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Overcoming grief, addiction, depression and more with Jesus

I was sitting here tonight, and being in my quiet time with the Lord, and I was singing and just soaking in the tangible goodness of God, and as I began to just soak in him, I began to pray in the spirit and began to feel as if I was holding brick. Like, those big cinder blocks hundreds of them. I began to then nil down and then I began to plant those rocks around me in this vision I was building myself up at the very bottom, and when I was doing that, I began to hear chains like heavy chains breaking, I was in tears and I heard the Lord say, "I am your foundation, now build your life on me and watch it stand sturdy!" I asked God, Lord what is that I am supposed to do? I have struggled with knowing my calling... I asked the Lord "God, help me know your will for my life." And I got it, I am supposed to protect and serve, make peace. I am supposed to be a police officer. My foundation is in the Lord, and in doing this following what I am to do in the will that I believe and know that the Lord has for me. Building and starting from the bottom is not a bad thing; sometimes we all have to go through things and hit rock bottom so we can find out who the rock at the bottom is and that is Jesus. We all need that reminder who the rock at the bottom is, and that is Jesus. we are not quitters, when I was homeless and on drugs, and lying left and right it was hard to get up and build my home; but when I built it on Jesus, when I built it from nothing into something I found that God... He never left he was assisting me in the process. I was at the bottom, I hit the bottom I was ready to die, but then it clicked I changed I began building relationships fixing relationships and building that home I needed, and having Jesus in the center of my plans, of my family, my home in the center of EVERYTHING!! I began changing, I began changing for the good! You see, when we start from nothing and grow to something I can tell you now, from experience God uses a nobody and he forms them into something! And I am so glad to have come from nothing to now something! I changed the basis of my name, and I am someone who can be trusted, I am someone who saw the Lord in my fire! And baby, I know that you will and can too!

So, when we go to church, we start with worship right? At least my church does lol. But in this blog post I am going to give you 5 meaningful ways to praise the Lord in your daily life. But before I do that, I want to pray for those who are going to read this blog. Lord, you know why this person is reading this message and I want you Lord to bless them whatever they are going through and no matter the situation you are bigger than the circumstance. Lord, I ask that you bless them with peace, and strength to walk out whatever they are going through. In the name of Jesus; Amen! Meaningful ways of praise: 1. Prayer, this is the most forgotten way of praise in my opinion, when we think of praise we think of music, and dancing but little do most of us know prayer is a huge part of worship and praise. Prayer is the biggest thing we have to do in our walk with Christ and we have to understand that prayer is the biggest thing in a Christians walk with God. Philippians 4:6 NKJV " Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with Thanksgiving, let your requests be known to the Lord." Prayer is the biggest thing we as Christians need to be doing for this nation and for our pastors and our families and for everyone we come in contact with and not in contact with. 2. Fasting, this is the setting away of things to put your soul focus on the Lord. Some will do fasting food, like a meal a day or social media and so much more. There are so many types of fasting and prayer times we can do, but I think the biggest thing we as a collective body of Christ can do is fast as a part of our way of worship and praise to the Father. 3. Singing, for some of us singing is a gift. Now me I can sing lol, and there are some out there who can really sing, like CECE Winans she can sing and so can Tasha Cobbs and a few others, but it doesn't matter if you can sing or not, Jesus loves to hear your singing and your praises so as a form of praise yes, singing would be among those and I am going to give scripture here to back that up. Zephaniah 3:17 NKJV "The Lord your God in your midst, The Mighty One will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing." See this is a form of worship, singing praises to the Lord is like a sweet fragrance to the Lord. 4. Devotional worship, how many of us in the morning or through the day or before we go to be, spend a few hours with the Lord, in a devo time? I know I do. When we spend time like that with him, it is like a replenishing or a stop at our spiritual gas station right there in our homes lol, I for my devo time, I turn on the worship music, and i grab my iPad, and bible and I sit, and I read and take notes and I think of how I can apply what I am reading in the bible to my daily life and what that may look like. I begin to worship the Lord there in my quiet time of solidarity and repentance. See devotional times are sacred in my family, it is a time where we all part for a few hours go in another room in my house or even outside, and we just spend the time we need to with the Lord and we forget about everything around us and what is going on in our lives, and we focus only on the Lord. My favorite devotional I am doing right now, is by Real talk Kim, and WOW! Y'all will have to search her name up she is amazing! But devotional is the best time you can have along with the others listed, but I think this random time with the Lord is the absolute best because we are not putting God on a time frame and only going to him when things get bad or when we want something! 5. Having Humility: Having Humility is a huge one in my opinion, for those who don't know the definition of humility, it means to be humble, and be low. And not the kind of low. I can say having Humility is something that all christians should have, going and presenting yourselves to the Lord, as wives present themselves to their husbands. A good example of this is Colossians 3:12; "Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, Humility, gentleness and patience. This a huge part of worship and praise in my opinion. And I say this because you cannot worship and praise God with pride because therefore the provide you have in your heart you begin to think "I can do more than God." I am serious and the fact that I cannot be more serious about this is that Humility and pride are mere enemies, they just like fear cannot coincide with the Lord. I am going to tell you that the most important thing to do as a Christian, is humble yourself before the Lord and do so diligently. In my life I had a hard time with pride and being big headed, it was horrible and I never thought that I would have this issue till I did some self examination to see what it was that causing me not to have Humility before the Lord. I questioned my very vigor and state of spiritual being and relationship with God because I knew that I had some issues I as a christian needed to get right. So with that self examination I knew that I had to do some praying and fasting, and spend that one on one time with the Lord. So I did that and I now have Humility. And it was all because I did that self examination and found what needed to be fixed, and I know that as christians you can do the same if I can, you can.

So, I was in my quiet time with the Lord this morning I was thinking as I was sitting on my couch looking out my window at the field in my backyard, I was asking the Lord, "father I want you to show me what there is i can do besides writing my books, and serving in my church tell me what you want me to do to serve you more." I was just sitting there asking the Lord, because anyone who knows me I want to serve in any way I can possible and I do it without complaint. But lately I have felt like I have been facing adversity and, and having some difficult challenges and here in my blog I am able to tell y'all like how I have come through some tough times here as a business owner and In this time being faithful to the Lord, as I serve in many positions in my church and then me going all over and preaching and writing my books, plus a new album will be launching soon! I have had some serious challenges in my life here lately, so as many know I am in school becoming an MD, and that is tough lol; I cannot tell you how many times I have faced adversity in times I thought were going "good" or your average "normal" lol, whatever normal looks like. In today's society normal is not what we would have thought normal was 8 years ago lol. A lot has changed our world is not the same as we knew it 8-12 years ago. I was more caught up with how many of us have faced adversity in these challenging times in this world today. But I want to tell you this, no matter the things we have gone through our circumstances may have changed but God, haha he has NEVER changed! As mentioned in Hebrews 13:8 "For Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever." Despite our hardships and adversities, we have to be resilient in these times in the bible it talks about the Lord choosing the 12 as his disciples, I call them the Magnificent 12, because yes, they came from adversity and they faced it head on and they made it through all kinds of unimaginable challenges, persecution being one, and we as christians have a duty to look adversity in the eye and say "NO MORE!!!" We have a duty y'all, to say "WHO ARE YOU GREAT MOUNTAIN?" It is time to get up and do the thang y'all! Look at Peter and what he did he faced a horrible challenge, he denied Christ 3 times, and he lied about knowing Jesus but he was even after that, he was still oh so faithful to Jesus and he preached the gospel and, I can say that Peter overcame the inevitable. I want you to turn to 1st Peter 5:6 " Therefore exalt yourselves under the hand of mighty God, that he may exalt you in DUE TIME." He may exalt you in due time, for some of you, I believe that your DUE TIME is coming, Peter had to wait, and be diligent and in due time God exalted Peter. We have some of the most troubling times and it is just going to get worse and us as a collective body as the church we have to get ready for those times, I know that there troubling times but in the conclusion of this post, I want to leave you with this scripture and then I will touch on it a little before officially closing this out. 1ST Peter 5:10 NKJV But may the God of all Grace, who called us to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect,established, strengthened, and settled you. You see, our adversity and long suffering isn't going to be long, it is but a short time, saith the Lord, for I saith God have come to redeem you, for I will come quickly and I will make my presence known to the world, I am bringing judgement to those who have cursed me, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God I want you to know I come swiftly and it will be in the twinkle of an eye! I am coming my children, to rescue those who have believed in me and kept my commandments. Woe is the day for those who have been left behind, for your suffering has just begun! (Word from the Lord.) I was sitting here listening to the song (In the Room) and I had this word from the Lord come to me, you maybe going through suffering and adversity now, but I am telling you all, that day is fastly approaching and we will see the kingdom of God, because this kingdom is going to be greater than our culture! It is coming fast and we will be out of here facing no challenges and no adversity! Are you ready?