Hey Everyone! I hope all of you are doing well! I hope you all are having a blessed week! Well as I was trying to figure out what my blog update was going to be about I thought that I would use one of the messages I heard about at church. And all summer my church has gone through a series called "Since you asked" and this series is basically going through questions that we ask about faith and questions we just want to know the answer too. So I hope that this update gives you hope and inspiration.
So lets start off by asking the question "What is the point of life here on earth" Well I believe with all my heart that God put us here for a purpose, He created us for a purpose, He made us to have meaning in this chaotic world. We don't always see it! Its not always painted for us. Life is a journey, I believe heaven is real, That once we leave our earthly bodies we will experience joy and peace and emotions we cant imagine. Now your probable asking yourself "why didn't we just go straight there, if heaven is so great why do we have death? suffering? pain? Why do we have to go through that if we could be living with great emotions and not have to worry about anything else? I mean whats the point of what I am doing here on earth, is it going to matter once I leave this earth? Well lets just stop there for a minute and I want to share with all of you a scripture passage that comes from John 17:4 its a prayer Jesus says before He was arrested, It reads"I brought glory to you here on earth by completing the work you gave me to do." That was my purpose is what Jesus said, is that I completed the work that was set before me by my Father in Heaven and when I did that, when I fulfilled that, when I followed that, when I leaned into everything that it was I brought glory to God and I brought light to those who encountered me. Every single one of you Your probable asking another question "How do I know what God wants me to do in this world? What is my calling? How do I find that?
Well let me just step a little back and I want to ask you all a question when you were growing up as a child and your teachers and your parents asked you "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Now probable when you were little you said things like astronaut, president or princess, Then when we all got a little bit older they asked us again and then of course we change our mind and our answers were rockstar,cowboy, or a gold medalist. Now those are dreams of kids minds but when you grow up and you go through school and you graduate high school and then they ask you, you don't have to guess what you want to be when you grow up because you will know. The school your enrolled in or the learning you got from that school helped you learn different things that will help in your future as a young adult and prepare you for the real world thats out there. I know this sounds like a school speech. We have so many oppurtunities in life at jobs and some jobs you think you can see yourself doing it for a long time but then later you realize I am not having the motivation anymore or you come to find out it just isn't a good fit. That actually happened to me. Quick story here I had a job bathing dogs and when I first started out I thought it was great seeing dogs and getting dog kisses everytime I pulled out a dog to start bathing it...but then later on I felt it wasn't really fitting me. So then I ended up not working there anymore and then the day after Fathers day I get a job at Culvers. And I LOVE it there. I interact with people and start conversations with different people and its just great. My point is through not being able to bathe dogs anymore that was an experience learning how to bathe a dog and clean kennels...Everyone jobs come and jobs go some stay some leave but you learn something, that's what life is...its learning. Jobs help you not only in the work force but it helps you discover new things about yourself.... A career is a huge goal... getting many jobs can help you figure out what you want your career to be.. Now back to the question What's the point of life on earth? Bare with this post I am asking you all a lot of questions here but let me ask you another question whats the first thing that pops into your head when you hear the word "vocation" I looked up the definition of this word and this is what it says "a strong feeling of suitability for a particular career or occupation." Now the root word for the word vocation is "Calling" What is you're calling? I want to share with you something, my nickname "Mighty Mariah" its just a name but I feel a calling did you catch that I feel a CALLING to be an evangelist one day! Its something I never thought of before but when I see all you guys who are reading this it just amazes me. People from my church have said the blog is great the facebook page is great. Yes I also have a facebook page click here if you want to check it out! But I have gotten an email from someone I didn't know who it was and he told me. That what he reads from my blog is amazing! That right there started getting me excited and every Sunday or Monday morning I always try and shoot out a message to everyone my friends and family and I tell them" I hope you have a blessed week" they don't have to respond to the message and if they do great but it just gives me great joy in knowing that I make them smile when I send them a text or a message saying I hope you have a great week! I want to be able to share hope an inspiration with people in different towns and cities. I would just LOVE to do that! I think the page I run and the blog I write has helped get me started with doing that. But life is a journey can I just say that again life is a journey its here one day and gone the next its gone in the blink of an eye. Everything you do should be glory and honor to your Father in Heaven. And in doing that people in this world will see that and be blessed! You don't have to know that your blessing someones life just honor God with your life! He delights in you! Your His child! In Ephesians 2:10 it reads this "For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. God has a plan for you! He knows what the rest of your day is going to look like, He knows what your going to do tomorrow when you probable don't know what you will be doing tomorrow. He knows. Trust in His plan for your life. So to wrap up I want to challenge every single person reading this to go to God in prayer and ask him to reveal to you what God wants to do in your life! God will help you become the person you were meant to be if you only ask him and keep your eyes focused on the one who gave you life,who gave you hope when you had none and gave you faith when you doubted. Amen? I know this blog update was very long. But if you have read this far pat yourself on the back. I want to end with a song that is fairly new to my list of songs It talks about life and I think it goes well with this update! So enjoy and I hope and pray every single one of you have a blessed week!
Blink the song
Blessings
~Mariah
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Behind the scenes of Mighty Mariah
So this blog update is going to be telling you just how "Mighty Mariah" got started and the meaning behind the nickname!
So when I joined the youth group at my church we played this game it was a little ice breaker game to get to know each other in the group. What we had to do is we had to go around the room and find an adjective that best describes us that starts with the first letter of our name. So my name starts with M for Mariah and I couldn't think of anything and then someone said "Mighty" and I said sure that works and then a couple of weeks later I wanted to start blogging. When I first started off with my blog it was "Short Stuff" I didn't really think that was a positive side to me and it was my nickname in the town I grew up in but I can see that Mighty Mariah fits me better and its got a nice ring to it! But as this blog started getting more and more views, I felt the calling to make this not about me and telling you in this blog what I do on a daily basis but instead use this blog to share the mightiness of our Savior Jesus Christ! I believe with all my heart He is mighty to save! When I look at how many views this blog has gotten it just overwhelms me because just knowing that I have shared the mightiness of Savior with thousands of people in the United States and many more people from different countries. When I look at the name Mighty Mariah I don't think of me! I think of how mighty our Savior is and how He had enough mightiness in Him to take the burden of the worlds sin and go to the cross to save us! Getting flogged,beaten and killed for all us sinners! Now that is a MIGHTY Savior! I was looking through the bible a couple weeks ago trying to find a verse to connect to the name of this blog and I ran across Zephaniah 3:17 it says "For the Lord your God is living among you. He is a mighty savior.
He will take delight in you with gladness. With his love, he will calm all your fears. He will rejoice over you with joyful songs" That verse kinda sums up the nickname that our Savior Jesus Christ is Mighty to save! It don't matter where you been or how far you have run! He is waiting with open arms to embrace you into His Kingdom that will give you EVERLASTING life! Jesus Christ is ABBA, He is the Alpha and Omega, He is the beginning and the end. But Our savior Is Mighty to save
I want to wrap up with this song called "Mighty to Save by Laura Story!
Enjoy!
Blessings to all
Mighty <3 Mariah
Zephaniah 3:17
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