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Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah. Psalm 62:8 KJV

Prayer is an action that must be done continuous in our lives. It is a way to keep us connected to God by emptying out all that fills our heart and clouds are thoughts. God wants to help us and improve our lives. He desires to take away what you are willing to give up and return something that is needed or desired. He will even give to you what you did not expect.

I want to take this week to petition prayers, prayers from every direction of the world for every need and desire, and to initiate and accelerate solid connections and growth with God. The prayers can be for anyone someone you see every day or for strangers who experience societal things that you cannot do anything else for, but pray. You can even pray for yourself. The point is to empty out our concerns to the one who can hear them all and cause us to change our ways through prayer so that the situations around us can change.

God will heal his land and the people in it if we seek him and follow his ways.

My Prayer:

God I give you thanks and I praise your name; you are wonderful and excellent in all you ways. I am seeking you for connections to made with you that have never been made, for spiritual growth where it is lacking, God someone has never heard your voice, God move closer to those as they pour out there confessions and desires, even as they repent God hear their cries; some are sick and need a cure, others are cured, but cannot let go of the attention the symptoms bring, God build the esteem of these and open their spiritual eyes reveal to them their ways and renew their trust; God there are some who suffer from human trafficking I ask that you send an interruption and  be the force against the evil, unite the family once again be the strength and the healing; God be a rock for the hopeless and build their joy, send your peace for the oppressed; place meals in the hands of the hungry, bring clean water for others; release the resources God; God you have done great things already, but I ask because you said to and I live as you desire because you command it. God I thank you for the things you placed in my heart and I give them back to you expecting a change. Thank you for all that you have done; in Jesus name I pray Amen.

You pray.

Clinging To Life

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Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fullness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. Psalm 16:11 KJV

It may be hard to hold on when everything seems to be leaning in the direction of defeat. Defeat may even disguise itself as peace, but there is no real peace when you give up on your life. It is usually not difficult to give up, you can simply stop. To keep striving takes commitment and strength you exude these. You want to make it and you are fighting to live, fighting to change, if not you would be gone by now and change would not be a concern.

Although you are fighting sneaky thoughts come in and you think no one is there, but you have pulled your own hand back from circulation; you have crossed your arms and left no opportunity for those who care. Don’t be deceived any longer someone still has a hand hanging in the air, waiting for the warmth from your life. Someone still needs you as much as you have been in need. Tell someone that you need help someone who will listen closely. Speak like this is your last chance; speak like you are clinging to life as it dangles over a cliff with nothing beneath to break the fall.

You can live and progress and love your life enough to grip it and hug it tightly, like you want it. There is a path to lead you out of the darkness that is drowning you. It is a path just for you, it is not exactly the same as anyone else’s, but there are many like things on that path to bring you into a better state of living. There is a repairer for every breach that has separated you from the love of having a lively soul and life that does more than exist. His name is Jesus. He stands between you and God waiting to reconcile you, even when you thought things were solid because you have known God for so long. He is there for every breach. Begin to speak.

Almost every time I kneeled to pray I was in need, but then I found pleasure there and eventually I rested on my knees just to commune and feel the mystery of God. Search for Him, open your mouth and let God hear you, open your heart for change, and listen for the opportunity to grow. What you do not know He will teach you.

Scripture Inspiration; Psalm 16:1-11 KJV

Joy Through It All

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Thou has turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;  Psalm 30:11 KJV

To be glad, keep your sanity and your peace through overwhelming circumstances is evidence of having joy. Joy is for us to have, God supplies it, if you are without it you must request it, accept and hold on to it.

What can steal your joy: relationships with others that end badly, being hurt by others, losing a loved one, a home, your entire livelihood, and being lost without meaning to your life? All of these situations can cause you to feel sad, down, grieved, angry, or alone, basically leaving you without hope. Situations like these that occur in your life can bring you tears that you can’t seem to escape. You may feel as though you are drowning, and no amount of swimming will get you to the surface. You may soak your pillow, your bed, your couch, and even the shoulder of a dear friend only to see no change.

Being without joy during times like these can lead to grief. No one wants to hurt, be without joy, or never receive true deliverance. When you let go of joy and take a hold of thoughts that you know make you hurt, your mind can allow you to believe that you need to be miserable. Once this occurs you can become a tenant in the house of destruction and start to lose pieces of yourself as you deteriorate in that house. The longer you are in that state the more displaced you become, and the more comfortable you become in your grief. You do not have to stay there or think on the bad of your situation; instead, you can find the good and move on.

At times pain must visit, but it does not have to make its home in your heart. Each day you can gain and move forward. To move forward, daily deliverance must be sought after. It takes a strong prayer life, fasting, and reading the bible so that you can gain power, knowledge, and inspiration. You can also be a witness to yourself by recalling what God has already done for you. If you are still breathing you have that to be glad about.

God has joy for us, a perfect supply for each one in need. We must recognize when our joy is under attack and call on him for protection. It is so easy to ask and not receive because the enemy can slip through any opening no matter how small. He can cause us not to move and we can be passed over. When you need help God’s ears will hear your voice crying out. He will look on you and have mercy. God will lift you out of trouble and out of waters that you cannot swim in. When you see no way to the top God will send help and peace will follow. When peace comes from above we must grab hold of it and keep it so that we can stand. God will not force you to rise up, you must accept the deliverance that he offers.

God is the most high. He is the highlight of our lives and with him all walls can be cleared. He is a shield, a strong tower, and our glory. The joy God gives puts dancing in our life’s feet, and gives us power to lift our heads and be glad.

Scripture Inspiration; Psalm 30: 1-12 KJV

Power Up

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For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.  Psalm 18.29 KJV

By using my thoughts for me instead of letting them work against me, I live free. From the little thoughts that slip in and out of the mind almost unnoticed to the enormous ones that are as vivid as a dream or motion picture, I decide which ones survive. I determine how they will manifest in my life each day. I am able to accomplish this with power from God. It is his spirit alive and working in me that has come by commitment to a life headed by him that enables me to have power in my life.

Through understanding of God’s word I found out that I could have the power to live as I pleased, and free sounded like an enchanted forest with luxurious waterfalls that moved uninterrupted, and I was hooked. If you have ever been bound by a cell, handcuffs, or chains of life you know what losing a part or all of your freedom is like. I had my turn at bondage and found that any situation that causes you to live as though you are handcuffed and shackled breaks the spirit within you.

Every day that you are bound a little piece of you crumbles and breaks away and until you are set free your whole being suffers. You will see debris all around you not knowing that it is actually you, dying slowly. The part of you which is not crumbling away is bond. You cannot move exactly the way you want, reaching, pulling and stretching only wears you down without progress. Power is the only solution to real freedom, power over your thoughts and actions. Power that is invested in you by God through his Holy Spirit is the way to be free.

You do not need, nor do you have the ability to control the thoughts and actions of others so turn from seeking freedom in that manner. When you encounter those who become an obstacle and mean to do damage in your life, the power available to you through God is to be used to counteract them, and it should not be ignored. Power over thoughts and actions microscopic or huge is vital to the type of lifestyle you live. Once you are able to control self, the road to living free becomes more than something imagined, it becomes real.

To get this kind of result from God you have to desire the total package God offers. You have to pursue him and build a relationship with him by frequent communication, and live as he commands you to live. The Bible is the greatest tool for getting result from God. It lays out a host of ways to live and how to get close to God. It is the instruction book for life and God will make it easy for you to understand and apply for everyday living.

When you are free you can work daily toward fulfilling you true purpose, instead rotating between hitting and missing you target. Look at where you are today and if there is a sign of bondage choose to live free now. Begin to pursue God and activate his power in your life so that you can live as you should.

Scripture Inspiration; Psalm 18. KJV

Childhood Friends

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With the sun shining brightly above us, we would run around the yard, lie out in the grass, sit on the porch talking and giggling or share a snack. Jennifer and I became best friends overnight. She moved in next door to me and it was a though we knew each other already and were just reunited. We did not waste time getting to know each other we became comfortable with one another immediately.  We would get up early in the morning and play together all day and there was nothing we could not talk about together.

One afternoon we were sitting in the grass of the backyard we shared, talking about the subject of God. Jennifer said to me that I could ask God anything as long as I prayed in Jesus’s name. She then asked me if I wanted to pray and I said yes. We kneeled together, side by side, right there in the grass and prayed to God. She guided me along the way until the end making sure I got the words correct. I did not know it at the time, but that is when my faith first began to develop. From that point on I knew how to pray to God and whenever I needed to I would kneel and pray to him is Jesus’s name.

I was about 8 at the time and I knew of God, but knowledge of prayer coming from my friend was different. We were sharing something real. Our religious back grounds were different, but we spoke to the same God in the same way, and heard back from him because of the way we prayed.  I was not too young to pray or to begin a relationship with God. What Jennifer was brave enough to do for me allowed me to have the needed power to make it through my childhood, teen, and young adult years.

Learning how to pray allowed me to be resilient during the times life ran me over and left nothing, but tire marks and debris. I had plenty of tire marks and debris over the years, but prayer got me up each time, God removed the marks, and vacuumed the debris. I did not know why God was not preventing life from running me over then, but I still prayed. Without praying I would not have been resilient throughout my life. I would not be what I am today at this moment, without knowing that God could hear me and answer my request. I am grateful that I had a friend who knew what to share with me one sunny afternoon. It was more than a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, I got bread for life.

When friends share their life with you it is because they care about you and they want to celebrate life with you. They will help you when, and however they can. A real friend will give you the tools you need to live, grow, and succeed in your own way. They will not use you as someone to spread out over life’s puddles and walk on top of. Good friends can save your life without even knowing it. Look for and hold on to the very best friends that God places on your path not just a person with a BBF title.

The Connotation Elephant

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The dictionary is a tool that shows us how to pronounce words, and it will also offer ways to use words as nouns, adjectives or verbs, but we often have our own ways of processing words and getting them to mean what we want them to. Take the word forgive, it has a denotation, but we can give it our own connotation. In the dictionary forgive means to pardon, excuse or abandon the anger one has. The connotation of this word can come out quite differently.

What is a connotation? Well, it is the feeling you associate with a word and allow to be the meaning of the word for you. So if you look at the word forgive and think: peaceful living and a way to move forward, that is a connotation. It also means that you are more likely to forgive others for anything that they do to you without too much thought or hesitation. You know that doing so is better for you than holding on to resentment and anger. What if the connotation that comes to your mind is a little different, what if it goes like this: a feat of giving in, losing. That is exactly how I defined the word forgive, and when I tried to forgive others the denotation was never solidifying inside of me, my connotation was in the way.

It was this way for me way to long and I never realized how badly this was affecting me; I was being bruised over and over and did not see it. I was basically going rounds with myself, two of me in a boxing ring. The denotation I knew, and the connotation I lived. Time came for the referee to call the match, and there was only one capable to take my warring emotions on. His name is God. He caused me to land on the scripture that called my situation out clearly after I had one of my faux forgiveness episodes. For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Matthew 6:14-15 KJV

God had spoken! Not being able to forgive or live the denotation of forgive was not my real situation, the real situation was that I needed to realize that forgiveness from God is what was going to cause me to live in this life, because I was not really living, and for my soul’s eternal life. I also had to understand that I was not losing or giving up by offering a pardon to others because vengeance was never mines to have or lose, it was God’s.

Now that I recognize that connotations can turn words into what we desire and that the outcome can be good or bad I just have to ask, are you living the denotations, positive connotations, or the negative connotations for your life’s vocabulary? You don’t have to tell me just think about it.

Merriam-Webster Dictionary 2013

Do You Hear It?

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I was breathing, but it did not feel as though any air was moving through my nostrils or my mouth. I was bent over gasping. An invisible fist had knocked the wind completely out of my body. My stomach was touching my back. With my phone in hand my palms rested on the foot of my bed, my knees buckled with weakness like someone had given the back of my legs a push. The sound waves that came over my phone formed into words I was not ready to hear. “He shot her, he killed my mom”. Those words caused my sudden reaction.

I lost my sister to domestic violence a little more than two years ago and that was the scene in my home on that morning. Even now when I hear those words in my mind I remember as though it was this morning. That one sentence rocked my being and I thought I would not be able to stand as my body shook, but I did. I stood up after a long pause and found my beat, the rhythm I live by, the sound that allows me to resume my breathing through highs or lows and live daily.

At first I couldn’t cry, not even when I sat down alone and thought about her. I couldn’t force the tears out; they just wouldn’t come down my face. It wasn’t until the end of the funeral that I was able to release some tears and that was it. A month had passed before reality knocked on the door and I let it in, and that is when the unpredicted tears begin to flow. Life had already shaken me and now it was dropping the aftermath on me. She was not coming through my door for a visit, when my phone rang it was not going to be her, and if I called my sister she was not going to answer. It was real, and my life’s rhythm was steadily threatened as I became more aware of what would no longer be, but I had power within me to make it.

There was enough God given power inside of me to make me stand and listen to my own rhythm. The rhythm that caused me to breathe normally even tough other beats were being propelled onto my path waiting to carry me off. I listened and stepped to the sound I heard, I stepped my way out of the lowest low. Keeping my beat enabled me to keep my joy, my peace, and my mind. I reflected and thought how grateful I was that God had cured me from depression before this tragedy occurred; I needed every part of my life to be on an upbeat to make it.

Tragic occurrences will push us into the lowest lows that we can have, and leave us there struggling to get out of them and back to a low high or a high low. Being aware of your own beat can be the tool you need to get to that stable place. Moving through life with a rhythm that is steady can stabilize you when life has passed out its hardest hits and extreme moments that cause you to go too high or too low. If you know God you can identify your true self and the beat he has given to you. You will know how to keep your stride during every circumstance and live beyond existing.

What I Am Doing Here

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What would you do for free? This is what I asked myself and the answer was not alarming. I would write, inspire, and help others. I have had my share of life events and experiences to say that I am qualified to do these things, and that is what I want to do with my blog. If I can change a life and that change  leaps onto another, and another continuously, I can say I did my part. This is the beginning of the leap.