I Need Help On How to Get Ready for All of God's Blessings

[Retha Keys]

I'm asking help from my sisters to share with me your preparations from beginning throughout the journey of allowing God to really work in your life. I would really apreciate it I would consider it as gifts from my sisters I haven't met yet. If no one has told you they love you today-I do.

[Dana Neal]

I'll be the first to try to answer, because what you are asking is a day to day process.
I was first saved in 1995. When I got saved I tried to compromise with God what I could and could not give up. I thought I was on it! Yeah, right. I backslid horribly!

But a lesson was learned from that and each day forward. I never forgot God, because He never forgot me. He always kept me! In the trying of times!

Today, I must say, as a testimony for wives and mothers, I see God working more so in my life regarding my marriage and my children. Why is that? Because I started to obey! Obey with a heart that was ready to obey. Oh yes, my sistahs, I have a time where I get frustrated and ask God, why is this all on ME? Well, it isn't about me..it is about me helping someoneelse being in total obedience to my Father in Heaven.. So Retha..I hope this helps some..but I'll be back...

[Alvin C. Romer]

Retha, although I'm not one of the 'sisters' you've petitioned, please allow me to give my insight on your query. Personally, I feel that the best way for you and others who may want thoughts on this subject to be all inclusive is to establish, maintain and live a life with purposeful precepts for a personal relationship with Him. I find that having devotion time in the mornings work for me to start my day. I pray throughout the day however, because this has become routine for me. I also avail myself with several help-aids that are spiritual in nature...and these can run the gamut from books from national luminaries, i.e. T.D. Jakes, Charles Stanley, Beth Moore, Tony Evans, et al.

These things really work for me. I use a lot of what I do in an extra-curricular way to help me bridge gaps and connect dots. I've dedicated my life to outreach ministry, and I have a few that keep me busy. I run a non-profit mentoring young boys disadvantaged and troubled. I do this through a RITES OF PASSAGE program where I transition them from boys to men. The point is to get into a habitual format where your passions can fuel the fires to build the Kingdom and edify your life for favorable impressions from on high! Preparation for the final call is on us all to measure our steps for any new lease on life to make sure that our election and callings is true enough to allow God a permanent dwelling place in your heart, mind and soul!

[Ruth]

2 words; My Sistah. Be Obedient!

[R.L.Scovens]

I really agree with the thoughts so far about obedience. In 2005 I rededicated my life to Christ and miraculous things have happened since then. That was the first time I'd gotten serious about my Christian walk. I started trying to find out what God really wanted from me and I was honest with him about being able to obey. He helped me because he saw my heart. I was serious.

I started with watching tapes and finding a good church home. But more than that, I wanted to do what God told me to do. No matter how small. I continue that today. I ask for his guidance in everything and then I listen for his voice. When he answers, I do what he says whether I like it or not. He's done nothing but bless me and my son since I got serious.

[Princess Carroll Ayo Durodola]

Hi Sis, I think I invited you to be my sistah, and you haven't answered yet. Is all well? I'm about to answer this fabulous question you asked her. I'll be back.
Blessings,
Princess Ayo

[Princess Carroll Ayo Durodola]

Oh my, Ms. Retha has asked this question and it got me to thinking.
Getting ready for all of God’s blessings…oh my! What a thing! She has the presence of mind to think about how to get ready for them? God tells us about these blessings and how overwhelming they will be – more than you can think or imagine; so much that the ears of those that hear it will tingle; poured out from Heaven, so much that you won’t have room enough to contain it (that means, NO MATTER how much room you have now!); even if you shake it, press it down, it will still be running over; “abundant prosperity”!!!! I mean that’s a lot to handle.

Deuteronomy 28 echoes what everyone else has said. Verse 1 says, “If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God.”

When I first saw the question, I was flabbergasted because I figured Sis Retha meant that she is about to be blessed by God financially and is wondering how to get ready. I’m expecting the same breakthrough any minute so I’m reacting to it from that angle.

God wants us to have everything we need and actually the desires of our hearts. “Need” we understand, but “desires of our hearts”, takes us to another level and for that our hearts have to be changed, so that we can receive the abundance. I don’t know about all of you, but even though I am from an earthly royal family, we have never been rich. Therefore, we have not had to deal with a lot. Our Heavenly Father knows what moving into this new realm of having more than enough, until it overflows and to be “made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion” will mean to me and He knows how I will react in my present state. I’m sure there’s “flesh burning” needed and adjustments to my attitude about others, so that I am fit to still “Go into all the world and preach the gospel and not be so stuck up or so heaven bound that I’m no earthly good.

Preparation is going on in and around me right now. He is humbling me, breaking me down, “burning flesh”, pruning, crushing…oh people, it’s something else and very uncomfortable. I’ve been known, over the last few weeks to cry out, “No more!” “This is horrible” “I want out” “I can’t serve you anymore, Lord”. But now, I’m at a quiet, do nothing place. Do nothing except this writing He has asked me to do. And it’s the fun writing you know. The children’s funny, imaginative, make-believe, joyful, soulful writing. The kind that makes you smile as you write and wonder about the creativity He has let loose in you, to even come up with this plot and storyline. Now, today, I see that where I am, though still uncomfortable, humiliating, low…is really wonderful. I see all the wonderfulness of it, the family around me, the loving relationships and closeness I would never have been able to orchestrate, the unbelievable patience and kindness of people. It is a wonderful place, and great lovely experience, mainly because The Lord God of Heaven and Earth, brought me here. I rejoice.

[Evangelist Patricia Parks-Taylor]

WOW! I am in the same place right now. What I have done is just come off of a week of fasting and praying to allow myself to hear from God and to block out the distrations. I know that I am in a season of elevation, and I just want to be sure that I am in the Master's perfect will as I proceed forward. As a result, I have "leaped" out on faith (Stanice) and am waiting, patiently for the transplant to be completed. TESTIMONY: I walked away from my job last week and told them to keep my last check so as not to cause the company any added financial distress. Well how about the next day I needed a tire, didn't have enough cash but a "sistah stranger" at the tire store reached into her pocket and covered my expense. Tell me God doesn't move with a quickness to let us know that he has our back (and our front). Right now, I am trusting him to order my steps and encouraging myself to be willing to do whatever is required NEVERTHELESS (Sally). He's too great for me to doubt and too BIG not to cover me......So I just have to "learn to listen and listen to learn".... Trust your gut and know that you are worthy of God's love! YOU KNOW!!!!!! Love you LOTS!

[Ruth]

Seek His Face