My husband and I take a lot of road trips and often times while traveling my husband will take an unexpected turn and deviate from the normal route.  Even though I trust him, I question why is he taking this route instead of the normal route?  My husband’s response is short, he doesn’t go into details about traffic ahead or a bridge out, etc., he just says trust me.  Many of us trust God, but often times when He takes our life on an unexpected turn and deviates from the normal route it causes us to question Him, and like my husband He just says trust me.  When you trust someone you don’t...

PLANTED NOT BURIED John 12:23&24,  “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.” I just want to encourage someone today who feels like they are buried underneath the issues of life and let you know that you are not buried you are planted! The enemy doesn’t have the authority to take you out!  The enemy may think that he’s killed you and is preparing your burial but this isn’t your death it’s only a set up for your...

I write this to remind someone today with everything going on in the world and despite what you may be going through personally in your world, do not grieve for the joy of the Lord is your strength! (Nehemiah 8:10) I know the news outlets are saturated with bad reports, and your social media feed may be saturated with bad news, but in the words of Mabel King, “Don’t Nobody Bring Me No Bad News!  So I come to bring you good news, I come to bring you the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ!  The good news is that despite what is going on, you can still have joy in Jesus and that the joy of the Lord...

LITTLE BY LITTLE I wanted to share this thought with you today and I pray it encourages you because there are many people who feel like God is not moving on their behalf and that God has forgotten them. In Exodus 23:30 the Lord tells the Children of Israel that little by little He will drive out the inhabitants of the land before them until they have increased enough to take possession of the land.  “Little by Little”.  I want to encourage someone today and let you know that God is doing “it” little by little.  Someone may be wondering when God when, when will may change come,...

2 Corinthian's 12:8-10, But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. How many of us can boast about our weaknesses?  We can’t boast in our weaknesses because we are so busy trying to hide them and appear as if we have it all together.  Maxwell has a song entitled “This Women’s Work” and one of the verses in the song says “I should be crying, but I just can’t let it show”. Why, why can’t we let it show?  Why can’t...

We are 18 days into the New Year and many are still riding high off their resolutions for 2018.  While many are still excited about this new year and all that it will bring there are many who are left feeling defeated and like a failure because they did not accomplish all their goals for 2017.  I want to talk to that group of people and encourage you not to go another day further into 2018 carrying what you perceive as failure for not meeting all your 2017 goals.  Starting right now, pick yourself up, dust your shoulders off and square them back and look 2018 in the face boldly and gear...

IN PROCESS I thank God for the woman He is making me. I am a woman in process.  I am not perfect.  I don’t get everything right and I make mistakes. I fall down sometimes.  I doubt sometimes.  I question the plan and the process sometimes.  I battle insecurities sometimes.  Sometimes I battle fear. Sometimes I battle crazy thoughts in my mind, but I’m in process and I thank God for the woman He’s making me. I couldn’t always say that.  I didn’t always embrace my process. Sometimes it felt more like punishment than process. Sometimes I questioned if God was mad at me, and if I was being...

I believe we are all in the pursuit of happiness, but what is your happiness?  Happy is defined as- cheerful, joyful, delighted, feeling or showing pleasure or contentment.  Paul said in Philippians 4 that he has learned to be content in whatever the circumstances.  Paul has learned the secret of being content with and without.  Can I be honest with you?  I’m still working on this.  I am grateful for the many blessings that God has given me in this life, and He has been better than good to me, but yet often times I still find myself struggling with being content without, if I were to be honest,...

Ecclesiastes 3:11, He has made everything beautiful in His time. This weekend I am speaking at a conference entitled “Beauty Hurts”. Have you ever heard the saying “it’s painful to be beautiful”? Beyoncé said in her song “Flawless”, “I woke up like this”. Ladies, yes we are beautiful, but let’s be real, we don’t just roll out of bed looking like our Facebook and Instagram profile picture.   It’s a process - hair, makeup, nails, fashionable clothes, some of us even go as far as plastic surgery. America is consumed with beauty and most women are image driven using...

Are we married to God or just dating Him?  Having we given Him a yes or a maybe?  Yes, requires commitment and covenant. Ladies, you know after that brother’s been flirting with you for a while, and you are thinking to yourself, “okay, when is he going to ask for my number and/or ask to take me out”? Or, you have been dating that man for years and you are wondering when he is going to step up and propose marriage?  Well, God wants to know when some of us are going to stop flirting with Him and casually dating Him and make a commitment. If we want to experience the abundant life He came...