ELIJAH LEAVENS

This past week I started my cross country trip from California to New York. It has been one of the most amazing adventures I have ever been on! Currently as I’m writing this I’m sitting overlooking and amazing mountain range in the black hills in South Dakota waiting for a couple of my friends to arrive. I figured I would use this time to share a little bit of breakthrough and a lesson I had with the lord so far on this trip. The orphan spirit vs sonship. I stayed my first overnight camping in a lady’s yard who I found through hipcamp. The next morning I arose and was ready for my ride to Thermopolis Wyoming. The direct rout to Thermopolis went around the Tetons but completely missed Yellowstone National park a place I have always wanted to visit. While on my trip I also realized that I was going to have to pay to play to even drive through either one of the two route that was ahead of me. Once I realized it was going to cost $35 to just take one of the roads I began to question...

Hey y’all hope you’ve had an amazing weekend and are ready for another amazing week!! This weeks message is more of just a small life update. As you know I am leaving on a cross country trip this week. I have been full up with preparation moving and just getting ready. I just wanted to put it out that over the next couple weeks through prayer I will be stepping away from a uniform message every Monday  but will be posting according to the lessons, updates, and messages I see fit. I will be traveling along the north to New York and then potentially through the south on my way back to  California. I will be on this trip from the end of June through the middle of August  I would like to ask that you keep me in prayer over these upcoming weeks. Also don’t forget to subscribe to the blog that way when messages do get posted you don’t miss out! As well I will be posting pictures and stuff on Facebook through out my travel. I will be doing updates though out my trip bu...

This past week  I was doing my normal life and job at outback and I took some time of added reflection after spending some time talking with my table. This week I want to go how a servants heart changes life’s! After taking some time to sow life into an amazing couple at my table through sharing my testimony and instilling hope I had an amazing time of reflection. I have been a server at Outback Steakhouse for around 8 years. I have had many different people from all around the world and different cultures come and dine at my tables. I have to admit this can be a blessing and while other times be incredibly difficult. I think serving is a true test of faith and our relationship with the lord. Upon my reflection though I really got to just praise the lord for all the amazing opportunities at work to sow seeds of life into my guests and sometimes even change there destiny! This particular time we spend time going through my testimony which instilled hope in them for there family memb...

As I prepare for my trip back east I keep coming back to the teaching of the last two weeks of school. Those two weeks had a heavy focus on strengthening ourself in the lord and keeping our fire burning. This week I just wanted to take some time and talk about keeping the fire burning bright and keeping strong in the lord. Not only was the last two weeks of school a mass of messages on keeping strong but we also read Bill Johnson’s book Strengthen yourself in the lord. I would highly recommend this book as it really has given me a perspective to longevity when it comes to practical examples of burning. We have all felt it maybe it’s defeat, a broken heart, down and out, discouraged, left out. These are all things every single person will most likely feel or go through at least once in life. But how does one over come? I wish I could give a system or method but I can’t as each and every persons needs and process is different. What I can say though is with pressing into the lord during t...

This past week I put an update out about me doing some traveling this summer. Some of the things the lord has really placed on my heart is embodying the message found in Matthew 10. A chapter that has really held a firm grip to my heart. This week I just wanted to dive into some of the lessons the lord has been taking me through this week with a focus on freedom. “Jesus sent out the twelve apostles with these instructions: “Don’t go to the Gentiles or the Samaritans, but only to the people of Israel—God’s lost sheep. Go and announce to them that the Kingdom of Heaven is near. Heal the sick, raise the dead, cure those with leprosy, and cast out demons. Give as freely as you have received!” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭10:5-8‬ ‭NLT‬‬ The message remains the same! As I look forward to this trip to spend time with my family I was taking time in prayer and I felt like the lord was saying pray into healings! The northeast where I will be spending the most of time of the trip is an area that I see has ...

This last year has been full of many lessons, full of ups and downs and open heart surgery. This past 12 months I have learned more about myself then I ever have. One of the longest and hardest lessons I have been in has been truly embracing my singleness. A venture that hasn't been easy for me and isn't for most as we want to find our partner. This weeks message is going to be a hopeful message of overcoming the insta culture and moving into embracing singleness as I share some of my story and process. If you haven’t already I would like to recommend reading a blog I wrote a couple weeks back on  enjoying the seasons .  This message was incredibly hard for me to write as it is so close to my heart. I almost talked myself out of it but I am pushing on for mine and your breakthrough. I think a good place to begin is two years ago when I was living in San Diego. That year was an amazing adventure. I traveled a lot, explored a lot, and had an adventure partner through...