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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 |
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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.
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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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Judges 4 KJV 4 And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time. 5 And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment. 6 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the Lord God of Israel commanded,...” Judge Deborah reminds Barak of what God told him to do. Barak didn't willingly go to her. Now, we do generally want to wait for the person to see for themselves what we already know, which is valid because a person has to go in their own awareness of God’s call and strength in them rather than in somebody else’s strength that WILL wane when things get hard. Yet, apparently, Judge Prophetess Deborah was obedient to God’s instruction to send for Barak to tell him what she knew God had already told him, instead of waiting for him to get started or to approach her. We find out he was fearful, but that doesn’t negate that within the fear may have been a valid uncertainty of how to carry out the command and not knowing when to start the operation, rather than assuming he was just totally disobeying God out of plain old fear. Judge Prophetess Deborah’s summoning him was the answer to all his internal questions (just like the ones we have about assignments). The summons let him know he heard God right, it was the right time to begin operations, and she gave him the steps to take. God understands whether we’re not moving because we refuse to or because we are waiting for more directions from Him. God also knows whether He’s going to give us directions directly or will send someone to give us those directions. Our prayer should be to follow what we hear from God and that whoever God has called to summon us in order to give us directions will do so, and for us to go when He sends us to give someone else directions they are waiting for or struggling with, in Jesus’ Name. Amen? Amen. Note: She called for him. He received it, not questioning whether she was good enough to be used by God to tell or talk to him about that particular subject, like some still question certain ones of God’s chosen, even knowing how long or how much or how they've been used by God before. Some in their flesh either don’t want to believe what they’ve seen or heard of God doing through certain of His chosen ones or because they want to impart doubt or they think it's their job to keep certain chosen ones from getting as confident in God using them as they are with being used by God or to think their faith in God works, too. I was listening to Judges 1-6 for the umpteenth time in the car, when I noticed something that seems to get overlooked all the times I’ve heard Chapter 4 taught in person, on-line or read it in print myself. Perhaps, because she sat in a particular spot and people went to her for wisdom, it’s stuck in our minds that Barak went to her on his own schedule. No. Judge Prophetess Deborah sent for Barak. Judges 4 KJV 4 And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time. 5 And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment. 6 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the Lord God of Israel commanded,...” Judge Deborah reminds Barak of what God told him to do. Barak didn't iniate the meeting with her. Now, we generally want to wait for the person to know for themselves what we already know, which is valid because a person has to go in their own awareness of God’s call and strength in them rather than in somebody else’s strength that WILL wane when things get hard. Yet, apparently, Judge Prophetess Deborah was obedient to God’s instruction to send for Barak to tell him what she knew God had already told him, instead of waiting for him to get started or to approach her. We find out he was fearful, but that doesn’t negate that within the fear may have been a valid uncertainty of how to carry out the command and not knowing when to start the operation, rather than assuming he was just totally disobeying God out of plain old fear. Judge Prophetess Deborah’s summoning him was the answer to all his internal questions (just like the ones we have about assignments). The summons let him know he heard God right, it was the right time to begin operations, and she gave him the steps to take. God understands whether we’re not moving because we refuse to or because we are waiting for more directions from Him. God also knows whether He’s going to give us directions directly or will send someone to give us those directions. Our prayer should be to follow what we hear from God and that whoever God has called to summon us in order to give us directions will do so, and for us to go when He sends us to give someone else directions they are waiting for or struggling with, in Jesus’ Name. Amen? Amen. Note: She called for him. He received it, not questioning whether she was good enough to be used by God to tell or talk to him about that particular subject, like some still question certain ones of God’s chosen, even knowing how long or how much or how they've been used by God before. Some in their flesh either don’t want to believe what they’ve seen or heard of God doing through certain of His chosen ones or because they want to impart doubt or they think it's their job to keep certain chosen ones from getting as confident in God using them as they are with being used by God or to think their faith in God works, too. www.etsy.com/shop/becmin becmin.etsy.com https://www.ebay.com/itm/256157591202?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=bGad5LLBTu2&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY Books. Jewelry. (Details of the situations DMd only to followers 10.11.2023)
(Pics are screenshots of audio text messages I send to myself while listening to the Bible as I drive. Imperfect transcription but decent.) Some Christians despise drug addicts, alcoholics, unwed parents, kids born out of wedlock, laid-off workers, and the slow-moving disabled UNTIL it happens to them or their family member or friends. Suddenly, they see the light of the love of Jesus, and decide to love instead of bash. Most don't need the experience to understand the lesson of love and understanding what they understand about Christ. Others do. Do you really believe what you say you believe? Think before you speak. God can make your situation so unique that people will question their beliefs and realize they weren't necessarily based in God in the first place OR were but the person may not have the definite stance they thought they had (see IG post for exact wording). Take this couple, for instance, both attending the same church in the 90s. One was told by God that the other would leave but was not supposed to. The One didn’t totally understand what was coming but knew the Other One was not supposed to leave. Incidences in the church happened, the pastor was dismissed in a situation involving criminal illegalities in the handling of paperwork. The Other One left with the pastor and joined him at a newly formed, but short-lived church. The One stayed where they had been because the Lord had already given instructions about that situation. Some at the church didn’t trust One. Some told One they needed to be with their spouse BUT they didn’t want and actually advised One to not go to the newly formed church. What? Yes. Basically, “I’m suspicious of you being here so I think you need to go with your spouse, but not over there because they’re the enemy.” Where One stayed was the right place to be. So what did that so-called advisor actually believe? Did she actually believe spouses are supposed to always be at the same church together or not? It seemed like “Don’t go over there. Stay here. But, I’m not going to do anything to get The One over here with you and really don’t want The One over here and don’t want One over there. YET, that situation made some re-think their beliefs that one is always to follow the other and realize one can obey God while the other doesn’t EVEN when both agree to do the same thing. People want to fix things that don’t look like what they believe or what they’ve been taught that is not exactly spelled out in the Bible. Some situations are not supposed to be fixed because God knows what God is doing with groups, families, couples, and individuals. No matter who we are attached to and why, we are still individuals with individual destinies in Christ, that may not be the same, but will not hinder the other. We EACH have a path to walk in Christ and God's instructions to obey for God’s particular purposes. God knows each person’s down-sitting and uprising and thoughts from afar and has a plan, a race, a life with and/or without someone else. Your needs to be met to satisfy God are not always tied to whoever you are tied to. They have their own needs that will be worked out in and through Christ in different situations than the other person. We all say that God wants all the Glory, yet we’re always trying to run other people’s lives. God does things in ways that humans can't touch and can't take credit for it. God does things in ways that makes people shut up about your situation that they see is working for your good even though it doesn’t fit t-h-e-i-r theology. I remember of a man who came off the street and desperately wanted to be saved. He was told, ridiculously, that he couldn’t be saved unless he went back to his first wife. He had a long-time girlfriend who visited with him and his ex-wife had a man. The leader insisted. The man was desperate. After a few weeks, he actually brought his ex-wife to church to personally tell the pastor she didn’t want him back and wouldn’t take him back. The leader finally ‘gave him permission’ to get saved. It was weird. The man left and didn’t return. (Sarcasm) So now leaders can decide you can't be saved or they can give you a pass for God (so you still look like you were wrong but have been forgiven, and the leader doesn’t look like their demand was bad in the first place). ***Something that goes along with that is that where God is trying to get us, together and separately (because we each have our own race and one’s race is not just running behind the other), we have our own tests and storms to be made and tried through because we're individuals and we need different situations to get in or out of us what needs to gotten in or out of us. By the way, similar situations happened to this couple three times over the years. They were blessed In all three situations because of obedience. *Wearables on www.etsy.com/shop/becmin *Book and jewelry POEMS FOR WOMEN: BLACK WOMEN, ALL WOMEN loving the wife like Christ loved the church and gave himself for it.
Love means (scriptures): Gave himself (scriptures) is more than just working alot and paying bills. Some men think "gave himself for it" to mean working and paying the bills. What about this, though: Do you listen to her every time she wants to talk? Do you go everywhere with her that she wants you to go? Are you even available to go anywhere with her? Are you available to be asked or informed of where she wants to go and what she wants to accomplish? Do you answer her calls...as quickly as you answer other calls or at all? Do you answer her texts...as quickly as you answer other's texts or at all? Do you read her emails...as quickly as you read emails from others or at all? Do you respond to her calls, voicemails, texts, emails, ... But you call yourself loving her like Christ loved the church. Sure, now! You’re old and friends/colleagues aren’t available, able or are bogged down with old folk issues. But what about then, aaannnddd now and always meaning since you married her? Huh? The Lord woke me up with this today and made me laugh at the craziness of it. It's concerning something that happened just a few months ago. The same ones who created the battle and did all the talking are the ones who expected you - the one who was getting 'shot' at and battered by them - to be still and let Me, the Lord, fight your battle... while at the same time, they were the ones who created the battle and were running their mouths about the battle and how you needed to not fight back and to let Me, the Lord, fight for you, even though you never said a word to them or to anybody about the battle or what they're saying against you. People, Readers, Did you get that? They were the enemy/the battle but they wanted me to let God fight THEM for ME??? They didn't think what this sounded like because they were too busy trying to keep me from 'fighting back' (what were they afraid of - lol) and trying to make sure I lived the scripture right. Hmmm... They were the better Christians, so they were telling me to be still and let the Lord fight my battle...that they started and were waging against me and continued and continued and continued by running their mouths trying to provoke me and tear me down to others. YET I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE STILL AND LET THE LORD FIGHT 'THE BATTLE' (??? THEM!) INSTEAD OF THEM JUST SHUTTING UP AND ENDING THE (ONE-SIDED) BATTLE. The devil can make humans look real stupid. Proverbs 6: 12-19 Hebrews 3:12 Broken means prepared to do God's will and being the YOU God called YOU to be. Broken from doing what everyone else always wants us to do. Broken from not doing what everyone else wants us to not do. Broken from working their system for they glory. Broken from blending in. Broken from being quiet in the land/in someone else's 'field'/per someone else's instructions, when we should be doing what God called us to do. Humble means doing God's will and being the YOU God called YOU to be. People can lead and guide you and give advice to trim you up. YOU know the difference between training/trimming vs interference. WE know the difference between someone helping us go further vs someone who uses "help" to try to stop, suppress, or even move us past what God intended which will absolutely lead to failure because that's not the mark God intended for us to reach. How do we know? We feel it. Why do we feel it? God tells us. It's God's assignment so God tells us when directions are right or wrong. How many have been forced into or out of things by controlling people? How many have been manipulated into or out of their God-assignment for the sake of the manipulators ego to stop or ego use them? Even in secular society, kids have been controlled into practicing hours-a-day for the piano or gymnastics or choir to suit an adult and hate it when they get old enough to understand they were forced BUT are STUCK in it because they don't/weren't allowed to know how to do anything else. This happens in the world of religion also. How many priests didn't have a choice because every family had to have a son who would rise to the priesthood? Yes, successful but trapped. Doing it but with inward hatred. The LESSON is to know for yourself. WE are the stewards of the talent, call or gift God gave us. We are resonsible for saying yes to the right leader/helper/coach and no the the wrong leader/helper/coach. Even when we have the right leader/helper/coach, we still have to utilize our yes and no when particular assignments or instructions match or don't match our spirit. Our final answer, daily, is to God. Leaders/helpers/coaches don't know it all. Only God knows ALL He has for us to do with what He's given us. Yes, listen to others, run by God and don't be afraid to give it a yes or no. Image by freepik (freepik.com) Image by <a href="https://www.freepik.com/free-psd/broken-glass-effect-portrait-woman_37114557.htm#query=broken&position=43&from_view=keyword&track=sph">Freepik</a> |
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