New Year, New Level, New Life!

This is a New Year and a new level for you!  It is a new place and time in your life to do something you haven't done and to accomplish what you have yet to achieve.  It is an opportunity to leave the past behind and grab ahold to your future, your God-given destiny. So, don't let anyone or anything stop you; not even yourself!  I had to say this to myself the other day.  I  had to say I can write my blog, work on my second book, and most of all love and serve the Lord my God with all my heart!  I can still be the best wife and mom I could ever be and enjoy time with my family! I can have peace in Christ in the midst of my full, busy and sometime hectic days and still expect the impossible that only God can do!  In reality, I had to crucify my flesh, my own ways, and my own fears of not balancing it all, that I had become so comfortable with.  I had to ask God to baptize me in mind, soul and spirit and teach me how to live on this new level in my life that He has brought me to.  And this is what God said to me in Romans 6:4 "Therefore we are buried with Him in baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of God the Father; even so we also should walk in newness of life." Jesus died and rose again just for you to experience new life in Him!  So, embrace the deliverance He has given you from your past and let God be your guide to fulfill all He has ordained you to do!

Praying with you on the journey,
First Lady J

Step by Step Go Forth!

Have you been making plans for this year? I mean really... have you been writing down things that you want to do? Setting goals? Strategically planning how you're going to accomplish it? If you haven't already done so you need to do so now, because if you don't, you never will! Time is of the essence. There are things that God wants to do in you right now. You have heard his voice and know in your heart what you are supposed to do. So, seek His direction and receive His instruction on what to do first. Ephesians 5:15-17 says "Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is." So, take the time to do so. Everyday do something new. Little by little, step by step, you will meet your goal if you stay consistent, persistent, and diligent with what God has called you to do. No one can do it better than you! Believe that. I am praying for you as you go forth!:)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Happy New Year!!! There is something about the freshness of the first day of the year!  There is hope and joy and a feeling that great things can happen.  However, for the believer, there is a different type of assurance.  There is a belief that God made a way out of no way for us!  That He allowed us to see another day and that He graced us to see another year!  We are grateful, unequivocally grateful. We are humble that we made it and that we are alive to say it!  But to take it a step further, we have this grave surety that our God is going to do something in our lives greater than He has ever done before.  We know that He can and we draw closer to Him as we crossover into the New Year because we know we cannot make it without Him.  So, I leave you with this Word from God to encourage you and to move you closer in Him towards your destiny. "Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert."  Isaiah 43:19. Whooo...I receive it for you!