I did it!!!!
Today is May 31 and I have blogged for the entire month of May. Last month while reading a book it challenged readers to write out 10 things that they want to accomplish, within 12-18 months, every day for 30 days. Now, that was a tad hard but what it did was help me to focus on those things that I want to do for me. One of those things was to blog daily.
Each day I really asked God for the ability to see what I wanted others to see. I pray that my blog is a blessing to others, like my IG account, it really displays my heart and those things that I love and have interest in. On Sunday my friend Lauren and I discussed this and she asked me if I had writer's block in the process. While I didn't have that problem as much as I thought I would I do know now that I'm going back to writing out my thoughts in my journal and then posting. There's something about the pen flowing across paper that brings me a sense of peace and accomplishment. Plus with my journal all I have to do is open it up and not log on and wait.
Wow 31 days. I can cross that off my list of things to do within the next year. Yay!!!!
Today is the is the 2nd day of 10 days of no sugar with my niece Ryan. It's kinda interesting how I get so involved in certain challenges. I guess I'm competitive and never realized it.
Transparent
Experience is a good teacher
It takes someone like me to lose
To lose a marriage
To lose a loved one
To lose my mind
My faith takes me to the Word of God
There I learn
There I rest
For God gives rest to the weary
and
God doesn't give us more than we can bear
The battle is His
though
It gets hard
But I get through
I get better
I become stronger
Later on my journey
Those experiences are used
To bless others
To tell my story
for
We overcome by the words of our testimony
It takes someone like me to lose
To lose a marriage
To lose a loved one
To lose my mind
My faith takes me to the Word of God
There I learn
There I rest
For God gives rest to the weary
and
God doesn't give us more than we can bear
The battle is His
though
It gets hard
But I get through
I get better
I become stronger
Later on my journey
Those experiences are used
To bless others
To tell my story
for
We overcome by the words of our testimony
Graduation Sunday ~ Light of the World Church
On Sunday we celebrated the awesomeness of our graduates at Light of the World Church. Dr. Scruggs acknowledged each graduate and blessed them with a gift.
Everybody Wants To Win But Nobody Wants To Wait
The title of this blog is the title of a plan I’m currently reading in the Bible App. The book is written by Marcus Gill. I began reading Day 3 of the plan and decided to share my reading and my response.
God's Timing for Your Relationships
The Lord spoke to me one night. He said, “Marcus, when you rush into a relationship, you can rush into misery.” When the Lord spoke that word to me, it shook me. At that time I desperately wanted to be in a romantic relationship. I was feeling lonely, and I got tired of waiting. I was watching others getting married, and I wanted to get married too. It was almost as if I was willing to settle for anyone just to be in a relationship.
I didn’t realize that the best relationship to have was a relationship with God.
I got married at a young age, and that marriage ended in divorce. Afterwards, I realized I needed to take time and allow God to heal me from that brokenness. Along the way I had many broken relationships. Now I’m in a place where I can encourage you to allow God to heal you.
If you’re trying to heal from a broken relationship or if you’re trusting God to fix your broken relationships, you are going to have to respect the process. Let God restore you. God can fix your broken relationships. He has an abundance of both love and patience. Whatever His plan is, you have to believe that your waiting season is not a waste.
Scripture:
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
Jeremiah 29:11 NIV
http://bible.com/111/jer.29.11.niv
My response:
Put the second sentence of this devotional on a post it note. Goodness!!!!
I was introduced to this scripture via the ministry of Martha Munizzi. My niece sings the song at my wedding. What I realize now is that God has plans for me and my ex wasn’t “the hope and future part. I wanted that for myself. I rushed that part of my life and misery? It took years to bounce back.
On this album the next two songs are “Your Latter Will Be Greater” and “New Season”.
God wants us to know that it gets better when live out His plans and not our own. You only know His plans when you seek Him first.
“I know the plans I have for you
I know just what you're going through
So when you can't see
What tomorrow holds
And yesterday is through,
Remember I know,
The plans I have for you
To give you hope for tomorrow
Joy for your sorrow
Strength for everything you go through
Remember I know the plans I have for you”
And then your latter will be greater. 🙌🏽
When I Wake
Each day brings it's newness
Inhale
Exhale
Namaste
I could say I'm lucky
But I know that I'm loved
So loved that God
Thought enough of me
To give me another day
To live out
His purpose
His plan
via
Jeremiah
My plans have not worked
Even though it managed to work together
I had to switch it up
Do something new
via
Isaiah
Now I have a plan
When I wake
My feet do not touch the ground
Until
I pray
Giving Him gratitude
Until
I read His Word
Learning His ways
Then my day begins
He's now
My first priority
When I wake
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