SAFE HAVEN 4U

Good morning my sisters and brothers in Christ Jesus! (Psalms 32:4-5), For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah I acknowledge my sin unto thee and mine iniquity have I not hid.    I said I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord, and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. Don’t close that window.    Each time that you pray, asking the Lord for His forgiveness you are keeping that glimmer of hope open, the window slightly open.    Each day that I loaded my body with drugs and alcohol I still prayed and worship God.    There was a time in my life when I considered myself to be too deep in sin. I should have or could have at any given time died.    I’m telling you about me, who I used to be.   You're not a hypocrite because you attend worship service or praise God, you're a sinner that loves the Lord, and that's why you praise and worship God! I always share my st...

  Hello, I pray that you are all blessed and highly favored by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and that this is a timely message for you. When you are driving a stick shift you must learn the fill of the car to know exactly when it's time to shift gears.  If you do not shift gears at the right time, you are putting your engine in danger and setting yourself up to have to buy a new engine.  If you don't shift gears when you're supposed to your car will make a loud noise and then shut off. God is telling you to SHIFT, and change your course.  He wants to take you higher in Him, SHIFT.  God doesn't want you to stay in that same gear, SHIFT God says, SHIFT.  God has already spoken to you; this message is only a confirmation for you. God says He has so much more for you, but you must SHIFT, to get to the next level in your ministry.  Some of you have people in your life that are holding you back from SHIFTING.  It's time for y...

Good morning, I pray that you are blessed and highly favored by the Lord Jesus and allow Him to guide your footsteps and create in you a clean heart and righteous spirit. Acts 2:25-28, "I saw the Lord always before me.  Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.  Therefore, my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices; my body also will live in hope, because you will not abandon me to the grave, nor will you let your Holy One see decay.  You have made known to me the paths of life; you will fill me with your presence". For games like golf, bow & arrows, and weightlifting you need a spotter.  The spotters' job is that they must have extra eyes.  With golf and bow & arrows, the way the wind is blowing, the temperature, and other things play a huge factor in both.  When lifting weights, you have a spotter standing over you to make sure that you don't hurt yourself and that you can lift the amount of weight that is put on that barbell.  If s...

Good morning, I pray that today you are highly blessed and favored by our Lord. Whatever you're going through bad or good, trust God, trust the process. Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord (Col. 3:23) When we focuc on serving God, we're able to accomplish even the most difficult tasks with fervor and gladness in His power and leading. We can then become less concerned with receiving earthly recognition and become more eager to receive the reward only He can provide. (Daily Bread) I had been looking for a job for over a year, trusting the Lord that He would put me in the right job. I don't drive so the bus route has to be perfect. I cannot do hard labor work, so a warehouse job was not going to cut it.  The perfect job came up for me, I got the interview and the job. It is a transitional housing place for homeless. We call them our guest and just like guest at a hotel they seem to need a lot of care.  Clean towels, bath items, coats, hats...

Good morning, I pray that you are blessed and highly favored by our Lord, Jesus Christ.  I also pray that today's message is a blessing to you. (Psalms 9:9-10) "The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed; a stronghold in times of trouble.  Those who know your name will trust in you for the Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you". MY TESTIMONY This is the second time that I shared my testimony with you. God says that it is time for you to be set free. Free from addictions to pills, weed, alcohol, crystal meth, and whatever the enemy has had you bound with. The power of love, God's love will never change towards you.  I know that it is hard to take that first step out of your addiction and into the Lord's hands.  If your addiction didn't kill you, it's because of the love that the Lord has for you. We always hear about how much the Lord loves us.  We read scriptures, we sing songs, and we hear testimony after testimony on how much He loves us. Somehow it j...

Today's devotional though is from a book titled, "When I'm on my knees" by Anita Corrine Donihue. Dear Lord, hug the little girl within me - the little girl mistreated and abused.  Encircle me with Your everlasting arms.  Still my silent sobs.  Anoint my head with Your healing oil; free me from nightmares of memories.  Touch my scars with Your healing stripes.  Soothe each muscle that suffered in anger and pain.  I know You suffered, too.  Piece together my broken heart.  Your heart bled and You died for me.  In sleepless nights, wrap me in Your comforting presence.  Let me rest in the shadow of You, the Almighty.  Hug the little girl in me as you cover me with Your feathers like a mother hen does her chicks.  I find refuge under Your wings.  Help me to face yesterday (wrong as it was), to forgive as You forgive me, and to look toward tomorrow with hope.  Your faithfulness will be my shield and rampart.  Let me n...

Good morning, mighty woman, and man of God, I pray that today's message will bless your spirit. In the Lord, I take refuge, how then can you say to me: "Flee like a bird to your mountain. For look, the wicked bend their bows; they set their arrows against the strings to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart. (Ps. 11:1-2) The devil will always be on his job but take heart because the Lord is always with us through the fiery darts and daggers that we go through daily. If you make the Most High your dwelling, even the Lord, who is my refuge then no harm will befall you, no disaster will come near your home, for He will command His angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways. (Ps. 91:1-2). The Spirit of the Lord (Holy Spirit) is always on His job concerning each of us, read Psalms 91, it will be a blessing to you. Heavenly Father, thank you for your grace and mercy which allows us to take refuge in You. Father, as we go about our day, we know that you are not allo...

Good morning, everyone, I pray that you are blessed and highly favored by our Lord Jesus Christ. Today walk in love tomorrow is not promised to us. Ask the Lord God to create in you a clean heart. Romans 8:31 And those He predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified. What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? Sad to say, sometimes we discover people are also against us.  Satan does not always work alone in the spiritual realm; he works through people in the natural realm.  He attacks our confidence through the things people say or do not say.  He can cause us to feel unworthy or rejected because of another person's words or actions. A lot of us need to be delivered from the fear of people and from caring too much about what others think about our actions or things that we may say.  People who always need the approval of others desperately want everyone to look at him...

Good morning, "Safe Haven" Group Members (Psalms 9:9-10), The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed; a stronghold in times of trouble. Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, Lord, have never forsake those who seek you. My siblings and I always had chores, just like any other family. Bussing suds at my home were a lot different than normal ones. Each dish had to be cleaned, dried, and put away for the kitchen to be clean. It was 3a.m. in the morning, and in our silence, we were trying to remember whose turn it was pretending to be asleep while hearing dish after dish, being thrown from the cabinets into the sink. The sound of water and dishes hitting the sink wakes the entire household. No one cares that it is 3a.m., the only concern is that one dish was dirty. I had the chore of washing dishes that week so I'm the one getting out of bed at that time.   The water was so hot I could barely put my hands in the water to grab a dish out to clean. Behind me is shouti...

 Good morning, brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus. I pray that today's message is on-time for you.  I keep a journal of my prayers, questions, scriptures, and anything the Lord has me to write. This is what I wrote recently. I can't seem to read my Bible.  I feel like I have really messed things up so badly this time.  There's not anything good left for me today.  I messed up everything in the Word.  All the things I should not do, I did.  God surely will not bless me anymore.  I have let Him down for the last time, promises I just did not keep.  What's the point in praying, He is not going to listen to me anymore, I've really done it this time. I was led to read (Romans 7:14-20) .  Let me explain to you what the writer, Apostle Paul is saying here.  Paul is reminded that sin will always be in the world, until Jesus comes back for us.  You see Paul was once a murderer and tax collector, God anointed him to be a disc...

 Good morning, my prayer for you is that you are prosperous.  I pray that these blogs are a blessing to you. Psalms: 9:9 The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. So, as far as healing service we see our brothers and sisters in the prayer line be healed from several illnesses. And the pastor might call out some of the illnesses, Cancer, Diabetes, Arthritis, Lupus, and so many more.  Some of us need healing and deliverance but they didn't call out your illness. You might feel ashamed and don't want to say what you need prayer, you might be thinking how are they going to fix you? Go to the altar and pray, you might not want to share what you're dealing with, but that's okay, if the man or woman of God that is praying for you is anointed then the Holy Spirit will guide them as to what to pray for you. Here's what the Holy Spirit says to me there are so many people suffering from a broken spirit. And that spirit attaches itself to y...

Good morning, my sisters in Christ Jesus. Welcome to "Safe Haven Ministry", I pray you are blessed this Monday morning. (Matt. 14:27), He spoke to them saying Take courage! I AM! Stop being afraid! I was born on August 22, 1964, the third child of my siblings. I grew up on the south side of Chicago from 79th and Escanaba to 127th Parnell. If any of you are from Chicago. I was an average child, in fact, I was always late for curfew. My sisters and I played Hopscotch, double-dutch rope, jacks, and softball with sewer lids as bases. I was an average student in my classes. I'm not sure when I started wetting the bed, but I remember getting whipped daily for ruining sheets. It got so bad that I would take my sheets off the bed and throw them in the garbage on my way to school. At one point my mattress was taken away and I slept on springs that were made of some type of square springs, that's the best I can describe what bedframes were at that time in the seventies. The whi...

(1 Cor. 27) God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong Good morning, brothers, and sisters in Christ Jesus. My prayer for you is that you are blessed and highly favored as the Lord makes your path straight and easy. How do you get delivered from your childhood? People find out what you're still struggling with and the first thing the saints say is "Aren't you delivered from that yet?" It's not as simple for some people. It's not that simple for me. It's not like a pack of cigarettes or drugs. Sometimes our past leaks into our present. I am what we call the middle child of the siblings. My mother had four children, I have one older sister, one younger, and my brother, the oldest. Everyone always says the middle child causes the most trouble, but I don't think so, well maybe. The day that he moved into our home, for me, the middle sibling curse began. My nose became the brunt of his jokes. He told me that I had the biggest nose that he ha...

Good morning my sisters and brothers in Christ Jesus.  I want to explain what Safe Haven Ministry is all about. Safe Haven is an entity of Spiritual Growth for Women.  Safe Haven is the name that the Lord gave me for this ministry. He showed me a picture of the home that I grew up in. Then I heard the Holy Spirit say, "Your home should have been a safe haven for you, not abuse".  I struggle with bipolar depression and anxiety, yes, I have a "title" by my name but I am not God and I am blessed that I am used for His purpose for His people. It took me a long time to receive the title of Prophetess because of issues in my past. I felt that I was not worthy enough, I would have been okay with sitting in the back aisles of the church but God said, "Not so". God has been pushing me to tell my story for years, but I worried about what people will think about me, I can no longer afford to be afraid of people judging me, I'm on a mission from God to start this ...