Nyesha’s teachings on faith helped me see how God’s word is relevant for today; she taught me to take God’s words in my bible as His direct promises forever to me! She taught me that when God’s word hit my faith, it creates an everlasting bond that He is obligated to remain constantly active in according to Jeremiah 1:12.
Although we all know God was speaking to Jeremiah in asking the prophet what did he see or what could he visualize, her teachings were that it is the entirety of the actions within that conversation between God and Jeremiah that my faith needed to connect with as still applicable for today. I had to stretch my faith with Holy Spirit within me to allow God to ask me, “Yolanda, what do you see?”
I immediately applied the teaching and began writing what I saw God could do in my life or rather what I needed Him to do in my life right then: heal my mind to better retain information, show me how to apply active skill sets to my daily work tasks to work smarter, increase the capacity of my understanding of business operations to reflect in my thought processes, and reflect all those skill sets on my resume with trending industry keywords to believe God for open doors to better paying jobs.
I saw God could do all those things and because it was His word in my heart that I was standing in faith on, He was obligated to perform it!
Since applying Nyesha’s faith teachings over 15 years ago, I’ve seen increase upon increase in my wisdom to apply God’s instructions to better position me for breakthroughs. Especially during the past two years of changes that have affected the entire world. Because of God’s favor and my faith to see that I am above and not beneath, I was never out of work or laid off, I saw my contracts get extensions while others were terminated as state agencies were legislated to cut spending.
Even as far back as 2011 when I had my second child then had to overcome a divorce- it was Nyesha’s teachings that helped set my foundations in faith that Jesus created us in and on purpose (Colossians 1:16), nothing would ever be able to snatch us out of His hands (John 10:28-30), God would contend with those that contend with us (Isaiah 49:25) and if I focused on Him, my child and I would be beyond blessed. Today, I can say that we are definitely blessed in every area of our lives. We are both operating in our gifts of music, prayer and faith to give God glory and serve as financial blessings to our church and community.