Entrusted Living

I've been working in a little restaurant in Ecuador, baking cakes for a year now. Almost exactly a year ago, the manager came out onto the street to speak to me. He said "you make cakes right? Would you like to make them for me?".  He had seen Instagram photos of dishes and things I had made. At this time I was still broke and homeless and needed a job. I had been in this situation for over half a year. I had left America because I wanted to change my life and find myself. I knew that I wasn't living for God and wanted to change the way I approached everything. How I worked, what I gave my energy to, how I lived, where my heart was. During my first year in Ecuador everything shook me to the core and demanded I draw closer to God. The old was falling away to make way for the new. This cake encounter was an answer to prayer. My heart wanted to build a family, I wanted to be a stable woman, strong for God and strong for the people I love. I knew I needed to have f...

Prayer is such a powerful tool. “The prayers of a righteous man are powerful and effective...prayer offered in faith will restore...pray for one another so you may be healed” James 5:15-16. We are encouraged to “rejoice always, pray without ceasing and in everything give thanks” 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18. To ask, to knock and to seek. "To enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise” Psalm 100. Whatever is taking place, we can take it to prayer. We can take it to the one and only almighty God. The best thing is, that’s exactly what He wants us to do! The Psalms show us a great example of the heart of a man who feared and trusted in the Lord and loved Him above all. In them, we see the Psalmist give praise and glory to God over and over; we see him pour out his heart, his fears and anguishes as well as his joys, delights and gratitudes. David calls out to God in distress and when he is in joy. He gives blessings and curses. He relies on prayer to help him fi...