Hello friends! Ever since I read a book from Jon Gordon about starting a new year with a word of the year, I’ve been doing this since 2016. Since my new year follows the academic calendar, I spend the summer praying about the new word and a bible verse to anchor my word.

I listened to these podcasts recently and I thought how full of wisdom they are. Please give these a listen and pray about sharing them with the young people in your life or those who are still on the fence about their wholehearted commitment to Jesus Christ as Lord. It is very difficult to truly give lordship to Jesus Christ for many reasons. In my experience, it is a daily decision to submit to Jesus’ lordship. This is the main reason why I start my day in the morning with prayer, repentance and reading God’s word.

Hello friends! I hope and pray that you are all doing well. Summer is sure going fast. Speaking about going fast, our lives are also going fast. This past week I came across two news stories of women in NJ who died at age 71. Since I’m 51, I thought “wow that’s only 20 years away from me.” Whatever years that we have leftover, no one knows except God. One certain thing is that we all will die. I pray that rather than building your house on the sinking sands of this world structure; you are building your house upon the only foundation that holds and matters eternally – Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.

Hi friends! In case you can use these resources in your life, relationship and ministry. Also, if you can please pray for the requests below, that would be wonderful. Thank you so much.

I hope these resources can help you to strengthen your faith and to share your faith with others. I’m generally looking for opportunities to share my faith with others. I’m not always very brave about sharing but we all must try. Navigators’ ministry offered a very nice and simple guidance on how to explain to someone about the gospel of Jesus Christ and steps to salvation. Please read this short article and download their pdf sheet too.

How to Recognize When Someone is Ready to Hear the Gospelnavigators.org

This morning I woke up with a thought and I’m jotting it down before I forget. Basically it’s a thought that going uphill towards heaven is hard work. While going downhill towards hell is easy. Why did I wake up with this thought from the Holy Spirit? Because I believe it’s from this sharing that I wrote to my prayer group ladies yesterday. Thank you Lord Jesus for this wisdom. 🙏

There is a movie that came out this week on July 4th about a true story of a man who started this organization that rescues children from sexual trafficking. Please check out the movie trailer.

Here is a short interview of the actor who plays the lead role in the movie “Sound of Freedom”. Please let us pray that this movie will have far-reaching impact to combat sexual trafficking of children and vulnerable people worldwide. This quote in the article stands out to me: “The only true antidote to spiritual warfare, Caviezel explained, is a deepening dependence on God.” – https://www.faithwire.com/2023/06/27/more-afraid-of-the-devil-than-they-are-of-god-jim-caviezel-offers-warning-to-modern-day-christians/

JOY was the word that was given to me by the Holy Spirit for my word in the past academic year; and Zephaniah 3:17 was the Bible verse for my word. I wasn’t really sure what it meant since I was looking at the word from my perspective and thought I’ll have more joy – perhaps that my circumstances will change and I’ll be happy about the changes. I was a little perplexed why this Bible verse was given for my word of the year. Now that the academic year is over, I think I understand why.

I have been listening to the message series on the Book of Ezekiel from Cornerstone Chapel and I just finished it all yesterday in my day of house cleaning. During the pandemic lockdown, the Holy Spirit led me to do a bible study on the Book of Revelation. Since I wanted to make sure that the pastors that I was learning from were not only from one source; I learned from five different pastor-teachers who taught this book. Other than minor differences in what they emphasized and future timeline thoughts, I thought they were very consistent in their teachings. One of the teachers that I learned from was Pastor Gary of Cornerstone Chapel.

Ever since my activism began in March with a big let down at the end, I have been deeply grieved. It also didn’t help that my daughter came home from college and she has been retreating back to her former ways of being reclusive, rude and showing destructive eating habits. Moreover, the PTO board president was very difficult with me as I was trying to end my school events for the year. If it wasn’t for my sense of duty and responsibility to the students and school, I probably would have quit my volunteering services midstream. Thank goodness the school year is over and I did all my events well. However, I thought and prayed about it and I told the other new co-president that I’m not returning back in the new academic year. I was going to return for another year just to bless the students and staff; and to find new parent replacements for all the events that I handle. But after all that I went through with her, I felt permission and release from the Lord to let it go. I’m relieved.