I thought of Paul today

My granddaughter Skyy Julia is 17 months old and is fiercely independent in all her ways. I keep telling my daughter Richelle she’s gotten double for her trouble with this child. Skyy does not respond to the word no, stop, you can’t do that, you’re going to get hurt, you’re going to time out, or you’re going to get your hands spanked -but only for a moment. At 17 months old she knows no limits!

Yesterday, was the first time this week I’ve been able to keep my door closed all day and work. As I look for office space I’m working from my home office getting my new business up and running. The agreement with my daughter is that when my door is closed I’ m working and they are to operate as though I’m not home. It actually has been working pretty well until this week when Skyy learned to open the door by herself. Now I have to actually lock her out to get anything done.

This morning I was thinking how much writing I would get done and work accomplished as soon as I get my office away from my home. I thought about being on an island somewhere over looking a beautiful sea of water and the words just pouring out of me for my book. Maybe you’re like me an in a place where you are waiting for all the stars to line up and then you will start walking in your destiny.

As these images started to control my thoughts the Apostle Paul came into my spirit. He was able to write two thirds of the New Testament and most of his writings done while he was in prison. Not only was he fighting the physical space of his confinement but I’m sure warring with his mind. At the time of his captivity one of the prison’s he spent most of his time in was an actual hole in the ground with a small opening for light. As this one image flooded my mind I was overcome with a feeling of “how dare you.”

You can start right where you are today walking in those things you know you have been called to do. If it’s your time and season you can start even if what you see in the natural looks like chaos. Can you imagine what it must have been like for Paul to encourage himself each day and then be content in every circumstance? How shallow I am to think that I need this idyllic situation to push me towards releasing the wonderful treasures that God has stored up in me through this journey.

Are you waiting for the perfect moment to tell someone you love them, give someone a hand up, write that best seller, go get your child back, quit that job you hate, start a business, ask someone to forgive you, forgive someone who hurt you 10 years ago? If you’re one of those waiting today, all you have to do is remember the work of Apostle Paul. I know many of you will read this with a religious spirit and say to yourselves why she didn’t use Jesus as the example. After all He did made the ultimate sacrifice.

I thought of Paul today because he was the example Holy Spirit used for this situation and for this purpose. “Not that I was ever in need, for I have learned how to be content with whatever I have,” Phil 4:11 NLT

Wealth is in the mind

I've been under the covers with a head cold for the past two days. Since I was not able to hold my head up without being in pain I found my best position was one of stillness. In the stillness, I could actually hear my own self think. There's nothing like a dialogue with self.

As I lay there, I realized how many different paradigm shifts I'd made in the past three months. My spirit has been aggressively open to change and embracing new things in general. I have been willing to lay everything on the line to be the best person, mother, friend and business associate I can possibly be.

One of the truths I've had to come face to face with is that wealth is in the mind. All this time I have thought that wealth was about money rather than wealth is about wisdom Sometimes our emotionalism clouds what has been placed in front of us as a solution to our problems. This causes us to go begging others for help when what we need is already in our hand. You do not want to be a beggar because beggars have no access.

All my life I have depended on someone else to allow me to have access. Now, I just want your information. If I can get your information I can make it happen for myself. Some of us are asking people for information who have no revelation about what is gong on in this season. You may not have all the money you need, or all the friends, or education but what do you have in your hand?

What each of us has is our mind for the anointing of God. God anoints our heads with oil so our cup runs over. We have been given an abundance of thoughts, information, insights, technology and revelation. If you change your thoughts you change your actions, if you change your actions you change your environment. If we carry our anointing with us when we show up the environment has to change.

Today, I woke up commanding my morning and setting the atmosphere in order and alignment with what was already predestined for my life. God wants us to arise and go to the next realm. God is doing something as we mature; our maturity determines our success as we go to new realms it determines our prosperity. God is accelerating our growth, the increase of our capacity and our promotion. The wealth is being transferred to the righteous but the righteous need to be ready.

I realized in the stillness of the day and even into the night that my mind has been a prisoner of war. I can decree a thing and it shall be so. I don't have to settle for a good life but I can have a great life. I can start right now with calling those things into being as though they already were. And I can start right where I am by using what's already in my hand.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.- Marcel Proust