Repost (Shaniqua Gilmore, Facebook User)
If you're looking for reassurance today, this is it. You're going to be okay. Stop worrying, stressing, and having anxiety over what God has already handled. He has already taken care of it. Blessings are coming your way. Everything will be alright.
Watching CT Fletcher’s biography opened my eyes to something: For a lot of weightlifters, weightlifting is their outlet. Some of these lifters have endured abuse as children, but once they started lifting, it was their therapy. Every rep symbolizes the hard times they’ve been through. It’s a story behind all that muscle & power.
If you're telling the truth, you have no reason to apologize. If you're lying, apologizing is in your best interest.
Kids don't respect nothing, rats telling everything, racial division, greed, poverty, inequality in the criminal justice system, men acting like women, women acting like men, Christians acting like the world; Society is messed up.😒
The only argument some Christians have against those believers who aren’t part of a church body is accountability. “You need other believers to help you mature spiritually.” Question: Are other believers going to answer for your walk with God at Judgment Day?👀👀🤔
Put it this way: Parents train their children to be independent & that child leaves home; the church is the same way: It trains believers to be effective for Christ, and once that believer matures in their faith, they should be able to maintain a close relationship with God on their own (putting God first, reading his Word and daily prayer). Then again, many Christians will always be dependent on a church body for their spiritual growth because some of them aren’t disciplined enough to pray daily, read His word and put him first on their own.
My keys for growing in God
1. Reading/Listening to God’s Word-daily e-mail devotionals, sermons (YouTube)
2. Prayer-daily conversations with God
I’ll keep it real and say that seasoned Christians are becoming more dissatisfied with church, which is why many churches have seen a decline in attendance. The COVID pandemic has forced some believers to do what some of them should’ve been doing on their own, and that’s seeking God for themselves.
1 Peter 3:15-Be ready to defend your hope if anyone questions it. How many Christians would keep it real about their faith? Very few. Many Christians would explain how they never questioned God in the midst of fiery trials. They would tell people how they've always had rock-solid faith. I'm going to be real: Most of them would be lying. No matter how long someone has been walking with God, every believer has questioned God. They've asked God the reason behind fiery storms, and some Christians have considered turning their backs on God because it seems like their trials (the ones that they're going through which are out of their control) have no expiration date. I know we live in a fallen world, and no one is immune to testing, but at some point trials must end. That's the part some Christians won't tell people; because they know if they gave an honest answer, that person could be turned away from coming to Christ. I believe that Christians can defend their faith by keeping it real: Telling unsaved people how good God has been to them, while explaining times they've questioned God about fiery storms; whether serving God is worth fighting battles you don't sign up for. After that, you let the unsaved person choose whether to accept or reject Christ.
Trina’s niece got killed in Miami (Liberty City, Pork & Beans). I don’t know if she had business in the Beans or what, but those Miami streets are unforgiving.☹️
Before Adam & Eve's disobedience, there was no sin & life was good as God intended. When they ate the forbidden fruit, sin entered the world so God had to send Jesus to cover the cost of sin on the cross. I want to think this world would be sin-free, but I can't.
The reason is humans are hardheaded; we do what we want (good or bad). Someone else would've disobeyed God & God would have had to send his son Jesus to the cross for our sin. In short, sin would've entered through someone else's disobedience if not Adam & Eve. #thinkingoutloud
When you’re doing for someone, you're real, but when you aren't, you're flaw. If you're grown, get your own. When you’ve got your own, no one can throw in your face what they did for you.
People treat you exactly how they feel about you 🤞🏾..keep that in mind
I treat them accordingly, by paying them dust.
Thought Of The Day: A Family That Prays Together, Stays Together. In an ideal world, that would be true but because we live in a fallen world, that saying is false. You can have families that are rooted in prayer and a split still happen. You can't always work things out. Sometimes, a split is best for all involved.
Sometimes, you're placed in leadership to reveal your true colors. Do you know how to handle authority? I believe that everyone should not be in power because they abuse their authority. Politicians are good examples because they make & pass laws that benefit themselves and certain members of society. If I ever rose to power, I would use my authority to better others’ lives. To me, that’s the mark of a good leader; they use their influence to improve other people’s lives.
I feel like preaching today: God will allow toxic people to continue hurting you until you get rid of them. That’s the only way some of us will dump toxicity from our lives. We must become so fed up with suffering that we get rid of it by any means necessary.
When we focus on the solution (God) instead of the trial, we will be able to stand, knowing who will bring us through.
Drug dealers/hustlers are entrepreneurs in a sense. They sell their product to prospective customers and get paid. Although their product is detrimental to the community as a whole, their clientele is satisfied for that moment. If the customers are satisfied, they keep coming back. In business, when there's excessive profits, expect fierce competition.
If you have to be reminded NOT to leave your kids or pets in hot cars during the summer, you shouldn’t have either. I don’t care if you’re going to the store for a quick minute, or getting a bite to eat.
Throwback Message:
Apologies lose their credibility after a while since the offender has no intention to change.
I could NOT be God because I wouldn’t put up with a fraction of the foolishness that’s going on today. Y’all would have one time to cut up before I destroy everyone. I would be in a bad mood just about every day. #DeadSerious
Repost (Denisha Davis)
Treat your ENERGY like it's Money.. If u don't give your Money to everybody stop giving your Energy to everybody & everything. #Namaste
I protect my energy & money by any means necessary, because it’s a lot of vultures waiting to pounce. Some people wonder why they’re irritable? Maybe they should look at how they treat their energy; do they give their energy to the wrong people? If so, the solution is doing the opposite: Be selfish with your energy.
