Happy Mother's Day!

How are all you Mighty Warriors doing? I hope y'all have had a great week. Today is Sunday but todays post I want to dedicate to all you mothers out there. Mothers are great but they are more than that they… are a gift, a gift from the Mighty One.  Todays scripture comes from the book of Proverbs.
Hear the Word of the Lord: Proverbs 31:10-30

A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies.  Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value.  She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life.  She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands.  She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar.  She gets up while it is still dark; she provides food for her family and portions for her servant girls.  She considers a field and buys it; out of her earnings she plants a vineyard.  She sets about her work vigorously; her arms are strong for her tasks.  She sees that her trading is profitable, and her lamp does not go out at night.  In her hand she holds the distaff and grasps the spindle with her fingers.  She opens her arms to the poor and extends her hands to the needy.  When it snows, she has no fear for her household; for all of them are clothed in scarlet.  She makes coverings for her bed; she is clothed in fine linen and purple.  Her husband is respected at the city gate, where he takes his seat among the elders of the land.  She makes linen garments and sells them, and supplies the merchants with sashes.  She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.  She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.  She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.  Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:  "Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all."  Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.

My favorite line out of this scripture is  "She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue". I think thats true for all the mothers in the world they do just that they give wisdome and they have faithful instruction. My mom Joan shows a great example of that.

My beautiful and outstanding mother.

Mothers have a gift and that gift is when they are present they say everything without saying anything. One of the things for me when my moms around when I am happy or sad she says just with her eyes and with her heart " I am here" she doesn't have to say it I know she says it. I think thats true for all mothers. They say "I am here" but they don't have to say they just are there and you know that thats just what they are saying. Thats one thing I love about my mom. I got to ask my mom "What qualities make a great mother?" Her answer was teaching the love of the Lord, having lots of patience,showing unconditional love, great communication, spending quality time with your family, pray with and for your family and teach responsibility to your kids at a young age. That is a great answer my mother gave and mom if your reading this you showed all the qualities that make a great mother. Thank you for all you do! I want to end this blog post with a prayer for all the mothers out there.

Dear Heavenly Father I want to lift up all the mothers in the world. Father I ask that you continue to bless them and keep them safe and in your care. Father thank you for giving us a glimpse of what unconditional looks like. Father pour out your love on them on there special day. In your Mighty and Holy name Amen!

I want to end with a song and I want this song to be dedicated to my mom Joan for all she has done as a mother but as my best friend. 

Song for Mother's Day!

I hope all you Mothers have a great and blessed day full of laugh and love and pure joy. 

Blessings to all you Mighty Warriors

Happy Birthday to Mighty Mariah

Hey Mighty Warriors! I hope y'all have had a great week. This is going to be a short update but…oh wait I believe tomorrow is someones birthday….your right tomorrow would be my birthday. I can't believe how blessed I am. I have a great family and an adorable puppy whom I love and an amazing man in my life. I just want to also give a shout out to my parents Dave and Joan for raising me to love our Mighty Savior with all my heart. Without there strong and unshakable faith, I don't know what I would be. Thanks Mom and Dad. My family means everything to me! More importantly I want to give thanks to my Mighty Savior for giving me life and the ability to write blog updates but for the gift to spread the Word of Christ to all you Mighty Warriors out there reading this. I am so thankful for how many people this blog has reached and my prayer is that when you read my posts is that you see Gods mighty power and just how mighty He is. Zephaniah 3:17 is my favorite bible verse that is what I based my blog and my facebook page off of. Is to share just how mighty our Savior is.  Hear the word of the Lord: Zephaniah 3:17 "The LORD your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.". I am thankful to have readers that enjoying hearing the word of our Mighty Savior! Have a blessed evening Mighty Warriors. Remember each and every one of you are Mighty Warriors for Christ!
Blessings to all!
Feel free to comment and wish me a very Happy Birthday! 

God's…NOT…DEAD!!!!!!

He is risen indeed!

HAPPY EASTER MIGHTY WARRIORS….Sunday is here and we can CELEBRATE…Christ is risen indeed and He has conquered death and He has overcome the world. I want to start off with three AMAZING words….God's NOT DEAD! He is surely alive! Todays Scripture comes from 1st Corinthians 15: Hear the word of the Lord!
"Let me now remind you, dear brothers and sisters, of the Good News I preached to you before. You welcomed it then, and you still stand firm in it.  It is this Good News that saves you if you continue to believe the message I told you—unless, of course, you believed something that was never true in the first place.

 I passed on to you what was most important and what had also been passed on to me. Christ died for our sins, just as the Scriptures said.  He was buried, and he was raised from the dead on the third day, just as the Scriptures said.  He was seen by Peter and then by the Twelve.  After that, he was seen by more than 500 of his followers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died.  Then he was seen by James and later by all the apostles.  Last of all, as though I had been born at the wrong time, I also saw him.  For I am the least of all the apostles. In fact, I’m not even worthy to be called an apostle after the way I persecuted God’s church.

 But whatever I am now, it is all because God poured out his special favor on me—and not without results. For I have worked harder than any of the other apostles; yet it was not I but God who was working through me by his grace.  So it makes no difference whether I preach or they preach, for we all preach the same message you have already believed. That scripture came from biblegateway.com

So Mighty Warriors that message we proclaim and that Good news we share is that Christ is alive. He has risen indeed. We have a hope in Him that when this world is destroyed we will enter the Kingdom of God all because God's One and Only son paid it all. Easter is a time of celebration. All because God went to the cross and went through unimaginable pain…He conqered death and He,Himself put Hell out of business. He raised the dead to life and He is making ALL things new! The old has gone and the new has come. His love NEVER fails it is available for us all 24/7. Mighty Warriors, it doesn't matter how many times you have messed up, it doesn't matter how far you have run, God sent his son…His Only son to take the pain the guilt the shame, the fear we have and have his son carry that burden to the cross. Then today we celebrate we praise Him for conquering death, pain, guilt,shame, fear! He saved us by His death and Resurrection.  How many Mighty Warriors have seen the new movie "God's NOT Dead" What? You haven't seen it. Well heres the trailor to the movie. God's NOT Dead Trailor! Go grab a friend and a couple of tickets on this Easter Sunday and go see the movie God's NOT Dead. He is surely alive and living on the inside of your heart and roaring like a lion. I want to share with you one of the quotes from this movie that really inspired me. That quote really hit me hard. I never thought of sin like they describe in this quote. What are your thoughts on that quote? 

 The celebration of Christ's resurrection doesn't have to end after today. Celebrate it EVERYDAY! Because…God's NOT dead!! You are His beloved son and daughter. He died and rose for YOU! GO CELEBRATE! Gods not dead…Shout it Mighty Warriors…GOD'S NOT DEAD! 

HAPPY EASTER MIGHTY WARRIORS!

I want to end with two songs.

1. Jesus paid it all!

I think you all can guess what song I will be ending with…you guessed it here is the song…

2.God's NOT Dead by Newsboys! 

Blessings to all!

Donate Life!!!!

I donated my life so you could have eternal life!

Hey Mighty Warriors it's Good Friday! This is a day to remember what are Savior Jesus Christ did on the cross. Let me first start off by asking you one question "What would it look like if you donated life? Thats just what Christ did for us. He gave us his life so we could have eternal life after death. Hear the word of the Lord Mighty Warriors.

"Along the way, they came across a man named Simon, who was from Cyrene, and the soldiers forced him to carry Jesus’ cross. And they went out to a place called Golgotha (which means “Place of the Skull”).The soldiers gave him wine mixed with bitter gall, but when he had tasted it, he refused to drink it. After they had nailed him to the cross, the soldiers gambled for his clothes by throwing dice. Then they sat around and kept guard as he hung there.  A sign was fastened above Jesus’ head, announcing the charge against him. It read: “This is Jesus, the King of the Jews.”Two revolutionaries were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left.

The people passing by shouted abuse, shaking their heads in mockery. “Look at you now!” they yelled at him. “You said you were going to destroy the Temple and rebuild it in three days. Well then, if you are the Son of God, save yourself and come down from the cross!”

The leading priests, the teachers of religious law, and the elders also mocked Jesus. “He saved others,” they scoffed, “but he can’t save himself! So he is the King of Israel, is he? Let him come down from the cross right now, and we will believe in him! He trusted God, so let God rescue him now if he wants him! For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’” Even the revolutionaries who were crucified with him ridiculed him in the same way. 

The death of Jesus, Hear the word of the Lord "At noon, darkness fell across the whole land until three o’clock. At about three o’clock, Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?”

Some of the bystanders misunderstood and thought he was calling for the prophet Elijah.  One of them ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, holding it up to him on a reed stick so he could drink.  But the rest said, “Wait! Let’s see whether Elijah comes to save him.”

Then Jesus shouted out again, and he released his spirit. At that moment the curtain in the sanctuary of the Temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. The earth shook, rocks split apart,  and tombs opened. The bodies of many godly men and women who had died were raised from the dead. They left the cemetery after Jesus’ resurrection, went into the holy city of Jerusalem, and appeared to many people. The Roman officer and the other soldiers at the crucifixion were terrified by the earthquake and all that had happened. They said, “This man truly was the Son of God!”

And many women who had come from Galilee with Jesus to care for him were watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary (the mother of James and Joseph), and the mother of James and John, the sons of Zebedee. 

So I got the scriptures from biblegateway.com 

Anyways I know this is a long update but hang in there with me. So you have read the story of Jesus' death and now back to my question I asked in the beginning of this update "What would it look like if you donated life? This past Monday marked 8 years since my Cousin Chase Huizer went to be with his Mighty Savior Jesus Christ. He died in a motorcycle accident due to the injuries he sustained. If your reading this and you knew Chase personally or were a close friend to him you know that this beloved child of God had a passion for serving his Savior. Chase loved his friends, his family and his girlfriend that he had at that time in his life. Chase touched so many lives before and after his death. I want to focus more on the people that he touched after his death. How many of you have heard of an organization called "Donate Life"? Maybe for some you this sounds familiar because maybe you have done this or know someone who has, or when you got your drivers licenses you were asked if you wanted to be an organ donor. Well, I was reading the web homepage for Donate life and I found this to be very inspiring, "Every life touched by organ and tissue donation crosses a bridge between death and life, grief and meaning, hope and healing."  Thats what Chase did. Chase donated his organs and tissues to those who needed it. I had the chance to chat with my Aunt over social media and I asked her as a parent "Why would you encourage someone to donate life?" She responded with this answer "As a parent it was a light in a very dark tunnel knowing that something good was going to happen out of a tragedy." I also asked her if she knew any of the people who recieved the donations that Chase gave with his life. She said "We do not know names - just ages of the recievers and if they are male of female and the city and states and what donation they recieved." I think Good Friday is a good example of just this "Donate Life" One way that I look at it is by reading Scripture it reads in Matthew 26:26-28

 Jesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is my body.” Then he took the cup, gave thanks and offered it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. 

So Jesus gave his body and his blood so that we may have eternal life with him in Heaven. As I was preparing to write this blog I was looking up information on Donate Life and found out that it is National Donate Life Month! I would encourage everyone to donate Life. Think of the lives you will save and the impact that you will make in someone elses life. You don't have to know the person well to be an impact. Just show Christ-like love and reach out to the world around you sharing that love with someone who maybe doesn't know Christ or what it feels like to be loved. I know thats what Chase wanted. He wanted to help people and make an impact. He lived his life for Christ an by showing that passion that he had for his Savior. He donated his organs and tissues to help those who needed it. That was one thing for me after Chase passed away that amazed me. Donating Life can be the most amazing and bittersweet feeling that you get inside you. It's a mixture of sadness and happiness because losing a loved one is heart breaking. For Mark and Vicky losing there son was hard but in knowing that Chase touched lives after he was gone gave them a light in there darkness. So on this Good Friday we remember just that the light in the darkest hour that Christ spent on the cross. Every lash He got when He was being flogged was for YOU! Every drop of blood He spilled was for YOU! He did this all for YOU! He gave His life! Chase devoted his life to Christ and my hope and prayer for all you Mighty Warriors is that you will devote your life everyday to Christ! Trust in His unfailing love for you. Jesus' love never changes it's the same love that conquered the grave,the same love that is with you when days get hard. The same love that is with you in joyous time. The same love that carries your burdens in life so you don't have too.Give your life to Christ. I again encourage anyone to sign up to be a donor. The lives you will impact are going to be amazing! So that is my 2014 Good Friday blog update!

I hope you all enjoyed this blog update! If you have a prayer request feel free to send it to Mighty Mariah's Facebook page! 

Here are two songs that I want to end with: 

1.You loved me anyways (Passion of Christ)

2.Take my life-Chris Tomlin

Feel free to sing along to the last song,lyrics with be with it!

Blessings to y'all on this Good Friday! 

Next couple of blog updates

Hey Mighty Warriors! I hope you all have had a great week last week! So I apologize I did not get a blog update for the month of March except for this one here. But my plan is and I usually never give out information on my upcoming blogs because I like to surprise my readers but I also am doing this because I don't want to loose readers. So my plan is to do a Good Friday blog and an Easter blog update. So it will be 2 updates. So stay tuned and continue to be Mighty Warriors!
Blessings to y'all!!!! Have a great week!!!

We are Gods masterpiece!

Hey Mighty Warriors! How was your week? Was it busy? Did the week feel like it would go on forever? Anyway's this blog update is going to be about us and how we are Gods masterpiece. So lets start from the beginning actually lets go back even farther to when we were in our mothers womb. God knew us even then. He knew what you were going to look like, he knew what personality you were going to have. In fact He knows every hair thats on top of your head. What do you think of that? God creaated you. God designed you. To put you in even more awe....you....YOU are Gods MASTERPIECE! He is proud to call you His son/daughter! He rejoices over you! Now maybe for some your thinking "I can't see myself being a masterpiece" Maybe for some of you your thinking "I am broken and I am unfixable" Can I tell you something. You are made new in Christ. 2 Corinthians 5:17 "This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! There is nothing that God can't fix and make new. There is nothing to bad for God to forgive. God sent His son to this earth to forgive the unforgiveable, love the unlovable and fix the unfixable....you are made new and you are redeemed by the blood of your Mighty Savior Jesus Christ. if you read this and don't remember anything remember this....GOD DOESN'T MAKE JUNK! His love for you has no boundaries. Another verse comes from Ephesians 2:10 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. YOU ARE GODS MASTERPIECE! When I hear this verse I imagine me hanging on the wall of a famous museum (like the mona lisa) popular piece of art! When you go into a museum you look at all the cool art that people create and you think "WOW" what beautiful art...thats what God thinks of us. He is in awe of us. Now I was trying to find a song that would fit this blog update and I think I have a good one because it happens to be one of my favorites. Its by a band named Gungor-Beautiful Things Enjoy! While you listen to this song soak in the words. My favorite line out of this whole song is this. "You make beautiful things, You make beautiful things out of the dust. You make beautiful things,You make beautiful things out of us!!!"
 He is in awe of his creation and how He created you. He loves you for you. Your unique and special self. Blessings to all you Mighty Warriors out there. Have a safe and blessed weekend.
If you have a prayer request feel free to send it to my email mightymariah.84@gmail.com or if you want to connect with me through social media like Mighty Mariahs Facebook page! Send your prayer requests to either of those and I will write you back with a written out prayer by me. I would love to pray for you and encourage you through!

In honor of Jan Vande Voort 1/27/2014

Hey Mighty Warriors how y'all doing? I hope you guys have had a great week! So I want this blog update to be in honor of my loving and caring aunt who passed away from cancer on January 27, 2014!
Jan was a great lady,mother ,grandmother,sister,aunt, friend, teacher and much more! The things she loved to do. She had a smile that would light up the room! Jan loved her family very much and even though shes gone she hasnt really left...because she remains in the hearts of many FOREVER! Jan later in life started the battle against cancer. At first it was found in her lungs but the doctors were able to catch it and get rid of it. Than it was found this past Thanksgiving she had cancerous cells on her brain. Doctors did treatment but in the end Jan overcame the cancer but with that she left her earthy home and went to her heavenly home for eternity. Where there is no cancer, there is no pain, there is no death! There is nothing but love and freedom and a life everlasting with the one true and mighty savior! Jan knew that she inspired so many people. I remember when I went to go visit Jan in the hospital the day before her last treatment for her cancer. I remember her and my mom talked and I will never forget helping her get resituated in her bed to make her more comfortable! Jan also told me that I was a mighty warrior. She actually read that from a hat that I was wearing that day and I remember I told her "You are too Jan" we all are. I want you to know if your reading this you also are a mighty warrior! You are a mighty warrior for Christ. Jan was a strong and faithful believer and that is what is for me so inspiring also for others as well. A week before she passed my sister and my mom went to hospice to visit her. At the time we didn't know when she was going to go. My aunt said to us that " You know I am going to get up and I am going to walk out of her and I am going to get through this. Now I was like "Whoah" Thats being positive in a very hard situation because my mom always told me your attitude goes a long ways. When Jan said that it just inspired me more. Because when your in a place like hospice thats a place where doctors just make you comfortable and some people walk out and some people dont. Jan was positive she reflected the positive light on such a dark situation like cancer. One thing I want everyone to take away from this update is inspiration. The impact you make on others can change there day/week! If your about to walk into a football game with some friends and you see a family behind you and they have there hands full hold the door open for them. Or help a neighbor with the yard work, just smile at someone as they pass you along. Those small gestures that you do to someone else can just change their day. One more thing before I wrap up this blog update. Life is a journey but its a quick journey. We don't realize have fast this journey really is. In the blink of an eye this life is over. We aren't guarenteed tomorrow, we aren't guaranteed the next 2 hours of our life. What I am trying to say is make the most of it. Live the now! Right now is what matters. When you say goodbye to someone like "see ya later" we arent guarenteed that quote. We dont know if we will see them later. I remember I said that to Jan before I left her room I said "See ya later Jan" That quote will only come true when I am called home to meet my Savior! Do hear what I am saying?  Each one of you have in some way inspired someone. Keep it up! I want to end this blog update with 2 special songs! That I want to dedicate to Jan! The first song is called "I still miss you" By Hawk Nelson
The second song is called "Favorite Flowers" by Luke Bryan!
Blessings to all you Mighty Warriors out there!
~Mighty Mariah
If you have a prayer request feel free to send it to my personal email:
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