Breakfast For Your Soul

Friday, April 24, 2009

  But the voice spoke again: “Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean.”

[Acts 10:15]

“This is the day the LORD has made let us rejoice and be glad in it”!

There was a lot going on in the book of Acts.  The New Testament church was forming.  The Jesus movement was growing by leaps and bounds.  Persecution grew also, people just didn’t understand why folks were following a ‘dead carpenter’.  (sounds like the thoughts of some people today).  Even those most versed in the Holy Scriptures, and who were waiting for Messiah, couldn’t believe that He had come, and worse yet that they were the ones who called for His death.  On top of a bad situation, here comes a man named Saul rounding up these ‘Christ-ians’ and killing them.  Fear must have been running rampid, but faith out-ran fear because despite it all, many still believed and the church grew.  In this tumultuous climate there was a man named Cornelius, who was a centurion.  He was a good man… a devout man who feared God…. he and his whole household.  God sent an angel to him to tell him to send for Peter (the Apostle).  As Cornelius is given these instructions (which he wasted no time following), Peter is also visited by an angel.  Now this part fascinates me.  Peter is hungry, all sorts of animals are presented to him to kill and eat (no grocery stores where he was).  He says no because the animals were ‘common’ or ‘unclean’ according to their dietary laws.  Peter was admonished that, what God has cleansed must not be called common.  God was preparing Peter to meet and minister to Cornelius who servants and soldier were on their way.  When they arrived, the angel told Peter to go with them, which he did.  Peter ministered to Cornelius and his entire house-hold (which was probably many due to his prominence).  The Holy Spirit fell upon them, they began to speak in tongues and magnify God.  Everyone believed.  Now when the Apostles and the other brethren heard about Peter’s little escapade with the ‘gentiles’, Peter had a lot of explaining to do.  After He told them what happened… “ When the others heard this, they stopped objecting and began praising God. They said, “We can see that God has also given the Gentiles the privilege of repenting of their sins and receiving eternal life.””(Acts 11:18).  Now that sounds like some members of the family of God.  When God has cleansed something, (or someone) our reaction should be the same.  Some, in their sincere desire to see folks delivered, inadvertently repel the ones we are called to minister to.  What God said in black and white, we stand on, but whether ladies’ should wear black stockings or brown stockings is a non-issue.  The bible doesn’t say sheer stockings are evil.  I don’t even like stockings. All I know is Jesus the Christ, Son of the Living God came to set us free.

… and that Beloved is the Good News He wants us to share!

U Blessed

Have A Fabulous Day!

Regina

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Much love and appreciation to a great man of God for the gifts he left behind!

Reverend Timothy Wright ~

our thoughts and prayers are with his family and loved ones

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“Who’s On The Lord’s Side”, Rev. Timothy Wright

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z02V2psiyBM

“You Must Come In At The Door”, Rev. Timothy Wright

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJx0is_Qkg8

“Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, The Katrina Song”, Rev. Timothy Wright

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9oyFp20YZ0

“For The Rest Of My Life”, Rev. Timothy Wright (at Bishop GE Patterson’s homegoing)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_MCzVtV0b8

“I Made It”, Rev. Timothy Wright

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SYe3WodqgU

  “Leaning on the Everlasting”, Rev. Timothy Wright

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPcHNXC8eU8

Rev. Timothy Wright Interview before the accident in 2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVdJozMh1DI

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Then there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon and his angels.  And the dragon lost the battle, and he and his angels were forced out of heaven. This great dragon—the ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, the one deceiving the whole world—was thrown down to the earth with all his angels. Then I heard a loud voice shouting across the heavens,  “It has come at last—salvation and power and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters has been thrown down to earth— the one who accuses them before our God day and night.  And they have defeated him by the Blood of the Lamb and by their testimony.  And they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid to die. Therefore, rejoice, O heavens! And you who live in the heavens, rejoice!  But terror will come on the earth and the sea, for the devil has come down to you in great anger, knowing that he has little time.”  

[Revelation 12:7-12]

“Under The Blood”

Good Morning Beloved,

Can you believe this Sunday is Palm Sunday?… Wow!… During this Passion Season there are so many hearts that are receptive to the Good News of the Gospel.  Even in an increasingly hostile culture, there is a remnant who desire to KNOW the true and living God.  Their hearts are hungry.  They know that something is missing and they don’t know what it is.  Everything that they put their trust in, their money, their education, their government, their success has been shaken to its very foundation.  This is the greatest time to be alive.  Not just ‘breathing’, but to be ALIVE in Christ.  Jesus told us to ‘occupy’ (‘do business’) until He comes.  He does not want us to live in fear.  He wants our trust to rest completely in Him.  To the point that if we go home to be with Him its fine, and if He should tarry and we live to be 100+ that’s good too.  All of our days filled with purpose, blessing and the joy of the Lord.  Not taking anything or anyone for granted.  I recently saw a story of a couple Herbert and Zelmyra Fisher who have been married for 84 years (they are in the Guinness Book) and still love and appreciate each other.  “Anything for her” he said.  Wow!  We are to Rejoice with those who rejoice and mourn with those who mourn.  Love with reckless abandon-what do we really have to lose if our life is hidden in Jesus?  We are called to be living epistles and living witnesses of who God is to us.  We are not exempt from trouble, but we have a hope that nobody else has.  We have a blessed hope and an assurance of forgiveness, peace, everlasting life and goodness.  We know that “this”  (whatever ‘this’ is) will soon pass. Situations that have people killing themselves (and others), we go THROUGH knowing that our God is with us.  At those times when we feel as though we cannot take another step, He carries us.  We were designed to overcome.  We are victors not victims.  He called us “more than conquerors”.  Some of us have gone through (or are going through) hard trials.  Remember the last hard trial? Remember how you came through it when you did not see a way out?  Others need to hear our testimonies… our stories.  Folks need to know that the same God who delivered Daniel from the lions den, and Shadrach, Meshach and Abednigo from the fiery furnace, who raised the dead, unstopped deaf ears, and opened blind eyes, who blessed the womb of a 90 year old woman, to bear the son of her 100 year old husband… the God who delivered the nation of Israel time and time again…. people need to know that THAT God is STILL delivering, and His people still overcoming here in this generation.

… and that Family is Good News!

U Blessed

Have A Fabulous Day

Regina   

“The Blood”, Kirk Franklin, Crystal Lewis, Jaci Velasquez & Donnie McClurkin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KouN9IsY8os

“Oh The Blood Of Jesus“, Donald Vails

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-R3tznycC4

“Hallelujah“, Judith McCallister

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH8v-DBc7gM

“With My Whole Heart”, by Thomas Whitfield (Jason Powell soloist)

Metropolitan Baptist Church with Rev. Nolan Williams Jr, directing and on piano http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i5_2f8_zKA

1 of 5   Our God is a God of justice, but also a God of mercy. Through the blood of Jesus, God’s mercy is available to us now. It is up to us to decide to accept it. We don’t want to be camping out in “Sin Forest” when judgment time comes.

Grace Cafe -2 Corinthians 1:20 3 of 116   All of God’s promises throughout the Bible are fulfilled in Jesus. The grace of God has been made freely available to us through the blood of Jesus. January 1, 2007

Tailor -Isaiah 61:10 20 of 116   Righteousness is not something we can attain through our own efforts. It is a free gift from God. Through Jesus, we can exchange our sin for His righteousness.

Pardoned -Colossians 2:13,14 21 of 116   The Good News is that the pardon for your sins has already been given. But you need to accept it by faith. March 16, 2007

Thursday, November 6, 2008

For I will restore health unto you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says the LORD; because they called you an outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeks after.

Jeremiah 30:17

“Restoration”

{“Restoration” The Winans http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFCeyeLSBoQ}

{“Tomorrow” King David Productions~http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZBCv7ChP38}

{Vanessa Bell “Peace Be Still” ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKQgTqDJanw}

The members of the council were amazed when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, for they could see that they were ordinary men with no special training in the Scriptures. They also recognized them as men who had been with Jesus.

{Acts 4:13 ~ New Living Translation}

One of the insults used against believers is that we have been “brain-washed”… I thought about that and I’ve come to the conclusion that with all of the trash, filth and nonsense constantly trying to infiltrate our “brains”, a little washing is needed …… as long as the water used is the uncontaminated water of the Word of God…

 

….. and that is Good News!

 

 

U Blessed!

Have A Fabulous Day

Regina

 

 

Tailor -Isaiah 61:10 20 of 100   Righteousness is not something we can attain through our own efforts. It is a free gift from God. Through Jesus, we can exchange our sin for His righteousness. March 11, 2007