Mornings With God

“Mornings Are Better When You Talk To God First.”

This is a new and exciting day, I have no idea what this day holds, but you do, Lord guide my every step today Amen. This was a prayer and affirmation from my morning read from a book called living in the light. When I read this, I was instantly filled with energy I felt empowered, and confident that I can conquer the day the best way possible. This led me to ask what is some of the things are you say or do to declare a winning and powerful day, this is the most important part of our day that most of us neglect.  Instead the tone of our day is set by what day of the week it is and the tasks and commitments we must take on in that day.  Allowing your day to be controlled by thoughts that does not contribute to our mental health or enhance our energy and how we operate those are some of the things we need a complete mental detox. Day to day life is a gift but the kind of day and life we live is what we choose, the choices we make can either elevate us or create a ripple effect of negative results. Our choices are usually influenced by our thoughts, the type of language we use first thing in the morning, and the type of outside influence we allow in.  This is challenging and it is a struggle, but we cannot accomplish or begin to master self-discipline until we make a conscious effort to get better and make choices that are going to contribute to our life in a positive way.

Prayer, meditation, and making a conscious choice to protect our peace and having a happy life begins each day the moment we open our eyes. There is a renewal and a commitment that we should all declare and sign upon entering a new day, leaving yesterday’s struggles where they belong in the past. Our only and most important responsibility for each day is to be present, open, and ready to be blessed be a blessing and conquer the day in ways that promotes peace, growth and harmony. Protecting our space and energy Is key because if we are always giving access and making ourselves available to every cry, concern, or frustration we begin to carry those same feelings even though these problems are not of our own. Meditation is very powerful tool sounds simple but is very much challenging, it is hard to put our mind on time out sometimes, I can recall the very first time I tried to meditate I learned how powerful and loud the mind is. The moment I closed my eyes I began to hear all my thoughts and concerns screaming at me all at once and although that made it difficult for me to relax, I learned something in that moment. I learned that the level of chaos that is present in our mind and internally is what our life will reflect externally, with that understanding I thought if I practice creating peace and harmony in my mind my life can and will reflect that.

Everything we put in is what comes out if you desire a positive outcome there must be positive input, in life you will only receive what you put out. In order to receive happiness and love we must be vessels of love and happiness be slow to react but quick to give without personal gain, doing what is fair and kind is not a recipe for instant gratification but a lifetime of abundance and prosperity. We are the co-creators of our life we are responsible for our thoughts and our thoughts dictate our energy and our attitude. Read all the books you need, listen to the audios that promotes healthy living and thinking, and surround yourself with people that add value instead of subtracting from your progress. In the end we only have ourselves to blame for how we live each day, what we create and the value we add to not only ourselves but of everything and everyone we encounter. To have the power to choose we must also have the power to accept all that is, accept all that isn’t and be willing to let go and let God the only person that can alter the course of your day Is your mind.

Dance To Beat Of Life

I believe that there comes a point in everyone’s life where we all must come to understand and accept life for the beautiful mystery that it is and, and all the ugly that we are faced with. No one can change what God has already designed for our lives, what we do have is the ability to choose how we make the best out of the hands we are dealt. The reality is every circumstance and trial we come up against is in alignment with what God has in store for us, the problem is during life happening we waste a lot of time. We waste a lot of time complaining, wishing, and regretting, when that takes more energy than it does to just trust the process and be open to what is present to learn from each situation in order to grow through them. I am a firm believer that God never gives anyone more than they can handle, and with that knowledge I believe that we already are equipped with what we need to succeed at life. The reason I believe this is a major challenge for most is because we are too consumed by the noise around us and the need to always operate from a place of needing and lacking than from a space of feeling whole and having faith in God’s love for us. When we operate from a space of needing, we forget to do what God has already chosen us to do we get caught up in doing everything and anything that not only robs us of our time but most importantly our peace and pulls us farther away from ever being fulfilled.

The truth is sometimes God will allow us to take our own detour just to remind us who he is and how wonderful life can be when we allow ourselves to be led and co-create by the decisions we make. Our life can get so noisy and chaotic that unfortunately God will use tragedy to create silence to gain our attention. Life is not about what you have it is all about who you become and how you go about adding value to the people in your life and even better the value and impact you have in the world. Money does not buy time and it most certainly does not buy happiness, you must make time for what is important, and you must choose happiness right where you stand today. In high school as a teenager going through the normal phases and changes you feel pressured to be the best at everything but yourself, I feel like we are taught to compete and compare ourselves to each other in a way that creates strain. I did not feel we were being nurtured and groomed at how to deal with life or how important mastering myself is.  Education is extremely important but one thing I always felt connected to strongly was wisdom and having a true sense of purpose in life, this I believed was more conducive to creating a life that is perfect for us. Your purpose does not require a straight A’s on a  report  card ,what It take is passion, love, commitment, and character, all your achievements mean nothing if you have no idea how to enjoy life and you are a person that people can relate and connect with for who you are being and the difference you make versus what you have materialistically.

“Life Can Be A Mystery
A Musical
Or Complete Misery
Choose To Dance To The Beat Of Your Heart.”

That was an understanding and desire I felt from a very early age it was at the age of twenty-one I found the access to get clear on learning how to be an upstanding human being in service to others, without the focus of my own instant gratification and recognition. For a long time, I struggled internally because I always believed that the way I thought and my vision for life would not be received by anyone, so I settled for doing and being what I thought made more sense to the world. In life you quickly learn that you are not here to self-serve you are here to serve God and spread love to everything and everyone. When you can connect and embrace your true self and begin operating in purpose instead of fear and needing to be accepted is when we truly begin to live. The secret in living and choosing an unapologetic life for me is I began to trust God and trust that what is good for me he will allow what is not he will remove and in being present to that I make myself available to hear his instructions loud and clear. There is nothing much that separates us besides our perception and our thoughts about life and way we think it should be. The beauty is what we do have in common our connection through God that makes us all unique and extraordinary.

Let Your Guard Down

The text book dictionary of pride states that it is a feeling or deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one’s own achievements. The definition of being prideful is to have an excessively high opinion of oneself, I believe that when one is in a prideful state they feel and believe that they are alone. They are alone because Pride does not promote vulnerability, it promotes denial the need to be perceived as having it all together all the time. If we all had it together all the time it simply would mean that we are immortal, and life is not currently taking place. The reality is everyone faces trials no one is excluded from facing life challenges some more than others but never the less they are present and important.  Unfortunately, there are people that mentally they live in an alternate reality or universe that promotes perfection they are usually in the mindset that allowing others to know their struggle is a flaw on their name, their character and being a part of their journey is not ideal. They believe that they can and is responsible to figure it all out alone, no man is an island and it is a fact that we all need someone that we can call during our storms.

Pride creates an illusion that one’s struggle and burdens are their own to carry and that nothing or no one would understand. The people we attract is reflection of ourselves and the way we perceive things plays a big part in how we react towards people and their actions.  The real test is in letting your guard down and allow yourself to be open to learning something or learning from someone else outside of our own mind and what we already believe we know. As human beings we all tend to pre-judge and rule out someone with out every giving them a chance to be a blessing to our life, when you take a second to listen and understand someone else that feeling of being alone can and will disappear especially because you learn that you are not alone. There is always someone out there that can relate to your story, heal from your story and help you to heal, the only way to create this in your life is to create and make time to commit to not only your goals but losing the desire to be prideful.  Isolation is real and it is easier for most to isolate themselves and allow their circumstances to be in control, and when that is present there is no desire to thrive most people tend to settle in simply hoping to survive.

“Pride Will Cost You Everything , But Leave You With Nothing.”

The truth is no one was created to sacrifice their joy, peace and integrity, we all can choose to be prideful with ego and regret or we can allow ourselves to be open and vulnerable. Being vulnerable and open to change is a recipe for growth and an opportunity to elevate our mind, this does not make you week or a needy individual. Questions are meant to be asked lessons are meant to be learned, but most importantly life is meant to be lived and enjoyed no matter what your circumstances are and where you are in life you must make space for joy.  To thrive is to live a life that is flowing open and on purpose without losing yourself and sacrificing your peace or settling for less than what we deserve or desire. There is much to learn in life but there is also much to love in life that includes the past, the present, and the future no matter the highs or lows we may face.  Pride and arrogance will only leave us standing cold, unfulfilled and dissatisfied with the life you decide to live, we cannot control what happens in life what we can control is how we react and the intentions we set for ourselves and others.  Live in the present moment, learn from the past, let go of the hurt and pain you once felt, and allow yourself grow and flow.

I Choose To Live On purpose

Do you believe that you have a choice to be amazing and a hand in just how amazing you desire to be? our life is molded daily by the choices we make which are usually influenced by our thoughts.  Waking up each day and simply declaring that today is a good day I will be blessed on today, but most importantly I will bless someone else today.  The choice to elevate our minds and changing our perspective is very challenging and a choice we must continue to choose until we have mastered it.  The one thing to always remember is that every day we are faced with new challenges and lessons which are ultimately a true blessing in disguise. It is impossible to be positive and grow through the experiences if we continue to carry yesterdays struggle into today.  Everyday we must choose us and in choosing us we choose to love ourselves and commit to things that will bring us joy and most importantly things that challenges us to grow a little more. Being comfortable in our mess will promote mediocrity and negativity, why?  A few reasons are when you are not choosing to be your best self you are only going through the motions and you are not committed to experiencing joy.  When you only commit to doing just enough to get by you spend a lot of time-wasting time and complaining.

There is a difference between motivation and transformation, motivation is temporary, and transformation is making permanent life adjustments to create new results in one’s life.  The beauty about living in your purpose and light there is no degree or high price tag attached to because your purpose is priceless but most valuable to our existence in life. The reality is most people will spend majority of their life compromising their true self, and happiness, to please everyone living to meet the expectations and their opinions about who you are. That too is a choice that is present based on some of our experiences from either our childhood or at some point in our adult life. The most important choice and most rewarding choice any individual could make is the choice to live free and unapologetically. The choice to choose you may seem selfish to others that are only with you for their own personal gain but people that truly have your best interest in mind is open and encouraging to your journey of evolving in your purpose.  The idea that to be considered amazing you must be perfect is a false and misleading thought, what makes each one of us amazing is our ability to rise even after we have been knocked down. Our ability to try again even after we have failed, our ability to believe and conquer our fears no matter what our circumstances are is what makes you and I simply amazing in our own mess.

Today I am blessed with another opportunity to choose me, I will accept and embrace all my strengths and my weaknesses. I will choose to laugh before I choose to complain, I will choose gratitude over regret, I will choose to move with faith and eliminate the spirit of fear. My beginning does not define my future or my present, I decide to choose me and by choosing me I wake up each day with the intentions to be better than the me I was the day before. I can only move forward by forgiving myself, loving myself, and my vision for life, accepting the past for what it was, living in the now for what you can create and allow your imagination run wild as you paint your picture for the future. I believe in magic the magic that happens through faith, prayer, and obedience. I am in a committed relationship that is required that I do all that is pleasing to God and in alignment with my purpose this is a non-negotiable for my life.

“Choose To Live By Choice Not By Chance
Choose To Make Changes Not excuses.”

I Can Do All Things

“Your Level Of Faith Directs Your Energy To Take On All Things Impossible To Become Possible.”

Are you a can do or a can’t do person? I came across this question in my morning devotion read on Saturday, and in that moment, I began to ask myself what kind of person am I committed to being right now in this present moment of my life. There are multiple levels and a unique process that we all face at some point in our life and of those our level of faith and understanding is the most challenging. There is power in believing and our level of faith sometimes determine if we are a can do or I can’t do kind of person. Why, I believe that when we believe in something, we have a high level of confidence when we are confident, we can execute effectively and beyond our own expectations.  When we have no faith, our confidence is low and as a result our ability to take action is very low. The biggest obstacle that most face is not being able to see all things as possible simply because they fail to commit their plans unto God, and they lack the knowledge of just how special we are to him.  We are all special and unique to be blessed with great purpose, but we can only live it if we believe how worthy we are and understand that our past mistakes and failure does not alter God’s vision.  How are you increasing your faith? are you willing to sit in the passenger seat and allow The Powers within take lead?

What does it mean to allow God to lead, it means to have faith the size of a mustard seed that even when a task seems impossible to the world that does not shake your foundation as to what you know in your spirit. There are times when sharing your thoughts, dreams, and vision is okay, but only to a certain extent, most of the time if we focus more on asking God to guide us in the right direction with the plans for our purpose that are dear to our heart’s and sit silent long enough, we can hear clearly.  There was a time in my life when all I focused on was playing it safe which now, I know was only me selling my self short and settling for less. I had more faith in the idea of having security and guaranteed stability, but in all actuality, there is no job or salary that can provide more stability or secure me better than God. What I got clear on was the fact that a job can let me go at any given time without concern for my well-being, or stability. I began to trust that God will always do what is best for me in his own timing and that has the best security, reminder, and confirmation for me.  He may not come when I feel I need him most, but he Is always right on time and the rewards is even greater. It does not pay to worry, and it does not help being impatient, faith and patience are those two things that just goes hand in hand you cannot have faith without patience, and you cannot be patient with out faith

We are all capable of being people that can do, most are just filled with valid excuses that only allows us to settle and remain in situations and circumstances that goes against what we truly want and desire. The question I want to ask today is are you ready to stop doing things your way and allow God to lead you in his way? And are you ready to listen and be obedient, not only knowing his word but living by it? The human mind is set up to create problems that do not exist if we allow our minds to stray but if we train our mind to be silent it creates room to listen and hear Gods instructions. It is impossible to do and be great with out the proper tools and guidance, in everything we do we must always be clear on the why and how will this add value to our life and others, and most importantly does it make you happy and fulfilled.  If the actions and things you commit to adds no value or true purpose, it will encourage procrastination because you are simply not operating from your true self and in order to do and love it must be from the heart. Allow your thoughts, and your steps to be ordained by God to be a can-do person with confidence, “I Can Do All Things with He Who Strengthens Me” Philippians 4:13.