I’m excited to share that I am now offering counseling sessions!
These sessions will be a safe and confidential place to open up, share your heart, and receive Biblical advice for your situation and life. If you need honest, godly counsel on a specific matter or just a trusted listening ear, I invite you to book a session with me.
I am offering 1-on-1 counseling sessions and couples and joint counseling (with my husband) through Impact Family Christian Counseling Network. If you’ve been wanting to schedule a call with me, now is the time!
The Counseling Session page can be found under my CONTACTS tab or by clicking the link below. I look forward to meeting with you!
This word was given on August 24, 2023, at the end of our Monthly Teaching meeting on ‘A Call to Repentance.’ I felt the need to post this (see video below) to my YouTube channel separately from the message.
There is a strong call — AN ALARM — going out in the spirit for repentance. That call is to the church first and foremost. Many in the church have strayed away from God and are not aware. God is not pleased.
Please take heed to what God is saying. If you are in a church or ministry and God has been giving you warning signs and red flags that things are not right there, LEAVE NOW! Judgment WILL begin in the house of God. If you say you are Christian but your life and heart look nothing like it, REPENT NOW while there is still time. Judgment WILL begin in the house of God.
Warning comes before destruction. The era of playing church is over. God is bringing swift judgment to His people and the world.
“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” – Revelation 2:29 (NKJV)
2023 is upon us! I don’t know about you, but it feels like these last few years have flown by!
Last Thursday at our Fellowship Night meeting we did an end-of-year activity to set our goals for 2023 and commit them to the Lord. Proverbs 16:3 says, “Commit your works to the LORD, and your thoughts will be established.” The NIV says, “Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and He will establish your plans.”
So often we make our New Year resolutions but forget to include God in the planning. Over the years, I’ve learned that when I include God in my plans and commit them to Him through consistent prayer and fasting, He helps me accomplish them through gentle reminders and even divine insight and help. God makes all the difference in everything that we do. What I love about this activity is that it incorporates asking God for your word/verse for the new year and a verse for each category of goals. When it comes to our plans, the word of God must be our foundation and inspiration. The word and Spirit of God will keep us going when we feel like giving up.
Identity is defined as the fact of being who or what a person or thing is, the distinguishing character or personality of an individual.
It’s very important that we know, understand, and are rooted in our identity as children of God. The identity of a thing speaks to the nature (characteristics) and the source of that thing. Our identity as children of God distinguishes us as people who are godly (nature) and people who belong to God (source).
When we don’t understand our identity in Christ, we will take on false identities and therefore live in a way that contradicts who God says we are. Since many believers don’t know their identity in Christ and are still holding on to false identities from their past, they have a hard time walking in the new man, they have a hard time believing what God says about them in His Word. Knowing your identity in Christ is the difference between living as a victim vs. living victoriously; it’s the difference between living as an orphan vs. living like an heir.
God speaks to us in many powerful ways, but the main way He speaks to us is through His Word. The Word is the means by which we judge (or test) everything we receive in the spirit. Without the Word of God, we cannot judge things correctly.
Join me for this 30 Day Bible Reading Challenge where we will be reading and studying the Word of God for 30 consecutive days through the month of June.
The Lord placed this challenge on my heart just two days ago right after our last (Heart of Worship Ministry) Bible Study. It’s often said that it takes 21 days to form a habit, well I believe that as we discipline ourselves to read the Word for these 30 days that we will develop a new habit of reading the Word consistently and a new love for God’s Word.
This is Heart of Worship Ministry’s very first challenge and I’m excited to see how God will move through it!
What you read during these 30 days is completely up to you. Allow the Lord to lead you on what to read. I will post weekly check-ins and reminders on the ministry’s Facebook group.
If you’d like to find out more about Heart of Worship Ministry or join our Facebook group, you can do so at this link: Heart of Worship Ministry
Below is a Calendar (pdf) that you can download, print, and use to track what you read each day.
Instructions:
Read and study at least 1 chapter of the Bible every day from June 1, 2021 – June 30, 2021. (I also encourage you to pray the Scriptures — pray what you read).
What you read is completely up to you. Let the Lord lead you on what to read. (Be sure to journal what you learn and what the Lord shows you as you read).
Keep track of what you read each day using the calendar below. You can download and print the pdf. (You are free to use a different calendar or method of keeping track).
I will do a weekly check-in in the Facebook group on Tuesdays to see how everyone is doing.
If you’re in the Facebook group, leave a comment below the weekly check-in posts to tell us how you’re doing and share anything God has been doing/showing you through this challenge.
Happy New Year! I know it’s February, but this is my first official blog post of 2021, so I wanted to start by wishing you all a Happy New Year. I hope this year is going well for you so far and I hope you’re staying safe.
During this Valentine’s weekend, The Lord placed on my heart to write a blog post with scriptures to encourage those who may be feeling down on this holiday. Although this is a day to celebrate love, we know that this can be a difficult time for many, for various reasons. Some of you may be single and wondering when your time for marriage will come, some of you may have recently gone through a broken engagement, some of you may be married but unhappy in your marriage, some of you may be divorced, and some of you may be widowed. No matter your relationship status, God wants you to know that He loves you, He sees you, and He will comfort you and see you through this time. I pray that this blog post is a source of hope and strength for you no matter how you are feeling this holiday.
I hope you all are doing well and staying safe during these times. I know it’s been a while.
As promised, I will be hosting another Zoom Meeting! (Yayy!) The first one was sooo good. This time I will be talking about the spirit of fear and overcoming it. Fear prevents us from doing so much and can at times show up in very subtle ways. God has not given us the spirit of fear so it’s time to confront it head-on.
Join me this coming Monday, July 13, 2020, at 7 pm EST on Zoom as I speak on ‘Overcoming Fear.’ I’ll also be doing a Q&A at the end.
I hope you all will be able to join me and I can’t wait to chat with you all!
Meeting ID: 988-959-0873 Password: 9rWr4M.
To join the meeting: (1) From a computer go to zoom.us, select ‘join meeting’, and type in the meeting ID and password. (2) From the Zoom app enter the meeting ID and password. (3) Click the link below then type the password when prompted.
With so much going on in the world right now, many people are dealing with the spirit of fear and anxiety. I want to share a short word of encouragement and some Bible verses to help us all fight against the spirit of fear. You may be fearful about how this pandemic is affecting your life and uncertain about what tomorrow brings, or you may be dealing with fear concerning other parts of your life. I want to remind you that you were not created to be overcome by fear. God’s perfect love casts out ALL fear (1 John 4:18) and He has given you power to tell the spirit of fear to leave! (As you read this and meditate on these Bible verses, think of the areas where you are dealing with fear and allow God’s perfect love to cast it out!)
Some of the ways that fear manifests itself is by paralyzing you, causing you to see and believe things that aren’t there, preventing you from making a decision or causing you to make the wrong decision, and throwing off your thinking pattern. It’s hard to see God when your mind and eyes are clouded by fear. Fear almost caused Moses to reject the call of God on his life. Fear caused the children of Israel to yearn for their familiar life of slavery and wander in the wilderness for 40 years. Fear is not something that should be taken lightly, it should be attacked and dealt with aggressively because it can hinder us in so many ways.
I hope you all are staying safe and healthy during these times. I just wanted to share a couple of things with you all:
1. I will be hosting a Zoom Meeting tomorrow night at 7pm EST
Tomorrow night (Thursday, April 30, 2020) I will be on Zoom at 7pm EST discussing the topic “Why Should I Wait on God?”
Some of you may feel like you’ve been waiting on God regarding marriage (or anything) for a long time and your surroundings and society may be tempting you to just give up. This Zoom meeting is to encourage you to continue to do things God’s way and not give in to outside pressures.
I will also do a Q&A at the end. If you have any questions you can email me or DM me on social media [Instagram: @heart_of_worship / Facebook: Deborah Johnson (HeartofWorship) https://www.facebook.com/deborah.h.olawale/ ]. If you email me a question, make sure to specify that it is for this meeting. And be sure to follow me on social media to get any important updates.
If you are free, I’d love for you to join me! (Space is limited so try to get on early).
Zoom Meeting Details:
Topic: Why Should I Wait On God?
Time: Apr 30, 2020 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
*Ways to join the meeting: (1) From a computer go to Zoom.us and enter the Meeting ID above. (2) From a computer click the link above and it will take you straight to the meeting. (3) From a phone download the Zoom Cloud Meetings App and enter the Meeting ID. (No registration is required).
Zoom Meeting Flyer
2. The Heart Of Worship Collection is officially up and ready!
A few months back I shared that I’d be creating a Heart Of Worship Collection with different items for purchase via my apparel store. Well, that collection is finally ready!
Go to the ‘SHOP’ tab to view some of the items in the collection which includes t-shirts and jewelry. Click on “Shop the Collection” to view the entire collection and make a purchase . You will be redirected to integritybydesign.com which is my online apparel store.
Hey everyone! I hope everyone is doing well and staying safe during this time. So much is taking place right now, both naturally and spiritually. Due to this pandemic, our lives have been shifted, our plans have been canceled, and almost every sector of society has been temporarily shut down.
I’m a firm believer that God allows things to happen for a reason. And although this is a very crazy time in our world, God is doing and saying multiple things through this situation.
As I have been watching the news, thinking, hearing other people’s thoughts about what’s going on, but most importantly talking to God and hearing what HE has to say, He put a few things on my heart regarding this pandemic that I want to share with you. I believe that just as in every situation, God is doing multiple things at one time through this coronavirus pandemic.
