Worship “It's not a song but a lifestyles”   It hasn’t been easy to write this devotion today. When the Lord gave this word as part of my victory words for the year, I thought He must be joking, specially after the week that I had.  It make me realize we are in spiritual warfare , but God has prepare us for what we are going thru and experiencing today.  As I look at the word again I see it different ; for I see WAR-SHIP  Today we are inside the warship, ready, prepare and    trained for battle. As we lift up our anchor of faith, we allowed God to move us, where he wants us to go. It may look similar and familiar, but don’t be taken by surprise, we are going towards something new.  So as the children’s off Israel did every time they went in to battle, prepare yourself, find your battle cry and move forward worshiping the Lord of Lord and the king of kings.   Worship is not a song but a way of live. It’s part off your every day. Worship...

  Sisters  ❤️ By God  Was birth a few years ago. I posted my 1st article, on Facebook in 2018.     It's a place where I had learned and continued learning, and in order to grow spirituality; I had to share what I received. My revelations may be the stepping stone someone may need to catapult it forward.  English is not my 1st language; it may take me longer to share and express myself. But how I am going to share our story? How the message can be shared?  By taking the 1 step. I am nervous. I am scared, but I will do it anyway. For too long, I had this idea to create a blog and I had let, fear and insecurities hold me back. Today The Lord had given me a platform in which I will stand and proclaim the wonders that He had done in my life, and family.    Believe me, I had tried to run away, procrastinate, and derail to do another project, to end up always writing my experiences. But if I don't bring it out. They will be words written on the page...

The joy of the season is gone. Gone are the lights the wrapping paper, and the gift. Family laughter and time to reflect, we wait all year, and then in a few weeks, the magic of it all is gone. A New Year has come. Few people would keep their resolutions. I am still thinking about what this year would bring. I have reminded you of your promises. To keep them close to heart. Not to dwell in the past but to prepare for dreadful days ahead. I am taken to His word, for life, truth, and guidance is found in it, also a warning. “What would happen to a nation that had forgotten her God? Refuses to repent, refuses to take correction? Her transgressions are many, and their apostasies are great. They had spoken falsely of the Lord. Foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not. These people have stubborn and rebellious hearts; they have turned aside and gone away. Wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; ...

  Embriagada   I came into this concert with the expectation to meet God.  A place where I could let my guard down and worship the Lord without bars or holding back.  We sat a few rows from the stage. I didn’t want to be distracted by friends I saw there. I have been cautious of myself. Me myself and God.  A situation with my daughter is affecting me because I am not able to see her.    But I feel her pain, her anger, and her disappointments.  She is like a flower dying in front of me and I am not able to do anything in the natural world.   I had decided not to talk to her not because I didn’t want to but because I am trusting God for her and her family.  Tonight is all about me and the worship.  I love #mercyme.  For the last 20 years, their music has been my refuge and strength. The Lord used their music to bring solace, peace, and hope to my soul.  Tonight, I won’t be disappointed.  As the worship continues I ...

I see myself walking alongside you.  Chatting and keeping conversation.  Nesting around my chest is this box that I am carrying, not too big and not too small.  The right size that I could just see over it. Since I remember, I have always had it with me. But today is different, something is taking place; I did not pay attention and continued walking and chatting, enjoying the company.  Over the years we have become good friends.  You know all my dreams, my hopes and you have been with me during the most difficult times of 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 being and nothing is hidden from you.  I hear your voice saying, "look inside the box" I asked myself, why should I look? Why are you telling me to look inside?  Don’t you already know what’s inside? Puzzled by your request I fumble with the box I take my time, I don’t understand; since we stared to wal...

“Bring forth your prayer shawls” this morning as I came to sit, He spoke those words into my heart.  I have this beautiful prayer shawl that a friend brought me from Jerusalem.  I have had it for a few years already.  Hanging in the office, it stays as an ornament. It pleasing to the eyes.  Today is the 1st time I am able to really bring it out, I wrapped myself with it and allowed myself to learn the true meaning behind it.  Little do I know that it has a name. It’s called a “Tallit” used by the Jews rabbi or Jewish man.  I started my quest in google. I found few people and how they gave me their own interpretation.   Marilyn Hichey calls it a “super natural mantel with the White and blue representing the Holy Spirit present with us and the purity of God”.  Okay,  I accept that.  Google to the rescue one more time. I looked up the high priest garments. (Which to me it’s a representation of our armor of God.  Ephesians 6:13- Th...

  Re-redo ReDesign- design again or in a different way.  God has given us a full armor which we find in Ephesians 6:13-18.  We all are very familiar with this scripture but do we really know how to use them.???  I’m always asking the Lord, why was fashion the way it was?  His answer blows my mind. “It was fashionable for those times and what was available and familiar for those that were living in those times.  Times and places.” I took upon myself to learn and study a little more about the armor of God. I was told I need to go back to the drawing board.    To really understand the meaning of each piece and to know what was given to us.   The first words I came across PUT ON.    An action is required, take action.  Spiritually we need to put it on.  There were times when instead of putting on I was dragging it along. Forgetting it or leaving it behind.  What I’m going to write is what I have learned about Puttyin...

My Walk    to Gethsemane Lent :  The period of 40 days which comes before Easter, beginning on Ash Wednesday.  It's a season of reflection and preparation before the celebration.  Preparation before something is going to happen.  The place where Jesus came face to face with his human self.  “If it is possible to remove this cup from me”.  Where He confronted not just His human aspect but the enemy himself.  My walk to my Gethsemane would help me to learn to feed on the world of God.  Every day I learn something new about myself.  Where I’m learning to acknowledge my faults and short comings.  Its where I identify my sins and I wrestle with my emotions and where I’m learning to bring them under control.  It's  the place where I honor my savior with all that is in me. My Spirit, mind and soul. It's where I’m able to unmask my fears.  The place where I’m learning to stand in Him. Possessing the Land in front of me. ...

  Let God Be Your Compass Isaiah 30:21 “ whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you saying, this is the way; walk in it “    COMPASS- an instrument containing a magnetized pointer which shows the direction of a magnetic north.  Today, as I sit and ponder at what’s going on around me I get to see glimpses of a storm raging around us.  It has lasted so long, everything is dark. Fog has blinded our vision. The winds of incentives pushes us towards the wall.  Loosing grasp and footing I try to move forward but I can’t. I feel my body giving up; I am getting tired, I feel my body losing hope.  I don’t have the strength I need to move forward, but I also know I can’t stay stock where I am.  I hear many voices, every one has a voice, something to say, something to add. Distractions have moved us away from our path a nd yet in the mist of the storm I hear a voice    telling me what to do. It comes from d...

  My New Red Jacket “ Take of his filthy clothes. “  Grow where you planted , even when you are transplanted.  One morning as I’m getting ready to work, I came across this old red jacket. Had been used, few stains here and there, but still looked good.  I put it on and left for work.  As I’m sitting in my desk I notice the liner is coming apart and is showing.  I Did my best to hide it. would fix once I get home, I heard this whisper saying “. This is you Ivette” I ignored it, I didn’t want to listen. A few months later I came across the same jacket again and I remember what I heard not too long ago.  This time I took the jacket and I asked how can this be?  I held the jacket closed to my heart and ask The Lord to show me.  Open it I heard. I had put that jacket through a lot. From  the Cleaners to the washer and then to the dryer.   Once I opened the jacket I got to see the inside of it. Yeah this jacket represented me. I was ...

  Help Her with Her Laundry   Because we know what the word  means, we know the One who breathes the word onto existence. The devil knows the word and he uses it against us.  He brings part of it for his benefit. Partial hearing or selective hearing. People want to hear what they want, what’s convenience. We are so caught up in ourselves , That is difficult to see clear; our vision of truths is fog with our own perceptions to even hear correctly. The    enemy enhances what he wants us to concentrate on. He twists our motives and uses our own emotions against us.    But God Patiently    helps us, directing us and waiting for our yes;  Allowing our self to self medicate and self diagnose what we may think we have. Trying to make sense where there is not sense, because they are undiscerned.   Without getting deep in to the root of the problem, we dance around the issues we carry and made us who we are today. We make excu...

  Reconcile to God   Our times had become so chaotic that we had allow our mind to think that we have many races. But do we know the real meaning and definition of Race? Yes is related to racial but we, you and me belong to the only race that exists Human Race.    “ Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man nostrils and the man became a living person “ Gen 2:7 Yet we have allowed society to dictated and to give us their interpretation of it. The word we need to look is ethnicity, definition according to google.  Ethnicity: belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural .  I just noticed something as I am filling up an application ; there is a place we are supposed to mark which one is your race. White, Black , American Indian , Asian/Pacific , Unknown or other. Since when we have allowed this to take place? All my life, until now. Since all this racial discrimination, racial...

  Crossing Over  A few weeks ago the Lord gave a word out of Joshua 3.  As I listen to the word playing around me I feel something jump inside off me. I remember the word He gave me a few years ago, as I prepare myself to go on a mission trip (2009) “consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do amazing things among you” v.5. I remember the word He spoke to my heart and today He is bringing the word back to my heart, but in a different way.    “You would know which way to go, since you have never been this way before.” v4   The Lord was instructing Joshua in want to do next. He in return was telling the priest what was required of them to do: And the officers went around camp given orders to the people. The priest went ahead of them, until the reach the edge of the river, and their feet touched the waters edge. The water from upstream stopped flowing and the water flowing down was completely cut off”  As soon as the priest step in, the wate...

   “Healing Comes Out Of Chaos” In 2 Chronicles 7:14    The Lord gave us a mandate. “ if my people” talks about us.  I wrote a devotional few weeks ago which talks about if my people would really humble and really seek the Lord.  and today    he brings the same devotion, but in a different perspective.  Through this pandemic we have learned how to truly and honestly humble ourselves truly repent from our inner self and expose the heart. We have learned how to repent from our indifference and our attitude that “it doesn’t concern me, it has nothing to do with me”kind off respond.  The Lord has used the riots to expose the heart of a nation and his people. God is using what came to divide us what had brought chaos and mayhem for good; his    people are coming out of hiding like Gideon and they had taken their rightful position and standing in the gab.  The Lord uses the riots to expose the heart of our nation.    A...