Anna M. Aquino

Hello, I hope y'all are doing awesome.  I am very excited to share my latest article with Charisma! http://www.charismamag.com/spirit/spiritual-growth/32611-5-prophetic-actions-to-take-when-dry-land-surrounds-you Remember God has awesome plans for your life.  Get excited!  

Last Sunday we visited a friend’s church because they were celebrating the 12 th anniversary of their church.   This church is only minutes from where we used to live across town.   We decided between services we’d drive through our old stomping grounds to show the kids the old neighborhood.   Memories and stories came rushing back.   I think the kids were humoring us more than anything.   We moved here when my oldest was 4 and my youngest wasn’t even born yet.   But nevertheless, we kept telling story after story of how God had been faithful to us in one situation or another.   We saw the door that my youngest locked me out of the house and when she couldn’t figure out how to unlock it I had to get a neighbor to break in.   We saw the sidewalk where the man on a red bicycle stopped me to hand me money once when we’d had no groceries in the house because of a faith seed we’d sown, but he didn’t know that.   We laughed about how we’d been ...

I’ve coined a new catch phrase in the last week. “Have you hugged your destiny?” It might sound weird to some. But I think it’s a spark of divine inspiration. Most people have this crazy unscriptural concept that destiny is this some vague thing that’s out there somewhere, but they deep down don’t think they will ever find it. To them it’s equal in their minds to a banshee or Loch Ness Monster. But in truth Destiny is something physical. The word destiny is a noun! Jesus is your destiny, Heaven is the destiny God wants for you, and what he called you to do on this earth is your destiny. About a week ago I had a God moment in my garage. I was praying about a few things and if only for a few moments it was as if I could feel the heart God greatly saddened by the numbers of people that give up on their God given destinies. It was if I could feel the frustration of people for feeling they could never fulfill His purpose and at the same time I could feel God’s heart on the matter...