Category Archives: Inspiration

God Chose You

ChosenTitleHave you ever asked God why He called you?  Maybe you feel inadequate or unqualified for the assignment.  You may think that you are not fit for the role of leadership, that you don’t meet all the criteria, perhaps too young or too old, inexperienced, something damaged or this constant struggle in life and don’t feel quite ready.  I am sure that David must have felt the same way in his walk.  I am sure that he did not feel as qualified to do anything most days.  But David did have the characteristics for great leadership even during the most agonizing, stressful and weakest points of his life.

1 Samuel 22: 1-5 states “David left Gath and escaped to the cave of Adullam.  When his brothers and his father’s household heard about it, they went down to him there.  All those that were in distress or in debt or discontented gathered around him; and he became their leader!  About 400 men were with him.  From there David went to Mizpah in Moab and said to the king of Moab “Would you let my father and mother come and stay with you until I learn what God will do for me? So he left them with the king of Moab and they stayed as long as David was in the stronghold.  But the prophet Gad said to David “Do not stay in the stronghold.  Go into the land of Judah.”  So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.”  Continue reading


A Little Rain Never Hurt Anybody

committSpring has arrived and we are springing forward in life. Yet in all of this we will experience some “rain” in our lives. It may feel bad, look bad and cause us to shut in but this is GOOD for us because it allows us to replenish. So take the time within, during this rain to cover yourselves with the umbrella of God’s love and seek His strength.  We go through so many instances and occurrences in our lives and we hope for a better day and hope for some “spring” in our lives.  We long for some hope, some light or some release.  We have experience here in New York such a long winter waiting for spring to arrive.  Now the date indicates that spring is here but it sure doesn’t feel or look like it at all.  We know it is here but the cold of winter does not want to let up and it keeps trying to drag it’s way into our blooming season of spring.  And so the trials of life that we experience seem to be that same way, don’t they?   What should we do? Continue reading


Overcoming Strongholds

WarfareI wish that I could tell you that it was going to be very easy. That your process of renewal and healing would happen overnight or in a synch! But that is not actually the case. It is not easy to bounce back from a place that has caused severe wounds such as breaking ungodly soul ties, overcoming a divorce, the loss of a loved one in any capacity, overcoming sickness, and abandonment, betrayal, breaking barriers of addiction, depression, co-dependencies, or any other experiences that have taken up deep places in your soul. Continue reading


My Perfect Storm

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So I receive an email for a daily devotional titled… “An Unexpected Storm” which was driven off another book written by James Merritt “52 Weeks with Jesus”. He goes to describe the scene of the storm out of Mark 4:36-40 as it states:

Leaving the crowd, they took him with them, in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him. And a great windstorm arose and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, “teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” and he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” and the wind ceases and there was a great calm. He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?”

What really caught me was the closing statement “He will calm the tempest after it has served its purpose.”

Did my storm serve its purpose yet? Is that why it is not yet calm?  That it has not yet ceased at this time?

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