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I am a believer in the Word when it says "we overcome by the words of our testimony". I share these stories, these pivitol points in my life to help someone who maybe can put it in words; which I by the way for so many years could not do. I encourage anyone who has comments or just a word of encouragement to let us know on our comments page. Please let me know if your would like you comments posted. I do believe in holiness, realness, and tactfulness so it is at my staffs discretions on what is posted.
Like a father… Whispering encouragement, showing you how to live well before God.” 1 Thessalonians 2:11-12 With typical humor, journalist Paul Harvey writes: “A father is forced to endure childbirth without anesthesia. He growls when it feels good and laughs when he’s scared. He’s guilty of giving too much time to his business when his kids are growing up. He never feels entirely worthy in their eyes. He lectures them when their grades aren’t as good as he thinks they should be- although secretly he knows it’s really the teachers fault! Dad’s have tough exteriors and sometimes their hearts must be broken, otherwise nobody would know what’s inside. They work hard smoothing rough places in the road for their sons and give their daughters away to men who aren’t nearly smart enough, so they can have grandkids who are smarter than anybody else’s. Fathers get old faster than other people. Everyday they enter the arena of work where they tackle the three-headed dragon of work, stress and monotony. They make bets with insurance companies about who’ll live the longest, and although they know the odds, they keep on betting until one day they lose… and the bet is paid off to the part of them they leave behind.” When Paul needed an example of a positive influence, he talked about “a father with his child, holding (his) hand, whispering encouragement, showing (him)…how to live…before God.” If your dad distinguished himself as a good role model, remember to thank him. If you weren’t blessed with that kind of influence, or you grew up without a dad, let today be an occasion to honor the spiritual fathers who did nurture and inspire you.
Some of our readers wanted to say thank you to some very special Fathers…
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Together we have 9 beautiful children and 6 grandchildren. He is truly a blessing in all of our lives. It gives me great pleasure to publicly thank him for all he has done for not only providing for his children but my 3 as well. He has never made any one of these children feel like they don’t belong – biological or not. They are all treated equally. We love him and pray God continues to use and bless him. First
Lady Beverlie Jones, Monumental ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
My two sons and my husband To Robert Cornelius Al Lampkins Clarence Chaney To three wonderful men it is a blessing to know that you guys are truly great fathers to my sons God has put in both of you to be the kind of father that books should be written about thanks guys for my grand children sake. And to my husband you are special because you chose to be a father and stand in when others didn't thanks love you all so much Trudy
Chaney ~ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Rev. Clint Walker The best Dad and Husband God could have ever given us! We Love You, Clinton (R.I.P.) Diamond and Candace
The
Human mind is a fabulous computer. As a matter of fact, no one has ever
been able to design a computer as intricate and efficient as the human
mind.
Consider this: your brain is capable of recording 800 memories per
second for seventy-five years without getting tired…
I
have heard some persons complain that their brain is too tired to get
involved in a program of Scripture memorization .
I have news for them – the body can get tired , but the brain
never does. A human being doesn’t use more than two percent of his brain
power, scientist tell us. And,
of course some demonstrate this fact more obviously than others.
The point is, the brain is capable of incredible amount of work and
it retains everything it takes in. You never really forget anything: you
just don’t recall it. Everything
is on permanent file in your brain. Earl D. Radmacher, You and Your Thoughts
Some of our readers wanted to say congrats to this year’s graduates!!!!
I have 2 people I would like to congratulate :
Patrick
Davidson- 2008 College Grad from UB;
Lacey
Tamara
Griffin –
Te'Anna
Jean'naytay M.L. Coplin will graduate from From
– Terrie ‘Ann Coplin Alexis
Lampkins Full
Scolarship to I
am so proud of you baby. Keep reaching for the stars and keep God
first and the sky is the limit for you. Rob
Cornelius ~ Alexis Lampkins Westover High I am so proud of Alexis. I pray that when she goes to college that she has the same drive or even greater to get her degree but also to enjoy life and keep the same sweetness that she has always had Love grandma
Congrats to The United Christian Faith Ministries C.O.G.I.C. Graduates-from Nesci-- *Kary
"Burtrell" Burks -
*Audrei
Bailey-B.A. Communication @
* "Through
it All Maintain that Modest Composure"
Ephes.
6:12 (KJV) For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. When looking at this passage of scripture one of the things that stands out is that “We”, the saints of God, “wrestle not.” Anyone who knows me knows that I am a word person and in order to get an accurate interpretation of what I am reading I always look words up. To wrestle means “To contend by grappling and attempting to throw or immobilize one's opponent”. (American Heritage Dictionary, 2006). As Saints we know that in our everyday lives we do not fight against people, and although we seem to be attacked by people the next part of our text explains who and what we are up against. ‘but
against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the
darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.’
My way of explaining this text is that when it seems that a particular person or persons is coming against you it is not them but satan (the prince of darkness) and his imps working though them to get to you. They are at that time having what I call an “out-of-body experience” because they, as flesh and blood, do not know what they are doing and therefore should be treated accordingly. For example have you ever gotten into an argument with someone that you know is not saved and about a day later they act like nothing ever happened? There is the proof that the previous incident was an out of body experience. The enemy’s job is to not only embarrass us but to kill us. Be
sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion,
walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.
(1 Peter 5:8 (KJV) We as Christians have no right to act like the unsaved so it’s amazing to me how unbelievers will do their job and we won’t. The unbelievers have enough sense to allow their master (satan) to work in them but we as Christians will move our Master (God) out of the way because our feelings got hurt. When will we learn that It’s not about us! Our first lady always tells us to do a background check first so I did. I looked at the scripture before this, Ephesians 6:11 (KJV) which tells us to “Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.” He tells us that we have to be prepared for the wiles- a trick to deceive in a cunning way; coax, lure, entice (Dictionary.com, n.d.) of the enemy. In the scriptures that follow, Paul let’s us know how to counter attack these tricks and schemes. One of my Dad’s favorite movies is the 300. The movie is a true story about 300 Spartans who decided to take on the Persian Army which numbered somewhere in the 10 thousands. As I read these scriptures I thought of this movie because it was a pep talk given to some soldiers six or seven years after the actual events of the 300 telling them the name they have to uphold and why. I can picture Paul the commander doing the same thing to us as we get ready to battle putting on our armour. The one thing that stuck out is Paul told us twice (vs. 11&12) to put on the whole armour; I guess he knew that there would be some that would say they don’t need the whole thing. Paul first told us to put on the belt of truth and the breast plate of righteousness. Put on the belt of facts or established principles; never use hearsay as a weapon!! Put on the breastplate of justice, or just plain doing right. The breast plate guards our heart, which is our source of emotions; especially love. He tells us here to guard our heart with right doing. Then our feet should be fitted with the readiness from the gospel of peace which means just simply, we must be ready at all time to share the gospel with others. My favorite part of the armour, the shield of faith is there to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Faith is doing something even when I can’t see it or understand it. Just like the woman with the issue of blood (Luke 8:48), or blind Bartimaeus (Mark 10:46-52), or even the example Jesus gave in Luke 17:6 (KJV) And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamore tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you. The shield is there to protect me from what I can’t see, or protecting my future. The enemy knows his future and he wants us to spend ours with him. So his job is to attack us now in order to destroy our future and only with the shield up can we guard against his darts. The helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit are next. I picture the helmet as one of the old fashion medieval helmets that covered everything. A helmet in any aspect protects the senses- taste, sight, smell, and hearing; and here is something wild, the sword even protects the fifth sense, touch. A sense is the power of an organism to know what happens outside itself. Salvation is the deliverance from sin. The helmets job is to protect the senses against sin. The sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God is one of our most important weapons. We can combat the enemy with the Word as Jesus did when he was on the mountain and satan tempted Him. Matthew 4:4 (KJV) But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. This is important and probably the reason why Paul the commander keeps reminding us to put on the whole armour. (vs.18) and pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints. Paul did not go to another subject, the and at the beginning of this verse implies that it is a piece of the armour as well. Praying is simply a conversation with God. If we stayed in a conversation with God, instead of each other, it would halt a lot of extra talking that we don’t need to do anyway. After this Paul says to pray for him so that he can boldly preach the mystery of the gospel. That is my prayer. After putting on all of this armour we must fight; why put all this on for nothing.
Throughout
the movie the soldiers were reminded why they were born. To Fight!
They knew they fought not for themselves but for the kingdom and
King who they represented. At the end of the movie the new commander
told the troops we do this for King Leonidus and we do this for References: WRESTLE.
(n.d.). The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language,
Fourth Edition. Retrieved April 02, 2008, from Dictionary.com
website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/WRESTLE Wiles.
(n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Retrieved April 02,
2008, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/wiles
What Part of the Game is This!!! Ministry Manipulators.- Q (4/17/06)
Something
has been laid on my heart. Normally i would have ignored this tug, but i
can no longer do this. Growing up in the church, as you know has been an
interesting journey. I have noticed in the past year that allot of my
peers (PK's) are reaching out for help and have no where to go. We
cannot go to our parents for the sake of giving them more to worry
about, we can't talk to anyone cause we don't and can't trust anyone. We
act out and then we are labeled we act in and the label gets worse. We
try to participate in ministry and then we are falling into our parents
footsteps, we cannot make the same mistakes everyone else did cause
apparently there is a special part of hell created just for us!!! I am
pretty sure you have tackled if not all at least one of these issues. I
am not sure how or even if any of the others feel like i do.
“WHAT’S WRONG WITH MY MUSIC?”- "Q" (7/06) Growing up in a musical home had to be the best experience any child could want. My parents were very strict. My brother and I could not listen to secular music in our home. My parents however did expose us to the whole music spectrum. My mom being a licensed DJ, played music such as The Yellow Jackets, Chick Chorea, George Benson, The Bee Gee's , The Beatles and a whole lot more. My dad was a sound engineer and has done concerts for greats such as James Cleveland and Keith Pringle. As I grew up music became a staple in my life. Music held me together. I live, eat and breathe it.
In the past year I have been elevated to the Minister of Music and Fine Arts of my local church and the Head of the Praise and Worship for our State Praise team. Leading praise and worship, and doing other things in the ministry of music. I began to notice that I was only getting so high in my praise and in my worship. I do have a confession to make (we overcome by the words of our testimony!) I had begun to struggle with being single! Oh don't get deep!! There are allot of us that are so angry at God, for us being single that we can only get so far. I began to realize the effect that this "other" music was having. I wanted so bad to be so close in my walk with the Lord that was willing to do what ever it takes. Something clicked; I could not have the desire to be with another person and God at the same time. "God is a Jealous God!!" We have to realize that we (as Christian singles) cannot expect to have a lasting relationship with another person until we have an intimate relationship with God. I noticed that when I purchased a secular CD, I would only take and listen to the love songs. They aren't talking about the relationship with their creator!!! So I would make me a CD of all the love songs and listen to them. It was driving me nuts, and I was creating a monster!!! It began to ruin my relationship with my God. The songs were not being used to edify me or give praise to God. In contrast I had become angry with myself and God for me being single. Contrary to popular belief it was also putting images in my mind of a romance that did not even exist. People today do not believe that music can do this, I didn't!!!
So i decided in April (4/06) not to listen to secular music anymore, and boy i can tell the difference. My relationship with God is so precious. I realize that my gift was being manipulated by this other music that I said could not affect me. So, if you are a single woman believe what the bible says and go after God like never before. (don't worry i thought it was crazy too!! but once you do it a relationship is the farthest thing from your mind, and that saying "Do you" will be your motto!!) If you are in music ministry and you notice yourself getting stagnant and you can only go so far, ask yourself what do i have to change in order to get closer to him to be more effective in my music ministry. I had to ask what was wrong with my music??? |
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Being
a PK (Preacher’s Kid), we have a lot of father’s. First I want to pay
tribute to my very own Father, Pastor Tony W. Robinson. He is my best
friend in the whole world and most people who know us know that it is an
interesting sight when we are together!! He has taught me so much in life.
He helped me raise my sons to be God fearing men. He also taught me that
there are no grey areas in the Bible, everything is black and white. In
April of this year I lost one of my spiritual Fathers, Pastor Richard 
I
would like to pay tribute to my darling husband, Pastor James E. Jones.
I could not have asked for a better stepfather for my 3 children
(even though I prayed really hard and was sent not only the man of my
dreams BUT God gave me a bonus!!!)
