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?