hey my loves 🤍 I wanna do something a little fun but also… lowkey deep. last week at my church Bible study we started talking about the meanings of our names, and it really stayed with me. my name is Jasleen, and it has Punjabi and Sanskrit roots. my mom is Puerto Rican, English was her second language in 1995, and when she named me… she had no idea what it meant. but years later, I’m practicing yoga, learning Sanskrit, hearing my own name spoken in that language… and realizing my name means: “one who is absorbed in the praises of One God” “a soul immersed in worship” “she who lives in devotion and praise” and what’s wild is that it comes from a culture with thousands of gods… and here I am today , saved, worshipping the One true God. like… the Lord really writes stories deeper than we even understand at the time. and we see this all throughout scripture God uses names, changes names, calls people into identity through their names. so now I’m curious about you 🤍 what’s your first name? what does it mean if you know and how do you see that connecting if at all to your life, your story, or your relationship with God no pressure if you don’t know the meaning yet… you can even look it up and come back 👀 I just feel like there’s something beautiful in seeing how intentional God is… even in things we didn’t choose. can’t wait to read these 🕊️✨

“Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:” Colossians 3 4-8 ‭‭ you can either choose to be clothed in negative personality traits, or you can be clothed in the positive traits of your father GOD But like Paul , he did not rely on his own strength, but of the strength that God supplies “For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.” ‭‭Romans‬ ‭7‬:‭15‬-‭16‬, ‭18‬ ‭KJV‬‬ “If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.” ‭‭1 Peter‬ ‭4‬:‭11‬ ‭KJV‬‬ “THE ABILITY WHICH GOD GIVETH”

I saw this and I just started to cry because I feel like this is exactly how God is 😭😭😭

1. This group of ladies who are so on fire for the Lord despite how challenging it may be to live out these wilderness stages. 2. I’m grateful to be awake right now and laying in my king sized bed (I paid $200 for this beauty lol) 3. Im grateful for the fact that my kids are still sleeping and that they slept through the night. 🫶🏼

Tonight we are going to meditate on Psalm 29 and the moment in Luke 3 when Jesus is baptized by John. John was in the wilderness preparing the way for the Lord. His whole message was simple but powerful: prepare your hearts. And that’s really what the wilderness is about. The wilderness is the place where God strips away the noise. It’s where our insecurities come up. It’s where the questions come up. It’s where the fears, the pride, the wounds, the longing, all of it begins to surface. But the wilderness is not punishment. The wilderness is preparation. Just like John stood in the wilderness preparing the way for Jesus, there are seasons in our lives where we are in the wilderness preparing the way for the Lord to move deeper in us. Preparing our hearts. Preparing our souls. Preparing our lives. Tonight we’re going to sit with that idea. Because many of you have been sharing things that are coming up since Bible study. Insecurities, emotions, memories, realizations. Things you maybe didn’t even know were there. And that can feel uncomfortable. But that is often the voice of the Lord stirring the soil of your heart. Psalm 29 talks about the voice of the Lord moving over the waters, powerful and full of majesty. The voice of the Lord breaks things open. The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness. Sometimes the Lord’s voice does that in us too. It breaks things open. It shakes things loose. It reveals things that were buried. And that is part of preparing the way. Tonight we’re going to imagine ourselves in that wilderness place. Like John, standing in the wilderness and preparing the way for the Lord. Not forcing change. Not striving. Simply opening our hearts and saying yes to what God is revealing. Because Jesus’ journey did not stop at the wilderness. The wilderness led to His ministry. His ministry led to the cross. And at the cross He said, “It is finished.” The work has already been completed. But the inner journey of our hearts catching up to that truth is the process of sanctification.