May the Peace of the Lord be with you always and in every circumstance.
Family, have you ever started a new routine? Was the routine getting up earlier, starting a new exercise program, taking the stairs instead of the elevator, or was it spending more quiet time with God each day?
I have found that as I have been growing in the things of God, my egoic flesh has been having a straight-up tantrum. In my head, I am kicking, screaming, and crying.
My spirit man keeps telling me, “Marcia, don’t give up. You have greatness inside of you. Being uncomfortable is part of the process.”
What does the Word say about not giving up ?
Holy Scriptures
Galatians 6:9
New International Version
9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Philippians 4:13
New International Version
13 I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
James 1:2-4
New International Version
Trials and Temptations
2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,[a] whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
Songs of Encouragement
Family, I know that when God is allowing us to be stretched, it is always for our growth and His glory.
What I also now realize is ….my BIGGEST BATTLE is with me. The Old Me vs. the New Me.
Spirit of the Living God, I welcome the preparation I have to go through in order to get to my next level.
And I let it be… And so it is…
In the powerful and precious name of our Chief Intercessor and Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Today is Friday, June 20, 2025, here in Georgia (USA).
My heart’s desire, as children of an awesome and incredible God, is that we would learn how to harness the authority that Jesus said we have in him.
First, let’s start with what Jesus said we have. In John 14, Jesus lets us know that whatever he can do, we can also do on an even greater level because he was going to the Father on our behalf. Jesus said that if we ask in faith and pray in his name, He will do the rest.
Holy Scriptures
John 14:10-15
New International Version
10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. 12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit
15 “If you love me, keep my commands.
So, how do we believe on the level of Jesus?
Faith!!!! Faith is a frequency and a vibration.
If we change our speech to, “My faith is on the frequency and vibration of Jesus and heaven!!!
Family, can you imagine how our lives will change if we purposefully decide to raise our energy and vibration so high that we unlock the Kingdom of Heaven??!!
How do we begin the journey of increasing our faith through a higher vibration and frequency? Protect your gates!!!! Ears, Eyes, and Mouth. Surround yourself with the things of God. It matters what we listen to, watch, and read. It matters whose voices we allow around us. It matters how we treat others. It even matters how we care for the world around us. Protect your TEMPLE!!!
Soaking Worship
Video of the Week
Anointed Worship / Jesus Image
Why was the Centurion’s daughter healed? Why was the woman with the issue of blood healed? Why was the lame man at the Pool of Bethesda healed? They tuned into the vibration and frequency of faith.
Find ways to increase your frequency and vibration. Family, if you notice repeatedly that certain people, places, or things are pulling your vibrations and frequencies down, then you know who and what will need to be gently removed from your life with grace.
I love you all with the amazing and everlasting love of our Lord, Savior, and Wayshower Jesus Christ.
I was talking to a friend yesterday about people’s relationship with church and organized religion as a whole.
We both knew several people who wanted a relationship with Jesus but did not want a relationship with the church. I know that church hurt is one of the toughest hurts to heal because it involves the mind, body, soul, and spirit of a person. A lot of layers of healing that must take place…
There are so many people who have lost faith in organized religion. The main reason is that people forget the three most important aspects of Christianity and being followers of Christ.
Our first lesson, as Christians, is to love the Lord with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. The second is to love our neighbor as we would love ourselves. The third and final rule of Christianity is that Jesus said the world would know we are His by our love.
If we can’t get these three aspects of our faith down, we should not worry about any other aspect of “church” life. Churches should not be able to move forward building congregations until these three building blocks are successfully practiced.
We are the Lights of Christ. When people have an encounter with us, they should be having an encounter with Christ. We are the ambassadors for Christ. We are beacons of Jesus’ holy Light.
Holy Scriptures
John 13:34-35
Tree of Life Version
34 “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, so also you must love one another. 35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Matthew 22:37-40
Tree of Life Version
37 And He said to him, “‘You shall love Adonai your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ [a]38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ [b]40 The entire Torah and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
1 Corinthians 13
New International Version
13 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Worship Video of the Week
I Am Light
This week’s video is by one of my favorite artists, India Arie. When she sings, she sings to the spirit of a person. She reminds us, in this song, that we are all connected to and divine reflections of a beautiful God. When so much of life tries to crowd out our spirit, this song calls us to remember who we are…We are the Lights of God. We carry the Light of God. Remember who you are and SHINE BRIGHT!!!
Music video by India.Arie performing I Am Light.
Once we get back to a place where we make our soul work a priority, so many things will change. What if every spirit journey, across the globe, was about the mastery of Love? How would our world change?
May the Peaceof the Lord be with you always. The Peaceof the Lord that gently abides with you no matter the circumstances. The Peaceof the Lord that lets your heart know that God has already made a way. All we have to do is trust, obey, and believe.
This week, the Holy Spirit spoke to me in the most profound way, as I was listening to someone talk about the mind. As I was listening, the Holy Spirit very gently said, “The Mind can be your cage or your keys.”
Immediately, I thought about all the passages in the Bible that spoke about the mind. Specifically, the scripture passages that were teaching us how to think like Christ and why it is so important to have the right mindset!
In a nutshell, how we think is what we create. We were created in the likeness and image of God. The same God who created the world by speaking into the atmosphere is the SAME GOD who we are made in the likeness and character of.
Our WORDSand THOUGHTS can create greatness or destroy worlds. Our WORDS and how we THINK can liberate us to see so many amazing things, or it can trap us in a cage. We must train our minds on how to think. We must be open to what the Holy Spitit is saying and allow our thoughts to be transformed.
The battlefield of our soul starts in our Mind!
This Week’s Scripture Readings
Philippians 2:5-8:“Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness”.
Romans 12:2:“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect”.
Philippians 4:8:“Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things”.
Colossians 3:2:“Set your mind on things that are above, not on things that are on earth”.
Worship Video of the Week
Brothers and sisters, a whole world is waiting for us to share the Love and Mind of Christ. Not religion but relationship.
Travel with the Love and Mind of our great WayShower. I look forward to seeing you on the path.
Thank you for the grace you have shown me as I have been away for a moment. Sometimes, family, school, and health require more of me than usual, and I have to give them my full attention. As the young people say, “Life was lifing.” I am grateful that all in my house are now well and in good health.
This week’s devotional is inspired by a song from Annatoria entitled Hark, Now Hear.
The song gives a timeline of the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus. In the church, depending on what time or season of the year it is, we highlight different aspects of Jesus’s earthly ministry. It is easy to remember the beauty of him as a baby or the incredible teacher and healer he was during his earthly ministry. What we must remember above all else is that Jesus came to be a sacrifice.
The climax of Jesus’s earthly ministry occurred while he was hanging on the cross with the FULL WEIGHT of OUR SINS upon him. He cried out:
Psalm 22:1/ Matthew 27:46 / Mark 15:34
Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?”, are recorded in Hebrew as “אֵלִי אֵלִי לָמָה עֲזַבְתָּנִי” (Elī Elī, lāmā ‘azabtānī) and mean “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?
In that moment, he was separated from the Father because of our sin. In that moment, the world grew silent…
This is the reason he willingly came down from heaven, took the form of a human, walked the earth teaching, healing, and showing mercy and love. His greatest love letter to us was from the cross.
Oh what a day…on the third day, after he died he got up with ALL POWER IN HIS HANDS.
So when I sing this song by Annatoria, I am remembering and telling the Lord, Thank you for all you have done.
Worship Video of the Week
Official Visualiser for Annatoria – Hark Now Hear
Credits: Visuals – Director Dave Producer – Manuchie Mastering – ProdbyCamz
Family, first I want to wish all of the mothers a very Happy Mother’s Day. In my opinion, a mother is a person who is a parent to a human or an animal because family is family.
We have had a historic week this week. For the first time in history, we have a Pope who is from the United States. I can not think of a country that needs more of God than us.
Funny story, when I was younger, I wanted to become a nun. I was too young to realize that I had to be Catholic to be a nun. What I decided to do, instead, was to live my life in a way that is pleasing to God.
To be transparent, there were a few seasons in my life that I was rebellious and hard-headed, but when I truly decided to dedicate my life to God, I never turned back.
As far as I have come, in my life, I know that there is still so much ahead of me to do in the Kingdom of God. I know that God is not done yet. The best is yet to come. I believe God when he shows me glimpses of what is ahead.
Holy Scriptures
Philippians 1:3-6
New International Version
Thanksgiving and Prayer
3 I thank my God every time I remember you. 4 In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy 5 because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, 6 being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
Song of Encouragement
Video directed by – Kaysublime #lingandlamb #lamboginny #music #motivation
Family, the best is yet to come. Stay strong in the Lord. You are never alone.
As we continue our series on salvation, holiness, and sanctification, I want to remind us that our greatest and most precious gift that we are given, after salvation, is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus promised that after he ascended into heaven that he would send the Comforter to walk with us and remind us of what Jesus taught and would bring back to remembrance the Holy Scriptures.
The Holy Spirit of God is our greatest gift, as it leads us to walk in the Holy Path. When we hear the still small voice inside of us, we can be assured that God is keeping His promise to us.
May you walk closely and tenderly with God each and every day of your life. Ask the Holy Spirit of God for direction and counsel in every area of your life. He is faithful to keep his promises.
Holy Scriptures
John 14:23-29
Tree of Life Version
23 Yeshua answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our dwelling with him. 24 He who does not love Me does not keep My words. And the word you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me. 25 These things I have spoken to you while dwelling with you. 26 But the Helper, the Ruach ha-Kodesh whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you everything and remind you of everything that I said to you.
27 “Shalom I leave you, My shalom I give to you; but not as the world gives! Do not let your heart be troubled or afraid. 28 You’ve heard Me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I. 29 I have told you now before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe!
Be blessed, family, and know that with all that is you, that you are NEVER ALONE. We have a Great Comforter and a host of witnesses that walk with us on this beautiful sacred journey.
Family, we spoke last week about salvation, sanctification, working out our salvation, and what it means to strive to be blameless and holy.
Today, I want to talk about another aspect of salvation many people don’t understand. In all honesty, from time to time, I have to be reminded of this topic myself. Here it goes…..
When we are saved, we automatically are connected to a Helper, the Holy Spirit who comes along side us to show us the right way to go. When we follow the urgings and directions of Holy Spirit of God, we know and understand that we are never alone.
Another amazing aspect of being filled with the Holy Spirit of God is that when we are walking in unison with God’s will, we are not operating in our own strength. Our strength comes from the Lord. The only time we don’t feel stronger is when we have stepped outside of the will of God and we are trying to do things on our own.
More than likely, our problems and frustrations are happening because we have NOT asked God what his will was for the situation. The Bible says if we pray, according to the will of the Father, our prayers and questions will be answered.
There is a reason that the Lord’s Prayer says, “Your will be done..on earth as it in heaven.” We must be in synch with the Lord’s will in order for our strength to come. When I was growing up, I would hear the saints say to each other, “I pray your strength in the Lord.” That was a reminder to keep their eyes on God and their will set to his will.
Holy Scriptures
Isaiah 40:31 – But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Isaiah 41:10 – Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Exodus 15:2 – The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
1 Chronicles 16:11 – Seek the Lord and His strength; seek His presence continually!
Ephesians 6:10 – Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
Family, we are never alone on our Christian journey. Never let the enemy have you believe you are all by yourself. That is what the enemy wants you to think!!!! You are NOT ALONE!!!
If God is for you, then who can be against you!!!
On this Holy Week, I pray your continued strength in the Lord. Our strength comes from our Messiah becoming the ultimate perfect sacrifice, even unto death.
BUT ON THIRD DAY, GLORY BE TO GOD, EVERYTHING CHANGED!!!
I pray that the Peace of the Lord be with you always.
Family, this morning I woke up singing ‘Like The Dew’ by Dr. Juanita Bynum. I woke knowing that a brand new day had been given to me, and I had to tell the Lord, Thank You. 😊
Even though I was a little bit sluggish this morning, I still know where my strength comes from. I sang this song to the Lord as my morning prayer. I knew through this prayer that God would fill me with what I needed to make it through the day. God’s word and wisdom are food for my soul.
Holy Scriptures
Deuteronomy 32:1-4
Tree of Life Version
Parashat Haazinu
The Song of Moses
32 “Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak! Let the earth hear the words of my mouth. 2 May my teaching trickle like rain, my speech distill like dew— like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants. 3 For I will proclaim Adonai’s Name, ascribe greatness to our God! 4 The Rock—blameless is His work. Indeed, all His ways are just. God of faithfulness without iniquity, righteous and upright is He.
Song of Worship
Like the Dew · Juanita Bynum Morning Glory: Volume One Peace ℗ 1999 Shekinah International
Family, my morning combo of Jesus and caffeine are the best one-two punches of the day (We listen and we don’t judge. LOL)
I pray you all have a blessed weekend. Spend time worshipping together (where 2 or 3 are gathered) and loving on the Lord. You are continually in my highest thoughts of love, in Christ Jesus.
Be blessed and leave a fragrance of Jesus wherever you go.
May the Perfect Peace of the Lord rest, rule, and abide with you always.
I don’t know if I have ever told you all about how and when I am inspired to write a devotional for the week. Some weeks, the inspiration will come because the Holy Spirit puts a certain song on my heart, and other times, it will come because there is a Word that the Lord needs the Kingdom to hear.
Today, the devotional is inspired by a song the Holy Spirit put on my heart. The song ‘To God Be The Glory’. The version of the song is sung by Natalie Grant and Cece Winans. The song stops me in my tracks, and an automatic but spontaneous praise flows from my heart.
Question, Family. When do you hear the Holy Spirit the clearest? Where is your favorite place to spend time with God?
Holy Scriptures
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
Tree of Life Version
16 Rejoice always,17 pray constantly, 18 in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Messiah Yeshua.
Note:
Many people have not heard of the Tree of Life version of the Bible. This is one of my favorite translations because it was written in collaboration with Messianic Jewish and Christian Scholars.
The TLV is a new Bible translation, produced by Messianic Jewish and Christian scholars, which highlights the rich Hebrew roots of the Christian faith by restoring:
the Jewish order of the books of the Old Testament
the Jewish name of the Messiah, Yeshua
reverence for the four-letter unspoken name of God
Hebrew transliterated terms, such as shalom, shofar, and shabbat.
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