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God will take somebody who is a nobody
and make them a somebody whenever they
enter into a covenant with
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God welcome to the Godmother’s course I
I hope you have the book godmothers why
you need one how to be one this course I
created because I wanted you to hear my
tone it’s one thing to read words but
it’s another thing when somebody can
actually speak to you face face to face
and you can hear their heart in the
message I also was hoping that you
wouldn’t be reading a book in isolation
but that you would come together with
other women for this course and you
could have conversations it is my
deepest hope that godmothers is a
catalyst for women of all ages to begin
to connect and grow we all want
something more than what we have seen we
all want something more for our children
more for our Nation more for what is now
known as Christians we want there to be
more but that more will not happen in
isolation and in fear so I am hoping
that our time together will be a
catalyst to transform places of struggle
transform places of fear into places of
Hope places of dream we need to combat
this nightmare that now is with a dream
of what could be don’t be afraid of the
wand I am not endorsing Magic I want you
to know though that you have the power
to stretch forth your life and bless
other people so don’t be stressed I’m
not endorsing magic but I am endorsing
that we connect so that we can see more
so we can have more growth we can have
more intimacy we can have more answers
and that connection will begin to close
the gaps that are in our lives that are
threatening all of us right now welcome
to godmothers why you need one how to be
one
well welcome to my home and welcome to
the Godmother’s course and I am just
going to tell you right off the bat we
are Barefoot we are in my house I am
joined by some beautiful sisters that
don’t want be to be alone but you may
not hear a lot from them I have
Alexandra on this right here I have Miss
pra pra and Alexandra have both been
interns at messenger International
incredible blessing and then to my right
I have my amazing first and longest
daughter-in-law daughter-in love Juliana
bav and Ellis and Ellis is in charge of
all of my social media so you guys be
nice to her sometimes people they think
they’re yelling at me you’re really
yelling at Ellis so you don’t want to do
that but you guys this is something I’m
so excited about this Godmother’s course
I don’t know how many of you know this
but I turned 60 this summer and I
believe that this is actually the season
in my life that I am moving moving into
from 1 to 30 you’re learning you’re
growing from 31 hopefully to 60 you are
establishing and you are building and
then my age 60 and whenever Jesus
decides to take me I am actually marking
Pathways I am leaving a trail for
another generation to follow and I want
to do that well and I don’t want you to
make the same mistakes that I have made
I want you to learn the lessons I
learned the hard way and easier way
because how many of you know we are in a
world right now that is crazy so you’re
going to actually get a chance to learn
your own lessons but what I want to open
up with is my hope for this course so it
is my most Earnest hope that these
lessons will be a catalyst of
transformation in your life it is my
most Earnest hope that it will push you
into deeper Realms of godliness I hope
that it will make a connection for you
you that the younger women will connect
with the older women and the older women
will connect with the younger women
because this is what God always meant
for us to have he meant for us to have
Divine connections between the
generations so that every generation
doesn’t suffer the same loss and the
same lies to be you know producing fruit
in their life so we want to see you walk
in truth and we want to see you walk in
more and more only happens when there’s
more multiplication of older and younger
men and women and this is just about the
girls so wanting to be your godmother
now if you’ve got this course and you
don’t have this book it’s going to be
really confusing so this is based off of
godmothers why you need one how to be
one and you may have noticed a wand it’s
kind of it’s kind of hard to see on the
cover but I want to tell you no I’m not
going Harry Potter on you no I am not
thinking magic is the new way for our
new day I wanted you to have some kind
of symbol that talked about Focus that
talked about extending a blessing and so
I thought well godmothers they can be
fairy godmothers they can be Sicilian
godmothers we’re talking about spiritual
godmothers but I wanted you to know that
there is something on your life that
needs to be connected and extended to
somebody else’s life it’s this Dynamic
of a blessing and I believe that every
son and every daughter needs God God
Parents in their life that can bless
them John and I had an incredible
privilege just recently we were invited
as the token old people to a gathering
of a lot of young couples and we were
before dinner just sitting around the
room and just talking talking about
challenges in their lives challenges
with parenting challenges with Ministry
challenges with just the Dynamics of
this world right now because we do live
in a very very challenging time and they
kind of looked at us like y’all are old
you all are old perhaps you can help us
learn how to navigate these challenging
times and do it well and it was this
incredible opportunity where one of the
leaders there said I I want you to pray
over us I want you to impart a blessing
and John and I realized that that’s what
we are we’re the older and we want to be
God Parents and so I’m going to ask you
for the of this course if you will just
adopt me as your Sicilian godmother and
that I can be the wild Scrappy one
you’re going to have other ones that’ll
be gentle you’ll have other ones that’ll
be nurturing I really believe for this
generation to move into everything that
God has for them they’re going to need
more than one so you just need a
godmother that adds strength in an area
that is weakness for you so uh now you
understand the wand is nothing for you
to be afraid of so I want to talk about
what the blessing does so when John and
I got married we realized that our
family did not have a legacy of blessing
that we had things but we did not have
those things blessed and the blessing of
God is usually a generational thing you
can see how Abraham blessed Isaac Isaac
you know got tricked into blessing Jacob
but the blessing of God is something
that takes our tangible and makes it
work by releasing something intangible
and so I want to take the things that
are tangible in your life and release a
blessing over it so that the things that
you have begin to work together for good
I believe that a lot of us we did not
have anybody that blessed us I don’t
know what your background looks like but
my parents didn’t know how to extend a
blessing but just because nobody blessed
you doesn’t mean you don’t have a chance
to be a blessing for other people I
believe that God is always about new
beginnings and godmothers are those that
will come alongside of you and say I
want something more for you than I ever
had for myself which means they’re going
to pour out the very things that nobody
poured into them and this is the beauty
of who our God is God will take somebody
who is a nobody and make them a somebody
whenever they enter into a covenant with
God that’s what happened with our mother
and father of Faith Abraham and Sarah
they said God we got nothing we we have
we’re old and we got nothing and God
said you give me your nothing and I am
the one who will make it something so
that’s what godmothers do they connect
you with the one who can take your mess
and transform it to a season of
flourishing and abundance and if you
look around right now we need some
people who can actually come alongside
of us and do that but one of the things
I like to think about with the themes of
godmothers is that godmothers come into
our lives to close gaps and you think
what is a gap well a gap is easily
defined as the difference between the
way things are and the way they should
be the way your marriage is and the way
it could be the way your parenting is
and the way it could be but gaps are
things that actually leave us vulnerable
so a gap in understanding is up
misunderstanding I want to talk about
the generation gap because there’s older
women right now who have hard one truths
and lessons who have nobody to transfer
it to and so we’ve got the younger women
who think that the older women are too
busy and then the older women who think
that the younger women are disinterested
and I’m just going to tell you from what
I get to see and hear that is just not
true the younger women want listen to me
my older sisters the younger women want
the lessons that are on your life they
understand there is treasure on your
life and they they need they need you to
be that woman who will open up her life
not just the good things not just what
you’d put on Instagram but share the
hard things share the hurt and then
share how you came through those things
and young women I understand that it
might be scary to approach some of the
older women but you need to actually
have those conversations because a gap
is a breach in a wall that leaves all of
us vulnerable to attack Marin Webster
says it is a break and a barrier that
leaves us assailable right now we’ve got
the young women under attack and the
older women under attack but you and I
can be part of closing that breach I
want to tell you why you actually need
one I’m going to I’m just going to talk
about my own life I remember thinking
that my mother had nothing to give me
and I didn’t pay attention to actually
the things that she could have taught me
because I thought I’m doing everything
different when I become a mother I’m
going to do everything different when I
become a wife well I found out shortly
after I was married I had no idea how to
be a wife no idea how to be a mother no
idea how to even basically be a woman
because I thought of myself as more of
like a man brain woman body person I
remember I felt like I had such a desper
need and I cried out to God because God
this is how God has a sense of humor
this is how God is God’s like you you
don’t have any of this guess what I’ve
called you to minister to women I’m like
is that a joke because I don’t even like
women I don’t really even know if I am
one no God you’ve got to have somebody
else but he didn’t say oh you’re right I
meant to talk to somebody else in the
next Department he said no you know this
is this is the deal so I thought well
I’m going to add something to that I
said God if you want me to be a woman
who ministers to other women then you
need to send a woman to minister to me I
felt like that was fair I felt like I
wasn’t asking for too much got married
was pregnant with my third son and no
woman had noticed me well I shouldn’t
really say that they noticed what was
wrong with me but no woman had noticed
what was on my life that might need a
blessing they noticed I had double
pierced ears they noticed that you know
maybe I wasn’t dressed appropriately but
they didn’t say wow she might be
struggling in her marriage or she might
need someone to help her enjoy her kids
she’s just surviving them nobody came
alongside of me and said those things
and so John and I had loaded our two
boys up in our Honda Civic we had
Addison Juliana’s husband on one side
Austin on the other side Jess who did my
makeup’s husband you can’t see her she’s
hiding and and we had a suitcase between
them so they couldn’t touch each other
because they would fight and so we had
driven all day from apka Florida which
means the Big Potato all the way to
Rockingham North Carolina and by the
time we got there and there had been a
couple pit stops because I was largely
pregnant had to get out of the car run
in circles to keep the blood flow going
in my legs but other than that we barely
got fed because John B is on a mission
we show up at this Motel it is so scary
that my husband is like this is really
really a desperately dangerous
neighborhood he said when I leave for
service you lock the door and you do not
open it unless you have voice
identification for me so John leaves for
service I’m giving my sons a bath it’s
very scary very foreign we’re just two
double beds that are kind of bowed in
the middle so you put people in and then
they hit each other and I finally fall
asleep and my husband comes home around
midnight because back then if the
service didn’t go three and a half hours
God didn’t show up and so John comes
home around midnight I open the door you
know I’m kind of like in this confused
state of where am I and who am I opening
the door for and John’s getting ready
for bed and I lean over I’m like how was
it and he’s like oh it was really rough
it was really rough it’s so legalistic
and I’m like yeah I’m really sad to hear
that and he’s like yeah yeah the women
the women they they need you and I was
like what no wait I’m like pregnant and
this is like a Pentecostal Holiness
Church they’re going to kick me out when
they fin have double PE tears and he’s
like yeah so listen I told the pastor
you would do a woman’s meeting tomorrow
I was like what I didn’t even feel like
a Christian after 14 hours in a Honda
Civic with two children driving I’m like
are you joking no I’m not doing the
service tomorrow he’s like yeah so
you’re going to do it tomorrow at 10:00
I’ll take the boys to like Waffle House
for breakfast you just need to be on you
just need to be ready and and I just
said wait what what did you even preach
tonight and he had preached my one
message I had one little message that I
had preached about offence that he had
preached that night and I remember being
so mad I’m like you can’t make me do
this I can’t you I’m not I don’t even
like women I can’t I can’t believe
you’re doing this to me they can’t even
wear pants this is not the right crowd
for me to talk to and John was like you
just better go to sleep it’s like 2:
a.m. and you’re going to have to get up
in a couple hours and this is happening
and so he left in the morning with the
two boys and I went into a panic mode I
couldn’t even you couldn’t even kneel on
the floor of the carpet because it was
so dirty that I was kneeling on top of
the bed and I began to pour out my heart
to God and I said you know I don’t like
women you know you never sent me the
mentor and he just interrupts me and he
said Lisa I love women he said I created
woman as the answer to the very first
problem like okay you’re right probably
shouldn’t say I don’t like women and he
said I want you to begin to pour out my
love to women and I said I don’t okay
but you like them but I still I still
don’t really like them and I said and
you never sent me a mentor you never
sent anybody to pour into me how am I
supposed to pour out what I never had
and he said Lisa for you there’ll be no
mentor and I remember hearing that and
thinking am I not worthy of a mentor am
I not worthy of that attention is am I
not worthy of being seed into and he
said Lisa you’re going to have to be
that woman and I said what that’s a joke
be that woman I don’t want to be that
woman I want to meet that woman and he I
said I don’t know how to be that woman
and he said yeah you do he said
everything you wish another woman would
have been to you these last eight years
you begin to be and I remember remember
at that moment I saw a chain and when
usually when you hear the word chain you
think of bondage you think of chain Ling
fence you thinking of feathers no it
wasn’t like that it was a beautiful gold
necklace chains links coming down I
couldn’t see where it started but I saw
where it stopped and the last link was
suspended and then there was an airspace
between that link and the next couple
links and I couldn’t help but notice
that they weren’t connected and he said
Lisa each of these links represents a
generation of my daughters and he said
there has been a disconnect and he said
I want you to understand I don’t want a
mentoring of Pride I want mothering out
of Brokenness see mentors tend to
reproduce themselves but true mothers
they want something more for the Next
Generation than anybody gave them thems
and I believe that God is saying to you
and I I want something more for the Next
Generation I want you to trust me that
you can give what you never had and to
those who are sitting there going wait a
minute I’m too young to be a godmother I
I’m a goddaughter God is actually saying
to you the same thing he said to me
he’s saying you can get what you need
you can get what you need and how I
started with what I needed is I actually
sat down with a pen and paper and I
describe what that woman would look like
how she would act when she saw me how
she would Speak Life unto me how she
wouldn’t be on my side because I can be
wrong but that she would be by my side
that she would speak hope and life and
love into my future because all of the
other women I had come across they would
say they would say things to me that
wasn’t blessing I remember in particular
one uh Women’s Conference I was so
excited to be invited and speak at and
this is you know I’m 60 this would have
been when I was in my 40s or maybe just
40 I was so excited I was going to be
with these generals I was going to be
with these older women I remember they
said you can sit on the platform because
that’s what we did back then we sat on
the platform I was like no no I want to
sit at their feet I’m going to be on the
front row I can’t I’m going to sit at
their feet I’m going to listen to
everything these pioneering women have
to say to me and when we went to lunch I
walked in and I remember them looking me
up and down and they said it must be
nice to be young and thin and it broke
my heart because I wasn’t interested in
being young and thin I was interested in
being strong and godly I wanted to hear
the thing things that they could share
with me so that I could grow in God’s
grace that I could grow in God’s love
that I could grow in God’s strength so I
want you to know I believe these women
are all around you and I believe that
you need them you need them and I know
sometimes it’s scary to admit you have
gaps I know it sometimes it’s scary to
admit you have needs but until we admit
we have needs we’re never going to
actually fill them and I know that we
live in a culture that says oh you can
figure it out yourself no you actually
can’t you were created for Community you
were created for connection and there is
so much isolation and there is so much
disconnection right now that people are
in unhealthy positions because they need
somebody who understands where they are
but is excited about where they are
going so a godmother won’t just talk
about where you are she’ll actually
speak the destiny of where you are
headed so the first thing I need you to
know is godmothers are people they’re
people they’re not fairies I wish they
were I wish I could find one for you
that would just come and magically wave
the wand and everything’s going to
happen for you but they are people and
because they’re people godmothers aren’t
perfect they’re not perfect
but they are purposeful we need to be
surrounded by people who aren’t perfect
but are interested in seeing what is on
our lives being perfected there are
people that will actually bless what you
do well and course correct what you’re
not doing well so we love that we all
can make mistakes and learn for those so
I’m going to ask you to be honest think
of somebody who has a marriage the way
you want your marriage to be see that
could be a godmother for your marriage
think of somebody who you see their kids
and their kids are filled with laughter
and connection and they’re not afraid of
people and they’re engaged that could be
a godmother for you when it comes to
your children I remember there was this
one magnificent mother who had five kids
and when I was pregnant with my first
son I just cornered her at somebody
else’s baby show and I just said I need
you to tell me everything that you know
about mothering and she just poured into
me so beautifully so I’m not the
beginning of anything I’m actually the
product of other people who were kind
enough to connect with me so we want to
talk about closing your gaps and each of
these lessons is going to represent a
gap so the first and foremost reason why
you need a godmother is because you have
gaps and the gaps are things that if you
don’t intentionally work to close them
they’re going to be dangerous for you to
fall into or somebody else to fall into
another reason why you need a godmother
is you need somebody who is willing to
bless your life somebody who will
actually watch out for you and pray for
you and Speak Life and Truth to and for
you that somebody that just says I’m
going to carry you in my heart for
however long God tells me to carry you
so I want to pray at the very beginning
because I’ve written things for you but
I believe that my writing is to awaken
you to an awareness of the other people
that God is going to surround you with
so heavenly father I just thank you that
we all need godmothers and father I
believe that you are closing the gap
between the way things are and the way
they should be father I believe that
your daughters will no longer be in
assailable positions that we will not be
vulnerable because there is a disconnect
from one generation to the other
generation that the wisdom of one
generation will be layered on the Next
Generation that we will not give way to
foolishness and isolation that we will
not live by opinion but that together we
are going to see truth grow and flourish
in our lives in Jesus name
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amen