Marleen GreenleafFounder & CEO, M. Alexander & Associates, LLC · Empowerment Architect | Fractional COO | Leadership Strategist | Executive Coach | FastTrac Facilitator

Happy Fantastic Fridayyyyy my good people! #StayBlessed🙌🏾 #liveinyourpower

5 Sept 2026 · 2 min

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In this short devotional video, the speaker greets viewers with a cheerful "Happy Fantastic Friday" and shares that she and her deaconesses held a morning prayer call, lifting up listeners' varied life circumstances. She recounts a brief, intense storm that caused school closures in Prince George’s County but left her neighborhood largely unharmed—no power loss, no downed trees—highlighting God’s protection. Using the storm as a reminder, she urges gratitude for everyday blessings such as health, breath, and electricity, and encourages the audience to remain "blessed" and "prayed up" throughout the day. The tone is pastoral, uplifting, and conversational, aiming to inspire faith, thankfulness, and a sense of community.

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Good morning, my good, good people, and happy Fantastic Friday! Yes, yes, it's a fantastic Friday because you know what we do on Fridays. My deaconesses and I, we get together and we say a prayer for you. So we prayed for you this morning. We prayed for whatever is going on in your life, be good, bad, or indifferent. We ask God to be in the mix and to give you peace and a calm, blessed assurance that— and this This too shall pass. So know that we prayed for you. It was storming early this morning. My goodness. I see out in Prince George's County, schools are closed because of the storm. And we were talking about that on our prayer call this morning because we were like, oh my goodness, this storm kept us up. We couldn't sleep. But now that we're hearing— We couldn't sleep. That was it for a little bit. You know, the storm lasted for maybe 30, 45 minutes. We saw the Thunder and lightning, but we— our electricity didn't go out. There were no downed trees in our area. So God is good. And that's what we're talking about, where you have to be thankful in all things. Because yes, the storm did keep us up. We were talking about it, but we have, we have electricity, we have power. Then like I said, there are no downed trees, no, no sort of destruction in our area. It doesn't even It doesn't even look like we had a storm because now it's hot. As you can see, I am— I worked up a sweat this morning from my walk. So we're just going to be grateful today and every day. Thankful for breath, thankful for life, thankful for health, that God, God is working it out for us. So let's have a fantastic Friday, my good people. God's got us. Stay blessed. Stay prayed up. Stay prayed up. Have a fantastic Friday, my good, good people. Oh, just breathe.