Cornbread recovers foreclosed home!

This prophetic picture, celebrating my comeback, was taken by a friend in August 2010. It was five months after the foreclosure and was used in a news story for ABCNews.com. My neighbors looked at me like I was crazy. NOT!

I regularly visualize recovering my home and the current occupants moving out and into a new home elsewhere. After reading Visioning: Ten Steps to Designing the Life of Your Dreams by Lucia Caachione, I was super inspired to create a vision board with pictures and words prophesying recovery of my foreclosed home, buying another house and running a thriving business. Here’s an empowering excerpt from her book: “Yours is not to declare how, but to declare what. When you look at the world with the eyes of your heart, opportunities you would have missed before will loom up in you like neon lights and you won’t be able to miss them. Hunches you used to shrug off as silly or irrational will speak to you now with an urgency you cannot ignore.”

Last year, when I did not recover my foreclosed home at the auction (the contract went to another bidder), I received several calls and emails proclaiming I wouldn’t get it and to focus on buying another house. At first I was agitated by the naysayers. I got over it quickly because I remembered that some answers to prayers take a while. It’s really about timing, about being in the right season. During this time, we have to hold tight to our faith and believe God no matter what it looks like or how long it takes! I call it pit bull faith.

As an act of my faith, I visualize the victory, meditate on Scriptures and always speak positive words. I KNOW I WILL recover the house. I’m not concerned about the details or when. The Lord will guide me and show me what to do to raise the funds. I believe it! My responsibility is to trust God. Yes, by faith, I see myself standing in the driveway; I see the balloons lining the fence celebrating my triumphant return. I can hear the renovation work going on inside by the designers from The Nate Berkus Show (they don’t know this yet). In my mind, I see the beautiful new interior design, new furniture, appliances, carpet, drapers, electronics – everything paid for!

When I regain ownership, I plan to rent the house to a family member in need of permanent housing. The relative will only have to pay utilities and a small monthly amount for rent to cover taxes and insurance. I can see myself living in a new, debt-free home elsewhere.

I’ve had previous success with visualizing goals. When I first got the idea to create a cornbread career, I visualized successful media coverage on all the major networks, on blogs and in newspapers – before it ever happened. I would picture the CNN news truck pulling up in the driveway of my house (waiting on that one).

Since launching CornbreadMillionaire.com, it has been featured on FOX National News, WSB-TV with Clark Howard, 11Alive News, ABCNews.com, MSNBC Real Estate and feature articles in The Athens-Banner Herald, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, two radio shows and numerous blogs. On December 17, 2011, a segment aired on CNN Primetime Weekend with Don Lemon. I’ll soon present cornbread cooking lessons on three morning talk shows!

I successfully sold microwave, buttered popcorn to generate income when my income dwindled during the setback. I would walk the streets and ask people to donate because I was raising money for my own business. The responses were thrilling: My favorites: “Go for it! I love to help people who are trying to help themselves. I’ll donate just because I like popcorn” Many chuckled. Some said they were inspired to launch their own popcorn fundraiser. Love it! It strengthened my faith and self-confidence.

This blog entry serves as my prophetic reference. When I recover the property, I’ll post an update on this page. Oh yeah, when my eBook Homegirl’s Cornbread Sandwiches: Tasty Recipes & Wise Life Lessons is a bestseller (prophetic declaration), I’ll post an update.

And the Lord answered me, and said, “Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.”

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