Sunday Something

Pastor Rickie G. Rush, of Inspiring Body of Christ Church, preached from 2 Corinthians 4:18 today. What you see is temporary, what you don't see is eternal. How God breaks you to get YOU ready for the blessings--His plan for YOU. Your decision are not His decisions.

Yea. Feel all of that. I know I'm better than what I was. A work in progress--that's what I am--with more ways to go. I need to rejoice more in what I have--instead of worrying so much what I don't have. Which, honestly. are material things.

Oh wait, except for the man, I don't have in my life. That's not material. It's flesh. But yet, one of those things God is getting me prepared for. Just didn't want to be 100 when Mister Right Are You Still Breathing Now? appears. I digress.

I look around and open my eyes to what God has blessed me with. It's the little things. The little things, I claim should make me happy--that have grown into big things. A purr of a cat. A touch of a friend. The laughter of children--of all ages-including my own.
How He continues to prepare me. To make the images, He's flashed in my brain, come to be. I have to be ready. I can't force it. He's know what's right. I need to release more, give Him all my troubles and just give Him glory.

He doesn't ask for much.

He's not brought me this far to leave me.

I am blessed.

Another House Part II

Visited Friendship West Baptist Church with Pastor Freddie Haynes. I hadn't been there in a couple months, yet I was pulled there today. Pastor Haynes is quite the 'lively' character. Admits to 'telling it like it t-i-s' and regrets not a word from his mouth. Yea, he's brash and bold. Gotta admit I kinda like that.

Friendship West Baptist Church is a megachurch---a Black megachurch. Pastor Haynes makes no bones about it being any other than a Black church. Other megachurchs, with predominately Black congregation, I've heard say their congregation is made up of every race. Pastor Haynes, really hasn't said that in three time I've visited. Maybe he has and I've just missed it.

Anyway, Pastor Haynes preached from 1 Corinthians 13:11. How it's a tragedy if where we are right now, is just where we're suppose to go. Need grow up, like Paul said in Corinthians. Not just chronologically, but spiritually. As bold and brash as Pastor Haynes was, he brought it on home to me. We know we are growing because what once fit, doesn't fit anymore. Then how the past no longer makes us settle in our future and lastly, we know we're growing when we begin to come into our own. God is where we get the strength from. Put your trust there and don't look back.

Think thoughts you've never thought before. Step steps you've never taken before. Believe like you've never believed before. Just remember to look unto the hills and see where your help does come from. That's Psalms 121 and Pastor Haynes didn't put that in....I did.

A good day.