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BLOGS
2018
Nov - Links to TPM Wearables for purchase.
Oct - Mistaken for the side piece.
July - I Cor 7:34 - An Observation, not a Command.
May - Women, we change the atmosphere.
March - Women's History:
Black Women Preachers;
No More Smallin' Up of Me; Our Greatest Fear.
February - Valentines...daily!
January - Random thoughts.
2017
Dec - Christmas...don't get too deep.
Nov - Happy Thanksgiving!
October - That's not worship.
August - The devil is a liar!
July - Where do you f-i-t?
Be Consistent.
June - "No" instead of "Go".
April - Let them "kill" you.
March -Woman, You are good
enough.
February - What ministry is calling you?
January - Woman, Go!
2016
November - Don't be a Jonah.
October - It's Time for a new
season.
September - Youth, here is something you can conquer.
Aug -
July - Passive/Aggressive Leaders.
June - It's hard to leave.
June - YOU ARE STILL RESPONSIBLE.
(aka How Women Might Miss God.)
May - Woman, why are you
still there?
April - Passive/Aggressive people.
March - God will give you His
own special pulpit
Feb - Rejection can be a blessing.
January - Snakes in your life.
2010
Inclusion or Not? Which one are you?
2000
August - Move!/Sometimes You Gotta
Leave Home To Be Blessed
1996
January - So what?
August - But I Wrought For My Names Sake

Woman, do you ever feel like a dead tree, even though you know God has filled you with living water and knowledge/wisdom that needs to be shared? Well, be encouraged. Do what's necessary to go from feeling like a dead tree to BEing/sharing the fruitful, flowering tree that God has made you and wants to contiue to make you.

Isaiah 61"For the Spirit of the Lord God is upon me;.." https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/mclean/kjv/Isa.61

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BLOGS
2024
August -
Who Will You Be?
Don't Talk To Me Like I'm
A Child
July -
Distraction?
Set and Enforce Your Boundaries.
We'll Use It On You, Too.
Transitions
June -
My One-
Word Prayers
What's Next?
May -
Numbers 25. Homework.
Three Books Down. Three To Go.
The Promised Land For Your Teen.
Perception or Perspective?
April -
Then You Win.
You Made Your Bed.
God Will Encourage Us To Get It Done.
March -
Women
Hosea
We Don't Have to Prop Up God
God Will Encourage Us To Get It Done
Feb -
Peebles Hurt!
The Lion of the Tribe of Judah Within Us
The Road
Keep Your Teeth
Where Does It Come From?
Stuff I Have To Work On.
Peebles Hurt! Get Them Out.
Lion of the Tribe of Judah
Dummy Down
Jan -
Start Right. Foundations Matter.
Gnats and Camels.
A Rat!
Punishment?
Right? Wrong? Both?
Dreams & Vascillating on My Feelings About the Issues. (edited)
Now, I Know Why.
Leave Joe Alone!
What Would You Title This?

2023/2024
Last and First Dreams of 2023/24.
Dreams & Vascillating on How I Feel About the Issues.
2023
Jan - Job's Wife
Feb - Cast Away
Feb - Don't!
Feb - Stand
May - 'Pay" Yourself
June - For By One Man's Obedience
June - Mary Sat. Jesus Let Her.
July - TPM It's Not Dead (aired 2006)
July - MOVE! (2002)
July - In The Presence of My Enemies
August - Broken. Humble. Stewardship of Your Gift.
Don't Be A Haman.
Sept - Who's Doing The Talking?
October - Do We Really Want An Apology?
October - Two Faces.
October- Come Here
October- God Can Make Your Situation So Unique
October- It's Not A Miracle, We Just Decided...
November - Move To The Front Of The Line
November - Glad to Have Nerves
November - Prayer
December - We've Discussed This Before.
December - Healed!
December - My Testimony. The End.

2022
July - Boundaries
2021
June - Resumes'
2020
Jan - Bits N Pieces

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Job's Wife

1/15/2023

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Job 1: 13-19; 2:9
We are aware that in some circles, women of the Bible get a bad rap/bad reputation/dissed. How many times have you heard someone, with utter shock and disgust, hold out Jobs wife as a awful woman for suggesting that Job curse God and die?
Many of us have heard this portrayal of Job's wife.
Yet, how many, who've portrayed her as such, considered the fact that she lost her kids, too?
Do you despise her a moment of angst, anxiety, anger, fear, grief and depression? Have you never felt angst, anxiety, anger, fear, grief or depression? Did you cast away your hope of expectations of forgiveness AND compassion from others and GOD? No. Yet, she’s not allowed grief or forgiveness by many mortals still to this day. God forgives. How many have taught that she should be allowed to doubt God for a minute even after all the ways He had blessed her family. Many born since and up to this minute have doubted God over less.
Can a faltering human female find forgiveness from humans in the telling of the story?
#moreofthmthnusmssdupntheBiblia

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Gnats and Camels

1/15/2023

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https://www.gotquestions.org/strain-gnat-swallow-camel.html

This proverb is spoken by Jesus in Matthew 23:24. On His last trip to Jerusalem, Jesus spoke at length about life under the oppressive reign of the Pharisees. The religious leaders tested Him continually “and plotted how to entangle him in his words” (Matthew 22:15). In Matthew 23, Jesus pronounced seven woes against the scribes and Pharisees, accusing them of hypocrisy, laying heavy burdens on the people, exalting themselves, and preventing people from entering God’s kingdom. He was especially harsh in His assessment of their strict adherence to the laws of tithing while they “neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness” (Matthew 23:23). He concludes by saying, “You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel” (verse 24).

The KJV translates the first part of the proverb as “strain at a gnat.” That wording gives the impression of choking while trying to swallow the gnat while easily gulping down the camel. But the better translation is “strain out a gnat.” The Greek word refers to straining water through a cloth or sieve to remove impurities. The GNT translates it this way: “You strain a fly out of your drink, but swallow a camel!”

The Jews had a law that forbade eating any flying insects that did not have jointed legs for hopping (Leviticus 11:20–23), and in this they were strictly observant. Because water could have insects and insect larvae in it, pious Jews were careful to strain the water through a cloth before drinking it. They did not want to accidentally ingest an unclean insect and thus violate the law. Jesus mentions this practice in His proverb and then contrasts it with a hyperbolic picture of gulping down a camel. In this way, Jesus accused them of taking great pains (straining out gnats) to avoid offence in minor things of little importance, while tolerating or committing great sins (swallowing camels) such as deceit, oppression, and lust.

Christ’s fifth woe relates to the same type of hypocrisy (Matthew 23:25–26). All Jewish sects agreed on the need to wash their dishes in order to maintain their ceremonial cleanness, but Jesus pointed out that it is senseless to clean the outside of a cup and leave the inside filthy. But this is exactly what the actions of the Jewish leaders achieved. They focused on outward behavior but neglected the most important commands—loving God and one another. They strained at a gnat, mistakenly believing that external conformity to the law was enough, while not seeing that the evil in their hearts was a camel-sized problem. The Pharisees were scrupulous in counting out their mint leaves and tithing their “dill and cumin” (verse 23), but their hearts were full of envy, pride, greed, and malice. They strained at the gnat of ceremony, but they ignored the camel of sin in their hearts.

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