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July 07 I have certainly calmed down with the blogging. I haven't posted a blog in a good two weeks! Anyway, I HAVE AN ANTHEM! lol. It's this song on Kierra Sheard's CD "This Is Me" Here are the lyrics.
Verse 1
Can somebody tell me what's going on now
It seems like there's so much confusion in the streets
I heard somebody ask what happens when you die
That's when I stepped in and said
If you don't know my God
You might go to a place that's burning hot
Then we got into this big argument
That didn't make no sense
But it is what it is
I'm just trying to get you to see truth
There's no truth in what you do
You're simply blind to the fact
That I really got your back
And I ain't gonna lie to you
Chorus
If you think you're living right
I'm the one to tell you that you gotta get it right
If you think that you gon' make it just cause you so nice
I can tell you "no other way" cause
It is what it is.
Verse 2
Now we can sit here and talk about this all day long
And chances are you would still be wrong
You can't tell me nothing about this
Trust me, man, you can't get into heaven without this
It's like I was born on a pew
I know what to do
I really don't understand why it's so hard for you
I will continue every night to pray
But the fact is you gotta be saved
I'm just trying to get you to see truth
There's no truth in what you do
You're simply blind to the fact
That I really got your back
And I ain't gonna lie to you
Bridge
Don't make yout ime on this earth worthless
I just want you to see that you need to be serving
I'm not telling you to live like me, I'm just birthing
Something in your soul, and trust me. It's worth it.
I love this song. Aside from "Why Me," this is my favorite song on that whole CD. cause I can relate like... word by WORD I can relate! This is my anthem as one of God's adopted children, trying to make it so others can become brothers and sisters in Christ. June 20 I was riding in the car with someone, and they were playing some Avant when they came to pick me up. I offered to put in Tye Tribbett's new CD, the first thing they said as that he was too secular... even though they pulled up blasting Avant's newest album... hmm... It really got me thinking about a lot of stuff...
All the time, I encounter people who will say this and say that... but they have their things that they don't want to let go of. And then there are those who seem they CAN'T let go of things... but mostly I meet people who don't feel the NEED to let go of the ungodly things. But it's like... why hold onto it?
We are temples of God... we should treat our lives and our bodies as such. We should let go of everything that don't glorify God. All the music we like... if it doesn't glorify God, it's idolatry to listen to it. If it's not glorifying God, then it glorifies something OTHER than God. It could be the artist who made the song, could be a song to get you to glorify yourself, or something else. It could glorify money, sex, material things... but God doesn't get the credit for the song. When God gets the credit "Lord you are..." "Thank you, Lord for..." "Jesus is..." "Jesus you did this... Jesus you did that for me" then that is worship to him. but if the song gives credit to anything but... that is worship to that thing, not God.. Worshipping of idols is idolatry. There. I explained that.
But it's not just music. Idolatry is that drunk who refuses to put down the beer bottle. It's that boy who refuses to stop watching pornography. It's that girl who loves her Aaliyah, and her D'Angelou. it's that other one who watches all that TV instead of going to pray. that boy who can't stay off the computer, and the one who would rather talk on the phone, than talk to God. ANYTHING put before God is idolatry! So I ask....
What are we willing to give up for God? Would we be able to give up America's Next Top Model for one season? Would we be able to leave myspace if we had to? What are the things you are having a hard time just letting go of? i think everyone has there things.. Even if it's not extremely obvious... many of US have things that we put more worth to than we should. Try your VERY BEST to put God before ALL things. Even the music you like and the books you read. Don't read books more than you read your bible. You can't be all up in Sisters of the APF and be trying to hide the Word in your heart. The APF will kick the word right out. They conflict WAY too much. I know from EXPERIENCE! Leave it alone. lol.
Yo, don't think I am judging or nothing like that. "OH YOU POINTED ME OUT IN YOUR THING!!!!!" No it's not like that. I'm calling what I see. And if you happen to fit the mold, ask God to give you the strength to break the mold (I just had a de javou ). Have you ever heard preachers say that the messages God gives them are not only for the congregation they preach to, but for themselves, also? This is not just for the reader, but the writer as well. June 09 I read something G. Craig Lewis sent me (he has daily words... I read them) that was interesting... but then I read his suggested reading. This scripture pricked my heart and humbled me in SO many ways. THIS is why I'm thankful for the Word of God everyday, because it has th power to show you your whole self and your true self, FOR REAL! it is the entire 3 chapter of 1st John.
1 John 3
| 1Jo 3:1 |
See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and {such} we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. |
| 1Jo 3:2 |
Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. |
| 1Jo 3:3 |
And everyone who has this hope {fixed} on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure. |
| 1Jo 3:4 |
Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. |
| 1Jo 3:5 |
You know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin. |
| 1Jo 3:6 |
No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him. |
| 1Jo 3:7 |
Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous; |
| 1Jo 3:8 |
the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil. |
| 1Jo 3:9 |
No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. |
| 1Jo 3:10 |
By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother. |
| 1Jo 3:11 |
For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another; |
| 1Jo 3:12 |
not as Cain, {who} was of the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother's were righteous. |
| 1Jo 3:13 |
Do not be surprised, brethren, if the world hates you. |
| 1Jo 3:14 |
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death. |
| 1Jo 3:15 |
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. |
| 1Jo 3:16 |
We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. |
| 1Jo 3:17 |
But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him? |
| 1Jo 3:18 |
Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth. |
| 1Jo 3:19 |
We will know by this that we are of the truth, and will assure our heart before Him |
| 1Jo 3:20 |
in whatever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart and knows all things. |
| 1Jo 3:21 |
Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; |
| 1Jo 3:22 |
and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight. |
| 1Jo 3:23 |
This is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us. |
| 1Jo 3:24 |
The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us. |
What has this scripture shown you? i know it showed me lots, that need changing. i now have a goal for my daily life. To be able to say that I don't practice sin, and that i can indeed have confidence in the Lord, much like the elders of my church. Three cheers for the word of God, and it's power to change the lives of those who open themselves to the true words of God.
Hip Hip HURRAY!! Hip Hip HURRAY!! Hip Hip HURRAY!
Song of the Day: Do It Again - Lisa Page June 06 Lord I want to ask forgiveness of my sins. i thank you for your mercy and your kindness. Lord you are just AWESOME
The Lord Jesus Christ is...
Wonderful
Glorious
Marvelous
Beautiful
Awesome
Lovely
Wise
All powerful
All knowing
All seeing
Merciful
Holy
Righteous
Always in control
A way-maker
A heavy load sharer
Trustworthy
My peace
My provider
My healer
My deliverer
My protecter
My life example
My Savior
My God
My best friend
My confidant
My strength
The supplier of all my needs
he is the one and only. There is none like my God, for he is good, and his mercy endureth forever. It is a privelige to worship and to serve Him. By the way, that list gets MUCH longer. There is no way to describe totally who God is. He is just TOO awesome. You will never have peace until you get to know the one true God.
Come worship with me... June 01 This blog is gonna be long, just like my other ones, so my cousin can just put aside his ADD symptoms and READ IT! lol. Luv you much, cuz. (inside joke, y'all. sorry.)
2 Corinthians 11
Paul and the False Apostles
I hope you will put up with a little of my foolishness; but you are already doing that. I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him. But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough. But I do not think I am in the least inferior to those "super-apostles." I may not be a trained speaker, but I do have knowledge. We have made this perfectly clear to you in every way. Was it a sin for me to lower myself in order to elevate you by preaching the gospel of God to you free of charge?
Ok, I am not too comfortable with the big tyme preachers. I was ok with them, until I watched the Truth Behind Hip Hop DVDs (all four, y'all). And to me, honestly, Paul using the term "super apostles" really brings to me T.D. Jakes, Jamal Bryant, and the like to mind. Now I can't say these preachers are teaching people another Jesus, or that they are presenting another gospel, or anything like that, I don't know anything about Juanita Bynum, accept that she's married to my friend's pastor's nephew, and is now a part of the Weeks ministerial family. Ministerial because they are ALL preachers... accept one, who's an organist. But don't that sound like MCBC cousins? countless preachers and ministers have been birthed out of Mt. Calvary. lol. ANYWHO! sorry, I started rambling.
Anyway, like I said, I don't know if I can say these big tyme preachers are preaching another gospel out of the character of Jesus. But someone said this... "take ten random [gospel] hits from back in the day, and ten [gospel] hits from today's music. The major difference is that the old music always talked about our condition, whereas music from our circumstances. Speaking on our condition calls us to repentance; it calls us to change, but to speak on our circumstances turns God into an ATM in the sky. 'I'm gonna get my blessing, my breakthrough, my season, harvest, and favor." First off..... that is REALLY deep. and secondly, I tried that.... AND IT"S TRUE!!!! There is a HUGE difference between the Winans singing about how they got good grades, and never did anything bad, but they still realized that they were in sin and needing Jesus, than "Favor... I give you Favor... You will never want for anything.... when you ask, I will answer. This is the hour, I'm puring out my favor."
I even listened to a sermon... or watched, rather, by Jamal Bryant. He talked about a virtuous woman. Now, that man can PREACH. but to me, he is JUST another big tyme preacher, preaching on circumstances, rather than conditions. Amen? nosa. let me stop. lol. Anyway, he went to Proverbs 31:10 "But who can find a virtuous woman for she is more valuable than rubees" ok that might not be how it went exactly, but that's the jist. ANYWAY, that's where he stopped. He never went into detail about WHAT a virtuous woman was, but kind of gave off the impression that the women there were already virtuous. Now out of a conference with over a thousand in attendance, I can state for FACT that is not true. And he said alot of stuff even I could relate to, AND I"M NOT EVEN A WOMAN! Huh?
He came against SOME aspect of the "mega-church mentatity" (the season harvest, and what not) shouting over material stuff... but even so... he never talked on the condition of the person, how there is a need for women to be virtuous, not like he ever finished the scripture to distinguish WHAT the virtuous woman was. Now I have read that scripture plenty of times on responsive reading on sundays... and had he read the WHOLE scripture, them women would not have been shouting hooping and hollaring, because they are not all virtuous women. No, many of them would have stopped and thought about what the word said... as the TRUTH of the word often causes you to do, "come let us REASON together..."
When I heard a particular sermon about faith... it touched me... and I wasn't shouting. No.. I was really thinking on the word of God, because it was truth. It was the word of God, about the condition I was in, and my need to change. There were no circumstances for me to try and compare my current and past life with, just the cold hard truth that I had to read the word more, believe what it said, and my faith would come. So... the mega church that makes me whoop and hollar over meer circumstances... or the WHOLE word that causes me to change and form myself closer and closer to the image of Jesus Christ. One thing I've noticed... back in the day, Jesus was my savior, my deliverer, and my example on how to live. Today, in many churches, he is the fixer of my circumstances, my blesser, and my ATM. I see a difference. Do you? May 20 I have really been feeling the need to post this. I been trying to resist, btu I just have to. Someone tried to convince me that homosexuality is ok, but I have too much Bible sense. I know it's really long, so read it only if you have some time. But it's worth every word. It's an email I sent the guy in return, but I'm turning it into a blog, because it is a serious issue...
First, off. I just want to thank God for his perfect word, and it being in me, and in anyone who knows it well. I'm sorry this email is SO incredibly long, it took me a good forty minutes to write. But please bear with me and read it in it's entirety.
Well I hope this email is readable. anyway. I watched the first video. I do not have time to watch nor read anything else at this moment, because it is almost three in the morning. But, what I did see did not change my mind to any degree. I'm sorry. I just can't subscribe to the belief that homosexuality is not a sin. My bible tells me otherwise. Yes you can say we need to go back to the original manuscripts and what not, but scholars have already done that. translators after translators with every translation of the Bible have included homosexuality as sin in both the old and new testament. in every translation? come on, now Matthew. Now whether you are judged or not, does not change what is right and what is wrong.
They try to say homosexuality is not a disease, not physically, no. Neither is fornication, nor any other sin. Some diseases are brought on DUE TO sin, like addictions and what not, but they started with an original sin in the beginning, then the addict became trapped because of his sin. But sin is part of the human nature. It's not a disease PHYSICALLY, but I am not concerned at all with the physical. Not one bit. The Bible says we fight NOT against flesh and blood, but against principalities. the warfare is spiritual, and sin is a spiritual disease, not a natural one. ALL sin. Not just homosexuality. And that first chapter of Romans came down on ALL sin, not just homosexuality, but ALL of it.
I do believe the scripture that they used in acts saying that we are not to hold to the old testament was misconstrued or false some kind of way? Otherwise, WHY would Paul write in one of his letters that we learn from the Old Testament? We use the old testament as guidance in our own lives? That I did read for myself. So I know it's there. And back in the days of Paul, what did the Colossians have to live by, besides A letter from Paul working out issues in there church? They had the old testament. That is what taught them how to live. Now we have All of Paul's letters, and the four gospels, along with the acts of the apostles, but the early church had none of that. yet they were living holy. must have been by the old testament, I'm sure. And if the Old testament was so totally irrelevant as people misconstrue it to be, WHY IS IT IN THE BIBLE?!?! I believe that unless something is directly combated against and canceling out, like Peter's dream about unclean food, permitting us to eat things such as pork, then we are still to live by the old testament. What was a sin then, is STILL a sin, now. No we don't stone witches like they use to, but that is only because of the forgiveness of sin presented in Jesus Christ. But that don't change the fact that witchcraft is still a sin and that we must repent of it and ask forgiveness. And I'll bet that that's the true meaning of the scripture about not holding someone to old testament. Because of the forgiveness of sins through Jesus Christ, we cannot stone the witch, and put the homosexual to death. What for when they are already dead to God anyway, nor can he hear their prayer, because they are in sin? But, no where in the bible has sin ever changed. what was a sin then, is still a sin, now. The only difference is that NOW, we can be forgiven of sin, because of Jesus offering himself up as the perfect sacrifice.
Now I do agree with the fact that people are incorrect when they say God hates the homosexual. If that were the case, God would hate EVERY HUMAN BEING ON THE EARTH HE MADE. Because ALL have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Even on a Christian's BEST day, we are nothing but filthy rags compared to the righteousness and Holiness of God. God loves everyone. The crack head, the prostitute, the stripper, the homosexual, and the adulterer. Jesus said to come as you are. He never said you would STAY as you are. Why? Because God is a Holy God, who detests sin, homosexuality just happening to be one of them, well will you look at that! I will accept you as a homosexual into my church congregation, and teach you the true ways of Jesus Christ, correct you when you are wrong, and show you how to live this Christian life, THE RIGHT WAY. And if you get saved, Me, AND JESUS, Expects you to hand EVERYTHING over to him to change, and to make into the image of the Son of God.
I see they tried to bring up many famous celebrated people in the past who were gay. Not everything endorsed, is the right thing to be endorsing. As a Christian, there are just SOME THINGS I cannot stand by. Homosexuality just happening to be one of those things. And Besides. what do I care what society endorses and says it's ok? I'm not concerned with what society that tries to accommodate everyone at some point, says what's right and what's not. MY concern is what my Father in Heaven says is right and what is not. The Bible says Wide is the road to destruction. And the path to righteousness, is narrow. I choose to stray from what society tells me, and go down the narrow path to righteousness. And I know there are like Billions of Christians... but tell me, how many of those Christians are true Christians, giving up all of themselves to Christ? just because you believe in God, does not make you an automatic child of God like people want to believe.
SO many people have misconstrued the word "love" when it comes to homosexuality. Me giving you everything you want, and request, is not love. Because in giving you all that you want, when am I giving you what you need? The true word of God? Sitting you down and telling you that God can change you? Where is the real love? Letting you know that if you continue down the path you are on, you are in danger of being thrown into the lake of fire! But no. because you don't want to hear that, it's not love. And you'd rather me give you what you want, and just let you walk right through the gates of hell. No. I don't want that for anyone close to me, trapped in sin, including myself, and you. Telling you what you want to hear, and giving you everything you want is not love. Giving you what you need is showing you love.
Now... every single sin has a consequence. There is suffering in EVERY sinful bondage. An adulterer loses his family. A Crack head loses her health, a prostitute loses her pride and dignity. There is suffering in every bondage. What makes homosexuality ANY different? It's still sin, but yet, the homosexual wants it to be where they are comfortable in their sin. I highly doubt that that will ever happen. Every person bound by sin is denied a dignified place in society. Every sinful thing is looked down upon in some way or another, so therefore, I do think that the homosexuals are looking for special treatment, in that sense... in the spiritual sense.
I do believe that in some cases, the homosexual lifestyle is chosen. ESPECIALLY for a Christian. They know the way. The know how things are suppose to be, but they choose otherwise. But for a sinner, they have no choice over allowing a sinful seed to grow in them, because they are in sin, no matter what the sin is. NO you did not choose your sexual orientation, nor can you change it. But how dare you limit the power of God by claiming that it cannot be changed, PERIOD? That is all I have to say really about the video you sent me to watch, which I did watch.
Now to the emails. I do not believe that it is preaching discrimination against gays. For one thing, he did not only talk about gays. He used them as example in that particular email, but it was a series, in which he even named closed family members who could be dangerous to a Christian's spiritual help. Yes Jesus did fellowship with the sinful while he was alive, but it was for a specific purpose, to get a message to them that their sins could be forgiven. That don't change the fact that their sins were sins, mind you. Yes, Jesus did befriend, but not to the extent that where he was telling them secrets, sharing all his goals with them, getting to know their whole personal lives, and allowing them to know his, getting all buddy-buddy with them.
What this minister pointed out was that sometimes, conversations would arise that would pose a threat to us by planting bad seeds into our lives, and into our minds, like say a conversation struck between us about who the cutest actor is. Then that causes me to fall prey to sin. Now in that sense, our relationship does not hurt, since, normally, we only talk about Windows Vista, and the like. BUT, my issue was that we doing all this talk-talk-talking, but I had never really introduced Christ to you. that was my main issue after some thinking and listening to God's voice. By me never saying anything, I was accepting you sin, showing you no Godly love, and since we are to be like Christ, with Him being a HOLY God, who does not accept sin, neither are his children, me being one of them.
May 05 I wrote this thing today. It's short for a story, but I honestly don't think it's finished. Read it. i called it "Freedom from Chains." (not real title. MSN blocked the title)
1st Corinthians 6:9-11
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
The Breaking of Bondage
I don't believe what I'm doing. I turn over and look in his face. There's contentment written all over his face. He's happy with me, living with me, and just... being with me. But I'm not happy. How could I let myself fall into such a trap? I have to leave. I have to get back before God's face. There was no way I can do that sleeping with a man. I have to go. i'll break the news in the morning...
"So when did this happen?" There was no doubt he was upset as he talked through his clenched teeth.
"About a week ago."
"How?" The confusion fell from his lips like rain into the atmosphere, affecting the entire room.
"I decided to open that bible that's collecting dust in the living room." His head popped up. He knew just what scripture I had read. The irony of a bible opening to 1 Corinthians 6 in the home of two gay men!
"Why?" That was the only word he could muster. I knew what was running through his mind... Why did he have to be the one to turn out a once faithful church boy? The move was backfiring in his face.
"Curiosity, I guess. But I want to be able to apply that to my life. I can't say, such were some of you, because I'm still this way. I want to change so I can see Jesus when he comes. Right now, I can't. And it hurts me that I'm doing this to God because I know better."
The instinct set in to fight for his man. There was no way he could just let his lover walk out the door and leave him sitting in tears. No way. He figured he could discourage me with words I'd been saying to myself for some time. But nothing could shake the way i was raised. And I was raised on scripture. Even if I didn't know where the scripture was, I knew the scripture existed.
"But you can't just choose who you are. Would you have really chosen to be gay, after growing up in church? You are who you are. God understands that. You must understand that. You have to. For the sake of our love."
Love? I knew better. This was lust. Of course, I wanted to convince myself of what he believed. But I knew better. Train up a child...
"I was taught enough scripture to know that when i go back to Christ, his truth will make me free from this, and I'll be a new person. I may not have chosen who I am, but I know Jesus can surely change who I am to better suit Him. Besides... I did choose you over him. So, I did choose this. But now, I'm regretting my choice. I have to go. I can't continue to choose you over God."
"Well if that's how you'll have it," he paused with pain from the words he was about to say, "give me back my key."
I reached into my pocket and pulled out my key chain. i removed the apartment keys and sat them on the table next to the elbow he was leaning on. He looked at me with those eyes I could never resist. But I had to this time. Hopefully it would be the last time. God would give me strength. This was His will. He wouldn't leave me hanging. I turned to leave, and under the heavy silence, I heard him say,
"No goodbye sex?"
I opened the door and turned to him and said, "This time, you're going to have to take matters into your own hands." His sobs were soft as I closed the door and headed down the hallway. A tear rolled down my own cheek when I realized how hard it would be to leave him, and his way of life behind. "God I need your strength."
I am dedicating this to all the homosexuals who are seeking deliverance. Who are willing to give their life to Christ, and to live Holy, conforming to the image and example of Jesus Christ. God loves everyone, including the homosexuals, and he wants you in heaven with him. Seek the Lord, and by faith, you shall recieve your deliverance. I do not believe this story is yet finished. I am going to follow this man's life some more with my pen, and we all ( including me... it's how I write) will see the outcome of this man's life.
"Well, God knows my heart."
I honestly want to know when and how that started being used as an excuse for people to continue doing their dirt when they are judged by other Christians? As soon as they get called out for doing wrong, instead of apologizing, they say "God know my heart," as if they don't know no better. And then the way sinners use it! Don't get me started on that. I was thinking about it lately, and I really believe that that is like something condemning for the people i hear most use it as an excuse.
"Well God knows my heart"
Yes he does know your heart. And he knows when you are rejected His word, but using it as an excuse to keep living like you living. God knows the difference between you making a mistake, and you just sinning willfully just because you want to go to the club on Fridays.
Of course, it is not always used as an excuse. i mean my friend said to me "you shouldn't care about what other people think of you, because it's God who can see your heart and knows it. It is only what he thinks that counts, because he knows your heart. " OH SO TRUE! i mean you cannot deny truth. When a sinner comes to God, he sees the condition of their heart (as he always has) and he forgives the sincere, willing heart, and the broken, contrite spirit. But what does he do with the selfish heart, that comes to God for personal gain? What does he think about those that the sinner that says that God knows their heart, when they dont' want to cast away their sins from them? I mean God knows that they are rejecting Him. Their heart is saying that loud and clear. if they are truly sincere like they are trying to imply in using that little cliche scripture, why don't they you know obey the rest of the word? Did that start in the church, and spread out to the world? Or is that exclusive to the people of God who know his word and... well... don't really want to obey? Can we use that phrase a little more correctly aligned to the Word of God please? Thanx. I was reading my bible on the bus yesterday, and i tell you something really jumped out at me. i just could not get passed it, no matter how much I tried. I will recall it from memory. forgive me if I get it wrong SIDEBAR That's why you are suppose to look up stuff yourself after stuff is taught, preached, etc. SIDEBAR DONE (to regina  )
Collosions (sp?) 1:21-22
And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight...
OH MY GOSH!!! I don't know why this stuck out to me the way it did, but it just did. i thought of people who had wronged others, and who had just flt like they couldn't be forgiven of what they'd done. YOU ARE FORGIVEN! IT'S OK! I thought about people who had left the church, and felt like they couldn't go back. YES YOU CAN! I thought about people with low self esteem who had had stuff done to them, and now they feel like it's their fault, NO IT AIN'T!!! I mean it's like. It wasn't their fault, but since they felt they needed to be reconciled for what they supposedly did, God did so. He took care of all this on the cross. Now it hits, that when they say Jesus took care of everything on the cross, he really did take care of every little single, cheap-sounding, unimportant (in our eyes) thing onto the cross, and nailed it there so that we could be free from EVERYTHING!! No one can blame us for anything we've done in the past, so drop it. Yeah sure other people will try and hold these things against you, and try to be like "I know what you did last summer" So what if you know what I did? God wiped my slate totally clean and gave me a new beginning. He don't remember that. I'm standing here and my sins are way over there. Stop trying to bridge a gap that God created! (Psalms 103:12) Three cheers for the word of God!
HIP HIP HURRAY!! HIP HIP HURRAY!! HIP HIP HURRAY!!!!!
I love God's word. it's so fun! It's so encouraging. It's so cleansing. It's so perfect! There is nothing like my God, and his Word, which is also his son, Jesus Christ (John 1). Who knew?! lol.
Song of the Day: All You've Done For Me - Lisa McClendon i dont' have nothing to say. i just want to post some songs. oohh, when you see an elipses (...), that's the end of the song.
I love you, I love you,
I love you, Lord, today.
Because you cared for me
In such a special way.
That's why I praise you,
I lift you up,
And I magnify your name
Tht's why my heart is filled with praise...
The Lord is high above the heavens
And His glory above the nations
The Lord is high above the heavens
And His glory above the nations
Lift up your hands and say
Halle-halle-hallelujah!
Halle-halle-hallelujah!
Halle-lujah! Halle-lujah!...
I will serve you, because I love you
You have given life to me.
I was nothing, but then you found me
You have given life to me!
heartache, broken peices,
Ruined live are why you
Died on Calvary
Your touch is what I long for
You have given life to me...
in my life, Lord
Be glorified. Be glorified.
in my life, Lord,
Be glorified, today....
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
*wipes away tear*
There is something about that name
You are master, savior, Jesus
Like a fragrance after the rain
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
Let All heaven and Earth proclaim
Kings and kingdoms shall all pass away,
But there's something about that name... I am very grateful for the talk i had with Auntie Julia today. It was eye opening, and raised up something else more serious that needed to be dealt with...
What do you do when you are in a gang? Do you not do as the rest of the gang members do? if you're not gonna do as the gang does, then you don't really have the right to rep the gang. Correct? How dumb does the gang to look to have all its members claiming it, but slim to none of the members actually do as the gang is suppose to do?
People this very much happens in the Body of Christ. I hear SO many people claim to be a Christian. "yes i love the lord. I read my bible all the time!" Ever notice how the bible sitting on the coffe table is open but you can't read the words because of years of DUST sitting on top whatever page the bible is open to? That bible is not at all being read. Neither are many who claim to be Christians living after God's image.
John 14:15 says, "If ye love me, keep my commandments." How can you say you love God, and you are a Christian (which means Christlike, ding ding) if you are not indeed Christlike? If you are not Christ-like, you are not a Christian, since being a Christian means to be christ-like.
Youth of Mt. Calvary, I had an interesting talk with one of the parents. And I feel for her, very much. It was not so much the fact that those who are not saved were posting things, but the thing that hit the hardest was the face that Mt. Calvary Youth was posting things that Jesus just would not approve of. Because the environment wasn't even right among the people of God, where was this page-owner's safe haven? So she had to pull the plug. And I honestly don't blame her one bit. Christians, we should know better than to do as the world does. Reppin' gangs, reposting curseful and sexually explicit chain letters are things that the world does. WE ARE CALLED TO BE DIFFERENT!!! To lift of the name of Jesus to draw all men to him. Please be obedient to the calling of God. Read my blog, "MySpace Issues." If you blog does not match the standards that God set, then it's time to make a change. take off the swears, get rid of the sinful music, and stop posting as evil things as we, the people of God, have been posting. Take down the lustful pictures, and stop revealing yourself. It is time to live for God, and God alone.
Many issues between MCBC have come up when it comes to do with MySpace, and I'd like to deal with them. First off, I am very sad that Daryl had to leave myspace. We will miss you!
It has come to may attention that certain parents of Mt Calvary Children have...taken issue with this ever-poluar website known as MySpace. but it is what it indeed implies. MY SPACE! So let me have it please? Thank you. It is meant to be a place where people can express themselves. Sometimes, that expression is done appropriately and inappropiate. But I have decided to give the low-down for all the parents who have decided to take a stand in their childrens lives, and make sure they are living right befor God, and are safe on the net. MUCH congrats to you. But before you get my standing ovation, you must first realize certain truths about this website.
Bulletins: Do you have an announcement? Post a bulletin. Saw something funny, you want people to read? Post it in the bulletin. Depending on the diversity of your friends, a VARIETY of bulletins will be posted. Some nasty, some cool. Realize, Mt. Calrvary is not Earth within Earth. Not everyone was raised in a Biblically Correct Church such as Mt. Calvary. We cannot judge our children based on what the world does behind closed doors (seeming as the general public does not see posted bulletins on people's page). That almost makes no sense with me saying it like that. But it's almost like that's what's happening. BUT WE CAN judge based on what's going on within the body of Christ.
Paul said in Corinthians 5:9-13:
"I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person."
It is not the page owner's choice what is posted on the billboard by their unsaved friends. To ask them to stop posting such things would be like asking them to stop swearing when they talk around you. 9 times out of ten, they will swear MORE just to test you and get on your nerves. Rather, pay attention to what the page owner has posted in the billboard THEMSELVES. If your child is posting little announcements they want their friends to know, there's nothing wrong with that. But if they are passing chain letters that try to curse people for not reposting, and sexually explicit things, then they are to be held accountable. But ONLY if they post these things. Matthew, shame on you for getting Mt. Calvary children in trouble by posting such gross things as you have posted (I'm calling names like Paul. I don't care.) if Matthew continues to post these things, take him OFF your friends list. He knows better. We should NOT have to delete our entire page just because one disobedient Child of God decided to be nasty.
Comments: One thing your child CAN control is the comments that people leave on their page. Those can be deleted. I do not go through the trouble of trying to filter out my bulletins, because that is not portrayed to the general public when someone views my page. but it is my choice, what I allow people to say in my comments. I cannot rep Jesus in my life and on my page, and in my blog, and allow people to swear, and talk about sex in my comments. That is totally contradictory to the Body of Christ and the Word of God. What is your child condoning in the comments? Do not have your child repin' Jesus one place, and telling the world their are Christians, but when it comes to that, peopel can call the hypocrites because what they condone on their page is just so contradictory to what has been spoken out of their mouths. The first thing people seem to look for these days are hypocrites within the church, PLEASE don't validate these people's views by allowing your children to do so, and give these people occasion to blaspheme against the Body of Christ and its God.
These are basically all the issues I have heard something about that are causing issue between children and their parents. if there are anymore, let me know and I will update. I am thinking of making this particular blog entry public to those at Mt. Calvary. what do y'all think? If you feel this is gonna put the children on blast in front the parents, then you need to clean up yoru act in the eyes of your parents and the eyes of God. ESPECIALLY if you know better. no excuses. The children of Mt. Calvary know the word of God. We have been taught it since the moment we spoke our first word. You know the deal. If you are taking issue with this post, check yourself.
Noonday prayer was about GOSSIP. yes Gossip. It's a big issue in Mt. Calvary. maybe the biggest. but yo. tell me why, Sister Baxter CALLED ME OUT at the end of prayer and told Granddaddy to anoint me and pray for me. I was like, dag. But I still have yet to sit down and have my pow wow with sister baxter. I have to call her tomorrow. wish me luck, y'all. nosa. just pray.
i do not think a baptism of the Holy Ghost requires, emotion and a whole bunch of shouting, speaking in tongues and such. I hear it said that it's like an electricity. The "Electrivity of the Holy Ghost." Well, Granddaddy asked that I be filled with the Holy Ghost (or was that sister baxter?). and after he was done praying, I started to feel like a tingly feeling all over. starting from my head, down to my feet. I've felt it before. Like this one time, I was really thinking about... somestuff (for alll the preferred readers) and I just really didn't want to be thinking about it, so I just said "NO!" and stomped my foot. and it was like something touched my head, that same tingly feeling, from my head down to my feet, three times. it was hot. it felt really good to resist sin. I wanna do it again. lol. Anyway, I am out. I will post when I talk to sister baxter, unless something else happens before then.
Song of the Day: Song of Strength - Fred Hammond
I know this is about God, but I put Romance and relationships because this boils down to what my relationship with Jesus looks like. People it don't look good. I can say that for sure. I mean I can get up in front of people, play the organ and sing all I want, but the truth of the matter is that I am still watching pornography, and I'm still a homosexual. But these things are NOT going to intrude in on my relationship with Jesus anylonger. I refuse...
I called Sister Baxter yesterday. I had to call back madd times because they was praying... I was praying, too. SHOOOOOTTT i was scared. But I just asked God for some guidance in my life, then I called sister Baxter. And I told her my concerns, "In the state I'm in, should I REALLY be getting up before the people and singing, and playing the organ at church?" The first thing that came out of her mouth was, "Well bless your heart." She wanted to talk to me face to face down at the church about these issues. So I have to call her today. to set something up. I will be back to update. I am so glad all this is happening, because I am ready for God to get some REAL glory out of my life. Not just in my words, but in my actions and the way I live. Thank you Jesus...
Song of the Day: We Sing Glory - Fred Hammond I took on some actions that brought up the issue of judgement. And I seem to be combatting my friends on this. They read what i wrote, and they say i shouldn't judge, that I'm being judgemental. The give me scriptures that say not to judge, for example Matthew 7:1 Judge not, that ye be not judged. But after it was revealed that eople have been misusing isaiah 59:19 for YEARS to mean something ti didn't. I have decided to start reading things for myself. I have also noticed how people use PART of a scripture, and leave out the rest, or take the scripture out of the context it was placed in. So I decided to start reading groups of verses, instead of just verses. And what I found are many passages that tell me that it is in fact the job of Christians to judge one another.
People tell me that it is only God's place to judge, and that we shouldnt' judge people. it makes us self righteous. And it's not suppose to be like that. Well for one thing. We, as Christians, aren't self righteous. God has made us righteous. That's why he sent his son to die for us. he died so that we could live in righteousness. 1 John 3:6-8 reads "Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him. Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil." If I'm practicing rigtheousness, then I am indeed righteous.
Now back to the issue of judgement. I do believe that not judging PERIOD is something that the world started to enforce because the world has begun erasing the lines between right and wrong, so that people can determine what is right and wrong FOR THEM, not what God said was right, which is why we now have the "issue" of gay marriage in this country, Because of this, you cannot take someone from the world, and line them up with the word to say that they are wrong, because they may not believe they are wrong. they may believe that it's right for them, because they don't believe in the word of God. Feel me?
But as for Christians, that is an entirely different story. 1st. Corinthians 5 says, "it's been reported to me that there is sexual immorality in yuor midst, one who even has his father's wife! And you have not yet mourned at what this man has done. But you glorify yourselves, saying how spiritual you are, when I have already judged, as if I were there, him who did this thing. In the name of Jesus, the next time you gather together, with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus, deliver this man up to Satan that his flesh would be destroyed and his spirit be saved before the coming of the lord" In other words, it's time for you to place judgement on this man for doing what he did. "Your glorifying is not a good thing. Don't you know that it only takes a little yeast to make bread rise? Therefor purge out the old yeast" It only takes justa little bit of sin for sin to begin to spread throughout the place. Get rid of it. "i know i told you not to eat with people who are sexually immoral, but in order to do that, you'd have to leave the world entirely. What I meant is that if these sexually immoral, or covetous, or extortioners, claim to be Christians, you shouldn't even be eating with them. let alone keeping company. I cannot judge what the outsiders do, but it is certainly your job to judge those within the body of Christ." Go read that for yourself. Of course, I summed it up in so many words, but I didn't change the meaning at all.
Paul told us himself that it is our job to judge those in the body of Christ. He even did it himself, when he first found out hat was going on. For people to say that we cannot judge is to say that I cannot go to one of my cousins, and confronting him about him cheating on his girlfriend. Because in order to correct him, I'd have to actually judge that he was wrong, and if i can't judge him...
People say that it is God who places judgement, and him alone. that is his job to do as such, and we have no place in it. This I do not agree. Read Isaiah 59. There was all types of wickedness going on in this place. no noe was interceding for the evil, because eevryone was evil. You was beat down and robbed if you tried to stand up for rigtheousnes.s There was no justice, and there was no judgement. Isaiah 59:15 reads "Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment." Can you believe God was already lookign for judgement among the people? but no one wanted to judge each other and hold each other accountable, so therefore, Giod had to hold up his standard, since no one else would. And he did it through distruction, and when the enemy came in like a flood, he would allow it, holding up his standard that the people had disregarded. THIS people, is the true meaning of Isaiah 59:19. The standard beign lifted up is against the disobedient people, not against satan when he comes in "like a flood" Can you believe it? God was looking for the people to be judging amongst themselves, holding up his standard, so that he wouldn't have to Hold up his standard against his people.
After reading these thigns, I thought about Matthew 7:1
, where Jesus said "Judge not, that ye be not judged." Is that a contradiction in the bible? I decided to just keep reading and then I read this. Matthew 7:1-5 reads "Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye." Now I got out of this, listen. Don't judge someone of something that they can judge you with. How you gonna come to me, and tell me I have a problem with porn, when you just got caught watching it yesterday with some lotion in your hand? It don't work like that. Come correct before you step to me. You can step to me. You just have to make sure that you are correct before you come to me. it's like laying hands. if your spirit ain't clean, don't be laying hands on people, right? Right. But you can still lay hands. You just have to be clean.
I wish more people would hold up God's standard and judge each other. The world's mentality has crept into the church in yet another way. i read a book. This man had been struggling with homosexuality through his marriage, and had two kids. Without warning, he announces that he's in love with a man, and gets up and leaves his family, dragging his whole family through the mudd. But even to the very end of this book, no one wanted to judge this man and say that he was wrong, when the bible in fact says that the life this man was leading was wrong indeed. So this man has to be judged by God with AIDS because no one wanted to judge him and confront him? There is no love in that. Because the reality of it is that if this man does not begin to obey the word of God before he dies and turn from that lifestyle, he will go to hell! please, people. Uphold the standards like we did back in the days of our parents and grandparents. Don't let the standard die with the rising of the people-pleasing mega churches, and those that want to "reach the world." Forget about being politically correct. Be Biblically correct.
I know this is long, but bear with me. if you don't have time to read all of it, come back and finish it later.
Look here, don't be saying it's just music, it's just this, it's just that. oh it's just earrings, it's just a tatoo. God said don't do it. He said it for a reason. What's the reason? THIS THING AIN"T NATURAL! It's a spiritual war that we are caught in the middle of. You get tatoos and peircings...AND BRAIDS (men of Mt. Calvary), you have become Satan's prisoner of war, opening up doors for his angels to come in. You are setting the atmosphere for Satan to abide. Because I don't know about other churches, but in Mt. Calvary, that is through a spirit of rebellion because we are taught better. You succumb to that rebellioous spirit, you are giving praise to Satan. And just like God inhabits the praises of his people, so does satan inhabit the praises of HIS people, too. And where the spirit of satan is, so do his attributes come also: demons, oppression, depression, thoughts of suicide, anger, anguish, death. All the things that are bad. If any of these things overcome you, it's time for you to sit down with the word, and compare yourself to it. Are you lining up with the word? in what way? God said I put before you a blessing and a curse. a blessing if you OBEY, and a curse if you DISOBEY. What are you disobeying that is causing curses of the enemy to come upon you?
Scriptures coming soon. be patient....
ok I got scripture. read this, here.
Leviticus 19:28:
"Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord"
Don't act stupid. you know this goes for earrings, too. What do you have to do with earrings? You got to break skin, am I right? thank you very much.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
"What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's."
Now how do peircings and tatoos and such glorify God? It don't. lookie here.
Genesis 35:2:
"Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments: 3 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went. 4 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem."
Why did they have to take off their earrings and such ALONG with strange gods? Think about it.
Now I know y'all are thinking, well what's wrong with earrings? For the women that wear earrings? there is nothing wrong with it. you doing a custom. feel me? now... when you start having five peircing holes in your left ear, three belly rings, some in your eyebrows, a lip and tongue wring, and rings in unmentionable areas, then you have gone way too far. But men, let me talk to you for a second.
Deuteronomy 22:5:
"The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God."
Things that pertain to a women:
1.Earrings
2.Skirts, dresses, high heels, the like
3.braids/long hair
4.makeup
5.femanine colors: pink, purple, you know...
Now, men do you see why Mt. Calvary teaches the way they do? scripture, boys. Scripture. 1st Corinthians 11:14 says "Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?" Why is your hair even long enough to braid? That is shameful. And I must say, although we like Madeah, God is not happy with Mr. Tyler Perry. Tyler Perry may be funny as all get out when he's in costume, but what he's doing is upsetting God. I must say we are to have a heart like Gods. Yes it may pain us not to support Madeah, but i must come against those who do, even myself. Because God said that what he's doing is wrong, but we are sending him a message saying that he's being used by God and he's putting on women's clothes. Not so, people. Not so. I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it's the word of God.
And at the same time, WOMEN! WHY OH WHY are you walking around in huge hoodies and baggy jeans in the name of comfort, when there are comfortable women's clothes? Men get looked down on for wearing such huge clothes. it's ugly. Not only do you make yourselves look like men, which is an abomination unto God, but imagine how ugly YOU look when it makes men look bad?
Oh yes, I forgot about the music. i'm almost done, y'all.
Exodus 32:17-18
When Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting, he said to Moses, "There is the sound of war in the camp."Moses replied: "It is not the sound of victory, it is not the sound of defeat; it is the sound of singing that I hear."
If music is just music, why is it the MUSIC that stood out the most to Moses, when he heard the cry of war? Come on. Music has more behind it than just sounds, beats, and tones. certain music have certain spirits behind it. What spirit is behind the music YOU are listening to? Is it the spirit of God? or the spirit of money, fame, demons, sex, what? Satan used reggae, soca and such, rock, goth, and uses hip hop today to promote HIS evil agenda into the minds of the youth, and you can't even do anything about it, because your mind cannot reject what is encrypted into music. That is scientific fact. you listening to swears all day, money all day, sex all day, and not putting anything pertaining to the spirit of God into your brain, then your brain will eventually gear toward the evils you are putting into it through the music you listen to again and again and again. And it don't take long. TRUST me. Music is NOT just music. Never was. And if you are thinking about instrumentals? The spirit of someone and their intentions is encrypted into the music. Thinking about the story of the King Saul(?) who was overcome by an evil spirit. He called David to come play his harp for him. David didn't sing no words, no NOTHING. He just played, and the spirit had to depart from the king. That is the power of music. Think about it. Why would you want to listen to just the beats of the music you like that ain't of God? The words may not be there, but the spirit in the music didn't go no where. It stayed right up in that CD player (mp3 player, nowadays) of yours.
What's the spirit behind the music you are listening to? Who knows what spirit you are conjuring up in the tatoos and peircings you wear? Throw away the things of evil. They don't glorify God. They glorify self. We are suppose to deny ourselves when we come to Christ. So you can't be a Christian wearing all types of tatoos and peircings, and listening to music that don't glorify God in no type of way.
Song of the Day: Calvary - Natalie Wilson :Dowside Spiritual:
Ok I'm hearing that a certain people did what he did to brian. It is upsetting and disturbing to know that this type of thing is going on between family in the body of mt. Calvary Baptist Church. And it hurts that we are so seperated from God that we dont' see the enemy creeping into situations between us that these things would happen in the body of Christ let alone, Mt. Calvary. Please pray for both Brian and his attacker, right now. Pray for the speedy healing God has been known to perform within Mt. Calvary, and pray that hearts and minds will be at ease. Pray that God be in the midst of this situation, that when anger and bitterness arise in the minds and hearts of those involved, that he will step in and bring peace. Pray for the attacker, AND the attacked, that there may be forgiveness on both sides.
Upward Spiritual:
I thank God for calling Brian to preach. God has anointed Brian to preach his word WHENEVER he gets up to preach. And it's making a dent in the territory of the enemy. i like something someone associated with Ex Ministries said "The enemy is upset, because if he was not upset, if we didn't hit him where it hurt, then he would have never hollared like he hollared." (Rev. Herman Murry of Full Gospel Holy Temple) When I first found out that Brian was attacked, the first thing I thought was, did he preach last night? What did he preach? I just kind of knew that this was like an attempt of Satan to shut brian up. But glory to God, it was not permanently. Brian may not be able to talk for 6 weeks (or less) but when he can talk, I know he'll be still preaching the word of God once more, just like he's been taught to do. I thank God for people willing to get up and preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ, no matter the cost. If we did not have these people in Mt. Calvary, who knows where we'd be?
Please continue to pray for Brian, and don't stop praying after he is fully healed. KEEP praying.
Song of the Day: I hear You Say - JoAnn Rosario
ok I just happened to kind of stumble upon this little quiz thing, called the Spiritual Gifts Test. I went there, and after finishing the test, my top spiritual gift was prophecy. i was like OH SNAP! I went back a page and redid it just to make sure. and prophecy wa still my top gift. i was like OH SNAP! OH SNAP! And now I'm still sitting here thinking, OH SNAP! prophecy? I just can't picture me being like sister baxter, being a prophet. it's like OMgoodness! This is overwhelming. I feel like I just woke up from that prophet, preacher, bishop dream I had. Let me go pray... Aight, Mt. Calvary, I had this dream some months ago. First off, it has been prophesied numerous times that I'm going to preach. But I had this dream, and this dream was CRAZY! ok here goes.
I'm at my friend's church at like a conference thing, and I'm in the pews with like two other people. The pews in front and in back of us were completely packed, and everything was distorted to make it seem like I was looking past the people on the pew with me, down a tunnel (I was the last person on the pew) There is a prophet there, and he's just in the spirit, just prophesying to people. He walks past the pew I was in, and it almost looked like you saw a shadow walking past a small cave enterance, he was moving so fast. But he comes back, and looks in at us, and says, "Y'all done missed it. Come out here."
We come out, and he tells us to run around the church one time. when we come back, he touches the lady in front of me (who reminded me alot of Aunty Maxine), and she just falls to the side. someone in the pew next to her catches her, and he walks up to me. He taps my forehead three times, and says "Prophet [tap], Preacher [tap], Bishop [tap]" and i fall back, crying out to God, and when the man behind me catches me, I wake up.
SIDEBAR (like Regina) This conference really happened at my friend's church, and this prophet was really there. I talked to him a few times. While he was there. I had this dream on the night that the conference ended. SIDEBAR OVER. So what are y'all thinking? Y'all pray with me on this, for real. Because every dream-prophecy I have had, has been confirmed by a prophet or someone somehow someway, and I'm waiting for this to manifest. Because I had a dream saying that I was gonna preach, and after that, it was prophesied to me like three times, WITH people saying tha I look like a preacher, sound like a preacher, whatever. So I just want to know if this is really something that I should concern myself with. This is my prayer request to Mt. Calvary. (Little Miss Bynum, that includes you.) Comments welcome. PLEASE leave comments. Thank you very much. Peace. God is moving. He's moving on me, around me, and through me. Thank you Jesus. He has allowed me to minister to friends, and now I'm being ministered to! Thank you, Jesus. I see hope in my future, now. Things was REALLy weighing on me earlier, to the point where I couldn't do anything productive. and he sent me someone to talk to. This is the reason God put us with other people in church bodies on this earth, so that we can help each other.
I am glad that God gave us his word, manifested in flesh, to die for our sins. It's his word that helped encourage me, for real. Because i was seriously afraid earlier, but I just remembered 2 Timothy 1:7 and I repeated it. It helped alot. Lately, The Word of God has done nothing but comfort me, because I have many concerns about my life, and about my future, but Jesus himself said that God takes care of and feeds cheap litte sparrows. Can you imagine how much more valuable we are than those sparrows? if God is taking care of a cheap little bird some little boy owns as a pet, then he will surely give me a job when I graduate, and a roof over my head, and food to eat.
Song of the Day: Glorify Him - Darwin Hobbs
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