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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 Products: www.etsy.com/shop/becmin |
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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Remember this? http://www.thoughtprovokingmomentsblog.com/blog/draft-god-can-make-your-situation-so-unique-that WELL, They said God told them you shouldn't work but they want you to give (money), come (gasoline), participate (clothing), do (money, gasoline, and clothing) as a volunteer. Hmmm. (A lady I know used to call it 'voluntold' instead of volunteer. LOL.) They had a negative thought, 'per the Spirit', when you chose to not have kids, but want you to be on call (which you don't mind) during the day to help with classes, services, funerals, meetings, etc. What could they be thinking?!? Plus, the 'Have babies but come when we call and don't bring the babies'. ???
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WATCH THIS VIDEO. https://fb.watch/oBLWcRbMyl/?mibextid=NnVzG8 #5 - Pay attention. #4 - Trust NO ONE, not even your friends, relatives, coworkers, co-laborers. (THIS YEAR, the Lord took me back 40 yesrs ago to show me I'd been set up, by someone who I SHOULD have been able to trust, but the setup didn't work.) #3 - Don't go alone. STAY with your buddy. #2 - Don't go! #1 - Give your life to Christ and ask Him to give you self-esteem, restore your God-given emotional/physical boundaries, and show you ways to have true fun. WATCH the video again. https://fb.watch/oBLWcRbMyl/?mibextid=NnVzG8 Christians have a myriad of reasons for accepting one and rejecting another.
Some don't like the denomination. Others believe in attending or degrees from Schools of Religion. Those over there have issues with race and gender. The ones on the other side choose according to knowledge of or lack of knowledge of their choices. Have you read Matthew 13? Consider this: You are not chosen or called or included because you're too much like Jesus. Jesus, not others, were rejected by His own area. Hmmm... You are not the 'others'. They get called. So, who's left to be compared to? Maybe, you're rejected like and for the same reasons as Jesus. "How could Jesus know that? Who taught Him? We don't trust any of it. Ignore Jesus." Be grateful. The rejection is a blessing and a testimony to your authenticity in Christ that some people can't handle. It's great to be rejected for being so much like Greater (is He that in in ME than he that is in the world). READ MATTHEW 13 KJV 54 And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works? 55 Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? 56 And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things? 57 And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house. EXB 54 He went to his hometown [C Nazareth; 2:23; Luke 2:39] and taught the people in their synagogue, and they were ·amazed [astonished]. They said, “Where did this man get this wisdom and this power to do miracles? 55 ·He is just [Isn’t this…?] the son of ·a [L the] carpenter. ·His mother is Mary [L Isn’t his mother called Mary…?], and his brothers are James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas. 56 And all his sisters are here with us. Where then does this man get all these things?” 57 So the people were ·upset with [offended by] Jesus. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is ·honored everywhere [not dishonored] except in his hometown and in his own ·home.” clipart by www.freepik.com Image by benzoix on Freepik www.etsy.com/shop/becmin to purchase POEMS FOR WOMEN: BLACK WOMEN, ALL WOMEN LUKE 12:47-48
KJV 47 And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. 48 But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more. EXB 47 “The ·servant [slave] who knows what his master wants but is not ·ready [prepared], or who does not do what the master wants, will ·be beaten with many blows [beaten severely]! 48 But the servant who does not know what his master wants and does things that should be punished will be beaten ·with few blows [lightly; C a metaphor for judgment]. From everyone who has been given much, much will be ·demanded [required]. And from the one trusted with much, much more will be expected. ON EARTH...WHILE ALIVE... Should leaders' mess be exposed moreso than the missteps and sins of Average Joe and Average Jan? Leaders, whether true or not (not), are considered more wise, more knowledgeable and "better" than the Average Joe and Jane. Shouldn't leaders who claim to know more or claim to have a deeper relationship with God because they are leaders, apply Luke 12 to themselves as being the ones who are better able at knowing God's will for themselves and others? The question is not about what God actually meant. It's about how people interpret the scriptures according to their place in the Kingdom. If one places themselves or allows others to look at them as "higher" than everyone else, that one should also apply scripture to themselves more readily than to those they consider to not be as "high" in the Kingdom. I Chronicles 16:19-22 KJV 19 When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers in it. 20 And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people; 21 He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes, 22 Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm. EXB 19 Then God’s people were few in number, very few, and they were strangers in the land. 20 They ·went [wandered] from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another. 21 But he did not let anyone ·hurt [oppress] them; he ·warned kings not to harm them [rebuked/admonished kings]. 22 He said, “Don’t touch my ·chosen people [anointed ones], and don’t harm my prophets.” [rebuked/admonished kings]. ON EARTH....FOR THE LIVING... This scripture is often used in defense of those in charge, leaders, "higher" callings, yet vs 22 makes it clear that God is speaking not only about the leaders or prophets but also about His Chosen people. All God's chosen are the 'anointed ones'. Therefore, this scripture, when applied to the Prophet/leadership, should also be equally applied to Laity (noun 1. lay people, as distinct from the clergy. 2. ordinary people, as distinct from professionals or experts.) The tax collector in Luke should have been protected from scorn and punishment. The pew sitter should be as protected from scorn and exposure of transgressions and iniquities as the clergy. The sins or missing of the mark of Average Joe or Jan are often put our front or called out or confronted or listed out loud or talked/written about. Yet, when a Prophet has issues, all are admonished to cover, forgive and forget immediately, don't even speak of it around your own kitchen table, and act like it didn't happen because the Prophet should be more protected/hidden than Average Joe's and Average Jane's mess. Not so according to the scripture. Average Joe and Average Jane are God's chosen and should be just as protected from whispers, calling outs, exposing, etc., as anyone else. Acts 10:34-35 KJV 34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:35 But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. EXB 34 Peter ·began to speak [ opened his mouth]: “I ·really [truly] understand now that ·to God every person is the same [God does not show favoritism/partiality]. 35 [But] In every ·country [nation] God accepts anyone who ·worships [ fears] him and ·does what is right [practices righteousness]. Romans 2:1-11 KJV 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; 10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: 11 For there is no respect of persons with God. EXB 9 He will give [or There will be] trouble [affliction; tribulation] and suffering [distress] to everyone who does evil—to the Jews first and also to those who are not Jews [the Greek; C here meaning all Gentiles; see 1:13, 14, 16]. 10 But he will give [or there will be] glory, honor, and peace to everyone who does good—to the Jews first and also to those who are not Jews [ the Greek; v. 9]. 11 For God judges all people in the same way [there is no partiality with God]. James 2:8-9 KJV 8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: 9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. EXB 8 This royal law [C because God the king decreed it, or because it is the supreme law] is found in the Scriptures: “Love your neighbor as you love yourself [Lev. 19:18; Matt. 22:37–40].” ·If you [or If you really; or If you, however,] ·obey [fulfill; carry out] this law, you are doing ·right [well]. 9 But if you treat one person as being more important than another [show favoritism/partiality; 2:1], you are sinning. You are guilty of breaking God’s law [ convicted by the law as lawbreakers/ transgressors]. Colossians 3:25 KJV 25 But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons. EXB 25 But remember that anyone who does wrong will be ·punished [repaid] for that wrong, and the Lord treats everyone the same [ there is no favoritism/partiality]. Do one or the other: Cover and protect all or don't Call out and confront any. www.etsy.com/shop/becmin becmin.etsy.com ebay.com (search POEMS FOR WOMEN: BLACK WOMEN, ALL WOMEN) 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; 10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: 11 For there is no respect of persons with God. God gave everything and everybody a way to fight. Just sit there if you want to. There's a war going on for your soul, mind and body. You better fight!
https://fb.watch/owToPqGv0r/?mibextid=NnVzG8lick here to edit. Good fear.
Fear lets me know to not go there or to get over it and take a stand. Sometimes we fear and hold on to it and refuse to change because what caused that fear is still there, letting us know to stay away or be very cautious. Other times we let go of the fear and forge ahead. We can get over fear or take fear with us in some circumstances. In others, we have to take that fear as a God-warning and stay away. When the one you choose to follow or listen to is the devil, you can’t resist the devil and also submit to the devil’s lead. The fear tells you to stay away. Some issues are about personalities, idiosyncracies, techniques, etc. Those are not demons but are traits that may rub others the wrong way, but can be dealt with and the relationship, partnership, leadership, etc can continue. Fear is to be resisted. Go anyway. Stay. Stand. Sometimes fear means don’t go. Don’t cast your pearls before swine even if there is only one swine in the group. Hear the fear and stay away regardless of how great the experience of others. Songs God sung to me lately:
The past 2 weeks (STILL!): When the Saints Go to Worship Last week added: Firm Foundation (He Won't Fail) 8am today (11.5.23): Hallelujah 11am today (11.5.23): I Go To The Rock (WH) The first song is an invitation/invocation to God and a reminder/unctioning for me. The second one is encouragement during these particular times in my life. The third song, I think, was just a blessing that I got up and got going. I had no issues other than lack of decision-making about the things I needed to do that day. I'm glad I got up! The fourth song is somewhat of a conclusion: recently I literally went to God the Rock for particular circumstances. The past several past years, I've come to know or acknowledge, the Rock was the church. The acknowledgement of that suggests hesitation or gradual/eventual submission. Think of it this way: in nature, when we approach a rock, we know it's a rock right then. We're not always aware that something is a rock, figuratively speaking, when we approach it. We may hope it is. We may not care or expect it to be especially if we don't know we need that thing to be a rock. Also, some figurative Rocks (but not Jesus, though. He IS THE ROCK) are like natural rocks, meaning they are not smooth. They have large or minute jagged egdes/lips/protrusions that scratch, scrape and can cause a slipping of the feet or hands, and can sprain bones or break nails. The rock is still steady, unmoving, going nowhere, a hiding place either behind, on the side, on top, or maybe in a crack somewhere. Because a figurative Rock (church, family, friend, job) has those things, we may not see them as a Rock until we look back and understand how they've stood in our life...which goes back to the statement that the Rock had to be recognized as such before the 'acknowledgement of that suggests hesitation or eventual submission'. The body has 7 million nerves. Specific pain receptors only respond to damaging or potentially damaging stimuli. It's a blessing to have nerves. Those nerves relay pain and work with the brain and the body to make sure the human feels the pain so they can choose a response to the pain: ignore, medicate, explore, remove or treat outer or inner damaging stimuli. Without nerves, we wouldn't realize when something is wrong, especially on the inside, and may delay or ignore tending to something that has been damaged on the outside. Sure, we'll see about a broken leg or arm because we need it, even if we didn't have nerves to feel the pain. We might ignore a damaged fingernail or toenail if we couldn't feel the pain, especially if we could still use the finger to handle things or a toe to assist with walking and foot movement/balance.
My thoughts are on 'spiritual'/emotional nerves. We're always reminded to endure hardships, count it all joy to suffer persecution for the sake of Christ, and to expect attacks from everybody, everywhere and in every direction. Consider if we didn't have spiritual or emotional nerves. We would still go through all those attacks and persecutions and wouldn't know to be offended or hurt, sad or joyful, praising God or even questioning God as to what to do with/about all that we go through. Feeling, meditating on, exploring, venting about, and evaluating outcomes of persecution and attacks lead us to the ultimate (hopefully) joy, positive endurance, and encouragement to others about all that stuff that happens to us. We should always feel both physical and spiritual/emotional pain. Pain is supposed to be felt. We may not respond the same at age 23 or 53 as we did at age 3, but we'll always feel it and hopefully get to the level that we IMMEDIATELY take care of/learn from or dismiss the bad feelings and reactions, as if it didn't happen. Thank God for nerves - physical and spiritual/emotional. They are information carriers. (https://brainandspinecenterllc.com/2023/06/23/how-many-nerves-are-in-the-human-body/#:~:text=Diving%20into%20the%20world%20of,to%20a%20body's%20electrical%20wiring.) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK219252/#:~:text=First%2C%20there%20are%20specific%20pain,nerves%20to%20the%20spinal%20cord. The first time I went to a taping of The Family Feud in Atlanta, I was with my cousin. I think it was her second time going. We stood in line outside, which moved fast. No problem. Occasionally the Assistant would count everyone in line. She wasn't really looking to see our actual tickets. When we got to the entrance, the Intern asked about phones and said they needed to be left in the car. I took both our phones back to the car. She ushered my cousin into the building. When I returned to the building, I got at the back of the line. I was the last person. No one else got in line behind me, but I wasn't worried. I was behind four ladies - tall, gorgeous, awesome outfits, together. They all looked down at me with a side-eye, rolled-eye, smirk, turned up lip. (You know how some women are.) I turned away because it didn't matter. I wasn't going to give that 'negative attitude toward another woman' back at them. For what? It's rude. It doesn't move anyone up the line in Glory. Anyway, I stood there hanging out in my own mind - lol. A few minutes goes by, then the Assistant began walking down the line counting. When she was still near the top of the line, she saw me. She walked past everyone, down to me and said, "Why are you back here? I already counted you. You could have come up to the door when you got back from your car. Come on to the front of the line." She proceeded to take me past everyone to the front of the line and through the doors. As we walked past the four ladies, their snide looks changed. (My nice look didn't change. I hadn't done anything special and wasn't better than them. I just so happened to have gotten there earlier. No big deal. Everyone had to stand in the same line. I had just been to the top of the line already and the Assistant was being nice.) The point is, God has already counted you. Even when there are setbacks, God saw it all and waited for you to catch up, get things in order, take things back, get things you needed, etc. God knows all who 'have a ticket' and will let all in. Also, know that for you when the time is right, God will move you to or back to the front of the line. Moses, David, Joseph, Matthew 20, Luke 17:10 (This is a re-write of a TPM aired for WYZE1480AM (??? 2011/2012/2013). Big Man Donald Cochran, Program Director at WYZE, often reminded me this was his favorite TPM.) (Draft) So, last week I was thinking about my prayer life over my adult lifetime. I don't remember personal prayer as a child, other than studying Sunday School lessons every Saturday night which I consider part of prayer/meditation time, and kneeling in church for prayer during the Devotion. (In PHC, Devotion on Sundays, Wednesdays, Revivals and other meetings, consisted of an opening song, prayer by kneeling at the altar or seat, and scripture reading). As an adult in the late 80s, again I prayed at church, which I attended twice weekly and some lunch hours when the Mothers had weekly Noon Day prayer. I realize I didn't kneel at that apartment because the floor was cement. Rugs. No carpet. After moving to Cobb County, in my first apartment had carpet. Yeah. Five years later, I moved to the second Cobb apartment where I regularly laid on the floor for 2 hours several nights per week. Last week, I realized that I stopped doing that after having major surgery and couldn't get on the floor or my knees for several weeks, but that prayer time was replaced with I think two prayer sessions at church in Atlanta. Those were specifically for prayer (Monday and Saturday) and I taught classes (YA/Adult mixed) on Sunday mornings and Wednesday nights (Youth). After moving to the home, prayer flat on the floor back in order for a while until my evening schedule changed - church, school, business... Many years since then, have included active, literal praying all day long depending on the circumstances, and not so much a whole lot of prayer in one segment of time during each day. During all these years, like childhood, daily studying the Sunday School lesson during lunch breaks were included in the prayer/meditation time. I was led to finish this blog - 11.6.2023 - because I learned a new word today! Statio! Statio is what we did in PHC - arrive early to kneel before service. We kids would just sit on the bench. As an adult, I remember doing it in Atlanta, and of course, arriving early for Sunday School to prepare the mind to teach. Typing that sentence just reminded me of childhood when we couldn't watch tv or read the funny papers or anything before Sunday church so we could set our minds on church. Yum! We had a scrumptious spiritual unbringing even if we didn't realize it then. That upbringing centered us, taught us self-discipline, and calmed us in our day-to-day living. Wow! God is Good! The Lord doesn't throw these. The Lord called/calls people by name, 100% sure of their 1) readiness or 2) not, and the Lord is willing to take the glory for the first one or the flack for the second one. 😉❤
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