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Friday, October 09, 2020

Where are you at?

Cynt October 09, 2020 0 Comments

It is only 83 days left in the year of 2020 and my question to you is, Where are you at? Are you still in January going over all the New York resolutions/ promise you made for this year but did not do yet? Maybe you are in March when the coronavirus came on the scene and take us on a roller coaster ride of emotions and/or illness. Maybe you are in July where you move pass all of that stuff that happened before but you are stuck hurting from the trauma of what left behind. Wherever you are, OWE IT. Yes, I said OWE IT. You need to owe your feeling about what has or hasn't happened for you this year. There is nothing wrong with say am happy or that God has blessed me. Are maybe you are am not happy and I felt alone. These are feelings and that are yours.

We all go through this and I can prove it. In the bible there is a chapter that expresses this very thing. In Ecclesiastes the 3 chapter it talks about seasons.

We all have seasons and times . We can be in a time of harvest where we are receive the blessings of God from every directions even the ones we did not know we were going to receive. We also can be in a time of tear down where we lose possessions ,a job, a married or worse a love one. We may be in a time of mending. You need to talk to people that have hurt you and you have hurt and mend those fences. Maybe you are at war. Well, put on your armor of God and fight the devil and just so you know you win. These seasons and times come to us all. We all have to walk through them. Some may feel good like a sun shiny day or feel bad like a snow storm that last for days .

The seasons may change but god does not. Our feelings during our seasons and times does not change the ways of the God we served. He is with us through it all. He will never leave us alone or wanting. The scripture below says it best:

You are his people. He was pleased to make us a part of his family. We come from a royalty and so we lack nothing. God will always supply for his people.

I want you to know that as we close into the end of 2020 please don't look back . Look forward and live in the season you are in. Trust that God has you and is working to make every crooked path straight, every broken heart healed and all spirit to rejoice in him and his blessings. Don't give up but given into the Holy Spirit and allow him to guided you into the perfect will of God in your life.

Be Healed and Be Blessed

Thursday, January 23, 2020

Carelessness Kills

Cynt January 23, 2020 0 Comments

Today I will start the blog a little differently. I’m starting with the story. This story will show carelessness at its best. The story comes out of the book of Exodus 32. The children of Israel where the wilderness waiting on Moses who was at the top of Mount Sinai talking with God. Now God had shown his love for the children of Israel by delivering them out of the Egyptians. He did not allow the 10 plagues that he placed on Egyptians to affect his people (Exodus Chapters 7-12). He delivered them for the hand of Pharoah and his man as they were going to the land flowing with milk and honey by drowning them in the Red Sea (Exodus Chapter 13-14). Once in the wilderness, they cried out to him for food and he rained down manna from heaven (Exodus 16). God even gave them his Ten Commandments as a law to govern his people (Exodus 20). They had just received the Torah and 40 days out of Egypt with Moses taking too long to God that they made a request rather a demand on Aaron, Moses second in command and his brother. They wanted an image that they could follow. They became careless. Their carelessness will cost them their lives.

Their carelessness was forgotten that God loved them. They forgot that they cried out to God to be free from the Egyptians and he did it. They forgot that God kept them while the ten plagues hit the land. They forgot God walked them out of Egypt with gold, cattle and all the owned and even some Epygtians stuff and Pharoah did nothing but let them go. Even when Pharoah came for them God delivered a million people across the dry Red Sea and then drowned Pharoah and his men. Doesn’t that look like love?

He did not finish there. He fed them with manna from heaven. God covered them with a cloud by and night. He kept his people when others could have killed them. So why did they think a Golden Calf would help them?

WHAT IS YOUR GOLDEN CALF?

What is your golden calf? What is the thing or things that are taking the place of God’s love? Most of us would not look at it that way but that is what it is. If we are not fixed on God we are fixed on something. Often time this happens when we are going through a hardship. When things are not going the way we want them to and we mistakenly believe that God is not with us. That he has turned his back on.That he has left us alone and/or forsaken us. This is not true. Actually, God is there watching everything. God is right there loving on you. He is right there directing you. He’s right there counseling you. He’s right there guiding you. We need to feel and see everything right now. We need God to show himself in a human way in every moment of our lives. That why we have a terrible tendency not trusting in his love for us. That why I say carelessness kills.

Carelessness will kill us

Carelessness leaves us in a place where we can’t comprehend, grow or see. Jesus spoke on this with the seed parable (Matthew 13). Then we will become resentful. We condemn God for not being there for us. We call God an absentee Father and then we acted like we are orphans. We go out looking for other things to replace God. The Israelis used a golden calf. How many of us have a Golden calf in our lives? How many of us have replaced God with a thing? We replace God with your jobs, with money, or a house. We replace God with social media likes and love. We want to be influencers on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. We have replaced God with people. We want people to like and love so bad that we will do anything and everything to get that temporary like or love. We replace God with places. We want to go here and go there and I want to do this and that in this new place. We’ve never contended or happy with where God has us. What God really wants us to be. What God desires for us.

As I finish this, My goal this year is teaching on being careful. You know I got another acronym for you and here it is :

Caring

About

Real

Effective

Freeing

Unbelievable

Love

The love of God is right there with you every day. Every moment of the day. God cares for you (1 Peter 5:7) God is about his business which is you (Luke 2:49). He is a very real living God (Jeremiah 10:10). He is effective in freeing you (Joh 8:36). He’s unbelievable (Luke 1:37). Last but not least, he is love (1 John 4:8). He is looking out for you in ways you will not know until you reach heaven and see the reel of your life played back to you. God’s love surrounds you in such a way that even the devil has to ask permission to touch you. He loves was a lamb sacrificed on a cross so you can become his child (John 3:16). We are now heir with Jesus (Roman 8:17) and we can go to the throne of grace and ask for help (Hebrews 4:16).

My sisters in your pain you may have forgotten that God loved you and your carelessness may have led you down the wrong road. I ask you to turn around and come back home. He is waiting for you. Just like the prodigal son’s father ran to him God will come for you. He probably already has because you are reading this blog. My sisters be careful with your life. It was worth saving.

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Moving forward comes with a cost

Cynt January 30, 2019 0 Comments

As we go into February, some of us start the new year off with either resolutions or goals. You may have made or going to make a vision board to see the things you want to achieve this year. Maybe you work on a physical makeover. You either work out or make calls able going through a surgical procedure. Wherever you are on the journey, there will be a cost to move forward. One woman in the bible that moves forward with a cost is Esther. Her story is about when she went before the King on the behalf of the Jewish people. There have been conferences, movies, and sermons based on the famous saying “for such a time as this” (Esther 4:14). But there were steps that happen before that wonderful scene. Esther had to move forward.

There are three steps to moving forward. They are:

1. Let go of your past

2. Embrace your present

3. Get prepared for your future

1. Let go of your past

The story of Esther begins with a young girl living with her Uncle Morcedai during the time of Jerusalem captivity (Esther 2:5-7) in the provinces of Persia. The king Ahasuerus was angry because the Queen Vashi did not obey him when he requested her. (1:10-12) He sent out a decree looking for a new queen among the maidens of the land. (2:1-4). When the king's commandment went out to find maidens they chose Esther. Her uncle sent her two things a goodbye and a statement Don't show who you are (2:10).

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When you are going to the next level of your destiny, people will let you go or stop you. When God is moving you there’s a cost. God will take people, places and things out of the immediate circle. We may leave behind family and friends. Your hometown may not be the city of growth for you. The things you value the most will be the first thing to go. This is necessary to further you in your purpose. It’s costly to walk in purpose.

2. Embrace Your Present

They took Esther into the palace and she finds favor with Hegai the keeper of the women (2:9). They gave her other maiden to help her. She now has to go through her purification. This will last 12 months. Yes, a year. She needs to get clean. The maidens could not go before the king in their own clothes. They are to be cleaned in myrrh and sweet odors. They need transformation.

Embracing your present requires change. You are now going through a process of renewal. This will be the most difficult part. It will not take place overnight. It will be weeks, months or in Esther time a year. Yes, a year. To embrace your present, you must change from a caterpillar into a butterfly. In order for that to happen, you must go into yourself and begin the purging away of things that are keeping you in on the hamster wheel. You will need help as Esther did with Hegai. You need someone to assist you in the process because if you don‘t you will stay where you are out of fear or procrastination. Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to be a comforter to us as we go through the process (John 14:26 / 15:26). The Holy Spirit wants to lead us into the truth of God and the relationship the King wants to have with you but if we don’t allow him, he will not push you. The Holy Spirit is God, and he is a gentleman. It's your choice move forward or still stuck.

Esther was on her way to becoming a queen. She was going through the purification (process). She was around new people and places. She was learning new things. Her past could not go with her because it would have hindered her.

3. Get prepared for your future

Well, as the story goes Esther gets her time with King and wins his heart (2:15-17). We now have Queen Esther. A young captive Jewish girl is now the Queen of Persia. Yes, God will do it. It puts Esther to the test not too long after becoming Queen. She faced with a dilemma. There has been a decree that would put the Jewish people (her people) in danger of existence(3:8-13). Mordecai learns of the decree he went into mourning (4:1). He knows he needed to inform the Queen. He tells her they are in danger and she has to do something. She was in this palace for a reason and it is now up to her to save them (4:14). She told the people to go on a three-day fast with her and her maidens. Queen Esther had to get a before the face of the King. She had to get a plan that would save her people (4:15-17).

When we are moving forward, we need to be prepared for the obstacles that will come our way. Some will come fast and some will come later. We will need to have a relationship with God that will allow us to get before his face and ask for direction. They have crowned Esther the Queen of

Persia but she was a Queen in the Kingdom of God. She was going before the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords for an answer. She knows this would require a total devotion to God. No food, No drink, just prayer, and supplication. How can you be a Queen and not know how the kingdom is run? Jesus told us that some things only can forth with prayer and fasting (Mark 9:29). Know how to get before the King for yourself. Yes, Esther had the support of the Jewish people but she herself would pray for the answer on how to save them. You may be the one to save your family. Get prepared on how to pray for them, talk to them, and stand in the gap on their behalf. Show up as a Queen and not a maiden.

Conclusion,

We all know the end of the story. Queen Esther saves her people and the enemies of the people were killed by their own devices. My sisters, as you go through-out this year please prepare for your purpose. Know that your past cannot come. It is your testimony, not your life. Embrace your present. Get comfortable being uncomfortable. Change is painful but necessary. Prepare for your future. Learn the scriptures, be ready for all the enemies arrows. If you are not prepared, you are going to get knocked down a lot.

To move forward is going to cost but, it is well worth it.

Thursday, August 02, 2018

August is for Accountability

Cynt August 02, 2018 0 Comments

August will stand for accountability. We all have someone or something we are accountable for. Accountable to our parents to follow the rules of the home or there are consequences that will follow. Our teachers for the homework assignments they give us to expand our learning. Managers or us as the manager that others or accountable to for work assignments and daily tasks that help in making a job flow easier for everyone.

No matter the areas of life you are in accountable will always be there. You will not get through this life without being responsible for your actions or inactions. Responsible is a hard pill to swallow for some people. They don't want to do it and will do everything to avoid it. The sad thing about it being responsible is a daily task. Whether it is to yourself, husband, children, parents, or a job life is full of responsibilities.

The first self-action we took on was walking. Some adult took the time to get us up and going. They placed us walking in walkers, we walked on their feet and then we were standing but not moving. They called us and we thought about it and then sat down. Daily they called us and we would look at them but wouldn't move. Then one day we took the plunge we move one foot in forth of the other and as the song goes and the next thing we were walking across the floor. We become responsible for where we want to go. We became accountable for where our feet took us even in areas they not supposed to go.

Life continues to be that way. We are accountable for everywhere we go and everything we do. We can't pretend that if we don't act it will go away. No that's not how it works. We all have work to do and just because you may feel you can't or you don't want to changes the work you have to do.

Romans 11:29 says "For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance." That means you can use your gifts and call if you want to or not. Everyone has them how you use them is up to you. Now you may say will I choose not to what's the big deal I mean if everyone has them I need not use mine. That might be Okay if we all needed the gifts and calling given. The gifts are given for a reason and for a season. If you don't use them they will either stagnant someone gifts or stop someones calling. Do you want that on your plate when you get to heaven? I plan to go there free. Everything God gives me to do I want to do it so I can stand before him free. I want him to say "Well done my good and faithful servant come on in." I don't' want God to say that I left work undone. I hope that is not what God will have to say to you.

Today take a moment and see where you have some work undone.
Do you have a call/or calls to make?
An email you need to send out?
A class you need to teach?
A loved one you need you to hug?
Thanking God just because he is God?

Whatever it is you are going to be held accountable for it. Make it a friendly exchange and not a hostile.

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Coulda,Shoulda and Woulda will kill you

Cynt June 26, 2018 0 Comments

Have you jumped yet? Have you pushed yourself to move forward? Still sitting? Looking at what could have been? Won't move because you think nothing ever good comes your way? Will let me say STOP IT? Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda will get you killed.

These three words will kill your destiny, dreams, and hopes. They are the roadblocks to all that God has for you. Constant killers and will make you regret every think you could do anything. Lot's wife is a perfect example. Looking at these roadblocks in the face killed her.

These killer words will make you think things coulda been better. That you shoulda went in a different direction or woulda did things differently. Lies, I tell you lies. This is the way to stale your progress or stop it. Lot's wife looked back and what happened?

It defines Coulda, Shoulda, and as An expression of dismissiveness or disappointment concerning a statement, question, explanation, course of action, or occurrence involving hypothetical possibilities, uncertain facts, or missed opportunities. That is a mouth full, but the truth is we sit around killing yourself on the if factor. When the thoughts come and they will about lost possibilities, missed opportunities in your life you can look at them but don't stare. Don't get hung up on what wronged, the words you did not say or maybe the words you said. Be clear you will make a mistake but don't stay in the mistakes. Learn from it, grow in it and move forward from it.

Lot's wife felt she was leaving something behind she needed. God had sent angels to get her family out of harm's way. Whether she knows it, she was saying to God that he was not intelligent enough to know to what she was leaving behind. I mean she looked back as if they left behind her husband or daughters. They were with her so want else did she need. I mean God sent angels as her own personal army and that was not enough. We think we are leaving something when we are going into something better. Don't look back because you will need to explain yourself later to God.

Coulda, shoulda and woulda are the enemies to your dreams hopes and your life. Don't give into them because if you do it will stop you dead in your tracks.

My Crazy is Real

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Friday, October 09, 2020

Where are you at?

Thursday, January 23, 2020

Carelessness Kills

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Moving forward comes with a cost

Thursday, August 02, 2018

August is for Accountability

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Coulda,Shoulda and Woulda will kill you

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