“Commit your way to the LORD, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass.”  Psalm 37: 5
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Meet Rhonda McKnight

I’d like to introduce myself by sharing a little of my journey to publication, because it’s been filled with favor.  I’ve been writing since I was six years old, but became really serious about publication in late 2002. I attended some writers conferences, joined a few writers groups, but still had not committed to finishing a project. On New Year’s Day 2007 I sat down with the Lord and told HIM I wanted a book deal before the end of the year. My novel was in first draft form and needed a lot of rewriting, but I was determined to clean it up and get it in the mail early enough to sell it before the next new year caught me wishing I had.

Fearfully and wonderfully, He created each and every part of me..
Without doubt the Master carved my greatness into being.
With strokes of love He painted a rich vibrant color all over my body.
Each time He touched me He thought of how wonderful my life would be.

He saw my days and wrote each one down in the book of life.
With careful thought He penned each bump, obstacles,
and the victory I would have in the midst of it all.
He knew I would be one to accept His Son
and that the enemy would try and steal me away.

Yet as He wrote, He knew that in my life He would be glorified.

My name is Jacquie Lewis-Kemp and the chapter I wrote for Victorious Living for Women is entitled We Can’t Always Predict How God Will Bless Us.

As women we multitask.  All at the same time we work, manage a household, cook, clean, tutor, and manage a marital partnership—financially, spiritually and emotionally, not to mention manage the in-laws, out-laws and other extended family members.  Multitasking focuses us to handle most if not all of these issues during the course of a regular day.  Always handling problems can sometimes keep a woman from living victoriously.

If we’re around people who constantly point out what’s wrong with us and around us, then we too can begin to believe that there is lots wrong with our lives and that there is nothing we can do about it.  And we become depressed.

In John chapter 4, Jesus deals with a woman who needs some healing. She has been married 5 times and the man she is currently with is not her husband. She is shunned by the other women, because of her lifestyle plus she is a Samaritan. So she has to do all her work in the middle of the day when hardly anyone is around. She has no idea of Whom she is about to meet and how her life will change because of His Touch.

Habari Gani? The news today is Ujima (00-JEE-mah) which means “Collective Work and Responsibility”. This principle teaches us that we are to build and maintain our community together and make our brother’s and sister’s problems our problems and to solve them together.

Day 3 of Kwanzaa represents a very important aspect of the Christian faith that helps us to become all the God intends for us to be. We are expected to work together and help one another. However, for some reason in this mixed up society we have missed the true mission as mandated by God.

I have always taught my children to help others and to work with others. It is a very important part of our family mission to simply be the vessels that God has created us to be.