Holding on to His Word🤍🦋

When God is quiet, hold on to what He already said. His Word is your anchor 🤍

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Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome to the Beautiful Me Empowerment Ministry Podcast, the space where faith meets healing, where we grow and learn together as we go on a journey of wholeness. How are we doing? God is indeed good. If I was in church, I would say God is good, and you would say all the time, and we would say all the time, God is good. Amen. So it's been a moment, of course, you know. I'm your girl Monique Anderson. I am the CEO and founder of the beautiful Me Empairment Ministry, a journey that started with personal healing, but God has turned it into a movement, and I am truly grateful to serve. I consider every opportunity to share the word of God as an assignment, whether it is on this platform, whether it's on TikTok or um Facebook, or if I get the opportunity to do speaking engagement, every opportunity that is given to me, I don't take it lightly, I see it as an assignment, and I am truly grateful. You know, a couple of years ago, I as a child growing up, there is this song. I think it is by Martin's Heritage. I want to be more than an ordinary servant, and I would sing that song. You know, it was my favorite song because it had a little rhythm, it had a little vibe, a little beat to it. And let me tell you something about my parents, they were very, very strict parents, and so reggae music. If you're from Jamaica, secular music, then those types of music were not allowed in our home, and so uh Martin's Heritage song, it had a little vibe, and so I loved it, and I would sing, I want to be more than an ordinary servant, and there's a part in the song that says, 99 and a half won't do, surrendering all is what I need to do, a sacrifice that you won't refuse from a heart that's broken and contrite turn on. Let me tell you something, man. By repeating that song ever so often, you know, God really and truly does behind the scene work, right? He really does do um does he really tongue twisting. I'm sorry, he really does some work behind the scenes, right? And so I grew up with that song, and even as I progressed through life, that song it became a prayer, it became the prayer of my heart to be an ordinary servant for God, and as I've shared with you before, that the only dreams that I would have or lay down, the only visions, the only thoughts of a future that I would have is just preaching and speaking, teaching the word of God. And here I am, years later, it goes to show you that delay does not mean denial, and it also goes to show that even when we can't see it behind the scenes, God He is developing roots, right? Solid roots that are anchored in him. He is, I mean, you may be praying and asking God for change, you may be praying and asking God for breakthrough, and it may seem like it is taking a long time, but again, here's the thing: if God had given me a platform when I was just a child, and I would not be able to manage the weight, right, that comes with the platform, right? And so that is what God does over time, He develops us, He builds our capacity for the weight of the gift, the promise, the thing that we're praying for. So it's not a matter of, oh, God is withholding things from me, but He is developing you. Hallelujah! And so here I am today, you know, sharing the word of God, still trying to be with the help of the Holy Spirit, more than an ordinary servant because there are levels and levels and levels and levels deeper, deeper depths in God, and I use this platform as a learning experience as well, because just by sharing, I have to do the research, and oh my god, I am encouraging you people to get on board. You don't have to have a platform, but get in the word of the Lord, get in the word of God, and the scripture says that thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light onto my path. It is our guide, it brings comfort, it brings strength, it it brings authority, every single thing that you need to survive these times and seasons that we're living in. It is in the word of God. The Bible also tells us that the word of God it is sharper, it is compared to a double-edged sword, it can pierce through any bone and marrow. And if if you should look at um marrow or those particles um in the brain, you would need a microscope to actually uh see it because of how tiny it is, and the Bible tells us that the word of God can pierce through all of that, and so use the word of God, it is our sword, all right, as you go through these difficult moments. Like I said, you don't need to have a platform, right? I mean, our lives are ministries because as we go through our daily lives, you may not be a counselor by profession, but you will pounce upon somebody who is going through a difficult situation, and you may be that person that God is sending to speak to them, to speak life into them, and you can attest to the fact that there are seasons in your lives, there are moments in your life, and as you go throughout life, you cross paths with different persons, and everybody's going through something, and you know, you may just start sharing uh with a random person, and you find that this person is going through something, and you are the one that God sent, right, to help that person. And we remember the story of the Good Samaritan, right? Here, this man was beaten and bruised and left on the roadside for dying, and so other persons passed them and passed him, sorry, and did not offer any help. And here comes this man going about his own jolly way, going about his business, and he was the man that God sent to help this person along the way, right? So you may very well be going about your own business, and here comes this person that God puts in your way that He wants you to minister to. So our lives are ministry. The way we live our life, it is a ministry, it is a ministry within our homes, and your home, it is your first ministry. So as you live your life at home, you know, you're ministering to your spouses, you're ministering to your children, and I I live by this thing, you know. You never know who is watching, you never know who is watching, and integrity goes a long way, right? So, read the scriptures, study the word of God. We have so many different um platforms, search engines that you can go in if you don't understand the scripture, engage the Holy Spirit when you get in the presence of the Lord in the mornings. Just say, Holy Spirit, show me the scripture, and let what it is that you want me to learn today from the scripture, and the Holy Spirit will download into you, right? And then now that edifies you, the word of God it edifies, it builds you, and so when you go out there and you meet a total stranger, you can edify them. That is why we are here. We are here to edify each other, to speak life into each other. There's this song the other day. I love this song, and this is how God speaks to me. Whenever I'm going through difficult situations, you know, God speaks to me through songs. That a song just pop pops up in my spirit, and that is how God strengthens me. And that song, maybe it is just one line in the song, one verse, one stanza in the song, and then it will lead me to a scripture, and then I dive into the scripture and I said, Holy Ghost, what are you teaching me today in this scripture? And so, um, there's this song uh by Paul, oh my god, I think it is Paul Martin, and it says, Um, a part of the song says, Let me encourage you, let me speak life to you. You can depend on God to see you through, and you can depend on me to pray for you, and we do need people to be praying us up, amen. Because again, there are moments when you get in that space of prayerlessness, like when you you get in those seasons, those wilderness-looking seasons, those pit-like seasons, those seasons when the truth is you have nothing but what God said to hold on to, and your faith waives, your trust waives, and you know, you we need people, and that is why the word of God says that we edify each other, we build each other up instead of tearing each other down, because every person on the face of this earth is going through something, and we need each other. Hallelujah, God. We just we just come before you today with hearts anchored in gratitude, and we thank you, God, for bringing us through seasons of noise and even through seasons of silence. Thank you that even when everything around us feels uncertain, your word remains constant. Your word says that the grass with us and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever. And so today, God, we stand on your word, not on our feelings, not on what we see, not on what others say, but on what you have spoken. And we are declaring today, God, that your word is our anchor, your truth is our foundation, your promises are still alive in our lives, and we ask you, God, to strengthen us today to hold on to what you said, even when everything around us looks different. Hallelujah. In Jesus' name. Amen. I was talking about um uh studying the word of God and just asking the Holy Spirit, you know, to just speak to you, to just deposit in you what is it that you know you want me to learn today in the scripture, right? And there are different dimensions of God, and you will encounter these different dimensions, these different personalities of God, and and we know about all the different names that are attributed to God. He is Yahweh, he is Adonai, Jehovah Makadesh, Jehovah Nisi, Jehovah Raphi, El Rohi, like and all of these names they mean something different. You have provider, you have um our anchor, you so different names, and as we go through our journey, God shows up for us in different ways, so you meet another um persona or another person, right? So if it is a season that you're going in where you need God to show up as your provider, then he's going to show up and he's going to provide. If you're going through another season where you need him as shelter, then he's going to show up as that. So as you go through the scripture, as he walks you through the scripture, as you study the scripture, as you go through life, you meet different dimensions of God, right? He meets your need in that season. Whatever the need represents in that season, that is the dimension of God that you will encounter in those seasons. And it is through the word of God that you encounter these dimensions of God. You you you might be going through a season where you need him as your defender, and in that season, you will encounter him as your defender. You may be going through another season where you need him as comforter, and so he will show up in that season as your comforter. You may be going through another season where you need him as a friend, he's gonna show up as friend, right? And it is through scripture that you encounter God, amen. And so it is so very important that we, you know, we we just read the word of God because there are going to be seasons in life where everything else feels uncertain, right? Your emotions are going to be inconsistent, your circumstances are going to be unclear, your environment may not reflect the promise, and in those moments, you are going to feel like you have you have you have nothing left, right? You have nothing left, you have nothing left, just what God said. So there are no new instruction, there's no new confirmation, neither is there any visible evidence, just the memory of his word, and there's a scripture that says, Thy word have I hid in my heart that I will meditate on it day and night. And those moments, if we're honest, they can feel difficult because we want to see something, we want proof, we want reassurance, but there comes a point in the journey where God invites us to hold on to his word alone. God is a promise keeper, he is faithful, and there are going to be moments when you need his to to to be reminded of his faithfulness, and so you will meet that dimension of God. He is not a man that he should lie, neither is he the son of man should that he should repent. If he had made your promise, then he will come through. But again, there are going to be seasons that feel silence, but silence is not absence. God is present even when he is not speaking in new ways, and in those silent seasons, God often calls us back to something that is foundational, what he has already spoken. So he wants um his word to become our anchor. And if we look in the Bible, if we look at Abraham, Abraham believed the word. In Abraham's story, there were long periods where God did not speak again. But Abraham still had the original promise. Genesis 15, verse 6 says, Abraham believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness. Abraham's righteousness was not based on perfect behavior, it was it was based on belief. He held on to what God said, even when circumstances did not align. And that is what faith looks like. It's a faith journey, people of God. Every time the enemy tempted Jesus, Jesus says, It is written. And this is showing us that the word of God, it is not just information, people of God, it is a weapon, it is our anchor, and it is our source of truth. So I am encouraging you to wheel your sword, pick up your Bibles, study the word of God because we're living in some difficult times, and the devil, he is out there, him the right at your doors as you open it. Trouble is there. Sometimes you don't even have to open it. The mere fact that you are alive, you're a threat to the kingdom of hell. The Bible tells us that he is out there like a roaring lion seeking who he may devour, and so he will fill your mind with all of these negative thoughts because our mind needs something to hold on to during uncertainty, and without an anchor, the mind can drift into anxiety, fear, and overthinking. And so the word of God provides that anchor, it gives the mind truth to return to, it interrupts negative thought patterns. Like I said, it is our sword, a double-edged sword that can pierce through every single one of those negative thought patterns, and it creates stability in the middle of emotional fluctuation. When you hold on to truth consistently, your mind begins to align with it. So the more you study the word of God, the more you meditate on the word of God. The Bible tells us that we should meditate on the word of God day and night. So the more you study it consistently, the more you feed on it, the more you eat the word. My daddy would say, eat the word. The more you eat the word of God, you are changing your mind, you're rewiring your mind. Joyce Myers, I'm Pastor Joyce Myers, she talks about our stinking thinking, and so we have to use the word of God. We have to use the word of God. Theologically, God's word carries authority. And let me tell you something. We have authority. Just like Jesus has authority, we have authority, but it is in the word of God. We have to know the word of God. What God speaks is not temporary, it's eternal. And and Psalm 119, verse 89 says, Your word, Lord, is eternal. It stands firm in heavens. This means that circumstances may change, feelings may shift, situations may look different, but God's word remains unchanged. And when you stand on his word, you are standing on something that cannot fail. Holding on to the word of God looks like repeating what God said when doubt arises. It is reminding yourself of his promises when circumstances feel opposite, when the enemy comes in like a flood, wield the sword, wield the word of God, start declaring scriptures. Right? It is choosing to believe truth over feelings. It is speaking scripture over your life daily. When I wake up in the morning and I told my students yesterday, I told a student yesterday, I said, put your hand on your head and declare that I have the mind of Christ. Let this mind be in me that is also in Christ. And you tear down, you use the word of God, and you bind up every negative thought, every stinking thinking in the word of Pastor Joyce Myers. Right? It means intentionally returning your mind to what God has already declared. If the devil can get into your mind and start planting lies and deceit and defeat and and all of those negative things, that is where he's won. Because in that place, he has stolen your identity. But when you stand strong and you stand firm in who God says that you are, and you read the word of God, and as I mentioned earlier, that you you are now able to go out there and edify others, minister to others. Wholeness requires stability, and stability comes from truth. When your life is anchored in God's word, you are not easily shaken by external circumstances. But what happens is you develop resilience, you develop confidence, you develop peace because your foundation is not based on what changes, it is based on what remains. So you may it may seem like nothing is happening, but in those moments when it seems like nothing is happening, everything is happening. Heaven is moving. Remember the seed when you sow a seed in the moment for a couple weeks, a couple months, depending on the type of seed, it will seem like nothing is happening. But a father don't leave that a farmer, sorry, don't leave that seed out there. He continues going and watering those seeds, and before you know it, what is happening underneath is it is developing strong roots so that it doesn't become like those seeds, you know. The parable of the seed and the sower, and it talks about the different seeds. So when you keep studying the word of God, you keep you speaking that over your life, you become the seed that is planted in good soil, and you keep watering it. So you're reading the word of God every day, you're praying, you're fasting every day, and so you're developing good, proper, healthy roots, and then before long it will start bringing forth fruit. So no little bird, no little nothing can come, and no, no, no, you are not easily shaken because you're so firmly, you're so stable in the word of God and in the truth of who He says that you are. So when the storm comes, like the willow tree, you bend but you don't break because your roots are anchored in the truth of the word of God. Hallelujah. Listen, I get excited, you know. I can go on and on and on and on and on. Um into as the as the Holy Spirit allows me to just to just speak life into you, to just try to edify you, because as I edify you, the Holy Spirit is edifying me, right? And I hope you are truly blessed uh by this podcast. And I just want to encourage you again that when everything else feels uncertain, God's word is enough. Hold on to what he said, hallelujah, Father. Help us, God, to hold on to your word when we feel that we're in that space of uncertainty. Remind us of your truth. Help us to study your word, study to show thyself approved. Help us, oh God, to stay anchored in the truth of your word, Abba Father. When we feel weak, strengthen us through your promises and let your word become the foundation of our lives. In Jesus' name, amen. God bless you. Just remember again that when God is quiet, hold on to what He already said. His word is your anchor. God bless you. Have an amazing day. Always remember that Mo loves you, but God loves you even more. Like and share this podcast if it blesses you. I love you. Blessings.