Our past will keep us from moving forward to our future if we’re not careful. Negative past experiences will keep us from experiencing all the good things God has for us. These negative experiences will hinder our progress, keep us from our destiny and cheat God out of receiving Glory from our lives.

Recognize the things that hinder you from moving forward, release them and press on!

Life is hard, but it's also rewarding and gives us days of joy, love and peace.  Sometimes we give way to much energy to the negative things we see or hear instead of focusing on the good things all around us, like our families, friends and beautiful sunny days given to us from God.

Overall, our good days far outweigh our bad days, we just have to decide which one we want to magnify.

None of us like to wait.  We become agitated, impatient and sometimes irritable.  We sometimes throw our adult tantrums just like a little child.  When there is something we're expecting or wanting, we want it quick, fast and we want it in a hurry.  Waiting is not a type of punishment for you and I, it's actually a time of preparation while God puts all of the pieces together to produce something beyond what we ever expected.

Love is from God, Fear is from the enemy.  We have all had those times of fear, when we were fearful of one thing or another.  In this episode I want to remind you that "perfect love cast out fear" 1 John 4:18.  Let's stand up in the face of fear and declare God's love, provision and grace over our lives.

Scriptures used in this episode:

2 Timothy 1:7  Hebrews 13:5  1 John 4:18  Job 3:25

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There is a Purpose that God has designed for you, and no one else can do it quite like you can. Listen with me as Adriane Woods talks to us about her journey to Living On Purpose.  Even though she didn't feel worthy, God had a plan and a purpose that only she could fulfill.  This episode is sure to encourage you as you seek to "Live On Purpose".  

Renewed, Revived and Restored.  These are three words that we all need to experience at some point in our lives.  This episode will encourage you to turn to the one who is able to bring renewal, revival and restoration to your soul, that person would be God.  Listen as Carla talks to us about how Worship brought her out of a state of depression and how God Restored her peace and gave her the confidence she needed to walk out her purpose.

Purpose, Identity and Authenticity, these are the topics we're chatting about with Lady Toni Taylor.  Many of us are familiar with not being our authentic self.  Lady Toni has termed it "authentically fake", it's time for the "real you" to come forward.  Let us who are mature be intentional, authentic, and transparent by telling our stories, so we can be about the business of mentoring this next generation.

We can sometimes tell ourselves stories about ourselves that are negative, most times we are our own worst critic.  In this episode we're going to get down to the bottom of our negative thoughts, and the lies we have believed about ourselves and replace them with the truth of who we are in Christ.  Ask yourself, "Is the story I'm telling myself the truth, or have I bought into the lie of the enemy"?

Just when we think we're wearing all the hats well, we realize we're not.  We need Jesus to hold our entire life together, this includes family, relationships, finances, ministry and so on.  Our muscles are not as big as we think they are, and we are not as strong as we want to believe, we need Jesus to hold it all together.

"Heart Work" what exactly does that mean?  Well today we're talking to my guest Latasha Ferguson who distinctly heard God say to her "Are you finally done"?  We all have issues of the heart, Jeremiah 17:9 says "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; Who can know it?  Blaming and looking at others is not the answer, the answer is surrendering to God and allowing Him to work in our hearts.  We can all agree that it won't happen overnight, but there is a process to this "heart work".  Latasha shares some great nuggets with us on how she surrendered and is now seeing the fruit of her surrender.