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About Christina

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Blessings to all that are viewing this. My name is Christina Cruz-Mendez. I am a Senior Pastor at Mission United International Church in Yonkers, NY working along side my husband Juan A. Mendez Jr. Senior Pastor, currently residing in Canton, Georgia. We have been together for 29 years with 2 children that God has blessed us with. Makes us the family of four - "JusChrist4". I have been a Christian and active in ministry for about 22 years now. Through all the rocky and smooth roads in life I am eternally grateful that God has brought me this far in life to share with the world what He is doing in me, through me and for me.

Walk With Me

IMG_8100Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin, to see the plumb line in Zerubbabel’s hand.”
Zechariah 4:10 New Living Translation (NLT)

You are Alpha and Omega
We worship You our Lord
You are worthy to be praised

We give You all the glory
We worship You our Lord
You are worthy to be praises
~Israel Houghton

Just sitting here. What can I see from the smallest places or things?
Can I see the small thing as something big that God wants to start?
What can I learn?
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Into The Deep Grace of God

IMG_8041I started out this morning on a Facebook live video for the first time sharing a quick reflection that the Lord placed in my heart. How much grace we have from God–it is a GIFT!

You know sometimes people don’t accept gifts. They refuse, dislike, deny, re-gift or try to give them back to the giver.

Why do that? It is a GIFT! Which is the same way God has given us a deeper gift of grace that is beyond the surface. It cancels out all the history, the shame, the guilt, the pain and all the other darkness you could have found in your life. Places where you needed redemption! Saving! That is where He comes in with the best gift–His Son Jesus.

No matter how much sin there is in this world–there is more grace!

But where sin increased, grace increased all the more.
Romans 5:20

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She Can Never Lose Sight

focusedWhat keeps me going is focusing on the VISION!

I know that recovery takes time. For the mind, body, soul and spirit.

“The doctor says” two weeks, four weeks  or months.

A psychologist can say it takes years for mental recovery.

What does the word of God say for any type? That is sovereign over my circumstances! Focus on the prize! Focus on Jesus!

FOCUS! FOCUS! FOCUS!

I am set to follow one course until successful!

Wow! Do you see how The Message translation says this:

Do you see what this means—all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we’d better get on with it. Strip down, start running—and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins. Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we’re in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed—that exhilarating finish in and with God—he could put up with anything along the way: Cross, shame, whatever. And now he’s there, in the place of honor, right alongside God. When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls!
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My Own Language

imageI can cry in front of You,
Confess my madness,
My frustrations,
My history,
My likes, loves & dislikes; any jibber-jabber or random thing.
I can be the fully flawed version of me and find You anytime I come up to check, even when I feel like it or bluntly when I don’t.
I’m human.
Emotional.
Fluctuating… Fighting… Fierce when I wanna be!
I’m just a woman that is searching harder now to find Jesus in my daily routine and scheme of things.
To be pointed in the path that indicates HERE!
HERE I AM!
HERE I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN!
In the places of your nothing I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN EVERYTHING!!! Continue reading