God's Ruby in the Rough!!!

It's time people, God is getting ready to bless me mightily and I am humbly ready to receive these "Blessings".  I finally sent 3 songs off to a new record label and I am trusting God to give me favor with these anointed people of God.  "He Knows" just what I am going through right now, I am constantly "Prayed Up", I continue to give Him a "Crazy Praise", and even if this particular label doesn't sign me, I know that "There's A Blessing Behind Close Doors", so I'll still "Hold On" and say to God "Have Your Way".  Thanks for following everyone and never ever forget "What He Did" to bring you to the place you are at with Him right now and know that as long as you continue to follow Him, it is "Good".


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Brenda Y. Tillman

You're Starting to Look Like Mess....

Why do we think that we can hang out with someone doing wrong, they know they are wrong, and don't care if you know it or not.  They have no respect for the God you serve or the relationship you have with God, but we still associate ourselves with them thinking their mess won't affect who we are.  The Bible tells us this in 1 Corithians 15: 33 (NKJV)
Do not be deceived: “Evil company corrupts good habits.” 
That means I can not hang out with some of my old friends because they haven't transformed, I can't hang out with some of my new friends because they haven't transformed.  You hang with mess you get mess in you, mess get in you mess coming out of you and you start looking like mess.  We do need to be witnesses to people and be a light to win others over to Jesus, but once we realize they are content in their corrupt lifestyle let them go before your good habits turn evil.


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Off to College Trained in the way he should go.....

Proverbs 22:6> Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old it will not depart from him.  AKA >Direct, lead, instruct a child in the righteous, holy, Godly way and when he leaves home he may mess up but he will not easily walk in a direction contrary to what he has learned at home.  I took my son to college this week and to my surprise I didn't cry my eyes out when I left him there.  Yeah a shed a few tears, but I was comforted by his voice saying to me "mama, you did your thing and raised us to do as you do and you have been a good example, you didn't say one thing and do another" To God be the glory, that was worth this walk with God.  You know our children are always watching us and listening to the things we say.  We sometimes think they aren't getting it, but they do.  God has charged us as parents to be just that, parents and not our kids friends.  Yeah they gone get mad about some stuff, but hey I would rather they be mad at me than God to have to punish me for not doing my part as "Mama".  Be blessed son and know that I love you, but God loves you more.


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1st Lady Deserves Honor Too....

Are you a member of a ministry and you know you can always go to your 1st Lady and she doesn't turn her nose up at you or your issues?  I am, and I thank God for my BOFL (Best Only First Lady).  1st Lady McCormick, she is just a gem.  It's great to show honor and respect to the Pastor, but 1st Lady Deserves Honor Too.  So thank you BOFL for being who you are.  Romans 13:7 says give honor to whom honor is due...(read it for yourself).  Love you


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Because He Loved (s) Me to Death!!!!

Jesus loved us to death!! His love for us was so great that He gave His life for us to live.  Now that's real love.  He put our sins to death, so our sins wouldn't put us to death, but that we would have a chance to live with Him when He returns.  God sees our shortcomings and He sent His Son so that we could be forgiven for those short comings.   No greater love that the ultimate love that Christ showed for us.  We should think about that when we are sinning and not thinking about repenting from mess.  I spoke to a lady just the other day and she said to me "well He's a forgiving God for a reason, He knows we are going to do it anyways", she was speaking on fornication.  Yes He is a forgiving God, but we shouldn't live with that mentality.  What if we die in the act?  Then what?  Strive for holiness, strive for righteousness, He deserves us giving 100% to doing what is right.  Because He Loved (s) Me to Death, I can face tomorrow.  Because of His love, I don't have to allow someone else to "Love Me to Death" by being in an abusive relationship with someone that might just "Love Me to Death"...Pray on it and seek counseling God wants what is best for us.


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God's Gift is Beauty for Your Ashes & Joy....

for Your Mourning: Now Live.  Isaiah 61:1-3

Ashes are defined as the remains after burning, deathlike grayness.  God wants to give us beauty (life) for whatever is causing us to be dead.  Joy for our mourning (peace, love, hope, happiness) for whatever caused us to be sorrowful.  Let go of the past that stops you from receiving your gift.  When you hold on to mess and refuse to forgive, mess is really holding on to you and you're dead in a sense.  To choose to forgive is a step toward healing, getting better.  If you aren't healing to forgiveness, you're dying to NOT forgiving.  Don't allow yourself to be controlled by something that someone has done to you.  Pray for them, Forgive & Live.  


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Wonderful Woman

Ladies we are wonderful!!!  Adam saw Eve wonderful once God formed her...he said bones of my bones, flesh of my flesh...Adam knew he was the head, but he didn't see his wife in a belittling form. Gen. 2:21-23

God made us fearfully and wonderfully, and we should act like we know.  Not in an arrogant way, but humble.  Being independent is wonderful, but everyone needs someone so know how to be independent in behavior and don't let it come out your mouth or be on your face in an arrogant state. Ps. 139:14

Before God made us, He knew us.  While we were yet in our mother's womb, we were chosen for a work.  God knows our every move and thought, He knows we are a mess, but He still has a work for us to do if we just allow Him to use us to be a blessing.  Jer. :5

God does not show favortism.  He made David fearfully and wonderfully so I am fearfully and wonderfully.  He knew Jeremiah before he was formed in the womb and chose him and He knew me before I was formed in the womb and chose me.

We need to know this, so we can encourage ourselves when the storm comes.  Yes it will come,but God's promises are our refuge.  Know who you are in Christ, know God's word for you and know that you are a Wonderful Woman.

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God Completes Me

We try to find acceptance from people, but we only need acceptance from God.  Until we learn that God completes us, we might do just anything trying to fit in.  God said that He will carry on the good work that He has started in us until Jesus returns.  God wants what's best for us.  Why is it so hard to stop being stupid thinking others can do more than God can and will do for His children?  Phil. 1:6 being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.  Although we were all born into sin doesn't mean God can't do good things for us.  He loves us so much.  I have to be confident that when things are going sour, that God has started this good work in me and He will complete it as long as I don't faint and turn away from Him.  I trust God and because I trust Him and seek Him first, I lack nothing.  My dreams to become a writer for the Kingdom of God, God is working that out right now.  He won't turn His back on me, and I can be confident because God Completes Me.


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I Had God At Hello.....

Now before you start judging and thinking I am being arrogant, the word of the Lord tells me that God's ears are attentive to the righteous cry.  So just because I know this about me, doesn't mean it's not for you.  I know that I am righteous, I know that I seek God.  God knows what I need before I open up my mouth.  Psalm 34: 1-17 is a good text to go along with this but v.15 is my favorite,  The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are attentive to their cry.  So I'm not being arrogant because I think I am all that, but because He is all that and He honors His word.


I'm not perfect, and yes I have areas of weakness but as I continue to submit to God and resist the devil and these areas of weakness, they flee.  


All I'm saying is that I don't have to beg God to hear me, I just seek Him and say "Hello God, Hello Father", and His omnipotence (power do do all things) hears me right then.  And He is ready to bless me with His goodness.


So I think I'll keep on keeping on, keep on striving for righteousness, keep on saying Hello Father.   I Have God at Hello.  I like knowing He has my back, and I have His attention.


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I Must Endure Your Mess....

If I want to be saved!!!  The Bible lets me know that while people are hating on me, I must keep them in prayer.  Serious prayer people, not just some quick prayer to make you feel better about yourself.  We have to want what's best for the haters.  Matthew 10:22-25 You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. ²³ When you are persecuted in one place, flee to another. Truly I tell you, you will not finish going through the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
   ²⁴ “The student is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his master. ²⁵ It is enough for students to be like their teachers, and servants like their masters. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household!   God, are You serious!!!  People talking about you and smiling in your face, people thinking they better than you and looking down on you, people cursing you out, and so on...yeah all them haters.  Enduring means I must portray Jesus when I go through, not cursing folk out, not talking about folk, not getting angry and sinning against them.  I must keep it in my head that in order for me to make it to Heaven, I have to learn how endure your mess.  (Is that cursing Pastor?)  How do you pray and want what's best for haters?  This is when you find out if you really saved.  As a child of God I'm suppose to want what Jesus wants right? Salvation for the hater so they won't go to hell right?  Remember who you were once, stop being selfish and pray for the haters salvation.  We gone go through til Jesus returns...Why we think we not, Jesus went through and we are His right?  The soldiers came to get Jesus and Peter got with them, but Jesus being humble still had mercy for the man and healed his ear.  Shake off that Peter spirit.  I know I have to before I end up in Hell...cause people be trying me.  How do we endure people?  We pray for a humble spirit, we submit to God and resist the haters and they will flee.  Let 'em flee, we don't have to hang around them, but we do have to love them and trust God to touch their hearts.  We can either sincerely endure and pray for their salvation so they don't go to hell, or we will end up not enduring and they'll send us to hell.  Now it's not a guarantee that they will stop being foolish and become heaven bound, but at least we did what we were suppose to do so we can go to heaven. Endured till the end. 




God Bless,


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Surprise, Surprise

It's been a while since I have wrote anything.  On July 2, 2011 I turned 40 years old and I expected a party from my daughter and niece but nothing.  Kat and I did go to Texas Cattle Company and it was delicious, (yum, yum).  Well in anticipation of a party that night nothing happen, she took me home and I was in for the night.  Well after July 2, I accepted that there was no party and maybe when I turn 45 they can try it again.  Well on July 8, 2011 my family and friends pulled off a surprise party for me.  Those people told so many lies that Andrea told Vicki "I'm so tired of lying to my mama".  So I had to pray and ask God to forgive them all and me too for making them go to these extremes.  It was wonderful and I am so glad that I was able to spend such a special occasion with good family and good friends.

Well I wanted to have sent off songs and been picked up by a label by the time I turned 40.  Didn't happen.  But I am not giving up because the Lord sent word to me not to give up and that people are going to think I am crazy, but don't give up.  You mean people will think I am crazier than what they already think.  WOW!!  It's not over, til God says it's over......Surprise Surprise....God got this....Don't give up!!!

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The Rainbow Says to me.....

WIPE OUT!!!!  On June 25th, 2011 I was riding down 98 N in Lakeland, Florida headed to church for an anniversary service for Pastor JMac and 1st Lady and I saw a rainbow.  And my heart was filled with joy to see it and I was just smiling and riding, and I believe God wanted me to write that the rainbow belongs to Him.  He created it, it is designated as a testimony of God's promise to us, as long as there's a rainbow...I hear God.  You see some would say that is represents gay power, and I say to that, be happy because there's nothing gay about God.  The devil will always be a copy cat and try to make changes to God's creation, he has nothing original except sin.  Read Gen. 9, God created the rainbow, not Disney or anybody else.  Man is just doing what man does, messing up.  God's covenant with Noah included that the rainbow would remind God of His promise to us, that never again shall a flood destroy all flesh.  God is alive people, and in the saving business.  Now ya'll ready, here we go.  Why we think we so full of the word and that we don't need to study to remind ourselves of a promise from God.  If God has to be reminded with the rainbow that the rain has to stop because I promised that the waters wouldn't destroy the entire population, ya'll do know why He destroyed the entire man population before right (with the exception of Noah, his wife, their 3 sons, and their sons wives--8 people)?  SIN, SIN, & MORE SIN!!!  People living like hell, ungrateful people, wicked people, corrupt people, violent people, sound kinda like our neck of the woods.  Anyways, God was sick of all this wickedness going on, so sick of it that He was sorry He made man & was grieved in His heart. (vs6:6) God was so mad at this sin that He caused the rain to flow down & destroyed them ALL.  Now I've read this  all before, but when you study something it's a bit different.  Man every time the rain drops now, I'm gone repent and my praise will be more intense, because I know the waters won't kill us all but enough can come to get some attention (hello Katrina).  Don't get mad at me, I'm just saying.  The Bible says in Gen. 9:15 that God said, seeing the rainbow He will remember, now anytime you set a reminder for yourself it's so you don't forget right?  So you can take it like you want to but I'm gone believe that He don't want to forget that although all this SIN, SIN, & MORE SIN is going on, I ain't gone flood them out again because of My covenant.
And of course wickedness will try to get your mind off of the true meaning of the rainbow, by deception and causing you to fuss with someone about what the rainbow really represents, because if we too stupid to stop and realize that the rainbow is a message from God, then the devil is happy.  God is alive people and even though seeing the rainbow brought joy to my heart, I think it was also God's way of saying check yourself.  Is your living causing God to have to check out His rainbow, so He doesn't wipe you out?  The rainbow says to me, get it together, while you still have a chance.


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Tracing A Dot to Dot to Hell!!!

Wow if you are bold enough to open this link with a topic like that, tell the Lord 'thank You' because everybody don't like truth.  
Now Pastor JMac has been teaching on being lukewarm and that we all need to check ourselves to see if we are indeed lukewarm.  I went home and studied some more and asked the Lord to help me to understand this teaching so that I not only hear the word, but I want to move because of the word.
Well as I read Rev. 3:14-22, the scriptures that Pastor came from the Spirit of the Lord let me know that this Lukewarm Message all ties into the Deception Message from a few weeks ago.
In these verses Jesus is speaking to the deceived church folk, the ones that are lukewarm.  Jesus hates lukewarm believers, we make Him sick on His stomach.  All the praise and worship, and the speaking in tongues, and all the speaking a word to the brethren at the church & then getting on the phone, or texting, or on Facebook tearing the same brethren down.  Talking out both sides of your mouth, can't nobody tell you nothing, ain't got enough sense to hear the Lord try to stop you from getting in some fleshy mess, don't want to be rebuked because you think you done prophesied on some sinners life because you said something would happen & it did, but it was inevitable and now you think you anointed.  Sit down & shut up and hear what Thus Says the Lord.
He says as many as He loves, He rubukes.  So REPENT church and get out of this deceived lukewarm stage.  I know I have to repent and get my act together because God revealed to me my future if I don't stop doing enough just to get by, and it scares the HELL out of me.  Seriously I remember me not being saved and it is not a pretty picture.  I was fornicating, lying, stealing, and fighting, and a whole bunch of mess that I can't go back into, but if I stay lukewarm and don't chase after the things of God I'll be there again.  Tracing A Dot to Dot to Hell.
Jesus forgive me and lead me daily where You want me to go.  I admit I have been lukewarm, but no more.  I hear You knocking and I hear Your voice, come in Jesus and thank You.


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Godly Behavior Wins Him Over.....

Does your behavior make him want to serve your God?  Ladies this is some tough, hard to swallow, cut it up in small pieces of meat to handle, but if you are serious about your husband being won over to Christ, pull out your knife and cut it up, pull out the food processor and grind it up, what ever it takes to get it down, get it down.
Now 1 Peter 3:1>Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives.
Speechless right!!!  I know, there's nothing that shuts you up like the true word of God.  Ladies you must learn to humble yourself, there's nothing that runs a man to the corner of the roof top quicker than a nagging woman,(Prov. 21:9) especially one that suppose to be living holy.  How we gone go off and trip and think the man wants to serve the God we serving.  Our behavior is very important.  The word says we can shut up, stop nagging, and just live holy and make the man want to serve God just from watching us.  (Paraphrased for the simple)


I know sometimes we want to just GO OFF!!!  Believe me, but it's not worth it at all.  Having to wonder if I could have done something different, or maybe just not said some of the words I said.  Anyways I think all the married ladies need to know this as well as single ladies that are planning to get married.  Let the wonderful, beautiful, God that you are serving show in your behavior and that my friend is a NUFF SAID!!!




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Just An Ain't, Not Really A Saint if.......

you can't control your tongue.  Wow!!!  Is your tongue deceiving you?  Do you think that you can allow your tongue to say whatever and still praise God?  The Word says in James 1:26 If you think you are being religious, but can't control your tongue, you are fooling yourself, and everything you do is useless.  So that means all that hallelujah, and all that going to see the sick, and doing everything that a true worshiper would do means nothing it's useless, because you can't control your tongue.  That's because if it's coming out of your mouth, it's in your heart.  Luke 6:45>A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart.  For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.  If we are speaking a bunch of mess, that's what our heart is full of.  That's Bible ya'll not me.  It made me check myself too, but that's what God wants us to do, encourage one another, He wants us to do better once we know better.  It's an awful thing for us to keep fooling ourselves, being  Just An Ain't, Not Really A Saint.  Let's do better, let's think better, let's speak better, let's be better.  God loves us, and He's the best that we can have.

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If you love your children.....

Beat 'Em!!!  That's Bible ya'll.  Now I am not telling anyone to abuse their children, or cause any abnormal bodily harm to your child.  You know I remember when my mama and my daddy use to beat my butt, I thought the people was trying to kill me and hated me.  But I'm not dead and I'm an alright person, got a few issues but alright.  Pastor McCormick was teaching about this thing too and he gave us some scriptures in Proverbs, so I went home and studied it some more.  That's what you're suppose to do study the word  so that you may ascertain it for yourself, and not get mad at the preacher.  Proverbs 19:18 the NIV reads>Discipline your children, for in that there is hope; do not be a willing party to their death.  And Proverbs 13:24 reads>Whosoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.  There it is, we are partaking in their death and we hate our children if we don't discipline them.  Prov. 29:15 A rod and a reprimand impart wisdom, but a child left undisciplined disgraces it's mother.  I took Jurnee to the doctor the other day and these two little boys were running around and hitting at their mother, the lady was on her knees picking up the mess they were throwing around and begging them to sit down.  If she had beat 'em at the house and taught them how to behave at home they would not have disgraced her in public.  Prov. 22:15> Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it away.  The rod will help beat that foolishness out of them the rod will make that foolishness want to stay away.  Prov. 23:13-14> Withhold not discipline from the child, for if you strike and punish him with the rod, he will not die. You shall whip him with the rod, and deliver his life from hell.  So I guess it's stupid of us to make our children go to church, pray, sing in the choir, usher, etc... if we don't beat them when they do wrong?  That's what it looks like to me.  "Yana, get me my belt"  Just in case I missed a few.  We should not make light of this situation... Heb. 12:3-6 is a great passage of verses to read but the ladder part touched me. "My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline and do not lose heart when He rebukes you, because the Lord disciplines the one He loves and He chastens everyone He accepts as His son."  Because God loves us, He chastens us when we are headed in the wrong direction, to keep us out of hell.  So again read your Bible so that you may get an understanding of the scriptures and fall in love with your children for real and BEAT 'EM!!! 




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To Be Deceived or Not To Be Deceived.....

That is the question.  I watched a show last night on t.v. and this lady and man were dating and the man was married, but going through a divorce.  Well the couple decided they weren't gonna commit adultery by being intimate, because it would be bad to commit adultery right.  But they were kissing, and going out.  I kept telling them "ya'll already committing adultery according to Matt. 5:28-- But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.  Well then I started telling them "Ya'll rather fornicate than commit adultery, sin is sin" Well after remembering that it was a t.v. show and everything that was going on was already in the script and there was nothing I could do to change it, I stopped telling them about themselves.  Anyways it made me think about what my Pastor has been preaching about, the church being deceived....  Even though this was a show on t.v. it's more so of the reality world now days.  Deception is one of the biggest enemies of the church today.  At least the sinners know they sinners and pretty much know they love what they are doing and don't want to stop.  If you witness you hear that a lot. "I don't want to play with God, I got some stuff I want to stop doing before I give my life to God"  But saved folk will think they alright but still holding on to some serious baggage, and get up and sing, and shout, and testify, and preach thinking they alright, but hell bound. Some people go to churches where they can get a real good feel good message (as my Pastor says). People don't want to hear the truth, and they go to church just because they have made habit out of it.  If you aren't growing in your church, figure out why.  I know all churches aren't the same, so make sure you spend time with God.  Ask God to show you if you are in the right place, if you are seeking God wholeheartedly, you will have a witness in your spirit on what to do.  It might be all you, so be prepared to make some changes if you really love the Lord.  Ask God to show you the truth about things.  God am I being deceived?  Sometimes deception is comfortable....we would rather just pretend we don't know better than find the answer.  Every Christian, every born again believer of Jesus Christ should seek the Holy Ghost for guidance....let the Holy Ghost filter out our every move, our every thought.  Ask Him to show us if something is right or wrong, and if it's wrong change my ideas and give me the will of God concerning this thing.  He will do it John 16:13 says But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth.  He will not speak on His own; He will speak only what He hears, and He will tell you what is yet to come.  To Be Deceived or Not To Be Deceived......let's stop being deceived.  Heaven or Hell, it's your choice.




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Old Child, Grow Up!!!

At what age does a man (person) realize that it's time to grow up and stop acting stupid.  I know you all think this is just focusing on men, but it's not.  I am just tired of dealing with childish acting people.  It's okay to have fun, but there's a time for that.
1 Corinthians 13:11
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.  Children are suppose to talk childish, think childish, understand childish, children are suppose to act childish.  But at some point, if you didn't die as a child, you should grow up and act like a man or (woman) because this isn't just for men.  Just some tips to help somebody out:  1.  If you have facial hair(man or woman), grow up.  2.  If you can drive at night after 9 p.m.legally, grow up.  3.  If you can file income tax and no one else can claim you, grow up.  4.  If you are a parent, grow up.  And #5. If you  are over the age 30 GROW UP PLEASE!!!!  You are welcome!!! To God Be the Glory




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The Point of No Return

Are you there?  Have you come too far to give up now?  Well don't!!!  No matter how things look to your natural eye, make sure you remember to see things with your spiritual eyes.  The spiritual eyes will help us see that we are at The Point of No Return.  Romans 15:4 “For whatsoever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.”   Study the scriptures from God and Have hope and learn from your mistakes, grow from your mistakes, and be patient.  We make a lot of foolish mistakes because we are too anxious.  We can not make God move quicker than He will because He knows what we need and He knows when we need it.  As I think about how far God has brought me I know for a fact that I am at "The Point of No Return" and if any of you know me let the church say 'Amen'.  I've come too far from where I started from, the road isn't easy sometimes but God is my SUV on rough roads, He get's me through no matter what.


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Giving Him the Best That I've Got

Ever wondered what the 3 Wise Men thought Baby Jesus was gonna do with gold, frankincense, and myrrh? Matt. 2:10 When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. 11 On coming to the house, they saw the child with His mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped Him. Then they opened their treasures and presented Him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. The Word tells us that they went with anticipation to worship (start at verse 1). Says when they saw the star, they were overjoyed. Then they went in the house and saw the Child with His mama, and bowed down and worshiped Him. Then they opened their treasures and presented Him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. When we go in the House of the Lord we should go with anticipation to worship and because Matt.18:20 lets us know that He (the Star) is there with us we should be overjoyed. We should worship Him and "Give Him the Best that we've got". That's what the 3 wise men did, they couldn't contain themselves. They knew that He was worthy of the very best. We sometimes go to church and give God mess, a half hearted praise. Jesus has been worthy of the best from the very beginning, the One and Only Lord and Savior deserves nothing less than the best. And verse 12 reads And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route. Once we have given God our best, in praise and worship, in time, in tithes and offering, focused on Him and not what the devil (Herod) has put in our ears, we won't leave out the same. And all that came from just "Giving Him the Best That I've Got" Be blessed!!!


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Happy Mother's Day

Wow, it's Mother's Day again and I'm blessed to be Andrea, Devonte', Jurnee, and Iyana's mom. I can't forget Roderick and Sha'Kera, those are my babies too. I love that God allowed me to be able to pour into their lives, as they have poured into mine. I haven't always been able to give them material things, but I gave them all the love a mother could give a child, a mother that loves the Lord.

Every last one of them get on my nerves sometimes. Andrea can be a little snob sometimes, Devonte' thinks he knows it all sometimes, Jurnee is just goofy sometimes, Iyana talks too much sometimes, Roderick is a little lazy sometimes and Sha'Kera would rather fight it out and get it over sometimes, but I can truly say "They get it from their mama". We need to remember who we were before we became the mature, adults that we are now. Our children that we are training up in the way that they should go will get it eventually. Yeah I know it seems like never, but I think about all the prayers my mama sent up for me. I was all my kids rolled up in one little hellion, but thank God my mama and my God didn't give up on me.

So Happy Mother's Day to my mama, Happy Mother's Day to each of you, and thank you to my kids for reminding me to "keep praying and don't give up".

I love ya'll.


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Why People Play???

What makes a person pretend they don't know their child is getting on peoples nerves? Have you ever been in church and the people seated behind you has a child that continues to hit on the seat you are sitting on, or they are playing with the collar on your shirt, or just keep talking. Why they want to pretend they so deep into the word that they don't see that their child is being a distraction to you getting the word. Or have you ever been at a restaurant and someone is letting their child just walk up to different tables? Why they think you want to look in their snotty child face? What about at work and people just watch as their child walks behind the desk, or watch as they stand on the chairs and climb on the tables? Now as soon as they fall down they gone be trying to sue. I'm serious; Why People Play? Just in case you are one of these people that are mentioned above, get it together. You don't like your child, so why you think other people want to entertain their foolishness? Train your child in they way they should act at home, so when they go out in public they will not act like they have foolish parents.


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Busy, Busy, Me!!!

I have been so busy that I haven't had time to write like I use to, and I've been a little lazy too. Well I've been working on balancing everything out, I've even been going to the gym so I can get rid of this bootydoo and be sho nuff sexy for my 40th birthday.

God wants us to balance out our lives, balance keeps things in perspective. Balance is order. Proverbs 28:2 reads When a country is rebellious, it has many rulers, but a man of understanding and knowledge maintains order. God wants us to have order in our home, ministry, jobs and leisure. We need to seek God 1st for help (read the Bible) so that we aren't unstable, "For God is not a God of disorder, but of peach." 1 Cor. 14:32


Where disorder reigns, we find instability in our personal, spiritual, and professional lives.

So find order, and find balance so you will find peace.


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Big Sistah to Lil Sistah.....

To God be all the glory. We had a Big Sistah to Lil Sistah program at FFGBC on Friday, April 1st and it was wonderful. We talked to the young ladies about Salvation, Hygiene, Respect, Appearance, Saying No Drugs, Sex, and Alcohol, and Boys. It was very interesting, the girls talked and they say they had a good time. We didn't get this growing up, the talk about such things was taboo. It was really nice I am excited about the next one, already got ideas. I hope that it recorded good enough to get CDs out, I know it will bless others.


To God Be the Glory

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On A Short Leash!!!

So your children are mad because you keep them "On A Short Leash"!!! They will be alright. The way I see it is that you are helping them to find their way through the narrow gate. I have spoken to people that say I am too strict with my kids. If I keep trying to keep them from the world then they will just go wild when they get out on their own. Well this is what I say about that. The Bible tells me to train them up in the way they should go, (Prov. 22:6) so I'm gonna teach them what thus says the Lord. And I'll lead them down the narrow road (Matt. 7:13-14) because so many parents try to be their kids friends and let them taste sin, taste the world, they will get enough of that without my help. I think that so many kids go wild once they leave home is because they have had a taste of the world, and they just want more now. I think the ones who have been led down the narrow road "On A Short Leash" will always feel that tug once they start heading down the wide road of destruction. They will be one of the few to find their way to eternal life through the narrow gate. So don't feel like you are strict, God loves you!!!

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Not being Anxious!!!

Philippians 4:6 Let's me know that I should not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present my requests to God. Well I'm not being Anxious!!! I am however excited and thanking God that He will honor my request and I will have favor for the petition I have presented to Him. Last night after all this time FINALLY we sent 3 songs that I wrote to copyrights. Okay, Life & Death and My Friend. I am so excited, because at 12:00 today I will be going to Orlando to meet with this big musician. God is good, I'm nervous, but I know that God has my back. I've prayed about this, and I'm good. God love ya and so do I. I am Not Being Anxious!!!!

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Get it together.....

Or it will fall apart. Stop being scared to do what you know God has called you to do because you think it might not work. If it is what God wants to happen He will not allow you to not make it. There may be all kinds of things that form against you but none of them shall prosper. Nope it won't work, it will only make you stronger. There is nothing the devil can do to you that God doesn't already know about. You see as you go through and come out, you are also growing through and standing tall, you will see the glory of God and know it's not about you but all about God. So in saying all of that I will be going back to record again. Still trusting God, encouraging myself, and Can't give up now.

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God Knows Just What's Best

Let not your heart be troubled, Your Father, The Master, The Creator, Alpha and Omega knows just what is best for you.  Sometimes we want things that seem to be a good idea, but are not a God idea, (JMac).  What might be wonderful for someone, might be total disaster for you.  God knows what the future holds and His wisdom is far greater than ours 1Cor.1:25.  He knows what's down the road, around the corner, and behind the doors. Jer. 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you, "declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.  God lets us know here that He knows just what's best, sometimes we will harm ourselves because we only see what's in front of us especially if our minds are carnal.  But God wants us to know "I see your future and I know just which direction I want you to go, which doors I want you to walk through, which opportunities I want you to not have."  God wants us to keep the faith, because that is the substance of our hope for our future.  So when ever a good idea seems to pass you by, don't stress it wasn't a God idea.  God Knows Just What's Best.  


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Why are the meek so blessed?.....

In the Holy Bible Matthew 5:5 >  Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit the earth.  I was wondering what makes the meek so blessed?  So blessed that they will inherit the earth, which means they don't have to pay for it, but it's given to them.  Well if you know me at all, you know that after reading that I was thinking, well what's so good about this earth.  So thank God for Pastor McCormick again because I looked up the Greek definition of the word earth, and it's speaking of Canaan, the good land, a place where there is no want and no lacking. (Judges 18:9-10) The meek are so blessed because a meek person is a humble person.  I looked the word up and the definitions that came up made me think some more.  Here are a few, see which ones you can check off.  Mild, patient, long-suffering, unselfish, gentle, kind, humble, and those were at the top of dictionary.com and then as I scrolled down I found these definitions as well, keep checking now.  Teachable, easily managed, readily trained, and OVERLY SUBMISSIVE.  BOOM!!!  WHOOP THERE IT IS!!! This just made me go...um...um...um...ya'll know how the sisters in church do it.  So it looks like to me a whole lot of deliverance needs to take place before some of us can call ourselves meek and receive the inheritance that God has already given to us.  Lord have mercy, God this is all for me, I desire to have a meek spirit.  I promise ya'll this will preach, I am bubbling inside right now because I can start with being mild which is gentle and speak on how some of us are so rude and have no compassion for people and this is not pleasing to God, and I can go to how some of us so stupid and keep ending up in stupid situations because we're not teachable.  I'm not even going to touch OVERLY SUBMISSIVE right here.  So right now I'm going to get my pen and pad so I can get a message ready when Pastor calls on me to speak again.  To God be ALL the glory.


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Under His Wing

Things have been so tough for me.  I mean so--- OMGoodness what is going on (tough)?  The spirit of doubt, the spirit of poverty, the spirit of fear, and the spirit of loneliness all tried to take over my mind and get me all confused and bothered.   But because I had my umbrella up, ya'll didn't know.  At times like these I have to submit completely to God and resist the devil and these spirits which could lead to suicidal thinking.  I thank God for it all because it has drawn me closer to Him.  I mean I have been a Christian for a while, but these last few months have made me press myself to get understanding and know what God promises mean for me.  Being under God's wings gave me peace, under His wings gave me protection, under His wings gave me knowledge and understanding.  Oh being under His wing is a humbling place.  God thank You so much for just being so good, my personal protector, my personal shield, my automatic umbrella.  I stand in awe of You.  My heart is overjoyed and You have turned my tears into joy.  I love You Lord and I am available to You.  I will seek You first and I will remember that under Your wings is my refuge. Ps. 91:4


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Thank You Jesus!!!

I Just Wanted to tell You Thank You this morning Jesus.  You are so good and You are good all the time.  I really appreciate You and how much You love me.  I love You too Lord.  Be with me today and lead me and direct me in the directions You want me to go in and close doors that I want to go through that You do not want me to enter.  Lord I am available for You, in all that I do I want You to get glory and be exalted.  Thank You again for EVERYTHING.  I believe that You are taking me to another level and I rest in Your peace as You move me into position to receive what You are preparing me for.  Thank You Jesus, I love You.


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Can't Give Up Now!!!!

Think about all you have been through.  It's easy to give up and say "this must not be what God wants for me" but have you really tried and worked at it before giving up?  It is true that sometimes we miss God and step out in areas that He hasn't directed us to go in, but if He has directed us and we are not putting work to our faith we end up giving up.  In John 5:8 and Mark 2:9 Jesus saw faith in action, and then he told them to work (pick up your bed and go).  We have got to put our faith in action, stop being lazy, and get to work.  Can't give up now, I know that this is what God has given me and I have scriptures to prove it. 


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We can agree to disagree.....

with anyone but God.  Sometimes I wonder why it's so hard to get someone to understand what I'm talking about when it comes to the things of God, but then the Holy Spirit reminds me that my head was hard as a brick once too.  (and still is sometimes)   We as Christians can not make people convert, they have to want to make a change.  We can't make them believe the way we believe, they have to want understanding and want to see the light.  What we must do is win them over with loving kindness, the same way Christ has drawn us.  The Bible makes it clear in Prov. 28: 9 that anyone that turns his ear from hearing the law, even his prayers shall be abomination.  Now you and I both know the first words that come out of EVERYONES mouth when danger arrives is "Oh my God", so give the Word to unbelievers with loving kindness and give it to Christians that haven't had the privilege to sit under a Bible teacher like Pastor JMAC with loving kindness, because if they want their prayers to be heard before it's too late, they'll be calling you for wisdom.  They can disagree with me all they want, but to disagree with God is FOOLISH!!!  Speak not in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.  Prov. 23:9


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331/2 hours of pain can become so.....

BEAUTIFUL!!!  24 years ago I gave birth to Miss Andrea, my first born and such a blessing.  I am so glad that God turned that mess into a blessing.  I mean I was a teen, having sex (fornicating) and just plain stupid.  My daughter is totally opposite than who I was at her age and I know it's because I raised her to love the Lord.  I am honest with my children and that honesty helps them see the real me, yeah mommy messed up too, but now she ROCKS!!!  (As Jurnee would say)

Happy Birthday Pooh (Drea my Pooh, I love you)

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It's Okay....

To praise God with dance and music, as long as God gets ALL the praise and Glory!!!  Why do people have the spirit of Michal (jealous spirit) when others don't do things the way they do it.  I know a many of churches that would think that I am not fit to be a Minister of the Lord, just because I think it's okay to dance and that rap music is okay in church.  I know it's okay as long as God gets the glory.  David danced in 2 Sam 6:12-16, and Miriam danced in Exodus 15:20, her and her girls.  As long as it's not a praise from the wicked, which is an abomination to the Lord (Proverbs 15:8) and the praise is from the upright, which delights Him,  It's Okay.....
And I looked it up people and rap is defined  >a style of popular music, developed by disc jockeys and urban blacks in the late 1970s, in which an insistent, recurring beatpattern provides the background and counterpoint for rapid,slangy, and often boastful rhyming patter glibly intoned by avocalist or vocalists.(dictionary.com)  
If words that glorify God can be put in a beat to make you bop your head and snap your fingers, then you're glorifying God with your fingers and your head.  To God be all the glory, forever and ever amen.  So stop judging and get with the program, the energy used to be negative about what someone else is doing could be used to Praise God with a dance, because It's Okay....   




Hallelujah


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Being a good friend...

I took the day off yesterday.  Spent time with a good friend.  When it comes to being a good friend, no one can be a better friend than Jesus.  John 15:13-15>Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.  You are My friends if you do what I command.  I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business.  Instead, I call you friends, for everything that I learned from My Father I have made known to you.  To me He is a good friend because He laid down His life so that we could live ours, that goes without saying.  But what stands out to me is that Jesus also said here that everything He has learned from the Father, He's made known to us.  A good friend gives knowledge, why do I call it knowledge because He says we know the master's business.  It's got to be knowledge.  As we study the Bible and obey it things are revealed to us more and more.  It's called growing...A good friend helps you grow.  Praise God Almighty.  I want to be a good friend, I don't want to say a lot of foolish things to my friends, I want to give them knowledge.  God loves you, and if you haven't already given your life to Him as your personal Lord and Savior please take time to do so, this is your call.


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Working For The Lord....

That's the attitude we should have always.  We should have that attitude on our jobs, at church, and everywhere we are no matter what we are doing.  I remember when I worked for the local newspaper in classified as a telemarketer once I had met my quota for ads I didn't call another number.  I would just sit at my desk and work on anything but newspaper work.  I recall one day counting how many birds flew by with fish from the nearby lake, and one day my niece Vicki passed by and I called her and told her "I see you at the light by the civic center" and she just laughed at me.  I am laughing at me right now, that was awful.  The Bible lets us know in Colossians 3:23-24  that "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward.  It is the Lord Christ you are serving."  WHAT!!!  That's right, if God has blessed us to have a job we need to give it 100%.  That means stop gazing out the window and pretending you're calling clients, stop sitting outside for 20 minutes on your 15 minute break.  Usher as if you were ushering God to His seat, clean the church like God Himself asked you to clean Heaven (which I'm sure isn't dirty but you know what I mean).  No matter what we are working on, we should work on it as if we are Working For the Lord.  We can not allow our feelings to get us all puffed up even if we know we are being treated wrong by a boss, it's not for them it's for God is the attitude to have.  I think we need to pray...Dear God, thank You for grace and mercy, forgive me Lord for not doing as Your Word says and working 100% at the work You have blessed me with, I appreciate it and now that I know better I will do better.  In Jesus Name I pray, Amen.  God Loves You..




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Valentine's Day

Iyana said that today my blog should be about Valentine's Day.  So maybe she is associating that day with LOVE, so I'll blog about God's Love.   For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. - John 3:16  God loves us so much that He sent Jesus to us, and all we have to do is believe in Him, keep His commandments, strive for perfection, seek Him and we won't burn eternally in hell, but we will live eternally in Heaven.  Nuff Said right?  Not according to Iyana she wants me to put her cheesy poem in here.  Poem by Iyana:  
                                            Hearts are red, 
                                            candy is blue, 
                                            Do you like cards, 
                                            well I do too.
Well tonight is family night so see you all tomorrow, well I won't actually see you but you know what I mean.  We have to listen to Andrea and Jurnee read so she (Jurnee) can test tomorrow.  I think Iyana and I will go play Wii.  Greedy Te' is sleep, maybe we'll go bother him for fun.  Have a wonderful day.  God loves you.




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Bible Study Night

Bible Study is always, always, always interesting at Friendship Full Gospel Baptist Church.  Tonight we discussed "Our Relationship With Abominable Things".  Way, way, way, too deep for me so you got to come to visit if you want to learn about it.  If you have some free time, it's worth coming and learning.  See you  Wednesday, 7:00 p.m.  God love you.

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God's Wrath

I remember my daddy use to make me so mad when I would do something stupid he would pull out his Bible and tell me what thus says the Lord.  I remember daddy telling me once if you'll steal, you'll lie; if you'll lie, you'll kill.  I promise I wasn't trying to kill nobody, but Daddy's madness made me want to not steal, or lie because if I did that somebody was gonna die (at least that's what I thought back in 1987). Now I'm the parent making my kids mad with my Bible. My son Devonte' asked me "Why does everything have to be spiritual?"  You see I tell my kids that "When you don't do what you are told you are opening the door to a rebellious spirit."  Devonte' said "Ma, I just forgot", and although he may have just forgot (he's only human) I still tell him everything is spiritual, and once you put your guard down the enemy slips tiny things back in. Like if you use to steal, the Devil knows you aren't going to the store with your buddies and shoplift anymore, so you start taking office supplies from work, and try to justify it by saying "they owe me this, hard as I work".  And if you use to fornicate, the enemy knows that you got too much pride to get caught in that (well some really don't care now days) but some wouldn't want to risk not being able to usher anymore, teach Sunday School or do praise and worship, so he puts thoughts in your mind about someone and if you don't resist those thoughts quick and repent you'll begin to either have evil desires or  a spirit of covetousness.  Well I said all of that to say, not putting the flesh to death is a sure way for us to cause the wrath of God to find us.  We need to seek the Kingdom of God, and let go of earthly memories.

Colossians 3:1-7 (New KJV)

 ¹ If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. ² Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. ³ For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. ⁴ When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.
⁵ Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. ⁶ Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, ⁷ in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them. God is Real, His Word is Real, His WRATH IS REAL!!!  I love you.

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