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09/09/2026

“Covered Girl Experience 2K26 Recap Week”

09/09/2026

Happy Wednesday!

Scripture for Reflection

“The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man.” — Psalm 94:11

RELEASED FROM THE NEED TO BE UNDERSTOOD

There is a particular kind of frustration that comes when people do not understand what happened to us. We want someone to know the whole story, understand our intentions, recognize what was done, and acknowledge why we responded the way we did. When our story is misunderstood—or when the person who hurt us tells the story differently—we can become consumed with trying to correct every version of it.

There are times when truth should be spoken and misunderstanding should be corrected. But there are also times when no amount of explanation will make someone willing to understand. Living Released means recognizing the difference. We do not have to spend our lives standing before the court of public opinion trying to prove our hearts to everyone who has formed an opinion about us.

God knows.

He knows what happened when nobody else was present. He knows what was said, what was intended, what you endured, where you failed, and where you tried to do what was right. His knowledge does not excuse our mistakes, but it frees us from the exhausting need to make everyone see us exactly as we see ourselves.

There is peace in knowing that you can tell the truth, walk with integrity, correct what needs correcting, and then leave your reputation in God’s hands. You do not need universal understanding in order to move forward.

Reflection

Are you exhausting yourself trying to make someone understand something they may never be willing to understand?

Declaration

I will speak truth with grace and walk with integrity, but I will not make my peace dependent upon everyone’s understanding. God knows my heart, knows my story, and knows the truth. I release the need to convince everyone. I will live Released.

Prayer

Father, free me from the exhausting need to be understood by everyone. Give me wisdom to know when to speak and when to remain quiet, when to explain and when to entrust the matter to You. Help me live with such integrity that I can leave both my story and my reputation in Your hands. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

09/08/2026

Come along with us on this journey of memories: “Covered Girl Experience 2K26 Recap Week”

09/08/2026

Happy Tuesday!

Scripture for Reflection

“Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice.” — Ephesians 4:31

RELEASED FROM BITTERNESS

Bitterness rarely enters the heart announcing what it intends to become. It often begins with a legitimate wound, an unanswered question, an injustice that was never acknowledged, or an apology that never came. We replay what happened because we are trying to understand it, but if we are not careful, remembering the offense becomes rehearsing the offense, and rehearsing the offense keeps feeding the pain.

Paul tells us to put bitterness away, not because what happened was insignificant, but because bitterness eventually begins damaging the person carrying it. It can change how we see people who never hurt us, make us suspicious of relationships that have given us no reason for suspicion, and cause yesterday’s pain to influence today’s decisions. The offense happened in the past, but bitterness keeps giving it permission to live in the present.

Living Released means we refuse to allow another person’s actions to determine the condition of our heart. We bring the hurt honestly before God, surrender our desire for vengeance, and ask Him to remove what has begun taking root within us. We may still remember what happened, but we no longer have to nourish the anger attached to the memory. God can heal the wound without requiring us to deny that the wound ever existed.

Reflection

Has an unresolved hurt begun influencing how you see people, relationships, or even yourself?

Declaration

I will not give bitterness a permanent place in my heart. I release the offense, surrender the anger, and trust God with what I cannot change. My past may explain some of my pain, but it will not govern my future. I will live Released.

Prayer

Father, search my heart and reveal any bitterness that has taken root within me. Help me release the anger, resentment, and repeated conversations I continue carrying inside. Heal the places that were wounded and keep yesterday’s pain from shaping today’s relationships. I choose Your freedom over bitterness and Your peace over resentment. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

09/07/2026

09/07/2026

Happy Monday!

Scripture for Reflection

“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” — John 8:32

THE FREEDOM OF A RELEASED HEART

There comes a point in the journey of forgiveness when the questions begin to change. We may spend a long time asking, Why did they do this? Why did this happen to me? Will they ever apologize? Will they ever change? Will justice ever come? Those questions are understandable, but eventually another question becomes more important: Am I ready to live beyond what happened?

Living released does not mean forgetting the offense, minimizing the damage, or pretending you were not wounded. It means refusing to allow what happened to continue governing what happens next. The offense may be part of your story, but it does not have to determine how you think, how you love, how you relate to others, or how you approach your future.

This is important because an offense can end while its influence continues. Betrayal in one relationship can create suspicion in another. Rejection from one person can cause us to expect rejection from everyone. Before long, we can begin organizing our present around something that happened in our past. Living released interrupts that pattern. It allows us to remember without being ruled by the memory, to establish boundaries without hatred, to forgive without abandoning wisdom, and to continue healing without making the wound our identity.

Freedom also means accepting that we may never receive every answer we wanted. There may never be an apology, an explanation, or even an acknowledgment of the harm that was done. But our peace cannot depend upon another person finally doing what is right. When we surrender the offense, the offender, the unanswered questions, and justice to God, we take our future out of their hands and place it back into His.

As that happens, life begins to open again. We discover that we can laugh without guilt, love without abandoning wisdom, trust carefully without living suspiciously, and pray for the person who hurt us without pretending that what happened was acceptable. The painful chapter remains part of our story, but it no longer gets to write the ending.

Perhaps that is one of the clearest signs that we are learning to live released. We are no longer simply saying, “I forgive what happened.” We are also saying, “I am ready to live again.” What happened was real, and what was lost mattered, but God still has more for us. The past has already taken enough; we do not have to give it our future too.

That is the freedom of a released heart. We can remember without being ruled by the memory, heal without pretending we were never wounded, love without abandoning wisdom, and move forward without carrying bitterness into the life God is still calling us to live.

Reflection

Is something from your past still shaping the way you are living today? What might change if you fully entrusted it to God and allowed yourself to move forward?

Declaration

My past will not govern my future. I release the offense, surrender the offender, and trust God with what I cannot change or control. I will remember without being ruled by the memory, forgive without abandoning wisdom, and move forward without carrying bitterness. By God’s grace, I will live Released.

09/05/2026

Hello everyone!

Please check out these events that will be taking place in Tallahassee, Florida! 🎉

There are some great events happening around the city, so be sure to take a look and see what interests you. I hope you’re able to attend and enjoy! 💕

09/05/2026

A WIND OF REVIVAL is hitting the land🌬️🔥Not another church service, but an awakening, a spiritual hunger for God, true repentance, a return of the lost and mislead, a healing to the broken, a genuine surrender to the call, divine encounters, THE WEIGHT OF GOD’S GLORY🔥🔥🔥 DON’T MISS THIS TIME 🔥🔥🔥