Good Morning Sunshine! It’s Praying Time On This Thanksgiving Day! 

Matthew 6:9 ~ “Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.”

It’s Praying Time! This is how you should pray: this manner, therefore, pray: “Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your Name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done On Earth as it is in heaven. Gives us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.”

We may not always agree on everything, but what we do agree with is that Prayer strengthens our bond with God! Today, stop, drop and pray! Pray to your Father, for He knows everything that you stand in need of, He’s just waiting on you to talk with Him about it! Sometimes when we go to God in prayer, it’s because we want Him to do or give us something and when it doesn’t come when you want it, you can feel some type of way! So, what do you do when God doesn’t answer you immediately? You keep praying, you pray without stopping! Remember His Word, Pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 1 Thessalonians 5:17-18! 

The greatest lesson that you can ever have is learning how to pray. Jesus Christ is Your Master instructor, and He wants to teach how to pray so that when life happens you will have a firm foundation to stand on and to build up your faith! When you are faced with difficulties be like Peter and shift your focus to a positive attitude towards God and keep your faith in the God of Abraham who always keeps His promises to you simply because He loves you! 

Praying to your Father, is a deliberate act of honoring your Him! It shows that you believe what you stand on, His Word and it shows you Trust your Father with every fiber of your being and that He is in total control! Just know that all things are working together for your good, because you learned how to pray to your Father who is in Heaven! 

Let’s Pray:

Father, My Father, “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and for ever. Amen!” Father, thank You for being my Shepherd, for caring and covering me throughout this day, thank You for protecting and providing for me along my way, thank You for teaching me how to forgive others and love on them as I come to You in prayer! Father, Thank You for filling me with Your Holy Spirit and teaching me how to pray. In Jesus Christ Name. Amen! 

Blessings…

Love, Minister Jean

Good Morning Sunshine! The Master Created A Masterpiece. It’s Time You Know Your Worth!

Ephesians 2:10 AMP ~ “For we are His workmanship [His own master work, a work of art], created in Christ Jesus [reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, ready to be used] for good works, which God prepared [for us] beforehand [taking paths which He set], so that we would walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us].”

Does this scripture just make you feel awesome and just plan old glad about who you are?

As you begin this day, you need to know your worth! If you were given an expensive piece of art or jewelry, you would not beat it up, or treat it badly or demolish it, you would take good care of it because it’s valuable; that’s what you are to Jesus, you are valuable. Know your worth! You are known as God’s handiwork, His creation! God, the Creator of all refers to you as His own work, the work of His hands, a Masterpiece! This has got to make you feel good! Out of all the other things that God created, He created you and shaped you into the wonderfully, blessed person that you see today! God is the perfect Creator and He does not make mistakes and nothing He does is the incomplete.

Have you ever seen the beauty in the sunrise, the beauty and splendor of God all wrapped into one. God is the Master of all creation! And no matter how beautiful the sunrise and sunset are, there is nothing compared to His greatest masterpiece, and God’s greatest masterpiece of all creation is Y.O.U! I’ve got something great to tell you, you are God’s Masterpiece! It’s the truth, there’s no mistake in this, you are a masterpiece! God designs are perfect! You are beautiful, handsome, exquisite, unique, talented and gifted all wrapped together. But it’s up to you in how you respond to how God made you and how He works in your life!

Have you ever wanted to go your own way, against the grain of how you were made? How did that rebellion work out for you?  I know that it didn’t, because you were made to stand out! You must not refuse Him, just cooperate with your Creator, He knows what’s best for you, and don’t worry He understands you better than you understand yourself! Today, it’s time for you to recognize that serving God is the only way to your total fulfillment in life! The Masterpiece that you are is a one of a kind, there’s no duplicate hiding anywhere, you’re it! God has uniquely designed you, He has molded, shaped and planned out every detail of you for His purpose, you are His Masterpiece!

As God’s masterpiece, you are on display for the world to see His Glory!  You may have been born spiritually dead and in sin, but now because of God’s grace and mercy you have been given a new life through Jesus Christ. This is exciting news! I want you to see yourself the way God sees you. Close your eyes and mind from all the negativity, guilt and shame and see yourself as the masterpiece that God created you to be! Go ahead and free your mind and heart from all the pressure that you put on yourself, God made you and everything He made is good, therefore you should not look down on yourself, but see yourself through the eyes of Jesus Christ who died for you, God does not see failure but success and victory!

So, the next time you look at yourself, remember that God created you, and the sooner you see yourself as God sees you, the sooner you can see yourself for who you really are, and believe that you are God’s priceless creation made for a purpose. You were created in His image, and you are indeed a piece of the Masters’ special design collection. Now, how could you not submit to the One who thought so much about you and all of your details! You are a One-of-a-Kind Masterpiece made just for His Glory! You were created for an awesome purpose! A Marvelous Masterpiece for His Glorious Display!

Let’s Pray:
Father Thank You! Thank You for making me Your masterpiece, for creating me with Your Hands! Father may wherever I go be a reflection of Your love and an expression of Your handiwork wherever You send me today. Thank You for creating me in Your image as Your Masterpiece! Father because I am Your handiwork, please help me to take on Your characteristics daily and to produce the work that You prepared me to do from the beginning of time. Father, continue teaching and training me in Your Ways! Thank You Father for putting me in the right place at the right time, being exactly where You want me to be! Father, please help me to see the beauty and anointing on the inside of me and how it radiates from the inside to the outside for Your Glory, in the Name of Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior!

Blessings…
Love, Minister Jean

Good Morning Sunshine! Just Do The Work That God Assigned You To Do And Don’t Worry About What Someone Else Is Doing!

Zechariah 9-4:10 (AMP)~ “The hand of Zerubbabel have laid the foundations of this house, and his hands will finish it. Then you will know (recognize, understand full) that the Lord of hosts has sent me [as His messenger] to you Who [with reason] despises the day of small (beginnings)? For these seven [eyes] shall rejoice when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. Thy are the eyes of the Lord which roam throughout the earth.”

Last year in February 2023, I wrote this devotional using this scripture and I normally don’t repeat them unless God leads me to do it! So, here you go again, “Don’t Despise Your Small Beginnings” or try to compare where you are with where someone else at, this is not a competition, embrace where you are right now!

God is rejoicing in the work that you have begun using the plumb line! Do you remember what a plumb line?  It is a cord with a non-magnetic weight attached to one end, when the cord is held in a certain way, the weight can dangle freely. Painters and carpenters use a plumb line to keep their work straight.  A plumb line doesn’t alter or shift with the impulses of the worker, it remains true horizontally and vertically!

Again, I say don’t despise your small beginnings where you are right now! Don’t try to compare where you are at with someone else, you are not in competition with anyone, just do the work that God called you to do. As we study Nehemiah yesterday on being in your building season, it’s only befitting to tell you this today.

For as you are building, there is a real enemy out there that is trying to distract you and stop you from doing the work that God has called you to do! An enemy who will at every turn try to thwart the plans of God! He wants to pull you away from God with distractions and cause you to think that you are not making any progress in this process! I want you to know that you are right where God wants you!

I know it may seem like you are not moving or accomplishing anything, but I want to encourage you, it is more than you can see, for God is going to reward you as you show faithfulness in the small things! It does not matter what man says to you, it’s what God says that matters! Learn to ignore the mockers, and yourself and give what you deem small to God and watch what He does with it! God is the greatest mathematician and multiplier ever, He took five loaves of bread and two fishes and fed five thousand men, and this number does not include the women and children, everybody ate, plus there was twelve baskets left over, and we know that He is no respecter of person, He did it then and He can do it Now! (Matthew 14:16-21)!

You must be vigilant, in the work that you are doing, no matter what it is. You must seek God with all your heart; a heart that wants to honor God, that wants to glorify God in your thoughts, actions, desires and with every fiber of your being, you need to do what is pleasing to God.  to fight spiritual battle as you do daily life, you must remain faithful, both horizontally and vertically! Jesus Christ is the Builder, and He laid a stone in Zion, a tested stone, The Cornerstone, and you need this to make sure that your foundation and work is secure and sure! As the Kingdom of God is built, He is making sure that it is perfect, there will be no crookedness in the Kingdom of Heaven (Isaiah 28:16-17)!

Right now, there is a sense of urgency for prayer! It is time for you to put in the work and work the Word in your life to build what God has given you to do! It’s time out for pretending and procrastinating! It’s time to get serious about what you are supposed to be doing in this hour for God’s House! It is time to gird up your loins and make haste to Pray for wisdom, discernment, and discipline in this hour, you will need all of this to complete your work and to remain close to God!

You must be deliberate, intentional and disciplined so that you are not drawn away from God because of the environment that does everything to keep you distracted and distant from Him. It’s time for your spiritual discernment to rise, and you need to be sensitive to Holy Spirit and walk in the coming Revival that is about to take place! In order to do this, you must be about the Word of God and be men and women of prayer! You must be able to discern the times and season when God will come back to visit His children, for He is coming back!

As you lay all of your materials out and get your Word before you, The Cornerstone, Jesus Christ, will make sure that you are building your ministry, your career, and your business, the right way. Don’t worry about who’s with you, God has already ordained and commissioned your help and sometimes there may only be one or two with you, but give everything that God gave you, don’t short them of what God is saying, because when you lay it down at His Feet, He will make sure it’s straight! Again, I say don’t despise your days of small beginnings, they will be your best days!

This vision that Zechariah had was to encourage him, that better days were coming, and that God was pleased with the work that was being done to rebuild temple. I know that you have some things that need to be rebuilt, repaired or replaced, whatever it is don’t despise it today, get to it! I know that you may think that your efforts are small, but God is excited to see you beginning to do His work, even in your baby steps, you are moving and that’s what’s important. Just remember to keep Him included in the process, and His Presence, Provision and Protection is going to be there along with His Wisdom and Power, and Love multiplying and growing your small thing into a Mighty Thing for His Glory, He will see it to completion, that’s a promise you can count on and trust (Philippians 1:6)!

God loves your baby steps! Today, be patient with yourself and don’t lose hope! Wait on God! Just do the work that He assigned you to do and don’t worry about where the next person is or what they are doing! Let the Word of God help you do the work that He assigned to you! Everything will be done in His perfect timing; it’s not your job to force it, but to walk in it and to rejoice!

Let’s Pray:
Father Thank You! Father, Thank You for being my Chief Cornerstone, and for perfecting Your work in me, that Your Perfect Will, will be done! Father, I am ready to do what You have called me to do, for nothing is too small, I will be obedient and do what You say. Father, help me to not be scared or fearful, but to be fearless, bold and faithful! Father, help me not to get restless or anxious while I am working unto You! Father, fill me with Your that Holy Spirit and empower me to have discernment and recognize Your Hand at work in my life in Al things! Father, I desire more of You and Your Word, fill me with Your Presence and Your Spirit! Father, please remove the scales from my eyes, touch my heart so that I may understand, and quicken my ears to hear You, so that I won’t miss what You are saying. Father, I want to be ready and willing, no matter the size of the task, even when it’s small let me have faith and trust in knowing that You are Sovereign in all Your Ways and that Your plan for my life is greater than I can comprehend, for Your Will, will be done on earth and in my life as it is in Heaven! In Christ Jesus Name. Amen!

Blessings…
Love, Minister Jean

Good Morning Sunshine! This Is Not The Time To Come Down!

Nehemiah 6:3 NIV ~ “So I sent messengers to them with this reply: “I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you?”

First things First! It’s Repentance and Prayer Time! Repentance and Prayer is the mortar that is going to connect your bricks one by one as you rebuild your wall! Brick by brick, you will turn turning away from what has grieved your Father’s heart and it will be done by your fervency for intercessory prayer, to restore the hedge of protection that has been breached!

What Season is this? It is building season, and it’s Time To Rebuild!” God is calling on intercessors to rise in the spirit of the Nehemiah Anointing and to pray and to not cease praying so that the hedge of protection can be rebuilt around your heart, home, ministry, community, state and nation! God is calling on you, who have taken a stand for true stand for God and who refuses to come down from the wall, the one who can discern the enemy’s plan and reject them, and who will complete the assignment that you have been called to complete! God want you to connect with other prayer warriors who are rebuilding and restoring to what the enemy has destroyed. It’s time to Rise Up and Pray! Rise Up and stand in the gap! Rise Up and make up the hedge! God is looking for those who of you who are willing to see His Plan accomplished in the land!

Do you have a heart for the people that are dying in the streets and in their sins? Nehemiah, he had a genuine heart for the people. His interest was born out of love. Is your interest born of concern or curiosity? When really care about someone you want to know all the facts, no matter how hard it may be to face it. There is one sure thing about a “Fact” it doesn’t cease because you ignored it. Do you really want to know the facts? Or do you think it’s going to be a problem for you? Do you really care enough to ask? In this season you cannot close your eyes and ears to the truth of what is happening. When you ignore it, you are making the first step toward tragedy for yourselves as well as for those around you. You need to be like Nehemiah and be ready to face the facts about a situation even when it’s not what you want to see! Think about it this way, you should not just look at your own interest, but also the interests of others!

Has anything that’s been going on in the land caused you to stop and to sit down and weep? Caused you to fast and pray and to stand in the gap for someone else? Nehemiah and his intercessors welted over the condition of the walls, and they mourned for days and then they fasted and prayed before the God of heaven (Neh. 1:4). They went to God in repentance, not for themselves but for the nation. Ask God what He wants you to do. Go to God in prayer, He will give you a plan, process and timeline to complete the task. He will give you directions and what you need to work with. When you seek God on behalf of someone else, His favor shows up for you!

As an intercessor for this project, you will have to face some opposition, but don’t worry God has prepared you for this! There will be unbelievers and believers who will try to distract and or change your course because they don’t understand, they will try to ridicule you because of your stand. Don’t stop, remember they tried Jesus, (Matthew 27:27-31) so you should know that they are going to try you! Keep it moving, keep it pushing! You will have confidence and be confident in the work that you are doing, can’t you hear your Father saying, “Rise Up and Build, for your hands have been strengthened for the good work that you are performing!” Nehemiah was determined to rebuild the walls around Jerusalem. When the Son’s and Daughter’s, (you and me) operate in this spirit, we can rebuild what the enemy has torn down. When Nehemiah rebuilt the wall, there was no gap in it (Neh. 6:1). When you as an intercessor truly stand in the gap for the people and be determined to pray, you will be a part of closing prayer will the gaps in the wall!

As an intercessor you have to be willing to pray day and night, you need a “Nevertheless Mindset”, Nehemiah 4:9, “Nevertheless we prayed to our God, and, because of them, we set up a watch for them day and night.” You have to be consistent and persistent in your prayer life to see the breakthrough and you cannot be afraid to fight in this season! God will grace you to hold your weapon (The Sword of the Spirit, The Word, Ephesians 6:17-20) and your tools at the same time, you can work with one hand and hold your weapon in the other! You will be successful in doing the Lord’s Work! (Nehemiah 4:17-18; 23)! Pray, pray and pray some more, pray until Revival comes and don’t stop praying when it comes. This Revival will turn into a transformed life (Galatians 5:1)! God is calling you into intercession in this season, the warfare is real, but the rewards are even greater from your Father. Stand Up, for the next generation! Who will Rise Up and Rebuild the Walls in Prayer?

Read and study all of Nehemiah, may the Nehemiah Anointing become your daily portion!

Let’s Pray:
Father, Thank You! Today, I’m offering up prayer on your behalf, and I want you to do the same thing for someone else. God has equipped you to be a prayer intercessor and we need to pray for one another as our Father has taught us! And let’s not offer a selfish prayer but, pray that all would come to know Jesus Christ, repent, turn from their wicked ways, surrender to Him, and seek His face daily! Today, I come to You right now on behalf of every one that will see, hear and pray this prayer. First, I repent of all my sins, and I ask You to forgive me, so that the prayer that I’m praying right now will not be hindered but will smell like a sweet incense unto You. Father, I lift up my brothers and sisters to You, fill them with Your Holy Spirit, that they may be refresh in there, spirit, soul and body. Father, guide them along the right paths for Your Name’s sake as they stand in the gap and rebuild their walls. I pray that when they walk through the darkest valley, they will fear no evil, for You are with them; Your rod and Your staff will uplift, comfort and bless them, In Jesus Christ Name! Father, I declare peace and joy in the hearts of Your people! I proclaim that You will bless Your children and will keep them; You will make Your face to shine upon them and be gracious to them! I pray against all the plans of the enemy that would try to steal their joy and peace from You! Father, I’m praying everyone that will read this devotional today and all other days, in the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit! Amen!

Blessings…
Love, Minister Jean

Good Morning Sunshine! It’s Pruning Season! God Is Getting Ready To Cut Away Everything That Is Hindering Your Growth!

John 15:1-2,5-6 NIV ~ “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. [2] He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. [5] “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. [6] If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.”

I read a story about a gardener who was chopping up a rose bush and the owner was furious. There were branches flying everywhere until all the leaves and branches were in a pile, that use to be on my lovely rose bush! He said that his first thought was that he had hired the worst gardener in world! Then he asked his neighbor, do you see what this gardener has done to my beautiful rose bush, he has destroyed everything! He was so upset at what he saw, all of the beautiful branches and flowers laid wilted on the ground, leaving a bare, naked and exposed tree!

He went on to say, I know I have never taken up Gardening 101, but this gardener has butchered all of my bushes and killing my flowers! But I was soon enlightened that he was doing everything according to the Master (God) God had gifted the gardener as a vinedresser and he knew exactly what needed to be done in order to preserve life! He knew that in the pruning process of the cutting away the old, that the bush would actually produce more life and increase in blooming and flourishing! Did you hear that, life actually increases with pruning! Your life is being increased as God prunes you!

So, with this being said, it’s Pruning Time! Just like that well skilled gardener had to cut off all of the unnecessary parts of that rose bush to allow for growth and blooming! Be it known unto you, everything that is stunting or killing your growth must be cut off (At the roots, so that it does not grow back)! I know that nobody likes being pruned. But it’s Necessary! I’m sure that you believe that you are just fine, you feel like you are good with the things that you are doing for God, and you finally feel like you know exactly what you are doing, right anyway? You have it all together and figured out!

Can I tell you something, it’s in these times when you feel that you have arrived and have it all together that God decides that you need pruning! That’s right, it’s time to prune you so that you can bear more fruit in this season! God has to clean you up and cut some things away from your life that is stunting your growth (negative habits, complacency, unhealthy relationships, laziness, procrastination and, distractions just to name a few). God has more for you, and He wants more out of you. It is time for a deeper level of spiritual maturity, it’s time to grow up, you have been at this stage long enough, there is nothing else left that you can do at this level. (You are restless in this space because you have outgrown it, stop trying to fit in where you don’t belong!) So, in order for you to move, grow and produce more fruit, you have to be pruned, it’s a necessity! God has started the pruning process, and He didn’t require your permission, after all He is the Master Vinedresser! And He knows exactly when it’s time to prune you! You want to go to a new level; then you need some new anointing to carry you when you get there, and this can only come from God!

You see when you think you are blooming in your life and everything is great, this is exactly when and where then God decides to bring you into something else.  You have gotten too comfortable in a place that was only supposed to be temporary! I know this process is painful and you want it to end, but ultimately it will lead to greater flourishing in you, and you will come to appreciate this process! Thank God for the Pruning! I know that you liked things just the way they were, you were comfortable, but let me tell you, your comfort is not God’s primary concern! He is wants more, He’s interested in your total growth (spiritually and physically). God knows in order for you to bear more fruit, you have to be pruned to produce a greater harvest for His Glory. You must conform to the image of Jesus Christ, and learn to trust your Father in Heaven, who is the Master Gardener, He has perfected landscaping, He knows what areas of your life that needs pruning, cutting, trimming and uprooting, trust Him, He knows exactly what you need in order to grow, and to produce a greater harvest!

God is planning for your life, and His pruning, is better than you could have ever imagined or hoped for, so instead of fighting against God in this process, let Him prune you, “Let Go and Let God” have His way! Just like natural pruning keeps plants healthy and aids in new growth and longevity so does God pruning in your life, it will make you healthier and increases your endurance for the long haul.  Today, I encourage you to release your will and surrender yourself to God’s pruning work. Whatever you are holding on to, “Release It and Let It Go.” Trust in the Lord, who created you and desires to see more fruit blooming from your branches. Know this, God see’s what on the inside of you, and He knows just how much you can produce! Oh, what an experience and encounter you will have, blooming beautifully and flourishing for God’s Glory!

Let’s Pray:
Thank You Father! Thank You for everything! Father, today I will not fight against what You want to do in me and my life. I submit and surrender to Your Pruning Process! Father, remove from me anything that hinders my growth and prevents me from bearing good fruit. Though it may feel painful, I trust in Your loving care and wisdom to shape me into a vessel that can fully produce the good works You called, ordained and prepared for me to do. Father I am making a conscious decision to commit myself to Your process. Give me the Grace to willingly let go of all the things that do not bear fruit in my life, even when it is hard and difficult. Father, help me to surrender fully to Your Will, for I cannot do it without You, for I am confident in the fact that You know what’s best for me. Father, I trust You with every fiber of my being and I commit to seeking Your guidance in every area of my life and allowing You to shape and direct me so that I may be fruitful in every good work. I desire to live a life of holiness and righteousness so that I am fully aligned with Your purposes, bearing fruit that lasts. Father, help me to trust in Your wisdom and love, believing that every cut You make is for my good and Your Glory.

Blessing…
Love, Minister Jean
Have a Blessed Weekend…

Good Morning Sunshine! Check Your Heart And Stop Calling What’s Evil Good!

Proverbs 16:1-3 AMP ~ “The plans and reflections of the heart belong to man, But the [wise] answer of the tongue is from the LORD. [2] All the ways of a man are clean and innocent in his own eyes [and he may see nothing wrong with his actions], But the LORD weighs and examines the motives and intents [of the heart and knows the truth]. [3] Commit your works to the LORD [submit and trust them to Him], And your plans will succeed [if you respond to His will and guidance].”

Yesterday, we studied committing your work to God, so that your thoughts would be established by God! Well today is part 2! What is your reason for doing what you do?

Stop trying to justify your bad actions by claiming they are divinely ordained and given to you by God. God is not the author of confusion or conflict, so if you believe that you prayed and God told you this, this is straight from the enemy, you got played by the devil. Please repent immediately! You cannot rationalize meanness, and division, and say God told you to do this in love! Where is love in this?

When your heart is pure and your motives are right, they will be aligned with what God says. Your actions will be genuine biblical teachings, and when you made/make a mistake, you would know, and you would follow suit and seek God on how to make things right. God has the final say to even the plans you think you made. It’s in doing God’s Will, that you must coordinate your efforts with God’s control.

In much of what you do, God gives you free will to plan and work out the details. He wants you to use your own mind to seek Him and to plan accordingly. Nevertheless, God delivers the final results! In your planning you will seek God’s desires (Philippians 2:13) and He will lead you to acting His way. When you live for Him, you will always ask Him for guidance while you plan and then you will trust Him to act on the plan. You committed your work to Him so that you could be established and successful!

With this being said your heart has to be pure! You need to see things through God’s eyes and not yours, because your vision can be tainted sometimes! And this is how you will know what’s in your heart, you will rationalize and judge others, fault finding, thinking evil is good and the most important one is, you will always try to justify what you are doing, you will always believe that you are right and everyone else is wrong! “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.” Matthew 7:21-23. Try this first, before you put any plan into action, ask yourself these questions: Is this plan in harmony with God’s truth? Is my attitude pleasing to God?

There have been so many ways that you have failed to commit whatever you were doing to God. Like I said yesterday, you can be superficially and can say that what you are doing is for God, when you only have yourself in mind and how you will benefit from it and who will be patting you on the back! Remember, awards come from man and rewards are from God! You have to know that your actions have consequences, and that you cannot use God’s Name to excuse your harmful behavior.

For when you find yourself justifying your wrong choices by claiming they are “God’s Will,” you need to examine your motives and seek to align your actions with what God says and not what you want! If you are here, repent and ask God to transform your mind so that you will no longer conform to the world be transformed by the Word; “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” Romans 12:1-2!

Let’s Pray:
Thank You Father! Thank You for one more opportunity to repent and be transformed by Your Word! Father, help me to discern Your true Will and Ways and to live in accordance with Your teachings. Guide me to recognize when I am using my faith to justify harmful actions and give me the courage to make amends and live righteously for You in all my ways. Father help me to remain true to You when I feel like I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place, for this is when I need your strength, wisdom and guidance. Father, I want to do Your Will and walk in the fruit of the Spirit and in the ways of the Spirit. Father help me to be steadfast and unmovable in the work that I do for You. Give me the power not to turn to other vices but to endure and persevere, especially when I feel pressed, for I know that with You, I may be pressed, but I will not be crushed or abandoned.  I Father, give me Your way of loving others, even in the face of the fires all around me. Help me to keep hope that You are carrying me through, because I am committed to You and I have committed everything that I am doing to You so that You can establish me and keep me settled and successful. In Jesus Christ Name. Amen!

Blessings…
Love, Minister Jean

Good Morning Sunshine! You Must Commit Your Works To God, So That Your Thoughts May Be Established!

Proverbs 16:3 AMP ~ “Commit your works to the LORD [submit and trust them to Him], And your plans will succeed [if you respond to His will and guidance].”

What do think about when you hear the word “discipleship?” If you are like me, your mind should have immediately thought about what to do for someone else. But in the terms of discipleship, you must first be a disciple yourself before you can help someone else to become one!

When you gravitate toward the process of helping others mature in their faith and you are not mature yourself in your faith, that’s a problem. Most people tend to think of discipleship in terms of a program that you do rather than you are being someone. It is with this mindset that you are “Trying to put the cart before the horse.” This phrase means, that you are trying to reverse the proper order of things. You must be, before you do! Being must precede doing! I’m going to say this again, you must be a disciple before you can make a disciple! There are no short cuts in this process! You must follow the proper order of things in order for you to be successful and established!

Just as a horse needs to be trained first, before he can pull the cart, so does you, you must be spiritually trained, you must be focused, you must go through an internal transformation in your life through surrendering, prayer, learning the Word of God and developing an intimate relationship with God as you pursue your faith. So, before you do anything, before you say anything, you need to Commit yourself to God and every thought you think today, so that every thought will be Established by God, Himself!

First thoughts God, second thought God and so forth, so everything that you think of and everything that you do, the work that you do will be Holy Spirit led, which will determine your success for this day. Trusting totally in God and not in yourself or in your own abilities so that every situation and every plan that you make today will be successful, because you committed your work to God and He established you!

You need to commit everything that you do to God, with your whole heart! So many times, you can fail at committing whatever you do to the God, by being superficially. Think about it, you say that you are doing this for God but in all actuality, you are doing it for yourself, and then you try to call it God! That’s not going to work! Then there are other times that you will give God the initial control only to take it back the moment things stop going the way that you expect. You expected God to do it all and you give or do nothing, and you wonder why you did not succeed. It’s all because of what you did not do, you didn’t commit it or you to God!

You must have a balance, as you commit your work to God, you need to trust God as if everything depended on him, while working as if everything depended on Him. For you can do nothing without God! You must commit everything that you are doing to God from the beginning! I want to let you in on something, the truth is more often caught than it is taught. You teach what you know, but you reproduce what you are! You cannot reproduce anything that is not in you! If you don’t know the Word, then you can’t teach the Word, if you don’t know how to be a disciple, a servant then you surely cannot tell or teach anyone else how to become either!

For you to be an effective disciple, you must know the Way, the Will, the Word and the Truth of God, and you need to recognize this, that discipleship, means that you must know your identity in Jesus Christ before you can show someone how to be an active disciple, you must to take Jesus seriously when He tells you to, “Abide in me, and I in you.” John 15:4-5. Discipleship begins with abiding in Jesus, that it! Then, and only then, can you say like Paul, “follow me as I follow Christ.” As a Christian, you should always put the Gospel and the Kingdom of God before anything else you have planned that your thoughts may be established in Him!

Let’s Pray:
Thank You Father for establishing my thoughts today. Father, I roll every care and concern over on You, that my thoughts to line up with Your thoughts, so that my plans will be successful. Father, I want Your Will to be my plans, and I want Your Glory to be my goal. Father please remove from me and my mind any plans that will not bring You Glory. Father remove every influence and distraction that is in my way, that I may see clearly the work that you have put in place for me to do! Father, guide me into areas of blessing where Your Grace leads and I will commit ways, my plans, and my works to You and to Your Glory. Father, I commit every idea that I have to You, for I know that it came from You in the beginning. Father use me to be a blessing to others and may others be a blessing to me to. Father, I trust You for everything, I trust You to make things happen in Your time and that what is not part of Your divine masterpiece for my life, they You will remove it! Father, thank You for the work that You gave me to do, for I know that Your plans are always best and include my eternal welfare. So, I will rest securely in Your wisdom as I do what You have entrusted me to do, thank You God for establishing me and my thoughts today. It’s for Your Glory and my good. In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen!

Blessings…
Love, Minister Jean

Good Morning Sunshine! Thank God For His Angels Covering You!

Psalm 91:9-12 NIV ~ “If you say, “The LORD is my refuge,” and you make the Most High your dwelling, [10] no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent. [11] For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; [12] they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.”

Thank You God, You are so good to me, Thank You for protecting my family tonight. God, if I had 10,000 tongues it wouldn’t be enough to thank You with! Thank You for Your Guardian Angels being on assignment tonight and doing Your bidding, according to Your Word in, Psalm 103:20, which means that You dispatched Your Angels right on time tonight to protect my family. Thank You for everything!

Thank You God, for being our Protection and Protector! Thank You for Your Gracious Presence that watches over my path and how You watch over me and my family from all hurt, harm and danger! Thank You God for covering every step that I take and Thank You for watching over me and protecting me from the hidden snares of life! I’m so grateful that You watch over my loved ones, and you kept them safe from all danger, seen and unseen! I’m so grateful! Thank You God for rescuing me and my family and all that I love safe from all things! God You are my strength, and I know that I can rely and trust in You to see Him me through! Father, I will obey what You tell me to do, and I will go where You say go. Father, today I’m putting all of my trust in You and Your in Your Power!

Tell God Thank You again! For if you had had ten thousand tongues it wouldn’t be enough to thank God for what He has done for you! And if ten thousand tried to fall at your side you can be secure in Your Father, knowing that because of His Supernatural Strength that you would be okay because His Power will prevail in your life because you love Him! Thank You God for Your Right Hand of protection that covers me like Your Angels Wings! God’s Thank You for keeping me! When you truly trust God, you will be able to see through His eyes and you will see His Hand at work in your life. All you have to do is remain faithful at the coming of Jesus Christ, your Lord and Savior!

Thank You God, for being my fortress and defender, so that no one can snatch me from Your hand. For there is no other God like you. In You I put all of my trust. Sanctify me through Your truth and Your Word in Jesus Christ Name! God, Thank You for Your Angels hovering all over me and near me to eradicate fear, darkness, and all spiritual forces that I cannot see. Help me to cast down every imagination and thought that the enemy is trying to use to exalt itself against my mind and my thoughts! I’m covered by the wings of God’s angels!

Let’s Pray:
Father Thank You! Thank You for covering me. Father, give me Your wisdom and the understanding of Your Word that I may apply it to my life daily. Father, You have set things in place in my life for my good. Father, help me to know and follow my angel so that, with their guidance, I will be worthy of being in Heaven with You! Father, guide me by Your Holy Spirit, as I seek You and Your ways. Father, Thank You for being my Comforter and heart fixer. Father continue to cover me in Your love, truth and peace in the good and bad times and lead me away from myself and worry. Thank You God for Preserving me and from injury and, from the fear of the enemy, and from the arrow that flies by day, and the trouble that walks in the darkness, and grant me eternal life with Jesus Christ. In the Name of Jesus Christ Name. Amen!

Blessings…
Love, Minister Jean

Good Morning Sunshine! What Kind Of Servant Are You?

Matthew 25:21 KJV ~ NKJV “His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’.”

How many times have you read this parable? Well read it again, Matthew  25:13-29.

What has God entrusted you with? Are you doing everything that you are supposed to be doing for God? You do want to hear Him say this to you, “Well done good and faithful servant?” I have a question for you, have you been faithful? Have you been true? What have you done with the gifts that He gave you? Stop asking God for more gifts, if you haven’t even done anything with the one that He has already given you!

Your gifts are to Glorify Jesus Christ, your Lord and Savior, they are from Him, not you. His death and resurrection are a gift to you, a gift that you don’t deserve, but because He loves you, He gave you the ultimate sacrifice! He died that you might live and then He gave you gifts to spread the Gospel and to show His love through serving others! No other motive except love, pure and simple, love!

I’m sure some of you have invested in stocks and bonds and you plan on reaping benefits and increases from what you did in the natural and I’m sure that you are hoping for double and triple return on your investments. But how much have you invested in your spiritual gifts? Are you cultivating them? Are you using what God gave you? Investing in what God gave you will yield the greatest return, eternal life. Man will give you a temporary award, but what God gives you is a reward from His heart to your heart and it is more valuable than anything that you have or will receive!

You do know that you must properly invest in your gifts to improve them if you want to double them. You must be about your Father’s Business, in order to reap a blessing on your gifts. Don’t be like the man that took his gift and hid it, (Matthew 25:24-27), but use them so that they may multiply and increase for His Glory! You must remember that the gifts you have are not from you or for you, you didn’t get on your own, all of your gifts are from God, use them wisely!

Today, there are two very important lessons that I want you to always remember. First, God gave you your gifts and talents and they are to be used to further His Kingdom and not your agenda! And there is no laziness in the Kingdom of Heaven! You will not be able to hoard your gifts, they are to be shared! Secondly, your gifts and talents are to be used to further spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ, if you are using them to make a name for yourself or a profit and to make you look good, you are out of order and you need to repent immediately! Jesus will teach you how to spread the Gospel through the gifts that He gave you. You are to spread His Word and to be a good steward over what He put on the inside of you. You are a disciple growing into discipleship, and this is a beautiful blessing!

When you stand before the Lord someday, do you long to hear Him say, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You were faithful over a few things; I will put you in charge of many things.” If you do, be faithful to Him who is faithful, and He will advance you to your next level! When you share the gifts that God gave you to advance the Good News, you have become a faithful servant, and your Master will bless you and the joy of the Lord will be yours and you will hear Him say well done!

Let’s Pray:
Father, Thank You! Thank You for all of my gifts and talents. Please forgive me for anytime I used your gifts to benefit me. Father, teach me how to be a good steward over everything that You have given me, for everything is for Your Glory. Father, You gave me these gifts to Glorify You and to advance Your Kingdom and this is my desire, to do what pleases You, to be about what You want day in and day out. I am faithful and true to You and I want to hear You call me Your faithful Servant. In Jesus Christ Name.  Amen!

Blessings…
Love, Minister Jean

Good Morning Sunshine! Turn The Page And Keep Moving Forward!

Philippians 3:12-16 ERV ~ “I don’t mean that I am exactly what God wants me to be. I have not yet reached that goal. But I continue trying to reach it and make it mine. That’s what Christ Jesus wants me to do. It is the reason he made me his. [13] Brothers and sisters, I know that I still have a long way to go. But there is one thing I do: I forget what is in the past and try as hard as I can to reach the goal before me. [14] I keep running hard toward the finish line to get the prize that is mine because God has called me through Christ Jesus to life up there in heaven. [15] All of us who have grown to be spiritually mature should think this way too. And if there is any of this that you don’t agree with, God will make it clear to you. [16] But we should continue following the truth we already have.”

Have you ever read something, and you had to re-read, and re-read again, it’s like you were perpetually stuck on this last page and you can’t go forward? What is it that’s keeping you from turning the page? Were you distracted, discouraged, or did you just disconnect? Was it something bad, sad or was it exciting and good and you just want to keep living in this moment, this place of contentment? Let me let you in on a little thing, that’s not possible, you have to move on! It’s time to turn the page!

God has not brought you this far to leave you where you’re at! You can’t keep taking 2 steps forward, only to take 4 steps backwards! You cannot live in what was or what use to be and expect to experience something better! You have to be in the Right Now! It’s in the right now with God that you will have an encounter with Him and experience the new.  God is the God of your past and He is the God of your present as well as your future! Only God knows what’s next in your life, so you are going to have to be in constant communication with Him to see what’s next!

Turn the page and watch what God does for you. He will bring you into alignment with Him on your journey and He will anoint you as you go forward from the past to the present! As you turn the page, God is equipping you for purpose and godly impact! Yes, I know turning the page means that you have to give up some hurts, habits, people, and stuff that you don’t like as well as what you do like, you can’t have that where God is taking you next! Let go, let God and turn the page!

So, no matter what paragraph you are re-reading right now, this I know, if you stay on this current page, you will never find out the rest of the story! You will never see all of what God has in store for you! The Apostle Paul refused to get stuck in his cold old past, instead he chose to step into a new future as a new man on a new trajectory! And this is where God is calling you to, to a new trajectory in life! The Apostle is letting you where he’s been, but he is also telling you that he’s not going to stay in that place. He says, “Dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I am focusing on this ONE THING, I’m going to forget my past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I am going to press on to reach the end of my race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling me for.”

This is how you turn the page! Yes, I know that your previous chapters were good, you learned how to navigate and move through it, the good, the bad and the ugly, but that does not matter, you have to keep pressing forward! Paul turned the page from a life of sin and pride, and he stepped forward into a future that forever shaped the history of our faith. You too can turn the page from your sin, shame, and pride by inviting God in to reveal His purposes and plan for your life and then letting Him have His Way, for it is “Thy Will Be Done!”

What is in your new chapter, the next page? In order to see it, you have to turn the page! You have to let go of the old! You have to embrace the new! God is saying in His Word that you just read, forget about the past (because whatever it was, you can’t change it or undo it, it’s done) and look forward to what lies ahead of you and not to allow your past to make you fearful of the new opportunities in your present and the great possibilities that await you in your future! 

There are 46 days left in this year, and someone who is your age is not here today, and somebody won’t make it out of 2024 into 2025, (that could be you or me, we don’t know, but you better be ready when He comes!) Today is a great day to get this in your spirit, let go of what was and embrace what is happening in your life right now!

Be the change that you want to see, move pass your past, live in your present and have hope in your future that God has put in place for you from the beginning of time, for your Right Now! Let go and receive everything that He has for you, for it’s in the new chapter, the next page that it will begin! Turn the page!

Let’s Pray:
Father Thank You! I thank You for the gift of this day and the chance for a new opportunity to turn the page and to connect with You in prayer. As I open my heart to You, I am reminded of Your Word, forgetting about my past (yesterday) and moving towards today my present and to press on toward the goal you have set before me and to keep my focus on You as I go! Father, grant me the strength and perseverance to keep moving even when I want to stay where I am, for I know that I cannot grow where I’m at, I have to turn the page, and I cannot do it without You and Your help. Father, I know that I am not perfect, I have made mistakes and fallen short of your glory, Father, Thank You for forgiving my shortcomings, I am grateful that Your Mercy and Grace is boundless. Father, Thank You for the righteousness that comes through having faith in Your Son, Jesus Christ, this is a gift that I cherish and hold dear to my heart. Father, I surrender my fears of turning to the next page to you, for I am assured of this One Thing, that You hold everything in your hands that concern me and that You have me, and You won’t let me fall! Father, help me to keep my eyes on You as I turn the page and to eagerly await the day when I will be with You in Glory! In the Name of Jesus Christ, I pray. Amen!

Blessings…
Love, Minister Jean
Have a Blessed Weekend..