Now That I'm Here Can I Stay?

By Deborah A. Mitchell

So many people accept salvation only to later walk away from God. Trials and tests are going to come, but when they do will you draw near or will you walk away? Will you start the voyage only to jump ship and try to swim back to shore hoping you make it without drowning or being devoured by sharks? This book will give examples and biblical principles that will help you stay afloat when the storms come.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 22, 2007
• ISBN: 9781450069687

Deborah A. Mitchell

About the Author Deborah grew up the youngest of three children, in Stamford, CT. After graduating high school she attended Central Connecticut State University, where she received a BA Degree, and a year later married her college sweetheart. Her love of creating and exploring made her passionate about working in the arts and graphic field; she also later created her own designer accessories line Debbie Dew Collectables . Still feeling a void in her life she accepted salvation in May of 1991, and she began to immediately work faithfully in the Wayfaring Ministries Inc. under the leadership of the now Apostle/Bishop Eugene Brunson, Senior Pastor and Lady Diane Brunson, Pastor. The writer was birthed in a time period of her life when she began to struggle with life issues. Through a series of events and a lot of her own disobedience she has had to suffer staggering setbacks, which made her re-evaluate her works and rebuild her relationship with God. God is now shifting her from a ministry of helps into a ministry of healing. Through writing she has been able to share with others the grueling yet necessary process she has had to go through in becoming the woman God has been showing her existed from the beginning. Commissioning her to speak out through her own pain, overcoming by the blood of the Lamb and by the words of her awesome testimony, to reach other wounded warriors in the body of Christ. To help others reach past the camouflage of the norm making Isaiah 61 a reality. She is a daughter, wife, mother, entrepreneur, teacher and psalmist, but most important of all a servant of God.

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Now That I’m Here

Can I Stay?

Deborah A. Mitchell

Copyright © 2007 by Deborah A. Mitchell.

Revised 2014

Cover illustration design by: Deborah A. Mitchell

ISBN:      Softcover      978-1-4257-5345-0

                Ebook           978-1-4500-6968-7

All rights reserved. This literary work along with the cover illustration is protected by the copyrights laws of the United States of America. No portion can be separated (used out of context) and/or copied without the written consent of the author.

Scripture references unless other wise stated are from the King James Version of the Bible. Author expression using portions of scripture are also from the King James Version of the Bible.

Rev Date: 09/11/2014

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Foreword

I. Experience The Best Teacher

Transformation(Poem)

II. Going With The Flow

What is a Clique?

My Judgment Is Justified(Poem)

Word Association

III. When The Walls Crumble

The Walls Weaken

IV. Holding My Blessing Hostage!

V. When Time Is Wasted

Are you really available?

Repetitious!(Poem)

Going my own way

How strong is to strong?

VI. Deadly Intent

Choose Your Weapons

Rest (poem)

VII. God’s Timing

Endnotes

About The Author

Dedication

This book is dedicated to all the wounded warriors in the kingdom. Now that you are on the long road back, keep walking.⁴

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

God you always amaze me, thank you for the grace and the strength to do the impossible.

To my three men of valor Ron, Daniel, and Jordan I love you, and I thank God for you.

To my mother and father and also my Apostle and Pastor, even now I still have so much more to learn, thank you for still teaching.

FOREWORD

When you finally get through some trials and tests, and you feel you’ve managed to get into a place with God, will you maintain that ground, and grow? Can you, through a whole NEW set of circumstances and situations discipline yourself to hold on to the close relationship with God that has been established? Or will you run back to the false security of that comfort zone that is familiar to you, yet detrimental to you if you stay there? Will the cares of life beat on your house until the foundation crumbles or is it built on a solid foundation?

All relevant questions to this day and age we are living in now. God is always here; we leave Him and get sidetracked when we loose focus. When God deals with your disobedience, and you have laid aside all the distractions, when He cleanses you from all of your unrighteousness and forgives your sins, can you walk worthy of the call? Now that you’re here can you stay?

Through the first book The Long Road Back, A Journey Of Discovery Through Poems and Observations God released me from bondages that kept me from stepping out of the boat and walking on the water so to speak. I finally had enough courage to step out and move forward only to get mid way and start to sink. It was at this time that I understood brother Paul’s statement about preaching to others then being in jeopardy of being cast away, shipwrecked, and left behind; because of the trials and temptations of life.

Yes ministry was birthed, now experience and maturity are challenged, through various storms that we have to brace ourselves for while still maintaining ground and learning everything God is trying to teach us.

Intense training that comes with elevation, when the present sufferings make you feel like running back