It's My Turn Now
Happy New Year and Welcome to 2019!!
By now your Christmas tree, lights, door wreath and decorations are down and New Year resolutions are being made. Or maybe, perhaps, you are the kind of person that celebrates the Christmas season all year - and that's fine too! It is almost a bittersweet institution of removing the splendor of the holidays because there is are few celebratory holidays again until Valentines Day - and I have already ordered flowers for myself! :-)
While we have the opportunity to resolve to become "better" at anytime of the year, seems like when the calendar changes (particularly as you get older) it just means something different. While the past is definitely behind us, when we change the calendar, it is also a ritual of pondering over the things that went right int he last 12 months or the things that may have gone wrong. Grant it, we cannot "change" the past - but we can change ourselves and how we think about and process events in our lives. I just do not desire to REPEAT my errors so I reflect with a sense of "what could I have done differently".
Of course, I aspire to leap into 2019 with visions of grandiosity! 2018 was challenging on so many fronts. Many of you, as myself, we "learn" to smile outside our tears. Even people closest to us never authentically know how we feel inside because addressing their "questions" just means you must hear your own voice articulate something you may want to process internally --- or to forget altogether. Silence IS golden, after all. I have learned to journal my thoughts. It is a mental catharsis of "things" so that my brain does not have to rehearse it. THIS YEAR I want to use my time and my thoughts wiser.
As a parent, we give so much of ourselves to our children - seeking NOTHING in return. The gift at the end of the end of the day is to seem them grow - and we SEE the deposits of our wisdom in them. The Bible instructs us to train up a child in the way they SHOULD go - (for me)... we can direct them but we cannot control them. I feel I have gone from mom to "coach". My daughter just graduated from college. She matriculated from Journalism to Culinary Arts (Savory Foods) and landing a degree in Culinary Arts as a Pastry Chef!! I could not be more proud! I try to listen to her intently as she begins to process "ADULT-ING" - and she "hates it". I mean, "Mommy, who is "FICA" and why do they take so much of my money"? :-) She will be okay as this is just the beginning of a trek that will mark the rest of her life. With God, Mommy will ALWAYS be the wind beneath her
Life is like "waiting in line" sometimes. Problem is - it is not uncommon to get in the slowest line or the line that has a customer with a long question or maybe you have been a line where just BEFORE it is your turn - the cashier yells "this line is closed after this customer".
We wait our turn to have God send the right person into our lives. Unfortunately, the wait can be so brutal that we step out of God's timing and make decisions on our own - that can make one unhappy for a mistake WE made. We rush to get the "corner office" just to find out that the "corner office" has more responsibilities and stress and we are left looking out the window of that "corner office" wondering if it was really worth the climb up the corporate ladder. Some choose to have children (sometimes for the "wrong reasons") just to find out that it is not as "fun" as it looks like on TV. That little bundle of joy learns to walk and "talk back". :-) How about rushing to buy that new car to keep up with the "JONES'es"! Last I checked some of the JONES'es were up to debt to their ears and their debit card was declined at the Wal-Mart! - must be true - since I saw that posted on FaceBook! :-)
No seriously.
After you have "waited in line" and "paid your dues" - it is also time to rejoice because now it is "YOUR TIME". Through the luxury of social media, I have met so many incredible people- just like you. Someone had the post attached herein on her timeline and it registered deeply within me.
FINALLY, some of the prayers I prayed will manifest in my favor in 2019. I had no hands laid on me and no one said this as a prophetic word. I just feel it deep inside me.
Join me in waking up "KNOWING" that this year will be different! You have paid your dues! You have lived a life worthy of having a "good break". How about those dreams of yours? Can you stretch a bit and just imagine those dreams coming true? Can you imagine the thought of just "being happy" again. Maybe money has not escaped your grasp and "things" do not escape you BUT you just are not happy. Look towards 2019 as the year of knowing it is finally "YOUR TURN".
I have no magic wand and no crystal ball to confirm it but I do believe that God has the final word on and in our lives. What the enemy has meant for evil - God will turn it all around for HIS good. Bishop Jakes recently preached a message reminding us that we have to "FIGHT FOR IT". The gifts of God do come with persecution - the prince and power of the air is not gonna "just let you" have anything 'cause he(the enemy) "comes" to steal, kill an destroy.
So let us "REJOICE IN PERSECUTION".... We are gonna win!
FINALLY, IT IS MY TURN! FINALLY, IT IS YOUR TURN!
The fight is on!!
P.S. I read the back of the book (Bible).... WE WIN!!
But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
I Peter 5:10 KJV (King James Version)
Keep a cool head. Stay alert. The Devil is poised to pounce, and would like nothing better than to catch you napping. Keep your guard up. You’re not the only ones plunged into these hard times. It’s the same with Christians all over the world. So keep a firm grip on the faith. The suffering won’t last forever. It won’t be long before this generous God who has great plans for us in Christ—eternal and glorious plans they are!—will have you put together and on your feet for good. He gets the last word; yes, he does.
I Peter 5:10-11 (MSG) The Message
By now your Christmas tree, lights, door wreath and decorations are down and New Year resolutions are being made. Or maybe, perhaps, you are the kind of person that celebrates the Christmas season all year - and that's fine too! It is almost a bittersweet institution of removing the splendor of the holidays because there is are few celebratory holidays again until Valentines Day - and I have already ordered flowers for myself! :-)
While we have the opportunity to resolve to become "better" at anytime of the year, seems like when the calendar changes (particularly as you get older) it just means something different. While the past is definitely behind us, when we change the calendar, it is also a ritual of pondering over the things that went right int he last 12 months or the things that may have gone wrong. Grant it, we cannot "change" the past - but we can change ourselves and how we think about and process events in our lives. I just do not desire to REPEAT my errors so I reflect with a sense of "what could I have done differently".
Of course, I aspire to leap into 2019 with visions of grandiosity! 2018 was challenging on so many fronts. Many of you, as myself, we "learn" to smile outside our tears. Even people closest to us never authentically know how we feel inside because addressing their "questions" just means you must hear your own voice articulate something you may want to process internally --- or to forget altogether. Silence IS golden, after all. I have learned to journal my thoughts. It is a mental catharsis of "things" so that my brain does not have to rehearse it. THIS YEAR I want to use my time and my thoughts wiser.
As a parent, we give so much of ourselves to our children - seeking NOTHING in return. The gift at the end of the end of the day is to seem them grow - and we SEE the deposits of our wisdom in them. The Bible instructs us to train up a child in the way they SHOULD go - (for me)... we can direct them but we cannot control them. I feel I have gone from mom to "coach". My daughter just graduated from college. She matriculated from Journalism to Culinary Arts (Savory Foods) and landing a degree in Culinary Arts as a Pastry Chef!! I could not be more proud! I try to listen to her intently as she begins to process "ADULT-ING" - and she "hates it". I mean, "Mommy, who is "FICA" and why do they take so much of my money"? :-) She will be okay as this is just the beginning of a trek that will mark the rest of her life. With God, Mommy will ALWAYS be the wind beneath her
Life is like "waiting in line" sometimes. Problem is - it is not uncommon to get in the slowest line or the line that has a customer with a long question or maybe you have been a line where just BEFORE it is your turn - the cashier yells "this line is closed after this customer".
We wait our turn to have God send the right person into our lives. Unfortunately, the wait can be so brutal that we step out of God's timing and make decisions on our own - that can make one unhappy for a mistake WE made. We rush to get the "corner office" just to find out that the "corner office" has more responsibilities and stress and we are left looking out the window of that "corner office" wondering if it was really worth the climb up the corporate ladder. Some choose to have children (sometimes for the "wrong reasons") just to find out that it is not as "fun" as it looks like on TV. That little bundle of joy learns to walk and "talk back". :-) How about rushing to buy that new car to keep up with the "JONES'es"! Last I checked some of the JONES'es were up to debt to their ears and their debit card was declined at the Wal-Mart! - must be true - since I saw that posted on FaceBook! :-)
No seriously.
After you have "waited in line" and "paid your dues" - it is also time to rejoice because now it is "YOUR TIME". Through the luxury of social media, I have met so many incredible people- just like you. Someone had the post attached herein on her timeline and it registered deeply within me.
FINALLY, some of the prayers I prayed will manifest in my favor in 2019. I had no hands laid on me and no one said this as a prophetic word. I just feel it deep inside me.
Join me in waking up "KNOWING" that this year will be different! You have paid your dues! You have lived a life worthy of having a "good break". How about those dreams of yours? Can you stretch a bit and just imagine those dreams coming true? Can you imagine the thought of just "being happy" again. Maybe money has not escaped your grasp and "things" do not escape you BUT you just are not happy. Look towards 2019 as the year of knowing it is finally "YOUR TURN".
I have no magic wand and no crystal ball to confirm it but I do believe that God has the final word on and in our lives. What the enemy has meant for evil - God will turn it all around for HIS good. Bishop Jakes recently preached a message reminding us that we have to "FIGHT FOR IT". The gifts of God do come with persecution - the prince and power of the air is not gonna "just let you" have anything 'cause he(the enemy) "comes" to steal, kill an destroy.
So let us "REJOICE IN PERSECUTION".... We are gonna win!
FINALLY, IT IS MY TURN! FINALLY, IT IS YOUR TURN!
The fight is on!!
P.S. I read the back of the book (Bible).... WE WIN!!
But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
I Peter 5:10 KJV (King James Version)
Keep a cool head. Stay alert. The Devil is poised to pounce, and would like nothing better than to catch you napping. Keep your guard up. You’re not the only ones plunged into these hard times. It’s the same with Christians all over the world. So keep a firm grip on the faith. The suffering won’t last forever. It won’t be long before this generous God who has great plans for us in Christ—eternal and glorious plans they are!—will have you put together and on your feet for good. He gets the last word; yes, he does.
I Peter 5:10-11 (MSG) The Message
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