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Don’t Leave

I was talking to a gentleman a few days ago about church. He wanted to know what church did I attend. After telling him the name of my church, he said I heard y’all got it going on down there. I said yeah we do. I began to ask him was he getting fed at his church. He said yes. I quickly replied; don’t leave your church. I said; yes my church has it going on, but you will get food poisoning if you leave your church to come and eat off our table. Although, the word is good, it’s not what God ordered for you.mRunning from church to church eating off of everyone’s table will make you spiritually sick.

What the community don’t understand, is that our church went on a corporate fast and from the pastor down to the pew, strongholds were broken. Now the power of God is sweeping through our church and true deliverance is taking place. Now everyone wants to be apart, but they don’t know what it cost my pastor or the church to get where God wanted us to be. They just see the glory. So don’t leave your church because you see the glory at someone else’s church. Just pray that the glory comes to your house. Uplift and uphold your pastor. Cover your church and pastor in prayer. Don’t let no one talk about your church or your pastor. If someone talks about your church or the pastor, act like you used to act when someone talked about your momma. You didn’t have it, you shut that foolishness down.

Whatever you do, don’t leave where your table is spread and the feast of the Lord is going on.

Be blessed and continue to be a blessing.

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Change Your Thinking

A while back I was talking to someone I went to high school with. I haven’t spoken to this person in years. While we were talking I realized he had the same mindset as when we were in high school. I wanted know how are you 40yrs old and still gang banging? What made you teach your kids how to gang bang? How can you fix your mouth to say you’re still holding down the block? The city of Chicago holds their own block down.

When we come to Christ we become new creatures, old things are passed away. As time passes on and as we grow in God, our mindset should change. Our thoughts should be, how can we please God, instead of how can we remain popular. When we think positive, we tend to do positive things and succeed. When we think negative, we feel like it’s everybody else’s fault. We tend to be underachievers. We tend to succumb to the environment in which we find ourselves in.

When God said let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus; that means our thoughts should line up with the word of God. Our thoughts, should have the character of God. Our thoughts should be to edify and not to do harm. If we don’t change our thinking, how do we expect our children to think any differently? How do we expect our neighborhoods to be changed and empowered?

When we change our thinking, our lives will change, our families will change, and our environment will change.

Be blessed and continue to be a blessing.

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Obedience

Many of us will tare into our kids if they disobey us, yet we disobey God on a daily basis and want him to give us grace and mercy. As adults we feel as though we should not have any consequences for our behavior. Then when God allows us to suffer, we say why me. The bible says if you’re going to suffer, make sure it’s for righteousness.

Many of us are suffering because of disobedience. We refuse to do what God has asked us to do. We refuse to live by the word of God. All we want to do, is the part of the word that makes us feel good. Feeling good won’t get us into heaven. God said, obedience is better than sacrifice. Just like we don’t accept our children being disobedient. God doesn’t accept us being disobedient. So, let’s obey and shut the enemy down with our obedience.

Be blessed and continue to be a blessing.

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God Didn’t Bring You This Far To Leave You

Does it feel like God has dropped you like a hot potato? Does anything seem to be going right in your life? Do you feel like you’re in a God forsaken place? Does everything around you seem dead? Dead prayers, dead dreams, dead worship, and dead relationships.

Know that God didn’t bring you this far to leave you. He brought you this far to try you. He brought you this far for you to take the test. You’ve been studying for this for a while. Granted you don’t remember all of the answers but answer the questions you know. Remember, late in the midnight hour God’s going to turn it around and it’s going to work in your favor. You just have to make it through the midnight season in your life. God does his best work while you’re in torment. While you think it’s the end of the world, while you think you can’t take anymore; God is crushing you and making you ready for the Masters use.

So, stop with your pity party and square your shoulders back.God is making you the soldier of Christ he needs in his army. God don’t need no coward soldiers or negative thinking soldiers. He needs someone that will stand in the midst of the battle. God didn’t bring you this far to leave you.

Be blessed and continue to be a blessing.

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Peace

Sometimes in life you have to get people out of your life just to have peace. It doesn’t mean that you don’t love them, but a peace of mind trumps a lover, family member or friend any day of the week. If someone is always bringing you drama, you need peace. If you have to constantly defend yourself to someone, you need peace. If, when that certain person always comes into your presence and your nerves are just shot when they leave, you need peace.

In some situations if you don’t have peace then it’s your fought. You can set the atmosphere in which you are. Even on your job with those coworkers and boss you don’t like, you can determine when you go into the office there will be peace. You can refuse to let the enemy have you all twisted and tied up for eight hours while you have to look at these people. You have to determine in your mind, I’m going to smile when I want to curse. I’m going to laugh when I really want to cry. I’m going to help them when I really want them to fail. They won’t take my peace or my joy.

God said he’ll give you a peace that surpasses all understanding. I never knew that type of peace existed, until I purposed in my heart to change the atmosphere around me. When you have to deal with constant drama, nagging, confusion, etc… It’s draining. It drains you physically, emotionally, psychologically, and sometimes financially. The bible also says; live peaceably with all men, if possible. Certain people don’t know how to live with peace, because drama is their normal way of life. You just pray for them and keep it moving. When you’ve had the peace of God in your life, you will never want to lose it.

Be blessed and continue to be a blessing.

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Who Cares What You Really Think

Sometimes in life you have to tell people that you really don’t care what they think or how they feel about you. I find it amusing that so many people think I should do this or do that, act like this or act like that; yet, they won’t do any of the things their telling me to do. It’s in those times that I tune them out.

People will always try to put you in a box and the minute you no longer want to fit in their box, here comes the noise. When you get to the point that you don’t care anymore and that you are going to follow God’s plan, toughen your skin because the attacks are going to come. Be prepared to lose some friends and family members, because they are going to think you are acting brand new. And, truthfully you are. You will realize that you have been living under someone else’s shadow and now it’s time for you to live in your own skin and find your own way.

If you continue to worry about what people think of you or how they feel about you, you will never go far in life. If blind Bartimeus would have cared what the people thought, he’d still be blind and begging by the side of the road. Today, as soon as someone says; I think you should do this or do that, and you didn’t ask them for their thoughts, cut them off and tell them, you could care less. When you tell them you don’t care what they think, say it with authority. Say it so they know you are not playing with them. Say it so they know you mean business and they better not say another word about what they think.

Be blessed and continue to be a blessing.

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Cast Your Cares On Me

When issues arise in our life, why don’t we go immediately to the Lord? Normally, we try to call our best friend, our mother, our father, our siblings, or someone we trust. Our first instinct should be to cast our cares on the Lord.

We waste a lot of time and energy telling everyone else about our issues. The sad part is, we are talking to people who cannot fix our problems. I don’t care how much we love these people, and how cool we are with these people; if we leave God out of the equation he’s not going to just allow our problems to be solved. When God said cast your cares on me, that wasn’t for kicks and giggles. He died for our sins and our cares. He rose out of the grave with all power in his hands.

So, I ask again; why do we keep going to people with no power? Think of it this way, when you have a problem with a utility bill and you call the utility company, you want to speak to someone with some authority who’s authorized to handle the situation. The person that answers the phone is not that person, that’s why you say; can I speak with the manager. Well, when issues arise in our life, we need to tell our issues I’m going to talk with the Master. He has authority and he’s authorized to do something about it. I don’t have time to talk to the middle man.

Be blessed and continue to be a blessing.

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Tell Hell, No

Years ago I preached this sermon at my grandfather’s funeral. I basically wanted the people to let hell know that they were not planning on making a visit there. No matter how much the enemy wants you, you have to tell hell, no.

You have to let hell know, that you’d rather be talked about, ostracized, put out and put down, before you give into the enemy. You must tell hell, that sleeping around ain’t worth it. Lying and stealing ain’t worth it. Disrespecting God and yourself ain’t worth it. When you really grasp the depth of the cross and what Jesus had to endure, you will have no problem with talking back to the enemy.

When the enemy wants you to take a second look at the other woman that means you no good, tell hell, no.
When that man says; if you love me you will sin for me, tell hell, no.
When the enemy tells you, it’s no harm in stealing office supplies from work, tell hell, no.
When the enemy tells you to give up on your wayward children, tell hell, no.
When the enemy wants you to focus on everybody and everything except the word of God, tell hell, no.

Telling hell, no needs to be second nature. Now, because you keep saying this, doesn’t mean the enemy is going to stop trying. It just means he’s going to try to come at you another way, so you have to be alert.

To be alert means to watch and pray daily. The enemy can try all he wants, but God said no weapon formed against you shall prosper.

Be blessed and continue to be a blessing.

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