There's Been A Delay...

If you're anything like me, you've sat back quite often and wondered why so many things have taken so long to manifest.  Then today as I took my time to get a few things done around the house a song came on called "I'm Gonna Be Ready" by Yolanda Adams.   I've listened to this song many times over, but today it struck a different chord in me.  

One verse says: 

Sight beyond what I see you know what's best for me
Prepare my mind,  prepare my heart 
For whatever comes, I'm gonna be ready
Strength to pass any test, I feel like I'm so blessed 
With you in control, I can't go wrong 
Cause I know I'm gonna be ready

Therefore, could the delay be due to me not being ready?!  

Personally, I'm sure there have been many delays in my life and I've flat out missed some things that were to come my way because I was not ready.  I was not in place.  I was doing it on my own because God was taking too long.  I was too busy crying about my situation.  I didn't know how to silence all the noise around me, so I didn't hear His voice; it just blended in.  

Accountability!!!  

Be ready so that there are no more delays and so that you can get ALL that God has in store for you.  

Fresh Eyes....

Start today going forward by looking at your life with fresh eyes. I recently took on a new position at work, which came with a new team and new operations.   Being that I wasn't familiar with it, I was able to see many things that could potentially be performed differently - because I was coming in with fresh eyes.   I recognized some staff members who may possibly be underutilized, while others held positions that they may not be well suited for.  A part of my responsibility is to analyze the flow; to identity waste and implement process improvements. 

It got me to thinking about how we live life, day in and day out with the same viewpoint.  However, today look at your life with fresh eyes.  Where is there waste?  Where is there the potential to do some things differently?  How might you gain efficiencies and have a better outcome if you just tweaked a few things?

I've been through process improvements before in the workplace in order to gain efficiencies, and they are not always fun.  They challenge you; they stretch you; they force you outside of your comfort zone; they expose you; they put other eyes on you; they can make you down right uncomfortable. BUT - they made us better!!!  I've had to adjust a few processes in my personal life AND it has made me better!!!

Today, look at your life through fresh eyes.  Is it time for some process improvements?

"Even if it's not broken, it can still be improved!!!"

Thought For The Day...

"You must make a choice to take a chance or your life will never change." 

- Unknown 

You're Too Heavy...

"Give yourself permission to serve God with joy and with gladness. You're getting too heavy. Sometimes we obsess over everything, we gripe and complain about everything.  Everything is a problem; everything is a crisis.  Just chill! We let the devil put any foot in the door to rob us of what God has for us."

- Pastor Jonathan Miller

I think sometimes we create issues for ourselves by not knowing when to drop people, situations and things that weigh us down.  The other night when I heard this statement, it resounded with me.  We are a key factor in our own enjoyment in life!  Why do we find it too easy to inconvenience ourselves for others who don't necessarily have our best interest at heart? Why is it so hard for us to move on?  Why do we insist on turning a mole hill into a mountain?  Why do we look for things to go wrong?  As stated above, this is a ploy of the enemy and many times we fall right into his trap.

Lighten up and experience the fullness of God's joy.  Be yourself and do you as long as you remain in God's will.  

Hey 2015!!!

2015 is all about NO EXCUSES, JUST RESULTS!!!!

PUT GOD FIRST IN EVERYTHING!

The choice is yours - make decisions, no matter how hard, for the betterment of your life!

Whine & complain less - PRAISE  more!

Resist the urge to be negative!

When you find the tone of your conversations turning negative and non-productive ....change the topic!

Make sure your circle of friends are those who want a deeper relationship with God, who are pushing themselves to the next level and who are willing to invest time into meaningful relationships!

Talk less and listen more!

Be a person with Integrity!

Be kind; everyone deserves respect!

“But forget all that— it is nothing compared to what I am going to do. For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland. (‭Isaiah‬ ‭43‬:‭18-19‬ NLT)

But If Not...

As I sat this morning listening to Pastor John Hagee, he said something that really struck a place in me and that was, "Disappointment should not lead you to disbelief!"

Just because God does not do what you want Him to do, does not mean that He cannot do it.   Therefore, we must begin to say, "But if not..."  Lord I know that you can do this, but if not - I still trust you.  

Isaiah 55:8-9 (NLT)... “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.  For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.

God is not bound to our limiting thoughts and He will accomplish His will as He sees fit.  

Remember, if God does not do something, it doesn't mean that He cannot - it means He has other plans.  

Jeremiah 29:11-13 (NLT)... For I know the plans I have for you,” says the LORD. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. In those days when you pray, I will listen. If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me.

Disappointment should not lead you to disbelief!

Rejection is direction!

God's delays are not necessarily God's denials!

Let Go and Let God...

I've learned that some of the best things in life are not planned.  

That it only takes you stepping outside of you to get the blessing that was about to pass you by.  

That when you trust God for real and not just in words, He floods you with goodness beyond your greatest fantasy.  

That when you obey, even when it hurts, the greatness that follows erases the memories of the pain.  

I've learned that when we try to hold too tightly to the lives that are not ours, we miss the awesome plans that are His, and in return we could be left with misery.

So today, I leave this thought with you... LET GO AND LET GOD!