Good afternoon and Happy Saturday. As we continue in month of Reflection and Projection in December based on Psalms 121:1-6, Philippians 1:19-23 and 2nd Timothy 4:6-8 I was talking to some one on yesterday and what the told me got me to thinking. The person told me that they went to visit a friend and the friend asked them to go the basement to get some things and the person agreed to do it. Once she got down there her friend immediately called for her to come back upstairs as the friend said she would get it herself. But it was too late because the person I know had already seen how the basement looked. There were boxes everywhere that had things filled with them from the Home Shopping Network and QVC. There was so much stuff that there was only small path that could be used to get from one end of the basement to the other. This person was a Hoarder. As Christians there are times when we act like this. Hoarders (Reflection on the people of God).
As we are get into this teaching I want to define the meaning of the word hoarders. I found the meaning on urbandictionary.com. Hoarders means anyone that feels the need to collect, keep and
pack ANY and EVERYTHING because they do not know how to throw things away. We as Christians collect knowledge, keep blessings to ourselves and pack away anything that could help others. We have become Hoarders. ( Reflections of the People of God).
As we come into this teaching of Hoarders I go to the Word of God and to Matthew 25:18, 24-28. In these scriptures we see a man who has collected something from his Master and instead of trying to
do make it better for when the Master returned he hid it so no one else could find it. We, the people of God have been shown how to get things by serving God but we collect this information and are afraid of showing others. We are Hoarders. ( Reflection on the people of God today).
As continue in the teaching of Hoarders I go back in the Word of God and Luke 16:19-26. In this passage Lazarus has sat at then gate of the rich ruler who would not even give him the crumbs to eat
that fell from his table. We as a people of God continue to keep our way of receiving blessings to ourselves and hoard them as if letting some one no would take them away from you. Hoarders. ( The people of God today).
In looking at the last example from the Word of God I go to John 11:47-53. In these verses the Pharisees want to continue to pack power over the people in their day. They were afraid of how the
arrival of Jesus made people see who they really were. Today the people of God pack away power so that others that could use power cannot receive this either. We have become Hoarders. ( Reflection of the people of God).
In closing I look at myself as a Hoarder. When I hear about people or jobs that are hiring do I tell others. Many of us have heard the testimonies of how some people have gotten, free cars, mortgage paid and other miraculous things but have only shared with the people of God in there circle. How many people have their ideas about moving religion to the mainstream by the powers that be in the church. As a people of God, looking back and reflecting. we cannot collect information to advance the kingdom of God, we cannot keep how others can be blessed like we were. And we cannot pack away power to change the world. If we continue to do that we are and will be always, Hoarders. May God bless all those who read this and I give him all the glory and honor for this teaching. Please join me Monday for my teaching based on the last base scripture of the Year of Healing, Acts 28:7-9. called Healing in a Foreign Land. Have a great weekend all.
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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