Press towards the high prize

When we apply for a job, you apply with a detailed description of that job. In that description there are always minimum requirements attached. Matter a fact, some jobs won’t even allow you to apply without meeting them. God told us in his word in Romans12:1 2 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. Serving God comes with a minimum requirement. We are supposed to submit our bodies first.

The word tells us many are called but few are chosen. I believe that many are not chosen because God didn’t call them but because they have not answered when he called and have not prepared themselves to be chosen. I’ll take me for example. I’ve gotten many, many prophetic words. Some of these words were so huge in my young mind to conceive as I asked myself how I could possibly accomplish them.

Many in my family like Saul and David’s brothers were afraid of Goliath. However, God knew from David’s birth when others overlooked him that he was that man, all while he was taking care of the sheep. God trusted me with the dream for my family and generations. He allowed my heart to be broken in my marriage to bring me to my knees to face my family bloodline goliaths. What has God called you to defeat in your bloodline?

To others and his own father who didn’t even put him in the lineup, he was not their chosen one, but he was God’s. God wants you to know he knew when it was time for you to step up to the plate to kill your Goliath, you wouldn’t be afraid. You understand the assignment.

You may have even minimized yourself David. God chose you because you were obedient in the ordinary routine everyday things like David. He took that lunch to his brothers, and you didn’t feel like you were bigger than that. He has called you to be a great father and great husband and you didn’t feel like you were bigger than that. It was because when you were broken and crying, you encouraged others when no one else was watching in your DM’s.

David, it’s because you didn’t mind being humiliated in your own eyes to heal out loud so others could see how important it is to worship God. David, you understand that it was God that gave you this position and chose you not man. David, you killed your bear and lion when no one else was watching but you had heavens applause when you didn’t have the crowds. Now God is giving you a new stage for your Goliath. God wants you to do what David did, remember your “why” and that he is with you. You will defeat this enemy with its own sword. The wisdom that you gain while in the enemy’s camp, you will now use against the enemy to destroy his kingdom.

David didn’t count his life but instead understood that the cause was bigger and so was his God. You too have pressed into your high calling to receive your prize. You are forgetting those things which are behind you. You’re reaching for the things that are before you. God is a good father. He gives good gifts, but he doesn’t spoil his kids. God will have the final say. Get ready David, you are about to get the spoils of your wars and your prize with a big bow.

Philippians 3:13-14 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Your prize

You have found your prize, 

You have exclusively and uniquely pinned me with your eyes,

And with my love, I will make you rise,

With a stare.

With a thought,

I’m held hostage in your embrace and caught,

in your lair,

I’m rendered and surrendered helpless 

To your mental temple invasion,

because you forgot to factor into the equation,

That once you were in, you wanted to be all in, 

See you also came to conquer and to win,

To soar and to fly,

And I can’t lie.

It’s apparent and inherent,

that I am all yours for the taking,

Make No mistaking, 

You captured my heart with one word,

love.

With unspoken thoughts felt but unheard,

We meet in our dreams,

While we danced on sunbeams,

We lived here for years, in our prayers and tears,

Each day, I lay down to sleep,

I keep you close so I can feel your peace,

in my surrender and release,

to his will.

How can I feel,

you so near,

but you aren’t here, 

but 

One day we will never again be deprived

Or denied

We will nap on the moon and slide down rainbows,

Leave our room and dance on our tippy toes,

To the music we hear in our head,

All while lying in bed.

Forget me not

Come close, ladies! Listen Linda. Listen Linda. I want to tell you a secret Abigail taught me in the word. Abigail was a beast. Yes, she was. Let me tell you what she did. I am about to give you the hood version. David and his men were out in them streets and they basically was just doing their thing and decided we gone do this work and then we gone eat really good. So, David sent his home boys to go knock on Nabal’s door. They came back and told David home boy was crae crae and told them to go somewhere. David was like, let’s go. I got sumpin for all the ninjas. David said, I am about to kill everything that can piss on a wall.

Ladies, lean in. We need to ask God to teach us how to talk to the King in that man like Abigail did.

Now David was in beast mold but sista girl said, let me take a bow. Sometimes we are not the ones wrong, but we have to be willing to cover that man we are with even when he is wrong. She stood in the gap for her house and God brought deliverance swiftly. Abigail was married to a fool. His name meant fool, senseless.

Let’s read what home girl told King David. 23 And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,

24 And fell at his feet, and said, upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid.

25 Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.

26 Now therefore, my lord, as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the Lord hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

27 And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord.

28 I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the Lord will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the Lord, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days.

29 Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.

30 And it shall come to pass, when the Lord shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel;

31 That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the Lord shall have dealt well with my lord, then Forget me not.

David said to Abigail, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:

33 And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with my own hand.

34 For in very deed, as the Lord God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there would not have been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.

35 So David received of her hand that which she had brought him, and said unto her, go up in peace to thine house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.

Abigail PRESENTED herself. She said, HEY, when the Lord takes care of my situation, I want you to forget me not. Be encouraged and believe God has seen your intercession and how you have been standing in the gap. May the Lord grant us the anointing of Abigail to speak to the King inside of our man, so we are not forgotten. David went back and got that and made her one of his wives.

Forget me not

I reached up far enough this time and I grabbed a star,

I no longer have to wish and wonder where you are, 

You are right here in my face,

In my embrace, 

in the water that I drink,

In the thoughts that I think,

In the moments that make me stretch deeper,

In the steps that I take that are steeper,

In the air that I exhale, 

In the moments I will prevail,

Against everything that could ever stand in our way,

For I have already leaped over walls and ran through troops,

To fight for a love like yours that has me in loops,

Of forget me nots. 

God is calling me to be a stripper and you too

Leonard Ravenhill, said, Everyone wants to be clothed with power but no one wants to be stripped of self.

You may be saying this is not possible. How can you equate a stripper with a calling from God. First let us define the world’s definition of a stripper. A stripper is a person who earns money by taking off their clothes slowly and intimately. I had remarkably close relatives that were strippers. At this time in my life, I just had my first baby and was a struggling college student. I did not even have money for pampers. I remember the day I asked one of them would she give me money just for a bag of pampers and she said no but I will get you a show with us.

I turned it down immediately. I figured it out. I knew I was going to stay in school when she dropped out. I knew I wanted to finish school so I could give my son stability. I knew that was a temporary solution that would have taken me down a road further than I was willing to go. I am grateful that I did not become a stripper at that time, but God has called me to be a stripper now.

Let me explain. In the garden it says, Genesis 2:25 And the man and his wife were both naked and not ashamed. Since my youth, as young as I can remember, I have always lived like an open book. I am very transparent and willing to be vulnerable. Transparency is as necessary for me to exist as the air that I breathe. Regardless, that this was one of my most challenging seasons as a single mom and I also did not have the support I needed in so many areas of my life, I did not buckle. Now, as an adult and on the other side of my faith standing trial, I understand why God has called me to be a stripper in his kingdom. He originally created Adam and Eve to live in the garden naked and not ashamed. He is calling us to live the same way.

God wants you to be a stripper as well. He wants us to be transparent and vulnerable in our ability to come boldly to his throne of grace to obtain mercy in our time of need. He still wants us to live naked and unashamed. Naked and not ashamed about our weaknesses with Him. Naked and not ashamed about our pain. Naked and not ashamed about our childhood trauma. Naked and unashamed about our brokenness in our marriages and relationships.

Naked and unashamed about our brokenness in our humanity so he can take our weaknesses and empower us. When we come into deeper realms of intimacy with him, we will not be afraid to strip away the fear, the pride, the envy, the bitterness, the mistrust, the doubt, the anger, the adultery, the hatred. God wants you to take it off like a garment that we wear and hide behind like Adam and Eve did when they made fig trees to cover themselves. 

He wants to bring you into new levels of accountability and responsibility so he can bring you back into a place of dominion, power, and rest, but it will require a new level of healing through vulnerability and transparency. God wants to know will you strip yourself for him so he can make you whole and cloth you with his power?

Happy Valentine's Day: Love will make you take a quantum leap

When Elisabeth came in contact with Mary while pregnant with Jesus, the word says in Luke 1:41-42

And it came to pass, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit; and she lifted up her voice with a loud cry, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.

Wait a minute. This is Mary’s cousin. This is not the first time she has met Elisabeth but this is the first time she is encountering Mary pregnant with Jesus, the word of God that is now flesh. Elisabeth has just had an encounter with the Lord inside of her cousins womb. When God brings your Mary in your life, honor what is inside of her and you will be able to receive what may be hidden to others.

We are all called to be living epistles read of men. When we come into deeper realms of intimacy with God and conceive the dream God has for us, God is going to cause them to encounter you. As a result of what is on the inside of you, its going to bring impact in others lives.

Elizabeth had waited a long time to conceive and struggled to get pregnant. She was now 6 months ahead in her pregnancy than Mary. Have you struggled for years with a weakness, getting that business established, getting that baby or that spouse you have been believing God for? God wants you to know he is about to bring you into relationships you need like Elisabeth had which caused her baby to leap! Your dream is about to take a quantum leap!

God wants you to know that dream you have been carrying is not just about to be birthed into new dimensions that transcend gravity and reality. Get ready Elisabeth for your Mary. Although Mary was behind her in her maternal gestational stage, what she was carrying had the power to cause what Elisabeth was carrying to take a leap but not just a leap, a quantum leap! In return Elisabeth was suddenly filled with holy ghost.

Your Mary is about to cause you to make up for all those seasons you were waiting, all those moments, you became weary in well doing and you thought you would never get that dream. As a result, of your encounter with Mary, God is about to accelerate your dream.

Lets see how Elizabeth took a quantum leap! and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit; and she lifted up her voice with a loud cry, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. Recognize who is carrying your dream.

Jesus was a baby in the womb of his mother. He had not even been born. He had not lived 33 years and had not performed not one miracle. He had not yet died and not been resurrected yet. The disciplines had not gathered to wait with the 120 on the day of Pentecost and Elizabeth was suddenly filled with the holy ghost! They all had to wait to be filled with the holy ghost but Elizabeth was filled with him while still in Mary’s womb.

Elizabeth took a quantum leap because she honored what Mary was carrying. Don’t mismanage your Mary because what she is carrying looks smaller and you appear further along than she is. Don’t underestimate what your Mary is carrying to cause you to take a quantum leap in your life.

You were the exemption in this last season and now God is about to make you the exception in this next season. God is about to reveal what you are carrying through others encountering you that was hidden.

Don’t sell yourself short and others when you still see them in seed form. Jesus wasn’t even visible to others and yet he still was who he was in seed form. Look again!

Love will make you take a quantum leap. Get ready to take a quantum leap in your relationships, in your marriage, in your business, in your life. God wants you to know its not too late. You are just getting started.

Outer Space

If love was a place,

It’d be called outer space,

Cause you got me touching stuff I thought I’d never reach,

You got me believing stuff I never heard preach,

You got me running on the galaxy like it’s a run way,

Taking quantum leaps in my faith playing hop scotch like child’s play,

 On mars,

Seeing stars,

Got me playing the Hokey Pokey 

With love and trust in and out,

Shaking it and turning it all about, 

Got me believing I can hold my breath forever,

cause you keep taking it away,

As long as we are together,

each day.

Got me hanging on the moon, 

dangling with a string like it’s a balloon,

Making me believe I can do, 

things I’ve never done before. 

Falling in love with you.

Got me glowing in the dark,

Sliding down rainbows like I’m playing In the park,

You got me thinking outside the box, ignoring Jack,

taking shots like free throws with planets, back to back, 

Got me sitting  in the clouds thinking I’m taking bubble baths, 

dreaming while busting suds, while busting laughs.

10 X Better

God is about to give you a mate that is 10 x better. You may be asking how is this even possible. God did it for Hannah and he can do it for us. I believe God. I am encouraging you to do the same. We have to do the work and become that 10 X better version and you will attract your person. Hannah was a wise woman. She was honored and loved by her husband, but she could not have a child. Her husband asked her a question.

8 Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?

God has given you a successful career or ministry but no child because you do not have a husband or wife. You may feel like you have everything, but a partner and you already have children. Even if you are married like Hannah and your husband or wife is not currently 10 x better, God wants you to know he can place an anointing on them and change them into a mate that is 10x better for you.

I can prove it to you. Let us see it in the word. Daniel 1:20 And in all matters of wisdom and understanding that the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers who were in all his realm. The word tells us in Proverbs 24: 3 Through wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; 4 By knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.

We must continue to grow in wisdom, understanding and knowledge and as we do we will become 10 X better. If we will allow God to build our homes with wisdom, understanding and knowledge he promised to establish it and fill it with all precious and pleasant riches. God gave you that desire to be married and it was not just a desire for you. See, Hannah wanted a son, but the world needed a Prophet. It is bigger than your desire. The world needs that man or woman just like God does and you. God wants you to know to stay in a position of supplication and he is going to remember you. No matter how long you have waited or felt it was impossible. Get ready for 10x better.

You

You see it’s like with each love letter,

it was like you got to know me better,  

God downloaded me into you, 

this is Intimacy.

See you see me,

No, not like them, but like you.

I’m in to you.

You

because I came out of you. 

I am now naked and not ashamed 

But you are to blame.

You set me free with the longing of your desire,

Fire. 

You’re being uploaded into me,  

you into me,

this is intimacy. 

How are we not engaged like a “friendly”

yet,

You got me locked in like a bogey ready to fire like a jet. 

Locked and loaded.

You unlocked my gift to another level, 

This is God given and we can’t blame no devil. 

In to me, intimacy,

see you see me,

No, not like them, but like you.

Genesis 2:23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”

I waited

Have you ever waited for something so long that you started to believe it wasn’t going to happen? Or perhaps, you gave up because it didn’t turn out how you dreamed it would? You were that small child that sat in the corner of the window waiting for your mom or dad that promised they were coming and never showed up. Your business partner double crossed you and signed the contract without you while you were getting trained. You were waiting to have a child because you were not married and now you are married, and the doctor said it is too late. Or you lost your only child to murder, and you feel hopeless because you have buried them and your dreams. That marriage ended, and you fasted, prayed, and waited and it did not end the way you dreamed it. Now you have just settled with other men perhaps, like the woman at the well. God wants you to know it is not too late. He is waiting for you like he did the woman at the well.

He wants to address your issue. He wants to bring you into a new place of revelation to change your reality and allow the revelation to become greater to forever change your perspective. He wants to reveal himself to you like he did with the woman at the well. Jesus first asked her for a drink and then tells her if she knew who he was, she would have asked him for a drink. He let her know if she drank from this well, she would never thirst again. Listen to her respond to him.

13 Jesus answered and said unto her, whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: 14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. 15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.

The well he digs on the inside of you in worship will allow others to drink from you like Jesus did at the well and it will quench your thirst. God does not want you to be thirsty. He is offering you a drink. He is sending the one that has your drink, and you will never thirst again.

I waited.

I waited 6 years,

And Overcame my fears,

I waited like Jack did at the clock,

Like Jesus did when he left his flock,

Waiting for the one.

To return,

While I yearn, 

Make it count for the Son.

The difference is our ship won’t sink,

and I don’t care what they think,

I waited.

 like Jesus did at the well for a drink .

So You will never again thirst, 

He sent me 6 years ahead first,

So I could teach you that sometimes dreams die and bubbles burst.

But don’t cry,

Dry your eyes,

Look to the skies,

Where your help comes from,

Because he saved us a seat not just a crumb.

I waited 

He sent me 6 years ahead of you in time 

So I could learn how to run and not fall,

So I could cover you until you learned to crawl.

I waited,

Placated, 

with the promise of your love,

Thinking of, 

how  deeply you will drink from my well,

From the story we will tell,

How he sent me 6 years ahead first,

So you could see,

when you searched for me, 

You would make it through better and for worse.

He made me wait, 

But wasn’t late,

So you would recognize, 

Not by surprise, 

The love 

We shared in eternity,

To infinity. 

We chose then,

That we would always win.

He made me wait 6 years for you,

until you could believe our love is true.

So I like Jesus could prepare a path,

So you would know my humor and laugh,

Like Sarah did, 

When God told them they would have a kid.

I waited

For our promise to live happily ever after

Now our joy is coming in the morning

And

we will live forever in his laughter. 

Better Together

December 26, 2023 was just a normal day. I went to the movies with my daughter and her god parents in Chicago to the movie, The Color Purple. I had recently received a prophetic word a few weeks prior. The man of God Apostle Donald Garner told me God was about to begin to reveal some things to me regarding the cloud of witness and angels regarding heaven. He told me the Lord was going to allow me to begin to share as he revealed these things to me. He asked me had it already started. I simply said yes. He had no idea of the different encounters I’ve had through the years but I had no idea of the one I would have watching, The Color Purple that day. I wept profoundly through the whole movie as I was reminded by God of the things I suffered in my previous marriage.

I was also reminded of the many things my ancestors suffered. My heart was swollen and my eyes were too. As I wept, I could hear the Lord reminding me gently over and over that my next marriage will be the answered prayers of each other but our ancestors as well as the cloud of witnesses in heaven.

God has so much better for us. As we enter this February of Black history month, I am reminded of our ancestors and the the great leaders that gave their lives in death for equality, justice and truth. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said he had a dream and he had already been to the mountain top. He saw afar off like Abraham did when he went to worship. Has God given you a dream and allowed you to see it a far off? Malcolm X life was taken exposing issues from my bloodline that brought my great grandmother great embarrassment and great sorrow. This is one of the burdens I carry to see marriages in my bloodline restored. This burden is not just in my family but also in the earth due to the widespread of adultery that infiltrated the minds and hearts of many black families. Due to the erroneous teachings and beliefs of my late great grandfather, Elijah Muhammad, the foundations of generations in marriages were destroyed and breached.

We see in Hebrews 11: 39 These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised, 40 since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.

We are better together. The father is about to platform some us and give us the better that they never received but died in faith! We are the ones called to fulfill Isiah 58:12 And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. How can we accomplish this?

We can start by turning our hearts back to God and humbling ourselves and repenting and allow God to heal our families by forgiving and loving each other. We can start by ending divorce. We can start by putting God first in our marriages and allowing him to be Lord so he can restore our families from destruction, fear and abuse that our ancestors had to endure. We can break these generational curses and allow God to release his generational blessings in our lives.

They were denied to ever get married with the hope of love with a family. Although The Color Purple was not a true story, it is a true depiction of many of the atrocities our loved ones suffered. They died with a dream we can live. One of those dreams was to have their own family, to nurse their own children, to raise their families together free from ever being torn apart. Today, we willingly walk away but they were brutally and savagely torn apart and sold. The word says, in Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falls; for he hath not another to help him up. God wants us to know we are better together because we are the fulfillment of their dream too! Get ready for better.

Our Martial Constitutional

You were intentional,

Declaring your desires,

Being Unconventional,

Writing your marital constitutional,

You, me, and the trinity, 

in order to form a more perfect union,

Taking communion,

 to Establish a new revolution, 

Of relational bliss to debunk chaos and dethrone divorce,

You cried loud and lifted up your voice,

You made a choice,

This will never happen again,

We will win,

We will remain until the end,

until death do us part,

You will have my love and my whole heart,

never abandoned and forsaken,

Let there be no mistaken,

I do love you.

You are my hearts desire,

My fire.

We declared our Justice, our liberty and blessing,

No more guessing,

You are the one. 

We have defeated giants and lived to tell,

We had the audacity to hope for our future

and dug a well, 

we stormed the gates of hell,

walked out of the furnace and the lion dens,

We laid down our lives and have become friends,

We took back generational blessings that were ours, 

We overcame death and open communication and love are our super powers,

Now we are partners in freedom, in love, in faith, in purpose with definition,

We have settled the matter with confirmation, knowing this was a God given position. 

We tore off the roof

Sometimes in life we have to get desperate with God to get what we want. We have to know we are the answer to some of life’s 911 emergencies in the earth but life can leave us paralyzed by fear, mistakes and even pain. It is time for us to get healed in our relationships and in our families. Sometimes we have a few people in our lives that will help us get passed the crowd. What is the crowd? This could be the crowd in your head of the voices that are from the things people have said you would never be. Things people said you could never get because they are out of your reach. Things from your childhood that still have you bowed down. Things the enemy has drown lines in the sands of your life and placed lids and barriers over your head. He has told you, you don’t even qualify for a seat in the room but God.

Sometimes we have to be foolish enough to find unconventional ways and begin to declare what God said you could have. If you believe you can get it, God will send those to support you and help carry you in the room even if they have to tear off the roof. Lets see how four friends did this in Jesus day.

Mark 2:3-5 English Standard Version 2016 (ESV)

And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay.

Do you have people in your life that want to see you whole? God wants you to do it blind, do it crippled and do it scared. Just do it.

Some miracles will require you to tear the roof off with your faith. It will require you to jump into situations that you have no idea how they will end but your worship, faith and love will catch your fall. Get ready, God is about to answer your 911 emergency call and for some, you are the answer to the emergency.

Blindfolded, you lead me to a ledge,

You vowed and made a pledge, 

It was named forever

and you whispered Jump

Without hesitation I took the plunge,

I trust you.

As you lunge, 

forward

we landed on the ropes of life.

You are about to become my husband and me your wife 

Our worship,

Our faith, 

Our love,

caught our fall,

We made it through it all,

Entangled by desire,

Branded by fire, 

we became living proof,

Of what the Lord can do, 

We tore off the roof,

Now let it burn,

Let this mother, 

burn 

As we yearn for each other,

Me, You and The trinity,

A three fold cord is not easily broken,

We can hear each other’s unspoken,

Words.

This is intimacy.

I can feel you,

We know what to do.

As we vow and pledge 

To infinity and beyond 

I just took a breath 

And plunged to my death

Come near

Kiss me, with no fear

Resuscitate me.

911

Love like there is no Tomorrow

God loves us so much that he will not allow the enemy to steal our prophetic tomorrow. God is the same God today, yesterday and forever. He promised to give us a hope and a future and not to harm us and if he has to defy the laws of the universe for you to win, he will. He didn’t let the enemy steal our tomorrow and he isn’t going to allow him to steal yours if you trust him. The sun will come out tomorrow. We win!

Joshua 10:12 Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.

13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

Tomorrow

Did you know our love is so intimate,

There were no words, no birds, 

no instrument to play our song, 

To Let us know we belong,

Together.

So he let the angels sing over us first,

He let them dance on the clouds until they burst,

Until the dew of heaven fell,

To break every curse and every spell,

He let them war and fight,

Off every enemy 

Until we got it right,

He sent the rain,

To repel the ones that tried to hold on too tight,

He wrapped us up in pain,

Until,

He made the sun stand still, 

He hid us in sorrow, 

Until we won and he told the sun to come out tomorrow.

New Wine

Sometimes in marriage we run out of wine. You may be asking what do I mean. Wine is synonymous with joy and even intimacy. Wine can represent anything that you may have had in the beginning of your relationship but suddenly ran out of. The enemy is trying to make you believe its too late for your marriage or relationship. I want to encourage you and lets go see how Jesus handled the wedding in Cana in his day. Mary, his mother, had the answer then and NOW.

John 2 On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, 2 and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3 When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.” 4 “Woman, why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.”

5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

Jesus tells them to fill the vessels with water. You maybe asking yourself how could you get wine from water. When they were willing to bring the vessels to Christ, he was able to turn the water to wine. God wants to upgrade you. He wants you to know he can take what you have and make it new wine. Lets read on.

They did so, 9 and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside 10 and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.”

11 What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs through which he revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

The Lord wants you to know if you are willing to DO WHATEVER HE TELLS YOU TO DO, that he can restore your relationship. He can make it BETTER than it was in the beginning. He wants to reveal his glory, will you allow him too? There is new wine waiting.

New Wine

As a fine bottle of wine,

that has fermented in time,

Is my love,

A drink that has not lost its flavor,

That is a sweet smelling savor,

In spite of,

A taste that must be acquired, 

Filled with warmth, with much to be desired,

A sweetness of NEW juices that are flowing, and growing,

From a new wine,

that is intoxicating enough to cause you to 

ARISE

To new heights,

new sights,

new depths, 

And new breaths. 

Unforgettable

Proverbs 30:31 Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that fears the LORD, she shall be praised.

I want to encourage other women on their journey as you are being prepared for the man of God he is preparing you for. We don’t have to sleep with him to get his attention. We need to focus on getting the Father’s attention and he will get that man’s attention. He didn’t forget me and he didn’t forget you. I came to tell you to stay in a place of rest before the Father and when it’s the right time, the right one will wake you up. Wait on God and allow him to make you Unforgettable.

When you can’t get me out your head,

and I’ve never been in your bed.

Unforgettable.

See your heart betrayed you first,

Like Judas did Jesus,

 And even worse,

You didn’t even get a kiss.

You were brought to a cross,

Abandoned and loss, 

And charged with a crime and the scene was love,

You will never be able to go back to the moment,

I was never thought of,

I will run laps in your head,

reminding your body it’s not dead,

You split my chest and entered a room,

 in my heart only reserved for the bridegroom,

You woke me up and now I’m yours to keep,

 you got me dreaming but I can’t sleep. 

Two…..

Love without Punctuation

Often we experience things, its always bigger than us so I want to encourage others if you are in a storm, or coming out of one, keep your eyes on the lighthouse. Allow God to heal it. He is able. Cross over to the other side. Don’t give up on love!

Sometimes my love feels like a sentence that runs on,

leaving me with questions of where it begins and where it ends,

I’ve discovered there is no punctuation for it because we are forever friends,

Yet,

it fights for periods where there are commas,

demanding verbs that eliminate dramas,

Leaving places and spaces,

for fill in the blanks,

for laughs and for pranks.

Longing for days together that include prepositions like, on, down, between and behind,

where pronouns are intertwined like our bodies, hearts, souls and mind,

Writing new chapters with adjectives that describe our love in directions,

that cause our lives to be defined by new languages of affections.

Where emotions are not followed by conjunctions like but,

that leave us with clarity and not always asking what,

because our love is able to handle semi colons to join our yesterday and tomorrow,

without sorrow,

strong enough for colons that connect us together never leaving room,

for anything to consume,

Us.

Forever bonded by trust,

in the parenthesis that include (you and me),

and God’s degree.

Ecc 4:9-10 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falls; for he has no one to help him up.

Heaven's Honor Roll

On June 28, 2015, was a day I will never forget.  There was another very significant event going on this day and I had to make a choice which one I would attend.  I was invited to honor and celebrate a leader often underappreciated as a tremendous intercessor and a Pastor to the Body of Christ, Juanita Clay. 

I was running late and I accidently went into the wrong church and quickly found myself redirected and back on the right path.  I found myself a sit and I decided I wouldn’t be there long but to give my flowers and my card to honor the vessel of God.  God had other plans for me that day.  I was about to have an encounter with his glory.  A glimpse of his glory for the things I had suffered. I was about to find out, I made Heaven’s honor roll.

 The first time I had been in that service, a few years ago, I remember weeping and weeping asking God to not allow my sufferings to be in vain.   There was a time I honored God more than I had ever honored him before and it was in my previous marriage amid tremendous sorrow.  If you have been honorable and you felt like no one honored you, God wants you to know he has not forgotten.  He is about to bring you into a season of honor.  God is not unrighteous to forget our labor of love.  He knows everything we have ever gone through.  If we suffer with him, he said we would reign with him.  Mother Clay came in the room and right before she did, I began to weep and I said to the Lord, it wasn’t supposed to be like this. 

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you did everything you could? You fasted, you prayed, you sowed, you sowed your tears, you stood, and it still didn’t turn out the way you thought it would.  She took the microphone and began to honor the leaders in the church, and she called my name. Wait…  I wasn’t on the agenda, but I was on heavens.  I came to honor her, and God surprised me and honored me among a people that absolutely did not know me.  I had been weeping with a grateful heart, honoring God.   She said today would have been Marie’s late ex-husband’s 41 birthday.  She said I want you to know I honor the Christ in you. As she looked at me, I felt God’s glory penetrate my soul.  She paused and said it again.  The glory of God hit me so hard.  It was so thick; you could have cut it with a knife. 

I broke on the inside; the compassion of God and heart of father was released to me.  I didn’t feel this when he was buried.   Although, we had been divorced 9 years and many spats later, what I did in my marriage to honor God was bigger than my marriage.  That was a day of God’s validation and a glimpse of his glory to come which was completely indescribable.  It was his seal of his approval to say, I remember what you did for me.  Only the angels and the Godhead knew what that moment meant to me.  I had an encounter with his glory like I had never had before.  I knew I had made Heavens honor roll.

The Prophetess, Makeba Buford, who I had never met, went on to ministered to me before her and her husband ministered the word of the Lord.  God still stepped down from heaven to yet again honor me before they gave the word. She said this prophetic message is so important to this young lady, just as if the president would interpret your TV show.  She went on to say so gracefully, how God had highlighted me. She said saw me when I went into the wrong church, and I found my way back to where I was supposed to be.  She said I had made a mistake a few years ago but the Lord was putting me back on the right path.  She said I was going to have encounters with the Lord like I had never had before.  That day was one of them.  She told me how the father was going to make me lay down in green pastures.  God knows exactly where you are.  Be faithful and be honorable before the Lord.

I shared this moment to say that God is dealing with our root systems in this hour.  This is why I love him so much.  He addresses the pain, the losses, and the traumas of our life so he can heal the manifestations that result in sin. He knows exactly why that murderer became a murderer, a rapist, an adulterer, even a homosexual.   He came for the sick not for the righteous.  He came to save the world not to condemn it.  If we allow him to heal the broken places, he will make the crooked place straight and the rough places smooth.  Allow his love and glory to cleanse you so you can experience him in new ways, like you never have before.

 Jabez prayed and because he was more honorable than his brothers, God honored him. Get ready God is going to do this for you too!

1 Chronicles 4:9-10

And Jabez was more honorable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, because I bare him with sorrow.   And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, oh that thou would bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou would keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me!

And God granted him his request and God is about to grant your request because you were honorable. I believe there are more that are about to make heaven’s honor roll.

God's perspective: Life's playground

I wrote this poem on June 24, 2004 in the midst of a three year consecration and separation from from my late ex-husband. I was on my lunch break and went to eat alone at the park across the street from my job. I skipped lunch with my best friend that day, Sophia Williams. After lunch, I immediately wrote this poem. It’s time to come in from the playground…. God was letting me know how he sees us at times.

Jonnie and Susie are still in the air on their swings,

 Caught in between their childhood and the decisions of adult things,

 Who forgot to go get them?

Leslie and Timmy are on the seesaw,

 No one told them, if you steal that they would be breaking the law,

The law of gravity, because what goes up must come down,

Please tell them its time to leave the playground.

Samaria and Michael are playing in the sand,

Crying because the wind blew and the castle they built won’t stand,

But who forgot to tell them, you can’t build a house on the sand,

But who forgot to tell them, you need a strong foundation to understand,

That the sun doesn’t always shine and there will be rainy days,

Go tell them to come in from the playground, that childhood is only a phase.

Kimberly climbed up the slide and now is afraid to come down,

Who forgot to tell her, you don’t do drugs and get high,

Go tell her someone told her a lie,

 Because she’s afraid if she comes down, she’ll have to face the issues on the ground.

Vincent and Amber were hanging from the monkey bars and were afraid to go across,

But who forgot to tell them, if they try and fall that they can recover from the loss.

No one wanted to go first and be the boss,

Where are the leaders?

The interceders,

Please, tell them we need them to leave the playground now.

Todd found a beautiful toy in the park, jut after dark, that had been left all alone

 And Mark came by the way and claimed it as his own,

 Who forgot to tell them, they’re not children anymore----they are grown.

 And that Pamela’s not a toy, she’s real and that was not the deal,

 It was till death do them part.

 Please tell the girls to be responsible for themselves and not become toys,

 Because girls become women and men sometimes become boys,

Don’t forgot to take care of your things,

 And children, please, get off those swings,

 And the seasaw that takes you up and down,

 Please, come down from the slide, and face the issues that make you hide, stop playing on the merry go round,

 Please, please somebody tell the children to come in from the playground.

Sometimes you just need a reset

The other day my daughter’s ipad went black.  Everything appeared normal with it the night before as she watched it.  Sometimes in a relationship everything can seem normal and going well and suddenly it can feel like it went dark. What do you do?  I immediately thought perhaps she didn’t charge it properly all the way in the wall. Just like her ipad needed to properly be plugged in so do we in our relationships with God to properly function.  When we don’t spend quality time with God and set aside the time we need, we can end up feeling dead in our relationships.

She cried and told me she was having a hard time forgiving herself.  I knew she thought it was worse than it was and may not be repairable or it may cost too much for me to fix it right now.  So many respond the same way my daughter did when a relationship has not been properly maintained by one in the relationship and it gets dark.  You may be thinking it is too late or you just don’t believe you can fix it.

 My next reaction was to try and access the possible root causes of what she may have done to cause it.  Just like her ipad we must go back to the root causes and take an analysis of what may have caused the relationship to go dark. In our human frailty the first thing we do is just like my six-year-old did, struggle to forgive herself.  Forgive yourself and trust God that he can repair what was broken.

I didn’t get angry with her or start assuming it was all her fault.  That was growth for me. We must give our relationships grace to make mistakes and trust God to fix them. We also need to give each other grace to grow. I immediately went to google some possible solutions. My mind began to race, and I began to think of all the worse possible scenarios.  I didn’t have apple care insurance on it, nor had I purchased the insurance through T-Mobile 2 years ago when I purchased it for her.  I was thinking maybe they will have to erase everything and set it back to its original state.   

But sometimes you just need a reset.

So instead of getting stuck in my head like some of us do in our relationships and don’t fix what is broke, I decided to set up an appointment at the apple store.  I took it back to the manufacturer. God wants us to bring our relationships back to him so he can fix them when they go dark. God wants you to know it is not as bad as you thought it was. God wants you to know you don’t have to throw away the good times with the bad ones. I went to our appointment yesterday and all the technician did was reset it. We weren’t turning it off and recharging it and he said when you don’t turn it off all the way sometimes, it will eventually shut completely down.  In our relationships God wants us to know sometimes we just need to reset, recharge and simply rest and know that you are not starting from scratch when you turn it back on this time.

Can you see like Jesus?

I remembered years ago, I was in a McDonalds in downtown Chicago and I was watching this lady order herself and her small daughter a meal.  The lady was swinging on the little girl and cursing her out.  So many people began to focus on her and the child, although it was crowded.  I received my food before her and went to find a seat.  I proceeded to put a few French fries in my mouth and went to swallow.  The lady sat down and the little girl went to snatch her food from her mother and ran as fast as she could so she could eat.  As I got ready to swallow my food, my throat began to close as the love of God swelled up in my heart so strongly, that I almost choked. I was compelled to spit my food out and went to pray for her.

I immediately got up and sat next to her.  I told her what had just happened to me and how concerned the Lord was about her and her situation.  I asked her what was wrong.  She told me her son had been falsely accused and just put in prison and she could not get him out. Here I was sitting next to a big stocky, strong black woman but when I shared the love of God with her and told her how God interrupted me she broke down crying and allowed me to pray for her.  

Can Jesus interrupt you? Can you hear him when he speaks to you? Can you see like Jesus? How would most have seen that lady? So many were judging in their hearts but couldn’t see what they couldn’t see? Do you have eyes but cant see?

I will never forget that encounter as long as I live. I will always be grateful that I obeyed the Lord. I am grateful I didn’t judge her in my heart. I saw passed her anger and saw her pain. God wants us to share his love with the world. When someone is acting out, can you cover them and can you see like Jesus?

God wants to separate us

You may be asking what is God trying to separate us from.  God wants to separate us from our past to bring us into our future.  In the words of Pastor Keion Henderson in his message Built to Last, he said, our future wants to have an exclusive relationship with us.  He said, when we cheat on our past with our future, it results in a bad breakup.  For this to occur, we must allow God to separate us by placing enough distance between our past and our future. God wants us to break up with our past.  The only reason it becomes a bad break up is if there are things in our past, we are trying to bring into our future.  We must guard our future.

Let’s check out how God did this in the bible with the children of Israel.  When God got ready to bring them out of Egypt, it took miracle after miracle to bring them out.  They finally reached the Red Sea that looked impossible to crossover and the Egyptian’s changed their mind.  They decided they weren’t going to let them go after all. You may be thinking you thought you had made it through the worst parts already.  Now on your way to your promised land, you have run into an obstacle that feels impossible to overcome. How many of us have cheated with our past with our future?  

 A lot of us. My greatest struggle was me transitioning from my past into my future with the foreknowledge that God had better for me.  I had to learn to love myself in the in between places while allowing God to love me broken, mistakes and all.  I remember a time in my past I would take 5 steps forward and then feel like I took 10 steps backwards.  God brought me into a place of stability now a little shy of almost 7 years ago.  I decided I wanted everything he had for me more than what I wanted for myself.  I aligned myself back up with his dream---- so take hope.  Don’t allow your feelings to get in the way of what God has promised.  Don’t give up. Crossover, because God is about to drown your enemies into the red sea.  God is about to drown destruction, fear, and abuse. Let them be drowned.

Pastor Keion said in his message we have been anointed for Forward.  God told the children of Israel to go forward.  It required them to take the necessary steps into what appeared could drown and destroy them but as they moved forward, God then made a way out of no way.

You are anointed for Forward.

He needed them to obey and go forward so he could separate them enough from their past that he would be able to drown their enemies without them also being drowned.

Exodus 14: 26 Then the Lord told Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea and the water will come back over the Egyptians, over their chariots, and over their horsemen.” 27 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the water returned to its normal depth at daybreak. The Egyptians tried to retreat in front of the advancing water, but the Lord destroyed the Egyptians in the middle of the sea. 28 The water returned, covering the chariots and the horsemen of Pharaoh’s entire army that had pursued the Israelis into the sea. Not even one of them remained.

It’s in that forward movement you will see that God has already gone before you.  God will not allow us to be drowned emotionally, physically, financially in anyway.  But he does want to drown our enemies.  This year I’ve grown and enjoyed some of the most profound podcasts on relationships.  I’ve heard a lot of statements surrounding showing up and becoming our best version of ourselves.  However, I discovered that it is not just necessary to become a better version of ourselves for us. It is equally as important not to come into agreement with the enemy as our future spouse transforms from their past and becomes who God said they will be.  God’s love transforms us into who we are born to become, but it is a process.   That process starts with allowing God to separate us from our past so we can have an exclusive relationship with our future.  Love covers a multitude of faults.  Love is waiting in our future.

 Exodus 14:15-16 And the LORD said to Moses, “Why do you cry to Me? Tell the children of Israel to go Forward. But lift your rod and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. And the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.

You are somebody's rainbow

Today one of my dear nieces and husband celebrated their 9th anniversary.  One thing she wrote to him as she posted from her page was so profound that gripped my heart.  She expressed that this year was filled with rainbows, and you only get rainbows after a storm. 

I wrote back to them and told them, “Your union is so important to our family’s tapestry.  May God’s love and grace continue to sustain you through every flood.  May God continue to give you wisdom to build and understanding so his purposes can be established. And after you both have obeyed him like Noah, as he built his ark for his family, may the Lord himself shut you both in and forever secure your union from being destroyed. I love you both to the moon and back!  Your ability to overcome in your marriage is a prayer answered and a rainbow in my sky after all my teary years that God would restore honor and marriages in our bloodline.”

When I finished writing this, I began to thank God for their union, and I went into a travail of gratitude and a worship for their covenant as God spoke to me and said, I came to reminded you that I didn’t forget your sacrifice. God showed me today that their marriage is a rainbow in my life like God told Noah.

Genesis 9:12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: 13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. 16 Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”

You are somebody’s rainbow.

Don’t give up in the flood and the storm.  Let God show you the rainbows he has placed in your life.  It’s not just about you.  God is not finished with you yet. He is not finished with your family.  Keep believing him to restore your family and all he has promised you.  He made us a promise. Apostle Dr. Matthew Stevenson III, called me to stand years ago for an open congregational word.  He said God says, I am going to begin to avenge your tears and I am going to start in the life of your nieces. God wants us all to continue to obey him and build our ark like Noah and when we have done our part, allow him to shut us in like he did Noah in the boat. There is a rainbow on the other side of the flood and storm. Somebody is depending on you to make it through the storm because you will be a sign of God’s covenant.

Gensis 7:16 Male and female of every creature came just as God had commanded Noah. Then God shut the door behind him. 16 Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered just as God had commanded him. Then the Lord shut him in.

Perception is our reality

So many times, in relationships we don’t see the way God sees the situation and that’s because our perception is our reality.  We should ask God to show us how he sees a situation in our lives. When God got ready to judge King David, listen to how starkly different he describes the situation from his perception and the way King David perceived it.  It was so different how King David saw it that he pronounced death on the man, and he was the man.

2 And the Lord sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.

2 The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:

3 But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.

4 And there came a traveler unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb and dressed it for the man that was come to him.

5 And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die:

6 And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.

7 And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man.

This is King David the man after God’s heart.  King David was so far removed from what he did that he couldn’t see what he did the same way God did.  All of us have blind spots. God sent the prophet to tell him exactly how inconsistent he was with his perception of his reality. David didn’t understand the value Basheba held in Uriah’s life to God. Sometimes we mishandle people in relationships without knowing the work God has done in that persons life. The prophet goes on to address the real issue of David’s heart.  He reminds him of all God had done for him and would have given him.

Then he tells him that because he despised the commandment of the Lord to do evil in the Lord’s sight and caused great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, he would be judged.  We must be mindful of our ways and submit our hearts to the Lord and ask HIM to reveal how he sees our actions and whether they are pure and right in his sight.

God dealt with the core reason of what made King David take Basheba and have her husband positioned so he would be killed on the battlefield. He told him he despised his commandment and because of his actions, it gave the enemies of the Lord great occasion to blaspheme.  There are things that we can do that will cause sinners and believers to blaspheme because of our actions. 

Are we abstaining from all appearances of evil, so we are not giving the enemies of the Lord an occasion to blaspheme? It doesn’t matter how small or great our actions are on social media on display as believers in Christ.  We must be mindful because perception is our reality, even though it may not be the truth. We must see it how God sees it.

The benefits of Abraham’s covenant

Sometimes we read the bible like a fairytale, but we absolutely should not. This was not a suspense thriller action packed movie; this was Lot’s life and his family, and they were the only ones about to be saved.  The city of Sodom and Gomorrah sin had come up before God as an abomination.  God was about to destroy the entire city with fire and brimstone.  The only reason Lot and his family were spared was because of the benefits of Abraham’s covenant with God.

You may say, does God honor our obedience?  God not only honors our obedience but because of our yes to him, he promises to make a covenant with us to a thousand generations.  Did you know that some of the blessings you are receiving are because they did not get theirs?  Somebody made a covenant years ago in your bloodline.  God is not only honoring your acts of obedience; they are watching from the balcony of heaven now a part of the cloud of witnesses watching their promises also be fulfilled in your life.

In Hebrews 11:39-40

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: 40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

They did not receive their promises because God had something better for us, that they without us would not be made perfect. God has been waiting generations for you to step into this next place of purpose.  He has things for you that your generations never received.  Have you ever asked God what those better things are he has for you that they never received?  Are you willing to fight for them? So many only ask for the things God has for them but God has things your ancestors never received that he has reserved for you.

I asked God to give me what my great grandmother, grandmother and mother never received.  I labored for it and entered generational warfare to get them. God wants to reveal to you and unlock his eternal secrets. Will you seek him for those better things and receive the benefits of Abraham’s covenant and your generational blessings?  

God was so committed to Abraham that even when Lot hesitated to leave, God sent angels to come down and lead them away from destruction.  God is sending angels to bring my family and your family out.  It may look like they are going to be destroyed and it is too late, but I encourage you to continue to trust God for the deliverance of your loved ones. If God went out of his way for Lot and his family for Abraham, he would do the same for us. 

Genesis 19:16 When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the LORD was merciful to them.