HAPPY!!

As I trust GOD more and more I am learning to be Happy in my current season until GOD moves me to the next one! Pouting and being upset is only going to make the rough seasons harder and longer and I rather not live my life like that.

I choose Happiness! 

"For our heart shall rejoice in HIM, Because we have trusted in HIS holy name." {Psalms 33:21}

Blessings
A'Keta Vasser

Godly Friendships!

During my 36 years of living on this earth GOD has blessed me with some AWESOME friends. I often tell people that one way that GOD shows me love is through my girlfriends. Yes we have disagreement but at the end of the day we all love each other and that is what it is all about!

In December 2011 GOD brought someone into my life that has truly been a blessing to me. That person is the face of HISBlessedOne Domonique Davis. Domonique stepped out on Faith and deployed to Kuwait leaving everything that was familiar to her. When I first met Dom I knew that something was different about her and when she told me that she was a Christian and living her life for CHRIST I knew that we would be friends. I loved that we were able to be transparent with each other about our Christian walk. Some days were just hard but I was glad to have Dom as not only my prayer partner but also my accountability partner. Such a blessing!

When Dom left Kuwait to return back to the states nothing changed with our relationship. You know the saying some people come into your life for a season, a reason or a lifetime well I am so happy that our sisterhood was not seasonal.

In December 2012 I was in the states for the holidays and Dom drove down to South Carolina to visit me for a few days and to share her testimony during my first Vision Board Social. I was excited to be able to fellowship with her in the states and honored that she made the trip. The day that Dom was leaving I showed her the vision that GOD had given me with HISBlessedOne. I can still remember Dom's reaction to the  first designs.....pure excitement!

I never had to think twice of who I wanted to be the face for my brand! Dom is not only beautiful on the inside she is also gorgeous on the outside. Over the last year I have watched her grow through each photo shoot and I am so proud of her!

Dom and I often talked about how GOD had to send her all the way to the Kuwait for us to meet. HE is such an AWESOME GOD. I am beyond thankful for Godly relationships.....handpicked by HIM. So while others are saying no new friends I am always open to meeting HISBlessedOnes.

 
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. {Proverbs 27:17}

Stay Blessed

A'Keta Julinate' 

Lent Season!

Today is Ash Wednesday and it marks the start of Lent season. During Lent Christians practice fasting, repentance, moderation and Spiritual Discipline.

Beginning March 5, and ending on April 17, Lent is a 40-day period when Christians prepare for Easter. The 40 days represents the time JESUS fasted and prayed while in the wilderness as HE was preparing for HIS public ministry.

You may ask what you should fast from...I believe that it should be a gift of sacrifice unto GOD. I also believe that you should seek GOD for guidance and always be purposely driven by HIM. Remember that fasting is intimate and should between you and GOD.

 

As I was preparing for this season and talking to GOD about what I was going to give up for Lent HE kept talking to me about the areas of my life that needed discipline. The more and more that I prayed I found that Spiritual Discipline is the focus for this season. When I looked the word Discipline up in the dictionary it says "training expected to produce a specific character or pattern of behavior." Spiritual Discipline can be described as those behaviors that increases your spiritual growth and enables you to grow to spiritual maturity.

I am approaching today and the next 40 days with a Spirit of expectancy. Believing that as I fast and discipline the areas of my life that GOD has instructed me that it will not only be for this season but a lifetime.

It is my prayer that you enjoy the next 40! Rejoice in what GOD is going to do in your life after this season is over!

“When you practice some appetite-denying discipline to better concentrate on GOD, don’t make a production out of it. It might turn you into a small-time celebrity but it won’t make you a saint. If you ‘go into training’ inwardly, act normal outwardly. Shampoo and comb your hair, brush your teeth, wash your face. GOD doesn’t require attention-getting devices. He won’t overlook what you are doing; He'll reward you well. {Matthew 6:16-18 MSG}

Blessings

A'Keta Vasser

Why I Left the Church

Have you ever heard about people leaving the church because someone offended them or said something they didn't agree with. Yea that was me! Last July I was going through a lot of changes with my job and I was really looking forward to prayer time during a Friday (Joy) night service.  At the end of services I went to the alter to have my Spiritual Mother pray for me and as soon as she took my hand to pray one of the Chaplains' came up to us and said.... remember there are to be no laying of hands. I looked up at him in astonishment. Had he really interrupted my prayer time and who was he to constrain the Holy Spirit?

Needless to say I was upset...so upset that I decided not to return. My Spiritual Mother was leaving the following night to return back to the states and I decided that I didn’t want to stay around for all the different changes this new Chaplain was going to bring.  Although, I decided to not attend that particular church service on post I never left the church and continued to live stream back to my home church back in the South Carolina.

One Sunday Morning in November GOD told me to get up and go to church. He led me to a Contemporary service here on post and each Sunday I have been blessed with the word of GOD.  Yesterday during worship service  I had to smile and thank GOD for getting me back to this place. There is nothing in the world like being in the presence of GOD and worshiping HIM in HIS house with other believers.

As far as me deciding to no longer attend that service I learned that everyone's beliefs are different and I should be GOD led when leaving a church not based on my emotions.  I believe that as long as I am away from my home church that GOD will continue to lead me to a church in which I will grow in HIS word.

Still learning life lessons.....

Psalm 32:8 declares, “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.”

Exciting News:

HISBlessedOne is turning ONE this month! To celebrate we will have lots of giveaways and sales. Check out the site for more details www.HISBlessedOne.com.

Blessings

A'Keta Julinate'

  

My Soul

Yesterday morning while getting dressed I was listening to Pandora as a I normally do in the mornings and a Praise Medley by Tamela Mann came on that blessed my Spirit so much. For the last few weeks I had been in pray about a few things and as I got my praise on GOD began to talk to me about the very things I had prayed about. There is nothing like knowing that GOD heard your cries.

I LOVE my quiet time with GOD! The closer I get to HIM the more time I desires to be in HIS presence.

My Soul Loves JESUS!

Enjoy the medley and I pray that it blesses you as much as it blessed me!

Blessed be the name of the LORD now and forever. Psalms 113:2

Praise Medley~Tamela Mann 

Blessings

A'Keta Julinate'

OCEANS

Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders 
Let me walk upon the waters 
Wherever You would call me 
Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander
And my faith will be made stronger

In the presence of my Savior The LORD will guide me continually. Isaiah 58:11 

Oceans (Where My Feet May Fail)~Hillsong UNITED

Blessings 
A'Keta Julinate'