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Today's Inspiration

Joel Osteen is one of my FAVORITE Pastors and inspirational speakers. He helps me to apply God's word to my life in a everyday kind of way. Usually the word I find applies to something I am going through or have gone through and I post it on my FB page as a reminder to myself as I look back on my life (since we do have to deal with the whole timeline thing) lol. It is my goal that people are blessed or touched by the word that I found for myself that they too can apply to their lives.

He Opens Supernatural Doors

Posted by Joel Osteen on 8/24/2012

A friend of mine was sitting next to a young man on a plane who grew up in a very poor village in east Africa. Their country was in great famine, and they were struggling just to survive. At seven years old, his father was killed. At twelve years old, his mother died. He was separated from his brothers and sisters and then sent to live with his grandmother. His grandmother was very old and very sick, so at twelve years old, he became her caretaker. He would get up at five in the morning and study for an hour. He loved to study and read and learn. At six o'clock, he would walk to get water—an hour and a half each way. He would come back, make his grandmother breakfast, and then go to the school in the little village. He got out of school at three o'clock, went home, made his grandmother something else to eat, and then took the three-hour walk once again to get more water.

In the natural, it didn't look like this boy had much of a future. All the odds were against him. He was an orphan living in the slums with no parents and nobody to watch after him. But there was something special about this young man. Deep down, he believed that he was a person of destiny, that he had seeds of greatness on the inside. Every night before going to bed in that little mud hut, he would get down on his knees and say, "Lord, I want to go to college. God, I want to have an education. I want to make a difference with my life."

There were tens of thousands of young children living in the slums all around him. Nobody ever got out. But when you pray bold prayers of faith, it gets God's attention. When you believe, it causes the Creator of the universe to respond.

In that country, the children only went to school through junior high. To attend high school, you had to pay tuition. Ninety-nine percent of the children couldn't afford it. One night at twelve years old, this boy had a dream. In this dream, he saw himself walking through the village to a house about thirty minutes away. At that house, he met a man by the name of Mr. Stanley who was from Belgium. In the dream, Mr. Stanley helped him. When the boy woke up, he remembered the dream so vividly, right down to the smallest detail.

The next morning, he took that thirty-minute walk through the village and saw the exact house that was in his dream. The house was surrounded by guards. He walked up to them and said, "I'm here to see Mr. Stanley." The guards were amazed, even shocked. They said, "How do you know anything about Mr. Stanley?" He said, "I saw him in a dream." Intrigued, Mr. Stanley invited him in and said, "Son, what can I do for you?" The young boy said, "I want to go to school, but I have no money. I'm an orphan. I live in the slums."

Mr. Stanley said, "You go find the best high school you can find, and I'll pay your tuition. I'll give you the books. I'll pay for all your supplies. Anything you need, I'll take care of it."

In high school, the teachers noticed what an excellent student he was and how he loved to learn. They got him an internship at the Parliament working underneath the government officials, the lawmakers. They, too, could see there was something special about him. When he graduated from high school, the government said, "We're going to send you to college in America to study law."

My friend was sitting next to him on the plane. He had just gotten his law degree and was headed back to his country. My friend said to him, "They have groomed you to become the Prime Minister, haven't they?" He smiled and said, "What you are saying, ma'am, is true."

Friends, when you pray bold prayers, you never know where God is going to take you. When you follow the desires He has placed in your heart, He opens supernatural doors. He will connect you to the right people. He will go before you and make the crooked places straight. He will even speak to you in dreams. What you couldn't make happen on your own, God can make happen for you! He is not limited by your background, by what country you come from, by your education or by your talent. Open your heart and mind to Him and believe that He will do exceedingly, abundantly in every area of your life!

"No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him" (1 Corinthians 2:9, NIV).

What's for Sunday Dinner

As much as I LOVE to cook. There are times when it's a chore. I love to cook for entertaining purposes but cooking for me and my finicky kids is absolutely a chore. I HATE trying to figure out what I am going to eat but once I figure it out then I enter my zone and zone out until the meal is finished.

This is what's for dinner tonight (well part of it):

Crockpot BBQ Chicken...well it will be once I add the BBQ sauce. A simple mac and cheese and broccoli and cornbread and of course sweet tea lemonade. Then it's time to get the kids ready for another week of school and me another grueling week of work.

Crockpot Chicken (will be BBQ'd)

The journey with me begins today...

Hello Everyone! Welcome to my blog journey into thirty one days of my life. If you are wondering where thirty one days come from, well I am a Thirty One Gifts Independent Consultant (if you have never heard of it, check my Thirty One website) who not only LOVES promoting and selling the products of this company...I also love how they have and are simplifying my life on my road to a completely organized life. Since anything that helps organizing your life is something I'm passionate about...I choose to show how just about all of our products can be used in your life as I use them in mine. I believe an organized life brings about peace in your mental space which adds joy to our lives and peace on all levels in my life is what I am after.

Through this journey I will try to be as transparent as I can (within limits) to give you a peak into what my joys and pains are dealing with my children (my oldest child has an intellectual disability & ADHD). I am also raising a son with dreams and goals of becoming a better man than most of the men I have seen in my life. I currently live in an apartment and mentally preparing myself for home ownership. I also have a goal to make Thirty One Gifts my Full time Job which will allow me to utilize many of my God given talents that I am currently not using in my corporate day job. I'm 37 and a dreamer and believe that God will fulfill all or most of my dreams as long as I put in the work...and I DO work-LOL!!!!

So here's to the journey *raise your glasses* LOL!!!