Hey Friends!  I hope you enjoyed my friend Lauren’s story on her relationship with God, she reminded  us that we’re in his hands. I have lots of friends. Some I only know a little bit about, and others I know a lot about. Did you know you can be friends with everyone? Even your enemies. Jesus was friends with a lot of people, even his enemies.       When Jesus was being arrested he said this:       “Jesus replied, ‘Do what you came for, friend.’ Then the men stepped forward, seized Jesus and arrested him.” Matthew 26:50      Jesus called the man that arrested him his “friend”.  Anyone else catch that?  Are you…

Hello all! My name is Lauren Mayfield and today I am going to encourage you that God has you in the palm of His Mighty Hand. First, lemme tell y’all a bit about me. I am a junior in High School who is a total music freak. I am proud of my heritage. I grew up in a very musical family, stretching as far back as my great grandfather and as far wide as all my extended family. When you are born in the environment of music, the love of music kind of rubs off on you a little. As for me, it influenced my whole life. I have been…

Happy Valentine’s Day to all of my lovely readers! Hope you are having a great day! Today, I’m going to tell you that we should be sharing love with everyone, not just your family and friends. God showed love to everyone, and I mean everyone.  “We love each other because he loved us first.” 1 John 4:19  God was the first to ever love. We should love each other because he loves us. “But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.” Romans 5:8  This was one of the big ways God showed his love for us. He sent…

Today is the last part of my first series called “Being closer to God” so far we’ve touched on being bold, being yourself, being kind and today we will be talking about being descriptive.  Even though God knows exactly what we want we still need to ask him. Something God wants us to do is be descriptive in prayer we shouldn’t just ask him “God I need help with my stress” instead maybe ask God “God I need you to help me find ways to relieve the stress”  “I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness of God’s power for us who believe him. This is the same…

Most people are living in fear, and I’m here today to tell you that you should not be living in fear but, instead live in faith.  We need to trust God and let him lead us through this dark time. “Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.” Isaiah 41:10  We shouldn’t be afraid because God is always with us no matter what.  “But when I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.” Psalms 56:3  When we are afraid, instead of panicking we…

Today is the third part of the series “Being closer to God” and today we are going to learn about being kind.  One thing that I love doing is something called “random acts of kindness.” What that is is basically doing random acts of kindness. Doing something without being asked, giving someone a gift or card for no particular reason, the list can go on and on. It’s hard to be kind all the time even if you are having a hard day but you need to trust God that he will lead you through this. We need to be kind to one another just like God was to us. …

This year’s word of the year is… …And I’m going to tell you why. Many people are having a hard time believing that God will help us get through this. We need to have hope that God will guide us on the right path.  Here are a few verses that I think many of us need to hear: “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord , “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11  I know you probably have heard this several times. This verse is my all time favorite because it’s telling us…

Hey Friends and Welcome back! Hope you had a great week! Today I’m going to be continuing the series “being closer to God”.  I’m going to be talking about being yourself. God doesn’t want you to be someone you’re not. God made you special by being different. He gave you a purpose and a personality for a reason.  I’m sure most of you have heard of the show VeggieTales. One thing they always reminded kids of is “God made you special and he loves you very much.” That phrase is so simple, yet so impactful. I think most people forget to act like themselves because they try to fit in…

We have to trust God through the hard times, even though it can be really tough. One really big example are the things happening in the world. We all might have different opinions (and that’s ok, because God made us all different!) One thing we can all agree on is we want this global pandemic to go away. So whatever it is you’re going through, we need to remember that God knows what he is doing and he has a plan for us all!  In the Bible there are a lot of times that the people thought God didn’t care or he wasn’t listening to their prayers, but the truth…

Being Bold is a hard thing to do, trust me I know! But one thing that a lot of us forget is that not only have to be bold in life but we have to be bold in prayer as well!  When I looked up Bold on Google it says, “Bold- Showing an ability to take risks.” We need to take risks when we pray to God! We all have something we’re struggling with and don’t have the courage to tell anyone. So instead of ignoring it we can be BOLD and ask God for help!  Here are a few verses: “Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are…