Do you love God?
John 14:15 (KJV) – if ye love me, keep my commandments.
Tag: Spiritual
Spiritual growth
A Strong Foundation
If you had a choice to have your home build, there would be much to consider to making sure your home is build like you like it. However you choose to build your home, what you focus on the most will determine your priority. Whether it be the walls, the floors, the foundation, or the type of materials used, will determine if your home will be able to withstand the elements.
If you build your home on materials that look good, but are not durable, how long will your home stand? Storms come, and your home sways from one side to the other, and the materials of your home are slowly being blown away. But one strong storm comes, and takes away your home. That’s when you realize, but it’s too late, it’s not about the look, but the strength and the material of the foundation of which you’ve build your home.
We are God’s building, and He is our foundation. If we build on God’s foundation with the things of this world, every storm of life will have its way with us. Every storm will slowly take away a piece of us, destroying us, until satan is ruling us.
We must be wise what goes inside of us, and that it aligns with what God has build within us. How we continue to build on God’s foundation, will determine if we are able to stand against the storms of life. If we continue to build ourselves with the word of God, no storm and no man will be able to stand against us.
Let’s not be concerned about how good we look with what we have around others. But, by keeping your foundation strong by reading and meditating on the word of God, praying to our Father, listening to him, waiting upon Him, and trusting that he will see you through. By doing so, no weapon will prosper against you.
Matthew 7:24-27 (KJV) – therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And everyone that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
I Corinthians 3:9-11 (KJV) – for we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building. According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builder thereon. But let every man heed how he buildeth thereupon. For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Isaiah 54:17 (KJV) – no weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.
Book Signing
Come out, bring a friend and enjoy the atmosphere! Book Signing at the 2019 Detroit Hustle and Grind Book Fair, Saturday, May 18, 2019, 12:00 – 6:00 p.m. at Chosen Generation Community Center, 2326 E. Seven Mile Rd., Detroit, MI 48234.
Get It or Get Got, speaks on relationships and the consequences we face based on the decisions we make, whether in the flesh, or in the spiritual realm. Get It, so you won’t Get Got!
Contributions go to support American Cancer Society, and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kindle, Nook and iTunes, Detroit Book City.
Galatians 5:17 (KJV) – for the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
Whats In Your Empty Space
There’s empty space in our minds. And we must be careful what we allow in our minds to take up that empty space. Moving out the negative and moving in the positive is the objective.
Satan wants to have permanent residence in our mind, to keep us from doing the right things. The more negative we think, the more comfortable satan is. Therefore, we must not give satan any place in our thoughts, but we must be careful of what we think, to keep him out. But know, that he will come back.
Thinking positive and reading the word of God, is a sure way of keeping satan out of your mind. When you think right thoughts, satan has to leave. Keep your thoughts on the word, when satan returns he will find no empty place, therefore, he will leave.
Ephesians 4:27 (KJV) – neither give place to the devil.
I Peter 5:8 (KJV) – be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.
James 4:7 (KJV) – submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Happy Mother’s Day
Today is her day — Mother’s Day!
Know that your mom is priceless and precious. Obey your mom and honor her.
Happy Mother’s Day Moms!!
Proverbs 31:10 (KJV) – who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
Ephesians 6:1-3 (KJV) – Children’s obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour they Father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
Honor Your Mom
A mother’s love is unconditional, a prime example, and the closest to the love of God.
She wants the best for you, she hurts when you hurt, she cries when you cry, and she chastise you when you do wrong, because she loves you.
We should fear our mother, not as to be afraid of her, but in reverence and honoring her. When we honor our mom, our days on earth will be long. And, we should keep our hearts fixed on God, to make her heart glad.
Give your mom unconditional love, pray for her, attend to her needs, just as she attended to yours. Make her happy, by living a righteous life. You will not only please her, but our Heavenly Father as well.
Honor your mom every day, not just Mother’s Day.
Leviticus 19:3 (KJV) – ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
Exodus 20:12 (KJV) – honour they Father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Proverbs 22-25 (KJV) – hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him. They father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
An Opportunity
When someone ask you to give to charity, do you think about the importance ? Do you think about it on a spiritual level? Do you prompt the question; why should I give? Or, do you see it as an opportunity?
We like to keep our money to ourselves. And when we don’t give, we have the hope that someone else will give in our place. But, your robbing yourself of your blessings, and an opportunity to bless someone else. We can have all things, but we are nothing with those things if we don’t have charity.
Charity is kind, it doesn’t envy or brag, it’s not evil, and it’s not selfish. God’s word say, there is faith, hope and charity, but charity is the greatest of these. Charity is many things to us, and we don’t realize it.
You have the opportunity to bless yourself. Live a life of charity, and not a life of selfishness. As you can see, there’s great gain in charity. Therefore, the next opportunity you are blessed to bless someone else, do it cheerfully! Because God loves a cheerful giver!
I Corinthians 13:2-8 (KJV) – and though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity sufferers long, and is kind, charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
II Corinthians 9:7 (KJV) – every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give, not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Get Understanding
Do you understand everything you hear?
We, in the flesh, live our lives being guided by others, through their words or actions, so that we can understand things, and to be understood. But what we don’t understand is, we are trying to understand someone else’s ways. Without proper understanding, we lack proper knowledge. And without proper knowledge, we stand back and let others hold our hands and speak for us, and do for us. It is foolishness to God, to be without understanding.
God’s word says, out of everything we obtain, that we should obtain understanding. God’s word is wisdom, knowledge and understanding, which we should read daily, to know how to live, on a daily basis.
Read the word of God, receive knowledge, and get the proper understanding for yourselves.
Psalm 32:9 (KJV) – be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
Proverbs 4:7 (KJV) – wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
Proverbs 15:14 (KJV) – the heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
Proverbs 2:6 (KJV) – for the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
Proverbs 3:13 (KJV) – happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
Being Chastised
Being chastised by our parents is not something we looked forward to, when we have done something wrong. But, after the chastisement, we hear the words; “I love you”.
It’s the same with our Father. We are God’s children, and He chastise us because he loves us. Although we may not like it, know that all chastisement is for our good.
Hebrews 12:9 (KJV) – furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
Proverbs 3:12 (KJV) – for whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
Hebrews 12:11 (KJV) – now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
Know When You Are Blessed
We hear people say, all the time; ” I am blessed “! Yet, there are most, who can’t tell you why they are blessed, that coincide with the word of God. We speak it because we heard it from someone else, or have come to our own conclusion of what a blessing from God is.
One may say, they are blessed because they hit the lottery. Or they are dating an individual that they have been wanting to be with, who has someone else. Or they have received too much cash back from a purchase, and don’t say anything. Blessings??
God’s word say, we are blessed in so many ways, in so many areas, and what we will be blessed with. He speaks of blessings to those that are poor in spirit, if you’re not offended in God, if you fear God and walk in his ways. If you trust God, and not lie. If you consider the poor. And so many more.
We should know what we speak on, and not just speak it because we heard it from someone else. But, because we have read it for ourselves, in the word of God. Know when you are blessed.
Matthew 5:3 (KJV) – blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 11:6 (KJV) – and blessed is he, whosever shall not be offended in me.
Psalm 128:1 (KJV) – blessed is every one that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways.
Psalm 34:8 (KJV) – o taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in Him.
Psalm 41:1 (KJV) – blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.
Get It or Get Got! 