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Hidden Fees

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Good morning and Happy Sunday. Brand new week. Brand new attitude. The past is the past. The future is unlimited. One of the things that I want to do in the near future is purchase a vehicle. As a matter of fact I have one of my credit card companies that will supply me with enough financing to purchase me a very nice car. I will tell people I am in need of a vehicle as I am often traveling and some of the places I travel to could be reach in half of the time it takes me to take the bus. So I am very excited that I may be driving soon. As anxious as I am to be able to drive a newer vehicle, I am hesitant because of how long and in-depth the contract I have to sign for this vehicle. Wait I did not know that I had to pay a something called a dealer prep fee? I have to take your warranty or I have to pay a penalty? What is the doc fee? See all of these things are in the contract but if I had not read them I would not have found them. These are called Hidden Fees. As I begin this teac...

So You Think You Can Dance

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Good morning and Happy Friday. One of the shows that has been wildly successful is a show called So You Think You Can Dance. Contestants come from all over to show the audience and the judges to show off their dancing skills. The show began in 2005 and reaches an estimated 10 million viewers. Although I have never seen the show, the contestants that are finally chosen to appear are have to master solo dances, duets and finally group dances. The dances can include classical, hip-ho, ballroom and musical theater styles as well. In my life I have overcome some many things that if I wanted to I would not have enough time to write them in my lifetime. But as I awake out of my sleep and get ready to begin my day I wanted to share something with you all today. And that is that the things that God has done in my life has been so wonderful that I can do only one thing and that is to dance. So You Think You Can Dance. As I look back on my life I can say that I have plenty of reasons to be d...

Two Chains

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Good morning and Marvelous Monday. Brand new week. Brand new attitude. The past is the past. The future is unlimited. As I begin my first teaching in a long time and the first one for 2018, I feel I must get something off of my chest. One of the things that used to hold me back financially was betting on horses. For me the thrill of winning hundreds of dollars on a bet as small as $20 dollars was alluring to me. I needed to have big wins so I could support my other habits and get ahead of some bills. Nothing could be more easy. There was even sheets and programs to help you put you in a position to have large winnings. I looked at all the times that I won a getting ahead when in fact I was losing more than I was bringing in. I asked God to remove that from my life and he did and I was thankful. Unfortunately although God took away from what I asked of him, there was still something holding me back. I thought I just had one chain when in fact I had Two Chains. See my sin was one of...

Perception: On Demand Only Works Certain Places

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Good evening and Happy Saturday. As we continue with these teachings of Perception and Reality based on Numbers 11:4-6 and Deuteronomy 8:2-5 I have Comcast as my cable company. It has features like Internet connection, television channels and even though I have not ever used it, I also have a house phone. But the feature I like the most is a feature called On Demand. This feature is a fantastic because I am always on the go and if there is a certain show I want to see like Greenleaf or American Crime, two of my favorites, I can always go to the On Demand feature and look at these shows. But this On Demand feature is not available to me at work because my company blocks certain sites like this. There are those who have little faith or have no belief in God whatsoever thinks that there is a limit to the things that are God can do. As a matter of fact this is their thinking, On Demand Only Works Certain Places. We have people who think that our God is limited on the things that he ca...

Reality: Eating Humble Pie

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Good morning and Happy Tuesday. Brand new week. Brand new attitude. The past is the past,. The future is unlimited. As we continue these teachings of Perception/Reality in March based on Numbers 11:4-6 and Deuteronomy 8:2-5. One of the things that I have done in my life is talk negatively before things have had a way of working out for the better. There have been so many times that I have place my own self in situations and then I questioned God why is this happening to me. One of the most recent things that I did was to ask God to help as one of the places where I loved to work at, Tyson Foods laid me off. It was a job where I could eat everyday for free, get enough food to feed almost everyone that I know and then some. But I could not advance and I asked God to remove me so I could advance but did not understand at the time when I lost my job it was to begin something better. In Reality I had begun to Eat  Humble Pie. As I get into this teaching of Reality; Eating Humble Pi...

(Perception) All Hope is Lost

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Good morning and Happy Tuesday. Brand new week. Brand new attitude. The past is the past and the future is unlimited. As we begin these teachings based Numbers 11:4-6, Deuteronomy 8:2-5, John 7:50-52 and Revelations 1:17-19, one of the things I can say about where I live know it certainly has changed much from the times when  I was growing up. Although I did not live where I do now, I lived close enough to see how things were then and how they are now. My block where I live at now used to be the home of many people who had jobs and homes that were filled with residents. My block now has maybe a handful of residents that have jobs and there are more boarded up homes than there are ones that are actually lived in. There have been instances of gunfire within the last year and as recently as 3 weeks ago. On my block and all throughout the surrounding blocks, there is no sense of community, pride or belonging. In looking at my and others Perception, All Hope Is Lost. One of the thi...

Perception and Reality in March (Theme of the month)

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Good morning and Happy Sunday. Brand new month. Brand new attitude. The past is the past. The future is unlimited. As we continue these teachings of the year of I Have Got Work To Do I am excited about the direction things are headed. We began with having Character in January and then we Advanced in February. We now enter the last month of the 1st quarter of the year wanting to see what is actually important. I began this year by hoping to lose some of the things that we holding me back. My expectations were to be finished with school, have found a permanent position in my field and to lose some weight. As of this time only one of my goals had been reached. I thought I was ready enough to reach all of my first quarter goals but am still trying to complete them. See when began with these goals in mind I saw it happening, Perception and when it did not happen I have to look at Reality. So this month I am going to teach lessons that deal with Perception and Reality. In defining the w...