Your Heart App

This post is for anyone who’s in a rut right now, or feel as if they are stuck. Is it you? If God were to pay you a nice little ole visit to perform an audit on your life from January on up until now, what would He find? Would He find that you’ve been utilizing ALL of your gifts and talents? Would He find you to be more humble and selfless? Most importantly, would He find GROWTH? Where are you right now? What are you doing differently from last year? Have you started that business, wrote that book, lost that weight, found that new job? No? Are you even close?

One day I was asking myself some of the same questions I’m asking you. The year is about to come to a close and a lot of things have changed for the better for me. But after setting dates for certain things to occur in my life to only find that those dates were catching up to me but I had nothing to give these dates, I started to get disappointed. After making a few bold declarations, I noticed that I was just filling my chest up with air and making huge exhales. THAT’S IT.

Stay with me, ok? I’m going to let you in my life right now, (as if I already haven’t lol) So I’m currently working in an industry that I feel I have professionally outgrown and I am looking for something else. In other words, shawty READY TO GO! Well, for the last month or so with the help of my life coach, I have been taking more aggressive actions to find that NEW PLACE. Well have you found it Tanzy?...........NO! I don’t think I have run into so many closed doors in my life, Jesus. Lol. I decided to halt my attempts and go back to the drawing board…GOD.

I’m like, “What’s up with these closed doors God? I mean, I know it’s not me right? Or is it?” I didn’t get an answer from Him until I was on the phone with my life coach telling her my progress. Out of no where a HUGE REVELATION dropped kicked me in the spirit. My life coach got BLESSED and so did I, mayne!

Here’s the revelation. Pay close attention. During your journey with God and as YOU and the seasons change, periodically you will have to update your HEART APP. What’s a HEART APP?

                                      Psalm 34:7

“Delight yourself also in the LORD; and he shall give you the desires of your heart.”

I mentioned in a post some months ago titled The Pot of Gold at the End of the Rainbow is Real a heavy post that talked about the DESIRES OF THE HEART and YOUR PURPOSE IN GOD. This new revelation though, made the concept of the desires of your heart more clear. See sometimes the desires of our heart can run stale. Sometimes the issues of life which are housed in the heart, clogs the pores of your desires causing them to lose all freshness. Every now and then the waves of life can flood your heart and carry the desires of your heart with it.

You know how your phone asks you permission to update the apps that you have on your phone? This is the same thing. That suffocating feeling you’re experiencing right now is God getting your attention that you my dear, need to update your HEART APP. You’re stuck because your HEART APP hasn’t been updated. The screen of your spirit is frozen and your heart has the potential of malfunctioning. Why? Because you haven’t updated your HEART APP.

Yes, God has given us FREE WILL on the surface. But on the deeper part of us lies the desires of the heart and the highest part of us is GOD’S WILL. WOW! Where am I going? Your HEART APP has to be aligned to GOD’S WILL in order for you to operate effectively. My pastor stated it so nicely last Wednesday during his series titled, Manifesting the Promises of God, he put it this way, you have to come into agreement with GOD’S PROMISES. When your YES is combined to GOD’S YES, then it’s got to happen! BOOM!

Let’s sit back down and watch MY LIFE again. I have accepted that the only reason I have been running into closed doors after closed door is because where I’m looking ain’t where God is looking. What I think I want is NOT WHAT GOD KNOWS I NEED. I’m trying to play it safe and God is like “Now Tanzy you know I put too much in you for you to try and play it safe.”

Your HEART APP NEEDS to be updated on a continuous basis because it is quite possible that the desires of your heart don’t even sit well with God. Somebody with jacked up desires can read Psalms 34:7 and say, “Well that’s a lie cuz God ain’t fulfilled the desires of MY HEART yet!” You can’t blame God for not fulfilling your wretched desires. You want a husband but YOU’RE EVIL and don’t even know how to submit! You want a wife but you’re a HO! Say whaaaaatttt? Chile boom! Or what about, you want to win the lottery, but your baldheaded self don’t even TITHE and you’re selfish as all get out! Whatchu know about that? (In my T.I. voice) In my real ghetto street voice, 'Ain’t nothin' gone pop shawty if you don’t update that HEART APP yo! You feel me?"

You have to sit YOUR WILL DOWN and muster up all the energy inside of you to ask GOD to update the desires of your heart that they may align with HIS WILL. I’m telling you my wonderful friends, once you do that, things will start to look different, the mysteries of life will start to form faces and make more sense. Closed doors will transform into windows of opportunity. Behind that, "DO NOT ENTER" sign will be a sign that reads, “MAKE A RIGHT HERE”. I’m going to cut it off here cuz chile I have already said a mouthful! In other news if you have not purchased my novel TEARS OF KINGS please do so at www.tanzyalexis.com. If you need a LIFE COACH check out my sister ALEXIS LIOR she rocks! And lastly, if you need a church home come kick it with me at Centennial M.B. Cburch.. Until next time, UPDATE YOUR HEART APP! ;-)