God has a purpose and plan for your life, and His timing is perfect. Sometimes He answers our prayers with “yes” or “no.” But at other times, He says, “Not now.” When this is the case, we can avail ourselves of the rich rewards that come while we wait.

I encourage you to align your focus and know that God’s plans are far greater than ours. When it’s all said and done, we will understand why God’s timing for us was much more strategic and for our good. Having patience is hard, but it’s also rewarding.

Song of the Day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrnzbGpQaLc

Stop thinking less of yourself! Develop your view of who God is through who you think you are. If you believe you are worthless, that’s what makes it hard to worship a God who knew you were worth dying for.

The way you look at oppositions that are presented in front of you determines the momentum you have moving forward into the direction of your life. Pray for the power to interpret. If God does not give you the power to interpret, then you will fight all of your battles the wrong way.  

Job 13:15  (KJV) ¹⁵ Though he slay me, yet will I trust in Him…

We know attacks come… these are called life events. The event does not determine the outcome of this season, it is your interpretation. Interpretations belong to God. The more we pray, our situation may not change, but the more we pray, the more we start to change. Interpret your life through your faith and not your feelings. Stop interpreting your present through the lens of your past. You will be in a prison of your own interpretation.

I encourage you to develop a mind like Christ and seek the best response to every event in your life.

Song of the Day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11D–h9Vt8E

Big people can dispute over the issue without falling out over the individual. Petty people fall out with the individual over the issue. If you make the issue the problem, rather than the individual, it is a chance to that you can unify and attack the issue. There is no way to have unity when you make the individual the problem and not the issue.

I encourage you to manage offenses, handle problems and be prepared because they will come. How you forgive will be the ultimate test. As fast as the offense come, let it go!

Luke 17:1 Jesus said to his disciples: “Things that cause people to stumble are bound to come, but woe to anyone through whom they come.

Desieray N. Brown

God called Moses to go back to the place where he fled.  First, the burning bush had  his attention. There is a burning bush in your life that is calling your name, saying to take that job. That burning bush has been burning on the inside of you for a long time. Many of us are like Moses… we are afraid and say “Who am I that you would send me?”.

It is never about who you are, but who God is. Let us stop making things about us. It’s about showing who God is through us. Never talk yourself out of the very thing God has called you to do. Remove the barriers of drug addiction, traumatic childhood, homelessness or a broken home. God still chose you!

Get ready to step into the next dimension of who God has called you to be. Moses thought he had to have it together before he stepped into it. Moses listened to God and didn’t mind bringing his fears along on the journey. He didn’t feel qualified, but God told him that He would be with him. The more Moses walked, the more he gave room for God to show up.

I challenge you to see your life with a new level of abilities and allow God to use you in every opportunity. Don’t just respond with lip service, but with a heart posture. He has reserved you for a purpose, not to get comfortable, but to raise you up into a deliverer! When God says GO…. GO!

Read the story here:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+3&version=NIV

Song of the Day:

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=when+god+says+go+song&&view=detail&mid=5262E30CB42ADE9B1BBB5262E30CB42ADE9B1BBB&rvsmid=224339F6E6B0B7B77B08224339F6E6B0B7B77B08&FORM=VDRVRV

Paul prayed multiple times for God to remove the thorn from his flesh. God said He won’t remove it, but will give him the Grace to carry it. If you lose your job, keep the Faith! If you have to downsize, keep the Faith! If you lose a child, keep the faith! If you get sick, keep the faith! God is saying Trust Him! Sometimes He won’t give us what we want, but will still provide and use you as a vessel to show others what God can do! Fight the good fight of faith and keep pushing no matter what the enemy throws your way. #EverythingByFaith

I encourage you to rise up and know there is a light, even though all you see is darkness right now. Continue watering your seed (spirit) with God’s Word. Get rest, because God never sleeps nor slumbers and is the one working on our behalf. 

The Parable of the Growing Seed

^{Mark 4:26} He also said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. ²⁷ Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. ²⁸ All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head. ²⁹ As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come.”

Sometimes you have to pray in the midst of death and when you don’t know what to say, you just say JESUS!! Tell adversity in its face who you are and whose you are! Just this morning, it felt like every car that came close to me tried to run me off the road or crash. From cars rushing into my lane almost hitting me by inches, 18 wheelers slamming on breaks prematurely and being cut off when it was hardly room for them to cut in at the last minute. Each time, I just called out JESUS!! Sometimes, we can’t give a full prayer in the midst of danger, but when we say Jesus… it’s like He shows up immediately.

It reminds me when Peter walked on water. Jesus IMMEDIATELY caught peter when he began to sink.1- Peter called on the right person to save him and 2- Peter was close enough to Jesus for Him to catch his hand.

^{Matthew 14:28} “Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water.”

²⁹ “Come,” he said.

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.

I encourage you to stay near to Jesus, call on him when you need him and to simply thank Him in advance before danger even strikes!!

Desieray N. Brown

Luke 5:5 “And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have caught nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.”

Simon has been working hard trying to catch fish all night and caught nothing. Jesus got on the boat and told him to try it again. When he done so, he caught so many fish that his net was about to tear. Sometimes we have to tell ourselves to try it again. We may have been trying to reach success and the Lord is telling us not to give up, but we are at the point where giving up seems like the best option. God will destroy that spirit of failure. Don’t give up… a bigger blessing than you expect is coming. You’ll see why the devil tried you this whole time. Failure makes hell happy because it stops you from receiving your blessing. It may LOOK like you didn’t try, but God knows you tried. Have you ever been so tired that sleep doesn’t give you rest? God will send rest to those who labor. Galatians 6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

I encourage you to destroy any spirit that is talking you out of success. You got this! Don’t give up.