Ok so wow, this weekend was amazing! Saturday I went to Six Flags with a couple of friends. I had loads of fun and there was a whole lot of yelling. I think the whole reason I had fun was because of Bianca.
Bianca is a girl that I knew who she was, hello-goodbye sorta relationship with her. This saturday she offered me her friendship and her advice as a married young lady. I am truly thankful God allowed me to get to know her in a whole other level.
The rest of the day was really good; Jocki, Nana, Marlene, Angie, Adriana, Sarai, Bianca, and yea the boys, were super cool.
The greatest thing happened on Sunday! Baby #6 was born! Yup, she was born! I had mixed emotions when I found out it was happening, fear, joy, nervousness, excitement. When I saw her I cried, I don't know why but I did and ugh is she beautiful!
Gos I just ask you to take care of her and that she falls in love with you since her very early days.
My mom looked so happy, and I'm sooooo proud of her (just don't have any more).
Thank God because He took care of my mom and Arlette last night.
Let the more diaper changing begin!
Monday, April 19, 2010
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
jocki...
Dear God,
today is a very special day, it is Jocki's birthday! Not just any birthday but her 18th birthday! She is officially legal so God you know what that means: she needs wisdom, I mean more!
God I thank you because you have allowed me to meet her! She has been such a blessing and I am happy that she is in my life. Thank you for letting her be HER for another year, thank you for letting her be my friend.
She is an "adult" now and I ask a lot for her. Bless her future. She has many years to come. Bring joy and peace into the years to come. Bring wisdom. Help her make her decisions through you. Bless her husband. I know one is coming so let him be a real-life prince charming. Above all Lord let her know and feel that you are always with her, protecting her.
Thank you Lord for her once again.
JOCKKIIIIIIII,
if you read this I hope you know that I am extremely happy that you are here in Perris (haha) celebrating your 18th birthday! I wish you more smiles and more laughs for your entire "adulthood". I love you my friend...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Monday, April 12, 2010
....love
Love is a beautiful thing.....
This past weekend, I celebrated love at my cousins wedding. It was lovely! Kisses, hugs, tears and I do's. I was crying when I saw my uncle cry! haha! I cry a lot at weddings. That was Saturday, next came Sunday.
Sunday for me was a living nightmare...not gonna write what it was but it was bad!
I literally cried from midday to midnight!
Relationships in this life are very difficult at times. We must learn to be patient and wait for the "right one". At times it might seem like there is no right one but God has someone out there.
I learned that the "right one", is God. He is our everything, our father, our friend, our husband, our comfort, everything! (I did not go through a break up, just this was my Sunday).
I believe that to find the right one, we have have to be in love with the "real one", God. Only then will you find your life long companion.
Ladies, I know we all say at times, "I will never get married!", "Guys suck" and other things, but the truth of the matter is that God does not want to for man to be alone (Genesis 2:18), that's why He created women. So, ladies we will get married and we will be happy, only trough God.
If we fall in love passionately with God, there will come a man who will fall passionately in love with you!
The key here is: FALL PASSIONATELY IN LOVE WITH GOD before any other man (or woman if you're a guy).
This past weekend, I celebrated love at my cousins wedding. It was lovely! Kisses, hugs, tears and I do's. I was crying when I saw my uncle cry! haha! I cry a lot at weddings. That was Saturday, next came Sunday.
Sunday for me was a living nightmare...not gonna write what it was but it was bad!
I literally cried from midday to midnight!
Relationships in this life are very difficult at times. We must learn to be patient and wait for the "right one". At times it might seem like there is no right one but God has someone out there.
I learned that the "right one", is God. He is our everything, our father, our friend, our husband, our comfort, everything! (I did not go through a break up, just this was my Sunday).
I believe that to find the right one, we have have to be in love with the "real one", God. Only then will you find your life long companion.
Ladies, I know we all say at times, "I will never get married!", "Guys suck" and other things, but the truth of the matter is that God does not want to for man to be alone (Genesis 2:18), that's why He created women. So, ladies we will get married and we will be happy, only trough God.
If we fall in love passionately with God, there will come a man who will fall passionately in love with you!
The key here is: FALL PASSIONATELY IN LOVE WITH GOD before any other man (or woman if you're a guy).
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Say so!
Two weeks ago my dad (my church's youth leader) asked me to preach to the youth. So I will be preaching to the youth this Sunday about what? I have no idea....well, had.
Yesterday was a pretty emotional day for me and because I've been having to face some pretty scary/exciting decisions, I found myself asking God, "what am I supposed to be doing for You? Am I doing enough? What is my purpose?" So today here I am listening to Israel Houghton's song Say So and the pre-chorus says to be salt and light in the world. I was singing out loud and it just hit me, that's my purpose!
That's what God wants us to be, flavor! What is food without salt? What is day without light? We are supposed to be the difference!
Reading another blogger's post, she wrote that she preaches of God and does what she does for love, for God is love. As the salt and the light that we are we are supposed to give "flavor"....LOVE!
"God is love" 1 John 4:8. We have to give love, talk love, preach love, walk with love, smile with love, do everything with love. Why? Because God is love.
Now, when we make the decision to serve God, we are saying that we are going to take God's word with us everywhere (). For a lot of the "newcomers" it is very difficult to do so. We get nervous, scared, sometimes even embarrassed. For those who get a little scared, read Jeremiah 29:11. It says ...plans to prosper you and not to harm you. When I would have to go tell people that God loved them, I would turn red and I would be sooooo scared; I would think "this person is going to punch me, he/she is going to yell at me". I was scared! But the Lord says He has plans for us that do not bring harm to us. So why be scared? The bible talks of David and Goliath. David was a kid, young, sorta like us (I'm young too)! He was not scared to face Goliath (a huge, warrior, I picture him pretty scary looking)! David knew that God was not going to let Goliath harm him; He fought Goliath in the name of God, in the name of love.
God does the impossible. He is God of the impossible! We were called to be more than great because God was way more than great.
Mary, Jesus' mother, must have been nervous about having a child. She was a virgin and not even married yet. When the angel appeared to her, he tells her what God's plans are for her. Personally, if this were to happen to me, I would freak, I would cry, I would worry of what will people say? But we see Mary and she says I am the Lord's servant, may it be to me as you have said. She probably did have that fears that we would have nowaday but she knew that God was with her and she knew that God would not let anything happen to her, she had to ignore the comments that I'm sure where made. She had faith in the God of the impossible.
Psalms 46:10 says be still and know that I am God. Do not let fear or nerves or the feeling to go to the bathroom (that happens to me) get to you when God calls you to do something, whether it is preaching, or leading worship, or praying, or just picking up the offering. Be still says the Lord, in modern day language He is saying "CHILL! BREATHE! RELAX! I've got you, I've got this". So just give everything to God and do what He demands from you, whatever it is!
So yea this is what I am going to be talking about this Sunday. It was a lot of answers given to me personally and I think they would also be a blessing to the youth at my church.
Remember, we serve the God of the impossible! :)
Yesterday was a pretty emotional day for me and because I've been having to face some pretty scary/exciting decisions, I found myself asking God, "what am I supposed to be doing for You? Am I doing enough? What is my purpose?" So today here I am listening to Israel Houghton's song Say So and the pre-chorus says to be salt and light in the world. I was singing out loud and it just hit me, that's my purpose!
That's what God wants us to be, flavor! What is food without salt? What is day without light? We are supposed to be the difference!
Reading another blogger's post, she wrote that she preaches of God and does what she does for love, for God is love. As the salt and the light that we are we are supposed to give "flavor"....LOVE!
"God is love" 1 John 4:8. We have to give love, talk love, preach love, walk with love, smile with love, do everything with love. Why? Because God is love.
Now, when we make the decision to serve God, we are saying that we are going to take God's word with us everywhere (). For a lot of the "newcomers" it is very difficult to do so. We get nervous, scared, sometimes even embarrassed. For those who get a little scared, read Jeremiah 29:11. It says ...plans to prosper you and not to harm you. When I would have to go tell people that God loved them, I would turn red and I would be sooooo scared; I would think "this person is going to punch me, he/she is going to yell at me". I was scared! But the Lord says He has plans for us that do not bring harm to us. So why be scared? The bible talks of David and Goliath. David was a kid, young, sorta like us (I'm young too)! He was not scared to face Goliath (a huge, warrior, I picture him pretty scary looking)! David knew that God was not going to let Goliath harm him; He fought Goliath in the name of God, in the name of love.
God does the impossible. He is God of the impossible! We were called to be more than great because God was way more than great.
Mary, Jesus' mother, must have been nervous about having a child. She was a virgin and not even married yet. When the angel appeared to her, he tells her what God's plans are for her. Personally, if this were to happen to me, I would freak, I would cry, I would worry of what will people say? But we see Mary and she says I am the Lord's servant, may it be to me as you have said. She probably did have that fears that we would have nowaday but she knew that God was with her and she knew that God would not let anything happen to her, she had to ignore the comments that I'm sure where made. She had faith in the God of the impossible.
Psalms 46:10 says be still and know that I am God. Do not let fear or nerves or the feeling to go to the bathroom (that happens to me) get to you when God calls you to do something, whether it is preaching, or leading worship, or praying, or just picking up the offering. Be still says the Lord, in modern day language He is saying "CHILL! BREATHE! RELAX! I've got you, I've got this". So just give everything to God and do what He demands from you, whatever it is!
So yea this is what I am going to be talking about this Sunday. It was a lot of answers given to me personally and I think they would also be a blessing to the youth at my church.
Remember, we serve the God of the impossible! :)
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
crisis at 20 years old...
Well not really a crisis, just thoughts.
I constantly ask myself "que estoy haciendo con mi vida?" ("what am I doing with my life?"). And I mean constantly.....
I want to do everything I can in life, EVERYTHING, just ask my fiance!
He's is always telling me "Liz, no puedes hacer todo en la vida!" ("Liz, you can't do everything in life!")
I know he's right so I want to write down the things that I truly do want to do with whatever is left in my life.
1). Have an inspiring ministry. I'm in the worship team at my church. I sing, I play, I direct (sorta), I help my dad with the youth, I organize, point is I do a lot or at least I try to. I love to! I would love my ministry to grow! I want to preach, I want to inspire people to serve God passionately. I want to bring people to Christ's feet. I want to make my parents proud. I want to make God proud!
2). Help my dad's business go on for a long time. If my dad reads he's probably gonna laugh because I have never told him this. I saw my dad go through hard work to get this business up and running. Even though it is not a career I would voluntarily pick for me, I love it. I want to help him in any way I can.
3). I want to have a beautiful family. I'm the eldest of soon to be 6 children so I kinda would love to have a big family. I want to soon marry my fiance (almost!) and I want have a loving household with him and have a family. I want to have laughter and love in my house with Charly and my future children.
4). I want to travel. Specifically to Australia! Gosh I would loooooooove to go to Australia! I don't care if that's the only place I ever go to in my entire life! However, if God tells me to go to _________(fill in the blank), I AM THERE!
5). Be a photographer. OK so I also loooove taking pictures. I think that pictures are a great way of holding on to happy memories! So the only thing I need in a Canon EOS 5D Mark II....daddy if you ever see this, you can totally buy it at any given time, sooner better than later. ;)
So besides being happy, and being a good daughter, sister, friend, wife, and mother, that's all I truly want......Lord it is ALL in your hands.
I constantly ask myself "que estoy haciendo con mi vida?" ("what am I doing with my life?"). And I mean constantly.....
I want to do everything I can in life, EVERYTHING, just ask my fiance!
He's is always telling me "Liz, no puedes hacer todo en la vida!" ("Liz, you can't do everything in life!")
I know he's right so I want to write down the things that I truly do want to do with whatever is left in my life.
1). Have an inspiring ministry. I'm in the worship team at my church. I sing, I play, I direct (sorta), I help my dad with the youth, I organize, point is I do a lot or at least I try to. I love to! I would love my ministry to grow! I want to preach, I want to inspire people to serve God passionately. I want to bring people to Christ's feet. I want to make my parents proud. I want to make God proud!
2). Help my dad's business go on for a long time. If my dad reads he's probably gonna laugh because I have never told him this. I saw my dad go through hard work to get this business up and running. Even though it is not a career I would voluntarily pick for me, I love it. I want to help him in any way I can.
3). I want to have a beautiful family. I'm the eldest of soon to be 6 children so I kinda would love to have a big family. I want to soon marry my fiance (almost!) and I want have a loving household with him and have a family. I want to have laughter and love in my house with Charly and my future children.
4). I want to travel. Specifically to Australia! Gosh I would loooooooove to go to Australia! I don't care if that's the only place I ever go to in my entire life! However, if God tells me to go to _________(fill in the blank), I AM THERE!
5). Be a photographer. OK so I also loooove taking pictures. I think that pictures are a great way of holding on to happy memories! So the only thing I need in a Canon EOS 5D Mark II....daddy if you ever see this, you can totally buy it at any given time, sooner better than later. ;)
So besides being happy, and being a good daughter, sister, friend, wife, and mother, that's all I truly want......Lord it is ALL in your hands.
My gentleman God...
God is a really big part of my life and He has been since I was 7 years old.
As I was growing up, I did a lot of dumb things and I thought I suffered a lot (teenage drama queen). I would ask myself, "why did God bring me to this world if I was going to suffer", "if He loves me so much then why do I feel like this?", I even started questioning God; "if He knows the future, then why did He bring Eve into this world and allow her to eat from the 'bad' tree?" I questioned God. One day as I was sitting asking my self that question for 1,545,656,782,632th time, the answer came to me: He's a gentleman!
God has plans for us, plans for good! WE are the ones who decide to do bad, which then brings us bad things.
God did not make us robots (thank you for that God)! He's lettingus live! He loves us so He does not force us to do things that we do not want to do! What an awesome God! What a loving God!
So it's not that God wants us to suffer, it's that WE pick to suffer, WE choose the bad way, I chose the wrong path.
If you ever felt like that and you're walking down the wrong path, turn around NOW, and you'll see everything will become good again.
As I was growing up, I did a lot of dumb things and I thought I suffered a lot (teenage drama queen). I would ask myself, "why did God bring me to this world if I was going to suffer", "if He loves me so much then why do I feel like this?", I even started questioning God; "if He knows the future, then why did He bring Eve into this world and allow her to eat from the 'bad' tree?" I questioned God. One day as I was sitting asking my self that question for 1,545,656,782,632th time, the answer came to me: He's a gentleman!
God has plans for us, plans for good! WE are the ones who decide to do bad, which then brings us bad things.
God did not make us robots (thank you for that God)! He's lettingus live! He loves us so He does not force us to do things that we do not want to do! What an awesome God! What a loving God!
So it's not that God wants us to suffer, it's that WE pick to suffer, WE choose the bad way, I chose the wrong path.
If you ever felt like that and you're walking down the wrong path, turn around NOW, and you'll see everything will become good again.
About me....
So in this first official blog I want to write about me, who I am, the people that make me, what I do.
I'm Liz, I'm 20 years old, I live in California, I go to college, I play piano, I sing for the Lord, Oh yeah I'm in love with God, I'm the eldest of 5 children (soon to be 6). Since I'm talking about my siblings here it goes:
First: ME.
Second: Uriel, my 18 year old brother. He's in college at a way to far school I think. He plays guitar, sorta, he's funny, crazy, and he sleeps....A LOT!
Third: Angie, 14 year old sister. She's in middle school! She's into her hair a lot. She sings.
Fourth: Josh, 10 year old. Crazy kid, very loving, and loves video games and TV
Fifth: Janelle, 1 year old. She's something else. The spoiled one
Sixth: Soon to come
These are my brothers and sisters. We are a pretty big family and I would change it.
My parents are pretty amazing! They are hard workers and they worked to take us were we are now.They're....AMAZING!
My boyfriend/fiance....Carlos. He's a musician, and he pretty amazing also.
Jocki is the BFF, maybe later I'll do a blog just about her and I'll write her real name haha.
These are just some amazing people in my life.....there are a couple more but that's it for now.
I'm Liz, I'm 20 years old, I live in California, I go to college, I play piano, I sing for the Lord, Oh yeah I'm in love with God, I'm the eldest of 5 children (soon to be 6). Since I'm talking about my siblings here it goes:
First: ME.
Second: Uriel, my 18 year old brother. He's in college at a way to far school I think. He plays guitar, sorta, he's funny, crazy, and he sleeps....A LOT!
Third: Angie, 14 year old sister. She's in middle school! She's into her hair a lot. She sings.
Fourth: Josh, 10 year old. Crazy kid, very loving, and loves video games and TV
Fifth: Janelle, 1 year old. She's something else. The spoiled one
Sixth: Soon to come
These are my brothers and sisters. We are a pretty big family and I would change it.
My parents are pretty amazing! They are hard workers and they worked to take us were we are now.They're....AMAZING!
My boyfriend/fiance....Carlos. He's a musician, and he pretty amazing also.
Jocki is the BFF, maybe later I'll do a blog just about her and I'll write her real name haha.
These are just some amazing people in my life.....there are a couple more but that's it for now.
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