“I know that as I look back over my life and think about even from a child at the things that I went through as far as getting hurt..as far as falling down..Amen..simply bumps..stitches..bruises..as simply even growing up that life has come at times like a storm..consuming everything of who I was as a person and at how I had to fight..I had to fight even for my place with Christ..it wasn’t that I wasn’t saved..not at all..but fight for Him..fight for knowing Him..fight for growing in Him..fight for choosing the right way and the right path..and it seemed as if one thing would end and all of a sudden something else would come along my way to try it’s best to take me down and take me out..if it wasn’t battling hurt..battling pain..battling that car wreck..battling addiction..battling depression..battling fear..battling surgery..battling and fighting for my freedom..battling spiritual law from inside the church..battling trying to measure up..battling being good enough..battling death from loved ones..Amen..you name it..it would come my way..and I never quit did understand that about life..and even now I have my days to where I think why do we have to fight so much and at times it seems all the time..that it is a battle between good and evil..that we are at a constant choosing..and at a constant overcoming something in life..Amen..but in those moments I am as well always reminded that through it all I did overcome and I did make it through..that Jesus was with me even when I was going through much..Amen..and I am reminded that I must encourage myself in the Lord..1 Samuel 30:6..because how many of you know that sometimes you have to be your own biggest cheerleader so to speak..Amen!”

“And I remind myself that the bible says many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivers him out of them all..Psalms 34:19..Amen..and I am reminded that a righteous man may fall down seven times but seven times he will rise again..Proverbs 24:16-18..Amen..and I reminded that whatsoever state that I find myself in that the word says to be content..Philippians 4:11-13..Amen..and in these times I have to remind myself who I am in Christ..and that greater is He that is in me then he that is in this ole world in which we live..1 John 4:4-6..Amen..and as well I have grown to know that peace, joy and happiness are my friends in life..that they make me who I am to living life well..Amen..and so I guard everything about who I am..I am very selective to who I hang out with..to who I am around..and to what I listen too..because words are powerful..and when you fight in your life for your life..then you do take it seriously..everything that you allow..and choose..Amen..so know that you may be in a battle..or a storm..or a illness..or sickness..or something..but as well know that this to shall pass..that you will make it through and you will overcome..don’t give up..stay prayed up..and know that God has you..that nothing happens to us that He alone doesn’t know about..and as well just know that when you come out of a battle..that you are not the same person who walked into it..you will grow and change drastically..but in the change I pray it makes you better and not bitter..Amen..so let us holdfast to Jesus..and let us keep climbing our mountain..Amen..for we WILL GET BACK UP again..Amen..for it is in His name, Jesus’ name, that I do ask and pray..Amen and Amen..Be blessed today my dear sweet friends and remember wherever you go and whatever you do, Be a light for our Father, Much love to you all, Mandi ❤️