Lately while doing my daily reading of the Word, listening to TV pastors, and also my inner spirit I have been hearing a repetition of encouragements and affirmations.I have been hearing messages of prosperity, wealth, health, restoration and renewal. some examples: Esther 8:2, Genesis 41:41-43, Dan 2:48, Eccel 2:26, Jeremiah 29:11 (my favorite), Ezekiel 16:53. There are so many Scriptures to back up the blessings offered. I want to be restored, renewed, enjoy increase in my life. I refuse negativity, I embrace the good.
I live in a world where being accepted by others is what I once thought I wanted to be. I thought being and doing what my friends did was normal. I thought everyone around me was normal. I thought I was not normal so I tried to be “normal” like them . I was in bondage to many things. That’s the right word too, BONDAGE. Thinking I was a free independent person when I was not. Being a slave to money, accepting unacceptable behavior, being a workaholic so that I could attain a certain status or station in my life, being prideful and trying to get by like everyone else was. Doing things I never ever thought I would do. Little by little I was degrading myself, being cut off from what was good and clean and wholesome. I was a wreck, losing my self esteem and self respect. Chipped away little by little. Heavy shoulders, big burdens, ignorant of many things. For all my accomplishments I also kept getting knocked back on my rear. Over and over not knowing why.
I kept thinking God, I’m a good person, why God? Why is this happening? What is it that I’m doing wrong? One thing I did learn through all my trials and tribulations is that God does hear me. I just needed to recognize the answer when it is presented to me.I had to have my eyes,ears and heart wide open. I had to RECEIVE the answer. It’s like an ah-ha moment. Okay I get it now. It’s not about me. It’s about Him. He’s my father, my Abba, my daddy. Like no father I ever had before. With Him I can do so much more than without Him.
Thank God that I have been found and saved. Saved from myself, from sin, from Satan. I was a very lost sheep. Faking my way, hoping the next big catastrophic event would not spiral down to the pits of despair, desperation, helplessness and homelessness. I had incredible stress in my life.
It took awhile but I am so thankful for who, what and where I am in my life. I have had many changes and losses but the next changes, the good ones, the positive ones, I look forward to. I have good Christian support systems. I try on a regular basis to do what I’m supposed to do in my Christian life. Some days are more difficult than others. It’s not easy trying to live as Jesus wants me to live. But through Him all things are possible.
I believe in the messages, the affirmations of wealth, health, prosperity, and restoration. They don’t necessarily mean that I’ll be monetarily rich. I believe they mean that I’ll be a lot better off than I was before, when I was lost.
Blessings, Mary
It's about Him 
Read this and I almost cried. Everything you wrote is so true. I could relate to it, and I’m sure many others also will. Now you see where you are in this time of life. I/we waste our youth on persuing “things”/”people, who do not help us to meet our goals. I’m talking about spiritual goals. Now as we age we look back in retrospect, and many regrets. I know I do. But faith and God have always been with me. I remember saying to my mother,( who seemed to be always praying), yes, you are saying words, but do you listen to what He is saying to you? When you pray, don’t keep asking for things. Pray in gratitude, and be thankful always.. And I thank you my friend, for a wondrous, beautiful site.
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