1 Timothy 6:12 – Fight the good fight for the true faith. Hold tightly to the eternal life to which God has called you, which you have declared so well before many witnesses

To be a fighter in any capacity means that the enemy will always try in all their might to get you to identify as a runner. The enemy would also want others to identify you as a runner.

What is a runner?

A runner is one who runs away. One who wants to run from its present situation.

Believe me when I tell you that, that is what the enemy wants you to do. He wants you to run from the situation that has made you uncomfortable. He wants you to run and have no other option but to admit and identify that you are a runner. Once you run, you can’t deny that you didn’t run.

To be honest, I never paid much attention the word runner until I was reminded of the things, I’ve been through and even some before I even came to Christ, that even then I never ran, I stayed and to fight. When I say the enemy wants you to IDENTIFY with being a runner, I’m telling you, he banks on it, he puts all his focus and strategies on that fight because IF you run, that would be his victory. Genesis 50:20 ^– You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good. He brought me to this position so I could save the lives of many people. It would be you running from what God has called you to do. It would be the race the enemy want you to run from and walking away from every promise He gave you but more that you ran away from Him and His kingdom. In the process of running, you also robbed those he would place in your path to introduce them to HIM and entering His kingdom.

The fight or battle you are in, I do not doubt that it is tough, hard, overwhelming, and / or heartbreaking but running proves nothing, only that you didn’t trust in THE ONE that you everything was going to be okay. (I trust those words because has said them to me and sent others to tell me. )

Will you be the runner and run or a fighter and press forward?

Philippians 3:14 – I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.

I am a fighter! Just let me tell you something: I did want run. I did want to quit but I kept remembering and being and reminded of how much God has already done and will continue to do and that even if I did run the battle will still be there only it would be harder without Christ. Battles are fought on a daily basis. Maybe you are in a season where everything is going great and if that is the case Praise God! Maybe you are in a season where is seems like you are fighting battle after battle and it’s getting so hard all you can think to do is run. To run doesn’t even mean the battle stops, to be completely truthful they will keep coming. To be honest, I feel I been in a season where it feels like battle after battle is coming my way. I admit, I have said “Again God? Another thing God? I try to always remember that God never said this walk would be easy. John 16:33 – I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth, you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.” Even through the fight and even as God sends another person to tell me that even I crawl but keep going, I’m still getting through it because I trust THE ONE, I know goes with me, even when that other person tells me, “Get up! What are you doing there?” that turns out to be confirmation of what I did not want to admit, I have been hearing God ask me, “Melissa, what are you doing here?” In that emotional moment, I would find myself replying I don’t know. But the one thing I did know was that…

I was still standing! I AM A FIGHTER!

I am still standing because despite the battle that the enemy wanted to count me out, despite the fact that he punched me right in the face and thought he knocked me out and surely thought I was out for the count…. HE WAS WRONG!! Instead, he saw he was defeated because I got back up. I got up because through it all and receiving prayers, support, and encouragement and I’m not saying it was easy because there were many times I wanted to run. I thank God that I never let go of the hand of God, even in the moments I felt like letting go was just easier, He never let me go simply because HE chose me and calls me HIS. I AM A FIGHTER! Even if in the moment I didn’t see it or believe it myself, he always had a plan for me. Jeremiah 29:11 – For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.

He has a plan for you too! He created fighters to fight the good fight.

THE FIGHTER IS ME!

THE FIGHTER IS YOU!

KEEP FIGHTING!!!

DIAMONDS ✴✴✴✴ I’m sure your first thought of the word, you probably imagined a beautiful diamond that you would see someone wearing or displayed in a jewelry store. It would be sparkly and shiny and beautiful.

BUT…

Let me tell you one thing about diamonds, they don’t start out as the beautiful piece of jewelry you are imagining. They go through a process. They have to be found, dug up, and transformed into that beauty piece of jewelry that first came to your mind as you read that first word to start the blog. That beautiful diamond you see began its journey as a diamond in the rough. To the untrained eye, finding a diamond probably would just look like a dull piece of glass. No beauty, no sparkle! The process to become the beauty you see in the jewelry stores or in your jewelry box is an intense process. It takes months, but the end result is the beautiful piece of diamond jewelry you may be wearing. A jeweler or gemologist shapes the diamond to bring out the beauty of that diamond, much like how the moment you allowed yourself to be found and God dug you up out of where you were and began to transform you. He began to mold and shape you to bring out the shine in you to display HIS GLORY. Isaiah 64:8 – And yet, O Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are the potter. We all are formed by your hand.

A diamond in the rough is basically referring to the original state. The original state in which it was found and had to be dug up. That diamond will have a dirty appearance and the shape would most likely be unappealing to the eye, but it has the potential to become that high quality valued diamond when it withstands the process.

You may not even realize as you read through the blog, that you were once or maybe are that DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH waiting to be discovered. You may not even really know God. Maybe you’re even reading this because you know me and want to support me (by the way: THANK YOU ❤) or a friend or family member asked you to read this blog, but I want to tell you this – IT IS NOT AN ACCIDENT that you are reading this blog because God knows you and however way He did it, He led you here to tell you something. He knew you before you were even born. Jeremiah 1:5 – “I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb. Before you were born, I set you apart and appointed you as my prophet to the nations.” As I sat here writing this out by hand as that is my process, I began to just feel the emotion and realization that there are no words to even describe how I feel knowing that HE – set me apart and appointed me – even as rough around the edges I was and even parts of me still is, He still began the process of removing from me parts that were no longer of any use to me or HIM because they represented the world. He would now bring me through the process the represent HIM to shine for HIS honor and glory. Like I said there are no words to describe the feeling I feel realizing the I am HIS treasure and the value he places on me by calling me HIS and I pray you realize he holds YOU to the same.

You may be in that diamond in the rough state and may not feel any of the words you just read but I tell you from my own experience just as God saw the potential for me to shine for HIS glory. I want you to know you hold that same potential and value in his eyes. Malachi 3:17 – “They will be my people,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. “On the day when I act in judgment, they will be my own special treasure. I will spare them as a father spares an obedient child.

Just as the rough diamonds found had to go through a process of heat and pressure to become that beautiful Diamond, you will also go through fire, pressure, trials, struggles, and hurts but one thing I can say is that you will not go through them alone. God will remove every part of you that represents the world as long as you allow Him because he won’t force himself on you, He is a gentleman and through that process you will begin to represent HIM.

Are you willing? Will you surrender your will for HIS?

Let me tell you, I stayed in that “Diamond in the Rough” state for so long because I did not want to change anything in my life or myself, but I still wanted what I heard God had to give me. I still wanted to run my life as I wanted and do whatever pleased myself. During those years in my life, I did feel rough around the edges, unapproachable, angry, alone and never realizing that the moment I would allow God to polish me up and shape me to be like HIM, He would use me for things I would never imagine myself doing. Even if it looked hard or scary, I would do it because I now knew that if he called me to do it or go through it, He would equip me and would go with me through the process.

To the world once I gave God that chance as He asked me that rainy cloudy day, I was not good anymore, but to God I was always that precious beautiful diamond and you are too! The enemy will try everything to get to you to go back to the world that devalued you the moment you chose GOD to be #1 but never forget …. THE devil IS A LIAR! Even the many times I have fallen short, God forgave me when I asked, and he still picked me and shined me up again.

I was told once or twice or more (my pastor) on a bad day I was having about people often times look in the mirror and even though there are dramatic changes in them, they do not see it, they see the old them. To be honest, it is a struggle I still have at times but let me tell you God never saw what I saw. He always saw the potentional, treasure, value and beauty I held in HIS eyes. You shine, you draw attention because no matter how much dirt the enemy tries to throw on you, you still shine like God created you to.

I want to end tell you:

You were worth the find. You were worth the process. As you begin the transformation in Christ from that “diamond in the rough” to that new creation of that beautiful diamond you will see it was worth the process. ❤

God Bless You!

Will you declare it!! In the midst of the situation or storm that may feel like this is the last thing you can handle; it becomes easy to let people tell you or even you yourself say:

” That’s never going to work!”

“That situation will never ever change!”

or

“That won’t last!”

BUT….

Why is it that easy to take their word or fall into the trap the enemy is clearly behind that set up that you accept? Its comes easy because as humans we are trained to see things as they are, how it looks with our natural eye, but God is calling us to see things as He sees them because He is already setting things up for you. Is it a struggle? Yes, and to be totally honest at times, I do struggle but I praise God, it doesn’t take me to long to see that God is working. The enemy bets against you and me every chance he gets. The enemy wants us to bow out, he wants us to take blow after blow and just be out for the count. He wants us to fall down and stay down.

BUT…

I remind you what the MIGHTY WORD OF GOD says in Proverbs 24:16 – The godly may trip seven times, but they will get up again. But one disaster is enough to over throw the wicked.

What will you do?? Be down and stay down or GET UP!!

Another blow will come and another after that will come and will knock you down, but you need to choose! GET UP AGAIN each time and keep fighting because you are never fighting alone.

It’s time to get up and start speaking life into that situation or storm that the enemy is trying to control. Start DECLARING:

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13

AND

God is making a way even though it looks as if there is now way.

Isaiah 43:19 – For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.

Don’t you see! It may look absolutely impossible but I remind you we serve a God that can turn everything around making it possible. I know GOD makes the impossible possible because I can think back on the days when I would say no one will ever get me to TRUST GOD with my everything, yet I do because He gave me everything when I didn’t even deserve it.

I challenge you to speak VICTORY into the situation or storms you see coming or that you are walking through now. The more you speak it, the more you believe it. Stand with me and DECLARE all HIS promises and watch God bring them to life.

DECLARE YOUR VICTORY! GOD IS ALREADY HOLDING IT FOR YOU TO CLAIM AND WALK IN IT!

Quote by Tony Evans ” You are not fighting for victory, you are fighting from VICTORY. This battle has already been won!”

Mark 4:35‭-‬41 NLT
As evening came, Jesus said to his disciples, “Let’s cross to the other side of the lake.” So they took Jesus in the boat and started out, leaving the crowds behind (although other boats followed). But soon a fierce storm came up. High waves were breaking into the boat, and it began to fill with water. Jesus was sleeping at the back of the boat with his head on a cushion. The disciples woke him up, shouting, “Teacher, don’t you care that we’re going to drown?” When Jesus woke up, he rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Silence! Be still!” Suddenly the wind stopped, and there was a great calm. Then he asked them, “Why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith?” The disciples were absolutely terrified. “Who is this man?” they asked each other. “Even the wind and waves obey him!”


No one wants to go through storms.
  No one wants to have their boat ROCKED! 
No one wants to go through any of the things that involve your boat being rocked.
 There are times that I would ask GOD: Please God! Please don’t let my boat get rocked! Everything is good, everything is fine, everything seems to be going smoothly. Smooth sailing!


But let’s be real!
 Our boat is going to get rocked just like it did for the disciples.
 Reading the passage. 
They thought they were as good as dead. They were scared. They panicked. They questioned.

I want to tell you that just because we call ourselves Christians, just because we come to church once or twice a week, or just because we give that offering or tithe doesn’t mean we are exempt from experiencing things that will rock our boat.
Because to be honest sometimes I would think…” Ok I am doing everything I’m supposed to, so I should be good nothing is going to happen. I’m good and then BOOM! My boat is rocked!

John 16:33 – I have told you all this so that you may have peace in ME. Here on earth, you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart because I have overcome the world.

 He tells us in his word – We WILL have TRIALs but to have PEACE in HIM because HE overcame the world.

We have to stand up!!

As I write this part, it definitely hit me first because I realized that these storms that ROCK our boat are the ones that bless our lives the most.
I know right now you’re thinking… WHAT?
How is this storm helping me because all I know right now is that my boat is rocking so uncontrollably and all I want to do is get off this boat.
We begin to as God like the disciples did:
God, can’t you see that my boat is getting rocked?
God, can’t you see that everything coming at me in the boat is going to bring me down?
God, don’t you care?
God, where are you?

But I want to tell you just as God told me as I sat putting this together as HE gave it to me.
He said, “Without me in your boat, where would you be?”
I about cried because I knew, I know that had God not been in the boat with me, through any of the storms I have been through or am going through, I don’t know where I would be right now to be honest. One thing is for sure I wouldn’t be here sharing a devotional.

We learn to have more faith and trust in THE GOD that can calm the storm we are in just as he did for the disciples.

 1 Peter 1:6-7 – 6 So be truly glad. There is wonderful joy ahead, even though you must endure many trials for a little while. 7 These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold – though your faith is far mor3e precious than mere gold. SO, when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.

Getting through the trials and storms and experiencing our boat getting rocked isn’t easy but we keep faith and trust God is with us the whole time.

It wasn’t the disciples’ first time out in the water in their boat. It wasn’t their first time experiencing a storm like this because during those times they knew what to do. We have all been through things. We may be going through things now. We have watched God move. We’ve watched God calm the storms too but:

Why were the disciples scared if they knew Jesus was in the boat with them?
Why do we get scared when we know Jesus is in the boat with us too?
Why did they panic when Jesus is the one that told them to cross?
Why do we get scared and panic when GOD is the one that tells us to go this way or that way, or even turn around?
Maybe they expected like I said at the beginning they were with Jesus doing everything they were supposed to do so nothing would happen. It ‘s all smooth sailing.
I began thinking… “Well, I do that. My boat starts rocking and I panic, I doubt, I get scared, and all this knowing that I already prayed, and God said, “Yes go this way. And I do know that HE would never send me any where to harm me. “

But when we are in the storm and we feel our boat is getting rocked, we feel everything coming in our boat as the disciples did when they saw their boat filling up with water and it was about to make them sink and drown. We do the same, we feel everything coming in is going to bring our boat down and we are going to drown, and we feel all this knowing Jesus is in the boat with us and we still panic.
We start running around doing things in our own strength, in our own thoughts, in our own ideas thinking we know better or that we can do better than God because all we want to do is just get off this rocking boat.

We can’t control any storm, but God can! And he will but we have to let him.
Will we stop moving in our own will and move in his?
Can we truly trust the God that has never left us?
Can we focus on the God that has gotten us through some of the most difficult storms and even picked us up when we felt our boat was rocked to such an extreme that we could see nothing good coming out of it We’ve all seen God do big and mighty things for us and others and He wants to tell you there is more coming. There is more to see and experience even if your boat gets rocked.

Give it all to God! I say all because, I have the habit of saying, “well God take this but not that, take that but not this, ok yes God take that. Take it! I challenge you tonight to give it all to God and watch him calm the storm and watch your boat stop rocking.

We shouldn’t need for our pastors or anyone to remind us over and over that is doesn’t matter what the storm outside our boat looks like, because we already know that God is with us in the boat. I know God is with me! I know God gots me! I know God gots you!

Know who it is that is riding with you and calming that storm.

I END encouraging you to never forget who you are and even in the moments when you feel your boat is getting rocked uncontrollably and definitely never forget who rides with you in your boat.

Deuteronomy 1:6 - "The Lord our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying, 'You have stayed long enough on this mountain. 

You may find yourself feeling stuck, but I want to encourge you to keep reading because despite what your situation looks like, you aren’t stuck. You may have been or feel you still may be in a season where all you see is hurt, destruction, discouragement, and disappointment but I want to encourage every person reading this blog that you need to just stand up and move forward.

GET UNSTUCK! MOVE FORWARD!

That mountain may look too big but it is time we stand up and tell that mountain, “My GOD is bigger!”

Before, during, and even after your season, God is , has been, and will be preparing you for what’s next, new opportunities, new levels, and even breakthroughs, but I have to say we won’t and can’t get or receive anything God has for us by sitting at the bottom of the mountain feeling defeated. We do have to MOVE!

You will hear the lies of the enemy tell you “You’re to stuck!” “There’s no way you’re getting over or through this mountain” but the promises of GOD tell you, ” You have the VICTORY!”

Where is your faith at right now? Stir up that faith! Begin to trust and beleive again and start moving forward to where GOD is leading you.

I want you to know that you aren’t reading this blog by accident. God knew and led you here. He wanted you to know that, “You been on this mountain long enough!

IT’S TIME! IT’S TIME TO MOVE FORWARD! I don’t know what your mountain is but you and God do.

Maybe this is exactly what you needed to get unstuck and move forward. To be totally honest I needed this encouragement myself too. I needed God to tell me I been on that mountain long enough and that it was time to walk in the VICTORY HE already told me I have.

Trust, have faith, and believe that God is making a way even if you don’t see a way, even if it looks like there is no possible way. I share Matthew 19:26 – Jesus looked at them intently and said, “Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But with God everything is possible.”

EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE WITH GOD!

Don’t allow that mountain that stands before you to keep you feeling stuck and thinking you can’t get over or push through it to claim that VICTORY.

I challenge you:

Get unstuck and move forward!

Believe that victory is yours!

Claim that voctory is yours!

Declare that victory is yours!

Who hasn’t had moments or seasons where every day they feel defeated and just completely tired because everything seems to be coming at them at once. I’m here to say, I’ve been there, I’m there, but I am not staying there. The word tells us we fall seven times, but we get back up (Proverbs 24:16). God reminded me that I was losing focus because of the focus I was giving to the circumstances around me, hanging on to things, and trying to control things that I have no possible way of doing on my own. All I heard was, ” Melissa, your losing focus because you’re hanging on to things that you should have laid at my feet and had complete trust in Him and His word. I don’t know what anyone reading this is thinking or holding on to but I know someone needed to read this just as God put it in my heart.

FOCUS! KNOW THAT YOU ARE BLESSED!

It’s a new day! Choose to walk toward His promises. Choose to bring someone to know the mighty God that when he says drop it, you drop it because he is going to do a mighty work. Walk in faith giving God all the honor and glory as this shift is about to take place.

BUT YOU GOTTA DROP IT! JUST DROP IT! YOU DON’T NEED IT! ITS EXCESS! ITS NOT YOURS TO CARRY! DROP IT!

Does it look like you’re praying and trusting and nothing is happening? Maybe so!

Does it look completely dark all around you? Possibly so!

Does it look like destruction everywhere you look? Through your and my natural eyes…Absolutley!

I write this to someone reading this just as God asked me, ” Melissa, What are you doing?” Why are you carrying this?” DROP IT!”

God is preparing a new way, a new path, but if you lose focus and allow the enemy to make you think your down for the count you will continue to feel defeated. You will continue to walk with a heavy load that is all unneeded because it is excess.

FOCUS! If not you will miss the new way God is preparing for you!

Its time to sit up, look up, rise up, and DROP IT!

Walk in faith! 2 Corinthians 5:7 –  For we live by believing and not by seeing.

I encourage you to know that once you DROP It, whatever it may be, you are on your way to where God has been trying to lead you.

ITS TIME! DROP IT!

VICTORY IS YOURS!

God saved me! Did I deserve it? Definitely not, but HE still came for me. He came for me about 5 years ago when nothing was going right in my life…He came for me when everything ahead of me felt uncertain. Even after turning down invitation after invitation from my mother -n-law to attend a church service and declining to speak to a pastor, God still deemed me worthy and came for me. On a rainy gloomy day, he sent a pastor I didn’t really know to call me and tell me about a God that has been with me through the storm I was walking in at the moment. He told me about a God that was collecting every single tear that slid from my eyes, down my cheek and forming a wet spot on my jeans. Psalm 56:8 – You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book. I listened and cried but realized although maybe I did feel scared or unsure if this could really be true, there was also a part of me that said nothing else you’ve been doing has worked out for you. Not even realizing that God spoke to me even then that I heard a whisper saying, “GIVE ME A CHANCE!” Back then I didn’t know that God would speak to you, so I shrugged it off as the rain drops falling on the roof of my truck. COME ON EVERYONE, LET`S BE REAL..rain drops falling on car rooftops don’t sound like a whisper. I also do remember thinking the pastor was right, if I said yes it had to be for me not the storm I was in at the moment. I DO REMEMBER!! I DO REMEMBER feeling lost and defeated! I DO REMEMBER feeling sick! I DO REMEMBER having a deep heavy anger that was hard to control! I DO REMEMBER feeling broken! I still remember saying YES to allowing God into my heart. I said yes to letting HIM save me on that rainy day and all the sudden the day didn’t seem so gloomy. I said yes for me and still cried but I felt loved! I felt worthy! I felt excited! I felt the beginning of a new me coming up. I want to encourage you as your reading this that you weren’t given the link to this blog post by accident. This very blog post was meant for YOU! If you haven’t surrendered your life to God, maybe your starting to feel a little tug on your heart, maybe you have tears rolling down your face, maybe you too are feeling scared and unsure if this is a real thing, and maybe you are having an overwhelming feeling to know the same God that came to save me that rainy day. God placed this in my heart for YOU reading this blog post right now. For the one that feels they have done too much to be forgiven, for the one that feels they are a lost cause, and for the one that feels there’s no hope. I want you to know HE is the very missing piece in your heart and life. That void can be filled the moment you take that leap of faith and say YES! This can be your very own DO YOU REMEMBER testimony. You’re right! Nothing will ever be the same… you are a new creation when you say YES! 2 Corinthians 5:17 – This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! I want you to know that just as Christ save me …He can also save you!

Let’s be honest!

Being still is hard. Why is it so hard? Being totally honest again, in our natural self, we want to see results, or changes. We want to see them fast or how and when we want them but God doesn’t work like that. The bible never states that this walk with God would be easy but it is worth it if we choose it.

Matthew 7:13-14 – You can enter God’s Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad , and it’s gate is wide for the many that choose that way. ¹⁴⁾But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it.

Few find it….

Few find it because many are unwilling to allow God to lead us. Many of us can’t or won’t BE STILL long enough so that God can do what he needs to do in us, through us, and for us. Is anyone thinking. Am I getting in the way? To be honest, YES and this honesty doesn’t come lightly because I have had to tell my own self “MELISSA, GET OUT OF THE WAY!” a time or two or more. All we do is delay what God is trying to do. The few that do find it are the ones that are ready to leave it all behind even if it hurts or seems hard, but they want everything God has planned for their lives to glorify Christ through it.

That Battle! Its not easy to walk through, let alone be still but I want you to know that God walks with you during, through it, and after it. All we need to do is believe, trust and Be Still and I remind you of the verse Exodus 14:14. In that battle or storm, you may hear “Be Still, Be Still.. but you feel uneasy or nervous because it looks dangerous and like its gonna wreck you. You want to say, “but God… how can I?”….. “but God don’t you see this situation?”…”don’t you see it’s getting worse?” …”look at the brokenness going on over here.”…”look at how far I fell”…”look at how I just cant get up” or maybe you fell so hard you just don’t see the point anymore. I want to share that the God that says. “BE STILL!” isn’t just anyone. He is the God that breaks chains…He is the God that moves mountains…He is that waymaker…He is the God that fights your battles so that you wont have to. He is the God that calls you to BE STILL when your at the end of your rope because as long as the other end of the rope is anchor the HIM all you need to do is trust him and BE STILL.

I encourage you with this thought, you can’t get through the storm or battle with out the mighty God that has the power and authority to command it to be still. Mark 4:39 – When Jesus woke up, he rebuked the wind and said to the waves, ” Silence! Be still” Suddenly the wind stopped, and there was a great calm.

Galatians 6:9 - So let's not get tired of doing what's good. At just the  right time we will reap a harvest of blessing you you don't give up.  

Everything in you is saying, WALK AWAY!

Everything in you is saying, IT’S NOT / YOU’RE NOT WORTH IT!

Everything in you is saying, GIVE UP!

BUT GOD…

But God is saying, GET UP AND WALK TO ME!

But God is saying, YOU’RE WORHT IT, YOU’RE MINE!

But God is saying, DON’T GIVE UP! KEEP GOING YOUR BLESSING IS COMING!

We all been there at some point in our lives or maybe you’re there now. I want to tell you that even as you look around and everything seems as if it’s destroyed, you look in the mirror and you don’t see anyone worth anyone’s time, you feel your heart has been shattered and there is no putting it back together,

But God says, THAT DESTRUCTION IS ABOUT TO BE RECREATED,

But God says, WIPE THAT MIRROR AND THOSE TEARS AND SEE THAT YOU ARE WORTHY, I SENT MY SON TO SAVE YOU!

But God says, I’VE PICKED UP EVERY PIECE OF YOUR HEART AND IM ABOUT TO RESTORE IT BUT YOU GOTTA GET UP, YOU GOTTA TRUST ME, YOU GOTTA BELIEVE THAT PROMISE I GAVE YOU BECAUSE IF YOU DON’T GIVE UP AND YOU LET ME STRENGTHEN YOU, YOU’RE ABOUT TO SEE YOUR PROMISE.

Your promise is what you have been praying for and its that harvest that, that lying devil is trying to take away from you, your children, your children’s children. Don’t give up! Stand up! Let God do the preparation in you and for you and just get ready!

IT’S TIME TO REAP YOUR HARVEST!!