The Journey to becoming a better ME!

Everyday when I wake up I pray to be a better to person than I was the day before. This week on my IG and FB page I shared how GOD is molding me so I decided to share them here on my blog as well....

 

I am choosing to be HAPPY everyday! 
I am ridding myself of people that are negative or bring me down. 
I am commiting to live in the moment at all time so when I start to get nasty or in a bad mood I can take a few minutes, walk away, or sit at my desk and
usher in the Holy Spirit.
I am choosing this for A'Keta!
Life is too short not to be HAPPY!

 

 I am learning to be thankful for the things seen and unseen. 
I  am thankful that I serve an AWESOME GOD that will never leave me nor forsake. 
I am learning from my boss to give thanks even for the smallest things. I promise you he tells me thank you at least 50 times a day and with each thank you it is as if I am I hearing it for the first time!

Learning to move when GOD says move....
Learning to be okay when GOD tells me know...
Learning to sit and listen.....
GOD has spoken!



My Journey.......

Blessings
A'Keta Julinate'

Sacrifice vs. Obedience

I am so excited to introduce everyone to the new design for HISBlessedOne. As I am growing more and more in my ministry GOD is peeling back the layers of fluff and calling me to be more BOLD in my spiritual walk with HIM.

The new design is called "BLESSED" and I am absolutely in love with it. When GOD gave me the vision of this ministry HE gave me Deuteronomy 28:1-14 as the scripture and every day when I get out of my bed it is my prayer to be obedient. Not to receive the blessings but because I LOVE GOD!

Last week GOD revealed to me that in some areas of my life that I was making a sacrifice to HIM but not really being obedient. Two years ago I made a decision to become celibate and I can be honest when I decided to go on this journey it was not because I was really trying to please GOD and I defiantly didn't think it would go this long. I made the decision because I was having sex with a guy for two years on and off and not one time did he make a commitment to me. I woke up one morning making a choice to love me more than I cared about him. I promised myself that I would not have sex until I was in a committed relationship. LOL.....but GOD had better plans for me and now I am committed to be being celibate until GOD sends me a husband. What GOD did show me is that two years later I was still holding on to this relationship. I never thought of me trying to hold on this relationship as being disobedient but I did know that it was not GOD's plan for me but...oh I wanted the relationship to work so bad. So I told myself that I could change him and that we had such a great connection(what I now know is that we had soul ties to each but that is for another blog posting). I am thankful that GOD opened up my mind and heart to the truth and now after years of me asking the guy to let me go so I can move on after 4yrs I have now asked GOD to give me the strength to walk away with a clear heart and mind.

I feel good about my new deliverance and it opens up my spirit to know what true obedience it. 1 Samuel 15:22 says 'But Samuel replied, "What is more pleasing to the LORD: your burnt offerings and sacrifices or your obedience to HIS voice? Listen! Obedience is better than sacrifice, and submission is better than offering the fat of rams.'

My desire is to listen to GOD's voice instead of my own. I know that my voice can be jaded but Romans 8:28 reminds me that GOD causes everything to work together for the good of those who love HIM and are called according to HIS purpose for them.

I now know that I Am Purposely Driven by HIM!

Blessings,

A'Keta Julinate'

                                                                                                                   Model: Domonique Davis
                                                                                                                  Photographer: O.Js Photograhy

Model: Domonique Davis
Photographer: O.Js Photograhy

The LOVE of GOD through Friendships

1 Samuel 18: 1-3 After David had finished talking with Saul, he met Jonathan, the king’s son. There was an immediate bond between them, for Jonathan loved David. From that day on Saul kept David with him and wouldn't let him return home. And Jonathan made a solemn pact with David, because he loved him as he loved himself.

I love the relationship between David and Jonathan and as I think about the friendships that GOD has blessed me with over the years I literally sit and cry. GOD truly shows me what love feels like through my friends.

It is that love that sustains me most days as I am in Kuwait and away from friends and my family. Living and working on a military base can be hard. There are days I want to break free and go back home to normalcy where I can invite friends to dinner or shopping. There are times that I need a hug from my mom and/or sisters.

It is moments like that when I have to stay before GOD so that I don't form relationships here in the Middle East that are not of GOD. Like 1 Samuel 18 says when David met Jonathan there was an immediate connection. I have met a lot of people during my time in the Middle East and I have a good time with them but I try not to connect to spirits that are not like mine even if it means that most times I am alone. 2 Corinthians 6:14 is clear when it says do not be unequally yoked. Some think that is only in marriage but I believe that in any relationship light can't live with darkness.

I have been seeing a lot of controversy on social sites about Drake's song No New Friends. Some feel like it is stupid to say that because you are cutting yourself off from meeting new people and exposing yourself to other things. I believe that new friendships are healthy to growing in the body but it has to be the right relationships. Recently I have met people that are awesome and doing great things for the Kingdom. I know that the relationships are not by chance and it is those relationships that I nurture and try to draw my energy from because I know that it comes from GOD!

So as I celebrate Friendship day today I thank GOD for my loves. It is you that encourages me, supports me, pushes me closer to CHRIST, makes me laugh so much that I cry, challenges me to be better, birth purpose out of me, believes in the purpose GOD has given me, prays for me, talks me off the ledge and makes me feel love a 1000 miles away!

GOD I can never say thank you enough for the love! 

Blessings

A'Keta Julinate'