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Days: Monday – Thursday
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Dr. Celeste Owens – author of The 40-Day Surrender Fast and call host. Full bio
Andel Owens – loving husband to Dr. Celeste and devoted father. Andel is a man of integrity and strong faith. His humble posture before God has allowed him to direct his family with wisdom. This man of valor is honored and respected by his wife of 10 years and 2 small children.
Sonya Peebles – president of the Single Women’s Ministry (Latter Rain Cathedral, Pastor Donald Chisholm). “My mission is to help, guide and direct single women to live a lifestyle pleasing to God during our time of singleness.” Sonya is a single mom to one great son, Stewart Q. Fonville III and cousin to Dr. Celeste.
Pastor Donald Chisholm – Pastor of the Latter Rain Cathedral, one church two campuses in Buffalo and Lockport, NY. He is the devoted husband of Malinda Chisholm and loving father to 8 adult children. This man of faith has greatly influenced his daughter’s (Celeste’s) walk with Christ. May his prayers ignite your faith and help you to know that with God all things are possible.
First Lady Malinda Chisholm - wife to Pastor Donald Chisholm and super mom to 8 children. This anointed woman of God has loved her family with quiet dignity and unending service. Her faith in God is akin to the faith we read about in Hebrew 11. May you be blessed by what God will say to us through His willing vessel.
Frank and Stephanie Davis – This husband and wife dynamic duo actively participate on the praise and worship team at their home church, The Latter Rain Cathedral in Lockport, NY. Frank plays the keyboard while Stephanie does vocals. They have been married for 3 years and have one son. They are also sister and brother-in-law to Dr. Celeste.
Latricia Chisholm – As founder of Lady of Virtue Ministries, Latricia is intentional about meeting the growing needs of women by providing consistent support, insight and objectivity dedicated to promoting sisterhood while building trust in sustainable relationships that strengthen, inspire and ultimately empower women to live the highest vision of their life in a context of love, spirituality and personal development. She is a wife, proud mother of two beautiful children, an educator, consultant, and motivational speaker.
First Lady Chisholm,
Thank you for that awesome prayer decreeing and declaring, God truly guided you to pray that. That prayer truly was for me, that morning some doubt came over me of God healing me, I have had the honor of being used by God to pray healing over others, so of course I know where and who the doubt came from but after hearing you pray and feeling your confidence along with your prayer there was no doubt left! The anointing that flows through you is not only AWESOME but encouraging too.
Thank you for your obedience to God.
Joy
Hey Ms. Joy, Thank you so much. I have said in the past that it is soooo easy to encourage others and telling them that they will be ok. But I use to wonder about myself. But through my many test and trials, I’ve grown stronger and stronger. That’s why, test and trials are so so good cause they help you to grow. When God tells me I am healed, sometimes the pain and discomfort is still there, sometimes for days, therefore, I have a choice, I can believe God or I can believe the pain. God is true to his word. I don’t know if you heard my testimony but on last May I was diagnosed as having a brain aneurysm. Now if this was my first test with sickness or bad news, I would not be able to function. But like David encouraged himself, I can say, he brought me through other illnesses, so now I have the faith, this aneurysm will not kill me. I believe God. I know you didn’t expect a letter, sorry. But when I begin to talk about the goodness of Jesus…I need not say any more.
Thank you First Lady Chisholm, you can respond to me in length of a letter anytime. You words are so encouraging, true and powerful matter of fact they have bought tears to my eyes! Thank you for responding, you have empowered me to keep fighting the good fight of faith. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!
Love Joy
You are so welcome.
Minister Sonya,
You are such a powerhouse, your prayer was empowering. My husband is doing the fast with me and you confirmed his absolute desire that they spectators would see a mighty change that God will do. After us losing many things my hubby’s desire is that the ultimate spectator and enemy/satan be put to shame. Thank you for your prayer!
Joy
Great point! The enemy can spectate all He wants but God will put him to shame. I am so glad your husband has joined us for this cycle. I pray that he is and will be abundantly blessed. Also, I will pass your message on to Sonya.
YOUR WELCOME, ONLY BUT GOD!!!!
Thank you!
Hi i just want to thank you Dr. Owens for sharing my testimony on today about the faith displayed by my 5 yr old daughter Araya Hope. I chose the right name for her because she is a ray of hope just knowing that prov 22:6 will live forever through our children if we keep the faith. Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he shall not depart from it. It was encouraging to hear the testimony about your admin. Assistant! I had a great job that paid well but i also have a husband and 5 beautiful christian children. God removed me from that management position nov 1 2011 and i have been home caring for my children and blessing my home while my husband is away in kuwait for a year. While at home God has called me into an administrative position at my church! I was given the job the first week of this fast! Praise God! I believe god is using this job opportunity to teach me patience responsibility endurance. If i can be a good steward of a little God will bless me with so much more. Stay encouraged everyone because God is moving us from here to there.
Tiffany thank you for submitting your testimony. I was a joy reading about your little one, Araya Hope. Love the name! Also, may God bless you during your time of separation from your husband. Please let us know if there is a way that we can support you. Are you in the DMV (the District/Maryland/Virginia)? Lastly, what an amazing opportunity God has given you to assist your church. I will pass your testimony on to Stephanie. As the scripture say, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all His righteousnes and all these THINGS shall be added to you.” Be blessed!
No dr owens i am not from maryland i reside in buffalo ny. You can support me by just keeping my husband eric smith in your prayers. Satan tried his best to keep me down but honestly God has blessed my family so much even through our trials we never went without. I do have a heavy heart sometimes because of our eldest daughter Falise. Let me explain. Falise is in college for dentistry. She was brought up in church i mean i was the sunday school teacher lol so she had no choice but to go as for me and my house we will serve the lord. Anyways one night in october a guy friend calls her to go to the haunted house. She was born on halloween and she was 18 at the time. Shes 19 now. When she gets in the car theres 3 other boys and they take her on a ride but not to where she expected but while in process of riding in the car the car catches fire! The police see car on fire and stop car. They all get out of car and the car gets searched only to find 2 loaded guns hidden under seats with amunition. My baby was caught up and now is being tested for dna etc and handprints and they say she could face up to 3 years in jail! The devil is a liar! I need all the prayer fasters on this case. Falise lemon needs to be prayed free. Parents keep talking to ur kids about the people they hang around. Even when they get 18 their not grown. Keep teaching them. our girls are weak at certain ages and may fall for anything so we have to be dilligent in keeping them in Christ. I have annointed her with oil and I’m believing this fast will bring my family into God’s will.
Tiffany, thank you sooooo much for those words of encouragement. This afternoon things were sounding a little pitful, seem like some people were discouraged. I sure hope they all read your words of inspiration, I say inspiration cause after reading what you wrote, somebody ought to be inspired! ! ! !
Hello Tiffany! Wow! It’s so amazing to hear that another surrender faster is right in the place where God would have them to be. God is doing a great work in you. He’s pruning and making you so that you can be The Great Women of God that He has created. Be not afraid because in His Word, Hebrews 13:5b it say’s that He will never leave thee now forsake thee; so just know that He is always with you. May God continue to bless you!
Tiffany, keep on believing. The first blessing was when the car caught on fire!!!! No telling what would of happened if it didn’t. God allowed that to happen, so he is well able to keep her from going to prison!
I agree completely with First Lady Chisholm! Tiffany, like the devotional read today Establish Your Faith. The first miracle was that that car caught on fire. God will use this time to get Falise’s attention. He has great things in store for her; her life is not her own. Also, the word says, raise us a child in the way they should go and when they are old they won’t depart from it. Falise thinks she can do what she wants but she can’t! You and your family are in our prayers.
Wow me and my mother said the same thing about the fire. When falise talks of that night she remembers being really scared but she says the fire was strange. She said the back of the truck from the outside appeared to be consumed and then it seemed to magically disappear once the police were on the scene. Its like the burning bush. God sends us warnings and signs to get our attention. Thankyou for your replies. I have prayed about it but i find myself doubting god so i will strengthen my inner faith as well. This could be my test. Im thankful that ride ended safely even though shes git alot to go through but this to shall pass
Last week was an amazing week! This is my first participation in a 40-Day Fast and I must admit that it was a little intimidating to comit to fasting in the beginning because I aready knew some of the areas that God was calling me to bring into obedience to his word, one area being to eat a more balanced diet. In other words, He was calling me to reign in my love for deserts, (candy, cookies, cakes so on). I am happy to report that on Day 8, I am still without eating any types of deserts. This is monumental to me for God to do this in my life because I submitted this to Him, through the guidance of Dr. Owens and the Surrender Fast Prayer team. He is doing something in me that I had previously thought was a near impossible task. If He did it for Dr. Celeste and now for me, He can do it for you. Also, I have been unemployed for about 7 months and I have faith that even though the circumstances around me becoming unemployed was not good I just believe that God is working it all out for my good.
In this time, I have been able to look for work, have more time to study the word of God, participate in this 40-Day Surrender Fast as well as participate in the Tamar Ministry at First Baptist of Glenarden to continue to work on a childhood wounding. Dr. Celeste Owens, was the first facitiliator in the Tamar Ministry who helped to start me on my journey with the guidance of God to bring about healing for my childhood wounding. And God used Dr. Owens mightily in the Tamar Ministry to set the captive free. Therefore, I have great respect for her call to help heal the body of Christ.
So God knows what He is doing even if we don’t. I have been so blessed by Dr. Owens and the Surrender Fast Team. Dr. Owens has such a wonderful gift of swift obedience to the word of God and she makes the word come alive in her teachings to us. I have been uplifted by every prayer of each member of the prayer team. Stephanie thank you for the uplifting and heartfelt, prayer and song on the prayer line today that encouraged us. For the first time today, I was actually able to listed to the prayer line as it was being broadcasted which is a prayer answered. Surrender Fasters we are doing it, surrendering our lives daily to Jesus Christ. To God Be the Glory for the Good Things that He has done!
Amen, Rosalyn! Thank you for your encouraging words. God is so faithful. If we give up a little He turns around our situations and blesses us alot. I know that you sacrifice of denying your flesh is not going unnoticed. God sees you and is pleased. Keep on surrendering it all to Him.
Beautiful words of encouragement Rosalyn! I too have given up sweets for the surrender fast and it has been a challenge, but I will not give up! We’ll make it together with God on our side. Let’s fight for the promise! Remember God’s word in Joel the 2nd chapter where He say’s “we will not be made ashamed.” God has come for our words and He will reward us for our faithfulness! Be blessed.
First Lady Chisholm and Dr. Owens, thank each of you for your wisdom and encouraging words that you both spoke to us today on the prayer line on Day 9 of our surrender fast. Dr. Owens, I have been going to church for as long as I can remember. And you are the first to teach on and reveal that Jesus in his human form was in some ways no different than us in human form because He was not empowered with all of his attributes. Thanks for this wonderful revelation and your really made it plain to us today that Jesus too had a choice to love his enemies, or to be concerned about what they were going to do to him such as betray Him as Judas did or deny Him as Peter did. I am so excited about what God will reveal to me and others about ourselves, and how we deal with our enemeies as we reflect on our answers to the reflection questions for Day 9.
I was so inspired by what First Lady Chisholm shared with us today, that I may start to refer to her mother Chisholm because she demonstrated so much wisdom to us and love as she shared with us that the Christian walk is one of trials and tests but we must remain faithful in spite of what comes our way. She also reminded us that the key to getting through our challenges is to praise the Lord and give Him thanks. First Lady Chisholm, I appreciate how you the great woman of God is allowing God to speak through you to uplift us. May the Lord continue to Keep you, Dr. Owens and the rest of the prayer team as we continue on this journey. Thank First Lady Chisholm for reassuring us that God is doing something mighty in us as we continue to submit to him. I received that. To God be the glory!
Thanks Rosalyn! I so appreciate your encouraging words and excited about what God will reveal to us next. I love to study the life of Jesus because He is our perfect mentor. I will continue to strive to let Him be who He is in my life.
Thank you so much Rosalyn. Those words are very encouraging.
Sonya, thank you so much for praying for us today! I needed that this morning. There is so much going on in my life. My son’s behavior in school has gotten so bad that it is so frustrating to me, his God mother and his teachers. I know that if we continue to call on the name of “Jesus” that change will take place! Sonya you such a powerful prayer warrior and I thank God you are holding up the walls with your prayers.
You are so right. Sis. Sonya is powerful! She prays as though every thing is going good in her life. But guess what, I know her, and I know she is going through just like all of us and she has gone through other things. The more you go through, greater the anointing! ! !
Thank you, Yes I do have trials and test, but I have learned,learned to put my faith and hope and trust in GOD, AND YES HE WILL ANSWER.
ALL I CAN SAY IS WITHOUT HIM I DONT KNOW WHAT,OR WHERE I WOULD BE!!!!
As we are on the 40th day of the fast that we started now 40 days ago, I would like to thank Dr. Celeste Owens and the Surrender Fast Team for the pouring out of themselves into our lives and we are all better for it.
I am looking forward to the testimonies of the blessings that God has given all of you for your obedience to Him.
While we focused on getting through each day, all of you had the additional task of encouraging us. I received words of wisdom from each of you. Again thanks for your faithfulness.
Dr. Celeste, I thank God for your leadership and obedience because of it, the Lord has been able to set the captives free and release a new life style in our lives. To God be the glory!
You are welcome Rosalyn. Like you said, to God be the glory!
First Lady Chisholm,
Mom, thank you acknowledging me as your daughter on the weekly wrap up call. You know us adopted children love feeling accepted!
Your NEW daughter,
Joy
Love you Joy!