TELLING YOURSELF

Do not judge; do not continuously everyday keep judging yourself.

Telling yourself good and happy things about yourself everyday is a more healthier way to stop the ugly judgement calls.

Telling yourself that you accept and approve of you, and that you are somebody and that everything about you is very good, is a great and better way to be starting the day.

Telling yourself ugly defeating and beating up words only will be keeping you in a hole of darkness, and Jesus came so that we could walk in the light.

Telling yourself, that you are growing and knowing your purpose more clearly, because you are believing more and more in yourself will allow you to start shaking off ol

d ways and start seeing a more vibrant and beautiful you.

The Narrow Way

As believer coming into the Kingdom of God, we dont know what God is expecting of us, in the  beginning. However, we start learning that we must start walking on a narrow pathway.

A narrow pathway of walking in the opposite direction of this world.  Meaning if someone hates us we must love them and pray for them, we must not say ugly nasty things about people, we must say words that are to be uplifting and encoueaging. For walking through the narrow door, is allowing us to rid ourselves of our flesh, and to be like Christ, the narrow way is the only way.

RENEWING THE MIND

ROMANS 12:2


Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

God specifically tells us to start renewing our mind. How do we do that?  By relinquishing old thoughts and taking on more life living thoughts. Things that can produce new fruit in our lives.that can start having an impact in our world around us, and positive results for the Kingdom of God.

This transformation must be an effort that we put forth everyday. Yes we will fall, but we must get back up and  on keep trying. We can do it!

  By God's grace, he touched us and gave us life, now we have to start with prayer and pressing forward, transforming into the people he has called us to be. For we are great!

I know we can do it, for we are Children of God, and all things are possible with him. We are amazing and heavenly made.

Be Blessed Saints

PRAYER

Prayer is very important, and we should be starting our day with it. For it's our life line to God.

We should pray without ceasing, it's our way of commumicating with him all throughout the day. God is very interested in hearing about how our day is coming along. He's also willing and able to help us with any concerns that we maybe having, he's there to offer us guidance or wisdom, if we just ask.

 1 THESSALONIAN . 5:17

Sometimes we may not know what we ought to be praying for and this is okay, for the Holy Spirit always knows what we need, therefore, he's interceding for us. to ensure that are needs are being met.
ROMANS 8:26

 Also Jesus Christ has taught us how we should pray. Giving first Almighty God his respect in reverence for him, by saying, " Our Father, who art in heaven Hallowed Be Thine Name."
MATTHEW 6:5-12

After giving reverence and humbling ourselves before God   than we lay our request before him. Whatever our request maybe.

Moreover, we must believe that we received what we asked for without wavering or doubting. Also if we do not receive what we are asking for.  Than we must believe that God is in control and that he knows best for us.
MARK 11:24

Our prayer life with our Lord should be maintained for our entire life.  It's building a solid relationship with our creator and our heavenly Father, who really loves us a lot, and is interested in us 100%

Therefore, we start returning that love by spending quality time with him in prayer everyday.

BE BLESSED SAINTS

OUR CUP

When we were saved by Almighty God sending his Son Jesus Christ to our rescue, it was and still is a beautiful thing. Praise you Jesus!

However, the inside of our cup, will require a little more work, even though we have been called to be free. There's work that needs to be dealt with. Work of releasing us from our flesh, than freedom will start ringing in.

 Ringing into our spirits that the truth sets us free. Therefore, we must begin being truthful  to ourselves. Realizing  that Jesus has come to set the captives free. Free from all the little snares in our life, that's holding us up, and stopping us from progressing. We must do some soul searching.

Freedom consisting in us really living from the inside out, but if our insides are all tied up with our issues and problems from our past, how will we be able to live? Live in the Now, it's impossible.

Therefore, we must acknowledge the fact that we have issues and problems,  and then start taking steps, to rid ourselves of these things.

By finding a support group that fitting for our needs.  We can be involved in more than one support group at a time. But lets us not overwhelm ourselves.  For we are trying to walk in our freedom, we do not want to become entangled again. Step by step. Slowly, this process will  take time.

Whatever, they maybe, I know for me I struggled with unforgiveness, being envious of others, jealousy, bitterness, anger, people pleasing, and just not being able to let go of toxic relationships, fear of failure and fear of success, low self-Esteem, worried about people and what they are  thinking  of me, and no boundaries in my life.

All my issue I have given.to God in prayer. I prayed that he would change me, I prayed that he would start showing me myself, and he has, and it's ugly. Very ugly. But I don't want anymore ownership of things that are not who I was meant to be.

Anything opposite of Our God is not who we were designed to be. It's who the world has turned us into, just so we were able to protect ourselves, and in doing so we turned into monsters, something ugly. Let the demons of yesterday go.

For we are saved now we can start letting this ugly stuff go. By making a list of all the things inside of us that we do like, and we must be honest.  For we are new creatures in Christ Jesus.

GOD'S WORD IS ALIVE

ISAIAH 55:10-11

 10 As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish,  so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,

11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth. It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

As children of God, we can search the scriptures and be finding the words to start  helping us get through different things in our walk with the Lord or just in life in general. 

For he is saying,  that his Word will not return back void, but will do what it was sent to do. We must start everyday speaking words of life, words that are lifting us up, and not words that are tearing us down. Speaking the Word of God.

When we start speaking the Word of God, the Universe will begin  opening up for us, for it's alive. Therefore,  mountains that we'd thought would never have been removed, will one day be gone.  Anything that we thought was impossible,  we will begin seeing all the possibilities,  for all things are possible with Our God. So I know we can do this! 
BE BLESSED 

GOD'S PLAN

JEREMIAH 29:11

For I know the plans I have for you,  declares the LORD, " plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

As believers this is one of God's promises to us, he has a great plan for our lives. And this great plan will start. leading and guiding us into the blessings of Almighty God, has for us. 

NEGATIVE BACKPACK

I walked around for along time, holding my head up, while on the inside of me, I was very low and negative.

I thought that being negative was okay, well I had no one to tell me any differently. Therefore,  my thinking to me was quite normal, at first.

I used to run track, and I rarely came in  first place, I was never striving to be number One, for I didnt want anyone seeing me at all. Please keep the attention off of me.

I don't know if this negative, don't focus on me was simply because I struggle  so much with being shy, sone how triggered this negative behaviour or what.

All I know is that I had this issue,  that seemed  to define me so well, to the point of me not thinking anything about it after awhile.

However, as my life continued progressing, I started to notice, the different type of people that I was  attracting. People that were like me, negative, low self esteem, and ugly.

Ugly in away as to not really having any goals or any purpose in life, just like me.  Hanging out with myself was easy, and comfortable. I didn't have anything to prove to anyone. Besides I didn't think anything was wrong with me.

I started acting out more and more in this negative mindset. Poor jobs, poor men, drugs and negative poor living situations, and fighting.

Eventually, people started telling me that I was a negative person. When I first heard these cold, warm words. They were cold because it shocked me that people could actually see it, and it was hot because my spirit was severed, cut in two with the truth. I wasn't wanting to hear that.

For about three more years it was all I heard from different people, until one day I looked myself in the mirror and admitted that I had a problem with being negative. My thinking wasn't normal, nor was my behavior.

Therefore,  if this sounds like you please don't do like me. If you notice that your thinking is a little warped and strangled with non productive going no where thoughts and actions, just admit it and just keep on admitting it until you cleaned out the old you  and start bringing in the new wonderful you.

PSALM 139:14 

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your 

Works are wonderful, I know that full well.

We are one of a kind, therefore, we must love everything about ourselves.

PSALM 46:10

Let us be still and God be God, for he is the great I AM THAT I AM

MY VOICE AND NOT YOURS ANYMORE

It's so very important for one to have their own voice. Having your own mouth piece, allows one to be taken more seriously at all times.

We are all made as individuals and not as a clones. God specifically gave each and everyone of us, different finger prints and different D,N.A unless you are a twin, than you will have the same D.N.A. but even twins have their own voice.

For instance I was always listening and doing what everybody wanted me to do. I listened to my siblings and friends,  than when I got married I started  listening to ny husband.

But when I found myself divorced, I was lost, like being thrown out into the streets I had to start finding my own way and my own voice, for there was no one else, but me.

Making decisions were not easy for me at first, but I  started standing , but at the same time I was still looking for someone else's opinion and constantly second guessing myself, I was learning that I had to crawl, before I could actually walk.

Finding my voice for me, was me having  to find my confidence. My assurance of myself and who I was.  Through my personal and business relationships I was able to do just that,  finding me and my stage to finally start standing on, it actually felt good.

I was able to start exerting myself, in the different arenas and situations, through work and home.I was able to say what I liked and what I didnt like.  And I also started liking me. Tracy Mabinton, she has a voice and she has something to say and people are listening to her.

Once you start finding your voice, don't let anyone take it away, for ypu have arrived.

BETTER AND NOT BITTER

In life a lot of ugly things happen to us, but instead of becoming bitter we must choose to be become better.

We must choose to get back up and keep on moving. Life truly can be what we make it, but it's starts with us first believing.

Choose life today, choose choices of a greater now, right now. For now is all we have.

Believe that God has bigger and better things in store for you. For you my friend are amazing and highly gifted. Choose better!

BE BLESSED

PSALM 144:12-15

12 Then our sons in their youth will be like well-nurtured plants, and our daughters will be like pillars carved to adorn a palace.

13 Our barns will be filled with every kind of provisions. Our sheep will increase by thousands in our fields;

14 our oxen will draw heavy loads. There will be no breaching of walls, no going into captivity, no cry of distress in our streets.

15 Blessed are the people of whom this is true; blessed are the people whose God is LORD.

BE BLESSED SAINTS

GREAT IS OUR GOD

PSALM 145:3

Great is the LORD. and most worthy of praise; his greatness no one can fathom.

JESUS HAS SET US FREE

LUKE 4:18

18 " The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me, to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed,

19 to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."


Jesus has come to set us free, we are no longer in chains, so let us lose the mentality of bondage, as believers.  Some of us are still walking around blind, and lost and confused, so we are behaving and acting in the same way, before we were saved.  By bumping into our issues and problems every where we go.

I know for me I walked around with graves clothes on  and a stinky mentality as a believer for along time , thinking I was normal, and that this was  just the way I was supposed to be. But I was wrong, I had things inside of me that were unhealthy.  I had to admit that I needed  to change.

I needed to change because Jesus has set me free. I was a captive, at one point in my life,  but thank God I am no longer in chains, the bonds have been broken.  Now I must start freeing my mind and my emotions, for this is where my problems lie, but I am finally ready to begin releasing them all, and saying goodbye.

For there's a new person inside of me,  just waiting to come out, that I am very excited about meeting.

Jesus has come to set us free...

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FREEDOM

 I believe true freedom starts with us being honest with ourselves.

Once we start doing this, than how God has created us to be from the beginning of time, will start flowing out of us naturally and freely.

Therefore, let us start untangling ourselves from the inside out, by letting go of the bitter water in our lives. Our aim must be for us to have clear water running out of us at all times.

For this clear water will allow us to start seeing things more clearly and making better decisions. Closing doors, and opening new ones.

 Doors of believing in ourselves, by motivating, encouraging and uplifting ourselves back to life. Our freedom is here, right now!  so let's. welcome it in.

EMOTIONS DO NOT PAY

Our emotions are what will be keeping us going up and down. Therefore, we as believers must not allow them to be our guiding force.

Our emotions will keep us acting and behaving opposite of the beautiful, loving and caring creatures God has designed us to be.

One minute we be, smiling, laughing, and jumping for joy, than we will starting to angry, full of anxiety, self doubt and full og unbelief.

Our emotions are the reasons, well at least for me, that put me such a disadvantage, when it came to dealing with other people.

I was so sick in my emotions, for not knowing who I was, to the point of, just ignoring my needs and wants, and just started taking care of.everybody else's needs and.wants, for I felt like I didn't matter.


This unhealthy behaviour turned me into a self hating myself machine, and at the same trying to love everything around me, hoping that it would love me back and.also validate or define me.

Not knowing at the time but I was only setting myself up for more human failure and disappointment

I was letting anybody use me, no matter who it was, I just didnt feel care enough about myself or I just didn'tknow better.  Therefore,  I quickly ran into alcohol, than drugs, people pleasing people  or just being the yes person,  or the easy mark, for anyone ..Just ask Tracy she will do it." Don't even ask her., she doesn't any respect .

I was emotionally sick, and emotionally drained I didn't know if I was coming or going.  I was just everybody's puppet on a string. It was just the Grace of God that I did not lose my mind.  With all the mental illiness in my family, I am truly grateful, to God'sgrace. Thank you Jesus.

So I blamed everybody for my life, being all messed up. My parents, my siblings, all my different jobs, my lavk of education. , I was going from job to job, apartment to another apartment; homelessness to another homelessness. Just a spinning out of control tornado


Until my Nephew, gave me a book and the moment I started reading that book, all I saw was me. I cried and I cried some more.  It's nothing worse than seeing that you have been operating like a sick person.

It was as if

 I had written this book myself. How could this person know my life?   There were a few things that I wasn't relating to  but most of it was me. I couldn't put this book down. I now some what are feeling a little normal, for I am not alone.

what I was learning  is that everything starts with us. Well not us, per say. Everything starts in our home environments, growing up as a child, around our parents, and our siblings, and family members, cousins, Uncles, Aunties, Grandpa and Grandma.


So my emotions were lost at sea before I could barelystarted walking and talking.  But thank God for his Son, Jesus Christ, for through it all I was never alone,  for he was with me always.

What I can remember from my childhood was very dysfunctional. I don't ever remember my parents, talking or relating to one another, in a healthy way any way.

My mother was an alcoholic, that was in and out of mental institutions and boarding care type of homes, and my Oldest brother when my mother was home, he would force himself on hetr in a sexual way.

On the other hand my dad was a great provider, he at least saw to us having shelter and food on the table. But he messed with different women, therefore,  we as Children were moving around alot. But I have no regrets of how I grew up, for I am here now, wanting and trying to help others to become free, throug my life, for we must start letting go of things that are wanting to keep us sick in our emotions. When Jesus saved us, he set us free from all of it.


Therefore,  let us start  loving ourselves enough, to really start looking at ourselves and being really honest, about what we are wanting and believing to change.

We are wonderfully and beautifully made, and Our heavenly Father has a great plan for our lives, and he really does want us to Be Blessed Saints.

PEACE WITH ALL PEOPLE

HEBREWS 12:14

Make every effort to live in peace with all men and be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.

Choose harmony, peaceful walking and talking with all your brothers and sisters. And in all our business dealings.

Everything we do, we first have to make a decision to choose; do it first. We stand on choices all day long, whether we choose it or not.

However,  all things take humility and obedience. But Our God says we have not , because we ask not.  JAMES 4:2-3 

Therefore,  let us ask him, for our peace with all our fellow Man and Woman.

WORDS EITHER BLESS OR CURSE

PROVERBS 4:24

Put away perversity from your mouth; keep corrupt talk far from your lips.



There's a reason the Word of God tells us to watch what we are saying out of our mouths.

For if we are speaking positive words in our life or other people's life, than we are bringing in a boat load of blessings, and things that are living.

However, if we are speaking words in our life or other people's life that are negative, than we are bringing in a boat load of trouble and non- producing things.

You see we be  thinking that  when we are talking or gossiping about other people that we are not doing any harm.

Our lives maybe good, we maybe successful and our business adventures may look like they are doing well. Our personal relationships maybe also be going quite well. Everything may appear to be going well.

On the other hand, things could always be better. You could be praying for your business to possibly start growing in a different direction, so that you can have more growth and more clientele,  or maybe you are hoping for something extra special to pop off in your personal life.

All these things are a heavy concern for you.  right? But you cannot get a correct grip on your mouth. That business partner that you probably went into business with, because you didnt have enough funds, or at the time the idea of merging sounded pretty good, because your business ideas were similar.

But lately they have been working your nerves. Therefore,  you have been showing your appreciation by clearing out all the dirt out of your mouth by gossiping about them and others like them non-stop.

Guess what that prayer, that you've been praying, will be a little in the delaying lane, because your mouth, keeps going south.

Letting our mouth run all over the place on other people is wrong. Also, we are tying up and stopping our blessings as well in our lives. It's always a two-way street in everything that we do.

We must start learning  to confront things and people that are bugging us so badly.  By confronting and  dealing with things in our lives frees us up for bigger and better things in life.

RECEIVING JESUS FULLY

Receive Jesus fully every day. Praise him and raise him to the roof in your heart all the time. With thanksgiving.

Give him complete worship and service. Just not on Sunday., but every day.

For he's more than worthy to be praised. If you made it through the storms of life, praise him, for he was with you as well; for you did not weather those storms by yourself.

For he's our daily spiritual bread of life," man does not life on bread alone, but by every word that comes out of the mouth of God."
MATTHEW 4:4

DRUGS BE GONE

I used to be a drug addict, many moons ago. I was an addict for a long time. While on drugs I went through alot; my husband and I both were users.  Drug of choice cocaine free basing.

 And while on drugs him and I split up, he messed with people and I messed with people, and our two children suffered the most. One parent on drugs is hard on the family, but it was two parents, that were strung out.

We were working jobs, but never paying our rent, or buying food, because the drugs were more important. Therefore, we were always getting evicted and forced to stay with other people.

I resorted to drugs simply because I was very unsure of who I was, so I did everything in my powerful to fit in and to feel like a normal human be being.

Coming out of a family , where my parents never spoke words of encouragement, or words that they even believed in you, really added to me feeling like a loser.

I certainly do not blame my parents anymore, for they were good providers in keeping a roof over my head and food in my stomach. They did the best that earthly parents could do.

However, since Almighty God has been steering and directing my life, I now believe in myself and I encourage myself back to life, for I am somebody and I really do believe this.

As a matter of fact, we are all somebody. We are winners, and we always were in His eyes, no matter our background ; drug addicts, prostitution, alcoholics. He never saw none of that, he only  saw; champions and winners. And that's how we too are supposed to see.

NEVER GIVE UP YOUR LIGHT

BELIEVING IIN BETTER ALWAYS

REJOICING IN YOUR FREEDOM

TRUSTING

TRUSTING GOD WITH EVERYTHING

PROVERBS 3:5-6

5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding

6 in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.


We must begin to start trusting and turning everythng over to God. By completely giving him all of ourselves, and not what we feel that He should have. God wants all our fears and all that's hindering us from getting to the finish line, and from the purpose for which He has called us to.  He also wants our plans and desires also. He will begin to make what we may have thought was impossible,  possible.

You are a very beautiful person....

AN EASY ONE

An easy one is someone who's always saying "Yes" more than they are saying, " No"

This was me for many years. I never said ,"No." Tracy can you do this for me?"  Tracy do you have this or that?"

All these responses of "Yes" has only left me, mad, angry and more beating up of myself. "I should've said this or I should've said that." Never ending of mental emotional pain.

Let me tell you something people, . God does not mind us doing for others, in fact he encourages us to do so; that it's better to give than to receive.

However, when we are still battling unsettled issues inside of ourselves, it creates a real problem for us to be keeping our human scale at an even balance.

For it will only keep us unhealthy and very sick, mentally.  Trying to keep other people happy and pleased with us, when we are not even pleased with ourselves.

And people pleasing is never the solutions to helping with anything, even the people you are trying to please; are still not pleased with you.  For no one you can never please anyone enough, so right there, you are still at a disadvantage, and honestly ; this is not God's design for your life.

Therefore,  ask God to show you why you are in this mode of thinking, that you can actually begin trying to please people. Maybe something or someone was very dominant and always in control, that made you feel afraid to stand up for yourself. You must face this Goliath.

Fear is a real emotion, and I understand it quite well. But the love of Jesus drives out fear. And right now our souls are crying out to be free.

HIS STRENGTH IS ENOUGH

PHILIPPIANS 4:13

I can do everything through him who gives me strength.


This beautiful scripture has  helped me with Confidence. I struggled all my life, with this." Am I doing it right." Always wanting and needing  confirmation.  Now I make a point to quote this scripture every day. 

And I don't question or second guess myself any more. For I know that first of all , I am a human being., and secondly; based on that I will make a whole lot of mistakes, but it's okay.

So don't beat yourself up, just get back up and keep on trying. For you are Wonderful. 

JUST ASK GOD

PHILIPPIANS 4:19

And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Chist Jesus.


Our God will meets all our needs, if only we ask him. Sometimes our needs can be for us to be,  who He created us to be. We may need to stop pretending to be somebody else and just start accepting ourselves, for who we are; and who God has intended for us to be. Let's stop the war within ourselves,  for we are free.

Lord change me into the person.that you need me to be.
In Jesus Christ name. Amen.

GIVING THANKS ALWAYS

PSALM 107:1

Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.


PRAISE THE LORD THROUGH THE GOOD AND THE BAD. FOR HE' ENDURES US AND OUR WAYS. FOREVER.  THEREFORE,  HE DESERVES ALL THE PRAISE AND ALL THE GLORY.

LETTING THE LORD DO HIS WORK

PSALM 111:2

Great are the works of the LORD; they are pondered by all who delight in them.


WE ARE APART OF THE GREATEST WORKS OF GOD. HE HANDCRAFTED EACH AND EVERYONE OF US.  WHICH MEANS TO ME,  THAT HE HELD. EACH AND EVERYONE OF US , IN THE PALM OF HIS HANDS, HANDLING US EVER SO GENTLY AND CAREFULLY;  AND ,THAT'S A BEAUTIFUL THING.  SO KEEP YOUR HEAD UP!   AND LET GOD BE GOD, AND LET HIM DO A WORK IN US, FROM THE INSIDE OUT.
FOR THERE'S ONLY ONE OF YOU AND I.

HIS PORTION IS ALL WE NEED.

PSALM 119:57

You are my portion, O LORD; I have promised to obey your words.

PSALM 1:1-3

PSALM 1:1-3

1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.

2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law meditates day and night.

3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prosper.

Following God's leading and not our own, will surely lead us to streams of the living water of Almighty God. Let go of everything, put it all in God's hands.

WE MUST FORGIVE OURSELVES

Saints when God is bringing us through our cleansing process of freeing oourselves, we must remember and learn to forgive ourselves. Let yourself off the hook.   For there is no condemnation in
Christ Jesus. ROMANS 8;1



God has forgiven us therefore,  we must also forget about what we did in our lives; that we have been ashamed of. As believers we have been covered by the blood, and God removes all our sins as far as the East is from the West. So hold your head up.

This my brothers and sisters I believe; will allow us to walk in him and BE BLESSED with the peace and joy of the Lord, by being completely free.

BE BLESSED SAINTS

GETTING ON BOARD FOR CHANGE

The reason I believe God led and directed me into doing a blog, was for me to let other believers know that they can really be free and live a life filled with blessings; instead of defeat.

Now don't get me wrong being a believer we still will have problems. We will not be free from problems I am not saying that. I am simply saying; while going through our problems we do not have to wear a blanket of it never getting better,and negative thinking.

So how do we start experiencing  real freedom and the blessings of the Lord? By praying and asking our heavenly Father to change our heart.

This was my prayer,  for I knew that it was me who needed to change. Change by not being so bitter,  angry, and withdrawn from life.

Disliking everything and everybody.by Gossiping and complaining about everything.  When in reality it was me who needed to change.

So I started confessing to God about how I really felt about myself and others. And God started showing me my ugly self, it was me all alone; holding up my life. I cried and cried; like a baby, on discovering this.

But also I started to feel much  better about myself, and other people.  I had finally and wholeheartedly opened myself up for God to perform surgery on my heart.

For my heart was hard as a rock, and as a result of my heart being hard, I couldn't receive real love. Or real Joy. Or real Peace or the real presence of God'sHoly Spirit.

Therefore,  open yourself up, for you are more than worth it, and God has a great plan for your life.,


BE BLESSED SAINTS