Thursday Gospel: Loyalty To Your Friends

A brief message on loyalty.

If someone's against your friend and you don't have their back, you're not their friend, which means you're against your friend by default.

— Florida Made (@RichardMIATL) August 3, 2017

I'm Not Coming To Christ Because...

Some people look for every excuse NOT to give their lives to Christ. The most common excuse is that Christians are hypocrites, so why should an unsaved person come to God when Christians aren't showing good examples of what it means to be Christlike? If you're basing your decision to get saved on whether a Christian is following Christ, you'll be disappointed every time. Your decision to come to God should be your choice, not contingent on someone else. Jesus isn't giving you a pass into Heaven because you rejected him on account of a believer not being a good example of Christianity.

Hearing God's Voice: Men Vs. Women

Thought Of The Day: When it comes to hearing from God, women blow men out of the water. I'm being honest. That's not to say that men don't hear from God because they do..it's just that women are more in tune with God because in a lot of families, women are the prayer warriors. They are the ones seeking God on behalf of their family. As much as I appreciate all the prayer warrior women, men need to step their game up. Another thing I've noticed is that women are more likely to surrender to God because they know he knows what's best. Men will fight tooth & nail with God until they get to a point where they allow God to do his thing. Until now, I've never understood why men have a harder time surrendering to God. Is it ego/pride? Yes, among other things. When a man surrenders to God, he acknowledges he doesn't have all the answers. That is the hardest thing for a man to do is admit he doesn't know everything.

Charging For The Gospel-Pt. 2

This is a continuation of my 7/29 topic titled Charging For The Gospel. Ministry is a business, it takes money to reach the lost. However, in Jesus day he walked everywhere ministering to the hurting, healing the sick, etc. He wasn't paid to come preach the gospel because he did what he did out of love for people, same with his followers. While times are different, believers should have the same love for people as Jesus. It's not supposed to be about money to bring God's word to people. Ministers talk about blessing others; what better way than to do things for them? Help them out. Example: Joyce Meyer. She does a women's conference every year to save souls and bring people to the Lord, but she has several speakers, singers and I'm not sure what else, but you have to buy tickets. Why aren't people genuinely trying to minister and save souls without money involved? I don't think ministry was designed to be conducted this way.

Most big-time mega pastors don't take a salary, so they make their money through writing books, speaking engagements to places that want to bless them financially, and real estate investments, among other things. I think you can have a heart for souls with money being involved. The problem lies in becoming money focused.

Charging For The Gospel-Pt. 1

Today's blog message is titled Charging For The Gospel. Why do we have to pay people to bring the word of God? Isn't that a believer's responsibility to bring the gospel into the highways & byways? I understand about pastors because that's their vocation so they should be paid, but regular Holy Spirit filled believers who know God's word shouldn't be paid for doing what they're supposed to do. If a believer trusts God and he's called them to this, then he will provide their needs without them having to charge admission. It doesn't make sense to me to charge for something people may really need, but can't afford so they miss out. What about those who would love to hear, but can't pay? If a speaker comes to a church, and the host church wants to bless them with a love offering, I have no problem with that.

Apologizing When You're Not At Fault

Seriously, it irks me when people apologize when they're in the right. Why? Stand in your truth.

If you're telling the truth, you have no reason to apologize. If you're lying, apologizing is in your best interest.

— Florida Made (@RichardMIATL) July 29, 2017

A Word About Faith

Faith is believing what God says and acting on it.

— Florida Made (@RichardMIATL) July 27, 2017