When Sunday Comes...

WHEN SUNDAY COMES!! Some of you are in the middle of your Friday where all hope seems lost. The situation seems dead. What you thought may be appears to be no more. You are scared and feel helpless. You're concerned that there is nowhere to turn or to lean on. Friday leaves you discouraged, heartbroken, betrayed, and powerless. But....When Sunday Comes, LIFE is breathed into those circumstances that signaled death. Your hope and your power is restored. Well, it's SUNDAY family!!! Your joy is being resurrected NOW. Your peace has a pulse NOW. Rejoice this day and shake off the dirt that has been poured over you, for the Son is shining and it is finished!! Be blessed.

COME FORTH!!

Four days late and He was still ON TIME! When the situation was dead and buried. When all hope was lost. When the impossible became the inevitable-Jesus is still right on time! Lazarus, dead four days, and his sisters filled with despair, the Lord shows up and has the audacity to wonder what everybody is all upset about. How could he have the unmitigated gall to speak LIFE into something that was so obviously dead to all those who witnessed? How dare he utter words that restores what was once enveloped with a foul odor & tucked away alone and secluded from the world around it ? God wants you to know today, that though your circumstance is adorned with grave clothes and the stench from the hole your situation has you trapped in is overwhelming to those around you, He is here on the scene of your crisis, of your brokenness, of your pains, to say, "COME FORTH!" There shall be glory after THIS and all glory must go to God. He planned this thing that has you perplexed. From afar off, He saw this thing that has you stressed. With an end in mind, He consented to this thing that has you confused. YET HE IS STILL IN CONTROL! Even now, he's commanding the grave clothes to be removed. He's ordering what has you bound to be untied. Can you hear him calling your name? As with Lazarus, can you see him standing before you, beckoning YOU to come forth? Two words that authorizes you to move by the power of God-"COME FORTH!" Will you trust the freedom he's now giving you to shift into His presence? I pray you will! ...Love, Key

What Does God Say ?

People may call you a liar, thief, stingy, unreliable, procrastinator, lazy, immoral, adulterer, doubter, dead beat, junkie, drunk, or even a "lost cause"..But what does GOD call you?

 God says you are PECULIAR, you are REDEEMED, you are PURPOSED, you are CHOSEN, you are FREE!! Aren't you glad that the Father doesn't call us by what we look like right now, but by what He has created us to be?

  That is how our Lord sees us! So do not despair when you are cast aside because of your "present", for God is not going to stop his process of perfecting you until the work he has begun IN YOU is complete.I encourage you to keep getting up when you fall & keep pressing forward when quitting seems to be the easier option!

Here's Lashun Pace - Just Because God Said It

Release Your Power!

I am a firm believer that we hold POWER between our lips. I've discovered that the enemy subscribes to that notion as well. For that reason alone, he attempts to intimidate, discourage, distract, and overwhelm  your heart & mind with burdens in efforts to keep your mouths closed.

When you speak life, peace, victory, favor, and/or healing, through the blood & in the name of Jesus, the atmosphere, circumstance, situation is COMMANDED to obey. The Word encourages us that "life and death are in the power of the tongue", therefore, if Satan can cause us to shut the doors of our mouths, we won't speak the deliverance & restoration that we seek, into existence.

 We rescind into the hidden places of our minds. We hide in the cracks of our broken places. Today family, for my life & yours, I declare with an OPENED MOUTH, that waste places are being restored, relationships are being mended, bodies & minds are being healed & joy is being renewed! !

You don't have to be popular to be POWERFUL!

When Jesus purposes you for something, he gives you the power to do it! So what the crowd is gone and it seems like you are in this thing alone.

Who cares that folk reject you and it begins to look like perhaps you misunderstood the plan after all.

YOU ARE NOT BY YOURSELF , Jesus is right there saying, "I got you son", "I'm right here beside you daughter"...Square your shoulders back & lift up your head, for God's plan shall ALWAYS prevail!!

Walk in the authority of Christ that has been placed within you. People, life's circumstances, the enemy, nor even your own emotions or mindset don't have anything on the POWER OF GOD to move, to change, to draw, to lift, to fill, to bless, to enlarge, to heal, & to restore.

So I encourage you, as was Paul, "being FULLY PERSUADED that God had the POWER to do what he had promised"(Romans 4:21). That includes THROUGH you as well as FOR you.....

IN THE FIRE...? THERE'S HELP

 Sometimes God's power is most evident once you're already in the fire...

 I realize it would be more comfortable and more convenient for him to show up now before the flames get too high, before you're in the middle of your mess without an anchor, before you're seared from the heat of pain and despair. However, with his infinite wisdom, God has decided that he will get the glory from your circumstance in the sight of your enemies, doubters, and accusers who are standing near with a watchful eye in anticipation of your demise, decline, and destruction. He is, as Psalm 23:5 states, preparing "a table before me in the presence of my enemies".

Consider the experience Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego underwent. They were cast into a fire so hot that it burned the soldiers who opened the doors of the furnace to throw them in. Yet they remained steadfast in their faith that God was still in control. Though physically bound themselves, their faith untied the hands of the Lord to move on their behalf. He showed up in the midst of the fiery furnace. He unchained them from their calamities and granted them FREEDOM to walk in the FIRE!! The Lord waited until they were in a situation that they could not help themselves out of and then he CHOSE THEM!! He chose to use them and their circumstance to reveal his power and his faithfulness. He chose them to restore. He chose them to rescue. He chose them to deliver.

 Often times, we become negligent in our worship and lax in our praise forgetting that we do not serve God because we chose him to be the head of our lives, but on the contrary, the Lord chose us! For that very reason alone, you OWE God a praise!

 Like David, "I will extol the Lord at all times, his praise will always be on my lips" (Psalm 34:1)

 ....what about YOU?     Here's Kirk Franklin with More Than I Can Bear 

Whispers of the Enemy

When the enemy whispers lies to your mind that it just isn't worth all the sacrifices, afflictions, & struggles you must endure to maintain a REAL relationship with Christ, God shouts the comfort of the truth of his Word.

I encourage you all with a scripture that blessed me this morning. Revelation 3:8 says, " I KNOW YOUR DEEDS. SEE, I HAVE PLACED BEFORE YOU AN OPEN DOOR THAT NO ONE CAN SHUT.I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE LITTLE STRENGTH, YET YOU HAVE KEPT MY WORD AND HAVE NOT DENIED MY NAME".
Keep pressing, God is a rewarder to those who diligently seek him so the DESTINATION is certainly worth the journey. Here's Maartha Munizzi with I Know The Plans  God has a plan for YOU !!!