The Box

I see my self walking along side you. Chatting and keeping conversation. Nesting around my chest is this box that I am carrying. Not to big not too small. The right size that I could see over it. Since I remember I had always had it with me. But today is different. Something is taking place; I don’t paid attention and continue walking and chatting, enjoying the company. Over the years we had become good friends. 

You know all my dreams, my hopes and you had been with me during the must difficult times off my life, you have directed my steps and showed me the way out. You know me more than I know myself. You created my inmost been and nothing is hiding from you. 

I hear your voice saying, look inside the box. I asked my self “why should I look ? Why are you telling me to look inside?  Don’t you already know what’s inside?

Puzzle by your request I fumble with the box I take my time, I don’t understand; since we stared to walk you had seen me carrying this box, and now, you had decided to tell me to look inside it? I recognize your tone of voice, joyful and playful. 

I am puzzled but I obey. 

I stop put the box down and I dare to look down at the box, and to my surprise is empty. Empty. !!! 

I look up and I see your face smiling at me, hear your voice saying. “ it has been empty for a long time. 

I realize then, the enemy has used residue off myself old self to hold me back. 

Insecurity, fear, doubt, double minded, low self esteem, comparing myself with other, thinking of me less, not fully trusting God. 

All those “things” I have struggled with. There are gone. I am a new creation. Wrong perspective and wrong beliefs, had me carrying this empty box for so long. 

Today I had made the decision not to pick the box up again. 

Asking the Lord to bring to my attention when I consider to grab hold off it again. 

As we continue walking. This time he takes my hand and lead me as young child, I feel light, leaving the box behind has giving me a new perspective for tomorrow. 

Able to recognize a new strength in me we walked away, leaving behind the empty box that I had carried for so long. 

Now my question is. What are you carrying? What are you holding on? 

May this devotion help you see deeper into self and help you empty out your box 

Blessings 

Ivette Dias-Yee 

Appeased or pleased God

Are we appeasing or pleasing God? 

The other day I heard a Bible  teacher say this during her service. Days later stills in my head and my mind. Echoing down into my heart. 

So I did  what I do when ever I want to know and learn the deep meaning of the word in question. I looked up. Surprise to see what I found. 

Appease: pacify or placate (make  less angry or hostile) by acceding ( agree to a demand) to their demands, relieve or satisfy. 

I’m still in awe to see that at times we come to God to appease him with our rituals and teachings taught by man. We allow tradition to dictates our actions. Instead of following God we follow someone else ways. 

“My people are destroyed by lack of knowledge” like sheep’s we follow what we want to hear and what make sense in the natural.

We allow self to dictates our move and steps. 

God is willing to show His truth to be those that are willing to follow and obey. 

“As for me  and my house we would serve The Lord.” I’m not here to please man but God who knows the heart of man. 

Love 

Ivette Diaz-Yee

10/26/19

Close and Personal

When the enemy can’t get you or come to you head on: he would find a way to come in. He patiently awaits, taking his time studying all your ways. Your patters and the way you do life. 

He would find the place where you left your guards down he would find the person who may rub you the wrong way. He would used that small crack and get in. He would used it to;

DISTRACT  (you ): a thing that        prevents some one from giving full attention to something else. (Diversión, interference, obstruction) 

DISCOURAGE (you): lost confidence or enthusiasm 

DESTROY (you): Put an end to the existences of something by damaging or attacking. (Shatter, ruin, wreck)

The enemy of our souls wants us passive and discourage. Keeping us busy with self and distracted by what’s going around us that we loose focus. He robs our strength, our peace and our confidence. Learn the tricks. His ways are always the same. Because he is a created  being. He can’t created nothing new. He copies , duplicate, and forged situations. 

Know who you are fighting and  not whom are you fighting. Our battle is spiritual. 

“Do not be afraid or discourage because of this vast army for the battle is not your but Gods. “ 2 Chro 20:15b

He has nothing on you. All he has Is because you gave it to him. He has your pass failures and pass mistakes. Thats what he uses to keep you bound. If he is close and personal is because he is trying to delay the call the purpose and the reason you still here today. Your work is not finished but just started. 

Close and Personal

Ivette Diaz-Yee

6/15/19

Forged By Fire

  Few years ago at my friends house. During our night of prayer and worship I saw and felt the fire of God falling down on all off us. 

I saw beautiful swords going inside a furnace, the heat was so intense that the sword became red and orange inside the furnace. 

A hammer was coming down hitting it hard. I ask the Lord what this mean?  I continue talking and said “the sword looks good ,complete ready to used.”

“I need to forge it again. Im changing it shape. I’m recycling it and making it for better used. Once I finished with it it would become stronger and shorter and more powerful than before. I am making a new dagger out off it. “

The world outside is the furnace the Lord is using and we are the  swords that God is reshaping in to daggers. 

He brought me to Jeremiah 18:6 and ask me

“Can I not do with you as this potter does? Declares the Lord. Like clay in the hands of a potter, so are you in my hand. 

Original notes 1/27/17

Ivette Diaz-Yee

Let Your Light Shine

 Today at one off my woman’s gathering as we prepared ourself to served others, as the meeting comes to and end this woman comes and asked me if I was Puertorican and from where. I said I was and told her Where I was from, then I asked why are you inquiring , because I have a word for you from the Lord and if I speak in Spanish it’s better for me 

She started by saying “ you have a light around you, all over you. The Lord  is going to used you. Everything you went thru was a preparation. The Lord is going to used all your tears. When you walk in to a room the enemy fears for you walk in the authority you carry in you.  This is your time. Don’t allowed the enemy to hold you back.”  

As she started to talk I started to cry. Tears were falling down my face , for the Lord knows my desire.  To go out and to proclaim the goodness of God in my life. 

To be used by him and to go out. To the highway and the bayways. To be taken to the nations and to bring deliverance to the captive and release the prisoners. 

Lord here I am, use me, send me. Bring my name in to peoples mind and dream. Have them remember me,  that they would call me by name. As I walk in to my -#20. 

Thank you for meeting me today and for sending Elizabeth to speak life and bring confirmation; for your glory.  

In Jesus name 

Amen. 

4/19/2022

Unmasking The Real You

 

Removing The Mask 

Masquerade definition 

A false show, pretense,  pretend to be someone is not,  a costume (dress up as someone else) worm as it disguise. 

A behavior that it is intended to prevent the truth about something unpleasant or not wanting from be becoming unknown

To cover up

To hide

To pretend

To hides your true identity making a false outward show.  

No wonder for Satan he himself masquerades as an angel of light. (2 Corinthians. 11:14 ) 

A disguise we used to hide our true self because society demands that we all look like everyone else. 

Pretending to be something, we are not. (Romans 12:3 do not think of yourself more highly than you ought)

The demands of a society that tells us that we are not enough. FOMO = Fear of missing out 

Social media we hide behind a keyboard. 

Live situations has brought us where we are right now,  Disappointments, mental, physical or emotional abuse, anger, fear insecurities, resentment, stress, depression,  divorces, situation out of our control,  traumas.

dysfunctional behavior has become normal because we don’t know any better. Everybody else is doing it.

Time is here  for us to unmask, our self and get to know who we really are in Christ and the reason that we were created for. Expose yourself, tell on  yourself. Allow God to strip away anything that is not of him remove the disguise, the pretending. 

When we do all that, we get  to discover our true self.

It is written “we are God‘s workmanship created in Christ Jesus to do a good work, which God prepare in advance for us to do ( Ephesians 2:10) 

let us hold onto the word to bring peace, healing and before all bring freedom. 

The freedom that comes from Christ to really know whom we are and who we belong, remove your mask. Get to know you and allow God to continue working in your life.

Ivette Diaz -Yee 

7/27/25 

BRM Devotional. 

Frustration

Meaning; the feeling of being annoyed or less confident because you cannot achieve what you want. 

Feeling of annoyance that occurs when something doesn’t go as you expect. 

A deception or a disappointment. 

For the last few days “I feel” this feeling which I couldn’t explain. I kept asking in prayer and seeking to see if I could find out what it is.  Where it comes from and why I “feel” like this. 

Until I saw a pattern of behavior. That comes when I put expectation in people. Unconsciously I expect things to be different, just to see the same, manipulation, lies and compromise. Little by little I get dragged into it.  

Unknowingly, I slipped and there I was. Right away I was able to walk away, reassess the situation, come to fully  acknowledge my wrong. I took full responsibility for my actions, confessed  it, asked for forgiveness,  I kept quiet out of obedience and I listened. 

Just to realize I had been played. Weeks, months or perhaps years of waiting, had paid off, or so it think.  

I cannot change what took place. But I will make the best of the situation, the outcome won’t be what the enemy thought it might be. If God is allowing it to take place, then I will use the situation as a lesson. Nothing goes to waste. 

Guilt and condemnation try to hold me hostage. Fear tries to paralyze me. But I know better. I am able to recognize and see what is really taking place. God is going after my heart. 

I am allowing the Lord to show me my motives.  To investigate what may be lying dormant there. A split second of an unguarded tongue brought out anger, jealousy, greed, and mistrust. 

Dig into your reservoir of Faith. Bring forth the word in you that will heal you, restorer and set you free. We are not perfect; none of us are, let us learn from every that comes against us. Let us hold on tight to the word of God.  Take your stand, hold your ground. Make a testimony of your test it helps you grow. We are not perfect, but we serve a perfect God. 

“Encourage and rebuke with all authority, do not let anyone despise you” Titus 2:15

Ivette Diaz-Yee 

July 2024

Resilient

Resilient: someone who is able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions or trauma. 

I am calling out all of the resilient people who feel like they can’t do it anymore. 

It’s going to be okay. 

You can let go now. You can sit down and cry. You can weep. You can feel angry at what happened to you. You have permission to feel sad about the way your life has gone. You have permission to grieve the life you thought you’d have. Stop running from it. Embrace the pain. Embrace the fear. Embrace the tears. 

Then get up, straighten your crown, wipe your eyes and take back your life. 

You are not alone. You are seen. You are loved. You are important. You are strong. You are cared for. You are amazing. You are more than a conqueror. 

I’m so proud of you. How you get up each day and put others before yourself, even though you feel like you’re barely surviving yourself. 

I want you to give yourself permission to rest your mind today. It’s all going to be okay. God has it all worked out in your favor. Turn to Him. Surrender it to Him. I promise you, He will never let you down. His ways are higher than ours. His plan is better than ours. Take every closed door as a sign of rescue. God has better for you! Sit down. Rest. 

Today is a good day to have a good day. Today WE will rejoice and be glad in it. 

I love you and Jesus loves you most ❤️

Chelsey Aho

7/11/24

Drive thru Church

As I sit meditating and pondering in the last few days events. I am amazed in how God has worked everything in our life for our own good. 

It’s has been few months since we said good bye to the place we had called home. A lot off changes had taken place in our life.  

We had felt like nomad in search for the green pastures and good waters. 

As I sit and reflect. Getting ready once again to said good bye to this place I had found I asked the Lord what I should do, for the benefit not just for me but my husband. 

I heard this inside my heart “drive thru church” it hit hard. 

For the last few years that’s what I had been doing. Going to church and leaving before service to run back to work. 

It had help me that I had Coffe Talk with the girls, I have my core and lately I found a woman’s group; which they had embrace me and we meet twice a month. I had mature and I know how to draw water for myself, but in the mist off all I had forgotten my husband. 

I can not go back to a drive thru church where my husband won’t be feeding properly. Where he be able to find a father figure to teach him, how to become a warrior for God and a leader in his home and work. Where he be able to learn and to grown deeper in Christ. 

So as I sit and reflect how we have become a “drive thru society” specially with everything happening around us, feel better and safer to just drive thru, have it tour way and mi e forward. 

But at what cost?  What or whom you are neglecting? 

Today I thank God that He has open my eyes to the reality that we need each other’s. We need to be connected with those off the same faith. And we need to see and accept the new faces of faith. 

So as I go, getting ready to said goodbye to someone new as we move to something new. Both are new, but one is more important than the other; because the new, new is for us, instead the old new was just for myself. 

The time has come for you to know whats the new in your life that you need to let go for the new, new  to come in. 

Love. 

Ivette Díaz-Yee 

July 2021

#wordinspired 

Mustard Seed Faith

Hello To all you All,

I’m Ivette niece. 

I want to begin by thanking you for your prayers as I recently needed a a donor for a Living Liver Transplant. Through out this journey as difficult as it was leading to the actual news that I indeed was coming to expiration and would urgently need a donor. The Lord had shown me over and over again TO BE STILL. I would hear Him whisper that He did not bring me here to leave me here. Although my faith was that of a muster seed, occasionally the flesh would remind me of Fear and that I would not be around to see my kids grow or continue to be a wife or live for that matter. 

My donor arrived as a match May 11th and my operation was set for May 20th. I was told medically I would not be here past May 20th.

Praise My Lord Jesus as He did not bring me here to leave me here. As I stood STILL and believed that He would save me. My beautiful daughter was my Donor and today marks a few things.

1. Today marks 40 days “biblical number”. My aunt told me that in the 40th day I would go home and praise Jesus because today I am flying back home to see my husband and son.

2. Prayers are alive

3. ⁠once you experience the LOVE of a true Father, it’s easy to lean in and lose it all knowing He will work all in things into your greater purpose. I watched Him use my only daughter in such a mighty way with strength, courage and Love.

The gift of life is beautiful. 

I thank all you prayer warriors especially my beautiful aunt Ivette 

No luck, no miracle pure blessings.

Thank you My Jesus 🙌🏽❤️🙌🏽