It’s been a minute, ok ok ok, it’s been like 4 months! So not consistent right?! Lol Well, when I started out writing this blog, I told myself that I didn’t want to “force” blog posts, I wanted to write when God was calling me to write, when I felt compelled to write and here we are! 🙂 Hoping it doesn’t take so long for the next moment!
So what’s been gern on gyal, whey you been? (in Bahamian vernacular) Whey you been?! LOL
Well let’s start off saying, I am grateful to be alive. It’s been alot happening this past few months as we grapple with the THIRD wave of the COVID-19 crisis (or is it FOURTH, its been over a year, so who knows?) The news is filled with countless of deaths and ICU admissions, the world just feels like ALOT. So where I’ve been is, being grateful, being grateful to God for life, for health, for happiness, for abundance, for prosperity.
I have been incredibly reflective. I have been very intentional about the things I do, the people I spend time with, the ones I communicate with, and the time I spend doing pointless things (like social media). I have been reading books, doing fun things with Zahra, strengthening relationships, and of course working but I have been alot more balanced in my work which has been great.
I have been inquisitive, I have been connecting with My Father above, I have been grateful. With all of the things that are happening in the world, I often have questioned why me God? Sometimes I have been overwhelmed with emotion (yes I had that moment many times over the past four months, where I dropped to the floor and wept and said God, ONLY YOU, ONLY YOU, THANK YOU GOD).
Why do you continue to bless me? Why do you continue to strengthen my health, my being, my mind? Why do you continue to increase my wallet? Why am I growing in Your word God? Why do you keep connecting me with people who take me to the next level, who help me to fulfill my purpose? COVID-19 has been a blessing for me at a time when it has been people’s worst nightmare. My family is closer than ever, my family is healthy, strong, and connected. God is just continuing to move in my life, many times I have been David against many Goliaths, and came out on the other side, shocked, like how did that happen?? How does this keep happening for me? How come it keeps happening for me?
And then I heard Kierra Sheard’s song, “Keeps Happening for Me”, in that moment I knew that God rewards gratitude, God says countless times in the Bible that we are to please Him, please Him with our hearts and have faith in Jesus Christ. God wants us to be faithful to Him, continue to please Him. The more you are grateful to God for what He has endowed you and entrusted you with, the more He gives you.
I encourage you if you’re in a season where you’re grappling with what you believe to be lack, see what God has given you as abundance, see the roof over your head God has given you as prosperity, see the life God has given you as truly being blessed. Praise Him, worship Him, and know that This Too Shall Pass.
“My seed is blessed, My money is blessed. My body is blessed. It keeps happening for me. Covering my family, Making Better Decisions, Destroying Every Addiction. It keeps happening for me. I won’t apologize, No more feeling guilty, about this God thing, that is happening for me. I accept Your Blessings, I trust You with my future, Your way of life, is the Best thing for me. It keeps happening for me, it keeps happening for me, Open doors everywhere, It keeps happening for me. It keeps happening for me, Open doors everywhere, It keeps happening for me.”
God is good. Trust in Him. Worship Him. Please Him. Have faith in Him. He is an all-powerful/omnipotent and all-knowing Father.
Dear God, I thank You, I have faith in you and your plan for my life, Love your daughter, Iyandra
“God selected what in the world is foolish to put the wise to shame, and what the world calls weak to put the strong to shame. And God also selected what in the world is lowborn and insignificant and branded and treated with contempt, even the things that are nothing, that He might depose and bring to nothing the things that are.” – 1 Corinthians 1:27-28
