January 27, 2011

Destiny Winds

01 27 11 Thursday

This year, I really believe, is going to be a year of destiny for many people. Many of you have been facing some difficult situations. Remember, major problems lead to great victories.

Maybe you’ve felt like the storms of life have been beating against you, pushing you back. I believe this year that the winds are changing direction, and now they are going to start pushing you toward your destiny. Your destiny season is coming. It’s not time to give up or quit. It’s not time to let up. It’s time to move forward. It’s time to rise up! Don’t grow weary while doing good. Keep doing good and don’t lose heart because it’s your time, and it’s your destiny season! By faith begin to confess, “2011 is my year of destiny! I’m going up to a new level. I’m letting go of what didn’t work out. I’m putting on a new attitude and enlarging my vision. I’m going to go into this year with a new fire and greater expectancy. I’m pressing forward to step into my season!” This is your day! This is your year! I am so excited for you and what is happening in your life right this minute! Good times!

January 26, 2011

Destiny Agents

01 26 11 Wednesday

This is going to be a great day for you; even if you read this at 11:59PM.  There is stuff going on in your life that you don’t see yet, but its developing on the inside of you.  Your destiny is getting ready to go to a whole new level.

There are folk in our lives, let’s call them destiny agents, that are in our life to guide us to the next level in our destiny.  They are in our life for a specific purpose and reason; to take us to the next level in our destiny.  Some folk that we think we have to have near us and with us all the time were never meant to be with us.  Check your relationships today.  Make sure the reason for them being there is the right reason.  Be expecting folk that are destiny minded and talking destiny to you.  This is a critical time for you and for me.  Those that have been praying and seeking God about your purpose and destiny know exactly what I am talking about.  If that isn’t you, then focus your mind and heart on your purpose, who you are, and your destiny.  Then you will hear who you need to hear.  There will be a destiny agent in your life when you are ready.  So get ready for some awesomeness in your life today! You are about to go to a higher level very soon!

January 25, 2011

Hip Hop Don't Stop

01 25 11 Tuesday

The other day my daughter, who is 7, came to me almost in tears, because she was having trouble with a Hip Hop dance routine she was trying to learn.  She told me she couldn’t do it and was going to give up.  Wonder how I reacted to that?

I am amazed at her young age how we start developing a give up mentality.  We feel like we aren’t good enough.  She doesn’t hear that at home, school, or church.  It is the nature that is in us at birth.  The older we get the more developed we become in that mindset.  We have to work at and train our mind to change.  Never give up! You are good enough and then some! You were created with purpose, destiny, and greatness in you!  How is it we let this go at a young age? The enemy of your life will plan negative seeds in your mind.  Don’t settle for average in your life.  Don’t let others tell you negative lies about yourself.  Train your self in the truth.  What does God say about you? He created you, you aren’t perfect, but the truth is what God says about you. The truth will always override the facts.

Well, about ten minutes after she and I talked, she came running back in the room telling me how she had gotten the routine down pat.  The truth was she could do it and failure was just part of the process.  What is the truth about you?

January 24, 2011

Love Check

01 24 11 Monday

Without fuel your car won’t operate. Without electricity your lights won’t work. Without love your life won’t be worth living.  Love without agenda is a major key to destiny.

Love is a major key to not only destiny but to life.  If we don’t have love in us then we short circuit everything going on in and around us.  We are separated from our destiny when we are not operating in love.  From time to time it is a good idea to go and read the Love Chapter in the Bible.  Where it says love; put your name in place of the word love. If what you are reading then doesn’t line up with your life; then changes need to be made.  I can see so many areas where I really need to operate in love. Just about the time I think I got it covered there is another area of my life that is revealed to me that I am not operating in love.  When we have love as our guide we won’t go the wrong way.  When we let love be the determining factor in our decisions we won’t regret our choices.  Let love be the final word in your life!

January 22, 2011

Even when…

01 22 11 Saturday

I was reading the other day and came across something that really has me thinking.  It was about the love that God has for us and how wonderful that love is.  Folk all time ask, if God is so loving why did this or that happen.

I honestly don’t know.  Sometimes we blame God for stuff that He had nothing to do with though.  If we never included Him in our plan or in what we were doing or even in our life. Then how can we blame Him for what goes on in our life? Again, I don’t know or even pretend to know all the why’s of life.  I am still trying get understanding about God loving me.  It should be simple, but for some reason I guess I am making it more difficult than it is.  He loves us enough to correct and discipline us.  He loves us enough to let us make our own decisions.  All that is well and good, but the thing that gets me is this; He loved me even when I turned my back on Him.  He loved me even when I was doing everything I could to hurt those that I said I loved.  He loves us even when…  To me that says it all.  When I didn’t deserve it the most; He loved me the most.  Not that I deserve it now, but He says I do; so I do.  Please don’t think that I am super spiritual, Christian.  I am just like you in that I make mistakes and make wrong choices.  I fall and I miss it, but now I know that God isn’t mad or punishing me.  He loves me so He corrects me and loves on me. That makes giving up not an option. His love will keep me getting me up every time I mess up.  God does love us so!

January 21, 2011

Correcting Love

01 21 11 Friday

Guilt and shame are not ways that God corrects us.  If that is what you feel then dump that and receive the correction God offers; His love.

I asked God to show me His love and the next thing I know He is correcting me and showing me things in my life that needed changing.  However, I realized that the guilt and shame that used to accompany correction was not present.  Then I realized that His love comes through correction and discipline.  Not the beat down, beat up, cut up and punishment I was so used to.  I had lived for so long outside the protection of His love that I just thought it was a way a life to have one disaster after another and feel so bad, so down, depressed and no good for anything.  I felt anything but loved.  No more! I am beginning to experience His love in a way I haven’t before; not at home, church, or anywhere else.  Not to say it wasn’t there and available, because it was, I just didn’t have my heart tuned in.  I had allowed Satan to tear me up for so long and call it Jesus.  He is a liar and the father of lies.  I see the truth of my life and it isn’t in condemnation and punishment.  Rather it is in the correction and discipline of a loving God.

I hope that this helps you in some way.  I could keep going but I really don’t like just talking about me, but today was different.  This has totally engulfed me and know there is yet more to come.  What are you feeling in your life today? Is it a loving God or a lying devil?

January 20, 2011

Due Season

01 20 11 Thursday

Tired of being frustrated and irritated with your life?  Tired of always being on the outside looking in?  Tired of thinking about what could have been or should have been? Then this is your day.

If we are honest with ourselves and others, we would all say we have been in this place at one time or another.  You may be in that place right now.  I have to really guard my mind against getting in that place.  I walked to of the gym the other day, it was rainy and overcast and I just said to God; “I am tired of being a nobody, a wannabe, average, unnoticed and unappreciated for what I do.” Now you may never feel this way or say that, but I do at times.  It’s not about being in the center of attention or the star, but just knowing that what you do is helping others.  I want to see some good fruit from my work.  I am ready for ‘what goes around comes around’ to be a good thing.  I want to enjoy the reaping what I sow.  I know all in due season.  Frustration and impatience on my part is a sign of pride that has to go.  I want to encourage you today by telling you; you are not unnoticed or unappreciated.  In due season you will see the fruit of what you are doing. God has an awesome plan and purpose for your life.  Give Him His time with you to prepare you.  Be patience; be still, listen and wait on God.  He hans’t forgotten about you. You are in the forefront of His mind.  He is thinking about you all the time.  Your best and greatest days are yet ahead.  Enjoy this season for what it is doing in you.  You are full of awesome, wonderful, marvelous destiny!

January 18, 2011

Season of Change

01 18 11 Tuesday

Today is a great day to do inventory.  Let’s look inside our heart to see if there is anything that needs to be taken out.  As we move into the last part of the first month of the our discovering our destiny year; let’s make sure we don’t just go through the motions.

For us to have the greatest year ever we have to make changes along the way.  We need to check ourselves and make sure we aren’t going to do a repeat of the years past.  Many people will say that want to make changes but they don’t ever go through with it.  It is not easy to make changes, that is the sad reason why many folk never live in their destiny.  I see people all the time talk about they need to make some changes in their life, but as time goes by, they are right back where they were.  We get comfortable in our mess, in our stuff.  Even while we are talking about how bad it is and how much we don’t like it; we stay right in the middle of it.  Let’s go for it today! Begin taking the inventory process today and see what needs to change.  Together we can make the changes need and live our destiny!

January 16, 2011

Peace and Joy

01 16 11 Sunday

Many of us have been hurt, wounded, disappointed and broken hearted in our lives.  Some of you may be in that place right now.  Today; allow forgiveness, restoration, reconciliation, hope, and love heal you.

We all have been in that place, but we don’t have to stay there.  Today is the day to receive what we need.  We need to have peace and joy no matter what has or is happening in our life.  We can’t control so much what happens to us, but we have full control of what happens in us.  I know from my own life that I need healing in areas.  So today, I stand with you as we break out of the place we have been in and move toward peace and joy.  There is a peace and a joy that we can have even in the worst of times.  Nothing can replace it.  Don’t go another day without the peace and joy you so deserve.  For some we have to humble ourselves and ask others to forgive us.  For some we have to forgive those that have hurt us so deeply.  Today is your day. I proclaim it! Healing is yours, peace is yours, and joy is yours.  Accept it! Hold on to it with all your heart.  I stand in agreement with you right now! Together we can walk in our destiny with peace and joy.

January 13, 2011

Grace for the Race

01 13 11 Thursday

Grace enables us to find our place; so we can run the race and not fall on our face.  Ah, I am a poet and didn’t know it.  I rhyme all the time.  OK, ok sorry about that. We have been given grace to live our destiny.

Before we were born our route or plan had already been designed.  How we go about it or the most part I believe is up to us.  Grace is what protects us as we find our way toward our destiny.  To say you can be or do anything you want to be or do is not exactly correct.  Follow me here, if we are created by God, which I believe we all were, then He has a plan for us.  So if we decide to go against that plan we are going against God.  Granted that is our choice, just saying if we want to live our destiny to the fullest then we will do what He created us to do.  I am not saying we don’t have choice in our lives, we have complete choice.  However, if we don’t want to have frustration and confusion in our live then we will do what we were put here to do.  Sounds complicated a little bit, but it’s really not.  If it is your destiny to be an actress or a football coach then be an actress or football coach.  If you are supposed to be an electrician you will never be happy as a brain surgeon.  That’s my point. Be what you were created to be.  Do what you were created to do.  That grace I mentioned earlier will make a way for you. You have an awesome destiny and life yet to live.  Your best days are yet to come!