Judah: The Roar of Release

By Apostle Dr. Cynthia King Bolden Gardner

JUDAH is a hymn of praise to the Most High God for what He started in women in the year 2019 and continues to make manifest. Judah is a celebration of broken barriers that once caused broken women.
In the past year and coming decades women across the globe have learned to open their mouths wide and let God fill them. Women have positioned themselves to speak to, rightfully stand and steer the renovation of Renaissance within the seven mountains of Government, Religion, Economics, Family, Education, Celebration and Media.
Women have shattered many glass ceilings and sit at tables of power in every aspect of life making decisions for the benefit of all.
Judah focuses on our resounding roar, resilience, reformation and renewal, delineates the strides made in each country and the obstacles yet extant to place under our feet.
Finally, Judah takes a unobfuscated look at the future and the shifts women need to make to continue to be relevant, productive and in the forefront as sustainable trailblazers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 3, 2020
• ISBN: 9781664125087

Apostle Dr. Cynthia King Bolden Gardner

Apostle Dr. Cynthia King Bolden Gardner is a dedicated advocate in law and in the body of Christ. Born premature in 1955 and immediately declared as good as dead, she immersed herself in her Beloved Abba, Adonai Jehovah, as early as 18 months graced with Prophetic dreams and visions. She grew up in a male dominated family and has been eminently Successful in two male dominated professions, law and ministry Which she attributes to the early masculine indoctrination. She is accustomed to the Pauline brand adversity that accompanies effectual and fervent open doors. Fast forward 63 years, she is an accomplished scribe of 21 books in the past decade plus one bestseller in Christian Counseling, Social Issues and Religion. Her passion is public speaking, writing, inventing and battling community and domestic violence,while mediating and drafting initiatives against pervasive societal ills.She is a celebrated semi-retired government and privatesector attorney. The courtroom and pulpit are both arenas to propound righteousness and deliverance. Her lifelong pursuits are child advocate and youth mentor, champion of the homeless,addicted, disenfranchised and disadvantaged. She just returned fromeight days preaching, affirming Apostles, dedicating churches, encouraging orphans and the imprisoned in Kenya. Dr. Gardner’s next stop is Punjab and South Africa.Graduating from Georgetown Schools of Foreign Service,1978and Law, 1981, Dr. Gardner is licensed in Ohio, California and Pennsylvania.She has founded 3 churches and presently serves as PresidingBishop of New Mercy Seat Ministries, International, an EPIC Global Tier I Leader, Bishop and Legal Adviser for NRFOCC.In the public sector, she worked for the US Dept of Justice Commercial Litigation Division, Small Business Administration andGeneral Counsels Office of TVA. She has also worked for Jones. Day,Brown & Bain, Erie County as Child Counsel and San Diego County,Where she was awarded ATTORNEY OF THE YEAR in 1999.She is a member of Phi Alpha Theta, Alpha Sigma Nu , and Pi SigmaAlpha. At home she enjoys relaxing with her husband, Bennie and children which are 7 GERMAN Shepherds, 4 horses and a bull.

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DEDICATION

T O THE WOMEN of my family who stand upon the shoulders of our maternal great grandmother, Hattie Kirk Bradley, grandmother Bigma Missionary Lela Mae James, L’il MA (Bobbie BB) Barbara Nell Nixon Bolden and their predecessors.

To Fatima, Efelynn, Jami, Brenda, their daughters, granddaughters and those of my brothers, James Allen King, Willie Glenn Bolden, Lacy Mathis and James Alvin Bolden.

To the late Mrs. Eulalia Gray, prayer warrior extraordinaire, lover of Christ and lover of souls. To the late Joseph T. Kownacki, friend and later law colleague for 59 years. You always provoked me to succeed. Both are recently departed and sorely missed.

A huge thank you to Baba Lukata, Asinia Chinuyku Lukata, activist-separatist cousin and photographer who recorded the material in this book for two of my Now TV Broadcasts (Step Up Sister Part I. Esther (Don’t Rock It), Part II Zeleophad’s Daughters (Come Forth Daughters), approximately June, 2017, 3 years ago, at the African Art Gallery in the historic Farrish District in Jackson, Ms.

FOREWORDS

O NCE AGAIN, APOSTLE Gardner has been obedient to the Holy Spirit’s guidance to place a pen in her hand of faith to bless women with testimonies of their Roar of Release!

The Scripture focus (Numbers 27-:1-7; Numbers 36)for this book raises a few key reminders for Women of Faith and their testimonies. First, we must use our voices to stand up for what is right in the sight of God. Our voices must be courageous, bold and willing to challenge laws or decsions when needed like Zelophehad’s daughters. They came boldly to the throne of grace and God honored their requests.

Zelophehad’s daughters actions in these passages of scripture demonstrated their respect for the law, Love for God and family. As women of faith, keeping the legacy of the family, their land, building on a Godly foundation and securing the future for the next generations is paramount to our existence. While doing all of this, we must continue to be obedient and trust God though the process.

Finally, though Zelophehad’s daughters’ request was honored by God, in Numbers 36 we see there is a twist. Isn’t that that the case in our lives? We need to be flexible and able to pivot on a moments notice. The daughters were obedient and respected God’s law. They also accepted the terms that were provided by God. Truthfully speaking, some of us may not have been so agreeable. But to get to the Roar of Release, there must and will be sacrifice, if not for you, then for God and family!

This book is Apostle Gardner’s self reflection of her journey to the’ Roar of Release’. She has graciously poured out herself in the pages of the book to help women see the power of our voices, faith and obedience.

I pray this book is a blessing to you and that your next testimony is about your Roar of Release!! To God be the Glory for all He has done!!

Margaree Coleman-Carter

Dean of Students

Montclair State University

Adviser, Assembly of Christian Educators

Director, New Jersey Conference Christian Education Department

African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

D URING THE TRAGEDY of my daughter’s death, and separation of her children, I entered into a darkness I didn’t think I could overcome. But God! I cried out to Jesus like never before. Sadly, I had reserved Him for emergencies only as I didn’t know who I was in Christ at the time. Over a period of 3 years, I was learning to trust the Lord and release the pain, fear, and anger as if I were being peeled like an onion. The more I released, the more He could work through me and restore what the enemy had stolen from me going as far back as my childhood...my love for color and acrylic painting!

Satan had no idea who he was messing with when he took my daughter’s life.