Destinations

That moment when you haven't prayed in so long.  Hunger supersedes your flesh and lies in the belly of your soul.  Hanging your head low you say grace hoping this meal will heal you.  Lord we ask that you clean this food and make it nourishment for our bodies.  Bless the hands that prepared it and the bodies that receive it.  In Jesus name.  Some where between amen and open eyes your hunger is fulfilled.  Suddenly you realize those hunger pains were coming from your soul. The journey I have been on this year has been like no other.  I have fought for my life and lost it in the end.  I have stayed longer than I should have.  Left before my appointed time.  Ran to reach destinations I didn't desire to be.  Walked in circles avoiding the best each season could offer.  Still God is faithful.  The very words He spoke over my life are coming to pass daily.  His promises have not and will not fail me.  The love of man without the foundation of Christ is a weapon from

"Sometimes people do you wrong. But its not an attack on you. Its a flaw in their character." - Pastor Meadows I just want to start off by saying this is reason #723 that The Shaking is one of my favorite events at Embassy International Worship Center. This great man of God always drops a few gems for us to take home and place inside our hearts. For me personally this is one of those gems. The more I think about it mediate on it and pray over it I feel more free. I feel like burdens are being lifted and situations are loosening their grip on not just my heart but my mind. This word came to shift everything I thought I knew about why people hurt me. You know the usually things we think like because they really dont love us or because they were never the person we thought they were. But what if they are that person. What if God is just using you because He knows the situation wont break you? What if He has allowed the situation to happen to show you who He really is? What i

Some how sex has shifted from a benefit of marriage to a requirement of infatuation. It's no longer cool to save yourself for marriage. But rather save yourself for when it feels right. So women lay down expecting great sex only to get up wishing they were more patient. We want the anointing to please partners without the commitment of a lifetime. We test drive a perfect plan made by a perfect God. We mock holiness for the gems of this world. Hey, it's okay if you have sex with him cause if it's not good you're still a virgin. It's like we have redemptive power according to how we feel. Virginity sold to the highest bidder! We put price tags on moments we can't get back. Sell temples we don't even own. If nobody owns you then you should be dead according to the law. The biggest lie I use to believe was sex is painful. Most people have no idea what sex really is 1. Because people don't read the Bible. And 2. Because some how opinions became facts and fa

A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled. Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. - Proverbs 18: 20&21 You can build a beautiful house with positive language. One that opens its doors to love joy peace prosperity faith and hope. These are all seeds to the blessing. You know the one that finds you no matter where you are. The one that God adds no sorrow to. The one time has no effect on it leaps from seed to harvest and harvest to seed. The blessing that makes promises it can't break no matter what you do. Or you could build a prison. A place where the bare minimum is never enough. A place where the 60 and 100 fold can't survive because your faith ran out of hope. Where expectation is cancelled by curses you inherited not realizing that life is in the Blood. I've lived in both places. Attached myself to curses that other people carri

Most people think they learn forgiveness as a child. Which in part is true. Children generally forgive without thought. You don't have to ask for it or beg for it. They just give it. But something happens when we grow up. Its like we make a conscience effort to eat the apple which brings forth our own ideas on how to forgive. We have to engage our five senses in a way that no man can satisfy. We have to hear and feel the apology. The person desiring forgiveness has to articulate their vocabulary like your favorite song on a hot summer's eve in July. Saying words like I'm sorry because... and I apologize for..... We put our hands together to skip prayer and formulate schemes on how we can make somebody work for our forgiveness as if we are some supernatural higher being who has never needed forgiveness. The victim and the perpetrator always switch places assuming the other should have been the bigger person. We have the expectation for a divine quality to manifes

I think that to assume your good friends will always be there when you need them puts unrealistic pressure on them. It puts them in a place that only God should be. It takes away your appreciation of God's promise to never leave nor forsake you. Sometimes we are left hanging high and dry. No one answers the phone or responds to that text. It's not in that moment that you find out who your good friends are but rather who God is. If I let go of every friend who wasn't there when I needed them I wouldn't have any friends. Often times its not a friend we need but it's God. If we turned to God as much as we turn to friends we wouldn't feel so betrayed. There is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. Yet we desire the comfort of men over the comfort of God. Im not saying there is something wrong with needing a friend. We all need a friend. None of us were created to be alone. Even God said it is not good for man to be alone. However I am asking what happens when y

Minor misconception to Major problem  The statement if you stopped loving me you never loved me in the first place is an interesting thought to me. It seems like an attempt to put love in a time frame. Like its a conditional statement. If you did in a previous season but you don’t now then you never did. Maturity changes ones perspective. Now that I’m older this relationship is no longer fitting. So I choose to move on. This is wisdom. It takes far more than love to make a relationship work. How do I know? There’s a simple yet profound principle called a three fold cord. This cord is not easily broken. If there is one string missing from this cord called love then of course its easier to break. This is where that statement comes from; if you don’t now then you never did. But what if that isn’t the case? What if love just needed a better support system? Perhaps a mix of prayer praise and worship and it wouldn't have fell upon a change of season. Prayer incubates while

As I sit here, I think about how the dynamics of relationships have changed in my own lifetime. I’m only 22 years old and I’m noticing how quickly the world is changing. I was born in the mist of the independent woman movement. You know all the women who independent throw ya hands up at me? All the way to if you liked it then you should have put a ring on it. We moved from claiming we don’t need a man to claiming we don’t need a man unless he puts a ring it. Marriage has went from a well respected institution to comedy hour. It use to be if you love somebody you marry them to show your commitment. Now its we don’t need no ring or paper to prove we love each other. That's nothing short of dishonor. How can you request my body heart and mind to submission but refuse to honor our covenant before God my spiritual parents (my pastors) and family? Marriage was implemented so the world could have a consistent strong reminder of how God loves the church. Marriage is ministry not floating