Prada or Nada?

So to all my lovely ladies and gents because hey we all know there are such things as "men purse" right? We all know how important it is to have a purse, or pakabook, however you prefer to call it, basically its the bag that hold all your goods. Okay well i dont know about you, but I am very picky about my purses. Recently I have been carrying around this gimungus purse, it was more like a luggage, and I could seriously fit my 4 year old son in there! When I first bought the purse I was ever so excited cause how big it was, and it was beautiful. Overtime thought the purse started to become much; what i mean by that is it started to become heavy cause of the size of the bag, and it started hurting my shoulders, i was constantly adjusting it switching it from shoulder to shoulder, it was very weight barying, and well on top of all that it was started to tear inside so all my belongings were getting lost inside the purse. For some reason i kept holding on to that purse, using every excuse I could not to buy another one. Every where I went people would comment "is your bag big enough", and one day in church i was searching for a pen and could not find one, and so eventually the lady next to me tapped my shoulder and handed me a pen and just laughed, i guess she was tired of hearing me ramble through that purse lol. My point here is Burdens are like that "Nada" purse overtime if you continue to hold on to that burden just like I did that purse its going to wear you down, and hurt your shoulders, and just like my purse started to tear inside you will also also do the same if you continue to hold on to your burdens. God states in his word in Psalm 55:22 "Cast your burdens on the Lord, He will sustain you, again in his word in 1Peter 5:7 Casting all your anxiety upon Him, because he cares for you. So you see I cant keep holding on to that purse, God is telling me get rid of that nada purse, give me that burden that is tearing and wearing you down, and let ME bless you with that prada purse of peace, and restoration. So I recently got a new purse that I conside my prada purse and lets just say I can now find a pen, I can bare weight on one shoulder all day if i wanted, and its def not tearing; So what nada purse do you need to get rid of? What burdens do you need to give to God?..Are you ready for your new Prada bag?

Can anybody hear ME?

Lord, Is This You? It is the Lord; let Him do what seems good to Him. I Samuel 3:18 Questions to mull around in my mind: Have I given myself to the Lord? Every facet of my life to Him? Have I told Him that I want His will in my life no matter what the cost? Do I yearn for Him to work in my life? Have I prayed, "Lord, keep Your hand heavy upon me. Don't let me veer from the path You have for me? Is He capable of taking my life and working in it? Is He interested in what happens in my life? If my answer to all of those questions is "Yes, yes, yes," then what is the answer for this question? Is there any reason why God would refuse to respond to my pleas? The answer is an emphatic, "No." Therefore, since I have given myself to Him and He has taken me, can I say with confidence, It is the Lord; let Him do what seems good to Him, no matter what comes? Oh, dear Lord. I know that I don't perform in all of the truth that You have shown me-very patiently taught me-but I sincerely long to walk in Your truths. You know my heart better than I do and You know the depth of sincerity in that statement. You are well aware of my "falling downs and my feeble getting ups" again. But how well I "perform" is not a prerequisite for Your taking over in my life, is it? The only prerequisite is the depth of my desire. Am I right, Lord? Your word says that You began a good work and You will complete it. Your word says that You are working in my life both to will and to work for Your good pleasure. You say, "I know the plans that I have for you; plans for good and not for evil to give you a future and a hope." What am I to think but that You are involved in my every circumstance? Not that You cause them, but You take them-horrible messes that they sometimes are-and You use them and I find myself clinging to You, depending on You, and Your Spirit strengthening me. What I must remember is that the people around me in my world may not be searching for You; they do not walk in Your ways for them and don't really have the sincere desire to do that. These people may bring harm, grief, and cruel events into my life. Add to that the fact that I am a pilgrim, a stranger in a foreign land walking in enemy territory, surrounded by enemy troops, fair game to their taunts, to their temptations, and to their attacks. How do I mesh the two, Lord? You in my life-working-but here I am, living in a sometimes Godless world where others, under the control of the evil one, are ever present, just waiting to trip me, deceive me, or throw stones. Oh, I see. This is where I must quickly step into the truth of Your meeting my difficulties for me-through me. Lord, I know You haven't stopped working when the circumstances of my life are bad. The truth is that adverse circumstances force me to search for You more intensely, to yearn more acutely for Your provisions for me to meet life here on planet earth. You, Lord, can take any circumstance and use it-no matter how bad it is. You can make something awesome out of awfulness. So I must believe-I must trust that You will take my circumstances and use them for my good. I may have to dig through the muck and mire to find You, but then I can calmly say, "It is the Lord; let Him do what seems good to Him." I have told you these things so that IN ME you may have perfect peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer-take courage, be confident, certain, undaunted-for I have overcome the world. I have deprived it of power to harm, have conquered it for you Jn. 16:33 AMP. Only IN HIM is this promise fulfilled. So what must I do? I must abide in Him. How do I do that? In my mind......So I assume you just read this, this was my devotion, an I was ever so touched by what God was trying to tell me. I have been wanting to post a blog on the past 2 weeks but for some reason I have been holding off on whaat God was wanting to say to me, an in the past 2 weeks he has. The past 2 weeks have been hectic an I have limited my alone time to God to 0...an o felt this uneasiness in my spirit an I knew it was God saying " necia I'm waiting" an I just keep doing what I'm doing being distracted my every day life, mind has been spinning in circles, but yet I still heard that still small voice saying "come to me". Just recently me an my son were taking a trip out an I yelled his name about a good 3 times so I can get him ready, I got no answer from him so finally I said "okay your not going" an he yells "huh" an then runs to me, through that God clearly said you see how it works I'm yelling your name " necia necia necia" an I'm getting no response, but then oo you lost your wallet, or then o someone died, or then o circumstances arise an then were saying "huh God"...somtimes it take circumstances in our life to happen for God to get our attention see we can come to him, my so Happend to be losing my wallet an at first I was soo upset, I even asked God "why me" how selfish of me to say such a thing I have ignored God for two weeks an not one time did he stop calling my name an because I wasn't responding he didnt give up either he was determined to get my attention...an so that devotion you read is God doing exactly what how word says he started a good thing in us an he will finish it however way he has planned. God loves us soo much we could never love like him. So will you listen to that still small voice today, don't ignore it, don't wait for circumstances or tragidies to say I hear you Lord, not saying we wont have circumstances in life cause o we will but just remember God will never give you anything you can't handle he allows the things that come on your life for a reason, so listen up today, he's knocking, will you let Him in?

BAT YOUR LASHES

I remember growing an looking at the stars on tv an wondering how do they get their eyelashes to look so beautiful?...I never would have guessed after all this time they were fake!. My sister Mari introduced me to fake eyelashes about a year or so back an I fell in love with them, my first pair we bought together at a cosmetic company store an thwy were MAC eyelashes, they were beautiful they almost looked like angel wings. I couldn't wait to put them on, I realized that you can't just magically put the eyelashes on you also have to buy a adhesive glue in order to put them on. So after I got all the ingredients I taught myself to put them on an it was pretty simple you take the glue you squirt a little across the eyelash line, wait 30 seconds, then apply to lash line an WAH LAH! I looked like a star, ok technically not a star but I sure felt like one. Okay so after a while I learned a great deal on eyelashes, they come in all sorts of colors, an shapes an sizes, an an that there was two type of fake eyelashes. The two type are called "individual eyelashes, an the other is called full false eyelashes". I was really interested In the individual lashes because that's the norm that celebritys have an they look soo natural. The full false lashes give your eyes more density but unfortunately they don't look as natural as individual lashes do. The catch with individual lashes are they are more time consuming an difficult to put on an have a total different glue to use to put them on, with full false lashes its very easy an simple an alot quicker process...ok so I guess your probably wondering where is this going Denicia well bare with me cause I'm getting there. So now that I have compared the two type of eyelashes an informed you about them which one would you choose to wear?...some of you may go with the full false lashes cause well its easier an alot quicker to apply an well if your anything like me then well patience isn't my most favorite word. When God brings trials, an circumstances in our lives that we may or may not like or even understand we can't just apply the full false lashes on an rush the process cause well it doesn't look as natural an the results won't be as flawless as you would like , but rather we should apply the individual lashes cause you see God knows what he's doing an with patience everything will be glamorous an more natural an it'll have been worth the effort. So I guess I'm leaving you with what eyelash are you? Maybe you'll take a second look be fore you bat your lashes.

THE CROSS

Okay so I have a 4 year old son whom I love dearly, but like any other 4 year old child we all know that they love to get into things, an tear things up an get into messes that us parents have to end cleaning up, well there was this one paticular day I was getting dressed an I didn't hear my son he was real silent, usually that silence means trouble espically for any 4 year old, well so I hear my dad say "uh o" an so I run in the room an well my son cut his hair,an the first thing he says is "mama don't be mad" well my first reaction was to WHOOP HIS BUTT!! I was furious with him I couldn't even look at him, but before I could get all crazy, God said that's you Denicia there's times when your silent an I don't hear from you an I know its trouble I know you've gotten yourself far from me or into somthing that you shouldn't be in an I have to always end up cleaning up your mess but do I get angry with you, do I want to whoop your behind every time you slip up an make a mistake ..instead I reach my arms out an tell you its alright we will get thru this together an I take your hand, so before you think about lashing out on your son think about how many times I've gotten you out of situations that seemed hopeless an instead of me getting angry with you with love I reached out an took your hand; I stood there saying but God he cut his hair! If God was to go by but she did or he did there would be no forgiveness, so I turned my boiling point down an took my sons hand an said " its okay baby we will get through this together" an he said mama you not mad an I said no baby its okay your hair will grow back but you just can't do that again cause you could hurt yourself, an he looked at me an hugged me an smiled an said" I love you mama"...that's the same love God gives us he let's us know we can't do those things cause were going to just keep hurting ourselves...so I guess that leaves me with ..w hat things make you easily angry, think about those things an then think about the CROSS.

spiritual beauty: dirty dishes

spiritual beauty: dirty dishes: Today I was doing the dishes and I had a few pans that were really hard to clean, they were filthy, with grease, tough spots to scrub, some ...

dirty dishes

Today I was doing the dishes and I had a few pans that were really hard to clean, they were filthy, with grease, tough spots to scrub, some I had to let sit in the water to kind of soak out. While I was doing the dishes I started thinking how dishes are similar to us, we are those dirty dishes an God is our cleaner God is washing, an scrubbing us to get us as clean as he wants us to be so we can be used again and again, some dishes are harder to clean then others some need to be left to soak an that's the time when we are trying to do things on our own an feel like we don't need God so were just sitting there trying to soak an let the stains disappear on its own. We can't do it that way we have to be scrubbed a cleaned so that we can be pure a used again. Something as simple as doing dishes today made me really take a second look at any stains in my life or any scrubbing that needs done. Do you have any dirty dishes?