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Daily Devotional – 9/25/14 “Agree with your favor!”

You’ve been favored by God but you can’t figure out why your favor ain’t working? Well that’s because you’ve yet to agree with your favor! Chile what is wrong with you. Don’t you know God doesn’t favor anything that isn’t worthy? Don’t you know God doesn’t favor anyone He hasn’t already found fit enough to handle the assignment? Haven’t you realized yet the potential you have when you open your mouth for good things? Don’t you see the folks you encourage when you’re not even trying? I bet you don’t even see the places your feet are walking in do you? You don’t even see the doors that are opening that you haven’t even made it too yet, have you? And all you have to do is agree with the favor that has already been poured into your life. Baby, God didn’t need your permission to favor you; He simply needs you to agree with it. No, God doesn’t need your approval but He does need your agreement that you’ll go where He’ll send you even though you might not know the location or the folk. God needs you to talk when He tells you even though you might not like the subject or the crowd. God needs you to move when He tells you too even though you might not like the moves nor the music and He needs you to encourage when He tell you too even though you may not know the people or the circumstance and may not feel like it. But you can’t do it if you’ve yet to agree with the favor that God has appointed to your life. Oh and get this … You also can’t do it if you’re still straddling the fence of the world.

Yea, God has anointed your tongue but you can’t use it for bad on Saturday and then expect God to consecrate it for good on Sunday and then say you agree with your favor. It ain’t happening. It may look like its happening but it ain’t. (Get it together!). God has given us favor that can turn thangs around for us, if we agree with it but we have to first agree with it. Ephesians 1:11 says, “Furthermore, because we are united with Christ, we have received an inheritance from God, for he chose us in advance, and he makes everything work out according to his plan.” Simply saying, we have received favor. [You’ll get it in a minute.] All I am saying is, agree with your favor and watch things start to change for the good. When you agree with your favor, you no longer feel like you’re down and out. When you agree with your favor depression no longer resides in your residence, sickness comes but you’ll wear it well, death will show up in your family but you’ll grieve and not suffer and financial troubles will no longer drown you because you can now swim in the deep end. Oh, when you agree with your favor your story changes because you won’t be able to tell it the same for you are no longer telling it as the victim but as victorious! When you agree with your favor, your praise changes because you won’t be able to worship the same. When you agree with your favor, you won’t even hate your enemy the same because everything about you changes! You don’t have to believe me; try it for yourself. You’ll see! When you agree with your favor, favor removes the labor!

Daily Devotional – 9/24/14 “Wild out Wednesday!”

Yes, today is Wild out Wednesday! I don’t mean wild out for the world but I mean wild out for God. Don’t look at your computer, phone or tablet crazy. If the world can wild out for what they believe in why can’t we wild out for God. Isn’t He worthy enough for us to go crazy over? Isn’t God worthy enough for us to give him a crazy praise every now and then? Should we lose our ever loving mind for God like we do for bae nem? Can we, at least for one day, give God a Wild out Wednesday? Just imagine, if you will, how God would feel if you treated Him how you treated some of the material things you valued more than Him. Yea, some of us value our cars more than we value our relationship with God. We won’t even put miles on our car to drive to church put you’ll drive to the car wash. Some of us value our relationships with folk more than our relationship with God because all boo has to say is stay home with me and you crawl back in bed. Some of us value football more than you value God because you’d rather miss the message for the score of the game but who am I too judge. And yet all I’m asking for is one day, today, Wednesday as Wild out Wednesday for God.

A man who stepped out of nowhere and spoke the world into existence and with his voice He commanded the creation of day and night, the Heavens and the Earth, the seas, grass, herbs, seeds, fruit trees, seasons and signs to tell the difference between the day, years and He even spoke the creation of the living animal. This same man created man out of dust and woman from the man’s rib and blew into them breathe of life. God, Alpha and Omega; healer and restorer, hope and grace, faith and joy, light and darkness. God; who holds better than bread because he doesn’t mold, who keeps better than milk because He doesn’t spoil, who offers better coverage than insurance because He doesn’t lapse, who last better than medicine because He doesn’t expire and who is better than healthcare because His rates never go up! Will you wild out for God today? Will you let the world know whose you are on today? Will you show whose team you represent on today by your praise? Or will you wimp out?

Daily Devotional – 9/23/14 “Bounce Back!”

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed! (2 Corinthians 4:8-9) Chile that alone is a devotional in itself. Yea, God says you will have trouble on every side YET don’t worry because it can’t stop what I’ve placed in front of you. God says you may be perplexed or confused but that’s alright because you won’t be without hope. God says, yes they may persecute you, even scandalize your name but you won’t abandoned, cast down or forgotten neither destroyed. So what if you get pushed down, get up! So what if you fall, get up! Baby, you need to learn the weeble wobble dance. You know that game at the fair that no matter how hard you hit it, it never stays down. Well, you need to get like it because God made you with the same mechanism inside of you. Yea, you need to learn how to lean when things weigh you down but then bounce back up. I know you’re tired of getting knocked six steps back but baby rear back (that means you got knocked over) and then get up. When folk hurt you that’s just you being knocked down, bounce back up. When you get laid off that’s just you being knocked down, bounce back up. When you get sick and man says you can’t get well that’s just you being knocked down, bounce back up. When man says no that’s just you being knocked down, bounce back up. When that door closes, that’s just you being knocked down, bounce back up. Yes, it’s easy to stay down once you’ve been knocked down but oh the joy you feel when you get up is that unexplainable joy, that unspeakable joy you hear grandma singing about and that uncontainable joy you hear pastor preaching about but you have to get up to feel it.

Beloved listen, the bible says in 2 Corinthians 4:7, “But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.” What is this jar of clay? It’s us. What is this treasure? It’s the light of God that shall not be dimmed. Are we troubled? Yes, mostly everyday but God is our refuge and our help if we try Him. Will your legs shake, yes but they won’t give out. Will you get knocked down again, probably but you still have that same mechanism built into you that allows you to bounce back. And get this … It’s never goes out, it never gets worn, it never rust, it never gets recalled and it never fails because the manufacturer never goes out of business! Try it and you’ll find that it works, EVERY TIME!

The Wedding Part 2 by Sheena Binkley (Blog Tour)

Sheena Binkley first discovered her love for storytelling when writing her first story for a class project at the tender age of nine. Since then, she has composed several short stories and numerous tales that are not only engaging, but simply entertaining. She is also a freelance writer, penning articles on various topics including education and entertainment. Besides writing, she loves reading, shopping, and spending time with family and friends. She lives in Houston (where the weather is always unpredictable) with her husband and son.

Synopsis:

Tia Simmons can’t wait to be Mrs. Charles Robinson. She has everything planned, from the venue to the caterer, making everything completely perfect. Or, so she thought. When she hires Camille to be her wedding coordinator, paranoia comes into play when she thinks her best friend is trying to sabotage her wedding. Along with the issues she’s having with Camille, she also has to deal with her new extended family, making her wonder if she’s going nuts. But when unexpected news shatters Tia’s world, she’s not sure if she should tell anyone about it or if she should keep it to herself until the wedding is over.

Charles Robinson is totally in love with Tia and would do anything for their special day. Whatever Tia wants, he’s in agreement with. Except hiring Camille as their wedding coordinator. When issues clash between the three, will it test their friendship? Along with the issues he’s having with the reappearance of his father and a brother who can’t be trusted, Charles has to wonder which is more important – trying to do the right thing or being happy.

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Daily Devotional – 9/22/14 “God and faith!”

The reason you aren’t getting the blessing you’re standing in the need of is because you’re standing in your own way. Yea, you go before God, petitioning His throne with prayer yet in your heart you’ve already counted yourself out. Baby, if you don’t believe in yourself, who will? It’s almost like me fighting to prove you’re innocent when you’re walking around with a guilty sign tied around your neck. When will you believe in yourself? Let me tell you this, it says a lot for God to call your name when there are a million others just like you. It says a lot for God to choose you when He could have easily picked the person next to you. It didn’t have to be you that God ordained but He did. He didn’t have to be you God chose but He did. It didn’t even have to be you He gave that vision but He did and He made it plain just for you. Yet you’re second guessing and doubting. Even the trials you’re facing, you were chosen for that too. Read your bible. God chose Job because He knew Job’s faith would stand because God had faith in Job. Now think about what you’re going through. Why do you think God chose you? He didn’t do it because He wanted to pick you out to penalize you because of your past yet He pointed you out to position your purpose. (“I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb.” Jeremiah 1:5) God hasn’t chosen you for that sickness because He needs folk to see you struggling yet He needs those who doubt His healing to see it manifested through you. God hasn’t chosen you to struggle through the daily strains of life just because He felt like it but He did it simply to show folk who doubt the ability of His strength to see if revealed through a regular person like you who make it look easy. God didn’t choose you to Pastor that church because He wanted you to walk about in defeat like others before yet He chose you because He wanted the naysayers to see His work being done and it could only be done through you. (For I know the plans I have for you,” says the LORD. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah 29:11)

All I am saying is, don’t count yourself out because it’s easier than counting yourself in. Believe in the faith that God has given you. It won’t steer you wrong. Place God and faith back in your heart and allow them to lead you to the places you belong. No matter what you’re facing… God is all you need AND you’ll find the answer in Him and His word!