Calling

Hey everyone! I am responding to some comments that were made on a Facebook post I made which you can see here .  You can see the full sermon from the first night with Daryl Smith here and you can also explore the nights and meetings there too!

Some people have been asking about my bible plan, so here it is!

Hello friends! I have been reading through Romans the past couple of days and stumbled across Romans 6:16. " 16  Do you not know that if you present yourselves  to anyone as obedient slaves,   you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?" As usual, I like to read every study note on every verse I read. One part of the note said that people who do give themselves utterly to sin will die and face eternal punishment. This got me thinking about a friend I have who accepted Christ at a young age, but has since walked away from a relationship with Jesus. But my friend still thinks they're going to heaven.  I have been praying for this friend's salvation for more than a year now, because it confused me so much about if they was actually going to heaven or not. I read scriptures in Corinthians that stated that the Corinthian's had accepted Jesus as their savior but were still co...

The past couple weeks I haven't been able to sing in church. If you can imagine, this was especially difficult for someone who has been singing since she was in the womb and someone who also serves on the worship team. Sitting with the rest of the congregation (the audience of a church experience, if you will) and just listening to everyone else sing was someone quite beautiful in and of itself. I saw people young and old hold a hand up to their Savior. Which is not something you typically see from a traditional church, where typically older people choose to go. So it is awesome to see stereotypes breaking in my not so common church! Something else I noticed was how happy it made me to hear people sing off key! I love hearing an entire group of people sing praises to Jesus, no matter their talent or skill level! It's something that reminds me that my performance, being and to sing or do well in school or killing it at my multiple jobs, does NOT equal my salvation. My salvation ...

Hey y'all. This week has been weird for me I'm not going to lie. I found out I have more health problems than I thought, I let my room cluttered and get messy, and I dreaded the weekend duty coming up. I didn't read my bible almost at all. I watched Netflix, I was unproductive, and I didn't want to reach out to God. When I get in a rut I never want to ask God for help because I wasn't diciplined enough to read my bible, or intentionally pray. When I am in that place I don't think I deserve any help from God. And in a way, I'm right, I don't deserve anything. But that's the beauty of our savior. He didn't send his ONLY son to die on a cross for us because we were good, self disciplined people. He sent his ONLY son to pay the price of our sins because God loves us unconditionally. Today I was reading Genesis 32-35 and read the story of Jacob wresting with God. I pray that if you feel like you have been questioning God's existence, if you believ...

Hello everyone! I have decided to take on a new challenge and start REALLY praying for more people. I want to know what you need prayer for! There is so much power in prayer, but it is always easy to forget when our lives get busy and hard, but that is one of the most important times to pray! Check out this article from CRU about  7 reasons to pray.  Thank you for checking out my blog. I am so excited to start praying for each and every one of you. Praise God that we have a Father who allows us to be so connected with Him, and that He hears us! (1 John 5:14)

This week I sat down with a great friend that is discipling me. If you don't know what discipling is, check out my last post, I put a brief definition in there. It is always something hard for me to do when I tell her everything that I have done wrong since we last met. And yes, we are all naturally born sinners (check out  this article  for more information about that) but I still beat myself up continuously about it. I have a hard time accepting that I am weak, small and born into these tenancies.  In the beginning of discipleship with my friend, I wouldn't tell her about a lot of my hard times. And she helped me understand the world, my hardships, and the biblical truth about them. One thing I really need to consistently tell myself is to be completely honest with my friends when I mess up.  James 5:16 says:  "Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power a...

My friends Micheala, Carolyn and Tristan and me at the Washington Memorial That title sounds like something scary doesn't it? I was doing some reading in Victory Over The Darkness by Neil T. Anderson that I am reading with someone for discipleship . Discipleship is a committed relationship to another person with a teacher and student aspect. (I am currently discipling a student so therefore I am leading a study in a particular book. This can look different to every relationship but typically when someone decides to disciple another person they are investing themselves into someone else's life to bring them closer to Christ and to encourage and challenge them to bring others to Christ.) I learned about discipleship when I joined  CRU , an on campus organization that is committed to fulfilling The Great Commission ( Matthew 28:19-20 ). As I got baptized just one week ago today I thought this was something very important to talk about as it relates to the ministry on Plymouth...

Today I made a huge outward cry of my faith, (see video below, excuse my ugly crying, I was so excited!) I got baptized! I was "baptized" as a very young child, but my parents made the decision for me, and today I made the decision for Christ. Just a couple years ago I didn't think that I needed to get baptized again. I remember dating someone who was also a Christian and he made a HUGE deal about it, and I was honestly hurt because I knew that I was a Christain, that I was going to heaven, and so what if my parents made that decision for me, it worked out right?  I didn't do the research or pray about getting baptized again until much later, about 2 or 3 months ago. I had just started going to a new church this past October that doesn't recognize infant baptism. And I was like, oh yeah, thats kind of cool, and God slowly put it on my heart that I needed to do it again, I needed to make this choice for Him because it was MY salvation not my parents.  So I though...

My name is Victoria and God has forever changed my life in so many ways, as I have continued to trust Him and know who He is, and who I am because of Him. This is a picture one of my close friends took of me, as I was telling her how I know God exists. I was standing there looking at that amazing sunset and just taking in the beauty God has created on this earth. This is a video of me walking on my ankle that had been in a walking boot and crutches, for I kid you not 3 Christmas' in a row! For some reason it only had problems during the winter. My friend Matt here, who posted the video, prayed over my ankle and then decided to see how God could heal me. I could not believe that I was walking on a brand new ankle. It felt as if I had all new muscles, ligaments, and bones. It didn't hurt at all! I will dive into this story in a later post.