Archive | June 2012

His Plan is My Plan!

Jun30

MY MORNING AND MIDDAY MEDITATION:  On last night, June 29th, I was committed to being in a service that I had planned to BE at for over a month.  However, the additional resources didn’t prevail for me to do what I had committed myself to doing.  I really wanted to BE there.  However, more than that, I wanted to follow what YAH desired for me.  Something different was just around the bend and I was open to receive what HE had prearranged vs. me continuously trying to MAKE my plan happen.

During a string of indecisiveness, changing my mind more than twice, a chain of events, some effective communication, and an ultimate “I can’t go” posture, I learned that this wasn’t about me going or not going.  It was about me being able to ‘make a decision and stay committed’ to that decision until the conclusion of the matter; even when the end result was, “No!  Not this time.”

For many of years, I’ve made compulsive choices; ambiguities that left my first ministry, my family, in unjustifiable bondage; whiffling in weaknesses that pacified me [selfish] and satisfied someone else’s wishes.  And, those actions threw my household out of equilibrium.  While waiting on and trusting in the LORD, who is full of light and mercy, help that is stronger than I in decision-making has come.  This help is from the ultimate Helper.  In more ways than two, help is attracted to me and I am attracted to it.  Hmm, I just found myself in the Word of YAH according to Psalm 121.  I AM, right now, that song.  Anyways, one of the most impeccable ingredients about help is that while it comes to help, it also gets helped.  Insecurities of the past are kept at bay and healing has come to help’s aid.  We are helpers of the war, one to another.  SELAH!

Thus, BLESSED is the LORD, Who abides in me and me in Him.  He has caused me to BE open to His Guidance, His Will, and His way.  Despite the fact that I didn’t accomplish what I had planned, I freely promenaded the path that the day had initiated for me.  Every hour was beckoning me; waiting on me to embrace its “decreed and declared” design.  All I had to do was rise up to what already was…and I did that!  I and my lads met new friends; had a night filled with great family fun and authentic hilarious laughter.  My entire soul was flourishing (feeling giddy just thinking about it); as there had been a part of my essence on lock down due to life’s episodes.  I even explored the depth of my energy and karate chopped a board (((SO AMAZING)))!

My current stance: I AM pleased with YAH’s plan for me, and my plan is to follow His plan until the end” (Smith, Angela M. 2012)!

The Beauty of Building

Jun28

The foundation is the first thing built when constructing a building: this building, that building, any building that you are building to abide in i.e. relationship building, spiritual building, emotional building, ministry building, business building, every building.  Not only is the foundation the FIRST thing built, it is the MOST IMPORTANT thing to build.  And, it must BE built with a resilient truth, full of integrity, for the stability of the ENTIRE structure.  The foundation can’t BE built to benefit only one part of the structure, the relationship.  That’s scheming and selfishness.

When establishing your relationship building foundation, have you factored in the soil (soul) conditions, climatic (emotions, sensitivity) conditions, natural (psychological and spiritual) hazards, and the tools needed to righteously deal with the nearby hills, slopes, rivers and waters?

If it has been revealed that the land has some soul conditions that are weak, and have the tendency to slip here and there, you need to build a slab or raft foundation.  This kind of foundation covers the entire area of what is BEing constructed and will help you remain afloat on shifting souls.  You have to “continuously” pour the concrete Word of YAH in this foundation; and the iron that sharpeneth iron should BE inserted to avoid cracking of the concrete.  I strongly advise the skirting of the Holy Spirit so that the entire slab doesn’t slide away due to the shifting soul.  SELAH!

In addition, soul conditions that are causing other problems, like convulsing mindsets and landfills (areas of the soul containing buried waste), or tainted water (spirit) needs another type of foundation called pile foundation.  Concrete columns of YAH’s Word are piled about 13ft BElow the foundation’s surface soul (the weak soul).  This is done to prevent rebellion against that which is good.  Also, it is accomplished in a series of diggings and it is plowed deep to the nub of the soul condition (the spirit).  Based upon how desperate the building situation is, this pile foundation can BE precast (ready-made) or set up on site.

Deception, disguise, distortion, flimflamming and waffling people at the foundation of a relationship doesn’t and will not EVER make good for stable walls and frame.  Even when dismantling and starting over with truth and honesty in the same soil is prime, some, just some, will not exert the tenacity, nor do they have the desire, to tear down what has been built on a deceptive foundation.  They’d rather move onward to fresh soil and build a firm, righteous and stable foundation.  SELAH!

And so, I’ve discovered The Beauty of Building.  We can all decide the foundation we want to build on BEfore we build on it.  This decision will ultimately make our structure to BE one of two things, a Solid Rock or Sinking Sand.  SELAH!  ©27 June 2012, Angela M. Smith