3 Ways To Build Your Resilience

By: April D. Byrd

Yesterday my Pastor, (who's brother had just passed away the same day) talked about resilience. It was very powerful! " As a character trait, Resilience is the mental ability to recover quickly." She spoke on the importance of developing emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence helps us to recognize our own emotions, identify the emotions of others and how to handle them, and diffuse conflict.

It increases self-management: being able to manage our emotions in a healthy way. It also helps build social awareness and relationship management. Emotional intelligence can help your performance at work and also benefit your health. She shared a few steps to emotional intelligence, but not all. and I was able to write some down, such as:

1. Learn how to relieve stress.

2. Accept the circumstance that's happening.

3. Develop flexibility.

When we learn to take a leap of faith, and and how to let go of emotions that make us uncomfortable, we find ourselves. Even though outwardly nothing is consistent, we can find consistency inside of ourselves. All information received to the brain comes through our senses, when information is overwhelming, instinct takes over. We can bring our emotions under control through Christ, and building our emotional intelligence. We can't yield to the will of emotion, but conquer it through understanding. "Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all your getting get understanding."-Proverbs 4:7 Also remember being strong doesn't always mean we have to be tough. Water will softly touch a rock, but slowly wear it down over time. For me that illustration of water brings to mind our hearts being in the right hands, at the right time. God has given us resilience to overcome all things The king's heart is like a stream of water directed by the LORD; He guides it wherever He pleases. -Proverbs 21:1 Continue to pour up love and be guided and directed by it. Love always wins.


What are some ways that you build and maintain resilience? Share in the comments section below.

You can hear more from Pastor Jennifer by visiting Tabernacle Of Peace Ministries soundcloud page and stopping by the stone mountain Georgia location on sundays at 10am

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New Year, New You #VOWchat (Recap)

Thanks to Everyone who participated in the Twitter Chat and Conference Call presented by Voice Of Wisdom Transformational Coaching Founder, Pastor and Coach Jennifer Turner, hosted by breathoflifedaily.com  It was the first of it's kind and the last one for this year.

Coach Jennifer took the message from (1 Samuel 30: 1-8) clarifying the characteristics of David. She reminded of us his cunning bravery and the belief he held that gave him the ultimate advantage.
Thank you to her for sharing an empowering and uplifting word!

Looking forward to Engaging with Everyone more.

Check Out The #VOWchat  recap on Twitter below:

Lets Get It Done

Let's Get It Done!!

Its time to get up! Strengthen your self! Brush the dust off your dream, focus and get things done. Do you have a passion and a dream throbbing in the recess of your soul that you can't seem to shake, but don't know how to birth? Well then, this message is for you. It's one thing for you to settle for a while , stick your dream on a shelf, as you get yourself together so you can prepare to passionately go after it. It's however, a totally different thing for you to kill your dream because you have reasons that make you believe your dream is too lofty for you to go after and is impossible for you to successfully accomplish.

We all have what we call legitimate reasons why we think we cannot pursue our passion and dream. Think being the operating word. I however have great news for you! It's not too late for you to go after your passion. I know you may have tried many times and failed, I also know that deep within you, your dream still lives, no matter how hard you try to kill it. 

Understand that your dream gives you reason to come alive and empowers your capacity to produce with joy and enthusiasm. Your dream drives your passion and brings you satisfaction. It enables you to come alive and live with excitement. Without a dream you and those around you perish because the capacity to see is diminished, therefore hope is curtailed. Your dream is also your vision, so it allows you to forecast and live for larger things rather than just bread and butter. It's your dream once set in motion and moving that brings your self worth to new levels, and cause your confidence to grow because you were fashioned, equipped, gifted, prepared and brought into this earth for the birthing of your dream, so it can impact this earth. Dreams have produced heroes in very unlikely places who endued great odds with tenacity and zeal because their dream was louder than the obstacles they faced, in fact the obstacles themselves were the very reason for birthing the dream itself. 

I ask you again, do you have a dream? Is your passion aligned with your dream or have you ceased to dream because you are scared to live or to fail? 

I know what it feels like to know your purpose, have a deep seated passion and lofty dream that you think you can not actualize. I also know the painful frustration of avoiding to pursue your dreams in the name of what ever obstacle you think stands as a mountain between you and your dream. But I know the joy and satisfaction that comes from surrendering your self to your passion and pursuing your dream. It's life altering and exhilarating. It centers you and brings you balance and gives you reason to become. Let Voice Of Wisdom Transformational Coaching come along side you and walk with you to your dream with passion. It's a new day and new season, Lets get it done, because you can.

Coming soon!!!! "Let's Get It Done" Conferences! If you have a dream be on the look out!!!!!!




--Coach Jennifer

5 Lessons From The TOP Message

Awesome, Awesome message by Coach Pastor Jennifer today on the Voice Of Wisdom Conference Call line!! The message was so empowering, with great key points that were well worth noting and holding on to. In reference to scripture, Most of her message highlighted Joshua 1:3  which reads:

"Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses."

She dealt with some of the limiting beliefs and factors that keep people from moving forward, and making progress with the success of their lives and purpose. She also explained how the purpose and blessing of God works.

Here are a few key notes that stood out... (or at least what I had enough time to write), ENJOY!!


 God doesn't measure out your blessing, your belief system does.
the blessing of God is unlimited as far as our imagination or belief system can take us that's how far we can go. Don't limit yourself become unlimited.

 God's purpose works in seasons and in times.
we have to line up with purpose, be knowledgeable and adhere to what specific season or time we are in. It is possible to miss out. If we miss a sewing season, then we will miss the  reaping season accordingly. All things work together. Its best to actively engage, to be cognizant and aware.

In order for you to get the inheritance of God you gotta engage choices.
Gods people are not in a time where the word is forced any more, shoved down our throats, or anything is strictly beaten down upon us. Its  imperative to actively engage the move  of God by choice ,understand and know what He has in the best interest for our lives.

If you wanna stop going in circles, stop blaming and begin taking responsibility.
to become unstuck in the maze of habitual monotony and repeated behaviors of our lives that don't serve us. We have to actively engage and start taking responsibility.

Individual portion/blessing depends on character.
the scripture in Joshua 1 reads, every sole the place of our foot treads... and Gods exclaims a blessing, that just as He blessed Moses He would bless His people and continually be with them just the same. However, our individual blessing and inheritance depends on our mindset, and how we honor and obey the Lord. It is possible to suffer through trials and still come out empty handed in the end for failing to step up to the plate and actively be in character, in season.


Overall with every takeaway to be had from today's lesson it is God who always speaks a mighty blessing this one recorded in the Bible. He says that He will be with us, not leaving us, or forsaking us. It is ultimately up to us to believe and actively engage His words and His way, if we want to truly live our best lives.

 "There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

 Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them.

 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.

 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest." -Joshua 1: 5-9

Coach/Pastor Jennifer Turner is the founder of (TOP) Tabernacle Of Peace Ministries International and Voice Of Wisdom Transformational Coaching for more empowering words from her Stay Tuned and feel free to check out this piece on sound cloud: 

https://soundcloud.com/coachjennifer/its-not-personal

Coach Jennifer: "It's Not Personal"

Trying circumstances happen to everyone regardless of who we are. What we personally believe and how  our thought process works determine how we we react to those circumstances and the overall flow of our daily lives. In this Lesson "It's Not Personal" Coach Jennifer instructs how we can strategically work with, go around , or leap over obstacles; Also, how we can use revelation and right thinking to move toward authentic success and be fulfilled in our specific purpose.

Psalms 18: 28-31

The war is impersonal. Obstruction is not personal. Leap over it, go round it or go through it. God is not interested in people that put their hand to the plow and then look back to the side. When people betray you, you don't have the power to bring them back, but you have the power to move on with your life. Betrayal, death, riches, wealth, all were here before we got here. Stop treating life as though as though its after you.

Key Points:

Depend on the revelation of the word of God and what your true self believes.
you, your mind, and your belief system and what you're trusting God for should should line up. there has to be synchronicity.
Right thinking is thinking which is based on truth and not illusion. It is the foundation which determines the solidity of all other thinking.

• positive thinking and negative thinking are both filtered through our belief systems.
• truth does not care what your belief system is. the world operates on principles and laws. it doesn't matter if you're a Christian or a non-christian the principles and laws are the same.
• God put the law of gravity in place.
• Your decisions and choices have consequences.
• Right thinking comes from being aware of the truth or reality of a situation.
• God's blessing is already declared its up to you what kind of vessel you come with to life. (ex: spoon, bowl, bucket etc.)
• No amount of inspiration. motivation will solve your problems if you keep looking outside of you for solutions. the first place to start and succeed is to shut everything off and focus inward.
• God is (inside) of you.
• hypocrisy doesn't work authenticity does.
• your mind attracts whatever is familiar to itself.
• God knows ALL, our job is to learn to listen. (As for God... Psalms 18:30)
• His way brings truth to the circumstance.
• God speaks through revelation. light and understanding.
• the word that causes light is revelation
• to the extent your revelation goes is to the extent that your life and understanding go.
• transformation is dependent on revelation
• the word of God comes in three forms: revelation, spoken word, and commandments of the Lord. commandments are written.
• what transforms us is revelation... "you can never not know what you know."

How To Stay Motivated For Your Business and Purpose

There are many types of people in terms of how we do things. They are those who are starters, they do well as long as its a new project, they thrive on taking risks, but get bored in the middle of the project and look for something new to do. They are middle people they only want to get involved in something when someone else has got it going and they can see the direction it is going because they are scared to take the risk of a starter. Then they are those who are finishers, they love to bring things to a conclusive powerful finish, that's what excites them, the momentum of taking something that seems to be losing momentum and give it life to its powerful finish.

In order for one To do business and be successful, one must find out what type of person they are so they can learn how to creatively turn all the stages of their business into their preferred style of doing business, be it the start, middle or finishing stage of the process of building a business. Be creative in surrounding your self with people that are different from you but fill in the parts you miss. Remember we are most comfortable with people that are a lot like us but disagree with people that are different from us because they are a contradiction. In business and ministry you need that contradiction to produce at unexpected powerful levels.

Once you get started don't get distracted by the pettiness of what you consider to be failure. As long as you are working your business and turning up passionately, enthusiasticly and full of vision. Keep your focus and learn new ways of doing things every day and become innovative, but never develop a pessimistic view or a wrong way of thinking. Stay on the path and keep improving even if it is by one point. Be thankful and stay skilled it will all come together. You will achieve your goals at the least expected time. Stay lost in your cause. Tell your circumstances to chill, "God and I got this".




--Coach Jennifer



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Motivation: Access Your Best

They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, even to death. -Revelation 12:11

We are saved by Christ blood and by sharing our testimony of  what He accomplished through us, by his choice to give His life. 

Live Your Best Life.

Because Christ "Chose" we have the power to make great choices as well. We have the power to overcome the weakness of our flesh.                     Isaiah 53: 1-12


Let your Spirit's will to succeed be stronger than your body's limitations. Jesus Christ victory in the garden of Gethsemane won the power of human will, when He uttered "Lord, Let not My will, but your will be done." We have the power to overcome every sickness, every affliction, every bad habit, when we submit to God's purpose for the life He gave us and take on the strength we gain through the power of Jesus Christ. 

It pleased God to bruise Him and It was Christ's CHOICE to die, so that we may LIVE, and live abundantly!! Take up your right to abundance, and take it by force, because your spirit has a kingdom authority and power that holds the key to everything you could ever want! ITS INSIDE OF YOU!! GO FOR IT!! Don't settle for less than the best when the best of LIFE is yours.                                                                                                     

Your Testimony and Your Life is all yours... Make The Best Of It!!!

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8 Reasons Why People Fail...Even After Prayer

One of the reasons why people under perform or settle is a lack of achievement drive. We all want to accomplish or achieve certain things in our lives, unless we are happy with the status quo.  

People strong in their orientation toward achievement have a drive for working well or surpassing a particular standard of excellence. Achievement Drive is a skill that can be learned by practicing and mastering a few performance skills. One must want to surpass their own performance, like improving your communication skills in order to break your own past sales record or better position yourself for effective expression of your desires and needs.

Achievement Drive is not simply about accomplishing things and then checking them off our to-do list; Its rather about accomplishing things in a manner that exceeds some clear, challenging standard of excellence whether internal or external. In order to do that one must want to do more than just the minimum. They have to learn how to set goals that are reachable, but require a bit of stretching to achieve them, goals that require work to beat. They have to think like entrepreneurs and be willing to take moderate risks for an outcome they deem worthwhile. They have to have SMART GOALS. Goal setting is the number one thing to do, however one must stay in touch with their emotional pull or drive behind what it is they want to do by listening carefully for what is motivating to them.

They are very clear signs of a lack of achievement drive:

1. Avoidance of fixed, firm standards for performance, whether actively, overtly, passively or covertly.
2. Working without regard for expectations.
3. Not pushing oneself, just getting by, doing the very minimum
4. Not taking goals seriously
5. Accepting the status quo
6. Not trying to improve things
7. Not rocking the boat
8. Not having an internal standard of excellence

All these signs are fixable with proper coaching. By simply understanding what one loses by not taking action and also understanding what is gained by going that extra mile. They are exercises that can be done in order to structure and establish moderate risks. Having an accountability partner would be a great plus to help structure and keep one on track. 

There is a simple, but structured step wise road map to goal setting that can be entered into with the help of a coach. Make this a year of developing your achievement drive for success in that one area of your life you know you need to improve in order for your business, family, relationship, finances or any other important aspect of your life to move to that next level.

Stay motivated and driven to achieve according to the capacity within you to do

Coach Jennifer is the Head Coach and Founder of Voice Of Wisdom Transformational Coaching


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