Dear God, thank you for this idea. Thank You for entrusting me to spread Your word. God these next few blogs are going to be a blessing. I cannot wait to see how You use me. I pray that these messages feel right on time for those who read them. God move me out of the way, so that You can come in and do what You do. Forgive me for my sins, for Your glory, Amen.
This concept really tripped me out. I heard the phrase that, “God will turn what is supposed to be a period into a comma.” Then I thought about other common punctuations. God is the answer to any question(?) that life will give you. God never ceases to amaze me with what He can do! In every season of my life I have found that keeping God in the center, is the force that saves my life. Centering my life around who He is to me, instead of solely focusing on what He does for me. The relationship that we have with Christ is evident in the way we walk out our lives. Be intentional about noticing the punctuation that God is putting on this chapter of your life.
(Up to this point: this blog was started in 2023, God is allowing me today December 6, 2025 to finish it. God has been faithful and His presence in my life has been revealed even more over the last two years. Never thought I’d be in front of the keyboard again, but God placed me back in front of this for a reason. So Lord speak through me, Amen!)
The Period. (the moments that God gives direct instructions)
Direct instructions starts from the beginning of the Bible with the instructions that Christ gives Adam and Eve instruction of where they can and cannot eat (Genesis 2:16-17), the instruction that is given to Noah to build the ark with specified dimensions and who to gather to be on the ark (Genesis 6:13-22), the direction given to Abraham to leave his country, the promise of being the father of many nations even though at that time he was not a father at all, just to then be instructed to sacrifice Isaac, the son that he was blessed with 25 years after that initial promise (Genesis 12:1-3, 17:7-8 22:1-2), and all the way to the New Testament in one of my personal favorites: the redemptive story of Saul of Tarsus who became known to us as Paul directing him to stop persecuting believers, an encounter that impacted our faith tenfold (Acts 9:4-6). In each of these moments we see Christ giving these point blank, direct instructions. The interesting thing is that not all of the examples are moments of obedience. In fact most of these moments to the human mind would have been unimaginable. The God that gives direct instructions does not live in the boundaries of what our minds can fathom. It is believed Noah had never seen rain before being instructed to build that Ark, the concept of a flood was unfathomable. Abraham was childless and told not only that he would bear a child with his wife, but he would be the father of many nations. Even when Abraham tried to take matter into his own hands and had a child with Hagar, God still kept his promise through the nations built from Ishmael and Isaac. Paul was hunting and killing believers, in fact that was the main purpose of the trip that he was on when God addressed him in Acts. But God.
Quick Questions: Can you think of a time where God gave you direct instructions? Did you listen? Why or why not?
The Comma, (when God revives a situation that we believed was already finished)
Here we find moments of revival and divine interruption in the stories that were believed to be finished. Yet, if you live long enough and begin to look back over your life; you will see all of the scenarios that God placed commas(,) on what you believed to be a period.
There is a song by Maurette Brown Clark entitled, “It Ain’t Over“:
“I know the odds look stacked against you
And it seems there’s no way out
I know the issue seems unchangeable
And that there’s no reason to shout
But the impossible is God’s chance
To work a miracle, a miracle
So just know
It ain’t over until God says it’s over
It ain’t over until God says it’s done
It ain’t over until God says it’s over
Keep fighting until your victory is won”
“The impossible is a chance for God to work a miracle.”Let’s study His Word to see: In Mark 5, we meet Jairus, the man that is trying to get to Jesus to come heal his dying daughter. In this chapter we have what my exercise science professor would call a twofer: a single scenario that is satisfying two or more interest. We learn in this twofer the power of Christ and also the power of belief. Because right after the man gets Jesus attention, a lady that had been experiencing bleeding for 12 years had the faith that if she is just able to touch the garments of Christ she would be healed. She was indeed healed, but as she was getting healed the man found out that his daughter passed. What would it feel like to watch a miracle unfold in front of you, while being told the very need you brought to Him didn’t survive? Would you lose faith? Would you still believe that if He could heal the lady that was bleeding, then there still may be hope for my daughter? Maybe we should remember the reason that we go to Christ in the first place. We go to him not because he HAS TO HEAL or MUST HEALOUR NEEDS, but simply because of the fact that he is able to. We go to God with a period, because he is able to turn it into a comma. We go to God with our weight, because He is strong enough to carry it.
Lets focus on one moment in Mark 5:35-43
35 While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue leader’s house and said, “Your daughter is dead. Why bother the teacher anymore?”
36 When Jesus overheard[a] what was said, he told the synagogue leader, “Don’t be afraid. Only believe.” 37 He did not let anyone accompany him except Peter, James, and John, James’s brother. 38 They came to the leader’s house, and he saw a commotion—people weeping and wailing loudly. 39 He went in and said to them, “Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep.” 40 They laughed at him, but he put them all outside. He took the child’s father, mother, and those who were with him, and entered the place where the child was. 41 Then he took the child by the hand and said to her, “Talitha koum”[b] (which is translated, “Little girl, I say to you, get up”). 42 Immediately the girl got up and began to walk. (She was twelve years old.) At this they were utterly astounded. 43 Then he gave them strict orders that no one should know about this and told them to give her something to eat.
“Don’t be afraid. Only believe.” There are seasons in my life that this verse is the only way that I made it through. Fear could not outweigh, my belief. The period of yesterday could not mean more to me than the comma that God was trying to insert today. 2023 could’ve been the period of this blog, but you’re reading my comma moment in 2025! KEEP BELIEVING, if it is His will, no matter the time between it will be completed!
Quick Questions: Do you believe that He can revive that situation? Are you making room for God to turn it around? Lastly, what is your perspective when you witness someone else be blessed? Are you envious or do you become hopeful because if He can do it for them, then He can also do it for you?
The Exclamation Point! (moments that God exceeds the expectation)
This section may have accidentally became my favorite while plotting this blog. WHY? Because God exceeded the expectation in the most unexpected way: He defeated the finality of death. There are so many stories of God exceeding expectations in people’s lives, but the most important one to our faith is Him exceeding the expectations by raising up from the dead three days later! They came expecting to see that the stone was blocking the entrance of the grave, BUT IT WAS ROLLED AWAY. They came expecting to see a body, BUT THERE WAS ONLY FOLDED LINEN! Thomas thought that everyone else was out of their minds, BUT THE HE FELT THE HOLES IN JESUS HAND. Jesus came to defeat what was thought to be impossible. The greatest beauty is that what surpasses our expectations was always God’s purpose in sending Jesus into the world.
John 3:16-17 says, “16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.”
The resurrection exceeded expectations because God doesn’t just restore—He resurrects. He doesn’t just revive—He transforms. He doesn’t just meet needs—He exceeds them.
To Summarize
Heavenly Grammar reveals that God shapes our lives like sentences—with periods of clarity, commas of second chances, and exclamation points that break every expectation. A framework for understanding divine punctuation:
• Periods = God’s instructions
• Commas = God’s interruptions and revivals
• Exclamation points = God’s miraculous surprises
Together they show how God actively shapes our story.
In this moment, I feel that it is important to provide those who may need it an opportunity to get started on the right foot. Your greatness is coming, and I do not want you to miss out!
If you do not yet have a relationship with God, but you are feeling led to start, say this aloud:
“Dear Father,
I now believe that Jesus Christ is Your only begotten Son, that He came down to our earth in the flesh and died on the cross to take away all of my sins and the sins of this world. I believe that Jesus Christ then rose from the dead on the third day to give all of us eternal life.
Lord Jesus,
I now confess to You all of the wrong and sinful things that I have ever done in my life. I ask that You please forgive me and wash away all of my sins by the blood that You have personally shed for me on the cross. I am now ready to accept You as my personal Lord and Savior. I now ask that You come into my life and live with me for all of eternity.
Father, Jesus – I now believe that I am truly saved and born again.
Thank You Father.
Thank You Jesus.”
If you said either of these aloud and you believed it in your heart. I would love to personally congratulate you and welcome you to the family. He led you to this post for a reason. He used it to open your heart and ease your burden. Never forget that He loves you and has plans for you, that you have not even planned for yourself. Let Him use you. Yield yourself, so that He can show you the plans He has for you. All it takes it just a little trust, in Matthew 17:20 the Bible says, “Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”
The Book of Keeshon Patrick 