the offering of the woman who was a servant of God that poured precious perfume on the feet of Jesus as she wept, while washing his feet and she even dried them with her hair! Wow! How could the disciples not see what their eyes were witnessing? 

She had been through so much in her past and had laid it all down at Jesus' feet! But so much more than that..she was honoring Jesus and giving him an offering of humility and a certain level of affection in such an innocent form! It just amazes me!

The disciples couldn't see what was happening fully because they didn't have the level of gratitude that this woman had toward Jesus, this was her way of worship but they didn't understand because they had never seen worship in this manner, in many ways it broke the ideal of tradition and because of that they simply couldn't see the beauty and the thoughtfulness behind what was happening!

That brings me to this point..

In our lives there are going to be people that will be critical to us about the way we worship God and they may even question you about it but the thing is that we mustn't ever forget the reason why we are worshipping the way that we do, we are doing it because we were all created to worship in many different ways, it can be because of what we are gifted in that causes us to worship in a certain way, it could be the way the spirit is moving and we follow it, it could even be what we've gone through that has led us to worshipping in a different manner than others may worship but don't become discouraged because they question your way of worship.. instead, allow this to be an opportunity to share with them your testimony and where you used to be..you don't have to  pour your whole story out to them unless you feel led or compelled to because some may not understand or may be critical of your story..be wise who you pour your heart out to because even some church-goers will be critical of your story, much like Jesus' disciples were in this woman's story of worship and gratitude..but when you reach that level of humility and worship unto God..don't look around, look up and worship God no matter what they are whispering or the expression on their faces as to what you are doing in your worship! Do it anyway and do it with excellence! Worship is a craft and you should understand the importance of worshipping God and do it without shame! Some people are loud worshipers..while others are more quiet in their worship but one thing it comes down to is that..it's all unto God and we need to worship like we need to breathe air! 

The way that we worship is so deep and is so unique but God loves it and we were all created to worship him in our own way, just like we are all uniquely made and our talents are different..our worship is the same way!

Colossians 3:22-24

"Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ."

~Dani

~Verse of the day~

Psalms 33:8-9

"Let all the earth fear the LORD;

let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him!

For he spoke, and it came to be;

he commanded, and it stood firm."

~Dani

~Hold us together~

Have you ever gone through something difficult in your life and you kept thinking that somehow this should be a breaking point for you but when it was coming to an end of that difficult time.. you couldn't help but to feel stronger somehow?

Well, that's God my friend! 

God comes through just when we need him to, he never fails and gives us the strength we so desperately need to make it through all of life's difficulties!

What an awesome God that we serve to have such a support system and to know without a shadow of a doubt that God is for us and not against us! That he would reach down to us when we cannot get up, that we can cry out to him when we are hurting, that we can depend on him when we are confused! Whatever we need.. he provides and he promises to never leave us!

I wanted to remind you today of his great faithfulness and his promise toward us, most importantly that he loves us and has this amazing purpose in mind for each and every one of us!

Our God is with us and he is for us! He wants us to prosper and succeed in our lives! He wants to walk with us the whole time, through all trials and storms..God is going to be there through it all if only we trust in him and we serve him!

Trust in his plan today and even though some things seem difficult right now..know that you do not walk in those things alone! God is with you through every valley and through every storm! Keep holding on to him.. just like Peter did when he was suddenly sinking! Allow God to reach down and pull you up!

Romans 8:31

"What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?"

~Dani

~Verse of the day~

Psalms 145:2-3

"Every day I will bless you

and praise your name forever and ever.

Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised,

and his greatness is unsearchable."

~Dani

~Verse of the day~

Psalms 139:13-15

"For you formed my inward parts;

you knitted me together in my mother's womb.

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Wonderful are your works;

my soul knows it very well.

My frame was not hidden from you,

when I was being made in secret,

intricately woven in the depths of the earth."

~Dani

~Verse of the day~

Psalms 57:9-10

"I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the peoples;

I will sing praises to you among the nations.

For your steadfast love is great to the heavens,

your faithfulness to the clouds."

~Dani

~Verse of the day~

Matthew 22:35-39

"And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

~Dani

~Verse of the day~

Romans 8:38-39

"For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."

~Dani