How NOT to die...
I preached last Sunday on how to fight your way out of giving up.
I believe that many if not most Christians are at a time in their lives where they are in a place that they have never been before. It's exciting and scary at the same time. Many have started new businesses or have ended long time relationships, began long time relationships, or they have simply found that they have issues that were hindering them. In the face of finding that they have issues that are hindering them, they have come to the realization that they were blaming people, places, things and situations and have wasted much time, but it was them all alone. Seeing yourself is not easy! That is something in and of itself to deal with outside of everything else.
Let me help some out the same way that our Father has helped me out. This has been a year of letting somethings go. This is not surface stuff, it's deep things that were literally hindering us from getting to our destiny. For me, it was fear of stepping out. Fear of failing and /or succeeding...there was a fear that I would be launched out into the deep and would not be able to swim.
*Exercise....tap yourself on the shoulder and say "SELF!"...it's time to swim! (LOL)
Who am I to be a young woman of 31 years starting 2 businesses with no money, no job, and no bank account? My book of poems that tell a portion of my testimony, who wants to read that? I haven't been saved long enough to be in full time ministry. These are the excuses that I was coming up with. When I was 27 years old, my Apostle told me that God wanted me to be in full time ministry and although she was a woman of God, I laughed and said "I need a check"...she turned and looked away and didn't ever mention it again.
Fast forward 4 years to 2009...Apostle has sinced passed on and I am in a new church. After looking and not finding and fighting with myself on what to do, my storage was empty and I gave up. I alltogether stopped looking for a job, but didn't know what to do with myself! We were in prayer service one night and my new Pastor says to me, "God didn't call you to work for anybody else, your wealth is in your hands..." That night, I gave up, stopped the battle and surrendered to it!
Why am I telling all of this? I want you to understand that I comprehend the turbulent year it has been...I understand and have walked in the deeply rooted shoes of doubt and fear for launching into the unfamiliar territory of my gifts and talents not knowing if I am going to sink or swim. It has come to the foreground of my mind that anything worth having is TRULY worth fighting for. We have had the brief opportunity to let go of things that were holding us back from our destiny in Christ and in this world...we have work to do, but we didn't want to submit that application!
In the exposing of self, it has been difficult and emotional....trying and even grievous, but if you have made it this far..."Don't Die Now, God Said Live!"
Why come all this way, walking on the water....why come all this, having gotten up and are carrying your bed...why come all this way crawling on the ground to touch the hem of Jesus' garment and FORFEIT the ground that you have gained? Why do that to yourself? What about the people that are secretly waiting for you to SUCCEED so that they can draw strength from you and launch out? It is imperative that we press forward towards the mark of the high calling that is in Christ Jesus...Father has trusted us to succeed, excel, catapult, fly, soar and reach the top just so that someone else can later have the courage to do the same!
How NOT to die? When you want to stop, keep going....when you want to throw in the towl, use it to clean something! (LOL)...when you want to sink down into depression, go out the house...go around people (children if you can)...whatever it is that you are feeling that will cause destruction...that will cause you for abort or forfeit all that God has given you...do the opposite! My mast job was stressing me and I just wanted to quit...one day my boss looks at me and says, why don't you just quit! That woke me up and I became more determined than ever to hold on! That's what you have to do men and women of God, find strength in what's trying to kill you and use it to LIVE.
The kingdom suffereth violence, but the violent take it by force! You want it? You want that marriage to work? That business to excel? You want that college degree? Anything you have set your hands after this year be it deliverance, business, etc. fight for it! How Bad Do You Want It? Reach Up An Grab It!
Since you made it this far in this long blog (LOL)...I am going to share this word God gave me and you apply it to yourself....He said, "I am launching you into the deep and you will swim and not sink"
Peace, Grace and Blessings be Multiplied to you in your Endeavors!
I believe that many if not most Christians are at a time in their lives where they are in a place that they have never been before. It's exciting and scary at the same time. Many have started new businesses or have ended long time relationships, began long time relationships, or they have simply found that they have issues that were hindering them. In the face of finding that they have issues that are hindering them, they have come to the realization that they were blaming people, places, things and situations and have wasted much time, but it was them all alone. Seeing yourself is not easy! That is something in and of itself to deal with outside of everything else.
Let me help some out the same way that our Father has helped me out. This has been a year of letting somethings go. This is not surface stuff, it's deep things that were literally hindering us from getting to our destiny. For me, it was fear of stepping out. Fear of failing and /or succeeding...there was a fear that I would be launched out into the deep and would not be able to swim.
*Exercise....tap yourself on the shoulder and say "SELF!"...it's time to swim! (LOL)
Who am I to be a young woman of 31 years starting 2 businesses with no money, no job, and no bank account? My book of poems that tell a portion of my testimony, who wants to read that? I haven't been saved long enough to be in full time ministry. These are the excuses that I was coming up with. When I was 27 years old, my Apostle told me that God wanted me to be in full time ministry and although she was a woman of God, I laughed and said "I need a check"...she turned and looked away and didn't ever mention it again.
Fast forward 4 years to 2009...Apostle has sinced passed on and I am in a new church. After looking and not finding and fighting with myself on what to do, my storage was empty and I gave up. I alltogether stopped looking for a job, but didn't know what to do with myself! We were in prayer service one night and my new Pastor says to me, "God didn't call you to work for anybody else, your wealth is in your hands..." That night, I gave up, stopped the battle and surrendered to it!
Why am I telling all of this? I want you to understand that I comprehend the turbulent year it has been...I understand and have walked in the deeply rooted shoes of doubt and fear for launching into the unfamiliar territory of my gifts and talents not knowing if I am going to sink or swim. It has come to the foreground of my mind that anything worth having is TRULY worth fighting for. We have had the brief opportunity to let go of things that were holding us back from our destiny in Christ and in this world...we have work to do, but we didn't want to submit that application!
In the exposing of self, it has been difficult and emotional....trying and even grievous, but if you have made it this far..."Don't Die Now, God Said Live!"
Why come all this way, walking on the water....why come all this, having gotten up and are carrying your bed...why come all this way crawling on the ground to touch the hem of Jesus' garment and FORFEIT the ground that you have gained? Why do that to yourself? What about the people that are secretly waiting for you to SUCCEED so that they can draw strength from you and launch out? It is imperative that we press forward towards the mark of the high calling that is in Christ Jesus...Father has trusted us to succeed, excel, catapult, fly, soar and reach the top just so that someone else can later have the courage to do the same!
How NOT to die? When you want to stop, keep going....when you want to throw in the towl, use it to clean something! (LOL)...when you want to sink down into depression, go out the house...go around people (children if you can)...whatever it is that you are feeling that will cause destruction...that will cause you for abort or forfeit all that God has given you...do the opposite! My mast job was stressing me and I just wanted to quit...one day my boss looks at me and says, why don't you just quit! That woke me up and I became more determined than ever to hold on! That's what you have to do men and women of God, find strength in what's trying to kill you and use it to LIVE.
The kingdom suffereth violence, but the violent take it by force! You want it? You want that marriage to work? That business to excel? You want that college degree? Anything you have set your hands after this year be it deliverance, business, etc. fight for it! How Bad Do You Want It? Reach Up An Grab It!
Since you made it this far in this long blog (LOL)...I am going to share this word God gave me and you apply it to yourself....He said, "I am launching you into the deep and you will swim and not sink"
Peace, Grace and Blessings be Multiplied to you in your Endeavors!
[...when you want to throw in the towl, use it to clean something! (LOL)]
I like that one!