How to be a Godly girlfriend/fiance

Being a Godly girlfriend/fiancé

In the beginning of our relationship, I didn't know what it meant to be a Godly girlfriend. I was so new to it, and I didn't know what to do but through these past few years of dating my handsome man, I found an app called "pinterest" and pinterest is awesome! Anyways I was scrolling through one day and I found "how to be a girlfriend/wife (Bloggers below) and I absolutely loved it and I reflected on our relationship and I started to pray and I asked God to help me be a Godly girlfriend. Grant and I both grew up in a christian home but we were so new to this dating business that we didn't know how to start a Godly relationship. About a year in our relationship we started to pray about everything and we gave our relationship to God. Once we did that, we felt closer to each other because we put God at the head of our relationship. I have really learned to be a submissive and Godly girlfriend and honestly God has blessed our relationship abundantly. We are now engaged and getting married! Being an engaged woman is amazing but through all the planning, I've made sure that I have spent time everyday to thank God for blessing me with an amazing Godly man and that he will give Grant and I patience during our engagement while we plan and that we won't forget the meaning of love and why we are getting married. The closer Grant and I get to God and the more we love God, the more Grant and I will love each other. Being a Godly girlfriend/fiancé comes with a lot of things like purity and modesty. As Christians we should be praying about purity and that we will remember to guard our heart and stay pure and wait agreeing to Gods plan. 

Modesty is a huge thing for being a Godly girlfriend/fiancé because being modest glorifies God and that helps having a pure relationship. 

 ~Colossians 3:14 "And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity."

 ~1 Peter 4:8 "Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins."

 Pray for him!

 
-Prayer is so important, and he needs prayer too, so remember to always thank God for him even if he is driving you crazy but pray pray pray! Through prayer amazing things happen!  Through prayer comes blessing and joy! Now as Grant and I are engaged, we are continuing to put God first and thanking him for giving us each other and allowing us to enjoy life together through God. We can't wait to get married and to see all the blessings that are in store! 
Once I am a wife, I will make a post about how to be a Godly wife! 

Encourage him!

 Encouraging him and always tell him how good he is doing at work and encourage him to do things, like going to biblestudy or making some new friends! Encourage him to love and follow God more! 

Bloggers are: http://www.hudsonandemily.com/

http://www.butlerpartyof3.com/

Please check them out!!

Blessings, 

Mikayla

Update on life

Hey everyone, sorry I haven't posted anything in awhile. I have been crazy busy but I think things are starting to slow done for now. In this post, I will be writing about what's been going in my life this summer.

In the beginning of July, I had an interview at Mark's Work Wearhouse and I didn't get the job but I thanked God and I praised him that I didn't get that job because I know that he has something else out there for me!


July 6-9th I cabin lead for the grades 3-4 at Harmattan and that was so awesome. Those kids are so stoked on life and it's so cool to hear them talk about their future. On July 7th, I met Grant three years ago in the Dining Hall at Harmattan. We were very blessed to be together on that day.

July 9th, Grant and I went with all of the other staff to Boston Pizza and hung out till about 11:30pm and Grant and I drove back to Sylvan and the next day (July 10th) I was asked a very important question at the lake. Grant asked me to marry him and I said yes!!!!!! That day was an amazing day because we were now engaged and we phoned all of our family and we have been blessed by all of the support from all of our family and friends. Grant and I were and still on cloud 9 and it is starting to sink in now as we are going wedding planning crazy.

July 17th-18th, I worked at the fair in Red Deer with 90.5 Shine Fm which was a blast, I got deep fried cookie dough and deep fried oreos which were sooo good!

On July 20th, Grant picked me up and we headed to camp again for the Grade 7-9 camp and Layla (cabin leader I lead with) and I were so blessed to have 9 amazing Godly girls in our cabin. I will never forget that week. The week was filled with so much fun activities, prayer and chapel. On Thursday July 24th, I turned 18. I had such a great birthday and I got to spend it with an amazing camp! Friday came along and it was a sad day because the kids had to go home. When it was time for the kids to go home, our cabin was in tears. We were connected emotionally and I have never had so many hugs in my life in one day than I did that day.

That night Grant and I drove to Kananaskis and went camping with his family and some friends of ours and we had such a blast hiking and enjoying God's beauty. I got back on Monday and I had a huge surprise waiting in my room....I opened my door and my room was full of balloons, streamers and pink wallpaper! That was so exciting! :D

I had an interview at Wal-Mart this afternoon and I think I got the job but I will know next week for sure!! I am super excited to do some more wedding planning and I am excited to see what God is going to do this next year!!!


I am so excited to start blogging again! Love you guys :)

Mikayla

Modesty!

It's hard yet easy to be modest in today's world. It's hard to be modest because it's easy to throw on a skirt and a cardigan but actually having the right mindset of why you are being modest is important.  As a child of God, we have to honor him with our bodies.

~1 Timothy 2:9 says "I also want the women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, adorning themselves, not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or pearls or expensive clothes."

~1 Corinthians 6:19-20 says " Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;  you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies."

~1 John 2:16 " For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world."

In 1st Timothy it explains how we don't need to be full of pearls or wear fancy clothes because people need to know what's on the inside rather than what is on the outside. 

1st Corinthians says how our bodies are temples of God and we have o respect God with what we wear, say etc. 

1st John says that lust comes from the world and we have to be modest so we won't lust. 

If we wear revealing clothes, that is causing men to sin. It's not just the men's fault if they lust but it also is the women's fault because we are causing our brother in Christ to sin when instead we should bring them closer to God. 

I have done research on what Christian men think about modesty and all of them said that they love women who dress modestly because they are honoring God with their body and aren't causing men to sin. Women are a precious gift from God and men can see God through them. 

Moral Revolution says "Purity is something that we were meant to live protecting not trying to gain." With modesty comes purity and guarding your heart. When we dress modestly, we start to think pure because we are honoring God with our bodies and as well as men start thinking pure because they aren't lusting. 

I found this online and this is so important "Modesty isn't about covering up our bodies because their bad, modesty isn't about hiding ourselves but revealing our dignity. " 

As I was scrolling through modesty quotes I found this one that I think every woman needs to hear, "A woman's body is a gift for her husband to unwrap." I am going to touch on this subject because like I said I think it's important. A Christian women we need to be guarding our heart as well as guarding our body through modesty and on the wedding night we should feel proud that we saved ourselves and that we guarded our heart and waited for the one that God has for us. Keep your heart guarded and keep yourself wrapped up fully in God's love and in modesty. I found this really cool analogy about a Christmas present. Us woman are fully wrapped in modesty (not being revealing in our clothes or else that will spoil it) and are waiting for that day when we get to be unwrapped. 

Girls and Guys....modesty is so important! You are a precious and beautiful gift from God, don't think any less of yourself! You are worth so much!!! We are made in Christ's image. He loves you so much!!!!!!!!! 

Modesty it beautiful :)

Mikayla

Update!

Hey everyone,


Hope you are all doing well! Congrats to all of you Grads of 2014! God has amazing plans for you even if you don't know what you want to do. I was like that when I graduated in 2013. I didn't really know what to do and I still don't know what I want to do but I know God has great plans and I will have good news coming soon!

I recently went to Grant's Grad which was so much fun, I am so happy for him. After that I went to YC! YC was so amazing and I had floor seats so it was pretty sweet. I bought a camera lens and I love it, I am planning on getting in the photography business more! :)

So when I first started writing my blog, I was working at Shoppers Drug Mart, well I quit on Easter weekend. I miss Shoppers but I am still working with 90.5 Shine Fm and I absolutely love that job! It's a Christian job and I get to work with some awesome people! I am getting my license in July...finally! Haha, I have had my learners for 4 years in July so I am about ready to get my license. I turn 18 on July 24th so I am pretty excited about that!

I got accepted to be an AAI (All Access Internship) at Camp Harmattan for the third year in a row so I am pretty blessed to be spending another summer at a wonderful place with amazing people! I will be going to Family Camp for the first week and a bit in August and then I am flying to B.C, so I am pretty excited for this summer!

I will be getting another job in the Fall and I will be going back to my home around the world in January!


I am in the midst of writing for my next blog which will be about Modesty!!!!!

Have an awesome day!

Mikayla

Being the hands and feet of Jesus

I got asked today by my World Vision youth leader if I could write a blog about my experience being a youth ambassador aswell as my relationship with God so thank you for asking me!

In March I had the opportunity to do the 30hr famine at my church with the youth and I had the World Vision table set up and I gave all the teens sunglasses. Breanne spoke about what World Vision does and I got to speak about my trips to Uganda and how they have affected me.   I prayed that the kids would understand and would realize how much poverty there is in the world.
My experience being a youth ambassador has been an eye opener as I haven’t done much but just watching all of the other youth ambassador make memorable events and help change the world with their actions and their love that they have poured out to others.  I feel like I play a different role in being a youth ambassador by encouraging them and by praying for them and by watching them grow.

God has given me gifts of encouraging others and the gift of prayer. I am glad for Facebook and Instagram….yes I do post pictures of food or talk about the weather but that is also how I witness to others and I am also glad that we have a newspaper! I post my Africa trips in the newspaper. I write bible verses and encouraging notes on Facebook and on Instagram. I also let everyone know how amazing God is and the amazing blessings he has given me. He has given me an opportunity to reach to others through being a youth ambassador and he has given me an amazing opportunity to be a light to others all around the world. I have made some Christian friends through Instagram that live hours and hours and hours away. He has also given me the amazing blessing of going to Uganda twice!

My church built an orphanage in a little community called “Ogooma” which is in Uganda and in 2011 we had a fundraiser and the money went towards building a church in Ogooma and I raised over $15,000 in a few months. The fundraiser was whoever raised the most money won a free trip to the orphanage and I was the winner.  I used that free trip and went in January of 2013 and my life was changed. I got to meet all of the kids and I also had the amazing opportunity to meet my sponsor girl. Once I went, I had to go again and I had another blessing from God. I got to again this past January (2014). Uganda is my home!
Being a Christian is an amazing thing! Matthew 5:14 says “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.”
As Christians we have to live out God’s word and be his hands and feet.  When we have God in us we will shine with God’s amazing love and God will shine through us to reach to people who don’t believe and to people who do believe. We are the body of Christ, God has given us different spiritual gifts to help further his Kingdom.


 You are a light, That is why you are here!

Mikayla

The Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit is an amazing and powerful thing! I have felt the Holy Sprit and God's love just surround me. During worship or during a sermon or even prayer, I will get chills and I'll start shaking. It feels so amazing to be surrounded by God's presence. If God is speaking to me, my heart will start racing and I can't keep quite, I'll just start talking to people about God and just his amazing Grace and Love!

Joel 2:28 says "And afterward, I will pour out my spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. "

This past summer of 2013 at camp, we learned to pray and ask God to give us a face or a name that he wants us to talk to and pray for. Wow! That was so amazing and powerful. 

1 Corinthians 14:1 says "Follow the way of love and eagerly desire gifts of the Spirit, especially prophecy! 

1 Corinthians 14:5 says "I would like every one of you to speak in tongues, but I would rather have you prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be edified." 

I have never spoken in tongues but if it's God's will, I will speak in tongues. I really believe in prophesy and just how powerfully it is. 

I hope that this week, you will feel the Holy Spirit or God's love! 

Hope: YC AB 2014

19 more days till YC Alberta 2014!!!!! The theme this year is hope, I will be talking about hope as we set our minds and heart towards this event as we see what God has in store.

Everyday we use the word hope multiple times. As an example we say "I hope you have a good day" or "I hope the weather is nice." It is an overused word in today's language but do we exactly know what hope means?

God has a plan for each and everyone of us, he has hope for us and he wants us to have hope in him and God is our hope. There are many great verses about hope in the bible:


Psalm 65:5 says "You answer us with awesome and righteous deeds, God our savior, the hope of all the ends of the earth."

Romans 15:13 "Overflow with hope by the power of the spirit."

The greatest gift we can give to the orphans and the widows who are in poverty is the gift of hope that God has given us!

Lamentations 3:24-25 "God is good to those who hope in him."

Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

Romans 12:12 "Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer