Freedom in surrendering all: Lordship

Lordship allows for God to release blessings in your life; not because of your efforts, but because your heart realizes that He is good and full of love and that your best interest is His priority. When we can surrender and allow God to rule and reign over our lives, we leave our hearts open and vulnerable for him to work in our lives. He removes the things that hurt us and puts in things that are good and make us more like Christ. Lordship is not something to be feared, but something to rejoice in. Our response to the gospel of His goodness results in our lives being transformed. A life transformed into his glorious Son, Jesus, the lover of our souls.

                No longer do I need to be worried when things don’t work out the way I intended, but I can be at peace because I know God is in control of my life and not me. I get the pleasure of resting in Him and watching Him amaze me with His goodness. I get to sit in his arms and watch in awe as he restores my life and demonstrates miracles after miracles, with each storm. I no longer have to allow fear to grip my heart, but allow his love to comfort and sooth me because I am protected. I am in a safe place.

                Most of us love that Jesus is our Savior, but when it comes to Him being Lord of our lives, we run away from it. It was when I finally submitted and allowed God to have complete control of my life that I begun to see amazing things happen. This is where the growth began to take place. I had to make a choice of continuing to live life my way, that produced no fruit, or start living for God and trusting Him with everything. Taking this heart action was the beginning of a life journey of submitting, trusting, obeying, receiving, growing, and experiencing him. It is a continuous process. It is a beautiful process that bears much fruit.

Each Day...

Each day I get more excited about my life.

Each day I grow in understanding of who I am.

Each day I see myself as God see’s me.

Each day I see how God has created me uniquely for his plans and purpose.

Each day I appreciate all that God has done in transforming my life.

Each day I am rejoicing at the loved one's I am blessed with; family and friends.

Each day I look at my life and I am pleased with where I am and where I am going.

Each day I am glad that I can continue walking with God on this earth.

Each day I awake with excitement and curiosity about the adventure God has for me to experience.

Each day I embrace and receive a deeper understand of God's love for me.

Each day I am strengthened by grace and comforted by His Holy Spirit, The Comforter.

Each day I say to the Lord, "Here is my heart, here is my heart, and you can have it all".

Black Beauty

This is specifically for black women and little girls. You have nothing to be sorry about, nothing to hate yourself about. There is nothing that you have done wrong. Your beauty if mysterious, your passion is raw and explosive, your strength is from the Lord. You are misunderstood, misrepresented, unappreciated for the treasure that you are. God didn’t make a mistake; He made a masterpiece. He didn’t just make a woman; He made a Beautiful woman. He didn’t just make a girl; He made royalty.

There is no need to compare yourself to other masterpieces; recognize and celebrate the masterpiece that God has made you to be. Embrace your personality, because it is strong and bright. Embrace your hair, for it is your glory. Rejoice in your skin color, whether light or dark for it is the radiance of God’s face shining on you. Love and glorify God with your bodies, for it is His home and holy temple.

No more will the pressure of false beauty be placed on you. No more will the treasure of who you are be buried in lies and insecurities. As you take hold of the treasure God has made in you and walk out the way He see’s you, others will have no choice but to praise God for the Black Beauty that you are; the amazing treasure, joy and strength that you exemplify. 

The Power of Commitment

It amazes me how powerful our mind and will can be, when they work together for a common good. In accomplishing goals, we have to set our mind on the goal and commit to seeing it through. We can’t just start something without vision and determination, and expect for everything to fall into place and we receive what we want. We have to set our mind on the goal, and commit to seeing it to completion no matter what obstacles come our way. Without that whole hearted commitment, we will never finish anything we start. We will be fickle and unstable. We will be tossed to and fro like the wind, because we have not planted our foot and grounded ourselves to be like oak trees. We become easily frightened and discouraged when the first wind blows. We faint by the first heat wave beating on our backs. We try to go through the motion and hope we get to our goal; Nonsense. When has anybody ever accomplished anything without committing wholeheartedly to something?

What stops me from committing to things is fear of making a mistake. Fear of starting something and being stuck with it, then realizing that it wasn’t something I should have been doing or I even truly liked. Commitment takes time, effort, dedication, passion and sacrifice. Nothing comes easy. When you are committed to something, regardless of what will come your way, something powerful happens. All of heaven is behind you, because you have activated the currency of heaven; faith. You have begun to believe and hope in something you can’t and have not seen. You have decided to hold onto something that might not even workout. You have decided to believe for the impossible and fight through all madness to acquire that which you desire.

I am learning to not be afraid of committing, that even if I commit to something that I shouldn’t have, but had good intensions, that God is faithful and just to bring me through my mistakes. His grace is more than enough to restore and accelerate me to glory from the craziness of my decisions. I refuse to be stifled and frozen by fear. I choose to embrace and live in God’s love that casts out all fear.