HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME...I AM HIS BELOVED!

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Yesterday, November 7th, was my birthday.  I turned 46 years old.  What I noticed is that it is no longer a painful day for me like it has been for the past five to six years.  Yesterday morning I paused to reflect on that as I watched the new morning dawn.  I had such a peace and gratitude for November 7th which is also my birthright that I now claim and celebrate. 

The Lord created me fearfully and wonderfully with His own hands knowing at the foundations of the earth that He would bring me into this world on November 7th.  What a gift of life He has given to me surrounded by so many important people that have touched, influenced, and/or have been a part of this journey with me.  It is humbling to know that God specifically created me just for Him to be in an intimate relationship with Him.  What an honor to commune, serve and love the Lord my God with all of my heart, soul, mind, body, spirit and strength. 

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The Lord's gift of mercy that has been showered upon me must always be given back out of reverence for my Lord to all of God's children regardless of where they are at on their journey or what they have done.  My life is so full and overjoyed in the Lord because of who He is and how He loves me unending, unfailing and unconditionally. 

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It is GREAT to FEEL again and to be ALIVE.  It is all because I know who I am in Christ.  I can now celebrate my birthday, November 7th, and my uniqueness.  It surely is a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to me that is BLESSED because I AM HIS BELOVED.  Amen.

 

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Look to the Sky - It is a Time to Soar

As I was sitting on my back patio looking up to the sky watching the clouds pass over me, images would come and go.  I saw a bunny rabbit drift by.  I saw a teddy bear riding a running pig whose scarf was waving in the wind behind him.  Then I saw Jesus' face appear holding his arms up in the air.  There were beams and sharp rays of piercing light raining down over me. 

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It was a reminder to me in how God is of all things and in all things.  Jesus' power and authority reigns down over us.  Jesus' power and authority has been imparted upon us to personally call upon and use in our waking life here on earth for those of us who claim and believe Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.

Floating how through the sky, I see a distorted, animalistic figure with a horn from its head with its mouth open that is coming to attack whichever soul it can lie, steal and deceive.  It is seeking that weak, spiritually immature and impoverished soul that has let its guard down flirting with temptation and becoming complacent like the floating complacent bunny that I saw which can often be like us.  Or we can become like the teddy bear on the running pig looking for the next greatest adventure looking to fulfill our life with happiness instead of God's holiness.  Either lifestyle is flirting with temptation and opening us up to devastating attacks from the enemy when our prayer life lacks or we are lazy in study God's word.  Both are our weapons against the enemy.

Beautiful Ones,

Everyday is a spiritual warfare battle where the enemy is scouring the earth looking for it next victim for soul destruction.  Be sure to stay firmly rooted in your spiritual faith journey like a physical workout exercise so that you may be strengthened to detect the enemies schemes so that you can rebuke and bind the attack back to hell where it belongs. 

Here now, is the Kingdom of God, "Here on earth as it is in heaven" that is revealed to us in the Lord's Prayer that gives us peace, contentment and authority over the principalities on earth.  As chaos, turmoil and despair continues to get worse, those of us rooted in our relationship with Jesus Christ and committed to our spiritual disciplines of prayer, intimacy with the Lord and wisdom in God's word will be immovable and unshakable in our faith regardless of what is going on around us.

This relationship is not one to be taken likely because the enemy doesn't discriminate on who his next victim will be.  Stay focused and firmly rooted with the One who will not forsaken you.  God's promises are the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. 

As I look up into the sky, the image of the enemy has scattered .  Now I see a cloud that appears as an angel that seems to be getting bigger and closer to me.  Under that cloud I see a bird soaring which speaks to me that,


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 "It is our time to soar in this uncertain and chaotic world that is controlled by fear, disunity and reacting to circumstances instead of being moved by love, solidarity, and  prophetic guidance.  By the gifts of the Spirit exhibited through us and the light that we illuminate even though we are outnumbered, we will outshine darkness and have victory over evil.  This is how they will know we are of Jesus Christ because of our peace in all circumstances."  
Praise God for this wisdom and knowledge in how to be in the world, but not of the world.  Thank you Jesus for going to the Father sitting at His right hand side interceding, protecting and looking over us.  God is calling and raising up frontline warriors.  For those that say 'Yes' God promises,

"Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know." Jeremiah 33:3. 

Prophetic Word...This is a Time of Crossover into the New Season

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In my dream I saw a huge wave of water come rushing in around everyone.  No one was prepared for what was coming as they were living their life without regard to God and His holy ways.  Those who did not know what was happening was in fear, but those who had an intimate relationship with God and knew His voice were at peace and joyful. 

God was sending His living waters to surround everyone to cleanse and purify them and the territory that has been occupied by the enemy for too long.  Those who were in Christ were not affected because they knew the high waters would not overflow, consume or sweep them away. 

God is bringing deliverance to the dry wasteland that has become polluted with toxic waste behaviors that are of this world that is often culturally accepted and a social norm, which is not of God.  For those who will receive the transforming waters will be baptized and filled with the Holy Spirit promoted with spiritual gifts to be used in the Kingdom of God.  Those already walking in the Spirit, the transforming waters will propel you into performing signs and wonders for the Kingdom of God.  You will walk on earth as it is in heaven with a holy anointing interceding on behalf of others and the nation. 



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There is a revival coming to awaken this dry land that is going to seem contrary to everything we have ever known.  God is nearing the time to turn the world, political structures, cultural norms, religious legalism, and the global economy inside out, upside down.  Do you not perceive it?  Heaven is breaking in to spring up something new here on earth as it is in heaven. 

The Kingdom of God is here and here to stay...God is about to send satan back to hell where he belongs.  How do you prepare?  Be ready for the wave of rushing waters that is about to overcome.  This is not a physical rushing water, but a flooding of conviction from the Holy Spirit leading to repentance, asking for forgiveness and accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.  It is a time to get yourself and your household in divine order with the leading of the Holy Spirit so that you may receive all that God has for you. 

This is a season of miracles, signs and wonders with prosperity, abundance,  healing, protection and divine wisdom if you choose  to walk in the ways of holiness instead of happiness which is fleeting.  God is sending all kinds of warnings that things are about to shift and transition which will look chaotic unless you are firmly rooted in Christ.  God is preparing the way with water in the desert and streams in the wasteland so that His chosen people that He formed for Himself will proclaim His praise (Isaiah 43).  This is a time to crossover into the new season.  Will you be ready?

My One Year Anniversary: DEPRESSION Will Not Overtake Me!

The upcoming month of March has been on my mind a lot.  It is so hard for me to believe that March will be a year since my Major Depressive Episode.  During that time I experienced the most horrendous pain that I can't even give words to or describe fully.  I thought I was possibly dying and didn't even care because I just wanted to the pain to end.  I was being sucked into a dark pit that had no end in sight to the point of feeling lifeless,  hopeless and void.  I thought I was going to have to hospitalize myself because I couldn't eat, go to the bathroom, get a shower or even get out of bed.  All I did was cry in agony with a mental and emotional pain that debilitated and isolated me from others and my regular routine.  No one was even aware that for the past five to six years I had been fighting back depression because I was able to control and hide it really well. 

In February of last year, my symptoms intensified.  I was no longer able to cope as I had done in the past.  I guess the stress and pressure of me holding it all in for so long on my own finally weighed me down to the point of collapse like a dam giving way during a flood to all of the water and debris that can no longer be contained.

As I reflect over this past year, I am so humbled to see and know how God was hovering over me during my darkest, deepest time of despair.  I am here today because God protected me from the pit of death in which the enemy's goal was the death of my soul.  I now understand the intensity of warfare and the attacks that I was under because I know God has a significant mission that He is bringing to fruition with the vision of the non profit ministry that He has placed upon my heart for Hometown Rescue Mission and Ministry.  This ministry will be a full time residence to the homeless, those with addictions and formerly incarcerated felons to create healing and transformation to increase God's Kingdom. 

During this time of my own healing which has been a very long and arduous season, God has been rebuilding, strengthening and redeeming me from the inside out.  God is placing me on a firm foundation so that I can be with others in their darkest places.  Just as Jesus descended to hell before ascending to heaven, I too feel as though I have descended to hell experiencing the excruciating pains of hell that not only I felt, but also God has given me His heart to feel what others may also be experiencing in their life circumstances because of this sinful and fallen world we live in.

I can truly say, God has given me a gift and has used my depression for His good so that I can give a voice to all of those and their families that may experience or suffer from mental health illnesses.  What the enemy meant for harm, God is using for His glory.  There is nothing wrong admitting and acknowledging that you suffer from mental health illness.  You don't have to bear or suffer this alone.  That is exactly what the enemy wants you to believe so that he can take you down to the death of Hades.  The enemy is a deceiver and liar!  So throw off that cloak of shame, guilt, humiliation, hopelessness and unworthiness that the enemy and society tries to project out upon us.  When we name and acknowledge our struggles, we are bringing it to the light which defeats the enemy.  It also testifies and witnesses to others who may be suffering in the silence with mental health illness.

Let us rise up together becoming vulnerable, a vessel and a voice to encourage and support each other while we defeat the enemy sending him back to hell where he belongs! 

YES, I suffer from depression, and God loves me for being true to myself and others in revealing to others who I truly am:  flaws and all.  I am also an overcomer in which I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.  In Christ, I am VICTORIOUS!

I stand in the valley and gap with you my brothers and sisters who may also be suffering with mental health illness.  I speak over you in the name of Jesus that, "You Are VICTORIOUS!  Amen

The Signs Are All Around Us...Do You Perceive Them?

 God has given us an unseasonably warm winter thus far which I have personally enjoyed.  It speaks of God's sovereignty and control over everything that is happening around us despite the world's circumstances and fallenness.  In Ecclesiastes 3, God reveals to us that:

There is a time for everything,
    and a season for every activity under the heavens:

²     a time to be born and a time to die,
    a time to plant and a time to uproot,
³     a time to kill and a time to heal,
    a time to tear down and a time to build,
⁴     a time to weep and a time to laugh,
    a time to mourn and a time to dance,
⁵     a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
    a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
⁶     a time to search and a time to give up,
    a time to keep and a time to throw away,
⁷     a time to tear and a time to mend,
    a time to be silent and a time to speak,
⁸     a time to love and a time to hate,
    a time for war and a time for peace.

⁹ What do workers gain from their toil? ¹⁰ I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. ¹¹ He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. ¹² I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. ¹³ That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. ¹⁴ I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.

¹⁵ Whatever is has already been,
    and what will be has been before;
    and God will call the past to account.

¹⁶ And I saw something else under the sun:

In the place of judgment—wickedness was there,
    in the place of justice—wickedness was there.

¹⁷ I said to myself,

“God will bring into judgment
    both the righteous and the wicked,
for there will be a time for every activity,
    a time to judge every deed.”

 

We can't fully comprehend God's ways and timing, but we can be obedient to the season of life whatever our circumstances, trials, hurts and burdens may be.  For we know in all things, God is Emmanuel and with us who is the one in control of everything.  Even when it does not make sense to us intellectually, or we try to seek scientific reasoning, or we offer posits of why we are experiencing abnormal weather patterns where regions are getting snow that normally doesn't see snow, the east cost is getting above average and record breaking temperatures in the winter months, torrential flooding that hasn't occurred in areas for over hundreds of years and tornados where they are least likely to happen.  In the midst of all of this and our own personal storms, God is still in control and with us.  I believe God is sending us urgent messages to awaken us calling us to come back to God and God alone!  God is desiring for us to draw near to Him and He will then draw near to us. 

 

God has placed upon my heart that this is a time of Him awakening His people for a revival.  In order for a revival to take place there must be a fortunate fall.  Where do our priorities lie in our every day waking life?  I pray that it is God first that we are seeking in all areas of our lives.

 

As I look out into my small garden at my front steps, I see God reminding me that He orchestrates Divine order, time and seasons of life as my Easter lilies are up preparing to bloom in the middle of winter instead of early spring.  God is saying,

"See, I am doing a new thing!
    Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness
    and streams in the wasteland."

 

^{Right before there was an awakening during the time of John the Baptist who was preaching in the wilderness of Judea, he asked them to:}

 

“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah:

“A voice of one calling in the wilderness,

‘Prepare the way for the Lord,

make straight paths for him.’ ”

 

People were coming forth from the Judean region.  The were coming and confessing their sins and were baptized in the Jordan River by John the Baptist.  We know what follows John's heed and warnings of repentance.  Jesus then comes to John asking to be baptized which would set the divine order, time and season for the destiny of Jesus' ministry.  Jesus said, "Let it be so now; it is proper that the right time (season) for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness"  (Matthew 3:15). 

 

Because Jesus was aware of the right timing of His Father, He obediently followed God.  Those witnessing Jesus' baptism also witnessed God's anointing for the new thing that was about to spring up.  Then the heavens opened up where Jesus and others "saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him.  And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased" (Matthew 3:16). 

 

If Jesus were to come back today, are we walking in God's holy anointing and aligned to God's will?  What would God from heaven say to each of us?  The signs are all around us.  I pray that we perceive it and are making a way for the coming of the Lord for what is eminent for it has been written and does not delay or follow our personal schedules.  God has been in control since the beginning, for He is the Alpha and the Omega.  His words, truth and promises are the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.  They do not change, so I would suggest that we walk obediently against the ways of the world professing the coming of Jesus our Savior of the World!  His timing is and will be perfect.  Will you be ready?  Amen