I Only Had One Dress

I ONLY HAD ONE DRESS👗

 It’s not that I’m fashion crazy, oh no! It’s simply because I never had much of anything to begin with. 

Like I’ve mentioned to you before, I grew up stricken by poverty…I didn’t have any shoes👠 for many years, and to add to that dilemma, I only had one little white dress.👗🎐

My mother would wash my one little dress every Saturday for Sunday school. I wore it with such pride and self-confidence. It had frills and buttons in the back. I had no ribbons to match, no clips, only a few bubbles with the elastic all stretched out. But oh boy, I loved my one little white dress.

 

One Sunday morning I went to Sunday school and little Ms rich Josey with her comrades of gossip girls, laughed, giggled and whispered about my ‘one’ worn out dress👗. She said, “Every Sunday I wore the same dress to church!!” I was very appalled though only seven years old. Hearing her discriminate against me hurt💘 my little heart. The tears😭 welled up in my heart and came running down my face the moment I got home and reiterate my story to my mama. Mama encouraged my heart💞 like she knew something I didn’t. She said, “Sophia, one day massa God is going to bless you, you won’t have back to wear all your clothes.” (This means that God will bless me so much👗👗👗👗, I won’t be able to wear it all.) To me, it sounded like a hopeful verse right from the book of Psalms. However, I pounded hers words in my heart. 

 

Sadly, it never occurred to me that I only had ‘one dress’👗for church until Josey pointed it out to me. I became so conscious after that to the point where I went to God and asked for another dress. He promise to be a father to me and I needed it! This might seems fortuitous to you but it was God who orchestrated the whole thing⚖️. One of my Sunday School teachers, Sis Regent, had returned from visiting the UK. Shortly after my ‘one dress’ encounter drama she had asked me to come see her. I went to see her thinking she had something for just my mama, but come to find out she had brought me this beautiful little red plaid dress. I did not sleep that night 🤷🏽‍♀️and man did I weep like Jesus! I was so happy for the change. I felt rich.👘 A present from God.🛍🎀🎁 Sis Regent told me that the Lord had impressed on her heart to buy me the dress👘 while there in England. She brought just the right size. The following Sunday I walked in my Sunday school class with a brand new dress👘. It was the first for me since my little white dress was a hand-me-down from my sister Shelly lol. 

 

The saying is true. Little is much when God is in it! I was so happy to just go to Sunday school that I didn’t realize I only had one dress. It really wasn’t a big deal. I was so poor, that having just one good dress was such a big blessing to me. Be grateful for the little things this season and have grateful heart. Don’t  forget where God has brought you from.

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I Cried To God For Fifteen Years To Be Adopted.

 

I left my mother’s house at fifteen years old because we were poor. I had no father and my sister Juju who was trying to help me to go to school suddenly passed away. I went to Kingston city and stayed with two different families that God literally provided for me. These families, however, had different plans for me in the long run… other than what God had for me and I had for myself. During this season in my life, I prayed and wished I could get adopted by a family who would love and take care of me wholeheartedly.

 

When I turned nineteen after I had finished High School, I literally moved on my own with no one to make any life decisions for me. I had to rely on the Holy Spirit for total guidance. {It’s good time to tell you how important the work of the Holy Spirit is – He’s our HELPER!) When I turned twenty five, my prayer for adoption became more intense. Life was very hard to do on my own. With God’s help I made it to thirty and at the end of my thirtieth birthday I found myself crying… I still had this deep desire to be adopted even though I was a grown women🤷🏽‍♀️. I had lived that far without a single human telling me “you’re my full responsibility, don’t worry.” I was far away from home and had been on my own for far too long; I seriously wanted someone to take my physical hand, stand with me, and fight through life with me and parent me.

 

When I turned 32, the little girl who still resides in me, still cried silently because she wanted to still be adopted and still no one has ever made her an offer. (A broken and contrite heart, God said He would not despise). Can you imagine being 32 years old and still crying😭😭 to be adopted? Peeps, my soul couldn’t help it. So in January of 2013, during the months of prayer, fasting and consecration, I got really open before God at the alter. I prayed like Hannah; unmasked in sackcloth and ash with groaning that cannot be uttered before the Lord. Since I was single and waiting, I cried for his divine will. I told God I would still love and follow Him even if I never married or no one ever adopted me. I was very honest and open. In closing, I told Him I didn’t want to do life alone anymore but if He thinks that’s what best I would learn to accept it. But before I walked away from the alter I gave God a proposition. I said, God I wanted to help you! (like God needs help right?) I told Him I wanted to help his Kingdom. I said, “I’m available to work, what can I do for you My Lord?” He answered that very moment and three months later He sent me a young man who would marry me along with the little girl (who still desire to be adopted into a family).

 

Though I was a part of so many different families in the church, the need to have my very own family was innate. I watched as I became one with Jacob – God just ingrafted me into the Nimocks family. Late last year as we drove across the country to be with his family, the Holy Spirit brought before me these scriptures:

Moral of my story~

“God settles the solitary in a family; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.” Psalm 68:6 and 9. Ephesians 1:5 “In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will . . . ”
I couldn’t stop crying when the Lord said, “ Dear child, you were always mine, that’s why I wouldn’t let just anyone adopt you. I felt safe to give your hand to Jacob because I knew he would love and take you care of you.”

On this New Year’s Day I would love to encourage those of you who are still waiting on God to never STOP waiting because He will COME and He will deliver. But I beg and implore you to wait in the Kingdom. He will be whatever you need Him to be and more…

After waiting for fifteen years to be adopted, I was very surprised to know I was already adopted before the foundation of the world in Christ Jesus! The greatest and best family you could ever be a part of is the Kingdom family of Jehovah God.

On this New Year’s Day I would love to encourage those of you who are still waiting on God to never STOP waiting because He will COME and He will deliver. But I beg implore you to wait in the Kingdom.

O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
Plasm 34:8

I’m so blessed and thankful for all of you who have made my journey more memorable as well 😘

Shalom beloveds and Happy New Year!

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God Provided my wedding Cake

~God provided my wedding cake~

❤️I’m brought to tears😭 when I look over my wedding pics and see👰🏾the glorious provision of our Lord and King. This cake🎂was surely a gift from God to me. The right cake fit for His bride.

We’re the bride of Christ-Church. (This is only a glimpse of what God has in store for His people. Glory!!) We wanted to be a good steward over our money. Having a debt💰 free wedding should be a desired goal for everyone getting married.

What is so sweet is that God was by my side the entire time, leading and guiding me to the right venders, He sets in place JUST FOR ME.🤷🏽‍♀️Yes, God will strategically and geographically SET up people to bless and show you much needed favor. Of this I am a witness. Hello💁🏽

 

I told God how much I ‘wanted’ to pay for the cake or could afford to pay lol, and He made sure that I was recommended to a lady who had a heart❤️ after His own heart. Amen. So He placed less than my price on her heart. 🎼 Let those hallelujah’s roll!🙌🏿 She only charged me $60‼️I hear a shout of praise coming. 🎼 Sing with me. I’m blessed, I’m blessed, everyday that I live, I’m blessed. Hello somebody…. Give the Lord a praise of thanks!💃🏿💃🏿I hope you guys see why I love Him so very much. It looks gorgeous, It’s tasted delicious. This is the cake the Lord wanted me to have, ‘My Jamaican Fruit Cake’, yes.🎂

 

The Psalmist David, remind us:

For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. NO GOOD THING!💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿Hallelujah Amen! Psalms 84:11

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Poverty Stole My Good Hair

Poverty stole my good hair👧🏽
Mid-day reflection~ mama say

I was most certainly obsessed with long hair no lie. 🤷🏽‍♀️When I was a child, I would pray to find a mermaid to leave my piece of broken comb to comb her hair with… even though most of the comb teeth missing from the shaft of course. Everything was broken in my life. How silly though. But on the other hand I find myself begging God to please make me wake up with long hair. He never did answer me and I’m still mad, just kidding🤗When I was born, my mama said out of all her babies👶🏽👶🏽👶🏽👶🏽👶🏽👶🏽👶🏽…all seven of them, I had the most hair👧🏽 (I had the best head of hair~hope none of my siblings read this👀). I have no baby picture—I so badly wish i had☹️


Anyways, for years we only had a piece of broken mirror, so I couldn’t see the full contour of my face, (that’s a word I learnt from Mr Jacob when he was trying to woo me lol😜), nor my head all at once…but I could definitely see my big 👃🏽nose, (that👃🏽I inherited from mama of course and…my big 👣 heels). I love my mama💕. Mama said my hair was beautiful but when I looked in the piece of broken mirror we had, all I saw was a ‘pickey, pickey head little girl’…and of course when I look close enough, I would see lice crawling around in it. So grotesque🤢🙈. Ladies edges have to be on fleek today but nothing about my edges was on fleek. I had no edges🤫only had black pepper grains.

My hair was constantly dry, loaded with cakes of dandruff but yet it was suppose to be the best hair. I was very puzzled over this claim. On the other hand if I did have ‘good hair’ like Chris Rock puts it, where did my good hair go?🤔 Well according to mama, poverty stole my good hair. Poverty stole what? The thing is we never had the proper hair ammenities like shampoo and conditioner, we couldn’t afford that. That’s was only for rich folks. So my mother had to use one of the worst smelling soap on the Island~ called ‘dutty gal soap’ dutty gal soap was use to wash our clothes, pots&pans, bathing and for washing our hair. It was our go-to detergent😉 so that’s the poverty soap that stole my good hair… along with other ingredients. We weren’t educated about the fact that petroleum isn’t good either, so we would use that…and when we ran out of petroleum hair grease my mother would used cooking oil-cooking oil😳 mama cooking oil is for cooking🤷🏽‍♀️oh gosh no wonder my hair suffered and almost died…and then if we didn’t have any cooking oil the lotion would have to do the trick. What a travesty😦my mama almost killed my good hair. Mama you couldn’t do better, so I forgive you.😪

So anyways, one day God told me He was sending me my husband and I had no clue what my husband was going to look like and my hair all of a sudden became an issue, don’t ask my why🤔. So the day that I met Jacob I knew He was the one. The next morning I went down in sackcloth and ash. I said, “Lord Jesus, you didn’t tell me you were sending me a white husband fellow, so I’m going to need from you an emergency hair miracle. I need you to grow my hair real fast before the wedding because Jacob is going to need long hair to play in.” (It was all in my head, we didn’t even have our first date yet-I think it was a single girl problem🤷🏽‍♀️). Anyways, I was almost certain I heard silence in heaven and then all of a sudden Jesus and the whole crew started laughing 😇I couldn’t believe my👂🏽.

Then all of heaven realized I was serious cause I kept on praying🙏🏽 and asking God to help a girl out lol. Next thing I know the Holy Ghost spoke to me and tell me exactly what to do to cause my hair to grow. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS OUR HELPER! HELLO💁🏽‍♀️I got up, ran to the store, came back, and did some intensive research. To make a long story short, people of God, the Lord God helped me resurrect my good head of tresses because it was always there. God is so filled wit humor lol. And I’ve always believed you mama👀

Moral of the story, don’t call what’s dormant dead. Don’t call a temporal situation permanent. Don’t call what God didn’t label DEAD, dead! Call out to your dry bones to come alive!! God can resurrect your dead situation today. Call out to Him for HELP and believe!!

And bear in mind, God will not do for you what you can do for yourself, like growing and caring for your own hair. That’s on you.

By the scent of water shall a tree🌳sprout again.
Job 14:9

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The Reason For My Smile

🕊The truth is, I’m not always happy. And no I don’t have it all together either! Somedays you will find me feeling a bit sad, crying even, but deep down in my gut I still have the feeling of divine joy.
🕊Joy Defined~Joy isn’t like happiness which is based upon happenings or whether things are going well or not. No, joy remains even amidst the suffering. Joy is not happiness. Joy is an emotion that’s acquired by the anticipation, acquisition or even the expectation of something great or wonderful. It could be described as exhilaration, delight, sheer gladness, and can result from a great success or a very beautiful or wonderful experience like an answered prayer, or a new opportunity but the definition of joy that the world holds is not nearly as amazing as biblical joy but joy is also gift.
🕊A Fruit🍒🍌🍅🍍🍇🍓🍊🥝 of the Spirit~
Paul mentions some of the fruits of the Spirit like “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, and faithfulness” and many others so joy is one of the fruits or the results of having the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. YOU CAN’T FAKE JOY…you either have it or you don’t. Paul writes to the church at Thessalonica that “for you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit” (1 Thess 1:6) indicating that joy is associated with God the Holy Spirit and that the “righteousness and peace and joy [is] in the Holy Spirit” (Rom 14:17) and finds it source in God as even “the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit” (Acts 13:52 -2:38).
 
So you have to understand why I’m so joyful!
It’s not my joy but it’s the JOY of the LORD.
This Joy I give, not as the world gives.
J-Jesus
O-Only
Y-You
when I was a little girl I didn’t have anything much. We had more rats and roaches than anything else mama could afford. I’m not lucky I am blessed beyond measures! I possess the joy of the Lord. The Lord plans are for me, his plans are for you! He has strategically orchestrated the path of life and He wants to do the same for you.
 
~Psalm 28:7~
“The Lord is my strength and shield. I trust him with all my heart. He helps me, and my heart is filled with joy. I burst out in songs of thanksgiving.”
 
I can’t hide is love for me from you…and the really sweet reality is…He’s in love with all of you out there too and offer full joy to you!
💕Kacey
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