We are surrounded by challenges, whether those of our own or those we
know.
Thanks for joining us for Faith-Filled Friday with Debra Dolce and Trench
Classes United. Today’s Love Letter is a great reminder that nothing
knocks Him off His throne and all things will be used for our good and His
glory if…we allow Him in it to rise above it.

~Love Letter~

You all experience times of testing, which is normal for every human being. But I will be
faithful to you. I will screen and filter the severity, nature, and timing of every test or trial
you face so that you can bear it.

Each test is an opportunity to trust Me more, for along with every trial I have provided
for you a way of escape that will bring you out of it victoriously. Each thing you go
through is an opportunity for your faith to increase and be strengthened. As you hold on
to My promises, believing them for you during your testing, you will experience victory.
Stand on My Word and believe that all you are experiencing will be used for your good
and My glory. This should encourage you and even give you strength. Remember I will
be faithful to you. You should be excited to watch yourself grow, to see yourself
standing on My Word.
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Your victory will be a great light for others around you. Beloved, continually surrender
the things that come at you so that you can overcome them all. 
~DebraDolce

​This past week in our How to Love Who you Love trench, I asked this
question and was not surprised by the response: How many of you are
going through a situation right now that feels almost hopeless?
Almost everyone raised their hand!
Letdowns can knock us down or cause us to rise, especially when we keep
our eyes on the Author of Hope.
Join us for Living fueled by Hope to learn how to not fall down when others
let us down.
Hopeful,
Kim-Evinda

After her journaling time, she reached for her study on Isaiah, praying for understanding
to dispel her insecurities about this particular study. Within the first paragraph, she kept
hearing “Matthew 6.” After the third time, she remembered the assignment they were to
do before the next board meeting. She reached for her Bible, eager to begin.
Thanks for joining us for Wednesday’s Word with Kim-Evinda and Trench Classes
United. Have you ever wondered how to apply what you read in the Bible to your life?

Today’s blog offers a solution for this very powerful principle, one that will help us to not
only abide in His word but be changed by it.

She remembered the first part of the assignment, which involved four things so that’s
where she started. In her mind she rewound to the day before, scene by scene and
prayed: God, please forgive me for certain attitudes, actions and negative words of
yesterday towards those I love. Cleanse my heart that I can come to Your table clean.:
2 God wash my mind of anything learned in the past about this portion of scripture that I
might learn new truths, new revelations for where I am today and where you want to
take me. 3 God, show me how this applies to my life, in my life today and 4 grant me the
courage to carry these out. Amen.

So as I read through the first six verses, with many stops along the way, certain words
sent me on a sort of personal detour as conviction seeped into my soul. I mean, it
started in verse 1! “Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to
be seen by them; otherwise, you have no reward from your Father in heaven.”
When we do something good, kind, generous, it needs to be for an audience of One.
I’ve been known to make sure the person at the register taking my order saw me put a
tip in there. Or how about boasting about all I’ve done for someone? Can you relate?
As I continued, the conviction seeped deeper, though not necessarily just for myself, but
I’ve always struggled with how to maneuver through the whole social media platform
thing with our ministry because of these words from Jesus Himself:: 2 Therefore, when
you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you (announce what you’re
going to do) as the hypocrites (people who do eternal acts with earthly, hollow motives)
in the synagogues and in the streets (social media can be replaced here) that they may
have glory from men. Assuredly I say to you they have their reward (on earth but not in
heaven!).

I can’t help but smile as I realize I only got through the first four verses of this passage
 And yet, my heart is heavy with this burden: how do we utilize social media as a way
to encourage, draw others in without shouting about the good we’re doing, will do or can
do? His word is clear about not letting the left hand know what the right is doing, in other
words, in secret, for an audience of One.

I know I can’t change, control or convince others, Lord, but keep my motives pure as I
use cyber space to heed the call.
Thoughtfully,
Kim-Evinda

​Why do we have such a hard time talking about depression, despair?
Maybe if we talked about it more openly, there would be less suicide, and
more victory in overcoming it. See, true despair can be defined with this
acrostic: Denying Emotional Support Personally and Internally Regressing.
Life was never meant to be lived or figured out alone.
Join us for our Living fueled by Hope trench to learn how to embrace
emotional support personally and internally and move forward instead of
backwards for a brighter future filled with acceptance and understanding
with new friends who become like family.
Hopeful,
Kim-Evinda

What is it that you do when going through a gut-wrenching time in your life?
​
Thanks for joining us for Monday’s Message with Abigail Rice and Trench
Classes United. Today’s poem is a great reminder that praise in the midst
of a problem brings victory on so many levels.

My heart
Is screaming
My eyes
Bleeding
Bloodshot from staying awake
The sleepless nights
Calling out Your Name
Yeshua
Yahweh
Show me the way
The way out
Removing all my fears
and releasing all my doubts
My heart belongs to You
But this wall has kept You out
Brick by brick
I lay
Lie on top of lie
and sin on top of sin
Crushing under the weight
Of what was built by my own hate
Crying out, “Abba, Father, let me in!”
and I hear you whisper in the wind
I’ve been here all along
Holding on
Patiently waiting
To hear your battle cry
Blow the trumpets
Shout My Name
For it is not by works
But by grace

That you have been saved
Your Holy Spirit opens the gate
Not a second too soon
Or a moment too late
For this is a battle
and for this moment i prayed
To fall down in Your glory
As Your Spirit adorns me
In power and wonder
We will never asunder
Every tide that pulled me under
Only drew me in
As my faith began to swim
and when i sank
You held out Your mighty hand
Always drawing me back in
How gracious You are!

In a world of distractions, how do we prioritize what really matters?

Thanks for joining us for Faith-Filled Friday with Debra Dolce and Trench
Classes United. Today’s “Love Letter” is a great reminder that when we put
Him first in all we do, our heart will not betray us.

Love Letter~
The seed sown among thorns represents one who receives the message, but all of life's
busy distractions, their divided heart, and their ambition for wealth result in suffocating
the kingdom message and it becomes fruitless. While that is not My will for you, I know
it is easy to slip into distractions when you become busy. Do you not know that it is the
busyness that is the distraction and that leads you to a divided heart.

And then there’s the ambition for wealth, which has been proven to suffocate My Word,
especially as the ambition for wealth takes over your desire and ambition for Me. This is
seen as you fill your heart and life with things you think will satisfy. The more you fill
your life, the less fulfilled you feel.

Now your life is full of these fruitless things and none of them bring satisfaction to you
and you've lost your way. When the recognition comes, come to me and repent;
surrender this weakness to Me. Return to Me, your first love so that we may have
fellowship again. I will not compete with any of the things of this world that you think are
important.
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Beloved, remember to seek Me first and I will add all the other things to you. 
~DebraDolce

​​Thursdays Trench Truth

​“It’s the ‘I’ll never’ syndrome. I’ll never be this or that. I’ll never have this look, or
that body or enough money or the right whatever. Since I was a child, I have always felt
a sense of despair which then I would over-compensate with laughter or jokes or being
the class clown. But my sense of despair would keep me up at nights with nightmares
and/or panic attacks, plaguing my mind with scenes that were definitely fictitious to the
core. My sense of self-worth was wrapped up in a façade of others’ opinions of me, for
example, my mother, teacher, or friends. What they thought of me must have been the
true me, so I traveled with their opinion, heavy on my back. This lack of self-worth
(Symptom 3 of the Root of Despair) prevented me from doing more for myself, setting
goals, and keeping them. Many times, my sense of hope was gone because my sense
of self was so diminished that I could not see the future. I felt stuck. I wasn’t worthy of
anything and didn’t matter to anyone.”

While her struggle didn’t address a specific situation, we can see what a sense of
despair does to us: it sends us looking for hope in all the wrong things, places, and
people, seeking the basic needs of life: to be loved, accepted, and approved of.
Friends, we were all born with the need to love and be loved, to accept and be
accepted. Join us for Living Fueled by Hope to learn how to do this healthily coming to a
trench near you in April.
​
Hopeful
Kim-Evinda

She smiled as she read about each of the plagues the Lord brought about
in the days of old, not because they were funny in any way, but because
again, truths pranced off the pages and into her heart, dancing with joy and
stomping on the lies she’d been every so subtly buying into

Thanks for joining us for Wednesday’s Word with Kim-Evinda and Trench
Classes United. Today’s word is a great reminder that there’s always
something to learn from His Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth
(Bible).

I had gotten through the seventh plague (hail) and was noticing some
common themes and some powerful truths that I just can’t help but share,
especially considering what is becoming a common belief: that the Bible is
outdated and full of bigotry. See, truth is never outdated, never gets old and
though it may be painful to swallow and/or accept at times, (more often
than not ) it is always relevant for us on our way to Heaven.

So getting back to Moses, Pharoah and the plagues, there are many truths
that I’ve gleaned thus far, but allow me to share the first one that brought
light to my current circumstance and this loooooong season of healing:
Moses ALWAYS obeyed, no matter how humiliated or frustrated he may
have felt, he NEVER said no, I won’t do what you ask or say what you tell
me to say!

That’s not to say that he didn’t question God’s requests, but he didn’t allow
his fears, his doubts, his frustration and/or his pride to interfere from
obedience.

Friends, that one truth alone is enough to chew on for a while, because no
matter what kind of pressure we are under, whether it’s pressure from
others, or a certain someone or a particular circumstance, God blesses
obedience.

As you read from the Oldest Book in the World (the most popular, I might
add) I encourage you to ask Him how the truths apply to you, to your life
in your current circumstance…
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Thoughtfully,
Kim-Evinda

​Thanks for joining us for Tuesday’s Trench Truth.
Most of us desire pretty much the same things, Somebody to love, someone who
loves us in return; however, there are many who may not recognize and/or
acknowledge these needs.
This leads us to put our hope in others. If our childhood was interrupted in any
way, or void of the deserved nurturing, there is a much stronger propensity to
place our hope in others.

When others let you down, do you fall down, or are you able to rise up without
resentment?
Join us for Living Fueled by Hope to learn how to not others knock you down
when they let you down.

When my dog wants to go out and play – too often in the day -- I find
myself saying wait, hold on, wait to my fur baby but when I am told to
wait…
Thanks for joining us for Monday’s Message with Abigail Rice and Trench
Classes United. How about you, when you’re asked to wait…indefinitely,
how do you respond? It is in the waiting that perfecting happens.

To be baptized by Your fire
Is my soul’s true desire
Holy Spirit consume me
Lend me Your strength
and grant me Your power
Why you ask would I desire
Something so dire?

To bask in Your presence
Shekinah
Yahweh

I am ready to fight
But my heart is armored up
These walls they can’t break
Until Your Holy Spirit takes His place
In my heart
In my arms
The tingling sensation
Of becoming one in Your nation

With my sword I cut through
Every lie of the enemy
and every attempt to tempt me
Knowing my family
and generation is watching
and depending on me

To close every door
Of curses that lure
and entrance our hearts
In a web of deceit
Making us not believe
That our Father in heaven
Is more than ready
and willing
To be our escape
Our saving grace

and by the blood of His Son
We become one
Of His children
His sheep
Mild and meek
Eating our bread
From the palm of His hand
Because we asked

He said:
“,,,Behold, I will send forth upon you
What My Father has promised; but remain in the city
Until you are clothed with power from on high.” Luke 24:49
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and all we must do is ask
and believe
Wait
and receive