Ungratefulness

So one day I was at work.  I used to work at Ace Cash Express, the check cashing company.  When I first started, I used to work at one of the stores.  So, anyway, when I was at work, a guy walks in.  Now, this is a homeless guy, nothing against that, I live in a city where there a more than enough.  I am also one that will help a homeless in an instant.  I knew that he was homeless because I had seen him around, and he had been in there before to see if I had any money to give, yes, while I was working.  You just have to know the area I was in.  So, again, on this day, he walks in, it was hot outside and he came in looking hot.  He had a home phone in his hands, one that looks like an old time office phone.  It was white and wide.  It was one that I would not buy even if I had a house phone at the time, I have always been into cordless phones.  He comes up to the counter and says that he wants to sell me the phone.  I thought to myself, well I guess I can see, I am always giving him something, lets just see if the phone works.  At this time in my life, I am a single mother with four kids that never really received child support.  I was however at this time getting about $60 a week.  So I had a little change in my pocket.  I thought to myself, I will see if this phone works, but I will still give it back to him and also give him $5 and he will be able to sell the phone to someone else and he will be able to get more money.  So, I checked the phone and it worked.  I told the man that I did not want it, so I placed it back where he could get it from me.  I then placed $5 in the slot so he could have it, and he watched me put the phone back so that he could pick it up.  This man,....this homeless man.  A man that has no money, looks down at the $5 and looks up at me and says....I wanted $10.  As soon as he said that, the Holy Spirit said to me "ungrateful" -- as soon as I heard that, I grabbed the $5 that I had placed in that slot.  I told the man that he could have had the $5 and sold the phone somewhere else and had more than the  $5, but he was too ungrateful that he missed out on his blessing. I also told him that he did not know who I was and that the $5 that I was willing to give him was for my kids ands he has no idea who I was, and that I would never try to help him again.  Later on that day he came back into my store and tried to ask me for the money, I just looked at him and shook my head no.   I was so upset, and I vowed to myself that I would not ever help someone that was ungrateful.  I have never seen that man again.  Imagine how God feels.  I am sure that He will not help and ungrateful person either. 

Knowledge is Understanding

What would this life be without knowledge?  Knowledge is something we should have been able to live without.  If it had not been for the fall in the famous garden, our life would be completely without knowledge.  I'm sure we all know the history lesson.  Adam ate of the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.  God had originally instructed Adam to not eat of that specific tree.  He was however able to eat from the Tree of Life.  Now isn't that interesting?  Now after that it tells us that after he ate the fruit, their eyes were then open.  And they knew at that point they were naked.  When God started looking for him, He asked "where are you?"  Adam then tells God where he is and why.  When reading that, we have to realize Adam is talking to Almighty God.  He already knew what Adam had done and knew at the exact moment when their eyes were opened.  He in fact was the One to open them.  He specifically gave that rule to Adam because He did not want us to depend on knowledge to have a relationship with Him.  The disobedience is evident and He comes face to face with what He knew would happen.  He applied the curse for their actions.  Now before the disobedient act, Adam had direct access to God.  Total open communication, He would come down and commune with Adam.  How do I know that?  In Genesis 3:8 it starts with, "and they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day..."  How did they know what Him walking through the garden sounded like?  It was a familiar sound, and to top it off, they knew it was Him.  After the fall, they were kicked out of the garden, with their natural eyes open.  I say natural because they used to see with spiritual eyes.  How else could you not know you are naked.   When their natural eyes opened the spiritual eyes closed, and the complete direct access to God was broken.  They now saw everything naturally and not possible to see God spiritually.  Now that all this has happened, what then happens?  Children are born with natural eyesight, not connected to spiritual things.  The curse has automatically taken over which has caused mankind to not believe there is an Almighty God.  He no longer comes down to commune with them. The bible tells us to seek good knowledge, but why?  At this point all they know is evil.  How is that you ask?  The rich young ruler calls Jesus good in Matthew ch 19 and in the 17th verse Jesus responded to him: " So He said to him, "Why do you call me good?  No one is good but One, that is, God.  But if you want to enter life, keep the commandments."  So if God is not coming down to share His goodness, then there is only evil, there is no in between.  So in retrospect, because of that tree, we have to seek good.  We have to seek God to know good, He is the only One with the knowledge of good to give.  If you don't want to know Him, that means you don't want to know good at all.  He is not going to force you, that will be up to you.  If not, evil will be your way of life, and the end of that road is destruction.  Proverbs 16:25 There is a way that seems right to a man,But its end is the way of death.  There are multiple scriptures about knowledge that are all very important.  Here are a couple: 

Proverbs 9:10  “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,And the knowledge of the   Holy One is understanding.  

Romans 1:28-32  And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things that are not fitting, being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful, who, knowing the righteous judgement of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.  

 This Romans scripture is very scary to me.  I do want and pray that I will never be found there.  Other profound scriptures are:
Deuteronomy 30:15 “See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil,
2 Peter 1:2-4  Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

To my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ.  I pray this finds who it is intended for, and the eyes of your understanding be enlightened to the knowledge of God Almighty, The Alpha and Omega, El Elyon - The Most High God -- for your souls.  Again, do not take my word for it.  Seek God for yourselves and He will give you good truth!

Character of a Woman

 The woman, feminine depiction of a man has an outward appearance of beauty and frailty.  She is adorned with jewels, fine gold and linens to enhance the outward appearance.  What is woman?  The dictionary term states an adult female human being.  This description depicts what is seen, not what is unseen.  In the bible, descriptions of a woman can be found in scriptures 1 Peter 3:1-5 that reads:

         Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, they, without  a word, may be won by the conduct of their wives, when they observe your chaste conduct accompanied by fear.  Do not let your adornment be merely outward--arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on final apparel--rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.  For in this manner, in former times, the holy women who trusted in God also adorned themselves, being submissive to their own husbands,

That "submissive" word will be taken out of proportion to what God has intended for it to be.  Some will mean it for the man to be complete ruler over his wife.  This is not so, she is not meant to be his slave or any other kind of servant to him.  She is there to under-gird him; to minister to him, knowing that his word is the final say.  In turn he will seek her for wisdom and counsel.  There is so much more that women are meant for and over looked at the same time.  She is to know her place as a person that is full of wisdom and reverence to God first and foremost then to her husband.

We can recognize the strength of a woman by how she reacts to pain.  Whe she is overwhelmed by pain she will either use it to push ahead like a flourishing flower in the spring.  Or it will be used to become like a withering, wilted flower in the winter.  There is a reason that God has created a woman for a man, and that reason sustains her.  A man can never take the place of a woman, no matter how hard he tries to transform himself, his inwardness will never match up to the creation in its true nature of being woman.  Woman are able to take on the pains of her husband and of her children and seek a way to help then heal from them.  All the while she is dealing with her own.  We have a nurturing nature that wants to hold them in our bosom until the pain is gone.  When you see a women wither and buckle, she lacks the confidence in herself to believe that she can take the pain and keep pressing.  She needs to find that confidence in herself, we all have it, as women, we were created with it. 

The inward parts of a woman are not meant to be as the organs per say.  It is to signify the intentions, the devotions, the passions, the love she has inside of her.  When a woman possess those attributes and has geared them all to the goof of what God has called her to be, she is pleasing to the Most High.  Her character will have the ambiance of what is inside of her.  She will not come off abrasive to any one.  Her poise with have the quality of a good hearted person.  She will have "the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God."  She will have a chaste conduct, Webster's Dictionary defines chaste as: pure in though and act.  She is to have chaste conduct accompanied by fear, to walk in purity of the heart and mind and with actions that reveal those inward secrets.  All the while she holds reverential fear of God that causes her to want to please Him every single day!

Seek God within yourselves so that He can show you the woman that you are supposed to become.  To be able to walk in that incorruptible beauty and confidence so that when someone tries to break you, they will not have a chance.  Allow God to be your vengeance!  May God bless you always!!!!

Replacement of God

In America today, there is something going wrong with our justice system!  Our justice system is supposed to be about fairness and justice.  All that come through the justice system have experieinced some kind of unethical situations with it.  Why is that?  Why is it that in one of the most important institutions of our counrty has the most corrupt practices and lack of true justice that is needed to accomplish the reason it was founded.  Could it be because they have replaced God?  Has one of the most needed institutions replaced God for another god?  But wait, America?  The same America that wants God to bless it?  If in fact God has been replaced in the Justice system, and we know that He is wanted out of the schools, and don't forget "marriage equality".  How can America have the audacity in asking God, the same God they are removing from everything, for blessings for this country??  I am about to open up the area of the Justice system, and reveal to you the god that has replaced God, and you will see why it has gone down hill!!!!!!!  In the book of Acts the last chapter it reads:

    Once safely on shore, we found out that the island was called Malta. The islanders showed us unusual kindness. They built a fire and welcomed us all because it was raining and cold. Paul gathered a pile of brushwood and, as he put it on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself on his hand. When the islanders saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to each other, “This man must be a murderer; for though he escaped from the sea, the goddess Justice has not allowed him to live.” But Paul shook the snake off into the fire and suffered no ill effects. The people expected him to swell up or suddenly fall dead; but after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.                        Acts 28:1-6

Did you see that?  On the fifth line, it has "the goddess justice", goddess justice?  I looked into this more, and in my short research I found some interesting facts.  The island of Malta is a small island not too far away from Rome.  The Holy Spirit brought it to my attention that the people that lived on this island more than likely migrated from Italy therefore taking their customs and beliefs with them.  So I was then led to research the Roman gods and goddesses to see if there was a goddess named justice.  And what do you know..I found her.  There is in fact a goddess of justice named themis and she her images look very familiar to our "lady justice"!!!  I have posted the pictures below, and you take a look for yourself.  We have actually placed a true goddess that is worshipped by people in our courthouses throughout the nation!! Ask yourself, is this what we have replaced God with in our Justice System?? If so, how can we expect fair trials or fair sentencing?  What else have we replaced God with unknowingly?  I have come to understand that there is always a deeper meaning in everything.  There is an enemy that wants our souls just because he hates us, he doesn't want us to experience the love and joy that God grants because he can never get it again!!  Wake up America!!!!  What is more important your ignorance or your soul, do you really not want to know?  All I want is for you to seek truth for yourself, don't take my word for it!!!

Teachings of God

Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to be Adam and Eve, or even Cain and Able? Can you imagine not having a clue how to live this life without God. The first people that were supposed to always be able to be in the presence of God, but because of their sin, all that was taken away. But could you also imagine that even though they were in sin, they were still being taught from God. Take this for example. When Cain and Abel brought their offering to God, and God saw that the offering from Abel was better than Cains', how did Abel know what pleased God? When Cain grew angry, and God told him that sin was at the door, God still spoke to him even though these people were in sin because of what happened at the beginning. So, Cain has been warned by God to not commit a sin. Cain disregards Gods warning and still murders Abel, his brother. Then God again speaks to Cain, and asks him, where is your brother. Cain replies with hostility, am I my brothers keeper. God then questions him and said, Listen! Your brothers blood cries out to me from the ground. My question to you is, what did Cain have to listen to? What was God showing him? I believe that in that instance God was teaching Cain to listen to his conscience. Who else would have taught about a conscience then, the only One that knew we had one and what it was called, and what its purpose was for! God, Himself knew what our conscience was for and in order to teach Cain, he first warned him about committing a sin and that it would be wrong to do it. He then told Cain to listen to his conscience that would make him feel the shame of committing the sin he was warned not to commit. God is so loving that even though he already knew that Cain was going to do it anyway, he still warned him of the wrong action, then dealt with the judgement after Cain chose to follow through with it. Can you imagine how he felt while he was in the process of committing the sin? If God was that merciful then, and there was no covenant.  Imagine how merciful He is now, and with the new covenant! God will still speak to us in our sin! He wants us to know Him, and have a relationship with Him. He wants to draw you near to Him, how do you think He does that if you are in sin? I am a witness to how God is faithful even in my transgressions.  He wants us to get it right before Him! He is a patient and loving God!! Won't you just give it a try to have a relationship with Him! He loves you!!!