Lady Charmaine

I recently was invited to be a guest speaker for a party for women called "One night in Paris"

The fancy invitation I received was addressed to "Lady Charmaine"

As I read this invite and saw the name on the card I assumed that this title was given to each woman that was invited to this special event.  On the evening of the party when we arrived  and we all  went into the dining room for the dinner portion of the evening, at each seat on the table was a special decorated name tag. As I looked around the table at the different name tags, I realized that each woman had a different title. Some women had lady, countess, baroness, princess etc…

They also had a house that they came from. My card said “Lady Charmaine of the house of Macaw”.

At some point in the evening after reading everyone else’s titles I got it in my heart that I didn't want to be called a lady, but I wanted to be a countess. My reason for this was due to one of my favourite movies- the count of Monte Cristo. As we continued on in the evening I kept asking everyone the difference between the different titles. The only one I was sure I knew was the princess. To become a princess you either were the king’s daughter or you married a prince.

But for some strange reason in my heart I longed to be something else.  I kept wondering which title most fit me and where I wanted to be. I also wanted to know why the host( a personal friend) chose this title for me.

As we began to research the different titles we came up with the following hierarchy. 

Princess

 A woman member of a royal family other than the monarch, especially a daughter of a monarch.

 A woman who is a ruler of a principality.

A noblewoman of varying status or rank. The wife of a prince.  A woman regarded as having the status or qualities of a princess.

Countess     A woman holding the title of count or earl. The wife or widow of a count in various European countries. Used as a title for such a noblewoman.

Baroness                                                                                                                                                    The wife of a baron or a woman holding a baronial title  A woman holding a nonhereditary title conferred by a sovereign in recognition of personal merit or service to the country. The wife or widow of a knight. The female equivalent to a knight.

Lady

A general feminine title of nobility and other rank, specifically:

The title for the wife or widow of a knight or baronet.

A form of address for a marchioness, countess, viscountess, baroness, or baronetess.                            

A courtesy title for the daughter of a duke, a marquis, or an earl.

Used as a courtesy title for the wife of a younger son of a duke or marquis.

After all of this information I decided that a lady was indeed the perfect title for me.

My reasoning was that as a Lady my possibilities were endless.

I could become any of the other titles by my choice. I could marry a prince, baron, earl, count and become a princess, baroness or countess.

If I married the crown prince I could eventually become queen. This excited me.

I also loved the other description of a Lady that said " A well-mannered and considerate woman with high standards of proper behavior. A woman regarded as proper and virtuous.”

As I meditated on this I got a revelation about this that each of us have titles that people or circumstances have given to us in life. These titles can limit us and many of us never question our titles.

We don't see that certain titles given to us are limited.

Poverty, abused, aborted, abandoned, oldest sister, nurse, woman, all came with their limitations.

I personally wanted a title that fit who I was and that had possibilities to allow me to come into greatness.

I didn't want to be limited by a label that someone randomly chose for me.

Identity is important to me and I never want to allow random choices from someone else or lack of understanding limit my future potential in any way.

Throughout the Bible there have been many names and titles associated with Jesus Christ such as Savior; Emmanuel; Son of the Highest; Faithful and True; Alpha and Omega; Messiah; King of Kings and Lord of Lords.  He was referred to in Isaiah 9:6 as our: "Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father and Prince of Peace."

Fascinating, however, is that of all of the names and titles given to Jesus, the one name that Jesus chose to give to Himself is; "The Root and Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star." Revelation 22:16.

Jesus knew who He was and though he allowed others to label him according to their revelation of him, he never let that limit or define who He was and is and always will be.

You need to understand that certain titles over you open doors for you and others close doors.

But you have the awesome ability to change the title in front of your name.

If you want to become a doctor you can go to school and get a degree and become Dr. so and so.

Your title will then change.

Everyday you have an opportunity to become a person that is faithful and then people will use that title when referring to you. You can become honourable, diligent, kind, loving, prosperous, fruitful.  A wife, a mother, a teacher, a pastor,  a prayer warrior …

My purpose (the reason why I exist) is destined by God- that is who I am naturally.

My destiny is decided by me daily. These are my choices that will lead me to fulfil my purposes. I decide where I want to end up and make certain choices to get myself there. The titles come along this journey. So then the beginning or where we start doesn’t always determine our finish or our end.

I left that party which was a special evening of celebration of extraordinary women feeling like I was "Lady Charmaine",  a woman maximizing my potential and ready to accomplish my purpose And to leave a legacy.

Upgrade 8.0 (New Beginning)

This past week I was trying to upload a new app to my I phone and was unable to because it required me to upgrade my phone to the new 8.0 iOS. Now I had been avoiding upgrading my phone for almost a year because I was unsure and afraid that I would lose some of my contacts, music and information and secondly I was really comfortable now with my 6.0 and didn't want to have to relearn the new way things would be done.

But this new app was apart of the new thing God was doing in my life and I needed it on my phone. So I decided to just do it. After saying yes to the upgrade I waited anxiously as it installed to see if I would lose anything. I had previously synced my phone to my computer and also to “The CLOUD”( whatever and wherever that is?) and just prayed that everything would be ok.   

After about 45 minutes my phone came back on looking brighter, newer and unfamiliar to me. I took a deep breath and began to explore the great unknown once more. I now was in the upgrade world of 8.0.

My contacts were there, my apps were there and my music was there. I began to wonder what the big fuss was all about. There were a few things that I didn't know how to do and I just asked a friend who had upgraded their phone and in minutes I was doing the “new thing”.

Well I had to prepare for a workshop that I was doing and I went into my music and nothing would play. It was there but I was unable to access it. After some panic and a few deep breaths I calmed down and realized that maybe I need to sync my phone to my computer again to activate everything. So I plugged in my USB cord and pressed SYNC. Then my phone came up with a message that said TRUST / DON’T TRUST this computer. I tapped TRUST as I knew the source and wanted to have the connection. This Icon would reappear a few times as I tried various attempts to sync but nothing happened. So I continually kept tapping the TRUST button. After going to the help section a message came to me that my computer needed to be upgraded to a higher iOS to be able to sync with my newly upgraded phone.

So again I went into trust mode as I upgraded my computer to 12.0.

Then the syncing began. It was a slow process as my phone now shared information and received information from my computer and “The CLOUD”.  Every few minutes my phone would power down and the TRUST/DON’T TRUST this computer box would pop up and I just kept tapping TRUST.

Then God began to speak.

Many of us have received a call to upgrade 8.0. But due to fear of the unknown and fear that we may lose some of what we have already gained we have procrastinated to install the upgrade. The upgrade works out some of the bugs in our system, it improves they way we do things and it adds some new features that are really cool.

But even though we receive and install the upgrade we also need to sync ourselves BODY, SPIRIT, MIND and SOUL. We need to allow “the CLOUD” to download all the new information necessary to enable us to RUN this new programming.  We don’t need to fear we need to allow the SYNC and to TRUST the process.

After this my music slowly came back onto my phone along with a few other things that I was unaware that were unable to function until the SYNCing. Then my ICLOUD account asked me for my password.

I put my old password which was “Dancerlady”. It rejected it and told me that I needed to create a new one. The RESET button now appeared. This was another message to me that when you upgrade to 8.0 you cant access “The CLOUD” in the same manner. You need to reset your access code. So I changed it to the new business name.

Now I was ready for the new thing God was doing. Incidentally the number 8 is the number for new beginnings.

Go ahead today and receive your upgrade to 8.0!!!

Charmaine Hinds

www.wordofspiritandtruth.blogspot.com

The Diamond Door Knob

As a little girl we moved from an apartment in Scarborough into an old house on the streets of Toronto. I was fascinated to live in a house, but there was one thing that I remember that made me excited. There were old doors in the house and the door knobs looked like diamonds. They were actually brass knobs with a carved glass ball, but with little girls eyes and imagination I dreamed that those door knobs were magical and that one day I would put my hand on the door and just like in “ The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe.” I would enter a beautiful kingdom.

Last week I was in an antique store with a friend and I found a door knob that triggered this memory. I bought the knob and have hung it on my bedroom wall to remind me of child like fascination, holy imagination and a little girl who loved to dream.

Susan was a beautiful soul born at the time of change. Her parents were immigrants that had come to Canada for a better life. Her father was an architect and a very successful business man and they had just recently moved from a small suburb to the city of Toronto, into an old house on one of the main streets. As the movers were unloading the van and placing her family’s possessions into each room, Susan was running from room to room excited about the new things she would do here. She was going to have her very own room. She ran into the kitchen and there on the other side of the room was a closed white door. The old wooden door led to stairs that went up to the top level. On the door was a huge glass knob. Susan went over and her eyes were fixed on the door knob, it looked like a diamond to her. As she held the diamond knob in her hands, her imagination began to flow. What if this was a magical door knob and when she turned the handle that she would walk through the door and into a magical kingdom? She closed her eyes and slowly turned the knob and instantly she was in a meadow surrounded with the most beautiful wild flowers. 

As all little girls will do she began dancing in the meadow singing and laughing without a care in the world. She was just happy to have the warm sun beaming down on her face and the beauty of the meadow around her.  She picked up flowers of purple and yellow and green and made a special bouquet.  She lay down on the grassy ground and looked up at the bright blue sky with the fluffy white clouds floating by. Then she took a deep breath and placed the flowers on her chest and crossed her hands and prayed a simple prayer. “God thank you for loving me and thank you for the diamond door knob.”

When she opened her eyes she was back in the empty kitchen with her hand still on the diamond. She skipped away to see what color the bathroom was, without ever opening the door. She knew that she would come back many times while they lived here to go to her new found mysterious place. Moving here was going to be great! – she had discovered a magnificent diamond door knob that led her into a magical kingdom.

Charmaine Hinds June 2014

Another Damsel in Distress? (Powerful women of the year 2014)

I know that many of us especially young women have been raised on the beautiful and romantic stories from Disney that always begin with a beautiful but tragic female character being imprisoned, treated badly by a vicious step mother or somehow being trapped by her cruel circumstances.

All of these women possess amazing character qualities as well as beauty, so as to make their supposed entrapment seem so unjust and unfair. As she is helpless all she can do is await a prince to come to save her. Her life is suspended as she lives in a tower, or lies in a deep sleep, is mistreated by a mean step mother and she is always unable to rescue herself. 

Cinderella, the sleeping beauty Snow white, Rapunzel with the long hair, the little mermaid Ariel, Jasmine, and Pochohantas all of them can only be saved by one thing, marrying the prince or the male hero in their story and then becoming the princess they were always meant to be. Belle even goes so far as to fall in love with a beast and try to change him with love.

Well I am here to dismiss this untruth for you - these stories are false and have entrapped so many other beautiful and amazing young women of this generation from reaching their full potential, as they suspend their lives trying to stay beautiful and awaiting their prince hero to arrive and rescue them from their circumstances. I want to scream “Wake up sleeping beauty, climb down your own hair Rapunzel, Belle the beast can only treat you badly if you allow him to and Ariel be who you were called to be and stop trying to be someone or something else!”.  

The truth of it all is that Disney created these magical stories from the true origins that are sometimes quite horrific tales of a more realistic nature.  We must teach our daughters that in the real world there is no fairy dust or glass slipper and that we must remove ourselves from people that have evil intentions towards us. There is nothing enlightening about suffering while you wait to be rescued. Not to mention the pressure we have placed on our young men to be a knight in shining armor that is looking for a helpless woman to rescue. Men of today have respect and admiration for strong women that are loving and capable of taking care of themselves.

And yes there are happy endings but they don’t always look like a Disney fairy tale. Sometimes the female character does not get married and instead is the CEO of a large corporation, she does and can live happily ever after if she has encountered her true self and purpose. Or maybe she looks like mother Teresa who lived a life of servant hood and rescued others in rescuing herself. She might be the single mother that is truly a hero for taking the responsibility that was too much for the prince that ran away from it all. What ever her life is she must be responsible for her true happiness and not give the responsibility away to another.

Here are a few links to share the origin and to dispel the myths that we have come to believe via our journey with Disney for the past 8 decades.

http://listverse.com/2013/02/13/10-disney-movies-with-horrific-origins/

http://www.policymic.com/articles/45409/5-shocking-origins-of-disney-classics

http://www.buzzfeed.com/adamellis/super-dark-origins-behind-your-favorite-disney-movies

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/12/the-real-story-behind-eve_n_4239730.html

Charmaine 

To My Children- You are my Mirror

The day you were born I looked at you and saw myself in the mirror.

I saw what I was and what I wasn’t, what I had and what I lacked, what I wanted and what I wanted to get rid of in me – Your birth caused the true me to begin to arise.

I let you set the standard and tell me what you needed and when you needed it even when every Dr Spock book said otherwise.

You slept in my bed and I held you close because I knew that our time together would be a short blip in eternity and every moment together was precious

Your tears meant I had a job to do- to find out why they were there and to help you better communicate what your needs were.

When I yelled at you for not hurrying it was because I truly wanted to slow down and enjoy my day.

You didn’t continue with gymnastics or drums because I saw you hated it and I didn’t want you to live out my dream, just to find your own.

I wasn’t set off by you quitting something because the way I found me was by quitting those things that made me miserable and doing the things that I loved.

My need to control was seen in every temper tantrum, especially in the ones I had.

Loud voices that crushed your spirit and jagged words that cut your soul will forever be a mistake that I will need forgiveness for.

Many times punishment, discipline and consequences were my way of showing you who was The Boss- Sorry for not always letting natural consequences teach you. 

The craziness you witnessed was my way of dealing with my own frustrations, inadequacies, tiredness, lack of leadership and brokenness.

I didn’t put emphasis on marks, grades and tests because I didn’t want you to be more concerned with your mistakes than the fact that you were doing your best and that was good enough.

Sorry for the moments I seemed double minded but the world was telling me to make you a success and forgot to give me permission to recognize the true essence of who you are.

For every label that was placed in your pathway, rebellious, lazy, quitter, introvert, bully, ADHD, stupid, mean, bad, sick, I tried to erase them with love.

Whenever I let something or someone else seem more important than you, that was not truth. You have been one of my greatest treasures.

That day in the grocery store when I walked away from you screaming for the candy, I walked very slowly and my heart was calling for you to just understand.

When you took apart our lawn mower I wasn’t more concerned with what was broken than with the fact that your curiosity kept calling you to take things apart and then try to find ways to put them back together- maybe you had a engineers mind.

The reason your teachers kept reporting that you talk a lot during school time is because in my womb that was all you heard for 9 months and from the moment I hugged you into this world I have never stopped talking to you, relationship and communication is a vital part of your heritage.

My job was not to fix you but to fix me and in doing so give you a living example that people truly can change.

I vowed to be a better parent than the ones I had, not being conscious that they were the ones that damaged the tools I was supposed to use to mold and shape you with.

I hear you when you tell me that life is not fair and I am sorry for the times that I have had to reinforce this so you can become stronger, but you have definitely become stronger.

You are my future and the future is found in you, please forgive me for bringing my past into your present and withholding the possibilities of a brighter tomorrow.

I just want to love you and to help you become nothing more and nothing less than the person you were always meant to be.

When you spoke up and told me who you saw me or someone else being, I am sorry if I told you not to be rude and shut down your voice from being heard.

It is true that I am a hypocrite when I tell you to do one thing and then I do the opposite.

I have humbled myself to learn with you as a parent and I still don’t know everything.

Forgive me for betraying you by teaching you to listen to your inner voice and not hearing that voice until you screamed it out loud.

Remember to choose Relationship not Religion, Purpose not Career, Prosperity not Riches, Love and never Hate, Forgiveness not Revenge and embrace who you are in the process.

Every book I read to you was me giving and sharing one of my greatest loves with you.

I forgot that I don’t own you, you are your own person and what you do does not always reflect me, but everything I do does reflect you.

You have been my mirror and I have learned more about myself from parenting you. You each have been one of my greatest teachers

Thank you Mom

10 Tips for an effective Testimony

To witness to someone can also be viewed as story telling. Jesus used stories to relate to people in their immediate situations. By using the scriptures and your personal intimate stories that relate directly to an individual can be a powerful tool when witnessing to an unbeliever or when encouraging a believer. Jesus has commissioned us to be witnesses of the gospel

Though people can deny the truth of the stories in the Bible as they would in any other book, they can not deny the truth about what Christ has done for you personally. No one can argue with you the reality or validity of your first hand personal experience.

John 21:24 This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them down. We know that his testimony is true.

We are to be led by the Spirit of God when sharing our Testimony, but it would be a good idea to be prepared when you share your personal testimony by gathering your thoughts, writing them down and reading them. This will allow you to deliver your testimony in a clear and concise way when the opportunity arises.

There are different testimonies to be shared. Your personal story on how you came to know Christ is a very powerful testimony. There are also times of personal victory in individual situations that many people can relate to. Healing testimonies build the faith of those that need healing. Provision testimonies create faith for those with needs when shared. Testimonies of signs, wonders and miracles are for the unbeliever to draw them by the Spirit towards God. It is important to be prepared to share the “Hope in you” at any time that the situation permits.

When writing out your personal testimony the following is a good outline

1. Write down your life and attitudes before you came to know Christ. Be honest with the state of where you were, being careful not to glorify Satan. Tell about your home life, your early Christian experience and any people that influenced you as a child

2. Share how you came to know your need for a Savior/ your crisis of faith moment
3. Describe in detail how you came to know Jesus personally. Quote any scriptures that had significant meaning for you.

4. What has happened to you since? Share your relationship with God now.

When sharing about victory or personal experience

1. Share the facts of the situation and all of the difficulties or problems that were present, share your truthful attitude in the situation
2. Explain how your relationship with God and Jesus revealed to you the victory. Share scriptures, prophetic words, dreams, miracles and or any change in your attitude
3. Reveal how God has changed or is changing the situation ( be sure to give glory to God)

Just a note- with victory testimonies you may be required to share a testimony that has not manifested in it’s fullness, but that you have been given victory over in faith. Be sure to edify, encourage and lift up the hearer as you share.

10 Tips to help make your Testimony more effective

1.    Keep it direct and to the point- do not go off about other topics unrelated to your testimony.

2.    Only share important facts and information relevant to your testimony

3.    Do not make it too long in length, you do not want them to loose interest

4.    Be very descriptive and use descriptive words to develop a visual picture.

5.    There is nothing wrong with adding humor to make it more interesting

6.    Make sure it relates to the audience- example change the terminology and examples for youth

7.    Be sure to have scriptures to emphasis your testimony

8.    Give living examples and references to enable your audience to understand

9.    Be sure to honor others when your testimony involves other individuals

10.      Remember Jesus always gets the Glory!

 Excerpt from book-10 Tips for an effective Testimony by Charmaine Hinds 

  

Designer Labels

Gucci, Micheal Kors, Coach, Guess and Versace

Name brands, designer labels, signs of money , status and what?

I am branded, labelled and designed by the greatest Designer the world has ever known

Who are you wearing tonight you ask?

No not DKYN, Armani or Prada, Louis Vuitton, or Chanel

I wear Joy around my neck and Love on my chest

My shoes have the swoosh not of Nike but of the message of Peace

My car does not have a jaguar sitting at the front or a BMW ensign to prove my success to the world

The most prestigious marque can not compare to what He has branded on my soul

My fashion choice is Free, Forgiven and Grace

Christian Dior has nothing in my size

Mercy is engraved on a gold plaque on my hand bag

I am in season and a trend setter, with visions of what everyone will be wearing next

Who did you allow to dress you? – Vera Wang, Ralph Lauren or are you draped in the material of His choosing, in kindness, gentleness and self control, is this Haute Couture for you?

For anything they put their name on can not compare to the way the stars are arranged in such beauty or the colors of the deep blue sea, the majesty of snow capped mountains, nothing ever designed can reach the breathlessness of true creation -A new born baby held in its mothers arms

I have been named after The Designer- I am a Child of God

My luxury items that are priceless consist of wisdom, knowledge and understanding

Cartier and Rolex  have not been bound around my wrist

My times and seasons are in sync and syncopated with Heaven

Though I may not own any Dolce & Gabbana in my closets

 This is not a true reflection of my status

Paris, Milan, New York and  Rome- none have created more of a spectacular show of creativity than when my Designer choose to create me- for I was fearfully and wonderfully made

Crafted and created from the finest cloth, stitched with precision and purpose, displayed for all to see

Runways, models and all the best advertisement and marketing schemes

Can never convince me that now I am worth something.

I was worth it long ago

Worthy of prosperity in every way, body, spirit, mind and soul

Worth all the gold and silver He has hidden in treasures in the earth

Worth His love

He gave me His very best

His Son wore stripes before they were considered fashionable

To show me how much I am truly worth

So I will choose to wear my Truth and be true to what I wear

The Power of a Seed

Recently there is a message that keeps repeating itself to me. I have been gaining revelation knowledge and understanding about the power of a seed. Within a small seed no matter what seed it is there is everything necessary to create, sustain, reproduce and flourish. Seeds create plants, flowers, trees, animals and human beings. Out of these things many other things are created as well. Houses are built because a seed grew, clothing comes from a seed, food comes from seeds and our next generation is all because of a seed.

Wow! The power of a large oak tree is in one seed. The ultimate goal of the tree or plant is to produce fruit that would reproduce more seeds.  A seed goes through an amazing process. When in the correct environment and conditions the potential in a seed is encouraged to release what has been dormant within. From being buried in the nutrients of the soil, to breaking open and allowing what is within to emerge using two points of growth by pushing downwards to grow roots deep and pushing upwards to break through the surface to reach for the necessary ingredients to sustain life, such as air, water and the sun.  Eventually it will weather different conditions, heat, wind, rain, storms growing against all obstacles to become strong and inevitably to produce blossoms and fruit and more seeds.

In the gospels Jesus speaks of the power of a seed. He speaks of the Sower that scatters the seed in four different types of places. Different soil will produce different results in the process of the potential of a seed. In explaining this parable Jesus says that the seed is the word of the kingdom, the soil is our hearts and each example is a different result of the word in our lives.

1. “Some seed fell by the wayside and the birds came and ate them up”- this word was not understood and the enemy came and snatched it away so it does nothing to the heart.

2. “Some fell on stony ground and because of not enough earth beneath it, the sun scorched them and they had no roots to ground them”- this word was received into the heart with joy, but because this word had no potential to grow roots deep in the heart, it was not grounded and the person stumbles when a bit of difficult circumstances happen.

3. “Some fell upon the thorns and the thorns sprung up and choked them out.”- This person too receives the word, but there are other things like the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches that choke the word and cause the word not to produce.

4. “Others fell on good soil and yielded a crop, each seed reproducing different amounts.”- This person hears, understands, receives and goes through the process to produce fruit , some a hundred fold, some sixty and some thirty.

Please note that in all four places it is the same seed being planted by the same Sower, but each one is reproducing a different result.  The difference here is the condition of the heart.

Many of us are not aware of the other seeds that are being planted in our hearts, seeds of discord and negativity, of unbelief and worry, seeds of self and seeds of resistance. Like sneaky weeds they grow and we think they are good until it is too late. They take over and we have trouble finding room to plant good seeds in the gardens of our hearts.

Today I want to encourage you to break up the fallow ground in your heart and to fertilize it and dig up all weeds or nearby plants that could possibly hinder the growth of the seed that desires to be planted deep in your heart. 

When God comes to sow seed how will you receive it? Will you hear and understand? Will you throw it away or let it be stolen? Will you have the desires of the world to choke out the potential of growth that is in that seed? Or will it grow and flourish and reproduce much fruit?

Remember there is much power and potential in just one seed.

Charmaine Hinds / alona hazaka

God can Fix Us

Yesterday at our fellowship we had a very powerful speaker teach on how we put up walls to protect ourselves and to safeguard our hearts. But in the process of doing this we have taken an attitude of self protection and ultimately have not fully yielded to trusting God in our lives.

She asked us to examine areas in our lives where we need to repent and ask God for forgiveness for not trusting Him and ask Him to break down the walls of separation that were hindering His work in our lives.

 During the ministry time I was ministering to one woman and I heard the Lord say the following;

“ Just as you have jewelry that you deem valuable and even though it is broken, you have not thrown it away, you have stored it and eventually take it to a jeweler, a person who is skilled in fixing and putting together and has a full understanding of how jewelry works. You wouldn't take it to a mechanic, because he is skilled in cars not jewelry, you would take a computer to a computer technician, a TV to a television repair man and lamps to an electrician.  So I am the only one who knows how to fix broken people. My people are not working correctly; they have misused and abused the creation I have designed. They don’t know how to put themselves back together, but I know exactly how each person was designed and when I fix them , they are like brand new. I shine them and clean them and set them in order to work as they were originally created to. I am the one that fixes broken people.”

After saying this aloud to the woman I was ministering to, God by the power of Holy Spirit did what only He could do and He burdened me with an understanding of how much He wants to fix His creation. How He longs to set us on the right course, tune up our hearing, give us new paradigm ways of thinking, realign our thought life, replace the lies with the truth, heal us from the inside out and all we have to do is bring our broken selves to Him and leave it there and let Him do what He does best. Fix His creation.

I wailed loudly as the burden became stronger and as I felt the pain He feels when He sees us trying to fix ourselves or others in our own strength, it is like taking your jewelry which is so valuable to the mechanic and expecting him to know how to fix this delicate, precious, sentimental object and not cause any further damage. People are valuable and of great worth to God and He doesn't throw us away because we are broken. He treasures us enough to deem us worth fixing. He is just waiting for us to come. Free of charge as the price has already been paid.

Some of us have been trained in how to allow inner healing to flow and to give Holy Spirit an opportunity to minister to the inner man, the spirit and to the soul of a person. The time is now to allow what Jesus has done as the Lamb of God to cause the curses and lies of Egypt to Passover Gods chosen people. As we lead each of them out of slavery and bondage and into the freedom of the Promised land.

The Bouncy Ball Theory

How many times have you failed and a good thing came out of it?                                               
I would like to encourage you not to fall and go splat! Just get ready and bounce back

Use the energy or exertion of falling or being thrown down to cause you to spring in a direction that you want to go in. This is called intent-full energy.

If you learn how to become a bouncer you will not only learn how to bounce back but to also begin to spring off of other things to get you to the location that you desire. You will begin to become a person that things just don’t stick to.

Let certain things bounce off of you as you refuse to accept unacceptable things and start sending them back. Don’t accept rejection, failure, not feeling lovable or even dis-honor, let it bounce off of you.

Remember that God put you together and He knew what you would go through, every circumstance and situation. He put inside of you everything you would need to make sure that you could bounce back. Trust that today.

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future Jeremiah 29:11

I love the stories by A.A. Milne of Winnie the Pooh but my favorite character is not Pooh bear, it is Tigger. Tigger had a great attitude, he was positive and did the one thing that I believe most of us need to do -bounce around in life!

This excerpt is taken  from The Bouncy Ball Theory Booklet by Charmaine Hinds  

Spring is about to Give Birth

I am moving into the second phase of my life. There are many things changing. For some time now I have been in a transition phase and there are many days I wish it would just be over. I have had to let go of the old things and begin to move ahead with no clear full understanding as to why I am going in this new direction. But my instincts know that this is the way I must go. So I follow as He leads me.

In the first phase of my life I had younger children and I was finding my way and learning who I was. Many of my hopes and dreams were accomplished and I was in an easy phase as I was on auto pilot and could accomplish these tasks now with ease, as it had become second nature for me.

But there was so much more for me in embracing the fullness of who I now know I am with all of the years of experience added to me. I am also becoming a mother of adult and teen children. So here I am stretching myself by learning new things, embracing a new pathway, letting go of old patterns and shifting as a woman who still has so much ahead of her.

I am also in the process of publishing all of the books I have written over the past 25 years. The stories I have lived over the years have given me a platform to speak and teach to so many. Now I have faithfully penned them and the time and opportunity has finally arrived. 

So now I am pregnant with my future and preparing myself to give birth.

Spring is my favorite season. Spring is a pregnant season of endless possibilities. Winter can sometimes be a very hard season. Things often seem dead. All life forms are in hibernation. There is a blanket of snow covering everything and as beautiful as it is, it slows us down. Mentally we struggle during our winter season, especially near the end. After wearing heavy clothing, fighting through snow storms, not being able to feel the natural heat or light of the sun, many of us by the time the month of March rolls around are longing for spring to finally arrive. 

Spring… Spring is the season of new birth, everything that was being incubated and insulated under the earth during that time, is now getting ready to come forth.  I love the rain as the water washes away the old snow and dirt and saturates the earth with the essential ingredient that it needs for all life to survive. So the sun peaks from behind clouds and people that we haven’t seen all winter are outdoors, walking dogs, cleaning windows, garages and doing all sorts of recreational activities. The warmth of the slight change in weather has called all things to come out from hiding. Any day now everything pregnant will give birth! Trees will blossom and leaves will bud, ducks will have ducklings, grass will grow, flowers will bloom, rivers will flow, eggs will be hatched, winds will blow, wombs will be opened as life is called forth in the season of spring. 

So here I am, moving out of my season of winter and rejoicing as the signs of spring are all around me. I try not to be too anxious and go ahead of the natural timing. I haven't come this far to risk it all by giving birth too soon. Over the years I have learned to truly trust my instincts, but the greater fact is that the One who changes the seasons of our lives is with me. In Ecclesiastes it says that there is a time for everything, a season for every activity, so I pay close attention to the signs and stages of labour remembering nothing truly happens when you go into false labour. I must wait for the correct timing and resist the urge to push too soon.

I am beginning to embrace the call to serve by helping others who are pregnant and in difficult circumstances to overcome every obstacle to be able to give birth, to not abort their destiny but to bring forth life. This is the call on my life as I help women, men and children to make it through winter and arrive into their spring.  

Charmaine is an Inspiration Visual Communicator. 

To book her to teach or speak contact her at

Charmaine@God’sMouthPeace.com

 www.GodsMouthPeace.com

The Gentle Whisper

She was a woman with a loud voice, created out of the necessity to be heard. She was placed in front of others and had to speak above their murmurs. Her voice was created to carry for long distances and to resound in the atmosphere long after she had finished talking. From the depths of within her was a silent cry that when released did not come out soft and gentle or tender and compassionate. Instead it roared out of her being with intensity and ferocity. Could it be that if she bellowed louder, then somehow they would hear the message clearer? Yet still their vacant blank stares spoke volumes. She was still not being heard.

As she placed her head in her hands and cried aloud she heard a faint Gentle Whisper. “Be still and Know that I am G-d”.

Instinctively her soul whispered back “yes G-d”.

Then unto her came the recollection of her search and how she had looked for The Answer in the fire and in the rain, in the wind, the storm, through the earthquake and in the ocean so deep. But when she had quieted herself to be still enough He came to her in a still small Gentle Whisper.

So now in quiet and solitude she listened to the whispers of His wisdom.

It floated above her and settled within her somehow penetrating her thoughts of judgement and confusion, resting in the bosom of her beating heart, nestled safely in the womb of her soul, allowing her spirit to mould it with truth. Now she could speak. Yet all that she was really ready to do was hear more from Him.

She prayed the cry and it was released as a whisper “how can I tell them?”

“With gentleness and patience, love and grace, with truth and spirit, mercy and forgiveness, all whispered in their ears that hear.”

“For what I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what I whisper in your ear, proclaim from the rooftops” was His reply.

So all of heaven blessed the moment that He commissioned her to speak for Him, to become His mouth piece here on earth.  She would echo His voice and bellow His passion.  Sometimes with intensity and ferocity, but always with Spirit and with Truth as she introduced others to The One she called the “Gentle Whisper”.

“Remember He who is worthy has qualified you”

Many people today gain University degrees and years of intense training, they spend much time trying to connect with prominent influential people, have letters added to their names such as M.D. and B.A. all to be able to be what they call “qualified”.

Daniel 1:4 young men without any physical defect, handsome, showing aptitude for every kind of learning, well informed, quick to understand, and qualified to serve in the king's palace. He was to teach them the language and literature of the Babylonians.

In the world the standard to becoming qualified is often based upon being good looking, handsome, being intelligent, having an understanding of the worlds’ ways and being willing to not only be taught the world system, but to excel in it.

Qualified - holding appropriate documentation and officially on record as qualified to perform a specified function or practice a specified skill; having complied with the specific requirements or precedent : to fit by training, skill, or ability for a specific purpose; to acquire legal or competent power or capacity

We need to really understand that in Kingdom living this is not necessarily how one becomes qualified. Though God does say to “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved…” 2 Timothy 2:15. He wants us to understand that He is the only one that qualifies a person.

Colossians 1:12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light.

From a biblical perspective to be qualified is when you meet the spiritual requirements and are called for a specific purpose. Jesus has met all of the spiritual qualifications for each of us and allowed us to be worthy of being chosen.

God has designed a specific purpose for every human being. Once you understand that God himself has chosen you, finding your God given purpose will be your most important job here on earth. Once you find your purpose then you must understand that God and God alone has qualified you. You will accomplish your God given purpose not because of your skill or training or experience, but by the power within you that comes from knowing that you are called and chosen and qualified to accomplish your task.

2 Timothy 2:2 And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others.