Repost: Shanta Collins
When you fall out with a person They're so quick to discredit you 🥴Now all of a sudden you hateful, broke, jealous & basically everything BUT when y'all was cool they was your biggest fan, the 1st person they called for help was YOU , the most SOLID on their team‼ It really kills people to walk away from relationships or friendships with a little dignity.. They rather drag you thru mud 1st and never bring up the times you was the ONLY SOLID 1 IN THEIR CORNER‼📌💯
Daily Thoughts:
1. Working out is therapy for me. When I’m sweating, I sweat away all concerns.
2. Chicago projects were wild for a reason: Chain-link fencing to prevent people from falling, throwing trash & each other off the balconies. I read an old story in the 80s, where a baby and mother were thrown from the 16th floor in Robert Taylor Projects. Demonic. That scumbag who beat & sexually assaulted that girl in Cabrini-Green…he shouldn’t be breathing.
3. Simple stuff makes me happy, like sitting on the front porch at 8pm. I can sit on my front porch for hours in meditation.
4. I don’t have to front about who I am for anyone. Those who know me off social media will vouch for me.
5. I’m convinced that some people go into leadership because they have a personal vendetta against those who hurt them. Why do folks think there’s so many toxic bosses in corporate America? Some people have no business in leadership.
Repost
I have seen 3 women come off their walkers after doing the forgiveness exercise.
The Bible tells us the bitterness (deep sorrow, offense and hurt) can set up in our bones. Many people think they have joint problems and the joints are simply holding the soul pain.
In each scenario, the woman had been wronged and abandoned by her husband. She had experienced shame, suffering and embarassment because of his actions. He was gone but she was still carrying him.
I have people turn to each other other and do the forgiveness exercise and then touch wherever their body is hurting. All 3 immediately felt pain leave their knees. One actually ran. All where in their 60s. Each of them walked out of service with carrying their walkers.
In addition to those three women, I have seen HUNDREDS of people receive spontaneous healing of knees, shoulders, backs and stomach issues from doing this forgiveness exercise.
So many people are trying to use medicine to treat physical ailments that are rooted in soul pain.
In case you want to do it, here's what you need to understand - Forgivness is a choice that activates the supernatural power of God. You decide to forgive and invite God to heal the wounds.
If you don't have a person, use your mirror. This works for yourself as well.
"(Insert name), today I choose to forgive you whether you meant to hurt me or not. I intentionally release you. I don't not need your apology or changed behavior to forgive you. I choose to forgive you by faith in Jesus Christ. In forgiving you, I release you and in releasing you, I release myself. Today I receive all the healing God has made available to me through forgivness. Holy Spirit, I ask You to fill me in all the crevices, empty spaces and wounds where offense, pain, bitterness, disappoinment, frustration, anger, sadness and depression once existed. I close the door to all of that and open the door to healing, freedom and peace in you Jesus. Today is the first day of the rest of my life. I am forgiven. I choose to forgive and I am free. In Jesus' name."
Now touch your body and command every sickness, disease, disorder and destruction attached to your pain to GO IN JESUS' NAME!
Send me your testimony. Join the hundreds of people who have received healing through forgiveness.
Morning Sermon: If you have to be reminded NOT to leave your child or pet in a hot car on hot days, you have no business having either! I’m sick of reading articles about kids and pets dying because of people’s negligence.🤦🏾
I’m at a point in life where I’ll apologize even if I feel/know I’m right. If people want to stay stuck on stupid, that’s their choice. Some folks have too much pride to admit wrong.
I keep my dreams alive by feeding them in good soil🤞🏽And in the expected time.. it’s before me.
I wouldn't shed any tears if every nightclub shut down today. They're nothing but breeding grounds for violence.
Just because they show up doesn’t mean they have your back! Judas attended every prayer meeting and was there every day!
Know who labor among you, because people are great at pretending! And some will pretend for decades!
Master P dropped a gem when asked why he wouldn’t work with Cash Money back in the day: If I don’t get along with the people in your life, I’m not doing business with you. Then he said “All Your Friends Aren’t My Friends”.🔥🔥🔥That’s my approach to relationships: If I don’t like the people in your life, we cannot be friends, in a romantic relationship or do business together. All Your Friends Aren’t My Friends.🤷🏾♂️
There are 8 things that old people do not like. Ripping and running. Sniggling and giggling. Skinning and grinning. Hooping and hollering.
🧐😅
Demons don't fear your crystals, sage, gold dust or charms. They tremble at the Name of Jesus.
Another minister busted for sexual misconduct.🤦🏾1 Peter 4:17…read it. There’s a reason why Christian leaders will be judged more harshly because they’re held to a higher standard.
Chris Brown’s Meet & Greets are getting women single.🤦🏾I’m glad men are waking up and kicking their s/o’s to the curb. No solid woman should ever take a suggestive pic with a famous celebrity.
Stuff Pastors/Bible Teachers won’t tell you:
It’s Ok To Question God as a believer. You don’t even have to be a Christian to question God.
Good morning! It's important to keep our faith SUPER charged for the perfect outcome. Smile and hold your head up!! You have more good working for you than against you!!! It's all about your perspective!!! Have a blessed day!!!
Daily Thought: Extroverts are more worried about introverts than the reverse. 9 times out of 10, extroverted people can’t stand to see a quiet person who prefers to be low key. We see you…we (introverts) know how fake you are.👀👀👀
Repost: Just a thought: We're going to have to learn how to differentiate between relationships that need to be salvaged from those that need to be severed. Severing a relationship that can be salvaged only puts us at a deficit. Objectivity should be the gauge that we use to measure how things really are vs how we think they are. In this era, we need reciprocal relationships. Imbalanced and uneven ones, won't do anymore.
Make room because God is about to make you viral! 🗣️Unfriend everyone who doesn’t support you! There’s no reason to be carrying dead weight!
Your business is getting ready to take off 🚀
Your influence will extend to the nations 🌎
Your name will carry so much weight 💪🏾
Some of the warfare you’ve been up against is coming from unsupportive monitoring spirits who’s speaking against your progress! However you’re going to WIN 🏆 anyhow! God doesn’t play about YOU❗️
This is a word for me.😎🙏
Storms: You’re preparing for one, going through one or leaving one.
Reposting from Monica Regina Jones’ Facebook page (she reposted from her friend)
We've become a people obsessed with "levels". I don't tell people that I'm on a different level. I'm simply in a different place. I'm on a different journey. I'm not better than anyone. We're not above people, we're above certain behaviors. Our goal should not be to look down on anyone, but to be who God create us to be, a better version of our current self.
As a believer, I understand this message, but…spirits can’t operate without willing vessels. In other words, people can let God or Satan use them. No in between.
I read a picture on Facebook that says “A submissive woman controls a man.” That makes sense because a submissive woman can get whatever she needs/wants from her husband because she knows he’s solid. When a man has a submissive woman, there’s nothing he won’t do for her. He will move heaven & 🌍 to meet her need.
Where in the Bible does it say don’t question God? Asking for some people, because the way some Christians carry on…you’d think God is a dictator: You’re supposed to co-sign everything he says & does without question. Even the most solid believers question God, which is why many Christians are so advanced in Biblical knowledge; they ask hard questions and research. Don’t question God is something many old-school Christians say because they don’t want to do the hard work of digging deep to find out who God is; they go by what their pastors say.
Written by Tanzania Phillips 7 years ago. A very cautionary message that deserves a repost from my FB memories.
A Proposal from the Devil
Idk if you all read my post last month titled the "Hiding Man" where I had a dream I was summoned by the devil to be tempted multiple times. When I turned him down he told me he was going to follow me everywhere and hunt me down. Since then he has been making good on that threat. He's gotten so crafty and yet so desperate that he sent someone who the average desperate damsel in distress would have fallen for.
This is why I rally so hard for you all to stay sober and vigilant because if you blink too many times or nod off you will miss demonic subtleties and fall into a boobie trap!
Let me tell you this man came into my inbox with the charm of a thousand men. Every hard question I asked him he answered with confidence. I was looking for him to say all the wrong things but he was saying all the right things. He even quoted scriptures better than me, exemplified leadership qualities and could rightly divide the word of truth to the point I imagined him grinding it into oil and pouring it on my head calming all kinds of insecurities and fears I didn't even know I had. No man interested in me had EVER done this to me before. Where I was used to being either beat with the bible or critiqued about my human he did neither. He literally loved on me with the word.
In all of this, I still did not receive a peaceful enough resolve to let all my guards down. One night he asked if we could pray, he prayed first and then I prayed. I could hear that his spirit was rattled by my prayer because I asked God to expose the dark things. I wasn't playing. After that I begin to feel a menacing suffocating presence hovering in my room whenever I was on the phone with him and after we would get off the phone I would feel like my head had been under water and I was holding my breath. I did not like this feeling at all! Every night I would ask God, "What is this! Who is this man? Tell me who is this man because he keeps saying I'm his wife! Something is not adding up! Help me!" I just felt like this man was trying to use all kinds of ways to get my NEW heart to betray me so he could snatch me out of God's hands WITHOUT permission! I begged God to just take me off the market lol because I was starting to get really scared.
But then I got my courage after taking some serious notes in biblestudy where my apostle talked about the SPIRIT OF THE STRANGE WOMAN or the SPIRIT OF SEDUCTION. He literally described the SCIENCE of what I was encountering. It was NOW adding up! And when I tell y'all it felt like somebody took my 9mm and gave me an Ak47! Ha! Homie must have saw my posted notes and called me IMMEDIATELY.
I was ready for him. We talked about lighter things and then I haphazardly told him that I was going to be using my new concordance to especially study the scriptures that people have taken out of context like the scripture, "The marraige bed is undefiled." I didn't even know what I was saying but in me doing this the mask would fall off when I asked what his take was on this.
I do not even remember what he said because he was running around it like I was shooting him with a water gun. I do rememeber him specifically saying, "One can not be in pain or be hurt by their significant other unless they resist."
My eyebrow raised. What in the homemade hell does that mean? He didn't give me a chance to have him expound on this because he quickly threw the scripture back at me! I told him that scripture in my view is God's way of confirming that it's a pure bed a holy bed. But just like something can be made holy it can be made unholy. If a person went outside and rolled in mud but came into a clean house that house would not be so clean anymore because something would have made it dirty! Some area of that house would be spotted with mud! In some examples of the word defile, a man taking a woman's virginity without consent meant that he defiled her. In the same sense you can take away the innocence and purity of the marraige bed by adding unholy components to it that defiles it! The marraige bed is undefiled until it is made defiled by acts that are permissible but not profitable.
He disagreed by using his experience with his ex wife whom he said he wanted her to engage in anal sex but she would reject him. He told me that he would tell her that she needed to do what she needed to do to keep him home because there are women out here who will let him do it and that her not doing this or only doing this for his birthday, defiled the marriage bed. I was APPALLED! However I took the judges gavel down and was honest. I told him that when I was out in the world I did stuff that was not kosher just to please a man INCLUDING that and I did not like it, it was uncomfortable, and painful. I asked him how would this be fair to your wife? To put her in this position? We went back and forward with this until I had to get off the phone. Later I texted him that it wouldn't be a good idea for us to move forward. He said that I was giving up on him like all the other women who weren't ready to be loved.
The next morning he sent me the picture of this ring and told me that he couldn't believe it was over before it had begun that he was falling in love with me, and that he wanted me to be his wife. Mind you i had only been talking to him for a little over a week! I kind of assumed he was baiting me.
But I still ended up talking to him later that day about my views and he seemed to understand. He changed the subject to seeing if we could see each other wondering if my decision to meet him in a public place outdoors had an alternative just in case it rained. I told him I was working on it. He told me the ALTERNATIVE would be to come to his house. I told him NO! We went back and forward with this until again I was provoked to get off the phone. I prayed one last time for clearance because I'd already recieved my answer, "CLOSE BUT NOT QUITE! END THIS NOW!"
He texted me the next morning and I told him I had a meeting with God about him. Somehow I could sense he knew what was up. I told him that God told me we could not move forward. He asked if we could be friends. I told him no, deleted and blocked all avenues of contact. Immediately after that suffocating dark presence which I concluded was the spirit of BONDAGE left me.
I want you all to understand something! The devil know you backwards and forwards. He probably know you more than you know your own self especially if you out here trying to live the straight and narrow! He know the bible too! But there will always be something perverted about his decoys and something unsumbitted in these vessels! If you are completely submitted you are no longer seeking perfection or your own preferences YOU ARE SEEKING FULL DEEP SUBMISSION! Women especially depending on your call you are seeking someone who has no room for compromise because if he's compromised in anyway YOU'RE compromise because he is called to be your HEAD! Fellas depending on your call you're seeking the same thing because if she is compromised she WILL NOT SUBMIT TO YOU and she will make your life hard as hell for no reason!
Take heed lest you fall...
There's two things that I've learned that is essential to having healthier relationships with ppl. The first one is to vet them. The second is to be selective with who you allow to gain access to you.
Many times, we often make the mistake of thinking that just because they are in close proximity to us, (work, church, social groups) in our age group, have similar interests and etc, that it automatically means they get a pass and we're supposed to just bond with them or give them a space in our lives. It's a no.
We must vet people before we label them anything significant. We can't lean on first impressions, clicking, or "vibes". We may have to allow things to unfold within 6 months to a year so that it's not a superficial connection. Meaning, don't be so quick to tell them your life story unless Holy Spirit nudges you to do so. Dont be quick to volunteer your time or overextend yourself. Don't be quick to show them your wounds or vulnerabilities.
It's during this time that mental notes should be taken. Learn to listen to what' they're saying without remixing it to what you think they meant. Exude patience. Pray and ask God to reveal their character, heart, and motives to you. Observe, but don't be suspicious.
During this time, check and make sure you're not comparing them to anyone from your past. That you aren't seeing them through unhealed lenses. Also, it's not always accurate to go by what someone else has told you about them. Make the decision to think for yourself and get to know them for yourself.
Sometimes others will lie because they personally don't like them, or they know nothing about them and speak from assumptions with no receipts. Either way, be open to new ppl, but use wisdom before you allow how they "seem" to cause you to gravitate to them or make room for them in your life.
Repost (Shun Dennis Strickland)
I have seen 3 women come off their walkers after doing the forgiveness exercise.
The Bible tells us the bitterness (deep sorrow, offense and hurt) can set up in our bones. Many people think they have joint problems and the joints are simply holding the soul pain.
In each scenario, the woman had been wronged and abandoned by her husband. She had experienced shame, suffering and embarassment because of his actions. He was gone but she was still carrying him.
I have people turn to each other other and do the forgiveness exercise and then touch wherever their body is hurting. All 3 immediately felt pain leave their knees. One actually ran. All where in their 60s. Each of them walked out of service with carrying their walkers.
In addition to those three women, I have seen HUNDREDS of people receive spontaneous healing of knees, shoulders, backs and stomach issues from doing this forgiveness exercise.
So many people are trying to use medicine to treat physical ailments that are rooted in soul pain.
In case you want to do it, here's what you need to understand - Forgivness is a choice that activates the supernatural power of God. You decide to forgive and invite God to heal the wounds.
If you don't have a person, use your mirror. This works for yourself as well.
"(Insert name), today I choose to forgive you whether you meant to hurt me or not. I intentionally release you. I don't not need your apology or changed behavior to forgive you. I choose to forgive you by faith in Jesus Christ. In forgiving you, I release you and in releasing you, I release myself. Today I receive all the healing God has made available to me through forgivness. Holy Spirit, I ask You to fill me in all the crevices, empty spaces and wounds where offense, pain, bitterness, disappoinment, frustration, anger, sadness and depression once existed. I close the door to all of that and open the door to healing, freedom and peace in you Jesus. Today is the first day of the rest of my life. I am forgiven. I choose to forgive and I am free. In Jesus' name."
Now touch your body and command every sickness, disease, disorder and destruction attached to your pain to GO IN JESUS' NAME!
Send me your testimony. Join the hundreds of people who have received healing through forgiveness.
Samson & Delilah is a good example of how some men will let a woman trick them out of their anointing. He was too focused on Delilah’s beauty, not realizing she was setting him up. If God places a man in an influential position, he can’t let any woman check for him. Women are attracted to powerful men, and because many men have poor discernment, they can’t tell a Delilah from a solid woman. A woman will NEVER be fine enough to trick me out of my influential position, let alone my anointing. If God anoints me (which he has), I’m protecting my anointing by any means necessary.
I haven’t spoken at all on Diddy’s drama because I’m waiting for everything to come out, but I’ll say this: The reason why people are close mouthed about Diddy’s drama is because if Diddy goes down, a lot of people go down with him.
I’m a proud American, but our country has too many issues to police another country. We have no business telling another country how to live when we have our own trouble.🤦🏾
We're living in times where reaping what you sow is coming faster than ever. You better be careful of how you treat God's people!!
Daily Thoughts:
1. 🛑 saying you stand on business when you don’t. I swear…people run sayings into the ground. People that truly stand on business, it shows.
2. According to some women, everything men do is “sassy”, from being self-sufficient to expressing himself. What’s manly is a woman referring to herself as Alpha. A man has the right to express himself as he sees fit, as long as he’s not a threat to himself or others.
⚠️ Refrain from Announcing GOOD NEWS 📢 prematurely. As it may attract demonic surveillance which brings about delay and possibly destruction!
📚 Learn to Keep things PRIVATE 🤫 until you know they’re PERMANENT, and even after that know you’re not obligated to share your business with anybody!
This is a word. Even if you know some people are genuinely happy for your success, still…your success will speak for itself. I’m very careful who I share my victories with. Some people may think you have something to hide, but you’re protecting your anointing, blessing, etc. because everyone isn’t solid.
Repost from Primrose Lily Smith (Facebook)
New Blog Alert 🔔 🔔
When Being Transparent Is Too Much!
Transparency is defined as the quality of being easily seen through or open and honest. We all want people who are transparent with us! What happens when transparency is too much?
When transparency is too much, you can attract people who are with you but not for you! I’ve come to realize that I’m too transparent. I share good deals, sales, discounts, hurts, pain, victories and defeats. I share goals, dreams, failures and sometimes successes. I share myself, my money, my time and my talents.
I once was blind but now I see…everyone with me isn’t for me. Most around me do not share to the degree that I do! They share just enough to give the illusion of friendship.
Time has revealed that people can be on your team and not want you to win. Those types are would be assassins. I refer to them as would be assassins because no weapon will or shall prosper (Isaiah 54:17). Don’t be like me and give them the weapon(s).
Being too transparent has led me to garnering superficial relationships (friendships). While I look at you as a trusted source, you look at me as a gossip! While I look at you as a confidant, you are a bone collector!
“Honesty and transparency can make you vulnerable, be honest and transparent anyway”-Mother Teresa. I love my ability to be vulnerable. This won’t change; however, I will change those individuals with whom I have been vulnerable, honest and transparent.
Since my transparency has contributed to many superficial friendships, I must be as wise (shrewd, clever) as a serpent, but harmless as a dove (Matthew 10:16).
Great post from this young lady. She broke it down as to why one should be cautious about who they’re transparent with. Some people are so foul that they’ll use your transparency against you. I’m transparent with the right people; everyone else will get bits & pieces until they prove themselves worthy.
Your greatest pain will birth out your greatest promise!
KEEP trusting GOD!
It’s ok to forgive people and still cut them off🫶🏾✌🏾…. I do it all the time 🤷🏽♀️ it’s called balance and keeping your peace ☮️
3 things that don't bother me:
How they feel about me!🤷🏽♀
What they say about me & Why they don't like me!! So Next💅🏽
Reading this puts life in perspective. If we all adopt this attitude, so many of us wouldn’t be worried about why someone dislikes us. For me…I learned early on that not everyone will like me, and I’m fine with that because I know I haven’t given them a reason, so I move on. Life doesn’t stop because someone dislikes you.
Detachment getting real easy for me nowadays. I ain't got time to play with nobody.
You know why mature people mind their business?
Because they understand their life is the only one they can control.
When you get done interfering in somebody else’s life, has your investment portfolio increased?
Is your marriage better?
Has your credit score increased?
Have you pleased God?
That’s why messy people are miserable.
They’ve got nothing to show for all the time they’ve wasted.
They’re still underemployed. An emergency would wiped them out financially. Their diet is still not where their doctor would want it to be. They still need to hit the gym. Their dentist hasn’t seen them all year.
The list goes on!
This is why the blessed should not beef with the miserable, no matter what they try to do or say to provoke you.
Because when they get done starting a fight, a rumor, gossip, their harvest of misery is already waiting on them to return.
Thanks to focusing on you and not building their own life, they’ve got nowhere else to go...
This post by Tera Hodges is worthy of repost:
Everything you own should not be in your name.
You can ask your university (post undergrad universities) to shield your information (degrees obtained) unless they have written consent from YOU with identification.
There’s a reason a #confidentialmarriagelicense is an option.
A skilled family attorney can guide you on how to shield your children’s sensitive information: birth, names, parent, etc.
The people you are the closest with should never be active on your social media.
When you realize someone close to you is faltering, don’t cut them off immediately. Feed them what you want them to repeat. It’s not your fault they’re disloyal. Use their disloyalty for your good. The fault is on them because loyalty would of kept their mouth shut.
Don’t advertise where you work.
When people ask questions, normalize your most immediate response being: why do you want to know. Then, for every reason they give, ask another question pertaining to why.
Your life is your business and you have options!
Once again, the goal is not for PEOPLE to be right about you but for LIFE to go right for you.
Let them wonder how and why you’re so successful.
It’s a beautiful thing to see your enemy shooting arrows they mean for you but they don’t come anywhere near you.
That’s why I don’t post too much personal business on social media because anything you say can & will be used against you. Some people on your page are there to be spies, so they can have something to bring back to so & so. I don’t even add colleagues as friends on my social media for that reason.
If every word from “The Lord” you give has a $ amount attached, you are not a Prophet, you are a fundraiser. Stop lying! Humble yourself! Have integrity and tell the people The Truth!!! You really need help with your rent, child support, car note, etc. Jesus didn’t charge when people came for healing & teaching.
If you pray for discernment, you better be ready for what comes with it. Read this post by Glory Brown Inspiration Coach
Everybody thinks having discernment is so cute and fun to have. But it doesn’t always feel that good when you hug people that you genuinely like and feel that they’re not even for you. Or when people congratulate you on your “higher levels” & say how proud of you they are but you literally feel that they don’t mean a word of it. You FEEL the envy. Discipline and wisdom then has to kick in and makes you say “Thank you” with a smile.
Discernment isn’t always fun to have and you MUST know how to govern YOURSELF with the enlightenment. You can’t get mad. You can’t always call it out. You simply have to accept it for what it is and not be consumed by it.
To the one being consumed by the enlightenment of discernment, I pray that God gives you peace as a companion to your gift! I feel you! I understand!
Not everyone is a friend. There are associates, and there are friends. Know the difference… act accordingly.
Please focus on your assignment, those speaking against you don't matter and those who matter Don’t Talk, they are too focused on their own assignment.
I know how to enjoy life solo. Done it so long that I'm not fazed when someone doesn't want to go out with me. You have to learn how to have fun by yourself.
Never forget, this world is round.
That means…
What goes around, comes around.
You reap what you sow.
And a harvest is always greater than its seed.
That means, what you put out, will come back around greater.
Credit to Glory Brown Inspiration Coach
Some people will never like you because your spirit disturbs their demons. The Lord will always protect you from those who weren't created to walk with you in purpose. Do not spend your emotional wealth nor energy trying to find a reason for their perceived rejection of you. Understand that God is intentional in His protection of your heart, destiny and salvation. Your journey is too important to worry about those who aren't for you. Thank God for revelation, and move on.
This is a word!🙏 Good! I don’t want demons around me. I thank God for removing those who aren’t for me. I hate demons with everything in me.
I used to see good in others until I started seeing them for what they are! If you’re foul, I’ll see you that way. If you’re solid, I see you as that, and so on
Girl X is a name given to a young girl who was savagely raped, beaten, forced to drink rat poison & left for dead in Chicago’s notorious Cabrini-Green projects (which are now gone). This crime rocked Chicago because the scumbag tried to pin the attack on the Gangster Disciples, a legendary Chicago street organization. Even they were furious at the attack because leaders ordered members to find & kill the attacker. I don’t condone gangs, but even they have enough heart not to hurt children. Back then, old gangsters had a code that members could NOT hurt women, children or old people. From what I read, the young lady is doing well even though she’s permanently disabled. I hope she can make a full recovery. What’s worse is she got almost no coverage. Because she was an inner-city child who was victimized, the media didn’t bother covering her story outside Chicago.
Someone out there plotting on you right now for petty, ignorant reasons! What they fail to realize is that the same traps they attempt to set for you, will be the same traps they stumble in. Be at peace and rest knowing that their plots can’t destroy you! #coveredbyGod
If some people spent more time working on themselves instead of plotting on others, they would be better off.
If someone shows you they don’t rock with you, 🛑 double checking! It takes one time for someone to show me they don’t like me (vice versa), and I move around.
You’re not obligated to restore people who did you wrong to get somewhere and now that they’re where they want to be, they want peace.
You’re not obligated to restore people who bad mouthed you when they believed you were doing better than them and now that they’ve improved their circumstances and feel closer to your level, they want to reconnect.
You’re not obligated to restore anyone.
#Forgiveness doesn’t mean restoration.
When your enemies are planning how to harm you, God is also planning how to stop them.
Repost (Glory Brown Inspirational Coach)
We (myself included) need to heed this word:
GOD is exposing who you should remove ties with. #PayAttention 🗣
Everyone that comes with you, can’t go with you.
Repost from Glory Brown Inspiration Coach
The Enemy Wants You To Lose Your Mind, But God’s Getting Ready To Blow Your Mind.
Plenty of times we ask God to bless us in certain areas of our life! How are you preparing yourself for the shift?!?!
God is already on go!
James 2:26
#selfcheckformyself
I read a post asking if it's ok for men to cry, and as usual, it's women who see nothing wrong with a man crying. For me, if a man sheds tears because he's thankful for what God has done in his life, I can respect that. A man crying for any reason outside the loss of a loved one, I can't respect it. You have men crying over their woman cheating on them, and in my mind I'm😒because it's not that serious. She cheated, big deal. She showed you she wasn't about nothing, time to move on.
I follow a minister who goes by the name Real Talk Kim, and she posted this:
Here's a reminder for all of the people pleasers out there: Jesus was literally perfect and people still hated him. Quit putting your worth in what others think about you instead of what God thinks about you.
My response: Preach, Teach & Proceed! I’m not trying to please anyone except Christ.🤷🏾♂️No matter how good I am, some people will never be pleased, so I’m done.
#Confession
I’m pro-life, but I understand why some women choose to get an abortion. Like it or not, a woman shouldn’t be criticized for aborting her baby if the child was conceived through rape, or the child may be born disabled. Let’s keep it real: Raising special needs children is not easy. You have to be built Ford tough for that.
Let’s not talk about rape. Some folks have the nerve to say a woman should keep a child that was born through rape? Miss me with that. It’s usually Christians who like to say “God can take what’s meant for evil and use it for good” When Christians tell a woman “God can take what’s meant for evil and use it for good”, they’re discounting her feelings. They don’t care what she’s going through or how she’s feeling, which is a bad look on Christianity.😒
The lack of Emotional Intelligence that is consistently displayed - especially in the name of Christ - is just downright embarrassing.
The way we promote the absence of common sense and call it “the anointing” or “truth in love” is just downright ANNOYING.
Churchfolk have run an entire generation out the doors and have the nerve to blame it on them being rebellious.
The church’s collective REFUSAL to address culture issues and promote change is a wicked form of stubbornness. And this flossing over feelings and promoting abuse and oppression with prayer is EPIDEMIC and shows up in every area from marriage to education to family matters to civil matters.
How do we Specialize in correcting others but allergic to feedback....How do we consistently point out eye specks while doing nothing about the 2*4’s in our heads.... Just POWERLESS.
#TiredOfThisChurch
This puts healing into perspective. Healing is for us, not the offender(s).
Heal. Your mom may never apologize to you, because she has conditioned herself to believe that she did right by you. She hasn’t healed.
Heal. Your father may never apologize to you, because he can only see what he’s done right. He hasn’t healed.
Heal. Your family members may never apologize to you, because toxicity is what they were raised on. They haven’t healed.
Heal. That “friend” may never apologize to you, because he/she isn’t sorry. He/she hasn’t healed.
If/when they reach their healing, they may seek your forgiveness. Be so healed that it won’t even matter.
Heal. For you. You owe it to yourself.
Men don't like sharing their pain with women for the same reason parents don't like sharing their pain with children.
They don't think you can handle it, and they think they'll look lesser in your eyes.
And the thing is, they're usually right about both of those things.
Why would a man share these things with a woman? What is she going to do about it? Save him? Respect him more? No. She'll worry about him, but she'll also begin to lose confidence in him.
That's the thing about being a leader. You don't keep the job if you're not cut out for it.
And when a man opens up like a mother sharing her most intimate anxieties with her child, there's a sense of regret and shame with having burdened a weaker soul with horrors not meant for them. There's a type of disgust with one's self for failing to contain the suffering.
And of course the very best of women, like a child, would most earnestly want to help. They would. They hate the idea you suffer alone, and would love to help you feel better. It's not that they don't care. They do. It's just that this pain isn't meant for them.
Even when men are hurting, they're putting you first, protecting you, shielding you from burden.
Remember that next time you say a man isn't in touch with his emotions.
He is. And that's why he does his best not to subject you to his most personal horrors.
If something is up with him, don't ask him what it is. Let him protect you and maintain his dignity. Do sweet little things for him. Be his ignorant comfort. He will appreciate it and be vitalized with the morale he needs to defeat his demons.
Nagging achieves the opposite.
#TheTruthIs that women expect men to love them unconditionally, junk included. Let a man request the same, and it's a problem.
”Those who are wise will shine as bright as the sky, and those who lead many to righteousness will shine like the stars forever.“
Daniel 12:3 NLT
The Bible says the first time God destroyed the earth by water and he promised to never do that again. (The real meaning of the Rainbow) he went on to say I will destroy it by fire the second time. I won’t pretend I understand all of the book of Revelation, but I do understand I wish to spend eternity in Heaven. I have been hearing about the second coming of Christ and the events unfolding since I was a child. The "Mark of the Beast" Artificial Intelligence, microchips, no cash/digital currency, total government dependency/control. When we are raising a family, working long hours, some two jobs, lots of things go unnoticed or just get ignored. No one can comprehend how bad it will be, but we see it happening, bit by bit, on the news everyday. While the devil is preparing people for the Anti Christ, God is preparing people for the Rapture. I don’t know when the rapture will take place but I know that I’m not planning to be left behind when that trumpet sounds! I also believe right now that God is giving us a chance to turn our lives around and live according to His will. We need to get the Gospel message out! Until the good Lord calls me away from this world to go home, I want to make it clear that I believe in Jesus Christ as the one and only true Lord and Savior. Despite the fact that I am human, and I fail a lot, I believe that Jesus is the Son of God Amen. 🤞🏾🩸🤞🏾
I’m not sure who thought they had the power to crumble you. But, now they’re embarrassed. They did all that talking and you are still walking!
Repost (Fred Jones)
📌 Some people are SINGLE because people aren't dating anymore. They are just talking, catching feelings, sleeping together & ending up in situationships 🤦🏾♂️ This generation is trying to put an end to healthy marriage. If You want people. PROVE it with ACTIONS not just words❗️
With that said 🗣️Unless a man sits you down and tells you straight up “I am ready to be in a committed relationship” or “I want you to be my woman.” And you agree, then don’t assume that you are❗️It doesn’t matter what he does for you, how much you’ve given him, or what y’all do together❗️You’re worth much more then to be dragged around! Brother if You don't plan to marry 💍 HER get out of HER HUSBAND'S way❗️
This is a whole word. Seeing how people waste time with the wrong person makes me blessed to be single…If I’m checking for a woman, I’m only interested in HER. I will not date around because that’s corny.
Repost from Sis. Monica
It's 2024,. Let go of slander, intimidation, provocation, bullying, recruiting others to dislike who you don't like, and throwing dirt on someone's name. Just leave them alone. It's really that simple. Happy Thursday. ☀
When you hang around a bunch of people: You have one person who don’t like you, one person who telling all of your business, one person trying to watch your every move, one person trying to go behind your back and talk to the person you’re with, one person watching your finances, & Sometimes you have one person trying to bury you....But when you keep your mouth shut & don’t talk so much, people won’t know how to attack you! And remember when you hang by yourself, self can’t tell on self. #Facts ‼️
The most strategic thing you can do is WORK your purpose! When you are working your purpose, GOD will defend you against anything that comes against it.
People will say anything on social media, even if it makes them look stupid. Crazy huh? I read this post from a young lady that said “Men over 30 without kids are SUS (suspect)” Really? Let’s get this right: A man that’s disciplined is suspect? Have we become normalized to OOW births? Her comment sounds like it. If being disciplined makes me suspect, I’ll be suspect with pride!
Disrespect will close doors that apologies can’t reopen. Be careful how you treat those you think you don’t & won’t need.
I don’t want to hear nothing from blacks about white people doing us wrong, because we do each other dirty way worse!🤦🏾Other races have surpassed blacks because for the most part, they can work together. They may not be besties, but if there’s a common goal…conflict is put aside for the good of everyone.
Y’all standing on business, but you’re playing both sides. Cut the 💩.😏I see the foolishness people are on, and it confirms my decision to stay solo.
Shout out to all couples mad at each other for 2 weeks, only to be lovey-dovey on February 14. Comedy😂🤦🏾It’s ridiculous that some couples can be mad for 2 weeks leading up to Valentine’s Day. Y’all can have that dysfunctional nonsense; I’ll keep my peace of mind knowing I don’t have to spend hundreds for a date.👎If that’s love, I don’t want it. I’m good.
Repost from Shanta Collins
y’all don’t respect real, y’all respect popular & that’s where we so different at 🫰🏿
When the elders use to say “What you know about this music? This is for grown folks.” They were introducing the younger generation to good music.😎
When you stay in your lane and observe, you learn a lot about yourself.
If you have a successful ministry, but your family is falling apart, you're not prospering like you think.
Being broke from paying bills is NOT the same as broke from poor money management!
Life will show you who’s real & who isn’t!
Be grateful to God even if you have everything.
If unconditional love & forgiveness isn't staying with someone through 2 health crises, I don't know what is. Truth be told, I see why the younger generation is less likely to tolerate foolishness from a significant other because unlike the older generation, younger people have more options whereas back in our parents/grandparents time, there weren't a lot of resources for an abused spouse to leave. A man could take care of his family & still feel entitled to dog his wife.😒. My eyes were opened to a lot in my 40 years of life.
YOU ARE STRONGER THAN THAT
People may not like you for whatever reason but you can't let what they may say bring you down or depress you or put you in a bad mood. You are stronger than that. Understand you won't be able to please everyone in life. You must keep your head up and your eyes to the skies. You are strong and only getting stronger by the minute.
We should never be amazed when God answers our prayers quickly if we pray in faith.
I think it’s important to understand that no matter how good you are to someone, they won’t reciprocate. Don’t stop being good, just be careful who you’re good to because as stated before, not everyone will like you. Truth be told, they have issues they need to deal with.
Morning Thought: I hate how some women criticize other ladies for having majority guy friends. If a woman gets along better with guys than she does other women, it’s not her fault…it’s the other womens’ fault. #ISaidWhatISaid
This was too good NOT to share: Pray on purpose. You seriously can’t afford not to! #Message
Suffering doesn't make anyone stronger, it makes them hurt. Preventing suffering is a virtue.
I’m paraphrasing what FB friend Michael ShoNuffGlenn said:
Church meetings are about God’s business, not foolishness.
Read this again if necessary: Some people look good, but they aren't a good look.
What’s good about boundaries? They weed out the wrong people in your life. Notice how you start enforcing boundaries, and people drop like flies. This is what you want because those who aren’t good for you, have no business in your life.
If you’re familiar with the Bible, then you’ve learned about Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers. His first mistake was telling his brothers his dream because they were upset that God didn’t give them the dream. Moral of the story: You can’t share your dream with everyone because of the hate that comes with it. If you have a dream, execute it in silence. Your result will speak for itself.
Repost (Tywanna Swain)
It amazes me that the world will treat you better than the saints. We as godly people have got to be better role models. We walk around mad, and mistreating people, talking to people any kind of way, don’t want to speak to one another, back biting one another, sowing discord, and hating people for No reason and think we are going to make it to heaven. Well if you could make it to heaven with all those ungodly attributes, THE DEVIL would have never gotten kicked out of heaven. You better do a SPIRITUAL EXAMINATION because all your godly serving is going to be in vain, if JESUS come back and you haven’t gotten it together… I see people treating people a certain kind of way and I’m experiencing these acts, but what I do is continue to show them LOVE regardless to how they act or treat me. Because when my LORD AND SAVIOR return, I want to hear him say well done MY GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT. You took a lot but you passed your test. LOVE WILL WIN EVERY SINGLE TIME. Thank You Jesus For Keeping Me. This Is Something To Meditate On
😭💃🏾😭💃🏾😭💃🏾😭💃🏾😭💃🏾😭💃🏾
She’s not lying. It’s sad, but true. We wonder why unsaved people aren’t coming to Christ, because they see no difference in how believers treat each other & those in the world.
Christians can be one-sided in abortion. They scream pro-life, but do any of them consider why some women have abortions, such as: The risk of having a severely disabled child, or what about the woman who was sexually assaulted? Is it right to pressure her into keeping a baby under terrible circumstances? Christians, or people in general aren’t ready for that conversation.
Repost:
Single man pays all his bills. He won't let you live with him for free so now he's broke. What kinda math is that???
The logic of some women is crazy. So…a man is supposed to let some woman live with him for free? Aht aht..couldn’t be me. The only exception is if she’s my wife. Otherwise, if someone’s letting you live with them, you better kick in on the rent/mortgage, help keep the house clean…something.
Christians: Those of you doing the Daniel Fast: If you’re fasting & gossiping, cussing somebody out, being messy or fake, EAT! Just throw the Daniel Fast away. 🤦🏿♂️
Throwback Message: Rae Carruth can burn in hell. The child he attempted to kill 18 years ago is living with cerebral palsy because of him. Yet he’s out of jail, and wants custody of his son. 🤦🏾♂️
A year later, I feel the same way. The young man is doing fine now, but Chance (the special needs young man); his life was forever changed by his scumbag father’s mistake. To me, what Rae Carruth did is unforgivable. How do you rebound from a heinous offense? To me, you can’t.
Repost from Shanta Collins
If anything was to ever happen to me, I'm praying it don't. If you ain't f*%# with me when I was alive, please don't worry about me when I'm dead. And I mean this in the most humble way.
She’s not lying. People want to show you fake love at your funeral, but didn’t give you the time of day when you were alive. Miss me with that.
People who do others wrong will make themselves the victim, when their downfall was their fault!
Someone said Woodville in Tallahassee was the hood.🤣🤦🏾Nah…Woodville will never be hood because we don’t want ghetto riff raff out here. Keep the gunplay in Tallahassee.
Morning Thoughts: Divide & Thrive needs to happen in the black community expeditiously. The blacks who are about building on one side, the reprobate blacks (and their supporters) on the other.
New Year, Same Me: Just trying to get better in all areas of my life.
When my late father taught me how to drive: He didn’t take it easy on me with a small car, he had me drive his old ‘77 Mercury Grand Marquis. His logic: If you can drive a big car, you can drive any car. Pops was spot on.😎
The best way to honor a fallen loved one is living out their wisdom & life lessons.
Credit goes to the above person for this statement. There’s too many overgrown children in adult bodies. Example: Stuck on stupid. Being stuck on stupid can take many forms such as: Lack of accountability, being childish/petty to name a few. Who raised some of these fools?🤔 I’m understanding more why I stay to myself, because it seems like people are too shady and childish for me.
Being a certain age doesn't make you mature! At some point you would think so but ummm..NO!
#growup
#childishmindset
Discernment is one of the most overused cliches in Christianity, because those who claim to have it, DON’T. The real proof of discernment is you don’t talk too much!
Some of you are so toxic, you’ll call someone sensitive for calling you out about bad behavior!
Fellas: If you allow a woman who’s mistreated you to 🛑 you from being a stand-up man, you’re the problem. Choose Better.
If I'm placed in a situation I have no control over, please believe I'm silently working on a plan to take control
If women’s intuition works so well, why does it fail when it comes to picking their babies’ fathers?🤔Inquiring minds want to know. Sometimes it works, but most times, some women are too deep in their feelings to ignore the 🚩. Some live & learn, others stay stuck.
It’s ok to be talked about.
It’s ok to be lied on.
It’s ok to be scandalized.
It’s ok to be plotted against.
It’s ok to be misjudged.
It’s ok to be laughed at.
It’s ok to be ostracized.
What’s not ok is quitting…
Why?
Because you can be talked about, lied on, scandalized, plotted against, misjudged, laughed at, ostracized and still win.
But, the second you quit, you forfeit your victory.
In their face KEEP GOING!!!
It’s a lot of talk about what FAMU head coach Willie Simmons should do regarding the Duke offer, and I’ll say this: I’m NOT in his inner circle & won’t claim to be. The man is gonna do what he thinks is best for him & his family.
