Fulfill Your Purpose

You can not allow anything to stop you from fulfilling your purpose. You were created to fulfill a purpose on this earth and it has your name attached to it. Don't allow discouragement to set in. Shake yourself and get back up and go to work on your God ordained assignment!

Push On!!

I know it's tough right now, but you must keep pushing forward toward your purpose. Don't allow anything to keep you from moving and doing what you were ordained to do! Keep pushing.....Purpose awaits!

Thankful

Make sure that your life lines up with your confession!

Thankful

Don't only thank God for the prayers that He answered, but thank Him for the prayers that He didn't answer!

Who Do You Say That He Is?

As a child growing up in church, you always hear about who Jesus is. There will come a time when life will call your name....dial your number...and knock on your door. It is during this time when you must know who Jesus is for yourself.

Know What You Believe

You must know without any doubt what you believe. You can't go on what others have told you, you must know for yourself!

Know What You Believe

The time has come for you to stop quoting who others say that Jesus is and find out for yourself who He is. You must establish your own personal relationship with Christ. He doesn't have to forever be known for who others say that He is, but He is waiting and longing to become a personal savior and personal friend to you.

Keep Hanging On!

There are times when you are just hanging on and oftentimes when hanging on takes all your strength.....but that's okay. Keep hanging on......no matter what.... you'll soon be standing again! 

Testimony of Viola Stewart:

In spite of any negative circumstance thrown my way..I will keep my faith in you Lord..and move to the next level..Thanking the Lord through good and bad times! Lord continue to empty me out and fill me up with your love & joy..That I may be used as a vessel for you!!! In Jesus name...

He Still Wants You!

God knows all about your past.....He was there! He still has a place and a purpose for you in the Kingdom!

You Can Do This!

Don't stop where you are! This is not the place where your promise will be manifested. Keep going just a little further!

Called and Accountable

Please know that when you were called that you immediately became accountable. You were called not just to live a glorious life in eternity, but to live a life that will draw others to be able to experience the same life that you so desire. We are called to be accountable for our life, our lifestyles, our ministry, our fellow brothers and sisters as well as to those that are lost. You have not only been called but you are also called to be accountable! 

Isn't It Time

Isn't it time for you to move past the wandering, doubting and confusion? Isn't it time for you to move on your "yes"? Isn't it time for you for you to take God at His word and trust and believe that He has your back? Yes, it is time. You've received your confirmation, but yet you're still not sure. The time is now.....why not now? It's time to activate the faith that you've been proclaiming all this time! It's your time!

Shut The Devil's Mouth

Don't believe the lies of the enemy. He wants you to think that you're not good enough, that you'll never make it out of a tough situation, that you'll never be happy and that you'll always be alone. He tells you things like that so that you won't push past you're circumstances. He wants you to feel defeated so that you will accept defeat. But my brother and my sister, it is up to you to decide what you will or will not listen to. It is up to you to determine how hard you push through this! If you're going to listen to the devil why don't you demand that he listen to you! Tell him that you already have the victory. Tell him that the Greater One is on the inside of you and that God will finish every single thing that He has started! Remember....that life and death is in the power of the tongue!

God Is That You?

Hearing from God is more important than hearing from anyone else in this world! Learn to recognize the voice of God by spending time with God. The more you talk to Him the more He will talk to you and the more you will begin to know His voice.

He's Still With You

Psalm 139:1-12 NLT
O Lord, you have examined my heart
      and know everything about me.
 ² You know when I sit down or stand up.
      You know my thoughts even when I’m far away.
 ³ You see me when I travel
      and when I rest at home.
      You know everything I do.
 ⁴ You know what I am going to say
      even before I say it, Lord.
 ⁵ You go before me and follow me.
      You place your hand of blessing on my head.
 ⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
      too great for me to understand!
 ⁷ I can never escape from your Spirit!
      I can never get away from your presence!
 ⁸ If I go up to heaven, you are there;
      if I go down to the grave,^[a] you are there.
 ⁹ If I ride the wings of the morning,
      if I dwell by the farthest oceans,
 ¹⁰ even there your hand will guide me,
      and your strength will support me.
 ¹¹ I could ask the darkness to hide me
      and the light around me to become night—
    ¹² but even in darkness I cannot hide from you.
   To you the night shines as bright as day.
      Darkness and light are the same to you

Keep Pushing Through Your Process

Though your process may be seemingly long and somewhat difficult, you are able to go through it. Don't throw in the towel in the middle of your process. Your promise is waiting for you on the other end, just keep pushing.....you got this!!!

Why So Long

God has designed a beginning and an ending to all matters. He qualified you before the season began, now you just have to walk through it.  It won't last one second longer than it was purposed to last. Don't get discourage. Hang on in there!

Time to Get Up!

Here's a testimony from this week's lesson:

I LOVE the lesson for this week. It was my first time visiting the site and I tell you, it blessed me. I buried my gift because of fear. However, I will no longer allow it to conquer me. Look for greatness from my life, not that I be be glorified, but God will get all the Glory. I praise God for you and I am so proud of you. This is just a fragment of the blessings that is to come your way. Love ya!

Yuwanna

Why We Hesitate To Have A Face to Face Encounter With Ourselves

This week we are challenging you to have a face to face encounter with yourself. Looking in the mirror and seeing past all the pain, guilt and unforgiveness is very diffcult. But if you can get past the pain you can get past seeing yourself as "the" situation or "the" circumstance. Although it is difficult you can do it!!!

Have a face to face encounter with yourself so that the enemy can no longer fool you into seeing yourself as anything other than how God sees you!

Go ahead, give it a try!

Experience Spiritual Resurrection

Here's an application from a sister on the lesson from this week. I appreciate and love her honesty and her ability to be open. With her permisson I'm choosing to share this. It is my prayer that each of you will see the value in applying the Word of God to your every day life.

Well I have experience several moments like this throughout my life; however, one experience that just seemed to take the very life I had, the joy, and the fire I had for God happened last year.  I went into a deep, hardcore depression at least according to me.  It was one that I will never forget nor want to go back into because it was like a never-ending downfall and it took a great fight not of myself but God to get me back to where I once was in Him.  While in my depression, I looked for and engaged in activities for satisfaction that I knew would only be temporary.  I surrounded myself with people who I knew where not for my good, but I allowed it to avoid being alone.  When I was by myself, I cried a lot, sometimes I would put myself in situations to hurt me (not talking suicide, I’m too punk for that).  I would long for my novocain which was alcohol or sleep.  Sleep was my heaviest novocain because anytime I would feel down and felt a cry within me, I would make myself go to sleep as my way of escape only for my grief and sadness to be the first thing to pierce my heart when I woke up the next day or whenever I woke up.  The same hurt, the same pain, the same memory was always there to greet me when I would wake up.  Sometimes I would wake up crying sort of mad at God as to say, “Lord, why am I still here?”. 
I felt like a walking zombie just going through the motions such as going to work, going to church but w/o any anticipation or expectation and would barely show and didn’t care if I was present at all.  I also had a great stronghold I was dealing with, one I intentionally invited, one I saw that was going to be the death of me (spiritual death) if I did not get out of that situation.  However, God brought me out, no praise to me.
Now, the praise report is God brought me out. It felt like a long hard road, but as I was striving to get back to Him, I felt a little more strength, a little more joy.  Then one Sunday while in worship, God spoke thru a person to me saying, “Welcome Back”.  Immediately, I praised God for what he had done and I felt a peace and joy to be back. After all that, one would say, “Well praise God!”
BUT….yes God delivered me, yes I believed I was free………..BUT because of the sin I allowed while in my depression and the worry of how people will look at me, I still struggle to this day in fully letting it go.   What I mean by this is that although GOD FREED ME, I STILL PUNISH AND DISQUALIFY MYSELF from certain aspects of ministry b/c I feel as though what I have done disqualifies me from what God has asked of me to do.  I still deal w/ the feeling of not being good enough.  However, I do receive encouragement from friends, from God’s word, from the angels of my church that I must not feel like that and believe that God has qualified me, he has wiped my sleight clean, he has forgiven my sin, he has called me to move forward.  I do receive it, but I will not lie and say that feeling is not ever present. 
In reading a few stories on others in the Bible who dealt with depression, I learned that despite what it looks like, remember God’s promise (Genesis 15  - Abraham beginning to doubt, but God reminds him of his promise concerning him having children and the great # of descendants). I learned how I should have handled my depression and if ever I should experience my joy diminishing, I should be careful with my words, examine myself, and not blame or curse God (Book of Job). Repent.  Praise God putting my hope in Him (Psalm 42) and giving Him my broken spirit and contrite  heart for that’s what He delights in (Psalm 51:17).
I feel that if I would have given it to God at the very moment I felt depressed, and allowed Him to do in me what He wanted to do, I would be further along in my walk; however, I also know it happened as it did for a reason.

Breathe Again

We have to be completely open with every area of our lives so that we can live again. Let go of all bitterness, anger, resentment, unforgiveness and let's move past this. Stop holding on to it and allow God to breathe into you.