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Praise the Lord and what a week it has been! I have been facing all kinds of adversity this week and I tell you – it was a battle that has left me thankful to be a child of the Most High! I am telling you the strength of the Lord is my joy and truly my strength in life. I have been against all kinds of stuff this week and the Lord has been right there with me. 

There were times that I was feeling like I can take no more but then God shows me that not only can I take more – I can still stand in Him. Things that I thought were done and over with – started showing up again in my face. 

The Lord revealed that people are out to do damage against WL4J and me personally by trying to ruin what we stand for – BUT NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST ME SHALL PROSPER! I was wondering why some have stopped communicating to me and then the Lord revealed what I had already believed . . . so my prayer is that those that think one way of me realize that they have been lied to by the enemy to try and slow down the momentum of WL4J – yet I know that all things will work to the good!  

I am thankful that during my weakest moment, a soft still voice spoke to me about keeping my head up and to turn my cares over to the Lord. I reached out to my dear sister Gene ( a sister of WL4J) to seek prayer and the Lord blessed and came down in our prayer and strengthen me yet again…I am thankful to God for knowing when to pick up that phone and call for some praying sister(s) to pray until that nasty stronghold spirit leaves.  

I am so excited for I got a phone call last night from a dear sister to me who showed me yet that Jesus reigns in my life still as may not have known it but she was the confirmation that I needed to know that I was right in so many other situations and because of our friendship of 4 years…goodness it has been that long – I knew I could believe the words coming out of her mouth – we have been sisters for four years. She was with me before the start of WL4J – we actually met at another women’s ministry! Praise the Lord!! LOL I am saying all that so she knows I am talking about her without giving her away! LOL  

Yet God has blessed me in so many ways this week. I was really feeling the pressures yesterday even after that awesome prayer time on Wednesday – but something was still holding me. I called out to the Lord and left it there – so of course my mood changed – the Lord showed me how when I truly let it go – things start to move. There is a change in the air for WL4J and for what God has been doing in my life and I am thankful for it. 

Last night I had to vent for a minute without going off – so I had to call my dear sister to let some steam off and not that I was venting like a crazy person as I can do that sometimes, but just voicing it because I could not believe I was facing this mess again with things. So after I got that off my chest, we just started talking about things and at one point I am speaking to the sister about her job and how God can do things and the Lord started sending me revelation about myself.

I tell you Jesus is so awesome for He does that a lot with me. My husband gets visions and things like that from the Lord and sometimes I am so envious because I have only had two visions that I can say were 100% vision…so I am envious of hubby sometimes because I think this man gets at least two visions a week. . . LOL  

Yet God uses others to bring me revelation for as I was talking about her job and what God can do – the lord started having me speak about my job and what He was doing and as the words were coming out my mouth – they were not preplanned or pre thought about – it was truly the Lord speaking to me about my situation to her….  

Thank you Jesus – as I am sitting here thinking about that – we have to remember to never take anything that comes out of our mouths for granted and to know that God has many ways to get His message to us about what is going on around us – we just need to be in tune with the Lord and placing Him first. 

It is amazing what God will bring you through when you allow yourself to follow His will in your life.  

So when we are facing things and adversity seems to come at us with doors closing in our faces – we get down and sometimes want to give up – but be still and hear from the Lord and know that He is still working out. Hold on for the Lord is speaking to you – be still so you can hear Him!!
 
 
Praise the Lord! You know sometimes I just have to laugh at myself and at my sisters…yes at all of us. Do we really know who we belong too? Do we believe it without a shadow of doubt? I sometimes wonder myself when faced with things but the Lord is showing me more and more how to let that mess go and laugh in the face of adversity.  

There are things that come at us that the enemy places before us and sometimes it is just self that wails all up inside of us, but the Lord says to face whatever we see before us with the full armour on for we fight not against flesh and blood. (Ephesians 6:10-18) Yes as this same word says….oh I just love the word of the Lord…. 

Ephesians 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 

Okay so when everything is hitting us, when we are faced with things we just do not want to do, when we are faced with anything that is unpleasant, adversity, pain, hurt, sorrow, unwillingness to change…the Lord says be strong in him – in HIS POWER!! Not the power of ourselves but the power of the Lord…He has blessed us with His spirit – the Holy Spirit that is dwelling in us…what is there to fear, what is there to fret – when we have Jesus in us.  

Yet we must walk in the spirit and not in the flesh – we must turn it over – not so easy to do at times yet He is there. I just loved Sister Angie’s (FreeSpiritHaven) blog for today – we all walk outside of the Holy Spirit but God’s word will return us to Him every single time! AMEN!  

I thank God for the example He provides to us in His word and to me it is a reminder yet how much He knew us as He provided words to speak to every single situation in our lives…it is all in the word of God. I am thankful to the Lord for the in person example that I have as I watch my husband walk his walk in the Lord, it is encouraging to me to see someone who does not waiver in faith and it is awesome on the one occasion I seen him actually seem to be a little thrown, how the Lord ministered to him immediately in His words…just in witnessing that gave me even more faith in the Lord and that He will see us through ALL things. 

So instead of crying when faced with adversity – laugh in the face of it and keep on smiling for the Lord has it already work out – for greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world as long as the HE that is in you is JESUS! 

Enjoy your day today for tomorrow is not promised – so what you are fretting over today will not even matter tomorrow if today is your last day – so let it go and let God do what needs to be done and keep on smiling in Jesus!