Personal Trainer

Aren’t you glad that God didn’t let you go?  Even when you wanted to be turned loose?  When God committed to us, he took it seriously; it was a blood-oath that he would never leave us nor forsake us.  And when the waiting at times because unbearable, we just want to throw-up our hands and say “I give”.  Not that we give up, just that we have grown weary of waiting on the promise because it is costing us more than we wanted to give.  Nobody likes to exercise but if you are a person who has exercised or played a sport and felt the fatigue after a good work-out but then also felt rejuvenated once the exertion wore off and was glad about the sacrifice and obedience it took you to follow through. That is how it is walking out your faith.  As when you first start working out, we don t see the results right off but over time, we see that all of our hard work hasn’t been in vain.  The Holy Spirit is our personal trainer whose sole purpose is to encourage, train, motivate and chastise us until we reach our goal.  Don’t despise all the hard work and effort but find it despicable to go through all that you have been through only to not obtain the prize called the promise(s) of God. 

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Some think that the etymology of the word acronym N.E.W.S. stands for North, East, West and South because information traveled from every corner of the earth. No one truly knows where a thing truly originated; some are still debating to this day - Creation or Evolution? (Psalm 75:6-7) which says, “For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another. God is the progenitor of all things that have and will ever be created and come to be. Today I know that I am currently living in the wrong life, because the visions that I have received through revelation from the Lord are contrary to where I currently am in life, but the life that is for me, I have seen but I have yet to lay my hands upon it in the natural. A true blessing of God must be experienced spiritually first and that fuels our faith and builds our trust in God fully. Believing first, before receiving, takes away all safety nets of relying on “self” to manifest what God has shown us in the spirit. When you come to that place and to that point wherein you know within yourself that there is nowhere else for you to go, no place for you to turn back to; and can only venture forward into your future with only the Holy Spirit as your guide – you will find yourself in the perfect will of God. Trust in (Proverbs 28:20) which says; “A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.” Relish and cherish your relationship with God above all else and he will bless you with the “all else”.

A Sum Total

Call me not keeping up with the times but I am neither New Age nor Neo-anything.  In fact, I would deem myself more of an old-fashioned kind of girl.  I believe that God can – Period.  His word never stated or said that people could not prosper by the works of their own hands; people did so all the time-since the beginning of time.  Take Oprah for instance, with many accomplishments up underneath her belt-she lacks in many ways.  She has never married, no posterity to leave her wealth to, and was raised in a not so sound family life.  All she has is wealth but she is not whole.  Her entire existence has been external accomplishments.  As there were ten lepers healed by Jesus, they all received the healing that they were imploring of him, however, only the one was made whole, which turned back and gave thanks to the Lord.  There is something to be said about giving God all the praise, glory and honor and not delving into what totally belongs to him by taking credit for one self.  Some are satisfied with “a” thing- be it wealth, health, family or prosperity.  However, I seek what only few obtain and that is the fullness of the blessing of the Father in every area of my life.  I do not believe that we have to sacrifice one thing for another because when God blesses, his intent is to bless everything that we are associated with-not just a portion or specific area in our life.  Maybe at different intervals, but when it is all said and done there is a comprehensive, aggregated, and cumulative totality in God, which can only be quantified by God as a complete and blessed life.  Why settle when we can have ALL.  

More than words

Many of us haven’t had a word of encouragement, nor a validation, neither privilege, entitlement, prerogative, empowerment, endorsement, inheritance, trust fund, bootstrap, leg up, or even a handout - to give us the edge that many of our associates and colleagues have enjoyed and partaken of (some since birth and for generations).  Those are a lot of words, with much more meaning behind them; and even more clout and influence that most do not have.  Unfortunately, those before us didn’t receive those words either.  The only words that were passed down were poverty, funeral bills and an unhealthy sense of helplessness and despair.  Many feel impotent and dysfunctional.  We only have a legacy of “find your way to get through, by just barely getting by”, nevertheless, regardless of how powerful those words seem to be, all of those words have to bow down at the Word of the Father, but our responsibility is to believe his report and trust in his promise(s).  (John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.) One word from God can produce the existence of a life that exceeds our understanding.

Foreign Currency

The promises of God are Yea and Amen, however, there is a cost associated with it. There is a foreign currency called faith that converts our praise into the currency needed to make a withdrawal from heaven. Without faith we have an account that is overflowing but no way to gain access to it.

Vaccinate

We eradicate doubt by vaccinating it with Faith. Sin , poverty, depression, are all forms of disease that are meant to disable, destabilize, and destroy what it is that God called and purposed for us to do in this life. You vaccinate yourself by giving God all the praise, glory and honor through it all – the good, the bad and the indifferent. I don’t like getting a shot but more so I deplore being sick – Ergo, sometimes I do not like walking by faith but I would rather walk by faith and get all that God has for me rather than leave this earth having not fulfilled my purpose.

A Blind Eye

When you walk with God you see things in and through the spirit that you wouldn’t normally see with your naked eyes. God allows you to see the tricks of the enemy, his hand gets tipped and we avoid the traps and snares. But God also allows us to see HIM while in the battle, to know that there is more with us than against us. The battle is not ours to fight but to trust that the Lord of Host will fight our battles for us. We must not allow our praise to be stifled. Our enemy has a goal, and that goal is to blind us as to whom we are in Christ. Through the instrument of praise is where our enemy goes blind and is defeated.