2020 Wedding Video

Written By @3130beloved

“Your wedding was like God’s order amidst the chaos & turmoil that was happening around us. While our city in the distant view behind you felt like it was crashing down, there stood a bride & groom coming together reminding us of God’s covenant with us.”😭⁣⁣⁣ ⁣I couldn’t phrase more accurately what this moment felt like better than those encouraging words I just heard.⁣⁣⁣ ⁣

#Marriage is ultimately a display of Christ’s covenant keeping love for the church, amen?⁣⁣ Idk if there’s a way God could’ve evidently showed us this more than witnessing His faithfulness & provision through every trial & error as we pushed fwd with #gettingmarried amidst a #globalpandemic⁣⁣

By not knowing what was going to happen w/each passing day the last 6 months, we had to cling to the joys of our God praying for the opportunity to have a wedding day at all. ⁣⁣ Not only did this day come, but we more importantly got to watch our church family rally together in full support & w/ all hands on deck alongside us.😭⁣💛⁣ It’s never been “just us 2 & God”.⁣⁣ It’s ALWAYS been Him first & then us, His church bride, as a whole.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

If it’s the #gospel that’ll sustain & grow our marriage, what a ‘heart posture’ YANK this was as we had to constantly come to the foot of the cross ✝️ speaking the truth of the gospel to one another fighting hard to get to this moment.⁣⁣⁣ In the end we kept having to say, “and THIS TOO, we shall not be moved.”⁣⁣⁣ ⁣ Unwavering hope also applies right now as our world 🌎 is aching + hurting + grieving + in so much agony over a series of horrific events.⁣⁣⁣ May we continue to seek comfort from our good God & let Him calm us down before we speak out our shallow words.⁣⁣⁣ May He bind us up in #faith & love as we stand together learning from each other— being quick to listen & SLOW to speak.⁣⁣⁣ May His word be on the tips of our tongue as we cling to His truths.⁣⁣⁣ May we remember that if God is in this fight with us, WE. WILL. WIN!✊⁣⁣⁣ ✨

“Thanks be to #God, who gives us the victory through our #LordJesusChrist. Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of #theLord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.”

1 Cor 15:57✨

@3130beloved

I’ve always hated these, “Bio” or “About me” sections— so awkward.

But… after living 25 years lost in my agnostic world chasing my own fame, glory, comfort and will I was brought to my end. After the death of my mom, ending the most manipulative & emotionally abusive relationship, a lifestyle of drug addiction, 2 abortions, and finding myself empty while standing in the middle of what the world says is “bliss”… I reached the end of myself and the beginning of seeing Jesus’ light beaming down on me.

I met His Holy Spirit for the first time at a Halloween rave called, “Day of the Dead.” To this day, I still think this is one of the darkest places to be on our planet. I raved and popped pills to numb my pain, to avoid my fears and to suppress my sadness. I was in the middle of bobbing my head and raising my arms to the electro house music blasting in my ears when images of skeletons came on the TV monitors and the weak spirit within me has a knee-jerk reaction to put my arms down. “Whoa! I don’t worship that!”, I thought. “Wait, what do I know about worship?” Now looking back, there God was! The beginning of my site for Him.

A year later, I followed my brother (his good looking friend) to church (@realityLA). I don’t remember the sermon but I heard God for the first time when worship began singing, “Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders. Let me walk upon the waters wherever you would call me.”

I LOST my mind.

It was an overwhelming & LAVISHINGGG upon me of, "Hi precious girl. I see you. I know you. I’ve been here. I know your pain. I know your loss. I know you are lost. I know you’re angry, specifically with me because you lost your mom and you think your life is unredeemable but my beloved, I’ve been coming after you because you are mine.” I cried the hardest I’d ever cried in my life because my entire being just knew… This. Is. God. This. Is. The. Master. Of. The. Universe— and He wants me? Broken, selfish, ugly me?

I soon followed this good looking friend of my brothers to a community group. There is where I met the love of God through His people as they accepted me, fed me, welcomed me, and took me in as family despite my lifestyle that rebelled against everything they believed. One year later, I said, “Fine. I’ll follow until you fail just like everything else has.” Well… He hasn’t failed nor broken any promise yet. ;) My choice to accept Jesus as my Lord, savior and new identity has brought me more freedom than I could have ever fathomed. I didn’t know what I was living for or aiming at but God truly lit up every shadow, broke down every wall, shattered every lie and came after me.

Salvation belongs to the Lord.

As the world kicks and screams trying to shout their way to justice, peace and unity on their own terms right now, may the roots of our identity in Christ grow deeper each day together as one body; as one family.

“Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;

but his delight is in the law of the Lord,
and on his law he meditates day and night.

He is like a tree planted by streams of water
that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither.
In all that he does, he prospers.

The wicked are not so,
but are like chaff that the wind drives away.

Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
for the Lord knows the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish.”

https://3130beloved.com
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