We're Not the Only One (plus 3 tips to help our brothers!)

Us girls can tend to take the spotlight. We like it that way. Sometimes I look at myself and realize what a big deal it is for me to keep myself pure and strong in Christ for my future husband. This is a good thing, but I too often forget it's not just us girls that are trying to keep clear of temptation. It's not any easier for the guys. We need to remember to be in constant prayer for them too. We naturally want to over power the guys. We can tend to put them down, blame them, and make them feel like it's all their doing that we struggle with pure thoughts, healthy relationships, etc. When really we are all sinners. Us girls are made to be supporters, and that's exactly what we need to strive to do. Right now as teens we don't really need to focus on that because the spouse we are to support hasn't entered out lives yet. So during this season of singleness we are to learn to support by watching our parents put it in action, supporting others, and supporting the guys in ways we can: pray for them and do our best not to tempt them. Here are a few more ways to help the guys out:

Dress Right
How you dress is a HUGE factor in what kind of guy you attract. Not that we are dressing to attract, but when the time comes for God to cross our paths with future mates, and with anyone for this matter, we want how we dress to communicate how our hearts look and who has control over them.

Treat them Right
It makes situations with mixed parties so much easier and relaxed if you just treat them like your big brothers instead of possible relationship material. Even when it does come to relationships, you start off getting to know the person as a brother/sister in Christ.

PRAY!
Last but not least, pray for them. Pray for our guy peers to have strength. It's just as hard for them to be a Christ following teen in a sinning world. We need to encourage our siblings in Christ. Also be praying for your future spouse. Pray God will give you both strength to wait.



"I Promise"
Johnny Ramirez and Jaci Velasquez

Lord, You know my heart
And all my desires
And the secret things I'll never tell
Lord, You know them well

Though I may be young
I see and understand
That at times like sheep we go astray
And things get out of hand

Chorus:
So I promise to be true to You
To live my life in purity
As unto You
Waiting for the day
When I hear You say
Here is the one I have created
Just for you

Until then, O Lord
I will be content
Knowing that true love
Will come someday
It will only come from You

‘Cause I have seen the suffering
That loneliness can cause
When we choose to give our love away
Without a righteous cause

New Bikes & the Power of Prayer

Hey Girls,

First of all, I want to apologize about the websites reopening. It was suppose to take place yesterday, but I was and still am currently out of town for a wedding. I planned on opening the site on my laptop, but I couldn't connect to the Internet. So I am at a bagel shop today to post this because I have no time right now to publish the new website. I will get to it asap! I am so sorry!

Why I have a few minutes though, I want to touch on the super sweet couple which are the reason I am out of town.
The young lady was in my dad's Sunday School class when young and then when she was 18 was my babysitter, then my friend, and now a sister. She is everything to me. She has had such an influence on my life and is a huge part of who I am today...especially Spiritually. During those days of babysitting and hanging out, she taught me so many things, but one of the most important things she showed me was the power of prayer (even if it was just for guidance to my baby brother's diapers). My mom had taught her a prayer that goes like this:

Lord when I can no longer most glorify You as a single girl, than have me marry.

She prayed it often. I do too. She had went though a bad break up last year and I was shocked. But she told me a story that was helping her:

A girl wanted to get this old bike at a garage sale with her dad. She wanted to fix it up and make it work. But the dad kept saying no. Finally two weeks later the father had given her a brand new bike for her birthday. He had the brand new bike waiting for her in the garage the whole time!

Can you see how it relates to us and relationships? Sometimes when we don't want to let go we want to fix it, but God already has something we could never imagine just waiting for us. So when my friend would get lonely and sad again about the use to be relationship, those that surrounded her and love her said "New Bike!". So I was reminded about all of this about 8 months ago when I came across an old letter from my friend. I opened it and there was the prayer. So I prayed. I turned to God just like she taught me to all those years ago. I prayed that God would bring someone into her life and I prayed for my future spouse if the Lord has one for me. ELEVEN days later my friend and I were on the phone and she told me about this wonderful guy who is in love with God. Not only was my friend in awe of God's power and way of working, but I was in awe as well at the power of prayer.

So now my dear friends, I must go to an answer to prayer. I have to head out to go get ready for a wedding of a dear friends who ended up with the best bike ever, and is a testimony to the power of prayer.