Go go go Down welcome welcome welcome to Sisterhood checkin I am your author and Coach nadir Lewis so guys I am super duper duper excited okay super duper duper duper duper duper duper excited right because I got to share something with you guys that I just came off Tik Tok and I tell
You Tik Tok is Tik tok’s platform is really an interesting platform it really is guys it’s an interesting platform it’s really great because you get a lot of organic traffic and stuff but I tell you boy it really you got to have some thick skin because some of these people
Be coming up with some crazy stuff I’m telling you but um ex I’m I’m really excited that you guys are getting to spend another Friday with me those of you that are watching on YouTube make sure um thank you so much for for watching U whether you’re watching live
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Blessed by the content that I bring each and every week so guys I have been uh sharing I just got finished sharing with my Tik Tock audience um and I was really excited to be able to share some of the things that I felt like God had placed on my heart this
Morning and I have been really just submitting to the process and allowing you know some things I’ve just been like really excited to share because of the Revelation that I feel like God has showing me and I have been really eager to share because I know there might be
Some other people that may be experiencing some of the same things so I’m going to go ahead and play this video before we go ahead and start and um discuss what I wanted to share I’m going to go ahead and play this video for you real quick and then after that
We’ll be right back make sure you call up your girlfriends and tell them Sisterhood check in is on the air and I’ll see you after this sometimes it’s not enough to be reminded that Jesus hasn’t left you or forgotten you we need to declare it over ourselves over
Others no matter the season you may find yourself in no matter the depths of Darkness you’re waiting through you can join him in declaring the truth that God is light upon your feet whether or not you can see the next step that God is your strength even though
The weight of life seems to be crushing you down and that when your job your marriage your relationship your health feels like it’s coming to a dead end there is only one God that can make dead things live again these are his promises and they’re the only thing you need to
Declare over your life so as you step into this next season or this next moment you can declare that God’s not done with you he’s just getting started you can declare that the good work that he has started in you he will surely complete it you can declare that the
Same God that parted the Seas goes before you goes behind you you can declare these promises over your life over your family’s life over the people passing on the street you can declare these truths over every circumstance over every season of your life you can declare that every day belongs to him
And every new breath belongs to him because we have the power of a living God living inside of us and this is our Declaration welcome back to Sisterhood checkin I tell you I never get tired of watching that video it always just literally every time I listen to it I just really get you know stirred up because we have the power of the Living God living on the inside of us right
Right and this is our declaration right this is our declaration and I wanted to share um if you haven’t already done so make sure you click like and share and share it with um make sure you share it with somebody that you know um that either it has never watched Sisterhood
Check-in or that you can believe that can be a blessing from the things that I um that Sisterhood checkin um what we talk about and discuss here on this channel make sure you share it be a blessing right So today we’re going to talk about um can you identify the doors
That are in front of you now the reason why I ask can you identify the doors that are in front of you because I was thinking about earlier today I was I was as I got up this morning I was thinking about something and I thought about the different types
Of doors right we have different types of doors you have a door that you can turn the the knob and literally push with a little force and the door will open right then you have some doors that are sensor driven right they operate based on sensors so that means it may
Require you to stand it may require your presence means you may have to be up on the door in order for door the door to actually open then there is another door that requires a code this door you can’t turn the knob no matter how much you turn the knob and
Try to force the door to be open it’s not going to open right you can stand in front of the door with your presence and still not be able to push the door open right why because it takes a special code to open that particular door
And so that’s what we’re going to talk about how to identify the doors that are in front of you right so let’s go to and I was I just got off of Tik Tok and I was going over something that I thought was really awesome and I wanted to be able to share
It with you guys right this is amazing because it’s funny because the more you have knowledge in a particular area and the more you gain understanding of the things that you know that you study you’ll be amazed at how different it creates a different perspective on how you deal and how you
Show up in different things right so I wanted to kind of share this with you and I hope this is bless you the way it blessed the people that I just got off Tik Tock with even though you know we did you know you can’t talk about something that that’s going to impact
People lives without some sort of adversary right and um so besides that I really believe that all 800 people that watched were blessed because they stayed and they listened to the end so I’m praying that those of you that are watching here live and that may
Watch the the re broadcast that you are be able to get the same that you’ll be blessed by the information that I share with you so let’s go to what I was referring to this was amazing I’m telling you okay so I was talking in I was talking about
Something that I was reading right in second Peter chapter 1 right let’s go to it I want to show you something I want to show you something that really bless me right and really cause me to see things a little bit differently right H first okay second Peter chapter 1 and
It says in verse two Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of our and of Jesus Christ according as his divine power have given unto us has given us all things pertaining to life and godliness now I want you to hold on to that thought right through
The knowledge of him that has called us to glory and virtue whereby are whereby are given unto us exceedingly great and precious promises make sure you hold on to that too that by these what these precious promises you might be partakers of the divine nature having escaped the
Corruption that is in the world through lust and besides this right giving all diligence add to your faith virtue Right add to your faith virtue meaning moral goodness integrity and ethical Excellence to one’s character or conduct add to your faith now before we continue we’re g to talk about first of all how
Jesus feels right when it comes to Faith there was a situation right where the this where this man came to Jesus and he said Lord I brought my son he’s a lunatic right I brought my son to to your disciples and they could not C they
Could not heal him and Jesus said ah faithless generation how long oh my God must I deal with you right bring them to me I believe that in Matthew 21 bring them to me this tells you how God feels when it come when we get to
The the point when we do not especially you got to think about the disciples right here it is the disciples have been walking with him right all this time they’ve been walking with him they’ve seen the Miracles they’ve seen him raise the dead and yet right we’re talking
About identifying doors in front of you right they’ve seen him raise the dead they’ve seen him do so many things but yet when it comes to doing to delivering this particular man son from being a lunatic which means he was acting crazy how girl let me tell you could you
Imagine you over here speaking and and manifesting all kinds of stuff in your life and then you get to this one area of your life which is in in reference to these doors right and you realize that nothing that you do is working it could be discouraging you
Could feel like I’ve done Lord I’ve done this I’ve done everything that you asked me to do and why isn’t this not working it can create doubt and discouragement and yet Jesus answer was he was so frustrated he called them a faithless and perverse generation right that’s pretty cold like what it that
Lets you know how important it is for us to understand the concept of what faith is Faith is the sub subance of things hoped for it means it’s the manifestation faith is the manifestation of what you hope for and it’s evidence faith is evidence of Things Not Seen
Faith is not hope faith is evidence so you know you are operating in genuine faith when there’s evidence to what you believe faith is not belief it is the evidence of what you believe I’mma let that sink faith is the evidence of things hoped for is the
Evidence of Things Not Seen it’s the substance faith is substance it’s evidence we think about faith in terms of belief but it’s the belief that produces the evidence of Things Not Seen so here you thinking about with this man that comes to G to
Jesus and he said I try to come to your disciples and I tried to pray I tried to get them to heal my son and they were not able to do it and Jesus gets mad and the first thing he says is faithless Generation meaning that you are not no
Matter how much power I give you no much how no matter how much I’ve shown you your ability yet you still are able to produce the substance of the very thing that you say you believe your belief is supposed to have substance to it if your belief does not produce substance it’s not
Faith faith is not hope faith is substance anyway so let’s get back to what I was talking about so he says faithless generation how long will I have to deal with you bring the man here good God Almighty bring the man here bring him here you can’t get it done just bring it
Here so after he begin to cast a man out right he says to him the disciples come to him and he says why couldn’t we why weren’t we able to cast him out and jesus’ response to them was because of your unbelief you can’t produce substance to something that you don’t believe
In faith is substance it’s the manifestation of what you believe well you not producing substance is a manifestation of unbelief so you weren’t able to cast them out because it was a manifestation of un unbelief how be it what he said this kind cometh out but by fasting and
Prayer which takes me back to my topic can you identify the daughters in front of you again because if you have a door that twists there’s some doors you can turn and with force can open right up there are some things in your life you can just speak to right requires very
Little belief right and it can and you can speak into this this mountain say be I removing casting SE and it’ll be done right then there are going to be some doors some things that some doors in your life where it’s going to Simply require your presence that means you
Have enough faith that you just show up and the door and doors just open things just happen right there are some things in your life where you’re going to just show up and the favor of God is going to open up some doors then there’s going to be sometimes
Where this where some doors are going to require a Cod now you’re not going to be able to get in this door the same way you got into the first door where you turned a knob and pushed it with Force right and opened it up it’s not it’s not gonna I
Don’t care how much you turn the knob and try to force it does not mean that door is going to open if you try to open that door that requires a Cod the same way you did when you showed up to the censored door and
It required you to be present for it to open you’re G to stand in front of that door looking stupid because it’s not going to open because it requires a code and I’m going to give you the cheat code to how to open up that door Jesus
Gives us a hint he said the how be it this kind cometh out but by fasting and prayer there are some doors that are not going to open in your life until you learn to fast and pray it is important for you to identify the doors that in front of you that are
In front of you so that you will know how to proceed right so that you can bring the manifestation which is the substance of what what you hope for if you want to get on the other if you want what’s on the other side of that door you if you don’t have uh
Substance to open that door manif you’re not going to get the man you’re not going to get the manifestation if you don’t have belief right and if there’s no prayer and fasting for some you might be at this door with the code and you’re trying but you need to pray and fast for
This door this kind of door to open so Jesus is telling them this door right here you wasn’t able to open open you weren’t able to to do this because of your unbelief so some level of belief to get to some levels of belief it requires fasting and
Praying because of your unbelief he didn’t say because you didn’t fast and pray he said they said Lord why wasn’t we able to cast this one out and he said because of your unbelief how be it this kind comes by fasting and prayer so fasting and prayer takes your belief to another
Level so let’s get back to what I’m talking about so that’s just the kind of spearhead of what I really wanted to talk about so now that we have an understanding of that what door is in front of you right so back to what I was saying in second Peter right
Second Peter chapter one I thought this was very encouraging right identify what door you in that’s important because if you don’t know what door is in front of you that’s going to be a problem if you don’t know what door that you’re standing in front of you’re
Going to spend a lot of time wasting time and energy trying to open up a door that requires a cold versus you and you standing there treating it like it’s a turn like it’s a regular door that you turn a knob to so first Peter chap I mean second Peter chapter one
Right verse two it says Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge andto and through the knowledge of God our Jesus of of our and of our of our Lord Jesus Christ according as his divine power has given us all things pertaining to life and godliness through the knowledge that
Word again of him that has called us to glory in virtue there’s that word again right what does the Bible say my people perish for a lack of knowledge right what is the knowledge that we’re lacking as Believers we lack the knowledge of the true identity of who Jesus Christ really
Is how do I know that because there’s no substance there’s no evidence of the things that we’re hoping for right and I’m going to prove that to you in this ver in this chapter so stay with me stick with me whereby in verse four are given unto us exceedingly great and precious promises
That by Ye Ye might be partakers of the divine nature having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust and verse five besides this giving all diligence add to your faith virtue what is virtue add to your faith virtue virtue refers to moral goodness integrity ethical excellence in one’s character or
Conduct add to your faith moral goodness Right add to your substance moral goodness integrity and ethical ex excellence in one’s character or conduct add to your faith virtue right and to Virtue knowledge knowledge is the understanding and skills acquired through learning and experience and forms the basis for informed decisions and problem solving
So add to your faith moral goodness Integrity ethical excellence and character in one’s character or conduct and after that adding knowledge which is the understanding and skills acquired through learning and experience because it forms a basis for informed decisions and problem solving this is deep y’all y’all
Got to hear this so after you add knowledge you’re going to add Temperance Temperance is the moderation or self-restraint in actions especially in areas like consumption whether it be food drink or Pleasures promoting balance it’s a virtue promoting balance and control so we’re adding to our faith moral goodness Integrity ethical
Excellence knowledge right which is understanding and skills that is acquired through learning and experience and we’re going to also add Temperance which is restraint in actions in different areas of your life concerning food drink or other Pleasures right then it’s says add to Temperance patience patience is the ability to
Endure or wait calmly in the face of challenges adversity or delays without becoming frustrated or anxious add to your faith the ability to endure or wait calmly in the face do you know what that’s like to have to wait in the face of challenges and adversity or delays without becoming frustrated or
Anxious that is very difficult this is important there’s a reason why we’re doing why why he says this right so I want you to pay attention to this so we’re adding to our faith the ability to endure and wait calmly in the face of challenges then we’re going to going to add godliness
Which refers to a commitment to living in accordance with principles or teaching of your faith right so not only do you have to wait in a face of adversity you have to live in accordance with the principles and teachings of your faith and after you add godliness you’re going to add brotherly kindness
Which refers to the virtue right of treating others with warmth compassion good will fostering a sense of unity and support without being frustrated add to your faith charity which involves a selfless act of giving usually to those in need and it’s voluntary it’s a voluntary and benevolent gesture aimed at improving
The well-beings of others now just imagine having to add this all to your faith while you’re in the midst of adversity right you’re having to add brotherly kindness you know how difficult it it has to be to add patience to add brotherly kindness in the midst of somebody who’s mistreating
You anyway that I know that don’t happen to none of y’all but let’s let let’s go to the next one then he says add Glory which is often associated with honor Fame admiration resulting from notable achievements qualities or deeds right and can carry a sense of Radiance
Or brli Brilliance so why is this important right because he said if these things be in you verse eight if these things be in you and abound they will make it that you will neither be Barren or unfruitful and in the knowledge of God if these things be in you and abound
It will make it so that you will neither be Barren or fruitless unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ but he that lath these things in verse n he that lath these things is blind and cannot see a far off he that lack of these things is
Blind and he can’t see a far off and has forgotten that he was purged from his s his old sins wherefore the uh rather Brethren give diligence to make your calling election sure for if you do the these things you shall never fail what door is in front of
You if these things be in you and abound they will make it that you will neither be Barren or unfruitful so if you develop virtue if you de if you are adding knowledge if you are adding moral goodness and integrity to your character or conduct and if it’s in you in aound you
Shouldn’t be Barren or fruitless if you have ADD knowledge to Virtue that means the skills that you acquire through your whether you’re learning intentionally or you’re learning by experience it will help you when it comes to decision making um and problem solving if you add to your knowledge Temperance selfish strength because I’m
Telling you is if you add Temperance self-restraint and understand and allow patience to have its perfect work if you add patience the ability to endure and wait calmly in the face of challenges you know how difficult it is to be patient and to wait calmly in the midst of
Challenges when when people are talking about you when people are judging you when people are like persecuting you can you imagine how it is difficult to allow these things to happen and not be frustrated and anxious that’s hard but he said if these things be in
You and abound it’ll make you to be not bearen and fruit and it allow you to be fruitful in the knowledge of God right because in the knowledge of God according to what it says in verse three according as this divine power has given us all things pertaining to life and
Godliness how through the knowledge so you will not be able to attain the things that are rightfully yours right without the knowledge of Lord Jes of the Lord Jesus Christ so all he’s given us yes he’s given us all things pertaining to life and godliness through the
Knowledge but if you don’t add these things to you and let them abound you will not be fruitful in the knowledge that he’s already given you patience let patience have its perfect work brotherly kindness being compassionate when people are mistreating you being compassionate still when people are lying on you being
Compassionate when you might be at a job and they’re setting you up for your demise you might be you know you might be you know working somewhere in a work facility or wherever you are and there might be they might be plotting your demise but you still have to operate in
Warmth compassion and Good Will fostering a sense of unity and support my God that’s tough but if these things be in you and abound it will make you not Barren the only way that you will not produce any substance of the things that you hope for is if you’re
Barren and unfr fruitful in the knowledge of God I was talking earlier and I was talking about the importance of Time how the enemy is not after your house your car your clothes he’s after your time if you get people that will if you allow the enemy to cause you to
Entertain things that consume your time then what happens is you can miss seasons in your life you can miss Divine connections with people that God may have assigned to you because you’ve allowed yourself to be distracted because of time but if these things be in you and abound
It will make it that you will not be neither Barren nor fruitful in the knowledge of God I want you to think about that I want you think about that then Peter begins to say in verse 12 wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these
Things what things add those things that I told you to add to your faith so he’s saying I’m not going to be negligent and putting you in remembrance of these things though you know them and be established in the present truth yeah I think it meets as long as I
Am in this Tabernacle to stir you up by putting you in remembrance so Peter is saying as long long as I’m living I’m going to constantly put you in remembrance of what I just said I’m going to put you in remembrance how important it is to add to your faith virtue to add
Knowledge to add Temperance to add patience even when it can be really tough to add God less right to add brotherly kindness now some of us might be able to do a few of these things but there’s some of these things it will be difficult for some but if you
Do these things and you allow them to bond it’ll make you it it’ll allow them to abound it’ll make you to be fruitful so here Peter continues to say in verse 13 yay I think it me as long as I am in this Tabernacle I’m going to stir you up into
Remembrance knowing that shortly I must put off this my Tabernacle even as my Lord Jesus Christ has showed me moreover I will endure that ye may not that ye may be able after my decease to have these things in remembrance so Peter is saying I’m going to remind you till I
Die and then I’m going to hopefully these things will stick with you that even when I die you will still be reminded the importance of what I just said to you he said because we have not followed cunningly deviced fables when we made known unto you the power and the coming
Of our Lord Jesus Christ in other words he’s saying I didn’t just say this we made known to you this we were eyewitnesses to his majesty so we’re not just telling you this just for head knowledge we’re telling you this because we were eyewitnesses to what happened so we’re telling you by
Conviction add to your faith that God has given us all things pertaining to knowled to Godliness to life and godliness but it’s through the knowledge of God they said they continu to say we were there when God said to Jesus this is my beloved Son he told told him this
Is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased hear ye him they said they were Witnesses we have a more sure word of Prophecy in verse 19 wherein to ye do well that ye take heed as into a light that shineth in a dark place until the
Day Dawn and the day star arise in your heart knowing this first no prophecy is of private interpretation for this prophecy did not come of Old Time by the will of Man by holy men of God which spake as they were moved by the Holy
Ghost so as they were moved by the Holy Ghost they begin to speak things that God shared on their heart to share what did he put on their heart to share to remind them that Grace and peace is Multiplied to us some of us don’t have peace and we don’t
Understand the grace that’s given to us because it’s given to us through the knowledge of Christ you are not going to operate in peace if you don’t understand the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ you’re not GNA operate in real peace you might have temporary
Peace but you’re not G have real peace you’re not going to understand that he’s given us all things pertaining to life and godliness right he’s given us everything that we need to become who we we supposed to come through the knowledge of God why does he say my
People perish for a lack of knowledge a lack of knowledge of what of who he is you cannot produce substance in an area that you have no knowledge in you cannot produce substance which is faith if there’s no knowledge because knowledge produce is what is what feeds the belief right the
More you know something the more you operate in what you know it becomes your belief if I tell you that you’re beautiful and that you can do all things through Christ and I continually tell you that that’s knowledge right the minute you consume that information
And it becomes and you believe and it be and it becomes a part you internalize it it becomes substance how because it causes you to see yourself differently right you start to dress differently you start to look differently you start to wear your hair differently you show up differently because it produce substance
Because of the knowledge that was given to you somebody told you were beautiful and because somebody told you was beautiful now you are walking in accordance to the knowledge that somebody told you that maybe you didn’t know you may have not felt beautiful but somebody told you it was beautiful that
Was new knowledge that caused you to produce substance so again I ask you can you identify the doors that are in front of you can you identify if the door in front of you is a door that requires a code or is this a door that you can turn and just push
With a little force and that’s important to know because here in Peter is telling us if he’s given us everything pertaining to to life and godliness through the knowledge of of of the Lord Jesus Christ that means we have to know right and he tells us even before then
Right whereby are we G are are given unto us exceedingly great and precious promises that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature well if you don’t know what his promises are you what his promises are and this is you know this is the thing that really
Frustrates me this is the one of the things that used to frustrate me about Christianity and I’m just being real it’s hard to know something like this it’s hard when Jesus is teaching you how through the word of God he’s teaching you how to walk in power right because he said he’s given
Us power love and a sound mind it was really hard for me at one point because when you are dealing with people who are who don’t know the knowledge who don’t understand this and they kind of teach a complacent gospel where it neither encourage enes you to to to increase
Your faith or build your faith will it causes you to just kind of be in safe Christianity right and safe Christianity is you don’t really believe more than what he than what you than what you you know you don’t really it’s like you don’t really you’re not called into accountability to walk
In the power of the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ so what happens is we walk in this complacent stale version of Christianity and then what happens is people that are around us that are unbelievers wind up operating in more power than we do and
Then we get frustrated and we cry to God and we say well Lord how come how come why this and this why is it that you could do this for this person and they don’t even they don’t even live for you but you can’t do this for me and I what
Door is in front of you you are producing substance of whatever it is that you’re hoping for but you can only produce based on the knowledge that you have if I don’t know you to be a Healer my conviction is not going to De cause me to declare you a Healer because I
Don’t know you as a Healer I don’t have the knowledge and the experience of you healing King me so I don’t know the way somebody who has been healed that you are a Healer we really have to take time and really not just know the word by head knowledge but
We really have to internalize when you think about a baby and I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday when I was in traffic and I said when you’re a baby a baby believes anything Jesus said if you come to you must you got to come to
Him as little kids when I first got saved I was believe I I believe God can do anything oh if he oh God can do it I didn’t even have to think twice I just knew he could do it but it seems like the more you start to grow in
God I don’t know if it’s just me but it seems like you kind of get churched and so you kind of get caught up into this now the things that you used to be able to boldly walk in you’ve been churched and you’ve been bound by
Religion now the things that you used to believe God for effortlessly now it requires there’s no substance now you frustrated now this walk becomes work it becomes a a burden it’s almost like you’re gosh you know now when it comes to you used to be excited to pray now
When it comes time to pray it’s like oh I already prayed about that I already did that but when you first come to Christ you so anxious to talk to God you can’t wait to get up in the morning to pray you can’t wait to see the manifestation
Of God but this seems like the more you grow the more you you the more you get it’s almost like an ad a child and an adult when you’re a child everything is children will believe anything you know I can believe I can fly and they’ll jump
Off the couch and be like I can fly right they just believe then it’s not until you get older and you realize oh wait and then you start to get a different philosophy and you start to realize wait a minute I don’t know if I could do
That then you start doubting you don’t learn doubt until you get older you you don’t learn doubt as a kid children don’t know doubt if I was ask my six-year-old right now my six-year-old she thinks she could do anything you cannot convince her that she can’t do anything she believes and she can
Provide the substance for it and sometimes I have to catch myself when I hear her I have to catch myself because sometime I be like no baby you can’t do that and I’m like wait a minute she believes she can do it and it was a
Lesson to me to help me understand she doesn’t have any she doesn’t have a whole life challenges and all these things in front of her that causes her to doubt so she believes that I can do exceedingly abundantly above all that I can all that she can ask or
Think she doesn’t have doubt in front of her she hasn’t had life challenges that cause her to question God she just believes and we’ve got to get to that point we’ve got to get to a place to where we can understand that how important it is for us to grow in the
Knowledge of Jesus Christ so that we can show up and do the things that God said that we were able to do he said that we should be able to say un this mountain just like at the Fig Tree just like with the Fig Tree we should be able to say
Into the mountain be thou removed and cast into the sea and he said but we got to do it without doubting in our heart it’s if we don’t do it without doub in our heart it’ll be done he said we’ll be able to do the same thing that he did to the Fig
Tree and more but we’ve got to deal with the knowledge we got to we got to make sure that we the knowledge that we have is producing substance Faith which is substance comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God so if you are lacking substance
You need to you’re not hearing your hearing is dull which is why he says he that has an ear let him hear what the spirit of the Lord is saying to the churches hearing produces faith if I tell you that I’m going to come and I’m going to bless
You you’re hearing what I’m saying and it creates an expectation so when I show up you expect me to do what I said I was going to do right your faith produced substance so you were waiting for me to manif to to to manifest what I said I
Was going to do so your expectation was sure it’s the same way with God faith comes by hearing hearing by the word of God increase your knowledge of God and I’m not talking about just head knowledge it says and I’m G read this and then we’ll be
Done whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature having escaped the corruption that is in this world through lust but and besides this giving all diligence add to your faith so all those things that I discussed virtue patience Temperance
Knowledge godliness charity if those things be in you and abound it will make you to be neither fruitless or Barren we’re going to take a quick person commercial break and we’re going to wrap up and end today’s broadcast on Sisterhood checkin again if you have been watching us on YouTube make sure
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Your moment your gift may not be no longer useful because if he called the generation to ask a question or to need something a specific season and he birthe you for that season you’re useless if you don’t operate in your season this is the dear listen listen
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Matter all right and we are back for those of you that have just watched the um that video last I have um created ated a journal and devotional for people that are grieving the loss of their loved one this journal is a a game changer this journal allows you um to I
Kind of show you uh or walk alongside of you to help you process grieving you know to help you during your journey of grieving many of you know that I’ve watched a show I lost my husband seven years ago May 5th 2016 to a tragic car
Accident he was killed um um in Dallas Georgia um while on his way to work somebody hit him head on at 106 miles an hour and killed him instantly the tragic it was a very tragic tragic um issue and situation where it I mean the just the scene was just the
More I think about it it was horrific and I have never really talked about the scenes that um the the situation regarding what happened with my late husband um because it was very difficult to really talk about I’ve talked about bits and pieces of it um in
In in my broadcast but you know I really felt led to kind of help you understand why this journal is important to me and why I have such a passion to help families deal with the grieving process so this isn’t something that I just threw together I really took some time
And to really put into this journal um and it’s it has a lot of uh it’s not just a bunch of paper where you’re just writing you know and it’s with a cover this really I have prompts to kind of walk you through the grieving process
And help you to because it and help you deal with the good emotions as well as the bad emotions because when you think about what you go through right when you think about what you experience um in terms of grieving and what you’re feeling it’s hard to think about your loved one
Without thinking about the tragedy too you might start out you know think about every time you think about your loved one you might think about what happened to them right whether it’s through tragedy or sickness but what I do is help bring out because this has been
Something that helped me is bring out the good memories the good memories help you to deal with the the tragedy of the incident of losing them so I’m I’m going give you a little bit of a background of what happened to me and my story so you
Can kind of get an understanding on why this was an important project for me to do and I’ve written um several journals and books and stuff like that but this one is really connected to my heart because this time of the year you know has always been hard for a lot of
Families because it’s Christmas it’s Thanksgiving it’s New Year’s and this is the time where people are gathering together with their families this is is the time where people are embracing their loved ones and some of us that has lost people that are close to you it can
Be really tough it can be really trying and so for me my husband um was on his way to work and on his way to work um heading to you know heading you know into FedEx he was working for FedEx at the time and he was on his way to work
And the he we both had like we had both like picked up a paper route so we were doing a paper route because we were trying to you know I had just bought him a uh a truck he was so excited about this truck and I was so excited to get I
Surprised him with this truck so that he can be able to we had one vehicle at the time and he all he had been looking for this particular truck for a long time and I felt like wow this is my opportunity to bless him and and
Surprise him with this truck so I got him this truck and he loved that truck he loved loved loved the truck and so he we went to work that night so we were we were doing this paper route just this extra income to to because the
The goal was we were going to get a car from my at the time he’s 25 now but at the time he was still in high school and we were going to get a truck we were going to give this truck to him and we
Were going to fix it up and give it to him as a graduation gift so my husband was like well let’s um do this that way we W to take away any income from the house and we can use this money to get him a truck and we can you know pretty
Much and then we can stop working because we were it was easy money you know it was you know to be able to do that and so we did it for about three months and it wasn’t something that I hadn’t done before because I lived in
When I lived in Florida I did the paper rout at nighttime you know for three years straight seven working seven days a week three years straight I worked as a paper out and I worked at a a home at a a a battered woman shelter so that I
Can be able to be present and be home with my children at the time so I would I had gotten accustomed to doing this at night time because it didn’t require but a few hours and it paid me you know really well I was able to you know take
Care of me and my children and not sacrifice the timing that I need while I was in school for skin care and so um you know he said we’ll do this for three months and after that we’ll be done well in that three months
We were get get in the car fixed and was heading to work this particular day and it was unusually strange because usually you know we would get there early and then we would be you know he probably wouldn’t even been in this accident if we had gotten there early right but this
Particular day we overslept we were extremely tired he had a long day he worked as a driver for FedEx and he worked for worked sometimes 12 14 hours a day and he was exhausted and we got up this particular day we went to work and for some apparent
Reason he took a very long time coming out the house and he took a long time getting in the car and by the time we got to the paper route he started to I don’t know he was acting really strange and he wasn’t as you know he you
Know for those of you that know about paper routes you know you have to be you know you have to pretty much move quickly because you everything is on a time schedule so because he didn’t seem he didn’t have a sense of urgency like he normally would because he had to go
Straight into work after the paper out well this particular night he didn’t have a sense of urgency and he came up to me and he said he he kept asking me was I okay and I was like I’m okay but I was a little bit frustrated because I’m
So consumed with the timing I’m so focused on the time that I’m not really looking at the fact that this is the last time that I’m going to see my husband before he transitions to heaven and it was he was so generous and he was so sweet to me that night and it
Was just something different he was just like almost as if he knew and he was trying to embrace and hold on to me as much as possible and I couldn’t understand you know what’s wrong with him he’s acting weird he’s acting like he’s never goingon to see me again I
Remember thinking that he’s acting like he’s never going to see me again so on our way leaving the place I turned right he turned left and I never seen him again and at exactly 3:15 in the morning I was praying asking God I don’t know I felt the urge to pray
Asking God to cover him and protect him and to keep him safe and he had he had already he literally the accident happened at 3:14 3:15 a.m. at the exact time that I was praying and so I didn’t know until 7:00 that morning so I had continued to do my route came
Went to Publix talked to one of the ladies in Publix about couponing and we were talking for at least an hour get to the house and the police are at my house to tell me that my husband had passed away in the car accident and I can still remember the
Devastation that I felt at that time it didn’t seem real I was numb and the reason why I’m sharing my story is because I know what it’s like to lose somebody that’s close to you and I know what that journey is like to have to go through the different emotions and
Have to process that it can be really tough and so what I wanted to give you that a little bit of a background so that you can know why I did this journal and it’s been seven years and I have I’m in a much better place than I have been
And the holidays can be hard but I have learned how to deal with the holidays I’ve learned how to cope and adjust to excuse me to him to my husband no longer being here with us and I wanted to do this project because I wanted to help somebody else
Whether it’s a loss of a spouse a loss of a child I want to be there to help you to navigate through that because and I’m going say this to some of you that have families or have someone in your family that um that may have passed away stop trying to
Be stop trying to in your attempt to help you make it worse when you when you try to overdo it by talking so much trying to fix a person and when they’re grieving and one of the things that frustrated me in my grieving process is when people
Were always telling me how to feel when people were doing too much talking and telling me how to process what I was feeling it was the hardest thing and I realized and it made me think about my cousin when my cousin lost his six-year-old and nine-year-old and how his their mother
Be to grieve on Facebook live and it grieved my heart oh my god when I tell you it literally literally my heart literally was overwhelmed and watching her grieve and talk about how Believers were coming to her saying that this was God’s Will and that he needed another angel in their life stop
Just stop stop because when they did that they overwhelmed her and she died two months later and she was Furious because she couldn’t understand how God would allow which is one of the number one things that when you’re grieving the love of your the loss of your loved one you’re always
Battling with how does God allow this to happen especially if it happened in a way that felt like it was unfair that felt like it was unjust right my husband was killed it was unjust it was hard to grasp and wrap my mind around a reality
Of the fact that God allowed this to happen so to tell somebody God did this is frustrating sometimes the best thing you could do is just be there be present and let them feel your love and support and stop trying to fix them in their grieving process stop trying to
Fix them because they’re they are going to go through natural emotions as a result of grieving that is not going to always be there it may today they might be feeling great tomorrow they might feel another way might go through a lot of ups and downs highs and lows
And you trying to help try to Define where they are is can be completely aggravating could be discouraging and in the fact that people did that it took her over the edge and she died of a broken heart she died of frustration and one of the things that
I’ve dealt with in in the grief of losing my late husband was understanding the sovereignty of God because sometimes we don’t always have the answers that we want we want God to share with us why things happen the way they do we want answers that we probably won’t get on
This side of Eternity right we probably won’t get those answers and then by the time we do get to God the things that we think we’re going to ask God is probably not even going to matter then because the Bible said when we will see him and we will see him as he
Is and so when you see God I doubt if a lot of the questions that you have will even matter right because we will see him as he is and there I believe there are going to be some things that God is going to allow us to understand without even explaining it to
Us and so I wrote this journal and it is a 12 month it’s 365 days of healing so this is one of 12 so every month there will be a new Journal because after 30 days when people are actually grieving the Lo of a loved one people are there
For the first couple of weeks maybe 30 days and then after that when the funeral is over when everybody’s gone home you’re left to deal with the pieces at night time when you’re by yourself you’re dealing with the the anger the fury the frustration the numbness the
All the different things that come with grief so I know because I understand that process this is a 365 day journey of healing so this is Journal one of 12 right 12 12 journals that’s going to help you that where I get to help you during your process of grieving because
I understand the process and what it feels like to to to be so depressed in The Grieving in The Grieving State I understand that but and I also want to in the beginning I didn’t want to journal and I Journal a lot after that I I had to be
Able to have some sort of way and I W I didn’t want to talk about it I didn’t want to talk to anybody about what I was feeling I just want just commun I just wanted to write it I wanted to communicate it to God and through my
Heart right but I’m grateful that God was able to to bring me through that and this is why I want to be able to help you to get through that so if you want to do something special for your loved one or for somebody that you know or if
You’re one that is grieving the loss of a loved one you have to get this book this journal and devotional it is amazing right give the gift of encouragement if you want to give a somebody a gift this year give them the gift of encouragement if you know
Somebody that’s grieving you can go to my website um it’s www.om of proverbs. and I’ll post it here on the um screen go to my website right be a blessing to somebody right and help Let’s help them heal because right now this is a really tough time
For a lot of people that have lost a loved one whether it’s a mother or child nothing Grieves my heart more than when I look on my page and I see people that I know or don’t know and I see them grieving over the loss of their loved
One it’s the most heartbreaking thing ever because I know what that feels like and I know the the heartache that comes with that and I’m grateful to God that he has gotten me through that and so because he’s gotten me through that I’m able to help other people people get
Through it and my help is not necessarily telling you how to grieve but walking you through the how to cope while you’re grieving so I’m not going to tell you how to grieve I’m going to help you to cope so make sure you go to my website and um
Check it out give the gift of giving help somebody get through this process and yeah and that’s basically it so I’m going to go ahead and end thank you guys so much for watching I appreciate each and every one of you that share make sure you share this video with somebody
That you know that could benefit from you and I’ll see you next week have an amazing week I’ll see you later hi do you have a testimonial that you would like to share here with The Sisterhood checkin audience we love to hear from you make sure you send me an
Email at becoming awoman of Proverbs gmail.com or you can send me a message on Facebook at the handle woman of proud and we love to share and hear all the wonderful things that God has done in your life too have a wonderful day
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