Good Bye 2012!!

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Wonderland Wednesday Prayer

Hello POW,

This month, we launched the our 6am Prayer line.  Every Wednesday at 6am, we call the prayer line and pray together for 1 hour.

How it works:

A few people are designated to pray on the line.  These people pray one at a time (10-15 minutes each).  Then, we take prayer requests and pray those request.  If there is time left, we discuss the word of God, share scriptures and testimonies, and share personal revelations.

The main goal of our prayer ministry is to pray for The Collective POW, one another, the Body of Christ, and for the world.  Most importantly our goal is to encourage every participant to pray and to make prayer a lifestyle.  

I hope everyone calls in on Wednesdays! 

November Collective Recap: Catching Up

I hope everyone had a wonderful   "Thanksgiving Day".  I did :)

Thanks to the ladies that attended the November Collective.  Xoxoxo! 

Those of you that could not make it, this collective was a time for us to catch up.  It's been a couple of months since our last collective, so we just had girl talk.

We all need to stay connected.  So, check your emails for the next Collective and upcoming events.

In the heart of the season of giving thanks, I thought i'd share a devotional

¹ It is good to praise the Lord
    and make music to your name, O Most High,
² proclaiming your love in the morning
    and your faithfulness at night,
³ to the music of the ten-stringed lyre
    and the melody of the harp.

⁴ For you make me glad by your deeds, Lord;
    I sing for joy at what your hands have done.
⁵ How great are your works, Lord,
    how profound your thoughts! 

 PSALM 92:1-5

 IT IS GOOD TO GIVE THANKS TO GOD

Have you ever wondered why the Bible repeatedly tells us to give thanks to the Lord? The main reason is because He deserves it. Everything you are and have comes from Him. He created you and is the One who keeps your heart beating. To claim your life as your own and to do as you please is the ultimate ingratitude. God created you to love Him and sacrificed enormously to deliver you from your sin and make you His child. Expressing thanksgiving to the Lord is a way of honoring Him by acknowledging all that He has done.

Most of us would probably have to admit that our prayers tend to be rather self-centered. We come with our list of requests, but how much time do we spend thanking God for what He has already accomplished? The psalmist advises us to begin each day by focusing on His lovingkindness as we look forward, trusting Him with all our concerns. Then in the evening, we should thank Him for His faithfulness and take note of all the ways He provided for our needs and guided our way.

Even if the day has brought pain or difficulty, we can still thank God for His presence as He carried us through, and for His promise to work everything out to our benefit (Rom. 8:28).

This week, take time to remember what the Lord has done for you, and express your thanks to Him. Be creative and think of all the ways you can show gratitude--then sing, praise, and joyfully worship Him. By keeping your focus on God, you can have an attitude of gratitude all day long.

Four More Years.....Yay!

I voted for him :)

Get Out and Vote People!!

Click on the links below to get more information about the initiatives and propositions on the California Ballot.

California Voter Guide Link and California Ballot link:

http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/

http://vote-ca.org/forVoters.aspx?State=CA

"The Top 20 (cause 10 ain't enough)

Reasons (excuses) Black Folk Will Give If Obama Loses"

by TAVIS SMILEY

1. "They said Obama was winning!"
    
2. "I didn't get to the polls, but I did say a prayer for the brotha!"
    
3. "You know they wasn't gonna let no Black man have no two terms!"
    
4. "See, what had happened was. . . "
    
5. "I couldn't get my outfit together!
6. "Racisim." 
7. "I must have caught that 'Romnesia' is it 2012 already?"
    
8. "They knew in the second term he was finally gonna hook US up!"
    
9. "That damn Stacey Dash!"
    
10. "They suppressed my vote!"
     
11. "I'm part of the black bourgeoisie 1%, I had to vote for RoMONEY!"
     
12. "That line was too long!"
     
13. "I ran by the house right after work cause I had forgot my sample ballot; got me something to eat, sat down for a quick minute, and . . ."
     
14. "Girl, it was raining!"
     
15. "They stole it!" (Not impossible)
     
16. "It's a C-O-N-spiracy!"
     
17. "The media. Ok. . .Fox News Channel."
     
18. "The Illuminati took him out . . . he wasn't going along with the program."
     
19. "I had to work that day."
     
20. "I thought that was NEXT Tuesday! Dang, my bad."
All jokes aside, too many close elections are decided by the margin of eligible voter absence at the polls. Turnout matters.
What's YOUR excuse going to be?

Oprah's Life Class with Iyanla Vanzant: 5 Reasons Women Betray Each Other

Ladies,

If you haven't seen Oprah's Life Classes with Iyanla Vanzant, you might want to check it out.  I like these Life Classes because Iyanla encourages people to do their own personal, spiritual work.  When you are doing the work for your own life, you don't have time to meddle in other people's lives.

The 4 Main Ways Women Hurt Each Other:

1) Women betray each other's trust and confidence
2) Women gossip
3) Women lie to each other
4) Women compete with each other

Why Women Betray Each Other:

1) Self-hatred
2) We don’t honor our relationships
3) We seek external validation

4) We don’t honor ourselves
5) We mimic what we’ve seen
6) We hold unrealistic demands

5 Rea sons Women Lie:

1) Fear of losing love and respect
2) Fear of hurting, upsetting or disappointing
3) To cover up issues of self-worth
4) When we feel threatened

5) To be polite

 

Why Women Gossip:

1) To get power

2) It’s an acceptable practice among women
3) We don’t recognize the power of the spoken word
4) It diverts attention from our own "stuff"

Iyanla's Homework Assignments:

101 - Start logging how many times a day you find yourself talking about somebody else
201 - Ask yourself, "Why am I doing this?"
301 - Forgive myself for all the times I’ve done this
Ph.D. - Make the commitment to yourself that you’ll never do it again

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