who is your valentine?

Yesturday, I was so amazingly blessed!! A dear frined, my mom, and I had a valentine tea for the ladies in our home fellowship group and it was just amazing, its funny how when you plan on blessing some one they usually end up being the bigger blessing to you! It was such a wonderful time of fellowship and true vulnerability talking, crying laughing and worshiping. I was asked to give a deco aswell, which I have to say was very humbling to be asked to teach a group of women that I so look up to and admire, but God is good and I think layed on my heart what He wanted to ladies to hear. It was just so awesome and I am still so excited about it all! I thought I would share the teaching that I gave and I hope that it is a blessing to you aswell!



For your Maker is your husband, The LORD of hosts is His name; And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel; He is called the God of the whole earth

I remember when I was younger probably about 15 or 16 I use to love to have girl friends over Usually it was my best friend Alina and usually she would end up spending the night and we would end up talking and doing a devo or having prayer time and one of things that I use to love to do is get a couple of my teacups that I had carefully put a way in my room and serve us tea in it. For some reason it just made it all the more special! A tea cup can make almost any thing more special, as women we can be compared to a tea cup. I think that, that is the way that God see’s us we are beautiful to him, precious, and to be held gently with pride and to be treasured, breakable yes if dropped and mistreated but also incredibly strong.

Usually during the course of the night with my friend at some point future husbands came up and we would talk and giggle about our hopes and dreams, but one thing was so consistent we wanted them to be Godly leaders, but we were also your typical teenage girls… hopeless romantics and another thing that stayed consistent is we were always brought back to the thought that God is our husband and we would talk about how special we were to have such a romantic amazing husband! As time goes by I think we tend to, all of us married or not to forget that He is our husband and that we truly are in the greatest romance ever written.

I am blessed The Lord gave me the man that I prayed for and how I love him and treasure him. He is however human and our relationship is not perfect, and it is not fair of me to expect him to meet all my needs that is not his job. It is my job to look to God for my need to be met.

Some of the top complaints from women about there husband:
1. They are not understanding enough.
2. They are not sensitive to feelings and needs.
3: They do not listen well
4. They are not affectionate enough.
5. They do not communicate enough. They do not express their feelings and thoughts.

How God meets our needs!

1:For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb.
I will praise You, for I am fearfully [and] wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And [that] my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, [And] skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When [as yet there were] none of them.

2:You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off.
You comprehend my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways.

3.For [there is] not a word on my tongue, [But] behold, O LORD, You know it altogether
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4:You have hedged me behind and before, And laid Your hand upon me.
[Such] knowledge [is] too wonderful for me; It is high, I cannot [attain] it.
Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?

5:How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! [If] I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand;


So now we have the reminder God is our husband he is our provider and he does meet all our needs. And what do we do with this reminder? We put our trust in it!

I just finished the book of Romans a couple of weeks ago and I really felt God leading me to psalms and something that keeps coming up over and over and that keeps sticking out to me….probably a good indicator on what God wants to work on in me is the word TRUST in psalms alone its used 77 times in the whole bible its used 147 times. One definition of trust is: reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, and surety, of a person or thing. David says those who know your name will put there trust in you .Psalm 9:10
God wants our trust, and as his bride he deserves it.