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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 Products: www.etsy.com/shop/becmin |
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2024 Jan- Start Right. Foundations Matter. Gnats and Camels. A Rat. Punishment? Dreams NOW I KNOW WHY! Right, Wrong or Both? Leave Joe Alone. What Would You Title This? 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 Why Aren't You Happy? March - Women We Don't Have to Prop Up God God Will Encourage Us To Get It Done 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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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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In this process of determining what I want (based on a sermon I heard a few weeks ago), one thing that popped into my mind last week, after seeing like-manner posts, is that I'm not concerned about God preparing a table before me IN THE PRESENCE OF MY ENEMIES. If God wants to, GOOD. Otherwise, I don't care if my enemies see my blessings/wins or not. That's not my focus. That focus might actually lead me to do the wrong things in an effort to make something happen. Barak had no shame in asking a woman, Deborah, to help him fight.
He had no resistance against God leading him to ask a woman for help. He rode beside her, unlike some who may get directions and ideas from women, then put the women in the background or completely hidden, then walk out the directions and ideas as if they were his own. He didn't seem to despise or reject or degrade in any way - spiritually, emotionally, intellectually - a woman/women. Men who do such seem to puzzle women and other men who can't see how those type men can incubate in a woman and are probably raised by a woman, but disdain and degrade women and suggests that in doing so, they are obeying God. Audio texts pictured. (I listen to the Bible when I'm driving and audio text myself my thoughts about what I hear.) My thoughts when listening to this chapter were that Barak wanted Judge Deborah to go with him because of her wisdom and perhaps her Ministry of Presence. To impart wisdom, one has to speak. How many take a woman with them, probably their wife (Judge D was not his wife. She had a husband.), but expect her to not say a word - just sit and look pretty and look like the man is doing a good job of being a husband. Come on! There are many Baraks who find themselves buddying up with their wife, especially later in life, when everyone else - all their guy friends - are stationed at home taking care of health issues with self or the spouse, raising grandkids, or have just run out of all the energy they had in the past that they expended hanging out with male friends (who also had families at home waiting). They eventually find their 'home' again. Don't we all? In the denomination of my longest experience, when Ministers are called forth or to the conference room, all go.
In other places, even those accepting of women ministers, the accompanying Minister wives/daughters/mothers/etc may be left out and the husbands are assumed to have been licensed/ ordained/titled only or before their wife. The man who insists on bringing his Minister wife in the room with him may be looked at oddly because he's bold enough to speak up or effortlessly include her which to NOT DO is part of being a-s-h-a-m-e-d (Romans 1) to claim ALL of what is relative to Jesus Christ. When Jesus gave up the ghost on the cross, Joseph asked for His body in order to bury it. Some thought Jesus' burial was the end of Him.
In Matthew 25, when the master gave talents to his servants to multiply, one servant buried his talent. Women, how many of you have buried your talent, either out of unbelief thinking if it's hidden, it will go away or out of fear like the servant who buried his talent or probably because you spend too much time helping others. A pastor once reminded me to not neglect my calling by spending too much time helping others work on their calling. (I wasn't neglecting mine, nor was I the source of help to someone else that he surmised I was, but I totally understood his point and appreciated his concern.) There is a gift of helps, but when it is not our specific gift, women still tend to put everyone else first and end up burying that which God specifically called us to do. Then we don't have time left to learn the functions of the auxilary/ministry we have been assigned to lead or study for the lessons or songs we've been asked to teach or sing. Let's not bury our talents in our earthly body by doing someone else's work because we don't think they can do it or because we have spoiled them by helping them so much. Let's do our's first - I know that will be hard sometimes because we want to help and tend to try to get others' things out of the way so we can settle in and do our's...which rarely works - THEN we can enter into the joy of the Lord, not just when we meet judgment after death but also on earth when we stop grieving God's Holy Spirit (Ephesians 4:30). Amen? Amen. (Recorded and aired as a Thought-Provoking Moment on former WYZE1480AM April 2006) Romans 5:19 "For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous." Adam's disobedience in the Garden of Eden caused all mankind to be born into sin. Jesus' death and resurrection allowed all mankind - upon belief, repentance, and confession - to be reconciled back to God and save by grace. So now apply think of that in an earthly familial way. One earthly man's sin can possibly cause his whole family/household to sin. The man who gives in to alcohol, drugs, staying out late, anger, or adultery can open his children to anger, hurt and evil spirits that cause them to act out in the school, home, or community, which leads to punishment (more anger) for bad conduct, suffering grades or a criminal activity which could cripple them for a good part of their life (Ephesians 6:4). Don't let your children get too hungry physically or emotionally for parental care (https://www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org/2012/05/07/25-ways-to-provoke-our-children-to-anger/). The wife may become too depressed to properly care for the family. may not be able to deal with the lashing out of the angry children in the home, school and community, or may be tempted to lie or steal to keep the home and to family's needs met because of the lack of attention to the family by the man. The same man accepting Christ as his Savior can save his household both spiritually and naturally. His family may follow his example and also give themselves to Christ. Certianly there will be more peace and loving connectivity in the family and the household, and even if the family is split in different households. And as a righteous man, he will care for his family which will save them from some emotional, financial, intellectual and spiritual hardships. Although we all are responsible for our own decisions and life-affirming or life-destroying actions (James 1:14-15), let's all accept and keep Christ as our Savior so we will be good examples of love rather than stumbling blocks. (Note: Man in the OT refers to mankind in reference to human instead of animal. Romans 5 specifically speaks of Adam - the man - the male.) *Wearables on www.etsy.com/shop/becmin *Book on https://www.etsy.com/listing/1481281459/poems-for-all-women-purse-size-book?click_key=74c12ecd7d7da31d9630dbed05163ad9b83e836d%3A1481281459&click_sum=03eeb688&ref=shop_home_feat_1&frs=1
I knew a woman who ceased attending church at least 10 years before I met her. I knew her about 20 more years before she passed.
She told me how she came to cease attending church. I already knew how she loved God, her church and the organization the church was in. She worked two jobs but weekly attended and took her children to Sunday services, Wednesday Bible College and whatever the organization hosted. There was a season in her life that she had difficutlies with a particular person. Between a Wednesday night and a Sunday morning, that person managed to turn the whole church against her. It was a neighborhood church. No need to drive or ride the bus or subway to get to it. Everyone in the church was supposedly nit together in love, comaraderie and co-laboring for Christ. Yet, one person's spirit managed to turn them against her. She walked in one Sunday morning, according to her, and was despised. She was so wounded that she never went back, for decades. Often, I observe and listen to people, and pray accordingly. There are some things I don't want to go through. I added her circumstances to my prayers. You never know when someone is on the verge of stepping over that thin line. Be encouraged. Encourage others. Mark 12:1-12 Have you as a Christian, among non-Christians and fellow Christians, been treated like one of the servants in this scripture? You were sent to gather what Jesus had for you or to [harvest - do what He called you to do] for Him, but you were beat up, left empty, stoned, wounded in the head, shamefully handled, killed and cast away? These actions may be expected from unbelievers, even though some of them don't mistreat you at all. These actions happen among believers, which should not be so. Just know and remember that you were sent by the Master - Jesus - the Cornerstone, who also suffered those things at the hands of the unbelievers and those who claimed to be/presented themselves as the righteous. They won't win. Jesus won. You will win. You've already won. We have already won. I Peter 2:5, 9 (2:1-25) clipart by vecteezy.com *Wearables on www.etsy.com/shop/becmin *Link to Book copy/paste into your search browser on https://www.etsy.com/listing/1481281459/poems-for-all-women-purse-size-book?click_key=74c12ecd7d7da31d9630dbed05163ad9b83e836d%3A1481281459&click_sum=03eeb688&ref=shop_home_feat_1&frs=1 Don't be that smart. Don't be that confident. Don't be that Holy. Don't be that Anointed. Don't be that "tall" in spirit. Don't be that happy. Don't be that successful. Why? Their reactions say because it scares them. They can't handle it. It challenges their call to be all that to the level they know God called them...and they don't want to OR they seem to be living all that themselves and see you as someone who may match or surpass them (which is not possible in God's Kingdom because we all have a particular place to operate in) and they don't want you to do that. People, that scenario (reality) is why we need to be dedicated to God, not to people. Mark 12:30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. Be ALL YOU THAT GOD HAS CALLED YOU TO BE FOR, IN, BY, AND THROUGH HIM. Don't slap God in the face by diminishing who He Made you to be just because others (friends, family, co-workers, church people, Christians, non-Christians, neighbors, community) aren't ready! *Wearables on www.etsy.com/shop/becmin *Book on https://www.etsy.com/listing/1481281459/poems-for-all-women-purse-size-book?click_key=74c12ecd7d7da31d9630dbed05163ad9b83e836d%3A1481281459&click_sum=03eeb688&ref=shop_home_feat_1&frs=1 I was thinking back to some tiny sparrows that were in my yard Summer 2022. They didn't try to run off new birds or go back and forth with bully birds. The tiny sparrows would sit on the little round platform feeder and just stay there, not eating most of the time! One would sit there an hour. Eventually a cardinal or something would come and run him off. But he didn't fight the bullies. He just protested with his presence and sat there as long as he could. 🥰
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