Thank You For The Water!

Shakirah McQueen is the owner and operator of Kirah's Place Family Childcare in Dallas, GA. She is the wife of Joseph and is the mother of three beautiful children. Shakirah attended our Making WAVES Retreat and not even a week after experiencing those life changing waters, she experienced supernatural blessings and favor. Read her testament of how the disruption of the status quo in her life caused major WAVES that she rode right into her windows of blessings. 

Joseph and Shakirah McQueen

For the past couple months, life has been not to shabby. We have been making it, we are happy, there has been laughter here in our home. But for me, the wife, the mother, the walls seem to be closing in on me. Preparation for everyday life, keep our home in order, my children, church, goodness sooo much to do, but when will I have time. I needed to be with GOD, just sit and speak, but Listen for his word and not speak over him. I wanted so much for us, we are good church folks, we (well I) visited the word..but for me I still need more, I was sinking. 

I run a successful business from home, I mean we have created a mini school here. I have received awards from the Commissioner. I received National Accreditation. The State of Georgia would visit and commend us.  They would  bring others to see my daycare, expressing that it is a great example of a Home Based Childcare Center.  I was good. But still I felt we were sinking. I told my husband I needed to go on the "Making Waves Retreat". I wasn't sure how, because around the same time he approved it, I lost 4 of the 5 children I was teaching; losing more than 90% of my income. How are we going to do that? My husband said not to worry, he knew we could do it. I went. GOD and my husband made it happen. I drove with a friend, talking about the excitement I felt, how JESUS was the reason I made it. We pulled into the home, my breathe left my body. The beauty of course of the home was one reason, but JESUS beat me there. HE got there first. I walked, dragging the heavy body of mine thought out the home, buzzing and speaking to beautiful women. I made it to the top of the stairs and Yolanda was there, welcoming me in her arms. I took my first breathe and I cried with each breathe thereafter. THE HOLY SPIRIT was with us during this embrace. I felt him, right there. We had sessions, and with each session, I felt they took a chapter of my torn life. We prayed, the music, the teachings I took it all into the water. 

That weekend, I received my first massage. She spoke to me with words of the HOLY Spirit, I was lifted. I began to chip away those things that weighed me down. She washed my feet, after that the door was wide open…come on in Holy Spirit, take a seat. Those sessions, the prayer and the worship in that home changed me and my family forever. I burned all things that made me question my purpose. I came home and told my husband, Joseph, what God had for us and that He was going to be more and do more. He was going to lead our family so much higher. Raises and promotions were on the horizon. I guess he figured I am his biggest fan, and he is a believer, so he went with it. That Wednesday, Joseph didn't go to mid week service. I took our tithes and offering and spoke to Jesus with the authority HE gave me in the water at Lake Lanier. We are going higher. I prayed to the Father for my husband Joseph, for increase, raises and promotions. I grab a church member and said this is for my husband, Joseph's, raise, promotion, and increase this coming Wednesday. I told her to be in agreement, she had a look of shock and disbelief, but I  said I know it is going to happen and I placed in the basket. 

I poured into my husband Joseph, told him to ask his boss that Thursday for all the things WE had prayed for, he did. He called during lunch and said another co-worker had quit. I told him God is moving some things and we better be ready. He said his boss told him that they would talk to him the following day which was Friday, they didn't. I told him he needed to speak to them no later than Wednesday, that is when the change would take place. His boss wasn't able to speak to him on that Monday. We continued to pray and we stood on that Word. We stood together, we planned our attack, we learned what My husband worth was in the company. Tuesday they called him in the office, we were ready, and they offered better than what we prayed. Bonuses, a raise and a $500 a month gas allowance!!!! 

The water changed us, our marriage, our income, our relationship with GOD. The water opened our gates, our eyes, our nose, our mouth, our ears. My family was changed on Tuesday, but by Wednesday, JESUS blew FAVOR into my Husband mouth and embraced each and every one of us. 

I encourage you to sit down, speak a plan, write a plan, make it clear.  Lay in that word of GOD, and watch him lift you off your feet forever. Our home increased, therefore our tithes will joyfully increase. And we know this is not the end, we must continue as GOD has more for us.  Again we are ready. We are setting time aside to fast and pray. We have the shield of the Holy Spirit and we are ready for the next level. Jesus is not done with us, and we have only begun with HIM. We are sitting and speaking, listening and embracing the HOLY Spirit. Our passion for JESUS has been forever changed. 

Thank you for the Water!