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Women's Faith Journey, Manado (2026)

30/09/2022

2 Thes 3:3🤍

10/06/2022

Hi Guys!! Starting this Tuesday at 9pm we will be holding a virtual bible studies series on the book of Ephesians! We hope you can join us!! Please let us know if you are interested & we will send you the link!

26/04/2022

Come join us throughout the month of May to honor Mary in a special way and to prayer for all women. Tuesday nights in May at 9pm we will be meeting via google meet for 30 minutes. We will discuss how Mary shows us how to love Jesus perfectly and how we can follow God’s will through the practice of humility, prayer of the Magnificat, intercession of grace and meditation on the rosary. This month Bryanna Urso one of our Women’s Faith Journey sisters who practices Catholicism will be leading this prayer group/bible study - although this is a catholic mediation and practice all are welcome to join her as she prays for Mary intercession to Our Lord for all women in need.

Disclaimer: direct message us to sign up for this prayer group & you will receive a link for the study along with a small gift of a prayer card and rosary!!

18/04/2022

He is Risen!🌟🙌🏻 wishing all our wonderful blog readers/writers, bible study participants, and followers a very blessed Easter!!

16/04/2022

Our Ultimate Purpose

I have to be completely honest. Women’s faith journey sent out a sign up sheet of dates and themes for volume 2 of our blogs in January. Each month had a different theme, February - love, March - compassion and April - Purpose. I signed up for April because ever since graduating college in May 2021, my purpose in life has been something I have been struggling a lot with. Trying to figure out my new identity post graduation, living back at home, as a young adult, in the work force has been more than tough and I would be lying if I said I had it all figured out. I picked this topic letting my pride and ego tell me that come April I would have my plans, purpose and identity all figured out and I would be able to map it out for other young woman in a well constructed blog… but let me tell you, BOY I was WRONG. Here we are come April, and I am sitting down rewriting my article about 500x because I am still just as confused about how to find the perfect job that is always going to make you happy, I am just as lost in the amount of alone time I have been given, and I definitely do not have this young adult thing figured out…needless to say, I am pretty sure nothing prepares you for post college/young adult life. But at the beginning of lent I sent out on a journey, a journey to remind myself that this life isn’t all about myself, its not about what makes me perfect, its not about my wants and it’s surely not about my purpose. It’s all about God’s. If we do not root our identity and purpose in our all powering, all knowing, all giving father than we will never truly discover our purpose. In order for myself to discover my true purpose, I had to discover a deeper relationship with Christ. Lent is a time where we are called to reflect and restore on three main areas: prayer, almsgiving and fasting. Jesus Christ encourages us to dive into deeper conversation with Him, opening up our hearts to invite Him in and heal our wounds. He shows us how he selflessly gave Himself as a servant to all and calls us to do the very same thing. Then He asks us to get rid of the things in our life that are distracting our gaze from Him - to get rid of social media, to get rid of overeating, to get rid of worrying about our purpose and surrender it ALL to him. To cry out to him and say, “O Jesus I surrender myself to you, take care of everything.”

Our ultimate purpose in life is so much more than making sure we get the perfect job, have the best social life, the biggest house, the fastest car, you fill in the blank______. Our ultimate purpose is to become the godly women who God intended us to be, to surrender our lives to Christ, to invite Him in, to love Him and to love others. So that one day when we are standing at the gates of Heaven, God will be standing there saying “with you my daughter, I am well pleased.”

As we are getting closer to Good Friday, I can’t help to remember the greatest sacrifice of all time. Christ dying on the cross, purchasing His death on the cross - for us. Christ was mocked, ridiculed, beaten, bruised, and condemned to death so that He could endure God’s wrath for our sin. He died the worst death for OUR sin. Let that sink in. Our loving father, loves us so much that He gave his one in only son to die for us so that we would not perish but have eternal life.

So as we continue in life on this side of heaven I urge you to think about what you are putting your purpose and identity in. I think we ought to start realizing that the purpose Christ intended for our lives was to live godly lives, where we love God, sacrifice our wellbeing for our neighbors, repent on our wrongdoings and seek Christ above all things.

15/04/2022

Redeeming Grace
In Ephesians 2:1, the apostle Paul says “For you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of the world.” In this verse, Paul is telling us that apart from God, our spiritual state is death. When I hear this verse I think of my freshman year of college. I was the perfect example of living apart from God and walking in sin. I had grown up in a Christian home but had never had a personal relationship with Jesus, so when I got to college it was easy for me to start “following the course of the world.” I partied all the time, I was constantly searching for attention from boys, I gossipped and judged other people, and I idolized my physical appearance to the point of having an eating disorder. I didn’t open my Bible or go to church a single time throughout the entire year. This year of my life is difficult and embarrassing to talk about, but there’s no better way to understand the strength of God’s grace than to realize the depth of your own sin. And the reason I talk about my freshman year is because of the life-changing grace that I experienced the next year when I accepted Christ into my life and was saved.
I had lived in sin for an entire year, but God redeemed me. I had rejected Him for an entire year, but God chose me. I was destined for an eternity in hell because of my sins, but God died for me.

Each person’s faith story is different, but every faith story has one thing in common: redemption. Redemption means that someone paid a price to set us free - the wages of our sin was death, and we couldn’t save ourselves. We needed a savior. Jesus paid the price so that we could have eternal life with Him, and all we have to do is accept Him into our hearts. “If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is king and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved” (Romans 10:9).

14/04/2022

Showing Compassion Towards Others
What do you think of when you hear the word compassion? Maybe you think of a time where someone showed you mercy. Or maybe you think of something simpler like being nice to people. As I sat down to write this blog post, I asked myself this question. The first thing I thought of was the puppet shows I watched as a little kid. There were always lots of different fuzzy, colorful puppets and they all represented a different trait. There was a puppet for empathy, one for jealousy, one for compassion, and so on. I’m not sure why this is the first thing that popped into my head, but it made me realize that we have been taught to be compassionate toward others from a young age. Whether it came from a puppet, the Bible, or our parents, we have all likely been taught to treat others with compassion. Despite having the past 20 or so years to practice this, I find myself struggling to be compassionate sometimes.
Fortunately for us, our God has no trouble showing us compassion every day! He shows us this compassion in so many ways: He forgives us for our sins, He has crafted a unique plan and purpose for each of us, He provides for all of our needs, and He gave us his only son so that one day we can join him in Heaven.

Jeremiah 29:11 says, “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” The Lord is so compassionate that he has crafted a plan for all of us and He will stay by our side throughout our journey.
How much better of a world would we live in if everyone had that same compassion for each other! Obviously, we cannot plan each other’s lives and provide for each other in the same ways that God can.

05/04/2022

Jesus Exemplifies Forgiveness

What comes to mind when I hear the word Lent is forgiveness. The Lenten season for Christians and Catholics is truly the reason and foundation upon which our faith is built. The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ are the miracle and focus of the religious community. Through

forgiveness, being a pillar of the Lenten season, we are called to seek forgiveness as well as offer forgiveness to others. It is a serious time of reflection and it has caused me to do some reflecting of my own on how I perceive the concept of forgiveness. I have struggled with the idea and in addition to my own reflection, I am hoping to share my thoughts with others. Clearly everyone has their own personal journey, but offering new insights and ideas is always a beneficial part of immersing yourself in the faith community that is bigger than yourself. From my reflection, I have broken “the steps” of forgiveness into 3 parts:

16/03/2022

Think about someone who has had a positive impact on your life. How that person has helped you grow as a Christian and grow in your relationship with God. Now, think about someone who has had a negative and hurtful impact on your heart. How could you ever forgive this person? Maybe they never even apologized, maybe they never even recognized what they were doing was hurtful. Regardless, whatever they did was so hurtful that it has had a lasting feeling causing you to think as if you could never forgive them. Now, reflect on yourself. None of us are perfect, we know that. We all have made mistakes and wrong decisions, but have we ever thought about who we are hurting when we do this? Every time temptation gets the best of us and we give in, we are hurting God. Jesus suffered and died on the cross for us because He knew we would need to depend on Him. Does this not clearly represent Christ’s unconditional forgiveness and love for us? While on the cross, He felt the weight of every single one of our sins, and He still feels this weight now. No matter how impossible it seems, He always forgives us. This is the example He is setting for you and me. If God can forgive desperate, hopeless sinners like us, then why do we find it so difficult to forgive others? The Bible tells us to “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you" Ephesians 4:32. It is unfathomable to even imagine that our God, as big and mighty as He is, would even think about forgiving us, yet He does. So no matter how incredibly impossible it seems that you could ever forgive something in your life, it is necessary we remember how Jesus forgives us. We must pray to the Lord for the strength to lift up the troubles and grudges on our hearts. As we continue to walk through this Lenten season, let us have new hearts that are forgiven and that forgive.

Written by: Bella Urso

07/03/2022

We are so excited for weekly virtual Bible study on “Themes of Lent” led by Bry and Bella Urso to start this week! It will be every Tuesday at 9pm via Google meet. The link will be posted on our story tomorrow morning, so you should be able to access it from there or reach out to us if there are any issues/ questions! Anyone is welcome, so feel free to send this to anyone that God puts on your heart🤍 hope to see you there :)

02/03/2022

Forgiving people who have wronged us is one of the hardest things that God calls us to do. We are called by our Father to forgive others, but how do we do this? Thankfully, we have the perfect example of forgiveness through Jesus.   There are times when I give into the world’s brokenness and think, “How could I ever forgive this person for what they have done to me?” or “If I forgive this person, then they will walk all over me and I will be the weak one in the situation.” It’s easy to look at someone and think of all the ways they have wronged you. It’s easy to pick out the wrongdoings of others without realizing that we are sinning against God every single day just the same as our neighbor who we hold grudges against. It’s easy to look at someone else’s sin and think of it as so much bigger than ours. But the reality is that our sin is equally as bad in God’s eyes. We are so quick to accept God’s forgiveness of our own sins, yet so slow to extend that same forgiveness to our neighbors when we are wronged. Forgiveness in our society is seen as a sign of weakness. It is seen as a lack of self-respect and lack of personal boundaries. This worldly mindset makes it all about “me”. The truth is that it is not about me and it’s not about you; it’s about God. Forgiveness is extending the grace and love that God extends to us every day to others even when they might not be deserving of it. It does not come naturally to us and the worldly egotistical views make it even more difficult to work towards.

28/02/2022

“Every Christian goes through ups and downs in their relationship with God. We all have seasons where we’re on fire for Christ and feel so full of his love and have incredible faith in Him. And these are the seasons that usually get talked about and highlighted. The seasons that never get highlighted are the ones where we feel full of doubt, where we can’t seem to feel God’s love no matter how hard we try, where we feel numb to Him and to His Word. And because other people don’t talk about these hard seasons when they’re going through them, we feel alone when we are the ones experiencing these things. We feel like bad believers. We feel guilty of our doubt and can’t imagine that anyone else would be feeling the same things that we are. These seasons can beat us down and discourage us, and can feel like they set us back in our walk with Christ.

They can have huge and hurtful effects on our lives, our feelings, and our happiness. But luckily for us, these seasons have no effect on our God. They have no effect on His love for us. His love isn’t contingent upon whether we feel it or not.

His existence isn’t contingent upon whether we believe it or not. His goodness isn’t contingent upon whether we see it or not. He simply is! He doesn’t need us to believe in Him or in His love for us. Feelings lie, but God is always true. His Word is always true. And His Word tells us that “in this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” (1 John 4:10). It tells us that “greater love has no one than this, that somebody lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15:12)”

Written by: Allie Peasley
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