Grieve With Purpose
I recently watched a video on TikTok where someone shared that we must grieve with purpose. In other words, turn the pain and anger of grieving into supporting a cause that your loved one was passionate about. This, I think, is very commendable and I am applying that to my own grieving process.
This past weekend I had a gathering of friends and loved ones to honor my father’s life and legacy. It was very evident throughout my dad’s course of life that he was very passionate about education and helping the less fortunate. For the last few weeks, I’d been deliberating silently on how to honor his legacy and God laid it on my heart in clear words, to set up an educational fund to support orphanages in buying school supplies for the children at the start of their school terms. I really needed a confirmation from God that what I have purported in my heart will glorify His name, thereby honoring my father’s legacy and God confirmed it with me in the way He always does. Here’s how He confirmed it - I received an invitation to chair an event for a men’s only organization in North America and as fate will have it, my father was part of this organization back home in Ghana so I knew it was no coincidence but by divine ordination. When I received the agenda for the event from the organizer the night before, I saw that they would be launching an educational fund as part of the festivities I had been asked to chair.
Ladies and gentlemen, when your heart is set on things that bless humanity thereby glorifying God, He approves. I heard the Holy Spirit whisper to me that “here’s your confirmation so proceed” so I did, and I shared with my guests during my event last weekend about my desire to set up an educational fund to support orphans, and they thought it was a notable cause and supported it generously. May the Lord prosper all of them all for their generosity towards this cause.
As further confirmation, I’ll receive a message from an orphanage in Kampala, Uganda that I support just three days ago, sharing with me that the kids have not been able to go to school since the new term started because they do not have enough funds to pay the tuition and buy school supplies and they asked for my help. Again, the Holy Spirit whispered in my ear, “here’s your second confirmation so proceed” and I did send them help. I pray for grace, strength and resources to keep this educational fund going to help children in orphanages.
I also pray for you this week that you will find purpose in every situation you are going through no matter how grim and use that purpose to glorify God. I declare it is so and so it is in Jesus’ name. AMEN!
XOXO,
Lady Abena.
Have You Commanded Your Morning?
Job 38:12-13 AMP
“Since your days began, have you ever commanded the morning, and caused the dawn to know its place, So that light may take hold of the corners of the earth and shake the wickedness out of it?”
My spiritual mentor once said that “it is a very risky thing to walk into a day that you have not commanded.” In other words, jumping out of bed and starting your day without prayers and declarations is like walking into the day with blindfolds on. What God asked Job was not just a question for him to see how powerless he was but it also jolts our minds to the fact that a day can be arranged to go in your favor.
How is that possible? Through prayers and declarations especially at dawn or midnight and if you’re the type that cannot wake up in the wee hours of the morning, then as soon as you feel your heart beating again after sleep, begin to decree, declare and command the day to align in your favor.
I pray for you this week, that the Lord will empower you to command your days and shake the wickedness out of it all. I declare it is so and so it is in Jesus' name. AMEN!
XOXO,
Lady Abena.
If God Said It…
Sometime in year 2022 I read a book by a father of faith, Smith Wigglesworth, called “Manifesting the power of God: Walking in God’s Anointing” and in my reading, the evangelist had one mantra which was the basis his faith that, “if God said it, I believe it! That settles it!” I have to be honest that it was not easy to fully jump on this mantra at first because there were a lot of things God had spoken concerning my own life and none of them were manifesting at the time and in my mommy’s words, “when the promise is delayed, our hope begins to fade.” A part of me wanted to make it my own mantra as well and the other part of me was saying, it will only be a feel good mantra for you Abena.
With fervent and consistent prayer, my heart started shifting to actually believing this mantra fully even when the things I was trusting God for had not materialized. I read every instance in the bible where God’s word came to pass no matter how many years (some of those years will scare you enough but I knew God will hasten His word). I ingrained Numbers 23:19 in my mind, body and soul that;
God is not human, that he should lie,
not a human being, that he should change his mind.
Does he speak and then not act?
Does he promise and not fulfill?
Dear reader, God reconfigured my entire system and I believed Him to a point where the things He had said started to manifest right before my eyes. I say this to you that you need a surrendered faith to move God to action. For the integrity of His name and His word, if your faith is activated, you leave Him no choice but to come and honor what you have believed Him to do.
I pray for you this week, that the Holy Spirit will rekindle your faith daily so you can begin to manifest the things God has spoken to you concerning your life. I declare it is so and so it is in Jesus’ name. AMEN!
XOXO,
Lady Abena.