When we do the things we love, we bring glory to God because he created us to love those things. He is the one who gives us every good desire. He gave them to us solely so that he could fulfill them and if He couldn't fully fulfill my passions, then they wouldn't be mine. All that we want comes from Him, and all the we need comes from Him.

I refuse to worry about my future. Or anything else for that matter. I'm 100% positive that God's got me covered.

Thanks God for being so perfectly, perfect and for refilling me with your love daily.

I missed home a lot today. BUT it was still such an amazing day and God continues to surprise me with the greatest little gifts.

thanks Jesus.

And a month later....

Recently I've seen a lot of people doubting the goodness of God and putting him in a tiny, little, itty, bitty box that He really, really doesn't like to be in.

In Aramaic the word "abba" means Father and it has become the modern word that Israeli children use for "daddy". Jesus applied this word to our divine Heavenly Father!! Our Daddy, Abba, precious Father, Provider, Maker, who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name! I think about the love that my earthly daddy has shown me and it amazes me that I actually call God my Father. That means that he loves me and cares MORE about me than my other daddy. My other daddy who loves me unconditionally, who daily reminds me of that love, who gives me a home, who supports everything I do, who misses me when I'm gone, who looks forward to talking to me, who wants me to be the happiest girl ever, who never lets me down, who protects me, who finds me jobs, who CARES about every little thing down to the type of toothpaste I use, and who does absolutely everything that he can to love me as much as earthly possible. Isn't it perfect how God calls Himself the Father? I am a daughter of the King and that makes me royalty and I deserve to be treated as royalty.

So yes, my Papa does care about every little thing that involves me, because he knows the deepest desires of my heart. He cares about where I live and why I live there. He cares about my passions and what I do with them. He cares about my heart and he protects it. He cares about my future and he preserves it. He cares about all things working together for my good and he makes all things work together for my good. He cares about me so much that He sent His only begotten Son to die for my sins so that I could be made clean and flawless. He cares so much about me, and it's to an extent that is actually just unfathomable.

He's really good, and a lot gooder than that.

And yes I wrote gooder on purpose.

Love,

Allayna

"And we know that in all things that God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose." -Romans 8:28

I need to raise 930 dollars by January fifth in order for me to be able to go to the Philippines in March. That's in about Thirteen days, so it's coming up pretty fast! If you would like to partner with me on this mission trip financially it would bless me so unbelievably much!

I love this prophecy that Cindy Jacob's gives over the Philippines. It gets me so pumped! Ha.

Cindy Jacob's Prophecy over the Philippines!

To give financially here are the steps...

1. Go to www.ibssm.org

2. Click on the box that says, "Give to BSSM" (fourth one down).

3. Click the link that says, "Click here to make a donation to a student's mission trip.

4. A box will pop up that tells you to enter the student's name, type in Allayna Winkler (obviously) :) Then click 'show matches'.

5. My name will pop up and there is a little box that says, "Give to Allayna Winkler". Click it!

6. Fill out the info and you're done.

If you would prefer to send it to me directly, email me at smileitsnicetodo@gmail.com and I will give you my address!

Be sooooo blessed!

Allayna

I'll be home for Christmas!

HEHE. I can't wait to be home and get to sleep in my bed for seventeen nights. How wonderful does that sound? Pretty dang on wonderful. I am so excited, I almost can't contain it. All I want to type is really just a bunch of jibberish, like so, "kjflkajfdlkfkdfjldkjgfakjfgkajdkfljldkajflkdjfkljweeeeekljlkafdakjfdlkjweeeelkwjlkajlfk!" But I won't do that, because that'd be a little weird.

So I get to go home for Christmas aka I'm pretty stinkin' blessed.

One thing I will miss for sure though vvvv

I actually don't know what the point of this was.

Thanks, Thanksgiving

I haven't updated anyone for awhile about what has been going on at Bethel since I had the opportunity to go home for Thanksgiving last week! I've been too busy, of course :) Thanksgiving break was amazing and full of too many blessings to count! I got to surprise my whole family, which is probably on my top ten most fun things I've ever done list. So great!

Anyways, I'm on my flight back to Redding and I am actually excited to be back going back to school. There are so many great things going on at Bethel that I have been really missing. Speaking of great things going on, I got to visit my church in Cincinnati these past two weekends and there is a wild fire burning there! It's so good to see how much VWS has grown and is growing right now. I could feel the holy spirit so thickly in that place on Sunday. God is so good.

It was pretty much the most perfect thanksgiving ever, and I think I might be more thankful than I have ever been in my whole entire life.

blessings and love,

allayna

Tonight I got to witness a blind man get healed.

Every month at Bethel we have a baptism service, and a blind man got baptized. He went under water being blind and the next time his eyes opened he could see. Out in the hallway as people prayed for him, his vision just continued to get better and better. How great is our God?!

I just can't imagine missing that miracle. Thank you, God, for letting me be a part of that.

Love,

Allayna