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PUSH...Pray Until Something Happens...that's something that is seen and/or said fairly often right?



I was taught that I pray for something and then continue to thank God in advance for it coming to pass...my mom would be like "He heard you the first time" lol
I'm reading this book entitled, "Did you think to pray? How to listen and talk to God everyday about everything" by R.T. Kendall. I'm almost halfway through and it is very interesting. I think sometimes it's easy to forget about prayer in some aspects. Prayer is one of way of communicating with God. Some people just talk to Him like they would to a friend in prayer, some people write it down, maybe others sing or anything like that. But one thing that I learned growing up is that in order to live life as God would have us live, we need to completely give ourselves and our lives to Him. That means that, essentially, our spiritual life and our natural lives are so intertwined, that they may as well be, they are one.
As my uncle says, we are spirits, we have a soul, and we live inside of a physical body. The stuff going on down here on Earth is only temporary. Prayer is a big part of your walk. We need to talk to God. We definitely can about everything and anything. He will always listen, let us have a tantrum..or when we don't want to talk to Him, He will always take us back. Despite all of that, a lot of times I find it incredibly hard to pray. Even when I know that I know that I KNOW that I should. Sometimes I just forget...have you ever done that? Even when things are going wrong, there's so much going on, but for that very reason I forget to. I want my first reaction to be running to God. God has blessed me to have an amazing family and amazing friends. I have a biological sister and a plethora of other brothers and sisters. People that I know I can talk to and even some that I know, without a shadow of a doubt, that God put them here so I can talk to them. If you knew me a few years ago, I wouldn't talk to anyone. About anything. No matter what was going on inside me, it stayed inside. Now I have people I can talk to, people that know me so well, it's amazing...because a few years ago, people really just thought they knew. But they had no idea (lol hadda say it...stay with me).


The point is, yes, God gives us people, friends, sisters, brothers, cousins, to talk to, but we need to know that we need to run to Him first. Sometimes even in prayer, He can lead you to the right person to talk to. God wants us to talk to Him. He wants us to come before Him and just be. To talk to Him the way we talk to our closest friends or family members. God isn't some big bully (shout out to Advisor Sneed) or some being that's way out and up there above us. He's very real and very close to us and just wants to be closer. God will do His part, but are we doing ours? You don't have to pray the way the deacon at your church does, the way your mother does, or anything. You talk to God the way you're comfortable, but do talk to Him. And as you do, you will find not only God drawing nigh to you, but you drawing nigh to Him. So much so that it will be as if He is sitting and talking to you face to face. I want to be a woman after God's own heart, to talk with Him like Moses did...all it takes is one step.



Dove Sister Adeola Oyelabi

In the Zone

In the Zone of the Rest of God

By Keith Butler
"Let us therefore be zealous and exert ourselves and strive diligently to enter that rest [of God, to know and experience it for ourselves], that no one may fall or perish by the same kind of unbelief and disobedience [into which those in the wilderness fell]" (Heb. 4:11 AMP).

The rest of God deals with when you are in contrary circumstance. Your being able to operate in full peace and assurance, being able to complete the mission God has sent your way, not to be disquieted or upset or full of anxiety or worry or concern or trouble. In other words, you can sleep at night.
Christians ought to be able to sleep at night. Now, I'm not talking about, I mean, if you ate too much pizza at midnight. You aren't going to sleep tonight. But that's different than not sleeping because of worry, concern, or fear. There is a place of rest for anyone who is born again.


I want you to notice the Scripture tells us that the place of rest is not automatic (Heb. 4:1). That place of comfort, that place of peace, that place of assurance, that place of quietness must be labored to get into.


Notice what it said. Let us labor to enter into that rest. Now, that takes a responsibility of whether or not you walk in the place of rest that is reserved for you is not God's fault. And it's not God's problem. It's up to you.


So it said that we must labor to enter into that rest. That means we have to strive, we have to get with it. It says that we must be zealous and exert ourselves to enter into this place of rest. I like to call it the zone.


In athletics they talk about how a basketball player gets in a zone. And that is, when he comes to a place where nothing that he throws up misses. It seems to him that the basket is three feet wide and everything he throws up goes in.


Well, there is a zone for the people of God whereby they know that their faith is on the line and they know that God's Word is so, and it doesn't matter what the enemy seems to do. Whatever they do seems to come out all right when they are in the zone of the rest of God. There is a place of rest, but it's up to you to walk in it.




Scripture Reference: Psalm 95:3-11

Keith Butler Ministries. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

food for thought (or lack thereof)

this jumped off the pages of my little brown&black bible this morning:
then jesus entered a house, and again a crowd gathered, so that he and his disciples were not able to eat . - mark 3:20 (niv)


yo .. he couldn't even find time or space to eat because he was healing the people.


i get annoyed when my friends ask if they can have a bite of my food - jesus was skipping whole meals on behalf of people who ended up betraying him !
.. his sacrifice is so real.
what do I sacrifice for the Kingdom?


Dove Sister Ariel Pierson

Remember When...

In Deuteronomy chapter five, Moses reminds the Israelites of the Ten Commandments and of the willingness of their hearts when they first believed and received. God said that their hearts were inclined to fear him and to always keep his commandments. Do you remember when you first heard or felt God speak out of the fire in your life Is your heart still willing and surrendered as it was then? If so, what are you doing to keep that fire burning? If not, what do you need to do spark up your relationship?











THINK ABOUT IT!






Dove Sister Ariel Pierson