Time To Transition

The weather has been so nice. Like REALLY nice and we are at the end of October, but the past two days it's been raining which brought the cold weather and I'm fighting a cold--the 3rd, 4th, or 5th cold I've had this year. I've never been so sick in my life. This is a testament to me not taking care of myself and not sleeping well.

But, all of that is going to change because as the weather is turning, so is my life!

I'm meeting with a financial consultant on Monday to help me with my finances--I need $5000 in 60 days to buy my house.

I'm looking at changing my schedule so that I can work out at least 30 minutes a day. And I'm praying and reading my word more. Not as much as I like, but I'm making strides.

I went to the movies to watch The Intern. It was such a cute movie, but I didn't realize that it was a "date-night" movie. I thought it was about the old guy, it turns out to be about the young girl and her life and love. Dag....I felt sappy in the theater all by myself. The feeling didn't last long, but it was there....

Hopefully, those lonely dates won't be for to much longer!

Don't Mess With My Money

I just got paid today...and I was shocked!!! My check was short. Daaaannnnggggggg....

I looked up my paystub to find that there was an IW offset of $560. WHAT IS THAT????? I emailed my boss because I know the state of Illinois is going through some issues, but what does that mean--IW offset?? So I googled and as always (most of the time) google has answered my questions.

Because I am a state of Illinois employee, any money that I owe to a state agency can be deducted from my paycheck. Case in point--summer tuition. I took a summer class at the U of I (stupid economics) and the tuition was about $1300 and I hate bills like that so I hadn't set up a payment plan and I was paying it off, but I guess not fast enough, so that state just took the last of the money that was owed--$560.

Man, I had plans for that money. But, I'm happy it's paid off. Now I can sigh up for class in the spring and I can set up a payment plan so that this doesn't happen again.

Business Planning

I'm working on a business plan and I'm so excited. It is a challenge, but I'm using sba.gov!!

My Other Vision

And the LORD answered me: “Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it. Habakkuk 2:2

The other thing that came to me as the man of God was ministering was a wall in my house that has a canvas on it that is as large as the wall and on the canvas there is a picture that depicts "The Journey."

"The Journey" is from childhood to the end. And it depicts specific times in my life.

I'll have "The Journey" on my child's room wall too when he or she is born and this will help to keep him or her focused on their purpose in life.

Now I gotta find a huge canvas.....

The Mind is POWERFUL

God gave me something a few years ago and I didn't know what to do with it....

Life is a journey and I know that sounds cliche, but it is true. What matters most is not the destination, but what you do during the journey.

In 2011 I was telling a friend that I would be helping businesses to build their business. Not realize that this is what God put into my spirit. A few years ago, the spirit of God rested upon me as I was talking to someone and I was telling them that we needed to be connected to a certain business man in the city. At the time I didn't know what to do with the information. I know the spirit of God was with me, but I was foggy. Nothing was clear.

Well, now I have more clarity.

This business man funded my job when I was teaching career development and I was trained in this business of helping young people to find their careers. And now the pieces are coming together. I couldn't see the vision in my mind before, but now I see it.

I'm going to start a business and use it as a career development program.

I'm going to see if NC guy will help me with a business plan.

True Colors Shining Through

I'm talking to NC guy on the phone and his true colors are SHINING through!

He's cursing up a storm talking about his past. It's like he's flashing back to his younger days. What happened to the renewed mind? I guess I understand it, but dag...I think he was misrepresenting himself when we first met. Not one curse word came out of his mouth, but now almost a month later he's flashing back to pain in his childhood. God, what am I supposed to do with this?

4 Significant Spiritual Moments

I was in a leadership meeting at church on Monday night and as we were praying there was a prayer for the children and then it was said, that there were women who were there who were not married and did not have any children who would be married and who would have children and as that was being prayed, I felt the spirit of God in my belly. It's kind of hard to explain, but there is a scripture that says that "out of the belly shall blow rivers of living water," (John 7:38). So, I felt "life" in my belly as he was praying and I didn't want to get emotional because I always want to respond to God out of my spirit and not out of my emotions because emotionalism is temporal.

This was God speaking to me and I thank Him. As I was thinking about this I started thinking about a few other significant spiritual moments in my walk with Christ. There are way more that I'm going to share, but these stick out....

I was in service on a Sunday morning and the prayer was going forth at the end and as I was praying, I felt a BURST in my mid-section. I was simply praying and there was a BURSTing feeling. I don't know what it was, but I just yelled in praise to God because it felt like something had broken off my life.

Another time, I was in a meeting and I was talking about a program that I wanted to do in the church and as I was talking, I felt the presence of the Holy Spirit descend upon. It just rested on me as I was talking. And the Prophetess saw the spirit of God upon me and she said as I finished talking, "You are anointed to do that." I knew she saw what I felt. This was in 2012.

About a year later I was talking to someone in the office at the church and I was talking about he we could get funding for a project and I mentioned D'Ambrose and our representative Scherer and as I was talking the spirit of God descended upon me just as it had done before. And I knew that I was anointed to carryout that plan.

No one can take these experiences away from me... and I take God for physically manifesting himself in my life!!