Good morning and Happy Monday. Brand new week. Brand new attitude. The past is the past. The future is unlimited. Though we are still in the month of I'm About That Life in October, once a month I teach about a subject other than theme of the month. I am as a teacher of faith have one problem that bothers me somewhat. As most of you know that I stay in Chicago and in my city there is a lot of things going on. There are several blocks in my city that have been taken over by gang members who sell drugs and shoot guns with reckless abandon. There are still women who walk up and down the streets selling their bodies for little money. And then there is the lack of respect of the youth whose actions are getting more bold and disrespectful. Although I cannot fix everything I just mentioned there is more than I could do. I need God to give me something that I do not seem to have. I need a Heart Transplant.
In 1967 the first human heart transplant was done by Dr. Christaan Barnard on a patient named Louis Washkansky. Mr. Washkansky could not have the procedure done without a heart being donated to
him. We as a people of faith have been too passive on doing our assignment of advancing the kingdom and may need to ask God to give us something that is much needed, a Heart Transplant.
As I go into the Word of God to begin this teaching of Heart Transplant I an going to begin in Ezekiel 11:16-17. In these verses God is speaking to the people of Israel who have been taken captive by the
Babylon people. We today have gang members who have seemed to take over our freedom to even to walk outside or sit on our porch without gunfire. But as said in these verses God will provide sanctuary. He will give us a Heart Transplant.
In continuing this teaching of Heart Transplant from the Word of God I go to Ezekiel 11:18. In this verse God tells Ezekiel that even though the people of God are in a strange land they are there to
change the wicked ways that are happening. We have a problem with the ladies of night doing their work when we are supposed to be the ones offering them a different way, a Heart Transplant.
In finishing in the Word of God of the teaching of Heart Transplant I go to Ezekiel 11:19-20. In this passage God tells Ezekiel that he will not only give the people of God a clean heart but if they walk
in his statutes and keep his judgments he will be our God and we his people. God can help us change how the youth are acting if we allow do the work of the kingdom. We can help them with a Heart Transplant.
In conclusion many of us are in need of a Heart Transplant including myself. We cannot let the gang members be the rulers of the neighborhoods. We cannot let our children especially young women see that selling their bodies is a viable option when things are not going well. We cannot allow our youth to do any and everything. We need a Heart Transplant. I give God all the glory and honor for this teaching and ask him to bless those who read this or even those who do not read this. Have a great week all. Please join me Saturday for my teaching called My House Will Serve the Lord ( Because We Are About That Life).
Good morning and Happy Monday. Brand new week. Brand new attitude. The past is the past. The future is unlimited. This past month I was riding with my friend Angela Francis. On this particular day she had to go get her hair done and her friend Roxanne' shop. I had done this numerous times in the past so when I was getting ready to leave I told Angela I was going to the forest preserve to sit and wait as she got her hair done. At the forest preserve I would be able to do two things while I was there. I would be able to think of ideas for my blog, my radio show and my daily postings on Facebook. When you attempt to write you sometimes get writer's block and need to get to a different atmosphere ( Hmmm Writer's Block may be a blog soon LOL ). The other reason I wanted to go to the forest preserve is because it was hot that day and I needed some shade. So as I approached the forest preserve I put on my left turn signal and waited for traffic coming southbound to clear. After
Good morning and Happy Monday. Brand new week. Brand new attitude. The past is the past. The future is unlimited. Growing up we used to love to take pictures. Maybe not myself because I had a self confidence problem, but everywhere you went there was someone taking pictures. In grammar school we took pictures every week. In high school we took them every year. At church we took pictures. In the club we took pictures as a group to show we all went to a party. Most of the pictures we took were with a Polaroid camera which had great quality then. But if you wanted the best pictures you wanted the photographer to take your pictures. This was one of the coolest professions back then because all the ladies who wanted to be models or actresses had to go to the photographer to get that photo to take to the different agencies to show how they look. So in order to get the best quality the photographer had to go someplace where he could get the best results. It was his Dark Room. This is the na
Good morning and Happy Friday. The summer is now beginning and the weather is now reaching its highest temperatures. It has reached a high point of 90's so far in the Chicagoland area and it appears to be nothing in sight to relieve us of these conditions that are almost drought like. As the summer gets ready to start in earnest next week we anticipate the warmest temps of the year after a winter that saw a little snow but the hawk, ( that's what we call the wind in the CHI ) was in full effect. But the sun has been out daily and we need a little moisture in our lives. We expect things to get wet in order for us to not only cool off but to wash away some things and bring a freshness of new things in our lives. The hotness of the weather coincides with the hotness in our lives. We need things to cool off a little bit but need some things to come down so we can enjoy the things in our lives that is promised to us as Christians. We are faithful and trusting in his Word. So as we
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