My OSM 2 Sermon (April 25th, 2015)

This is my Outpouring School of Ministry Sermon. I was in the second session. This is my second sermon. I will redo the first one at home. So there will be a little more added.

God works in us in all kinds of ways.

Featuring Kari Jobe song, "I Am Not Alone"

Verses:

John 15:18-19

The World Hates the Disciples

18 “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.

Matthew 19:26

26 Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Break Your Chains

There is power in the name of Jesus...break every chain...break every chain....

Tasha Cobbs "Break Every Chain"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pD2zIuiC2g

Photographer Unknown

WATER BAPTISM March 30th 2015

I believed in God since childhood, but I did not understand "Jesus". As I have heard from churches and my fellow Christians, he was a man that died for our sins and  born to a virgin girl. I was supposed to believe in this fantasy (as many non-Christians would say) because it was told to me by people who I loved and trusted. So lets review Jesus according to the Bible.

1 Timothy 2:5 

For [there is] one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

Isaiah 9:6 

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 7:14 

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel (Prophecy).

Matthew 1:23

The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel"-- which means, "God with us" (Isaiah 7:14 prophecy fulfilled). 

Isaiah 40:3

A voice of one calling: "In the desert prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God (Prophecy).

John 1:23

John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, "I am the voice of one calling in the desert, 'Make straight the way for the Lord'

Most of my life, I did not study the Bible but I had this spiritual growth through prayer and faith. But God told me that I needed to study his Word since I trust, have faith and love him. I declared God to be my Husband. But I did not declare Jesus to be my husband, because I had became mad at the Christians who claimed to love all ( of their selective choices).

So I began studying under the Jehovah Witnesses because I promised God that I would. So He sent them since they are one of His foot soldiers who go door to door. He knew that I would not leave my comfort to find a church. How could I?  I studied with them for 3 months but my spirit told me, "you will conflict with them". And it did. So I ended my studies with these beautiful people, but they gave me something that no other church had given me. PEACE.

They do not believe in war, political parties, etc, but loving all people...every thing I believe Christians need to practice. But my spirit was stirring.

A year passed, God was nudging me to find a church because my peace was diminishing (again). On Easter weekend, April 19, 2014,  I took my son and granddaughter to an Easter Egg Hunt at a all nation non-denomination church. The next day, we went to its service.  This was the church for my spirit to grow and build my love for Jesus.

 On March 30th, 2015, I became water baptized and declared Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior.

My confession, in front of the congregation before my baptism, was "I just want to be one with the Lord".

God wants us to use our logic. He wants us to come to Him with our free will that He gifted us to have.

He wants us to move into his wisdom instead of tales that we do not understand. Study all His Books. You do not need to be a  theologist or a scientist, He just want you to open your mind and heart.

Ask!!!!

Here is a song that helped and inspired me by Tamela Mann, "Take Me to The King"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU3qgPn3bGA


"I will praise him in my joy and sorrow" ~Sojourner Manns

Isaiah 40 : 8

Allow God's word become your JOY and PEACE. He will restore  you. He will renew you. He will rebuild you. And in his salvation, you will never die because we have Christ in us every day. And his word is forever like this bridge that I called the FOREVER BRIDGE.

"The grass withers, the flowers fades. But the word of our God stands forever". Isaiah 40:8 NKJV

Freedom Floods

September 11, 2014 :

 "Freedom floods our hearts the moment we learn that we do not have to be perfect to experience God's love and salvation"

by Charles F. Stanley
 Pathway to His Presence: A Daily Devotional

Read this  passage at 7:55 PM.

Less than an hour ago, I told my mom, my editor-of-chief, that I can't be perfect in my writings. I can't wait for her to be available because my thoughts are constantly moving to subject to subject, emotion to emotion, prayer to prayer, inspiration to inspiration. I would flood her inbox  to edit my work as I am doing to mine.

My work will never be perfect but I am flooded with so much freedom that I want to share it.

Walk with me as I will walk with you in our spiritual breathe from the single strain of our hair to the cuticle of our toe nails.

Our Coming.

In a world of the imperfect and unfit, we find ourselves looking for answers. Why poverty? Why war? Why hate?

In every country, there are political wars. In my country, it is political, race, social, class, and so on. The minorities are considered lower class based on color. People would call them the “entitled” people even though African descendents have one of the richest Biblical histories.  However, these critics forget their faults because they were raised to believe they are privileged because of their color. For example, a poor 50 year old white man with a 8^th grade education would think he is superior than President Obama because of his Kenyan father.

American society fails in many areas, because these race division was not created by God. It is a man-made so one race could feel superior.  Race of man will never be higher than God’s Tribe of Man which were people of all shades.  There are 12 tribes of God as followed Reuben, Simeon, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Ephraim and Manasseh. Their blood line is  strong and spread wide and far.  As stated on the website http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/tribes.html , “In Egypt "the Israelites were fertile and prolific; they multiplied and increased very greatly," and there they became the "Israelite people." For  racist white, black, brown, and yellow Americans, who believe they are the chosen people, may be actually causing harm to God tribe’s bloodline that encompasses all these people.

So our obedience is to be kind to all people of all races, religions, and faith. Jesus asks us to be more like him. Our actions will determine our destiny that he plans for us. We are the messengers of all actions and words through his grace and mercy, we will succeed and save  people from darkness that the devil and demons prey on.

Let’s be soldiers of HOPE in JESUS’ NAME because we are his bloodline.

We are the daughters and sons of  Eve (“source of life” child of God),  Sarah (“noblewoman” child of God) and Hagar (“uncertain” child of God), and Mary (“Mother of God”)

PUNISHMENT

God is a loving and compassionate God.  He sent the Holy Spirit to guide us and enable us with the power to feel the love within ourselves as well as the love that surrounds us.  We experience His Love and Power in different ways, but when we are in our deepest and darkest days or hours, we may not see it or believe that It is near, but it is.  Because of the darkness we may be blind to how the Holy Spirit is manifesting Itself in our lives, or maybe we just refuse to see it.

If we take the Holy Spirit’s Love and apply it to our lives daily, seconds by seconds, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, month by month, year by year…we will see a change in our lives.

FOLLOW ME AND I WILL SET YOU FREE.

In the United States of America, most Americans are familiar with Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior. Even if you have never heard his speech or lived during the fifties or sixties, his voice is familiar and most people recognize his cry for peace and equality. The iconic words of Dr. King that are most recognized is his spiritual outcry for equality and peace are, “Free at last, free at last, my Lord, I am free at last.”

Dr. King has always been a Christian and based on his remarkable quotes he was a Trinity Christian follower. (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/martin_luther_king_jr.html .

He spoke through the scriptures as his motivation to free all people, and to fight against racism, discrimination and oppression. Jesus, the Son of God, was his motivator and inspiration in his journey to fight for freedom, as many black leaders before him have done since the time of slavery.

Dr. King left a legacy that most likely made his heavenly father proud, when he planted the seeds of faith and love on Earth. He shared the true words of God and brought hope to all of God’s people. Though he did no harm to anyone, his enemies, who were blinded by fear and hatred, assassinated him.

When I was a youth I believed that Christianity was a White man’s religion. Why not?  As was portrayed in the movies and churches, it was a White man who crucified a White man named Jesus. I could not understand why Black people wanted to be Christians, where their Jesus is White, rather than some other religion. Why should not I be the other?

Christianity is not a White man’s religion. It is not a religion. It is a faith in the Trinity.  To be a Christian means that you are a follower of Christ. It is following the teaching of one perfect man, Jesus, Son of Man.

 

Dr. King wasn’t just talking about the physical freedom of citizens of this country but the spiritual freedom of loving all people whether they are rich, poor, black, white, Jewish, Muslim, French, British, And Kenyan, etc.

Even if you are not a Christian, you can still follow Jesus’ teachings to be free. It can make a difference in your life if you choose to practice the teachings of the Bible. We are not perfect, so we will fail. But we learn from our failures and thus are able to relate to others' struggles. If the perfect man can accept our failures as imperfect as we are, then we should be willing to accept others failures as imperfect as they might be.

If history is any indicator, we will always be punished by man for being a Christian.  We are not supposed side with evil by being discriminatory, racist, political hate-baiting, causing pain to others, being neglectful parents, etc…these are sins that will be forgiven if we ask of the Holy Father, God for forgiveness.  It is His promise to us.  If we are led by the LIGHT, then our punishment will diminish and we will become ONE under ONE FAITH and ONE LOVE. History has been known to repeat itself and Christians –By-Name, will lose favor if they do not change.

EU SOU

Sou filha

Eu sou uma irmã

Eu sou uma mãe

Eu sou um amigo

Eu sou cordeiro de Deus. Ele procura mais de nós para espalhar as sementes de suas palavras. No entanto, para ser uma das plantas, temos que lutar através dos tempos difíceis (as ervas daninhas em nosso campo). Nós não podemos controlar as ervas daninhas que crescem em nossos campos, mas podemos controlar como reagimos, como reagimos e como nos sentimos.

Se seguirmos a Palavra de Deus em nome de Jesus e em um comportamento semelhante ao de Cristo, podemos viver livre. E o sufocamento da nossa incapacidade emocional, físico e mental pode ser liberado lentamente para um maior nível de iluminação espiritual, seguindo o Filho do Homem.

No livro "The Message" apresenta no texto, "... manter a empresa com mim e você vai aprender a viver livremente e levemente".

Através do meu testemunho pessoal, como eu tenho experimentado nos últimos meses, estou finalmente livre.

Translated by Google

THE WELLNESS REVOLUTION

I am on a journey to learn the true path of my spiritual self through Christianity.  I was not raised in the Church.  My mother, who was raised in the Church of God, had a bad experience that made her turn away from her Church and for years she did not attend any church.  My dad, also, came to have doubts about his church and he, too, turned away.  However, in later years, they found their path back to Christianity through the Catholic Church.  Regardless, my parents never parted from their core Christian beliefs and at one time invited a woman to our home to teach us the Bible. My parents have always lived by Christian principles in the way that they treated others and passed those values onto us.  In addition they knew we would find our own way and one-by-one we have, we have exercised our own will.

I have plunged myself into a NEW REVOLUTION called THE WELLNESS REVOLUTION. It comes in many forms: Educational, Physical, Spiritual, Mental, Social, Financial and so on.

My job and business are my financial wellness. I love my job and as a result it has stabilized me financially to the point where I am at peace, in that I am able to pay my bills and provide for my family. I am also able to give back to my parents who have been my rock since birth; until this day as we live. 

My business interest is joined with a company where its goal is to encourage and inspire others to become physically well through nutrition and retail therapy. To learn about my business, visit my sites at http://mannshealth.vemma.com and http://www.myjewellstyle.com/sojourner . 

I am a volunteer with “Cry of the Children” where we help youth to become better citizens in their community. In order for them to reach this goal, we provide services to help the youth become better readers, mathematician, computer literate, dancers, organizers, problem-solvers, etc. It has been proven that if children build their reading skills they will develop other life skills.  We find the child’s strength so he/she can learn to share with his/her peers; he/she becomes the teacher. We find their weakness and build their confidence so that their weaknesses become a natural strength. To find more information to help fund Cry of the Children located in Bloomington, Indiana contact Dellsie Boddie at cryof thechildren@gmail.com .

In order to know your body, you have to know how your body responds to certain physical activities and food. I am not an expert in this field, but I assist a young entrepreneur who is. This new business is called EPOCH Wellness, for more information contact Keith Collins at www.epochwellness.net .

I personally endorse all these businesses and organization.

I have developed my wellness journey through all of these avenues, where I have found happiness and peace. But my Spiritual Peace has always been challenged. I still have not fully understood my Christian faith in that I believe in religious tolerance. Who is Jesus? I know he was a man of peace. My son asked me if Jesus was God. I told him “No”. I didn’t know I had misspoken. I posed the question to a co-worker since he studies the Bible. My parents, now Catholic faith followers, could have answered my question. But I wanted someone who did not know me as a person. He explained to me “Jesus is God”. He explained the meaning of the trinity….God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. 

With this, I began my true Spiritual Wellness and my journey for lasting peace.