Saturday, August 5, 2017
Remember Where You Were When...
Have you ever been going about you normal day when all of a sudden, something happens to remind you of a place you were emotionally, mentally and maybe even physically in the past? I know sometimes, I can hear an old song on the radio and can recall where I was and who I was around when I would listen to that certain song (most of the time it would be a secular song). Recently though, I came across a very special song that immediately brought me to tears.
The Song Greater Is Coming -Jekalyn Carr was a song that marked a significant moment for me. I heard it for the very first time the day after the most devastating heartbreak I had ever experienced. I was hurt by the person but I also knew that I would not always feel that hurt. I heard this song by Jekayln Carr and it really ministered to me in my pain at that time. I listened to it over and over, sang it out of a heart of expectation while trusting that, just like any other heartbreak I had gone through, God was going to bring me out of this one as well but in a much greater way with way more than I could ever imagine waiting for me on the other side of my breakthrough.
As I was driving home on the freeway a couple of days ago, coming from picking my sweet little one year old baby girl up after spending the weekend with her grandma, the song came across my playlist on Spotify. Tears instantly swelled in my eyes and I could not help but began to worship and thank God right then and there! He showed me, in that moment, that He has been faithful to me and that my expectation came to pass far beyond what I could have put together in my own little mind.
My healing came about a year after the breakup but so much more came as time went on. I was catapulted to another level of worship and I had the opportunity to share in that new level of worship with my, then church family, as I was asked to lead worship. I worshipped out of a broken place. where a lot of people are, which gave God the opportunity and space to get inside of my heart and do what He needed to do. My worship was able to help others worship!
I started this blog and you wouldn't believe the comments and/or personal messages I have gotten, telling me how encouraging my posts have been, how I have helped someone else know that God will do the same for them that He has done for me! This blog was never ever about me. It was never ever to bash the people who hurt, it was all a way for me to be completely transparent and hopefully allow others to follow me to my victory and to give hope to those who are on their journey to victory as well.
My most greatest gift of all, as I listened to the song and cried out and thanked God, is my beautiful family! I know I have mentioned them before but hearing that song, going all the way back to that bedroom in my parent's house where I sat on my knees alone, with my head buried in the mattress, screaming crying at the top of my lungs from a place so hurt I didn't want to smile because I thought that would be so fake of me since I was not happy. To now realize how God healed me completely and gave me way more than what I thought I lost! I could shout right now but it's 3:40am here and everyone in the house is asleep.
A quick run down of God's faithfulness to restore. In 2015, my wonderfully, loving, God-fearing, FAITHFUL husband and I were married in the most intimately perfect setting I could have ever dreamed of. In 2016. God blessed our marriage when He gave us our gorgeous, animated, genius of a baby girl. In 2017, we purchased our first home! We never thought we'd be here so quickly but the blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it. Proverbs 10:22.
Listen when I tell you that you can trust God because His word does not return to Him void and it will prosper the thing where to He sent it (Isaiah 55:11). No matter where you are in your journey, YOU HAVE THE VICTORY. Look to God and constantly confess this: I WILL NOT be in this same place next year. MY GREATER IS COMING!
I am so grateful God reminded me of where I was when I first heard Greater is Coming. It was some of the best worship I have had in a long time!
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Happy
Have you ever just felt unlike yourself and you just don't know why? I mean, the feeling just lingers and you try not to allow it to take over but it does. You're more irritable than you have ever been, your attitude is not as pleasant as normal. It's all abnormal but you just can't seem to shake it.
That was me this week. I am sure, that has been at least one of you before also. Sometimes, we take on so much in this world that we fail to recharge ourselves, both physically and most of all, spiritually.When our spirit is not properly cared for and nurtured, it can tend to get out of wack, making our everyday life do the same. At least I know this to be true of those whose spirits are connected to the Most High God anyway. We have to replenish and refresh ourselves in Him or we are no good. We are made in his image and His likeness. If all we are doing is worrying about and going about taking care of things that don't have much to do with Him, we can sometimes tend to lose touch, losing touch with who we truly are.
One of the ways I get back to a place of peace, calm, happiness, joy, and just me again is by worship. Worship puts back in order my unbalanced life! We have to remember what it is that brings us back to that place. The place where we can feel a sense of relief and truly be ourselves again. For you it could be reading your bible or a spiritual book. It could be listening to a sermon by your pastor or favorite preacher. It could be going into the church building and sitting under the word being spoken. It could be praying. Everyone is different and you have to know what draws you back in.
My heart was created to worship. I know for a fact that my life is nothing without worship. I cannot function properly if my worship life is lacking. Personally, I sometimes can get so caught up in everything else going on in my world that I fail to realize that I have neglect worship time with my first love, my Lord and Savior, my Jesus! Yes, corporate worship is wonderful and a good way to get into worship. For me, personal worship, right in the comfort of my own home, is even more powerful. There is nothing like an encounter with God in the place where you lay your head at night. It fills your home with a supernatural peace and a fragrance of praise.
I was reminded of that this week and what a wonderful reminder it was! My heart was able to rejoice in who He is to me and that's it. Nothing else. Not what He's done for me naturally, what he can do, or what I know Him to do but the simple fact that He loves me and His life saved my life! There is a complete joy in knowing how much God loves you and that He will never ever stop! I am grateful for the opportunity to enter into worship on a personal level and be recharged in my spirit as well as brought back to who and who's I truly am.
Worship makes me happy. What is it that makes you happy? I pray that God reveals to you what it is you need to do to get back to that place of peace and security in Him and when He does, I pray you never forget how to get there again and again. Many well wishes to you, reader. Continue to look forward to your Greater!
That was me this week. I am sure, that has been at least one of you before also. Sometimes, we take on so much in this world that we fail to recharge ourselves, both physically and most of all, spiritually.When our spirit is not properly cared for and nurtured, it can tend to get out of wack, making our everyday life do the same. At least I know this to be true of those whose spirits are connected to the Most High God anyway. We have to replenish and refresh ourselves in Him or we are no good. We are made in his image and His likeness. If all we are doing is worrying about and going about taking care of things that don't have much to do with Him, we can sometimes tend to lose touch, losing touch with who we truly are.
One of the ways I get back to a place of peace, calm, happiness, joy, and just me again is by worship. Worship puts back in order my unbalanced life! We have to remember what it is that brings us back to that place. The place where we can feel a sense of relief and truly be ourselves again. For you it could be reading your bible or a spiritual book. It could be listening to a sermon by your pastor or favorite preacher. It could be going into the church building and sitting under the word being spoken. It could be praying. Everyone is different and you have to know what draws you back in.
My heart was created to worship. I know for a fact that my life is nothing without worship. I cannot function properly if my worship life is lacking. Personally, I sometimes can get so caught up in everything else going on in my world that I fail to realize that I have neglect worship time with my first love, my Lord and Savior, my Jesus! Yes, corporate worship is wonderful and a good way to get into worship. For me, personal worship, right in the comfort of my own home, is even more powerful. There is nothing like an encounter with God in the place where you lay your head at night. It fills your home with a supernatural peace and a fragrance of praise.
I was reminded of that this week and what a wonderful reminder it was! My heart was able to rejoice in who He is to me and that's it. Nothing else. Not what He's done for me naturally, what he can do, or what I know Him to do but the simple fact that He loves me and His life saved my life! There is a complete joy in knowing how much God loves you and that He will never ever stop! I am grateful for the opportunity to enter into worship on a personal level and be recharged in my spirit as well as brought back to who and who's I truly am.
Worship makes me happy. What is it that makes you happy? I pray that God reveals to you what it is you need to do to get back to that place of peace and security in Him and when He does, I pray you never forget how to get there again and again. Many well wishes to you, reader. Continue to look forward to your Greater!
Saturday, February 11, 2017
From Faith to Fruition
Happy 2017!!!
I am little over a month late but, better late than never, right? What a great year it has started out to be! So far, for me, it has not only been a year of major blessings but also a year of reflection.
I started this blog approximately four years ago in 2013. At the time, I was broken, in pain, and holding on to my faith that the way I was feeling at that time would not be the way I would feel a year later. I trusted God through my process of healing and restoration and I shared my journey publicly in hopes of helping someone else who may have been going through something similar.
If I had to say, I would call my devastation of 2013 the lowest I had ever been in my entire 31 years of life (at the time, 27 years). I was determined to make it out victoriously and I just knew God had much greater plans in store for me. My daily blog submissions gave my readers a clear look into my real life emotions, struggles, revelations and victories. I held on to my faith that although I had just experienced such a crushing blow, God had so much greater in store for me!
I just want to encourage somebody, anybody, that is currently going through a healing process. It is not easy. You will have some bad days and that's okay. Those are the days you can really demand God to show up for you and He will! Stick with the process. If it helps, write down what emotions you are experiencing, what you are doing to help yourself, and where you see yourself a year from today!
Keep believing that your greater is coming! Hold on to God's promise to give you a future and a hope. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING is going to work together for your good as long as you don't grow weary and give up the fight, Trust God in all that you do! He will never ever fail you! I am a witness!! Soon you will see the fruit of your faith. You will see the evidence of the positive things you spoke over your life in your darkest moments. Keep claiming your greater because soon you and everyone around you will begin to see your life go from faith to fruition!! Press on!
As a living testimony, I want to share with you how God has stayed true to his promise to me and how my very own faith has transferred over into fruition. Below is a photo of my family. My faithful, God-fearing, hardworking, loving husband and my sweet angel of a baby girl. God has definitely been faithful and has blessed me with much greater than I had even expected! If He did it for me, He will surely do it for you! Keep the faith!
From my family to yours...GREATER IS COMING!!
I am little over a month late but, better late than never, right? What a great year it has started out to be! So far, for me, it has not only been a year of major blessings but also a year of reflection.
I started this blog approximately four years ago in 2013. At the time, I was broken, in pain, and holding on to my faith that the way I was feeling at that time would not be the way I would feel a year later. I trusted God through my process of healing and restoration and I shared my journey publicly in hopes of helping someone else who may have been going through something similar.
If I had to say, I would call my devastation of 2013 the lowest I had ever been in my entire 31 years of life (at the time, 27 years). I was determined to make it out victoriously and I just knew God had much greater plans in store for me. My daily blog submissions gave my readers a clear look into my real life emotions, struggles, revelations and victories. I held on to my faith that although I had just experienced such a crushing blow, God had so much greater in store for me!
I just want to encourage somebody, anybody, that is currently going through a healing process. It is not easy. You will have some bad days and that's okay. Those are the days you can really demand God to show up for you and He will! Stick with the process. If it helps, write down what emotions you are experiencing, what you are doing to help yourself, and where you see yourself a year from today!
Keep believing that your greater is coming! Hold on to God's promise to give you a future and a hope. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING is going to work together for your good as long as you don't grow weary and give up the fight, Trust God in all that you do! He will never ever fail you! I am a witness!! Soon you will see the fruit of your faith. You will see the evidence of the positive things you spoke over your life in your darkest moments. Keep claiming your greater because soon you and everyone around you will begin to see your life go from faith to fruition!! Press on!
As a living testimony, I want to share with you how God has stayed true to his promise to me and how my very own faith has transferred over into fruition. Below is a photo of my family. My faithful, God-fearing, hardworking, loving husband and my sweet angel of a baby girl. God has definitely been faithful and has blessed me with much greater than I had even expected! If He did it for me, He will surely do it for you! Keep the faith!
From my family to yours...GREATER IS COMING!!
Saturday, December 10, 2016
You Are Not A Failure!
Listen!!
YOU ARE NOT A FAILURE!
Your marriage may have ended but YOU ARE NOT A FAILURE!
You didn't graduate from school but YOU ARE NOT A FAILURE!
That business didn't get off of the ground but YOU ARE NOT A FAILURE!
You are great! You have something great to offer the world! God has so much more planned for your future!
God's favor covers you! He knows exactly where you are! He knew exactly where you would be at this very moment. Trust Him! Trust that you are in His will! Be confident in the fact that YOU WIN! YOU ARE VICTORIOUS! Look forward to the fact that even though you went through whatever you went through, GREATER IS COMING!
YOU ARE NOT A FAILURE! YOU ARE PREDESTINED FOR GREATNESS! Walk in your greatness NOW!!!
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Because Someone Needs To Hear This!
To whomever may need this:
What's been hurting you will not be able to hinder you -Pastor Jermone Glenn, year 2014.
Whatever it is that has broken your heart and is making you cry in this very moment will not be able to stop what God has predestined for you. Take comfort in this...by this time next year you will be 10 times better than you are today! The hurt won't last forever! It is okay to grieve a loss, a heartbreak, a let down, etc. but once the grieving process has ended, you will be healed, delivered and set free! Grieve to God about it now so that you can give God glory for bringing you out later! Trust me, He CAN and WILL do it for you! I know by personal experience!
If you ever need a little encouragement, go back and take a look at my earlier posts from May 2013 and let my real life story of heartbreak, healing and blessing give you hope!!
Love you!
Thursday, December 1, 2016
Begin Again and Again
Hello Readers!
Recently, I have been attempting to get back into my blogging. It will go well a couple of weeks and then I will kind of fall of from the task. A friend of mine helped me to remember how relevant and important my words are to others and I have decided to begin again.
With that being said, I want to encourage you to do the same with whatever it is you may have placed on hold or let fall to the wayside. It is okay to begin again, and again, and again! Just don't give up! Someone needs what you have! Remember, the things we go through in life are never just for the sake of going through it; it's for the next person whom you will encounter who needs help getting through the exact same thing!
So, I encourage you, whatever it is begin again! Whether it be establishing a better way of eating, starting a new work out regimen, reconstructing a business plan, or learning a new skill. Never stop beginning again because once you stop, the world may never get to partake in what you have to offer!
All my love,
Keya
#GreaterIsComing
Recently, I have been attempting to get back into my blogging. It will go well a couple of weeks and then I will kind of fall of from the task. A friend of mine helped me to remember how relevant and important my words are to others and I have decided to begin again.
With that being said, I want to encourage you to do the same with whatever it is you may have placed on hold or let fall to the wayside. It is okay to begin again, and again, and again! Just don't give up! Someone needs what you have! Remember, the things we go through in life are never just for the sake of going through it; it's for the next person whom you will encounter who needs help getting through the exact same thing!
So, I encourage you, whatever it is begin again! Whether it be establishing a better way of eating, starting a new work out regimen, reconstructing a business plan, or learning a new skill. Never stop beginning again because once you stop, the world may never get to partake in what you have to offer!
All my love,
Keya
#GreaterIsComing
Thursday, October 13, 2016
Remember Your Glory
Have you ever looked back at some of your photos from a couple years back and realize you're pretty darn dope?! Not in a conceited, braggadocious kind of way, but you recognize the royalty on yourself, on your life?
For a long while, with all the challenges in life and different transitions, I lost sight of how awesome I am. How beautiful I am, how successful I am, and how I am ABOVE average. I've never accepted nor have I ever been mediocre and I never will be. I can remember, a long time ago, one of my friends looked at me and said, "you just look rich!". That's the way I should and will try to always look! I grasped, back on 2012, the fact that I can look like now, what I know God is taking me to later. Another thing that reminded me of my heavenly royal appearance was that once, I worked at McDonald's for a summer. When some of my friends and even family members found out, they could not believe it and literally had to come lay their eyes on me in action in order to believe it. They said, "that's not the type of job I see Keya working". Not that there is anything wrong with fast food. I actually learned a great deal about how to work under pressure while at McDonald's. It's just that when God places a glory on your life, even those around you will be able to recognize it without even really knowing what they see!
Call me bougie, sadiddy, stuck up, whatever you want but I know that's not who I am. I am a child of the King which means I'm a princess. I walk with my head high and know without a doubt I'm well taken care of. I have the best, my family has the best and we will live gratefully and confidently in what God has already prepared for us. You should too!!
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