With God all things are possible, Matthew 19:23-30. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning, Psalm 30:5. I can do all things through Christ who strengthen me. These three Bible verses of encouragement can carry you through struggles with mental illness along with seeking therapy.

When all has failed, look unto the hill from whence cometh your help. Your help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth, Psalm 121. Mental illness is very serious and affecting a lot of lives. Having faith with therapy can help you to overcome. Faith will allow you to rest in the hands of God while he carries you when you feel like you can’t go any further alone. Faith in God ignites the spirit to overpower the weakness of the flesh.

Take the pain of mental illness and visualize God taking it and placing it in a bottle having the waves of the ocean take it away.” Now walk away and don’t look back. Don’t allow your emotions to be stuck on repeat in your head, neither chose to wear your pain like an old torn up coat you should get the rid of a long time ago.”

It is all a process and it will takes time. Keep hopefull and pray, you will get through it.

We have to all understand everyone in the Bible (characters, person) or a religious person, like a pastor, pope, bishop, priest, are not to be worshipped. They could be acknowledge by giving thanks to God for their testimonials of faithfully walking with Him. God wouldn’t be jealous for us loving or respecting them. We are not to worship or look up to them or each other as God’s(deity) because we are all flawed. In doing so we are putting wait upon a person they cannot carry especially the expectation of them being perfect. Not even Jesus saw himself to be righteous, only God. Jesus never asked us to worship him, just to follow him. John 14:9-11 Jesus said, “the Father and I are one, to see me is to see the Father.” 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. Let us not be ignorant, if Jesus said he does nothing of himself it’s only logical for us to understand God is in complete control of everything he does, “everything.” If we follow Jesus then should we be knowledgeable, wise and understanding that we also have no strength or power of our own, totally surrendering our free will to God as Jesus himself did. With this understanding we know that we ourselves aren’t worthy to be worshipped or praise like a deity, it’s all about God and not man who can become conceited. Walking in humility and selflessness is to follow and be like Jesus. To take credit for someone else’s work is to be a thief and a liar.

Every day I go into deep meditation by praying the mysteries of the Holy Rosary. The Holy Rosary (crown of roses)are beads use to count prayers. The prayers are revelation of Mary the virgin as she was chosen to give birth to the messiah. When the messiah came into the world he began his mission establishing the kingdom on earth and was crucified and resurrected for man’s salvation. As I understood it pretty much summons up everything about Mary’s role and that of Jesus in the New Testament and is only use in th Catholic church. I am not Catholic but I love praying the Rosary because of it’s meaning to me specifically. The Rosary to me is by no means worshipping Mother Mary, it is repetition of what the angel Gabriel greeted her with in acknowledgement of her calling by God. And in doing so I myself feel like I am in oneness of the same calling. In understanding the mystery of Godliness the Blessed Mother immaculate conception was one of God greatest. In praying the Rosary you began to gain wisdom, knowledge and understanding, connect with God on a different realm. To me there nothing wrong to praying for Mary to intercede for us to her son, it’s no different than when we go to our Pastor, Pope, Bishop or any head of the church to pray for us. Think of it, they are not God either, but vessels, nor are they to be worshiped, but being obedient to the will of God as Jesus did. So it is with ignorance when people would quote John 14:6 Jesus answered, ” I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” Yes makes a lot of sense when understanding John 1:1 In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. It is and will always be to get to God through Jesus the manifestation of the Word.

We should understand the relevance and meaning to Mary the mother of Jesus by reading Luke 1:26-56 Vs 28-The angel went to her and said,”Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.” Vs 41-When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. Now upon this also was one of the evidence as to Mary been given the authority to intercede only through God in her. Also John 19:26-27 another time it was mentioned of her importance at the cross when Jesus saw her there and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “woman, here is your son,” and to the disciple, “here is your mother.” From that time on,this disciple took her into his own. God is strategic when he made the focus once again on Mary at the crucifixion as it was when Gabriel first came to her. If Moses could of seen a burning bush and be given such authority and power, remember the fire was burning in Mary entire body for months. I could just imagine how it would of affected her spiritually. Moses also never took credit for the things he was lead to do by God. No true faithful man or woman to God would ever put themselves before God. They will always confess all their good works they do only come from the Lord God himself, they can do nothing of their own, but only through Him.

Matthew 24:36 “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the son, but only the Father.” The coming of the son of man.

Let us look at the first time and what was going on when he first came. When Adam and Eve was thrown out the garden of Eden and the serpent with them, life had changed. After the first murder committed by Adam and Even first born Cain, who killed his brother Abel, it seems like it was then the battle began. God kept on slipping more and more out of the view by humanity and sin began to evolve and God began to come up with a solution to make things right. There was the flood: God destroy humanity because we were growing too wicked. He found favor with Noah, who was a good man and the only good man left. God sent a flood to replenish the earth of the wicked people and spared Noah and his family. Yet, sin still existed. Then there was Abram, God found favor with him as he did with Noah. With Abraham came Sodom and Gomorrah (sin city) which God destroyed and spared his nephew Lot and his family. Who was a good example of you can take the man out of the jungle but you can’t take the jungle out of the man.

God had made a promise to Abraham that he would make him a father of nations and bless him. As the Lord had promised Abraham so it was done. Through Abraham God intention was to replenish the world with people who faithfully walked with him like Abraham did. Abraham was willing to sacrifice his  promised only son Isaac he had with the love of his life Sarah in their old age, for the will of God. It seems to me that God was weaning out the sin in man that prevented them from drawing near to him. God was in the process of selecting man according to what he saw in him for His purpose which Abraham was worthy.

What started with Cain and Abel ended with Joseph (the dreamer with the coat of many colors) and his brothers who hated him for the same reason Cain killed his brother, jealousy. But unlike Cain they couldn’t kill him. The Lord was at work in Joseph life, when Joseph said to his brothers,”you intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good. He brought me to this position so I could save the lives of many people.” Upon this revelation Jesus was to come.

The problem between Joseph and his brothers was resolved, except now they become a threat to the Egyptian who brutally beat and enslaved them for years. They prayed constantly for a deliver and Moses was born. Why did Jacob move his family to Egypt? Egypt wasn’t the promise land God had for Abraham, it was the land of Canaan. But there was a famine in the land so Abram went to Egypt with his family. And from then once again all hell broke lose for man. God called Moses as the first deliver. He was the testing ground for man salvation before all others that worked the way up to Jesus. Many others like, Samson, Ruth and Naomi, Samuel David, Elijah, Daniel, and Job. Everyone that is written in the scriptures played an important role to the coming of the messiah.

But all these men like the sacrificial lambs wasn’t able to fulfill the manifestation of the will and laws of God no matter how hard they tried. God walked with man, but nothing wasn’t working to keep us anchored in him without us constantly drifting away. The solution began in the days of Noah, Abraham and all the others that came after them. God had plan for our salvation.

He waited for the right time and the right moment that began with Moses to whom He had given the laws to lead and govern the people according to his will. From the Ten Commandments, the Ark of Covenant and the Tabernacle.

Man spirit was to weak to overcome the sting of sin. Corruption was inevitable especially by the men of God. God plan was an antidote for the poison instead of destroying man once again like in the day of Noah.

The coming of Jesus again will be like when Abraham had pleaded with God to spare Sodom and Gomorrah if he found fifty or ten good man to spare it. Genesis 18:16-33. So shall it be for the coming of the Lord. We can’t allow history repeat itself, look how far we came. No excuses for ignorance. We must be well learnt from it.

God is watching so we have to live each day not in preparation for His coming, but as though He’s already here.

Life is meant to live and live it righteously knowing the Lord with love, joy, peace and respect to others. There’s good times, sad times and trying times. We never know when it will be our time to go home to the Lord. Scriptures declare God breathed the breath of life into us and we became a living soul, Genesis 2:7. In death that breath goes right back to God. God exhaled the breath of life into us, and it’s like he then inhales when we die.

Too many times we take our lives and that of others for granted. We only realize just how precious life is after someone passes away or we are told the c-word (cancer) or other life threatening desease, then our lives flashes before our eyes.With all honesty, I was once one who did exactly that, take life for granted, but now I know better.

I don’t attend funerals simply because I see the dead. I come home and bring back with me their faces in my thoughts of how they use to be and then I can’t get the picture out my mind till it begins affecting my dreams and terrifying me. Emotionally distressed all that is left in me is I coulda or should of, the guilt haunts me. I learn to say my goodbyes to everyone I love by leaving nothing unspoken, honoring and validating them while they are here. If I didn’t make it to see you when you were alive, please I am not coming to your funeral to see your lifeless body. I believe in God so I know you’re not there in the flesh anymore, you are risen to be with the father.

We have to learn to honor the people we care about while they are alive so that they may rest in peace and we have no regrets, so we also can have peace. Just remember death doesn’t discriminate against age, it can happen to anyone at any age and unexpectedly.

Paul spoke about this thorn in his flesh a messenger of satan to torment him. This was to keep him from being conceited. Three times he pleaded with the Lord to take it away from him. But the Lord said to him, “my grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness 2 Corinthians 12:7-9

First of all Paul you’re giving satan to much attention (credit), the Lord’s got your back. That fear of your past that keeps hunting you is your thorn. Every where you go especially among the disciples of Jesus and the believers of Christ that you prosecuted is a reminder of who you use to be. But in Christ you became a new person. You cannot be who you are now without the Lord which is your guide and strength. Your flesh is weak, but the spirit willing ( stronger) now that you’ve seen the light. You can’t be prideful when it’s now all about the truth revealed to you, “Jesus and servitude.”

The devil will always try to convince you that you’re still blind when God has given you sight or you’re still in bondage when the Lord has set you free. Why would you want the Lord to remove the thorn from you Paul? Jacob wrestle with God until he was left limping as an result, a reminder of his struggle with God and man, Genesis 32:22-32. Jacob was willing to face what he had to no matter the consequences.

Paul had to remain weak because some people having strength make them believe they are invincible and can do any and everything without God. Paul who was Saul persecuting Christians was being strengthen in his own will, not that of the Lord’s.

Luke 18:9-14 To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable. “Two man went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, “God, I thank you that I am not like other people- robbers, evildoers, adulterers- or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.”

But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, “God, have mercy on me, a sinner.” Jesus said, “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

What Jesus is saying being a narcissis (prideful) is not going to get you into heavens. Humility and truth will make you righteous in the sight of God.

Woke up this morning with love on the brain. I was thinking to myself as I made the bed, the meaning of love is? God love must be nothing like ours. When I heard a voice say, “the same love I give to you is not for you alone, but to pass that love on to others.” I felt in my spirit right away forgiveness. Love according my spirit where the Lord is concern has to do with forgiveness and unconditional. So right away I stopped what I was doing and texted my love ones. I thought to myself, life is a circle and as the shape of the earth. I believe everything that is given to us by the Lord is to share with other. Lesson we have learnt teach others and blessings we’ve recieved share it heart to heart, we shouldn’t be selfish.

Jesus was on the cross when he said, “forgive them, for they know not what they do.” Luke 23:34 The love of God has to do all with forgiveness. Forgiveness is sacrifice and sacrifice is the greatest show of love. Jesus taught us that instead of wishing and praying for someone who has hurt us all manner of evil, use that energy to send them love of forgiveness and pray that they would one day see the error of their ways. Love of forgiveness releases bitterness of the mind, body and spirit. When you think of someone having the mind of a child haven’t yet experienced life but yet think they know everything, and they keep messing things up in their lives which is affecting themselves as well as others. “Why?” Because they truly don’t know what they are doing! Many times we all truly don’t know what we are doing until things go wrong and someone gets really hurt.

Love is a positive energy not meant for resistance. Love is not meant to be opposite or separate, it is ment to be as one, moving and flowing never ending. Like the earth in a circle going around and around. If the earth was to stop think of what would happen to us, something will cease and be broken just like the heart when it is clogged, same with love.

Absorb love and become it, then exhale it. Let love become contagious and infect everyone you can with it. It is so easy to infect others with hate especially by our word. For love to be infectious begins with the mindset, by repetitive actions of kindness regardless of the rejection of others.

God himself is always about love, love even in anger that derive from disappointment in love. But with love, God’s love, comes compassion, mercy, understanding also. 1 John 4:7-21 God is LOVE!!!

God is love and love is truth.

Psalm 139:1 O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.

Too much makeup! What are you hiding, is it the real you? Do you think that your appearance is not good enough, did God make a mistake with your appearance? You should of been more beautiful. Psalm 139:14 “I am fearfully and wonderfully made.”

As a young girl growing up I could never understand why it was always so important for us to dress so fancy to go to church. Long ago as a child you knew your place, a child did what they were told without questioning. So I’d look at the adults and their children knowing we all lived near each other and never had I ever seen them so nicely dress except on Sunday. Knowing Sunday is the day of the Lord I concluded that God was so important that we had to look our best for him.

As I grew older I realized not only did people dress nicely for church but going to school myself and siblings wore uniforms. Everyone was dressed the same in our navy blue and white for the girls and khaki and blue for the boys, yet we all were very much different because of our age. We all were dressed exactly the same and we looked great. What was in meaning of how we dress and why we did the way we do? I thought to myself as I began to mature, and watch and learn.

One thing that I’ve learned is that you can’t judge a book by its over and neither can you know a person truly know a person by the way they dress; outer appearance. We can dress up the outside but what’s truly going on in the inside no one but God knows. Thank God for as scriptures declares, he search the hearts and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve, Jeremiah 17:10. We can fool other people with our pretense to dress nicely and look good on the outside as if you have it all together, but not the Lord.

The dress code help us to acknowledge worked a person is in, what position they hold in society. We knew if you were a fireman, judge, police officer, nurse, doctor, rich famous, priest, lawyer, teacher. Every body look the same you can’t tell unless you meet them on the jobs in their uniforms. And even then, what you do for work doesn’t define who you are.

As I have grown I went through stages of learning to dress myself from being a tomboy to a lady. I’ve learned to dress conservatively because it was my dad who set the rule. When I first moved out and lived on my own all that church conservatively way of dressing was out the door and I dressed more like I should be on stage and had body guards like some famous pop stars. I was once in a  pageant where I first learn to dress like a lady and wore makeup and heels. To this day don’t like wearing cosmetics I like the natural look. It wasn’t until I went on a retreat that my dressing changed completely. I hadn’t worn skirts or short pants for almost twenty years. Wouldn’t be caught with anything above the knee. I looked like an old woman and it didn’t bother me. I had believed myself to be in the process of transitioning. I never felt so comfortable with myself as during that time. Everyone I knew saw the difference in me from my hair to my clothing everything had changed on the inside of me so my outside was affected. It was all discipline of the spirit. My spiritual mother and father told me to always have good morals, dress nicely, speak in the authority of the Lord, represent and if in anyway I shame them they’ll deny knowing me, so don’t call their name in association with me, lol. We all had a good laugh at that. I could remember my girlfriend I use to party with when we were younger, whom I haven’t seen in years I went to visit roommate looked at me with contempt because of the way I was dressed. I could of seen it in her eyes I was not what she had expected for a party girl. My girlfriend could dress so it was so unlikely because of the way I’d looked that we would even hang out together or went out to the clubs, so opposite.

I remember going on a trip with my husband and brother and we went to take a picture together and the photographer placed me in the back of everyone to hid me out the picture. Looking at the picture I did looked pretty ridiculous funny but it didn’t bother me at all I was so confident nothing bothered me. I had believed that the Lord wanted me to be in the world but not of it so I was stripped of pride, ego and the need for man approval and when I had mastered it. My greatest lesson was to learn to take pride in myself as a child of God and not only was it a great lesson but a difficult one, because God cannot be mocked I had to walk the walk and talk the talk in truly knowing who I am in the Lord and not fake it. I had to be my true and authentic self in Him, but what a price to pay. Fear got the best of me when for my love I received hate and persecution just like Christ.

I love being hidden especially looking ridiculous, then no one should have reason to hate on you, so I believed. So when I was told to start dressing according to the light within me people thought it’s because I am either trying to fit in, be something I am not, to look rich, lol. Nothing could be further from the truth, anything I ever worn didn’t costs me hundreds of dollars or was a name brand, even though it may look like it and as trying to fit in, the only “IN” I want to be is in His presence not the world’s. You don’t need to have lots of money to look good, the favor of the Lord on your life. You can be poor or rich and still look good. It’s favor, cause you could be naked and the light will still shine, then and only then they’ll know you’re blessed and highly favoured. It like saying you only require manners and good character because you’re rich and famous.

Joel 3:10 Let the weak say I am strong and the poor say I am rich. Your circumstances when in the Lord doesn’t stop you from shinning, you have everything you need and you just look and feel good, because of faith, hope and love which brings peace. When you walk the world can’t help but notice you. Ecclesiastes 10:6 Fools are put in many high positions, while the rich occupy the low ones. Question is who truly is the rich? It is time to begin to trace who we really are in the Kingdom of God. Deuteronomy 8:18 The Lord your God who give you the ability to produce wealth. Don’t put your hope in your wealth.

My answer to why rich people dress like they are poor? Do they really, cause what is poor dressing to the rich, no name brands? Maybe they do behind closed doors, some have to spend half their days in front of a camera being famous and when they get a chance to be hidden, like myself they love it, as not to bring attention to themselves or clothing maybe the least on their desire as being rich. And as for poor people dressing like they are rich if they could afford to why not. Money doesn’t matter if it’s how you feel about yourself, your mindset. If you like to dress whether you’re rich or poor you’ll always continue. Being rich only allows you to more accessibility to to have in abundance. I have a friend that loves nice things she works hard so she can afford it. From her house, clothing everything and anything she has you’d think she’s rich. The only problem with her is if she was rich she would be traveling the world to shop. Today’s world wether rich or poor once you have faith and determination you can do anything there’s no discrimination.

There’s nothing wrong with whatever reason you like to dress and look good as long as you’re being true to God and yourself. What people assume is on them. The closer the relationship between you and God the more you shine in the world.

If we had eyes to see and ears to hear, we would be able to realize that our prays echoes throughout all generations. Sometimes we wonder why it seems that someone can have all the luck in the world. But it is not luck someone’s has been praying for years for that blessings, dies and God still answers it so it goes to the next generation I believe.

I was watching a documentary on Martin Luther king Jr and thought to myself how bless I am to have the privileges granted to me today that it took faith, prayers and sacrifice by my ancestors for me to enjoy the freedoms that I have today. They fought the good fight didn’t have the chance to live it, but left it for us. Thank you Lord!!!

This 2020 New Year is the year of vision for me 20/20 vision of prophesy. I saw the angels of the Lord standing at the four corners ( east, west, north and south) of the earth. Not because of some impending doom, but keeping guard and taking report. Nothing is going to ever take place in the world that the Lord is not in control of.