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| My mother, the eldest of sixteen siblings is a chess master, photography enthusiast and an abstract/precision artist by natural gift, raised by her birth parents of which her father was a skilled hunter.
My birth father’s father, an immigrant, was a landscape artist to the wealthy and keen photographer, whose daughter was a naturally red head skate queen in New York City, with a Texas oil seeking son.
My father who raised me is an extremely determined individual, never allowing himself to fail, often teaching us the value of working with the neighbors, the homeless and different cultures…
His second son, Lorenzo, the track star, entrepreneur and ex Marine plays golf. His fourth and fifth child, Vernanda and Kevin following Lorenzo in his track pursuits…
I took up swimming as a personal fun endeavor, which almost cost me my life, thrice for refusing to breathe properly, while in and underwater. I decided on gymnastics, which I was good at although, I never overcame the taunts about my eating habits, consuming food for the exercises. I tried football and was good at catching it and running, but not a fan of being tackled. Racecars were always fun but expensive… So much more but I think you can glean the point.
I think my most focused gift is my spatial understanding of things.
If there were no obstacles, it would most likely be golf.
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| I saw a woman enter the train on yesterday with two boys in tow. A growth keloid upon her trachea and a discolored hand, no doubt a life-threatening situation that she overcame physically with medical assistance. The elder of the boys, as boys are, was quite curious as the train rolled from under to over the streets, promptly standing in the chair as his mother suggested differently. She then resorted to emphasize the heart of the child’s father, which by reaction showed a healthy respect, yet the child’s curiosity retained the charge of him and with crouch, he continued to stare.
There are times in our lives that we desire to love the father that has planted his heart in us, but our pride, curiosity, etc grips us with a seemingly overwhelming need to look. Despite our sisters, brothers, mothers heart, our desire to learn by looking gets the best of us. We then fall into the hole, for not watching our steps only to hope that our sisters, brothers or mothers would help us out.
There are times that the hole is too deep for even the most wholesome of brother to reach us and by such are only able to sustain help by sending down resources of love help (bread and water). It is at that time that the father must come and lift us out of our dilemma, leaving the group with a new understanding that the same might be avoided.
A walk in faith is not a run around the grounds that is common, but at times a forest dense with blackness in the noon sun. Neighborly love is not the assumption vocalized that the father will do this or that for sure to this or that one, if they do not come up to your understanding.
The vain use of assumption based on what may have occurred in another person’s situation will not be applicable to another. Keep in mind that grace is come, and LAW is covered in two commandments.
The hard heart will also meet the father as well as the one who thought themselves exalted.
You may not expect a fish to breath out of water, but if one survives even the grill, there must be some light in it that kept it…
Entertain one another with peace and joy. Encourage one another to wholesomeness and light.
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| Imagine being asked to say something or do something that requires a perfect heart, and since you may not have one (of our personal opinion), you are reluctant to speak or do it.
That, my neighbor, is what being imperfect, but chosen through forgiveness is about.
I, for one am no where near perfect as I would measure it, neither is my heart interested in the things that I am about to face, but I choose to walk in the grace that is set before me, with or without knowledge of the end result, but rather tied to the hope of the promise spoken unto me and my heart. As much as I may not see the end of the tunnel as it is said, I do stand on faith, that the one who said it is worthy of his salt. In that do I stand and move forward.
I find also that the road ahead is not one that is common or plowed, but that is my road and I will take it.
As for what will be said of it or they or of me, it will not hinder my faith, but I encourage you to walk in faith just as well, using the given word as measured against the living word for clarity and light. | | |
| Romans 6:1,2,11,14
Romans 7:2,3
I often asked in prayer for God to explain plainly to me the significance of baptism. Today, I believe that I have the clearest understanding of all the explanations thus far.
The woman spoken in the parable was like unto the children of men, who like as the paraphrased woman, was married to a first husband (ADAM) via natural birth, and now seeking to be/or married to the second husband (JESUS) via spiritual birth. Having not been released from the first husband yet via baptism, of which baptism is the putting to death their tie to the first man Adam, releasing them to freely love Jesus.
So then baptism is to release one’s self of the generational curse tie to disobedience, joining Jesus in death, through obedience so that the same baptized one can become freely joined to grace via Jesus through obedience. It then becomes of good nature to forget Adam, your former lover, that Jesus, your new lover be not jealous.
So, if a child of men comes unto Christ in relationship, refusing to be baptized, they are living, as with ties to the flesh and spirit, Something God will not tolerate for long.
You cannot serve two masters… Love one and hate the other, choose your victor wisely.
What of being in the body, but not of the body you may ask? To this the Lord asks us to be neighborly, which means to support life-giving fruitfulness of one another’s neighbor. Not that it extends to being disobedient or giving-into the flesh birth generational curse to become disobedient.
As much as we respect one another, even though some of us are still yet sinners, knowing that we were once also like these. We are a living spirit in our fleshly body; we must be neighborly unto ourselves, that the body draws us not back into sin. While we live in it, we must encourage it through faithful practice by hearing will of God for it, walking in a new light.
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| Did you know that when God made Adam, that he did not intend to make a woman. Men were meant to live neighborly one with another, but in seeing that men needed a comforter, being that they were not God and also a little lower than angels, took out of man (most) of his best qualities such as love, patience, longsuffering, temperance, joy, humility, worship and bound them up in a second sex that he called wo-man (of the man). Leaving out some of the more anal qualities such as testosterone, arrogance, warrior hearted, planner, developer, provider, etc. Now, God was not short on giving a few women these other qualities if men in that region would fail so as to keep the balance of life in check.
The author of confusion would come on the scene and institute confusion and sin in hopes of blurring the lines of delineation between good and evil, in hopes of making himself ruler over the lives of men’s hope. For a little while he made his mark, but God being sovereign, broke the yoke of sin and brought humanity into a new covenant.
What you might not have recognized is that in Heavenly places there are no women, but all are as brethren. Why is that you ask, well, I’ll tell you.
God, allowed various dispensations, in some cases letting men run rampant, where men and angels created offspring, most of whom were evil continually, over burdening the purpose and cause of their existence. Also some dispensations, where he helped man to return to his root cause as with the dispensation of LAW. He as well empowered women to allow fresh perspective on culture as their fruit is born into this now very limited life, forcing humanity to look at its fleshly limitations.
So, an angelical brother encased in the flesh of a woman by natural birth has the opportunity to reshape perspective through having man’s more attractive strengths, choosing a natural male mate of great masculine God like character, to bring her perspective to fruition. Of course, this may be limited by the humility of her position in the bond, making it important of whom she chooses to plant seed in her.
In heavenly places, there are a limited number of openings for the lost angelical positions, where sex and procreation are not necessary, removing the need for the embodiment of brethren in the form and figure of women as on this earth or marriage for that matter, though neighborly attentiveness is needful.
Here on this earth, men get the great opportunity to become the spouse of God, not by original creative plan, but by rescue of this fallen world through sin, rebirthing God’s covenant into future generations through the shaping of culture wherein men are empowered.
As you may know, when a man seeks his own and leaves mother and father, he embarks on a life of searching out comfort, and in this searching, he seeks a portion of himself that is missing it’s stroke. Being that this particular man is so in love with himself, he cannot fathom why his chosen love seems so much like him. Of course as most men do, he forgets that she is a human being that is totally separate and unique. He feels that he has found his mirror, forgetting that this particular man in the mirror has a living, breathing heart as well. Then as this inner man does, the man wonders why she screams out at him in weird love languages that he feels obligated to listen to and reckon with or lose. As provision goes, he then works out a plan to love himself in her, totally missing the point that she too is a living and breathing soul.
Now of course in a fallen world where women have become forced to make ends meet by shouldering up the responsibility of provider, the man loses touch with that provision side of himself, and they drift apart. But in some cases, there comes a fruit from between the loins of they two, which begins to again balance the scales of life. That my friend is a child, the same that beckons momma to stay in touch with her feminine side and let dad foot reality of his role.
Of course since society does not prepare any of us for these realities, God has to bring the Noah’s, Abraham’s and Job’s into the picture. Throw in a couple of Samson’s and Solomon’s in the mix and you have a recipe for recovery. Of course, information without an understanding will not stand to help but to judge if not rightly divided. Now for sure you will need a few Mary’s and Martha’s and whomever else I have forgotten. Bring to life one Jesus and you now have all the answers in a nutshell.
Be there anything left at all to do since Jesus did it all? Yep, obey. Trust and obey, then get an understanding that you might share it with the new generations and more to come.
Choose your victory today. Serve self or serve right. But by all means, get an understanding…
Now what qualifies me to have anything to say, when I too have often failed in these areas…
It’s not about me. It’s about us (spiritual family). Love your neighbor. Love God.
Men of purpose and design, living in such, carry forth the mantle of God’s plan on this plain of life, that God might be glorified in this fallen world. Seek now to know your purpose and design, so by all means, begin to matter…
Where in this world, men and women fail, humanity is given the Holy Spirit of God as comforter. Though he be bound in legalism here and there by one or another matter, his escape and comfort is in the Lord himself, visiting each individual garden of life implanted in that one… where two or three are gathered… the comforter will be in your midst…
We are asked of God to honor none other higher than he since there is none higher and it makes good sense to practice if you are not to befall the same temptation that kicked Satan out in the first place, also that we be neighborly since our fellow angels will be brethren that have also lived beside us in our time on this earth.
Forgiveness and grace is for the faulted world, instituted because of the author of confusion, that at the breaking of jealousy and envy, which comes from its sole author, the fallen angel of light who now loves darkness, men might return to light.
Choose today to be a lord of light, lifting up your light unto the Light!
Put away darkness and help others to do the same with grace.
Men, learn how to shape culture…
Women, learn to choose your culture shaper…
It’s not about your beauty or whatever you can flaunt in front of your girlfriends…
It is all about your record of obedience towards your purpose in this life.
Be blessed, be salt and light.
Be God’s own.
Be.
Satan, becoming jealous of God’s design, entrapped men in their own lusts, forgoing the individual power of choice, allowed men to become engrossed in their divisive spirits, some falling to lusts unlike any other, men with men, women with women, unable to seed one another, hoping to create their own culture which in time past God destroyed. The author of confusion intertwining the same in all forms of world power, creating fear of open closets, strengthened his resolve through entrapping the very heart of the earth, those with the power of culture shaping choice under the LAW, the same heart which held Jesus for three days and nights in their hands of responsibility. He the Christ who on the third day of that bond, broke free with liberty and strength for men to return to the light by choice via grace (instead of doing another Noah), being released from the grave after one night and day in it, scourged and judged at the other two.
Whom will we then today serve? Be it self unto confusion or God unto light. Take off then the heart of self and release into yourself the hope of glory that this culture might become one. Restore in you the purpose and design of Christ, wherein you have been made free.
Let us not miss the point. Love God and love your neighbor, that heaven may not again find strife within her gates. Choose wisely with whom you will shape the next generation. Be not confused, you are the generation shaper to come… Your bread and water is sure. Seed and harvest time is sure. Persecution is sure but salvation is sure.
I dare say that when we fornicate, we are also shaping the heart of that new generation. This does not mean that you cannot be forgiven for taking the very pleasure of the human body to heart more than your purpose, but that you have allowed yourself to be duped into sleeping with your spiritual brethren, causing a rift in the heart of the comforter. Neither does knowing or saying it make my ability to be tempted any less than another man. Wisdom and knowledge are great, as accountability and grace are awesome.
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