IT WORKS! Paid my Utility Bills

     Recently an amazing thing happened, I saw the first fruits of an amazing company, IT WORKS! Everyone says you can have a side job to make extra income, pay down debt, or save for something fun. But how many people can see the impact within the first 3 months! 

     To be quite honest I was skeptical at best about making money. I knew I loved the products. I kind of hoped Id at least get my products paid. Each day I'm reminded of how small my thinking was! I researched into the "why" of the company, and I was impressed. They have a genuine care for people, promote people having a healthy work/life balance and living Debt free. They believe in the power of being debt free so much they have had a Get Out of Debt (G.O.O.D.) bonus the last several months.  If you want more information visit my site at zonamarie.myitworks.com

     Recently I was able to go to a regional training to connect with others in my area and hear what IT WORKS! is really about, why we as distributors have been so successful, and of course have fun. Hearing stories of men and women locally who have been able to quit 9-5 jobs and invest in their families excites me the most. Without sacrificing valuable income, but able to replace or even make more that what they were making previously without a 40+ hour weekly commitment. The ones that told their stories were busy too. Working dads and moms, full time jobs, and all of the activities kids are in these days. They actually had as much going on as I do, and they were still able to build their business. 

Really I'm blessed to be a part of such an amazing team and I wanted to share my awesome experience.

Wake up!

I thank our Heavenly Father that this day, in such a time as this, that Spiritual eyes are being opened! Spiritual ears are being opened and hearts are getting revelation to understand the Kingdom that is coming! I thank God that his grace is freely given and grace covers a multitude of sins. I thank God that the greatness in people is being drawn out today. The Kingdom of God is taken by force, so I thank God for the men and women who have blinders being removed, those who are being awoken to the battle today. I am asking for the fullness of the inheritance for myself and my brothers and sisters in Christ. Wake the sleepers, Lord, open their eyes, be our vision Lord! Stir up the gifting, annointing, vision, and passion to take the kingdom of God by force. Lord break the chains on those struggling with mediocrity, trying to survive in normal. Father I ask that the ones called to heal the sick and raise the dead and set the captives free would be lifted up. I ask for the ones who are teachers and prophets and evangelists, apostles and pastors to stand up in their role to bring fullness to your kingdom here on earth! I ask that those you have called to much would no longer be afraid of the much that is required. Lets not settle at the point we should be getting our breakthrough! Wake up, look yourself in the eye and decide if your yes is going to be yes and push into the fullness of your inheritance as children of the Light!

Foundational Seed

I am grateful for the pressure of the difficult situations that has mined who I am and cultivated my greatness. I am grateful for the ones who prayed for me! The amazing prayer warriors who covered me with prayer and the Word of God in a small room in a hole in the wall church in a poor part of the Eastside of Des Moines, IA. I am grateful for the seed planted by women who boldly approached the throne of grace in that church for the daughters and granddaughters of those in the Spirit would have generational Inheritance in the kingdom of God. I am grateful for every prayer for restoration of a family, of a child of God, for the salvation of one of The Lord's redeemed. I am grateful for the ones who loved me when I was unlovable and whispered in my ear that there is more than this! I am grateful for the ones that taught me to honor their husbands and raise their children to cultivate the kingdom. I am grateful for the spiritual Mothers and Fathers in the Kingdom who scraped and scrounged to send me to church camps, retreats, and weekends away so that the seed of The Lord could be planted deep in my heart. I am blessed by the foundation of those who dared to say that prayer works! So thank you to the spiritual Fathers and Mothers at Eastwood Church/ Experience Church, I praise God for you!

Greater than this

I am grateful that The Lord has broken a cycle of devouring in my life that had happened right around my birthday each year. This year the capital in my life isn't being devoured so I can be released to breathe into ministry. My life is no longer left to strive and earn but to "be"and inherit the gifts of my Heavenly Father and to be a vessel to flow the resources of the kingdom of heaven to the earth. So I thank God that he makes a way and provides exceedingly and abundantly more than I think to ask for because my God is MORE THAN ENOUGH! His character is to show up bigger and exponentially better than before. I am blessed to walk in intimacy with my Heavenly Father and be drawn closer to his heart daily.

Justice

I have been soaking in the joy of embracing the pain in life to breakthrough. I thank The Lord for his justice weighing my life and allowing the curse where my family and I have tried to play God and make our own agendas. I thank The Lord that he has been faithful to point out these areas where I placed my agenda ahead of My Heavenly Father's plans. Through his Holy Spirit I am able to come into repentance and be redeemed out of the curse built by my own hands. He is faithful to complete a good work. So I pray my thoughts would be lined up with the truth of the Heavenly Father and my desires would be aligned to His dreams for me! Thank you for not leaving me in the curse but counting me worthy before I'd even been born!

Double versus half

I am grateful that the promise in Psalm 126:5-6 says 'Those who plant in tears will harvest with shouts of joy. They weep as they go to plant their seed, but they sing as they return with the harvest. (Psalms 126:5, 6 NLT you version). I have gone through many seasons where The Lord is taking me through pruning. Trimming back all that won't bear fruit. I type this as I've been pouring my heart and tears out before The Lord because the shaking has begun again. Anything that breaks loose in the shaking doesn't have room in your future. So Lord bring on the shaking and change my perspective to yours so I don't miss double while I'm wasting time looking for half. Lord mold my heart to want the things of your heart! I need your wisdom and discernment, eyes to see, ears to hear and a heart to understand your ways! I have to remember there's never been a sacrifice made to expand the glory of God in my life that I've regretted making!

Grace for Myself

I am amazed at the shallow pool of grace I carry for myself. The Bible says, love your neighbor as yourself, well my neighbor's getting the shaft! Today I am grateful for friends I can be extremely vulnerable with while externally processing my feelings. Recently I became stuck in a situation that could have been avoided and I went to this person and very honestly laid everything out. I had made a mistake, this is what I need to correct it, this is what I'm doing to fix things, etc. Well this person was gracious and honest and genuinely open for the news they received. This issue I uncovered with my verbal processing, was not as I had previously suspected, that I had broken trust and therefor failed the relationship. The truth was really much uglier. Instead of accepting the freely given grace by this friend, I had chosen to exact my own punishment per the feelings of failure on my part. So this very tender friend helped me to identify my underhanded opponent, self hatred. A nasty detrimental emotion if there ever was one. So today my journey to the goodness of The Lord is extending myself grace and accepting His judgement no matter how I feel; enabling me to give and receive love from myself and stop this personal assault on my body. I am grateful that the caliber of friends The Lord has brought into my life are exceptional and choose to operate in a way to honor who I am above mistakes I have made. I am surrounded by people who choose to see who I am aside from my actions and pull greatness out of me. This is the example of a lifestyle of Culture of Honor. This is a part of living strongly community, and I am blessed to be living in this time, in this place!