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3 years, 2 months, and 13 days – This Girl is On Fire
Saturday marked 9 months since I said “I Do” to my husband and almost a month since my relocation to Texas to be with him. 3 years, 2 months, and 13 days since we began our courtship… It feels as if I have known him forever. Actually, it has been more than half my life. The last time I saw him before we re-connected in early 2009; I was a young girl-woman heading out into the world with fire in my eyes. I was ready to change the world. Now I am a married woman. Still with fire in my eyes, yet now with a new purpose… God’s. It’s still…
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I’m A World Changer!
I feel so privileged and honored! God has allowed me to see this day…As a genesis member of my local church World Changers Church – New York (one that attended the first service and has lovingly served in the helps ministry ever since)… To say after 8 years we have moved into our permanent church location…and will be having our first service there tonight is simply amazing! I know my life has been forever been changed for the better because two people were faithful to the call of God on their lives and came to New York to plant a church…an extension of the World Changers family in my hometown!…
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Enough is ENOUGH! My Testimony of God’s Grace
He impregnated me with his SEED… It penetrated me deeply. As the days passed it grew day by day until the birth pains were too much for me to bear. When I gave birth, I could not believe what had come out of me. Its reflection, my reflection was so far from what I imagined it would be… A part of my testimony of God’s AWESOME protection and ability to renew and reconcile me to Him is the fact I was stalked online and offline; I understood what cyber bullying was way before it was given a name. I was verbally and mentally abused, placed in immediate physical danger, cheated…
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Employing Angelic Protection
The day before Oji and I were to be married, we were in a car accident. No fault of our own. No one was injured, Praise God! However, the event was jarring none, to say the least. Our rental car only had minimal damage, and its repairs were fully covered with no strings attached by our insurance company. The lesson that rung the loudest for both of us was the importance of employing divine protection… Safety of Abiding in the Presence of God Psalms 91 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of the Lord, “He is…
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Who is in the Driver’s Seat?
I am learning that submission in marriage only works when you actually do it. And the “S” on my undergarments only stands for “Spanx”, not “Superwoman”. Now let me explain, I grew up in a household where my parents were separated for most of my life… My father was there because I was one of those children that demanded you be involved in my life. To me my mother was a Superwoman. We didn’t have much financially. However, she always had a roof over our heads; kept a decent house and food in the fridge and clothing on our backs. She understood the importance of recycling before it became all…
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My Favorite Covenant/Marriage Preparation and Maintenance Books to Date!
What are you reading? Recently a dear sister-friend of mine that is also engaged asked me what books I have been reading in preparation of my own big day. However, I believe each person’s journey to the altar is different and so the titles that speak to them will also differ. For example, for me, I am preparing to become an athletic coach’s and an educator’s wife (my fiancé’s primary sport is football.) With that, all being said, please find a sampling of titles. I foresee as my transition from bride-to-be to wife that this listing will expand. Bible Scripture Reading:1 Corinthians Chapter 7, Ephesians Chapter 5 and Proverbs 31 The…
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Here, Comes the Bride… Selecting the Musical Soundtrack for my Special Day
As our wedding day is rapidly approaching, my fiancé innocently threw me a curve ball the other week. He asked me what music I wanted to have played during our covenant ceremony. To be honest, I had not really thought about it up until that point. I was so caught up in the coordinating aspect of the day; booking vendors and making sure our wedding party and guests had all the information they needed, that the selection of the music that would be the soundtrack for the ceremony slipped my mind. After first seeking God; I then began to browse titles that make up some of the “Love Song” collections…
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What a Life Changing Experience… My First Visit to Linda
Hello Ladies! I just had to share this… highly personal experience with you. Before preparing for my wedding, I had never thought of going to get professionally fitted for a bra. I thought I was still the measurements I was when I first went bra shopping as a teenager with my older sister/cousin. I thought when I began to see marking on my shoulders; it just meant I needed to replace my bra, not that it was poorly fitted. Or even with weight gains or losses my bra size had not changed so much. I was so wrong! Last month, I went wedding dress shopping. At the bridal shop, I…
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Growing Up vs. Older
HOW FAIR you are, my love [he said], how very fair! Your eyes behind your veil [remind me] of those of a dove; your hair [makes me think of the black, wavy fleece] of a flock of [the Arabian] goats which one sees trailing down Mount Gilead [beyond the Jordan on the frontiers of the desert]. Song of Solomon 4:1 Amplified I found my first gray hairs the other day. Actually my roommate found them as I was preparing to do some routine curl maintenance. Recently I began wearing my hair out. No color, extensions, braids or weaves or even wigs; just me all natural. The idea of wearing my hair in…
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I Said YES to the Dress
She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come. Proverbs 31: 25 This President’s Day my Maid of Honor Nicole and I headed out early to shop for my wedding dress. As we took the short walk (that felt like a mile) to the bridal shop, for the first time it truly hit me HARD the importance of the moment. Yes, just like many other brides before me; I have a check list of to do items I know I have to accomplish before my “Big Day”, and rather effortlessly I have been checking each item off that list by the grace of God. Yet the selection…
