Dear God
Please Bless the Sister that is reading this. You already know what weighs on her heart and mind ,as well as what is best for her. If things do not go as she has planned, Please Bless her with the knowledge of the reasons and lessons unseen through Faith. Help her Lord to see the value she has in your plan for her life. Deliver her Father from the things and ppl she has gotten so comfortable with that is holding her back from her Purpose. Lord help her to see and know her beauty at all times!!! Renew her mind heart and spirit. And Give her the ability to keep Believing in Herself even when she's at her weakest point. And through You she can do all things and to Keep reaching Higher. "God gives the toughest battles to his strongest soldiers" so fight the good fight and Keep Moving Forward and help her to remember her purpose is far beyond what she sees in her self. Thank you and in Jesus' precious name, Amen!!! PEACE & BLESSINGS ~~~~MARI~~~~ Ladies,
Make no difference what you're going thru. Hold your Head Up, Stay Prayed Up and Put a Smile on your face. This is just a test, it won't last always. Get ready for your blessing cause its coming and Declare that your Life is Good no matter the situation!!! God is amazing and whatever it is you're going thru its only gonna make you Stronger and Better..Let it all Go and Let God handle it. He doesn't need your help cause He has already worked it out for your good. So with that..Take a deep breath....Pray and go about your day....with a Smile on your face!!!! ♥ ~~~PEACE&BLESSINGS~~~ MARI I remember it like it was yesterday. I was forced to see the woman that stood in the mirror. Although, it was my reflection, she didn't look anything like me. She looked so broken and unhappy. I didn't really recognize the person that I was seeing. Tears started to flow down my face...at that time I knew something had to change...starting with Myself.
To everyone else I looked like everything was ok but it was all lie. Inside I was slowly dying on the inside and just existing. Living life the way others wanted me to, trying to keep everyone happy, even the ones that didn't deserve it. I wasn't being true to myself. Well, that was six years ago. I was forced to look in the mirror and realize that life is to short to live in an unhappy state of mind. Life is to short to be afraid to live it to it's fullest and life is just way to short live it on other ppl terms. Six years ago I decided to start working on "ME" and although I still stumble and fall. The fall is a little different and the way I lift myself up has changed...I may fall but I get back up!!! If you ask me what was the worst day of my life, I would have to say the day I was forced to "Look in the Mirror". If you ask me what was the best day of my life, I would have to say the same day. I know you're thinking how could that be, you see on that day I realized that I had wasted so many years of my life living for others and now I was looking at the reflection of a woman I barely knew. I was letting life past me by without question. I didn't know her likes or dislikes, I didn't know where she was going, she had no goals, no dreams, she was just existing and that scared be so, I realized I wanted to Live Life, so on that same day I decided to step into my "Greatness" and "To Be Happy" no matter what. I had to figure out who I really was..It took a lot of soul searching and some days I'm still searching but I now know who holds all the answer to all my questions..God... He has taken me to a place in my life where I thought I could never attain...Peace and Happiness within myself. I now know who Mari is and I will continue to learn new things about her everyday. And I am able to wake everyday with a Smile...knowing the best in yet to come...and the Best is within me.I have fallen in love with "ME" and I wouldn't change it for anything in the world.My journey is ongoing but now I know no one can stop but myself. I was made for this. Onwards and Upwards is where I'm headed... In the words of Ms. Whitney Houston "I Didn't Know My Own Strength", But I do Now!!! Today the woman I see when I look in the mirror...She Is Me..She is Who I Am...I Love Her...Flaws & All!! ~~~PEACE & BLESSINGS~~~ ~~~MARI~~~ It is so easy to focus on what is wrong w/ our life, we forget to focus on what is right w/ our life. Because we have to wake up & face the battles with our finances, jobs, relationships, health,and sometimes our kids.. Whatever ur battles may be, we tend to forget that there is actually much GOOD in our life. Please don’t let ur problems keep u from ur PRAISE.....I repeat.... DON’T LET UR PROBLEMS KEEP U FROM UR PRAISE!!! I'm not saying that ur problems aren’t important, or that you should just forget them. What I'm saying is to not let ur problems overwhelm u to the point u don’t take the time to give God the praise for all of His blessings in ur life each day. We all have problems in our life. That is simply part of life. However, we all have blessings as well. As a matter of fact, we have blessings in our life that we take for granted & don’t even thank God for.
It is so easy to fall into the trap of focusing only on the bad things that's going on in our lives, that we tend to lose sight of all the good & the MANY BLESSINGS God bestows upon us each day. So with that..... I pray that u will take a few minutes to reflect on the good & the blessings in ur life today. Count ur many blessings...Have a Blessed Day....and Keep Smilin!!! :)) ~~~PEACE & BLESSINGS~~~ ~MARI~ I'm so Thankful to be able to see this day and share it with my family & friends. It is such a blessing within itself. And then I think about the ppl that may not be able to enjoy this day with family or can't because of a situations or finances. So when we start to look at someone else's life it makes you realize that You Are Truly Blessed.
We have so much to be Thankful for and yet, we often find many reasons to complain, worry and stress. But today, I’m asking you to look at what you do have...and Be Thankful for that. Cause somewhere someone would love to have the life that you have today. Give GOD the highest Thanks and be Thankful for everything not just today but each day we have here on earth. May GOD continue to shed HIS mercy and grace over you and yours. HAPPY THANKSGIVING from my household to yours. PEACE & BLESSINGS ~~~MARI~~~ Sisters, you may be at a point where you don't know which way is which, things are coming at you left and right, and you don't know what to do. But whatever you do, Don't let go of God and walk in His promises. He's got you. So don't Give Up...Get Prayed Up.. Cause He will never fail YOU. Be Blessed!!!
~~Peace&Blessings~~ ~~MARI~~ This week has been a week of test...but My Faith never weaken. One thing I know to be true..Sometimes your Faith is all you got. Ive learned with my Faith I wouldn't be where I am or who I am Today...and for that I Give All Praise and Honor to God for always sustaining me during the rough times.
We all have to go through the trials and tribulations of life that's a given but we don't have to get discouraged when we do cause God has Great things for us even in the bad times. I know sometimes it hard to see the future when your present is so cloudy. What tends to happen to us as we go through these test of life, is that, we stop believing God for brighter days and better things. We get stuck. We focus on our struggle instead of our God. But, let me tell you, your lot in life won't always be what it is now...Trouble Won't Last Always... One day, you'll look back on those moments of despair and see what God was preparing you for all the while!!! When you emerge from all that hardship, heartbreak, disappointment and irrelevant ppl.. you won't Think, Act, or Believe the same way. Your mind will be renewed, your Faith restored, and your confidence regarding your future will suddenly return. I'm a living witness to that!!! Your sorrow will be replaced with joy. Your doom and gloom will have to take a back seat...and You will be Smilin from ear to ear.. :))) You'll be sharing with everyone the testimony of what God has done for you. Its amazing how He will show up in your life and turn things around. That's why its so important to always have Faith in yourself and never lose your Faith in God. Cause when its said and done...You will be a Better You...and all the things that use to get you down..won't anymore. So as I sit hear reminding myself about the past week and the things that happened..all I Know is Im Still Smilin..and It was Just a Test...and I passed!!! ~~~PEACE&BLESSINGS~~~ ~ MARI~ Dear God,
Please grant me the strength, the wisdom and the knowledge to be the woman that you need me to be. Whatever you need me to do, I promise to get it done with the best of my ability and keep my focus on You. I want you to use me and live through me to help me change my life and others for the better. I know and have Faith that you would never put me through anything that I clearly could not handle. So for that I thank you every single day and for the many blessings that have come my way and for loving me unconditionally even when I dont deserve it. Please just be patient with me, I promise you one day I’m going to make you proud that I am your child. I love you, Thank you for the opportunity to Smile Everyday, To Live, To Love, To Laugh and most of all Be Happy. Amen My started off on a bad note...phone was not working due to me dropping it in some water. I was wondering to myself...How can I go without my phone. It was a part on me and outside connection to the world..lol
I been so busy lately with work and outside stuff that maybe me going without my phone is what I needed. To isolate myself from the outside world and focus on more important things even if its just for a moment. Maybe God is trying to tell me something.. "Get somewhere and Be Still". So today that's what I did. Didn't have the pleasure of the phone ringing or texts to distract me from my writing or reading today. I was really focused...more than I have been lately. So today wasn't that bad at all...now tomorrow maybe a different story..lol. So I will take today as lesson..sometimes we have to make time to do the things God wants us to do or He will make a way for us to...So I couldn't get upset about not having a phone especially when I know things could be a whole lot worse in my life...cause when its said and done...its just a phone. PEACE & BLESSING ~~~MARI~~~ |
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