Archive | March 2012

What Constitutes Cheating?

Mar6

Pastor Marvin Sapp asked this relationship question on Facebook, and I quote, “What constitutes “CHEATING?”  Is it just sex from a biblical perspective or more?”

The first thing cognizance was dishonesty.  The moment a person IS dishonest, about anything and everything they are dishonest about, is the moment they have begun the journey of cheating.   Why are people dishonest or why do they cheat?  They do it because they are selfish individuals.  They are hoarders of greed.  SELAH!  This thing called “cheating” BEcomes their lifestyle and it is all entrenched in selfishness [it’s all about their desires, interests, rules and regulations, and how they want to attain them].  When they consistently cheat they BEcome cheaters; when they consistently lie, they BEcome liars; when they consistently deceive, they BEcome deceivers.  Cheaters are habitual Svengalis’ (charmers, manipulators), and they have no good purpose.  As it is, there is no good purpose in cheating.

Can you imagine Yeshua the Christ cheating the cross, or cheating the woman at the well?  Can you imagine YAH cheating His creation, saying, “All this I’ve created is good, I’ll make something bad?”  Or better yet, can you imagine YAH cheating Who He was?  Love!  Love can’t and won’t cheat on or against itself, because love is not selfish.  There are elements of love that doesn’t seek its own and it thinks no evil.  And, without love you will undoubtedly BEcome a cheater; selfish in all your ways, a narcissistic.  That’s right, cheating leads to personality disorders.

The lifestyle of cheating makes a person think they are worth the things they are dishonest about.  To mention, cheaters are exceedingly unstable; so unstable that they cheat on themselves.  SELAH!  Now, that’s a problem when you cheat on yourself and then try to convince yourself that you didn’t.  What is there to gain while losing your soul?  Cheaters [charlatans, tricksters, double-dealers, and FAITHLESS people] seek to BE grand and will do whatever is necessary to acquire that grandiose posture through lies, white lies, black lies, and, well, extra lies.  They pursue all they desire from multiple sources, resources, and people.

Thus, cheating is far more than, and is not rooted in or limited to, sex from a biblical perspective.  Cheating is foundational in the mind before it is manifested through the gates of the penis, vagina, eyes, ears, and hands.

© 2012 Angela M. Smith

Change is Changing Me!

Mar4

I’ve always been self-conscious about my hair after being told years in and years out that “You have “BAD” hair,” or “You look like a man with short hair.”  So, I started a natural hair process in January 2010 and it has been a slow transition to healthy.  The crown of my hair badly damaged and it appears that nothing I’ve tried has helped.  I can moisturize it EVERYDAY and it does well for a while then it relapse.

Today, I told the hair therapist that I was ready to get a relaxer again or shave it off because it wasn’t getting as healthy as I THOUGHT it should.  She begins to tell me that I have to BE patient.  Previously she had told me that my hair is actually healthier than the first time I came to her three months ago.  I immediately reflected on my meditation about being patient and not complaining about the passing of time for change to manifest.  I smiled at myself because I recognize my complaining.  I was making excuses as to why I should do something different than what I’m doing i.e. I don’t like the way it looks, it’s damaged at the crown, it’s not growing fast enough, the style doesn’t last all week, etc.

I thought about the spiritual work that was right now taking place to rid myself of all the voices that told me all those years that my hair was BAD.  What I started two years ago has been working against 17 years of insecurities and negative language about my hair.  I meditate 2-4 hours a day, but have never thought to direct my attention towards my lack of confidence concerning my mane.

YAH said that he made me in His image and that I [the sum total of who I am] was GOOD.  David, the Song (Psalmist), even declared that I, a Song (Psalmist), am fearfully and wonderfully made and that the LORD’s works are marvelous!  And that fearfully, wonderfully, and marvelous works includes my hair.  Change is changing me and hair.  I must continue in this process of transformation.  Thus, I am patiently waiting for the spectacular presentation of my illustrious tresses.

© February 24, 2012

Relax and Rock With Me

Mar3

On last night, March 2, 2012, while heading south on US 31 from Kokomo to Indianapolis I begin to listen to the Holy Spirit speak through the clouds and wind.  Early today, we were under Tornado watch.  About 1pm to 1:30pm it got really dark outside.  There was rain, wind, hail; then, there was sunshine until approximately 5pm.   A group of us were going to Indianapolis to support the minstrel from our fellowship who was ministering at a revival.

The winds BEcame boisterous; literally moving the 15-passenger van from one lane to the next.  Trucks were flying pass us [driving fast] like they were not even in the path of the wind; I saw two cars weaving in their lane.  However, not one, and I mean not one, other vehicle in front of us were swerving from lane to lane.  I watched Prophet Kenner as he gripped the wheel to control the van; and he’d occasionally take a hand off the wheel to stretch and move his fingers about.   I said to him something like this, “If you relax and go with the flow it will BE easier for you.”  Then the Holy Spirit began to speak to me.  It was at precisely 6:20pm – 6:25pm when these words came forth:

“Rock with the flow of my breath, for so shall the power of your blessings BE.  You will be running over with blesses.  It will appear to overwhelm you, but just rock with it; they are yours.  And even when my breath breathes lightly, the flow is yet carrying you.  Relax and Rock With Me.  I got this!  And because you abide in me you can handle this, the power of my blessings.”

When we got to the service I thoroughly washed my hands and anointed them with oil.  I then anointed the prophet’s hands for I knew they [his hands] had warred [fought] well to hold on during the storm.  I also knew that in his holding on, the Holy Spirit was his help in that his hands didn’t “slip from the wheel.”   SELAH!  After I anointed his hands, my hands started to itch.  I knew at that moment that there was an energy transfer, a new energy flowing, and I needed to BE conscious of the atmosphere.   I know that I have healing hands, but I’ve never experienced that before.  I wholly believe that this energy transfer was directly related to the flow of energy that was already passing through the wind of YAH.  ALLELUIA!

The breath of YAH was thrusting a strong blessing over us at the same time that the wind in the air was exhaling over the highway.  Just as we have to “grip the wheel” to stay in control of the vehicle in tempestuous weather, we have to likewise “grip the Word” of YAH to stay in control of His blessings given to us.  Many times people abuse the blessings of the LORD when they let go of or abandon His Word; when they “slip from the wheel.”

I encourage you all to set your anchor and grip the blessings of the LORD that are soaring over and around you.  Don’t abandon your position; instead, relax and rock with the flow of His wind.

Shalom!

Genesis 2

Mar1

And, in His image, God created me [the man] and ‘they’ [male and female] were created and called ‘them’ in me [the man] that God created.  God formed me from the dust of the ground and breathed into my nostrils the breath of life.

And, I became a living soul; and the Lord God said, ‘It is not good for me to be alone [for me to be visible without myself the help meet].  Therefore, I will make [manifest and visible] for him, his help meet [a perfect fit for him, from within him].  So, the Lord caused me to fall into a deep sleep.

While I was sleeping, God took one of my ribs and then closed me up.  And the rib that God took from me was called woman.  As it was, God had already created her [my rib, my woman, my help meet] in me.  Consequently, God took me [the help meet] out of me [the man] so that I may behold myself [my rib, my woman, my help meet].

And when I looked upon the beauty and wonderful creation of me [called woman, the help meet that was in me and is now living with and beside me], I spoke life to myself [the woman] and proclaimed…

…THIS IS NOW [at this instant, without delay] bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh, blood of my blood, marrow of my marrow, heart of my heart, soul of my soul, spirit of my spirit, love of my love, because she was taken out of me.

We [the man, the rib, the woman, the help meet] were naked, and I and my self [her, my wife] were not ashamed.  She is me, I am her; we are male and female; we are them and they; we are he and her; we together are ‘One’!

© April 7, 2007, Angela M. Smith