Introducton

While writing for my blog "My Back Story - Now," I realized that I was not only sharing my Life's experiences, but also the lessons that I've learned from them. In fact, most of my posts have been about the lessons that I've learned and encouraging others to see the importance of every circumstance.

The major experiences in our lives are not just coincidences, they happen for a reason. There is purpose behind them. The situations we encounter are allowed to happen to show us something we hadn't noticed before. They make us wiser and stronger and cause us to see and live life differently.

My recent life experiences have helped me understand what God desires of me and what is required for me to continuously be in His will. My experiences have helped me to understand who God really is, to see His heart.

Most of us believe we know God, but we dont know Him intimately. We dont have a true relationship with Him. As I began to spend more time with God, I realized that I had no idea who He really was or how He worked. Through my life's experiences, God has shown me how deeply He cares for me and how He is in control of even the smallest details.

It is not only my desire, but my purpose, to share my experiences and my new found knowledge about how good God is and how to learn His purpose for our lives. Every one of us has a purpose, something we were born to do. The only way to know our true purpose is to truly connect with God.

The bible says that he who holds on to his life will lose it and he who loses his life will gain it (Matthew 16:25). This means denying ourselves of ourselves. Letting go of our fleshly desires, habits, and attitudes and adopting God's way of life. It means listening to what God is telling us to do and obeying, even if we don't understand. It means living life eternally with God.

We surrender our lives to God because we want to be more like Him. We realize that he knows and wants what is best for us and we understand that His plan for our lives is to prosper us and not to harm us (Jeremiah 29:11). When we know this in our hearts, our desire will be to live for Him. We won't question living for Him because we will realize that it is because of Him that life is worth living.

To give your life completely to God and gain the life He gives to you is life changing! Living for Him will help you to experience the worst in life and still enjoy life. All the things that you don't have will no longer matter because you have everything God desires you to have, right when He wants you to have it. You can then be content with where you are and what you have.

As I grow in God, I am believing in this principle more and more. And though life is not perfect, I am content in it. I am continuously learning how to break free of the issues, attitudes, and mindsets that had kept me bound, worried and afraid. I am more freely showcasing my gifts. I am living more boldly. I embrace my differnces. And the wonderful part is, I'm growing more and more everyday.

With this blog, I want help others to grow as well. I see people all around me who have become accustomed and complaisant with their downtrodden lives. They've become comfortable with settling for less. They've become afraid to reach for anything more. They feel as if they don't deserve anything more. Too many people have incredible ideas and dreams inside of them, but don't pursue them because they are afraid of failing or believe they're not good enough.

I want to convince them that they are good enough. I want to encourage those who have fallen and belive that there is no way to get back up. I want to offer a source of comfort to those who have lost loved ones and can't seem to live life without them. I want to motivate those who have made mistakes and feel they cannot bounce back. I want to tell them and show them through the examples of my own life, that there is a way out of despair.

There is life after loss. There is deliverance from mistakes. I want to light the spark of life inside those who have died inside. It's not over. There is a lot of beautiful life left if you would just resolve to fight through your storm.

I want to challenge everyone to believe that dreams can be achieved. I challenge us all to believe in ourselves and in the old cliche that we can do anything we put our minds to. Once we belive, we will no longer settle. We will no longer allow ourselves to become comfortable. We will no longer accept and live in depression and fear. We will live as if we are more than conquerors! We will perform as if we could do anything! We will believe our way to success!