My First Love Letter: Greatness Within

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

I love you. I love you. I love you. 
Couldn’t tell you enough. 
And I wish you were next to me.

Time is much more valuable than we thought. Kind of take time for granted, like we have more than we do. But there’s not much at all. Every minute is a minute to be thankful for, a minute to use wisely, a minute to be productive with. Every minute is to learn something from to use in the next minute.Every minute is a minute to take a couple steps forward into the future, because it’ll be the future with or without you. The time never stops moving, it never stops ticking. So you better move with it. Not enough time to just sit with nothing to say, or do. Every minute needs to be something of substance. Used to your advantage, since you have it. Because not everyone has it. Can’t lose track of time. And let it pass us by…

I’d rather have done everything I want to do in this life rather than to feel like I didn’t use the time I had wisely, and to my advantage once my time runs out. I watched a teaching and the man said “die empty.” Die with nothing left. Die having used your God given gifts and talents to better humanity, how you should, rather than dying with them.

It's crunch time. It's time to get it, it's time to move forward.
It's about time to know what you want to do and move forward towards it. 
Time to do what you know you got to do, to get where you know you want to be in life,

Do what you got to do to get where you see yourself, get to the status you see yourself having, the clothes you see yourself in. The cars you see yourself driving, the house you see yourself living in. All of it. It's time to move to it. You deserve every bit of your vision. Nothing short of it. Be great.

A friend of mine told me: “Jaina, I just want to be great.”
My response: “Well, be great. You can be great. It’s in you for you to be. If you know that greatness is in you, then you can be great.”

Just apply your greatness to everything, and greatness is sure to come of it. 
God has your back. He wants you to be great.
He has embedded greatness in you. He is in you.
He lives and works through you on purpose.
Because he knows that you are great, he knows you have the potential to be…
You think you come up with those visions of greatness with your own imagination?
No. You were given those visions by God, by the greatness that is on the inside of you.
It’s almost a “look-see” or preview of everything you can have, as another motive to stay on track with God, with life, and continuing to live in such a way that you actually attract more greatness. 
He’ll let you get a glimpse of what you can have...but to actually receive everything he has promised you, you gotta keep him a part of your life. FIRST. 

Living according to planned would actually attract money. You will then meet people, other great people. People that have things you would like to have, and want more of. People with characteristics and traits you'd want to rub off on you. People that have dreams that coincide with yours. And it is easy to foolishly believe that it is all just a coincidence.

They all just came about in this life and/or you both just so happen to come across each other. Just so happen to cross paths. No. Its a part of the plan. With every great move, there is a set up for the next great move that is to be made in order for you to move forward and closer to where you see yourself, and what you see yourself having. via visions. God has a plan. “God is faithful, and his plan is perfect.” God plans to use your gifts, talents, and personality to its best and highest potential, in order for you to possess everything you want. And as a child of God, ALL of your desires are to be met. ALL OF THEM. Needs and wants, MET. He wants that for us, as any father would! All he asks is that you put him first, above all. And stay connected. He has the answers, and the only thing you gotta do to get them is listen to him. There will be tests, but that’s only more room for testimony. There will be more tests as a child of God than as someone against him. or heathens. That’s just how it is; that's just how it works. With every child of God, the devil sees as a threat and will throw what he can to knock you down. He tries to sit you down. He tries to get you sidetracked so you won't have an impact on this world as you could and should. He wants to get you off track so you don’t do what you gotta do to become what you want to become. So you can’t follow through with the plans that your father has for you, which is only a set up for greatness. The devil doesn’t want that. You are a threat, and he wants to enable you. The gifts, the knowledge, the thoughts you think up, it’s all greatness…and the devil knows that if you set out in this world the way God has planned for you...the devil knows it’s all over for him. And he no longer has control over you. That's a word. So, be aware. Well- aware...that you are great. Nothing short of it. You have greatness on the inside of you. It lives inside of you. Everything you set your mind to will be great. Every project you work on will project greatness. Every person you talk to will leave with a burning desire to be great. YOU project and pass along greatness, through and by the grace of God. I pray you carry that grace with you everywhere you go. AMEN.

Rise Up King!

I think it is unfair for women to have to be big and bold alone. I think it is unfair that we now have to learn how to fend for ourselves and wear our toughest skin. Can we do it, yes! Of course, what can't a woman do? We are the most capable creatures. But the fact that now, in the world we live in, we are the most unprotected. MEN don’t rise up to provide, we have to provide for ourselves. Men won’t rise up to protect us, we have to protect ourselves. It is unfair that women have to apply so much pressure on themselves just to survive and be sure they are fine every part of the way in this life. It’s unfair and it is not right. Not how things were intended to go. Women, are “helpmates”, but have been forced to take the position of a man in every sense because they won't step up into their roles. And once we, women, get used to doing things ourselves, once we no longer look for the guys to step in and step up, when women start turning to other women for what men are deliberately turning their backs to...then we’re tripping and too independent, and too strong. But where were you when we needed you, for simple things...like packing the car, or bringing up the groceries, or even holding the door...you were watching! You watched the strong superwoman get it done herself with grace. You watched as she took care of herself without complaint. You watched. Even though she was overwhelmed with her own stuff, even though she had a million things on her plate and another million on her mind, she smiled anyway. Even though she was fighting her own demons, she made time for you, and took on your demons. She made time to chill, she made time to talk, she made time to link. Superwoman. The nature of a woman is to nurture, and a lot of the time with zero in return or reciprocation. To nurture the beings of others, to help others grow, even if it means putting others before themselves. I don't think we, as women, can escape that. I don't think we have the luxury of ignoring the responsibilities we have and involuntarily have to take on, because we are women. But a man, you on purpose chose no purpose, just so you don't have responsibilities...so you choose the easy life. For what though? Because it is easy? For now. What comes out of easy? Is that the vision you see for yourself, or do you not have one? Are you lost? Do you not recognize the king on the inside of you. Why don't you awaken it? The world needs you. Women need you to rise up, for the functionality of the universe. For things to report back to its rightful position. Generations are counting on you to rise up. As of now, we are all doomed. But until our men rise up to be actual men, and take their positions as men, alongside women... the whole functionality of everyday living, and the standard of living is diminished, destroyed, and will eventually disappear. As long as our men carry on with whatever, i'm living life, and choosing the easy route, so will everything else follow suit. Men, just as Simba, you are the KING of the jungle, and you set the tone of the world around us, as leaders...but when you do not take position, you leave room for SCAR to take the throne. Quit running from your kingship. You will never be satisfied there. As long as you are not walking in your kingship, you will stay hungry. Lion King; Simba was eating bugs. Thinking he was living his best life, hakuna matata, with no worries, and no responsibilities but eating bugs! Eating with rats and pigs. He conditioned himself to eat the way the animals at the bottom of the food chain ate. Slimey, yet satisfying. CHOICES: Ultimately you have the choice to either rise up to your kingship, or stay carefree, eating bugs with peons. But because we don't want to confront, acknowledge and address the things of our past...that is what we will settle for. To avoid conflict, to not have to face the truth about things, to not be in an uncomfortable place, or just so we aren’t alone, we settle. You know how much settling cost you, in real life?? Your whole life. Nothing grows up without breaking barriers. Even trees are ground breaking. GROW UP. Breaking barriers, breaking the mold or what society says. The enemy's first line of business is to make sure you never find out the power you possess within. That you never become aware of your kingship, and will do anything to make sure you never find out. Because if you do, it is over for him. So in exchange for the life and kingship you are supposed to live in, here’s an easy life! In exchange. The easy life is not free, it too will come with consequences. Everything comes with consequences. Either good or bad, but something comes out of everything, even nothing is something. Even with doing nothing about something comes consequences. In these times, don’t be no fool. Take your position, with force on purpose. Because you have a purpose, and the purpose is much bigger than you. There's a reason why you must, its deeper. It’s within, and only through God will you grab a hold of it. The reason is bigger than you. Don't wait til you’re forced into responsibility to take responsibility. Take responsibility now, take responsibility for you, your thoughts and your actions. Take responsibility for yourself now...it’s a big responsibility to make sure you reach your potential. To be sure you become all that it is you want to be. Take responsibility for yourself when you are making decisions...even the small ones. Be responsible with yourself. Take care of yourself. Be good to yourself. It is irresponsible to knowingly set yourself up for the kill. Settling for less than you know you deserve is actually killing you. When you don't rise up to your kingship you are doing yourself and everybody around you an injustice. Be the change you want to see in the world? NO, just BE YOU! That is all this world needs...is for you to be you. You were put here to be you. So the moment you dumb down, and do not take position...you starve the people that are needing you to show up as yourself. The world needs you, to be you. When you don’t be real with yourself you fail your legacy. You fail at you. Rise up King. Rise up Queen, and come to know yourself and walk in your power. Take your rightful seat at the throne. You are to rule and reign, but you gotta know it, and you have to want it. You have to want to want to. You have to want it for yourself and you have to want it bad enough. Don’t waste your being. Don’t waste your purpose. Don’t waste what God planted inside of you. Don't waste your inheritance.

Broken Glass: A Poem

I poured myself into a glass.
A glass with cracks.
A tainted glass…
A glass somebody else sipped from. 
I poured myself into you.
You don’t belong here, 
I poured, but wasn’t being poured into. 
I poured into you, while others poured too. 
All filled up, while I was left empty.
I continued to pour until it overflowed.
I still poured...wasting it. 
Wasting energy, wasting time.
Wasting on the floor.
There were other cups. They would've enjoyed.
I continued to pour, hoping there would be more
I poured, and I was thirsty.
I continued to pour, close to empty.
I continued to pour into a broken glass, knowingly.
I poured into a glass, and watched it overflow onto the floor. 
It was a mess, and I was left to clean it up.