What you do in obscurity can impact eternity.
God feels your heart when you are
cleaning the toilet bowl
for your family.
**********
Sunsets and sunrises
are burning sky bushes
for the spiritually receptive.
Follow the Son.
**********
A sunrise is a reminder
that yesterday's chaff
was burned up
in the sunset.
**********
LIFTING GOD WEIGHTS WILL REQUIRE A GOD DESIRE
If I desire my body to be stronger, I lift weights.
If I desire to know God more, I lift God weights.
To see God in everything requires spiritual weightlifting.
When I stand in the woods and watch a tree peel,
I see God because I desire to see God.
I begin to peel the layers off my heart
as I watch the wind peel the tree.
Fear has many layers; shame, guilt, blame, and rejection.
The layers on my heart are barriers that
need to be lifted from His Presence within me.
*********
WHY?
Why do we say we will pray for somebody and not pray at the moment we say it? People on FB post a comment that says:I will pray for you." When will they pray? When it's convenient or when they are done checking their friend activity or checking their email? I urge you to pray at the moment you say you will pray.
It's nothing to be embarrassed over. Prayer is simply a conversation with someone who loves you and will never leave you or forsake you. Pray when you say you will pray,
JUST DO IT!
**********
The message this morning will be:
"If the Son sets you free you are free indeed."
"Tarry ye in Jerusalem until until you are
endued with power from on high."
"Walking, leaping and praising God!"
***********
Here's a Shout Out to all the folks just getting home from clubbin' -
I am partying with Jesus this morning.
I am doing some undignified dancing.
I am with other folks as one Body.
I am drinking from a new wineskin.
I am smoking some Holy Ghost power!
Yowzers!!! No hangovers, I'm getting buzzed on God!
**********
WORD
If you took a lamp unto your feet,
Do you see homeless on a city street?
Do you see the flesh that among us dwells?
Little children playing among bombshells.
Are you reaching for the hem of His garment,
As your arm stretches over the naked vagrant?
Go do something nice for somebody.
**********
TRUE POVERTY -
A familyless child
**********
"Positive words only are spoken,
Negative words make people feel broken."
Can you share some positive words with a young person today?
**********
be filling needs and not
creating needs just to
feel needed.
This is a personal reminder that the best way to serve somebody is to help them stand on their own. Sometimes we give handouts to make ourselves feel good. This is actually harmful and is detrimental to self sufficiency. Go do something nice for somebody.
**********
I know I've been in the Presence
when I come away broken.
**********
Maybe the love I'm giving
is out of the love that I'm desiring
instead of the love that is needed.
**********
Deep in the soil of weakness
a seed of strength is taking root.
Passivity is patience becoming passion.
Take a moment and give yourself credit
for overcoming some weaknesses.
**********
Jesus - The Dust Remover
When he stooped down to wash people's feet, Jesus used water to remove dust. Another time he used water (his spit) to combine with dust to plaster a blind man's eyes and then he was told to go remove the mud and wash in the Pool of Siloam (sent.) The guy who once was blind could now see. In the beginning God separated the waters from the dry land. When we are born, we are separated from our mother's water (it breaks.) There seems to be a pattern of separation from earthly dust in preparation for being sent spiritually. God's creation is a classroom that leads to a spiritual graduation.
The following is from John 3:5-6 in The Message: 5-6Jesus said, "You're not listening. Let me say it again. Unless a person submits to this original creation—the 'wind-hovering-over-the-water'
**********
Love is a verb -
GO TAKE SOME ACTION!
**********
"Quit your worship charades.
I can't stand your trivial religious games:
Monthly conferences, weekly Sabbaths, special meetings—
meetings, meetings, meetings—I can't stand one more!
Meetings for this, meetings for that. I hate them!
You've worn me out!
I'm sick of your religion, religion, religion,
while you go right on sinning.
When you put on your next prayer-performance,
I'll be looking the other way.
No matter how long or loud or often you pray,
I'll not be listening.
And do you know why? Because you've been tearing
people to pieces, and your hands are bloody.
Go home and wash up.
Clean up your act.
Sweep your lives clean of your evil doings
so I don't have to look at them any longer.
Say no to wrong.
Learn to do good.
Work for justice.
Help the down-and-out.
Stand up for the homeless.
Go to bat for the defenseless.
Isaiah 1:17
The Message
**********
His wounds
healed people.
Do yours?
**********
The Bread of Life -
Prepared on a Cross,
Cooked behind a Stone,
Became a Risen Meal of
Eternal Nourishment.
**********
"She reached out and touched the hem of His garment."
Will you allow Him to reach out and touch the hem of your heart?
***********
It would be cool if the oppressed, fatherless and widows had signs that said:
"Hey you, get out of your pew!
**********
I want a Son rise in me.
**********
forgive
**********
Once upon a minute there was a tree called a Blame Tree. It's lofty branches were pointed at all the other trees of the forest. "It's your fault my seedlings don't grow," she shouted!
Some of the other trees pointed back and shouted their own words of needling and blame. Some trees were cut down and still getting blamed even though they were no longer around.
One tree eventually made some sense:
"I was a tree at the very first fall, the fall of you mankind because you wanted it all. I held the fruit you picked that cause you guilt and shame, you wear it now like a mantle, it's become a part of your name. Unable to take it off, you react in fear, pointing fingers of blame.
I was a tree cut down and floated through town on 39 rivers of blood. A Man was made to carry me and all of you upon my sturdy wood. They froze him to my limbs with cold hard steel. I held him like a leaf until he fell from my branches, his last words I remember: 'Please give them second chances."
I hope there is a forest fire in Buffalo that causes the blame trees to be burnt up like chaff so that the seedlings of children are allowed to grow.
Thanks for your time. Go do something nice for somebody.
**********
VIOLENCE & ANGER
Today's Youth With A Purpose Inc. Relationship Mentoring program in the Buffalo Schools tackled anger management. We examined the roots of fear and woundedness that cause people to hurt other people. Hurting people hurt people. What triggers your anger or depressed moods? Can you take a deep breath, walk away, refocus your thoughts to diffuse anger? Can you develop empathy and understand someone's pain and offer compassion instead of returning anger? YES YOU CAN!
**********
Most folks are as compatible as
they make up their minds to be.
**********
REINFORCESTEEMENT
It's a new word that means:
"The action of reinforcing your self esteem."
Someday your body will return to dust. In the meantime you are fertile soil designed to nurture growth. You are a good and valuable person who will persevere and build emotional muscle as you grow into a more compassionate heart farmer.
**********
Leave your past
as a root in the darkness
that allows you to stretch
into the light of a new dawn
**********
"It's not just eye contact that happens here
it's more like heart contact.
This is where the healing begins."
**********
Let your tears of sadness
sprinkle upon seeds of gladness.
Go do something nice for somebody.
**********
BLUE SKY
I can't see the end of it,
So I'll just run under it.
**********
CHANGE is.....
When a wound received becomes a healing applied.
Too many wounded people react to pain by giving pain to others. Let your wound become a weight that you lift
to make the muscle of your heart stronger.
1 Samuel 25 The Message
30-31 "When God completes all the goodness he has promised my master and sets you up as prince over Israel, my master will not have this dead weight in his heart, the guilt of an avenging murder. And when God has worked things for good for my master, remember me."
**********
When will the Fringe Folks become Fray Folks?
Buffalo has been a city of Fringe Sitters for too long.
It's time for Fray Jumpers, It's time Buffalo.
We are on the edge.
The edge of a dream.
Living on the edge requires a team.
A team of players who play the plan.
Will you sit on the fringe and meet and plan?
Will you jump into the fray and play the plan?
Youth With A Purpose Inc.
Help needed: Prayers, Planners, Players
**********
THE HOODIE IS AN EXCUSE
The hoodie issue has become an excuse for adults to hide behind because they have not taught the next generation about compassion.
The adults need to act like the students at the Charter School -
TAKE ACTION!
Instead of focusing on our own faults, it's easier to focus on people villianized by the media. We feel power in numbers as we chant for justice and vengeance while we ignore our own ignorance. Lack of compassion creates stereotypes that give us a false sense of security to hide behind. Pointing fingers of blame create stereo types. I wonder who wore the first hoodie?
Hitler used propaganda against the Jews to create a Holocaust. He blamed Jews for everything so he could rally support for his heinous atrocities. In America we are finding many things to blame for our own lack of compassion. Hoodies, Black people, Hispanic people, White people, sagging pants people, hood people, rich people, poor people, government people, Pastor people, homeless people, etc.
Stop the blame game and take a good look at yourself.
Do you treat EVERYONE with compassion?
It's not whether you wear a hood.
It's not whether you live in the Hood.
IN ALL PEOPLE - LOOK FOR SOMETHING GOOD!
Thanks for your time. Go do something nice for somebody.
**********
God feels your heart when you are
cleaning the toilet bowl
for your family.
**********
Sunsets and sunrises
are burning sky bushes
for the spiritually receptive.
Follow the Son.
**********
A sunrise is a reminder
that yesterday's chaff
was burned up
in the sunset.
**********
LIFTING GOD WEIGHTS WILL REQUIRE A GOD DESIRE
If I desire my body to be stronger, I lift weights.
If I desire to know God more, I lift God weights.
To see God in everything requires spiritual weightlifting.
When I stand in the woods and watch a tree peel,
I see God because I desire to see God.
I begin to peel the layers off my heart
as I watch the wind peel the tree.
Fear has many layers; shame, guilt, blame, and rejection.
The layers on my heart are barriers that
need to be lifted from His Presence within me.
*********
WHY?
Why do we say we will pray for somebody and not pray at the moment we say it? People on FB post a comment that says:I will pray for you." When will they pray? When it's convenient or when they are done checking their friend activity or checking their email? I urge you to pray at the moment you say you will pray.
It's nothing to be embarrassed over. Prayer is simply a conversation with someone who loves you and will never leave you or forsake you. Pray when you say you will pray,
JUST DO IT!
**********
The message this morning will be:
"If the Son sets you free you are free indeed."
"Tarry ye in Jerusalem until until you are
endued with power from on high."
"Walking, leaping and praising God!"
***********
Here's a Shout Out to all the folks just getting home from clubbin' -
I am partying with Jesus this morning.
I am doing some undignified dancing.
I am with other folks as one Body.
I am drinking from a new wineskin.
I am smoking some Holy Ghost power!
Yowzers!!! No hangovers, I'm getting buzzed on God!
**********
WORD
If you took a lamp unto your feet,
Do you see homeless on a city street?
Do you see the flesh that among us dwells?
Little children playing among bombshells.
Are you reaching for the hem of His garment,
As your arm stretches over the naked vagrant?
Go do something nice for somebody.
**********
TRUE POVERTY -
A familyless child
**********
"Positive words only are spoken,
Negative words make people feel broken."
Can you share some positive words with a young person today?
**********
"You can see where they
shot my Daddy's ear off."
A church needs to shot my Daddy's ear off."
be filling needs and not
creating needs just to
feel needed.
This is a personal reminder that the best way to serve somebody is to help them stand on their own. Sometimes we give handouts to make ourselves feel good. This is actually harmful and is detrimental to self sufficiency. Go do something nice for somebody.
**********
I know I've been in the Presence
when I come away broken.
**********
Maybe the love I'm giving
is out of the love that I'm desiring
instead of the love that is needed.
**********
Deep in the soil of weakness
a seed of strength is taking root.
Passivity is patience becoming passion.
Take a moment and give yourself credit
for overcoming some weaknesses.
**********
Jesus - The Dust Remover
When he stooped down to wash people's feet, Jesus used water to remove dust. Another time he used water (his spit) to combine with dust to plaster a blind man's eyes and then he was told to go remove the mud and wash in the Pool of Siloam (sent.) The guy who once was blind could now see. In the beginning God separated the waters from the dry land. When we are born, we are separated from our mother's water (it breaks.) There seems to be a pattern of separation from earthly dust in preparation for being sent spiritually. God's creation is a classroom that leads to a spiritual graduation.
The following is from John 3:5-6 in The Message: 5-6Jesus said, "You're not listening. Let me say it again. Unless a person submits to this original creation—the 'wind-hovering-over-the-water'
**********
Love is a verb -
GO TAKE SOME ACTION!
**********
"Quit your worship charades.
I can't stand your trivial religious games:
Monthly conferences, weekly Sabbaths, special meetings—
meetings, meetings, meetings—I can't stand one more!
Meetings for this, meetings for that. I hate them!
You've worn me out!
I'm sick of your religion, religion, religion,
while you go right on sinning.
When you put on your next prayer-performance,
I'll be looking the other way.
No matter how long or loud or often you pray,
I'll not be listening.
And do you know why? Because you've been tearing
people to pieces, and your hands are bloody.
Go home and wash up.
Clean up your act.
Sweep your lives clean of your evil doings
so I don't have to look at them any longer.
Say no to wrong.
Learn to do good.
Work for justice.
Help the down-and-out.
Stand up for the homeless.
Go to bat for the defenseless.
Isaiah 1:17
The Message
**********
His wounds
healed people.
Do yours?
**********
The Bread of Life -
Prepared on a Cross,
Cooked behind a Stone,
Became a Risen Meal of
Eternal Nourishment.
**********
"She reached out and touched the hem of His garment."
Will you allow Him to reach out and touch the hem of your heart?
***********
It would be cool if the oppressed, fatherless and widows had signs that said:
"Hey you, get out of your pew!
**********
I want a Son rise in me.
**********
forgive
**********
Once upon a minute there was a tree called a Blame Tree. It's lofty branches were pointed at all the other trees of the forest. "It's your fault my seedlings don't grow," she shouted!
Some of the other trees pointed back and shouted their own words of needling and blame. Some trees were cut down and still getting blamed even though they were no longer around.
One tree eventually made some sense:
"I was a tree at the very first fall, the fall of you mankind because you wanted it all. I held the fruit you picked that cause you guilt and shame, you wear it now like a mantle, it's become a part of your name. Unable to take it off, you react in fear, pointing fingers of blame.
I was a tree cut down and floated through town on 39 rivers of blood. A Man was made to carry me and all of you upon my sturdy wood. They froze him to my limbs with cold hard steel. I held him like a leaf until he fell from my branches, his last words I remember: 'Please give them second chances."
I hope there is a forest fire in Buffalo that causes the blame trees to be burnt up like chaff so that the seedlings of children are allowed to grow.
Thanks for your time. Go do something nice for somebody.
**********
VIOLENCE & ANGER
Today's Youth With A Purpose Inc. Relationship Mentoring program in the Buffalo Schools tackled anger management. We examined the roots of fear and woundedness that cause people to hurt other people. Hurting people hurt people. What triggers your anger or depressed moods? Can you take a deep breath, walk away, refocus your thoughts to diffuse anger? Can you develop empathy and understand someone's pain and offer compassion instead of returning anger? YES YOU CAN!
**********
Most folks are as compatible as
they make up their minds to be.
**********
REINFORCESTEEMENT
It's a new word that means:
"The action of reinforcing your self esteem."
Someday your body will return to dust. In the meantime you are fertile soil designed to nurture growth. You are a good and valuable person who will persevere and build emotional muscle as you grow into a more compassionate heart farmer.
**********
Leave your past
as a root in the darkness
that allows you to stretch
into the light of a new dawn
**********
"It's not just eye contact that happens here
it's more like heart contact.
This is where the healing begins."
**********
Let your tears of sadness
sprinkle upon seeds of gladness.
Go do something nice for somebody.
**********
BLUE SKY
I can't see the end of it,
So I'll just run under it.
**********
CHANGE is.....
When a wound received becomes a healing applied.
Too many wounded people react to pain by giving pain to others. Let your wound become a weight that you lift
to make the muscle of your heart stronger.
1 Samuel 25 The Message
30-31 "When God completes all the goodness he has promised my master and sets you up as prince over Israel, my master will not have this dead weight in his heart, the guilt of an avenging murder. And when God has worked things for good for my master, remember me."
**********
When will the Fringe Folks become Fray Folks?
Buffalo has been a city of Fringe Sitters for too long.
It's time for Fray Jumpers, It's time Buffalo.
We are on the edge.
The edge of a dream.
Living on the edge requires a team.
A team of players who play the plan.
Will you sit on the fringe and meet and plan?
Will you jump into the fray and play the plan?
Youth With A Purpose Inc.
Help needed: Prayers, Planners, Players
**********
THE HOODIE IS AN EXCUSE
The hoodie issue has become an excuse for adults to hide behind because they have not taught the next generation about compassion.
The adults need to act like the students at the Charter School -
TAKE ACTION!
Instead of focusing on our own faults, it's easier to focus on people villianized by the media. We feel power in numbers as we chant for justice and vengeance while we ignore our own ignorance. Lack of compassion creates stereotypes that give us a false sense of security to hide behind. Pointing fingers of blame create stereo types. I wonder who wore the first hoodie?
Hitler used propaganda against the Jews to create a Holocaust. He blamed Jews for everything so he could rally support for his heinous atrocities. In America we are finding many things to blame for our own lack of compassion. Hoodies, Black people, Hispanic people, White people, sagging pants people, hood people, rich people, poor people, government people, Pastor people, homeless people, etc.
Stop the blame game and take a good look at yourself.
Do you treat EVERYONE with compassion?
It's not whether you wear a hood.
It's not whether you live in the Hood.
IN ALL PEOPLE - LOOK FOR SOMETHING GOOD!
Thanks for your time. Go do something nice for somebody.
**********
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