Prayers For A Time Such As This

04/17/2026

The Holy Spirit is a gentleman. He is not forceful.

There have been times I wanted to help someone see something the way the Lord has shown me. It helped me, so in return I wanted to help them. It came from a sincere place, but the Lord has been reminding me that we cannot open someone’s spiritual eyes to what they are not ready to see yet. We can love them, pray for them, and speak the truth in love, but only the Holy Spirit can reveal truth, convict hearts, and bring lasting change.

Sometimes we try to force our will, then wonder why it creates fallout, frustration, and stress. Forgive us, Lord.

Slow obedience or half obedience is still rebellion.

I am reminded that for me to truly know the good and perfect will of God, not merely the permissive will, it comes through oneness with Christ. In that intimacy we desire to know Him and please Him above all else. It becomes one will. Not mine, but His.

That means laying on the altar all I think I want, all I hope for, and all I believe I need, in order to receive what God is leading, guiding, and speaking. It means being willing to yield, to turn, to pivot when He changes direction, tells you to move, tells you to be still, or says no altogether.

I know this may be unpopular, but I do believe we should pray about everything. Philippians 4:6 says, “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.”

There are some things the Word of God has already made clear. I am referring to the things that look good, feel good, and seem right, yet may not be God’s actual perfect will (His best) for us. That doesn’t make it bad, it’s just God saying no and us choosing to obey Him and not go against Him.

For one that never works. We can trust Him to be with us even when we can’t understand it. He can be trusted even when it’s hard to accept it. That’s surrendering not in part, but in all things.

This can apply to the job we take, the person we marry, the friendships we keep, the hobbies we pursue, people we surround ourselves with, places we go, and the way we spend our time. It’s wise to heed the prompting, leading and sometimes warnings of the Holy Spirit.

Proverbs 16:9 says, “In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps.”

God is in every detail. He knows us better than we know ourselves. He knows the beginning from the end. He knows how every path will unfold. That is why intimacy with Jesus matters so deeply. In His presence we learn to hear His voice before making decisions.

Just because something is good does not mean it is for you. Choosing to do so regardless, because it’s good is where we make a mess of things. That’s where we see our will in operation over His. This leads to destruction. 🙋🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

How much unnecessary hurt, confusion, and stress could be avoided if we truly learned to be still when it is not clear. To wait until we know. To trust God enough not to move ahead without peace.

When the answer is clear, who we choose to please in that says more about what we actually believe and who we really serve then what we confess. Is it God or self?

Do we seek His will first, or do we make the decision and then ask Him to bless it?

I have made this mistake too many times myself. But I am learning that when it is not clear, stillness is wisdom. Waiting is never wasted.

Sometimes something can be so good, yet still not be God’s perfect will for you. God will still be good and God in it, as we surrender control choosing to obey. It may not what be what we want to hear, but in the end it is always be what’s best.

Every Spoken Word
Just because it is good does not mean it is God.

11/13/2024

🙌🏼➕🙏🏼🕊️

09/17/2024

➕Stand Firm in your Faith➕

God’s will never fail you and His never returns void.

Keep looking for the cloud.

Keep declaring the truth of God’s word.

In life we experience delays, but the delay is not denial!

It’s God’s loving hand drawing you closer.

It’s Him preparing you.

It’s Him stretching you.

It’s Him and taking you deeper in Him.

The enemy comes in those moments to speak lies over you.

To tempt you to give in to discouragement. and doubt God’s goodness.

“Greater is He that is in you than He that is in the world.” 1 John 4:4

Lean all the way into to the Lord.
Guard your heart.
Renew your mind in His word.
Praise Him in the midst of it.
Stand firm in your faith regardless of what you see.

My Pastor always said “though your knees may be shaking, stand firm on the word of God!”

Speak the Word of God out loud over the situation and watch that doubt melt away as your faith in Jesus rises up.

God inhabits our praises. His presence comes down in it. He shifts our thoughts back to who He is!

He has a way of doing things your mind can’t even comprehend.

You already have victory in Jesus. Good news…it’s never based on your ability! Whew…what a relief that is!

Get mad at the enemy.

Say enough is enough.

Draw a line in the sand.

Take a stand.

Take up your authority in Christ Jesus and tell the devil no!

It is as God said it will be, and I will take Him at His word!

It will come to pass. I will wait upon the Lord, in hopeful expectation.

“And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.” Malachi 3:11

“What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?” Romans 8:31

In His presence the fear, the doubt, the anxiety, the worry, all the lies and schemes of the enemy are completely dismantled rendering him powerless those attacks are null and void!

God is an overflowing source of power and provision.

He is more than enough.

“The Lord is my shepherd,
I shall not want.
2 He makes me lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside quiet waters.
3 He restores my soul;
He guides me in the paths of righteousness
For His name’s sake.”
Psalm 23:1-3

“…You’re more than a conqueror through Christ Jesus who strengthens you.” Romans 8:37

Write it down.

Proclaim it over and over again, until your heart catches up with the words coming out of your mouth!

Ask Him to put out His spirit on you to enable you to stand.

Praise Him for who He is.
Pray His word.
He will see you through it.
He will bring His purposes forth and promises to fruition.

To be courageous doesn’t mean you won’t ever have fear.

It means that you decide that what’s on the other side of it, is more important than the fear trying to stop you from pressing through to receive it.

If you wouldn’t ever face fear the Bible wouldn’t say “do not fear” 365 times!

There will be plenty of opportunities to either cave into despair, or to rise up in faith.

“Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1).

Even when we can’t see it, God is making a way.

He is moving behind the scenes.

God is calling you into the deep.

Into a place of total surrender and total dependence in Him.

It’s in these moments, that’s where we truly learn what it means to trust Him.

Not in our strength…always in His!

“Not by might, or by power, but by His Holy Spirit”. Zechariah 4:6🕊️

He is faithful!

He will see you through.

This is where He parts the Red Sea for you to cross on dry ground.

The enemy you see today will be no more….

“Moses answered the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the LORD will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again.”
Exodus 14:13

The enemy of fear, anxiety, doubt, discouragement and whatever else is chasing you.

It will never be seen again.

The most beautiful part of it is as it’s on full display the people surrounding you and attached to you will get delivered with you.

When Rahab acted in courage, in a moment that could have cost her life, her bravery not only spared her life, but the life of her entire household. Her life was forever changed.

You may not even realize the amount of people watching your life that will be spared by your bravery.

They’re hungry for truth.
They want to believe.
They long for His peace.
They need to see that He is real.
He is using you!

They get see Him at work powerfully in you in your weakest moments.

Some are watching with wrong motives pray for them. He uses that too.

He wants them to see.

He uses what the enemy means for your harm for your good and His glory.

“You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.” Genesis 50:20

Glory to God, as they study you, they will see Him at work. He wants to set them free.

“But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;”
1 Corinthians 1:27

Imagine living a life so full of faith that even the ones who dispise you get touched by His hand at work in you, not because you’re good, but because He is.

He is at work mightily in your surrender, friend.
In your yielding.

In your willing devotion and relinquishing of control.

In your daily decision to live a life that honors Him.

The glory of God is on full display in your courage as you stand firm on His word.

Praise the Lord! 🙌🏼

Keep believing.

Keep praying.

Keep seeking.

Keep praising.

Keep trusting in God.

Take hold of His promises, Yes and Amen.

Use praise as a weapon against the enemy.

Use your voice to silence the lies.

Trust God!

He is who He says He is.

He will do what He said He would do. 🙏✨

09/07/2024

Have you ever stopped to think about how God reveals His glory through our everyday lives? 🌟

Every door God opens for us is a place where He wants to show up in ways that draw people closer to Him through intimate relationship with Jesus.

He places us in those rooms not because we are so good, but because in His everlasting love, mercy, and grace, He longs to deliver and draw near to those who need Him most.

If He opened the door, there is something He wants to do there, something He has to say to those He loves.

What an honor and privilege it is to be vessels of His glory, sharing His love and kindness with others. He blesses us to be a blessing! 🙌

May we never forget all He has already done. May we always remember that it’s not about us, but about His relentless love and steadfast pursuit to heal, restore, and draw every heart to His. ❤️

The favor He pours out on our lives is a gift He brings to use us as a blessing to others. It’s how we sacrificially love and selflessly serve in those moments that brings glory and honor to Him. People see His hand at work through our actions.

What we do with the opportunities He gives us is our gift back to Him. It’s how we thank Him and honor His goodness and faithfulness.

We could never earn His love or be "good enough" for it—that’s the beauty of His grace. He knows us and He loves us still.

Praying that we yield to His way and will to uplift, encourage, speak life, pray, serve, stand in the gap, and genuinely seek the good of others. That in it we become an expression of His endless love that reconciles all hearts to Him. 💕

07/12/2024

So good! ❤️🥰

Forgiveness is God's provision to heal.In "Forgiving What You Can't Forget," Lysa TerKeurst shares how to stop reducing your life down to the limitations of ...

03/29/2024

On the cross He exchanged our worst for His good. ➕🙌🏼🕊️

It’s Good Friday, but it sure didn’t feel or look good. The whole earth shook, doubts swirled, hearts were broken, and hope seemed lost. 💔

God is always in control. ➕

God was, is, and will always be able. It wasn’t ever about His ability. Nor is it about our ability to see Him moving in it. 🙌🏼

Even when it doesn’t make any sense, doesn’t feel, or look good, God is always good and Sunday is coming. 🙌🏼

Jesus carried the weight of every sin on His shoulders on the way to the cross. He became our ransom. He paid the price for us to have new life. ➕

God works all things together for our good. Nothing in Him is ever wasted. The pain you’ve been carrying is nothing compared to the joy that is coming. 🙌🏼

The fact that you’ve been able to walk through it is the evidence of His grace being sufficient for you through His presence with. That is the resurrection power of Jesus Christ. 🙌🏼

We remember the blood of Jesus that was given to redeem us from a life of sin and death. It covers us with grace and a supernatural power to deliver and help us overcome. He died so that we could experience life abundantly in Him. ➕

All suffering was reconciled on that cross with Him. He brings the things that look dead back to life.

Take heart, Sunday is coming. 🙌🏼

Thank you, Jesus! 🙌🏼

03/14/2024

The truth without love is harsh.

At times we have preach, but without
love it lacks the ability to reach to those who desperately need it.

In response to this we can see the culture shifting to a love without truth message. This is a lie.

If one is too harsh, and the other is a lie, there are only two paths;

The path of obedience. Or the path of rebellion.

You choose.

The deception is in the thought that there is an in-between with God. There is no middle ground. He loves you and in that love He gives you the choice to choose Him back.

Jesus says we are either for Him or we are against Him.

We have an intimate encounter Jesus. We experience the transforming power and beauty of His presence. We surrender to His call to salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. We lay down our lives and choose to follow Him.

This gift of grace poured out through love and mercy softens of our heart. We begin to die to self. As we surrender to His call to salvation through faith in Jesus Christ and receive Him in our heart we lay down our lives to follow Him.

This results in an internal transformation that produces fruit outwardly in evidence of a lifestyle change.

The presence of God meets us right where we are, but He never leaves us the way He finds us.

Jesus is the truth, the way, and the life.

He died so that we could receive salvation. Come to know Him, abide in Him, He in us, and walk in His love living lives that display His truth.

Our creator cares so deeply for us that He left the throne of heaven, came down to the earth in human form, and took on our punishment. He died in our place and rose again in order to set us free.

Our response to this love is a willing surrender. It’s a daily choice that says you chose to die for me, so I will gladly choose to live for you.

Listen, it may take you doing it over and over, day after day! Don’t give up hope. You’re worth it. He chose to come and die in your place to show you how much you mean to Him.

He paid our debt in full so that in Him we have life, and life more abundantly.

I won’t lie to you and tell you that it will be easy. That everything changes overnight. It won’t. It’s still worth it. In Him we have access to joy that isn’t based on external things.

It can’t be taken away. He gives us an inner strength, a supernatural peace in the midst of seasons we can’t understand or explain. He promises to be with us. When we encounter Jesus we don’t leave the same way we came.

Once we have seen and tasted of the Lord’s goodness we begin to hunger for Him. Our heart starts to break for what breaks His. Our desires become His. We want to live a life of obedience to Him in response to His love. One that brings honor and glory to His name. It isn’t out of duty or obligation. It’s in knowing Him that we truly delight in serving Him.

It’s a process and not instant. It’s a choice we make daily to do as the word of God tells us to do inspite of what we want or feel. It’s a holy reverence and respect for who God is. Even as we fall short, He remains faithful.

In the denying of self, our eyes are opened to His purpose and we become grateful for who He is and all He has already done. We begin to live in expectation of what is to come.

He makes us new. The old things (life, ways, thoughts, desires, and habits) they all pass a way, and new life springs forth inside of us spilling over into everything we touch.

This living hope brings healing, renews our minds and gives us strength.

The same power that rose Christ from the dead is a live in to us through His Holy Spirit.

You won’t ever have all the answers. You won’t ever understand everything. It won’t ever be in your strength. You’ll have His presence with you. When God is for you, nothing, and no one can ever be against you.

There is so much power in the name of Jesus, that the enemy has to flee. That same power is available to us through Jesus.

The goal wasn’t ever for us to know God fully or to understand Him completely. It’s to know Jesus Christ intimately and live in personal relationship with Him.

As we learn to trust Him our faith grows, our lives are molded, Christ like character is developed within us.

He is all seeing, all seeing, all powerful and at all places at all times. Yet, He longs for us.

He is able and willing to redeem us and when we call out to Him He pull us out of the miry clay of destruction.

He can do anything. When we give Him the opportunity He will move in ways we can’t even think or imagine.

God longs to bring forth His glory and bring good of the messes He didn’t even create in our lives. He is faithful.

Will you choose Him?

I mean really choose Him.

Lay it all at His feet. Let go of what you thought would be and how you thought it would look in order to grab a hold of who He is.

He is, who He says He is.

He will do, what He said said He do.

He is the God who was, is, and is yet to come.

He isn’t finished.

He has the final say.

It’s not too late.

There is hope and His name is Jesus.

You’re never too far gone that His love can’t reach down and pull you out.

Seek Him with all your heart and you’ll find Him.

Cling tight to what He promised you.

Don’t believe the deception of the current culture.

Jesus Christ is the same today, yesterday, and forever more.

He loves you.

He chose you.

He is pursuing and calling out to you now.

Will you receive Him? Will you choose Him?

03/09/2024

That will preach! 🙌🏼➕🙌🏼

Help us Lord to be so consumed with knowing you intimately, hungry for your word, disciplined in your word and in prayer, worshiping you, being in your presence, staying filled up with your Holy Spirit.

That’s where peace that you can’t even explain exist. Seek Him with your whole heart and you will find Him.

02/10/2024

Prayers for Jordan. We believe for miraculous healing type 1 diabetes. God is able! Nothing is impossible for Him! We believe! Please come in agreement for full restoration and supernatural wisdom for new Doctor Monday. God’s glory to be revealed. 🙌🏼

01/25/2024

”We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair.“
‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭4‬:‭8‬ ‭NLT‬‬