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Uncommon Places

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Being a parent you come accustom to SOME of the things your kids like. One of those are animated movies. We are quite the movie junkies. One of our favorite movies is Kung Fu Panda. My kids can watch the same movie over and over again and still look at it as if it were their 1st time. The other night they so happened to be watching it and as I was in the bathroom doing my hair something dawned on me that I never thought about before. As I was listening, the Master named him as the Dragon Warrior. I heard all the remarks of others questioning the decision that was made. They judged him by his outer appearance and assumed he couldn’t handle the task at hand. They had no confidience that he could do it and neither did he. Their custom was when the scroll was opened by the Dragon Warrior he would be given great powers. When Kong Fu Panda opened the scroll nothing magical happened and there were no great powers given to him. All that was there was his image. He then realized that the power lied within himself. Once he realized that he believed in himself to be the Dragon Warrior and once he believed it he conquered everything that came in his path and saved his town. It is obvious to know where someone strengths lies when it can be seen from the outside. It is when we can’t pinpoint what is obvious that throws us off. We have lost and ruined a lot of people because we judged and misjudged what we thought people posed. Isaiah 55:8-9 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts” Thank God He doesn’t think like we do. He uses uncommon places to store His greatest gifts, talents and anointing because no one can take the credit or get the glory out of what isn’t obvious to man. The next time you try to judge some one’s capability by their outward apperance remember David slayed Goliath and Sampson ripped up the city gates with his bear hands.

The Blood Still Works

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It has been almost a month ago that I had to have a colonoscopy. I was having blood in my stool along with some other issues. Last year I was the woman with the issue of blood literally. They couldn’t find out what was wrong with me. I only told a few people who I knew would be praying for and with me. Even though physically at times I didn’t have much strength it never stopped me from doing what God called me to do and if I couldn’t do anything else my praise is always 100 plus. Half way into last year I could feel God getting ready to put me on a consecration. I couldn’t even begin to explain where he had me. It was a place of unusual peace. The more I began to draw closer to him and follow his instructions the more of it I felt. He was doing so many things and fast. The first 3 months of this year God had me shut down social media and focus on other ministry needs. I was in a place of surrender. I will save you the details of the process of my procedure, but put it this way I pray you never have to have one. The morning of I was at peace. I am grateful to my friend Alaysia Black Hackett for being there with me. I think she was more nervous than I was. Anyway, right before they were getting ready to put me to sleep the doctor came in and said so are we checking for cancer today? That wasn’t anything my doctor had discussed, but I wasn’t alarmed, I was still at peace. I explained my issue and before I knew it I  was waking up. The end result is that THE BLOOD STILL WORKS. This is the 4th encounter that I can pinpoint that I know something was wrong with me , BUT God TOTALLY healed me. I shared that to say this….this Christian walk is real. It sad to see people within a year and nothing has changed and even sadder in 10 years. I am not being judgemental, but making an observation. There is NO WAY you can have a TRUE encounter with Jesus Christ and remain the same especially those of us who claim to be the called of Christ. That doesn’t mean you want fall or make a mistake, but there should be a difference in every area of your life. Your life should be the evidence that God is real, not just by the words that you speak. We go from glory to glory and from faith to faith. It is getting late in the evening and time is winding up. Tomorrow isn’t promised to any of us. IT’S TIME TO GET YOUR HOUSE IN ORDER. Don’t let it be said to late.

The Super Woman’s Prayer

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Lord I thank you that you have given me the ability to do so many things. That you have gifted and anointed me with the power to create something out of nothing and the strength to lead. My girls in which are the biggest gifts and opportunity you have given me in raising them into mighty woman of God. Thank you for giving me access to favor and continue to open the doors of opportunity and sooo much more. In all that you’ve given me I have picked up the role and the need to be Super Woman, not only because of the things in which I  know I poses that I want to share with the world, but the very thing that society has put on us as women because we can and most of the times do it all. The thing I failed to realize is that in all that you have given me and called me to do you never meant for me to do it in my own strength and I was never meant to do it alone. Lord help me to stay humble enough in knowing that I will ALWAYS need you and that I would never be ashamed or prideful to accept or ask for help. That I don’t become self sufficient to the point that I become self inflicting and I become damaged by my own walls. Thank you for sending on the help I need to carry out your plan for my life. Help me to appreciate what and who you send. Help me not to be selfish, but with a grateful heart even though it may not be what I want or desire,  but help me to see what I need. I release the cape of the Super Woman mentality  that not only society has placed on us, but in my own need of wanting to help others or is it really the feeling of being needed. Eventhough I know that I can,  I was never created to do it all on my own or alone. Load realeased.

Pressing My Way Wednesday

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Philippians 3:13-14
” Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus”

The woman with the issue of blood had been dealing with her issue for 12 years. As a woman it’s hard to deal with a week let alone 12 YEARS. In that day and time when a woman was bleeding it was as if she had a plague because no one would associate with her, touch her nor come in contact with anything that she had touched. She had spent the last of what she had and no one else would help her. She was abandoned, pushed to the side, talked about and isolated. ONE DAY she heard about a man named Jesus and became in the press. She didn’t care about the crowd and who was standing in her way. Through her struggles she found strength and through her determination it led her to being healed. It wasn’t the fact that she touched Jesus that she became made whole, but because of her faith to believe that he could that she was made well. Imagine if she never became in the press that day. You may not have an issue of blood, but what is the issue(s) that you have been carrying around with you for “WAY TOO LONG”. Today could be the day if you would just believe that you too can be free and be made whole. It’s never too late for you to press your way through the crowd, the noise, the disappointments, the betrayl, the hurt, the pain and be made whole. No matter your issue you can be set free, but you have to go to the right physician. Our bondage sometimes isn’t in the issues that we have, but who it is that we seek to made whole. The two options that you have is to stay bond to your issue(s) or press your way to Jesus and be made whole. The ball is in your court “Wilt thou be made whole”

GET UP!!

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Early today I took the girls to the Biltmore House to see the farm animals and when we got around to the goats there was one with a cast on it’s leg. My first response was Awe look at the goat and began to feel sorry for it, but there was something on the inside of me that kept saying  “Get Up”. I waited around a little to see if he would get up or does he normally just stay in that one spot. One of the workers went in to try and get one of the goats so that the kids could see them up close.  Sure enough the goat got up and left. Though it had a limp he didn’t allow it to make him stay where he was. Now no telling how long he has been in a cast and I’m sure he had to learn how to walk all over again, but the fact that he got up proves to me that he kept trying until he was able to do it on his own. There are so many things that can happen in life and if we aren’t careful we will allow it to cripple us to the point that we want get up and move forward. We will make all kind of excuses why we can’t or why we won’t. My question to you is why not? If at first you don’t succeed dust yourself off and try again. I know that it hurts and yes I know how unbarrable it can become, but YOU ARE WORTH IT to try again. You have been given life and an opportunity that some others may never get the chance or opportunity again. Despite your disability don’t allow it to keep you from moving forward. It was through my pain that I found strength and courage. It was through my strength and courage that unlocked my faith that lied from within. No matter how many times I got nocked down or I messed up there was something from within that kept pushing me to get back up again. If a goat can get back up again then what’s your excuse. GET UP!!!

Facing Your Gaints

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I was starting the 9th grade, a Freshman in High School which was scary enough. It was the rule that the upper class would give the freshman a hard time as if to pass some kind of  initiation, while I was yet dealing with a bully at the same time. She didn’t know me and I didn’t know her, but for some reason she picked me out of the crowd and made me the target. She was very big in stature and the mere words that came out of her mouth made it worst.  I had never been afraid of anyone, but this girl who was like a giant caused me to walk around in fear.  I would wonder how could someone be so cruel, to spread lies  and ruin others reputation as if to seem like some kind of hero.  I never told my parents, but my friends that knew would encourage me to just ignore her and to keep moving.   I knew that one day I was no longer going to be able to hide or run, but I would have to face her. I was very athletic in my day.  I played basketball, softball, tackle football with the neighborhood kids. They were holding try outs for the Powder Puff which was a girls football team at school, so I decided to try out. I made the team and of course the bully was on the opposite team.  I ended up facing her one on one.   They say that big things come  in small packages and what was about to happen next was unexpected.   They said hut and I found myself pressing into her until I moved her out of my way and I went down the field to receive the pass and made the touch down.  That was one of the best days of my life because I faced and defeated what I had considered my giant. From that day forward she never bothered me again and I was highly respected not only among my piers, but those older than I. It doesn’t have to be big in stature to be considered a giant.  A giant can be anything that is a hindrance from you moving forward.  Fear, intimidation, insecurities, faults, failures, past mistakes, etc. It takes a lot of courage not only to face your giants, but to defeat them. It is necessary in order for us to move forward.   2 Timothy 1:7 “For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of love power and of a sound mind”  The great thing in facing our giants is that we don’t have to fight them alone. No matter how big the things may appear to be in your life it is not bigger than the power of God.  If we trust God he will show us just how to defeat and conquer the giants that we face in our life.