LOVE!!

Being open to love allows us to enter into our full potential. It unclogs the arteries of our hearts and allows life to flow.

Holding onto grudges, ill feelings, disappointments and pain steal from our ability to love. It hinders us from reaching the full potential of our being. We were all created from love and are to remain free, unobstructed vessels from which God's creative energy can flow and manifest.

Releasing our perceptions, expectations, emotions and needs is what allows us to love unconditionally. We must remember that we are a manifestation of God....God is love so we are to be a manifestation of that love.

God's love is not conditional. He is not prideful. He does not remind us of our errors or seek to remind us of them. God allows the power of His unconditional love to set us free from condemnation. He opens our hearts and releases His ointment so that we can heal from shame and pain.

Open your heart to love and your whole life will change. The people around you will change and your heart will be full of joy.

What will you stand for?

What will you stand for in your life? Will you allow everything around you to fall apart? Will you fall apart with it? Or will you stand and proclaim the word of the Lord? Speak truth.....speak life and you will see your circumstances change.

Adversity does not come to destroy us....it doesn't come to define us. We are not to crumble at it's feet. We are to stand and gird up our loins with truth. We are to speak to the storm and rightly divide the word of God.....using the wisdom of God and not the knowledge of man.

Stand for what you believe in and don't let your circumstances dictate your future. What God has promised with come to pass. The truth of God will prevail. Just be faithful and walk by faith.....NOT by sight. Take a stand and plant your feet firm until your CHANGE comes.

Attached To A Destiny

It is tough to navigate through life sometimes when you are conscious of the fact that your life is not really "your life". You understand that your life has been bought with a price and you have been created to bring God glory. Every adversity you endure is designed to make you stronger and to essentially draw out the true you.

The greatest things are birthed through resistance and pressure. A diamond wouldn't be a diamond without pressure. A butterfly wouldn't be strong enough to soar without the struggle of transformation.

I know that at times we look at ourselves as a "little me" with "BIG PROBLEMS". We have no idea that this "little me" has been designed to carry out BIG things. We have the ability to change lives and nations through the experience of our "BIG PROBLEMS". Our "BIG PROBLEMS" pale in comparison to the BIG plans God has destined for us.

It is easy to get caught up in the illusion of our issues and want to give up before we even reach our promise. Our minds often become conformed and we meditate on things that are not true. We create scenarios in our minds. We calculate our steps out of fear. We put ourselves in a box and limit our potential.

We think that because we have gone through something or endured a heartache that we will always carry that label. Maybe we even think we can never heal or move on past that place. What we fail to realize at times is that we might have had to pass through or endure a certain thing but we were not meant to remain there. Along our journey we have learned from the places we have passed through but our goal and final destination is beyond that. God has a plan for our lives. Everything is mapped out. All we have to do is keep pressing forward NO MATTER WHAT.

We are each attached to a destiny. No matter how much it hurts. No matter how much you don't understand and want to give up.......YOU CAN'T. Something deep down within you keeps the fire burning. You might have a melt down at times and want to pull over and look at your map again BUT your faith....your calling....your purpose keeps you going.

We each have a truth within us that supersedes anything we see with our natural eyes. Yes things may be falling a part in your life but that truth keeps you believing. That truth keeps you pressing towards your destiny. You might have to stop and recalculate your steps. You might have to regroup and chart a new course but God is faithful. You will reach your appointed destination.

During your journey you may have others trying to give you their opinion. They may give you advice from their own experiences but you have to stay focused. Your journey is not the same as everyone else's journey. People may not understand why you keep holding onto something that seems impossible. You may not even understand it at times either. There may be times that you get lost and lose focus but God will always be there to put you back on track. He will always be there to guide you and lead the way.

I know that other roads may seem easier and shorter but stay on course. God has already went before you and prepared the road. Although at times it may seem bumpy and you might feel alone know that God is always by your side. When things become uncertain, lean not unto your own understanding. Trust that the truth within you will carry you through. Never forget that you are attached to a destiny and there is no escaping it. No matter how hard you fight against it you will reach it. No matter how hard it gets you are strong enough to endure it.

Keep pressing and keep believing. Let God be your navigator and you will be just fine.

The end is greater then the beginning.

Set Yourself Free

At times it becomes tough to live your life surrendered to God when your life seems to be falling a part. It is difficult to believe in something that is beyond your comprehension.

Things become so heavy that you lose your ability to soar. Your mind becomes so cloudy that you lose sight of your vision.

The obstacles in your life seem to scale over the opportunities. Every door seems to be closing in your face. You can't take another rejection.

Where is my promise God? What good is my faith when I can't see the manifestation? I am holding onto things that seem impossible. When will the tables turn?

Every adversity we endure....every heartache that steals our breathe away was designed to awaken you to your purpose.

Life has a way of hiding our face from truth. We become so fearful that we disguise ourselves in order to survive.

After years of hiding we finally bury ourselves so deep in doubt that we lose our sense of true self. We lose our identity in the perils of our life.

We were created to be marvelous, unlimited and free of all bondages. Everything we need....every answer we seek is hidden within our souls.

We have lost ourselves because we have become so shallow. We think our circumstances, our possessions, our relationships, our successes and our rejections define us.

We are more then what is on the outside. Nothing in this natural world of form can even begin to define us. Nothing can hold us down. Nothing can steal the beauty that we contain inside of these mere vessels.

Outward circumstances change BUT what is within us is truth and it is eternal. Believe in yourself. Have faith in what GOD created you to be. Live freely as yourself.

There is beauty in every step you take. There is power in every word you speak. Trust in your organic self....in that deep inner most being....the part of you that can not be adulterated or touched.

Stand strong for who you are and change for no one. Don't let your circumstances define you....let them work for you. Let them be what helps propel you into a new level of consciousness.

Set yourself free.

Success

Many of us strive to be successful in life. We desire to have successful marriages, careers and families. We do all that we can to achieve what others percieve as successful. When we do not reach that level of "success" we often feel discouraged and become depressed. We can even lose our sense of self because we become defined by these things.

If our marriage is not working, we are unemployed or our family is broken we think we have failed. We see ourselves as worthless and lose our will to live.

I have come to realize over the last couple of years that being successful has nothing to do with anything external. It is not about the car you drive, your marriage, the house you live in, your children, or your career. True success is not measured with earthly possessions or accomplishments.

Everything you are and everything you will ever achieve is all by the grace of God. Possessions and accomplishments are just an outward manifestation of an inward realization. When you align yourself with God and allow Him to direct your path then He will guide you. He will manuever you into what He has already reserved and ordained for you.

I don't strive to be successful. I am successful because I live my life surrendered to God. Where ever I end up out of my obedience to God is where I am supposed to be.

At times we make our own plans and goals without consulting God. We ask Him to bless something that maybe He doesn't have planned for you. Instead of seeking His signature of approval we should ask Him to direct us. Where ever He leads you to you will find success.

Being successful to me is about fulfilling the will of God. God's thoughts are greater then my thoughts. What I dream for myself can not compare to what God has for me. My level of "success" might not be God's level of "success".

A lot of heartache and frustration will end when we can learn to surrender and be obedient to the spirit of God. Everything that God has ordained you to achieve, He has also prepared you for. Stop resisting the process. Your process is preparing you for the promise.

Be Free!

It is important that we understand that we are whole and complete in God. We are perfect in His eyes. We are designed to bring HIM glory. All that He creates is MARVELOUS and that includes you.

You don't have to pretend to be someone you are not in order to impress others or be accepted by them. God accepts you and loves you with all of your weaknesses and insecurities.

All that you are and all that you will ever be is wrapped up in His love. There are no mistakes and failures when you are walking in the will of God. Being obedient to His spirit is an essential part of being perfected in Him.

It is easy to get caught up in playing a role when you are trying to fit in with the world. Remember that you are in this world but not of it.

Your past does not define you or limit you. Your education does not define you or limit you. Every part of you is perfect because God has equipped you to fulfill His will.

Just rest in His arms and trust that His plan is good and all things are working out in your favour.

Be free in the beauty of His holiness. You have been set a part and reserved for such a time as this....so that His power, grace and mercy can be manifested through you.

Take no thought in what you shall be, in what steps you shall take, in what decisions you shall make. Rest in the Lord and He will surely direct your path.

All Praises Be Unto God!

Deal With It Or It Will Deal With You

It is easier to project our fears and insecurites on others rather then look in the mirror and confront them head on. We blame everyone else for our problems, fears, anxieties, insecurities, lack of motivation, obesity, poverty, sadness and so on. We like to deflect our weakness on other people to make ourselves seem stronger when really we are weak and out of control.

Doing this only keeps us in bondage and under the heaviness of our burdens. We stay wounded and continue to hide behind a mask. We live in the illusion that if we don't see the problems....if we sweep them under the rug they will eventually go away.

We try to cover up our pain and fears under layers of false identities. We try to be strong, funny, sophisticated, dedicated, educated or some other illusion just to avoid showing our true state. We don't want anyone to know what we are struggling with because we don't want to be vulernable. We are afraid that if we are transparent then someone will hurt us or take advantage of us.

In order to avoid dealing with ourselves we project our fears and insecurities on others. We get angry at them and blame them for our unhappiness. Our relationships become conditional. We only seek to be validated, satisfied or completed by others and if they do not fulfill that desire we leave them.

We lose friendships, significant others, business partners or family members because we no longer feel fulfilled in the relationship. It becomes easier to let them go then deal with our own issues and emotions.

Many times God removes these blinders in our lives so that we can see ourselves clearly. He removes jobs, relationships or other masks so that we can be honest with ourselves and begin to heal. When we become honest and stop blaming others for our state of being then we can truly begin to live authentic.

We will stop hiding behind the illusions, the pains, the fears and insecurities and we will begin to see ourselves as the wonderful and powerful vessels God designed us to be.