God Can Turn Broken Pieces into Masterpieces

Everything that has gone on in your life thus far, no matter the extremity, is truly valuable, and to be remembered only as a stepping stone through grace towards your bright destiny. Although it may be difficult to understand, your testimony is valuable and supports the purpose and calling that God has claimed over your life. When your father left you when you were just a little girl, it was as if he was rejecting you as his child, and you felt unwanted, you felt unloved, you were broken, it hurt and now you unconsciously reject men in your life now. What about the time when you were sexually abused, you felt attacked, sick to your stomach, useless, hurt, scared, and restless. No matter the situation, your life is a physical map that God wants to use to help someone else. At times, we are selfish, and would rather not share our trials and tribulations, sometimes we'd rather not face the same heart-breaking past. But with release, comes deliverance, and with deliverance comes healing. By sharing your reality, it will not only heal you from that disaster, but will save another. It will bring unspeakable comfort to another person, for them just to know that everything will be okay and that all things, no matter the extent, works together for the good of those who are in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:28). God needs you, and someone else out there does too. Don't allow the enemy to silence your voice that will bring healing to the nations. But allow God to speak life through you to birth out life into others. I know you're scared, and I know that it's hard, but here comes selflessness, here comes that love that God is commanding us to give and express to others.

Regardless of how embarrassed we may feel, our healing and restoration comes along during the process. And you say to God, "I am not strong enough to reveal and express my past".....

And not only that, but He says that you can do ALL things through Him who gives you strength. When you can't speak, He will speak for you, when you can't pray, He will pray for you, when you can't go on any longer, He will pick you up and carry you to your destination. Sometimes we blame God for our circumstance, and at times we even question His Will. Sometimes we even walk away from Him because of the hurt, and we also force ourselves to think that God was never there or He should have prevented the situation from happening.  But in all actuality sis, God was there the whole time, He said that He will never leave you nor forsake you and when you walk away He will still be in the same spot you left Him WAITING for you to turn back. He loves you and doesn't want you to hurt, He wants you to find peace and love in Him. I know this sounds cliche' but no matter what we just have to trust Him through it all and at times it may be difficult to trust an invisible God, but through your faith in Him you will prosper and peace will remain with you! God will sometimes place you in an impossible situation so that he can show you that he can make the impossible possible!

If everything was so perfect, would we even need a God to come and rescue us? If we have no purpose, what is the point of being here? If their is no test, then where will your testimony be? If their was no trial then what kind of conversations will you have with others?... what kind of burgers do you like? When you speak, and every time you speak, fruit should flow off of your tongue to plant into others, not burgers;) But in the same way, there are those who may not go through pain, because all of us are yet still born with purpose.

Most of the time, God is not the cause for bad things that surface in our lives and sometimes he will allow certain things to happen, but no matter what He is able to use all circumstances no matter good or bad, for our good if we allow Him. The same power of God that raised Jesus from the dead is capable of healing our physical and emotional wounds. And with that, in His infinite wisdom, God uses us to bring comfort, guidance, and healing to others who may have gone through or is currently going through the same challenging circumstance that we have experienced. Don't let your situation bind and break you, but let it build you into the person that God has always ordained, and therefore, predestined you to be. Don't see your past as a weakness, but as a step to make you stronger. Your pain is preparation for your purpose & your struggle is preparation for your purpose! Don't look at the situation, but look at the God who can bring you out of it! He is worthy to be praised for the good that will transpire from your challenges.You are victorious&therefore, others will be victorious!

Everything you have done and been through is valuable and important. In order to be who you are, to know what you know, to be where you are in this moment, you needed to go through what you went through - Iyanla Vanzant

Lovestruck

Song of Solomon 2:7 MSG
Oh, let me warn you, sisters in Jerusalem, by the gazelles, yes, by all the wild deer: Don't excite love, don't stir it up, until the time is ripe-and you're ready

Say you're going on a date, and you're super excited about it because it's been soooo long, too long actually to the point where you have cobwebs on your cell phone from guys not calling and asking you out! So, you get into your finest outfit and wear your favorite shoes to impress him and #turnheads because you feel that "this is the one" ..he must be right? Basically since it's been so long and you feel like you're ready for a relationship and most of all, you're ready for love! So you're finally at the date and things seems to be going great, you actually fall head over heels for the young man, you begin speaking like the Shulamite woman saying ""my lover is like an apple tree in the woods! I enjoy sitting in his shadow;his fruit is sweet to my taste" Songs of Solomon 2:3 NCV

You "fall in love" stunned by his character and physical characteristics, almost lovesick, and this goes on for maybe 6 months.... but let me warn you my Sisters in Christ, there is a time and season for everything, and just because we feel that it is time to release all of our love, time, attention, emotion, and commitment to a person doesn't mean that God is giving the same message.

In all reality, sometimes we know that it's not time, and we maybe we even know that God said that it's not time for all of that yet. But us wanting what we want and doing what we do, we do it anyways and really end up getting hurt or letting our flesh get in the way to the point where we fall into sin and not love but lust.
Here's us: "But I want to feel loved, I want to be in love, I want him to want me, I want to be touched, I want to be held at night, I want to cuddle, I hate being alone, I want this to last forever I'm tired of waiting so I'll just settle for anything at the moment!"

                                                                           NO!
Slow down for a sec and listen to what Daddy is trying to tell you...
God is saying "not yet beloved, let me show you more, let me fix you, he may be the one, but let me prepare you, let me love you, make a commitment to me, love me" The physical power of love outside of marriage can cause you to compromise your spiritual promise of love in your commitment to Christ! There is a time to consummate love, and there is a time to accept God's love..

Above all, feelings of love can create intimacy that overpowers reason. We, as young, excited, and hungry women are too often in a hurry to develop an intimate relationship based on our strong FEELINGS. But "feelings" are not merely enough to support a lasting relationship. I encourage you not to force romance lest the feelings of love grow faster than the commitment needed to make love last! Patiently wait for feelings of love and commitment to develop together. You are too precious to pick up the first thing that looks or seems right, take your time, because God is taking His time with you sis, court him, don't rush into anything, because if he is "the one" he is not going to go anywhere anyways. TRUST&let that fear go!
 "What God has put together, NO man can tear it apart" Mark 10:9 
Meaning that if God has ordained it, NO ONE can contaminate it! Be patient, enjoy this time with the Lord so that you can be made whole, so that you can love Him unconditionally without fault or impurity! Love isn't an emotion, love is trust, love is a choice, love is a commitment, love is sacrifice, love is selflessness, love is submission, love isn't an object but a journey, love is patient, kind, not boastful or proud!

You want to be ready? Let Jesus prepare you for a love that will last forever, meet with the One who is love so that love won't be so complicated or confusing or terrible as people make it seem, love is beautiful, especially in a relationship with someone, however, love is most powerful when the time is right!

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My Single Sisters

My Single Sisters: 
Never stay with someone who doesn't show you that you deserve the universe, don't do anyone any favors when all they do is make you sacrifice yourself! You deserve more that you give yourself credit for my love, know that you should never settle for someone who can't prove their words for you, Most of all, LOVE YOURSELF and the righteous One that made you flawlessly beautiful (Song of Solomon 4:7) and everything well will follow after!:)

Letting Go of Control!♥✝

Have you ever felt like if you didn't get something done, no one else would? Or if you didn't handle it yourself, it wouldn't be done like you wanted it to be done? What about having the fear that what you tried to do wouldn't be as good or wouldn't prove that you're capable of doing and being something great? So it causes you to work even harder to get what you want to get done, since you feel it is in the Will of God, when it's really not!

This weekend was extremely mind blowing and powerful for me. I had an intimate moment with the Lord and He allowed me to release the burdens that I've placed on myself. I got delivered from being plagued with wanting to be so independent, which in a sense kept me from God. In the same way, control came along with it. When you're trying to be sooo independent, that only means that YOU want to have control over YOUR life. When you have control over everything, you would assume that everything falls on you, and that if you fail, YOU are the one to blame, and that only meant that YOU have to work harder to succeed. I thought that if I wanted to be something or go somewhere, I had to plan for it MYSELF. If I wasn't going to get it done, then who else will, so I thought? I felt that if things weren't done my way, or the way that is familiar to me, then it was wrong or I would get a little irritated. Now I wasn't OCD or a crazy control freak. However, if God wouldn't have changed my heart this past weekend, it could have gotten worse. This control, later led me to manipulate others to get what I wanted. It's like, if something wasn't going my way, or if I wanted something, I would manipulate that person, just so that things go my way. This happened either by whining, or arguing, fighting, bickering, or just plain ol being annoying, eventually breaking that person to give me what I wanted. I also had lack of trust for any individual. With trying to be independent, I didn't trust anyone else to do a better job other than myself. Even if someone didn't do something in a way that was familiar to me.

 For instance, if my Dad did something a certain way and I thought it was good, I would make my boyfriend suffer for what he didn't do that wasn't like my father. My father was the familiar, and my boyfriend was trying to do something totally different then I've experienced before, "the familiar" which made me "upset". He didn't do anything wrong, he just did the same thing but in his way of doing things, which should have made it even better.

What does that sound like? Control.

 And on top of that,! this control and me trying to be independent hindered me and boyfriend's relationship. I would basically do what he wanted to do for me, myself! (Does that make sense? lol) I didn't give him an opportunity to be a gentlemen to me, which I wasn't even used to. In other words, he would try to open the door for me, but I opened the door for myself before he could even have the opportunity to do it. Or he would try to make a decision that was best for the both of us and I would get upset because I had already made up my mind on what I wanted to do. This sort of be-littled him and made him seem less-than a man that he was trying to be for me. He was trying to prove that he could be that man for me that would be able to provide and take care of me. Now in a broader sense, how would this attitude be beneficial to a marriage? It wouldn't be, because God speaks about a woman being submissive to her husband and allowing the husband to serve her and treat her as God treats the church. And this attitude definitely shows no sign of submission! lol How silly was I?

I began to notice that in everything that I tried to do on my own, either failed, it didn't last long, wasn't prosperous, was put off, I got lazy, discouraged, exhausted, worn-out, tired, stressed, and suffered with anxiety. I tried to rearrange, organize, and plan things on my own and then prayed about it and asked God to bless what I planned even if it wasn't in His will. I didn't invite the Lord into my plans until the plans were made and then tried to stamp His name on it, claiming that He would bless it and that He did it. This totally was a lie that I professed to myself.

But God is so faithful and so consistent that He waited for me to give everything to Him, through the trials that I allowed to manifest in my life He wanted to take away the load, and He did! He released me from the burdens that I tried and failed to carry on my own. At that point, which was my breaking point, I finally realized that I can not control everything, I am not the creator and neither do I know the ending plot to my life, only God knows the beginning to the end, &if He can form and shape me into His image and likeness, then He can provide all of my needs. All we have to do is stand in position to be used by God, and know that He is in control of everything!

"Sometimes we idolize ourselves by being a god of our own lives especially when we don't give everything to God the Father! " When its not glorifying Him, it's glorifying you, when He isn't in it, it will never prosper the way it was meant to.

Sis, when you let go you receive freedom and allow God to do wonderful things in your life. Who wouldn't want a perfect God releasing perfection in your life and in everything you touch, He is the one that knows what is best for you, so give it to Him. With all the things going on in your life, He is the only one that is more than willing to do things for you. He is your Father, and your Creator, He knows the plans that He has for you, to prosper you. But you just have to trust Him, and stop trusting YOU, trust ultimately reveals your love for Him! He wants to do the work for you, He wants to establish His plans through you, just TRUST HIM with all of your heart and don't lean on your own understanding, you don't have to try to be perfect or have everything perfect because we have a God who is already perfect, His plans are perfect, and His will is perfect! ♥✝

You're Forgiven

One night as I was on my walk spending time with the Lord, He began to speak to me, &told me that whatever you've done in the past or present, whatever mistakes you've made He will make them into a blessing, He will fix them&will make your wrong into a right as if your wrong was never there!, sometimes I beat myself up about even the minor mistakes I've made or continue to make, I would think that I failed Him, or that He would be disappointed in me, but He told me that I am forgiven and that my mistakes only opens the door for Him to make it right&receive the glory, when we make mistakes, it should remind us of how much we need Him, how we aren't so perfect, & that we have a perfect God that wants to fix our mistakes, and use them to receive the glory! If we don't make any mistakes, how can we grow, how can He use us if we are doing things right all of the time, (if we were, would we really need Him if we knew everything?..but we don't), &being that He is perfect, He is the only one that can make things right, so don't worry, or bother yourself about it, God is working on your behalf!:) Be grateful that He uses our mistakes as a tool to teach us a lesson that would then allow us to grow! WOW! God is good! Thank you God for being so understanding, forgiving&for loving me so much to sharpen the spiritual gifts, talents, and tools that you've given me to extend your Kingdom!

God Being Center Stage

Everybody wants to be famous, noticed, and recognized for doing something that will only bring them glory unless they realize that the gifts and talents were given from and by God the Father, sometimes we use our gifts to shine a light on ourselves because of our past with feeling rejected and unwanted, feeling like you have no purpose, we feel like if we become center stage, we no longer become unnoticed, and we no longer become irrelevant, so we pursue dreams&goals that God has not called us to do, but God is saying that you do have purpose in Him&and the only way to make it is not through Hollywood or to become something that you're not,&success doesn't free you from the struggles and pains from your childhood or in your present state, it only masks the situation and causes more pain on top of pain, let God be center stage in your life, let Him use you and He will take the pain away,He will bring you peace and you will find joy in Him and the things He called you to do, you are amazing just the way He created you, you aren't unnoticed because He sees you and He loves you,!

Trust Himღ

This semester, I must say has been quite overwhelming, to say the least, it's been a roller coaster, the things that I have faced throughout this short amount of time has been a challenge, but to God be the Glory I made it through, juggling college, a full time job, marriage, spiritual, and natural disputes, and financial burdens,! Through it all, God crushed my pattern of doing things, He crushed my ambition to seek perfection in everything, He crushed my ability in exchange to freely use His abilities, I lost strength in order to gain the strength of the Lord, and most of all I finally GAVE UP on doing things on my own and basically overwhelming myself with my dependence on myself, I finally realized (AGAIN) that I am NOTHING without Him, I can't do anything without Him, and He is my everything! He replenished my soul with everlasting joy&peace that surpasses all mans understanding,ღ

And in saying all of that He wanted me to trust Him, no matter what the grades look like, no matter how other people perceive you or say to you, no matter how things look in the natural, He wants us to trust Him and don't second guess His power to do exceedingly and abundantly above all that you could ever ask or think! When things get overwhelming know that the Spirit of the Lord will raise up a standard against the one who persecutes you&PRAY,(Isaiah 59:19) when you feel like those finances aren't coming in on time, PRAY and trust that if God can take care of the birds in the sky He can surely take care of you!, because God has a reason for allowing things to happen, we may never understand His wisdom but we simply have to trust His wisdom, the best proof of your love to Him is to TRUST in Him! Sometimes it gets difficult, and we won't understand why things are the way the are or even get confused at the outcome especially when you expect something so different then what actually happened! You may be like "dang, I'm a good person, I am faithful to the Lord, but why is this happening to me? what have I done to reap this situation?" and in all reality you've done nothing, because the cross is UNAVOIDABLE, God brings us to that point of weakness so that we can trust Him more| But remember that God knows best, He loves His children,& ALL things work for the good of those who love Him, and even though we may not see the bigger picture all the time, it's okay, just trust Him , He wants to do the work for you, He wants to establish His plans through you, just TRUST HIM with all of your heart and don't lean on your own understanding, you don't have to try to be perfect or have everything perfect because we have a God who is already perfect, His plans are perfect, and His will is perfect! Stand your ground, believe and have faith that your situation is only meant to build character&strength in you, to make you into the person He has called you to by, so stop asking why&ask Him to give you more strength,trust,faith, peace, wisdom,&courage to endure whatever the situation may be!

Remember: Daddy Knows Best♥✝