False Expectations

I'm currently reading Galatians and I am enjoying Paul's bluntness in his letter. He is straight forward and doesn't hold back. Normally, people try to sugar coat things thinking they may hurt a person's feelings with the truth. Not Paul, he recognized the truth hurts, but the truth...

Be an Example

You never know who may be watching you or looking up to you. Sometimes you become a role model even when you do not want to be or was not trying to be. As a christian you are always a role model. You have to exhibit a life that will glorify God. You can not walk around here and...

Study It For Yourself

One thing that I've learned in my faith walk is that you have to know God for your self. Many times people think its OK to just sit and listen to the preacher preach, read a verse on Sunday and they are set and a able fighter in the army of the Lord. Of course any true warrior knows...

Ye Shall Surely Die!

God gave us the bible for us to read and study and know what it is that HE wants for our lives. The bible contains the instructions that God wants us to follow so that we can have eternal life with HIM when we die, and a good life on earth. We tend to want to do things our way...

Its Not For You

To be blunt and to the point, God does not bless us with things for our own personal gain. He does not bless us with a lot of money so that we can lavishly spend. He does not give some strength so they are strong enough to only get themselves out of certain situations. He does not...

Get Out of What Box?!!

It is interesting to me how people say, "Get out of the box!", "Step out of your boundaries!", etc., etc., etc. (Or some variation of these sayings.) But my question is: what box? What boundaries?If memory serves me correctly, we were born with endless possibilities. God gave us...

You want WHAT?

People often look at what others have and envy what they have. They say to themselves "I want that" or "How did they get that?". What they do not ask is what did they have to go through in order to get to that status or get what they have? It takes hard work, dedication and consistency....

There's Nothing you can do!

People tend to hold on to their past and think that they are not worthy of anything good because of what they did in the past. They think that because they stole this or deceived that person or treated this person bad that God would not accept them and take them back. God knows...

Forcing It

Let's just be honest, everyone is not a Christian. Everyone does not believe that there is a God, or that He sent his son Jesus to die for our sins. To some people the whole Christian belief is far fetched and the commandments and morals is not something they want to live by. What...

Be Responsible!

A lot of people say that they hate the cops and that they hate the authorities because they are always messing with them. Granted sometimes the cops and authorities do discriminate against people because they are stereotyping. There is a saying that if you did not do anything,...

Authority

It seems as if our country is in a uproar right now. The bill for Health Reform has passed and some American people are angry. It seems as though it is a battle now between the have and have-nots. I was watching the news and was sadden with the way some American people are responding...

SPEAK IT!

I truly believe that whatever you speak will come to pass. Many times people say that they want this and they want that, but turn around and say "I will never get it because I have this to do and that to pay and my job sucks". Sometimes people get so caught up in their situation...

Down For The Count

I'm not sure how your college years were or are, but mine were wild. I "lived it up" making sure I didn't miss a party, a step show I joined a sorority, a traveled, and a long the way I actually went to class. It was a crazy time in my life. With all that I had going on I barely...

Trust your Gifts

Many people wonder what their purpose on this earth is. They wonder to themselves what are they placed here to do. They do not take the time to stand back and look at their lives and figure out what they are good at. There is a difference between your passion and your gift(s)....

"YOUR" Agenda

Our agenda! My agenda! Often times we have our "own" agenda that we are so focused on and wonder why things are not going the way that we want them to go. We then pray to the Lord and ask him to please help us with what we have going on. When that does not work, we get into this...

In the way

Often times people start ministries with the right intentions..."win souls for Christ". However, sometimes, people get so caught up in their ministries that they loose site of what they were suppose to be doing initially and their whole purpose becomes lost. When this happens God...

Taking Credit

One of the things that really use to bother me was how people could stand before crowds of men and take credit for all that is right. When something goes wrong, then its imperiative to mention how God is still working on them. My whole life has been full of achievements, and I don't...

Open Up

I have a friend that is trying to figure out what it is God wants him to do with his life. I share with him all the time about what it has been reveal to me as my duty in the kingdom, but he struggles and is unable to hear from God. My friend has fasted, he prays every morning,...