Resilient Inspired Spiritual Excellence R.I.S.E.

Category: Inspired, encouragement

  • Spiritual Freedom, Are you free?

    We will be celebrating the United States’ independence from British rule in the late 1700s. Though this happened ages ago, its relevance today is so important. When a person, entity, or government becomes free from bondage to anything the goal should be to remain free permanently. As a US citizen, I want my country to…

  • Matters of the Heart

    “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; Who can know it? I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings” (Jeremiah 17:9-10). We will never know the innermost thoughts of another person. Only God knows…

  • Letting Go

    Letting go is hard to do. The greater the hurt the harder it is to let go and become free. We become liberated when we choose not to hold on. It can keep us stuck. Our past can keep us from doing what God has called us to do. God intended for us to be…

  • Nothing Can Separate Us from the Love of God

    This week was a hard one for me. Life really does seem and often feel like its beating you down like the ocean’s tide beating against the shore. It is nothing we do right that makes God still love us unconditionally. This week I wondered and thought about some of the same embedded roots that…

  • He will Turn it Around for Your Good

    All things work together for the good of those who are the called for His purpose (Romans 8:28). No matter what obstacles you face God has a bigger plan for what you are going through. He will make the road easier to travel. The promises will come to pass if you don’t get weary and…

  • God is Building Character and Giving us Hope through our Struggles

    “Through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God”. And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope.  Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the…

  • You Can Make It Through Anything

    All things are possible with God (Matthew 19:26). You are the head and not the tail, above and not beneath (Deuteronomy 28:13). You are blessed in the city and blessed in the field (Deuteronomy 28:3). Your situation is not a surprise to God. He is waiting on you to see your worth. There is nothing…

  • The Past

    Filled with hurt Filled with wrong decisions Can’t be changed Can’t be undone Hidden secrets Internal scars Lost dreams Lessons learned Stories untold Buried Relationships Lost time This is the essence of the past… Poem By: Shakera Williams Copyright Protected

  • Wrapping Up Mental Health Awareness Month

    Mental health awareness is vitally important to change the way individuals with mental illness are perceived in society. We have not come a long way from asylums and being killed. We are currently repeating a history we fought so hard to change. It’s normal for the police to be called on an individual with mental…

  • Following God and Battling Mental Illness

    I was sixteen when I was diagnosed with a mental health disability. I thought my world was coming to an end. My family and I had no idea what the journey would be in May 2005. Later we would find out the road was hard and it would be a challenge for a lifetime. Through…