With this Crown

Today, with this crown, I will conquer any obstacle that keeps me from being my very best me.

Genesis 3: Broken intimacy

In the beginning Adam and Eve had no secrets from each other. They were both naked and ashamed. As a couple, God give them power to rule the world. God give them a promise, a promise that the enemy set his eyes on to attack and steal. What did he chose to attack? Their intimacy with God. He attacked their relationship with God. When the enemy stole  Adam and Eve's intimacy Scripture says " Their eyes were opened and they knew each other's nakedness. So they cover themselves (Genesis 3:Seven). They cover the part of themselves that was once intimate. When Adam and Eve lost their intimacy , they hid from God and blamed each other for it. They had broken their intimacy.

The word intimacy means" to be open, transparent and trusting. Intimacy is the most important part of a relationship. It is where you chose to longer hide but share everything about yourself with someone you love and care about. Without intimacy, fear enters. When intimacy is broken, we become afraid of revealing our truths (fears, needs, insecurities, secrets, hopes, dreams, opinions),  When fear is present in any relationship it can become complacent, empty, and accessible.

Here are some of the most common fears.

Fear of loneliness\ abandonment: "If someone really got to know me, they will probably loose interest in me and leave.

Fear of I am not enough: I can't fulfill their expectation.

Fear of losing control: Now that you know me, you may use it to control me.

Fear of being love: I've never experienced this kind of love before, This is too good to be true. I don't deserve this.

When fear is present, intimacy is hard to find. When we fear relationships, women become easy to get and men become hard to find. 


How do you fix broken intimacy?  By replacing fear with love. True intimacy does not have a space were fear can exist, only love can. Love allows your heart to remain open to the flaws and faults of others,while having patience and understanding that they can\ will get better. Even thought, intimacy was broken, God restored it with love. They each had to face the consequences for what they did (Genesis 3:14-Sixteen) but God still covered them (Genesis 3:Twenty-one). And that is still the relationship of intimacy each of us continue to restore this very day. 

The 1st intimate relationship we seek is with God.

Blessed on a Payment Plan

When we have doubt and fear it does not remove what He has promise. It just takes longer to receive it.

God is not a man that He shall lie. Numbers 23:Nineteen

When we doubt the promises of God, we hold ourselves up from our blessings. When we think we have to earn the promise. We take our blessings and put them on layaway.

Now for anyone that is not familiar with layaway. Layaway is a payment process used ,sometimes in installments to secure an item(s) for a later purchase. There are times when we  have doubts that are bigger than our faith and it shrinks us into thinking we are not worthy of receiving  God's best. God has marked paid in full  on a promise  we are willing to settle for in installments. When we  have doubt and fear it does not remove the promise, it just takes us a little longer to receive it . When we think that we have to have an earned performance attitude to be blessed (do something for something) we place limits on God and only receive what we can handle. Earn performance attitudes receive blessings by works instead of  by faith.  But the Bible instructs us to  Ask and you shall receive Matthew 7:Seven, not earn and you shall receive.

God is not waiting on your checklist of earn performance behaviors. He waiting on your faith list.

The great thing about God is that He dares us in Malachi 3:10. He says Put me to the test.  God has angels on personal assignment,  just for you, waiting to bless you.  You don't have to earn in installments what God has given you be grace. Once you believe that the promises from God are Yes and Amen (2 Corinthians 1:Twenty), You will receive all that He has in store for you. You DO NOT have to earn what has already been given to you by inheritance.

When God says no, It's  because He has something better in mind.

By faith

Believe by faith

Carry by faith

Declare by faith

Receive by faith

Fight by faith

Win by faith

Take it by faith

Own it by faith

Control it by faith

Maintain it by faith

From one level of faith to the next, We receive ALL things by faith.  

To Be Faithful is to be Successful

God wants you to succeed in life. And He will give you the tools, strategies and relationships necessary to make it happen. David started out as a shepherd boy but God had plans of making him into a king. The Bible says," In everything he did he had great success, because the Lord was with him. (1 Samuel 18:Fourteen) But God's definition of success is very different from the world's definition. 

I am not called to be successful , I am called to be faithful. -Mother Teresa

Some of us are called for the stage while others are called to perform behind the screens. We should not be discourage about our position but we should be concerned about how well we perform. There will be a day where we stand before God and our worldly possessions will not be important. The fact that we were faithful to God and  His word will stand as a true testament of His Will over our life.

Our relationship with God is progressive. It is a relationship that is always under construction because we are always developing and changing into who God has created and destined us to be. As we learn to apply God's Word to every area of our lives. We develop those traits that leads to our lives becoming better. We grow with God the more we know Him.