Mini testimony!

As I scroll through my old post I can't help but think about the the people and things that have been removed from my life, and I rejoice! I rejoice because I've made some bad choices but God so more in me than I did in myself. God choose me and placed people and a strong Man of God in my life!! The Lord strengthened me and delivered me from worldly things so that I could spread the Word of God to believers and non-believers through scripture, words of encouragement, being a listening ear, and sharing my personal testimony! 

Don't be ashamed of where you came from or where you're at in your life right now! If God delivered me He will do the same for you! You just need to trust and believe!

Grace over Guilt

I know longer let the guilt or shame of my past control me because by grace I am a new creation!!!! 

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“This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!”

2 Corinthians 5:17 NLT

http://bible.com/116/2co.5.17.nlt

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Don't Worry!!!!!

Don't worry about what's awaiting you tomorrow or the next day. Take the time today and rejoice in the fact that God kept you another day. He has given you another day to get it right! Whatever troubles you have today give them to your Heavenly Father! Trust Him•Believe in Him•Let Him lead you!! “"So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”

Matthew 6:34 NASB

http://bible.com/100/mat.6.34.nasb

Rejoice

“Friends, when life gets really difficult, don’t jump to the conclusion that God isn’t on the job. Instead, be glad that you are in the very thick of what Christ experienced. This is a spiritual refining process, with glory just around the corner.”

1 Peter 4:12-13 MSG

http://bible.com/97/1pe.4.12-13.msg

Blog post coming soon.

I know it has been a while since I've post but sometimes you have to sit still and let God order your steps.

 

Psalms 119:133-"Guide my steps by your word,

so I will not be overcome by evil."NLT

 

 

 

Love like Jesus

#ThankfulThursday🙏🏾•••••“So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.””

John 13:34-35 NLT

http://bible.com/116/jhn.13.34-35.nlt

Gods Love is unmeasurable

God wanted the best for us so He gave the world His only Son Jesus Christ. Jesus was persecuted, beaten, crucified, and resurrected just so we could be free from sin, sickness, bondage, and lack!!! Can you name one rapper, politician, friend, of family member that would truly make that kind of sacrifice for you? Try Jesus today!! Make Him Lord over your life. Give Him total access and watch Him work!!! It's not hard, all you have to do is declare Jesus is your Lord and Savior!! Try Him!!!!!

God see's what the World doesn't

Looking in the mirror and what do you see? Bumps, blemishes, thin eyebrows, hair on your face, freckles, dark circles, and the list of imperfections goes on and on. As you stare at yourself you start to wonder if he could love you for how you are. But because you don't like what you see you draw on your eyebrows, put makeup on, get waxed, and fix yourself up thinking he will except you and find you beautiful. So the guy you have been talking to and falling in love with finally takes you out on the date that you've been praying he would take you out on. Ya'll have fun and he proceeds to tell you how much he likes you, how beautiful you are, and he can't wait until the next date. He brings you home then he ask if he can come in. Because you are so happy, you enjoyed his time with you, and he complimented you all night so you decide to let him come in. The compliments continue then one thing leads to another and y'all have sex. As soon as it's over he gets dress to leave. Before he goes he tells you how amazing the night was and will call later. Your gleaming from ear to ear. As you wait on his call weeks past and you hear nothing. You text him leave messages and still no response. As you wreck your brain trying to figure out what went wrong you begin to question your looks again and start to disvalue yourself. Then out of the blue he texts you back and says "what's up?" Those two words already makes you feel like he is bothered but you proceed to text back because you want answers. So you ask the standard questions to beat around the bush. Then you finally ask why hadn't he called or text back and he says, you're a sweet girl, you are fun, but he not ready for a relationship. All you can do is look at the phone and say wow, I did all this so he could notice me so he could like me and fall in love with me and it wasn't good enough.

How many of you can honestly say this has been you or a friend you know? How many times have tried to transform yourself so a man or the world could see you and accept you? You spend tons of money on clothes, makeup, and other things so that you could be noticed and fit in but in the end you're disappointed and realize its wasn't good enough. We get so lost in what is considered attractive to others that we forget about who we really are in the inside.

What if we put that same effort into making our hearts beautiful for God. Close your eyes and image what your heart looks like?  Is it bumped, bruised, torn, dark, and hurt? We spend so much time trying to make our outward appearances look good for people and the world we forget about our hearts. It is so important to  take care of our hearts first so that people can see our hearts not our bodies and our appearance.

So how can we work on repairing the damage to out hearts and make it acceptable for God? Well we have to start by having a heart of repentance, a heart filled with self love and love for others God will never judge you like the world does. God always sees out hearts. The world sees beauty. Beauty is not lasting but a spirit filled with love for God will last always (Proverbs 31:30 (NLT) Charm is deceptive, and beauty does not last; but a woman who fears the lord will be greatly praised).

I challenge you today to take time to focus on your heart. If it is hurting allow God to fix it, ask Him to show you how to make it beautiful and full of love again (Psalms 51:10 (NLT) Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a loyal spirit within me. ). When a person sees your heart they see the Glory of the Lord. A beautiful heart outweighs all the MAC cosmetics, false eyelashes, and designer clothes.

But God told Samuel, “Looks aren’t everything. Don’t be impressed with his looks and stature. I’ve already eliminated him. God judges persons differently than humans do. Men and women look at the face; God looks into the heart.”

1 Samuel 16:7  

Don't Conform

Good morning! Renew your mind daily through prayer, reading Gods Word, and surround yourself with encouraging people. This will keep you in touch with the things of God not the world   

  

                      

                            

Words

Choose your words wisely! You never know how your words can effect someone. Great one another with love, speak words of encouragement, build each other up, and always ask if you can pray@for the or with them! Remember God is still in the business of changing lives let Him transform you!!!

Happy Resurrection Day

MiniPost: The battle of flesh & spirit

“So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won’t be doing what your sinful nature craves. The sinful nature wants to do evil, which is just the opposite of what the Spirit wants. And the Spirit gives us desires that are the opposite of what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other, so you are not free to carry out your good intentions.”

Galatians 5:16-17 NLT

Faith & Endurance and Listening & Doing

Ask God in faith for what you need & through your faith in Him you can endure any obstacles. And as you wait you must learn to be silent and listen to the Word that He puts in your heart then do what He instructs you to do. #AskInFaith #Endure #ListenMoreSpeakLess #DoAsTheLordCommannds

When the World says "No", God says "Yes".

I know this saying all so well! I was raised by my mom and had a praying grandma. I am a faith driven woman through my personal relationship with God. I have made a lot of mistakes in life, but God's grace kept me and then built my muscle. At the age of 19, I got pregnant with my oldest son. LITTLE DID I KNOW THEN THAT THIS WOULD SAVE MY LIFE SPIRITUALLY.  I was in college and was blessed with a talent of doing nails. I worked in a salon and had a large clientele. The people around me thought that my life would come to a screeching halt, but God knew this was just the beginning for me. It was time to "Woman Up"!  My life took a sudden turn; it seemed as if anything that could go wrong did. Relationships,money, etc.  Bamm! What do I do now? Determined to finish school, I pressed on. I knew that I never wanted to work in corporate America. I made a promise to myself that I would not allow myself to be influenced by people who told me to drop out of school and get on social services and live according to what society thought a Black young female should. I knew that wasn’t God’s will for me. I fell on my knees and prayed to God. LORD PLEASE HELP ME! GIVE ME THE STRENGTH TO MAKE IT WITH YOU and show the world that with you all things are possible. It was a nice day and my mom kept asking me to go to this woman's conference at my home church. I wasn't going to go but then the spirit led me to go. On the way there I got a speeding ticket and almost turned around. I pressed on. I was about 6 months pregnant and the speaker Rev. Sybil Jones laid hands on my stomach, prayed and prophesied over me and my baby boy.  She said that God had an amazing future for me and my children of the future. The last thing I knew, they were picking me up off the floor.  She told me to study the Prayer of Jabez and gave me my first journal. That changed my life.  I will be 40 this year, with 3 sons ages 25 (stepson), 19 and 17 and 2 beautiful girls age 9 and 1. To this very day, I still journalize every morning and night. Habakkuk 2:2

It is through my journal that the Lord has spoken to me and instructed me to do things that only with Him could ever be done!

I must say that journalizing keeps your mind fixed on your conversation with God because your mind is focusing on writing and listening to him. Your mind has a better chance of focusing on him.

I am BLESSED to testify that No weapons formed against me prospered Isaiah 54:17. 

I graduated from college, married and raised my children as a family with a supportive father and husband in the home. Started multiple successful salons, never having to get a loan to this very day. Partnered with awesome mentors, owner of successful cosmetology school/spas, traveling celebrity nail technician, instructor for large nail companies. Invested in real estate, became a real estate agent. Owner/Associate Broker of a successful real estate company.

My biggest failure was when my husband and I opened a club in North Carolina.  It did great for a while then we got caught up in the fame of having a club, the money and the wild life, which went against our business plan. We were out of line with God.  It cost us our business, our marriage and our home. You name it,we lost it. Parting was devastating to us and the kids. We were broken and lost. 

Then is when I truly experienced GOD'S GRACE!! 

I focused on Philippians 4:13 “I can do all things through God that strengthens me”.
I knew I had to pick myself up and "WOMAN UP" because I had my kids that needed me to survive.  I brushed my shoulders off and started once again. On my knees, journalizing and believing God’s promises I relocated my salon, opened another Men's Spa, and was still able to Co-own my real estate company. With God all things are possible. Your thoughts become things, all you have to do is think positive thoughts and put all your Focus on God.  I am a living testimony that when all the odds were against me. I put my trust in God and the sky has been the limit. I am no better than anyone reading this. This is your time to make a difference and show the world how good God is.  We have the same blood running through us and the same 24 hours in a day. Get up and make it happen! Don't let the enemy have you bound and thinking you can't do it because again, “you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you”. 

I am currently working on a huge project that I will be launching next year! Stay tuned.

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STEP 1 - INSTALL MY APP

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The Seed

As a child I was told by someone that raised me (not my parents) that I would never have any friends. This negative seed was planted into my heart and mind almost daily at a very early age. This was told to me during a time in my life when I was impressionable and easily influenced by someone I respected and loved.

As I got older and started to build friendships and relationships with people, that small statement would always be in the back of my mind. So as I would meet people I would always find myself giving my all to people just so they would want to be my friend and love me. As time passed and I became a young adult this mindset would prove to be unhealthy for me emotionally and sometimes physically. I found myself getting into mentally and physically abusive relationships with men and becoming friends with people that had hidden agendas just so I could prove that people would be my friend and love me.

Years passed and I felt empty. I couldn't understand why I was feeling hurt and disappointment over and over again. Then one day I was in my apartment by myself crying and asking God why am I so unhappy. I kept telling myself I was doing everything to make people like me but I still felt incomplete. Then one day I thought I figured it out. I realized that I had allowed that negative seed that was planted in me when I was a child to manifest. I allowed that bad seed to grow and take over my mind and almost my life.

Once I realized the root cause, I started to dig up the roots of that seed that was planted so deep inside of me. It was hard trust me but I tried. I would think that I had removed all the bad roots but some of the weeds would try to sprout back up. So I would find myself right back to square one. Then I received a revelation and I truly realized I couldn't do it without God. I had to become a new person and let my old ways go away (2 Corinthians 5:17) .

So in order for me to change myself I needed to treat myself like a garden. I needed to uproot all the bad seeds that I held onto and start over with a new foundation that would allow me to see Gods best for me.

Plant in a sunny location. = Allow Gods light to shine on and in me.

Plant in good soil. = Find me a church that would help me receive the Word.

Space your crops properly.= Distance myself from toxic people and things. 

Buy high-quality seeds. = Read the Word daily

 

Today I can truly say that I am happy, blessed, and with Jesus I'll always have a friend!!!!

 

Gods Word says: Matthew 13:8-Still other seeds fell on fertile soil, and they produced a crop that was thirty, sixty, and even a hundred times as much as had been planted!

 

We must allow Gods Word to always fall on fertile ground so it can produce blessings and not curses, happiness not doubt, love and not pain.

 

 

 

herTestimony

This is myTestimony.

What's yours?

Will you allow God to use you?

 

 

(if you would like to share your testimony just fill out the contact section)



Gods voice over everything!!!!!

Listen to the Word of God. His Word NEVER fails!!! #womanofgod #godsgirl #wog #realwomanworship #iLuvGod #Jesus

Featured Woman Of God Eboni Rufus

HerTestimony is honored to feature #RVA's #WomanOfGod #MotherOf5 #Entrepreneur #BusinessOwner Eboni Rufus on my blog Monday 3/14. She will be sharing her personal testimony. Please make sure you mark your calendars!!! This WOG has an amazing testimony that will uplift you, inspire you, and encourage your spirit!!!

Don't worry Pray!!!

The Purpose

““I know that You can do everything, And that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You.”
Job 42:2 NKJV



Everyone's life has purpose. God knows our purpose before we are even born. Some of us run from it, some of us fear it, some of us walk right into it, and for some of us it takes a lifetime before we walk in it.

For me my purpose has always been a part of who I was but I didn't realize how my purpose would change my life and help encourage others.

My journey reminds me of the journey that the Hebrews took from Mount Sinai to Kadesh-barnea. This was an 11 day journey but it took the Hebrews 40 years (Deuteronomy 1:2-3).

At the age of 42 I have finally made it to the place God has purposed me to be at this appointed time in my life. Similar to the Hebrews I wanted to follow God when everything was going good but when obstacles arouse I found myself following the ways of the world. Following the world gave me temporary satisfaction and happiness but it never lasted long. I would find myself repeating the same bad habits; bad relationships with men (boys), one-sided friendships, jobs I didn’t like, and the list goes on.

During this time I was in church, my body was there but not my spirit. I received the Word of God but I didn’t allow God to receive me. My spirit was broken and it just always seemed like I was never happy. I did a good job for the most part masking my unhappiness but when I was in the privacy of my home I cried and asked God why me, I’m a good person, I’m always helping everyone else. 

As years pasted and I kept repeating the same cycle saying “this year is my year.” Then one day I received a revelation in my life. God led someone to me that would help me understand my purpose and show me that all God wanted from me was my broken spirit (Psalms 51:17). Once I surrendered to the Lord and found myself a church that helped me understand the word I finally saw what my purpose was. It was actually revealed to me before then but I had to allow God to work on me and help me get a better understanding of the word (trust me He’s still working on me).

So once my purpose was clear, God revealed to me that through my personal testimonies it would allow God's light to shine and help encourage women to give their broken spirit to Him and He would do the rest. And that is how HerTestimony was birthed.

Through this spiritual based blog, I will be sharing a variety of testimonies, some of them mine, some from other women, and some based on scriptures in the bible.

My purpose is to be used by God. My purpose is to give Him all the glory and honor in everything I do. What is your purpose? Do you feel God nudging at you? Don't run from your purpose, embrace it. Let God use you. 

“Through each testimony God will reveal healing to the broken and lost women of the world. Every testimony is different but each one has the same purpose and that is to help encourage women to seek God's Word and His Way for their lives……CLR”

 

"to tell about the light so that everyone might believe because of his testimony.”John 1:7NLT

Post coming on Tuesday March 1, 2016