Being abused, get tired, you’ll find the strength to stand up and walk away. Drug addict, alcoholic; get tired of wearing that label and do something about it. Being walked over, get tired and stand up. No money, get tired of being without and get up and do something. Sick of what “they say” get tired and finally listen to what God says. Body in pain, get tired and finally go to the doctor. See, in my learning, I’ve found that when you get tired, you’ll do something about it. Now, I don’t mean being regularly tired but really, really tired. When you finally get tired of hand me down boyfriends, you’ll wait on your husband. When you get tired of little girl drama, you’ll wait on your wife. When you get tired of being spiritually hungry, you’ll search for God’s word until you are spiritually full. When you get tired of running from the calling that God has placed over your life, you’ll stand with your arms outstretched crying, “Lord, here am I; have your way.” When you get tired of folks counting you out, you’ll laugh when they start counting your blessings. When you get tired of fighting the world alone, you seek God while He can be found. When you get tired of being what everybody says you should be, you’ll become the person God has destined you to be. When you get tired of all the drama on your job, you’ll find another one. When you get tired of putting every dollar into that car that keeps breaking down, you’ll get another one. Yea; all it takes is you getting tired! When the people of Israel complained, God got tired and Numbers 11:1 says, “Now the people complained about their hardships in the hearing of the LORD, and when he heard them his anger was aroused. Then fire from the LORD burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.” Yes, even God gets tired! All I’m saying is, stop settling for anything, stop accepting everything, stop answering to every name you’re called and stop diminishing the power of God who keeps His promise. Everything you desire to be, you can be but you’ve got to believe it first. Get tired of giving up and get up! Get tired of giving in and stand up. Get tired of not believing and trust God’s plan!
Daily Devotional – 4/28/14 “It’s Monday, ALL DAY!”
Yep, it’s Monday but guess what, it will be all day so why are you mad about it? Why are you still mumbling over mess from last Monday? Why are you still messing with meaningless stuff that really shouldn’t matter anyway? Why are you up in the middle of the night mourning over a relationship that wasn’t meant for you and you knew it going in? Why are you settling for being someone else sloppy seconds when you ought to be mending your marriage? And why does it matter about the number of followers you have on Twitter if you aren’t following God? Why are you concerned about the number of friends you have on Facebook when you can’t even show yourself friendly to the people in your own house? I’m mean, you’re the one that’s a mess and then you have the audacity to be miserable too. Sat down, please!
Stop blaming God and stop giving the devil all the credit when some of the mess you’re in, you caused. Yes, God has a purpose for everything you go through but that’s if you’re going through it with Him. You can’t expect God to work a miracle in something that He had no parts in. No sir, no ma’am; God isn’t mistreating you, you’re missing His message. God isn’t the one multiplying your misfortune; you’re simply mingling with the wrong people. Yea, it could be the ministry you’re mixing with but then again it could be the messengers in your midst. Who are you listening too? You’re broke because you overspent trying to keep up with everybody else when you need to get up out of your materialistic mindset and manage the money you make. Stop dwelling on the past and let go of mistakes you made and enjoy the miracle of the moment. Release all of the mess that’s masking the marvelous mission God is trying to manifest in your life. Stop following the media and meditate. It’s no secret that God can multiply miracles, move mountains, maximize what we see as minor things, minimize what we see as major things, turn mistakes into missions, mess into messages, midlife crisis into ministries and mischievous meddlers into missionaries but then what? After God has done His part, you do know that you have to do yours, right? Stop blaming Monday because it shows up the same time every week. Stop blaming others, take control.
Butterfly Book Promotion Present: Cupid’s Desire
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Book Blurb:
Alareik is a Cupid, and get that image of a diapered baby with a bow and arrow right out your head. Cupids are all six foot Gods of love, invisible to the mortal’s eyes, who are sent down to Earth with their daily assignments…to help mortals fall in love.
Alareik is the most popular Cupid out there, and not only is he the hottest Cupid but he’s the most compassionate. Alareik stumbles across a mortal who has a third eye. Sapphire, a waitress no one would take a second glance at, can see the invisible Cupids. Alareik has never met a mortal who could do this. He’s put on a special assignment to figure her out.
Alareik willingly accepts this task and finds himself falling for the plain and peculiar girl. Sapphire’s love for life changes this Cupid’s heart forever.
Author Bio:
Phoenix Rayne was born in Federal Way Washington in a small community. Currently she resides in Nashville, Tennessee where she is a student as well as a writer. Phoenix is a published writer that has 3 novels under her belt that she has penned with G-Street Chronicles. When she not writing you can find her in a shoe shopping or catching a good movie.
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Memphis Public Library Presents :: Bookstock 2014!
Tomorrow is the day! Saturday, April 26, 2014 from 10:30am – 3:30pm – BookStock 2014 at the Memphis Public Library! You will have a chance to meet Author Eric Jerome Dickey and other local authors. Please stop by and see me as I will be there selling copies of A Secret Worth Keeping and Doses of Devotion.
You don’t want to miss it! There will be a lot of activities for adults and children. Please see the flyer for more details!
Daily Devotional – 4/25/14 “My rejoicing soul!”
My Father in Heaven, you whose name is Holy and Sweet, you whose will shall be done on earth and in Heaven. God, as I come petitioning your throne, I want to thank you. Thank you God for touching me this morning with a fresh anointing to see this new day with the activities of all my limbs, warm blood flowing through my veins and for a regulated mind that allowed me to know where I was and whose I was. God, I thank you because when I could have been dead, you allowed me to live. When I should have been buried in my mess, you simply brushed it off and told me to stand. When I thought my knees would buckle from the burdens on my shoulders, you gave me extra strength and told me to walk on. When I thought I wasn’t worthy of your calling, you intensified my gift. When I shouldn’t have been surviving, you provided. When all I saw was a dead end, you made a path that took me right. When I wanted to give up, I realized that it wasn’t one of the options to choose from. When I should have been drowning in my tears, you simply used them to wash away the dirt that had been thrown on me by folks. When I could have been strung out on drugs, you gave me grandma who drug me to church. When I could have been a hard core alcoholic, you gave me momma who was hard core and didn’t mind using the rod of correction. When I could have been a street walker, you gave me a granddaddy that walked in front of me paving the way for me, making sure I was walking right. When I could have been a high school dropout, you gave me uncles who would show up at the school just to check on me. When I could have been a single parent raising children in this mean world, you sent me a husband who is the head of his household. When I could have been diagnosed with cancer, you gave me a clean bill of health. When I could have been at the unemployment office, you gave me a job instead. When I could be standing at the bus stop in the cold, you gave me a car instead. When I could be working on Sundays, you gave me a job that will work around my schedule.
Oh, when I think about all the things that could have happened to me, the things that should of happened to me, the things that could have taken me out, the things that should of taken me out, the sickness that could have killed me, folks that could have hurt me, burdens that could have depressed me, struggles that could have overtaken me, grief that should have consumed me and pain that could of weakened me; my soul rejoices knowing that it all has a purpose. When I think about the places that my gift will take me, the doors that my calling will open, the territory that you, God will enlarge and the increase of joy and peace that I already have; my soul rejoices. When I think about the family and friends that you, God have surrounded me with, my soul rejoices. Yes, my soul rejoices for the good and the bad, for the happiness and the sad. My soul rejoices today, it did on yesterday and it will on tomorrow. I won’t be defeated by anything or anyone because I declare on today that my soul shall rejoice in your goodness Father and that everything that I shall want and everything that I shall be; will come to pass. I claim it! For my soul rejoices for Romans 5:1-5 tells me, “Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”
Lakisha, the Author 