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I recently purchased a new to me car. My car’s name is L. Beeszy. There are so many safety features on L. Beeszy, which were not on my prior vehicle. One of the safety features I recently noticed was when I’m reversing in addition to the backup camera, if I reverse too fast my car stops for me. The first time it happened, I was nervous because I wasn’t sure what happened – but it has caused me to slow down. 

I was sharing about my car with my sister yesterday and I realized there are so many lessons in life if you choose to lean in. This lesson reminded me that God tries to lead and direct our lives in similar patterns. Sometimes we are going so swiftly that he will orchestrate events and things to happen in such a way to have us stop and recalibrate. There’s a natural rhythm to life to move forward or look backward to look inward if you need to revisit things. Stay with a steady pace – not trying to get too far ahead or going back too much that you must stop to redirect.

Last week’s Blog: Your Joseph Day

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I’ve read and heard the story of Joseph several times; however, this time while reading, it hit me differently.

I encourage you to read the scriptures for yourself. Y’all the Bible is rich, full of wisdom and gems from cover to cover. If you read it with fresh eyes and ask God to speak to you in new ways he will do so.

Okay, back to Joseph. Lol. To give a high-level summary, Joseph was a dreamer and was the son of Jacob and Rachel.

Joseph was Jacob’s favorite because he was conceived when they were older in age. Because he was his dad’s favorite, his dad made him a coat of many colors and his brothers hated that their dad loved Joseph more. One day, Jacob sent Joseph to check on his brothers in the field with the sheep. They saw Joseph approaching from a distance and made plans to kill him. Instead of killing him they decided to sell him off into slavery and made it appear to their dad he was eaten by wild animals. Crazy right?!!! All of this is in the Bible by the way. (Genesis 37 the entire chapter)

Fast forward to decades later and a lot of skipped events in Joseph’s story – there was a famine in the land and Joseph brothers had to come to where he now worked as Commander of the land in Egypt to get food. When his brothers came to Egypt to purchase food, Joseph recognized them, but they didn’t recognize him. After a series of events, Joseph eventually revealed his identity to his brothers with tears in his eyes. 

At that moment, Joseph could have said so many things to his brothers – since they did previously send him away. 

Instead he told them: ”Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.“ Genesis‬ ‭45‬:‭5‬ ‭KJV‬‬

Like wow! This is purpose. What Joseph went through wasn’t just for him but for him to save so many people including his own family. He wasn’t bitter toward them – he was healed. If you ever want to know what forgiveness looks like – read how it is reflected in the Bible.

I’m sure you are reading this and you are like what’s your point – great question. I’m  getting there.

Maybe you need to reframe your story and look for God’s fingerprints in it. 

Maybe perhaps, you are preserving life! When will you have your day like Joseph to truly heal and reframe your story into purpose?

Scripture References: Genesis 30:22-24; Genesis 37:3-11, Genesis Chapters 42-45

Last week’s Blog: Fix Your Eyes on Jesus

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There’s a famous picture from the 2016 Olympics with Michael Phelps in the water swimming to the finish line and another Olympian competing against him in the next lane. The other Olympian turns his head to look at Phelps instead of continuing to look at his finish line.

This blog title also makes me think of Lot’s wife in the Bible (read Genesis Chapter 19 ) also check out my blog Salt Please.

To summarize quickly, the angels gave Lot and his wife specific instructions – Run for your lives, don’t stop and don’t look back. All Lot’s wife had to do was fix her eyes on Jesus. But she looked back and turned into a pillar of salt. Whew 😥.

Isn’t that a depiction of our own life?

We turn to the left, right and back to see what others have going.

I’m writing this, but I’m guilty myself. 🙃

We can be winning and successful in whatever field and entity we are working and then we fix our eyes on others instead of keeping them on Jesus.

The word of God reminds us in Hebrews  12:2: We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith. Because of the joy awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Now he is seated in the place of honor beside God’s throne.

In this season we must keep our eyes on Jesus and him alone. Turning and fixating our eyes on others can led to so many other things that God didn’t intend.

As we go through this week and we encounter so many circumstances, will you make the decision to keep your eyes fixed on Jesus?

Last week’s Blog: Focused

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I often share I was raised in church – not as a badge of honor but as a reminder that it helped shape my foundation with God. My mom was a Sunday School teacher and I learned early on that “Jesus Wept” was the shortest verse in the Bible.

While I’ve always known this scripture for as long as I can remember, recently I’ve thought about how Jesus was on earth and experienced the same feelings we felt. There’s a story in the Bible where he was angry and another scripture referencing his weeping when his friend Lazarus died. (That he raised from the dead). In all of his human deity on earth, he allowed himself to feel and have experiences just like us.

Therefore, feelings and emotions aren’t either good or bad; however, we can’t allow them to control us or our actions. Feel your feelings as much as you need to, talk to your therapist, trusted friends, family, and others, and don’t allow your feelings to control you. Knowing that Jesus had human experiences, makes me comfortable to share any of the experiences I’ve had with Him. There’s nothing I can share that he can’t handle.

John 11:35 Jesus Wept.

John 11:38 Jesus was angry.

John 11:1-40 Full encounter of Lazarus resurrection

Last week’s Blog: Identity

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What ten words describe you the best as a person?

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I have time today, I’ll wait for you to write them.

This was one of the questions I received in a devotion on the Bible app called, “My Identity in Christ”.

I’ll share with you my 10 words to see if we have any of the same words! Also, if you can’t think of 10 words, that’s okay, ask a trusted friend and or family member and or read Ephesians 1, 2 and 3. Those chapters have a lot of verses which share what God says about us. Okay, here’s my 10.

10 Words that Best Describes Me

1. Beautiful
2. Loved
3. Whole
4. Unique
5. Intelligent
6. Creative
7. Redeemed
8. Blessed
9. Favored
10. Chosen

To be honest, the first 6 was hard to come up with and after that I had to think for a quick second – what does God think about me? What would my closet friends say about me?

I think often times our identity is so rooted in so many things – such as a career, status, wealth, relationships, titles, materialistic things and so much more. But, if we really sit and be honest – if all of those things are gone, who are you at your core? And does it align with scripture?

Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. Psalms‬ ‭139‬:‭14‬ ‭NLT‬‬

Last week’s Blog: Hacking Yourself

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