What are your thoughts???

This photo really had my brain churning.. What are your thoughts about it? 

Vision 2014 Women's Release

Hello Beautiful!!!

Women's Release has been on a bit of a hiatus since the birth of my beautiful son Brock!!!! I've had to totally reconstruct my life! (in a good way) I am so thankful for my wonderful support system (God,my husband, family, and friends) you all have made this transition easy! With all that being said Women's Release will commence at the top of the year!! January 16, 2014 and will be on the 3rd Thursday of every month moving forward. We will meet from 7-8p.m. I hope to see you all there!!! This year I pray that we can fellowship more, do community outreach, and change lives for the better!!! I pray that everyone had a wonderful and blessed Christmas!!! 

Love you all!!

See you soon!

Tiffany 

Where to Look to Find Joy

Joy. We don’t really know how to define it, but we know that we like it and many of us spend most of our lives trying to find it. We look for joy in our jobs, in relationships, in temporary pleasure. But at the end of the day, all these things will fall short. They will leave us empty and unfulfilled and we start looking somewhere new the find our joy. But as believers, as Pastor Steven reminds us in this clip from our series “The Joy Genome,” we have never-ending access to the most powerful source of true joy.

http://www.stevenfurtick.com/sermon-clips/where-to-look-to-find-your-joy/

Hold on tight to what you can’t get back

A dilemma we all face is trying to determine how tight of a grip we should maintain on different things in our lives. A question I have started asking myself to help sort my priorities and determine the strength of my grip is what can’t I get back?

Not everything is replaceable. There are some things you simply can’t get back if you lose them. And these are the things I want to hold onto the tightest.

You can’t get back hours you missed out playing with your kids because you didn’t leave work at work.

You can’t get back your marriage if your actions and behaviors cause it to completely disintegrate.

You can’t get back the integrity you spent years building because you wanted to cut a corner for momentary pleasure or gain.

No paycheck or promotion is worth your family. No stubborn habit is worth your marriage. No compromise is worth your character. Prioritize what is most important in your life and hold onto it with everything you’ve got. Ruthlessly fight anything that threatens to loosen your grip.

We often hold too tightly onto the things we could replace or do away with all too easily. Let them go. Hold on tight to what matters most.

Or you might not get it back.

Grace is power

When it comes to grace, people usually go wrong in one of two ways.

We either think that we’re too far gone for it and dismiss it.
Or we take it for granted and abuse it.

While they’re on opposite ends of the spectrum, they’re actually just two different expressions of the same problem:
They both view grace as weakness.

The first group lives as if grace is too weak to rescue them.
The second group lives as if grace is too weak to transform them.

Both are wrong. Grace isn’t weakness.

Grace is power. It is power to saveand to transform. To cover all of our sins and remove them from our lives. To get you off the hook and to get you into the zone of transformation.

Check out 1 Corinthians 15:9-10:
9 For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

I love that. First Paul relates with those of us who think you’re the exception to God’s grace. If there was ever a candidate, it was Paul. Not you. And apparently his sin wasn’t too powerful for God’s infinitely more powerful grace. And neither is yours.

Then he comes in and punches those of us who abuse it in the mouth. God’s grace is not without effect. Grace isn’t just a cheap perfume you splash on to cover the stench of your sins. It’s the power to change your life from the inside out.

Grace is power.
Power to save. Power to live right. Power to talk right. Power to walk right. Power to give. Power to forgive. Power to do anything God calls you to do in His name. Power to pray. Power to overcome.

Paul could have lived in perpetual guilt for what he had done. Or he could have taken advantage of what God had done for him. But he didn’t. And look at what he became.

You have the same options.
Embrace the power of God’s grace and imagine what you’ll become.

Resource of the Day: Another overlooked aspect of grace is that it doesn’t just rescue you from a life engrossed in sin. It also keeps you from it. If you’re like me and don’t have the most dramatic testimony, check out this post for some encouragement and motivation for praising God for what He has kept you from: Grace redefined.

By Steven Furtick 

Women's Release Update

Good Afternoon Everyone,

My bundle of Joy is finally here!!!! I gave birth this past Sunday 10/6/13 to a beautiful baby boy!! With that being said there will be no Women's Release this week. I will keep you updated for November. However, I don't want to leave you without any encouragement for the month, so if you are able to attend the below event I know it will definitely change some mindsets,provide Godly Wisdom, as well as fun!!! Rickeysha is the POC for this event contact email her at rickeysha.jones@gmail.com if you would like to attend!!! If there are any other events you would like to share with the group just send me a txt I may respond a little slower than normal lol new mommy! But I will def. txt u back! Love u all!!! 

Prayer

Lord I thank You that I am your child, for giving me the name of Jesus and the authority that goes with it. For giving me Your Holy Spirit, the greater one, the mighty power of God who leads me into all truth.

In the name of Jesus, I thank You that according to Your Word I have authority over all the power of the enemy, over all disease, to move obstacles, to stop problems, to calm storms, to rebuke evil. I have authority in the name of Jesus.

(Put your hand on your head) In the name of Jesus, fear and doubt leave me now, be gone. Confusion, deception be gone, heaviness by gone, depression and oppression be gone in Jesus name. Mind be strong, think clear, be bright and sharp.

(Put your hand on your chest) Soul… be peaceful, be at rest, be free, be loosed, be restored.

(Put your hand somewhere on your body) Body… be strong, anything that ought not be in this body I speak against you, I command you in the name of Jesus, die, dry up, be gone, leave my body!

(Hand to heart) Heart… be clear and strong.

(Hand to lungs) Lungs… be clear, be strong.

(Hand to stomach) Stomach and intestines… be healed, be whole, be free, work right.

Every organ, every gland be right, be normal, be healthy, be strong. Every bone, every muscle, every joint, every ligament, my nerves, my skin… be healthy be whole, be right, be strong in Jesus name… and my children’s!

In the name of Jesus, I command the enemy to take your hands off my money. NOW! Off my finances, off my investments, off my business, off my job. In Jesus name. Stop in your operations and cease your maneuvers.

Ministering spirits, angels… GO! God, command them to go. Cause money to come, work… influence… cause it to come in Jesus name to our household.

And in the name of Jesus, I command the enemy to stop your maneuvers against my marriage, my family, my children, I forbid it. I bind it. You cannot continue. I stop it now in Jesus name. I say my marriage is strong, I say my family is strong, and free and right.

In Jesus name I thank you Lord. Amen