​Wisdom speaks but fools talk.
Proverbs 14:23 ESV
In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.
Proverbs 18:2 ESV A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.
Proverbs 29:20 ESV
Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Ecclesiastes 5:2 ES
Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few.
Wisdom speaks: It is amazing to me how people get offended when they are given wisdom that could help them, from someone who wants absolutely nothing from them. Wisdom is what gives you strategy for your own success. If someone gives you wisdom and you become defensive it simply means you have an emotional wound and are not ready for elevation.
Everybody is not hating on you, some people are telling you the truth but you refuse to hear because you want to stay stuck, waiting on a day that will never come. Receiving wisdom puts you on the path to success.
How you mad when someone who is successful gives you wisdom so you can be successful. This is spiritual immaturity at best. Fools talk, wise people listen there IS a difference. Wise people give wisdom from their foundation of success. Foolish people talk with no foundation there IS a difference.
In conclusion don't get offended get delivered. Learn to have a teachable spirit.
Proverbs 29:11 ESV
A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back
Proverbs 26:4
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself.
Proverbs 12:23 ESV
A prudent man conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools proclaims folly.

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When you are single, beautiful and self confident there are certain uncompromising truths you stand on:

1. Singleness is a gift. When you appropriate it right you are full of peace, joy and purpose while manifesting the promises of God.

2. If a man does not pursue you he is not for you. He is not interested in you periodt! No woman with any level of self confidence or self respect should ever reduce herself down to pursuing a man PERIOD! You will meet one person who appears unbothered and then another who is so enamored by you he will think you are the most amazing thing ever. Wait on what's right.

3. If a man is not confident in himself he will not be a confident partner. If he can't lead in conversation he can't lead in life. Don't ignore red flags. The most unattractive man in the world is a passive aggressive man who's not confident in himself.

4. God puts people together based upon purpose and assignment. Don't ever connect with anyone who is not clear about who they are, their assignment in the earth. If they can't talk then walk away.....I mean run away.

5. Don't ever connect with someone who minimizes your purpose and assignment. If he can't push you in purpose he is dead weight.

6. When you are confident within yourself there are some behaviors you simply will not put up with from other people. Why? Because you love you enough.

7. Don't get caught up in titles. There are many who are BROKEN TRYING TO LEAD.

8. If you a boss be a boss, but don't apologize or dumb yourself down because your boss intimidates someone else. Remember bosses and bums can't be in relationship with each other.

9. If your married friends keep trying to make you feel less than because you are single, it is okay to check them.
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10. You must discern Ahab. Say it again YOU MUST DISCERN AHAB. One more time for the people in the back. YOU MUST DISCERN AHAB.... YOU MUST DISCERN AHAB....... {repeats 30 more times.} Ahab is a spirit impacting many brothers today. He is nice but EASILY.....detected....YOU MUST DISCERN....... {repeats another 50 times.}

At the root of ALL gossip, is a spirit of jealousy, envy and strife. People who spread them, AND people who regularly listen to them is a evil spirit. Has nothing to do with whether it is true or not, but the spirit behind it.

The hidden truth is they secretly envy and admire those they gossip about.

They are secretly saying in their hearts, "Why them and not me."

Broken people feed on gossip.
Bitter people feed on gossip.
Defeated people feed on gossip.

Only a person with undealt with emotional wounds would entertain at the downfall of another, then share it with others creating a spirit of discord. Which AGAIN is something that God hates according to a scripture.

People with NO life worry about what other people are doing with theirs.

Before we are quick to spread a rumor, listen to a rumor or share it ask yourself what is going on with YOU that thinks that is okay to do?

Do people actually read their Bible's nowadays?

Scripture is VERY clear about these things.

Get delivered
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If you are the gossiping type feel free to not involve me in anyway. Don't call under any circumstances with that mess. I do not have random conversations about nothing and I don't gossip about people period. Those that try that foolishness will be checked and shut down immediately.
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Therapy lesson of the day from the therapist. You can't close yourself off from the world as a means of self protection and expect to be successful in fulfilling God's vision for your life. When people make statements like, "see that's why I don't deal with people like that, I stay to myself, I don't deal with other women like that. I don't go to church because of church folks."

They are only indicating that they have a diseased heart that needs to be healed from the past hurts. You will NEVER be able to walk in your full potential in isolation. It's not God's will for you to isolate yourself in fear of people. Everyone is NOT going to intentionally hurt you. Guarded people are hurting people. God will use PEOPLE to favor you. Even though favor comes from Him, he releases it to and through people who have what you need. It is your own fearful heart that will reject someone that God sent to bless you.

What if the most fulfilling relationship (friends included) is waiting on you but you allow fear to cause you to miss a god thing and god moment. Don't let the hurt of your past dictate your today and forfeit your tomorrow. One day you will wake up lonely, friendless and by yourself because of nobody but you.

BTW being isolated is not the same as being an introvert. Believe it or not introverts love people. They just value meaningful conversations over meaningless chatter. They enjoy quality of friends over quantity. They are not busy bees but extra productive, big difference.

It takes a friendly person to gain authentic friends. It takes a fearful hurting soul to reject friendly people. No one is going to pursue you to be apart of your life, when you don't embrace healing.

Remember walls are NOT the same as boundaries. God wants us to have healthy boundaries NOT walls. God wants us to have meaningful relationships. I am not just referring to romantic relationships. I am referring to your interaction with people.
Remember isolation is a temporary season but it is your own unresolved hurt that will make a temporary season permanent.
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Get healed.
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Personal but wisdom speaks. (WARNING DREAM)

I woke up from a warning dream. In the dream there was a woman who was married to a man. They had two children a boy and a girl. Both were successful in business, but the woman had more fame and was more successful than the man. In the dream they were taking their kids to a movie but he did things like not open the door for her, ignored her and mistreated her. Everyone knew it around them. He even went so far as to not sit next to her in the movie and took the kids to another part of the movie to watch while she sat alone. Again people around her noticed it. At the end of the dream there was a advertisement for a speaking engagement where the man was to speak. By the way he was also in ministry.

I woke up with the audible voice of God say, " Don't marry a man who is resentful of your success."

This was a warning dream to me and I thought to share because my fellow single sisters need to hear this. "Don't marry a man who is jealous, envious, or resentful of your success."

You know by observation and discernment when a man cannot handle the spiritual capacity of who your are and who God is molding you to be.

Look for warning signs. HOLY SPIRIT WILL NEVER LEAD YOU WRONG. By the way notice in the dream that the man was also MINISTRY. Because these dudes out here with titles are more messed up and broken then the ones without titles.

RED FLAG'S INCLUDE:

-If he gossips about other people more successful then him. (Business, ministry leaders etc) It doesn't matter how successful he is HE WILL BE Resentful toward you. Just give it time.

-If he is unconcerned and unbothered about your dreams and visions.......sis it's only a matter of time.

-If he has issues with authority.

-If he is a church hopper with no REAL spiritual leader. It doesn't take five and six years to find a church.

-If he is angry

-If he doesn't have REAL godly men around him. We all know yes people, but I am talking about people who hold you accountable.

-If he is passive aggressive or has an Ahab like nature.

-If he has an unhealthy attachment, or an dishonorable relationship with his own mother.

-If he lies (little lies) to impress you or to not be totally honest with you. If you'll lie once over a small matter.......you know where this is going.

-If he doesn't pursue you and you feel like your have to pursue him. (Don't do it sis!!!!!!)

-If he is guarded, Secretariat........

-If he pretends to be a baller when he is not.

I receive this warning. I hope you do to.
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​Listen wisdom speaks.....I remember a few years ago I was scheduled to speak at a event with other speakers. I went up and thought I did a terrible job but hey once you keep at it, eventually the confidence comes. Then another speaker comes up, she was fire and I mean fire. I loved every minute of it. No jealousy, no envy I was secretly saying to my sister friend that I didn't know. "Do it sis !" Long story short I followed her on social media.

A while later I hear her preach a message that oddly felt familiar. Well because it was. Sis had taken the first 30 minutes of MY entire message and preached it with the confidence that I was lacking. Was I mad? Nope. And no it was not the Lord it was her taking my words. I know my language, my wording, my message that only a therapist would use. She was not me or a therapist.

I wasn't mad or angry. I however realized that when you really have something on your life it can me imitated but the revelation can never be duplicated. The message clearly wasn't that bad, because she proceeded to reteach it.

I took it with grace. It has never been my practice to imitate or preach someone else's message. If I quote I give credit. No plagiarism here.

The truth is I have messages that I have never taught that date back to 15 to 20 years. Maybe she had to steal my message I am so equipped I would never have to do the same.

I am still not mad at her no shade whatsoever.

People admire you in secret. It's okay.

Remember what God has on your life is for YOU.

You are a designers original. His divine master piece. While others may glean from your extra, God is filling you with more.

Be bold, be beautiful and remember you can't be duplicated.

Sis should have asked me for my notes I would have given them to her. LOL 🤷
Trust there is more than that.

Be you.

And nope I am still not mad, if I see her to this day it would still be love. I didn't even mention it to her why? Because it was a minuscule thing compared to what God has dropped on my life.
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I am a designer original, admired, and made by God. So are you.

Listen wisdom speaks. Today alone my phone has been ringing off the hook with people wanting to schedule. I don't know if they need a session anticipating dealing with family during Thanksgiving or if something else is involved. I literally am almost full to capacity and have to start turning people away or have them schedule after Thanksgiving. A word to the wise don't wait until the last minute to have a plan or to attempt to schedule with your therapist.
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However, if I could give some wisdom tips. Remember holiday's including Christmas and Thanksgiving is only one day. If you know that you may be triggered by a past trauma from family or you are in recovery from drugs and alcohol. Family may be a trigger. Plan your steps and have a contingency plan that you will execute if needed. Meaning know when to leave. If you are vulnerable and know you may not be able to make it, you don't have to celebrate any holiday the way others think. Truth is I can't stand Christmas and I NEVER put up a Christmas tree. I don't celebrate Christmas but I love those after Christmas sales. Nothing like a celebrate me day after Christmas gift. It's okay to spend it alone or with friends. It's okay to go to the Golden Corral, the movies heck skip it altogether and get you some black Friday deals.

The point is don't feel bound to tradition or feel guilty when you choose not to participate. Your health, wellness, and mental well being is more important. Do what you feel is right for you, not what you feel you are obligated to do. And to reiterate next year please don't wait to schedule with your therapist at the last minute. She or he (or me) doesn't want to tell you no but if you wait you may be to late. I will be enjoying my Thanksgiving as well however I choose. Says the therapist. To my nosey folks NO I am not referring to my family. I plan on enjoying them I am referencing because I am a therapist.

I know that there is controversy over them taking Christ out of Christmas, but yet again Christmas is a holiday that is man made, it doesn't have anything to do with your salvation. The choice to celebrate is just that a choice not a force. So if you're like me and you don't celebrate it, you are no less a Christian. You are loved by God beloved.

​Remember if you have loss someone through death, separation or divorce the holidays can be a major trigger so take extra care of yourself

Love, you mean it.

Happy Holiday's  To those who celebrate it. 

​I remember it like it was yesterday, I was laying in my bed and my heart was contemplating something that I couldn’t quite articulate. Over a period of weeks, I had been observing a shift in my practice. The weeks turned into months I continued to observe the same pattern. Eventually, the thought came to me that there are so many leaders who were trying to lead from a broken place. I quickly pulled out my phone, got on Facebook, and wrote some inspirational quote about broken leaders and thought no more about it. I often get hit with inspiration, or some kind of quote then I post it. Everything is not meant to be my next teachable moment or book it’s just a line or two of inspiration. My friend replied this seems to be the title of your next book. That’s when the light bulb hit me and I knew that I had to do it.
The truth of the matter is the quote had to do with something deeper that the Holy Spirit was burdening my heart for months prior. Let me explain, it will make sense in a minute.


I am a therapist; I have my own private practice Kingdom Creative Counseling PLLC. I have been in the counseling mental health field for about 13 years. I am known as a trauma therapist. Meaning I work with men, women, and children who have experienced any form of trauma, specifically sexual abuse. So, when I finally opened my private practice, I naturally transitioned to what I already did and was passionate about. I am a Christian based mental health therapist. That means I incorporate biblical principles into mental health treatment. That was that I thought, I had a clear purpose for my practice, a clear target group, and a clear message, but something shifted.

As my business began to grow, I started getting calls from a completely different group that was not my target audience. Don’t get me wrong I am completely capable of seeing whoever comes through the door. When you have been doing this as long as I have you learn a lot along the way, you learn how to treat people you never thought you would. I had previously worked at a community mental health clinic, and the superiors there had very little regard for your target or ideal client. You basically saw who came through the door and however many people your schedule could hold. As a worker, we would try to work with client’s who were in our specialty but most times it didn’t always work out because we always had very high demand and not enough therapist to meet the demand. Eventually, you rolled with the punches, you learned to keep learning, read, grow and treat people who you probably never thought you’d meet. In the end, I am grateful for the experience.

So, in my new role as a private practice owner, I anticipated seeing more of my target audience I never remotely thought or saw myself treating other ministry and business leaders.  I started getting calls back to back from ministry leaders and business leaders. It started with a medical doctor seeking my counseling services. Some may ask were you intimidated? My answer no, you learn to see people as people not as what they do. The calls kept coming from there, next there was a probation officer, who wanted counseling services. I noticed it but again no big deal I was just happy that my business was growing, but it continued. Then I got another call from another accomplished musician who was also a licensed minister. This individual could literally preach me under the table with how well she could speak, yet there she was scheduling with me for counseling services. Then there was a pastor’s wife and the calls just kept coming and coming. Again, I started out wanting to focus my practice on trauma survivors but it started turning into a practice for emotionally wounded ministry and business leaders. I had no hand in it at all.

 I am a bit hard headed I didn’t get it right away that God was shifting my practice to what He wanted it to be, it was not my plan. I still didn’t get it. I noticed it but remember I went from working in community mental health to private practice, with individuals who had private insurance or were private payers. I  assumed that was normal and the calls kept coming. Now my practice is almost 90 % populated with me counseling business leaders and ministry heads, the others are my trauma survivors, that is a big shift.

I didn’t realize that God was shifting my practice, again I was new to the private practice world not to the mental health field. I assumed they were calling me because of the time I offered sessions. Most of my sessions were offered in the late evenings and Saturdays. Many of my client’s don’t have to take PDO to see me. A great strategy to increase your caseload.

God literally had to speak audibly to say that my business would be about transforming leaders. He was shifting my business to address the emotional wounds in leaders. In most things in life, I am not that hard headed, it is just this focus in my business came from left field for me. I do consider myself a leader in my field, as a woman, as an entrepreneur but I never thought of myself as someone God would use to minister to the hurt in leaders. I knew that God had called me to help develop ministry leaders and have spent over a decade studying and preparing for that assignment. I have written many books about the topic, but I never saw myself in the capacity God was showing me.

In my time as a trauma therapist, I saw individuals in the depth of their pain and turmoil. The stories I have heard would make your stomach turn but God used me for that population. The youngest survivor of sexual trauma that I have ever treated was a three-year-old who was sexually assaulted by her mother’s adult boyfriend. The oldest client that I had treated for sexual trauma was 74 years old. The oldest client I have ever had in counseling for mental health was in her early 80’s, the point is I have witnessed and felt the depth of pain in individuals.

What I observed in the leaders was honestly shocking to me. In all the pain that I have observed in trauma survivors, when I began to meet with the leaders the depth of pain, emotional turmoil and pure brokenness was much, much, much, more. Mind you on paper these people are your heroes. These are the people who may drive nice cars, they may have influence, power, positions, what the world envies but the pain was rawer, more real than anything I had ever witnessed in the 13 years I had been counseling trauma clients.

Many of the leaders didn’t have a history of sexual trauma or other traumas but the pain was extreme, I mean beyond extreme. My mind couldn’t comprehend it. I like many had my own stereotype of what broken people looked like. I certainly didn’t think to even consider the pain of a pastor or the pain of  a leader. These are the people that have what most want. They have influence, followers, money, and prestige yet they were broken. Then I started meeting other individuals outside of my counseling practice. I met other pastors in particular who were very broken. Their behavior towards me was odd is the best word I can describe it. I found other pastors who didn’t know me and I didn’t know them yet they had very low self-esteem, and the irony they appeared to be intimidated by me. Now that was a shocker. Call me crazy but there it was. As a disclaimer I don’t walk around as the counselor of the hour. I am just as regular as the next person. I don’t walk around with my head in the clouds, acting stuck up. I am genuinely a nice person.

For someone to be intimidated by me I found that quite odd. Then the Lord reminded me that when people are intimidated by you it really has nothing to do with you, but their own feelings of insecurity and feelings of inferiority within themselves. Intimidation is a symptom of an emotional wound. Sometimes your confidence alone is intimidating to someone who really is broken.  I realized that God had changed my assignment, it took God some time to catch my attention but when He did, boy were my eyes open.

God began to speak and I began to take notes. God began to tell me that many gifted people seek leadership positions not because of their need to fulfill their God assignment but because of the need to fill a broken place. He began to show me how many people covet leadership positions, secretly believing that the position will heal their spirit of rejection or their hurt, not realizing that unhealed emotional wounds and being put in a position of authority is a recipe for disaster.

It is important to note that God didn’t change my strategy he changed my audience. My point is not to make this about me but rather to expose the heart of Father God towards His leaders. Just like God hears the cries of His people, He also hears the cries of His leaders. You can’t effectively lead from a broken place. God wants His leaders healed and whole.

I have a new heart and a new level of compassion to those leaders who God has called me to serve. Although I never knew God would use me in this arena, I now see what God is up to.

The truth is leaders come under great attack, great scrutiny, and pressure. Getting put in a leadership position doesn’t create emotional wounds it only exposes what is already there. Ideally, before being given a position of authority, a title, and a platform one should have been prepared and processed first. The fact is most often that is not the case. In church and in the secular arena people are promoted based upon their gift. We don’t really have a systematic mechanism in place where we deal with the persons emotional hurts and help them heal before we give them positions. In this era and time, people can make their own platforms via social media. You just talk like you may know what you are saying, and then you can have thousands of followers in an instance. I wonder how many leaders are willing to submit to a healed leader who in love says, “I know you are gifted but you are not ready yet.” With the whole church hurt movement, people will leave churches if they are not promoted. I have an acquaintance who said how she started going to a church where she was being fulfilled, taught and loved on. Yet, she decided she wanted to be a part of a particular ministry; well she was turned down. Mind you to my knowledge it was not because she couldn’t do what the ministry required. It simply meant she wasn’t ready. She became offended and left the church, not because it wasn’t ministering to her soul rather because she couldn’t do what she wanted to do in that church.

It is always easier to do what you want in a newly founded ministry. They are not concerned about your mental and emotional capacity, or your inner wounds they need you to go to work to fill a spot. Not being given a promotion within a church is never a reason to leave, that is a strategy we use in business, not in church. Sometimes you simply are not ready for the ministry yet. God has to promote you.

Psalm 75:6-7 KJV)

6 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
7 But God is the judge: he putteth down one and setteth up another.

 The point is you should be healed and whole before being promoted to a position of leadership, particularly within the church. Yet the truth of the matter is that is not the case. We promote gifts before capacity. What do I mean by that? A gift is freely given it doesn’t cost you anything. Though there comes a weight to the assignment that your emotional, mental and spiritual vessel must be healed and mature enough to handle the capacity for.  The reason why we see so many broken leaders is that they were never healed from the beginning.

When God spoke this revelation to me, I was glad all the years God told me no and made me wait. Sometimes we think God is holding out on us, but He really is doing what is best for us by preparing us for the position before allowing us to be promoted. I now thank God for all the times I was rejected, overlooked and not chosen, I realized I had the gift but I was also emotionally wounded in my own hurt. God was more concerned about my emotional health than the platform. Now that I am healed, I can be an effective leader and minister.

With this new assignment from God, a great passion and fire for leaders has been ignited in me. God has had me in my cave doing much study and work. He began to open my eyes to greater realms of warfare as it relates to leaders. God began to speak to me even in my dream language about my assignment. All the while I still have to do life. My business continues to grow exponentially, and still, the same demographics continue to come. To reiterate all of them are not ministry leaders, some are business leaders, supervisors, other health care workers, business owners, and all of have emotional wounds.

With this great awakening, God has opened my eyes into the supernatural realm even greater. My discernment has become keener. I literally can be having a conversation about something random and I begin to discern the wound in that person. My prayer life increased, my study life has increased exponentially. God has really had me to prepare for a great increase in my counseling practice as He is preparing me to meet the needs of even more leaders. I am preparing some major moves in my life and business because the need is so great.

The message of healing for the nation’s leaders is the heart of the father. Preparing for the vision God put in me for leaders has been a major undertaking. When God first began to speak to me it felt like such a huge project I remember saying to God, how in the world in I going to be able to do all that? I was thinking about all the other responsibilities I still have including running a business. Before God responded I had to check my own self. Sometimes you just have to have a conversation with yourself to get you together. I rebuked that spirit of doubt and reminded myself how God would never give me a task to complete that He first didn’t give me the capacity to handle.

I have to reiterate this again; God hears and sees the heart of leaders. This is so important because we often hear of God hearing the cries of His people, the oppressed, widowed, orphan or wounded. We don’t picture the leader as someone who is wounded, oppressed or broken-hearted but the truth of the matter is they are. It is time for the healing to take place, it starts with the head and then goes to the body. An emotionally whole leader means a whole church, a whole business, a whole family. Yet, a broken leader means a broken church, a dysfunctional business being led by fear and dysfunctional families.

I have a new heart for leaders if you can’t already tell. God has called me to not only help them through the healing process but to develop those who are called to leadership. Don’t get me wrong I am not just another leadership development guru. Because I have a keen understanding of emotional wounds, my development assignment has a huge component where we work through the emotional wounds first.

Before we go on to the next chapter and begin our journey together, I will give you some basic principles about God’s heart for leaders. Of course, there will be other principles through the chapters of this book, but let’s begin with the basics.
Principle 1: God does not glory in the demise or downfall of a leader people do.
God is full of grace, mercy, and love, that doesn’t mean that He isn’t a God of judgment. Nevertheless, God does not glory when leaders fail or fall from grace. So, when you see people in life or on social media, gossiping about leaders, sharing hurtful information, making Facebook lives about their downfall, know that they are not representing the spirit of God. Rather they are representing the spirit of satan which is witchcraft by the way. Only an evil person would glorify or entertain in the downfall or demise of a leader.

Principle 2: God wants us to honor our leaders. Honor does not imply or mean agreement.  Honor doesn’t mean our leaders are always right and should never be held accountable for their actions. Honor means to show respect regardless of the dispute. There is a way to disagree with someone and still respect them. When God put’s someone in a position of authority they should be honored. That doesn’t mean they have free reign to abuse us, nevertheless that doesn’t mean we have free reign to abuse them.

Putting your mouth negatively on leaders, sowing discord, speaking against their demise releases the judgment of God.

2 Peter 2:10-13 The Message (MSG)

10-11 God is especially incensed against these “teachers” who live by lust, addicted to a filthy existence. They despise interference from true authority, preferring to indulge in self-rule. Insolent egotists, they don’t hesitate to speak evil against the most splendid of creatures. Even angels, their superiors in every way, wouldn’t think of throwing their weight around like that, trying to slander others before God.

12-13 These people are nothing but brute beasts, born in the wild, predators on the prowl. In the very act of bringing down others with their ignorant blasphemies, they themselves will be brought down, losers in the end. Their evil will boomerang on them.

Again, so when you have someone who is always speaking against this pastor, another person’s ministry, another person’s church or business. They are bringing accusations to spread before others know, they are not being led by God. We will talk about this further in a later chapter.

Principle 3: Leaders are targets. I know that is simple but if you don’t remember anything in this book remember, leaders are targets. Say it again, leaders are targets. Let’s say that one more time, so it gets in your spirit leaders, are targets. Every platform or elevation you obtain as a leader triggers a greater level of attack.

Principle 4: Leaders need our prayers. As a leader yes, I should be praying for myself but I also should be praying for other leaders, whether I know them or not.

Principle 5: A godly leader starts with having a heart for God, not a heart for the people first. This is completely opposite than the secular world. The secular world believes that a good leader must have a heart for the people, but not God. In, Christendom you must have a heart for God first. God is the one who has the ear of the people. I know I messed you up on that one but keep reading the book I will explain as we go further on.

Principles 6: It is God who selects His leaders, not man.

Principles 7: Leaders may appear to be untouchable to man but they are never untouchable to God. Therefore, God doesn’t need the assistance of man to bring a leader down or to humble them. Again, I have to go back to social media apostles. God does not give you a ministry to despise other leaders or to bring them down via your social media. These are the people that think leader XYZ   should be stopped so they use social media in an attempt to corrupt their influence and despise their platforms. When you read the scripture, God did send people like prophets to correct leaders but most of the time that was done in private. God hand selected one man to confront kings and priest in their wrong. Again, I am not saying the leader should never confront leaders in public I am saying God’s pattern was always in private first. If you want to understand God’s ways you simply have to understand His pattern. When you read the Bible from Genesis to Revelations God was not messy in how He did things.

So, when your favorite apostle or prophet, evangelist, teacher, preacher whoever takes it as their mission to get on social media to openly speak against another leader and some accusation they have against them whether it be true or not, know that they are not being led by the spirit of God. They are being led by a spirit of competition, and a spirit from the enemy satan which is witchcraft.

As a warning, it is going to get heavy in the text to come. I pull no punches and I always use scripture to justify what I say. The purpose is so that your discernment increases and if you are guilty of any of these tactics you get free.

There is a spirit of dishonor released in the land and we have to deal with that spirit. This book will give you hard truths. Before we close this chapter let me give you a final story from my own life.

Many years ago, I was a member of a different church. The church was very well known, with an international following. One day the leaders made some poor decisions or what I felt like were poor decisions at that time. The decision was not the best and the church gained worldwide news after the decisions the pastors had made. It felt like the world was talking negatively about my pastors. I was very hurt and honestly disappointed.

One day a long-time friend called. She knew I was a member of the church. As we began to talk, the topic of my church came up. I began to talk about my disappointments and what I felt was wrong. The conversation ended and that was that. I didn’t think too much about the conversation and went on with my life.

All chaos started breaking out in my life. I felt the conversation was so minuscule I literally forgot I even had the dialog with my friend. Sometime after that, I remember being under such pressure, it was like the floor came from under me. I remember being in emotional, mental and spiritual turmoil. I remember crying out to God asking Him, “why was this happening to me?” God reminded me of the conversation I had with my friend. I quickly repented and the storm although not over began to ease. God heard my conversation and He had to check me. We should never think it’s okay to speak evil of dignitaries.  A dignitary is a person considered to be important because of high rank or office.

To this day I don’t talk against, speak negatively of or gossip about anyone and definitely not someone in a position of leadership. I had a supervisor who was working on my last nerve, she just didn’t know what she was doing. I didn’t speak against her, but the Lord told me to not disrespect her position of authority. God didn’t tell me my opinion was wrong when I spoke against my leaders, in fact, I believe my perception of how they behaved was right. He said I was wrong to speak against them. God told me in the case of my supervisor I had to honor her even though I technically knew more than she did

The point is God wants us to honor our leaders, it is never okay to dishonor them even when they are wrong. It doesn’t say we have to agree with them. I have scripture to prove it. Before I go there, I have to mention this was way before I ever knew anything about the assignment God had for me. This was probably ten years ago. Since that time God can trust me with the secrets of leaders. Sometimes God will reveal to me the emotional wounds in leaders because He wants me to pray for them. They may never sit in my office for counseling, but they will have someone praying for them whether they know me or not. I believe this is why God can trust me with the assignment He has called me to, He knows I will honor His leaders, while still giving them the truth and holding them to a standard.  That chaos God allowed to be released in my life was a hard place, but I am grateful for the correction it indeed unknowingly to me prepared me for this assignment. An assignment I didn’t know would be mine. We all have a responsibility to honor leaders whether we are assigned to help them heal or not.

As promised, I said I’d prove what I say by scripture so let’s read an example. I am going to give you one example in this chapter but know there are many others we will discuss in our chapters to come.

Numbers 12 Living Bible (TLB)

12 One day Miriam and Aaron were criticizing Moses because his wife was a Cushite woman,[a] 2 and they said, “Has the Lord spoken only through Moses? Hasn’t he spoken through us, too?”

But the Lord heard them. 3-4 Immediately he summoned Moses, Aaron, and Miriam to the Tabernacle: “Come here, you three,” he commanded. So, they stood before the Lord. (Now Moses was the humblest man on earth.)
5 Then the Lord descended in the Cloud and stood at the entrance of the Tabernacle. “Aaron and Miriam, step forward,” he commanded; and they did. 6 And the Lord said to them, “Even with a prophet, I would communicate by visions and dreams;
7-8 but that is not how I communicate with my servant Moses. He is completely at home in my house! With him I speak face-to-face! And he shall see the very form of God! Why then were you not afraid to criticize him?”
9 Then the anger of the Lord grew hot against them, and he departed.
 10 As the Cloud moved from above the Tabernacle, Miriam suddenly became white with leprosy. When Aaron saw what had happened,
11 he cried out to Moses, “Oh, sir, do not punish us for this sin; we were fools to do such a thing.
 12 Don’t let her be as one dead, whose body is half rotted away at birth.”
13 And Moses cried out to the Lord, “Heal her, O God, I beg you!”
14 And the Lord said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face she would be defiled seven days. Let her be banished from the camp for seven days, and after that she can come back again.”
15 So Miriam was excluded from the camp for seven days, and the people waited until she was brought back in before they traveled again.
16 Afterwards they left Hazeroth and camped in the wilderness of Paran.

Let’s make it really plain. Moses was not in the room when Miriam and Aaron were having this conversation about Moses. I believe Miriam and Aaron were jealous of Moses. He is the little brother and there they are having to serve him. He is the leader with the ear to God. Moses never went to God about their gossip. It didn’t even say Moses was offended. They offended God by speaking against Moses. I believe God focused on Miriam because she probably initiated the conversation. I don’t mean to corrupt the text; this is my opinion. The punishment was focused on Miriam, God knew who to punish. That’s why I believe God singled out Miriam.

Have you ever had someone call you out the blue and wanted to gossip about someone else? You don’t have a problem with the person the other wants to gossip about, but you appease the one initiating the conversation as a way to not appear mean or insensitive. That’s what I believe happened here. Aaron had a position of leadership right next to Moses.

The point is don’t talk about leaders, but don’t allow someone else to ingest that poison into you. When you listen to gossip, rumors or sow discord God still holds us accountable as if it were you spreading it. In fact, I had someone to do that recently, they called me up to talk negatively about a church and a pastor that I know, but this person does not. I said it nicely I wouldn’t be entertaining this conversation, they got it however trust me if it continued, I would have shut them down abruptly and unapologetically. I do not play games when it comes to stuff like that. I honor leaders and the heart God has given me for them is just that profound. I aim to be successful as I continue this assignment. Yet, I will hold them accountable as God increases my influence within my private practice but I will never dishonor them. I will walk in integrity in the open and behind closed doors.

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A Time To Heal
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To heal or to be healed means to be brought back to a place of wholeness. It means to be at a state of equilibrium, to be cured, to be healthy again or to fix what has previously been broken. To recover means to be at a place where you are no longer controlled by the thing that once held you bound. Recovery could also be defined as a place of balance. For those of us who work in the mental health profession recovery means that the person is at a place where they are able to maintain happy healthy lives, be productive citizens within their families and communities. Coincidentally, recovery and healing can be instant, although many times recovery and healing happen over time.

    Scripture tells us that there is a time to heal. That means that there are times in our lives where we will be sad. There will be times where we experience hurts and pains. There will be times where we feel the comfort of love and times we feel the pain of disappointments or abandonment. No one can argue that they have never had feelings of being broken, abused and even forgotten. Truthfully, we all have. However, when considering what healing means it is important to note what real hurt means. Ever experience the death of someone you love, the abandonment of a lost dream or hope. Something you put your faith in that didn't come through. I have often thought that emotional pain is harder to deal with than physical pain. Think about if I accidentally bruise my arm, I can get bandaged up and proceed with my day. Emotionally hurt it takes a tole on all areas of our lives. Emotional hurt impacts how you interact with others, relationships, and your ability to trust. Emotional hurt can be debilitating at times and can keep us at a state of constant wariness.

     Many people live their lives trying fix what happened in there past. We are living today feeling the hurt of yesterday. I believe that all trials are a great gift that comes to make us strong. Think about it what did you learn? When I went through some of the most tumultuous times in my life I learned that I was really was a lot stronger than I thought I was. I learned that I had nothing to fear and that God really hadn't abandoned me. I learned to go after my goals with everything I had. I would have rather failed at trying something than to have sat around doing nothing for fear that I might fail. I learned that perception is everything and that if I thought myself to be a failure than everything else around me would be. If I thought I'd be successful and a winner, than I started seeing victory in all areas of my life.

     To say it is a time to heal means to make a proclamation to the past that it will no longer control my future and my destiny. It means I know what happened but I have had enough now and am ready to move on. To heal is a decision you make, like forgiveness is. It means to say I am tired of this mess in my yesterday trying to creep up in my today. To begin to heal means I am ready for a change. It is silly to keep doing the same thing expecting different results. You cannot change yesterday, tomorrow is never promised. Regardless of the situation this moment is the best moment to decide to live. It is up to you. God ultimately gives us the supernatural ability to forgive and to heal the broken places that we otherwise couldn't heal ourselves. Healing begins from the inside out not the outside in. Healing ultimately begins with you.

Samaria M. Colbert

     Many of us who are driven to succeed must endure a process. We first begin with a vision. A vision is something you wish to accomplish, a goal, something you work towards with an expectation of reaching the end that you anticipated. Vision gives you a destination and road map to work towards. Think about it, most people don’t get into a car without having in mind where they want to go. You expect that when you start going somewhere you will get to where you had predestined to go. Therefore you have vision. A true vision comes from God. He has a purpose and a destiny for our lives, he begins to reveal to us that purpose by giving us a vision. One could argue that in some instances we can use the words vision and promise interchangeably.
God promises us that he will give us the desire’s of our hearts if we seek him. God has a promise for every one. God has a vision for everyone, it is what we were created to do. Nobody on this earth is created arbitrarily absent from a purpose or vision that God has for us to accomplish. If God did not have a purpose or destiny for you he simply would not allow you the opportunity to be placed on this earth. Everything created has a purpose and destiny to do while here on earth.

     The process is what happens between vision and the manifestation of the fulfillment of the promise. So it looks like this, VISION + PROCESS = PROMISE. They must happen within this order. You can’t have vision without a promise. You can’t have promise without a process. The process will be one of the hardest things that anyone will have to endure. Often times while in the process you have to walk alone. This is were God teaches us how to hear his voice and to tune out all distractions

      While going through my undergrad, I would work part time behind a jewelry counter. I learned a lot about jewelry back then.The thing that I remember most about gold is that it most be purified. Gold naturally has impurities in it, most people don’t want jewelry with blemishes in it. We all want the most perfect piece of jewelry that our money can afford. Gold is purified by having it reduced down to a liquid form. It is then placed into the fire, it is while in the fire that the impurities rise to the top, the merchant then wipes the impurities away, and then the gold is placed back into the fire. This process is repeated several times until the merchant gets the gold to the consistency that he/she wants. Ironically, the less the impurities in the gold, the more expensive it tends

    I used the process of purification to symbolize God’s process, we are his precious jewels. We belong to him, he must take us through the purification process. Everyone has impurities in them. It is in God’s process that our characters, integrity and intentions are made Holy before him. This is were he takes away the pains of our past, and where we learn to forgive. The process is one of the hardest and most arduous things we will every have to endure. The process is not easy. The process is what prepares you for His glory. Please note that things that you have attained but not been processed into will eventually kill you. Instead of being a blessing, it will become a curse. God loves us enough that he has to prepare us for His glory. There are many people that will never do what they were created for because they don’t want to endure the process or they get discouraged. The process is not easy, but well worth it in the end. So for those of US, who are in the process, don’t give up. Keep encouraged. There is a purpose for your pain.


© 2009 Samaria M. Colbert

​A Birthing Place

 

By: Samaria M. Colbert

Freelance writer

 

Have you ever felt like you had potential, but was not quite there yet? Have you ever been at a certain place and at a certain time only to realize that you were at the right place and at the right time where your dreams were to became manifested? Is there a difference between where you long to be versus where you currently are? Have you ever gotten excited because you felt like you had almost arrived, but in actuality you were not quite there, yet you knew that something was on the horizon? It could possibly be that you are at the birthing blace.

 

Scripture describes the manifestation of the promise to a woman giving birth. As you know there is a process for a woman who is getting ready to give birth. At first although the woman may know she is pregnant, she has some signs of pregnancy but to the naked eye or someone else there are no visible signs of a pregnancy. There are 9 stages of pregnancy until the ninth month when the baby is birthed out. Through out the pregnancy process a womans body becomes uncomfortable, the further along she gets the more uncomfortable a woman will get. So I heard, since I don't have any children.

 

However it is at the ninth month were the baby and the mother become so uncomfortable. The baby needs more room and the mother is exhausted from carrying the baby, hence the mother is at the birthing place. At the birthing place there is much suffering, groaning and moaning in anticipation of the release of a baby.

 

Many of us are at the spiritual birthing place. You carried your potential your promise for months maybe even years. During that time God had you in a process. During the process he had to readjust you, you became uncomfortable, people originally could not see the change that was happening but you could. Eventually people around you started noticing a change is happening. As the potential or promise has been growing on the inside, you began to look different. God had to change your environment to a place were you were no longer comfortable with being average or ordinary. God was preparing you. You suffered, you cried, you lamented, and you began to prepare. Now you are spiritually at the birthing place.

 

Romans 8:18-24 (NJKV)

 

18. For I consider that the suffering of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us.

 

19. For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly awaits for the revealing of the sons of God.

 

20. For the creation itself was subject to futility not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope;

 

 

21. because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children ofGod.

 

22. For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.

 

23. Not only that, but we also who have the first fruits ofthe spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly awaiting for the adoption of our body.

 

24. For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees?

 

It is now time for the sons of God to be revealed. (note: sons is not gender specific, it denotes men and women of God who have been led by the spirit). You are getting ready to birth out your purpose, destiny and promise for the Glory of God not your own glory. The vision has waited for an appointed time and this is that appointed time. My potential is no longer potential but it is reality. Wait for it, in just a few days it will be manifested. You are at the birthing place.

 

The thing about the birthing place is that no matter how excited you are, no matter how much you have prepared for it, it will not happened until it is time. When it is time you know it, just as a mother who finally goes into labor knows it. Nobody has to tell her anything. So don't try to make it happen it will happen when it is supposed to happen.

 

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SamariaM. Colbert © 2009 All Rights Reserved

Heaven Sent

~Dedicated to Grandma Jane 1/7/1933 - 1/20/2010


By: Samaria M Colbert
In the word’s of Shakespeare “Parting is such sweet sorrow
It is never easy to say goodbye. It is hard to watch someone you love say farewell. To leave it all behind for a greater place of dwelling called heaven. I am happy that you are at a place that we all have longed

But parting is such sweet sorrow.

We have heard of it and even read about heaven, but you are there. I am happy for you, but I am sad that this means goodbye for us and hello my child to Him. I am so sad to say goodbye, although I know you are happy.

Knowing someone you love is in a much better place does not make it easier to say goodbye. I know that you are smiling, and that you are in the arms of Jesus, but I most confess I wish you were still here.
What sights are you are seeing? What do the angels look like? What about the streets of gold? What about Jesus, I know I talk to Him all the time, but what is it like to see Him face to face? What does it feel like to rest in His arms? What about the 24 elders that cry holy? And the music, what song did heaven sing to welcome you home?

You are in a beautiful place, but parting is still such sweet sorrow.

Matthew 16: 19 (NKJV)

….and what ever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven

Losing you on earth means releasing you in heaven. So today grandma Jane, I say farewell on earth. We have lost you on earth, but heaven is your home now.
I still have to admit parting is such sweet sorrow.

I want to say goodbye
I love you.

You were always more beautiful than you know.

Your laughter and kind heart will be missed.
Heaven needed and angel so He sent for you.

Goodbye  

 Love Samaria

Note the quote"parting is such sweet sorrow" s from Shakespeare's Romeo and Julie Play. No copyright infringement intended. 

17. Then the seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to Your name."
 
18. And He said to them, "I saw satan fall like lightning from heaven.

19. "Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you."

20. "Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven."


21. In that hour Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit and said, I thank you father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to babes. Even so, Father so it seemed good in Your sight.

24. "for I tell you that prophets and kings have desired to see what you have seen and have not seen it, and hear what you hear, and have not heard it."

Lately as I have been going through a major transformation process and the Lord has led me to read and study about spiritual authority. I have been studying about spiritual warfare, deliverance ministry, expelling of demons that are indwelling of Christians, territories and regions. The bible clearly states that as spirit filled believers we have the ability to cast out and expel demons we also do not have to be controlled by demons or evil spirits, because as stated in the scripture above they are subject to us we are not subject to them. I have always known these things and have had a keen interest in spiritual warfare for years. God would often speak to me about spiritual warfare through dreams and visions particularly when I first began to discover the ministry God has called me to. However in reading these books my awareness of the demonic and the need for deliverance ministries has been awaked with a new sense of urgency in my spirit that God's people be set free and delivered from the oppression of the enemy. You see even though demons cannot possess Christians (possession denotes having ownership) they can oppress Christians when given permission. And yes Christians can whether unknowing or knowingly invite the demonic in.

But my question still remains as I have been studying is why do we not hear more about spiritual authority in our churches or in our every day lives. We don't hear about the training of ministers for real deliverance (referred to as deliverance ministry which in short means the expelling of demons and evil spirits). When was the last time you heard a teaching on the believer's authority over the demonic or divine deliverance from the demons of sickness and oppression? Scripture clearly tells us that when Jesus walked the earth not only did He expel demons but He also laid His hands on the disciples and told them to go and do the same. Jesus went so far as to say in Matthew 18:18 that you have the power to bind and loose things in heaven and on earth. When Jesus walked the earth He didn't have to say anything and demons began to scream out saying to Him, to leave them alone. You see apparently they knew who Jesus was and the power that He possessed. Yet Jesus said greater works shall you do. Some people Jesus laid hands on and the demons left others He just spoke and they were expelled. The authority in His voice alone was able to rebuke the demonic off of someone. (Mark 5:1-19)

When Jesus walked through out the earth He spent a significant amount of time expelling demons and healing the sick. His intention was that His followers do the same so that the kingdom of God would manifest here on earth. The ability to cast off demons and heal the sick was not for Him and Him alone but for all of us. When you look at the scripture Jesus is clearly saying "I give you this authority." Many believe that because He said "don't rejoice that the spirits were subject to you" that He was not impressed or ambivalent about you having the authority to rebuke demons. But if you look carefully in Luke 10:21 it says Jesus rejoiced in that hour in the spirit. The bible went further to say that this mystery has been revealed to babes no less, not the spiritual elite. He went further to say many prophets and kings meaning great men and women of God have longed to see this but could not but you do. You see Jesus was glad and thankful as scripture said that His people had the ability to rebuke demons. In Luke 11:20 Jesus said you know the Kingdom of God is upon you when you cast out demons.


My question still remains so why we are not taught more about our spiritual authority over the devil and the demonic world? We are taught to shout our troubles over and be nice little Christians who don't cause any harm until God decides to bless us. I am all for the process as you should know from previous post, and my book No Promise Without A Process The Makings of a True Prophet. But there comes a time when we must discern whether this thing that I am going through is God processing me or is it the enemy holding on to my stuff. Spiritual authority releases what belongs to you. If God gave you the authority, He is not going to do it for you when He already gave you authority over that thing. There are people in our lives, work places, and sphere of influence who need deliverance. They go to church everyday, they read their bibles, they pray and yet they are still under a curse. The kingdom minded people are ready to advance His kingdom. Advancing His kingdom is not about wealth. Wealth is a result of the kingdom coming upon you not the entire purpose of the kingdom. It is a result of the blessing not the blessing itself. So if you are the type of person who is always oppressed by something. You keep going around the same mountain over and over again. You keep seeing generational curses being passed down from one generation to the other. Your money is always acting funny no matter what kind of raise you get. You keep crying the same tears as you did yesterday. Maybe you are under a curse. Remember at the name of Jesus demons have to flee and Jesus became a curse on the cross so we would not have to be subject to the curse. Galatians 3:13 But you decide. Don't let the spirit of fear and intimidation stop you from possessing what belongs to you. Cast it out of you. There is so much to write about this subject. Also look at my next post entitled Blessing or Curses. I could not possibly even begin to write in this short post about Deliverance Ministry. I am saying that deliverance is available to you from every oppressive, depressive and perverted demon. Further more you have the power to possess and speak deliverance to someone else. I am recommending some books below that will give you greater understanding.

Note: I am in no way affiliated with the authors and am simply recommended these books that I have read as a personal reference. The Holy Spirit is the ultimate guide.

 
Be set free in the name of Jesus.


Samaria M. Colbert © 2010

Recommended Readings:

- They Shall Expel Demons By Derek Prince

- Witchcraft in the pews By Bishop George Bloomer

- Pigs in a Parlor By Frank and Ida Mae Hammond

- Blessing or Curse You Decide By Derek Prince

- Deliverance From Evil Spirits By Francis Macnutt

- Anything by Apostle Kimberly Daniels (Clean House Strong House, Delivered to Destiny, From a Mess to Miracles, Inside Out etc)

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John 10:1-5 (NKJV)

1. "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

 

 

2. "But he who enters by the door is the shepherd to the sheep.

 

 

3. "To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and lead them out.

 

 

4. "And he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

 

 

5. "Yet they will by no means (no way whatsoever) follow a stranger, but they will flee him, for they do not know the strangers voice.

 

 

John 10:25-30 (NKJV)

 

 

25. Jesus answered them, "I told you and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father's name, they bear witness to Me.

 

 

26. "But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you.

 

 

27. "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.

 

 

28. "And I will give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.

 

 

29. "My father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of my hand.

 

 

30. "I and My Father are one."

 

 

Jeremiah 1:9 (NKJV)

 

 

9. Then the Lord put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me: " Behold I have put My words in your mouth.

 

 

Obedience heeding/submitting to the voice of God means you know His voice and that you belong to Him. Disobedience and rebellion to the voice of God means that you don't know His voice. Not only that it means according to the scripture that you don't belong to Him.

 

 

Hearing the voice of God is not difficult. It is not strange or unusual to hear the voice of God.

 

 

Hearing the voice of God is a common decision that you make once you say you belong to Him.

 

 

I use to take it for granted that the person standing next to me belongs to Him.

I mistakenly thought that if we are crying the same tears, speaking in tongues and dancing to the same music than that meant that we both belongs to God. And the tears were only an indication of passion and obedience towards Him.

 

 

Like wise I thought it strange how the same person can be so quick to walk out of the will of God for their lives and disobey Him, when in my mind He is clearly talking.

 

 

So I asked God about this. Lord why do we say we love God, but are so quick to disobey Him and fall into diverse sin.

 

 

Then the Lord took me to this scripture. First shouting, tongues and crying are not indications of our love for God. Obedience to His voice is.

 

 

If and individual is finding themselves having a hard time, knowing and obeying the voice of God is only means that they do not belong to Him.

 

 

And they are caught up in some kind of sin that prevent them from hearing His voice.

 

 

Romans 8:14

 

 

States that the sons of God are those individuals who are led by the spirit. So if you are being led by the flesh or your sinful nature you are not a son of God nor do you belong to Him.

 

 

Principle of the Kingdom # 1: The reason you can't hear the voice of God is because of sin and disobedience.

 

 

Principle of the Kingdom # 2: Whenever someone sins the first thing that they do is to hide themselves from the voice of God.

 

 

Genesis 3:8-10

 

 

After Adam and Eve have sinned they knew that they were naked and were then ashamed. So they hid themselves. So according to the bible when God came to meet with Adam, he hid himself was afraid.

 

 

Hiding is always an indication of shame. It is an awakening or awareness of sin and a turning away from righteousness.

 

 

It was always God intention to speak with His people face to face and to allow them to hear His voice. Not go through another man but to hear His voice for themselves.

 

 

Exodus 20:18-21

 

 

The people of Israel became afraid of God's voice. In verse 19 of Exodus 20 they say Moses when you speak with us we will hear, but don't let God speak with us, lest we die.

 

 

Matthew 3:3

 

 

The voice crying out in the wildness. God was getting ready to put His voice back into His people so He sent a voice to prepare a way for His voice.

The voice of God always prepares you for the greater reveal (revelation) of His manifestation of earth.

 

 

Principle of the Kingdom # 3

 

 

Fear of hearing the voice of God is always a result of not wanting to hear the voice of God because of sin. Most people who are His, long to hear His voice for themselves. However the people of Israel assumed that they may die if they heard His voice.

 

 

They had committed the sin of constant complaining and speaking against God and His man servant.

 

 

Have you ever tried to give someone Godly sound advice or wisdom that you knew was from God. And they said "I don't want to hear that"? or they disregarded what you had to say.

 

 

Most of the time that is a result of sin.

 

 

Again if you are a child of God you recognize or are not spiteful of correction towards the voice of God.

 

 

Well if you are not in sin, why are you afraid to hear His voice? They were probably afraid of what He might say to them.

 

 

When your heart is right and you are not in sin, even it is in correction you long for God to take out even the things are in you that are not like Him.

 

 

Most people who long to be near Him are like David who said I long to be in your presence.

 

 

You see when you are in the presence of God and fear His voice instead of wanted to be near His voice something is wrong.

 

 

The true fear of the Lord means a Holy reverence towards Him. You aim to follow Him. You long to be lead by Him.

 

 

Deuteronomy 28

 

 

God talks about the blessing of obedience to His voice and the curses of disobedience to His voice.

 

 

So if I am acting in obedience and am following His voice there is no need to fear what God has to say because I am in His will. When He speaks He speaks to bless me.

 

 

But if I disobey Him, I have good reason to fear, because He is proclaiming His curses over me. Which is why disobedience people don't want to hear His voice. They only want to hear what they want to hear. They want to hear others who share their same voice (opinions and compromise) but surely not the voice of God. Lest He curse them.

 

 

 

I Kings 19:11-14

 

 

God speaks to Elijah in a still small voice.

 

 

Principle of the Kingdom # 4

 

 

God will always speak to you in a way you can understand. I once heard a pastor say if you are sitting alone in your house and you hear a big bass voice, with a great sound say "My child come forth" He said run that is not God.

God is not out to scare you. He will test you but He is not out to scare you.

So God will always speak to you in a way that you can understand. He spoke to the Elijah in a still small voice. This is the same God who answered by fire in Mount Carmel.

 

 

Principle of the Kingdom # 5

 

 

God may answer by fire, but He speaks to His people in a still small voice.

 

 

Acts 6 & Act 7:57

 

 

The bible says that when he (Stephen) spoke they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke.

 

 

So after Stephen kept speaking in Verse 57 it says that they cried with a loud voice and stopped their ears and ran at him on one accord.

They stopped their ears.

 

 

What happened hear. They did not want to hear what the voice was saying. They couldn't bear it.

 

 

Again if they weren't wrong why stopp (cover) their ears?

 

 

II Timothy 4:3,4

Says that in the last days they will not endure sound doctrine, according to their own desires and they will turn away from truth.

 

 

That means they will no longer want to hear the voice of God, but would rather believe a lie. So they go where they want to hear what they want to hear.

 

 

God longs to speak to His people. It was always apart of His plan from the beginning, starting in the beginning with Adam and Eve.

 

 

We see God speaking to His people through out the bible. But if you don't want Him to speak to you like the people of Israel He won't

 

 

It is not God's will for you to go here and there and everywhere looking for a prophetic word from the Lord.

 

 

The prophet Joel said that in the last days God would pour out His spirit on all flesh. That is why He came.

 

 

All flesh

 

 

John 16:13

 

 

Says that the spirit of truth will tell you what is yet to come. What is the spirit of truth? The Holy Spirit.

 

 

The Holy Spirit will tell you what is yet to come. So there is a prophetic nature on the inside of you.

 

 

John 14:17

 

 

Says that the world cannot receive the spirit of truth. Meaning sinners/rebellious people because they don't want to know Him or hear His voice.

 

 

But the bible says you know Him and because you know Him, the spirit of truth dwells meaning lives inside of you and he will continue to be with you.

 

 

Tap into the prophetic nature that is on the inside of you.

 

 

Lastly when Jesus died on the cross, the veil was broken. We are no longer under the curse the people of Israel requested being under, where God no longer spoke to them and they God could only relay messages to them from Moses.

You have the spirit of truth on the inside of you.

 

 

It is sad to have the voice of God on the inside of you, and not use it.

 

 

It is just silly to long to hear His voice that is already on the inside of you but go seeking His voice through someone else who has the same Holy Spirit that you have.

 

 

God longs to speak to His people.

 

 

God will always speak to you concerning you.

 

 

I believe that God will not reveal more to a man or woman of God about you than He longs to reveal to you Himself.

 

 

They water, but He plants.

 

 

A prophetic word from others is meant to activate your faith not be the sole provider or be the means by which you hear from God.

 

 

I once heard a minister say that as Jesus was dyeing on the cross, with every lash He took. With every pain He endured. Maybe He was thinking of the words to a song that Barbara Streisand wrote:

 

 

The Way We Were.

 

 

Maybe He was thinking of the way we were and endured the pain to have that relationship with us again like He walked with Adam and Eve before the their rebellion.

 

 

The way we were.

 

 

God longs to speak with us more than we long to speak to Him.

 

 

So much so that He sends people our way to say hey he is trying to talk to you but you won't pick up your phone.

 

 

He longs to have a intimate relationship with us, more than we long to have a relationship with Him.

 

 

He longs to reveal mysterious and secrets to us. But He also longs just to communicate with us. He wants you to tell Him about your day. Talk to Him about things that may seem insignificant.

 

 

Our daddy just want to be with us.

 

 

 

He longs to be with us. That why He said to David "seek my face" meaning seek to get to know Him. But we must respond in our hearts like David. And say Yes Lord "Thy face I will seek".

 

 

Allow the voice to come in. Hear Him, He is waiting, longing and wanting to be with you.

 

 

 

Samaria M. Colbert © 2010

​Read Esther –The entire book

 

 

For our emphasis

Esther 2:7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 17

 

 

 

7. And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah, that is Esther, his uncle's daughter, for she had neither father nor mother. The young woman was lovely and beautiful. When her father and mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.

 

 

 

9. Now the young woman pleased him, (King Ahasuerus) and she obtained favor in his sight, so he readily gave preparations to her, …..

 

 

 

10. Esther had not revealed her people or her family, for Mordecai had charged her not to reveal it.

 

 

 

12. Each young woman's turn came to go in to King Ahasuerus after she had completed twelve months of preparation, according to regulations of women, for thus were the days of their preparation apportioned: six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with perfumes and preparations for beautifying women,

 

 

 

13. Thus prepared, each young woman went to the king…….

 

 

 

17. The king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she obtained grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins; so he set the royal crown upon her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.

 

 

 

 

Esther 4: 14, 16

 

 

 

 

14. For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Yet who knows whether or not you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

 

 

 

16…….And "so I will go to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish!"

 

 

 

Read Matthew 25- the Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins.

 

 

 

Most of us have been taught the story of the wise and foolish virgins. Basically the wise virgins were the one who had prepared for the bridegroom to come and when He came they were ushered into His presence. But the foolish missed their opportunity, and when He came because they had not prepared they were locked out.

 

 

 

The story if Esther and the bridegroom represent many things to us who are in preparation for our kingdom assignment. Esther represents an intercessor and a godly woman that we all can look up to. She had a heart for God and a love for her people so much so that she basically says "I know what I am about do is against the law, but I most save my people, so If I die, let me die"! She was prepared to face death so that others may live. Esther is a very power story, rich with revelation and mysteries about the kingdom of God. Everyone must read the book of Esther with the ears of discernment by the Holy Spirit. This is not just another story about a beautiful woman. It is not just a story that reads like a romance novel, to make us tear up with love and warm feelings. This is the story of a young woman's preparation for the kingdom. It also describes the preparation that takes place prior to walking in your kingdom assignment. Not a man, your kingdom assignment. You may say I didn’t get that from this story but just hear me out and I will explain.

 

 

 

First I want to propose to you that Esther's preparation began long before she was ever being prepared to be a queen. It did not start where the rest of the virgins started with myrrh and oil. Esther's preparation started with a tragedy and then a divine connection. Esther 2:7 reports that after Esther's parent's died she was raised by her cousin Mordecai. We don’t know how or when Esther parents died, but we know they did die. She was not supposed to be a queen because she was an orphan. Esther should have just been grateful to have been adopted and have someone to love her like her cousin. She was like Gideon, the least called to be the greatest.

 

 

 

Remember you can't walk into your kingdom assignment without preparation. God does nothing unless He prepares you. Esther was the wrong nationality, and orphaned. She certainly did not qualify to be a queen. But her heart was right. Remember Queen Vashti was very beautiful, (Esther chapter 1) but her heart was not right and she was prideful. So it had to be more than Esther's beauty that gave her favor with the king. Remember when you are king or in a power position beautiful women are a dime a dozen. It was Esther's spirit of humility, her heart, her integrity, her grace and her quiet spirit that really made her beautiful. Her true attributes are what gave her favor with those around her including the king.

 

 

 

Remember Joseph in the bible. Often times a separation must take place. It is in the separation place where we become connected to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords in an unprecedented way. It is here where we hear His voice clearly and then are put into a position of greatest. We must be alone so we can be clear minded and be away from distractions. Often times God's is calling you, He is speaking to you, but we are to busy trying to bring everyone around us into the Glory, but God is speaking to you. He will speak to them when He is ready, but His finger is pointing at you saying "Come on in, there is much I must tell you" You, not you all.

 

 

 

The first principle of the kingdom is that a separation must take place from those that are closest to you. God will always call you into an alone place sometimes referred to as a wilderness place.

 

 

 

Luke 18:29, 30 (NKJV)

 

 

29. So He said to them, "Assuredly, I say to you; there is no one who has left house or parents or brothers or wife or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God.

 

 

30 "who shall not receive many things more in this present time, and in the age to come eternal life."

 

 

 

Matthew 6:33 (NKJV)

 

 

 

33. "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

 

 

 

You see in order to be apart of the true kingdom of God you first must seek after it, not the things. So often we associate the kingdom of God to prosperity or wealth. That is not the kingdom of God they are attributes or the physical manifestation of the blessing but it is not within itself the blessing. Unfortunately in the church today we got it all wrong, we will shout more over the things God is getting ready to bless us with rather than Him. Yes God longs to bless us and yes we will be blessed. But we will never get it when we seek after what is in His hand instead of His heart. God is looking for true worshippers to bless.

 

 

 

You can't seek after the kingdom without a heart for King. You can't really have a heart for the King if He is not in you. You can't truly walk into His kingdom absent from a true relationship with Him. You can't really have a true relationship with the King unless you walk in holiness. Hebrews 12:14 without holiness no man can see God. Meaning you don't have access to the King, His kingdom, His heart, the things He longs to bless you with unless you first walk in Holiness.

 

 

 

It was Esther's heart that was right that gave her access. Esther still had to go through a process for a year. She was first processed with oil. In the spirit oil is representative of the anointing. Then she was processed with perfumes, which is representative of the glory. So even today we must be anointed with oil, but we must be possessors of the glory.

 

 

 

Now we know that the old testament is flesh. The new testament is spirit. So when we read the old testament we must see the spiritual representation of these flesh beings. Queen Vashti is representative of the people of Israel who rejected Christ as our Lord. In Luke 19:44 Jesus was in tears because the people of Jerusalem did not know the hour of visitation. He was rejected by His own people. Isaiah 53:2, Matthew 22:1-14. Mordacai also represents a type of the Holy Spirit who intercedes on our behave. Esther is representative of us the bride of Christ. The story is representative of us the church being the bride of Christ. The church is a woman. The church is being prepared to possess the kingdom and be used mightily for His glory. This is the day when we are being ushered into the hour of the church. Not a building. The remnant, called out body of believer, who have been waiting patiently in preparation to be used for great and mightily exploits for the King.

 

 

 

Haman is representative of the demonic kingdom. Remember in the text Esther 3. Haman was advanced above all in his kingdom. He was only in second command to the king himself. He had great power. He sought to be worshiped (Esther 3:2) but when Mordacai would not worship him he sought to destroy all the Jews. The is representative of the Satan once named Lucifer.

 

 

 

Ezekiel 28: 12, 15 (NKJV)… You were the seal of perfection, Full of wisdom and beauty

 

 

15… Till iniquity was found in you

 

 

 

Isaiah 14:13 (NKJV) 13. " For you have said in you heart: 'I will ascend into heaven.

 

 

 

14. You were the anointed cherub who covers; I established you;

 

 

 

You see Lucifer was very beautiful and He had been established by God Himself. Yet, He wanted to be worshipped. To this day he still wants to be worshiped. Just like Haman wanted to be worshipped. The reason why the devil hates God's people so much is because we refuse to worship or bow to him. As a matter of fact when he was cast out of heaven he no longer had kingdom authority. God created you in his stead. This is why Matthew 25 reports, we have been given the keys to the kingdom, not only that we have power over the devil. We have power to execute things on earth as it is in heaven. So you see why the devil's jealous and envious of us. He does not want us to know our kingdom assignment. Often times the devil knows our kingdom assignment more so than we do. This is why he is after us so hard. Now he is still trying to destroy God's kingdom and His people but he cannot.

 

 

 

Remember the story of the wise and foolish virgins. If you hadn't already done so go ahead and read it. The foolish virgins are representative of a people who want a position or try to put themselves into position with no process. This is all foolishness. The difference between being great and being good is the process. It is the process that makes you great, it is the lack of process that makes you forgettable. Process is the only way to true wisdom which is representative of the five virgins who prepared. Although all the virgins had a prophetic promise, only the one's who had been prepared made it in.

 

 

 

Yes it is true that you can miss the hour of visitation. The scripture never reports that they had another chance to make it in. They had to be ready when the bridegroom would come or they'd miss it.

 

 

 

I once read a book by Bill Hamon, he reported how he lost a building that he thought God had blessed him with. While in prayer God told him "Son I can give you another building overnight, but I can't give you wisdom overnight" Only process gives you wisdom.

 

 

 

Esther (the church ) was prepared. Haman ( the devil, demonic attempts to demolish God and His people) never even considered Esther.

 

 

 

Esther 4:14 (NKJV) I love this scripture.



Mordecai says: 14: "For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and you fathers house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"

 

 

 

Esther say 15: And so I will go to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish!"

 

 

 

I love Esther response. She knew that it was unlawful for anyone to go into the inner court without being called. One could be put to death for such a thing. But Esther says well "If I die, I die. She represents courage and a Godly fight that said I will do something even if it cost my life. She knew what she was up against the possible consequence but she was willing to move forward anyway, despite the threat of death.


Notice Mordecai said "deliverance will come, but from another place." Please understand that your kingdom assignment and how God will use you IS NOT about you. God will use anyone, it is about the kingdom. That is why if you choose not to obey Him he will take the annoiting that off of you and put in on someone else. His will will be done on earth, but not through you. This is why your heart must be right not focusing on the stuff that is in His hand.

 

 

 

John 12:24-25 (NKJV)

 

 

 

24. "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.

 

 

 

25. "He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

 

 

 

Another principle of the kingdom is that you must die. Yes that's right you must die. In the order of Christ and His kingdom to be glorified you must die. You die to yourself, your will, way and emotions to be raised to God's glory. Now Esther did not die but she was willing to. Jesus says if they hate me they will hate you if you really belong to me. Many want the kingdom, they want the power to rebuke demons and devils, they want great ministries. But are you willing to give up everything you hold dear? Are you willing to pay the cost? Are you willing to be processed? No there is no such thing as walking into a greater manifestation of the kingdom of God without a process. Within the process there is always a dyeing process, always. Don't look at any great minister and long to be them, because you don't know the cost that they had to go through to get that glory.

 

 

I recently asked God why He had me waiting so long, while others move ahead of me. He responded by saying "Because of the weight". I thought uhhh, what does that mean. Well it means because of the weight of Glory God has called me to walk in, God can't give me what I want easily because of the weight of Glory He has called me to. I can't have it when I want to or I will not be able to handle it.

 

 

 

You see this is what the process is for. God does know the dimensions and weight of Glory we have been called to that is why there is a greater process or preparation. The greater the process the greater the Glory. God's preparing us for the real kingdom of God. Let us let Esther this greater kingdom ambassador be our example of what happens when our heart is right, our motives are pure and we have a vision for our King.

 

 

 

For more information on the process please pick up the latest copy of my book entitled: No Promise Without A Process The Makings of A True Prophet.

 

 

God Bless You