EMPOWERMENT
necessarily a linear path, but can take you on unexpected
come home after a busy day. When
I am a member and an ordained
routes that sometimes turn out to be exciting, memorable,
you travel for work, although you may
Minister at the Trinidad Christian Center,
and a great lesson for the other members of the family.
have a sitter, there also remains a pair of
which is a Full Gospel Church in Trinidad
trusted eyes in your household that is so
and Tobago. In Jamaica, I worship at
comforting when you are miles away.
Church On The Rock – Kingston. Having a
For me, the grounding factor has been my relationship with
God, for it took much faith to adopt an eighteen month old,
church family is foundational, especially
a pre-teen, and a teenager and bring them into a household
when you belong to a church that is a
that also included their aunt and grandmother. The driving
teaching church. Every week the entire
force, the foundation, was a covenant; an agreement with
God that said that if He, God, would provide for them, then
I would ensure that they know who He is. We have both
maintained our part of this agreement.
As a woman of God, I recognise that the more we become
acquainted and the more intimately we converse with the
Glory of God, the more commanding influence will divine
revelation have upon us and the more ready shall we be
able to submit to it. When such a God of Glory speaks,
it concerns us to hear with attention and reverence since it is
at our peril if we do not.
Our everyday lives must be lived in the Spirit. And there is
no shortcut to learning how to do this. Living in the Spirit is
not reserved for ‘special persons.’ Living Life in the Spirit is the
central core of what being a Christian means. It is the cross
that you have to pick up daily. If we want to survive we have
to be rooted and grounded in the