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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 currently residing in Canton, Georgia. Married 34 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 26 years. 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.

Happy Valentine’s Day

imageI didn’t get chocolates because life isn’t like that.

I didn’t get a stuffed animal or any other bear.

I didn’t get a bracelet or some fine jewelry.

I didn’t get a car or something that elaborate.

No candies that are hearts or even silly cards.

But what I did get I planned to do, something that I would enjoy. Something different, I took a chance at, what was definitely not the norm.

I loved it. He loved it. We all loved it.

“Just as water reflects the face, so one human heart reflects another.”
Proverbs 27:19

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Did We Forget The Salt?

imageHas the church lost its flavor?

Have I lost my flavor?

Have you lost your flavor?

Makes me think so much. As we approach an arctic blast for NYC, how often we approach those in life. It’s not easy being in it. Because it gets pretty cold sometimes, I tell you!

Jesus said to his climbing companions, “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.”
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Heart Like Mine

imageA day closer to our sweet “Valentines Day”. This is my inspiration.
This is what moves me. The precious Word of God that I love.

Then I write.

On a buzzing holiday for many, this could go as a love/hate season. We get to thinking, planning and more loving right? There’s a heart like mine, that wants to spend more time with God.

In our self-evaluation, we discover more of who we are. I even got a new bible close to me now. I carry it every day no matter how bulky it is in my bag.

I had to pull the older bible of the 2012/13/14 days of my life. Notes that have not escaped. I challenged myself in every way. I thought so much, that my heart was warped, crooked and producing only evil. I thought it was so deceitful, vulnerable and susceptible to continuous fail.

This heart of mine, who could know it but an all-powerful God?

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No One To Help Me In

imageThere is a man in the New Testament that has an encounter with Jesus the Messiah. He was sitting by the pool of Betheseda. This becomes such an interactive story because as you read you can imagine youself in that place too. You visualize this man by the pool…right by the Messiah and he is bitter, frustrated, angry, resentful, hurt, torn and challenged in every way. He was restricted, yet by what? His own victimized mentality that says, “I have no one to help me…”

No one is there to put me in.

No one is by my side.

No one understands my pain.

No one is there when I need it the most.

No one is going to be able to help me.

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