Working Out Your Own Soul Salvation

I haven't posted in years lol I must get back to it, starting today.

So just recently, I was listening to one of Joyce Myers podcast and she mentioned how if we avoide dealing with our soul, the root of our emotions the place where our pain lives, our hurt, etc; the words that we speak may cause pain rather than encourage one who hears.

When she said that I just kept meditating on it. I pictured like a pyramid and since I love food, I pictured the process of marinating a piece of chicken (as if I'm a cooker lol) You fill a bowl with your special sauce, then you put the pieces of chicken in the bowl to marinate. for a few hours or a day. Then you begin the process of cooking the chicken. The longer you let the chicken marinate the more flavorful it will be when its all done. The savory juicy taste of that chicken is satifiying to the soul and we would say it "HITS THE SPOT" :)

So it is! You invite Christ into your life and the moment you do you are filled with HIS spirit. U soak up on the word of God and when you allow that word to cook in your life, your soul becomes free, free of pain, free of heartache, free of whatever is not suppose to be there and full of what is.... So now when you speak you speak from a place of healing, a place of joy and a place of peace and so now U become that person that's ready to encourage the next.

This my friend was a revelation, for me today of HIS word "...working out your own salvation...". Philippians 2:12

YOU gotta work it out, and remember not to forget HIM as the helper.
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Working it out....

God Bless and continue to be a blessing...


-S
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Loving You

For many this may seem to come easy, for many this is done through a journey of repeated heartaches, being abandoned, low self esteem, etc.

No matter what scenerio you find yourself in, what road you journey along You owe it to yourself to experience what it's like to love You, to embrace You, to celebrate You even if no one else does.

What perfect way to come to understand what Love is and what Love looks like other than looking at the one who is Agape Love, the one who first Loved us before even the foundations of this world, the one who loves us despite our hangups and mishaps, the one who is always ready to shower us with his presence. The one who understands when no one else understands. He is OH so awesome and OH so amazing.

For me I don't think this came for me until after my college years. Wow!, how many years I wasted, yet, I must say each moment played a significant role in who I am today. Would I change somethings, most definitely. Nontheless, I am owe so grateful for the grace and mercies of God and his promise that "All things work together for the good of them that Love the Lord and are called according to his purpose"


So if you haven't yet discovered what its like to love yourself, always remember you owe it to yourself to come and finally experience the Love that God has so freely shown you. "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotton son .for you to live and have everlasting life, if only you would believe and call upon his name, Jesus."

Let's make 2009 be our year of walking along that PATH of truly loving ourselves, first.

May your day be blessed and may continue to desire to be a blessing!

S.A.W.
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In the abundance of Joy & Gratitude

9/5/08
I don't know where to start. I am having the time of my life and I am so grateful to God for allowing me to experience such pleasure in life. God is oo so faithful; don't sleep on HIM trust Him because he is sure to give u the desires of your heart, if u first commit your ways unto Him. (Psalms 37: 4-5).

I am in LOVE with Jesus all over again. Not because HE gives me but because of who HE is and what is given when He steps on the seen. Its an abundance of peace , joy, Love, victory, gentleness and so much more.

He's there when no one else is there.

He hears the silent prayers of your heart.

He knows what to do when to do it and how to say it so that u know He's speaking.

He gives us peace that surpasses all understanding.

He is the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end.

The joy of Him is my strength when I'm weak.

He is all that and more and I am so privileged to be chosen to show forth his greatness in the earth.

I pray that you are blessed and overtaken in awe of Him as you come to discover the one and only true and living God. You life will never be the same again.

S.A.W.
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Mood: Excited About The Abundance of Joy God Brings

God has truly been good to me. Just being able to bathe in his presence over these past few weeks, more than ever before has been such an amazing experience. Its like carrying 100 lbs on ur back, you know its there but now the weight is as light as a feather. It like everything around you is going haywire but yet ur tangled in this web of peace and can't seem to get out nor can u seem to undertsand it all. I can go on but words really can't describe all that HE is nor can it describe just how much HE loves you and me.

With this joy I feel comes with this motivation to want to do all I can to live an abundant life, always. Dream more, give more, desire more, serve more, embrace more, encourage more, laugh more, celebrate more, relate more, appreciate more, travel more, smile a little more; oh my there's just so much more.

Hey don't miss out on the Abundance of Life that money simply can not buy but has been freely given to us through Jesus Christ.

"...I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly." John 10:10

I pray that today be the day that you experience HIM in a way that you never have before and may ur life for ever be changed and lived in the abundance. It's in Jesus name that I pray. Amen

Until next time be blessed and continue to be a blessing.

S.A.W.
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PAYING IT FORWARD – AT THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME

July 22, 2008

 

Wow, being at the right place at the right time. Ok so this is a short story yet an important one.  Sometime, last week while at work I was going through some mail which tends to be loads of junk mail and mail for workers that no longer work with company, have passed away, etc.  So it was this one particular day when I saw some mail addressed to the son of the prior owner and I had that feeling that I should open it.  (Def. the voice of the Holy Spirit and you will how, just continue reading). So I did and the information had to do with some unclaimed money that the father left for his grandson. Instead of ignoring it, I went on to ask my boss to try to locate the address where we can send the information.  So we did and it was forwarded on to the person who would then forward it on to right person.

 

Ok so let me tell you how being at the right place and at the right time and being obedient to the voice of God can be a blessing for someone else, because its not always about you (me).  So the person that the mail was for, he actually still owns the building and so he stopped by today and he goes to me "were you the one that sent me the mail" and I said "yes" and he went on to say thank you.

 

Later on he goes on to say, ok I have to tell you this story "so just last week I had to send out a few thousand dollars for my son's school and I said geesh that sure was a large chunk of money that he had to take from his own pockets. And a few days later I received in the mail the information that you sent me regarding unclaimed money and I felt that it was like my FATHER saying its ok I'll take care of it, don't worry about it."  I said "look at that God is good".  Now wait so you know how when we sow it come back to us some 30, some 60 some 100 fold ( Mark 4:3, 8) well the money that was unclaimed was enough to cover the amount for his son's school plus a little extra left over. 

 

Now you can't tell me that God ain't that's right ain't good.  He is amazing, faithful, loving, generous and so much more. Not to forget he is always Always Always on time.

 

So I share this story not to toot my own horn but to show that, really if we are not on point with hearing the voice of God and being obedient to following the Will of God not only are we missing out for ourselves, but someone else is missing out on receiving their blessing as well.  Let's always remember, it's not about self but about God's will, God's love, promises and greatness being lived out in our lives daily.

 

Stay focused, stay encouraged and as my First Lady said, "Pay It Forward"

 

God Bless and Continue to be a blessing,

S.A.W.

Very Briefly...Holding On Not To What It Looks Like...

Late Sunday evening I was in my little moment where I was thinking and I found myself in the moment where I wanted to just talk it out. So, briefle I mentioned to my mom "if God promised he was going to do something right, then that's it, its going to happen. But what if it completely does not look like it, I mean even if there was a little sign of something perhaps it would ease the waiting".


Before I go on to give u the brief words that she mentioned to me, can I just tell you that I already knew exactly what she was going to say simply because when I was talking it out I felt that the holy spirit was ministering to me by reminding me of the scriptures. Sometimes you just have to talk it out...it really does help.


So what did mom say, well she went on to say "yes I have had that experience and still to this day and so what do you do in the mist of waiting and not seeing anything, you keep on holding on to the promise for faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen (hebrew 11:1) You just have to trust that in the mist of your waiting God is working on your character so just be patient and continue to hold on".


Of course I was a bit more encouraged. I just think that I am the type of person that you can say here this is A B C D be creative with it I tend to get a little anxious as to what's next. So I haven't mastered it yet, but I'm still learning that its a learning process and that its ok to seat at the table with a pen and a blank piece of paper and you have nothing to write but rather you wait patiently for the Father to reveal what it is that he will have you to do at that moment. Because in the end, his plans are always better, more detailed and elaborate of our own.


So let us not be anxious for anything but in all things make our request known to God through prayer.

Have a blessed one and continue to be a blessings!!!

S.A.W.
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WHAT IS YOUR COMPANY SAYING?

6/18/08

So important...

Ok so as I am up getting ready this morning my little sister was singing one of the songs that the kids from her school will be performing for a play this month. The song was from the show Annie and it goes like this "its a hard knock life for us its a hard knock life for us instead of treated we get tricked instead of kisses we get kicked" or something like that.

So a few minutes went by and I'm still getting dressed and out of no where I started singing that same song and my sister said "oooo no why are you singing that song" and my initial response that I gave her was "because you put it in my head". And readers that's how this blog entry came about.

Let's take this same situation and dig a little deeper. This is a perfect example of how we need to monitor what others are saying and make sure that we are not allowing them to plant negative seeds into our spirit, because next thing you know without even realizing it their negative words can become our words. The word says let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the end of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear. (Ephesians 4:29)

This happened to me before and I believed I shared it in a blog or two ago. Where one day I was coming home for prayer and I just begin feeling a little discouraged and I started saying to myself and questioning, God when is this going to happen, if u said it then when, I mean I am doing this and doing that when, when, when? And I had to catch myself because those were not my words, that was never how I approached my feelings to God in the past and it wasn't how I was going to start. (Not that I don't ever wonder when something is going to happen but I always try looking at what it is that I am not doing before I send up the questions; and many time when we look at ourselves and our stewarship, sometimes we can get the answer without even needing to question what timeclock God is on). Ok so back to my point, after doing inventory on what converations I allowed my ears to attend to, it clicked and I realized that the thoughts and words I was having with myself. At that moment were just about the same words I was having with an associate a few days prior.

So I end on this, let us stand guard and be aware and be ready to cancel every assignment of the negative words that are put before us.

Let's Pray:
Father we thank you for this day, for our health, our life, our strength and our ability to hear clearly with our ear gates. We ask for your divine assistance in helping us to be quick to hear and slow to speak, to help us to be fully conscious of the words we choose even before they proceed out of our mouth. We cancel the assignment of every negative word that is spoken in our atmosphere and we thank you now for not allowing it to take root in the life of the person it was spoken towards. It's in Jesus name that we pray. Amen

Be blessed and continue to be a blessing.

S.A.W.

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