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Better!

While preparing for the days’ journey, i.e. picking my hair, praying for my family, my sons and daughters, my grandchildren, our gifts and talents, ideas and inspirations, visions and motivations, I asked my son what was the temperature and he said 26^o. Then I asked, “What is the “real feel?” He told me that the winds were at 9 miles per hour.

With that information, I knew the “real feel” was approximately 15^o. BEcause I have an obsession with being as precise as possible, I checked my weather app to see if it would display the information and it stated that it was indeed 26^o (sum of 8) and “real feel” 16^o (sum of 7). Straightaway when I saw that, I heard, like a fountain of water springing up,

“Your situation is 10 degrees better than what you feel that it is. Don’t BE moved by what you feel; BE moved by what you know. And know this, your situation IS BETTER!”

How? Just how do I know this IS the truth? Because the Spirit of Truth, WHO dwelleth with me and BE in me, guides me IN to all truth. Thus, my knowing.

Previously, I had written in my journal about the power of the number 10 (law and testimony). From a biblical reference, Genesis 1 is the first occurrence of a testimony. Ten times, this chapter testifies of YAH’s creative power by the expression “God said.” Each time those 2 words (union) were released into the atmosphere (into the darkness, the firmament, the waters, the earth, etc.), the atmosphere yielded itself to the power of what was said. What was spoken BEcame, and what BEcame still IS. It still exists.

Being swift to hear (both sensitive and acute), I understood that the testimony this morning wasn’t that my (your) situation is GOING TO GET or is IN THE PROCESS OF BEcoming better. Better already exists! The testimony is that my (your) situation IS (now, right now, here and now, without delay, this very moment, this present time, this day and age) BETTER! And it is that, by 10^o.

There is no preparation for IS to BE. However, we have to prepare ourselves to BE what IS. SELAH!

As for me and my household, we are rising up to what IS by BEing a doer of the word according to James 1 (KJV), and as expounded in my weblog “Doer of the Declaration.”

I ask of you my dear friends, “What it is?” It IS BETTER!

Doer of the Declaration

Jan14

Today, I attended another case conference to review and update the goals and plans of a teenager. In these case conferences, we work on three things: (1) we review past goals and successes/failures of those goals, as well as ask the teen questions about how they view their progress, (2) then, we update/establish new goals based upon the progress/regression of the child, as well as listen to and hear their objective on what they desire to achieve next, and last (3) we develop a plan to succeed the afresh established goals.

After the conference, I sat in my car and recapped all that was discussed and the words advocacy, declaration, and helper were paddling in my soul.

Goals and declarations, to me, are tantamount. Embodied in both words, a person is composing a confident statement by giving specific details of a plan. They are expressing something that they desire to have. In my area of expertise, and otherwise, I’ve watched many people inscribe declarations (goals) and that’s it. All they’ve done was state something over and over again. However, saying something without doing something will retard the emerging of the declaration. Thus, the never-ending saying, stating, talking, writing, and likewise the never-ending not doing.

By way of example: let’s say that one of my declarations (goals) is that Nataph Consulting will work with a retired NFL/MLB sportsperson providing executive director services for his foundation. My ideal work space is my home office, and I will travel, on occasion, as required to the site location. This is one of my declarations (goals). What is the most likely result of this declaration (goal) if I do not submit my required credentials? Will the person even know that I exist, that I’m qualified, that my KSA’s and work ethics are exemplary, and that I will represent his name with integrity? No. They will not know. I have to do something that will bring awareness to them to propel my declaration (goal) to live. SELAH! I must BE a doer!

To witness the “BE fruitful and multiply” results of our declaration (goal), we have to BE doers. Doers are people who “always” progress, improve, increase, get better, etc. They attract helpers (someone who works with them and their plan of action) who are dedicated to advocacy (actively supporting them; speaking in favor of them). These helpers read, they understand, and they implement the forthright declarations (goals) so that they (the declarations/goals) surely come. And, a team of helpers is a team of doers…and givers.

Remember, doers are people who “always” progress, improve, increase, get better, etc. Thus, helpers will “always” progress, improve, increase, get better, etc. SELAH! So then, if you don’t have a plan, an idea, a chart, a sketch, something for helpers to help you with, you can’t justly expect them to help you unto acquiring your declaration (goal).

What are you doing, not saying, that requires the help of a helper?

From this case conference, I, once more, realized that articulating a declaration and penning a goal is priority. For that reason, taking action to propel the declaration into existence cannot BE skirted. The teen in this case saw his declaration (goal) face-to-face today. It was a 3-month plan and he achieved exactly what he desired to achieve, and the reward was exactly what his team of helpers said it was.

He progressed to another level; a level that he declared to succeed. Now, although he has a team of helpers (a team of doers) advocating for him, he was encouraged to take part in his advocacy and BE his own helper; to BE a doer. Again, doers of the declaration (goal) “always” progress, improve, increase, and get better.

In such manner as this teenager, so it is with us parents, relatives, entrepreneurs, educators, athletes, business owners, etc. We must not only say and write or expound and exclaim, we must BE a doer of the declaration (goal). We must escape the sinful nature of chicanery to manipulate doers and givers into advocating for us because we have failed to advocate for ourselves. With great compassion, I compel us all to BEcome diligent doers of our own declarations (goals).

I dedicate this blog to my son, Jordan G. “TheArtistic” Hicks. We developed a plan, you worked the plan, your team of helpers advocated for you on the journey, and today you received exactly what you told me you wanted. Well done son! I love you!

The Authority of The Father

Sep9

To the rebellious wife and the irresponsible husband, I know that something has happened to one of you to BEcome as you are and for the other to naturally respond to what you’ve BEcome. How do we get the family back to a healthy posture? How will our households ever BE a wholesome image of Who God is and how He established family if father or mother is absent?

Today, when I sought counsel on a matter, I learned a valuable lesson about my role as mother. I was desperate for a father for my sons, and in that desperation I reached out to a couple of young men who, in the conclusion of the matter, could not offer one word of strength. I was hurting and wanted the help of a father. That help was not available! It has not been alive for my household for over 17 years. In my cry for peace and understanding, I discovered that when the husbandman fails in his leadership function as husband and father I have The Authority of The Father to do what a father should BE doing in my home. I have been given the “designated power” to father my children.

I have compassion for them (Psalm 103:13).
I advocate for and carry my sons. Not only physically have I carried them, but I bear them up emotionally, financially, spiritually (Deuteronomy 1:31).
When they sin, I rise up early to pray for them (Job 1:5).
I don’t give my son a stone instead of a loaf; I give good gifts to my children (Matthew 7:9-11; Luke 11:11-13).
I don’t provoke my children unto anger, as I don’t want them to lose heart. So, I nurture them in the admonition of the LORD. They might get mad at my chastising and diligently disciplining them, but I do this BEcause I love them. It is for their good. I correct my sons BEcause I love them. I’m quick to repent, to assure them I AM for them and not against them. I tell them they can actually BE angry, just don’t sin by letting the sun go down on their wrath (Ephesians 6:4; Colossians 3:21; Proverbs 3:11-12; 13:24; Ephesians 4:26; Hebrews 12:7-11).
I desire my sons to live a good life. Thus, I’m constantly praying prayers of protection; I do not desire them dead. I know that foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, this is why the rod of discipline (the Word of God) is driving it far from them. I have the power to decree that they will not bring shame to me; my reproof gives them wisdom (Proverbs 19:18; 22:15; 29:15).
I teach them to love the LORD our God and to BE the Word of God. We sit and talk of His Word in my house, in the car, at the park, and on the highway. We go to sleep to His Word (Deuteronomy 6:6-7; 11:18-21).
I exhort and comfort my children. Not a day comes and a night goes that they don’t get warm hugs, pats on the butt, bedtime back rubs, I love you’s 50 million times a day, you did good son, I’m liking those grades keep up the good work, you got this, do your part and I’ll do mine, etc. (1 Thessalonians 2:11).

You see, God has enabled me (given me authority) to father my children. There is no one else here to do it. And, BEcause I have The Authority of The Father I, an unmarried virtuous woman and mother, vow to model a life of gratefulness, appreciation, Pure Divine Love, forgiveness, humility and temperance with this designated power.

How To Ask of The LORD

Jul28

I was seeking an answer from the Spirit of Truth regarding how to ask of the LORD YAH my Father. Normally, when I think of ask I think of questions, requests, and inquiries, etc. Still, in all that I consciously know, I yearned for revelatory clarity on “how to do” these things called ask.

While I prayed for answers, my brain was gently wiggling as the scriptures were pouring in. I recalled my meditation from a few days ago on John 15:1-8: “⁷IF ye abide in me, AND my words abide in you, ye shall ASK what ye WILL, AND it shall BE done unto you. ⁸HEREIN is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye BE my disciples.” While chanting these scriptures, it arises in me that bearing much fruit, in this contextual manner, is produced from:

two-fold abiding,
asking what I will, AND
it being done.

What I will should BE the same as what the Vine’s will is IF we are two-fold abiding. In contrast, I ultimately bear no fruit IF the two-fold abiding is not my structure. Instead, I will BE withered and burned by men. SELAH!

So then, Luke 11:10 rose up in me in that “For every one that ‘asketh’ receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it SHALL BE opened.” In times past, I’d studied the Greek tense of the word ‘eth.’ Today, revisiting it and its power was necessary. The archaic suffix ‘eth’ is a noun and it is added to the end of verb words to tell you about the behavior of that word. SELAH! This suffix signifies a behavior of continual action known as Greek ‘perfect tense,’ vs. an action without continuation (or one-time action) known as Greek ‘aorist tense.’

With this in the forefront of my mind, I understood that for every one that continual ask (asketh) they continual receive (receiveth). SELAH!

However, I was yet uncertain if I understood “how to do” these things called ask. Luke 11:8 told me exactly how to. Importunity! Shameless persistence! Of the sort, this word is synonym with ‘eth.’ Again, this signifies continual action. This is how we should pray (ask) of the LORD, Our Father, Who art in heaven – with shameless persistence. To BE an importunate person, we must boldly persist, despite difficulties, in order to boldly receive. Some might confuse what I’m saying with vain repetitions, much speaking, as mentioned in Matthew 6:7. That is not the same as continual action, shameless persistence.

In the same scripture, Luke 11:8, the parable reveals that the friend, who came asking, was an importunate person. His importunity (his persistence, his demand for help) was fervent. Thus, his friend, who had what he needed, WILL rise and give him as many (loaves of bread) as he needeth. The friend asked for three loaves, but it can BE deduced that the one who was giving gave more than three loaves, i.e., he give as many as he needeth. He gave ALL that was needed to fulfill, not to merely get by for a little while. SELAH!

Now then, although this law of reciprocity called asketh, seeketh, and knocketh responds for every one that doeth these things, it does not imply that everyone is bearing fruit. SELAH. You are only bearing fruit when you are two-fold abiding AND asketh. SELAH!

Finally my brethren, this is the confidence that I have of Him, the Son of God: that IF I ask any thing according to His will, and I will ask accordingly, He heareth me. And IF He heareth me, and He does, whatsoever I ask, I know that I have the petitions that I desired of Him.

The LORD is my desire, I shall not want. SELAH!

Scientifically Spiritual

Jul8

Is it possible to scientifically explain a spiritual occurrence? I’m not sure where this thought came from, perhaps I was reading something. Right now, I’m not sure what I was reading at the time. (A few moments have passed) OKAY! Now I remember! I was studying EFT and TFT, which are Emotional Freedom Technique and Thought Field Therapy. EFT and TFT are alternative energy medicines like therapeutic touch, acupuncture, Reiki, etc. Then I had to work my recollection to answer, “What made me want to study that?” Well, yesterday I had starting reading an article on “Breaking the Psychologically Attachment to Illness.” Oh how so many of us need to detach ourselves from ourselves and BE made whole. SELAH!

All this week, I’ve been studying on thoughts and words and their importance to create, produce, activate, heal, etc. At one point, the thought arose that this is just mindless. Then I remembered that I took careful attention at how unfailing my midnight thoughts came to me as I BEgin to dose off. Reliable was Psalm 3:3 as I laid me down to sleep: “But thou, O LORD, art a Shield FOR me; MY Glory, and The Lifter Up of mine head.” This song took its place to awareness. As I measured this encouragement, my midday intercession sprung up in me, i.e., the LORD is MY naw-tsar’ (my protector, my shield).

Bringing the two thoughts together was like healing water to my bones. I could literally feel my bones being strengthened by flowing water. It made me giggle for a few seconds; I knew it was the Holy Spirit afresh. This morning, when I opened my eyes, Psalm 3:3-4 awakened with me. I started to pray MY protection a 70×70 mile radius; that wherever I am, I AM shields me. The LORD sustained me! Everything is perfectly complete. SELAH!

Nonetheless, I kept reading and studying EFT and TFT and came upon the faith of the First Church of Christ, Scientist based in Boston, MA. Not the cult, Church of Scientology! That’s an entirely different army, with compounds ALL over this world, which, by the way, is opposed to abortion but PROMOTES homosexual oral and anal penetrative sex as a form of birth control. I thought I was reading a Bourne Ultimatum script perusing information about this organization.

Anyways, back to the First Church of Christ, Scientist. I learned that the requirements to BE a member of this organization, per the by-laws, are that you pray daily and study the bible. You must subscribe to the organization’s periodicals IF YOU CAN AFFORD to, and pay an annual tax to the church of nothing less than $1.00. There are the basic requirements to BE a member. I personally like the idea that they have Reading Rooms at each sanctuary location that are OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! Isn’t that awesome? It’s comparable to a library. How many of the ministry organizations in your neighborhood are OPEN TO THE PUBLIC on days besides the days they’ve calendared service?

In addition, I was captured by the answer that explains the question, “What is a Christian Science?” in particularly this answer:

“Christian Scientists come from all walks of life and are happy to talk about their faith when asked, but we don’t proselytize. For us, a life well lived is the best example of our beliefs.”

A life well lived is THE BEST example of our beliefs! This statement caused me to pause and ponder about what I see in other religious organizations. Do they too BElieve, unto living, that “a life well lived is THE BEST example?” Due to the fact that we all have tendency to yield to the great rhetoric of what we are accustomed to, when all things are considered, we systematically neglect knowing our neighbors who may actually have an acuter depth of spiritual insight.

This is a legitimate thought, and very likely a reliable truth, that if you think the religious organization that you belong to is THE ONLY organization that knows God (Creator, Love, Light, Spirit, and Truth) you are very likely under the influence of a persuasive deception. As many of us are aware, Massachusetts is the breeding ground for witchcraft. Sadly, witchcraft is practiced EVERYWHERE; even so, over the many altars that we fellowship in weekly. There is no slight here, just the unsullied truth.

So then, I take it upon myself to start reading Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

“There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual” (Eddy, Mary Baker (1910) Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 468).

I love this quote of Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science, from the New York Herald, 1 May 1901,

“Where vaccination is compulsory, let your children be vaccinated and see that your MIND is in such a state that BY YOUR PRAYERS vaccination will do the children no harm. So long as Christian Scientists obey the laws, I do not suppose their mental reservations will be thought to matter much.”

For some reason or another, all of this brought back to my attention, in an affirming manner, that what I’ve been saying for quite some time now is great truth. And that is, we need to BEcome our spirit selves in this realm, as this is our true self. We need to unBEcome who we are and BEcome who we were created. When we start living from this place (spiritually minded, taking on the attributes of Our Image, the Mind of Christ), then we will start experiencing life and peace on earth AS IT IS in heaven. I wholly BElieve John 6:63 (KJV),

“It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I SPEAK unto you, they ARE SPIRIT, and they ARE LIFE.

As I read more from the pages of this text, I thought I was reading my mind on paper. So many things I hear in my spirit, I’ve heard them again in this book. I thus recognize that these thoughts, which are coming to conscious, are arriving BEcause there are disciplines that I need to study. There are matters that I need to learn; there is wisdom to gain; and, there is understanding to get.

I study on…

Compassion, I AM!

May28

Today, life events from my youth woke up as I was meditating. I remember in my days of youth how I used to be tormented by princedoms, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world, and spiritual wickedness in high places (the soul). Even though my parents were praying parents, I, in my own assessment, didn’t know how to respond to this torment other than self-harm. As a child, I didn’t even know this word or what it meant. However, the tormenter that seeks to kill, steal, and destroy knew that word and had no respect of me being a child.

The most common practice of self-harming is a cutter, which is strongly suited with poisoning. I, on the other hand, wasn’t a cutter. I was a self-beater, both mentally and physically, with suicidal tendencies. My communication with myself was destructive! Consequently, my right knee tells a story of years of abuse. The abuse was first compulsive (driven by this inner force to do something), and then intentional (premediated, well thought out) because I saw the results of compassion that it yielded. Compassion!

In former times, my thinking lifestyle and life’s happenings led me to obsessive and compulsive behaviors. These behaviors stifled my life! My thoughts were hacked as I attempted to secure things from people who didn’t have what I needed. Behaviors that made me want to demand this, that, or the other from bankrupt resources and individuals who were not gifted to meet the demand. These thoughts were my responsibility. Even so, after gelling with how I had evolved considering my ways wasn’t a stress-free undertaking. Nonetheless, the onus was still on my shoulder to consider my ways. What did I do, or was not doing, that caused my life to BE what it was? My self-harming actions were, in reality, harming others

As I now breathe, before I BEcame whom I AM I had to BE healed of who I was. SELAH! Wisdom was a ray of light, schooling me in that I wasn’t created with these self-harming deficiencies. Yet, they were born. These shortcomings had to die! An abortion was requisite in order for me to cuddle with salvation, healing, and miracles. And die…they did! Not in one wave, but in many tides over the past 30 years. On this journey, I’ve discovered that confessing my faults concerning my thoughts dismantles the pallets of pride. .

Essentially, I had to break up with injury and cunning persuasions to collect compassion and learn how to BEcome the compassion (the Ruhamah) that I longed for. SELAH! In the here and now, for the past 2 years, I’ve been praying for that Ruhamah. My prayers were consistent in this manner, “LORD! I want to BE compassion and more compassionate. I yearn to BE that for and towards my children; for and towards the fortunate and fateful. LORD, LET me BE compassion!” As I set out to study what I wanted to BEcome, I learned that compassion doesn’t seek a return from others; it simply enjoys being what it is and doing what it does. Also, I’ve learned that it is an intensely powerful word that brings life. It has elements of mercy that runs deep to spring up like a rushing well of water. My study revealed to me that the word Ruhamah, which is Hebrew in origin, derives from the root-verb raham, meaning to love deeply/to have mercy. This kind of compassion is expressed in Exodus 33:19 and 2 Kings 13:23.

In order to BEcome the image of my Creator, I had to consider my ways and change my reasoning. To live, in the likeness of my YAH, I must continuously have the mind of Christ. My spirit self, meaning the real me, has to abound at all times lest I return to the foolishness of my natural self, i.e., the self-harming. Of this lot in life, I have fully BEcome whom I desired to BE and I covet no longer. I have long disowned self-harm, and I cleave to Pure Divine Love. I AM now, compassion!

BE Benevolent!

May22

This word has been scrolling across my head for three days. I’ve heard this word, particularly in Christian ministries, that are called ‘churches’, and they have what is called Benevolence Funds.

The origin of the word and the foundation of its meaning are well-wishing; organized to do good things for other people; kind and generous. When people are in dire need, many of them expect the religious businesses to do good things for them; to help them up from the mire. After all, this is what many of us have been taught that these ministry businesses are supposed to do. At times disconcerting, but yet truthfully true, these businesses are not ‘organized’ to BE BENEVOLENT. This is not their mission and vision. SELAH!

Thus, some will establish non-profit organizations to provide a service to assist you, i.e., halfway houses funded by philanthropists and world agencies, child care services funded by state programs, homes for teenage parents and domestic violence victims funded by foundations and the criminal justice system, and counseling centers for those who are addicted to various vices paid for by your insurance company. I am no against these entities, because they do assist people in great manifestations. On the other hand thought, many of these established ‘charitable’ organizations require you to invest (co-pays, sliding scale fees, payment plans, etc.) in their generosity towards and for you.

BUT HOW IS IT PERFECTLY CHARITABLE IF THEY ARE SEEING A RETURN?

I do believe that people should BE BENEVOLENT. And, I believe they should BE this with wisdom and without expectation from anyone except the LORD. So, with resolution that is built on the Chief Cornerstone, in this manner I encourage you (those of you who truly need assistance): do not hold these ministry businesses responsible to help you or hold them captive when they are not charitable towards you. They are simply not organized (set-up, established, instituted) to do that. Pray that the LORD directs you to the ones who are organized (structured, well-regulated, and inherently able) to GIVE, to do good things for you, and to BE kind and generous to you. Your investment will be to owe them nothing but to love them.

To BE BENEVOLENT is a lifestyle. Today… I choose, again, to BE. SELAH!

How Long Shall This Continue To Be The Story?

Apr4

Upon reading this article about a gospel music industry songstress who is pregnant and not married, I begin to reflect how I, as an unmarried woman and psalmist of the Word, have learned to SUBMIT to YAH, RESIST the ways of the world, and REFRAIN. Resisting is LABORIOUS! It is not easy to resist; but it’s right! It can BE [and normally is] painful to deny your body what it was created to do naturally i.e. sexual communion.

Sometimes, if not most of the time, discipline is the hardest task for many of the anointed ones. Thus, we feel like throwing in the towel [and sometimes do]. We stop RESISTING because RESISTING is hard work; we get tired of going against the grain of temptation. However, the outcome of victory over the temptation outweighs the outcome of giving in. To RESIST and REFRAIN will save your mind and soul from the torment that comes with casually giving your soul and body away.

By the way, I am first partaker of everything I say. #TeamResistandRefrain

To me, her saying, “I MADE a mistake and I fell,” is a cop-out. People know what they are MAKING BEfore they fall. They took time to plan, craft, schedule, produce, work up to, invite and incite that mistake. All the while of contemplating, there was ample time to renege, to say, “NO! STOP! This is NOT the way for me!” Thus, when they make statements like hers, we, who are of the LORD, are compelled to forgive. We forgive because now WE KNOW. What they were MAKING [their mistake] is now exposed.

What if she didn’t get pregnant? What if the preacher didn’t get caught sexing the young boy, or get caught in the hotel room with his lover? What if the bishop didn’t get caught doping up his veins and nostrils? Would it have still been a mistake? It only BEcomes a mistake when what they have been producing in private is manifested in public.

I can hear the double-dealers now, “Church people are too judgmental. We just need to pray for them!” Well, I thank YAH that I’m not a church people. And if all we needed to do was pray, where was prayer when the mistake was brewing and concocted? But now, when things are exposed, all we need to do is just pray?

Is there not enough of the gospel in us that we can sing and preach and speak in tongues and holler and dance and yet that same gospel doesn’t keep us? I thought it [the word of YAH, the Gospel of Yeshua] was “keeping power?” What’s wrong with us [who carry this gospel] that sin prevails all so frequently?

Are not the feet of them who carry the gospel beautiful? Her repenting, purging, and transparency are commendable. Nonetheless, the integrity to “do right the first time,” to RESIST and REFRAIN is even more admirable. It is this kind of uprightness that makes our feet beautiful.

There is no doubt that the LORD rain on the just and the unjust, and there equally is no doubt that there is an anointing up on her. What I’ve noticed on my journey is that people tend to believe that an anointing is only up on those who are members of the body of Christ. Not so! Just look around you. Someone was anointed to discovery electricity, another anointed to make Apple and MAC Computers, and others anointed to BE trillionaires.

So, the gifts of YAH are without repentance. In this walk of the gospel, there are some who are riding off the obtained mercies of us who are living righteous; those of us who have MADE a conscious decision to RESIST and REFRAIN (Romans 11:28-31). SELAH!

Tell me this, what has happened to songs [testimonies] like, “Man, I WANTED to sin. My flesh was burning and I WAS on the edge of dousing my fire. I WANTED to, BUT I MADE up [produced, crafted, planned in] my mind to honor the LORD that I love and sing about?” Why can’t we sing the word to our self; decree, declare, and command to our self that, “WE WILL put off the way of the world and the world’s way of thinking. If we can’t contain ourselves, LET US marry. And if we ain’t talking marriage, LET US RESIST and REFRAIN!”

I started praying weeks ago when I decided to audition for Sunday’s Best on April 21, 2012. One of the things I’ve kept in the forefront of my prayers was LORD make me ready. I am not yielding now to temptation, I just BE dog-gone if I’m going to LET the entertainment industry, gospel music industry, or any other industry cause me to surrender to ways that are not of the LORD. I have STRONG SUPPORTERS; people I know how to BE, and am, accountable to including my children. How many parents are accountable to their children? SELAH! I promise you, it can keep us unmarried people out of a WHOLE lot of sin. SELAH!

In closing, it’s both sad and true that many in this walk have grave issues that they need to BE delivered from. Many of them are consuming strong drinks to make it through “a show” or “another gig” as some call it. Many of them are high on alcohol and drugs while entertaining [ministering]. And the audience buys into the hype and gyration yelling, “HALLELUJAH” behind the antics of addicts. SELAH!

How long shall this BE the stories that we hear? How long?

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.

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