From the Abundance

Today has been an absolutely amazing day.  Miracles, signs, and wonders... I tell you, God has truly blown my mind in a brand new way.  I attend Asbury University where I am currently working on my Masters of Social Work.  I am blessed to be earning my degree at a Christian university, so our classes usually start off with prayer or devotions.  After receiving several praise reports in my second class today I was that much more excited to get to PHAT Tuesday.  PHAT Tuesday is an acronym for Prayer/Praise, Healing and Teaching, and our night for bible study.  I got there early to pray before service with a great spirit of expectancy.  Needless to say God showed up in that place.  The anointing and presence of God rested on us tonight and I thank God for favor and the blessing of His presence. Everything we needed showed up in the atmosphere, healing, deliverance, praise, worship, a word, love, forgiveness, freedom, breakthrough... it was there. W...

And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret, And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets. And he entered into one of the ships, which was Simon's, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat down, and taught the people out of the ship. Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught. And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net. And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake. And they beckoned unto their partners, which were in the other ship, that they should come and help them. And they came, and filled both the ships, so that they began to sink. Luke 5:1-7 Often times we love to look at the beautiful ...

A friend shared this video with me a few weeks ago and in the midst of my own waiting it encouraged me more than I would have imagined.  There aren't many words to describe how awesome and truly anointed Janette...Ikz is and how timely her words are.  As a single woman, or man for that matter, waiting can be one of the hardest things we ever have to do.  As you can tell from my previous post, I'm still waiting... Amen! lol  The word in her poem gives all the reasons we need for waiting and why we should truly wait with joy.  Joy in knowing that while we are in our process, the one from whose rib we came, is being prepared as well.  Genesis 2:21-24  So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. The man said,  “This is now bone of my bones,And fl...

Earlier today I thought I would blog about a revelation I got during class, but even as I began to think about and study that word out, my thoughts changed.  The revelation I received was on a passage of scripture concerning Adam and Eve and as I thought about it, I couldn't help think about some of the people I've loved and lost, in one form or another.  One especially, K'Anthone Kelley. During my freshman year of college I had the pleasure of meeting and falling in love with an amazing man.  Not many people know the whole story of what happened, but many know that he died.   Days after breaking up with the first person I truly loved, I met Prince Charming, by accident.  K'Anthone and I met through a mutual friend who was dating his brother.  We had this crazy connection almost instantly.  After the second conversation we ever had, I knew I wanted to marry him.  No questions, no doubts, no hesitations... I just knew.  I felt it, and the fu...

Romans 8:25-27  But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. Many times we find ourselves lost and wondering what we're waiting for, what we're here for, what we're called for, and even what we're supposed to be doing.  For years I was in a place where I had absolutely no clue what my purpose was, why God had saved me, and what I was supposed to be doing with what He'd given me.  All I knew was I had a set of talents and things I was pretty good at that didn't seem to match or go together.  I loved people, was pretty good at teaching Sunday school (but I didn't really know the word well e...

A morning tweet from  iiDOTluvDOTuDOT   I asked to have that moment 4 life God said he'd give me a million of better moments As I read this tweet so many moments flashed through my mind.  Some I would love to have forever, some I could go without, and even a few I wish I never had.  Either way, when I add up all my moments I've lived a pretty amazing life.  To some I may not have done much and my life may be pretty boring, but guess what... some people aren't blessed to be here for 31 years, some aren't blessed with healthy years, some aren't blessed to make it out of the womb alive.  I have so many moments to be thankful for.. Regardless of what anybody else says, my moments are treasures. At times we can get pretty down on ourselves about the path our life has taken, decisions we've made, where we coulda, shoulda, woulda been, and what we should have by now.  I encourage you to cherish your moments.  Society has a way of putting us on...

My pastor is preaching and teaching a series on becoming good ground and today's message was awesome (as always). There was a certain part of the sermon where he had us tell our neighbor to start over.  Sometimes things don't really hit you until you say them out loud and you get cut by your own words.  My God, that thing cut me so deep today...  I had already been feeling a fresh start on some things and with some people but this was confirmation. He was talking about how the thorns and thickets ended up here because the ground was cursed due to disobedience (Genesis 3:17). The crazy thing wasn't the ground being cursed or the disobedience... the thing that just came from waaaaaaayyyy back and sucker-punched me in the back of my head was when he said they were still in disobedience to the original command God had given them and were responsible for fixing it, or in other words, doing what God told us to do the first time... even after receiving the wrong spiritual co...

This week I had an in your face reminder of just how fragile the human mind is.  I was blessed with the opportunity to minister to someone suffering from a certain mental illness.  I've known for a while that she had been diagnosed with one thing, but because I'd never seen her have an episode, it was out of sight, out of mind.   To see someone I'd always known as calm, cool, collected, sweet, mild mannered, and even tempered be so angry, afraid, and paranoid, was heartbreaking. She had literally become a prisoner in her own mind.  Every few minutes she, the person I'd always known, would peek through the bars and cry out letting me know, "Hey I'm still in here!"  Right before the paranoia would take over and throw her back into the cage.  I did all that I knew to do in that moment, I prayed and sent out a request for others to pray.  In that moment, her captors were more than I could handle on my own, but I couldn't just leave her prisoner. ...

I truly believe that children are a blessing and a precious gift from God.  Today I had the experience of being witnessed to by my 4 and 8 year old cousins.  It was the most precious thing ever and I can't even begin to describe how it blessed me.  I was so overjoyed and proud!  It's a blessing to know that seeds are going into good ground and the fruit is beginning to manifest. I took my girls out for icecream, as I often do, and we were driving back to our granny's house when my 8 year old cousin asked me where God lives and my 4 year old cousin answers.  The conversation went as follows: TT - Where does God live? Vaeh - In heaven! Me- God lives in heaven, but He's everywhere all the time. TT - but we can't see Him and we can't touch Him... Me- No but He can see us, and touch us, and we can feel Him on the inside.  He's everywhere all the time. Vaeh - I think I feel Him right now!   TT - so He's everywhere, but we can't see Him becau...