For His Glory

Broken to Breakthrough I found that there are 10  meanings under the word Brokenness in the dictionary. The 7th meaning in the dictionary states 'subdued totally;humbled'. It then refers the meaning to a broken spirit, which is just perfect for the context of this subject. Brokenness is the process that brings the believer to the truest essence of humility. When you are broken, all walls are being brought down, all that fallibly kept you standing without God is taken away. In the state of brokenness all is stripped away and make you into what God desired you to be. You may be wondering if the other definitions of brokenness are not important. Well, they are unimportant when you consider the end results. When things are broken, the natural tendency is to throw those things away. Hope is given up and the item is deemed useless. In a marriage that has experienced infidelity or in any other relationship where trust has been compromised we deem it fit to just discard and walk...

        It is a normal part of life to make plans and set goals. Sometimes things work out the way we plan and sometimes they don't. So, what do we do when things don't work out the way we plan? What do we do when things take a little longer than expected? Do we get angry and become frustrated at God? Do we play the blame game on God or perhaps our loved ones? What do you do?What we ought to do, is trust God's timing.Yes friends, trust God's timing. Did you ever read that scripture from Isaiah 55:8 that explains to us that God's ways are not our ways? Well of course, that's true. God's timing does not even compare to the human clock. That's because from the very beginning, He knew what the end would be and everything in between. He is All Knowing.        I like putting puzzles together. I have the app on my tablet that scrambles the pieces up for you. You can choose small, medium or large peices; I normally go for th...

One day I was listening through my YouTube playlist and William McDowell started to sing this song that took me into a worship space for like the whole day. The song reads like this "How can I describe a God that's indescribable? How can I explain a God that's unexplainable? I'm at a loss for words...." But I wanted to answer the question, even though there are so many ways to describe God, the words are not even enough. Though there are so many ways to describe God, they don't amount to the way God really is. That is just the amazingness of God (yes, I realize that's not a word, but we'll manage it for the purpose of this write up!!). I always love to praise God and call Him by all the things He is to me. I feel that is the best way to really worship Him. The Awesome God, Mighty God, Amazing, Loving, Faithful, Merciful, Compassionate God. Some have experienced Him as a Healer, Savior, Deliverer, Restorer, Redeemer. I know Him as El-Olam (Everlasting...

Israel Houghton is one of my favorite gospel recording artists and in the beginning of that song "Identity", he said, "one of the things plaguing our generation today is the issue of identity" We've all heard several songs that speak to identity, boldly proclaiming that we know who we are in Christ, that we know our God. When we hear those songs that are often in the tone of declaration, we sing them with boldness and confidence even with extra oomph!! "I'm walking in power, I'm walking in miracles, I live a life of favor, I know who I am..." That was sang by Sinach. Israel Houghton sang it best in His song when he sang, "You are my father, You are Father, in You I find my identity". Genesis 1:26-27 says: 26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness,  so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky,  over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all  the creatures tha...

Wrong Assumptions What are assumptions? Assumptions are defined as the act of taking possession or asserting a claim; something taken for granted or accepted as true without proof Therefore wrong assumptions can be defined as something wrongly taken for granted or falsely accepted as true without proof. Making wrong assumptions is not innate but is a learned behavior in my opinion. Often times we are too lazy to find out the entire truth so we assume.  As Christians often times we believe that if we take God’s word on the surface that its “good enough”. We believe because God is a God of mercy and the Bible tells us that He is good, it’s okay for us to pick and choose what we “feel” is right or wrong. Hence, wrong assumptions . For instance we assume that if we go to church every Sunday and “live right” God is automatically happy with us or is on our side. We assume as human beings in general; that is believers and unbelievers alike; that with such things as material p...

Hold on, Hold back, Stand by, Hold fast! These are all synonyms for the word "Wait". To wait means to stay where one is or delay action until a particular time or until something else happens. Not an easy thing to do admittedly in most situations. In fact waiting in the context of God can be one of the most difficult things to do because Gods time is so not our time. It is written in Habakkuk 2:3 (MEV) that "...the vision is yet for an appointed time;but it speaks of the end and does not lie. If it delays, wait for it; it will surely come, it will not delay." Sounds redundant right? How can you say if it delays then say it will not delay. Well the truth is that God's time is not our time, in our eyes anything that doesn't manifest within the timeline we expect, we feel it's late or even times early, but God's time is the best time, the appointed time. That's why the ability to wait is an important virtue believers must possess. My grandmother use...

When you think about what makes a delicious meal and a downright concoction you consider the spices that go into flavoring the dish. Too much salt or not enough determines the relevance of the dish. Matthew 5:13-16 is the scripture from which this topic was dropped into my heart. What makes you relevant? What do you count for? How are you relevant in the Kingdom, in today's world? Jesus says in this passage that you are salt and you are light. That is, you are what gives this dish called life, flavor and what causes those in the dark to see the Light (Jesus). In Potiphars house Joseph was the salt, he brought flavor to his master's house- no wonder Potiphars wife tried at all cost to taste him!! Genesis 39: 3 says that Potiphar saw that the Lord was with him. That is the salt and light in Joseph.  I like how the Message translation put this scripture, Matthew 5:13-16; "Let me tell you why you are here. You're here to be salt-seasoning that brings out the God-f...