Life on Pursuit

"But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint (Isaiah 40:31)." Have you ever wished you could just rise up above everything and everyone and fly up to the sky like the birds where there seem to be no obstacles and where literally there is no limit? I've had that feeling, especially when stuck in traffic (lol),  wishing that I could fly to get to where  I am going faster without delays, but sadly life is not like that and sometimes we just have to wait.  Waiting is something that is unavoidable in life but it teaches us a great lesson about patience. It is also an action that you continually engage in if you are a believer of Christ and waiting on the promise that he will come back for his church. For this reason, waiting is  something that is not new when it comes to  those in the bible and a prime example is Abraham who waited 25 years t...

Sometimes God will have us out in the wilderness so that he can separate us from everything else to deeply work on us. In the wilderness, you get tempted. In the wilderness, you will sometimes face correction. In the wilderness, you will encounter tests, trials, and tribulations. In the wilderness, God is refining you. The wilderness is not meant to break us, we are supposed to overcome just like Jesus did, and when we do we come out truly transformed. In order to truly grow you have to face those hard times, the enemy in your life, and sometimes you even have to face yourself.      Some of you are probably wondering what is a "wilderness period"? The wilderness period refers to the time when Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness for forty days and nights fasting, a time when he was tempted by the devil but overcame him. During those times, Jesus was being refined and when he was being refined he was being tested, and by the end, he came out transformed into his...

  The Hidden Place ~  Take me to the place where the little cabin sits within a grassy meadow with mountains all around facing the sea. The crystal white sand beginning where the meadow ends stretches forth into the cool water that beckons me from afar. I feel at peace here; unplugged and with no one around but just me and God. I feel free here from my heavy burdens. I needed this. This is our meeting place, hidden from the rest of the world. This is a place that I envisioned when I was meditating one night. Sometimes we just need that time and space where we can just separate ourselves from the rest of the world to hear the voice of God more clearly.   Like I mentioned in my previous blog, Sometimes I fall , we go through different seasons in our lives, and sometimes they are low seasons. Seasons where we find ourselves in the valley feeling; dry, weary, or altogether just distant from God. In this series of blogs that I will be sharing, I will be taking you guys t...

Picture made by Shalem-Salmina  I fall short I fall short of your glory This fat is choking me This flesh is killing me Weighing me down I cannot carry My spirit shaking inside Trying to break free My eyes cannot see My ears cannot hear I cannot feel Whenever you are near Blind, I lean on my Faith Deaf, I look to your signs To guide me, to show me That your always there Even though I fall short, Short of your glory ©      ~ Star Latty      We all fall short of God's glory but that is why we have grace and his truth to guide us. We are humans and sometimes we make mistakes (whether intentionally or unintentionally) and a lot of the times we do end up falling short and disappointing God but the good thing to know is that he does not give up on us. He said he would never forsake us, so, he is near even when we are sitting in our tears asking him, where are you? In those times of questioning, I usually find myself  trying to move past the doubts ...

       I once heard someone say that we are like trees and when we get born-again (the term used to describe someone who is baptized) we are watered with this new water but we still have to work on removing all the bad fruits so that it will not affect the good. After I got baptized, I had the foundation of my faith but I was finding myself backsliding because I still did not have a true relationship with God, which limited God from truly working on me and helping me let go of  my old self. I only knew God religiously, which is what I would call the surface level; I would go to church, pray and sometimes read the bible but it all felt routine and disconnected. I needed something more from God and He needed something more from me, which I later on realized, and what God wanted was my heart. The first commandment is to "love thy God with your whole heart and from your whole soul and your whole mind and your whole strength" (Matthew 12:30); God wanted me to follow ...

" You were not kidding when you said this path is narrow; choosing to follow you is not easy but what keeps me going is knowing it will all be so worth it in the end" (me). When I was a little girl I remember being at church all the time because my mom was on the church choir. She would go to choir practice multiple times throughout the week or weekend and would always take me with her. We would go to church twice in one day on Sundays for morning and evening services; we practically lived there, church was our life and it was all I knew.       Although I grew up in the church and had a church family, I felt like a black sheep. I knew about God and I would see people being filled with the holy spirit and baptized but I always felt like I was a spectator looking in from the outside. I went to church because I had to and when I did I never really paid much attention to the preaching but at the end of every service the bishop would say something like, "if your not saved...

                  In this season The tree stands alone  Its branches spread out Some cracked and some old While some of the leaves Wither and die Their time running out Their time to say goodbye The tree stands alone Not wanting to let go Of the seasonal foliage  That's lived out its time The branches must drop The leaves have to leave And all the tree's clinging  Can't prevent what will be The tree stands  With new leaves and new branches  Lively and well They come and they go The tree--- Roots will never go away  As time goes on They will always be constant They will always stay the same ©      ~ Star Latty