The day after we got home from Heritage Conference, we jump right into our building remodel. Click on the link below to see some pics of the demolition as well as the remodel as it progresses.
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It's going to be awesome when it's done. God truly has done a miracle work for our church. From the way we got it to this remodel. We are getting new walls, new carpet, building a new platform, new ceiling, new lights, new soundbooth, covering up some windows and doors, and that's just the first part. Come fall we are going to paint the outside and remodel the foyer area as well out on a new roof. By New Years 2012, we are gonna have a completely different church. I pray the change will also hit the "temple of God" and that we will be a revival, holy ghost falling like it's the day of Pentecost all over again kind of church. God is so good. I love this life, love this message, love this truth, love the trials and the blessings, love holiness an separation. I am just whole heartily in love with Jesus.
Fall in love with Jesus. It will be the best thing you could ever do. Trust me.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
New York Trip
They say a picture speaks a thousand words. Well I guess that means that this post will be about 15,000 plus words. And rather than writing out my entire experience in Queens and Manhatten, New York, I will just touch on the basics and let the pictures that I took tell the rest.
Mom was enrolled in an online medical billing college called Allen School. Allen School's main campus is in Queens, New York. Mom finished and wanted to attend the graduation in New York but because of the finances, wasnt sure if she was going to be able to. We prayed and God made a way. She got nominated for validictorian of the entire class so we took that as God giving us the ok to go to New York.
We left Wednesday night at 10pm. Five hour flight (3 hour time difference). Got in at 6am Thursday morning. We shuttled to the rental place. Drove in a city that has CRAZY AGGRESSIVE drivers to our hotel. Changed and headed over to the graduation by noon. Great graduation. Mom looked beautiful as always. Afterward we went to the hoteland slept from 6pm till 8am the next morning. After driving aggressively (I am a fast learner) to eat breakfast than across the bridge to Manhatten and parking our car in a parking garage, the 11 hour on foot New York experience began!
Note: Photography done by MGJR with a Canon and my amazing Apple iPhone.
Mom was enrolled in an online medical billing college called Allen School. Allen School's main campus is in Queens, New York. Mom finished and wanted to attend the graduation in New York but because of the finances, wasnt sure if she was going to be able to. We prayed and God made a way. She got nominated for validictorian of the entire class so we took that as God giving us the ok to go to New York.
We left Wednesday night at 10pm. Five hour flight (3 hour time difference). Got in at 6am Thursday morning. We shuttled to the rental place. Drove in a city that has CRAZY AGGRESSIVE drivers to our hotel. Changed and headed over to the graduation by noon. Great graduation. Mom looked beautiful as always. Afterward we went to the hoteland slept from 6pm till 8am the next morning. After driving aggressively (I am a fast learner) to eat breakfast than across the bridge to Manhatten and parking our car in a parking garage, the 11 hour on foot New York experience began!
Note: Photography done by MGJR with a Canon and my amazing Apple iPhone.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Memorial Weekend To Remember
Ok so here is the breakdown:
We have a week and a half to find a new place otherwise we are gonna be homeless (which God would never allow happen).
We have searched for houses or apartments from Scottsdale to Buckeye and everything we have found, God has shut the doors in his perfect way. Ways ranging from too many people living in a 2 bedroom apartment (?what?) to the the one that recently happen. Found a good place, nice this and that AND... next day find out there is 1700 dollars worth of hidden move in fees.
One by one doors have closed. All the while the deadline is getting closer and closer. Than we found a house in buckeye. Perfect rent, good neighborhood, no hidden fees, one cheap set cost to move in and the place is ours for the same amount monthly.
We prayed. Talked with our great pastor. And pending Gods approval, we may be in a home in a week and a half.
I whole heartily believe that that's not all. The Bible talks about God being able to do above what we can ask or think. About His children drinkin from wells we didn't dig. Blessings beyond what we can contain. And even if his answer is no to this house, I whole heartily believe that by June 1, 2011 the Gonzales family will receive blessings of finances, housing, transportation, healing and whatever else God adds to this sweet blessing.
I pray with all my heart that He alone receives glory and honor and praise for the next week and a half. That its all used to build His kingdom. And that whatever trials and even blessings are still to come, great or small, it doesn't skew my vision and longing for heaven and to be with Him. That my prayer at the end of the day will still be. "Take this whole world but give me Jesus."
Ain't nothing like living for God and the rush of living by faith, ain't nothing better and more exciting.
Show them Father how great You are.
Buckle up. Here we go.
2 Corinthians 5:7
We have a week and a half to find a new place otherwise we are gonna be homeless (which God would never allow happen).
We have searched for houses or apartments from Scottsdale to Buckeye and everything we have found, God has shut the doors in his perfect way. Ways ranging from too many people living in a 2 bedroom apartment (?what?) to the the one that recently happen. Found a good place, nice this and that AND... next day find out there is 1700 dollars worth of hidden move in fees.
One by one doors have closed. All the while the deadline is getting closer and closer. Than we found a house in buckeye. Perfect rent, good neighborhood, no hidden fees, one cheap set cost to move in and the place is ours for the same amount monthly.
We prayed. Talked with our great pastor. And pending Gods approval, we may be in a home in a week and a half.
I whole heartily believe that that's not all. The Bible talks about God being able to do above what we can ask or think. About His children drinkin from wells we didn't dig. Blessings beyond what we can contain. And even if his answer is no to this house, I whole heartily believe that by June 1, 2011 the Gonzales family will receive blessings of finances, housing, transportation, healing and whatever else God adds to this sweet blessing.
I pray with all my heart that He alone receives glory and honor and praise for the next week and a half. That its all used to build His kingdom. And that whatever trials and even blessings are still to come, great or small, it doesn't skew my vision and longing for heaven and to be with Him. That my prayer at the end of the day will still be. "Take this whole world but give me Jesus."
Ain't nothing like living for God and the rush of living by faith, ain't nothing better and more exciting.
Show them Father how great You are.
Buckle up. Here we go.
2 Corinthians 5:7
Friday, May 13, 2011
Trust In Him. Through the Blessings and Trials.
From the onset of today, my prayer was that if God would walk beside me regardless if today contain a great blessing or the trial of my life, I would press on and trust him. As I walked away from the church house and begin to contemplate that prayer, I couldn't help but think that today was gonna be a day of a test. A day that meant i would have to put my head down and push a little harder. A day I would have to place a deep trust in god.
Sure enough.
See god don't just give faith to us. Trials give us patience and than experience and than we receive hope or faith. The reason being because god truly does have a great plan for us and blessings so great. But before he can give us all these things, he must first make sure we can handle it. He will NOT put us through more than we can handle and that includes blessings. So he must mold and purge us and make us ready for that blessing.
I long for a complete family. Not just for my sake. But for my lonely mom. My sister who is growing up without a father or complete family. I long for someone who will go the extra mile for me as I do daily for others. And I don't mind it. It's who I am. I stopped trying to hang up my cape cause it's apart of me. But I feel like I go and go and go and put my all into it and I find they have yet to put anything into the same thing. I have prayers and longings and desires that are so basic to those who are fortunate to have them and yet I am still without. Rocking to and fro on a crumbling boat surrounded by raging sea.
But when Jesus says we are going to the other side, and when Jesus is on your boat, it don't matter if your holding on to the last piece of board of that ship, you will make it to that other side.
In the midst of this all god. All the tears and pain and hurt that build up more and more inside, God, one thing will remain.
I will trust in you.
Psalms 27:1
Sure enough.
See god don't just give faith to us. Trials give us patience and than experience and than we receive hope or faith. The reason being because god truly does have a great plan for us and blessings so great. But before he can give us all these things, he must first make sure we can handle it. He will NOT put us through more than we can handle and that includes blessings. So he must mold and purge us and make us ready for that blessing.
I long for a complete family. Not just for my sake. But for my lonely mom. My sister who is growing up without a father or complete family. I long for someone who will go the extra mile for me as I do daily for others. And I don't mind it. It's who I am. I stopped trying to hang up my cape cause it's apart of me. But I feel like I go and go and go and put my all into it and I find they have yet to put anything into the same thing. I have prayers and longings and desires that are so basic to those who are fortunate to have them and yet I am still without. Rocking to and fro on a crumbling boat surrounded by raging sea.
But when Jesus says we are going to the other side, and when Jesus is on your boat, it don't matter if your holding on to the last piece of board of that ship, you will make it to that other side.
In the midst of this all god. All the tears and pain and hurt that build up more and more inside, God, one thing will remain.
I will trust in you.
Psalms 27:1
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