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Daily Devotional – 10/20/14 “A true worship!”

It’s something about having a real praise and worship experience with the Lord that’ll change your outlook on some things. Yea, I’ve found that a true praise and worship experience with God will have you seeing clearer, make you understand better and above all things fight the enemy harder. You don’t have to believe me but try going into worship service with your heart and mind set on having a true worship experience and I can guarantee that you will and afterwards, your week will be better. Please understand this, the enemy will be standing at your door post on Monday ready to wreak havoc but if you don’t forget the worship experience you had on Sunday, you’ll be able to knock the hell out of him and walk on by humming, “As long as I got King Jesus!”

Baby, all you’ve got to do is make up in your mind that you want to have a true worship experience with God and you can. You don’t have to wait until the designated times that have been set aside at your place of worship because I’ve found that my living room works just fine to get my praise on, the stall in the bathroom at work has worked on many occasions, the front seat of the car, the hallway, the stairwell … anywhere you are able to praise God; make that your worship place for God is worthy to be praised at all times, isn’t He? For Psalm 145:3 says, “Great is the LORD! He is most worthy of praise! No one can measure his greatness.” Job 9:10 says, “He does great things too marvelous to understand. He performs countless miracles,” isn’t that worthy to be praised? Try changing the way you go into worship service and see if it doesn’t change your week from weakness! Change your attitude about your worship and see if it doesn’t change your fear to favor. God is worthy of a true worship experience and we should give Him just what He is due every time we get the chance especially since He continually gives us chance after chance.

P.S. Here is the link from my first sermon on yesterday, “Called but not cursed”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BXDgMV6S7o

Daily Devotional – 10/17/14 “Update and restart!”

Its Friday y’all! Praise the Lord with me! Even though I have to work on tomorrow, I still look forward to my weekends. But as I sit at my computer, it is prompting me to restart (after installing some updates) and if I don’t catch this little box thing every now and then to postpone it, it’s going to restart on it’s own and I’ll be screwed because it’ll restart in the middle of me working. Now, ok … Y’all know me but as I was sitting here I was thinking, how, as Saints, if we would upgrade our knowledge of God’s word every now and then and restart ourselves how much better we would be for the up building of God’s kingdom. I mean, just think about it. We update our computers, telephones and electronics with the latest updates yet we don’t update ourselves with the latest knowledge of God because if you’re a seasoned Saint you think you know everything and if you are a young Saint you think you know everything. But do we, really? Every scripture can be interpreted a hundred different ways to a hundred different people on a hundred different days but not if you don’t know them. Yet, how can you be taught a scripture if you haven’t read it for yourself?

If you’re wondering why your hope is falling short pick up your bible for Romans 15:4 tells us, “Such things were written in the Scriptures long ago to teach us. And the Scriptures give us hope and encouragement as we wait patiently for God’s promises to be fulfilled.” 2 Timothy 3:16 says, “All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right.” Every now and then, update the software inside of you and restart and see if it doesn’t make a difference in your life. See if it doesn’t make your shine better. See if it doesn’t make you run a little faster. See if it doesn’t give you a boost of energy to fight the enemy off harder than before. Stay up on your game because the enemy sure in hell stays up on his. Update and restart because you might just find it was what you needed after all.

Daily Devotional – 10/16/14 “Expectation!”

For the last few days I’ve been trying to write my “sermon” for Sunday. I already got the topic, I already got the scripture and I’ve visualized so many times myself doing it (even before I accepted my calling) and yet today, right at this moment I am not even concerned. Oh, I’m nervous yet I’m not concerned. It doesn’t matter how many times I stand to speak, I am always nervous, that’s just me but I’m not concerned but that’s simply because I’m expecting God to show out. Yep! I am expecting God to show out on Sunday because I got a spirit of expectation. I’m even expecting the Holy Spirit to show out in me as I finish the words God will have me to say. Even if He changes them between now and them (as He might) I am still expecting Him to show out in me. Baby, I’ve found that when you expect God to show out, He does. When you expect the Holy Spirit to intercede on your behalf, it does and oh my God!!

Isn’t it strange how we can expect folk to show up, expect folk to love us, expect folk to provide for us, expect folk to care for us, expect folk to do what they say yet we don’t expect to be blessed. Here I am going back to Jeremiah 29:11, For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future,” because I expect to be blessed because God said He’d give me hope and a future. I expect to be prosperous because God told me to expect it. I expect to be healed because the bible tells me in Mark 11:24, “Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.” No one has to tell me anymore about the power of prayer because I know for myself that if you pray it’ll change things. I wake up in expectation from the Lord, waiting to see what He has for me each day. I’m like a child on Christmas each day I get up, excited to see what I can expect from God for Psalm 62:5 says, “For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him.” Who are you getting your expectations from? Not all expectations are good ones!

Daily Devotional – 10/15/14 “Prayer day!”

Guess what day it is? To some, it’s pay day. To some, it’s hump day. To a few others it’s just Wednesday, another day they have to see that full of problems they can’t solve, situations they can’t fix and circumstances they can’t get out of but to me; this is another day the Lord has made so I will rejoice and be glad in it. Yea, I know you’re probably saying she perhaps got it all together but baby, I’m human like you so I struggle in this day-to-day thing called life too; I just don’t allow it to get me down. See, I could allow the weight of worry to weigh me down but why? I could let stress, stroke me out but why? I could let the burden of bills beat me but why? I could allow the severity of sickness to stiffen me but why? I could even let the enemy encamp my enjoyment that has been established and end it but why? Why not rejoice in the fact that you’re seeing a day that someone else didn’t. You do know that someone healthy laid down on last night yet they didn’t wake up this morning, don’t you? You do know that you don’t have to be sick to die, don’t you?

God is not pleased with His people and His people shouldn’t be pleased with themselves. Too many of us are hiding when we should be doing God’s word. There aren’t enough of us praying and studying and studying and praying. I don’t know about you but all you have to do is turn on the news and you will see that it’s praying time saints! It’s praying time over our children and our elderly. It’s praying time over our love ones who have to travel for jobs, flight crew and healthcare workers. It’s praying time over our clergy. We need to lay hands and pray over our city official and politicians, our school leaders and teachers. It’s praying and fasting time. We need to get back to the time when you gave up some stuff and actually prayed until you felt the move of God on your life. We need to get back to the times when you gave up some stuff to be at Sunday school and worship service on Sunday and bible study on Monday. We need to get back to the time when you didn’t mind being labeled a Christian. This is why the bible says in 2 Chronicles 7:14, “If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” If only we as God’s people would get ourselves together while we had the time. So for me, it’s simple; today is prayer day because we surely need it. Say a prayer for someone today or say one for yourself. Share one here on my blog, on my personal Facebook page or even my devotional page. Pass it along and let’s get to praying. It doesn’t matter. It’s prayer day! You pray for me and I’ll pray for you and watch God change things!

Blog Tour … And Then There Were None by Clay Thomas Williams

Clay Thomas Williams started writing at an early age. It was a form of expression for her. She started with poetry, and then joined a songwriting team, and became a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and the writer’s café.org. Clay Thomas Williams has been a fan of the literary arts for quite some time. It was a natural progression to pen a novel. After continued prodding from her Publisher, Upnext Media Group, And Then There Were None became a reality. As Clay explores her imagination, her goal is to entertain the world one book at a time!

Additionally, Clay Thomas Williams has a B.S. in Criminal Justice is a Certified Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor. She is a freelancer, writer and copy editor for an exciting nationwide informative motorcycle magazine; IRIDE magazine based out of North Carolina.

Clay Thomas Williams lives by the philosophy that every bit of fiction has a hint of the truth, and life experiences good or bad, create and shape the beautiful, brilliant woman she is. She resides in North Carolina with her family.

Blurb:

After a few short years, Octavia finds herself in a loveless marriage. Octavia doesn’t have the courage to tell her husband Calvin the truth, so she does nothing except continue an affair with a former lover, Lynwood. Can you imagine being so full of yourself, that you ignore the obvious. You’re so busy doing your own dirt that you fail to see what’s right under your nose. What could possibly go wrong when you think you got game? What part of the game is it when game doesn’t recognize game? What happens when you turn a good man into something you never thought he could become? All is not quite what it seems because unbeknownst to Octavia, Calvin has some lies of his own and so does Lynwood.

Octavia’s selfish behavior was full of lies and deceit causing her life to spiral out of control until she crashed and burned costing her everything. She gambled with love and lost totally destroying her life as she once knew it. Octavia thought she had it all; beauty, two loves, and a promising career. And in the end she ends up with nothing. The thing about Lies is they always have a way of finding you like a GPS tracking system. Karma is a mu’fucka, and has no expiration date.

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