I am watching my new baby sleep. So satisfied and full of milk, heavy and relaxed. I am reminded to trust Jesus for my provisions and to relax and drink in the sweetness God has given me.
What a blessing to be a new mom for the third time 🙏🏽🙌🏾💕🤴🏾🫶🏽
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Your Calling, Whatever It is….Is Sacred by Dr. Tony Evans
RetroStankDr. Tony Evans breaks it all the way down! What did God call you to do?
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RetroStankDo you ever get tired of yourself? Of repeating the same mistakes? Financially? Relationally? Emotionally? Mentally? With time?
My prayer today is what David prayed.
Psalms 139: 23-24
Search my heart, oh Lord, try my reins; test me and know my concerns. See if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.
Raising kids you can see your flaws sharply and distinctively. This morning I read Isaiah 5 and I am familiar with the passage. (So it terrified me and I prayed right away, Lord, please help me to be worthy and produce good fruit 🍌 🍉 🍎 according to all You have put into and invested in me.
I gotta get going on obedience and doing what I know is right. ⚖️ in 2023, it is time to hold myself more accountable and not let myself make excuses for my actions, especially my inactions.
I am normally a consistent evangelizer, but for the past two years, I have been slacking. Judges 5 and 6 tell the story of Gideon and how his doubt did not stop him from having faith. God wanted to do a special miracle through someone who was seen as afraid and low and small; because in all things, God should and must get the glory.
Praying for the removal of materialism, distractions, fear, social media pressures and anxiety, and for all those things to be replaced with PEACE, FAITH AND CONFIDENCE in Jesus name!
Love you,
R.S.
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Terry Wallace’s “Yield Not to Temptation”
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Why?
RetroStankThis verse tells us to keep a ready answer for why we believe in Jesus Christ!
What a blessing to get to share the stories and things God has done for us not only personally, but collectively, globally and outside of time!!!
Always have a smile because you are God’s child! A Chosen Vessel! Your circumstances don’t matter in evangelism🎉🙏🏽💕 I wish you know that your God is awesome, I am guilty of missing opportunities to evangelize, but I am going to do better!
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“I remember your genuine faith, for you share the ufaith that first filled your grandmother Lois and your mother, Eunice. And I know that same faith continues strong in you. This is why I remind you to fan into flames the spiritual gift God gave you when I laid my hands on you. For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline. So never be ashamed to tell others about our Lord. And don’t be ashamed of me, either, even though I’m in prison for him. With the strength God gives you, be ready to suffer with me for the sake of the Good News. For God saved us and called us to live a holy life. He did this, not because we deserved it, but because that was his plan from before the beginning of time—to show us his grace through Christ Jesus.”
2 Timothy 1:5-9 NLT
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Take Refuge in the Lord and Rejoice
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Scripture to read today: 2 Timothy Chapters 1 & 2 and Psalms 5.
Pray for others and pray for mercy for them. Pray for all leaders and pray for those who love the Lord. Pray for your enemies and pray for your protection. Pray for the discouraged and pray for help.
With love,
❤️ Retrostank
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EVERYTHING IN TIME
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EVERYTHING IN TIME
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Did not Earn Salvation, but Obeyed for it
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How do you receive salvation?
Through repentance, faith, confession and baptism.
Thank God for His wonderful mercies,
Not perfect, but striving to obey. No matter the location, the sin, or the temptations, through Christ we can be cleansed and forgiven. And changed!
Love,
R.S.
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Flexible Accountability
RetroStankBe flexible and accountable.
Be honest if you make a mistake and flexible when things change. You can do it, roll with the punches and ADAPT!!
This 1:32 video shows an example of how demonstrate that flexible accountability; life requires grace and adaptation!
Love,
R.S.
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Do it Full Out
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So do it full out!!!
In dance, when you practice you might go through the counts and the motions to the music 🎶 lightly like uh uh uh uh.
But if somebody important walks in that room or you want somebody to notice you, you do it FULL OUT!! Boom, boom hip boom!
Live for God full out, serve Him with gladness full out!
Matthew 5:16 Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who art 🖼 in Heaven
You are living art and a living Creation to bring God glory!
Bring Him glory FULL OUT!!
Love,
R.S.
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GRACE AND ITS ORIGIN
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Give people GRACE! Be okay with where they are and when they hurt you, forgive them.
Treat people how you want to be treated!
Be humble, forgiving, gracious, and grateful; It will help YOU FIND CONTENTMENT! 💃🏽
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Parable of the Talents
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How many of us have talents that we are hiding? Or that we are to scared to share?
How could you hid your light…from shining?
God said, “There is a lamp stand put it right THERE!!””
Remember, Matthew 5:16 and “Let your 💡 LIGHT so shine before men that they may see your good works and GLORIFY your Father which art in Heaven!”
Let them look at your beautiful talents and know that there is a good God above, share that art, that acting, that singing, that cooking, that creating, that rap, that pottery, that furniture, that instrument so they can KNOW there is still a God above!!
Read this parable of Jesus to see what it looks like when you do it right and when you do it wrong.
With love,
R.S.
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“What You’re Saying When You Give Someone the Silent Treatment Social ostracism has been a common punishment for millennia. But freezing someone out harms both the victim and the perpetrator.” By: Daryl Austin of the Atlantic
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As a person who has given people closest to me the silent treatment when I was so mad that I didn’t want to put it into words, I have recently learned that the silence kills as well.
Very thought-provoking article that I must share for the good of us all.
Hope you enjoy!
R.S.
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You are not too young or too anything, if God chose you
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“Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak. Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord. Then the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth. See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.”
Jeremiah 1:4-10 KJV
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Naaman and the Servant Girl
RetroStankWatch “Naaman and the Servant Girl” in the Superbook Bible app!
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The Superbook Bible app even has fun Games, Bible Profiles, Questions & Answers, and an interactive Bible.
Download the Superbook Bible App Now!
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New Wine and Old Wineskins
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“Count your many blessing and see what the Lord has done.” -Church of Christ song Look What the Lord Has Done
Always be grateful.
-R.S.
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Devos for Teens – Stand Where the Fire Has Been
RetroStankDevos for Teens – Stand Where the Fire Has Been
— Read on tecartabible.com/share/2004/322/11
This is a inspiring story about how to stand when a fire is raging around you.
Amen.
-R.S.
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Kurt Carr and Natalie King Cole “I Almost Gave Up”
Christ, Creativity, Entertainment, RetroStankDon’t give up!!
2020 is hard but don’t let go!
God has not left you. There might be some changes you need to make in your circle, changes in your thinking, in your habits.
Lord God, Heavenly Father, hold us up!
Strengthen our hearts, feed our souls so that we can hang on.
Forgive us of our many sins and iniquities!!
As Christmas comes, let us remember that Christ was born to die for our sins and make us right with You! Help me to continue to encourage and serve where I can. May Your perfect will be done in our lives!
In Jesus name I pray!!
Amen!!
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Jam of the Day: Jesus Rose With All Power in His 🖐 Hands 🤚
Christ, Jams!! Vibez!! Musik!!, RetroStankJesus rose with ALL POWER IN HIS HAND!!
I miss going to worship but this track right here gave me that collective feeling!
My brothers and my sisters, one day we will adore Jesus in person as He descends to Earth! Oh I want to see Him!
We will who believe and have been baptized will be raised on the last day and make our way to Heaven because He rose with all 💥 power in His Hand!
Love,
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Should Teachers Lay Down the Law?
RetroStankSome teachers, in an effort to get their students to respect them, decide to lay down the law. But this approach normally fails to give those teachers what they desire.
— Read on teach4theheart.com/should-teachers-lay-down-the-law/
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The Miracle of Delegation: “What Is Your Entrepreneurial Kryptonite?”
RetroStankMay 2, 2019 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The following excerpt is from Scott Duffy’s book Breakthrough. …
What Is Your Entrepreneurial Kryptonite?
Everyone,
I found this to be so on-point! It was amazing to see the difference between the two types of entrepreneurs!
Enjoy!
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James 3:13-18 The Right Kind of Wisdom
Christ, RetroStank, Self Esteem, self improvementwww.bible.com/bible/59/jas.3.13-18.esv
“Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.”
James 3:13-18 ESV
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“Messy Marriage” Message by Bro. Chris Jackson
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Affirm Your Goals 🙏🏾Eric Thomas
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Donald Lawrence & Co. “Spiritual”
RetroStankGalatians 5:22 The Fruits of The Spirit
“You’re not a natural being having a spiritual experience, but you are a spiritual being having a natural experience!”
This song is so beautiful and the meaning so real.
Enjoy!
~RetroStank
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#GivingTuesday Jam of the Day: Damian Marley “There For You”
RetroStankThis song is soothing and true. It speaks of unconditional love and reciprocity.
“You’ve always been there for me, and so I’ll be there for you…”
Love it 😍
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Saturday Song of the Day: Karen Clark Sheard “Sunday A.M.”
RetroStankThis beautiful song was on the radio and it just reminds us That Sunday morning is a time to recharge from our week!
A time to lay it on God’s feet. To rest from our labor!
I love the Lord for His Love for me!!!
Hope you are encouraged by this!
~Retrostank
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Do it
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An object in motion remains in motion, an object at rest remains at rest.
Newton’s laws apply to people too!
To fight a slump, keep momentum HIGH
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The Royal Kitchen in Qing Dynasty
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This fantastic movie is enthralling and kind. The love stories told are authentic and the culture is beauifully portrayed. One to watch with your sweetheart!
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Hadassah Beauty Live Nourished
RetroStankHey, join me at Hadassah Beauty on the Wix app to easily stay updated and get in touch with me on the go.
Join with this link: http://wix.to/18AxCvo. Got the app? Use the invite code: U0MUZ4
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Monday Music 🎶 “They said, God said” by Jekalyn Carr
RetroStank“You are the chosen one”
We can believe things people have said about us, but if they are lies, listen to what God has said about you.
Inspiring song by Jekalyn Care!
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Jeremiah 30
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“Glory, Glory Hallelujah” Thursday Jam
RetroStankToday, if you need your spirit lifted, watch this!!
“I feel so much better since I laid my burdens down!”
Cast your burdens on Him for He Careth for you!
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Ezekiel 12 Pack Your Bags
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The Power of the Spoken Word in Faith
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This video healed something deep in my stomach!
Praise God!
We have been born for such a time as this!
God knew what was going on 2029, 2020, 1996, 1987, 1958, 1972, 1819, all of that! He is a God outside of time! Bigger than that!!
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Forgiveness
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This topic has been broadly discussed in many ways and forums. It stirs opinions, anxiety Emotions and talk from individuals to religious bodies as …
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In Love and Always Arguing: “What Did You Just Say?”
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Recommending this Plan if words have become tools for heartbreak in your relationship 👸🏿👸🏿👸🏿👸🏿👸🏿
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How to never be broke again
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OUR FAVORITE THINGS OF JULY
RetroStankThere is a new Hero on the scene!! I love the concept of World-Travelling Product Connoisseurs who everybody trusts to have excellent taste!! Meet Aasha and Darcell ❤️❤️❤️ Also, for this particular issue, my Beauty Brand, Hadassah Beauty, was featured. Good things, good things and good news!! Letting our lights 💡 shine! Love, RetroStank
We are so excited to launch our blog. This is our first post and we have been working extremely hard to gather 10 favorite things to share. It was hard to pick from so many amazing things but we have narrowed them down. Below we have listed our favorite things of July.
Aasha’s favorite things of JULY:
- Curlmix hair products curlmix.com
- Homemade smoothie bowls
- Ungodly hour album https://chloexhalle.lnk.to/UngodlyHour
- Mented lipstick https://www.mentedcosmetics.com
- Hadassah Beauty Shea Butter in Vanillahttps://www.buyhadassah.com/
Darcell’s favorite things of JULY:
- Starting my day with guided prayer, gratitude journal and daily devotional time (Churchome/You Version Bible App)
- Scotch Bonnet by Dani https://www.scotchbonnetsbydani.com/
- Hadassah Beauty Shea Butter in Mango https://www.buyhadassah.com/
- Designing rooms through DesignHome App
- Homemade buttermilk pancakes
*A special thing to note is Curlmix, Mented lipstick, Hadassah Beauty Shea Butter and Scotch Bonnets by Dani are Black owned businesses.
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Deeply Affected…Homegoing Service of Actress Gloria Charles
RetroStankObvious issues are vocalized and worn proudly, “Yeah, I am working on it, just not there YET.”
“Sure let’s talk all about it…my mom was grassroots organizer who never had time for her five kids because she was too busy passing out flyers and signing people up to vote. So I had to take care of the entire family instead of being a teenager. Thus, I wild’d out when I graduated high school. I started drag racing, doing tattoos, drinking, smoking, whatever. My real dream was to become a food scientist.”
Question #1 What two qualities failed this imaginary person, keeping him from achieving said dream?
Possible answers: Confidence from Encouragement & Support. Direction and Tenacity. (This qualities are capitalized to respect them as individual personalities.)
I marvel at women bosses. Female business moguls, lady tycoons. In my head, somehow, the partriachal structure of both my five person nuclear family and America at large scrunch their nose up, like “What? Lol.” Lady tycoon? The accepted and traditional career paths are as follows: teacher, lawyer, nurse, home economics teacher, seamstress, banker, teacher, teacher, teacher, teacher, and teacher.
To pave a path, to pioneer, one must be fearless, and certain.
Sunday, December 18th, 2016 at 1:00 p.m., at Jackson Street Church of Christ, a exceptionally MOVING and BEAUTIFUL memorial service took place in honor of Gloria Charles née Gloria Carr, my husband’s cousin Sugar Dumpling.
Sugar Dumpling was one of those Lady Tycoons.
She was BEAUTIFUL.
She was elegant.
She was particular.
She was glowing in the large framed photograph in the center table surrounded by her loved onze who had gone on before she.
I had barely known her.
Yet I cried like a baby that ran outta milk on her grandma while her parents were thirty minutes away at the mall and nothing could be done to make it better! Her life said treat yourself special, treat others special. Be fearless. Laugh. Love what you love. Be particular. Demand the best. Live out loud.
Gloria Charles glowed.
Little Glow worm.
Her obituary proclaims that she left the south for Hollywood!
Google her.
She played Richard Pryor’s girlfriend in Brewster’s Millions.
She had Confidence, Direction, and Tenacity.
One of my most favorite quotes is from Oscar Wilde, “Beauty for Beauty’s sake.”
Her cousin Jeff and her brother Hugh spoke of her surrounding herself with the best, with beauty, with cleanliness ( she learned this from her mother, Aunt Pa). “Fine and dandy like candy.” was quoted as one of Gloria’s favorite sayings. She loved romantic Soul songs from the Commodore, Earth, Windows, and Fire, the Dramatics, and Deniece Williams.
Can’t you just love a person you never met but who lived full of love and tenderness!
Truly, it moved me.
That Saturday night I dreamed I was at a church event watching my students perform a play on ice. My dad was putting the babies in the car and I ran back in the church to pee really quick before we left. I was in the bathroom when I saw these black square glasses I recognized as my grandmother’s (in reality, she is deceased). I pulled the glasses out and they were attached to a beautiful pink Bible case that was embroidered with 1 Corinthians 12. I put it back down, washed my hands, and started a conversation with a teacher from a school in Murfreesboro. I shared with her my (actual) desire to create a Spoken Word Scripture team.
Well when I got up and read 1 Corinthians 12, Paul preaches about how we are all members of One body with different administrations or roles, but One Spirit. Romans 12 speak of the same: differing gifts and using your gifts Excellently!
“Just as there are many parts to our bodies, so it is with Christ’s body. We are all parts of it, and it takes every one of us to make it complete, for we each have different work to do. So we belong to each other, and each needs all the others. God has given each of us the ability to do certain things WELL. Sone if God has given you the ability to prophesy, then prophesy whenever you can–as often as your faith is strong enough to receive a message from God. If you gift is that of serving others, serve them well. If you are teacher, do a good job of teaching. If you are a preacher, see to it that your sermons be strong and helpful. If God has given you money, be generous in helping others with it. If God has given you administrative ability and put you in charge of the work of others, take the responsibility seriously. Those who offer comfort to the sorrow ingredients should do so with Christian cheer. Don’t just pretend that you love others: really love them. Hate what is wrong. Stand on the side of the good. Love each other with brotherly affection and take delight in honoring each other. Never be lazy in your work but serve the Lord enthusiastically. Be glad for all God is planning for you. Romans 12:6-12
More to come…
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This article speaks to our need for Courage.
Courage is bravery in the face of fear, when you do it anyway, that is courage!
Love you!
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During the school year, more than often this college student’s money will run extremely low. So low that even when I am asked to go into a potential …
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Lauryn Hill is prophetic on this one, she is spitting about Revelations!
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“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not to thine own understanding.” Proverbs 3:5
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Meditate on this verse this week and try to allow your heart and mind to be open to God’s will. There are many perspectives and possibilities that we have in our understanding and we can be oh so wrong about things, bout people, about surefire plans. I do not want to miss God’s will because of my limited ability to understand.
Lord, Father God,
I pray that a spirit of humility to rest on us all as we lay down our lives to follow what You day about us and how You want to use us. Help us to live these verses and be doers, not merely hearers, deceiving ourselves. I pray that we get help where we need it and drop all spirits of anger, frustration and anxiety.
In the mighty and matchless name of Jesus I pray,
AMEN!
“My son, do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart, for they will prolong your life many years and bring you peace and prosperity. Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil. This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones. Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops; then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine. My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline, and do not resent his rebuke, because the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in. Blessed are those who find wisdom, those who gain understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. Her ways are pleasant ways, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to those who take hold of her; those who hold her fast will be blessed. By wisdom the Lord laid the earth’s foundations, by understanding he set the heavens in place; by his knowledge the watery depths were divided, and the clouds let drop the dew. My son, do not let wisdom and understanding out of your sight, preserve sound judgment and discretion; they will be life for you, an ornament to grace your neck. Then you will go on your way in safety, and your foot will not stumble. When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet. Have no fear of sudden disaster or of the ruin that overtakes the wicked, for the Lord will be at your side and will keep your foot from being snared. Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act. Do not say to your neighbor, “Come back tomorrow and I’ll give it to you”— when you already have it with you. Do not plot harm against your neighbor, who lives trustfully near you. Do not accuse anyone for no reason— when they have done you no harm. Do not envy the violent or choose any of their ways. For the Lord detests the perverse but takes the upright into his confidence. The Lord’s curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the home of the righteous. He mocks proud mockers but shows favor to the humble and oppressed. The wise inherit honor, but fools get only shame.”
Proverbs 3:1-35 NIV
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Song of the Day: “Close” by Marvin Sapp
Jams!! Vibez!! Musik!!, RetroStankI love this song because it illustrates what is so true, sometimes the storm is the worst before the sun comes out.
Soldiers are victorious because they persevere; all battles are not won, but the fight ain’t over til it’s over for a true hero.
I am seeking the Lord to help me through my many battles with myself, my surroundings, and my pain because it is a beautiful blessing to be alive today. I am not ready to met the Lord because I want to get better first. Just grateful that while I was yet a sinner, in due time, Christ died for the ungodly. With His love in me, in front of me and surrounding me, I am praying that I will be pleasing in His sight by faith and by deeds!
What are you close to in your life?
Comment below!!!
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Read about What Does it Mean to Seek God’s Kingdom? – Teaching and Messages. Grow in your understanding of Christianity and faith.
— Read on www.christianity.com/jesus/life-of-jesus/teaching-and-messages/what-does-it-mean-to-seek-god-s-kingdom.html
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