Journal Entry#3

Hellooo friends!!


Well it's been quite a while since I've written a post:/...I've been quite a busy girl as of late. Also I've been going through kind of a dry season with Christ and I'm just comming through that I think hooray:D!! Anyhoo both the posts I've written have been about stuff I've learned from Christ, and being in a dry season...well I just wasn't getting anything. Dry seasons always stink, but I think that they are very important and God brings them for so many reasons. In my opinion, mainly to build up your strength in Him to trust and be faithful in who He is and His love for you even when you're not feeling or hearing Him. They are the times when the voice of temptation is screaming in your ear and Christ is just whispering. This being so...it's way easy to fall. But if you start concentrating on just Christ's voice you start to recognize it more and so that you will know His voice without a doubt when it's most important. For all my musical friends, I think of it as trying to hear and learn the right harmony in a song for 8pps all on different harmonies...owchhh...thankfully he doesn't give us more than we can handle and only allows us beginners to take on the easy duets:)...wow i'm such a theatre nerd haha!Before I knew Christ too well, I used to think I had dry seasons with Him because He was mad at me or preparing me for a time where He'd leave me to fend for myself and I guess that was part of the reason I wasn't as attracted to a more intimate relationship with Him. But truth is, He's always with me and love isn't all about feeling someone or hearing them it's about believing in them having trust and faith in them even when you aren't constantly being reminded of that love. We're not gonna grow to recognize His voice well unless we're stretched and that's what dry seasons are all about...we gotta stretch our ears and hearts a bit farther while we fight off the ultimate liar...ahhh!!!!scary right??It's truly impossible without Christ..which is why Bible reading and worship is really important during these times, even though we aren't as attracted to them.

Well there's my bit on dry seasons haha time to tell y'all what's been happening with me and ok so confession I totally saved this first part to drafts, and it's been so busy, that now is the first time I've been able to get back into it and wow God has done..a LOT since I saved it:D!!!hmm where to start..ooo well I've had so many chances to evangelize and be a light lately which is THE MOST incredible feeling ever to me haha and speaking of...before I actually really started digging for opportunities to evangelize I went on this 21 day fast and it came with a devotional book. One chapter talked about how we're always hearing of how God knows us so well, but how He really wants us to get to know Him and not just in the fact that He's God with all of His amazing wonders, but like as like a spiritual individual if that makes sense. Hopefully I worded that correctly haha! But anyhoo, I started asking God just random questions..like what do you like to do for fun...what would you spend an entire saturday doing? His response like totally brought us together even more. Instead of answering the question He was like "Hmmm can I show you:D?" And I added the ending smile for a reason...He's honestly really funny and hyperish and He makes me smile and laugh so much for those of you who don't know Him too well:D!!!!But anyways I had this feeling like Oh my gosh I'm about to go sky diving from Pluto at light speed or something! haha well I actually got it little better..He put this picture into my head of people around who were having a bad day and He showed like a sillouette of someone making them smile and bringing light into their darkened day...and making an impact on possibly their lives...then, I felt Him saying "This is what I do for fun:)"...with that kind of knowing smile that you just hear. Since then He's brought so many chances for me to witness/help people and make them smile and now honestly He's turned it into what I do for fun:)...it's better than any movie, any game, any, I don't even know, but it's amazing.

Ok well you gotta read a bit more cause God's been doing some more incredible things and you can't miss out on hearing them. A few weeks ago I was in youth group listening to my pastor and he said something related to streams or something like them and once again I had like a small glimpse of what's on God's mind:). This pic came to my head, of just looking over a dark jungle/forest...it was so black that I couldn't tell that this is what it was...I just knew. But this wasn't the whole picture, there was a pond/spring of clear water on the right side of the forest/jungle and it was pure water..then a small part of that blackness was lifted like a sliding door that goes up instead of to the side. A tiny, thin line of the water in the stream started going through the little open doorway and just trickled through..then it started spiderwebbing outwards into more tiny, tiny streams and then the picture went away... I thought it was just me and my abstract and very random mind but I found out later there was more too it:). Sometime before then, I think(it could've been from 3,2,1 penguins cause they have something kinda like this, but let's just say it wasn't haha) I saw a completely black..(I'm guessing)map that only had one bright light at the center of it with a mist of light above it..then the mist started traveling away from the center, starting to cover more of the map. As this happened more bright spots of light were formed coming out from the center until the whole map was covered. I don't know if it was exactly brought into my mind as so, but a few days ago God brought that image to my mind ..possibly recreated it. Once again I was just thinking it was a little odd and probably just a bunny trail through my head, but then I went to my friends house the other day and God had brought things to their heart that were sort of similar and it kind of brought more clarity to the puzzle God's wanting us to solve. I can't disclose anymore right now but prayer for even more clarity to this would be great:)!!!How exciting right?!Well pretty soon I'm sure it will be a bit more confusing and marvelous:D!I love puzzles!!!!!!!!!And I'm pretty sure He's starting to reveal something big in my life and in many others:)!

Well hmm I guess some pps might be wondering just what's happening with me right? Well to answer that question..mainly school:(. But along with that I've had Triple Threat Texas practice, Voice Lessons, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown rehearsals, and just recently I performed in a talent show:O!!It went well and all that stuff has been going marvelously too, thanks to Jesus. But this Spring break, I have to admit is kind of a nice rest from it all. OOOooo but one of my fav things that's happened recently is that I became a member at Gateway Church:D!!!And now I can get more involved and I get to see so many amazing ppl more and I'll have a bunch of opportunities to help! yay:D!I'm so blessed with wonderful leadership and great friends all over the place. Home life. Well it hasn't been quite up to regular status and fellowship. We're all big into politics and are getting ready for conventions and doing a lot of crazy stuff. Well my parents are very busy with it especially. Please pray for God's strength and peace for them. It's really been hectic:/. God's with us though so I know it'll all work out:) and also I'm pretty sure this week will be a lot less stressful woot!Well, I still have yet another story to tell of stuff that God has told me but this message is long and I have to jump back into school.

Thank you so much for reading this:D!I had so much fun writing it and I pray that God will reveal more of His love and plan for you way soon and that this might of helped in some way with that.

With Christ's Love,

Licia