And don’t be wishing you were someplace else or with someone else. Where you are right now is God’s place for you. Live and obey and love and believe right there. God, not your marital status, defines your life. Don’t think I’m being harder on you than on the others. I give this same counsel in all the churches.
legilimenss asked: I would like you to know that you and I have the same name. (: and we're both devoted to our faith. Its great. Hahaha.
Lol I know! I only know a few people who share the same name as I do. Glad to meet someone else whose name is Tessa. =)
psalmfour asked: i LOVE this :) thank you so much for creating this place for girls to come together. it's a difficult thing to wait for the man of your dreams and to live with the Man who owns your heart now. we, as girls and teens, want physicality behind relationships and are impatient in wanting our groom. but the more you lose yourself in the heart of God, the closer you will be to finding the man He has set apart for you.
This past summer I made a promise to God that I wouldn't date until I found the one He wanted me to be with forever. Little did I know, I had already met him. and God gave me a relationship in October, that has now lasted 5 months, and we will be attending college together for ministry degrees. I'm so excited for God's plan for our relationship and for the marriage after the relationship blossoms.
I have been promised to God in abstinence since I was in sixth grade. I haven't been perfect in that promise, but when I rededicated my life to Christ in the 11th grade, it all was washed away.
one of my favoriteee quotes is something I live by and teach other girls to live by:
"a girl's heart should be SO lost in God that a man has to find Him in order to find her."
and it's so true. God has set apart the perfectly GODLY man for each and every one of us. we just have to seek God and His will. God is preparing that man to find you at the EXACT right time. :) I promise and God promises.
anyway this is so long now.
God bless you, thank you for following, and I pray that He blesses this blog abundantly :)
Thanks for sharing this! It sort of reminds me of the Israelites wandering around, trying to find the Promise Land… they complained and whined forever, eventually only a couple of them reached it because they were so impatient. Little did they know, the Promise Land was just around the corner, and they would have reached it sooner if they weren’t impatient. Same with us girls. If we’re patient and trust God’s timing, then the right guy could be just around the corner. =)
I love that quote you shared. It’s sooooo true. That should be our goal consistently.
Thanks again for your kind words =) God bless!
coffeebooksandjesus asked: I, Tessa, am committing myself to purity. This will include preparing the garden of my heart (reading the Bible, pulling weeds, etc.), not looking at guys as ‘potential boyfriends’, avoiding flirting with guys, not having sex until marriage, and completely stay away from the normal high school dating just because he seems ‘right’. Instead, I will try praying for my future husband daily, asking God to bring us to each other in His timing and that God will also show me when it’s okay to date a certain guy. But until then, my heart is saved.
Our Hearts Are Saved.
Not only by the blood of Christ, but for him. And for Him.
As young Christian girls, we’re constantly searching for “the one”. But while doing so, we’re giving bits and pieces of our hearts away. When we finally do meet the Prince Charming of our dreams, we’ll only have a few pieces left to offer.
Your heart is saved through grace. So keep the lock on it. Your future husband is the only one who has the key.
And the key is a cross. They key is Christ.
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I decided to create this blog on Valentine’s Day 2011 as a place for girls to come together and make a commitment to keep the lock on their hearts. I’ve watched too many of my friends jump from guy to guy, hoping that the next one will be him. Yes, we’re romantic. That’s the way God made most of us girls, and there’s nothing wrong with that. But there is something wrong with giving out our hearts like it’s nothing.
I would love for this to be a blog to keep girls committed. Purity rings aren’t enough. They’re only between you and God.
This will hopefully be a place for young girls to make their commitment public and encourage each other to keep our hearts locked up until God gives the right guy the key.
But for now, our hearts are saved.
