my 1st diary entry

hi friends!!!!

I hope you all had an AMAZING WEEEK!

mine was filled with so much love from GOD! I could truly feel His love and embrace in everything, and lemme tell you that's exactly what I NEEDED!!!!

I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to talk about this week, so I thought I would do almost like a journal entry for this week's blog post and write about 3 things I learned about or did that made me feel good and 1 thing I want to work on going into this week!

READY? let's go!

3 things I learned about/did that made me feel happy!

1. I started these prayer meetings on Tuesday mornings with my friends! I remember my church use to do these prayer meetings every Tuesday at 5am, and I remember I always thought they were so cool, but I could just not get myself to get up so early. But recently, I felt like God was telling me to start them up again and so we did! I reached out to some friends and they were more than excited to join me!

   So far we've only had one meeting, but it was such an amazing feeling to get up and just pray! Pray for our families, friends, church, our NATION, and pray for God to continue to use us to defeat the evils of this world!!!

   I know God will move like crazy, and give us more strength, wisdom, and help us be obedient to what He calls us to do!!!!

2. I prayed for my mom and family out loud this week!

   I know, that doesn't sound so crazy, but I had allowed the fear of man to get in my way of letting my cryout and prayers be heard to the world!

   When I was younger I would love to pray for people God led me to, and I would go! No hesitation, no fear, no doubt, and at some point I become fearful of sounding dumb or being wrong during prayers, so I stopped.

   But one day I heard God saying to go pray for my mom, and I hesitated, but then I said God how could I be the reason my mom doesn't hear your voice or receive this blessing, so I stopped my family that night, we grabbed the annointing oil, and we prayed! and lemme tell you God moved! God re-opened that side of me, and now I am so beyond excited and ready for God to use the power of prayer through me!!

3. Okay, this one is really random and silly, but my sis and I got MAGIC KEY PASSES! we got them with OUR OWN MONEY, and we went to disneyland !!!! It was so much fun, and one of those moments where you stop and thank God because He gave me the opportunity to have a job, to work, and to be able to go give our money to a mouse and just let loose and have fun, even if its just for a couple of hours!

1 thing I NEED TO DO BETTER!

1. I really want to get better at not scrolling through social media so much! This week, I found my screen time was WAY up and I founf myself scrolling endleslly even when I wansn't interested. and I've never wanted to admit this, but social media does have an affect on me sometimes. I find myself comparing A LOT, and that can lead me through a very dark path that God already took me out of. So, this week I really want to stop scrolling so often and read my Bible more, or go for longer walks, or just talk to people more, rather than scroll!!!!

so yeah! That kinda helped sum up my week tbh!

comment down below something that made you smile last week, or if you also need to stop scrolling so much then comment down below "AMEN".

lolz, thanks for listening (reading ;)), I pray that you besties have a blessed week full of growth, more wisdom, fear of the LORD ONLY, and even more happiness and joy!!!!

-val