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Happy Valentines Day

Today there will be a lot of couples professing their love for each other. Some single person may see this day as gut wrenching, or perhaps a single person or married person may be feeling extremely lonely on this day. I say to those individuals, if you don’t have anyone in the natural to love you, love yourself.

Go all out on yourself. Treat yourself, wine and dine yourself. Who in the natural can love you like you, nobody. Who in the natural can treat you better than you treat yourself, nobody. The one thing about loving yourself is, you won’t mistreat yourself. You won’t talk down to yourself. When you step into the room, self is going to say, look at you turning heads.

Don’t allow this day to get you all depressed and messed up emotionally. Some people are going to have to pay a heavy price today just to be loved by someone. A price, that spiritually they don’t want to pay. A price, that naturally can turn their world upside down. A price, that if they count up the cost they will realize, being loved by the wrong person ain’t worth it.

Be blessed and continue to be a blessing.

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Say It Ain’t So

Have you asked about an old friend only to find out they are in jail, a crackhead, divorced, or dead? And you say, say it ain’t so.

Later on in life, you asked about another friend and you found out that they’ve turned their lives around, they’re preaching and pastoring, they have a successful career, their children are thriving and you say, say it ain’t so.

No matter if you’re down today or up tomorrow, 24hrs makes a world of difference. We all have a chance to turn things around for the better. We just have to include God on our plans and allow him to work on us and in us.

Trouble don’t last always but tough people do. Someone may have counted you down but you’re not out. Though you’ve fallen, get back up again.

Be blessed and continue to be a blessing.

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Jesus

Sometimes situations and circumstances are so dire that we don’t even have the strength to pray. Sometimes situations and circumstances doesn’t call for long drawn out prayers, they cause for one word. Jesus! There’s power in his name. Demons tremble at his name.

When you’re at work and things start going wrong, just say Jesus. When you’ve done all that you can do, just say Jesus. When the doctor gives you a bad report, just say Jesus. When your mother and father forsake you, your best friend is nowhere to be found, your love one walks out on you, your child is missing, just say Jesus. In the midst of it all Jesus will give you peace. He will wrap his loving arms around you and hold you in the midnight hour. He will comfort you when words aren’t enough. He will heal your mind, body, heart and soul.

With all of this madness going on in the world, we should be calling on Jesus continually. We need to plead the blood of Jesus over our children, our family, our co-workers, our minds and thoughts. Now days, people are on the edge and they are one action away from making the headline news; sinners and Christians alike. So, those of us that are of a sound mind and our relationship is built on a firm foundation, let’s lift up our sisters and brothers and help them lift Jesus. On your commute today, pray for the other driver, the other person on the bus, train or plane sitting next to you. You don’t have to know what they’re going through, just know they are in a situation that calls for Jesus.

There’s nobody like Jesus.

Be blessed and continue to be a blessing.

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Is This It

Have you ever wondered is this all it is to life? Or, what’s the true meaning of life? Perhaps you may have said, there’s got to more than what I’m experiencing.

There is more, but it comes from having a relationship with God. When you are in a relationship with the Lord, your experiences are unexplainable. People will start trying to figure out how you’re doing what it is you do. They will start counting your check for you. They will start assuming you are doing something shady to get your blessings. But if they only knew, it’s just Jesus showering you with his love, mercy, grace and forgiveness.

So you never have to wonder again, is this it. All you have to do is cultivate your relationship with the Lord.

Be blessed and continue to be a blessing.

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What In Hell Do You Want

Why do many people live a life worthy of going to hell, after they say they’ve given their lives to God? I was standing in the store and I heard two people talking. They were laughing and one of them said; you’re going to hell and the other one replied, you’re going with me and we’re going to be playing bones in hell. Then they began to talk about how much fun they were going to have in hell.

When I read the bible it says, there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. It says, there will be torment all day long. It says, you won’t get any relief in hell. So I ask you, what in hell do you want when heaven has all that you need. The bible says in heaven the streets are paved with gold. You will have your own mansion. The angels will be saying holy, holy, holy all day long. There will be no more crying, no more disappointment, no more pain.

Hell is real. And, if we don’t repent and turn from our wicked ways we will see just how real it is. It’s timeout for saying God knows my heart. He knows the wickedness of our heart. He knows the deceit that’s in our heart. He knows the revenge we seek in our heart. Since we have a chance of getting into heaven, we should make up our minds to leave hell alone.

Be blessed and continue to be a blessing.

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Caught Off Guard

Normally I pray, Lord don’t let the enemy catch me off guard, but the other day it wasn’t the enemy it was my 10yr old daughter. We were in the store and we were just browsing the aisles when she spotted something she wanted. I told her no and kept walking. I happened to go back by the item and she just started preaching very loud. At first I smiled and just started laughing because I was caught off guard. She scared this one lady and that’s what really made me laugh.

She started saying I promised the Lord if he would just do this for me then I wouldn’t ask for nothing else. When she came to herself, I told her every time we promise the Lord that we will never ask him for something again, we lie. Because we are always asking him for everything. We ask him to meet our needs, we ask him to meet our wants, we ask him for stuff and people that mean us no good. We ask, we ask, we ask. The next day we went to church and it was time for the children to sing. She took the mike and she blew, the whole church was surprised. I was smiling from ear-to-ear.

My daughter reminded me of something in the aisle of that store. She reminded me to be ye ready at all times, to preach the word in season and out of season. She reminded me that God will use you whenever and wherever he chooses to. So don’t get caught off guard.

Be blessed and continue to be a blessing.

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Don’t Leave

I was talking to a gentleman a few days ago about church. He wanted to know what church did I attend. After telling him the name of my church, he said I heard y’all got it going on down there. I said yeah we do. I began to ask him was he getting fed at his church. He said yes. I quickly replied; don’t leave your church. I said; yes my church has it going on, but you will get food poisoning if you leave your church to come and eat off our table. Although, the word is good, it’s not what God ordered for you.mRunning from church to church eating off of everyone’s table will make you spiritually sick.

What the community don’t understand, is that our church went on a corporate fast and from the pastor down to the pew, strongholds were broken. Now the power of God is sweeping through our church and true deliverance is taking place. Now everyone wants to be apart, but they don’t know what it cost my pastor or the church to get where God wanted us to be. They just see the glory. So don’t leave your church because you see the glory at someone else’s church. Just pray that the glory comes to your house. Uplift and uphold your pastor. Cover your church and pastor in prayer. Don’t let no one talk about your church or your pastor. If someone talks about your church or the pastor, act like you used to act when someone talked about your momma. You didn’t have it, you shut that foolishness down.

Whatever you do, don’t leave where your table is spread and the feast of the Lord is going on.

Be blessed and continue to be a blessing.

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Change Your Thinking

A while back I was talking to someone I went to high school with. I haven’t spoken to this person in years. While we were talking I realized he had the same mindset as when we were in high school. I wanted know how are you 40yrs old and still gang banging? What made you teach your kids how to gang bang? How can you fix your mouth to say you’re still holding down the block? The city of Chicago holds their own block down.

When we come to Christ we become new creatures, old things are passed away. As time passes on and as we grow in God, our mindset should change. Our thoughts should be, how can we please God, instead of how can we remain popular. When we think positive, we tend to do positive things and succeed. When we think negative, we feel like it’s everybody else’s fault. We tend to be underachievers. We tend to succumb to the environment in which we find ourselves in.

When God said let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus; that means our thoughts should line up with the word of God. Our thoughts, should have the character of God. Our thoughts should be to edify and not to do harm. If we don’t change our thinking, how do we expect our children to think any differently? How do we expect our neighborhoods to be changed and empowered?

When we change our thinking, our lives will change, our families will change, and our environment will change.

Be blessed and continue to be a blessing.

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Obedience

Many of us will tare into our kids if they disobey us, yet we disobey God on a daily basis and want him to give us grace and mercy. As adults we feel as though we should not have any consequences for our behavior. Then when God allows us to suffer, we say why me. The bible says if you’re going to suffer, make sure it’s for righteousness.

Many of us are suffering because of disobedience. We refuse to do what God has asked us to do. We refuse to live by the word of God. All we want to do, is the part of the word that makes us feel good. Feeling good won’t get us into heaven. God said, obedience is better than sacrifice. Just like we don’t accept our children being disobedient. God doesn’t accept us being disobedient. So, let’s obey and shut the enemy down with our obedience.

Be blessed and continue to be a blessing.

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God Didn’t Bring You This Far To Leave You

Does it feel like God has dropped you like a hot potato? Does anything seem to be going right in your life? Do you feel like you’re in a God forsaken place? Does everything around you seem dead? Dead prayers, dead dreams, dead worship, and dead relationships.

Know that God didn’t bring you this far to leave you. He brought you this far to try you. He brought you this far for you to take the test. You’ve been studying for this for a while. Granted you don’t remember all of the answers but answer the questions you know. Remember, late in the midnight hour God’s going to turn it around and it’s going to work in your favor. You just have to make it through the midnight season in your life. God does his best work while you’re in torment. While you think it’s the end of the world, while you think you can’t take anymore; God is crushing you and making you ready for the Masters use.

So, stop with your pity party and square your shoulders back.God is making you the soldier of Christ he needs in his army. God don’t need no coward soldiers or negative thinking soldiers. He needs someone that will stand in the midst of the battle. God didn’t bring you this far to leave you.

Be blessed and continue to be a blessing.

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