Upshot Women's Breakfast

These were some notes I took from the “Upshot Ladies Breakfast” on April 2nd by Evangelist Cherish Brown. It was a great program and I thought I should share. Let me know if you have any questions, and I can further elaborate.

The reference is  Genesis 16, 18, and 21 re: the story of Abraham, Sarah, (Hagar, Ishmael) and Isaac.

• Distinguish between a compromise and a promise.
• You can be chasing a man, and miss the mandate that God has on your life.
• You have a promise inside of you that needs to be birthed.
• If you’re sweating too much you need to change your position.
• For every prayer you send up for a man: cook a meal, mop the floor, babysit someone elses kids.
• Even if something didn’t work out it didn’t have your heart anyway.
• The LORD told Abraham to do whatever Sarah said.
• Be careful of the people that play the part but lack the position. They want to take up your time but don’t know your season.
• When your season comes, the fruit needs to be ripe. When God shows up, you need to be ready
• You can mess around trying to please your boyfriend and miss your Boaz.
• No one will mistake Ishmael for my Isaac.
• Ishmael had to go.
• By not disassociating yourself you are making yourself a liability rather than an asset.
• Don’t have an Ishmael speaking for you.
• Disassociate and stay in the will of God.
• The compromise will always bully the promise.
• Hanging around Ishmael will constantly have you defending yourself.
• If God gave Sarah the authority to speak, she had better spoke the right thing.
• He wants a sober minded leader.
• Isaac means to laugh. The promise always gets the last laugh.
• You better start laughing. Start rejoicing in the things of God.
• All who get the news will laugh with me.
• Stop begging and start beholding.
• Singleness is a gift from God. Being a woman in the will of God is a gift from God.
• “Settled down” your Maker is your husband; you don’t have to be married to settle down.
• Don’t forfeit sisterhood just because you don’t have a man on your arms, complement each other.
• He wants your praise, if you want to experience the promise you better learn how to praise.
• You have a promise on the inside of you and He doesn’t want you to compromise that promise.
• He has given us a power transfer, power over what we say, think, and do.
• My sweating is over. {Say it.}
• Know your seasons. Learn to laugh with God not at Him. 
• Disassociate yourself from certain things/Ishmaels.
• I am the good thing. Say it. Proverbs 18:22a focus on the first part
• God follows the rights, right doesn’t follow the good. Think about it
• Goodness without righteousness has no credibility.

Some audio clips: Upshot Women's Breakfast Evangelist Cherish Brown