Rooted and Built up in Christ

Hi lovely people! I know I've been MIA and  I   honestly  have no excuse so I won't even try to give one. But thank God for the STRONG inspiration to write today :). I emphasize strong because I've felt God speaking to me in the last few days about self-love and just embracing how He has made me. Today, I was watching a video on Ashley Empowers youtube channel (side note: go check her out, she's so inspiring!) and the video resonated with me on so many levels. The video was based off a question a lady had sent to Ashley and basically the lady was wondering if she'll ever find love as a plus-sized woman. She's in her 30s and now considering losing weight so she can find a man. Sure you guys may be wondering why this resonated with skinny Dara lol. But yes it did because it took me back to my teenage years when I was still in highschool and used to be so insecure about my weight. I was super skinny and the smallest girl in my year. I was made fun of, called

The society we live in now preaches "safe sex" but then again, is sex outside of marriage ever really "safe"? can sex outside of God's will ever be "safe"? The answer is no. While condoms and birth control pills, which are not even always 100% effective, can protect us from pregnancies and STDs (the physical consequences of sex), they can't protect us from the emotional and spiritual consequences of premarital sex. The spiritual and emotional consequences of premarital sex we often tend to ignore are even more serious than the physical consequences. And why is this so? It is because sex is primarily a spiritual activity than a physical activity as the world tends to view it. Whenever we have sex, a spiritual bonding occurs- two people become one flesh (Mark 10:8, Genesis 2:24). Hence, the reason why God wants sex to be expressed only within the confines of marriage is to strengthen the intimate bond between a husband and a wife; God doesn't

Hi Lovelies! Today I'll be starting a three-part series on maintaining sexual purity in a sex-crazed world. This topic has been on my heart for several weeks now so I believe God was leading me to write. Many times, when we think of sexual purity, we equate it just to waiting till marriage for sex. But today I want to say it's more than that! Sexual purity actually starts from the heart. In our equating sexual purity to just waiting for sex, a lot of us have thought it okay to do everything else but have sex. I won't lie I've also been guilty of this faulty thinking till the Holy Spirit began to convict me. The issue of waiting for sex is not so much about the sex itself as it is taming your flesh and saying no to lust. So, today we'll be focusing on the heart aspect of sexual purity. In subsequent posts, we'll focus on the why and how to wait aspect of sexual purity. So, what is lust? Dictionary.com defines it as an "intense sexual desire or appetite&q

Hey lovely people! Today I'll be sharing something that was very heavy on my heart when I woke up this morning. So last night, I had a dream in which my siblings and I were having this conversation which is the title of this post "Why am I a Christian?". I remember my response was something along these lines "I am a christian because I am accepted, I did not do anything to earn God's love but yet he chose to save me". "God loves me just as I am. In him, my past doesn't matter". "He keeps coming through for me in the darkest times, in situations I never thought I'll make it through".  So I woke up this morning with a fresh awareness of God's love because even though it was me making those statements in my dream, I believe it was God talking through me reminding me that He loves me!  I remember reading somewhere that the difference between Christianity and other religions is that it's the only religion where we s