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Samson: How The Good go Bad

Samson was an incredibly strong man, with a desperately weak will.

His Great potential: Samson was Selected by God, Set apart by God, and Strengthened by God

His Fatal Flaw: Samson was a man of faith, but he wasn’t a faithful man

Attitudes That Can Cause THE Good To Go Bad.

1. Lust: I want it

Samson went down to Timnah and saw there a young Philistine woman. When he returned, he said to his father and mother, “I have seen a Philistine woman in Timnah; now get her for me as my wife.”
Judges 14:1‭-‬2 NIV

2. Entitlement: I deserve it.

Some time later, when he went back to marry her, he turned aside to look at the lion’s carcass, and in it he saw a swarm of bees and some honey. He scooped out the honey with his hands and ate as he went along. When he rejoined his parents, he gave them some, and they too ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the lion’s carcass.
Judges 14:8‭-‬9 NIV

Pride: I can handle it.

Now his father went down to see the woman. And there Samson held a feast, as was customary for young men.
Judges 14:10 NIV

Attitudes That can Keep The Good from Going Bad

  • I want God
  • I deserve death
  • I can’t do anything without God

Lessons Learned from Samson:

  • Spiritual failure is seldom an explosion. It’s usually an erosion
  • There will always be the temptation to rely on our gifts and not the giver
  • The beginning of Strength is an awareness of our weakness

Memory Verse

But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.
Luke 12:48 NIV

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The Rollettes Have made a difference in my life

The woman I am today is not the woman that I was last year

It’s taken so long for me to get to mentally to the place I am in now.  I used to think that hanging out with. people who looked like me was weird.  If you’ve been around me for a while, you know that I was once asked

Are you going to get any better?

You also know that I threw myself into.physical therapy, because I thought walking would make me normal.  

In 2021 I decided to let that attitude go, and I was ready to make friends with women who look like me and share similar experiences.   I chose to throw myself headfirst into signing up for Rollettes 2021.  I attended virtually.  This year I am looking forward to attending in person.

I have already paid for my tuition and room, but the coordinates of the event need assistance for the event. Rollettes Experience is much more than a dance camp.  It is a time of women’s empowerment for women who are wheelchair users.

It’s time for women like myself to be looked at as someone who can take over the world.with her abilities and not pitied for her perceived disability

Please consider donating to this epic event

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Faith For the Future: Hopeful Faith

Biblical Hope

1. Hope is the confident expectation that God will do what he says he will do

2. Hope shines brightest in Darkness and is not based on our mood or circumstances

But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13 MSG

https://bible.com/bible/97/1co.13.13.MSG

Memory Verse

But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.
1 Thessalonians 5:8 NIV

https://1thessalonians.bible/1-thessalonians-5-8

3. Hope is a form of resistance

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God.
Romans 5:1‭-‬2 NIV

4. Christian Hope is not in going to heaven when we die but in all of creation being renewed and filled with God’s Glory

How Do we grow Hope?

1. Pray for hope, as God to renew your hope daily

2. Practice Hope, it’s a muscle that you have to exercise

3. Gard your hope, when things look bad remember that God is in control and when people and circumstances are negative, keep on talking to God through prayer and reading his word.

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If I were a tree

This is today’s #blogganuary prompt.

If I were a tree, I would be one of those Purple flower trees that seem to grow out of the cement. I wouldn’t look strong, but I would have firmly planted roots, just as my roots are planted in my relationship with Christ.

My falling petals would be the part of me that tells my story. It would be told softly and often because I want people who saw me to know what God has done for me.

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The Advice I would Give to my Teenage self

This is my cousin and I after my high school graduation

There are so many things that I would want to tell my younger self. The first thing I would say to myself is to cherish the relationships that you often take for granted because even those small things that annoy the hell out of you now will be the things that you miss when God decides he wants someone home.

The second thing that I need you to know is that you don’t have to be the girl who has a ten-year plan. At 14, you’re going to feel like you have everything in life figured out, at an event at USC is where you discover your love for speaking to audiences, but in your first speech, you tell the audience that your dream is to become a special education teacher, when what God had planned for you is to become a public speaker via cool technology that seems impossible to dream up.

When you get your final volunteer teaching internship, and you start to feel you’re not respected and treated as an adult by your peers, make the hard and fast decision to leave; it’s not giving up. At this point in your life, you’ve spent a decade doing something that you fell out of love with a long time ago but kept doing because you were the girl who knew what she wanted.

When you quit volunteering, you need to start something called a podcast, and it should be called Encouragement Notes. You need to do this because being a coach for a multi-level marketing company called Beachbody has led you to a life of taking selfies and talking about overpriced products, and the entire experience is making you pushy with your friends and family.

Starting a podcast will be easier than you think; find an app on the cell phone that you have, pull out your most recent sermon notes from your purse, and start reading them as if you are talking to someone who missed Church on Sunday.

Lastly, Stop using the words Just and Nothing when people ask you

1. What did you do today? or

2. What do you do?

Be confident that the Lord is using what you are doing, even though you are doing it from home.

You Got This! God is not done with you yet!

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My favorite songs

These are in No Particular order

  • The Very Best of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
  • Hello, My Name is by Matthew West
  • Frozen two soundtrack
  • Frozen musical soundtrack
  • Wicked Soundtrack
  • Broken things by Matthew West
  • Jersey Boys Movie Soundtrack
  • My Turn by John Lloyd Young
  • Nobody by casting crowns
  • Bring it on home Sam Cooke
  • Josh Groban’s entire career catalog
  • Mercy me -Lifer album
  • Mercy Me- Welcome to the New -album