ALL Women, Especially BLACK WOMEN Should Be High Maintenance. Period. Imagine Lowering Your Standards

stop waiting on men to validate you. you’re pretty. you’re smart. you’re interesting. you’re worth time & effort. you deserve to be loved. you need to know these things and truly believe them. don’t wait on some man to come along and tell you.

“I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer.”

— C.S. Lewis

if you’re at a low point in life right now, consider THIS:

new people are coming your way with love

a huge success may be waiting around the corner

the possibilities are endless

you can always change your habits

Remember the downfall of Samson with Delilah. Little by little, piece by piece, he gave himself away and turned devotion into other things, not God. He didn’t just fall the moment his hair was cut and the covenant was broken. He fell the moment his heart stopped being devoted to God.

Devotion and living for God starts at the core of the heart. The core of the heart steers the reins that determine your direction.

Christ said that the greatest commandment is the love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength. Where are you devoting your heart, soul, mind, and strength today?

Song of Solomon 8:4

Take the warning seriously about love. (Songs of Solomon 8:4)

God wants you to enjoy love with the one He has given you. He wants to enjoy love with you. He wants you to enjoy love with the one He has given you. He wants you to enjoy it in a proper fashion. This is the reason God warns THREE times in the Song about stirring up or awakening love before its time.

“Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you: do not stir up or awaken love until the appropriate time.” (Song of Solomon 8:4, HCSB

The Song even acknowledges how hard it is to be this patient.

“Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you: if you find my love, tell him that I am lovesick.” (Song of Solomon 5:8, HCSB)

Many times, we want to strike the spark of love before we are ready. God warns us to be patient. Of course, it doesn’t help that we live a society that pushes that on us. Society pressures us. Whether it is the pressure of giving gifts and cards on Valentine’s Day, or selling us sex in a movie like Fifty Shades of Grey, society wants to tell you how to love. We must remember Who our source of love is.

“The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.” (1 John 4:8, HCSB)

God is love and He is our Source of love. We will not get the most satisfaction of love without Him. So we need to take God’s warning here seriously about romantic love. At the same time, we need to learn to be faithful and enjoy the one God gives us to express our love.

- from biblehub.com

Simple truths to repeat when you’re in a spiritual battle:

God’s got this

The Lord fights for me

Jesus loves me

Not today satan

I am a child of God

He is able

It is finished

His Grace is sufficient

Joy comes in the morning

I am not alone

I am fearfully & wonderfully made

Fear has no grip on me

Christ is enough for me

He has overcome the world

I am a new creation in Christ

Jesus conquered the grave

Sin doesn’t define me, Christ does

Be still & know

God is good

For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Hosea 6:6

this is most definitely the season that the lord has me in right now. it may be frustrating and confusing at times, but it is accomplishing something in me that I cannot even begin to imagine. all I need to do is trust in him. 

thank you lord that you do not leave me where I am. your work in me is never complete as you continue to mold me into the image of your perfect son. continue that perfect work in me and transform me. fill me with your spirit and guide me in the way that I should go. amen.