Kidnapped at Birth!!!!!

It’s been a long time since I’ve made a post!!

We have been born in sin and shaped in iniquity. But we have also been made in the image and likeness of God.

Q: Why would a child not know it’s parent after being born? Well, in hospitals you have people like doctors and nurses that will come take the baby for testing or bloodwork. If the baby were to stay away forever such as adoption or kidnapping, when they get older they will start to see something isn’t right and go searching for the biological parents. But many don’t want to get close to their biological parents because it forces them to change something they’ve done for years, forces them to know their true selves, and build relationships with someone they don’t know. But in kidnapping stories the parent normally searches for their child earnestly and is filled with joy when they return. Kinda like the prodigal son. They may be mad at the biological parents more than the fake ones who kidnapped them against their own will. But the good thing about God is He loves us unconditionally, even in sin. He loves us even when He is not at fault for what happened.

Genesis 3:14-19

 God said to the serpent,
“Because you have done this,
Cursed are you more than all cattle,
And more than every beast of the field;
On your belly you will go,
And dust you will eat
All the days of your life;

      And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her seed;
He shall bruise you on the head,
And you shall bruise him on the heel.”

To the woman He said,
“I will greatly multiply
Your pain in childbirth,
In pain you will bring forth children;
Yet your desire will be for your husband,
And he will rule over you.”

Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’;
Cursed is the ground because of you;
In toil you will eat of it
All the days of your life.

      “Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you;
And you will eat the plants of the field;

      By the sweat of your face
You will eat bread,
Till you return to the ground,
Because from it you were taken;
For you are dust,
And to dust you shall return.”

Being that we are born in sin and shaped in iniquity we have to 1. renew our minds, 2. Cleanse us by removing the sin, 3. Know who we truly are in Him. Anything outside of how our body is created is sin. That goes for our own perceived thoughts on our sexuality.

Some of us are born into this world not the exact way God desired. That is with both parents male and female who God has put together to multiply, replenish, and subdue the earth. But that’s sin!!! It’s not an excuse to continue in sin!

When we bring children into this world we are responsible for showing them the way and we are held accountable for it. If we are letting them grow up how they want or how we did we will answer to that decision. If how we grew up was not on God and we let our children do the same, that’s called a generational curse. It’s not, aww look at my mini me. You aught to feel remorse because you are not in the right place yourself and you think they will have a better opportunity living in sin? No, it will be worse for them! Because you have given that demon authority over their life! We are not to hinder a child from coming to the Lord. We should not have to have someone who has committed their lives completely to the Lord deliver your child from what God gave you the responsibility of doing. There is a death sentence on your child as soon as they are born. But Jesus has come to give us life and life more abundantly! They may not have died naturally but physically they have. I’m so grateful that my children know my voice and they won’t follow a strangers voice. I teach them the ways of the Lord to prepare them. Yes my circumstances may not be the best but that’s no excuse. I will never abandon my children because I love them so much and long for them to have a chance into heaven and fulfill God’s will. Even if it’s through my pain and suffering.

A Love Letter from God

I thank God I’m not where I used to be! But I’m grateful for where I used to be because it’s what brought me here! God is very strategic in everything he does! I’m so glad I held on through the fight. I’m so glad he didn’t allow me to fall too hard! I’m so grateful he dusted me off hugged me and told me just hold my hand, I’ll take you the rest of the way!

“You can cry but just continue to hold on! I promise if you don’t let go you will appreciate the path I took you on! You will understand why you couldn’t do what others are doing, why you couldn’t hang with others, why you felt lonely at times. It was all for my glory to shine through you! Believe me, it’s so worth it! And just in case you feel like you’re in it by yourself, my son already made your burdens light and I’m walking it with you!” Just whatever you do, don’t let go! Because where you go I will not go! But I will be here when you come back! Waiting to pick up right where we left off. Now don’t leave me waiting too long! I’m jealous, I will do what’s necessary to bring you back to me. I know things are tempting to sight but stay with me and there will be better. That thing you keep asking me for is coming but you’re too anxious! Just be patient! You think I’m gonna let you try and get it yourself when I already have it waiting for you? I said I will perform it! My word will fulfill its purpose. Just grab my hand!

Now, If you never return you will never know the love I have for you just for being you! You will never know what I have waiting for you at our next destination. I won’t be able to give you what’s already yours. It will sit and sit with no one to claim it.

In case you also forgot, I love you my beautiful bride and I will share you with no one! Not even your spouse! This is why I choose them for you. They must be right, filled with my love just like you so we will never part! I love you that much! I just want to make sure you don’t forget about me, my love for you, the price I paid for you! So it must be right! I will not give you nothing less than what’s rightfully yours. Because of all of the suffering you endured, you paid a price also! And I am one who knows what that feels like!”

Love,
YHWH

Does your joy have an expiration date?

Everything in life has expiration dates. If we haven’t realized that yet then it’s time to pay more attention. We all live in this flesh. The bible says the joy that we have the world can’t give it nor take it away. We’re so busy trying to fulfill our desires for happiness by getting our nails done, hair done, shopping for houses, cars, vacations, etc. They don’t last. Not unless you pay a lot of money to maintain it. The hairstyles don’t last that long. So you would have to spend more money to get your hair redone. But it’s a temporary joy, temporary satisfaction. It gives us a little bit of excitement, a bit of a high. Then it’s taken away from us. But then we have to go fulfill it again. But it’s a deception! Who is the prince of lies? Satan! He deceived Eve. So we’re just apart of his cycle. This is why a lot of us are committing suicide, depressed, and trying to fulfill a lifestyle of being rich and famous. But money doesn’t make you happy! It’s a temporary satisfaction. When you start with $0 in your bank account and you gain more money, temporary satisfaction, It has an expiration date. You have bills to take care of. And then comes “yes! I can finally get what I’ve been waiting to get”. This is also a temptation to get you back to feeling depressed because you give into every fleshly desire. But if you past this temptation….. If you are faithful over a few he will make you ruler over many.

Money should not be the center of your joy. When money comes nothing in you should change other than praising God of course. Remember your provider.

Everything that comes in your life has an assignment!

A lot of us will take the gift God gives us and spend it all and come back like “God I’m depressed, I’m sad, I need money, I need a house, job, car, etc”.
This is why we don’t depend on the things of this world, material things, emotional things. We must have our faith and trust in Jesus. When Jesus was tempted he always reverted back to the word of God. He didn’t depend on himself. He knew the power he possessed but it wasn’t time yet to exercise that power. The enemy wanted him and us to suffer longer than necessary, be disobedient. These material things sometimes makes us even more sad and depressed when we run out. It makes us want more and then we do what’s necessary to get more. Like work overtime. Which leads to neglecting of something else. This is why when you want God to do things for you like give you money, a spouse, house, car, etc. and he’s not doing it. It’s because we need to practice balance and discipline. You look for something to make you happier. But it’s not the outside, you have to find peace within yourself. When your joy and peace is on the inside of you the world can not take it away. You own it! It comes from God. So when we have it from our father nothing can take it away. No money, house, car, spouse, death, nothing. So think about why you are where you are now. Have you allowed something to control your joy? Think about why you have not progressed. You depend so much on the material things, worldly things. But God is the only one that can give you joy, love, and peace. That’s why a lot of people who struggle with adultery, gluttony, alcoholism, sexism, and any other sins continue in the sin because they aren’t using the right source. It’s not enough to just have what’s given they need more. If they seek within themselves they will see those things won’t fulfill the void. These things will only give them temporary happiness. It’s a hard thing to deal with. But this is a thing we have to choose daily. It’s because we are still in this world. Everyday choose where you will get your joy from! We depend on Facebook, IG, pictures, status updates, to give us joy. Likes to statuses. These are temporary satisfactions. This is why we wake up every morning and go directly to Facebook, tv, etc. We have made this the source of our joy. It’s DECEPTION!, THE ENEMY! He wants us to feel like it’s us. But it’s not. Find your true joy!

Same look, New Mind

A lot of us are concerned with how we look to the world. So we try to lose weight, change our look, change our hair, clothes, etc. But we are not seeking to change the right thing. We must go to the root. That is we must kill off everything connected to pleasing the flesh: sexual promiscuity, impurity, lust, doing whatever you feel like whenever you feel like it, and grabbing whatever attracts your fancy. Colossians 3:5 MSG. We can lose weight but have we dealt with our insecurities? Have we dealt with our lusting of food, gluttony? We can change our clothes to be more revealing but we will still struggle with rejection. It may even get as bad as us rejecting ourselves when we look in the mirror. This is why you see people like Little Kim changing their look. God does not require for you to lose weight but he does require for you to stop lusting after food, have control over your mind, make the right choices. God also does not require for you to change your attire to be more appealing but he does require for you to get rid of the spirit of rejection and get rid of these insecurities. When we are in Christ we are new creatures. Old things are past away and behold all things are made new. You won’t see the newness in the natural until you allow the newness in the spiritual to take place. There is a reason why you don’t like the way you look. It could be the words of affirmation you never received. Have you ever noticed when you put a new picture up on Facebook and you get a lot of likes you make that your main picture? Those likes are affirmations. It’s normal for you to experience that. But God doesn’t want you to depend on that. There is a reason why you gained so much weight. There was insecurities, hatred of oneself, rejection from a loved one, etc. what if you make these changes and you still feel the same way? It’s time to reshape your life around Christ. It’s time to stop fulfilling the lust of the flesh because it only leads to idolatry. It’s time to walk in the wardrobe you were given, LOVE!

Christ does not put us in categories like we do. We are not ugly because we are fat. We are not ugly because we are skinny. We are not ugly because we are dark. We are not ugly because we are light. Love is what draws people together and love is what brought you to Christ! Become blessed guys!

Does your fruit match the seeds the gardener planted?

There should not be a difference of believers of Christ. If all of our foundation is deeply rooted on a solid rock and not surface layer or 1 ft deep of soil and we are producing the expected fruit because we all claim to be connected to the same root, an unbeliever nor believer should not have to wonder about our root source. They should not have to question even if our root source exists. We are made to bare the fruit of Christ. We are all in the same image and likeness so there is no need to judge each other. When we judge we are judging the fruit displayed. When we righteously judge it’s giving out love, our root. But if we are judging their fruit do we think our fruit is different? Or are we thinking our fruit are figs when they’re really grapes just like theirs? If we feed them the fruit of our tree which is rooted in love because that’s what our source is then they will eat and reproduce what they eat. When we judge there is no love displayed. And if God, whom is love, be for us who can be against us. Let’s dig deeper to a solid foundation so we can get more of God and put more of him and less of us into practice. Reference from Luke 6:43-49 Lets get ourselves together because the ax is already at the root of the trees and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. Luke 3:9. If a gardener planted strawberry seeds all over the soil and they all sprouted but they saw blueberries throughout the patch. Although they may be good fruit but the gardener did not expect those. There would be a question if the right root or seeds came in the displayed package. We were all bought with a price. And if He, our gardener/creator/redeemer must return his product, He will to a place of no return.

Bound by Religion Series: Emotional, Verbal, and Mental Abuse

Success, Happiness, and Beauty: Are you?

What is considered success, happiness, or beauty to you?

Why is it that women have to have makeup and long extensions or different color extensions, different texture hair to be determined successful, happy, beautiful, etc. How many times have you looked in the mirror, being naked and critiqued yourselves? Have you looked at your flaws that are determined by other people? Why do women have to have long lashes, caked up faces, 6-inch heels, certain type of clothing?

We don’t have to measure our success, happiness, and beauty to someone else. We are who we are for a reason. We were made in God’s image and his likeness.

In Genesis 3, Satan tempted Eve with knowing of good and evil and living a long life. God was already going to give her that but she was tempted with doing it a cosmetic way.

Do you notice that when you obtain something that you desire, you want more and more? That show’s that what you desire will never be enough so we keep buying and buying or obtaining and obtaining.

Why do people obtain degrees after degrees? Why do people want more and more money, bigger houses, more cars? Is it enough to just have your needs?

Because we aren’t millionaires doesn’t mean we aren’t successful or happy. Happiness and success does not come from the outside but from the inside.

These things do not cover up who we truly are inside. It’s just a cover up. We still are who God made us to be. If we desire things, God will gladly give them to us. But we have to seek ye first the kingdom of God and all his righteousness and everything will be added unto it.

So let’s get naked, not physically, but emotionally, spiritually. Let God use us for who he made us to be. Let’s not cover up our intimacy with him with social media, pastors, family members. But let’s get more intimate with him.

If you wore makeup and wigs everyday and then were to get married and you decided to take everything off and your husband like “whoa” who are you? That’s a problem! God loves us for who we are not what we look like.

They were NAKED and not Ashamed! Genesis 2:25

Are you willing to be Naked for the rest of your life? How much would it cost us to give it all up? To be completely transparent, open, honest, free from societies way of how we are supposed to look, be, think, etc. Can we completely show our true self flaws and all? Can we stop fulfilling the lust of the flesh for Jesus? Can we see ourselves the way God sees us? God asked Adam “Who told you were naked?” This was after sin crept in. Before the fall they were naked and not ashamed. They didn’t know they were naked at the time. But after the fall they knew. They began to hide themselves from God. Society has gotten us into performing cosmetic surgery upon ourselves. Sin! has us judging ourselves by what we wear, how we speak, our education, our material possessions, our SKIN Color! Even if we all walked around naked, we would find something to critique the next person on. Or, we would find something different we could do with our body such as piercings, colors, shape, etc. All to make us stand out. For what though? There is no reward for it. In the garden there is protection from all of this.

Naked עָרוֹם

• This word also means bare, without clothes; (of an object) without the usual covering or protection; (of a tree, plant, or animal) without leaves, hairs, etc.

1. When will you become naked?
   1. Let’s remove our cover-up, our foundation, and our mask
      1. What happens when it rubs off? Falls off?
   2. Let’s remove our business attire, our costumes
      1. The items that make us fit societies requirements need to be removed
   3. Why have you covered yourself?
      1. Make-up is to cover up your flaws, to make you comfortable within yourself.
         1. We don’t need to be ashamed of our flaws
         2. We were made in his image and his likeness

• After the fall of man, Adam hid from God in the garden because he realized he was naked. God later on covered him up with animals.

1. Who told you were naked? Genesis 3:11
   1. After Adam and Eve knew each other, they became naked and were not ashamed. But they didn’t know they were naked. They knew they were naked after the fall and were in hiding.
   2. They “saw” that they were “naked,” what is “pleasing to the eye” causes displeasure with their own nakedness and the need to cover it with “fig leaves,” and the “wisdom” gained only enables the making of “coverings.” ^[1]
2. What will it cost you to be naked?
3. When are the times that you become naked?
   1. Bathing- you get naked to cleanse yourself.
   2. The doctors prepare you for surgery by making you naked.
   3. When you are born you are naked.
4. Being in the garden was a place of protection
   1. Garden גַּן
   2. A garden is where fruits, vegetables, and herbs are grown for harvest.
   3. The root word means to defend, enclose, fence, and protect

6. Being naked is not a crime
   1. Being naked causes one to look at them self and critique their looks instead of just accepting themselves for who they are. These are because of the sins of this world.
   2. In order to be cleansed, we have to be naked.
   3. God wants to see himself in us. He doesn’t care for the glitz and glamour, the degrees and certifications. He wants us.
   4. Performing cosmetic surgery on ourselves only covers up what God intented but it’s what we have a hard time accepting because of sin.
7. What if a baby was born with their clothes on.
   1. Not gender specific
   2. But God brought us into this world as who we are

Application:

I challenge each of you to challenge yourself to become naked in front of the Lord.

1. Stand in front of a mirror
2. See how much you non intentionally critique yourselves in the mirror being naked
3. Try to see yourself as God sees you
4. Which one lasts, is better, or is the result of Love?
5. Reveal something to a friend or spouse that you have been covering up
6. Examine how you feel afterwards
7. Examine how they respond/ how they feel
8. Take a fast from something that is deemed very special to you
   1. How do you feel without it?
   2. At the end of the fast what are your results

^[1] Mathews, K. A. (1996). Genesis 1-11:26 (Vol. 1A, p. 239). Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers.