Just hold on

Be patient. God is just preparing you. The best things come to those who wait...

Step by Step

So yesterday I woke up very energized and ready to take my morning walk. As i was walking I noticed that I do so much better when I look at my feet taking each step. When I look up and focus on the distance I have left to finish mentally it always seems so far away, like it is going to take forever to get there. Then I had a revelation: That if we just take everything one step at a time and focus on that step we will eventually arrive at our destination, it will also stop us from the discouraging feeling of viewing a destination that seems unattainable. Its very easy to get discouraged by focusing on the destination but if you don't take the proper steps you will never be able to achieve it!  Just keep moving...Be blessed yall

If you where that transparent, you would be clear!

I have learned in life that no matter how " real" a person is or how much you think they open up to you there is still always something they haven't told you. Sometimes its just a matter of that person trusting you enough with what they share , sometimes its that person being comfortable with themselves to share and sometimes certain things are just simply between them and God. Aren't you glad God can keep a secret??

Ron Carpenter sermon " Living Inside Out"

Ron Carpenter. If you don't know bout him check him out!! This is a great sermon that blessed me today! Its called " Living inside out pt.2"  http://www.rwoc.org/SF_OnDemand.aspx

Shout if you love him!

As some choir members and I were traveling on the bus yesterday from ministering in Petersburg Va. We were having a great time laughing, imitating each other and just overall joking around. Somehow we got on the topic of shouting( which is slang terminology for a dance or two- step done to the lord when under the power of the Holy Spirit). After the imitations of how some members on the bus looked while shouting, we shared more laughs but begin to discuss shouting more in depth. Being that God has yet to release the ability to myself to speak in tongues or shout, im always curious to know what a person feels and thinks while it is happening. So I posed that particular question. Some answers I received were that "you don't hear or feel anything around you." and that "its like your alone with God!" Excited while on this subject as always, I then tell everyone how my experience is when the holy spirit comes over me. How I am filled with emotion wanting to just glorify God and how I being to cry and just release to him. I also expressed how I would love if God gave me a shout to do, like some of the others. Sometime before the conversation ended one of the experienced shouters made the comment "Cece you are a worshipper and we are praisers!" She continued on to encourage me to keep asking for the gift and God would give it to me. After more brief conversation we arrived back at the church. We went our separate ways and on the ride home I reflected on that comment. In the shower later that night the comment about me being a "worshipper" was still on my mind. I was feeling slightly annoyed by the fact that I am a worshipper when I want to learn to shout! Standing in the shower I began to wonder how I would look doing all that fancy footwork and how cool it would be. God then says to me "Praise can be taught, WORSHIP cant!" Wow God! Immediately that annoying feeling I had was gone. I was filled with a proud happy feeling! He then goes on to explain " Someone can teach you how to dance but not how to open yourself up and lay everything before me!" --->Can we all take a moment to say MY LAWDDDDD!!!<--- I said God you are so right. Here I was for a moment looking down on what I thought was just being a "worshipper". But its not JUST A WORSHIPPER at all! Its being able to fully open yourself up to God. Being truthful with flaws and all ,allowing him to love on you while you love on him. So everyone I say be happy with how God has made you and when he will advance you. All of our gifts serve such a great purpose and are able to glorify God in the way HE designed. I mean I cant shout but I sure do love him! Be blessed yall!