Janaina Medeiros
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Jesus can take the hardest thing you've had to go through in this life and turn it into your most beautiful contribution to the world. Believe that He will carry you through, and enable you, too. And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:28)
Letting Go and Loving God
I think being hateful and bitter is now “the new black” - everyone is doing it, and it's ok. I used to be one of these people. I had a lot of hate in my heart from not having my father around and having my heart broken. I think we all have to be honest. The one grudge I just couldn't let go of is the one I will talk about below.
We have all been in love, or something close to it. One time or another we have had our hearts broken. I think a broken heart is one of the hardest things to get over. I had liked a lot of other guys who were my boyfriends or guys I would talk to, but this man was different. I knew all the bad stuff he had done to other girls, and I was warned - yet, I still had to be with him. What got me the most is the fact that I would see him be so mean and cruel to other people and when we were alone, he would be so completely nice and gentle with everything. I felt like no one knew him like I knew him. He did those nice things guys did like talk to you every day, say good morning, take you out to lunch, walk or drive you home, and kiss you goodnight. It was even better since he never tried to pressure me into having sex with him when that was what he did with all the others. I felt special, like this could be it. I was sure he was the one, we would get married and have kids. Then, literally like the snap of a finger, he was that guy I was warned about. He started out ignoring me sometimes and being distant. I had later found out he was with someone else. I had never cried so much over a guy. I felt like my whole world was over, and I had nothing to live for. It was as if no one was going to love me or do the things he did for me ever again. I couldn't even love myself! I was depressed, not eating, sleeping all day and night, playing sad love songs on repeat, crying myself to sleep, and I would even randomly cry in public. It was sick!
After the depression was the Hate. I never hated someone so much. I wished bad things upon him and his new girl. I thought all the time: “how can she just take what was mine? Why can he love her and be with her, but he couldn't love me? What did she do that I couldn't do?” I wanted to hit him with my fist… and my car. Anytime someone spoke his name, I would wince and get angry all over again. It’s like this man consumed all of my thoughts and energy. Even until recently I would think about him and wonder what it would have been like if we were still together. I became sad and angry, that is, until I started living my life for God.
Once I surrendered and gave everything to God, He has shown me how to let go of that hate and forgive and love my enemies; love the ones who hurt me so much, strangers and friends included. I feel that now I can finally have peace, and I understand why we never worked out. I understand why he would have never loved me. God has a plan for us all, and he was never supposed to be in mine. I feel like I went through that because I was stubborn and impatient, so He was teaching me what happens when I don't put my faith in Him and when I am not patient and trust Him. I have learned that, to love someone, I have to first love Jesus. I was lacking that love - I had to love myself and know that I am fearfully and wonderfully made and loved by God. The man I end up being with must also be a man of God and love himself. I know now that, if I ask, I shall receive, and I have prayed about this and know that when God says I am ready, He will put a man of His choice in my path, and I will truly be able to appreciate this man’s faithfulness, honesty, and love.
So, if you still have that hate in your heart for anyone who hurt you, whether it be from a relationship, friendship, family, or stranger, the only way to truly be at peace and love everyone as God has commanded us to is to fully submit to God. And if you are saying to yourself that you have fully submitted to Him, yet you still have this hate and disgust for someone it is because you have not in your heart fully submitted, and you are lacking Jesus. You need to pray to Him and tell him that you want Him to open your heart, take all of your pain, and replace it with love. Tell Him you want to be filled with Him, and truly mean it. Otherwise, you will be stuck in this same place hating and not understanding.
Here are some scriptures that help me understand and get through this:
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
“4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and t keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.”
Matthew 6:14-15
“14 If you forgive those who sin against you, your heavenly Father will forgive you. 15 But if you refuse to forgive others, your Father will not forgive your sins.”
Proverbs 13:24
“Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all wrongs.” (NTL)
Proverbs 17:9
“Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends.”
igNITE Media Ministries Presents: Kingdom Muzic - Christian Muzic Official Music video
Kingdom Muzic. Follow the movement. This movement is not going big places — it’s coming from big places. This is God’s movement. Bryann Trejo, along with his family and other brothers and sisters in Christ are allowing themselves to be used to spread God’s Word and testimony of what He has done in their lives through hip hop. In a sea of talent that we as listeners sift through on a daily basis, the members of the Kingdom Muzic movement are standing out as they stand on God’s truth.
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If you don’t obey God, you become god. Because if you don’t serve God, you serve an antichrist, because you ain’t Jesus Christ…
Mini-sermon over an #iMM original beat. The message outlines very clearly how important it is to have faith in Christ, and how everything in life will be very hazy until you allow Him to open your spiritual eyes. If you struggle with doubt, download this and keep it on your phone/mp3 player and use it to jumpstart your walk!
Holy Spirit Encounter
Let me just start by saying the Holy Spirit is real. Last week I was having some doubts in myself, and I was thinking about going out again and going to party with my friends. On Wednesday, I went to Youth group to hear The Word from Pastor Donnie, and I felt like God really spoke to me. At the end of the of his message, Donnie asked anyone to come up if they needed prayer. I was seeing everyone come up, and I just couldn't help but start to cry. I was feeling so lonely and sad again. I felt like I was so confused and He was giving up on me. I felt like the devil was trying to knock me down, and I was so close to letting him back into my life. My friends and family were getting into my head telling me things like “He can wait” or “Is it that serious?” I was even scared to get up and get prayer. Pastor Donnie looked and me and he said, “Get up here now! Go to Jarrod and he will pray for you.”
When I walked up to Jarrod, I had tears rolling down my cheeks and I couldn't control them. He asked me “What's wrong, what do you need prayer for?” I told him how I was feeling and that I was wavering on my path to Christ, then he grabbed my hands and began to pray for me. It was so beautiful and touching and I felt a lot better just from being prayed over.
The next day was young adults bible study with our normal group and Fiorella's group. It was pretty interesting because she began to tell us how her Aunt Silby is a prophet and she came all the way from Peru to help us pray. We started an exercise where we had to pick a partner by random and pray for them and they for us. I was scared because I had never prayed out loud or even for someone else. After I prayed for Audrianna, I felt a weight lift off my chest. It was way easier than I had imagined, and it felt good to pray for someone else other than myself.
While some of us were still praying and the others were just mingling, Fiorella, Aunt Silby, and two other girls from her bible study started to walk around. Aunt Silby was going around and praying for us to be filled with the Holy Spirit. She could feel who had a special calling and needed prayer. She went around the room praying, and you could see the people getting filled with the Spirit. I was scared at first because I didn't know what would happen; then, she walked up to me. She said “I can feel your heart is good.” Before she prayed, she said, “Jesus… you love Him? Tell Him you want the Holy Spirit to fill you, and pray out loud to Him.” While I was doing that, I could just feel something different from within me. I started to feel weak like I had no energy to stand, but I could feel all of the energy focused towards my heart. I felt the Holy Spirit in me, I could feel my heart changing and my body was shaking. I never felt this alive before in my life. It was this feeling that no amount of drugs or alcohol could make you feel. She then told me that if I trust in Him and let him guide me, I will be a minister and a healer with my hands. How crazy is that for a prophet to tell you that you will be a healer with your hands! It was a great feeling to know that with my prayer and touch I could be used to change someone's life and show them to Jesus.
That night I began to pray out loud, and every night after that. I would get the shivers when I would pray, worship, or even hear someone else speak of Jesus. I then knew that God had heard me crying and He heard my prayers. He brought me to this group and he put Fiorella and Aunt Sevie in my life for a reason. Now I have nothing to doubt or fear, I know this is where I need to be. I felt like a new person in some weird way and it was a good feeling.
The next week Fiorella had invited a few of us to her bible study to pray and say goodbye to Aunt Silby. That night Aunt Silby told me she would just pray over me because she could already see that I am filled with the Holy Spirit, and that soon I will be along side Jarrod ministering and spreading the word of God. I just prayed to God and thanked Him for everything. I am truly blessed to be here and to have met them. As we were leaving I had to give her a hug and say bye one more time, she stopped me and said “Wait! It will happen this Saturday, You will pray over someone who has a drug problem and you will heal them and show them the way of God and they will follow you.” This is when I had the most confirmation; This Saturday is the Prayer walk at TLC and I thought to myself, how could she have known this? God told her that’s how! He knew I would be there and he knows that even if I don't feel ready, I am ready to start helping people. It was the greatest experience in my life. I wanted to share this with everyone so they know that this is real! God has chosen us all to play specific parts in our lives and if you surrender to Him and love and trust Him, He will show you the way to salvation and you will feel so much better about life and everything in it.
Now I will leave you with some Scriptures that helped me these couple of weeks.
-Johnnesha
“God blesses those who patiently endure testing and temptation. Afterward they will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him”
James 1:12
“And God confirmed the message by giving signs and wonders and various miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit whenever he chose.”
Hebrews 2:4
"Do not neglect the spiritual gift within you, which was bestowed upon you through prophetic utterance with the laying on of hands by the presbytery."
1 Timothy 4:14
Are You Ready?
"Are you ready?" That's what I've been asking myself. Honestly, that's what you should be asking yourself, that's what The Lord will be asking you, and what your disciples and mentors will be asking you. Are you ready for your walk with The Lord? If you're unsure or not ready at all, don't be afraid to say so. Many people today are afraid or just flat out dislike the church because they were once forced on their walk with Christ. They were not ready and they weren't sure what they were doing and ended up running from God - it's the terrible truth. I feel that when you are ready, you need to first have that faith in God. One of the most important things you will need in order to start your journey is faith. Ask yourself this: "do I even believe in God?" If you do then you're one step closer to being ready for your walk. You need to first know who God is, how He created us, and why Jesus died for us. You need to trust Him and have faith. If you don't trust Him with your life then you have a lot of work and reading to do. Trusting in Him is knowing that He has a plan for all of us and trusting that He will guide us in the right path. You must have faith that if you give your life fully to Him, He will provide for you and protect you no matter what. You need to trust that He has given you the strength and the courage to move forward and He would never set you up for failure. You will need to trust that when God calls you to walk, He will know and trust that you are ready and you will succeed. In the end, it's not about what we know or what people tell us, necessarily. It's all about where God takes us and what God shows us that's important in and along our walk. -Johnnesha
Testimony: God Has A Plan
Johnnesha Usher
You ever have that point in your life where you feel like everything is just going down hill?
That's how I felt 5 months ago before I joined Trinity Life Center. I was at a point in my life that consisted of alcohol and thoughts of suicide. I felt like that was my only escape and I didn't care who was there or who I hurt to get what I wanted. I ended up quitting my job, losing a lot of friends, and moving out of the state thinking that I could run away and my problems would disappear. I found myself with even more problems on top of my old ones and I was sinking deeper into depression. After moving back to Las Vegas, I kept thinking to myself how I want to get better and try to make amends with everyone I had wronged. One of those people ended up being Angelique, a friend that I had been inseparable with for over 6 years. God had a plan and he was guiding me without me ever realizing. I don't know what was happening but I just felt like I needed to apologize and make things right with her. She was the only person who had ever had my back and knew everything I had been through. We partied and hung out but something was still not right. I was still in that dark place and trying to pretend that I wasn't. January 16th, 2014 was the day my life changed. I had a friend begging me to go out to the club with her but I wasn't feeling it for some odd reason, or so I thought. Something was telling me not to go. I ended up calling Angelique and telling her how I was kind of going though some things and I didn't want to go out, that's when she invited me to igNITE. I was thinking in my head "do I really want to go to church? I already have a church. I don't want to go and be awkward or uncomfortable. Maybe I'll just make up a lie to not go." But that "something" was back, and this time it was telling me to go, “Go to this church with your friend and just see what it has to offer.” Going to igNITE was the greatest decision I could have made. That night I felt like God was speaking to me through Jarrod. I never felt so welcomed or had so much clarity from church before that day. After that night, I wanted more and I was so surprised to see that God brought me here! He brought Angelique in my life and he brought me to TLC. The Lord works in mysterious ways but one thing we should never forget is that he loves us and he will always guide us where he wants us to be. We just need to keep that faith, pray, and remember to spread the word of God!
So with that being said, I leave you all with this:
God has a plan for your life. "No one can receive anything unless God gives it from heaven" (John 3:27 NLT). God created you and has good plans for your life. To know those plans, you must know God personally. '"For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope."'(Jeremiah 29:11)
#Bloggame
We steppin' it up! Bo here, haven't written awhile, and shame on me! 2013 was a blur that I'm only just now processing, and probably won't get to finish because my son Billy Axel (#gangster) is due on the 19th. Since igNITE has grown so much, it's been bothering me that we haven't been let you fine folks know in blog format. Since I can't post as much as I used to, others have stepped up to the plate. You'll be seeing their posts pop up, so stay tuned!
If you want to get in on the blog game, hit me up on Facebook. We gotta keep letting everyone know Who God is and what He does!! -Bo
Check this short that quickly shows a small piece of Pastor Donnie's journey to starting igNITE! One day we should make a feature-length, huh?
SOS Radio asked us to produce a video as a call to action for their Random Acts of Kindness campaign this year, so we did! Let’s all get out there and show someone that genuinely generous people still exist!
Our 2nd annual Christmas Tree Giveaway!
It has been a great year for us as far as connecting with our neighborhood, but it has also been a difficult year. There was an unfortunate homicide incident about a month before we gave away the trees that we allude to in this clip. Continue to pray for our Lynwood, Sherwood, and Van Patten neighborhoods and join us as we strive to change the culture there in Jesus' name! If you want to get involved drop us a line here or on any of our social networks. Get in where you fit in and stay plugged in!
Keeping the flame alive! This is footage of Trinity's inner city outreach being revived by igNITE! More to come!
WOW!
You should be so full of Christ,that when a mosquito bites you, it will fly away screaming: “THERE IS POWER IN THE BLOOD!”
Christian's be turnt up sometimes!!
This track kicks off igNITE Media Ministries' SoundCloud Page! This is the soundtrack to the promo video, and will be available for free download after 100 listens!
Here's our promo video for our new branch - igNITE Media Ministries! Subscribe to our YouTube channel too to stay tuned for what's about to come!! http://www.youtube.com/user/ignitetlclv
