Adonai Nissi, Your Banner over us is LOVE and God is our MIRACLE!
This is how I pray...
Abba Father, You are my Miracle and this is what I NEED ( ), Thank You for Supplying ALL my Needs According to Your Riches in Glory by Christ Jesus, AMEN!
Philippians 4:19
Expanded Bible (EXB)
[And] My God will ·meet [supply; fulfill] all of your needs ·from [according to] His ·wonderful riches [glorious riches; riches in Heaven/Glory] in Christ Jesus.
PHILLIPS
Your generosity is like a lovely fragrance, a sacrifice that pleases the very heart of God. My God will supply ALL that you need from His Glorious resources in Christ Jesus. And may glory be to our God and our Father for ever and ever, amen!
J.B. Phillips New Testament (PHILLIPS)
The New Testament in Modern English by J.B Philips copyright © 1960, 1972 J. B. Phillips. Administered by The Archbishops' Council of the Church of England. Used by Permission.
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
You're Gonna Make It!!!
You're Gonna Make It!!!
2 Samuel 22:29-31
Suddenly, God, your light floods my path, God drives out the darkness. I smash the bands of marauders, I vault the high fences. What a God! His road stretches straight and smooth. Every God-direction is road-tested. Everyone who runs toward Him Makes it.
2 Samuel 22:29-31
Suddenly, God, your light floods my path, God drives out the darkness. I smash the bands of marauders, I vault the high fences. What a God! His road stretches straight and smooth. Every God-direction is road-tested. Everyone who runs toward Him Makes it.
Saturday, January 23, 2016
Yesterday is but a dream...
Yesterday is but a dream,
Tomorrow is only a vision.
But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. ♡
Tomorrow is only a vision.
But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. ♡
Friday, January 08, 2016
Decree this over your life...
Decree this over your life...
I dwell in the midst of Infinite Abundance. The Abundance of God is my Infinite Source.
The River of Life never stops flowing. It flows through me into lavish expression. Good comes to me through unexpected avenues and God works in a myriad of ways to bless me.
I now open my mind to receive my good. Nothing is too good to be true. Nothing is too wonderful to have happen. With God as my Source, Nothing amazes me.
I am not burdened by thoughts of past or future. One is gone. The other is yet to come.
By the power of my belief, coupled with my purposeful fearless actions and my deep rapport with God, my future is created and my abundance made manifest.
I ask and accept that I am lifted in this and every moment into God's Peace. My mind is quiet.
From this day forward I give freely and fearlessly into life and Life gives back to me with magnificent increase. Blessings come in expected and unexpected ways. God provides for me in wondrous ways.
I AM indeed grateful. And I let it be so. In Jesus Name.
Amen!
I dwell in the midst of Infinite Abundance. The Abundance of God is my Infinite Source.
The River of Life never stops flowing. It flows through me into lavish expression. Good comes to me through unexpected avenues and God works in a myriad of ways to bless me.
I now open my mind to receive my good. Nothing is too good to be true. Nothing is too wonderful to have happen. With God as my Source, Nothing amazes me.
I am not burdened by thoughts of past or future. One is gone. The other is yet to come.
By the power of my belief, coupled with my purposeful fearless actions and my deep rapport with God, my future is created and my abundance made manifest.
I ask and accept that I am lifted in this and every moment into God's Peace. My mind is quiet.
From this day forward I give freely and fearlessly into life and Life gives back to me with magnificent increase. Blessings come in expected and unexpected ways. God provides for me in wondrous ways.
I AM indeed grateful. And I let it be so. In Jesus Name.
Amen!
Prayer for FAVOR
Prayer for FAVOR
Abba Father,
I declare that I have your favor today
I declare that I am strong and well able to fulfill my God given destiny; I know you are fighting my battles for me.
I declare that I am a victor and not a victim. I may have been defeated in the past but the past is past, this is new day
Your word says that "I am the head and not the tail"
Every thing I touch will prosper and succeed according to your perfect will because of your favor my Father.
I declare that by your stripes I am healed today. I will live and not die. I declare that you are restoring health unto me, and with long life you satisfy me
Father, today, I declare your favor in my relationship with You, favor in my relationship with my family, favor in relationships with my friends, and favor in relationships in my ministry.
I want to thank you for causing me to be at the right place at the right time. I want to thank you for causing people to want to help me.
Today, Father I want to thank you for blessing me with creativity, I want to thank you for causing me to make good decisions with a clear mind
I declare that you are smiling down on me today and that your favor will be in everything I do because I am pleasing to you.
I declare that I will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country, blessed coming in and blessed going out.
I claim right now, Psalm 84:11 that you are blessing me with favor and honor and no good thing will you withhold from me because my walk is blameless.
I claim Habakkuk 2:3 that my vision is for an appointed time. Though it may tarry, I will earnestly wait for it, for it will surely come.
I declare today that I am filled with your can do power my Father. Between you and me, we are the majority and I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.
I know that your Word says that, "no man has seen, heard or even imagined the wonderful things that you have in store for those that love you" and I want to tell you today that I love you and I want to thank you for loving me.
I want to thank you for your favor today, not because of who I am, but because of whose I am. I am a child of the most high God, the creator of the whole universe.
I commit this day to you
In Jesus name,
Amen
Abba Father,
I declare that I have your favor today
I declare that I am strong and well able to fulfill my God given destiny; I know you are fighting my battles for me.
I declare that I am a victor and not a victim. I may have been defeated in the past but the past is past, this is new day
Your word says that "I am the head and not the tail"
Every thing I touch will prosper and succeed according to your perfect will because of your favor my Father.
I declare that by your stripes I am healed today. I will live and not die. I declare that you are restoring health unto me, and with long life you satisfy me
Father, today, I declare your favor in my relationship with You, favor in my relationship with my family, favor in relationships with my friends, and favor in relationships in my ministry.
I want to thank you for causing me to be at the right place at the right time. I want to thank you for causing people to want to help me.
Today, Father I want to thank you for blessing me with creativity, I want to thank you for causing me to make good decisions with a clear mind
I declare that you are smiling down on me today and that your favor will be in everything I do because I am pleasing to you.
I declare that I will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country, blessed coming in and blessed going out.
I claim right now, Psalm 84:11 that you are blessing me with favor and honor and no good thing will you withhold from me because my walk is blameless.
I claim Habakkuk 2:3 that my vision is for an appointed time. Though it may tarry, I will earnestly wait for it, for it will surely come.
I declare today that I am filled with your can do power my Father. Between you and me, we are the majority and I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.
I know that your Word says that, "no man has seen, heard or even imagined the wonderful things that you have in store for those that love you" and I want to tell you today that I love you and I want to thank you for loving me.
I want to thank you for your favor today, not because of who I am, but because of whose I am. I am a child of the most high God, the creator of the whole universe.
I commit this day to you
In Jesus name,
Amen
Daily Declaration
Daily Declaration
I am Independently Wealthy
Past Debt is Forgiven and Erased
Supernaturally Paid-IN-Full
I Thank You Abba Father
For Favor
That My Cup Continually
Runs Over
I am Blessed to Be a Blessing
I have more than enough
To sustain my own needs
As well as others
In Him I LIVE and Move and Have my Being
I Declare this in the Name of Jesus, Amen!
I am Independently Wealthy
Past Debt is Forgiven and Erased
Supernaturally Paid-IN-Full
I Thank You Abba Father
For Favor
That My Cup Continually
Runs Over
I am Blessed to Be a Blessing
I have more than enough
To sustain my own needs
As well as others
In Him I LIVE and Move and Have my Being
I Declare this in the Name of Jesus, Amen!
Declare this Word over your life right NOW
Declare this Word over your life right NOW
EVERY Need is Met
"...your Father knows what you need before you ask Him."
"...those who seek the Lord lack no good thing."
"The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it,..."
"...every animal of the forest is Mine, and the cattle
on a thousand hills."
"Is anything too hard for the Lord?"
"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find;
knock, and the door will be opened to you."
"He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all--
how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?"
"Commit your way to the Lord; trust in Him, and He will do this."
"Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down,
shaken together, and running over, will be poured into your lap."
"...(God) is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine,
according to his power that is at work within us..."
"And my God will meet all your need according to His
glorious riches in Christ Jesus."
"His divine power has given us everything we need for life
and godliness through our knowledge of Him..."
"Call to Me, and I will answer you, and tell you great and
unsearchable things you do not know."
"I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is anything
too hard for Me?"
"Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened,
and I will give you rest."
"...God has said, Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you."
"Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything
by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your
requests to God; ..."
"Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for
food will also supply and increase your store of seed
and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness."
"...may He give you the desire of your heart
and make all your plans succeed."
"Praised be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ"
HalleluYah!!!
Scriptures
Mt 6:8
Ps 34:10
Ps 24:1
Ps 50:10
Gen 18:14
Mt 7:7
Rom 8:32
Ps 37:5
Luke 6:38
Eph 3:20
Phil 4:19
2Pet 1:3
Jer 33:3
Jer 32:27
Mt 11:28
Heb 13:5
Phil 4:6
2Cor 9:10
Ps. 20:4
Eph 1:3
EVERY Need is Met
"...your Father knows what you need before you ask Him."
"...those who seek the Lord lack no good thing."
"The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it,..."
"...every animal of the forest is Mine, and the cattle
on a thousand hills."
"Is anything too hard for the Lord?"
"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find;
knock, and the door will be opened to you."
"He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all--
how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?"
"Commit your way to the Lord; trust in Him, and He will do this."
"Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down,
shaken together, and running over, will be poured into your lap."
"...(God) is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine,
according to his power that is at work within us..."
"And my God will meet all your need according to His
glorious riches in Christ Jesus."
"His divine power has given us everything we need for life
and godliness through our knowledge of Him..."
"Call to Me, and I will answer you, and tell you great and
unsearchable things you do not know."
"I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is anything
too hard for Me?"
"Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened,
and I will give you rest."
"...God has said, Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you."
"Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything
by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your
requests to God; ..."
"Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for
food will also supply and increase your store of seed
and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness."
"...may He give you the desire of your heart
and make all your plans succeed."
"Praised be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ"
HalleluYah!!!
Scriptures
Mt 6:8
Ps 34:10
Ps 24:1
Ps 50:10
Gen 18:14
Mt 7:7
Rom 8:32
Ps 37:5
Luke 6:38
Eph 3:20
Phil 4:19
2Pet 1:3
Jer 33:3
Jer 32:27
Mt 11:28
Heb 13:5
Phil 4:6
2Cor 9:10
Ps. 20:4
Eph 1:3
Friday, January 01, 2016
Happy New Year!!!
Happy New Year!!!
God is ALWAYS seeking you! Every Sunset! Every Clear Blue Sky! Every Ocean Wave! The Starry Hosts of Night! HE Blankets each New Day with the Invite: I AM HERE!
God is ALWAYS seeking you! Every Sunset! Every Clear Blue Sky! Every Ocean Wave! The Starry Hosts of Night! HE Blankets each New Day with the Invite: I AM HERE!
Saturday, December 26, 2015
Homes of Hope for the Homeless
Homes of Hope for the Homeless
It's important when God gives you a dream and vision make sure you write it down and share it with fellow believers who will pray along with you and believe God with you. Then after a time when the dream and vision turn into an actual plan write down your goals :)
Goals to ending homelessness for families and individuals.
1. FIND HOUSING
Help people quickly find housing.
Build relationships with landlords to have access to as many housing units as possible.
Find and secure housing as quickly as possible after a person or family becomes homeless.
2. HELP PAY
Limit the time a family or individual spends homeless. Move people into housing within 30 days or less.
3. PAY FOR HOUSING
Help people pay for housing short
term; longer-term help an option.
Pay for security deposits and move-in expenses.
4. CONNECT families and individuals to services and supports in the community.
If a home is not immediately available, a host family would take in an individual or family temporarily until a home would become available.
Study the Bible
Easy-to-Read Version
Isaiah 58:7
I want you to share your food with the hungry people. I want you to find poor people that don't have homes, and I want you to bring them into your own homes. When you see a man that has no clothes--give him your clothes! Don't hide {from helping those people}; they are just like you.
Keeping families together is important!
"Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten."
– David Ogden Stiers
"I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life."
– Barbara Bush
"What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family."
– Mother Teresa
Homes of Hope
In order to insure the privacy of our guests and to serve the greatest number of people in need, Homes of Hope is entirely funded by private donors and businesses. We do not solicit or accept government grants and are not a United Way affiliate.
Our paypal.com address is go2hope@yahoo.com
It's important when God gives you a dream and vision make sure you write it down and share it with fellow believers who will pray along with you and believe God with you. Then after a time when the dream and vision turn into an actual plan write down your goals :)
Goals to ending homelessness for families and individuals.
1. FIND HOUSING
Help people quickly find housing.
Build relationships with landlords to have access to as many housing units as possible.
Find and secure housing as quickly as possible after a person or family becomes homeless.
2. HELP PAY
Limit the time a family or individual spends homeless. Move people into housing within 30 days or less.
3. PAY FOR HOUSING
Help people pay for housing short
term; longer-term help an option.
Pay for security deposits and move-in expenses.
4. CONNECT families and individuals to services and supports in the community.
If a home is not immediately available, a host family would take in an individual or family temporarily until a home would become available.
Study the Bible
Easy-to-Read Version
Isaiah 58:7
I want you to share your food with the hungry people. I want you to find poor people that don't have homes, and I want you to bring them into your own homes. When you see a man that has no clothes--give him your clothes! Don't hide {from helping those people}; they are just like you.
Keeping families together is important!
"Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten."
– David Ogden Stiers
"I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life."
– Barbara Bush
"What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family."
– Mother Teresa
Homes of Hope
In order to insure the privacy of our guests and to serve the greatest number of people in need, Homes of Hope is entirely funded by private donors and businesses. We do not solicit or accept government grants and are not a United Way affiliate.
Our paypal.com address is go2hope@yahoo.com
Monday, December 21, 2015
I heard this from Abba when I was in prayer <3
I heard this from Abba when I was in prayer this morning <3
I will send you to a place you've never been. I will send to My people who you've never met who will become your family. As you keep trusting Me more and more, I will keep Blessing you more than ever before. As you share your treasures with others, I will answer your prayers. In the past, you were fearful about many things, but now you are in the place of Trust. Love, Daddy
I will send you to a place you've never been. I will send to My people who you've never met who will become your family. As you keep trusting Me more and more, I will keep Blessing you more than ever before. As you share your treasures with others, I will answer your prayers. In the past, you were fearful about many things, but now you are in the place of Trust. Love, Daddy
Saturday, November 14, 2015
Isaiah 41:17-20
Isaiah 41:17-20
The Message
The poor and homeless are desperate for water,
their tongues parched and no water to be found.
But I'm there to be found, I'm there for them,
and I, God of Israel, will not leave them thirsty.
I'll open up rivers for them on the barren hills,
spout fountains in the valleys.
I'll turn the baked-clay badlands into a cool pond,
the waterless waste into splashing creeks.
I'll plant the red cedar in that treeless wasteland,
also acacia, myrtle, and olive.
I'll place the cypress in the desert,
with plenty of oaks and pines.
Everyone will see this. No one can miss it—
unavoidable, indisputable evidence
That I, God, personally did this.
It's created and signed by The Holy of Israel.
The Message
The poor and homeless are desperate for water,
their tongues parched and no water to be found.
But I'm there to be found, I'm there for them,
and I, God of Israel, will not leave them thirsty.
I'll open up rivers for them on the barren hills,
spout fountains in the valleys.
I'll turn the baked-clay badlands into a cool pond,
the waterless waste into splashing creeks.
I'll plant the red cedar in that treeless wasteland,
also acacia, myrtle, and olive.
I'll place the cypress in the desert,
with plenty of oaks and pines.
Everyone will see this. No one can miss it—
unavoidable, indisputable evidence
That I, God, personally did this.
It's created and signed by The Holy of Israel.
Thursday, November 12, 2015
Tiny Houses for the Homeless
Tiny Houses for the Homeless
By Michelle Matthews | mmatthews@al.com
Email the author |September 16, 2015 at 11:20 AM
Since Aug. 31, a meme claiming that Mobile "is building a tiny house village to end homelessness" has made the rounds on Facebook. The post encourages people to "Like and share if you want something like this in your town."
Originally published by Dionne Mahaffey of Sandy Springs, Ga., the post was liked by more than 23,000 people and has been shared more than 127,000 times.
But Mobile isn't getting a village of tiny houses anytime soon.
The photos used in Mahaffey's post actually depict the micro-houses that are part of Community First! Village being built by Mobile Loaves & Fishes, an Austin, Texas-based social outreach ministry.
The Mobile Loaves & Fishes website (www.MLF.org) describes Community First! as "a 27-acre master-planned project in East Austin designed to provide affordable, sustainable housing and support for Central Texans who have been chronically homeless."
The project is "80 percent through construction, said Alan Graham, the chief executive officer of Mobile Loaves & Fishes. "We'll be done within the next 60 days and start moving people in."
Community First! includes a mix of affordable housing options, from fifth-wheel RVs to micro-houses to canvas-sided cottages, with amenities including a community garden, a chicken operation, bee hives, a medical facility, WiFi, walking trails and much more, according to the website.
Graham said he was unaware that photos of the tiny houses were being used to promote the idea of a homeless village in Mobile until he was contacted by an AL.com reporter. "But there's no heartburn here" over the mistake, he said. "It's no hair off our backs at all."
The mistake occurred, presumably, because Austin's "Mobile Loaves & Fishes" was confused with the name of the city of Mobile.
When asked via email if he knew about a proposed tiny house village, George Talbot, senior director of communications and external affairs for the city of Mobile mayor's office, wrote, "I can only speak for the City, but it's not one of our initiatives." He suggested that it could be "a private deal or nonprofit/church project."
"It's not happening yet, but we have people who are looking into it," Housing First Inc. Chief Executive Officer Eric Jefferson said. "We do have an interest as an organization in tiny homes, and we're trying to get the infrastructure in place to do that."
Jefferson first heard about the meme Tuesday morning, he said, when the chief operating officer of the homeless coalition made him aware of it.
Housing First is trying to turn the former Days Inn hotel on the Beltine at I-65 and Airport Boulevard into affordable housing units – a $10 million project, Jefferson said.
According to the most recent point-in-time count done on Jan. 29, Jefferson said, 640 individuals in Mobile and Baldwin counties met the "homeless" criteria as defined by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). "But that doesn't take into account the number defined by the Department of Education as being homeless," he said, which includes some 6,000 kids.
"We're working with two and sometimes three different definitions," he said. "But the overall homeless numbers are down."
In the past three years, he said, 25 percent of people in the Housing First program "have gone to self-sufficiency," meaning they can pay their own rent and bill and don't need additional services.
A tiny house village to house homeless people isn't on its way to Mobile "yet," Jefferson said – but he anticipates that it could be on the horizon.
Dionne Mahaffey, who apparently originally posted the meme on her Facebook timeline – writing "C'mon Atlanta" and tagging nine of her friends, including a few in Mobile – is, according to a short bio on her Twitter account (@atlcelebrity) an "entrepreneur, volunteer, journalist, life coach, techie." She did not respond to a request for comment.
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2015/09/is_mobile_building_a_tiny_hous.html
By Michelle Matthews | mmatthews@al.com
Email the author |September 16, 2015 at 11:20 AM
Since Aug. 31, a meme claiming that Mobile "is building a tiny house village to end homelessness" has made the rounds on Facebook. The post encourages people to "Like and share if you want something like this in your town."
Originally published by Dionne Mahaffey of Sandy Springs, Ga., the post was liked by more than 23,000 people and has been shared more than 127,000 times.
But Mobile isn't getting a village of tiny houses anytime soon.
The photos used in Mahaffey's post actually depict the micro-houses that are part of Community First! Village being built by Mobile Loaves & Fishes, an Austin, Texas-based social outreach ministry.
The Mobile Loaves & Fishes website (www.MLF.org) describes Community First! as "a 27-acre master-planned project in East Austin designed to provide affordable, sustainable housing and support for Central Texans who have been chronically homeless."
The project is "80 percent through construction, said Alan Graham, the chief executive officer of Mobile Loaves & Fishes. "We'll be done within the next 60 days and start moving people in."
Community First! includes a mix of affordable housing options, from fifth-wheel RVs to micro-houses to canvas-sided cottages, with amenities including a community garden, a chicken operation, bee hives, a medical facility, WiFi, walking trails and much more, according to the website.
Graham said he was unaware that photos of the tiny houses were being used to promote the idea of a homeless village in Mobile until he was contacted by an AL.com reporter. "But there's no heartburn here" over the mistake, he said. "It's no hair off our backs at all."
The mistake occurred, presumably, because Austin's "Mobile Loaves & Fishes" was confused with the name of the city of Mobile.
When asked via email if he knew about a proposed tiny house village, George Talbot, senior director of communications and external affairs for the city of Mobile mayor's office, wrote, "I can only speak for the City, but it's not one of our initiatives." He suggested that it could be "a private deal or nonprofit/church project."
"It's not happening yet, but we have people who are looking into it," Housing First Inc. Chief Executive Officer Eric Jefferson said. "We do have an interest as an organization in tiny homes, and we're trying to get the infrastructure in place to do that."
Jefferson first heard about the meme Tuesday morning, he said, when the chief operating officer of the homeless coalition made him aware of it.
Housing First is trying to turn the former Days Inn hotel on the Beltine at I-65 and Airport Boulevard into affordable housing units – a $10 million project, Jefferson said.
According to the most recent point-in-time count done on Jan. 29, Jefferson said, 640 individuals in Mobile and Baldwin counties met the "homeless" criteria as defined by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). "But that doesn't take into account the number defined by the Department of Education as being homeless," he said, which includes some 6,000 kids.
"We're working with two and sometimes three different definitions," he said. "But the overall homeless numbers are down."
In the past three years, he said, 25 percent of people in the Housing First program "have gone to self-sufficiency," meaning they can pay their own rent and bill and don't need additional services.
A tiny house village to house homeless people isn't on its way to Mobile "yet," Jefferson said – but he anticipates that it could be on the horizon.
Dionne Mahaffey, who apparently originally posted the meme on her Facebook timeline – writing "C'mon Atlanta" and tagging nine of her friends, including a few in Mobile – is, according to a short bio on her Twitter account (@atlcelebrity) an "entrepreneur, volunteer, journalist, life coach, techie." She did not respond to a request for comment.
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2015/09/is_mobile_building_a_tiny_hous.html
Monday, November 09, 2015
Give Them Homes
Give Them Homes
NEWS MAY 3 2015, 7:45 PM ET
Utah's Strategy for the Homeless
by JACOB RASCON and NBC NEWS
Utah's Chronic Homeless Rate Drops 91% When It Gives the Needy Housing
By the end of 2015, the chronically homeless population of Utah may be virtually gone. And the secret is quite simple:
Give homes to the homeless.
"We call it housing first, employment second," said Lloyd Pendleton, director of Utah's Homeless Task Force.
Even Pendleton used to think trying to eradicate homelessness using such an approach was a foolish idea.
"I said: 'You guys must be smoking something. This is totally unrealistic,'" Pendleton said.
But the results are hard to dispute.
In 2005, Utah was home to 1,932 chronically homeless. By April 2015, there were only 178 — a 91 percent drop statewide.
"It's a philosophical shift in how we go about it," Pendleton said. "You put them in housing first ... and then help them begin to deal with the issues that caused them to be homeless."
Chronically homeless persons — those living on the streets for more than a year, or for four times in three years, and have a debilitating condition — make up 10 percent of Utah's homeless population but take up more than 50 percent of the state's resources for the homeless.
The Homeless Task Force reported it costs Utah $19,208 on average per year to care for a chronically homeless person, including related health and jail costs. Pendleton found that to house and provide a case worker for the same person costs the state about $7,800.
'THEY'RE PART OF OUR CITIZENRY. THEY'RE NOT THEM AND US. IT'S "WE."'
"It's more humane, and it's cheaper," Pendleton said. "I call them 'homeless citizens.' They're part of our citizenry. They're not them and us. It's 'we.'"
For six years, Suzi Wright and her sons, DJ and Brian, shuttled among friend's homes, a van and the Salt Lake City homeless shelter.
After Utah gave Wright a two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment, she got a job as a cleaning supervisor at her apartment complex.
"It makes you feel a lot better about yourself, just being able to support your family," Wright said.
Those given apartments under the Housing First program pay rent of 30 percent of their income or $50, whichever is greater.
Army veteran Don Williams had been sleeping under a bush for 10 years when Utah offered him an apartment.
When he realized they weren't joking, he "jumped for joy," he said, laughing. "It was a blessing. A real blessing."
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/utahs-strategy-homeless-give-them-homes-n352966
NEWS MAY 3 2015, 7:45 PM ET
Utah's Strategy for the Homeless
by JACOB RASCON and NBC NEWS
Utah's Chronic Homeless Rate Drops 91% When It Gives the Needy Housing
By the end of 2015, the chronically homeless population of Utah may be virtually gone. And the secret is quite simple:
Give homes to the homeless.
"We call it housing first, employment second," said Lloyd Pendleton, director of Utah's Homeless Task Force.
Even Pendleton used to think trying to eradicate homelessness using such an approach was a foolish idea.
"I said: 'You guys must be smoking something. This is totally unrealistic,'" Pendleton said.
But the results are hard to dispute.
In 2005, Utah was home to 1,932 chronically homeless. By April 2015, there were only 178 — a 91 percent drop statewide.
"It's a philosophical shift in how we go about it," Pendleton said. "You put them in housing first ... and then help them begin to deal with the issues that caused them to be homeless."
Chronically homeless persons — those living on the streets for more than a year, or for four times in three years, and have a debilitating condition — make up 10 percent of Utah's homeless population but take up more than 50 percent of the state's resources for the homeless.
The Homeless Task Force reported it costs Utah $19,208 on average per year to care for a chronically homeless person, including related health and jail costs. Pendleton found that to house and provide a case worker for the same person costs the state about $7,800.
'THEY'RE PART OF OUR CITIZENRY. THEY'RE NOT THEM AND US. IT'S "WE."'
"It's more humane, and it's cheaper," Pendleton said. "I call them 'homeless citizens.' They're part of our citizenry. They're not them and us. It's 'we.'"
For six years, Suzi Wright and her sons, DJ and Brian, shuttled among friend's homes, a van and the Salt Lake City homeless shelter.
After Utah gave Wright a two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment, she got a job as a cleaning supervisor at her apartment complex.
"It makes you feel a lot better about yourself, just being able to support your family," Wright said.
Those given apartments under the Housing First program pay rent of 30 percent of their income or $50, whichever is greater.
Army veteran Don Williams had been sleeping under a bush for 10 years when Utah offered him an apartment.
When he realized they weren't joking, he "jumped for joy," he said, laughing. "It was a blessing. A real blessing."
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/utahs-strategy-homeless-give-them-homes-n352966
Sunday, November 08, 2015
Prayer for Healing
Prayer for Healing
Abba Father, We come boldly before Your throne to obtain grace to help in time of need. We have confidence in Your Word, and we take hold of Your promises to heal us. According to Isaiah 53:5 and 1 Peter 2:24, We resist sickness and disease. We speak with our mouth and believe in our heart that we are healed of all sickness and disease.
Your Word says that Jesus bore all our sickness and diseases, and He carried our sorrows, so we receive healing now. We know and declare that Jesus is our Healer. We give You all the praise for providing everything we need to walk in wholeness.
Thank You for satisfying us with long life. Abba Father, we are thankful that You are no respecter of persons. What You do for one, You will do for all who ask and believe by faith.
Satan, I declare to you in the Name of Jesus that you have no authority over me. According to Matthew 18:18, we bind you from operating against us in any way. Our life is hidden in Christ. You have no power to bring any part of the curse upon us. We take our stand as one who is redeemed from the curse. So you must flee now! We take our place in God and we resist you.
Abba Father, we worship You. We give You reverence. We confess that Your Word will not return to You void. We praise You for Your protection and for Your goodness upon our lives. We thank You that Satan is unable to penetrate that. Thank You for bringing total healing to us. Your Word says whatever we ask for in the Name of Jesus will be done for us. So we declare this is done. Our healing is complete. In Jesus Name! Amen.
Abba Father, We come boldly before Your throne to obtain grace to help in time of need. We have confidence in Your Word, and we take hold of Your promises to heal us. According to Isaiah 53:5 and 1 Peter 2:24, We resist sickness and disease. We speak with our mouth and believe in our heart that we are healed of all sickness and disease.
Your Word says that Jesus bore all our sickness and diseases, and He carried our sorrows, so we receive healing now. We know and declare that Jesus is our Healer. We give You all the praise for providing everything we need to walk in wholeness.
Thank You for satisfying us with long life. Abba Father, we are thankful that You are no respecter of persons. What You do for one, You will do for all who ask and believe by faith.
Satan, I declare to you in the Name of Jesus that you have no authority over me. According to Matthew 18:18, we bind you from operating against us in any way. Our life is hidden in Christ. You have no power to bring any part of the curse upon us. We take our stand as one who is redeemed from the curse. So you must flee now! We take our place in God and we resist you.
Abba Father, we worship You. We give You reverence. We confess that Your Word will not return to You void. We praise You for Your protection and for Your goodness upon our lives. We thank You that Satan is unable to penetrate that. Thank You for bringing total healing to us. Your Word says whatever we ask for in the Name of Jesus will be done for us. So we declare this is done. Our healing is complete. In Jesus Name! Amen.
Prayer for FAVOR
Prayer for FAVOR
Abba Father,
I declare that I have your favor today
I declare that I am strong and well able to fulfill my God given destiny; I know you are fighting my battles for me.
I declare that I am a victor and not a victim. I may have been defeated in the past but the past is past, this is new day
Your word says that "I am the head and not the tail"
Every thing I touch will prosper and succeed according to your perfect will because of your favor my Father.
I declare that by your stripes I am healed today. I will live and not die. I declare that you are restoring health unto me, and with long life you satisfy me
Father, today, I declare your favor in my relationship with you, favor in my relationship within my marriage and my family, favor in relationships with my friends, and favor in relationships in my ministry.
I want to thank you for causing me to be at the right place at the right time. I want to thank you for causing people to want to help me.
Today, Father I want to thank you for blessing me with creativity, I want to thank you for causing me to make good decisions with a clear mind
I declare that you are smiling down on me today and that your favor will be in everything I do because I am pleasing to you.
I declare that I will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country, blessed coming in and blessed going out.
I claim right now, Psalm 84:11 that you are blessing me with favor and honor and no good thing will you withhold from me because my walk is blameless.
I claim Habakkuk 2:3 that my vision is for an appointed time. Though it may tarry, I will earnestly wait for it, for it will surely come.
I declare today that I am filled with your can do power my Father. Between you and me, we are the majority and I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.
I know that your Word says that, "no man has seen, heard or even imagined the wonderful things that you have in store for those that love you" and I want to tell you today that I love you and I want to thank you for loving me.
I want to thank you for your favor today, not because of who I am, but because of whose I am. I am a child of the most high God, the creator of the whole universe.
I commit this day to you
In Jesus name,
Amen
Abba Father,
I declare that I have your favor today
I declare that I am strong and well able to fulfill my God given destiny; I know you are fighting my battles for me.
I declare that I am a victor and not a victim. I may have been defeated in the past but the past is past, this is new day
Your word says that "I am the head and not the tail"
Every thing I touch will prosper and succeed according to your perfect will because of your favor my Father.
I declare that by your stripes I am healed today. I will live and not die. I declare that you are restoring health unto me, and with long life you satisfy me
Father, today, I declare your favor in my relationship with you, favor in my relationship within my marriage and my family, favor in relationships with my friends, and favor in relationships in my ministry.
I want to thank you for causing me to be at the right place at the right time. I want to thank you for causing people to want to help me.
Today, Father I want to thank you for blessing me with creativity, I want to thank you for causing me to make good decisions with a clear mind
I declare that you are smiling down on me today and that your favor will be in everything I do because I am pleasing to you.
I declare that I will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country, blessed coming in and blessed going out.
I claim right now, Psalm 84:11 that you are blessing me with favor and honor and no good thing will you withhold from me because my walk is blameless.
I claim Habakkuk 2:3 that my vision is for an appointed time. Though it may tarry, I will earnestly wait for it, for it will surely come.
I declare today that I am filled with your can do power my Father. Between you and me, we are the majority and I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.
I know that your Word says that, "no man has seen, heard or even imagined the wonderful things that you have in store for those that love you" and I want to tell you today that I love you and I want to thank you for loving me.
I want to thank you for your favor today, not because of who I am, but because of whose I am. I am a child of the most high God, the creator of the whole universe.
I commit this day to you
In Jesus name,
Amen
Hope for Today
You are not an accident child. You are a person of destiny. There are gifts and talents in you just waiting to be released. You have potential that you have not tapped into yet. You are a child of the Most High God!!! I want to encourage you to expand your vision and pursue bigger dreams. Stay in faith. Live with expectancy. Know that any moment YOUR SUDDENLY could happen! You will meet someone who has exactly what you need. You could inherit land and gain your inheritance. Suddenly you could get an idea that will lead to promotion. Miracles Happen when you stay connected to the Holy Spirit.
Saturday, November 07, 2015
Saturday, October 10, 2015
Declare this Everyday
Declare this Everyday
I am Independently Wealthy
Past Debt is Forgiven and Erased
Supernaturally Paid-IN-Full
I Thank You Abba Father
For Favor
That My Cup Continually
Runs Over
I am Blessed to Be a Blessing
I have more than enough
To sustain my own needs
As well as others
In Him I LIVE and Move and Have my Being
I Declare this in the Name of Jesus, Amen!
I am Independently Wealthy
Past Debt is Forgiven and Erased
Supernaturally Paid-IN-Full
I Thank You Abba Father
For Favor
That My Cup Continually
Runs Over
I am Blessed to Be a Blessing
I have more than enough
To sustain my own needs
As well as others
In Him I LIVE and Move and Have my Being
I Declare this in the Name of Jesus, Amen!
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