Now that my kids have grown up, my three sons are married and my daughter is an MD. I can truly say to Holy Spirit you did a good job fathering and mothering my family.
I would like to encourage other single moms whether "black or white"they too can do the same. I would not have been able to do this alone. So let me share with you some of the people groups who were very much a part of this process.
I have to thank God for Covenant Community in Jamaica. There for three years in the 80’s I was helped on the path of raising godly children. Pastor Peter Morgan and his congregation at Mona campus along with his friend Miles Monroe, gave such great teachings, that helped to built up a community of believers that showed love, caring and true friendship to all who came across their doors. Their small (cell) groups nurtured me and my children in Jamaica. This continued even after we I returned to the US. My children and I went for years to a small fellowship group that was an extension of the Jamaican community. This group gave my family accountability, stability and love. My other support came from the Vineyard Ministries of Pompano, Florida. There I learned to hear the voice of Holy Spirit, there I learned to hear God for myself and walk according to Holy Spirit’s leading. The combination of these two ministers had a lasting effect on my growth and development as a woman, prayer warrior and mother
So when I prayed (Psalm 146 & 68 ) I made it personal. I believed every word was for me. I came into agreement with others. My strongest prayer partner was Nerissa. She had strength, and her encouragement held me to another level of faith. Her confidence in declaring God’s word made me have the same boldness to say…
1 Praise the Lord! Let all that I am praise the Lord.
2 I will praise the Lord as long as I live.
I will sing praises to my God with my dying breath.
3 Don’t put your confidence in powerful people;
there is no help for you there.
4 When they breathe their last, they return to the earth,
and all their plans die with them.
5 But joyful are those who have the God of Israel[a] as their helper,
whose hope is in the Lord their God.
6 He made heaven and earth,
the sea, and everything in them.
He keeps every promise forever.
7 He gives justice to the oppressed
and food to the hungry.
The Lord frees the prisoners.
8 The Lord opens the eyes of the blind.
The Lord lifts up those who are weighed down.
The Lord loves the godly.
9 The Lord protects the foreigners among us.
He cares for the orphans and widows,
but he frustrates the plans of the wicked.
10 The Lord will reign forever.
He will be your God, O Jerusalem,[b] throughout the generations.
Praise the Lord! Psalm 68Vs. 4-7His name is the Lord—
rejoice in his presence!
5 Father to the fatherless, defender of widows—
this is God, whose dwelling is holy.
6 God places the lonely in families;
he sets the prisoners free and gives them joy.
But he makes the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.
From this support our daily walk as a family was a journey of love, tough love, prayer, miracles , sacrifice, hard choices, more love and discipline. Guess what my boys remember the most ??? The DISCIPLINE but it's OK now because they are alive to tell their version of the story. They are not incarcerated, on drugs or homeless. So I say praise God for discipline, if that is all they remember it must have worked.
There is more to come
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