Heart Abandoned

G.R.A.C.E.

God’s Riches At Christ’s Expense

If You are the sun, then I wanna be the moon. I wanna reflect the light that shines from You.

manonfireforchrist asked: Dude! I've missed you!

Thanks man! I was at Navy boot camp for a couple months. I’ve missed my followers!

ciaradebra asked: Why are you so handsome? :)

Jesus made me that way. :D

How God helped me get through Basic Training

So I left for Navy Boot camp mid-July and graduated September 9th. Honestly, I was scared and nervous as heck. At the MEPS station the day before I left, I was on the verge of having an anxiety attack. But I got through it, fortunately enough.

In my division I was what’s known as “Religious Petty Officer”, which basically means I coordinated all of the churchgoing for all of the recruits on Sundays, and I worked at the chapel on Fridays and Sundays. I was also available for healing prayer when needed, as well as any other special prayer requests.

A few things kept me going:

-Philippians 4:13: “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Seriously, in everything I did, I constantly reminded myself of that. I am able to do ANYTHING with God on my side. Running the 1.5 mile even though I was nervous I was going to fail; passing tests I never really studied for; staying up all night for battle stations; being able to handle the separation from my fiancee. Even now I still remind myself that I can do everything through Christ who empowers me. I hope to get this verse tattooed on me someday.

-I Will Follow by Chris Tomlin: “Where you go I’ll go, where you stay I’ll stay, when you move I’ll move, I will follow you. Who you love I’ll love, how you serve I’ll serve, if this life I lose I will follow you.” Boot camp was a true challenge when it came to staying committed in my relationship with Christ. You’re surrounded by so many different people, and especially if everyone is cursing at you left and right, and even when some of the people working in the chapel have no religious preference, it was hard to keep my faith stronger than ever. But those words in Chris Tomlin’s song always reminded me that wherever it is I am, I should always follow God and fulfill His kingdom, no matter what. 

-My Sailor’s Bible: My old youth pastor got me a Sailor’s Bible before I left, and had all of my friends sign some of the pages. It really helped me, because the things people had to say were so encouraging, and they reminded me of the love I will always have for the King. The bible itself was amazing. I didn’t have a whole lot of time to read it, but when I did it was really nice.

So yeah, these are the things that kept my faith strong when I was away from everything and had to actually rely on myself and not my church to soul punch me. Lately, I feel like I’ve been really distant from God and obviously this is a problem. Hopefully this blogging and me getting my guitar this Thursday will help bring me back. I hate feeling apart from God.

Besides that, I haven’t been to church in almost three weeks. I’m hoping to go this Sunday and see if I can get involved with worship ministry. Pray for me guys, I really need it. :)

Hi Tumblrs

Been back from boot camp for about 2 weeks now. Just now starting to get back to this website. What to blog, what to blog…

Brb boot camp

The Proof that God exists is that without Him you couldn’t prove anything.

hellomynameisliv asked: OHAI! :] How are you, love?

I am fantastic. Tumblr has been boring me lately however. Need to start getting in touch with my followers!

In case you were curious…

Yes, I do look very handsome in my prom tux. 

:)

We serve a mighty God.

Anonymous asked: Even better! "call her grace 'cause [you] don't deserve her"

Yes I am single. No I'm not "looking for romance." I'm waiting till God brings it to me :)

Yeah I was gonna say, the Lord completely brought Ciara to me after a long period of hard-times. If you’re ever going to get into a serious relationship you guys NEED to be equally yoked!