Seek and You Will Find, You Already Possess IT!

It’s getting clearer and clearer, brighter and brighter, and closer and closer!!! Keep pursuing, keep pushing, keep pressing– What you think you need, you don’t. What you think you’re without, you’ve got. What you think you’ve missed, you’ve hit. You are exactly, EXACTLY where God wants you. It’s all apart of the plan and the process– the stairway to see what you already possess. Learning how to work what you’ve have is the key. Work it!

Matthew 7:7 says seek and you will find, knock and the door will be open.  This “seeking to find” is a process of understanding– it is finding out that God has already packed you and loaded you will benefits (Ps 68:19).  To knock is to open the door of understanding that you already sit with God and He with you (Ephesians 2:1-7).

Many times we are chasing the wind in feeling that the physical place or the literal thing makes us who we are. Yes, external things can help promote and cultivate the seed God has planted– and we need to hear from Him and be in “our place.”  But many incorrectly prioritize this concept in their belief.  As a believer and one who has hope, it is a greater testimony of God’s greatness and His supernatural grace for you:

• to be in a wilderness, and still be feed;
• to be a Lilly in the valley, and still grow;
• to be alone + God, and still be the majority;
• to be weak, and still be strong.

It is God’s purpose that we cleanse ourselves from the false spirit of  faith that depends on and feeds off the roar of the crowd and its pursuit.  The crowd could be a social clique, the approval a person or group, or the pursuit of the world.  Rejoice in the truth that God knows you, loves you and is with you. Now, position yourself in your assignment and let’s win! Win over thoughts of defeat, inadequacy or fear.  W.I.N. (Walking in the NOW)!

The Ease of a Dream, The Difficulty of a Vision

It is easy to dream, it is more difficult to have vision. There are many dreamers yet fewer achievers. What does it take to move from merely dreaming to achieving? You need vision. Dream and vision can be used simultaneously, but let’s define it for our purposes here. Vision= dream + plan. When you add a plan and strategy to your dream, it becomes a vision. In other words, a dream is potential but a vision will become your reality. If you can see it you can have it. What you think you become. What you envision sets the course of your day.

Many people are trapped in a dream like world and frustrated because “hope deferred makes the heart sick.” Relationships are important to any level of success. Some relationships are seasonal, others are eternal. You must begin to accept how life changes and learn how to go with the flow. This lesson is important to move past fear– that fear that is stopping you from birthing the dream to conception (vision).

When your heart is healed, you will begin to see. When the cloud of chaos has rolled away, vision can thrive. Many have been programmed to behave, think and live a certain way but truth awaits the one who wants to move forward. Allow your heart to embrace the change that God wants to release in your life. Many times we attempt intimacy with an individual over God and it ends in miscommunications. Brokenness begets brokenness. Can not judge or fault others for not being what only God can be!

No one can handle all of you! You are full of too much greatness, made in the image of the Divine! Only Father God can comprehend the makeup of his children. It is not human it is heavenly that we find the truest of our nature.

How does this help shape vision? Vision is not just a mission statement for your business or goal, but vision is how you see life. This vision determines how generations will follow and how secure they will stand. This vision is spiritual and ties beyond gender, social class or any classification. This vision is a realm of believing, seeing and achieving what otherwise is impossible.

Here are a few steps to move into vision:

1. Write down your dream.

Writing sets your focus and gives clarity. Habakkuk 2 2-3

2. Find interpretation to your dream.

It is necessary that a prophetic voice (one who can unveil mysteries) speaks into and over your life to aide you in seeing what you can not see. Romans 10:14

3. Educate and Prepare yourself.

It is necessary to rid yourself of old routines and begin to expand your mind for where you are going. Proverbs 23:7

4. Yield to the Process of Change.

When we resist change, it is a sign we have yet to heal. Allow God’s truth about who you are and where you are going heal you. Don’t resist His process to move you to success! James 4:6

5. BE thankful.

Thanksgiving will keep you above the negative forces that will attempt to stop your progress. I Thessalonians 5:18

Connect with those of like faith that can help birth the real you! Don’t just marry anyone just to say you belong, but wait until destiny meets. Destiny is always calling and your preparedness will determine if you hear it and can step into it. Today, aim to move into the realm of vision.

~E. Keith Bailey

Just Be – A Path, A Process, A Place

Just Be – A Path, A Process, A Place

 

 

The power to Just Be is the purest path that exists. To Just Be presents a path to peace. It is a process to becoming. It is a place of clarity, focus and joy. The opposite is to borrow from others and never come into your own– your own truth, your own creative ideas. Many people do one of two things– or perhaps a combination– that is to opt out of the process to becoming all together, or to hide behind the accomplishments or potentiality of others. It is well noted the importance of partnerships and that some are called and have the purpose to promote the vision or under gird the vision of others. But even yet, that then becomes their path to peace but there can not be a loss of individuality.

 

Many times, we find it difficult to filter through the many voices of the world to find our own. But there is a way to move to a place of clarity and focus. Here are a few simple steps to find clarity in chaos.

 

 

1. Realization

   Recognizing that there is a need to change. Denial keeps you going in circles. Recognize that where you are is not the best for you. Although this seems simple, it is the most crucial before anything else can work. Living in a life of denial simple perpetuates the chaos by covering it with routines that are familiar. Doing so, allows that chaos to grow and get worse, unsolved, unresolved and unruly. Recognize and begin the process to becoming.

2. Visualization

   Visualize now the place and path to your destined end. This too sounds simple, but as change presents its difficulties in any form, so does this step of visualization. It is said it takes 30 days to form a pattern and 90 days to form a habit. When you start the process of visualization, you must find things to encourage a better image than what you’ve experienced. This can come through many forms. It helps to flood yourself with positive images to flush out the bad.

3. Formulation

   Formulation is the application in this process of becoming. With this step, you are equipped to devise a strategy to obtain and maintain the visual you now possess. A plan will include a routine of affirmations, an accountability and mentoring relationships and opportunities to give and pour out of this new place into the lives of others.

There are as many details as there are complexities within each individual path, however, this above steps give a safe framework to allow thoughts and ideas to be challenged and combed through with a fresh outlook. Remember your path to becoming is a path to peace because there is no other place of joy. Just Be by allowing yourself the freedom and right of change!

 

~E. Keith Bailey

 

The Peace in Purpose

Many of us bow and yield to the “status quo”– merely existing rather than thriving in the expression of creativity. Father is Spirit and He is Creator– He is God. As such, every “seed produces after its kind.” We are like God in that we have the individual right to create ideas and the will to act upon those ideas to manifest them into reality. To not follow this nature is to live substandard and as a result be left to stand alone on the island of mediocrity.

But wait, there is something in you that is tapping on the walls of your mind, soul and spirit screaming and panting and desiring the feeling of expression. You have attempted to quench the thirst found in your purpose (assignment) in a life with low-level negative forms of energy in that it gives you some fulfillment but you are left destitute once the false high dissipates. Your spirit longs for the Garden of Eden (intimacy) with Father (Creator of All) to teach, guide and demonstrate the Way of Life. The Way of Life is that way that brings glory back to your Creator, completing the circle of life. Without this complete circle, you dishonor God, yourself and your destiny. A life of dishonor is a life of poverty, confusion, unhealed hurts, unmet needs and unresolved issues–a life of drama!

There is a river in you that is waiting to exhale and flow. This river is the river of your purpose that will connect to your dream. There is a river of purpose that will connect to your joy. There is a river of purpose that will connect to wisdom, health and wealth.

Find the peace that awaits you in purpose today as you honor your beginning so you can secure bright victory in your end.

~E. Keith Bailey