God is doing a new thing!

Greetings!

This month, I want to talk to you about God's blessings. The past couple of months have been so awesome. God has blessed me in ways that I can't even explain. To start, I accepted God's call into the ministry and did my initial sermon on August 27th. That alone would have been enough, but He didn't stop there. I was one of the participants at the Baltimore Book Festival with the Black Writers Guild on September 19th, and this month, I did a radio interview with Doresa Harvey of Heaven 600 and had a book signing at A Quiet Place Book Store in Baltimore.

God has really been showing me that once I stop trying to figure it all out by myself, and take the limits off of what He can do in my life, He will show me things that I never even imagined and take me places that I have never been. And guess what? This is only the beginning. Praise God!

I was recently at a Women's Ministry meeting at my church and at a certain point in the meeting, the Director always asks us to share in any testimonies, words of encouragement, etc. Well, if anyone should have a testimony it should have been me, right? You would think that I, the author of "Let My Life Be A Testimony" would definitely have something to share. I sat there feeling like I was going to burst, because God had been so good to me that I didn't even know where to start, but that night, I didn't share--almost no one did. The Director had to go around the room and just point out the different ways that she knew we had been blessed. That was embarrassing.

Later that night, when I was on my way home I wondered why I didn't share the many blessings that God had been pouring over my life and I realized it was because I felt almost like I would be bragging. How crazy is that?!!! That's exactly what the enemy wants us to believe. That no one cares about our blessings. That there are people who are really hurting and here you are being blessed and you have the nerve to tell everybody about it. When the Holy Spirit revealed what I was doing, I made a promise not to do that again.

The only way that we can truly be free in the Lord is if we come to Him with an open heart, believing that everything we are going through, good and bad, serves a purpose in the plan. When God moves you to share, stop second guessing Him and just do it. We have to learn to celebrate the wonder of God and all the things He is doing to us and through us.

So, that means that when God blesses you--tell somebody. Yes, you are bragging, but you're bragging about the goodness of your Father--not you. It's all about Him.

Until next time...

Be blessed!