Peanut Butter Treat

An alternative to DESTROYING a large bag of Doritos or Crunchy Cheese Doodles. #FabFitSnack (Apple-Cinnamon rice cake with 1 or 2 tablespoons of peanut butter and mini apple chunks on top)

Woman Will Thou Be Made Whole?

Through her life changing book “Woman, Will Thou be Made Whole?” Alishia takes her powerful testimony of overcoming divorce, homelessness, and poverty to millions of women across the nation.

I interviewed Minister Alishia Louis for this blog last year. I was finally able to meet her on this past weekend at the “Woman, Will Thou be Made Whole” Luncheon at Revival Time Flame of Fire Ministries hosted by First Lady Regina Frazier in West Roxbury, MA.

What a powerful time in the Lord! The ANOINTING breaks yokes! Minister Alishia peeled back the layers and gave it to us straight. The message was titled “Crippled AND destined”. She referenced 2 Samuel 4:4, 9:1-13 and Isaiah 61:7. WE are called out of Lodebar to Total Freedom! We must not be comfortable with our “limps”. In order to achieve total freedom, we must be willing to do “the work”. Minister Alishia uses the analogy of gardening when describing the healing process.

My blogging about it does not capture the essence of what took place. You HAD to have been there! God used her mightily! I will never be the same! What an absolute blessing!

Minister Louis is in the Delaware area. For speaking engagements, contact her office via

http://www.alishialouis.com/book_alishia.html

 With Minister Alishia Louis at luncheon.

52 Week Money Challenge - Care to join me?

Happy New Year!
This spreadsheet graphic has been forwarded all over facebook. I love spreadsheets but need help with saving at times. There is a wonderful accountability group on facebook called "Kassondra's 52 Week Money Challenge". You just join the group and post on the wall to let others know that you made your deposit. (Whether in a jar, piggy bank, binder, bank account) the whole point is to support each other with saving and sticking to it for the 52 weeks. I recreated this scheduled in an Excel spreadsheet and put into a binder. I made my first deposit yesterday! If this graphic is not too clear and you would like the excel spreadsheet, just email me at: Faithfulandfabulous@gmail.com

Happy New Year!!!

This year has been one that challenged me to STAND when I wanted to fall out and CRY, to walk in perseverance when doubters surrounded me, to put aside my own wants and needs, to share truths that are not so flattering so that it may encourage the next one, to remember what is most important and to ACT on that. I am so thankful to be able to say that. My God is so awesome. I am so looking forward to what else is in store for me in 2013. Happy New Year Everyone! ♥

Faithful, Fierce and Fabulous!

Have a fabulous day, everyone!

Good Morning!

The summer is flying by. I've had a lot going on hence my absence and will be back soon! The Lord has been SO GOOD to me, during my peaks AND valleys. How dare I let a "challenge" silence me!?Have a fabulously blessed day!

Fitness: Inside and Out

"Transformation is only valid if it is carried out with the people, not for them. Liberation is like a childbirth, and a painful one. The person who emerges is a new person: no longer either oppressor or oppressed, but a person in the process of achieving freedom. It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.” - Paulo Freire

The above photo and quote was shared over 25 times on Facebook from Paula Hannah’s wall. (You ROCK Paula!) I shared it on my personal page as well. Not only were the “before” and “after” photos inspiring, but the words in the left image spoke to a place that, unfortunately, I personally dwelled in for a long time.

Rejection

Bitterness

Unforgiveness

Shame

I can go really deep on this blog to demonstrate my point, but I will say this: Dealing with the root of rejection, in turn sprouted bitterness, unforgiveness and shame. It popped up in various areas of my life, both internally and externally. It showed up in my disposition when I perceived ANY form of rejection. Holding on to bitterness was a barrier to developing meaningful relationships. Unforgiveness, in short, was my emotional prison. Shame was the fuzzy cloud that I walked in if that makes sense. Even after I gave my life to Christ I still carried a lot of these labels.

Let me tell you, GOD is a healer and restorer! This is not a catchy phrase. YOU have to be REAL with yourself and real with God. He sees all anyway so why try to hide?

God dealt with me over time in layers. When I believed that I was healed from one area of my life, He brought another one before me to confront. All of these offenses were interconnected and had hardened my heart over time. I also asked God for forgiveness and prayed for the people that I have hurt in the past as well.

I love the themes on the right side of the photo!

Empowered

Renewed

Rebirth

Planted

For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength. – Philippians 4:13

I can BE spiritually, emotionally, physically and financially healthy!

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. – 2 Corinthians 5:17

I am a NEW creature in Christ.

Regardless of the lies spoken over my life.

Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. – Romans 12:2

I can not continue to dwell on the world’s negative thought processes.

Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, ² but whose delight is in the law of the Lord,
and who meditates on his law day and night. ³ That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither—whatever they do prospers. – Psalm 1:1-3

Where are you planted?