When God makes you uncomfortable in your transition. ...

We are so use to God providing our every need. We get comfortable in knowing that God will make a way. We get use to the tradition of fixing problems the same way we fixed them before. Parent the way our parents parented, pray the way our grandmamma prayed, live according to the way it was and not the way it is. But What do you do when those things stop working? What do you do when God begins to require something from you? God has fed you the same way for years and then……. He changes up on you. You are no longer receiving the meals like before and when you try to do what you have always done, there is no food. You start to worry, you start to doubt, and you lose faith and question God. The same God that has always provided. But see you are so blinded by your comfort you are no longer seeing God work. Your comfort brings content, content brings stillness, stillness turns to lazy and lazy makes you lost. Now you’re starving because you think He has left you. But in reality, in midst of your comfort, while lying in your bed of content and being fed at your table of stillness, you became stuck. God has to make you uncomfortable to get you back on course to your promise. So no God did not leave you, He just moved the location where you were use to being fed so you can get back on the path to your promise. Don’t allow yourself to be stuck in the crowd trying to fit in and now you are stuck in your own comfort and stop moving towards what is yours. God will make you uncomfortable and if you don’t recognize it in time, you will be stuck and you will starve. Recognize the transition.

Me vs Myself........

As I stand here in the midst of myself fighting a battle with an enemy who seems undefeated, I see no one around but I still feel like i'm losing the fight. My Flesh and mind attacking my spirit and my spirit protecting my soul. The war continues with everybody watching but no one around me really seeing what's going on. It's like police brutality on my brothers of Merika in my daily walk. Pinned down, can't breathe, black hoodie on just trying to get home. My shadow is behind me blocking the light of my destiny. It sometimes feels like i'm being teased by a bully for trying to do the right thing. When I try to walk the right path, my body becomes nervous, my mind has doubt, I turn back around and find comfort in my shadows darkness. Man my mind is playing tricks on me. It feels like i'm trapped within myself. I'm shouting out, " Lord God I need you!" The Lord says, "I made a promise. I will never leave you nor forsake you. I live inside you. Once you get out the way and let my light shine through you, the darkness will disappear. You will walk into your greatness. I have plans for you and I will not allow you to mess them up." See the devil wants to keep you occupied fighting a battle of doubt of yourself. Distracting you from the greatness that you were pre destined to be. But the God that lives inside you protects your soul and once we realize that God is in you, stop fighting against ourselves and quit running from our purpose, the light that of God inside you will begin to shine on the outside showing that I am protected by God and nothing can penetrate this armor that I am wearing.

Dear God,
Thank You. Thank you for protecting me as I battle those things around me. As I strive to be closer to You, thank you for knowing I am flawed and I come up short. Thank you for reassuring me that you are God and what you said is so. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadows of death, I am not afraid as you are always with me. In Jesus Name, AMEN.......

Going Under the Knife.....

Some of us need to get surgery on ourselves, our spirit, our faith and relationship with GOD. For years I have conditioned myself to be the person I am today. Same attitude towards people, eat the same foods, watch the same shows, do the same things the same way at the same time and got the same d*mn results. You see I have always been a self sufficient, don't ask anybody for anything type of person, but the older I get and the more I see reality, I see that's not being real. Change is impossible until you are willing to change. Pride can be your biggest strength and your biggest weakness. The Bible says that “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” I realized, over these years I have not received God's full grace over my life because i have been too focused on trying maintain me and not being willing to God's reconstructive surgery. I have to be a patient while being patient as he digs deeper and deeper inside me, renewing, re-figuring, re-organizing the things that I tried to mask with duct tape and bubble gum. God performs surgery to put me back into my original state that I see as new. God spoke to me and said, "you have been destined to be great since I created you, but your pride blinded you from your greatness. I have tried to provide a way of escaping your selfishness. But you could not see. Now that you have humbled yourself, I have resuscitated your spirit, revived your faith and resurrected your life."

Humble yourselves, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he will lift you up. 1 Peter 5:6

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

No one wants to go through dark times. You find yourself in a space that it is hard to overcome. It seems like there is one thing after another. Your friends and family left you. Your significant other disowns you. Your job relieves you. AND THE BILLS DON'T STOP. AND LIFE DOESN'T STOP. But I know one thing for certain and two things for sure, that we serve a God that is never failing. The LORD is my light and my salvation, so why should I be afraid? For God has not given us a spirit of fear. So as you go through your dark time, know that God continues to work even in the dark. In the darkness there is always light on the other side. As your world turns, you will start to see the guiding light. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. I declare and I decree on this day, even in the midst of your darkness, that God is with you. In the bible it says that God is light and in Him there is no darkness. So if you continue to let the God that lives in you shine, darkness can not exist. So you are not afraid of the dark because the Lord our God is with you.

Dear God,
Your light surrounds us,
Your love enfolds us,
Your power protects us,
Your presence watches over us,
Wherever we are, You Are.
Thank you Lord.