Untapped: Accessing Your Innermost Strength

By V. Denise Stewart

In a modern world filled with smoke and mirror images of instant gratification, strength to achieve good success is often elusive and fleeting. Untapped will uncover the true path to success and victory. It provides a clear and concise road map to the hidden treasures in the kingdom of God. It will give you the tools to stabilize and anchor yourself for the journey into an overcoming life. Untapped outlines, in detail, the process for succeeding God’s way. Unashamed to address the challenges and obstacles along the path, you will find encouragement and faith to conquer every situation. Untapped will be a provocative push toward a deeper relationship with God. Filled with wisdom and coaching, Untapped will guide you into a victorious and empowered life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Jan 9, 2019
• ISBN: 9781973634775

V. Denise Stewart

V. Denise Stewart is a charismatic Christian author and dynamic speaker. Her voice is fresh and provocative delivering a unique blend of transparency and wisdom. Her insights are easily adaptable and applied to everyday life. She offers the reader an opportunity to journey from information to a place of real change. She has faced life’s toughest challenges head on and readily shares the lesson she’s learned to overcome in Untapped. She knows the challenges of balancing family, business and ministry. She has been equipped with the grace of God to do them all at the highest level of excellence. She is founder of Fresh Fire Ministries, Inc. and can be heard weekly on her virtual program, The L.I.T. Lifestyle which draws participants along the East Coast.

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ISBN: 978-1-9736-3476-8 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-9736-3477-5 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2018908532

WestBow Press rev. date: 12/31/2018

DEDICATIONS

This book is first and foremost dedicated to my Sovereign Lord and King, Jesus Christ! Daily, by Holy Spirit I have been guided to move forward into the reality of this moment. Thank you for the seed that will be an incredible harvest for the kingdom of God!

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In memory of my beloved family who are with the Lord in heaven, Jerome and Annie Stewart my devoted parents and my precious son, Andre Bryant Stewart.

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I understood what Jesus meant and felt when he said, I love you with an everlasting love the moment you were conceived. Christian Nathaniel and Michala Andrea, you are the beat of my heart. Your love elevates my life!

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

My Prayer For You

Introduction

Chapter 1   What Is Strength?

Chapter 2   The Purpose of Strength

Chapter 3   Maximizing Strength

Chapter 4   Strength in Waiting

Chapter 5   Strength and the Burning Bush

Chapter 6   The Dry Places

The Coach’s Corner— Your Personal Coaching Guide

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The first prophetic word ever spoken to me was 25+ years ago and it declared this moment. That word was spoken by Apostle Saundra L. Hagans. You taught me though it tarry, wait for it. Mom, thanks for being a part of my life, love you.

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To my brother and sister, Bishop Blake and Lady Caroline Mills, thank you for never letting go. You breathed life and hope into me when my dreams seemed dead. For that, I am grateful.

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To Doris Griffin, Crystal Bell and Piper Gomez, the Yabba sisterhood, thanks for your unwavering encouragement and support. You are my midwives and I could not have done this without you. I truly treasure each of you.

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To my family both spiritual and natural who have walked with me through many trials, thanks so much for your dedication. You are part of my story and I cherish each of you.

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MY PRAYER FOR YOU

Father, I ask that as each person reads this book that the eyes of their understanding be enlightened to know your will concerning them. I pray that you bless them and keep them. I ask for a release of your love, forgiveness and mercy upon each of them. I pray that they will have the desire to use this book as a guide to grow closer in their relationship with you. I pray for them to have the courage to look inside and address everything that hinders their growth and development. I pray they will have success in every area of their life from this day forward, in Jesus’ name, Amen.

Father, I also thank you for the opportunity to share something that would ignite a hunger for a deeper, more passionate relationship with you in others. Thank you for turning my pain into wisdom and strategy to benefit your people. Let this book bring glory and honor to your name. Let it be bread to feed and nourish all who journey through its pages.

INTRODUCTION

MY LIFE READS LIKE A reality show filled with death, betrayal, treachery, and even murder. After each crisis or trauma, someone would tell me, You’re the epitome of strength. How do you endure and keep standing through all you have been through? You are such an example of courage to everyone.

Well, my name is Valerie, which means full of valor, courage; able to overcome extraordinary odds. However, I had not ever seen things the way they did. What did they see? How could I look in the mirror every day and miss it? What was this unperceivable covering that hid my weakness? I wanted to become cognizant of this power in a more purposeful way.

In those times of dark despair, I knew something was happening deep in me. Indeed, an undeniable force had broadened my shoulders, and fortified my resilience to make it through. When my mind wanted to faint, it couldn’t. It empowered my resolve and pushed me forward. Like steel beams anchored in the foundation of my soul, it kept me standing. They saw it, but I was not conscious of it. I was however, compelled to understand it.

As I pondered these things, it became clear this would require more of me than I had anticipated and dare I say desired. It required more time, energy, and reflection; I had to probe deeper than I had gone before to understand the mystery of what propelled and sustained me.

To a degree, this book chronicles that journey. It is a leap of faith over many drawbacks, setbacks, roadblocks, and fears. I now feel the push of God’s wind to release what He has spoken and revealed to me in the past two decades.

I declare, this book to be the first of many more acts of faith to bring glory to His name and feed the people of God. As I began to step forth and organize my notes, the revelations and those things I had recorded over the years, I felt in my heart that this was the fruit of seeds planted years ago. I had to share it more broadly. I had to come out of hiding.

As you read, you may see your own traumatic, challenging experiences and horrible setbacks on these pages. While we may have shared experiences, I did not write Untapped to commiserate with you in the pain or memorialize it. We will not occupy the victim seat! Untapped was written to show you the path to overcome; a way to live again, breathe again, rise again, hope again, love again. You can do it. Untapped will guide you through the process.

My earnest desire is as you continue to read, it will place in you a hunger and desire for more of God. I want you to crave a deeper more substantive relationship with your heavenly Father. Use Untapped as a tool to tap into God in a different way and format. Ask for more. Desire more. He wants to fill you with more of Himself, so take it. Dedicate the time to your growth and development in Him.

He wants to do something unique, special, and sacred just for you! He wants to put His finger