Journey to 31: A Road to Discovery

By Kendramiah P.

Journey to 31 is about a journey of faith. It’s about having trust in God and believing him for all his promises, not only for your life but for other people’s lives as well. Journey to 31 tells the truth about the obstacles the author has faced on her faith journey. It also shares her understanding that there is a greater purpose for it all. Obstacles, trials, and tribulations became beautiful manifestations of God’s word.
Know that the Lord Adonai’s word is his bond and that it does not return void. Understand that what you’re growing through will cause you to bloom for the world to see. When you speak for the Lord, it shows the world that you have withstood the test of time and that you never gave up.
There is light in the darkness. If you focus on the light, you will emerge from your lion’s den and out of the miry clay and your pit. You will come out of the fire, clean and without burns. You will be scratch free, full of light, and in your right mind. Then your task is to assist Adonai. Stand in agreement and deliver someone else out of a pit, a lion’s den, the miry clay, and the fire!

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: May 5, 2020
• ISBN: 9781973684824

Kendramiah P.

Kendramiah is a native of Atlanta, Georgia. She has always been artistic in spirit and has had an urge to be an entrepreneur. Throughout her youth, she was very active in sports and school organizations. She was an active member in her church, along with her siblings. She grew up with a single mom, who continues to push her to be her best, never to settle for what is mediocre, and to go get what she wants out of life. That is what she did. Kendramiah left home at the age of seventeen to attend Prairie View A&M University in Prairie View, Texas. She graduated with a degree in business management information systems, along with a master’s degree in business administration. During her three-year tenure at Prairie View A&M University, Kendramiah felt an urgency to teach visual arts to youth and to spread the Word of God in truth. Thus, Journey to 31 began.

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Contents

Dedication

Epigraph

Foreword

Heavenly Prayer

Introduction

1   Run Your Race

2   Victory in Jesus Christ

3   Harden Not Your Heart

4   Drown Your Heart in Forgiveness

5   Take Up Your Cross

6   Purposeful Pain

7   Let’s Talk Business

8   God Is

9   Say Thank You

10   Happy Birthday

11   Love God

12   The Proverbs Thirty-One Man

13   Don’t Sprout Then Doubt

14   In Advance

15   Where You Are

16   Apologize

17   Who Takes the Credit?

18   Pay Attention

19   I Love Your Presence

20   The Love of God Transcends All

21   Let Them Believe

22   God’s Perspective

23   Stay in Position

24   Destination Determined

25   Letting Go

26   A Word from Papa

27   Don’t Doubt and Expect It to Work Out

28   What Are Your Priorities?

29   The Power of Retreating

30   Coming Off Life Support

31   Break the Cycle

Healing

Dedication

This book is dedicated to my beloved sister

Jackie for putting me in position.

May you rest in peace, my beautiful butterfly.

Epigraph

To all who have a dream and are hanging on by

a hope and a wish, Adonai will help you hold on

tighter and not let go. Truth, love, peace to you.

—Kendramiah P.

Foreword

Zuri Insikazi (My Mother)

Zuri (means beautiful in Swahili)

Insikazi (means woman Zulu)

As I have read my daughter’s book in its entirety, I couldn’t help taking a trip back down memory lane—the lane that I was in when God revealed to me that one of my children would one day spread his Word. I placed the gift on my youngest child because he was the one that people had given up on before they had