Maureen Y. Smith - Conquering the Seeds of Destruction

As you start to create your plan for your life, it becomes important that you are consistently checking-in with God so that you are following the right path. Of course, it is easy to do things the way that you want to, but are they the right choices and decisions to make? How will you know? Listen to today's podcast and allow your heart and mind to be open to hearing God's voice.

Whether you are trying to equip yourself to get a promotion on your job or you decide to rebrand yourself for a new experience, having a detailed plan will help you in your journey. Seek out the necessary resources that you need but in all of it, please make sure you ask God for direction so that you can fulfill the purpose that He has for you.

As you try to apply all that you have heard and learned with the seed and roots of idols, stay encouraged. Some situations may be hard to handle with yourself and some may be hard to deal with in others. If you continue to keep God front and center, He will help you and lead you into the direction you need to be going in. Believe in Him and also, believe in yourself.

As you continue to listen to Part 2 from the Seed of Deliverance, please allow yourself to be open in hearing the voice of God. Regardless of what has happened in your life, God can still turn things around for the better for you, but you must be willing to let Him guide you. Prayerfully, you will start a new journey with Him as you give yourself the permission to be free.

Although the Seed of Idols and its roots may have had a detrimental hold on you, God always has a plan to help you conquer the attacks from the enemy. The more you keep listening to God's voice and staying obedient to what He has told you to do, the more you will be delivered from these acts of destruction that the enemy tries to tempt you with. As you listen to today's podcast, stay encouraged an...

As I continue to share about this last root from the Seed of Idols, you will see that it is one thing to have this root inside of you. It becomes even more challenging to deal with someone else that has this root inside of them. How do you handle it when they have wronged you? What steps do you take in trying to resolve the situation? Prayerfully, you will include God in every step that you take w...

When the adversary has you participating in this root, it can have a major stronghold on you. You will want to continue in it and it will be up to you to make the conscious choice to follow in the will of God or to continue to operate in how you want to do things, regardless of the hurt that it may cause others, and yes, even "you." You will have to be committed to God completely in order to break...

The adversary continues to keep the focus on you as he tries to have a deeper hold on you by creating a new root from the Seed of Idols. Within this root, things become even more challenging for you because you don't want to see things any other way except for how you can benefit and people will start to disassociate themselves from you. It will take a conscious effort from you to break this inner...

Today, you will see how the enemy can start to form a new root from the Seed of Idols if you continue to follow his narrative. Within this new root, you will be consumed with self and you don't have a problem letting people know of your success. Allow God to minister to you. It is not a problem to share those things but there should be a balance in celebrating self and celebrating others also.

When this new seed is planted into you, it can come in various forms depending on how much time, emphasis, and power that you give it. Regardless of what idols have formed, it will require you to make God the priority in your life as He helps you prevent these idols from developing and growing stronger. It will take effort, but you can do it with God's guidance.

There will always be times where you will need to make a choice of doing things to please self or doing things to please God. As you seek God and listen to His guidance, it will help you to become more obedient to Him. Although things will continue to affect you and/or influence you, it will be your actions that determines your stand on things and who you choose to serve.

Hopefully and prayerfully, your relationship with God continues to grow and you are starting to hear His voice with more clarity. The adversary will continue to try to get you off of your path by influencing you to indulge into certain wants and desires that you may have. You will need to seek God even more so that He can guide you into receiving the things that are from Him and not the things tha...

Regardless of how bad things seem, God can still bring you through it. What will be the steps that you take to start the process of healing? Will you allow yourself to be committed to the plan of growth and progression? Although you may feel alone, you are never alone. Listen to today's podcast as I share my own journey of how God brought me through a perilous time.

Although some things can hurt you at your core, God is still there and wants to help you. Things may seem overwhelming for you, but it will be up to you to allow Him in and to give yourself permission to move forward. Learn from the story of Ruth and Naomi and allow their teachings to guide you to restoration.

As you listen to today's podcast, you will see how this next root can not only be destructive but debilitating. Many times, your thoughts can keep you engulfed in your pain and it can become hard to pull yourself up, but not impossible if you seek and lean on God to help you. Please don't give up on God and please don't give up on yourself.

As time goes on, you may find it difficult to deal with the reality of what has been happening in your life. You may not think that it is important to express how you feel or what you are experiencing so you distract yourself by doing other things. It it is still important to live in your truth. God wants you to always be honest with yourself and allow Him in so that He can meet you where you are.

Today, you will see how the first root from the Seed of Peril can be planted into you. It becomes important for you to feel what you feel when you are experiencing the passing of a loved one. Take it one day at a time and allow God to heal your heart.

As you listen to today's podcast, you will see that there are many things that can come upon you that are out of your control. The goal becomes how you will choose to handle the situations as things get progressively worse in your life. Will you ask for help from others? Will you allow God to help you and guide you through this? Listen and trust God in everything.

God loves you unconditionally and He wants you to have the confidence in going to Him. When things become difficult to handle and you don't know what to do or how you are going to make it, it becomes imperative to trust God even more and know that He is going to work things out according to His Will.

There are many things that can affect you unexpectedly and it can be hard to know where to begin or how to function afterwards. Listen to today's podcast for a brief introduction of processing difficult events that come your way.

There will always be a choice to make on how to deal with situations, whether positive or negative ones that come upon you. As you try to determine which direction to go in, allow God to be your guide. Some things are harder than others but He will equip you with everything that you need to make it through.

As you listen to today's podcast, you will discover the new seed that can uproot and conquer the Seed of Worry and the roots that come from it. This new seed can require some time and you may go through a process in order to master it, but with God things will work out for your good and God's glory. This becomes evident when you listen and see how Job continued to handle things in his life.

There are times where worry and anxiety are used in similar ways, but there are distinctions between the two. Although things may be uncertain to you, God knows exactly what is going on and He wants to help you through it. Prayerfully, you will open up to Him and allow Him to guide you every step of the way.

The adversary will continue to take hold of you if you allow his voice to reign inside of you, causing the next root to take effect and cause even more detriment to you. This root will solicit a reactive response but there are times you can suffer in silence. Listen and see how to handle this root and gain more insight from Job's life as he experienced the root of suffering.

As you listen to today's podcast, things can continue to spiral downward if you keep allowing the adversary to get the best of you. If he does, a new root is planted and it can affect all areas of your life: body, soul, and spirit. See how Job dealt with this root when he was attacked by the enemy. Could you handle it the same way as he did?