Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:38:48 -0800WeeblySat, 31 Dec 2011 22:52:53 -0800http://www.danyellescroggins.com/1/post/2011/12/congratulations-youve-made-it-to-2012.htmlJust another wonderful thing that God has done in your life. He has given us another opportunity to LEAP out of the old and into the NEW.

LEAP into the promises of God and discover the richness of God's provisions. I am fully aware that some of you never imagined that you could make it, but the Devil was, is, and always shall be a liar. Not only did we defy what the enemy had planned, we proved that our God is a protector, provider, and true to His promises.

Give your life to Christ this year and leave your agendas, and instead fall into the Will of God for your life. If you fall into His Will, He will take you places you never imagined you'd go. Discover a relationship that not like any relationship you've ever been in. Discover a peace like no other peace you've known. Discover the richness of true love. Discover JESUS!

May the peace of God, the sweet communion of His Holy Spirit, rest, rule, and abide with you henceforth and forever more. I love you and I'm excited that we can embark upon this New Year together. Be Blessed.

Danyelle L. Scroggins, your sister, your friend, your daughter, your pastor, your author, your encourager.
I shall be all things to all men, in order that I may win them over to Christ! ]]>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:08:56 -0800http://www.danyellescroggins.com/1/post/2011/12/always-do-whats-right.htmlYesterday was a true reminder that I should be careful at all times how I treat people. You never know if that person will take whatever it is to heart and decide to do something about it. You know I always write my stories to encourage you, so here it goes:

My daughter buys her dad two pair of jeans for Christmas; good thought, but too small. She leaves for Lake Charles and we are left to take the jeans back. The jeans still had the store's original tags on them; we were sure that we could take them back, exchange them, and leave the store happy.

Needless to say, we ran into the manager from H***. First she stood there while I spoke to the clerk who was young and couldn't tell me about a prompted up manager's policy, while she fumbled with the cash register. Now in my opinion, a good manager would have said, "Ms. if you would give me a moment, I'll be with you."  So when I asked the child, can I speak with the manager, "Here she is." I was out-done to the tenth power. One, that she'd heard me talking to the child, stood there, and expected the child to handle it. Then she came around the counter and told me, it's been our policy not to take anything back without a receipt at all that's why we made sure you received one. I explained that my daughter purchased them as a Christmas gift and now she's gone. "Well Maim, it's our policy and we've had it for a while." So I just simply said, "I will blog about this because my friends all over the world need to know in case this happens to them."

Needless to say, I called the corporate offices and spoke with a young woman who stated, "That was not there policy". She also went as far to say that it was at the discretion of the manager. I was too out-done. Not only had she lied to my face, she had the authority to do the right thing and chose not too. So I go back to the store and ask for the name corporate gave me (thinking it would be a higher manager, or store manager), and to my surprise it was her who had the nerve to say, "Yeah, I heard the spill (which to me was incorporated as "the squeal". At that point, had I been who I use to be, we would have gone to the tenth power, but thank God for Jesus and His power to change His people! I said, "Ms. I work hard for my money and just like anyone else, I don't want to waste it. I wasn't trying to cause you a problem, I just want what my money has bought." She says, "You people don't realize that it's a problem for us, to have to take this stuff back and turned and walked away." Boy, If my child would have been in the car, who by the way is 18, I would have asked for my money back and left. Nevertheless, I'm trying to teach her that some people will be difficult for no reason and it's up to you to do what is right. And I'm still wondering what was meant by you people. It couldn't have been Black People, because she was black. It could have meant rich people, because we were dressed to the nine and I had on clothing from that store from my necklace, down to my boots! So, I'll take that, but what I want be labeled as is ignorant, mean, arrogant, and a liar.

What was right for me to do, was honor the gift that my daughter, with love, bought for her dad and make sure he walked out of that store with what we went in there for. We did just that and ended up paying more because we purchased a higher priced pair. Now, she truly made what was easy so hard and I could not let it go. All I could think was, what if this woman does this to my mother, or some other older person who has no way of finding corporate? What if she treated my child the way she treated me? With all the "what if" I had floating in my mind, I wrote a nice little letter back to corporate. 

Just as she stands on her feet all week long, making her money. I sit at my desk from twelve to fifteen hours a day, trying to make mine. Hers is no better or less than mine, and both of us I'm sure have obligations that our money take care of. Nevertheless, her compassion about mine, was not nearly what mine would have been towards hers. Now, I would have told my customer that without the receipt, I won't be able to give them money, but they could exchange their product for equal or greater value with them paying the difference. Sounds to me like I could have her job! :) The moral of the story today: Always Do What's Right? Everyone is not dumb and everyone will not except what you say at face value, but when you are RIGHT, Right won't Wrong anyone! She would have had a corporate office that would have backed her. 

Now because corporate was so swift in their assignment, I'm not going to disclose the name of the store but I will say, it's probably best if you live in the Shreveport area to visit the store on (hey, if I told you that, you'd know and that still wouldn't be right). Let me see how corporate will handle this situation with her and I'll be happy to clue you in. Happy Shopping and make sure that your money goes to a company that appreciates your business. Be Blessed! 
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]]>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 07:51:11 -0800http://www.danyellescroggins.com/1/post/2011/08/the-fight-with-weight-chronicles-part-two.htmlYou know, people really do say things to hurt fat people. Some of them don't try it, but some just don't care. I will never forget the day one of our neighbors pulled up beside us in the car and said, "Hey girl with your fat self". I said, "Hey lady with your old self."  Reynard blast me for saying that to the old lady. He and I argued about who should have said what, but I wanted to cry. Why? Because the reality was that I was fat and could help it, and she was old but blessed to still be here. So my reality was a curse and hers was a blessing.

So, as I dealt with the pain of my reality, I had to figure out what was going on with me that would make this fight different from any other fight. What would make me bow down to my body and be so disencouraged  to challenge it? So, I took some moments to reflect on me. Then I thought about getting drugs to help with the weight lost. Almost every informercial is about someone promoting something for weight lost, and almost every fat person has tried something at least once. Even exercise equipment; almost every fat person has a piece...but the problem is not having these things, it's using them. I knew that I would not take the pills like the direction said, and I also knew after the first day of pain, I wouldn't exercise. So is it far to say that weight comes with the spirit of laziness? My answer is certainly yes!

You can not lose weight doing nothing! This was my first reality told to me by my sister by love Dana. She once was also a Big Girl, but after looking at a picture of herself, mustard enough strength to seek help. Her words were so dribbled in love but I heard what I heard and it hit me. I was truly trying to talk the weight off. So, I go to her house and decide to go walking with her. We go to this track and are walking and talking so much until I barely realize what I was doing. Then at the last two miles, I only wanted to pray. "God please don't let me have a heart attack." "God please give me strength to get to the car." I'd just walked six miles.

After we got home, instead of the stiffness making me say, "I got some weight gone today!" I withdrew into the place that has no tolerance for pain. I hurt bad, from my neck to my feet and I did not want to feel that way. When I made it back to Louisiana, I stayed in bed for two whole days and convinced myself that if I had to hurt this bad to lose weight, I would not do. This of course led me to another battle. My body said, "No", but my mind kept saying "Go". Somewhere in the corners of my mind was a drive to exercise, but the spirit of laziness was doing everything it could to remind me that I was fine just like I  was.

I have learned one thing, the devil does not tell you to do anything that is going to benefit you. So I knew that the Spirit that lived within me was ushering me to become as concerned about my physical man as much as I was concerned about my spiritual man. So, I decided to put God in the mix. If  He was urging me to physical wholeness, I needed His help and so I prayed......

Part Three Coming Soon!

]]>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 07:48:27 -0800http://www.danyellescroggins.com/1/post/2011/08/the-fight-with-weight-chronicles-part-one.htmlI am finally getting healthy and after seeing a picture of an overweight Prophetess, I saw the Danyelle that I was. I saw a woman of God who loves God, loves and does all she can for His people, but has closed her eyes to her natural self, became more aware and in tuned with her spirtual self,  and weighed the battle with her spiritual self more important than her natural self....forgetting that the temple carries her spiritual self. So, I decided that as I get rid the pounds, I could write to encourage someone else....here's where my journey began.........

In 2002, I started on a surgery adventure; one after another. After all were completed, I was left with a knee that gave me the blues still and I took advantage of the cortisone shots the emergency room and my doctor provided. As the shots dealt with the pain, my body began to change. Seemingly before my blinded eyes, I gained over one hundred pounds.The size eight (8) young lady that married in 2001, was now a size 18 and quickly approaching 20.

You live with yourself everyday, but weight has a way of making you feel that it's been living with you all along. I had been at this point (size 14),  when I was pregnant with Dobrielle so it was not an unfamiliar place. I figured, I'd eventually lose it the same way I did before. Nevertheless, the weight proved that it was going to fight me to hang on to me. So, when others would say, "Girl, you've gotten big, but you still have that pretty face" or "Girl you so pretty, but you've gained weight", I would instantly try to find something to blame like: the steroids, the surgeries, Reynard, or late night snacking. Don't get me wrong, steriods will make you gain weight because you eat more than normal; but just because you feel like you need to eat, does not mean that you have to. My food intake trippled and it did not seem to phase me. I have always been a snacker and my choice of snacks were not snacks at all....and that was four times as worse. I could nibble on a big bag of chips in two to three days.

As people talked, I would put of defenses. The more they criticized my weight, the more I convinced myself that I was happy with who I am; fat and all. I'd found ways to dress up the fat and promote Big Girls, but didn't get paid for it. Adament about being happy with me, until I clothes the door in the bathroom and gazed into the mirror. The woman I saw was not who I was; weight did not define me but no one could tell. What you saw was in no ways connected to who I really was, or what you would get.

Part TWO coming soon!

]]>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 06:34:02 -0800http://www.danyellescroggins.com/1/post/2011/08/makes-one-rich-and-adds-no-sorrow.htmlI use to believe that my blessings were and always had to be attached to money and stuff. You know, we really get the revelation that we have been blessed when we can take inventory of our possessions, but God re-routed my thoughts. He allowed all of my stuff to vanish. I'm talking about house, cars, money, and jobs. He allowed us to experience the place of nothing, and then showed the enemy that he couldn't take His blessing from us.
See, the real blessing of the Lord is truly to believe in Him. Your belief  and trust in the Lord, your God, does make  you rich and it adds no sorrow. Even in the midst of adversity, I gained an unexplained strength to STAND! This state not only affected me, but my family as well. And yes, you better believe that in the midst of our going through.....the enemy use every tactic to try to make us turn against God; even causing some of  my Christian sisters and brothers to come against us. See, when you are going through this type of storm, it's hard for people to tell; and when people (even some Christians) can't see the evidence of the state you're in, they often assume that all is well with you. It took tenacity not to tell everyone we were dead broke, strength to keep going places without one red cent in our pockets, and joy of the Lord to cause us to keep smiling instead of continously crying. Praise the Lord we understood the tricks of the enemy. This takes spiritual wisdom and you my friend must pray for it. 
Our God would cause us to be blessed everytime someone came against us and it almost became crazy. As soon as someone would do something to get me so upset, God would have someone in the next room waiting to bless me. God was literally taking a girl who use to would fight her own battles (by hauling off and hitting someone or cussing them), to a place of understanding that He would fight my battles large or small, and then reward me if I allowed Him to do it. If you happen to one of the ones who came against us, I don't hold it against you. I'm grateful that someone was weak enough for the enemy to use, so I could understand where he had been using me.
Now, I still don't have back everything that the enemy stole, but one by one God is restoring our stuff. Not because He wants to bless us, because He already has; but because He wanted to show me that without things or money, I was still BLESSED! I was indeed better than blessed! So as you read this, I pray that you understand whether in plenty or in nothing, your blessing is not based on things and money. Those are just the added things that are bestowed upon you when you Seek God. Your true blessing is coming into the knowledge of who Jesus Christ truly is, learning to love Him with all of your heart, mind, and soul, and then learning to love people as yourself......by this you are in the BLESSING and all those other things will be added unto you.
Be Blessed!

P.S. Don't take forgranted that everything is okay with people. Ask the Lord for the Spirit of Discernment, so you can discern when Christians are going through. You'd be amazed at just how you can help them


  ]]>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:46:02 -0800http://www.danyellescroggins.com/1/post/2011/06/a-pastors-fall-from-the-peoples-grace.htmlThis morning I was asked about the Bishop Eddie Long situation and I had to truly think about what I was being asked. Then I was asked about Pastor Dollar's response and this is the first thing that came to my mind..."Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted. Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ." Galatians. Then I thought about Long taking this thing to court and my mind went to "Settle matters quickly with your adversary who is taking you to court." Matthew. Then my mind went to "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." Matthew  Then this came to my mind, "If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him." Now, I for one am precise in my book about how I feel about sexual sins. And expecially when I see the attendees of such sins acting entitled. If you were not raped, you were a willing participant and why should the people care anymore about you, than they do the one whom you performed the act with? I tell my daughters and my son, "If anyone, and I mean anyone proposition you and you know it's wrong, if you don't tell me or your daddy, you were willing to accept the fate of that person's proposition. We are your parents and if we can't insure your safety, who will?" Those boys were not forced, and they could have told someone what was happening. Just like the women receiving Weiners text messages. If you don't like what someone is doing to you,  you have an obligation to yourself to run and tell it!!

Unfornately, I've been the mistress of a pastor and I understand the self-pride you feel when you are sleeping with the preacher. You feel your own little sense of entitlement and it overtakes you. So imagine a teenager feeling like this. Now, believe me I am not condemning these young men, I'm just explaining the angles from all sides. Pastors are not exempt from sin, and they say a many days, "Lord, I promise I'm coming out of this." "Lord help me change." And sometimes the only way we can change, is if God pulls the covers from over our undercover operations. Sometimes it takes Him exposing our sins....to whom much is given much is required....in every way! Sometimes it takes an ordeal of this great nature to change our heart and mind. Now as for Dollar, He's right! The very first time he lays his mouth on Long, and excepts his congregation, the devil will lay in wait to tear him alive. See, we have to be careful when we see one another fall. Yes, I can sit back and glean from your fall, but after you've been cleaned up, and restored, then I'll fall and you better believe that the same folks that I gleaned, will be the ones who will become someone else's glean.

God had to teach me this lesson the hard way. I refused to let my husband sit under a preacher who was cheating on his wife. I just felt like, if our leader is a cheater, then what is that teaching you. If you read my book, "His Mistress or God's Daughter?" you'll see exactly what happened to me. God spoke to me one day and said, "If you dig deep in every righteous man's life, you'll find something."  I said to God, "Job was a righteous man and you trusted him to live righteously." And God said to me, "But was his wife, who is a part of him." Then I thought about it.  What if it were Long's wife who was caught in the same situation? Would the church had expected him to leave his wife, or would they have left the church?

The reality is, people are falling and God is allowing it so we can take people down off of these places of praise. I go to preach at churches and I won't let you whisk me off to the back. If I go to the back it's to change my clothes and then I'm right back to the sanctuary. The people don't have to stand in no lines to come see me. Who am I? This preaching thing has become so commercialized until it's become a circus. And just like at a circus, when the trained animal acts untamed, the people talk, ooohhh, and run. How much longer will the church continue to be like this? And pastors are so trophied that when they have a problem, they won't run to another pastor and ask for help. I don't care who you are, as long as you are in this world, you are going to need a Word for yourself!!!! You can't beat me sending for Bishop Jakes tapes, or Iona Locke tapes when I need a word or running to my pastor's church. I'm not ashamed to bare my sins in books because I understand that if I confess my faults God is faithful and just to forgive me of my sins and to cleanse me from all unrighteousness.  I don't owe you no confession...my confession is to God! You can't cleanse me, God can. So as for the people who feel like Long should have talked more, for what. Whether he talked or not, people were going to have their own opinion. Some were going to leave whether he settled or not. Some had already made their minds if he were guilty or not from day one, and in this world you are definitely guilty until proven innocent.

So no matter who you are or how big the sin is, I have no right to lay my mouth on you negatively. I have the right to restore you meekly, but even as I restore you, I have an obligation to watch my mouth, mind, and my heart so I won't fall into the same sin because I got weak. I have an obligation to God to pray you through whatever situation you are in, and then ask God to keep me so I will not sin against Him. So Long might have fallen from your grace, but He hasn't fallen from God's Grace. God is the author and finisher of all our faith...He writes the chapters to our story and makes the timelines fit for His preferences. It's time for the church to pray and for the fathers and mothers of old to start crying out "Repent and Be Holy".

]]>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:35:48 -0800http://www.danyellescroggins.com/1/post/2011/06/could-you-be-the-one-whos-purpose-is-set-to-usher-change.htmlI was studying in my text book today about crime and deviant behavior, and how one crime is considered deviant in one society, but not in another. Then as I kept reading, I read where crime is not weighed the same with people. So as it turned out, my daughter called me in the middle of my studying. She just finished a Criminal Justice course at McNeese State University. We started talking and she said, "Mom, you know they don't even put white folks in jail for some of the same stuff they throw us in jail for, and the text books are teaching us this. Why it is that everyone knows how the system works, but no one is trying to change it."

At this point, I really couldn't answer but I agreed. I think about my baby brother who was thrown back into jail because he tested positive at his probation officer for drugs. Now, I can remember when I worked in a local counseling center and there were these men who worked for GM, and white males who had also tested positive for drugs. Instead of being thrown in jail, they sent them to a counseling center. So, I felt what she was saying because I've experienced it in my own family. Then I began to think about all the young African American attorneys in this world who get into the system to change it, but then conform to exactly the type of people they wanted to change.  All in search for a great name, a lot of money, and a reputation before men...forgetting the man who gave them the ability and desire to change the system.

It's strange how if you offer some African Americans status and praise, they soon forget about the mission of people, and start focusing on the mission call "ME". I see why we were admonished in the Word concerning giving men praise. Take for instance a young African American law student, he sees the injustice and inequality of the system and desires to use his or her gift and voice to transform it. Then, he gets in the system and learns the scratch back syndrome....eventually, he forgets what he desired to do because the same system where he's learning the rules of the game, is learning him. Then once the system finds him out, they do just what is necessary to promote him praiseworthy. (Note: If the system knows all you have to do is give a black person some praise, money, and rope to hang himself, isn’t it willing to eagerly hand over all three to you?) Praise sends him out his mind!!!! Just like it did the Devil. I can just imagine that as soon as he started getting praise for being an awesome worship leader, he thought he could take over God's job. And as soon as he set his plan, he convinced a couple of dummies who wanted praise for themselves to follow suit. Don't get caught up in other people's junk, searching for ways to validate yourself!

So then what becomes of the purpose that God spark in him or her to usher change? God sits back and sparks a couple more folks in hopes that they will turn away from the world's way, and allow Him to lead and guide them for the people. Take Moses for instance. He had to turn away from power, money, and fame in order to lead the people out of bondage. And I hear someone saying, "Do black people always need a leader?" My answer is, yes! I feel this way because when God was leading us, we weren't satisfied, we needed a leader and He sat this in place. Until God comes back again, we as a human race are always in need of leadership. So then my question becomes, who is going to step out and declare the injustice of the system and rectify it? Who is going to use what they have, given by God to create a better place for God's people, to help the people, instead of to get what they want.

I watched the news on yesterday and the police department was so happy to announce that they would be setting up in the black neighborhoods and had taken 80 people to jail that had warrants. Now, I don't know if anyone else was thinking what I was thinking, but I said, there are break-ins in Broadmoor and other places where whites live. But instead, we stake out in the poor communities, gather all the blacks and throw them in jail, make their families who are already struggling come up with the money to bail them out,  and then we won't have to be faced with crime. Then what sickens me more is when you get a black cop on the news so gong ho on what he's doing, and barely pronouncing words on television just like the folks he's arresting. Who's going to usher change? So if all your cops are in the black neighborhoods, if I were a thief, I'd make plans this summer to robe the white neighborhoods.

Could it be you? Could you be the one who God put on this earth to lead your people to a better place? Could you be the one who was educated to rectify the injustice in our justice system? Could you be the voice that is meant to make people think? Or are you the one that is afraid to speak out about what you see wrong for fear of losing your life? My Bible tells me, that a man that is willing to lose his life will gain his life....so can I get some help out here in this world? And where are all the preachers? My guess, somewhere trying to build a mega-ministry and don't even have a mega word on the inside of them.....to be continued.... ]]>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:13:23 -0800http://www.danyellescroggins.com/1/post/2011/06/its-official.htmlIt is official....I'm hosting the "Let's Get Ready To Rumble" Women's Conference 2011. I have been in prayer for quit some time about this conference and truly wanted a conference in Shreveport, Louisiana for women that would shake the foundation and shatter the plans of the enemy concerning God's Daughters!

This is truly going to be a conference unlike all others. We will be bringing the enemy center stage to expose his plans, accusations, and assumptions that he's held over your lives. Yes! We are ready to rumble!

I remember when we use to go to the altar, and those mother's would call on the name of JESUS, until whatever had you bound would come off.....Sisters! this is how they use to rumble and this is where we are going back to.
You need to make an appointment to come to the fight if:
.........You are tired of living like you've been living.
.........You know you are bound, and just can't seem to break free.
.........Your marriage, children, or job has been under attack.
.........Your financial situation keeps you in the gutter.
.........Your flesh is running your body.
.........Your mind is locked in the hurts of your past.

The conference is taking place December 2nd-4th, 2011! Keep checking here to get updates on who will be coming as the main attractions, who will be in the pre-fight, who will be our worship guests, and many, many more details!  Ladies, let's seize the city!!!!! ]]>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:53:19 -0800http://www.danyellescroggins.com/1/post/2011/04/dont-run-from-your-storm.htmlI just went through a major storm here at my home and you know I'm always trying to find out what is God saying to me. My daughters all happened to be at my mother's house where I informed them to sit still, and my son was in Monroe at a track meet. When the news reporter said, the storm seems to be coming towards Mansfield, La, and is in the path of Gloster, and Stonewall, something began to churn in my stomach. I told Reynard what the reporter said, and immediately started praying for our angels to cover our homes. Then I asked the Lord to send Michal and Gabriel to help our angels fight the forces of the atmosphere.

See, I read a book years ago called "When Angels Appear" by Hope MacDonald and it really gave me insight concerning my angels and their activity. So whenever I feel like I'm in a storm, I dispatch my angels. I am completely sure that they will take care of me upon the request of my God.

Well, to my subject... As the storm was quickly approaching, I could see car lights coming from across the street. My husband's cousin, along with her daughter, grandbaby, niece, and great-niece were in the car. I've always been told that you never get in a car when a storm is coming, so I yelled across the street to my other cousin asking where are they going. She said, "Those crazy nuts are trying to go to Mansfield. I told them they didn't need to go anywhere but they decided to run from the storm." I immediately closed my door and said, "Lord, they don't know any better. Please protect them and those babies."

Needless to say, they ran right into the storm! They couldn't see anything and pulled over by a locked gate. She said they were all screaming and she came to herself. She said she stopped screaming and started praying and calling on the name of Jesus. She said, her niece chimed in and the next thing you know, the wind forced the gate harshly and the gate swung off. She said she told her niece to drive in that yard so we can get out of the way, and when they did, they saw a shed that they pulled under. There happened to be a bathroom in the people's shed house and they ran in the bathroom. They were terrified because you could hear the storm. To us at home it sounded like a huge old washing machine, and she said  it sounded the same to them but almost ten times worst.

After they finally made it back home around three in the morning, they were tired, sleepy, and worn out. Nevertheless, they have an awesome testimony of how God saved them and opened that locked gate for them. I was peeping back and forward out of the window and eventually it seemed that the storm has passed us over. I said, "Lord no matter how we don't want to go through the storm, we must not run from it."  The revelation was staring me in the face that some storms are meant for us to go through, and if we learn who to call on in the midst of the storm, He will protect us from all harm and for some, the storm is the rode that will transition them to everlasting life. So, either way, we are to be still and see the salvation of the Lord. ]]>