My crazy friends as I were at work the other night doing blood pressures for no reason at all. One girl did mine and was surprised because it was extremely low manually. Another girl did it with a machine and it was about the same.101/58. That was my blood pressure. For those if you that  don’t understand medical terms, that is actually low for an adult. I usually run low for some reason so I wasn’t that surprised, but something kept creeping in my head.

I've been having moments of worry. I've been having moments of emotional ups and downs. My eating habits have been terrible. I was shocked because on the mental/emotionally side I should have been 140/90 which is sky high. Physically I was “normal”. I was calm, rested, and my blood pressure didn’t indicate any stress or worry. I thought wow I may be 101/58 but I sure don’t feel like it. It was crazy to me to be okay on the inside and not be okay on the inside at the same time.

Have you ever felt like that? Like all was well but your emotions were getting the best of you? I finally surrendered my emotions to God this week because there is no reason at all I should have been “normal” yet non normal. When your emotions and feelings start to get out of control, it’s time to speak God into your situation. There’s a lot going on in life but that doesn’t give you the right to act crazy. I couldn’t believe last week when I woke up mad and stayed mad the entire day! That’s crazy. If my physical is okay why don’t I feel it? It’s a heart issue. There are areas that you haven’t given to God. Its simple things like not spending enough time in our word. I can’t tell how many times I thought emotions and feelings weren’t important as long as I was staying out the club and going to church on Sunday. We think things like our emotions don’t matter or need to be dealt with but I'm here to tell you they do.

This week take one day to be silent. Don’t talk to anybody and refrain from social media. I think we let outside sources influence our emotions in ways we can’t even see and that’s not good either. It will be an interesting sight to see how you feel once you sit back relax and say nothing. Try it and let me know how it goes. The most important thing though is to really be on the same page with you mind, body, and soul. You can be physically fit and emotionally out of shape, physically well and spiritually dead and God doesn’t want us to be like that. Give your normal’s to God and have him work on the rest. He only wants us to be complete.

I love YOU and I thank you for reading this week’s blog. If you have any questions comments or concerns email me or send me a message on one of our pages on this site. I'm going to be in Detroit/Toledo this weekend to visit my friend and I am attending my publishers (@justmike_) poetry tour as a vendor so if you are there stop by and get a book! Pray for me and all the changes that are occurring in my life I would appreciate it. I love you like crazy and remember to keep God first. 

Have you ever felt like God was taking you somewhere but didn’t know where? You know he has plan for you but you can’t put your finger on them. You see the blessings, but you are wondering why your doing a lot and getting nowhere. Well this week’s Hashtag happy Sunday blog is for you.

This week I accomplished at least three major things and really zoned in on my purpose. I feel God has called me to do three things specifically and I have five major projects coming up. I have everything in my reach and in my sight. I'm energized about it all, and I felt the need to work on them ASAP. I want to get them all started NOW, but God began tugging on my heart telling me daughter, its best that right now, you accomplish NOTHING.

I can see my future pretty clear for the most part, but God has called me to REST. He has called me to get everything in order and relax. I can chase all the dreams he’s placed on my heart, but I feel him saying NO. I feel him telling me it’s time for me to focus on him, get at his feet and chill. Luke 2:36 talks about a prophet named Anna. She was a widow and the bible states in vs. 37 “she never left the Temple but stayed there day and night, worshiping God with fasting and prayer” (NLT). We can have our plates full until they can’t fill up anymore, but what difference is that going to make if there’s no room to digest anything.

I think it’s great God gives us vision, plans, and callings but sometimes we have to take a chill pill and sit at his feet. Sometimes the only way to fulfill everything he’s called us to be is by fasting and praying. We have to get it together in the simple ways rather than being constantly busy. I know God has great plans for me, but in the past few days in the midst of all this goodness he called me to rest. I know I'm not the only one either. I know your business is going good. I know your book and your store is going good. I know your money is flowing in, but sometimes it’s best to sit and be still. It’s best to relax and smell the fresh air. I don’t work overtime because I know that’s time God allowed me to be with him. My bills are paid and I want for nothing so why would I drive myself crazy trying to work.

We have to start being like Anna and accomplish prayer and fasting. We have to start accomplishing Jesus. I think it’s in those moments that we accomplish nothing; we actually accomplish everything and more. I want to be prepared for my blessing and I’m praying you get ready for yours. It all starts by the mastering the art of being still before God even when our blessings are on the rise.

I love you and I pray you have a happy Sunday. If you have not ordered your copy of God Set Me Up get yours today. If you need a prayer or have any questions/comments, send them to kyliestores@yahoo.com, or leave them on the pages of my website. I love you and I'm praying for you. Pray for me as well. Have a blessed week and take some time to accomplish nothing!

Genesis 19:1-29 focus on vs. 15-23

I had a bible study last night and I'm so excited to share it with you all. I won’t post all of them because you have to be there to fill it, but I feel this message is one worth learning about. Any questions feel free to email me or DM me. Love ya.

Bible study for the focus on not looking back:

The setting was the city of Sodom and Gomorrah. They people were how we are now. A hot mess express. Lying! Cheating, sexual, partying, fighting, creeping, going against God. Doing whatever they wanted!

·         Vs15. Don’t hesitate or you will may be punished. What is God telling you to move on from?

·         Vs 16. Even when you do hesitate angels will come to snatch you up real quick. God is still fighting for you. It says he was merciful to them. Think of all the times God was merciful to you.

-Flee for your LIFE. Don’t look back. Don’t stop OR you will be swept away.

-They’re not running simply from a city. They are running for their lives.

-This demonstrates obedience. What is God telling you to flee from and not look back at? It’s a matter of life or death. It’s not to be taken lightly. There is ZERO time to waste.

·         Vs 18-20. Lot was trying to compromise with God. God is in control but he will work with you, not comply with you don’t get it twisted. It also shows he’s running to a small place (Zoar). What small place is God trying to get you to? These small places will change your life. Don’t despise the small places where God has you or has you going .

·         Vs 22. God tells Lot to flee quickly because he can’t do anything until he reaches that place. What is God trying to give you but he can’t because you haven’t reached that place yet? God is trying to bless you but YOU gotta move. You keep playing around. Get it together. You may be alone but do it. No matter who comes who or who plays around, do it for you.

-It’s not enough to know God will provide. You must be able to work for yourself.

-Lots wife shows us that looking back destroys us.

-She died in the process of looking back. Do you want that to be you? Lot made it, his daughters made it, but his wife didn’t make it. EVERYBODY is not going to make it. I realized this yesterday and it hit me hard. Kylie don’t make an excuse for people, don’t cry over it, don’t be surprised when people don’t want to hear it, no matter how you deliver it, EVERYBODY IS NOT GOING TO MAKE IT.

-Lots wife was supposed to be being led by Lot. To me he should have reinforced the importance of not looking back. It indicates she needed a leader. LADIES…Watch who you have “leading you”. Make sure he’s a man of God, has character, and leads you to the right place. Yea he can think your cute, yea he buys you things and takes you out, yea he got money but is he leading you to LIFE or are you walking with him to hell? He made it she didn’t, watch who’s leading you.

·         Vs. 29 Lot ended up surviving, but look what he went through.

-Learn to do things when God tells you the first time not after the fact.

·         Eight reasons who Lots wife looked back

1.      Disobedience.  She wanted to do her and forget God.

2.      She was nebby. IG and FB will be the death of you. Mind your business.

3.      She loved that place. How many times do we do things with no good people and go places with them because we lovvve them.

4.      That place was familiar. Why are we so scared to leave what we know? Step out and do something different. Try staying out a man’s face long enough to recognize God. Get familiar with him. Sit your partying self down long enough to hear a good sermon for one day out the weekend.

5.      She didn’t want to leave her mess. Whether you want to admit it or not you like your mess. You lay in it, do it, love it, kiss it, sleep with it, say it, listen to it, you love it. Leave it alone.

6.      Lots wife didn’t trust God. We don’t listen to God because we don’t trust where he’s leading us.

7.      She thought she was missing something. You think your missing something when you say no to that guy, that party, that job, that deal, that business you swear was from God. You aren’t missing anything.

8.      She didn’t understand the progress that she made. If you understand where God took you from and all the progress you made, would you still look back? You have to remember where you came from and where God is taking you.

·         At the end of 29 it explains how Lot was spared on behalf of Abraham’s plea. I'm at a point where I'm interceding for those around me. Who do you need to get it together for? People are depending on you. People need you. My friend came to my bible study last night and it changed my entire perspective on how God wanted me to help her become a woman of Christ. I seen the chains fall off her and I knew it was worth it. Get it together. Appreciate the Abrahams in your life because they are there to save you.

Dive deeper into Genesis 29. These are the main points we discussed but pull out your own. Most importantly don’t look back. God is trying to get you somewhere..even if it small. Trust your path.

Love Kylie

You meet someone. At first you may talk to them here and there. You may feel like they have potential and you don’t mind them staying around for a while in your life. You then begin to spend time with them. You learn many things about that person. Not only do you spend time with that person, you make an effort to understand every detail about them, what they like and don’t like. You feel like you’ve got that person all figured out. You know them and they know you. You both start to become one. At first they may have been more into you than you were or vice versa but after a while you both realize you want it to work; it starts to become a relationship. It’s easy hunh? Well if it’s easy to do this with someone who we don’t know, why don’t we make this effort with a God that knows us better than anybody?

I recently realized that I knew God since I was around 4 or 5. He has been my Savior since 8, and I've been saved by baptism for almost six years now. I knew the basics. I knew what everyone knew about Jesus and then some. I understood salvation and the father, son, and Holy Spirit. I knew many facts, stories, and vital information in the bible but something was missing. I never got to know God as I should have on an intimate level. I was convicted because he not only knows me he chose me. There are people who know nothing about God. There are also people who know something, go to church, but their hearts are far from him. My heart wasn’t far but I was comfortable with him so I didn’t put in much effort.

Have you ever found yourself rushing prayers, reading one verse and being done, listening to gospel then doing your own thing, or not spending anytime at all with God some days? Well if you haven’t you can stop reading now saint this is not for you. If you have done some of those things however, know I have been there. I realized our relationship did not have fire anymore. I was so used to God. I thought why put in a daily effort, he’s alwayyyyyys going to be there! I was involved in a one sided relationship and I was on the negative end. God got to know me. He protected me from places and people intended to hurt me. He knew what I liked so he placed goals in me to accomplish. He knew I liked to relax so he blessed me with a career that consists of full time only being three days a week. This list goes on and on. How was he so considerate of me, and I let days go by when I wasn’t even thinking about him?

It’s a concept that MANY of us our facing right now. We are not in a relationship with God at all. If you thought  saying God bless, or putting you loveee God in your bio was enough your mistaken. Going to church aint enough, and praying God is good over your food real quick won’t do it either. My Pastor actually preached on the privilege of being in a relationship with Jesus today. It blew me away because he basically confirmed that I need to get my relationship status together and not treat this like some ordinary thing. God is not your homie, genie in a bottle, sister/friend, woe, or your plug (I hate seeing that on IG I swearrrrrrrrrrrr). He is our King, Father, and somebody you need to be connected to on a deep level at all times. At work one day we were talking about what kind of girlfriends we were. I told them I was the girlfriend that wants to be all in your face at all times like all over you; that’s the way I show my love. God got me because he said well Kylie while your waiting why aint you all up on me? Why aint you all in my face? Right there he got me and I knew what I should be doing in our relationship.

When I used to go out I got ready (drunk and dressed) around 9, left so I could get in free before 11 or 12, and stayed out until 3am or 4am on a day where I was really feeling myself. The Holy Spirit challenged me to spend a month worth of weekends just like that, except this time it’s with God and see how much our relationship grows. So from 8pm to 4am Friday and Saturday nights it’s on. I wonder what my life is going to look like. If I could do it for an all white party I'm shame if I can’t do it for my God. I don’t know what he’s challenging you to do but get on it ASAP. God is not playing with you. If you don’t want a real relationship with him that fine but don’t be surprised when you reach the gates and he says he never knew you go back to your afterhours spot. I don’t know about you but I don’t have time to waste. Get that relationship together and expect everything to begin to shift for the better.

I pray you have a blessed week. Don’t forget to get your copy of God Set Me Up as well. If you have any other questions, comments, concerns, or prayer request you can email me at kyliestores@yahoo.com. Also if you are interested in attending my bible study here in Pittsburgh  email me as well. Love you like woah.

Love,

Kylie