Your mouth....Life, Hurt,Curse,Blessings?

"God doesn't like fools. So don't be slow to keep your promises to God. It's better not to make a promise at all than to make one and not keep it. Don't let your mouth get you in trouble!....God can destroy everything you have worked for, so don't say something that makes God angry." Ecclesiastes 5:4-7

Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, we come up against all lying tongues that so easily make promises and never keeps it. We speak crop failure over the works of the enemy and we call those things forth as thought they are here right now in the name of Jesus. We command the enemy and we take authority over his lies and we declare that whatever we have lost, to be returned to the sower in Jesus name.
We declare and decree Psalms 31:18, "Let the lying lips be put to silence;" in the name of Jesus and we pray for truth to be spoken. 
Lord, I pray that our trust will not be in man, but like Your word says; Psalms 40:4, "Blessed is that man that makes the LORD his trust, and respect not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies."
We want to trust in You, Lord and seek Your face daily. 
We are the head and never the tail. We are above and never beneath. Our incoming and our outgoing is blessed and we declare that we will never be the lender but be the borrower who refreshes others. We rejoice Lord, because in the process we ourselves will be refreshed.
Father, we seal this prayer in the mighty name of Jesus Christ and we thank you. Amen

In His Love
Leslene

Love Came Down

I have news for you, DON'T GIVE UP! People change all the time, but God stays the same.
A day ago, I was so broken. I was so hurt, but today I'm writing and encouraging you to not give up. I couldn't even pray. I refused to pray and ask God for strength. Today is a new day and God's grace is enough for me. I refuse to look back to yesterday.
"I will be the same until (your) old age, and I will bear (you) up when you turn grey." Isaiah 46:4 WOW!!! What a promise. A promise I can be certain that it will never be broken.
Whatever the situation, God is in all things and He walks alongside you when you feel weak.
Remember, because you decide whether you want the next day to better or just walk in that sorrow. JOY comes in the morning. Kari Jobe sings this beautiful and powerful song and this is what I held on to in my time of weakness.

"Love Came Down"

 

If my heart is overwhelmed

And I cannot hear Your voice

I hold on to what is true

Though I cannot see

 

If the storms of life they come

And the road ahead gets steep

I will lift these hands in faith

I will believe

 

I'll remind myself

Of all that You've done

And the life I have

Because of Your son

 

[Chorus]

Love came down and rescued me

Love came down and set me free

I am Yours

Lord I'm forever Yours

Mountains high or valley low

I sing out and remind my soul

I am Yours

I am forever Yours

 
Jesus loves us so much and He wants to shower us with unchanging love.
In His love
Leslene
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No Comparing

Dear Married Woman

Have you fought for so many things on behalf of others and end forgett about yourself? Well, that's me, Leslene.

I look in the mirror at times, thinking or even asking myself, "Leslene, do you think you're beautiful?", and only to end up answering "NO!!!" That used to happen so many times until God stepped in and blessed me with a scripture in Psalm 45:11. This scripture has become such a reality to me I can bless other with it freely.

Did you know, when you think less of yourself you end up missing out on life? You are meant to enjoy your beauty. Yes we have a desire to be beautiful even if we never win a beauty contest, but focusing on the outside, you automatically miss out on how God intends for your inner beauty to shine through.

So many people contact me because they struggle with themselves. I encourage them, making them feel better then end up feeling so low because i cannot encourage myself.

I've had so many friends, who is beautiful inside and out, but because my focus was on their beauty and not what lies within me, I ended up comparing myself to with them. I suppose God got fed up with that and allowed the friends to leave me.

I realised what was happening and now i thank God for what he did. I don't have to compare myself to others, because I am created in the image of God.

So my dear married woman, ""Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that... Don't compare yourself with others."

- Galatians 6:4 MSG

#truthbetold

Leslene

Potential

Dear Married Woman

Do you know that you have a much greater potential for beauty than you realize? Learn to project yourself with self-confidence, to move gracefully and dress with good taste. Always see yourself as more than what your eyes see because you are beautiful.

I love what peter says in scripture. "Instead, (your beauty, should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight." 1 Peter 3:4

We cannot go wrong when we focus on what God has placed withing us when he created us in His own image, and when we spend time with God, he will transform you into a woman with inner beauty - a radiant beauty which others just cannot overlook. There are times that we don't even believe others when they say there is just that something different about us. Now that is the beauty shining through. 

Lord, You know that being physically beautiful is very important to us as woman especially married woman. Teach us that inner beauty is much more important to youn tat outer beauty. Help us to radiate Your love because we have an inner beauty. In Jesus name
Amen

Be inspired!!
Leslene

No more nonsense!

Dear Married Woman

I don't know about you but I sometimes struggle to speak positive words over my life especially what the Word of God says about me. TODAY Married Woman, let us change that if you also struggle at times.

And when we can't confess the Word over own lives, we won't be able to do so over the lives of our family.

Here we go!!!!• Today marks the... end of a sad, depressing, discouraging past and the beginning of a
prosperous, debt-free, disease-free, depression-free future
• God will grant me strategies for a prosperous and successful life
• I will pray more
• I will praise more
• I will give more
• My mind will be filled with the knowledge of my true identity
• I will be empowered to accomplish that which I was born to do
• I will become all that I was born to be
• Every day of my life is in sync with the perfect will of God
• My vision is clear
• My intentions are pure
• My motivation is solid
• My relationships are healthy
• My God supplies all of my needs according to His riches in glory#nomorenonsence!

Who's riding with you?

Dear Married Woman

So many of us hang around people who care less about doing better and still wonder why their life looks the same; A lot of us hang around people who care less about moving forward and still wonder why they have remained in the same place for so long. How long are you going to keep expecting a different result from the same situation, when you have let your actions stay the same; The closest people to you will either take you higher or hold you down; they will either influence your life positively or negatively. There is no way you can truly live your life to the fullest and achieve all that your heart truly desires when you are constantly being weighed down by the company of friends you keep. If you want to be successful, then you must hang around successful people, if you want to be great, then you must hang around great minds, if you want your life to count, then you must hang around people who have made their lives count. A Champion never hangs around failures, they would rather be found among people who constantly motivate them to reach higher and do better; Mindsets are contagious! It is time to surround yourself with people who expand your vision not those who distract you from your purpose; It’s time to surround yourself with those who motivate you to take bold steps, not those who discourage you from daring; The road to your dreams is usually not crowded, so stop following the crowd; Never let people who don’t understand your vision keep you from living your dream!

#BeInspires!

All you can do is stand

Dear Married Woman

When you have done all you can, all you can do is STAND. 
I know of so many parents who is definitely having some battle where their kids are concerned. It is really frightening. I have not gone through anything with my kids but i can only imagine what you must be feeling. Some of you might even ask yourself "What does she know? She has not gone through what i'm going through." 
Yes, you are right. I don't know what you going through, but one thing i do know is that God has laid it on my heart to write about this. I have family members who is going through a battle right now as we speak. My sister's son was killed last year after making so many bad choices. I had to put everything aside so that i can feel her pain, stand by her and watch the glorious work of God manifest through her hurt. 

You pray for your kids, you speak life to a situation that seems dead. You decree and declare every day that God gives you, but nothing seems to work. You even ask people to pray with you. There were a few times that speaking life, decree and declare, praying with others did work and then the enemy strikes back again. What do you do? Give up, go on an emotional drive, or just curse that child? 
As a mother myself, I am just doing what God asks of me and that is to encourage you today and just giving you Mom/ Dad a message. 

• Do not allow people to speak negative about your child(yes you may know this already, but we do allow it at times without us even knowing it)
• Speak life, especially when you can't

  John 6:63 New International Version (NIV)

  The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit^[a] and life.
• Keep on loving your child and keep no record of the wrong he has done, because everyday is a new day.
• Affirm you child daily, like I did with My Son,  "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased." Matthew 3:17
• Pray the Armour on a daily basis and teach them to your kids. They will understand it in time, but right now, it is for you to understand so that you can stand firm.

"Stand firm then, with the belt of truth belt around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit,which is the word of God."

I believe in my spirit that God wants you well at this time. He wants you strong, that when things get rough you will exactly know who you are in Christ. Love, compassion and humility come flow with no hard work at all. I believe, what God is saying today that you should not harden your heart by treating that child like an outcast, but the person who belongs. To those parents who are humble, who does love their child, God is saying to you "This is my child in whom I am well pleased" 
I am a praying mother, who feels hurt when I hear what they go through with their children, and I pray that you will realize that a message from God can come when, where and from whom you least expect it.

In His love
Leslene

Don't believe the lies!

Dear Married Woman

Just by looking at another beautiful married woman with intentions will make you start lying to yourself. Let me tell you today, what she does you can even do better. How she looks, you might even look better.

Another thing I want to bring to your attention is below the picture. Please read and let us do better than lying to ourselves, about ourselves and to others about others.
Lies is one of those four letter words that doesn’t have an ounce of goodness in it. Let’s face the facts: No one wants people telling lies about them and a liar is not a banner than anyone wants to proudly wave.

The sad reality is the most potent lies are the one’s that we tell ourselves, about ourselves, or the one’s that we believe from others.
You Can’t, You Will Never, You’re Not Good Enough, You Don’t Have What It Takes…
If you believe the lies, I think that makes you a liar — Lying to yourself.
Reject the lies!
Don’t believe the lies!
“There’s a lesson here: Whoever invests in lies, gets lies for interest, Paid in full before the due date. Some investment!” Job 15:31-32 MSG

Nothing leads to Nothing

Dear Married Woman

As a wife, mother and sometimes a working mother, we cannot give our time away just like that. We are constantly busy with being a father as well. Some households do not have a father.

God laid something very interesting on my heart. I enquired of Him for insight on our daily lives and the people we come in contact with. You have people who take up so much of your time because they depend on you for everything. They are energy drainers and by saying this I mean, you go and spend time with God and are filled up just to be emptied out again and when you see those people again, there is absolutely no growth and you have to fill them up again and in the process draining you are so drained.

Let me give you some advice.

When you give a lady friend a call and you ask her what she’s doing and she says NOTHING, you hang up immediately. WHY should you hang up? You don’t want to get involved in nothing, girlfriend. You have a vision, you have places to go, you have people to see so your life can be fulfilled.

NOTHING FROM NOTHING LEAVES NOTHING!!!

You have a vision for your life and the time you spend with nothing is the time you should consult God about your vision. The moment you make a decision to do something, to say something, to feel something, to act a certain way, your destiny is born. Therefore, your purpose is determined by God but your destiny is determined by you. Where you end up tomorrow is a decision made by you and when you end up doing nothing your destiny is cut short.

I want to encourage you to read the prayer of Jabez in 1Chronicles 4:10. It’s a prayer about desiny and guess what?

GOD GRANTED HIS PRAYER!!

Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, "Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain." And God granted his request.

You are not NOTHING, you are _______________________(put your name on line), with a destiny.

From another married woman

Leslene Allicia Britz