The Journey Never Ends

By Laverne Booker

This book is an encouragement for those who know God and those who have not experienced God. The book will allow them to know that even through lifes difficulties, the God we serve will never leave us or forsake us.

This book will show you as you travel on this journey called life, all you have to do is trust God, higher power, which some call him, that brought you to it will bring you through it.

The book demonstrates how to recover things that has been lost in your life. It will show regaining of faith, joy, peace, happiness, and a relationship with God.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Sep 25, 2014
• ISBN: 9781490852362

Laverne Booker

Pastor Laverne Booker-Kornegay was born January 17 1965, raised in the City of Newark. She has two biological Children. Evans T. Montlouis Jr., Gabrielle Montlouis. She is happily married to Joseph Earl Kornegay. Laverne Booker - Kornega has tyransformed herself into a motivational speaker. She is the Author of several books Your Locations is not your destination (2012). The Journey Never Ends (2014). The Power of Love in and through the Eyes of God (2020). All published with West Bow Press. She is the owner of the Non-Profit Organization. The Restoring Life Restoration Center Corp. (for battered and abused women). She is also the owner and Pastor of The Restoring Life Deliverance Church in the the state Delaware.

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Copyright © 2014 Laverne Booker.

Author Credits: Dr. Th Rankin Jr., Andrea Reid,

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ISBN: 978-1-4908-5237-9 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4908-5235-5 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4908-5236-2 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014916654

WestBow Press rev. date: 09/16/2014

Contents

1. Why Me, Oh Lord?

2. It’s Time To Drop That Extra Baggage!

3. Healing From Betrayal!

4. There Is A Calendar Of Events That Needs To Take Place Before Reaping Your Harvest.

5. Your Location Is Not Your Destination

6. Don’t Get Caught Up In The Hype

7. Falling In Love With Jesus Is The Best Thing That Ever Happen To Me

8. God Doesn’t Make Deals

9. Hold On To Your Life Line.

10. Pay Close Attention:

11. It’s Time To Regain Your Power

12. It’s Time To Be Revived

13. It’s All About Winning Souls For Christ.

14. The Blood Has Kept You

15. This Is Not The Time To Lose Your Focus

16. Torn But Not Yet Broken

17. You Are Valuable

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Joseph L. Adair -Pastor (SMBC)

Ronald B. Christian-Pastor (CLBC)

Dr. T.H. Rank Jr.-(CLBC) Bible Institute-Teacher

Andrea Reid-Friend/co-worker

Kevin Mckinney-co worker

Joseph Kornegay-Husband

Evans Montlouis Jr.-Son

Gabrielle Montlouis-Daughter

Chapter 1

Why Me, Oh Lord?

Prayer

Most gracious and everlasting father, I come to you today to give you glory, honor, and praise. I thank you for yet another opportunity to stand before your people to bring forth the Bread of Life, the Word that may be in season and out of season. I thank you right now for placing me behind the cross of Calvary, sitting me down, and you standing up. I thank you for not allowing me to take any glory for what you use me to say and do in this place today. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, oh Lord, my strength and my redeemer, and let the question of Why me, oh Lord? be answered today. In Jesus’ precious name, I pray. Amen.

Scripture Reading: Jeremiah 29:11–14 (NIV)

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, "plans, to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

I will be found by you, declares the Lord, ‘and I will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you," declare the Lord, and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.

This specific text is allowing us to know that, the appearance to the contrary notwithstanding, the Lord has not forgotten his people and that God is the ultimate source of both prosperity and disaster.

The Lord’s gracious gift of prosperity is contingent on his people’s willingness to repent.

I found that reading this text, God’s ultimate goal is to bring you back from captivity.

If I had to give this chapter a title, it would be

Why Me, Oh Lord?

I found that, over the past years as I have anchored myself in the Lord and stood flat footed before the Enemy, many of us have been going through some mind-blowing and difficult situations that are very hard to come to grips with or even cope with at times, leaving us in a depressed state of mind. Or we’ve faced uncomfortable situations, causing us to lose our faith and focus, making us feel that we are in captivity. Although you know the Word says that faith is the substance of things hoped for and evidence of things not seen, are you really believing and walking in this Scripture? I asked this question because we have allowed our circumstances and situations to raise the question to God, Why me? But as I’m traveling on this spiritual journey of faith, strength, and perseverance, which many of us are traveling on, the Lord answered me in a quiet, still voice. He said, Why not you, daughter? I gave my only begotten son and he died for your sins; he did nothing wrong. But take my Word forth as I directed him to do, and look what happen to him.

Then the Lord said, "Daughter, I have given you a decree to do the same as I directed my son, and because of your obedience and faithfulness, I wanted to see if you really had the faith of a mustard seed. I wanted to see if you could endure and persevere in good times and bad. I wanted to see if your hope was truly built on me. I found that your prayers and dealings with me were sincere and just, and because my Word says that the fervent and effectual prayer of a righteous man avail much, you were being a good and faithful servant in what you were doing.

The Lord Lord’s response took me to Jeremiah 29:11 and I will show you the plans I have for your life,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans, to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope.

My message to you, saints, is that if you are going through something in your life and you don’t know which way you are going—if you have lost your faith, you have lost your way, and you don’t know how to find your hope—I found that the word hope on a spiritual aspect is the knowledge that we are being changed for the better as we trust in God’s promises. Romans 8:28–29 says, And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who has been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son.

Don’t you realize that the Bible is full of examples of men and women who hoped in God’s promises? His patriarch Abraham is held up for believers as a model of hope.

When Abraham was seventy-five, God promised to bless him and give him many descendants—as numerous as the stars in the sky. Abraham heard these words and believed God (Genesis 15:6), but despite his belief, Hebrews 6:15 explains that Abraham had to wait twenty-five years to see the fulfillment of his hope.

Yet all the while, Abraham trusted in God, the author of his hope, until he saw the promise come to pass. So if you are anchored in the Lord, know that God already knows the plans for your life. He needs to take you through this season of lowliness, financial issues, and people disrespecting you, job issues, and family issues; because he has found out that you can be trusted with his Word. When God can trust you, he will open the windows of heaven and pour you out blessings you don’t have room enough to receive. Don’t you know that what God has for you is for you? And he said that because he can trust you, when you call upon him and come and pray to him, he will listen to you.

He said in (Jeremiah 29:12:14) You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you,’ declared the LORD, ‘and will bring you back from captivity.

In order for God to bring you back out of captivity, you have to first anchor yourself in the Word of God. Let me give you a story of being anchored.

The Calm before the Storm a short (Story from the Internet)

There was an old sailor who looked at the skies and saw a dark storm coming. As the sea became rough and choppy, the