I didn't, not at first. . .
I always thought that I was doing the right thing in life. I thought that I was going the right direction because I did what I was told to do. I was showed by my parents how I was supposed to live and carry out my life.
The thing is, your parents can only teach you what they know. My father's father always taught his children that education was the way to improve their life. He taught that this was one of the most important things . . . but is it really?
Is education the most important thing in your life?
I know that this idea has been sewn into the tapestry of my family for many generations. I come from a long line of teachers. I, myself, became a teacher not really realizing that I had been conditioned to think that it was a honorable career with promises of success and stability. And it was. It just wasn't meant to last forever.
My father was an advocate for education. This is the very reason why we ended up living in South New Jersey. My father did not feel that the California's school system was good enough. The school system of his home city, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was not good enough either. So, he went to the place where he believed his children would have a fighting chance at being successful in this world: he moved us to the suburbs.
He was in pursuit of his idea of the American dream; Get a good job, work, send your kids to school so that they may have the chance to get a better paying job. He felt that a good education was one of the most important things in your life. I would say that I agreed with that idea for many years. It was not until recently that I have changed my mind.
If you read my blog then you would know that I had the stable, good paying job. I did well in school so that I could go to college. I went to college for my bachelors and also for my masters. I got married, had the kids, bought the house. As of today however, I got laid of off that job, my house got foreclosed on, and I am currently filing for bankruptcy.
So what went wrong?
I didn't really know what had went wrong, but I definitely wanted to find out. I want to know why the so called "formula for success" did not work for me. Through time, humbleness, and complete surrender I asked God: "Why isn't it working out for me?"
The answer that I got blew my mind:
You may know what you want, but you don't know what you need . . .
This is the problem in life. We all think we know what we need, but we don't. The people in our lives think they have it figured out for us, so they tell us what we need:
You need Jesus
You need to get a job
You need to go to school
You need to get married
You need to stay single
You need to make more money
You need a bigger house
You need to go to church . . .
The thing is, only the Holy Spirit really knows what you need. It is the Holy Spirit that can see on the inside and not only on the outside.
You can't hide things from the Holy spirit unless you grieve him. This is something that we don't want to do. Instead, we want to invite the Holy Spirit into our lives so that he can look around, assess the condition of our hearts, then set a path for us to follow.
Catch this analogy in your spirit:
Your original plan (destiny) was lost. But, it was a good thing that God wrote every thing down in a book called your DNA. He has an original copy of your destiny in heaven that matches your DNA. When you were born naturally, something was not quite right because you were born into sin. You were not what you needed to be to retrieve your original destiny assignment. It just didn't match up.
Now, our God, is an exact God. He will not accept anything but the original. When you are born again in the spirit, Jesus can reconnect you to your original destiny. Why? Because you are receiving your true self, your true blood, and your true DNA. You are now equipped with your individual gifts, talents, and abilities to complete your assignment on earth.
We couldn't do it by our selves!!
The Holy Spirit makes all of this possible. The Holy Spirit (Jesus) holds the map to your original destination. Now all we have to do is follow our destiny, make a major turn around and start heading in the right direction of the strait and narrow. We must get on that road. How? By answering the call to turn around. The Holy Spirit is calling each and everyone of us to change our path. Why? Because we have an assignment in this life. We have things that we need to do. We have a destiny to fulfill. It is only the Holy Spirit that can teach us, and encourage us, and influence us, to our true destiny. We may think we know what we need to find our destiny, but it is only the Holy Spirit that can correctly guide us. Hence, we need the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit Holds the Map!!
Therefore the Holy Spirit is the Most important thing in your life. . .
Your assignment is the second
Your seed is the third
If you want to learn more about the three most important things in your life, may I suggest this book:
It is an excellent explanation of why and how the Holy Spirit is so important. It is going to break down the Holy Spirit's purpose in your life, how he speaks to you, and who he is personally to you.
The Holy Spirit is
"a mentor who empowers you to make right decisions. His presence, peace, and power will create every change you long for in your life. He is an advisor and companion and the only true source of strength joy and love."
Your Assignment is
"the problem you were created to solve on earth . . .You will only experience unusual success when your assignment becomes your obsession."
The Seed is
"what you were given to create any future your want . . . Time, love, patience, wisdom, and money are seeds. What you sow you will reap."
(Mike Murdock "The 3 Most Important Things in Your Life")
So friends, although education is very important, you must have the right education. You must get your information from the right source. This world really has set us up to receive the wrong information about life. Many of us don't know what to do once we have failed miserably at life. I refuse to participate in the lies of the enemy anymore. I am glad that I failed and I get to start over. In my weakness God is made strong!
I am at peace because I know the plans that God has for me. I believe in the promises of the truth of God. The Holy Spirit continues to teach me and show me everyday who I am and what my assignment is. This is why I know, he is the most important thing in my life.
I know that my assignment is to help you find your purpose by connecting you and teaching you the information that I receive from the Holy Spirit. I sow into you the wisdom of the Holy Spirit and the patience to receive it in time.
Remember to live your life on Purpose.
Until Next Time
-Tamorra
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: 3If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. 4For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. 5Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
6Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
7(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
8We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
9Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
10For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
II Corinthians 5
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