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    Accepted, Secured, Significant: Empowering, Igniting & Fulfilling your Purpose
    Accepted, Secured, Significant: Empowering, Igniting & Fulfilling your Purpose
    Accepted, Secured, Significant: Empowering, Igniting & Fulfilling your Purpose
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    Accepted, Secured, Significant: Empowering, Igniting & Fulfilling your Purpose

    By Kemley Whiteside

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    This text is a spiritual and inspirational journey for those drawn away from their purpose by the circumstances of their lives. This book is dedicated to those told they would never amount to anything. It is for those told they would be just like their mother or father, that they are idiots, mistakes, and failures. It is for the pushed aside and ignored. It is for those under shadow, and for those abused from childhood. It is for the molested, and the ones told that no one loves them and no one ever would. It is for the misled and mistreated. It is for the suicidal. It is for the victims of domestic violence and abusive relationships. It is for those in spiritual bondage, and those who don’t believe in themselves. It is for those suffering from cancer or other diseases. It is for the motherless, fatherless, jobless, and homeless. It is for the depressive and anxious, the lonely and isolated. This book is for the hopeless. To my brothers and sisters who need a way out: This book was written just for you. It is to polish your existence and your purpose on this earth. This book was inspired and written by the Holy Spirit to assure you that, as a child of God, you no longer have to feel bound by labels and curses spoken over the course of your life. God wants to reinforce in your heart how valuable you are and how much you mean to Him. He wants you to know that through Him, you are Accepted, Secured, and Significant.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCopper Owl Press
    Release dateMar 29, 2016
    ISBN9780692461099
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      Accepted, Secured, Significant - Kemley Whiteside

      Accepted

      Secured

      Significant

      Empowering, Igniting, and Fulfilling Your Purpose

      Kemley Whiteside

      Copyright © 2015 by Kemley Whiteside

      All rights reserved.

      Cover design, interior layout, publishing consulting services, website and promo services by Copper Owl Press / copperowlpress.com

      Portraiture by MTI Photography, LLC. Copyright © 2015 / mtiphotography.com

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

      Kemley Whiteside

      www.kemleywhiteside.com

      Scripture sourced from New Living Translation Version.  

      Bible Gateway.  Web.  27 May. 2015

      First Printing: June 2015

      978-0-692-46109-9

      Acknowledgments

      To all of you who have inspired, encouraged, and supported me since the beginning, you know who you are and I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Without you I could not have fulfilled this calling.

      I dedicate this book to you.

      About Kemley

      Kemley Whiteside is a native of the Republic of Panama, a survivor and overcomer.  She resides in New Jersey with her husband and children. She is ordained to help build by empowering, igniting, and delivering people into their purpose.  She is a life-coach, mentor, inspiration, motivational speaker, and a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  She is the survivor of an anxiety disorder, depression, cancer, Lyme disease, domestic violence, and suicide.  She is the survivor of physical, emotional, and mental abuse.  These obstacles have strengthened her life and her purpose.  She is a woman birthing life to others by embracing them with confidence, and helping them achieve their calling.

      Kemley Whiteside earned her MA in Pastoral Counseling from Liberty University, and her MBA in Project Management from Ashford University.  She holds a BS in Information Technology from Phoenix University and has over fifteen certifications.

      Kemley is the founder of Clouds of Joy Event Planning and holds multiple certifications in event & wedding planning.  She is the founder of Mahanaim Group Ministries, (the camp of God, Genesis 32:2) an atmosphere grounded in the love to nurture, encourage, educate, and discipline others to polish their purpose. Mahanaim Group Ministries was envisioned to create an environment of safety, hope, compassion, and confidence-building by transforming lives through discipleship and fellowship.

      Kemley was born out of wedlock and raised by aunts, uncles, and a grandmother.  Her mother was the victim of drug abuse, and at this time does not know her father.  Her mother passed when she was eighteen years old and later she was adopted by her maternal grandmother.  She is a rape survivor, both as a young girl and an adult.  She was told in her early twenties that she would be unable to have children, and diagnosed in her early thirties with cervical cancer. She survived.  In her mid-thirties she was diagnosed with Lyme Disease, was nearly paralyzed, and almost lost her sight.  

      Kemley is determined to use these battles as a resource of strength and not pity.  She is determined to birth life unto others, and to deliver many from the Pit and into their Heavenly-called purpose.

      Accepted

      Secured

      Significant

      Empowering, Igniting, and Fulfilling Your Purpose

      Contents

      You are Accepted

      You are Secured

      You are Significant

      Chapter One: Character

      Chapter Two: Recognition

      Chapter Three: Your Rightful Place

      Chapter Four: Admission Statement

      Chapter Five: Rejection Brings Forth Acceptance

      Chapter Six: A Security Deposit is Securing Your Future

      Chapter Seven: Review Your Benefits Package

      Chapter Eight: Protect Your Assets

      Chapter Nine: Insure Your Future

      Chapter Ten: Unauthorized Access

      Chapter Eleven: Ignite Your Purpose

      Chapter Twelve: Be Influential

      Chapter Thirteen: Be Symbolic

      Chapter Fourteen: You Made It

      YOU ARE ACCEPTED

      You were accepted from the beginning of time. Now, take up ownership of your birthright.

      I know that some of us have been in relationships where we struggled with being accepted.  I know we have struggled in childhood and other stages of life.  I found it hard to overcome these childhood shadows of feeling unaccepted.  We battle feelings of abandonment and rejection, even as adults.  It is not easy to reconcile the past, and while you cannot forget it, you can replace those scars with positive thoughts and actions that have the potential to turn your entire life around.  The most difficult, and least rewarding, challenge is to fight to be accepted.

      For every action there is a reaction.  Take parental abandonment as one example of an action.  One’s reaction to such an experience can define his or her future.  Parental abandonment can result in minor or major dysfunction in our lives.  It can make or break us.  It took me a long time to find solace after my parents’ abandonment of me, and even to this day, it plays an emotional role in my life.  That abandonment, that pain, reminds me of when Jesus died on the cross, and how he took all of that pain just for me.  Jesus was never at fault for anything I had done, just as I was not at fault for what my parents had done.  Going through the experience of abandonment made me realize that I did not have to carry that burden.  I realized that I was heaping a huge responsibility on my heart and mind, struggling with insecurity that was not worth wasting my life.  I felt abandoned by my mother because she was not aware of my emotional state of mind, but I realized that she would not have known my pain because she was struggling with her own.  

      My relationship with my father was similarly challenging.  My mother was not able to reveal to me my father’s identity.  Therefore, I felt abandoned by my father because my mother did not disclose his existence.  The pain from that feeling was left without closure because my mother had passed away.

      When Jesus took on beatings, endured persecution, and ultimately died for me, he accepted all of my flaws, sins, and pain.  It is that truth that has made me understand my purpose, and has helped me find my acceptance on this earth.  

      Many of us walk around feeling failed by the people around us, and yet we know that our purpose is not defined by mortal whims.  Mortal acceptance comes from being generally approved.  It is usually regarded as normal and defined as usual, common, and ordinary.  

      Our acceptance has been paid on the cross, and we have been relieved of carrying the burden of others’ disapproval.  It is no mystery how we were created, and it is no mystery how we came to be accepted through Jesus Christ.  It is a fact that through our Lord, we were accepted and not rejected, long before our birth.  

      Being accepted in Christ can help you fulfill your purpose, but if you do not know how to feel accepted in Christ, you will not be able to know your purpose.  Being accepted is not a manufacturer’s label that comes after passing a screening.  You are already accepted.  That is your God-given right from the beginning of time.  Our society places labels on us and has made us believe that it is abnormal to suffer from past experiences from which we have yet to heal.  Others make us feel that we need to prove ourselves to be accepted, to feel normal.  I came to terms with this and applied this basic principle to help me: Acceptance comes from just being me.

      What many see as abnormal, God sees as normal.  

      I realized this after trying to figure myself out for years.  It was never a matter of finding myself; it was about accepting what I’d already found inside.  The stamp of approval was given well before I was conceived.  It was given by God.

      My mother and father were only instruments of my creation.  I did not need their approval.  It was ordained and approved by God.  God created me in His image.  Therefore, I am beautifully and wonderfully made.   

      Were you an outcast?  Were you one of those people who did not fit in a certain group?  Did you never get invited to hang out?  Have you been rejected by a friend or spouse?  If you fit any of these categories at any given time in your life, consider yourself favored.  Yes, favored.

      We were not born to fit into the molds created by man.  Do not question where you

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