REWRITE THE SCRIPT

Good morning, my sister's in Christ Jesus!  I pray that you are blessed and highly favored of our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

(Psalms: 25:1-5), Unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.  O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed: let not mine enemies triumph over me.  Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.  Shew me thy ways, O Lord; teach me thy paths. Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.

 

Today we're going to see a movie.  How many of you go to the movies based on the commercial that they show on TV?  I am one of those people.  Then when you get to the show, you pay that outrageous price for the ticket and of course, gotta have that extra butter popcorn.  You are so excited to be seeing the movie that you have been waiting for.  You get comfortable in your seat, get yourself situated only to find out that the commercials on the television had the best part of the movie.  You leave the show made that you spent all that money for nothing, but buttery popcorn.

 

If you have decided to get off the script that God has written for your life, you will be surprised to know that the devil only showed you the good parts of your life.  The devil has a way of deceiving women into thinking that we can make it without Jesus as long as we have a man in our live that says he loves us.  You read God's script (the bible) for your life and decided that it was too much trouble to act out.  In the meantime, you have seen only a glimpse of what the devil wants you to see.  He wants you to see money, cars, houses and he will not show you the price you may have to pay to be the star in his movie.  All you know is that you are happy right now, but what about when things get tough in the middle of the movie.  Or what about the end of the movie, when you finally figured out that you are just a stand-in for the movie.  Because you have not studied the script that God gave you and started blindly playing a part in Satan's movie, you are totally lost.  You don't even know what scene you are in and now you realize that you are starring in a low budget movie.

 

There is an out for you.  It made be time for you to quit orchestrating your own life.  Pray ask for God's forgiveness and get with His program.  You still have an opportunity to rewrite the script for your life, but you cannot do it without accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.  Repent.  God makes "all things work together for the good of them that love the Lord and are called according to His purpose".  Satan makes all things work together for his good until your life has not purpose.  PRAISE GOD!

 

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WILL YOU EAT CAKE?

Good Morning, Mighty woman of God!  Happy Monday!  I thank God each day for you and your prayers for me.  The Lord has blessed me with this ministry, for over a year and I continue to learn and grow through Him.

 

I come up with these catchy little titles sometimes while in my devotion time with the Holy Spirit.  Sometimes I laugh when there is a kinda funny message and sometimes I cry when He gives me an OUCH message, because sometimes the message is for me too.  Depending on where you are in Christ, this can be a laugh or OUCH message.  Enjoy!

 

Yesterday I was reading in the book of John and what caught my attention was Jesus asking the disciples, "Do you love me".  He asked that question three times, "Do you love me, do you love me, do you love me".  Jesus did not say those words back to back because in between asking Peter and others replay was yes.  But I could imagine what they were thinking, when Jesus kept asking them the question as if He didn't hear their answer.  If our parents where to ask us something three times, we would begin to question ourselves, it is just nature for someone to do that.  There was nothing wrong with Jesus' hearing, there was something wrong with the disciples answer.  But then Jesus goes on to say, "If you love me, then feed my sheep".  That is the focus for today's message.  Although it is not titled "Feed my sheep".  You'll see why.  I kept hearing the words, "feed my sheep" from the Lord.  Last night as I read and then again in my devotion time.  Now here's the way that the Spirit of the Lord gave me the message.

 

I've been out of school for a very long time and it is hard for me to remember all those little "Mother Goose" stories.  There was a series of "Mother Goose" stories and nursery rhymes in books that were fun to read.  The one that the Holy Spirit brought back to my mind was the one about the "Mother Hen".  Stay with me, I'm going somewhere!  Anyway, the mother hen was going to bake a cake.  She had three little kids (chicks) and she asked them, "Who wants cake?"  All three of them got excited and answered, "we do".  So she asked them, "who will help me pick some wheat for the flour".  All three of them came up with excuses as to why they couldn't help.  When she returns home with the wheat, she asked all three, "who will help me gran the wheat for flour".  All three of them came up with excuses that they could not help.  So the mother hen, makes the flour.  After the flour is done, the mother hen asked all three, "who will help me bake the cake".  All three where too busy to help.  So the mother hen bakes it herself.  As hours past and the cake was smelling good, the mother hen checks on the cake and takes it out of the oven.  Then she says to her three chicks (children), "who will help me eat this cake".  All three of them got excited, grabs spoons and shout loudly, "I will, I will, I will".  The mother hens says to them, "NO, you did not want to help me get the wheat, make the flour or bake the cake, so you will NOT eat any cake".

 

Well, you get the meaning.  Now there is a reason why the Lord had me to give this message.  Especially because I would have never thought about that "Mother Goose" tale of the mother hen.

 

Jesus' question to you today is, have you feed my sheep.  Sometimes when the Lord ask us to do, say or don't do something, we come up with a bunch of meaningless excuses.  We can't get up early to pray because we went to bed late, tired.  We don't speak to our co-workers about Him.  If people in your everyday circle do not even know that you are a believer of Christ, there is something wrong with that picture.  Jesus says, "Feed my sheep.  Go to the highways and bi-ways".  But so many times we are just to busy to even answer that call to be a vessel.  God is not asking you to do anything, but allow Him to use you as a vessel.  Some people think that they are doing Christ a favor by showing up at church on Sundays, like you will receive a "get out of jail free card".

 

So my question to you today is, WILL YOU EAT CAKE?  Will you answer the call.  Do whatever it is that is required of you by the Lord so that when it's time to eat, He will not pass you by, you will get a big piece of cake, just because you said, "YES".  GIVE GOD SOME PRAISE TODAY!

DEVOTION

Good Morning, Mighty Woman of God!  I pray that you are blessed and highly favored of our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

Devotion.  What is devotion?  The word devotion is the root word of the word devote. 

Devote: To give or apply one's time, attention, or self entirely to a particular activity or cause.  To set apart for a specific purpose or use. 

Devoted:  Felling or exhibiting strong attachment or loyalty, dedicated. 

Devotion: Ardent attachment or loyalty.  An act of religious observance or prayer, when private.

 

My question to you today is, do you have time set aside that you spend with the Lord?  Is your prayer life centered around the Lord or is the Lord centered around your prayer life.  The difference is, when you have a life that is centered around the Lord, that means that whatever is going on in your life, you stay devoted to spending time with the Lord.  If you have devotion (time with the Lord) centered around your life means that you only devote your time to the Lord when circumstances in your life have the need for prayer.

 

When I first started attending church on a regular basis and participating in different ministries of my church, I had a great mentor.  I say that because she played a very significant part in my beginning to understand more about Christ, then just reading my bible.  To me, Catherine was the most humble person that I knew and I wanted to know the Lord more intimately.  I wanted what she had, when it came to knowledge of the Lord.

 

One day, while running errands with Catherine I began talking about all the things that I do in a day and how much time I spent doing things for my family.  Then she asked me, "When do you have devotion?"  "Devotion, I asked, what is devotion?  What do you mean?  "When do you spend quiet time with the Lord?"  My reply, "Well, I never thought about that.  I pray everyday".  Her reply, "Devotion time is prayer time, but it is time that you have set aside just for the Lord."  I will never forget that conversation and to this day, she probably has no idea that at that very moment, she changed my life and my relationship with the Lord.

 

Mighty woman of God, if you center your life around (devotion) prayer, you will have less 911 calls to the Lord.  If you just devote your life to prayer according to your situation or circumstances you will have more 911 calls to the Lord.  One of the definitions of devotion is, "a sense of loyalty".  Are you loyal to the Lord everyday?  Does your loyalty to the Lord depend on what YOUR needs for the day is.  Are you loyal to the Lord no matter what is going on in your life?  Are you loyal to the Lord when YOU have time.  Are you still loyal to the Lord, now that He has blessed you with a new job?  Now that things are going great in your life, do you still devote your time to the Lord?

 

Guess what happened to me on Tuesday.  Okay, I have devotion time every morning in the privacy of my bedroom between 10AM and 10:30A, depending on when my husband wakes up.  On Tuesday, I had a doctors appointment at 10A and I was not able to keep my same time of devotion.  As I sat in the waiting room, I begin to miss the Holy Spirit.  I actually sat there thinking about the doctor's appointment taking away from my time with the Lord.  Then I began talking to the Lord and all of a sudden, I felt the presence of the Lord.  And then I heard the Holy Spirit say, "You don't have to be at home.  Because you devote your mornings to me, I am here with you now".  Boy, did I smile.

 

PRAISE GOD, FOR HE IS WORTHY TO BE PRAISED!!

TROUBLE VS. DRAMA

Good morning, Mighty woman of God!  I pray that you are all blessed and highly favored of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Today's message is an OUCH message.  I know you ladies like the feel good messages, so when you get to an OUCH, just say, "She must be talking about someone else".

 

(Psalms 27:5), For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion: the secret of His tabernacle shall He hide me: He shall set me up upon a rock.

 

Okay my sister's in Christ Jesus, here we go, remember, if this message hurts too much, just say, "My friend needs to read this message.

 

The bible has so many scriptures about how good God is to His sheep (us).  How God comes to our rescue over and over again.  How gracious God is towards us.  The bible also has a lot of scriptures about God hiding us in His bosom.  One thing that is not written in the bible is that God will help us in our time of drama.  There is a hug difference between TROUBLE and DRAMA.

 

Trouble can come upon us because of the way of this world.  Because the enemy has been hurled down to the earth, we encounter times of trouble.  Psalms 27:5, God will hide us in times of trouble and put us upon a rock.  God will hide you from the enemy, so that he will not find us.  The devil sets he eyes on us and our family and there are certain circumstances that may rise up because of that.  There are times when we have done all that we can do and we still end up in times of distress, that's just the way that things go.  During the times of trouble, it is up to us to continue to hold on to our faith in God.  It's up to us to continue to pray, praise and worship God.  And as we wait patiently, through faith, we know that all things will work together for them that love the Lord and are called according to His purpose.

 

Drama can come upon us when we don't do all that we should according to the Word of God.  Some of us bring about drama in our lives that is surely not caused by God.  Some of us have so much drama in our lives that we push God into a box and He will not move on our behalf.  We call out to God to help us with the drama in our lives that we have caused.  I people always say that God's hands are never tied and that God can do anything.  Well, this is true in some instances.  We tie God's hands by not allowing Him to change our dramatic situations.  When God gives us opportunity after opportunity to get our lives in order and we still settle for the drama in our lives, we tie God's hands.  What are some of the drama that some of us have?  Well, I'm glad you asked.  Too much drama in our lives can cause us to post things that should be secret on Facebook.  We curse people out on Facebook, like people really care if you don't like someone.  We fight over a man that doesn't deserve you on Facebook.  We drive around looking for our man all night or scratching up cars, destroying our own property because of drama.  We don't speak to our friends anymore because they stopped listening to your drama.  Cursing and fussing every time you think that you deserve the blessings that God gave to someone else.  Some women aren't happy unless they are created more and more drama in their lives.

 

Again, there are countless scriptures in the bible that's written about how God will help us in our time of need or trouble.  God is not concerned with your drama, nor is God going to keep waiting for you to decide whether or not you want to give up causing drama in your life.  There is no way that you can have a healthy relationship with God or another else, if you keep the drama.  PRAISE GOD!

SHOUT IT OUT!

Good morning, my sister's in Christ Jesus!  I speak the blessings of God's favor upon your life.  And that you stay strong and encouraged through the midst of a storm.  God bless you.

 

(Revelations 12:11), They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the words of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.  Therefore rejoice, you heavens and you who dwell in them!  But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you!  His is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short.

 

Your past is a part of your future.  Time and time again, we hear ministers or our friends say that you cannot move forward if you are living in your past.  I totally agree with that statement.  But let me help you out a little further.  Don't live thinking about trying to change your past or wishing that certain bad events or difficult circumstances never happened.  God says for you to use your past to be a living testimony.  Look back only if you are willing to pull someone else into their future.

 

A lot of times when we think about difficult circumstance and horrific things that have happened to us in our past, we tend to cringe up at the very thought of it.  Some of us even go as far as to pray to the Lord that He would take those thoughts and memories away from us.  That is something that I have prayed about and not understanding why God would not removed horrific memories from me.  I could not understand why certain things would keep coming up over and over again in my heart and mind.  Believing that God loves me so much, I wondered why not just take those painful memories out of my mind for once and for all.

 

The two things that I want to touch base on is (1) we can overcome the enemy by the words of our testimonies.  Turn your trials into testimonies.  If you have been set free from addictions, sexual abuse, drugs, rejected feelings, etc.  Don't hold your head down every time someone mentions it or you hear someone referring to people in the church.  Hold your head up high when you know that nobody but God could have brought you out of that situation.  Praise God for having mercy and loving you so much that He didn't mind getting a little dirty to snatch you out of the hands of the devil.  Never be ashamed of your past if you have moved on.  Share your story, shout it out to all the women that are where you have been, letting them know that there is hope for them through Jesus Christ.

 

(2)  The devil has come down here to us.  And the bible says that he is furious because he knows that he time is short.  The devil is furious at you every time you open your mouth to tell your testimony because you are snatching another woman out of his grasp.  The devil is furious at you because you did not die when he set his eyes on you to destroy you with drugs, abuse, rejection and everything but the kitchen sink.  The devil is furious at you because you are not giving him no glory about anything in your past.

 

It has taken me awhile to understand that God did not remove any of my past because He wants me to shout it out to all of you in the ministry.  The trials that I have overcome through my Lord and Savior are now my testimonies.  PRAISE GOD!

 

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I HEAR YOU

Good morning, my sisters in Christ Jesus.  Today, I had another message for you, but I cannot give it today because the Holy Spirit has a different message.  Bare with me through this one as I listen closely to what the Spirit of the Lord is saying.

 

You have probably heard the term, "pray until something happens".  Well, I was going to title that message P.U.S.H. but God says that is not so.  You do not have to pray until something happens.  I thought about it, the moment that I heard the Spirit of the Lord say that to me.

 

God says that our problem is not that we don't pray until something happens, our problems is perseverance.  God says that He hears us the moment we ask something of Him.  If you keep praying about the same thing, you are saying that you don't have the faith to believe that God will bless you with whatever you have asked of Him.  Our problem is that some of us are not willing to persevere until your blessing comes through.  Some of us that are willing in our mind to persevere, are not able to persevere in our hearts.  If we don't have the faith that God is working out all things for our good, then perseverance is going to be a problem.

 

When we are faced with the most difficulty of times, that is when we must have the most faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.  There may be times in our lives when we think that God is not listening or that we have strayed so far away from Him that He will not answer our prayers or come to our rescue.  God says, "If you look back over some of the most difficult times, the times when you thought that you could not make it another step, and not only have you made it another step, but you have made it another day.  Think back over some of the worst situations that you were in, and remember that He did not leave you or forsake you.  Think back over some of the times when you even wished you were dead, it was God that held on to you.  Think back over the times when you didn't know where you and your children were going to live or even what you were going to eat, it was God that upheld you with His right hand.  It was God that fought the battles that you know in your heart that you could not have done it without Him.

 

God says, P.U.S.H., Persevere Until Something Happens.

 

I want to remind each of you that because you are in "Spiritual Growth for Women Ministry", you can call me anytime.  I am here for you, I care about your well-being and I genuinely love each of you.  Please don't every let the enemy beat you down so badly that he will even trick you into not calling me.  We can persevere together.  678-629-3179.

GOD MADE DIRT . . . DIRT DON'T HURT

Good morning, my sisters in Christ Jesus!  I pray that you are all blessed and highly favored by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

How many of you remember that saying, "God made dirt, dirt don't hurt".  We would say that phrase when we drop something edible on the ground.  You pick it up and quickly say, "God made dirt, dirt don't hurt".  Then like something really magical just happened, we eat whatever it was that was dropped on the ground. 

Well, today, God is going to give us a "dirt don't hurt", message.  What the Holy Spirit is going to do with today's message is to give you a new name and that name is, SEED.  To be able to receive this message, you are going to have to put on your spiritual caps and follow the lead of the Holy Spirit.

Ok, your name is SEED, so keep that in mind.  The moment that you decided to accept our Lord, Jesus Christ to come into your heart, you became an heir to Him.  The moment that you became a daughter of the Lord, He dug a hole and covered you with dirt so that you would grow.  While you are in that dirt trying to crack open and push your way through so that the sun (Son) will shine on you, you have encountered all kinds of forces of evil to keep you down in that dirt.  But God has placed a white picket fence (hedge of protection) all around the dirt that He planted His SEED.

The Lord will keep a hedge of protection around you so that you can grow, no matter what the enemy throws your way, you will survive . . . you have survived.  God's going to give you the strength to push through all the weeds that the devil has planted around you (drugs, alcohol abuse, sexual, mental and physical abuse).  Push through the fact that you were raised in an unloving household.  Push through the fact that you may have had a child out of wedlock.  Push pass the people that you have trusted and they let you down.  Push your SEED threw all that dirt and when you come out, you will come out smelling like a rose.  The Word of God says, "You will be like a tree, planted by the rivers of living waters, bringing forth good fruit, in your due season.