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EXCERPT CHAPTER 11 “KINGDOM PR AND MARKETING” FROM THE BOOK, FAITH AT FULL SPEED, BY ANNAMARIE STRAWHAND

EXCERPT CHAPTER 11 “KINGDOM PR AND MARKETING” FROM THE BOOK, FAITH AT FULL SPEED, BY ANNAMARIE STRAWHAND

“KINGDOM PR AND MARKETING” – BY ANNAMARIE STRAWHAND

All Public Relations Start With An Announcement….

It’s OK to come on the scene boldly and set the tone for what you are embarking on in your assignment or purpose.  As a matter of fact, it’s important prophetically in the spirit and in the natural to do this.  

Jesus announced himself to the public and proclaimed what He was called and destined to do.  He spoke in the Synagogue fearlessly declaring who He was and what He was anointed to do as many who were there got offended at His bold proclamation!

A young shepherd boy named David did the same thing proclaiming he could take on the giant!  Then he did.

“David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty!  – 1 Samuel 17:45

If Jesus proclaimed and did it and David proclaimed and did it, you can too in the name of the Lord!  They both ANNOUNCED out loud and in a public setting!

It’s fearlessly saying stand back and watch the Glory of God at work through me and you!  

YES!!

I have come to believe that God loves it when we announce ourselves and our vision boldly when we pronounce HIs power behind it.  It’s like a trumpet that awakens the atmosphere and attracts the angelic around you and activates all of Heaven behind you!

Decree a thing and it shall be established for you!  

MAKE A FAITHFUL PROCLAMATION OF WHO YOU ARE, WHAT YOU ARE CALLED TO DO, WHO IT HELPS AND WHO GETS THE GLORY!

This is what Jesus proclaimed over himself when He began His ministry.  I encourage you to do the same over yourself!  I have added in parenthesis how to speak this over yourself in the first person.

Pray: “Lord, I declare your word Isaiah 61, the same word that you declared over yourself when you announced your ministry over 2000 years ago.  You live inside of me Lord, therefore Your word is alive and operating in me and through me.  I declare and come into agreement with your declaration, prophecy and word as my own in Your name Jesus, Amen.”

Isaiah 61 (King James Version) Decree out loud:

“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

To appoint unto them (ME) that mourn in Zion, to give  unto them (ME) beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they (I) might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.

And they (I) shall build the old wastes, they (I) shall raise up the former desolations, and they (I) shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

And strangers shall stand and feed your (MY) flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your (MY) plowmen and your (MY) vinedressers.

But ye (I) shall be named the Priests of the Lord: men shall call you (ME) the Ministers of our God: ye (I) shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.

For your (my) shame ye (I) shall have double; and for confusion they (I) shall rejoice in their (MY) portion: therefore in their (MY) land they (I) shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them (ME).

For I (HE) the Lord love judgment, I (HE) hates robbery for burnt offering; and I (HE) will direct their (MY) work in truth, and I (HE) will make an everlasting covenant with them (ME).

And their (MY) seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their (MY) offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed.

 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations (and my household).  I declare and stand on this word in Jesus name, Amen”

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YOUR GARAGE (basement) TIME IS CRUCIAL TO YOUR SUCCESS!

YOUR GARAGE (basement) TIME IS CRUCIAL TO YOUR SUCCESS!

This is an excerpt From Chapter 2 “Garage Time” from my book, “Faith At Full Speed – Your High Horsepower Manual To Success”  I told this story on my on January 17, 2022 broadcast– and everyone was so moved by this story I wanted to share it here.

 

The following is an Excerpt from Chapter 2  “Garage Time”…..pages 60-65 of FAITH AT FULL SPEED…..

We Overcome By The Blood of The Lamb and The Word of Our Testimony

This “garage time” will be the most powerful story and testimony of your life!  I know you want to inspire others, and that’s my most favorite thing—to hear stories of people like you and me who believed in going after their dream and had the faith and fortitude to get serious and get it done!

I have some inspiration for you too!  I would like to share a wonderful true story of my uncle who decided to take his own “garage time”  (actually in his basement).  This is a modern David and Goliath story that will change the way you look at yourself and your situation, read on….

 

Uncle Dan – Basement Millionaire 

I was much younger when this amazing thing happened for my Uncle Daniel Malfitana, a retired Navy Chief.  In the early 80’s, after leaving the Navy, my Uncle had tried his hand at many different jobs and businesses looking to create something good for his family, including running a farm stand during the summers where we would go and help stack watermelons and lettuce.  We had so much fun working with him and our cousins.  Uncle Dan was a hard worker.  He always put 110% into everything he did.  He was a leader.  He loved people and was good at creating solutions for others.  These were his God-given gifts.  

One year in the mid 1980’s, my Uncle Dan was working a 9-5 job at a well-known electric and technology corporation in Upstate New York.  He was building and organizing their computer systems and client training, which included military contracts.  He had done a great job for them, and they sent him and his family to the west coast to build a program for the company.  He threw himself into it—created the program, hired people, and had everything in place.  He purchased a home and bought furniture, ready for his family to move in, and they were on the way.  

A few days later, the company executives came to him out of the blue and said they wanted to drop the program out west with no real explanation.  My Uncle could not understand why, because everything was all set up perfectly and ready to go.  He went and had meetings with them, and, no matter what he did, he could not convince them to keep it.  They wanted him to just shut it down and move back east.  This really upset my Uncle, and he looked at the company executives in the face and said,  “Well, I resign from this company and I will go and get these contracts myself!”  The company executives laughed at him!  This made my Uncle even more determined, and he told them, “Watch me.”

Uncle Dan and his family moved back home to Syracuse, New York to a rented house.  My aunt was working in a shoe store to make ends meet.  She started to see her husband go down in the basement every day into a makeshift office with a phone and an old desktop computer and spend hours on end working on something top secret.  One day, he came upstairs and said, “Maryellen, I am going to go and get these military training contracts.  I am going to go up against all the other big companies and get it.  I am going to be working on my proposal, and I just need you to make me coffee and meals and be patient while I do this.”

My aunt was always a devoted military wife and fully supported her husband on this next adventure.  She trusted in his gifts and believed he could do it.

As for me, in my early twenties at the time, I remember when my uncle was taking this serious “basement time”  because, when I went over there to hang out with my cousins, my uncle came upstairs and it looked like he had not slept for weeks!  He was wearing a rumpled T-shirt and his beard was all grown out.  I hardly recognized him!

My Aunt said to us, “Try to be quiet because your uncle is working on something very important.  Please do not disturb him.”

At the time, I really did not “get” what was going on or the importance of it until later in life.

One day,  just a few weeks later, my aunt said my uncle got up early in the morning, shaved off his beard, put on a nice suit, and, with his finished proposal, he told my aunt,  “Maryellen, when I go out this door today we could become millionaires or not, but I am going to give this everything I’ve got.”  He was off to his meeting to present his proposal to the government to go up against all the corporate big guns.

Now that is FAITH and knowing without a doubt you have the gift to do something great with no fear.  

A week or so later, an official letter came from the US Government; my Uncle Dan opened it.  It was good news.  He got the military contracts.  He beat out his former employer and the other big corporations!  My aunt said he held up the letter and yelled, “Maryellen, we are millionaires; go quit your job at the shoe store!”

I remember things changed quickly for my Uncle Dan and his family, and there were celebrations and joyful happenings at their house with lots of food!  Uncle Dan went on for many successful years performing and serving on these military contracts.  They traveled to Spain and lived there for a year for my uncle to do consulting, and even took my grandmother on a trip to Italy.  My cousins all got new computers almost every Christmas, and they moved to a beautiful big house in Maryland.  He retired years later to Virginia Beach with a nice nest egg and was asked back into the Navy as a Master Chief, which is one of the Navy’s highest honors, to serve as a mentor to other officers and upcoming officers.

I loved my uncle and I looked up to him, but I did not realize the lesson in all this and the impact of what he had done back in that “basement time.”  I was young and all I saw was one day he was wearing an old T-shirt and growing a beard, and the next day he was driving a brand new Lincoln Continental and going out for steak and lobster.  Looking back, I really wish I had taken the time to understand what was really happening—asked more questions and learned more for my young mind.

In 2011, my Uncle Daniel Malfitana sadly passed away from cancer.  He knew when his time was near so he told my Aunt Maryellen to take him to the Navy Hospital where the doctors and nurses all stood up and saluted him “Master Chief” as he left this world.  At his funeral, they told the story in detail on how he got the big government contracts—the time in the basement and what he was preparing down there.  I was absolutely floored.  I was so inspired and so encouraged by the fact that he knew what his gifts were, and he was upset that the people he worked for would not use and appreciate his gifts!  He knew he was meant for something greater, and he had enough faith and determination to go up against the biggest corporations in America!  Uncle Dan used what he had at hand,  had faith, and took his “garage time” (basement time) to make it happen.  Uncle Dan, by great determination, went up against the giant corporations and defeated them.  Who’s laughing now?

I come from that strong and bold family bloodline and DNA, but I now also have the DNA of the King of Kings, Jesus Christ.  As I sat in that funeral saying goodbye to my Uncle Dan, in his very last moment on earth, he left me a huge gift—I knew I could do anything and I could defeat any giants in front of me!  I could get that big dream no matter what was against me and no matter who laughed at me.  Yes I can!  It changed my life when I came to this realization.  Plus, I have GOD!  What can a mere man do to me?  Ha!  It’s fixed in my favor!

We are meant to use our God-given gifts fearlessly, even if people laugh at us.  If God is behind it, nothing can come against it.

Think, what is GOOD in your DNA—who in your family did something extraordinary and brave?  What did God put into your family bloodline that you also have?  Most of all, WHO lives inside of you now?  The KINGDOM of God is within you.  You have the Spirit of Almighty God—King of the Universe is with you!  Time for you to RUN towards that Giant.  You will take the giant down and you will win!

“David said to the Philistine, ‘You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.’”  1 Samuel 17:45 

 

Activation Prayer:

“Father, I thank You for bringing me to this moment.  I am excited to start working on my goals and getting serious about them.  Father, your word says in Proverbs 16:3, that if I commit my work to You, my plans will be established.  Today, I commit all my work to You, Father God!  I invite Your Holy Spirit, Father, to come and help me get everything I need to create my workspace.  Bring me the tools and strategies I need to succeed!  Give me downloads from Heaven, Lord!  I ask for complete clarity and focus for the task at hand, in the name of Jesus!  Father, I trust the great plans you have for me.  I say, ‘YES, I am ready to get to work today!’  Help me with my loved ones, Father, so they can understand and support me during this time.  I also ask for provision and protection over me and my household as I build and work on the gifts, goals, assignments, and calling that You, Father, have given me in my life.  I will boldly work with no excuses or distractions because I know Your Holy Spirit is with me, Father.  I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me!  I decree my “garage” work time WILL have abundantly fruitful results that shall multiply and bless my household for years to come!  I give You all the glory and praise, Father, for this opportunity to work with You in our  *garage” time together.  With You, Father, nothing is impossible!  I thank, YOU, Father God, for the coming breakthrough and blessing from this work time.  It starts NOW, in Jesus’ Name!  Amen”

Let’s get ‘er done and roll outta this garage ready to rock and take the win!

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Love, Coach Annamarie
Cancel Any ‘Soulish’ Prayers, Negative Words and Curses Off Your Life!

Cancel Any ‘Soulish’ Prayers, Negative Words and Curses Off Your Life!

EXCERPT FROM MY BOOK: FAITH AT FULL SPEED – CHAPTER 2

Cancel Any ‘Soulish’ Prayers, Negative Words and Curses:

Sometimes there are people around us who love us and want the best for us, but they may be praying their own will, opinions, or religious beliefs over your life and causing major entanglements with your progress.  These are called “soulish” prayers.  These are prayers and words being spoken over you, but, however the intention, can be coming against your prayers and worse, against God’s word and will for your life.  The spirit realm responds to what is being spoken over you, good or bad!

These ‘’soulish” prayers, negative words, and curses spoken about you or over you—even the ones you have spoken yourself—can be working against what you are praying for now.  It’s like a “spider’s web.”  These negative words and prayers are in the atmosphere and are trying to entangle our prayers and decrees.  We need to break down any webs or entanglements in the spirit realm now. We need to cancel any negative words or soulish prayers anyone has prayed for us that is not in alignment with our prayers and decrees and forgive the people who did it. Then, ask the Angelic Hosts of Heaven to come and get our prayers and decrees out of any entanglements and expedite them to our Father God to be fulfilled in Jesus’ name and ask God to release his Holy Fire to burn up the webs so your prayers never get entangled again!

For about a year, I found myself making progress with my prayer life and my breakthroughs.  Then there would be times of great stalling.  I kept rebuking the enemy and still much stalling.  I asked the Holy Spirit to show me what was going on.  One morning, I saw a praying mantis caught in a web outside my bedroom window right near my place of prayer!  I heard the Holy Spirit say to me that I was asking the wrong people to pray for me and my prayers were caught up in a web—getting entangled and not going anywhere.  There were well meaning people in my life praying “soulish prayers.”  They were praying for their own will, opinions, and religious beliefs on me!  These people meant well and some were in my own family!  However, it was totally coming against and throwing confusion into the spirit realm against my own prayers.

Now, I don’t ask certain people to pray for me anymore, or I tell them how to specifically pray for me!  I realized in a conversation with my Mom that she had been inadvertently praying something completely different for me than I had been praying!  She meant well—BUT NO—it was stalling me.  I asked her to pray like this: “Mom, just say, Lord, I come into agreement with what my daughter is praying for at this time.”  She happily agreed to do that.  I also realized that prayers prayed on the rosary to Mary (and catholic saints) were actually religious prayers and UNBIBLICAL.  We are supposed to pray directly to the Father in the name of Jesus, as Jesus instructed us to.  Soulish prayers that I had prayed in the past when I was “religious,”  were still in the spirit and causing entanglements with my new prayer life as a Born Again Believer.

Those old soulish prayers were holding things back!!  I was alarmed at the fact that all these soulish and religious prayers needed to be cancelled and renounced immediately.  If not cancelled, you could be stalled and stalled and stalled.  I know you are here to learn about acceleration of blessing and breakthroughs in your life, and this could be a major thing coming against it!  I want to be clear, I honor Mary and her faith and all the faithful ones who went before me.  However, we are all saints as believers and followers of Christ.  We are all Kings and Priests.  I do not need the intercession of a saint in Heaven with God when Jesus clearly said He is the only one between us and the Father!  We do have a “cloud of witnesses” that the Bible states in Hebrews 12.  They are witnessing Jesus Christ’s intercession for us.  They are cheering for us to fulfill our assignments on the earth for Jesus to receive His reward and us to receive our rewards in Heaven.  We do not need them to go to the Father for us—only Jesus Christ.  He is our High Priest.  We agree with what Jesus prays about us to the Father.

I might offend some of you with deep set religious beliefs.  I had to overcome these old beliefs myself.  I will tell you, I love all believers in Christ.  I love all people.  I know many Holy Spirit filled Catholics.  No matter what Church or denomination you attend, I pray for the guidance of the Holy Spirit and for you to fulfill what God has called you to do.  I believe Jesus is dealing with all the religious denominations right now and getting His church back as “one” like it was in the Book of Acts.  I want each person to hear from Jesus themselves on this matter, as I have.  Jesus said we will know everything by its fruit.  Jesus also did not like “religious law.”  He was all about the kingdom and revealing who He was and is for us.  I want to tell you, as soon as I cancelled these soulish and religious prayers off my life I had a huge breakthrough, great fruit, and acceleration.  Confirmation!  Thank You Jesus!

Pray this prayer to get these soulish prayers canceled ASAP:

“Father in the name of Your Son, Jesus, I thank You for Your grace and mercy and hearing my prayers.  Right now, I cancel and mark null and void any soulish, superstitious, or religious prayers that have been prayed by myself or others over me and my life!  I repent for these types of prayers because they are not in accordance with your word and your will.  Lord Jesus, cover these sins and soulish prayers with Your blood.  I ask that all these soulish, superstitious, opinionated, judgemental, religious, and false prayers are now washed from the atmosphere, blotted out of the record books, and wiped away forever by Your blood, Lord Jesus!  I forgive those who have been praying these soulish, religious, and opinionated prayers.  I ask Your Holy Spirit to guide me in my prayer life.  I ask that all soulish, religious, and opinionated prayers coming against my breakthrough be completely removed, cancelled, and marked null and void forever!  I decree today that my true prayer is this_______________________.  I ask that this prayer come directly to You Father in the name of Jesus, and I ask for my own prayers and decrees according to Your will, Father, that have been held up in the spirit realm be released now directly to Your throne, Father God, and I ask for restoration of any time that was held back or stalled.  Thank you, Holy Spirit, for revealing this to me!  I ask for Your angels to be assigned, Father God, to block any soulish, religious, or opinionated prayers being prayed against me and God’s will for me, so they will never entangle or come against my prayers or decrees again, in Jesus’ name!  Father, In the name of Jesus send your Holy Fire to burn up all webs and anything entangling my own prayers in Jesus name! I decree I am no longer in agreement with the prayers of __________________________.  I cancel them in the name of Jesus!  Holy Spirit, please go to these people and give them guidance in their prayer life with the truth.  Also, alert me any time a soulish prayer is coming against me and who I need to not ask for prayer from.  I believe in the power of agreement in your word, Father, and I will now ask for my advocate, the Holy Spirit, to come into agreement with my prayers today.  I also ask for Holy Spirit filled prayer intercessors to come into my life who pray according to your will, Father, and in agreement with my personal prayers and decrees and I with theirs.  I also come into agreement with your intercession for me, Lord Jesus!  Thank You for your mercy and grace, Father, I am excited to see Your glory at work in my life, in Jesus’ name!  Amen!”  (If the Holy Spirit shows you a specific person in your life who is praying soulish, opinionated, or religious prayers over you, ask that their prayers be cancelled in Jesus’ name!)

 

Canceling Curses and Negative Words Decree:

“In the name of Jesus, I rebuke and renounce every assignment of the enemy and cancel every curse or negative word ever spoken over me or my family right now!  I cover every negative word in the Blood of Jesus Christ, including every negative word I have ever spoken over myself.  I repent for speaking any negative words over myself or anyone else.  I decree that every negative word and every curse spoken against me is now null and void in Jesus name!  I decree I am blessed, redeemed, and covered in the blood of Jesus!  I have been set apart for the plans and purposes of Almighty God as a blood-bought believer in Jesus Christ!  I decree the favor of God surrounds me as a shield!  I decree the glory of God is my covering!  I also keep up my shield of faith and extinguish every fiery dart coming against me.  No weapon formed against me shall prosper, and I command every curse of witchcraft sent to harm me be returned back to the place it was sent, in Jesus’ mighty name and by the power of His blood that covers me and protects me!  Amen and so be it!”

Get Laser Targeted:

Recently, I had another conversation about prayer with my mom, and she said, “Annamarie, you are my daughter and I want to pray for you.”  Then I asked her, “What do you want to pray for me?”  She told me very basic prayers like health, safety etc.  I told her; “Mom, right now, I need a breakthrough on a very specific thing.”  I then gave her my direction and strategy and she was very excited to be able to pray that specifically for me!  Now, she can celebrate with me when the breakthrough comes!  It’s awesome having my mom asking me to send her specific prayers and it’s a beautiful thing we share together!  She knows now to pray directly to the Father in Jesus’ name.  We have seen great breakthroughs together!

If you have a specific prayer strategy and then multiply it with more people praying for you in unity with laser targeting on a detailed specific prayer, it’s going to add power to your request to God like high octane rocket fuel!  This is the power of agreement.

“Pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you.”  2 Thessalonians 3:1

LET US ALL COME INTO AGREEMENT TO EXPEDITE OUR PRAYERS TO FULFILLMENT IN OUR LIVES.

 

Love, Coach Annamarie