Breakfast For Your Soul

Good Afternoon Beloved,

Wow!  This year certainly came in with a BANG!  All around me I see new things.  New careers (I just started a brand new job..yeaa!), new people, new opportunities, new vision.  It is an exciting time for the Body of Christ.  I have also seen, new attacks, new drama, new “mess”.  The phrase “new levels- new devils” comes to mind.  We have an adversary (whether we want to accept it or not), who hates our God and wants to annihilate us.  He is limited in what he is allowed to do, but he can do some things.  His greatest weapons are fear, unbelief, and division (“di-vision=dividing the vision.. die-vision=killing the vision”).  If I am afraid of you, we won’t be able to work together.  If I don’t believe what God said, I won’t do what He wants me to do, and Jesus said a house divided against itself can not stand.  Whenever something “crazy” is going on, ask yourself some questions.  What is going on? Why is this happening now?  Where am I going?  What am I doing?  The enemy is not omni-present, nor can he see the future.  He does know enough about God and His dealings with man-kind over the centuries to know the signs of when God’s favor is about to pour over his kids.  My grandmother had a way of looking up at the sky and knowing that a terrible storm was coming.  It was fascinating to watch.  The sky could appear clear and sunny, but she could sense what was coming.  It came from years of experience, and what she had been taught.  To the enemy of our souls, we are his greatest “objects of study”, because we are his greatest source of irritation.  Think about it.  He rebelled against God, and immediately  kicked out of Heaven, we rebelled against God, and the Lord of Hosts came to earth to redeem us back to Himself. God calls us His “friends”.. His “children”.. His “Beloved”, His special treasure.  Do you really think the enemy is just going to allow us to live a quiet, peaceful life of “tulip tip-toeing” and ease.  NOPE.. His assignment is to destroy us any way he can.  You say, “Regina that is so depressing.  There is a fallen arc-angel that’s hates me… that doesn’t sound like good news..where is the good news in this edition?”  Well, the good news is that we are victorious.  No matter what is going on, we are victorious.  We just have to be vigilant. The enemy will use whoever he can, and they may or may not even know it.  We really are “our brother’s keeper”.  Love covers a multitude of sin.  If our brother or sister offends us, what are we going to do with that offense?The Bible tells us that as much as is possible with us to live in peace with all men.  We are to love everybody, but you’re not going to eat dinner with everyone.  When strange issues come up with people you love, do what you can to “shut it down”.  I don’t like it when someone is upset with me, and I don’t know why.  It is especially frustrating when you find out it is because they believed a lie.  You can’t confront what you don’t know about.  That is another tactic of the enemy to create division and strife. When things are on the table they can be dealt with.  The enemy knows this.  He also knows that, when everything is brought out and discussed, and prayer is brought into it, the relationship is usually better than it was before.. and that is what he is afraid of.  We are stronger when we are unified.  The Bible tells us that they (those outside covenant relationship with Jesus), will know us by our love.  If we’re fighting and bickering among ourselves we won’t get much accomplished and our witness is damaged.  People are searching for the true God.  As His Beloved, we are charged with “allowing our light to so shine before men that all may see our good works and glorify our Father who is in Heaven!” They want to see what makes us different from them.  Our love.  When we love people through the most difficult circumstances, we demonstrate “Agape”.  That is the “God” kind of love.  We can do it through the power that He invested in us… and when we do.. we get bumped up another level.

 

 

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
[Proverbs 17:17]

A Good Friend Is A Hug From God!!!

Good Morning Beloved!

I hope this finds you in a good place.  Today is my sister-friend Tina’s birthday.  I believe everyone raised as an only child needs a friend like her. We have been friends since I first moved to DC at the age of 16.  She has epitomized that verse, “A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity”.  In good times, and in bad times, her friendship has been consistent.  A partner in crime (not really.. but we did hook school on occasion to hang out at the zoo~ but don’t tell my Mama! LOL!.. oh she gets the Soul Food… hi MOM! ). I always tell her that God used her to save my life.  Coming from the country, I was very naive’.  I had NO street sense AT ALL.  She has always been discerning, and could size people up in an instant.  With a quick.. “uh-uh”, she could shut down whatever plans they thought they had.  That kind of friend should be cherished and honored.  A good friend is a hug from God.  We are the “Body” of Christ in the earth realm.  The body consists of “many members”.  Hands, feet, eyes, nose, ears etc.  I believe God uses the arms of our friends to love on us and assure us that it’s going to get better.  He uses their mouth to speak correction to us when we’re in error, and encouraging words when we are down-hearted.  He uses the feet of a Godly friend to lead us as they follow Christ. He uses their eyes to see what we don’t (or won’t). He uses their nose to sniff out potentially “funky” situations before we get in them, and He uses their ears to hear, when our own ears are too full of “sweet nothings” to hear truth.  My friend Tina has been all of these years.  I believe in giving people their flowers while they can smell them.  Her reward is great for all that she is to everyone. The Bible says that “in order to have friends, a person must show themselves friendly, and I know a friend who sticks closer than a brother” … She met her greatest Friend as a child and He taught her how to be a true friend.  Jesus is Lord… Lord of Lords.. King of all Kings.  He is Sovereign.. all knowing.. all wise… all powerful… yet He is pleased to call us His friends… He sees EVERYTHING and still He loves us and calls us “friend” (pause… wow!).. His correction comes from a place of love and friendship.  He wants nothing to separate us from Him.  Have you talked to your Friend this morning?

… and that Beloved is Good News!

Y Stress? … U Blessed!

Have A Fabulous Day!

Regina

Friday, November 12, 2010

If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

[Romans 12:18]

“FIX IT!”

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!

One of my favorite movie lines of all time can be found in Tyler Perry’s “Why Did I Get Married 2″.  It was spoken by Pat, played by Janet Jackson, at a very poignant part of the story.  She screamed “FIX IT!”, pushing her friends off the couch as they were trying to comfort her in her time of distress.  She was admonishing them to fix their broken, damaged relationships before they lost them. Powerful.  Fix it.  Most of you know, that a member of our Soul Food/Regal One/DreaMinistry/Sister’s Circle family has passed away.  Brother Leon Hunt.. a great man… one of the nicest people I’ve ever met.  A man of God.  Giving, faithful, trustworthy and dedicated to whatever he did.  No matter what was going on in his life, persevered through his many difficult situations.  He taught by example.  He kept an encouraging word, and a witty joke on his lips, a praise in his heart, and a smile on his face.  I learned so much from this precious man.  When I’m tempted to complain, I think of him and kinda pull my own coat-tail.  The situation may seem “jacked up“, but “all things work together for the good of those who love God and to them that are the called according to His purpose”.  We will miss our brother, but the legacy he left behind is priceless.  He was the king of “get ‘er done!”  .. Fix it! … whatever it is.  As much as it lies within your power.. Fix it.  Apologize. Make it right.. make the first move.. put pride and ego aside…. Fix it…. know how I know you can?  Because “greater is He that is within you than he that is in the world” (1st John 4:4), and you “can do all things through Christ which strengthens you” (Philippians 4:13).. because “…The Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell(s) in you” (Romans 8:11) .

Y Stress? … U Blessed!

 

The last picture I took of Leon (September 19, 2010 “Homecoming Queen: The Prodigal”).  What a testimony of his life that in this picture he is giving God Praise!

Copyright 2009 Michael D. Waters

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Thursday, March 5, 2009

A man that has friends must show himself friendly: and there is a Friend that sticks closer than a brother.

[Proverbs 18:24]

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Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends, if you do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knows not what his lord is doing: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of My Father I have made known unto you.

[John 15:13-15]

Good Morning Beloved,

I heard a song this morning that captured my soul.  You know when your soul is captured, you just can’t shake the thing.  The thought that got me was by Rance Allen “Closest Friend”…

Closest Friend to the end through thick and thin You have been

there for me

You’re my closest Friend

It is a blessing to have good friends.  You have probably have heard me say that many times.  I have some of the best in the world.  What is even better is that we have an eternal Friend, who happens to also be our Lord and Savior.  The real Master of the Universe… King of all kings.. completely Sovereign Ruler of Heaven and earth… He died to make us free, and He is not ashamed to call us His friends.  I received an email yesterday from ‘Classmates.com’.. you know them right?…. they can connect you –for a small fee of course– to old school chums.  I thought about the friends I had in high school.  The sweet motley crew of ‘unacceptables’.  They were cool to me because they were completely comfortable in their own skin, and if others did not like them because the didn’t wear the latest, or fit into some ‘thing’ like everyone else… oh well.  Really nice people.  They made a situation that could have be completely miserable bearable, but I haven’t seen those folks in many, many years.  I moved and we lost touch.  That is the way it is sometimes.  People come and people go.  Jesus is the only friend who can actually make good on His promise to “never leave nor forsake us”, and one day, sooner than we think, He is going to take us by the hand, lead us to God and say, “Father, meet My friend… this is the one We’ve been waiting for”…

….. and that Beloved … is Good News!

U Blessed

Have A Fabulous Day

Regina

“Closest Friend” by Rance Allen Group on Rhapsody:

http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=alb.14926360&variant=play&lsrc=RN_im

“Friend of God”, Israel & New Breed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty0SO7IvtXM

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