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My name is Vanessa Morga and I grew up in the small town of Wellton, Arizona: like so small we don’t have a stoplight and my graduating class was around 50 people. Although I am from a rural community my parents found it extremely important that I traveled and learned about the world around me. Those trips included family vacations to San Francisco, Montana, Las Vegas, as well as San Luis, Mexico to visit family, and when I was 16 I went to Europe to spend a few weeks in Italy, France, and England. I love to travel and a passion for new adventures is something that my heart yearns for.
As a young child another important value my parents wanted to instill in me was a relationship with God. My parents are devout Catholics and raised my brother and I as such. We grew up going to church every Sunday and said prayers every night with our dad. When I was around 12 years old I was asked by some of my classmates, who attended the Baptist church in Wellton, to go to church camp with them during the summer. I said yes of course, excited to spend a week away with my friends, and out of the heat of southern Arizona. This camp provided more than just cool weather and fun activities, it was the first time in my life I read my bible everyday and I began to learn more about this Jesus I had heard of since I was a young child. I knew Jesus was the Son of God, as well as God himself and that He died for me but I didn’t know Him personally. This camp stirred something in my mind and heart that I couldn’t quite shake, I was interested in Jesus and I definitely wanted to know Him if He could save me from going to hell. 🙂
Well I got back home from camp and nervously asked my parents if I could begin attending the Baptist church, they were incredibly supportive as they have always been with everything I choose to do; they approved of me attending, as long as I was pursuing a relationship God. So I began reading my bible daily and thirsting to know my Creator. As the years went by God showed me glimpses of who He is; my Savior, my Lord, my best friend, the Lover of my soul, truly my Everything.
He has revealed Himself in the most beautiful of ways, through His holy Word, the people He has placed in my life and the people He has taken out of my life, the things He has blessed me with and the things He has withheld, the disease He allowed to plague my body and the cure He provided for that same dreadful condition. Through all of this He has also been revealing to me who I am in Him.
First off I am saved in Him and through Him; this salvation has been given to me freely “not of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” (John 1:13) I am His child, deeply loved and not of this world. "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" (2 Corinthians 5:17) As He has revealed Himself to me and who I am in Him, I have fallen more deeply in love with my beautiful Savior!
One night I cried out to Him in desperation, telling Him I just could not on my own, love Him the way He deserves to be loved, I had failed and I needed Him to make me Love Him in the way He desires! He of course is faithful and He answered through His word. A few months later in the corner of a bookstore I was reading through the pages of a Christian book, and through a familiar verse God spoke to me, “For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? Matthew 16: 25-26. And then in that same book I read Jesus' words in John 14:15 "If you love me, you will obey what I command." I asked Him to make me love Him and here He was showing me that He desires me to love Him by following His commands! As I continued to read through that same book I came across another verse from Matthew 28:19 " Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."
This year I thought I would be moving to Broomfield, Colorado to manage a store that my company was opening in February but instead I will be leaving in around eight months to embark on an eleven month missionary trip to eleven different countries. I ask for your prayers as I go out and share with the world the healing power of Jesus' love. I want all to know the Father's grace and mercy in their own lives and live in the freedom given to us by the life, death, and ressurection of His son! For truly their is nothing greater then knowing the One that created us "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." (John 17:3)
