Tag: authentic
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Kindness, Clarity, and Encouragement – #22
I’ve no idea where I got this from but hey! It still slaps.
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I said what I said
A lesson on the fruit of the lips I never ever say anything that I don’t mean. Even when I was out in the world. I am “If ‘I said what I said’ was a person”. Where’s my T-shirt? That said: I weigh words carefully cuz you can’t take them back. The imaging that God…
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Kindness, Clarity, and Encouragement – #13
That’s it. That’s the post. You reap what you sow, my friend.
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Sometimes honest Christianity looks like the Struggle
confession: I have started a particular post four times. And each time I erased it because I was talking out of my agitation and NOT my anointing. “Human anger does not ever produce the righteousness that God desires.” (James somewhere, my version of it. 🤷🏾♀️) Sometimes, you gotta sit the game out before you sin…
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Pushing Passed Imposter Syndrome
Imposter syndrome, also called perceived fraudulence, involves feelings of self-doubt and personal incompetence that persist despite your education, experience, and accomplishments. Healthline.com This is what the spirit of rejection does to you. Everything you do—every GOOD AND PERFECT GIFT that came from God, the Father of Lights—is made to feel like it is nothing. It…
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A Million Little Miracles
#confession: I used to want to desperately experience miracles and signs and wonders like the old church. It was an entire obsession. I would scour YouTube to watch miraculous healings and people passing out under the “presence.” I would literally pray, “WHY CAN’T THIS BE ME!” And then. The Lord baptized me with the Holy…
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Irregardless, we still sum headbussas… for the LORD.
It always went like this: “Tell Mr. Jackson I said Hello.”“Red, Kisha said hello, Mr. Jackson.” And I’d hear in the background, “Passa.” If you knew how I recoiled from that one word, that one little dig. Listen. I knew he was being funny and fun—tongue-in-cheek, literarily speaking…and also. He was quietly insistent. Like, all…
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The Folly of Faking It
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. John 15:1-2 I had this student who mastered the art of looking busy. You rarely saw him…
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The Year of Reclaim
A personal testimony. The thing of it is, I was born to serve. People who assume things about me, assume that I am attempting to do other than serve have to check their own hearts. I have always just filled the spot that needed to be filled. Dishes? I wash them. Alto? I sing my…