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Good Morning Father,

With the 21 Days of a corporate prayer & fast behind us, praying that everyone will hold firmly to all that was gained in this 21 Day period. For some, this was the beginning of a new season of trust, a time to forgive, for others it was a time to let go of the past and press for what is ahead to know that good things are purposed for them. I'm sure amazing things happened in this season that no one knows but God, but this is the thing...whatever happens in private, ultimately will reveal it self in public. When God transforms a life, it cannot be hidden. It may take a moment for others to come to terms with the new person we are becoming, but time will make believers out of them. I am so thankful that God transforms people, it was those transformed people that revealed a loving God to me.

This is the thing, I was a rebellious child...deservedly, given the title "angry heifer." At the time, I did not understand why I was so angry, why trouble just seem to find me. It was the same thing with dirt, no matter what I could not stay clean. I hated baths. In hindsight, this is kind of funny. No one who knows me now- would believe I was anything other than a nice little girl. lol. We all have beginnings, there are things that happen in our life that are completely out of our control and honestly there are times when we intentionally make poor choices, making little 'to do' of the consequences of those actions.

For me, I finally grew tired of myself and my poor choices. At some point, I needed to take responsibility for my actions. The cycle of trying to be right and failing began...at the time I had know idea where this cycle would take me...The first thing that happen is that I started making new friends. I didn't know at the time that these were "good girls" "godly ladies" not perfect ladies, but daughters who had grown up in godly homes, with parents that loved God. There was something different about them. I imagined what it was like to be a "daddy's girl". They were daddy's girls. I was drawn to them and their families. Slowly, they began inviting me to church. I knew about God because my Grandmother went to church and I did see a transformation in her, but I didn't understand about a "relationship with God". Sure, I prayed to get out of poor choices, or pass a class that I was failing. But I didn't know that God could love me!

God loved me...GOD LOVED TINA. I did not grow up with a father, so I had no one to compare God too. I didn't know the love of a good father or a bad father... I didn't know what I was missing...

Blessed to say, I AM no longer missing anything...I have a Father who loves me...Everything in me desires to be attentive to his voice, to abide in his counsel..."I AM A DADDY'S GIRL"

There is a missing piece in every one us, a void that only one person can fill. Many will try in vain to fill that void, but there is only one way, one person that can satisfy an empty longing life...GOD! ...Father, Son, Holy Spirit!

Trust me when I say...no matter the gains in your life, it will be temporal apart from Christ...    

Philippians 2:13-18 (NLT) 
13 For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him. 
14 Do everything without complaining and arguing, 
15 so that no one can criticize you. Live clean, innocent lives as children of God, shining like bright lights in a world full of crooked and perverse people. 
16 Hold firmly to the word of life; then, on the day of Christ’s return, I will be proud that I did not run the race in vain and that my work was not useless. 
17 But I will rejoice even if I lose my life, pouring it out like a liquid offering to God, just like your faithful service is an offering to God. And I want all of you to share that joy. 
18 Yes, you should rejoice, and I will share your joy.