Encourage yourself!

Sometimes you just have to look yourself in the mirror and preach to yourself. This is not last time! You won't make the same mistakes! You can and you will with the help of the Lord! 
 Write the vision, make it plain, read it over and over until you believe it...then read it some more! Nobody told me the road would be easy and I don't believe He's brought me this far to leave me! #ForLoveAlways

Yea, I said it!

Honey, look around and start taking notes! Many times we get frustrated because of common scenery and repetition but repetition is how you train muscle memory to gain strength. If you're feeling like you should be further along or like you keep falling into this same situation then take the time to look around and analyze every detail in order to correct what was previously done in error. It's never too late to get it right but you have to put the work in! Jeremiah summed it up best when he asked, "if running against men wears you out, how can you race against horses?" You have races to run! Get your weight up! #ForLoveAlways

PUSH!

You know that thing that has been stressing you out, causing changes in your appetite, pushing and stretching you beyond what you thought you were capable of? Don't pray that God removes it! Pray for strength to PUSH that baby! Honey, that thing causing you so much pain is not only going to deliver you but it's going to be the reason someone else gets delivered as well! Don't cry to quit, cry to keep on going! Don't know how? Just let me know, I'm an experienced birthing coach. It'd be my pleasure to assist you... #ForLoveAlways

Walk it out...

Honey, don't be upset because no one is there... There is power in walking alone at times. If you ever find yourself looking around and the people you thought would always be there (close friends, family, mentors, etc...) are not standing by your side don't get angry with them. Just like a parent teaching their child to walk, The Father will instruct people to stand back while He lovingly encourages you to place one foot in front of the other. As much as the people observing want to help you every time you fall, it would be detrimental to your growth for them to step in and their disobedience would eventually become a burden to them because if you never learned to walk you'd always have to be carried. Get up from there! God has more for you, but you have to have the strength to step forth! #ForLoveAlways

I'm just sayin...

#SingleGirlAdvice He can't give you all of him if other women still have pieces of him... *shrugs* #ForLoveAlways

Somewhere in the wilderness...

I was sitting on my couch thinking,

"I wonder how Joshua and Caleb felt walking for 40 years on a journey they knew was only 11 days long AFTER already seeing the promised land..."

*sigh*

"At least they had each other..."

...and just that quickly God brought to mind Psalm 27:13-14 - "I had fainted, unless I believed to see the goodness of the Lord IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING. Wait on the Lord: Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen thine heart: wait I say, on the Lord."  

Talk about an attitude adjustment! 

Today, I just want to encourage you to keep going! Keep running, keep fighting and do it with joy. I know it gets tough, trust me I'm walking a narrow road too! I speak from the road, not the promised land. If you believe in God and believe in His word then you must know things will get better. Believe that! There's no reason to be miserable in the wilderness, it might add another year/lap/trial to your journey. For specific prayer requests click the CONNECT tab on the website www.ForLoveAlways.com and fill out the contact form.  I love you and I'm praying for you! #ForLoveAlways

Make it like poetry...

Today I woke up singing "Poetry" by Tamia. I just couldn't get it out of my head. From the first time I heard the song I was in love with it. The melody was beautiful, the vocals were simply amazing, but the lyrics... the lyrics were what touched my heart and won me over!
One of my favorite lines in the song is "Make it like poetry, poetry, poetry... everything wrong you see, make it all right." I distinctly remember thinking, That's the kind of love I want my husband and I to have. I want a love that is not perfect but everything always works out. A love that is so strong that it covers and fixes anything that may not be beneficial to our relationship. A love that outlasts and overcomes any hardship we may face. I want a love like poetry.
You see, in poetry there are many times when you are writing when you just can not find the right words to express how you feel, or even worse, you have the words... they just won't come out right. However, anyone whose been writing for a significant amount of time will tell you if the work is something you're serious about, if you meditate, speak, or even think about those words long enough... more often than not, everything will soon fall into place... and just like the song says: everything wrong, will be made right.
Today, while praying and meditating, it became clear to me that we don't have to wait until God sends us a husband/wife in order to have a life and a love like poetry. Psalms 119:105 reads, "thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and light unto my path." The God we serve has the ability to order out footsteps in His word and even refers to Himself as the way, the truth, and the life. If we do our part by meditating, speaking, and thinking on His word just as a poet would, we can be confident that God will give us lives and love like poetry... where everything that may be wrong will be made right!

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