Welcome to Olivia's Daughter....a blog that I created in March 2010 to document my blessed journey of healing. Since I began this blog, my mother has gone home to be with the Lord along with my son, Chris Reshaud Jordan, who was murdered in October 2009. After these two devastating events, I felt forsaken by God. I cried out to the Lord seeking my purpose in life. Throughout this experience, I had to make the choice to surrender to a life of worthlessness or to live my life to the fullest, a life filled with abundance and love.


God has strengthened me. I am seeking Him daily and and working to live in His will which is leading me to my purpose and passion. I think of Chris and Olivia constantly, but I have turned this over to God. I want God to use me as his vessel giving Him the glory.

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Through the Storm



Lord You are so faithful !  I love you more and more each day !  You show me Your power !  I believe in You even when the storms of life are unbearable.  You never give me more than I can bear.  I know this because even though I fall short You are there supporting me, encouraging me and pushing me forward.  Allowing me to know and work in my purpose.  Awesome God !  Lord I am excited to know that I have a relationship with You.  Without You I would be hopeless.  I stand on Your promises to never leave or forsake me!

Well hello, everyone, I have been out, when I am out pray for me.  When I don’t write I am either in a funk, scared or depressed or some of all that.  I thought nothing else could throw me for a loop, but I was wrong, over the last year I have been fighting to stay in my HOME !  Yes my home, the home my mother left me.  Not to get all into it, I almost lost it, the thought of losing my home was running me crazy in March 2012, when is when I began to receive serious notice.  My anxiety levels were SKY HIGH.  I did not share this info with anyone as my pride would not allow it and I felt like what could others really do. I do not like being a victim, never have, but I knew when God brought me through I would share the good news.   I did open up to one or two people, and the one person I humbled myself to, lowered my pride with was able to offer me words of love, encouragement and support.   This person is a woman of God whose kindness compares only to my mother.  My mother’s legacy of giving and caring lives on in this woman.  My mother showed this individual’s God’s love throughout her life and in return she gave me love.  God provides, what God enabled her to do is something only my mother or should I say a mother’s love would do.  I no longer have a mother, but God showed me I can still expect that type of love in my life.  God is a provider, he fills our needs.  During this situation I needed a mother and He gave me one.  I love the Lord !  As I write this I am only writing it because there maybe someone out there that needs the reinforcement of knowing GOD IS TRULY AMAZING !!  In my life the Lord has worked two miracles for me; one when my son went to court and he got probation and now God has allowed me to stay in the home my mother left me.  God builds me up through my storms I know this to be true.  He works in my life and shows me in ways in which I KNOW he and ONLY He did it. 

Yesterday I heard the news and I had one of those moments that I feel guilty about.  I have the faith that God is going to provide for me, and when he does, I say thank you but I feel it is not enough.  This is when I realize I can NEVER do enough to show God my gratitude.  But what I can do and what he requires me to do is to GIVE HIM THE GLORY and tell others of His goodness.  So this is part of what I will do.  I am a vessel of God, God give me boldness, loose me of pride and humble me to tell of Your goodness. 

There are details of this storm that you may identify with, if God has moved in Your life in a miraculous way, please let others know, so they can be blessed.  If You feel He hasn’t read these words and know that God is faithful.  This experience has helped me understand God’s written word and His promises.

I could go on and go !  God is Greatly to be Praised !  I had to praise God through the storm, through the rain, I had to praise Him in advance knowing that my blessing was coming.

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