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Video: Start praying intentionally!

A little message that The Lord placed on my heart while sitting before Him about praying to share. We have to be intentional with our prayer life! We can’t rely on yesterday’s prayer to cover us for today, no, if we could then why would the Bible tell us to pray without ceasing? The devil is daily plotting against us so we have to make sure we are fighting back daily with prayer and the Word of God. As you spend time with God, the Holy Spirit will give you what to pray and God will inform you of what the enemy is trying to do. Each day brings a new battle and you can’t carry the prayer for yesterday’s battle into today’s battle. It’s time to take your prayer life serious and not lightly. And the simple fact that the devil daily strategically plots against you should motivate you to strategically be intentional with your prayer life. Pray this inspires someone!

 

xoxo,
Brittany La’Vell 

 

Rest on God’s Promises…

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We have to keep our minds on God and rest on His promises. Living in a “want it now” world, it can be hard to wait on God to come through with what He promised you. But today, I want to encourage you to not give up on God. Your waiting on God is a blessing in disguise. While you are waiting, God is slowly changing your perspective. Soon you will realize that what you want now, what He promised you, can’t be given to you right now. Maybe He has more pruning and maturing to do in your life. Remember that God is not a liar and if He said He was going to move in your life, believe Him.

Most of the time as we are waiting on God, we start to take our eyes off Him and place them on our surroundings. We start seeing everyone around us get blessed, with what we are desiring! We then begin to catch ourselves comparing and measuring blessings with others and halt our process with our anxiety. We may even get fed up with waiting and take things into our own hands, going ahead of God. When we see others who are not believers getting “blessed”, we begin to feel entitled as if we worked hard as Christians to obtain the blessings from God right now.

If I can be honest, I was that person before. I would always wonder how “so and so” could have what I though I deserved, and they aren’t even living right. When I started to look at others and compare and judge, God stopped me all the way in my tracks. God asked me:

  1. Why am I comparing myself to others?
  2. Who am I to judge another’s walk with Him?
  3. Did He not tell me that He was going to bless me with my desires, where did my faith go so quickly. God had to remind me that I told Him I was going to rest on His promises so why was I going back on my word?

I was like, “wow, okay God, Did you have to get all in my stuff like that, goodness (lol). However He was right! Why am I comparing my life to someone else? I should be fixing my mind on the Lord and focusing on what the Lord said He was going to do for me. Whether it takes days, weeks, months or years, it doesn’t matter. If God said He is going to do it, then He is going to do it. God is not a liar, so I just have to be steadfast. I have to continue to seek and worship God with the nothing that I have because I know that everything that I need is found in Him. I also know I will obtain everything I need through Him by continuing to keep Him first.

What God gives you is everlasting, what this world gives you is temporary.
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In Matthew 6:33 it says to seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be given to you as well. If God can provide for the little birdies and the wildlife, what on earth makes you think He cannot provide for you? You are precious to Him. You are dear to His heart, so what makes you think He will not provide what you need? I know what it is, lack of faith. You are focusing on this world, and what the world has been giving you instead of focusing on what God can give you. What God gives you is everlasting, what this world gives you is temporary. We have to make sure we are being Spirit-led and not emotion-led because our emotions will have us all caught up on what we don’t have, but we must focus on God and seek His Kingdom.

When we seek God, He will provide. When we delight ourselves in The Lord, He will give us the desires of our hearts. Now it may not be when we want it because we always want things right now. God will only give us what we are supposed to have at His appointed time. We have to trust and believe that we are going to receive all that God has for us. So stop worrying about what you don’t have and be grateful and thankful for what you do have:

  • Life!
  • Breath
  • Eye sight because you are reading this
  • Hearing, movable fingers and toes
  • You can eat, and sleep in a home
  • You may not have a car but you have transportation to go to work.
  • You may not have the best job but the job you have is helping you pay your bills.
  • You have family, friends, a child, a spouse.
When we delight ourselves in The Lord, He will give us the desires of our hearts.
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You have things that you are overlooking and taking for granted because you are focusing on the wrong things but that’s a distraction from the enemy. We need to get it together. I had to tell myself this today. I need to get it together and stop worrying about the wrong things because that’s what the enemy wants us to do so we won’t be focused on doing what God wants us to do. So instead of wasting the day away calling your mom, friends, or whoever to complain, why not take it to God instead. God will convict you and tell you what you need to do which is let it go. Surrender it to Him and believe what He said He was going to do.

Stop complaining and comparing your life to others. God has promises with your name on it but will you be patient enough to receive them? If God promised you a job, believe Him. If He promised you spiritual wisdom, believe Him. If He promised you healing, believe Him. If He promised you a godly spouse, believe Him. If He promised a restored friendship/relationship/marriage, believe Him. If God promised you that your ministry will take off very soon, believe Him. If He promised to bless your business, believe Him. Believe Him and then wait on Him with and expectancy!

Don’t let lack of faith due to impatience tempt you create your own version of God’s promises and slap His name behind it. It will delay what He has for you.

It will be hard at times and you will be tempted to want to throw in the towel but today I want to encourage you to wait on The Lord as He renews your strength for what He has for you.

 

xoxo

Brittany La’Vell

What has God been leading you to do?

 

“You just never know what is on the other side your obedience”
what has God been leading you to
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding.
Proverbs 3:5

Lately I have been having the desire to truly study my bible in a way that I never have before. I mean really study, not just for a quick word to share on an Instagram post or long Facebook status or even a quick build me up scripture, but to study the stories and history and develop a new understanding on The Word. I honestly have no idea what God is doing, and it’s to the point that I know it is a strong desire of God’s for me. So all I have is my faith to motivate my obedience to fulfill God’s will for my life even if that means putting my plans and desires on hold. I know God has a plan for me (Jeremiah 29:11), and He knew me before I was in my mother’s womb (Jeremiah 1:5), so who am I to stop the process God intended for my life to fulfill my purpose? At first I was a little skeptical and lazy and questioning God but then I realized that there is more to learn and I can never get stagnant in my walk with God. So if studying the Bible deeper is what God wants me to do, then I will do it. My next issue was exactly how? So after speaking with my cousin and pastor, and praying I realized I just have to do it and start wherever I am led to. Again, I have no idea why I have this desire, I may have a slight clue, but I know it will be used at some point in my life.  I am saying all of this because most people think God will always lead them to BIG THINGS, such things that will promote them in life and their status like: starting a business, a ministry, their own church, marriage, quitting a job to go full-time somewhere.

Most times we are all for those types of seasons and commands because we view it as an elevation in life and hey who wouldn’t quickly obey God telling them to quit their job that they hate so much or start their own ministry or that they are ready for marriage? However God wants to make sure we are prepared for such big life promotions and seasons, so God will also lead us to “small things”, which is considered big in God’s eyes, but to us seems uncomfortable like:

  • Leading you to intern at a business so you will gain experience for the business God wants you to run one day.
  • Leading you to a season of just studying your word so you will be filled and fruitful in the ministry He has for you. (John 15:4-5)
  • Leading you to pray more especially for others, even those who have hurt you so that you can become that praying warrior He’s called you to be.
  • Leading you to turn down dates from people and not entertaining anyone so you won’t become distracted as He continues to prune and heal you internally. He wants to make sure you are whole and won’t carry excess baggage to marriage, when the time comes. Embrace your single season sister! Or brother! I’m right there with you 🙂 
  • Leading you to serve under someone else in THEIR ministry/church in preparation so you can learn what it really means to care for other souls, do Kingdom work, and maybe learn what to do and not do when He gives you the green light to become a leader of your own church.
  • Leading you to soften your heart to your manager and make amends with nice treatment with your (rude, demanding, mean) manager, so that when He does lead you to resign there will be no animosity or burned bridges.
  • Leading you to forgive that person who cheated on you so that you will not go around another day with bitterness.
  • Leading you to a break from social media, so that He can remove the clutter and you will be able to clearly hear the answer to the prayer you have been praying for the longest.

Whatever it is that seems small or uncomfortable to you that you believe God is leading you to do, God has a reason behind it all. Remember that God isn’t going to throw you into anything until you are prepared and ready because God is a God of order and He knows you, He knows your heart and what you are able to manage. He wants to make sure everything you touch will produce good fruit and much fruit! Today stop running away from your process. Your journey will not be like anyone else, so instead of comparing your seasons and assignments to others, focus on the Lord and what He wants from you. You never know, you just never know what is on the other side your obedience, and delayed obedience is disobedience, so obey God and trust in Him not leaning on your own understanding. That is what the theme of this post will be, I was thinking what scripture to theme this post, and it literally just came by typing. I hope you were blessed by this post and I pray God places a burning desire in you to want to do what He desires of you. It will all make sense one day. Trust Him. He loves you, I love you. Be blessed. 💜

 ❤ xoxo Brittany La’Vell

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