And a Small One a Strong Nation

By Dana S. Taylor

There is life in the desert!

And a Small One a Strong Nation is a compilation of messages given by the inspiration of God and arranged by Dana Taylor to inspire the small one, the lack, the poverty, the dark, the hated and the envied. It will also lift up the confused, angered, afflicted, despised, forsaken, violent, wasted, and mourning.

Topics to explain this unique method include:

Unction to Survive

Using Your Rut Cry

The Apple of Worth

The Power of No

A Personalized Purpose

For every negative event that has transpired in your life, something positive is going to counteract that.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Oct 28, 2013
• ISBN: 9781490807157

Dana S. Taylor

Dana Taylor has a Bachelor of Science in Health Service and is currently obtaining her Master of Science in Psychology with a specialization in Child & Adolescent Development at Capella University. She is exceptionally active in her ministry and loves God with all of her heart. She has much experience working with children of all ages and various backgrounds. She desires to adopt and foster as many children as she possibly can. Dana has a strong interest in opening a child orphanage in the near future. She lives in Gary, Indiana.

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ISBN: 978-1-4908-0714-0 (sc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2013915944

WestBow Press rev. date: 9/11/2013

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Dedication

Epigraph

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I:   Who Am I?

Chapter 1:   Why Me?

Chapter 2:   The Purpose of the Desert

Chapter 3:   Walking On Your Hinds’ Feet

Chapter 4:   Why Not Me?

Part II:   I Am A Strong Nation

Chapter 5:   I Am The Apple of His Eye

Chapter 6:   I Am Independent

Chapter 7:   I Am Progressive

Chapter 8:   I Am Strength

Epilogue

About The Author

DEDICATION

I dedicate my first book to the love of my life: My Redeemer, My Shield, My Provider, My Sustainer, My Husband, My Friend, My Father, My Healer, My Savior, My Deliverer, My Covering, My Refuge, My Everything. God, if not for You giving me the ability and mindset to put this piece together, it could not have been done. Thank you for trusting me with Your heart. Thank you God for counting me worthy of this calling and allowing me to fulfill all the good pleasure of Your goodness. Thank you for giving me purpose in life. Thank you for choosing me.

To the abused and neglected, confused and misused

To every young person

EPIGRAPH

And a little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.

Isaiah 60:22

PREFACE

W riting was never appealing to me, until here recently. Growing up as a teenager, I enjoyed reading novels of all sorts, but actually writing one never crossed my mind. In my quest to receive some encouraging words from my Levite, I began to tell him some of the issues that were plaguing my mind. His response was for me to write a book and put all my life experiences inside of it. His theory was that I could possibly help someone else who may be dealing with some of the same situations. Well, needless to say, I didn’t get started right away, but I yet felt a tugging in my spirit.

When I became an Evangelist Missionary, I was given the responsibility of speaking the Word of God, in season and out of season. Unfortunately, speaking was something that I shunned away from, primarily because I often stuttered when I spoke. With this in mind, I chose to keep my words to a minimum. But God said otherwise. In preparing for various messages, I found myself receiving revelations from God that were worth noting. As God gave me a word, I delivered it with power, authority and confidence, trusting God to open the ears and hearts of the listeners.

So this is why I have such an unction to write this book. I give you what God has graciously given me. It is my prayer that God will open your hearts to receive this Word, open your ears to hear this Word and open your mind of understanding so that you too, can grow thereby.

Dana

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to acknowledge my parents, Dwight and Bernice Taylor for training me to be a strong woman, mentally as well as spiritually. Thank you for the support over the years, even in my adulthood. Your encouragement and provision has allowed me to accomplish this great dream of mine.

Thank you Sisters for the love that we have knitted together over the years. I appreciate you Shavonda for believing in me and always letting me know that I was fearfully and wonderfully made. Dominique, it was your tenacity that prompted me and gave me the mindset to know that I could do it if I really wanted to. And Natasha, thank you for obeying the voice of God. Your support helped me to continue to see God even in my desert land experience. Dwana, thank you so much for being there. Your words of kindness have taken me a long way.

To my Levite, spiritual leader, counselor and advisor: Pastor Obadiah Wilson. Thank you, first of all, for encouraging me to put my life experiences in a book for others to benefit from. Thank you for compelling me to become everything God has planned for my life. Thank you for the messages that you’ve taught (they were good writing tools). You are a God-send.

I would like to personally thank you, Ms. Frances Butcher, for your financial support that caused the project to come to flourishen. Thank you so much for believing in me from inception.

John and Virginia DuBoise, I appreciate your hasty response to supporting this cause. It is because of people like you that I was able to stay encouraged through it all, knowing that there was someone out there that really trusted in my work. Thank you.

Pastor Frank &