Hair Salon Chronicles - "Prayer of Petition"

Lately I've been blogging a lot from under the dryer. I'm starting to think that it's my place of solace and peace, where I find time to think AND blog :). 

Jerry Savelle really did a number with this book. If you don't know how to pray, need help with your prayers or feel as if your prayers are not being answered then this is a good book for you. It's a good book in general but definitely for prayer. 

I was called to read this book about two years ago in my intercessory class. I started it but never finished. I didn't know the depth of what it would entail and how much I would need the word, the instructions and the insight for TODAY in my life.  Often times the things we learn in the moment that we learn them are never for that moment but for a moment in time to come and that is why in "all you're getting, get an understanding" the Bible says. We must grasp hold of every life lesson so that we can apply it to our lives in time of need. 

I'm dealing with something very hard right now and I know that the only way out of this is through prayer and the supply of God's spirit. I know that I CANNOT overcome this without God and what He has done for me so far is giving me tools that I've always had (I.e I found this book in the trunk of my car *sigh) but He's giving me the things that I need to get through this. 

I encourage you today to seek God in the things that you need to get through your daily lives. Find out what it is that you need to make it through each day and instead of putting them "in the trunk of your car" I admonish you to utilize them the moment you receive them so that you can live a successful life EVER DAY!  

Be blessed! 

  

This is a true story......

Women of Warfare

Attended a women's conference that my Pastor sponsors every year and more than the blessing that I get from it is the power that I'm left with. God has an amazing way of speaking to us, not just through preaching but as well as through the things that we do for His glory. As I was "at work" for The Lord today, I realize that despite how inadequate I may be, how many mistakes I have made, He looks pass all of them because what He has created me to be is far greater than what I am right now. 

And of course, the attire called for All black.......... So I popped up in that black and killed that! 😏 

Where do broken hearts go?

I read once that said, "A broken heart is like having broken ribs.  Nobody can see it but it hurts every time you breathe."  I could have screamed out loud when I read that because I was able to identofy with it too well.  I knew what it was like to have my heart broken and love ripped from under me like a rug.  I knew what it was like to have hopes, dreams and future aspirations snatched from me because of one decision, that someone else made, and ultimately took what I thought was real from me.

When Whitney Houston released the song, "Where do Broken Hearts Go," in Februaury of 1988, I was a mere 8 years old.  I knew nothing about love, relationships or boys.......I knew much about nothing because I was 8 years old and nothing else in the world mattered than the dolls that I played with and what sweets I could consume after dinner.   This song would become one of Whitney's top hits and stay on the charts for quite some time.  Here I am, 25 years later, this song would become a reality to me, so much that I would write a blog about it to ease the pain and quench what felt like my soul was burning from.  I would write about it because it eased the pain, it made me see how the heart was so precious, so much that God would forewarn us to, "guard your heart because out of it flows the issues of life." Proverbs 4:23.  I never thought that heart break would be one of the things that God would forewarn me from, I never thought that it could be me because to me, LOVE was the very perfect thing that I was SURE that I knew.

Where do Broken Hearts Go?  Broken hearts go to God, the only person and place that can heal them because "The Lord is near to the broken hearted," because, "He heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds," because His "grace is sufficient for you and His power made perfect in weakness..." BECAUSE... HE SAID "Come to me all you are heavy laden and I will give you rest."
He has given us a blueprint on how to come from being broken hearted and He has instructed us on what He would do to deliver us.  He has all the answers and all we have to do is trust in Him that what He says that He will do, He will really do it.

Where do broken hearts go? They go into the arms of God, the secret place, where there is freedom, there is protection, there is comfort and most of all, there is LOVE and as we know, Love is perfected in HIM!!

"Ball so hard.....................

Not sure if I told you guys that I am also a  Restaurant Connosieur but I am lol!

Tonight I tried "Clyde Frazier's Wine and dine" and was thoroughly impressed with the ambiance and the set up. The food was mediocre but having a basketball court in your restaurant is genius!! 🙌🙌🙌

Will You Stand?

Some of our greatest adversities come upon us when we least expect it. Things could be going just as "planned," as you planned, and BAM........ Something hits us and knocks us off of our feet. 

But it's these times that we must reach out to the greater one, on the inside of us, and trust that He will see us through. 

I always think about Peter and when he was at the very brink of walking completely on water (because you know he did walk a little bit right?) it was in that defining moment of his life that he stopped and questioned Christ with the very thing that He had already been doing for him. 

"Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. "30 But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!” 31 Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. “You of little faith,”he said, “why did you doubt?” - Matt 14:30-31

Peter walked on the water and the minute he doubted, he started to sink. BUT GOD (say, "But God") but He reached down and caught him as the word says which is proof that even in our unbelief, God is still there, even when we started the walk but could not finish, He reaches out and helps us. He said that He is "an ever present help in the time of need". What more could you ask for? 

Today, I don't know what you're going through, I don't know what odds are against you, what the devil is using to persecute you........I don't know.......BUT I promise you that if you stand, on God's word and the promises that He has for you, I promise you that just like He reached out and saved Peter, so will He do for you. 

Will You Stand??

It's always a good time to wear All black

To Whom much is given, much is required - Luke 12:48

And one day I'm going to make it and I'll look back on my life and thank God for every obstacle.............. Because without them I would have never been able to see the true strength that I possess!