BANDAGES

Good Morning, Mighty Women of God!

Today we are going to take off bandages and let our sores heal properly. You remember when you had a bad sore on you leg? Your mother would first wash the sore, then put a bandage on it. After a couple of days she would check on it to see if it was time to take the bandage off and let it get some air. Once the scar began to get enough air, it developed a scab. A couple of days later, the scab would fall off and you would began to see your skin color change back into the color of it original state. If you leave the bandage on too long, the scar will not heal at the time that it should. It will get bigger than it was, when you first got it. Are you following me? I want you to put on your spiritual cap and stay with me for a moment, God's going to give you an awesome revelation.

A lot of us have battle wounds and we refuse to take the bandage off, and allow the Lord to completely heal us properly. It is human nature to cover up what is hurting us (it stings, it burns and it throbs). We are fixed on thinking that as longs as the wound is covered up no one will see how ugly it makes the rest of the body look. As long as it is covered, we don't have to look at it. But, if you don't take the bandage off the Lord can't blow on it and make heal it. The Lord wants to wash your battle wounds with the Holy Spirit and let it heal so it won't get bigger. The bigger the wound the bigger the bandage. You might have started off with a small bandage and now you need a bigger one. The truth of the matter is, if people could really see your battle wounds, you would look like a mummy (all wrapped up).

You covered up the fact that you were abused as a child, and now the wound is so big, you make it impossible for anyone to love you. Impossible to even love your own children as a mother should. You were hurt so badly in a past relationship and now your bandage is so big, you allow men to talk to you anyway they want to, slap you, push you and make you feel like you have no more you. You have low self-esteem because you are still covering up the fact that you have been called every name in the book (even by family members). You had a child out of wedlock and don't know who or where the father is. Your wound is so big that the devil whispers in your ear, reminding you of it every time you try to get close to God.

Maybe I didn't specifically name your battle wound, but I can almost guarantee, that you do have one. Whether the wound is covered or not, the Lord can heal you. You can have the life that He wants you to have. You can be called a godly woman. First, take off the bandage (ask for God's forgiveness). Call out your sin, call it out, that is so important because the enemy don't want you to put him out. Let it grow a scab so it can heal (pray and read your word daily). Thirdly, the scab falls off and you began to look the way the Jesus wants you to. Allow the Lord to use you as a living testimony, that He is the only true and living God. Allow the Lord to love on you and when the devil whispers negative thoughts in your ear, you praise and worship and thank Jesus that you are free from all condemnation. LET US PRAY!

Heavenly Father, I come to You as humbly as I know how. For me Lord for sinning against You. Lord I call out my sins to you that are keeping me from getting closer to You. Your promises that Your goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and now I accept You and the mercy You have shown me. Lord Jesus, I ask that You remove anything that is not like You from my body. Anything that exalts itself against You, I claim victory by the power of the Holy Spirit. Lord use me as a living testimony to help lead the lost to the cross. I love You Lord Jesus, Amen.

DISTRACTED

Good Morning, Mighty Woman of God!

I pray that this message will be a blessing to you.  I pray that you are blessed and highly favored of the Lord God today.

I dedicated my life to the Lord Jesus Christ when I was 19 years old.  I was not in a relationship when I was in my early 20's, so I thought that I was lonely.  (I used the key word thought).  I remember praying to God that He would send me someone to feel my time, someone that would make me happy.  About a couple of weeks later, I met my second husband.  I was definitely busy and he did feel my time with things.  I was introduced to cocaine and then I learned how to put it on blunts and hide it in my cigarettes.  I was abused physically, emotionally and mentally.  I was definitely busy, wouldn't you say?  In fact, I was busy for about 10 years.  I was distracted.

The enemy sent me a man that kept me from praying and even going to church.  I went to work on drugs and somehow managed to take care of my two children, on drugs.  I was in places that I would never had been, if it were not for drugs.  I looked over a lot of things in my life while I was addicted.  I spent time in rat infested houses just to do drugs.  Just by looking at me, you probably would never notice.  I was a working class addict.

Once I started living right and got back into the church, I realized why the devil wanted to keep me distracted.  God had a ministry for me and gifts He wanted to give to me.  The devil knew that as long as he could keep me distracted, I would never began my ministry.  The ministry that God anointed me for, would reak havoc in the kingdom of hell.  The more I learned about spiritual warfare, I realized that the devil tried to kill me.  To whom much is given, much is required.  That is definitely a true statement.

Woman of God, if you are at a point in your life where the devil seems to be reaking havoc, it is because he wants to keep you distracted.  As longs as Satan can keep you concentrating on the things of this world, he will keep you from the blessings of God.  There is a ministry that God wants to birth in you and the devil knows it and he is trying to keep you distracted.  He wants you to be distracted, worrying about your finances, children and your marriage.  He wants to keep you distracted, on drugs, drinking and partying so much that you won't even notice just how bad your life really is.  Satan wants to keep you distracted by using any means necessary, so that you will not be in the ministry that God has for you.  He wants to keep you distracted, so that darkness will overshadow the light of the Lord.  The more blessings that God has for you, the bigger the distractions in your life.

If you are going through a lot of turmoil in your life, it is because the devil needs for you to be distracted.  He is throwing everything but the kitchen sink in your path.  He knows that as long as certain people are in your life to keep you busy, you will be distracted. 

If you are distracted, it is time for you to be released from the hands of the devil.  It is time for you to start your ministry.  In fact, some of you that will read this message know that you have a ministry inside of you that needs to be birth.  Everytime you try to pick yourself up, the enemy pushes you back down.  You take two steps towards God and he pushes you back three steps.  The devil is cunning, wicked and very deceitful.  Don't let the devil keep you distracted any longer.  It's time for you to go forward and not look back.  Move forward into the ministry and spiritual gifts that God has ordained for you.  I need for you to realize that you are going through so many problems in your life is because the devil knows who you will become in God's Kingdom.  He knows that as soon as you are released from bondage, you will reak havoc in the kingdom of hell.  LET US PRAY!

Heavenly Father, I ask you for forgiveness for my sins. Father God, I pray for the women that are distracted by the enemy for their release.  I speak freedom and liberty upon their lives in the name of Jesus.  I pray for the women  that can't feel your presence in their lives, Lord that they realize that you will never leave nor forsake them.  You are waiting on them, you have kept them safe through some things they never know existed.  Lord I pray for the women in abusive relationships, that they will gain peace and strength to come to you God, in Jesus name, Amen.

SPEAKING IN TONGUES - OPEN YOUR MOUTH

Good morning, Mighty Woman of God!

I pray that you are all doing well today.  I speak blessing of strength and power upon your lives.  May God have His way in your life.

I have spoken to a lot of women and they have expressed to me that they have been waiting for God to bless them with the gift of speaking in tongues.  Well, I hope to be able to help those of you that desire to speak in tongues but have not yet received the gift today.

I come from a church that believe in the fullness of the Holy Spirit and all the spiritual gifts that are written in the bible.  Saying this, it is easier when you believe that God wants you to have spiritual gifts.  A lot of the times someone receives the gift in church services or when the pastor or minister lay hands on them.  That is always a blessing, but it is not the only way that the Holy Spirit works.  Sometimes you have to get out of your box-way of thinking in order to receive a spiritual gift from God.  Your way of thinking that someone has to lay hands on you.  They are only working under the power of the Holy Spirit, which means that you don't have to be in church services.  You can be in prayer in your room and if the Holy Spirit chooses, you can receive your gift.  The things is that you have to believe that God wants you to have exactly want you want when it comes to speaking in tongues.  This gift is a very unique gift and it only requires that you believe, then open up your mouth and speak.  When we speak in tongues, it allows us to get into the presence of God with ease because you are in the spirit realm.

One thing that I want you to do is believe and in faith you will receive.  Pray that God will bless you with the gift of speaking in tongues.  Stay in prayer for awhile.  If you just start speaking the Holy Spirit will give you the utterance.  It will not sound like much at first because you are in the first stages.  This stage is called babbling.  It sounds like you are just muttering, but trust me, if you kept at it, your muttering will change.  Just like a babies first sounds are never words, but when they keep at it, they eventually began to speak words, then sentences.  That is the same way that you will sound.  You have to keep babbling and muttering until the gift is developed in you.  A lot of people stop trying because it doesn't sound right.  Everyone that speaks in tongues have gone through the same thing.  It doesn't sound right, but you have to believe that it is right.  I promise you, the more you pray in tongues the more you will develop the gift.

If you are ever in a church service where everyone is worshipping and speaking in tongues, that is the moment that you should also be using your gift.  Because you are in a room full of worshippers and the spirit of God is moving in that place.  You might feel more comfortable with everyone else speaking in tongues.  Don't worry about how you sound, it is more important that you are in the presence of God.

For those of you that have the gift of speaking in tongues and don't use it.  I want you to know that the devil cannot understand you when you are speaking in your heavenly language.  He cannot block your prayers, you will be definitely confusing him.  Don't you think that it is time to confuse the devil for once?  I do.  He is always trying to confuse you.  LET US PRAY!

Heavenly Father I thank you for your message on today.  Father I thank you that you give spiritual gifts for our edification and now Lord I ask that you bless the women that desire to speak in the spirit with the gift of speaking in tongues.  Lord those that are at the alter with you, bless them in the name of Jesus.  I speak the fullness of the Holy Spirit upon them right now in the name of Jesus.  I come against the enemy right now, that is trying to keep your women bound from speaking in their heavenly language.  Lord God, I thank you for your gift.  I speak life in their tongues right now and whosoever believes by faith they shall receive the spiritual gifts that they desire, in Jesus name, Amen.

WHAT GOD HAS FOR YOU...IT IS FOR YOU!

Good morning, Mighty Woman of God!

I pray that you are all doing well and God has met all of your needs and wants on today, for tomorrow is not promised.  My prayer is that you will be blessed by the Lord's message on today.

(Proverbs: 14:29-30), He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.  A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.

Jealously, along with pride, are probably the oldest sins in the Universe.  They occurred before our earth as we know it now was created.

Lucifer was perfect, beautiful and occupied the highest standing among God's created beings, but he became jealous of God.  "How art thous fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!...For thous hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God...I will be like the most High".

I don't understand, nor do I ever think that I will, as to why there is so much jealously in the church.  People are jealous over someone else's position, blessings, anointing or gifts of the spirit.  This type of jealously in the church cause strife and division.  There is no need to be jealous over someone else's anointing, God is a big God, He has enough for everyone.  Don't ever be jealous over what another person has received from God.  We are suppose to be a Christian family, we are in this spiritual journey together.

First of all, while you are being envious over someone else's position or anointing from God, you never know what they had to go through to get where there are.  God does not bless you because you are you.  The Holy Spirit gives gifts as He sees fit.  You will get what God has for you.  But if you are jealous over someone else's spiritual gifts, that will only delay what God has for you.  I also want you to be very aware of what you are asking God for and the reason why.  Do you want the gift of prophecy because it looks good in the pulpit?  Do you want the gift of teaching because you will look good in the pulpit?  All gifts given by the Holy Spirit are for the edifying of the church, not so that you can look good or have people glorifying you. 

I have been blessed with certain gifts from the Holy Spirit but I must tell you that I did not ask for all of them.  I would have been perfectly happy just sitting in the congregation observing, rather than participating.  The gifts that I have does not allow me to do that. 

I was obediant to God and joined the prayer ministry.  But I had no idea what I was getting myself into.  One thing I did know was that God placed me in that ministry.  Sometimes one spiritual gift, will lead you into other spiritual gifts, becasuse you need them to be perfected.  I had to learn this as I grew in the Lord.  The gifts that I have has taken a lot of spirit warfare to go through to develop them and keep them.  I assure you that being a prayer warrior is not just praying for people.  I have to be anointing with the spirit of discernment and the spirit of knowledge to be able to pray for people effectively.  The spirit of discernment allows me to know what to pray for even if the person needing prayer does not inform me.  I also need to know from God what demonic spirits I am dealing with while praying in the spirit for someone else.  The spirit of knowledge allows me to hear directly from God as to what to do for that person in order for my prayer to be effective for them.  You will not want a person to pray for you that does not have any power or anointing.  That power and anointed is not cheap.  It costs me a lot.

Now, through all of this, don't be misled, Satan hates me.  All of the fears, addictive behavior, sicknesses, abusive relationship and a lot of other things that have come upon me; Satan has tried to use to keep me from getting what God had for me way before I had even attended a church. 

Also, you have to walk in your own anointing.  If you walk in your own anointing, God will perfect that which He has placed in you.  If you try to go in the enemies territory without the anointing and Spirit of God, you will be devoured.  If you are spending your time watching everyone else and desiring what they have, why do you want to walk in someone elses shoes?  What God has for you, it is for you!  What God has for them, it is for them!  If you are jealous and envious towards someone else because of their spiritual gift, you are opening the door for Satan to come into your life with a handful of demonic spirits, then you will have a lot more to worry about other than what position sister so and so got.  If you are faithful over a little, God will make you leader over many. PRAISE GOD! 

WISH LIST

Good Morning, Mighty Woman of God!

I thank God for eacho of you daily and pray that your spiritual journey will be blessed.  As you seek a closer relationship with God, You will be highly favored.

I have a project for you to do.  Make a list of everything you need.  Then make a list of everything you want.  You can put them on the same paper, but make sure that you write down your needs first.  Pray to God over the items on your list, then place them in your bible.  Don't pray about anything on that list anymore.  You have already trusted God to meet your needs and wants. 

God will meet your needs and wants.  God wants you to be blessed.  He wants you to be prosperous in everythings that you do.  If your desire to the same as God's desires then you are on the same page with God.  Put everything you can think of on the list.  For example, on my list I had (job, car, finances, marriage, curtains, new computer, kitchen decorations, microwave, furniture, salvation for family members, shoes, etc.).  Those were items that I needed and wanted.  Everytime that I got something on the list, I would praise God and scratch it off my list.  Now, this is not a Christmas Wish List for God.  One thing that you have to have is a relationship with God.  If you don't even say one word to God for a year, don't expect Him to fulfill your hearts desire.  The bible clearly says, "seek ye first the kingdom of God and all His righteousness and these things will be added unto you".  So there is a clause in that scripture (seek ye first).

I have had people give me things that was on my list and they had no idea.  God can and will use people to bless you.  I have had a neighbor move out of town and couldn't take their brand new recliner sofa.  Now, God ain't going to give you no junk.  God wants the best for you.  I told my son about my list and told him to do the same thing.  It has been over a year and my son is still marking things off of his list.  He got a nice home, car and permanent job.  The job started off as temporary, but God doesn't do temp.  So he is now employed full-time with the same company.  I don't know what is on his list, but every now and then I ask him if he is checking off his list.

(Psalms 37:4) Delight thyself in the Lord, and He shall give thee the desires of your heart.

YOUR SPIRITUAL JOURNEY

Good Morning, Mighty Woman of God!

As always, I thank God for each of you and pray that you are growing in the Lord.  I pray that you are being fed the Word of God and are seeking Him with all of your heart and soul.  God bless you.

There are at least 220 women that are in the devotional group on my facebook, (Spiritual Growth for Women Ministry).  I have been sending daily messages to 220 women daily.  I have been praying for 220 women daily.  I have been calling out each name that I have written down and pray on a consistent basis.  I realize that not everyone reads them, but I have not gotten a release from God to let anyone go just yet.  I care for each of you whether you know it or not.  I have had the opportunity to personally pray for some of you and it has been a blessing to me and I pray that you have also been blessed.  The reason why I am writing this is not to glorify me but to let you know that God has not told me to stop praying for either of you.  I am happy about that.

God knows where each of you are in your spiritual journey, each of you, all 220 women.  Some of you are babes in Christ and some of you are more mature in Christ.  God doesn't care where you are, He just wants you to stay lifted up and know that He is God.  Nothing is too hard for God.  Some of you in ministry have the desire to have a closer relationship with God, but are just a little stuck.  Some of you need to start to have a prayer life, but don't know how to begin.  Some of you have made promises that you will start to attend church more often, but everytime you do, something always comes up.  Some of you have got it down pack, but need confirmation from God.  Boy, if some of you knew what I really been through in my journey to Christ, you would have more faith in yourself.  Not that I have arrived either, but I strive towards perfection daily.  Some of you have so much faith in God, but not enough faith in yourself.

Sometimes I looked out my bedroom window, and can't believe that I am here.  Just here, I should have been dead, if the enemy had his way, but God said no.  I struggle just like everyone else, but I realize that my struggles are my struggles.  I thank God for them (sometimes).  At other times, I think that I can't make it one more step and low and behold I made it one more step.  Drugs tried to kill me.  Abusive spouse tried to kill me.  Addictions tried to steal my peace of mind.  These are some heavy shoes sometimes, but I have lived in them.  This ministry is to let you know that I'm still here.  Whatever you are going through or have been through, the word through means you are going to come out.

I love the Lord so much, that I will continue to pray for each of you in the ministry.  Because of God's love for you, I love you too.  I love to do what God wants me to do.  It is not always that I am obedient (I'm human), but I give it my all, when it comes peoples souls.  God has plans for each of you 220, each of you, know matter where you are in Him.  He will continue to hear my prayers for you and deliver you unto Him.  No, I'm not all that, but I know who I am in Christ and sometimes you have to be bold, to remind yourself who you are.  There is never a doubt in my mind that God not only listens to my prayers but they are answers.  Know who you are in Christ and you can come boldly to the thrown of grace, those are Gods words, not mine.

MAY GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS YOU IN ALL OF YOUR ENDEAVORS AS YOU DRAW NIGH TO HIM, HE WILL DRAW NEARER TO YOU.  I PRAY THAT YOU KEEP STRIVING TOWARDS PERFECTION AND NOT LET THE ENEMY WEAR YOU DOWN.  PEACE BE UNTO YOU ALL.

GOT CUSHION?

Good Morning, Mighty Woman of God!

I thank God for you and pray that you are all doing well and being spiritually fed the Word of God on a consistent basis.

Have you ever had the opportunity to do something really big and just didn't want to take a chance?  Life is all about taking chances.  Some chances we take may result in a bad outcome and some resulted in a good outcome.  Anyway, you took a chance.  There are so many of us that have let our dreams go, in fear that we will fall.  Well, I say, take a chance, if you fall you've got cushion.  Get back up again and try another dream or another avenue to get to your dream.  As you get older, you will always have that "what if", in the back of your mind.  I know a lot of people that start college with one profession in mind, and as time goes on they change their mind.  Take a chance, you've cushion.  I have fallen so many times, I am glad that I fall in the right spot.  Just don't fall so far down that you can't get back up again.

The bible says "that faith without works is dead".  It took me a while to actually figure out what God was saying to us.  If you have a dream to do something that will make your life better and don't do anything, then you are not putting your faith to action.  If you have faith in God, then He expects you to trust in Him to put your plan to action.  Faith becomes dead if you are not working on whatever you are trusting God to do for you in your life.  So here you are, you say that you have faith, but you will not take a chance, then there's no works.  So faith without works is dead, and dreams and goals are never accomplished because you didn't put in the work to fulfill your dreams.  If you fall on your buttocks you got cushion!

Technology has changed a lot because someone put their faith to works.  Apple, IBM, cellphones, cable, DVDs, etc.  Think about all the changes that people have made because they were not afraid that they might fall on their cushion.  Some of them have fallen more than once, figured out what went wrong, and put their faith to work.  Sure your cushion might get a little bruised, but what if it doesn't.  What if your works proves to be your dream?  What if you make it?  What if . . . . . . ?  LET US PRAY!

Heavenly Father, I thank and praise you for your love towards me.  Thank you Lord that you gave me enough cushion to put my faith to work.  Thank you Lord, for my dreams and my accomplishments.  I thank you Lord for the things that didn't go well in my life as much as the things that did, I trust in You Lord, I know you got my back, in Jesus name, Amen.

GOD BLESS YOU!