ACTS 9:1-18
I always try to relate the word to either my life or the lives of others. In particularly women because that's what I know best.
We walk around with our eyes open but cannot see. My heart goes out to women who want to open their eyes but don’t know how. I understand why the Scales are still on. So I have to go back to, when my scales were taken off. When I decided to trust God, FULLY.
I remember, I went to a women’s conference and it lasted for 3 days. Many of the speakers had awesome testimonies. It made me realize how minimal my situation really was in comparison, but one Pastor in particular stuck with me because she said the very words that I needed to hear. She said, “God told me to tell you to take your hands off! Not one hand but BOTH!” I said, “Oh My” because that was the problem I had. I did not FULLY put my trust in God’s hands. I still tried to keep my hands on situations and circumstances thinking that I was supposed to fix it. Because as a Single Woman and mother, that’s what I always did. I wasn’t blind, I saw all too well, but I was looking through my OWN EYES. I was trying to fix everything with my own hands. And at the time I thought that was the right thing to do.
Many of us always ask the questions: What is wrong with these men, why can’t they just do right? Why do they feel like they have to dog us?....I have a question for you Ladies…why are you looking for him to do right when you are not fully recovered to know the difference? The situations you are in will constantly repeat themselves until you realize that YOU CAN’T FIX IT!
Let me get back to Saul. Jesus did not put scales on Saul’s eyes so he would get upset and NOT trust him. What would you do, if someone you didn’t know blinded you??? (You do know that Saul did not know Jesus, you do know that he was a persecutor of Christian’s, women and men, he did not care) I’m just saying….but nine times out of ten I would say you would be a little upset. Like when YOU were blindsided, you DO KNOW Jesus and you are a little upset, you are asking “WHY”…why am I being treated this way. But I believe Jesus put scales on Saul’s eyes so that he would FULLY trust him. Same way he put scales on you.
When you are blind you need to be able to trust your footing, you need to be able to know the ground you walk on is solid. Doesn’t the song say, “On Christ the Solid Rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand” Saul had men with him along the way, leading him by the hand to his destination, but he still could only trust in the words of Jesus telling him to go into the city and at that appointed time he would tell him what he should do. He had to put ALL trust in the Lord.
But when did God remove the scales? ACTS 9:11&12: Ananias, who lived in the city of Damascus was told by the Lord to find Saul on the street called Straight and when he found him he would be PRAYING…. The word mentions that Saul saw a vision of Ananias coming in, laying his hands on him and he would receive his sight. Let me say it again…Saul was blind but he saw a vision. The vision he saw was not with his own eyes but through the eyes of God…
I have a story: Whenever my daughter wanted to learn how to ride a bike, we bought her a nice purple bike (her favorite color) with a basket, a horn and training wheels. She was so excited, it was her first bike, but when she got on it to ride it, she could not steer it in the direction she wanted to go. So she kept falling off of it. So she decided she wanted to stop going through falling again and again and again. When she was ready, to try again a couple of years later she asked me to buy her another bike but she didn’t want the training wheels, she wanted my husband to hold it because she knew that he would not let her fall. He would maneuver and guide her correctly until she got it right! She put ALL her trust in him!!
That is how God wants us to be. You may fall over and over and over again until you realize that he is the the only one we need to put our FULL trust in..He is the only one that will guide us in the direction we need to go. Then and only then will he allow the scales to be removed. At that appointed time you will see what God has for you because you are looking through God’s eyes.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Friday, September 10, 2010
There is no Second Eve
My father and I were having a conversation one day about how the word says that when a man marries he lets go of his parents and clings to his wife. This was a subject that he was discussing with a couple he was counceling for marriage.
Shockingly the man had a problem with that, stating his Mama comes first no matter what. I know most of us would get upset with that but how many men say that same thing or think those same thoughts.
But think about all the things a mother does, especially in a home where the father was not there. She went the extra mile for her son and he knows that. So now what is a woman to do? She has to come up to the level of his mother. That is a hard pill to swallow for some but for the rest, we get it.
Now, I had my wheels turning with this conversation I was having with my Father right. I was totally thinking about the flip side. Us women. We as women are usually try to fill a void that we sometimes feel we have with a man. The problem is, no man can fill that void. But we settle for whatever but the void gets deeper and darker. We think that if we don't try to hold on to this man that someone else will have him and then we will have a lonely void again. So we give this man our best assets to try to keep this dark deep void, but we are continuously sinking and don't realize what is happening.
At first we thought that we would finally be complete with this man, this fake king, this bolder that we thought was a jewel. We thought this king would make us a queen and we may have been happy for that moment.
But what we failed to realize is we tried to fill this void with the wrong thing. We focused on the wrong relationship...I'm preaching betta than ya'll shoutin!
We got it twisted, no man can fill the void but Jesus Christ.... If we remember all that our FATHER has done for us, then the man that desires our attentions has to step up to what our FATHER has done. God supplies ALL our needs, there is no void when you are in Christ Jesus.
God sent the second Adam so that everything would be complete. All of our needs are met. The first Adam couldn't do it. But did you ever notice that he never sent a second Eve??
Eve could not line up with Adam because he was out of order....(I'm trying to bring this home). So what God had to teach us as Eve's is that now we have to line up with the second Adam. We have to make him Lord over our lives and follow where he leads us. If we do that, everything else will have to line up.
The man that comes in your life would have to step up or move on. This is a trickle up affect. I know that does not make sense but God is supernatural nothing he does makes sense until after a storm. It is a trickle up affect because if we line up, the man has to line up then Gods word transforms and makes a relationship beautiful and then all is complete because Jesus supplied all our needs.
I pray this messages blesses your heart.
Shockingly the man had a problem with that, stating his Mama comes first no matter what. I know most of us would get upset with that but how many men say that same thing or think those same thoughts.
But think about all the things a mother does, especially in a home where the father was not there. She went the extra mile for her son and he knows that. So now what is a woman to do? She has to come up to the level of his mother. That is a hard pill to swallow for some but for the rest, we get it.
Now, I had my wheels turning with this conversation I was having with my Father right. I was totally thinking about the flip side. Us women. We as women are usually try to fill a void that we sometimes feel we have with a man. The problem is, no man can fill that void. But we settle for whatever but the void gets deeper and darker. We think that if we don't try to hold on to this man that someone else will have him and then we will have a lonely void again. So we give this man our best assets to try to keep this dark deep void, but we are continuously sinking and don't realize what is happening.
At first we thought that we would finally be complete with this man, this fake king, this bolder that we thought was a jewel. We thought this king would make us a queen and we may have been happy for that moment.
But what we failed to realize is we tried to fill this void with the wrong thing. We focused on the wrong relationship...I'm preaching betta than ya'll shoutin!
We got it twisted, no man can fill the void but Jesus Christ.... If we remember all that our FATHER has done for us, then the man that desires our attentions has to step up to what our FATHER has done. God supplies ALL our needs, there is no void when you are in Christ Jesus.
God sent the second Adam so that everything would be complete. All of our needs are met. The first Adam couldn't do it. But did you ever notice that he never sent a second Eve??
Eve could not line up with Adam because he was out of order....(I'm trying to bring this home). So what God had to teach us as Eve's is that now we have to line up with the second Adam. We have to make him Lord over our lives and follow where he leads us. If we do that, everything else will have to line up.
The man that comes in your life would have to step up or move on. This is a trickle up affect. I know that does not make sense but God is supernatural nothing he does makes sense until after a storm. It is a trickle up affect because if we line up, the man has to line up then Gods word transforms and makes a relationship beautiful and then all is complete because Jesus supplied all our needs.
I pray this messages blesses your heart.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Do You Have a Slave Mentality?
I heard my Pastor preaching one day about "Fighting at the Kingdom level" but one thing he said, stuck out and made me think...he asked the question, "Do you have a slave mentality?"
My thoughts went in so many directions from that one question. It took me to Proverbs 5:22 which states, An evil man is held captive by his own sins; they are ropes that catch and hold him. The King James version states in this manner, His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and shall be holden with the cords of his sins. Either way it is said, we can come the conclusion that you have control over what binds you. You are holding yourself in restraints that are made by you.
So let me ask again, "Do you have a slave mentality?". There are so many individuals with one kind of addiction or another. Funny how society has an excuse for everything we do, isn't it? For example, If someone is just mad all the time, they have anger management problems, right? If someone lives to eat instead of eating to live society calls it an eating disorder. Society calls everything in life a disorder or an addiction. Now we have people of the Christian faith stating that they have an addiction or a disorder...I could go on and on and probably make a lot of people mad but we can all agree that those "disorders" or "addictions" actually have you captive.
These things have you captive because you LOST CONTROL. Let me take you back to the word again, Proverbs 5:21-23 For the Lord sees clearly what a man does, examining every path he takes. An evil man is held captive by his own sins; they are ropes that catch and hold him. He will die for lack of self-control; he will be lost because of his INCREDIBLE FOLLY. Let's break down INCREDIBLE FOLLY. Folly by definitions means the state or quality of being foolish; lack of understanding or sense. Now let's look at the definition of Incredible (I know you know, but let's just look anyway), Incredible means so extraordinary as to seem impossible....WOW. You have done yourself an injustice of being EXTRAORDINARILY FOOLISH.
Now you see from the word how you have done this to yourself so why do we manage to blame others. "This is how I grew up", "Well it started with my mother", "My father was an alcoholic" or "I saw my father abuse my mother"...that's why I do it. My brothers and sisters, please open your eyes to see that these are all excuses for you to be bound by your own chains given to you by the enemy. And all the devil had to say was, "here you go, take your chains. I had them custom made for you".
An author by the name of Butler Shafer said that "a slave comes and waits for someone to free them". Another author put it so eloquently saying: They have been under the whip so long that they are simply unable to conceive of what it means to be free.(We are talking slave mentality now, your mental thoughts so stay with me). Who are you waiting on if you have bound yourself, you not only bound yourself but you also hold the whip! How can even the Holy Spirit enter in your mind and your heart if you are gagged and bound. Let go of the ropes!!
Let me help you by saying just this. You became free when you asked God to save you. When you asked God to come into your heart and create in you a clean heart confessing your sins, you became free at that moment. So why, if you are free do you still have shackles on your feet? Why are your hands bound together and why is the gag in your mouth? Only you hold the key to your deliverance, you are still holding the ropes all you have to do is let go.
My thoughts went in so many directions from that one question. It took me to Proverbs 5:22 which states, An evil man is held captive by his own sins; they are ropes that catch and hold him. The King James version states in this manner, His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and shall be holden with the cords of his sins. Either way it is said, we can come the conclusion that you have control over what binds you. You are holding yourself in restraints that are made by you.
So let me ask again, "Do you have a slave mentality?". There are so many individuals with one kind of addiction or another. Funny how society has an excuse for everything we do, isn't it? For example, If someone is just mad all the time, they have anger management problems, right? If someone lives to eat instead of eating to live society calls it an eating disorder. Society calls everything in life a disorder or an addiction. Now we have people of the Christian faith stating that they have an addiction or a disorder...I could go on and on and probably make a lot of people mad but we can all agree that those "disorders" or "addictions" actually have you captive.
These things have you captive because you LOST CONTROL. Let me take you back to the word again, Proverbs 5:21-23 For the Lord sees clearly what a man does, examining every path he takes. An evil man is held captive by his own sins; they are ropes that catch and hold him. He will die for lack of self-control; he will be lost because of his INCREDIBLE FOLLY. Let's break down INCREDIBLE FOLLY. Folly by definitions means the state or quality of being foolish; lack of understanding or sense. Now let's look at the definition of Incredible (I know you know, but let's just look anyway), Incredible means so extraordinary as to seem impossible....WOW. You have done yourself an injustice of being EXTRAORDINARILY FOOLISH.
Now you see from the word how you have done this to yourself so why do we manage to blame others. "This is how I grew up", "Well it started with my mother", "My father was an alcoholic" or "I saw my father abuse my mother"...that's why I do it. My brothers and sisters, please open your eyes to see that these are all excuses for you to be bound by your own chains given to you by the enemy. And all the devil had to say was, "here you go, take your chains. I had them custom made for you".
An author by the name of Butler Shafer said that "a slave comes and waits for someone to free them". Another author put it so eloquently saying: They have been under the whip so long that they are simply unable to conceive of what it means to be free.(We are talking slave mentality now, your mental thoughts so stay with me). Who are you waiting on if you have bound yourself, you not only bound yourself but you also hold the whip! How can even the Holy Spirit enter in your mind and your heart if you are gagged and bound. Let go of the ropes!!
Let me help you by saying just this. You became free when you asked God to save you. When you asked God to come into your heart and create in you a clean heart confessing your sins, you became free at that moment. So why, if you are free do you still have shackles on your feet? Why are your hands bound together and why is the gag in your mouth? Only you hold the key to your deliverance, you are still holding the ropes all you have to do is let go.
Monday, January 19, 2009
And the Change Came
Job 14:13&14
O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
If a man die, shall he live [again]? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come
And the Change Came….On November 1st 2008 God spoke to me so clearly in prayer with the other intercessors that there would be change, not just change, but immediate change, change to let you know that I am still God, God over many and a God of never ending miracles. I shared with the group the words that God spoke to me on that day.
Then I saw what God shared with me, I saw a change in not only in my home, my city, my state or my country but I saw a change in the whole world. God took one man and used him, one man from Illinois to remind us of who he is.
God took a nation that was divided and had been for over 200 years and brought it together, through one man. Obama, this man’s father was from Kenya, mother from America, born in Hawaii and raised by his grand parents who were White English- Protestants. Wow.
If you still can’t see where I am going with this, let’s break it down a little further. His father is from Kenya a place bordered by Ethiopia, Northeast of Somalia, South of Tanzania, West of Uganda and Southwest of Sudan. The only influence this country had came from other African Nations.
Now let’s look at his mother, a woman from America who had a son in 1961 that was a son of color in a country already divided, during a time when blacks went in one door and whites in another. When blacks drank from one water fountain and whites in another, during a time when whites swam in their own pools and blacks in another.
Then we visit the place in which Obama was born, Hawaii, a place where the people are made up of mostly Asian descent.
Then look at who raised Obama, his grandparents who were White Anglo Saxon Protestants.
So Now here we are, God sent one man representing, Africa, America the near by islands of Hawaii and Europe to say I am going to make a change, No longer will you be divided, no longer will you feel like you can’t do something because of the color of our skin or because of a fatherless background. I have come so that you know that I am God. What excuse will you have now not to go forth when I say go forth. You know that I am God and that I have never left you, so what will you do now?
Job said. “O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!”
Is this your set time? God is showing you that he remembers you as a people, a nation and a whole world.
Did any of you ever follow the campaign? In any of the debates was he ever flustered? If ever he was, please show me because I never saw that. I always saw his tone the same. He was never flustered. This is a man who knows God and knows that if God says it can be done than we have to have the faith and the confidence to believe what God said. He even said in one of his speeches, “Ladies & Gentlemen, this is our time, to write a new chapter in the American story”. We, as a people and a Nation waited until God said that it was our time for our change to come. This is our set time as a Nation and a world to go forth and do what God has called us to do.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Woman, Why is Your Heart Attached to Your Flesh?
I ask this question to you today, woman, have you ever thought about this? Have you ever asked yourself why your heart is attached to your flesh?
We as women often times mess up with fornication, adultery or even marrying unequally yoked with the mere thought…”If I give him the best part of myself, that which is most precious, then I can change him or change his mind of how he sees me”. Our heart was really not thinking about the sin (the flesh) because it really was not connected with our mind. Our heart was connected with our flesh wanting to see how we can make him feel, or how we can change his way of thinking.
Let me ask you another question, if the word says to love thy neighbor as you do yourself…how can you love someone without first loving you? How do you value someone if you can’t value yourself? Your process is wrong! Your heart is attached to your flesh.
Think about it, we put more preparation on our hair, make-up, nails, clothes and shoes than we do for our souls. We prep because it makes us feel good. When we look in the mirror and see what WE CREATED and call it good then we get happy. But what about what God created in you. Can you look inside your own soul and see that what God created is good….that’s what should make you happy. I’m not saying walk around and look crazy though, please understand…I’m just saying that you should put more time in your preparation for your soul than you do for your flesh. Your heart is attached to your flesh.
The word says that we should love God with all of our heart, mind and soul, another translation says with all of our might. The reason why they connect the 3 in showing God love is because we are giving God our best, the best part of us. The word never says to love God with your flesh and the reason is because that is the weakest part of you. Your flesh can be beaten, burned, cut, scraped and battered it can also take on different forms but your heart, mind and soul do not. When your heart, mind and soul are working together, it is a force unlike any other when the Holy Spirit is working in you.
Your way of thinking is backwards. Flesh should never be a part of the equation. So if you are not married and committing fornication or you are married and committing adultery in the eyes of God, what are you becoming one with? Flesh….If that is the case then you are being made one with something unstable. And if your heart is connected to your flesh then YOU are unstable. So if you think about it, you are not offering this man the best part of you, you are giving him lame offerings.
To you it was the best offering you could give this man, to you, you gave him all of yourself. But what you are saying is I am giving you my heart set on an unstable foundation. So when the foundation crumbles, so does your heart. There is a saying that says, “A woman’s heart should be hidden so far in Christ that a Man should seek him first to find it”. So I ask this, what is your heart connected with? Keep your heart separate from your flesh.
We as women often times mess up with fornication, adultery or even marrying unequally yoked with the mere thought…”If I give him the best part of myself, that which is most precious, then I can change him or change his mind of how he sees me”. Our heart was really not thinking about the sin (the flesh) because it really was not connected with our mind. Our heart was connected with our flesh wanting to see how we can make him feel, or how we can change his way of thinking.
Let me ask you another question, if the word says to love thy neighbor as you do yourself…how can you love someone without first loving you? How do you value someone if you can’t value yourself? Your process is wrong! Your heart is attached to your flesh.
Think about it, we put more preparation on our hair, make-up, nails, clothes and shoes than we do for our souls. We prep because it makes us feel good. When we look in the mirror and see what WE CREATED and call it good then we get happy. But what about what God created in you. Can you look inside your own soul and see that what God created is good….that’s what should make you happy. I’m not saying walk around and look crazy though, please understand…I’m just saying that you should put more time in your preparation for your soul than you do for your flesh. Your heart is attached to your flesh.
The word says that we should love God with all of our heart, mind and soul, another translation says with all of our might. The reason why they connect the 3 in showing God love is because we are giving God our best, the best part of us. The word never says to love God with your flesh and the reason is because that is the weakest part of you. Your flesh can be beaten, burned, cut, scraped and battered it can also take on different forms but your heart, mind and soul do not. When your heart, mind and soul are working together, it is a force unlike any other when the Holy Spirit is working in you.
Your way of thinking is backwards. Flesh should never be a part of the equation. So if you are not married and committing fornication or you are married and committing adultery in the eyes of God, what are you becoming one with? Flesh….If that is the case then you are being made one with something unstable. And if your heart is connected to your flesh then YOU are unstable. So if you think about it, you are not offering this man the best part of you, you are giving him lame offerings.
To you it was the best offering you could give this man, to you, you gave him all of yourself. But what you are saying is I am giving you my heart set on an unstable foundation. So when the foundation crumbles, so does your heart. There is a saying that says, “A woman’s heart should be hidden so far in Christ that a Man should seek him first to find it”. So I ask this, what is your heart connected with? Keep your heart separate from your flesh.
Friday, October 10, 2008
Judge Her Fairly Sister
I was going to name this “Sister I’m Sorry” or “I’m Sorry Sister” but try as I might, the words were not coming to me. So the title that best fit what I was trying to say was, “Judge Her Fairly Sister”. The reason behind this is because women can say I love you and really say it with passion but I find myself asking if they really mean it. I can only speak on this from a sister to sister point of view so sorry fellas if you feel left out, we will speak on that another time.
We sing songs to say “I Need You, You Need Me, We’re All a Part of God’s Body”…and it is a beautiful song but are we even living what we are singing? In this day and time we really and truly need each other as women. We understand how one another feels and we understand how we think. Believe it or not we all think alike so why can’t we feel one another’s pain or carry one another’s burdens? The word says in Galatians 6:2 Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. Don’t you know to this also means to sustain, uphold or support. Some scholars would say to take up in order to carry one’s self. Basically it all means the same thing. We are to carry one another, no matter what the cost, no matter what the issue. The reason is because we are supposed to understand what we as woman are going through.
I think our problem is that we don’t think about how we judge, the word never said do not judge as a matter of fact is says that we ought to, but….it says in Leviticus 9:15 “Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly”, which to me would mean that we are to love anyway no matter the clothes she wears, the way she speaks or how she is carrying herself. Love her first to know how to fairly judge her. You would be surprised what you find out. You may be surprised to find out what she has been through. But in actuality the surprise comes when you find out that she comes very close to you and what you have been through.
It just may be that her secret is out and yours isn’t. Doesn’t the word say in Matthew 7:4 “Or how can you say to your sister, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye?” I’m trying to help you love your sister more. See her from another perspective. See her from yours. Look at her and think to yourself, it could be me or it was me. I’m just trying to help you love your sister more.
I have often heard us say, when it comes to certain issues, hmmm let me pick a subject, Men….”She’s stupid, why would she go back to him after that, why she let him treat her that way”. Why did you? What were you thinking at the time of “stuck on stupid”. She needs to know that you actually went through the same thing, She needs to know that you came out of it and most of all she needs to know how you came out of it. Judge her fairly Sister.
Let’s pick another subject…the clothes she wears. “Why don’t she fix her hair”, “She say she wants a husband but she can’t get one dressed like that”. Did you give her clothes to wear or pay to get her hair done or if you know how, did you offer to do it? Did you take the time out to help her dress herself? It may be that she was never taught or no one ever told her that she was truly a beautiful sister. When I was in high school, I had a Fashion teacher. She was not a pretty woman by any means, She was sloo-footed, with eyes like a fish but she carried herself with poise and glamour, always dressed to the tee, you would have thought she was a supermodel. She never raised her voice and was always kind and always told us how beautiful we were. To this day I believe she was one of the most beautiful women I knew. Judge her fairly Sister.
This is a great subject...the amount of children she has…”You mean she has four kids and no daddy?”, “You mean she got pregnant at 16?”. I mean she got caught and you didn’t. Do you mean you never had sex until you were married, you never had a miscarriage, you never had an abortion or abortionsssss? How far away is she from you Sister? How far away is she from the way you think? You were ecstatic when that man asked you to marry him and in some cases you were already married, but it just was not the case with her, maybe he did not ask. Is that her fault, in a way yes, but the point is, how far away is she from you? How far away is her thinking from yours.
Just remember this thought, “I need you, you need me, we’re all a part of God’s Body” We need each other, so judge her fairly Sister and Sister, I’m sorry if I didn’t and I find myself loving you a little more.
We sing songs to say “I Need You, You Need Me, We’re All a Part of God’s Body”…and it is a beautiful song but are we even living what we are singing? In this day and time we really and truly need each other as women. We understand how one another feels and we understand how we think. Believe it or not we all think alike so why can’t we feel one another’s pain or carry one another’s burdens? The word says in Galatians 6:2 Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. Don’t you know to this also means to sustain, uphold or support. Some scholars would say to take up in order to carry one’s self. Basically it all means the same thing. We are to carry one another, no matter what the cost, no matter what the issue. The reason is because we are supposed to understand what we as woman are going through.
I think our problem is that we don’t think about how we judge, the word never said do not judge as a matter of fact is says that we ought to, but….it says in Leviticus 9:15 “Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly”, which to me would mean that we are to love anyway no matter the clothes she wears, the way she speaks or how she is carrying herself. Love her first to know how to fairly judge her. You would be surprised what you find out. You may be surprised to find out what she has been through. But in actuality the surprise comes when you find out that she comes very close to you and what you have been through.
It just may be that her secret is out and yours isn’t. Doesn’t the word say in Matthew 7:4 “Or how can you say to your sister, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye?” I’m trying to help you love your sister more. See her from another perspective. See her from yours. Look at her and think to yourself, it could be me or it was me. I’m just trying to help you love your sister more.
I have often heard us say, when it comes to certain issues, hmmm let me pick a subject, Men….”She’s stupid, why would she go back to him after that, why she let him treat her that way”. Why did you? What were you thinking at the time of “stuck on stupid”. She needs to know that you actually went through the same thing, She needs to know that you came out of it and most of all she needs to know how you came out of it. Judge her fairly Sister.
Let’s pick another subject…the clothes she wears. “Why don’t she fix her hair”, “She say she wants a husband but she can’t get one dressed like that”. Did you give her clothes to wear or pay to get her hair done or if you know how, did you offer to do it? Did you take the time out to help her dress herself? It may be that she was never taught or no one ever told her that she was truly a beautiful sister. When I was in high school, I had a Fashion teacher. She was not a pretty woman by any means, She was sloo-footed, with eyes like a fish but she carried herself with poise and glamour, always dressed to the tee, you would have thought she was a supermodel. She never raised her voice and was always kind and always told us how beautiful we were. To this day I believe she was one of the most beautiful women I knew. Judge her fairly Sister.
This is a great subject...the amount of children she has…”You mean she has four kids and no daddy?”, “You mean she got pregnant at 16?”. I mean she got caught and you didn’t. Do you mean you never had sex until you were married, you never had a miscarriage, you never had an abortion or abortionsssss? How far away is she from you Sister? How far away is she from the way you think? You were ecstatic when that man asked you to marry him and in some cases you were already married, but it just was not the case with her, maybe he did not ask. Is that her fault, in a way yes, but the point is, how far away is she from you? How far away is her thinking from yours.
Just remember this thought, “I need you, you need me, we’re all a part of God’s Body” We need each other, so judge her fairly Sister and Sister, I’m sorry if I didn’t and I find myself loving you a little more.
Monday, October 6, 2008
"I'll Trust You Lord"
There is a song out named “I’ll Trust You Lord” by Donnie McClurkin and in the lyrics it says:
What if it hurts? (I'll trust You, Lord)What if you cry? (I'll trust You, Lord)What if it doesn't work out the first time that you try? (I'll trust You, Lord).
I have thought about this song over and over again in my mind because I have recently come to a place in my life when I am truly hurting and in a lot of pain, I have come to a place in my life that I feel that if I don’t cry I will burst and I have tried to step out on faith to only come to this hurt and pain. I have realized at this point is when I am in the refiners fire, fire never feels good, there is always pain, hurt and crying when you are being molded and shaped into something new.
I know that I am being made new and it is making me question what God is doing, this is making me ask why I have to go through this, didn’t you promise me a change, a better life new friends new love God? We talked about this, over and over, at least I did. You told me that you would give me the desires of my heart. I asked for people that could teach me something new, I asked for people that surround me love like I love, with their whole heart, I asked for friends to be there when I need them and I asked for a person that I would be able to call my best friend as well as my husband (if it be in your will).
I am trying to do this thing right this time, why is it that I do not see the results? I hear God saying to me, “Daughter, the reason why you cannot see the results is because the results are not familiar to you” You are used to your life going through the same routines, day in and day out, you are used to being the teacher instead of learning to be still enough to be taught and you now have friends from everywhere in all walks of life that you can call on and they will be willing and able to be there. And as far as the husband that I have here waiting for you, you must first learn what being a friend is about.
Wow God, thank you for laying this out for me, this brings me to another part of the song:
Will you let go? (I'll trust you, Lord)Will you stand on My word? (I'll trust you, Lord) Against all odds will you believe what I have said? (I'll trust You, Lord)
Will I let go? In order to trust God to do the things that I requested I have to let go of my past, my past thinking, my past way of life everything that was familiar to me will not be the same.
Will I stand on his word? If he said it then that settles it. God is still God and when he moves it is within his time and in his way, we don’t recognize it because of the unfamiliar patterns of our everyday life or our because of our past.
Against All Odds will you believe what I’ve said? Sometimes we cannot see our head above the water, we still feel like we are drowning and it seems as if what God said will not come to pass because we are too busy wondering how he’s going to do it or how he’s going to fix it because the odds are against our situation. But yet….
I have to trust him, I have to believe what he said his word will not come back void, it cannot because the word says in Numbers 23:19 “God [is] not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do [it]? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?. With that being said, “I’ll Trust You Lord”.
What if it hurts? (I'll trust You, Lord)What if you cry? (I'll trust You, Lord)What if it doesn't work out the first time that you try? (I'll trust You, Lord).
I have thought about this song over and over again in my mind because I have recently come to a place in my life when I am truly hurting and in a lot of pain, I have come to a place in my life that I feel that if I don’t cry I will burst and I have tried to step out on faith to only come to this hurt and pain. I have realized at this point is when I am in the refiners fire, fire never feels good, there is always pain, hurt and crying when you are being molded and shaped into something new.
I know that I am being made new and it is making me question what God is doing, this is making me ask why I have to go through this, didn’t you promise me a change, a better life new friends new love God? We talked about this, over and over, at least I did. You told me that you would give me the desires of my heart. I asked for people that could teach me something new, I asked for people that surround me love like I love, with their whole heart, I asked for friends to be there when I need them and I asked for a person that I would be able to call my best friend as well as my husband (if it be in your will).
I am trying to do this thing right this time, why is it that I do not see the results? I hear God saying to me, “Daughter, the reason why you cannot see the results is because the results are not familiar to you” You are used to your life going through the same routines, day in and day out, you are used to being the teacher instead of learning to be still enough to be taught and you now have friends from everywhere in all walks of life that you can call on and they will be willing and able to be there. And as far as the husband that I have here waiting for you, you must first learn what being a friend is about.
Wow God, thank you for laying this out for me, this brings me to another part of the song:
Will you let go? (I'll trust you, Lord)Will you stand on My word? (I'll trust you, Lord) Against all odds will you believe what I have said? (I'll trust You, Lord)
Will I let go? In order to trust God to do the things that I requested I have to let go of my past, my past thinking, my past way of life everything that was familiar to me will not be the same.
Will I stand on his word? If he said it then that settles it. God is still God and when he moves it is within his time and in his way, we don’t recognize it because of the unfamiliar patterns of our everyday life or our because of our past.
Against All Odds will you believe what I’ve said? Sometimes we cannot see our head above the water, we still feel like we are drowning and it seems as if what God said will not come to pass because we are too busy wondering how he’s going to do it or how he’s going to fix it because the odds are against our situation. But yet….
I have to trust him, I have to believe what he said his word will not come back void, it cannot because the word says in Numbers 23:19 “God [is] not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do [it]? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?. With that being said, “I’ll Trust You Lord”.
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