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How To Recover From a Sucker Punch

Having a printing publishing company allows me the opportunity to meet so many people; ministry gifts, entrepreneurs and those who are launching into their business/ministry.  With that great joy of seeing people birth their dream; I’ve also seen people stop, shut down and go back to their familiar because the unforeseen “sucker punch” that comes into their lives.

This blog was birthed out of the pain of seeing so many people not being able to overcome the obstacles that take place after shifting into a new season.  Let me paint the picture. 

Over the years, I have had a couple of customers that came out with new businesses, became authors, created websites and branded themselves only to have a sucker punch like a divorce to come up.  Maybe they lost their job or a deaf of a loved one, after pursuing this great adventure of entrepreneurship.  So many unforeseen things can transpire after moving into a new endeavor; but God knew it was coming before they knew, but He still calls us to move forward.  Let me explain.

We live in a place called “familiar”, “comfortable” and for some of us “out of order”; yet those are the same areas that are our normal.  We know how to do life in those places.  We know how to maneuver in those places.  We know how to make things happen in those places.  However, when God shifts us into a new season and we begin to pursue the dream and purpose in us, we take those same “out of order” ways about us into that new season.

This became prevalent when I started working close with one of my customers.  He launched a book and business at the same time.  Doors were opening, things were flowing, speaking engagements were coming in and he was in hot demand.  He came out the door running into this new season hard.  I was so excited to see how many people supported him.  He even had several media coverage as it relates to what he was doing in the community with his business.  One year later from the release of his first book he was making preparations to launch a new book, blog talk radio show and we were about to develop his message when something happened in his life that through him a curve ball.

It was at that moment that God showed me how many other people started new adventures of entrepreneurship only to shut down the website after paying for it for months and never making it live and/or never going to print on their branded material that they paid for because something happened in their lives.  Although I reached out and tried to help these people, whatever was going on had their attention more than what I was imparting to them at the time.

Let me briefly share what is going on in the midst of these “sucker punch” moments we all experience.   God gave me a vision for the friend I was working with…  “I saw him on the step right in front of the door of his destiny, but the baggage he had been carrying was too much to go through the door.”  Many of you who are reading this blog is feeling the same pressure in your lives and you do not know what is going on.  The weight of emotional baggage’s, relationship baggage’s, financial stewardship baggage’s, baggage of being out-of-order in different areas in your lives are the things God is trying to deal with.  You cannot go into new endeavors that God is birthing through you with the same OLD HABITS that are not producing in your life.

The “sucker punch” moments were not orchestrated by God, but He allowed it, so you would press into Him, so He can begin to show you those things you must confront.  Many of us are so distracted by the things that are taking place in our lives that we do not see what God is trying to deal with US on.  It’s not the other person.  It’s not the boss or our spouse or the incident; it is YOU beloved that God is trying to expose areas in your life and soul that needs your immediate attention so God can catapult you into your destiny.  Your destiny is awaiting you.

 Just like a plant that has to be trimmed or pruned in order for it to grow greater and fuller; that is what we too must do.  We have to make adjustments in our lives because when we move forward into our destinies; we cannot do everything we used to do.  We have to trim our associates and maybe some of the things we used to entertain, has to be trimmed because you are in a new place, new season, new level of entrepreneurship….and everything you used to do, you can’t do anymore.  Some of the frustration in our lives is we are trying to do a new thing, and still hold on to old things and habits.

How do you recover from a “sucker punch” – seek godly wise counsel and recognize you can’t do everything yourselves.  We live in a world where so many people are isolated and live among their own counsel.  This is where the enemy plays tricks and deceives a person to thinking that the decisions they are making are OK.  Proverbs 11:14 says, “Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.”  Proverbs 15:22 says, “Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counselors they are established.”

Also we must learn how to encourage and strengthen ourselves when “sucker punch” moments occur in our lives.  1 Samuel 1-6 talks about how the enemy came in and destroyed the camp, stole their property, and took their wives and children.  To top that off, the men turned on David and wanted to stone him.  David had to encourage himself in the midst of a very bad day and it was after that, that he saw great victory.  The secret to overcoming “sucker punch” moments is to know how to encourage and strengthen yourself in the Lord.  The Lord is faithful to show you how to overcome every situation so you can win every time.

Karen Presley

Pastor | CEO | Author | Mentor

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God has called us to BUILD.  The business and the ministry is bigger than YOU.  We were designed to MOVE, but sometimes we do not know what is hindering our mobility.  When we understand the TRUE purpose of why we do what we are doing, He'll send the people to you because of the PURPOSE you fulfill for Him.  Be ignited in your inner man by this WORD.

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New Wineskin - by Karen Presley | Blog Talk Radio

New Wineskin 06/28 by Karen Presley | Blog Talk Radio

Awesome Word - click on link and listen at your leisure. 

New mind for a new season is what is needed in this hour.  God is calling His people higher and deeper.  He is calling us to POSSESS what belongs to us.

When the COI crossed the Red Sea, God did everything for them.  All they had to do is STEP...but when the COI cross the Jordan into the promise land, they had to POSSESS what belonged to them.

This word will compel you to make the necessary adjustments in order to bring your dreams to life.
God said "He changes not," so my question today is why do we need new wineskin?

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Unleashing Your Breakthrough to Next Level

Galatians 2:20 says, “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”

The Bible is full of scriptures of how we are to live in our Christian walk.  In fact I like to say it is a road map or a navigation system that will get us to our destination.  The navigation system often needs updates in the software to keep it current.  Same system, but we must download the updates that will give our system the most current information for us.  Well as it is in the natural, so it is in the spirit; the Bible does not change and has not changed.  God says He is a God that changes not; however, the updates are the men and women of God with the keys to the kingdom that is unlocking deeper revelation into the same scriptures they were reading back in the 1800’s and before.

The scriptures tells us that our old nature was nailed to the cross with Jesus and now by faith I must reach out and take the death that He experienced and apply it to myself so that I can experience the resurrection power of Christ.

Death is a part of the process that you must take in order to unleash your breakthrough to the things you desire.  A better life, a new job, another level of living, another level of power, new realms in God, better relationship with husband and children, change in career, starting a business or writing a book.  No matter what you desire, death is a part of the process that will get you to your next level.

Think about the caterpillar that goes into a cocoon in order to be transformed into a butterfly.  He made a decision that he had to die to the life as a caterpillar in order to experience new life as a butterfly.  We all have decisions to make every day.  Death is not a bad thing.  Death is a portal that causes you to go from one place to the next.  A baby who lives in a mother’s womb is the only environment that baby knows.  He grows in there, eats in there, goes to the bathroom in there, stretches in there, and moves around in there, etc.   When the baby is born, he has to die to the only environment he knew, the womb, in order to experience new life in the world.

Jesus was spit on, rejected by his own, faced torture and humiliation by the roman soldiers, stripped from his clothes, mocked, scorned, crowned with thorns, whipped and the worst was when God turned his back because he could not look on sin.  The Bible records that Jesus never opened his mouth, He hung on the cross and died.  He did not scrum around, keep trying to adjust his self or twitching; he just hung and died.  He had to die to this world in order to experience the resurrection power that brought Him into a new life.

Jesus is our example of what it takes to go through this death process of the flesh so we can walk in the spirit and experience the resurrection power of God in every area of our lives.  This is not just in church but our everyday lives can be filled with the power of God moving if we learn how to die to the deeds of the flesh.  Romans 8 tell us that carnality brings about death, but the spiritual minded person brings about life and peace.

I’m a living witness that when you learn how to respond by the spirit and not react to your flesh, you will see more manifestation of God power flowing through your life.  To hear more of this message, listen to our next broadcast on blog talk radio, Friday, May 17, 2013 at 8:30am.

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The Power of Focus

Focus is defined as a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity; central point of a lens; the position of a viewed object.  In short, whatever we focus on has our attention and whatever has our attention controls our direction.

In order to pursue your destiny and dreams, you must determine what has your focus.  A lot of times we can get caught up with the news, politics, government, policy changes, church drama, job issues and family.  These are things that can steal our focus and we not even know it.  Slowly but surely, we find ourselves putting out fires to our lives or the lives of those close to us; and then whatever we were pursuing begin to take second base.

Decisions controls our destiny and we must learn to make them every day with the focus of our dream in mind.  True decisions means you are cutting off any other options.  We must not leave our decisions to the unfolding of life.  Learning to make better decisions and then learn from the wrong ones, will keep our focus on pursuing destiny and the dream.

You have to make a decision on what to focus on in each moment of your life.  Meaning what do I think about the situation, what should I do in this situation, what do I feel about this situation?  If the focus is on your destiny, then the daily decision will begin to line up so you can go in the right direction.

Below is a list of a few things you can put in place to help you with pursuing your destiny:

1.     Clearly decide on what you want

2.     Take actions pertaining to what you want

3.     Notice what works and what does not

4.     Change what is not working until you find what does

Utilize your experiences and keep strategizing.  Don’t allow failure to get you down, but see failure as an opportunity to plan another strategy that brings about better decisions to bring about different results in your life.  This is how we grow in the process.  Your journey and how you get to your end destiny is making you in the process and you are going to need to be that person that God is developing when you reach your place in destiny.

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