Tag: Exhortation
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Forgiveness, Offense, Repentance, & Reconciliation
Forgiveness frees you of the offense; however: Repentance precedes Reconciliation Kisha “Great Joy” Spencer Many of us conflate forgiveness with reconciliation because we desire greatly to forgo the process of repentance. But see let me put you up on game: Forgiveness is for the offend-ED, while repentance? Well. Repentance is for the offend—ER. See the…
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Popular with God or Man?
The biggest struggle I have seen in body of Christ today—and in my own life—is the constant push and pull of popularity. The tough part about holiness is the initial walking away from people to pursue God. That walking away encompasses all that we crave: money, fame, power, privilege…the literal DENYING of self and crucifying…
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Focus on Me – A thought on distractions in a life meant for purpose.
Sometimes, someone inspires me—reminds me to level set myself into the person I am meant to be. And so while the word for the first half of 2022 was Balance, a new word has been added. Focus. In the game of basketball, it is said that you make zero percent of the shots you never…
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You deserve peace. Forgive.
Some people wake up with a heart to provoke others because they have allowed the accuser of the brethren to provoke them all night long. They need to relieve themselves of the condemnation and tension that they are experiencing; and rather than lift up their eyes unto the hills from whence cometh their help? They…
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Modern day parables: a JEWEL among JEWELS
This is a story about my mother, whose birthday it is today. Anytime I go home back in Mississippi, my mother and father commit them self’s to filling my car with as much stuff as possible. Clothes, shoes, jewelry, food—you name it, it gets jammed into my Cadillac XTS. I have always been a master…
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Judge Not, the simple version
You ever listen to somebody talk bad about somebody else, but in your mind you’re saying, “But THEY JUST LIKE YOU!!!” That is why ya girl don’t talk about folks. Because Jesus said, “How you gone see the speck in their eye and Issa whole plank in yourns?” (Matthew 7:3, Kisha version). Lauryn Hill asked,…
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Opportunity in the midst of Opposition
One thing that I have experienced over and over and over is that when the devil comes, he doesn’t come outright. He comes through people–and usually people to whom you are close, because those attacks hurt worse–your character, integrity, and growth get targeted because they KNOW YOU, your struggles, your weak spots. YET. Even in…
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The TRUE Signs of Increase: The Workload
During the wilderness experience while God scrubbed out their character, the children of Israel wanted for nothing. They left Egypt with everything they could ask for and carry; their clothes and shoes never wore out; food fell from the heavens; water poured from rock. The only thing they had to focus on was character. Character.…
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Free Your Mind
“Be Ye Transformed By the Renewing Of Your Mind” Mind control is THE name of the game after salvation. It is the place through which you find yourself struggling or successful, living or dying. The thoughts that cycle through are a direct window into what you really believe. And even though we’ve learned to fake…
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God’s Love is for YOU: a reminder
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16 KJV For years, I isolated and separated myself from people who loved me because I thought that I wasn’t good enough, that I didn’t measure up, and that…
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