1/29/23 "No Pity Party "

1/29/23

5 Minutes of Focus 

"No Pity Party"

Answer me, Lord, answer me, so these people will know that you, Lord, are God, and that you are turning their hearts back again.” Then the fire of the Lord fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench.

1 Kings 18:37‭-‬38 NIV

1 Kings 19: Elijah came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, Lord,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.”

1 Kings 19:4 NIV

In 1 Kings 18 God answered Elijah's prayer, but in 1 Kings 19 (the very next chapter) Elijah prayed, but he didn't get the answer he wanted.

If you feel like sometimes God answers you and sometimes He doesn't....YOU'RE RIGHT.

Beloved, God will not answer every prayer the way you want Him to, because if you're honest... Sometimes your prayers are full of faith, and other times your prayers are just you in your feelings talking to God.

So, God answered Elijah's 1st prayer...Because mentally his head was in a good place and he was full of faith.

But that 2nd prayer was totally different, Elijah was in his feelings, feeling sorry for himself and wanting to die.

Beloved, The one thing God will not do is have a pity party with you. If you want somebody to feel sorry for you that person won't be God.

He's waiting on you to realize that and renew your mind like He told you to do in 

Rom12:2 NIV

So much can be going on in  this world and in your personal world, but God never meant for you to be transformed (changed) by any of it.

No, If you want God to respond to your prayers, you must stay steadfast in faith no matter what and no pity parties EVER!!

Heb 11:5-6 MSG

Until Next Sunday. 

LPS~Love, Prophetess Stacy

1/22/23 "But He Had"

1/22/23

5 Minutes of Focus

"But He Had"

Now Naaman was commander of the army of the king of Aram. He was a great man in the sight of his master and highly regarded, because through him the Lord had given victory to Aram. He was a valiant soldier, but he had leprosy.

2 Kings 5:1 NIV

Beloved, You don't have to be perfect and hopefully this set somebody free on today.

You don't have to be perfect in order to get some things perfectly done.

Naaman got a lot done, he got a lot accomplished, but he was not perfect. He was considered a great man, a man highly regarded, but he was not a perfect man.

But because of the God he had on his side, he was given victory over those who came up against him despite having leprosy, despite being a man flawed by illness.

So, While you may not be the one society would pick to be rewarded, because man is (always) looking at your outward appearance and needing everything to "appear" just right for the camera, for social media etc. 

God is looking at your heart (1Sam 16:7), and though there may be flaws on the outside due to an illness, due to a disability, due to an accident you were in etc...

If you keep seeking the Lord. Heb 11:6 (NKJ) If you keep serving the Lord...He will; just like he did for Naaman cause men to see your greatness and speak highly of you, and give no mention of what you're going through or have been through.

"But he had leprosy"....Notice how those words came last after everything else had been said. The leprosy was an after thought. It was no longer the 1st thing people thought of when it came to him.

And it will be that way for you too. There is victory being prepared for you, there is positive words to be spoken about you. Soon your issue will be an after thought.

People won't always see you the way you're being seen right now...You're not alone in how you're feeling, but this too shall pass.

Read this message over & over UNTIL you receive it and allow your heart to heal. Because who the Son sets free is free indeed.

John 8:36 NIV

Until Next Sunday. 

LPS~Love, Prophetess Stacy

1/15/23 "And NOTHING MORE"

1/15/23

5 Minutes of Focus 

"And NOTHING MORE"

Jesus was assigned to the woman at the well. He was there to help her get healed from her past relationships and be filled with the life-changing water of salvation and  NOTHING MORE.

John 4:1-29 NIV

Beloved, It's a dangerous thing to want something or someone for YOURSELF that God does not want for you.

But this is exactly what happens when we forget the assignment God gave us concerning that person and we get close with them in a way that we shouldn't. 

That person was your assignment...God intended for you to draw them closer to Him, but instead you ended up drawing them closer to you.

And you wonder why things are not working out the way you had hoped...It's because where you saw a possible relationship, God saw ministry. Where you saw friendship, God saw mentorship.

In John 4: Jesus told the woman at the well to, “Go, call your husband and come back.” “I have no husband,” she replied. Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband.

John 4:16‭-‬17 NIV

But what if, Jesus next words to this precious woman who  was in need of salvation would have been, "I have no wife in which to speak of either. "

 See how easy it is to derail the plan of God and cause things to go in a total different direction all because we allowed flesh to get involved, all because feelings got involved?

Jesus would have cost this precious woman her salvation, her chance to be free of EVERYTHING she had been carrying had he allowed himself to feel more for her that just His assignment. 

That's why it's so important that we choose to die daily, that by choice we crucify our flesh. 

Gal 5:16-17, 24

1Corin 15:31 NKJ

So that we can effectively minister to "that person" or any person and have no problem keeping it about the assignment, keeping it about God and what HE SAID, keeping it about salvation. 

Because the one thing we should NEVER want to do (as servants of Christ) is be responsible for someone stumbling, falling, missing out on what God has for them. 

Gal 5:7 CEV

Until Next Sunday.

LPS~Love; Prophetess Stacy

1/8/23 "That's Nothing New "

1/8/23

5 Minutes Of Focus

"That's Nothing New"

Then one of the twelve [disciples], who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, “What are you willing to give me if I hand Jesus over to you?” And they weighed out thirty pieces of silver. And from that moment Judas began looking for an opportune time to betray Jesus.

Matthew 26:14‭-‬16 AMP

So, You're wondering how people can be close to you and still not know you, be close to you and hurt you, be close to you and not value you.

Beloved, That's nothing new...

There is nothing new under the sun according Ecclesiastes 1:9 AMPC

Judas was close to Jesus... As a disciple he walked with Him, he had full access to Him daily and was even working for Him, but still he did not know Him.

Because if he did... If he really knew Jesus, he wouldn't have traded the relationship he had with Him for 30 pieces of silver. In today's money that's only [about twenty-one dollars and sixty cents].

See: Matthew 26:15 AMPC

It wasn't a lot of money, but he let that little bit of money, that little bit of silver come between him and Jesus.

As a man, Jesus had been Judas' mentor, his trusted teacher, his provider- providing his every meal. He had been his employer- giving him a job, a position in the ministry etc.

In other words, Jesus had been good to Judas....And still he chose to betray him.

But Beloved, It's to be expected...Any time "the world" can see the light of GOD in you...They are going to hurt you, they are going to devalue you, they are going to betray you, lie on you...

Because they don't want no part of the JESUS that's in you. The bible says, He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

I John 4:4 NKJV

So, They will try to do whatever they can to bring you down to their level, but don't you do it.

Instead, Continue to let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

Matthew 5:16 NKJ

Until Next Sunday. 

LPS~Love, Prophetess Stacy