The truth that only God is good does not disqualify the goodness we could have inside as some purport. The truth that God is good defines the source of all goodness. We don't have to be bread in order to share bread with someone who is hungry, we just need to have bread. We don't... Continue Reading →
Open to Promotion
Are you currently or have you ever been in a relationship that seemed to sputter out or that reached a point of complacency, still well but obviously lacking a zest that was once present? This is often due to the lack of promotion. Promotion is the process of transitioning closer to God's ideal's for us.... Continue Reading →
A Shemittah Lesson
I was recently counseled by the Holy Spirit on some emotions I was holding. I broke my leg a couple of months back and have been on crutches and quite honestly I have been needy. I have been needy, not only physically but emotionally as well. I had begun to feel somewhat let down by... Continue Reading →
Are You Watching
What does it mean to watch as the Lord commands in Matthew 24:42? "Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come." We are cautioned to watch so that the coming of the Lord does not take us as a thief in the night. It says in scripture that no man knows... Continue Reading →
Love me…Love me not
Have you ever picked petals from a flower and did the "love me-love me not" silly ritual? Though that is a silly game played as children it is a reflection of an actual question we carry in our hearts that requires serious attention. I am convinced that in many ways this question governs our life... Continue Reading →
The Birds and the Bees
As we start our climb toward the climax of spring we see the reproduction process of nature intensify evidenced by the proliferation of pollen everywhere. As pollen gets all over your clothes, your car, even in our bodies triggering allergies for some, do you ever stop and think that during this time we are caught... Continue Reading →
Fulfilling His Joy
[SNCC singing "We Shall Overcome" 1966 photo New York Times] In America, most people would consider me to be a black man or an African-American man. Take notice that in both instances race and ethnicity comes first, then “man”. Most people even see themselves as either a black person or a white person and so... Continue Reading →
The Music Maker
When you think of an instrument maker and how he crafts different instruments you will realize there are vastly different processes employed to produce each instrument. Take brass instruments, first the brass has to be extracted from the ground and then fired to extreme heat to be formed. Now look at wood winds, they have... Continue Reading →
Love Supreme
What do you think of when you think of your first love? Do you think of your first serious crush or perhaps the first person you gave yourself to. Now think…does that love still inspire you, fulfill you, strengthen you, protect you, give you peace, give you joy, give you life. YESHUA says, if you... Continue Reading →
Rainy Days
I wait for you at the well of my love but you will not come and drink.I call for you to come and you seem bothered by the invitation.I think maybe the drawing of the bucket is too much, so I make the well to run over.Yet you still will not come.So I go to... Continue Reading →