O.J.T. (On The Job Training)

Many of us are O.J.T. (On The Job Training) and God is training us in the position that we are to fill in His Kingdom; some will leave class ready to start the job but haven't learned the skills and wisdom needed to perform at the expected level and will be let go because of incompetency.  Stay in training until God says that you are ready to hold down your position.  Keep Pressing!

The Karate Kid...

Me and the Karate Kid are a lot alike, we both started out with our mentor, him Mr. Myogi and me my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; and we both doubted that we were learning anything from waxing-on and waxing off, but when it came time to battle, we both learned that we had absorbed far more than we could ever imagine; life learning skills and tools to defeat our foes. Another thing we must discern on which dojo to get our training, i.e. church - What you get deposited in you, determines your outcome. As Daniel-son, we to are beaten, bruised and battered but one sudden move can take us from defeated opponent to holding the trophy and giving God the Glory! Keep Pressing!

You Gotta Get That Dirt Off Your Shoulder...

I am a firm believer that if your desire is to be blessed, to be a blessing, and not just for ballin’, that God will honor your request. Sure there are people ballin’ out of control, but they are not richly blessed with what truly makes them happy or else there wouldn't be such a high rate of suicides among millionaires and billionaires; and people who we had ascribed to being the epitome of what society deems a so-called success.

Only the blessings derived from the hand of God are of abundance and will keep you from being consumed; and those things not possessing you. Be careful for the intentions of what you are praying for. You just might get it all and it won’t be all that you thought it would be; it just might be too much, that it overtakes you or take you so far off course that it overwhelms you. Only God gives balance to shoulder blessings and helps you to bear the load of abundance. Excess of anything can kill you if not properly handled.

You gotta get that dirt off your shoulder or else you’ll remain off balance.  God gives that balance.

All That Thorny Pain... So Beautiful...

Rose bushes are beautiful and I love to look at them – thorny and all. But sometimes it feels like when I am waiting on the Promise of God that I am lying in bed of rosebushes. The Promise He gave me is beautiful and I love to view it through my mind’s eye; the beauty of the color, velvety texture and fragrance of the roses will draw you in but when I try to get comfortable – it is as if I am being punctured everywhere I turn by the pricks of its protective thorns. But again – that is how I know that it is God’s garden that I am in. He won’t allow me to get too cozy and only experience Him through visions. However, His aim and goal is to spur me each and every time I turn off course by allowing prickly and unwanted pokes, and even more painful thoughts such as doubt to make me lie still and just enjoy the views and ambiance around me to remind me whose garden I am in and that I privileged to be invited into my very own Eden; and to allow Him to provide and care for me as He had originally intended. After so many pricks I know now to stop wrestling with where I am and instead enjoy where I am, because I am right where God would have me to be.

Read More About It In... "Giving It To You Blood Raw" by Yolanda M. Smothers-

April Fools... Sike!

God didn't waste neither his time nor ours breathing out his Spirit for us to simply be able to inhale and exhale; when we breathed him in, that included life. I am still waiting to exhale everything that will become a byproduct of the life he has given me. Just as we breathe in oxygen to live and we exhale carbon dioxide for the plants and world to live around about us; we get life and we breathe out a byproduct that is beneficial to others and the world about us, through our faith and the way that we live to glorify God. It's a reciprocal and perpetual action that benefits the giver and the recipients. This is no April fool - This is April Faith!

Holes In The Sky... I Feel Strained - "The Colander Life"

Holes In The Sky... I Feel Strained - "The Colander Life"

All I can do is scratch at the back of my neck, shake my head in utter dismay of another mind being blown, by God boring another whole into the stratosphere to pour blessings directly into another's life. Mine has to be somewhere in that colander in the sky...