The 10 in 10 years Plan

 You can ask for anything in my name, and I will do it, so that the Son can bring glory to the Father.  Yes, ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it!  John 14:13-14 (NLT)

With my  upcoming birthday it is  a better time as any to finally come up with  a  10 in 10 year plan.  I was  inspired to  write them down after reading a  young lady’s  blog called   The White Crayon  she  shared her  5yr plan  .  And I believe that  God  put it  on my heart to write a list of  goals (plans) as well.

So  here goes my 10 in 10 Year Plan/Goals ( Get a Snack this will be a sort of a long post)

1.) Grow into a stronger and more intimate   relationship with the Lord.

• Read my  bible more ( different translations)
• More quiet time before God

2.) Grow my blog

• Create a more professional and streamline  appearance
• Write engaging  content
• Help others through my transparency (testimony)

3.) Work on a  project and  find likeminded  people to build it with me.

• I don’t want to say too much about it now, sometimes when you share too much too soon people will talk you out of what God has placed in your  heart and  you’ll lose focus.
• Actual  write ideas for the plan instead of  storing them in my  mind
• Find people to help me  build the project

4.) Work towards  optimal health

• Be  in the best physical  shape of my life before 40 I’m only 32 now (33 on Friday the 28th!) so that gives me some time to do it right.
• Become really  strong and gain  more endurance
• Help others to do the same
• Get a  workout  partner
• Eat a cleaner diet.  (practice  the 80/20  rule google it)

5.) Find an  significant other!!!! (lol)

• He must  be a  believer in Jesus Christ
• Maintain a Godly courtship
• Get married
• Build a  family/relationship  on  a foundation of  Godly principles
• Travel , love,serve and  laugh  A LOT!
• Communicate effectively
• Adopt a child ( as well as  having a couple of  our own too)

6.) Travel  extensively abroad and in the US (safely: kinda nervous about planes and such..lol)

• Korea
• Europe
• Hawaii
• New York
• LA
• Denver
• All of the  Disney locations (random I know…lol)

7.) Live aboard for the summer or  maybe a year

• The thought kind of  scares me  but the desire is still there
• I want to experience  different cultures

8.) Build homes on a large  property for  my  family

• customized to everyone individual needs

9.) Create  several different  streams of  income

• I want to be in control of my time.
• Be an effective steward of  God resources *financial and otherwise

10.) Save up   for  a  Canon  camera  and take up photography

• I’ve  always been into cameras and photography  so I want to  learn more.
• Create a book of  my photography from my future travels

If you stuck  around  a read everything  God bless you and thank you! lol   I know it was a lot and specific but  I believe that this is  important.  Hey,  leave a comment below  sharing one or two of your  10 in 10 year  goals or  even write  your own post and share link me in it.

Love, Lesli

Decrease To Increase

I am learning that doing the will of God takes the focus off of me  and allows me to totally plug into  Gods will.  The pressure of  taking my  life into my own hands is overwhelming  but  there is comfort in  knowing that if I am God led every plan and purpose  for my life has to  come to  fruition.  If it’s all about me then there’s no room for God to pour into me and no  growth. Minimizing (decreasing) ourselves doesn’t mean our value decreases, It means that we are a valuable part of Gods plan in the earth.  We  all have a role to play but we cannot successfully carry out the Lords plan if I we’re only seeking our own advantage.

He must increase and I must decrease.John‬ ‭3:30‬ ‭CEB‬‬

So we must first find out how God has shaped us/wired us and then use those gifts and resources to serve not just in the body of Christ but wherever He has placed us. The sooner we realize that our lives don’t revolve around us the sooner we will be free to live out our full potential using all the giftings that God has graciously given each one of us.

Q:  What comes  natural  to you and how can you use those gifts to serve? (i.e  encouragement, service, leaderships)

Love, Lesli

Purge..Process.. Release

The  Lord sure does have  a way of  bringing you around and  shaking up your  world. I have  been praying over the past few weeks here in there that God  would help me to  let go of things that  have  gotten in the way of my  progress. So over the past  week my perspective has drastically changed. To give you a little background  I’m  someone who is really into social media,  I am on  all the basic  SNS  platforms  facebook, Instagram, snapchat and I was  even on some  korean apps (because I’m really into the culture and I’m casually  learning the language). All of this  isn’t bad in of  itself but  God has  brought it to my attention that I  was relying more on those things and less on  Him; I was   using  all these things as  a means of escapism and  my reliance  on  Him had  diminished.

So  I begun to get  rid of  the apps,I started to unfollow people on  instagram  even the  cute guys I followed  just because they were cute (don’t act like you haven’t done it..lol).  For longer than I care to admit I have been  glued to SNS and  believe  me it may not seem like a big deal to  let go of those  habits  but  it  has definitely  been VERY hard for  me to let go.  I’ve  used  all of these  things as a  coping  mechanism to push down my  depression, anxiety  and  a means  to avoid thinking about my current  circumstance.

I’ve  written all these post about seeking and spending  time with God  but I wasn’t completely   following my  own advice.  Putting things and  people  before God is  a  form of idolatry  and I want no  part of that,  my  mind should be on things that are eternal  so  when I  come  face to face with the Lord I’ll  be empty of  myself, more full of  Him  and confident that I gave it my  all and I relied on Christ to fill in the gaps.  My desire is to be Christ led and  that the things that I have been battling  with so long won’t  continue to have me  going in the  same  cycles over and over again.  I want to be  free so that  God can use me and  fill my  life so much that I don’t seek other things because I have surrendered  all of  me to Him.

What are some things you need to let go of?  Let’s share and  support each other in this process. It isn’t easy and we need each other so comment  below and let’s connect.