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On the outside I smiled and looked okay, on the inside I died slowly and willingly
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I retreated even further into myselfβ¦. I imploded over and over and no one knew it. I got anger at the fact that no one knew that my world had crushed and come to a standstill. I remember looking into peopleβs faces and bleeding from within
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In beginning to understand this (the relationship between Christ and his bride) we can then dare to begin to dream about a real love story
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Have an unlimited tag to your obedience, set the standard extremely high
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I knew this was a destiny moment and I was determined to walk and not look back
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An angle of worship is birthed through our surrender to obedience. One of the ways we love and worship God is by obeying. Obedience is truly better than sacrifice.
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I was aware that pain was part of this prescription, but I also recognized that this sweet promise of a new start was consistent for as long as I chose to obey and yield to Godβs plan
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As a result, I wondered if it was possible to live such an adventurous life as a lady, and give yourself wholly in love to one God and one man
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Is it possible to wait for Godβs best for you? Is it even possible to trust that there is a Godβs best for your life concerning your heart?
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Patterns of the world are what I recall in this season, especially in my college and campus (undergraduate) years following two major tragedies I had no control over but had to walk through. Prescribed trouble is what I call it.
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This began the process of my healing and the realization of whom and whose I wasβ¦
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I began to walk through an authenticating process and led to get rid of any false and pretentious form I had been wearing as a mask
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I resolutely came around to realizing that it would take grace and courage to obey
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So with that, our lives as they are, are either ceaselessly worshiping God or ceaselessly worshiping something else
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A beautiful marriage and a deeply beautiful love story are perks of how you view God and people
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In my case, I didnβt know how to give and how to receive. In both scenarios, pride at its height was the cause
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Seated, lost for where to begin (not how to begin) this book gets birthed
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And the tangible fruit of our wait is the miracle of our marriage each day
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I often have mused at the radical direction God would take with some of the relationships in the bible
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Whichever category of Godβs daughter you find yourself in as you read this book, your journey is worth every step you take. This is to call you out to a beautiful, set apart unveiling journey like no other.
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I pray you will find a safe atmosphere here, a safe place to get to know God a little betterβ¦
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This concept (Christ & his bride) is literally the beginning and end of all love stories
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It is important to desire a whole love story and not just any love story, setting the bar up high
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Trying to please people or trying to conform must have been the most frustrating season I went through.
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I tried to talk like them, cursing and cussing, mutilating the English language into a slang that I could barely stand nor understand.
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My father passed on. This particular pain and loss was so deep I thought I would lose my mind.
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My God is a God of romance. He alludes greatly to this in the allegory of Him and the church as a bride and groom. The whole bible is wound around this particular image
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As a single girl, your heart is already spoken for by a loving God
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The story of Christ as the groom and the church as the bride of Christ, paints a love story that has so far sadly been misunderstoodβ¦
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At this point, probably in my late teens, I had stopped reading the bible. I think I wanted to read it (just to earn some heaven points), but there was always some urgent peer pressure call that I had to answer to. Almost like trying to fit into a dress three sizes smaller.
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A blessing of any kind and in this case, the blessing of marriage is a good thing
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It was a jungle out there and only the coolest, the slyest, most charismatic or well to do societally made it
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If we truly recognize who we are in him, we will not be negotiating the extent of our obedience to him!
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Seated, lost for where to begin (not how to begin) this book gets birthed
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Donβt be in a hurry to please people or to conform to ideas suggested to youβ¦ You have your own mind beautifully and uniquely curved out by a holy God. You have the word of God to guide you, it will rebuke you, it will teach you and you will come out as goldβ¦
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