This is Pro. Dr. Kemba Jarena Lucas, Founder of the MYDODINTL Virtual Training Center and your Destined STEPS Instructor for the BUILDERS NOT BLOCKERS Course. Knowing that you have considered us to participate in your spiritual development is an honor we, Daughters of Destiny International, treasure tremendously.

Our collective prayer is that this course will edify you in a season when so many are contemplating whether or not living God’s Way is worth it. Oh yes, many of our Christian sisters and brothers are succumbing to lifestyles and cultural bondage that are contrary to what God designed for the righteous. Nevertheless, there is an anointing for us - - those who refuse to see another disjointed among us - - to foster communicative change wrought by the transformation of our Love and life into redemptive tactics in pursuit of God’s Lost.

I refuse to see a fellow believer succumb to her/his “old creation and/or nature” due to life pressures deemed “unmanageable”. I refuse to know that a fellow believer is being consumed by the preponderance of sorrowful (worry-ful) thoughts s/he permits to take root within her/his mind and heart. I will not actively engage in any behavior that will offend (hurt, cause pain) to the process God is birthing in another’s life or my own. I will not be a stumbling block in another’s life or my own. How about you?

Now is the time for us to change anointings. What worked so easily before is not easily worked now. There is a new anointing for this new day. Although there is nothing new “under the sun”, every new day yields a new ray. Oh yes, everyday there is someone presented with the same opportunities to change through salvation as us all. Yet, salvation is one step in the transformation process. Furthermore, many are known to back-step after that first step. This back-step is called “backsliding”. Why? For some, the post-salvation process does not instantaneously deliver them from their instinctive selves. This is where we, the strong faith-ed believers, have failed Christ and the new convert.

Due to our refusal to be accountable to fellow believers, many are stuck in the receptacle of condemnation, shame, self-loathing and the most infamous of all, this is it. The devil is and will always be a liar! We must fortify the heart walls of our fellow believers. We cannot allow such suppressive and oppressive natures to be rampant amongst us. Coupled with prayer, preaching, faith and hope, we must teach those who are of strong faith to go the distance for those who are of weak faith. Oh yes, we must go the distance!

I don’t know about you, but when I rise on the horizon of each gifted day called the present, I see who I was in contrast to who I am. Everyday, I praise God for the mindset, heartset, spiritset and willset exuding my inner-core in abundance. Yet, 13 years ago, my inner-core succumbed to the pressures of the world. I loved God. I knew God. I was a friend of God, but I was also condemned by fellow believers. Yes, these fellow believers took joy in the fall of what they believed was the height of what I and my family knew. Yes, they believed where I was, was where I desired to be. Yes, they believed it was over for me! There was one who dared to say, “Kemba, you need to saved.” As my head dropped, I sighed and cried within to God, “Lord, I need somebody to see I got you. What I need is to be restored into the fellowship of believers!” It was because of God, my desire to live God’s Way, and fellow believers who found it not robbery to trust that it was not over for me that I am speaking to you on this side of the story that foretells glory! Oh yes, it was then - - while still maintaining the divine core of who I was but choosing to carry the visible sign of my wisdom-less and ungodly choice - - that God imparted to me: You will build and not block, Kemba.

As builders (lovers) in God’s Kingdom, we are not easily moved by the visible signs of sin. No, we cannot believe that everyone out of God’s Will wants to be out of God’s Will. Moreover, we cannot believe that everyone out of God’s Will doesn’t know God or have God at their center core. Such people need to be built up (loved) and not torn down (condemned)! We understand that to build upon anything one must fortify the foundation. Lord, we hear you.

We all have seen the erecting of beautiful buildings that upon storm surges crumble in the height of induced pressure. Yet, those buildings not deemed ecstatically beautiful stand strong under the same pressure. The difference is the foundation. With a strong foundation, no matter how ugly (tumultuous) one’s situation appears or how wayward one’s ways become, s/he can still come back to God and do what God has destined s/he to do. I am a witness.

Therefore, whether you are the one in need of preparation to participate in God’s Cohort Operation for the Lost or in need of a fortified foundation to live past your shame and fear of condemnation, this class is for you!

I am assured that each of us will dare to believe God not just for ourselves but for others. It is in that assurance that I welcome you to the journey.

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