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:: Stood Up & Happy ::

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I posted on my IG/FB on Saturday night about my wonderful night of being stood up. I’m going to share the post here too since I had a lot of great responses to it. Hopefully it helps you out 🙂 Read below [taken from my IG account @zeninez84]:

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I was stood up tonight, and I’m completely OK! I decided to say yes to meet someone tonight. I don’t know when I’ll be free again because I work 7 days a week, so I was OK with giving up a free Saturday night for this. It’s been 6 years… and I told myself I would be open to dating this year.
As soon as I messaged the guy that I had parked, he disappeared from the app. I thought, “He’s not going to show up and I’m going to be sitting alone.” I got out of my car anyway and walked into the building, grabbed a seat at the bar and ordered my old fashioned and bacon burger. I occasionally looked outside in case he was still coming. But, he didn’t show up.

The temptation to cry and have a pity party was there and I could feel the justification to do so welling up inside of me. I quickly interrupted those thoughts with truth. I may have felt rejected and stupid, but I don’t live and respond based off of my “feelings” ..I live and respond and operate based off what I KNOW. I KNOW I am a daughter of the MOST HIGH KING. I know that I am LOVED by God far greater than I could ever comprehend. I have confidence because God affirms me, not a guy. God is my source of love, joy, peace etc. HE satisfies EVERY NEED.
Here’s why I’m OK. I know God has the right guy for me at the right time who will blow away my expectations. I may have felt sorry for myself for a moment but I couldn’t let it last, I know better. WAY BETTER!! I am TOO AMAZING to think little of myself or throw a pity party.

Shout out to the guy that stood me up! Because of you… tonight I discovered that I’m a lot stronger than I realize.
I’m not a sad, 33yr old, single… I’m a happy single! Tonight was another night to continue to be happy knowing God is creating my story with someone. It won’t be forced or orchestrated by me. God knows what he’s doing and who he’s bringing. I’m sharing this in case it helps anyone. God hasn’t forgotten you, be patient. Trust Him!
ps. Shout out to Pastor Keira who has always spoken words over me that have strengthened me and reminded me where my identity is. Your voice was in my head tonight as I felt tempted to cry but didn’t. I love you!! I enjoyed my night anyway 😁

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There you have it! I’m currently working on a blog post that will be all about the single topic. I think I will call it “Why being single doesn’t suck” 🙂 stay tuned and thank you for taking time to read this 🙂

Love Always,

Martha [Tita]

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Faith, Forgiveness, God, Presence, Thoughts, Uncategorized

.:I Choose:.

The other day as I was driving to work, I remember feeling uneasy…I had every reason to show up angry and upset or even crying while thinking, “will this ever end?” Certain personal situations had been happening and things had escalated the night before that it felt overwhelming as I drove to work. I decided to switch my thoughts to positive and flush the toxic ones. I remember telling myself “This situation does not determine how you will feel today, you are in control of your emotions”. I started to pray over what was going on, declaring that things were going to be OK, I prayed for the people involved and declared peace in their hearts. One of them called me crying, about 10 minutes before we both started work. We both shared our frustration, but I had to remind her that we can’t change people and that no matter what…God is still good and working things out. I reminded her that we have to trust Him and not worry, and we have to align our hearts with His and show unconditional Love… as much as we both wanted to be bitter and hurt with this person.I was able to make it to work knowing that God was taking care of what I couldn’t control, I chose to have a good day.. to be happy and joyful because I refuse to ALLOW negative situations to determine how I will feel or choose what mood I will be in. I choose Joy and Love. Any day! I don’t want to be someone who allows situations to take over my day or decide what mood I will be in. I don’t want to be someone who thinks and thinks and thinks and worries and stress’s over things… when there is no benefit attached to that. I’ve already been that person, and life SUCKS that way. Plus, Romans 8:28 tells us that God works EVERYTHING out for the good… that alone should put all worry at ease.

Reminder: Unconditional Love transforms lives and situations… so does trusting God and praying

-Martha Inez
Prayer:
God, so many things are out of our control… what we can control is how we respond to things. Lord I pray that we would be people who know how to respond to things…in love and not anger. I pray that in the midst of chaos in our lives, we know how to remain in peace because you are the anchor… you’re all we need and the re-filler of what we lack. We want your heart God…and we want to always be people who know how to maintain peace in our hearts and who know how to come to you when life seems like a raging storm. We don’t want to rely on our own strength and we don’t want to worry… we want your strength in our weakness… help us to be wise in situations that are difficult..and to always show love to those that need it most. thanks God, we love you so much. amen.

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Presence, Thoughts, Uncategorized

.:Your.Heart.Is.Revealed:.

Your heart and who you are is revealed when the toughest of times has made its way into your life. Which is why I LOVE the story of Paul and Silas in prison! In Acts 16:16-40 we read about these two men who were, stripped, beaten, severely flogged.. then thrown into a prison cell and feet fastened in stocks. Stop for a moment and think about what your state of mind would be. Where many would blame God, or sit and complain about what happened…in agony be questioning God and His plans…  these two men prayed to God and sang hymns. Worship was their response to what was going on, not doubt, or worry, or fear.

In the most difficult time for them, their heart was revealed by their response to a situation. Their heart’s were still for God. They decided that worshiping and singing hymns to Him in that moment…was the best way to handle what was going on, it was necessary and the first thing they could think of. How many of you would be able to respond with prayer and worship after having the worst scenario thrown at you? Because of what they did, BOOM! Ground shook and the all the doors flew open and all the chains were broken off them and the other prisoners. How amazing that God would use the heart and worship of someone else to set others free. No matter what you face, Don’t allow anything to take away your love for God…and your worship!  You have no idea how powerful it truly is. Your story can bring freedom, your worship can break chains, your prayers are powerful that heaven invades! Never doubt the power of God in your life and what He can do in your situations. No matter how messy you think it is, He can still move in your circumstance and work a miracle. Believe.

Prayer:
God you are incredible, you are able to turn around our situations… you are able to take a mess bring healing and freedom. We pray that you would invade our hearts, and cause our heart to always to love you NO MATTER WHAT WE FACE. In our happiest and in hardest of times… be the center, be the joy and strength of our heart! amen! [Psalm 73:26]

-Martha Inez

 

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