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Friday October 13, 2023
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Jeremiah
29:11 MSG
10-11 This is God’s Word on the subject: “As soon as Babylon’s seventy years are up
and not a day before, I’ll show up and take care of you as I promised and bring
you back home. I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out—plans to take
care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for.
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29:11 in all English translations
Jeremiah
29:11 ICB
11 I say
this because I know what I have planned for you,” says the Lord. “I have good
plans for you. I don’t plan to hurt you. I plan to give you hope and a good
future.
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Thinking Out Loud – Journal Thoughts/Prayers / Mind Maze
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I don’t get much time to stop what I am doing
these days and just write what sometimes can be really motivational and others
just the ah hah or awe moments I have been blessed to experience.
Not that I am still not allowing this mind
maze to pour out or share the inspirations I am blessed with from people,
places, and things I am given on this journey.
You see, about five years ago I was in a
season of blessing and being blessed by so much and many unknowns that I let it
get the best of me. I started believing
in too many of the unseen and fell in love with deeply with the blessings I had
and without question enjoying the ride of all Jesus led me through. Finding myself enabling and setting myself
up for failure when what started out as believing in the call to help.
Openly and willingly believing in people and
all they were representing all the while setting myself up to fall hard when reality
smacked me straight off the clouds of into the depths of realism and facts that
no matter who we are. WE ALL are still
human and fall short of the grace that is blessed to us.
Even if in the human eyes we cannot see it
until the impacts are already rippling through the lives of others.
I have always had a problem in some folk’s
eyes that I treat everyone equally, without expectations and without any wants
except that of whoever I am blessed with to just keep it real.
Because of my nature and spirit, in which I
had in the past been accused of having a heart too big. Long before meeting Jesus.
I would easily get sucked in and always seek good
in the worst of all intentions. Or in
people because I always kept the blinders off for the intention that was really
at hand.
Since my youth I have always been that way but growing up
never shied away or was afraid to jump in and just lived life with all I was
given.
And if I had a penny for all I have lost,
given had destroyed along the way; well I would be richer than that latest
power ball winner without a doubt.
But I am doing okay. Really, I have been blessed not to burn up
too many brain cells in my journey through life and saved by the grace and
mercy of God long before I wiped my entire journey at the hands of just being
me; all the while being sucked in believing in others until I absolutely could
not.
People, places and things are a dime a dozen
and in this world’s humanity discardable as we see around the globe. What we believe in and what we allow to
happen to the very gift of life given to us.
Somehow no matter how good we are sucked into
the darkness and become what we have surrounded ourselves in. all the while we destroy the very purpose
and blessing of all that was meant for good.
Anyway, this mind maze needs to back up a
minute because as I see the thoughts of darkness that lead back to Israel and Ukraine
right now its even more simple than that.
Money is replaceable, you just have to work
for it. Although the root of all evil
because we allow it to have some sort of power over who we are thinking it is what
makes us important. Sure, it can give
and take a life in this society. It is
not who we are and so many very well to do hard working people, be it as a celebrity
or blue-collar worker have more than they can ever spend yet they have no
lives.
Just look at what money and power in government
has done. It has and is destroying the
very foundations this land was build on.
Instead of working together for good.
The world is going mad and fighting against each other for what individuals
can just take because they want it because they can.
It starts with being caught up with believing
someone really wants that connection as a person; when all they want was what they
could take from you. Through days, months,
years of friendships or so-called love and care. Until they cannot get anymore and just like
that they are gone.
To the quick hitters, imitators, or imposters
that you never see, yet they somehow connect to your footprint and sneak in and
steal your identity, and anything else they can take away with it while they
have the smallest window of opportunity.
What happened to me some years back. I believed too much in people, and I gave
away all I had. And instead of quitting;
I hurtfully adding one more brick to the wall of who I am got back up took up
my cross, dove deeper into Jesus and accepted new blessings that I have to work
for and clean up all the broken pieces I allowed to happen in my moments of
temporary insanity and belief.
The hardest part for me always will be the
fact I normally after years of conditioning do not let anyone pass arm’s length. I love without a doubt or try to. But if one thing I have learned in survival
even keeping your friends close but enemies closer.
So, it has been a really busy couple of years
working in a new role that for many hours has been allowing me to clean up the
mess I allowed myself into.
Yeah, guess it I somehow managed to allow myself
hustled into helping others and tapped into my savings and when I woke up and
realized what I was doing.
Not only did I have clean up to do but
abundant lessons learned and how people are just people.
Even though I may love what some of my
favorite artists, or people in general do.
And consider the gifts of their talents give. I will never get lost in believing that
just because we represent something it does not mean they have or had alternative
motives all the while using purity and innocence as their shield.
For those out there doing that kind of stuff
really are no better than the ones that are out there publicly revealing how
evil they really are to humanity.
But who am I just a soul gifted to walk in
this universe, made up with the same DNA glued together with the laminin of Christ. And I can say honestly continually praying
that I am able to never be hardened by any of my choices that have impacted my
journey. Even if some of them leave
scars or really deep lessons.
I believe that every action or lack of. Every
person known or unknown are all part of Gods greater plan. I cannot explain how a feeling or just
outright knowing what is deep down in your soul for love and hope forward.
Though I wish I could say the hunger I carried
in my early journey with Jesus was burning unscathed and the fierce motivation
that went with it was beyond energizing.
But instead, it’s almost like growing up from a teen into young adult
hood and know Christ is always with us. Allowing
us to the next level of learning with guidance of lessons learned and gift of
choices we get to make next.
Some days it seems like being stuck in the
weary why zone. Others surprisingly pop
out as Gods light shining through in ways of seeds that you never new planted
bloomed into beautiful adaptation into the harvest of Gods kingdom.
If only will always be the alternative
But we can only own what is in our circle and
when our circle gets muddied up or disfigured by allowing life to happen know
who is really in control and to whom we belong.
All of this here and now will never go with
us to the other side! Only what is in
our souls. And not for nothing I don’t
want to lose mine or have any time I have here and now wasted on worry, or
negative anything.
Course in life there will always be something. But we get to choose how we deal with
it. Learning when to hold on tight
and when to let go is a daily mission.
Just as we choose to believe or just roll with what everyone else does
because we are too afraid to make choices and own whatever the outcomes at the
end result.
I for one will keep trying my best to get
back up no matter what I do or what anything or anyone else does to get back
up. Even when I am gone, I know who my
soul belongs and there is nothing better.
May we all stay legit in doing what is right
and for what is the right reasons. Know
who you belong to and know the reason you do anything.
If you are running with the hustle, is it
worth the five minutes of what you make off with. When you are acting to be part of something
is it worth the five minutes you are doing the devil’s bidding. Because in the end just as Satan has you
playing in the sandbox doing his bidding, he will be turning on you before you
even know what happened.
Do your best holding on to what breeds light,
keeping your hands and feet in the ride they call life and know when the train
runs out of track its time to hop on that slide to the next stop. One giant slip n slide with laughter and
fun until we allow ourselves to be purposely hurt by others. Or worse
yet are caught in the crossfires and we find the need we need to be the one who
does the hurting.
Sometimes not saying anything at all is just
as bad as pulling a trigger or playing the hustle.
Father thank you for these thoughts and time
to just tap out what may be meaningless to so many but a blessing to me. Father come; this land needs you more now
than ever. Please wrap your loving spirit
around all in harms way all who are suffering at the hands of darkness. Give us strength and wisdom to fight the
good fight for and with you.
In love, mercy, and grace. Forgive me for what I have made it. Thank you for another day.
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