Of all the things God has done through me, I've never asked Him for those personal assignments.
God came to me with the assignments, which were outside of and in addition to regular servanthood in a church.
Whether it was volunteering at a nursing home in my hometown in the late 1980s or
volunteering in some places in the Metro I live near now or
doing different things in churches,
God brought the assignments to my heart.

A few years ago, I heard teaching about praying to God about the next thing or another assignment in personal ministry.  I tried that but it didn't fit me.  I was so accustomed to God bringing things to me, because He knows me better than I know me, that using my prayer time for that didn't fit our relationship.
I did pray the prayer for a while, though, because that was what I was taught at that time. Then, I decided to wait and keep an ear out, like always.

My last 'next thing' outside of serving in a church, before that prayer request was the two radio stations. I went to a traditional station to give an announcement about a book signing and ended up doing daily TPMs for that one and an internet station for many years.  Somehow, in the meeting about the announcement, a question was asked, I remembered in 7th grade I wrote a list of things I wanted to do, one of which was printed 'daily breads'. The 'daily breads' ended up being audio daily thoughts for the radio listeners. So, that 'thing' ended in 2017 at the traditional station and 2022 at the internet station.

I wasn't pulling on God for the next 'thing' to do in my personal servanthood/ministry because I knew God would bring it.  Most people in the Bible, and probably since then, have not pulled on God for something to do, and He spoke or urged when the time was right. 

About a month ago (January 2025),
God said that I'm (me) already doing the 'next thing'.
2022 ended a thing God birthed through me in 2006. Another thing began a couple of years before that. It's not 'visible' to most but recognized and utilized by a few. I've actually done it on and off, here and there, since the late 90s. More recently, substantially more, more consistent, and on a deeper level. It is so common to me, that I missed it, i.e., didn't realize it was the 'next thing', until God pointed out who receives from/utilizes the calling. WOW!

This morning, February 24, 2025,
God said you got it the way you wanted it.
Explanation:  Although I haven't been pulling on God for the 'next thing', I have been praying about how it comes and maintains. Since, I was just me alone, not backed by a company or church or group, I appreciated the seen and unseen protection God provided.  See, this is the blessing of the last thing:  With the radio station, no one could interfere with me.  The owners and employees were loyal.  When...if...anyone, no matter who it was, suggested I be removed because they didn't like me or the content or whatever, the station was loyal to me.  They didn't let anyone, known, unknown, relative, friend, hater - sway them from their connection with me. The internet station was basically the same. 
SO, for all the remaining 'next things' God assigns me in my personal ministry/servanthood, has been that same type of relationship - me providing what's needed spiritually, them being loyal to not being swayed away from me by naysayers, meannies, competitors (?), hater relatives/friends/frenemies, etc. 
God pointed out that He has had and will continue to have all that covered until such time that assignment ends. 

Revised: 
Of all the things God has done through me, I didn't have to ask Him for those personal assignments.
God came to me with the assignments, which were outside and in addition to serving in a church.
Whether it was volunteering at a nursing home in my hometown in the late 1980s or
volunteering in some places in the Metro I live near now or doing different things in churches,
God brought the assignments to my heart.

A few years ago, I heard teaching about praying to God about the next thing or next assignment in personal ministry.  I tried that but it didn't fit me.  I was so accustomed to God bringing things to me, because He knows me better than I know myself, that using my prayer time for that didn't fit our relationship. I did pray the prayer for a while, though, because that was what I was taught at that time. Then, I decided to wait and keep an ear out, like always. But there was a prayer I prayed about the next assignment.  I'll get to that later.

Backstory: My previous 'next thing' outside of serving in a church was the two radio stations. I went to a traditional station to give an announcement about a book signing and ended up doing daily TPMs for that and an internet station for many years.  Somehow, in the meeting about the announcement, a question was asked. I remembered in 7th grade I wrote a list of things I wanted to do, one of which was printed 'daily breads'. The 'daily breads' ended up being daily audio thoughts for the radio listeners. So, that 'thing' ended in 2017 at the traditional station and 2022 at the internet station.

So, as previously stated, I stopped praying for the next 'thing' to do in my personal servanthood/ministry because I knew God would bring it but prayed another prayer.  

About a month ago (January 2025),
God said that I'm (me) already doing the 'next thing'.
2018 and 2022 ended the radio assignments God birthed through me in 2006 and 2008. Another thing began a couple of years before 2022 that is not 'visible' to most but recognized and utilized by a few. I've actually done it on and off, here and there, since the late 90s. More recently, substantially more, more consistent, and on a deeper level. It is so common to me that I didn't realize it was the 'next thing' (after radio), until God pointed it out. WOW!

This morning, February 24, 2025,
God said you got it the way you wanted it.
Explanation: The other prayer I prayed about the 'next thing' (before I realized I was doing it) was about how I needed it to be maintained like the radio situations, meaning since I was just me, not backed by a company or church or group or sponsor, I appreciated the seen and unseen protection God provided. The blessing of the 2006 traditional radio stint was that the station let no one interfere. The owners and employees were loyal.  When or if anyone, no matter who it was, suggested I be removed because they didn't like me or the content or they didn't think I deserved the spots, the station was loyal to me.  They didn't let anyone - known, unknown, relative, friend, hater - sway them from their connection with me. The internet station, beginning 2008, was basically the same.

 
SO, although I wasn't praying for another assignment, I was praying for protection with whatever God assigned.  Yes, I had ptsd issues from other attacks from busybodies not even related to radio (yep!). I've prayed for the same type of covering/loyalty/dedication and God said I got it with the 'next thing' He opened my eyes to in January, that I had been doing for a while but didn't see it as a big deal. There has been that same type of relationship - me providing what's needed spiritually, them being loyal to not being swayed away from me by naysayers, meannies, competitors (?), hater relatives/friends/frenemies, etc. God pointed out that He has had and will continue to have all of that covered until such time the assignment ends AND will do the same for future 'next things'.



I thank God for looking beyond my doubts and seeing my needs.  
  


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Memory verse -    crhp --->>> chrp  proud / ptrom ???  

​I Peter 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;

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Week 1 - I Peter 1
Week 2 - I Peter 2 - 3:7
Week 3 - I Peter 3:8 - 4
Week 4 - I Peter 5
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Feb. 21, 2025
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People want you to play.
Watch out!
You might be the ball!!!

I get it, but, think:

Stores don't put them out,
Parks don't put them out,
Event/theme places don't put them out.
Who immediately puts them out as unwanted, also hinting that the bigger person is incompetent and incapable of handling the issue on their own?
A ban is less traumatizing than
forced removal.
#itsariddle

Feb. 21, 2025
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There are people who won't dare eat without praying over their food but will purposely treat others like dirt.

#strainingatgnats
#swallowingcamels

Feb. 21, 2025
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The next time someone attacks your grown self for the religion you were raised in, the college you did or did not attend, the neighborhood you grew up in or live in now, or the place where you work, remind them that they chose to bully you, you didn't choose to bully them. They chose you because they thought you would take it because they think you're weak because of yours or your parent's choices for your life.
You turned out to be the great, peaceful you.
They turned out to be a bully. Hmmm...

Feb. 21, 2025
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No sense trying to spare your reputation with people who don't like you anyway. So say what you gotta say. Do what you gotta do. It's God we need to please. Say it! Do it!


Feb. 19, 2025
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People block you from doing what God called you to do, then wonder why you act strange and like you don't know what to do.

You know what to do! They just won't let you. So, then you don't know who to be because you're not allowed to be yourself.

Example:
God called you to play the horn.
You're told no but are forced onto the drums.
You sit there, not knowing how to play, when to start, where to stop, or how to keep the rhythm - no spontaneity or improvisation or flow - BECAUSE
you weren't called to the drums. You were called to the horn where you can do all that because it's in you.

But they're going to act like you're the problem!

This goes for everything else, too; any gift, talent, calling, office job, landscaping position, plumbing, singing, etc.

Either sit there and make yourself look incompetent, quit and wait, or quit and work somewhere else that will utilize what God called you to do.

Feb. 17, 2025
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Why does she need to change so you won't sin?
You change. Grab a hold onto God and do right.
Wait a minute, there are some who don't even believe in God but they can do right regardless of how she dresses or dances or talks or walks. You have God!
#Dobetter
Often, it is a specific female or a specific group of females, that one wants to dress differently...which begs the question, "Why them?"
Maybe, it's more about control of them than their modesty that's supposed to make the man/men live right.)

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Feb. 17, 2025
Sunday,
I've heard some of the elements of the prayer many times.
This time, God led me to appreciate it in a higher way, meaning none of us know all that needs to be healed, and especially whatever generational curses there are or the soul ties we have.
We may think we have none of those because they aren't like a pulsing, red light in our lives...
no drug abuse or alcoholic parents or rampant, crazed adultery or lasciviousness in the family. But, there could be something in all of us that we don't realize is unhealed/cursed/tied or that any of our stuff is a problem because it doesn't interfere with our life.
When we surrender all, then God heals some things, then we go, "OH, that! That needed to go away?!? I didn't know." Then God tells us why because of the layers we will eventually see and understand.
Example - Nothing deep, just tiny examples: People who have to eat a sandwich a certain way; are afraid of noodles, beards, red cars, carpet, or whatever; have to take several baths each day, why he/she treats their child/sibling/relative that way, the need for a particular/laborious routine, etc.
(Pause: People, don't go telling the world those examples are me. None of these are me. They're just examples. This alone tells you I need healing from people putting stuff on me and running with it like they know me instead of asking me and purposely misconstruing 'examples')
Anyway...
Stuff could be something much deeper that we don't know about, don't know how we got how we are, or weren't even born when whatever started that we need healing from.
#SurrenderAll #altarprayeralwayssaymetooLord

Feb. 16, 2025
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Feb. 15, 2025
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Do what God tells you to do.
Others who don't like it will have to deal with their own emotions and issues about it - pouting, anger, and maybe even detachment from you. They have to wrestle with themselves and maybe with God, but you have to do what God assigned you.
If others refuse to assist when they are supposed to, they failed their test. Your test is to get it done. Pass your test.
Have they ever ignored God's command to them for your sake? No. They do what God tells them, in spite of you. Why can't you do what God tells you, in spite of them?
#dontlettheminyourear
#theyllsayyoufailedbcyoushouldhavedonetheirthing
#doGodsthingwinorlosefailorsucceed
#besidesitsallsuccesswhenyoudowhatGodsays

Feb. 14, 2025
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Kids see parents being mean to them while they teach the kids to show the Love of Christ or before they send the kids out the door to show the Love of Christ.

Parents: Mean. Mean. Mean. Then, tell the kids to go out and show the love of Christ.

Kids thinking: "How?!? All y'all are to us and to others is mean then fake nice to others, but teach us to show the Love of Christ!
We see you. The 🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️ doesn't = the 🗣👄 ."

Kids can see! They either don't trust the adults or learn to fake the Love of Christ like they think the adults are faking it.

#wemustbecareful

Feb. 13, 2025
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I'm talking about Christians. Why don't they realize they bring Jesus in with-in them? Why aren't they already planning to act right before you or I enter and bring Jesus with us?
#rhetorical
#butforrealthough
#Ialreadyknow
AND
Feb 1, 2025 
Some people don't want you present because they believe they have to act right if you're around. Even when you enter, don't say a word, don't make a face or sound, don't introduce yourself; and either don't care how they act because it's not your God-assignment to care or your lane or that they act differently behind closed doors vs in public and know better or you already know they don't walk their talk but understand that it is what it is. Whew!
Christians feel wrong in your presence (God's presence in you or intellectual/educational/career experience abilities they should also have!) and don't want you around because they don't want to do right - not for a 30-minute meeting, 45-minute informational session, hour-long event, two-hour long service project, or 8-hour workday. That's a sign to you that His light or your intellect/education/career experiences truly shine through you. Consider it a compliment. Someone who is not afraid of you or embarrassed by/insecure about themselves will welcome you.


Feb 12, 2025
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Your backbiters, that you aren't even aware of, will gather around you in times of trouble, just to turn you against the one person that can help you. Why? They don't want you to be helped. They will pretend to care and want what's best for you, but are secretly against you.
When the road gets rougher than they thought it would, and decide they really want you to get better, they have the conundrum of trying to figure out how to turn your heart back to the one they turned you against but need to help you. Always think for yourself. Ask God to help you think for yourself, as in going to Him for directions instead of following people because they may like you.


Feb 11, 2025
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Some feel the need to give or offer so much to keep others in their life, that when they meet someone who doesn't require all that, the person doesn't know how to relax and accept the support/care/friendship.
Simple example: Think about the little kid who always thought they had to promise you something to get you to play with them. You had to tell them you would play with them anyway and didn't need to be promised stuff. Kid didn't know how to act with that.
Some adults are this way, too.
Where did the insecurity come from?
Why do they think they need to promise to get friendships, etc?
Is it confusing one industry that works that way with regular life?
Is it the loss of former friends because of issues around them? (Ex on the kid-level:
Parent fusses alot or is always out-of-hand, so others don't like to come for play dates. The kid feels the need to make promises to get other kids to come over to play.)
People, you're good enough as you are. There is a friend for everyone.
Also, if applicable, clean up your
head 'space'/environment/life so those who care can come around and feel safe and at ease when hanging with you.


Feb 10, 2025
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Feb 9, 2025
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You don't even like the situations or the people, but you're mad at other people because they don't like the same situations and people.

Feb 4, 2025
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Feb 1, 2025
Some people don't want you present because they believe they have to act right if you're around. Even when you enter, don't say a word, don't make a face or sound, don't introduce yourself; and either don't care how they act because it's not your God-assignment to care or your lane or that they act differently behind closed doors vs in public and know better or you already know they don't walk their talk but understand that it is what it is. Whew!
Christians feel wrong in your presence (God's presence in you or intellectual/educational/career experience abilities they should also have!) and don't want you around because they don't want to do right - not for a 30-minute meeting, 45-minute informational session, hour-long event, two-hour long service project, or 8-hour workday. That's a sign to you that His light or your intellect/education/career experiences truly shine through you. Consider it a compliment. Someone who is not afraid of you or embarrassed by/insecure about themselves will welcome you.
THEN,
​Feb. 13, 2025 
I'm talking about Christians. Why don't they realize they bring Jesus in with-in them? Why aren't they already planning to act right before you or I enter and bring Jesus with us?
#rhetorical
#butforrealthough
#Ialreadyknow

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Edit 08.2025:  This dream came to pass Spring, 2025. It involved a volunteer (me), a church ministry, and a nursing home.  The details will appall you, but I wasn't surprised because of the warning dream and the 'players'. More to come.   ​

The dream God sent me the morning of February 16, 2025:

I entered a stable. There were two brown horses to my left and three brown horses to my right. There were three people standing at the head of two of the horses on my right, watching for me enter. There was one person standing away from the others, at the head of the third horse to my right. That person seemed to be trying to hide, and maybe was a little apprehensive, as she watched me in the door way. Their faces were a little blurry.

I noticed the horses had their backs to the door and were right at the door, leaving a little circle of room for someone to enter. I remembered that horses don't like for anyone to walk behind them, especially a stranger, and will kick hard to warn, injure, or release from life. The horses were familiar with the people who were already there, but had never seen me before. 

The people were watching, saying nothing, no greeting, no directions, nothing. The horses didn't even look back. I stood there, silently in my mind determined to not walk behind the horses to get to where the ladies were. Even though I knew they knew the horses, I still wondered how they got in there safely, walking behind the horses.

The Lord said they went in, then turned the horses around, and waited for me to enter. 

I woke up from the dream. 

#itwontwork
#theditchwontbeforme
#GodismyGodtoo
#Revealer
#myprotector

Them:
Are you a people-pleaser?

Me:
No.

Them:
Prove it.

Me:
How many times have you called me stubborn?
How many times have you given me a dirty look or spoken words to move me, and I didn't change whatEVVA' it was I thought you didn't like? LOL!
Oh! Are you still calculating all the times you called me stubborn aloud, in your head, and to other people in conversations about me?  Yes, I'm sure you will need a calculator, pencil with an eraser, long sheet of paper, and your fingers and toes to count all those times.
THEN, count all the times, you are aware of, that I obeyed and incorporated your directions into my life.
Stubborn? I think not. Self-aware? Yes. Willing? Yes. Manageable? Yes. Controlling? No. 

I am tenaciously determined to do what applies to me; yield to all that is right and that I am capable of doing; will help people do their thing if I'm supposed to; and, not do what absolutely does not fit me, in most cases. 

#STUBBORN
#Stand
#Tough
#Upon
#Bec's
#Bond
#On
#(the) Righteous
#Nazarene
When I searched 'stubborn' and 'stubborn child', the clipart was of people or children being pointed at and fussed at. So, no pic.   

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Do what God tells you to do.
Others who don't like it will have to deal with their own emotions and issues about it. Pouting, anger, and maybe even detachment from you. They have to wrestle with themselves and maybe with God, but you have to do what God assigned you.
If others refuse to assist when they are supposed to, they failed their test. Your test is to get it done anyway. Pass your test.
Have they ever ignored God's command to them, for your sake? No. They do what God told them, in spite of you. Why can't you do what God tells you, in spite of them?





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#dontletMEoranyonebotheryouifIdontlikeyourobediencetoGod


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