God Knows Your Potential

No matter how low we get… The Lord knows our potential… and the greatest thing about each of us is our ability to rise above our problems, to make a comeback, to be afforded a second chance, another opportunity, that many of our best days are in front of us and not in the past… 

And it is with every step that we take forward… God is always with us… to allow us the opportunity to be ourselves, regardless of what others think, believe or say… God loves you, nevertheless...

God is always there … to ensure that no matter what happens… God never leaves us… People may turn their back on you, but God will never… leave you or forsake you … through the good and the bad… when I am happy or sad… God is still there…

When I give the best of my service for the up building of God’s Kingdom… God takes care of my business…

When other forsake me, God will take up my cause… for the Battle belongs to Him… for no weapon formed against me will prosper… for I know that Man limitations are only God’s Opportunities… Man looks at the outside… but God looks at the heart… I once was young and now am old and I have never seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging for bread…  

I am not walking through this life along… every step I take, every breath I make… God is watching and is the wind beneath my wings… the joy in my soul, the pep in my steps, center of my joy, hope for tomorrow, God is Awesome.. and I have searched all over and still cannot find nobody… nobody greater than Him…   

So today, what will it be… Stay right where you are in your condition of   oppression, depression, addiction, or messy situation… or listen to what Jesus is saying today…. Do you want to be heal? And say “Yes.”  Then take up your bed and walk… put the mat on your back and stroll down the road to redemption, revival, acceptance… come to the church and give thanks to God for your release, and go and sin no.   

Know this I have decided to follow Jesus, no turning back, no turning back…

Jesus Knows Your Limitations

No matter how you describe it --- a lot of people today, struggle to overcome their weaknesses and limitations.

They develop an inferior complex about what others think of them, and lose their confident in doing things, to push forward, to move on, to go and achieve, to become the best that they can be.  They lack the motivation to get things done… to solve their own problems… need to be healed from a number of things… even people.

Too often people with limitations make up excises as a way to cover up and to limit their exposure to others…  They shy away from opportunities that can bring them the help they need.  They try to disguise the pain, the shame, avoid the question, try to not to be notice or draw attention to themselves, operating in the shadows all the time.  They wear the makeup and the costumes of being happy on the outside, but another person totally on the inside…  

Know this: Even when I am hallucinating, having anxiety attacks, irritability, intense cravings for other things, withdrawal and physiological dependent on things… God knows my limitations … and is always there to make the difference in my life, to keep me balance, grounded, safe and secure through His word and love.

Jesus Knows Your Condition

 
No matter how long you have been going through --- Jesus knows your condition and what kind of healing we all need.  Healing that is either physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually… or all of the above.

Even when we become addicted to our disability – some people are addicted to suffering… if they were not going through something their life would be empty…  They are always going or have to find something to worry about… 'I going through'… and if you take away or solve the problem… they will turn on you… for their sickness or illness defines them… and it is what makes them tick. 

They become addicted to being disabled in one way or another physically, mentally, emotionally… addicted to being helpless, addicted to drugs (illegal and prescription), being broke, being down and out, being lonely, being an outcast, being sad, being mad, be misunderstood, being attracted to the wrong kind of people .

Know this: Even when we hit rock bottom - Jesus is there… and knows what condition we are in… and is there to heal whatever problem we have.

All God Asks...

God paid a heavy cost to reconcile his creation to himself.   To reconcile a fallen and tainted mankind to become realigned to His Will once again.  Because of sin and disobedient, a rift came between God and man… It happened in the Garden, but… it happen at the beginning.  However, it was at the cross of Calvary, God paid the price to bring a fallen humanity back to where it started and in right fellowship with Him.  He paid the price of allowing His son, Jesus Christ to die for humanities sin on the cross. 

God continues to be in love with His creation, that God will go any length, go any distance, go to any possibility, go to any pot hole, go to any mountain, go to any desert wildness, to any drug house, to any dysfunctional family, to any valley, back alley, to any pit, to any place, any time and any space, just to prove His love for us. 

For God’s arms are long enough, his hands are big enough and his grips is firm enough to go on any rescue mission for those He loves and are called by His name.  For it is for His Name sake that all of this is possible… we did not build this world…  Without a doubt, God loves all of us so much, that God continues to make a way each and every day…  

All God asks in return… is that we Love Him Back… to worship Him in spirit and truth… to thank Him for our blessings… Praise Him for life, health and strength…       

I Came This Way

Life is what you make it, they say.

When I look back and take into account the life of my parents and grandparents and even my forefathers and mothers, I have no excuses for where I am.  They endured much, segregation, injustice, lack of resources, prejudices, access to a quality education, economic mobility and social opportunity.  My burdens, if you will, are light in comparison to what they when through.  Why should I complain?  

There is nothing that they could have done to fully prepare me for the experiences that I have encountered in the 21^st century.  The pathway and the people you meet in life are the only indications of what to expect in life.  My life experiences have included resentment, hate, misunderstood and setbacks.  It was not that I expect more; rather it was what I received. 

One of my mother’s sayings was it is not where you come from that makes all the different, but where are you headed.   For your past, is what you are and never forget that; however where you have come from and where you are headed is another matter.  A person, who can’t bless the bones of their past, will not fully enjoy the experience of the blessings in the present and future.  For it is through the blessings of our ancestors that enables each of us to believe and appreciate success in the future.      

You came this way, not because you are smart, wise, handsome, beautiful, rich, or poor, but because you were born into God’s world and He always knows your past, path and promise.   

The Public Victory Comes When...

Ø If there is no private victory, then there can never be a public victory. 

o   For it is in the private victory in which we learn and depend on the one who has called us out of darkness into His marvelous light.

Ø The public victory comes when    

o   The private victory begins and when we have die to sin, accept the Lord as my personal savior, been redeemed through the blood of Jesus Christ, been transformed through the word and I am walking the talk and talking the walk.  

Ø The public victory comes when   

o   The private victory helps us to look to the hills from whence our help come from and shout out load that my help comes from God and God along. 

Ø The public victory comes when 

o   The private victory enables us look beyond the intent of people and see the larger picture.

Ø The public victory comes when   

o   The private victory ensures us that living for Christ is where it is at, what is happening and is the real deal.

Ø The public victory comes when   

o   The private victory allows us to declare that If it happen been for the Lord, who is on my side, where would I be.

Ø The public victory comes when   

o   The private victory allows me to see others and not be jealous of them, appreciate them and accept them for who they are.

Ø The public victory comes when   

o   The private victory permits me to continue to grow in His word, grow in a right relationship, grow in raising my children, grow in the right direction, grow to not get weary, for in due season I will reap if I don’t faith.  For I know, they that wait on the Lord, shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings of eagles, run and not faint.  

Ø The public victory comes when   

o   The private victory happens and I know that I know, of what I know and who I know in God.

Ø The public victory comes when   

o   The private victory lets me to ask and it shall be given, I can seek and find and Knock and it shall be open onto me. 

Ø The public victory comes when   

o   The private victory allocates to me that it is not about me, but it is about God, and if I take care of God’s business, then God will take care of my business.

Ø The public victory comes when

o   The private victory enables me to keep the quilt of my past in perspective and helps me to live victorious in spike of my failures, my shortcomings and allows me to use those situations as stepping stones to new opportunities.   

Ø The public victory comes when   

o   The private victory gives me digital footprint in God.  For in God I have a Facebook, Myspace page, twitter, blog, email, text message, Yahoo, Google, Youtube, xbox, play station, Iphone and blackberry.

Ø For… “He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High Will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.”  PS 91:1

The Choices We Make

I know that everyday life puts a lot of stress and strain on people.  The anxiety mounts each day as we make choices that will affect our family, our careers and each of us personally.  We have a choice in every step that we take and every decision we make.  The choice you make can go from just accepting the reality of everyday life or to do something special because it is right to do… it’s for the best. 

Everyone, if they admit it or not have made some great and wonderful choices, choices that made you smile, choices to be proud of, something to build upon, choices that help to build and not take away.  Choices that you rejoice in and say well done… me.  The choice is marriage, as parents, in managing money, good price, and a fair deal. 

Or the other hand, we have if we bold enough to admit it as well have made some poor choices.  Some poor choices of friends, in conversations, direction, how and what I spend money on, affects the outcome.  If it’s not one thing then it is another.   Then there are those choices that are hard to make.  The questions that these choices pose are amazing.

I firmly believe that the more we seek God, study God’s work, enrich our lives in devotion through prayer the easier the answers becomes to those tough questions.   

 

Acknowledge God's Leading

"Where are you heading?" asked the young man of his elder.  The elder said, I am on my way to complete the quest that I set out on some years ago....  The young man than asked... why has it taken you so long to complete your quest.... The elder responsed... I did not set out to complete my quest in a few days... but rather... I wanted to take my time inorder to enjoy the journey....

Too offen, we miss the present moment because we are always looking for the future and the quick fix...

But...    

When we are being lead by God... it is always a journey for a life time...

"The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and He delights in his way." Psalm 37:23 

Participate In Your Own Deliverance

It is hard to deal with things in life when all you know how to do and what it takes to make it to the top... is still not enough... but you have to keep going... 

Too often people find themselves wondering about being left behind... feeling lost and out of step with others...

It is easy to feel like you belong when you are young...  you believe that life is all in front of you with no worries... a great feeling you can do anything...

But as you get older... friends become few... and you wonder what have you accomplished in life... Soon... those days turn into weeks, and weeks into months and months into years... without any change or impact...

However, if any change is going to happen in your life...  you have to make up your mind and take the steps to make that change... happen   

Stop waiting for others to make a difference in your life... you be the difference in your life...

On one occasion, Jesus told the ten lepers... "Go show yourself to the priests." and as they went, they were cleansed. (Luke 17:14)

Participating in your own deliverance is a choice...

What are you waiting for?