Many women think that to give love to a man and to receive love from that man in the union of marriage is one of life's most precious gifts that they are eagerly seeking to open. After Shyju Mathew's mom got married and opened her gift, she found a man bound by Satan with depression.
When comparing the man she knew before marriage with the man she lived with after marriage, she may have asked herself something like, "Yah kaun hai?" ("Who is this?") Please leave on-line comments sharing some surprises in your spouse and yourself after marriage.
Mathew's mom's husband practiced witchcraft. He was tormented and would throw angry fits often. She hated her life and wanted to commit suicide, but before she could do it, she discovered she was pregnant. Unlike the Tahina spectabilis palm tree which produces flowers only once, and then collapses to the ground and dies, Mathew's mom decided against suicide in response to a bad marriage and an unplanned pregnancy.
When she asked herself questions like, "Kya ap khus hai? ("Are you happy?") The answer was, "Nahi," ("No.")
God wants us to enjoy our life. God the Son Jesus Christ says in John 10:10 Amplified Bible, "The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows)." David writes about God in Psalm 16:11 English Standard Version Bible, "You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore."
An enjoyable earthly life is not one where we are ever emotionally high. Joy is some times a choice believers can make because God the Holy Ghost has given us the fruit of self-control. We have to wait until the next life to have an eternal emotional high when we live face-to-face with God.
Meanwhile in this earthly life, unhappiness is not an excuse to do evil like paying someone to take the life of our unborn baby (abortion). Instead follow the advice of the song, "Encourage Yourself," by The Tri-City Singers: "Some times you have to encourage yourself. Some times you have to speak victory during the test. And no matter how you feel speak the Word, and you will be healed. Speak over yourself. Encourage yourself in the Lord."
Mathew's mom determined, "I'm going to live for this child's sake." An unwanted pregnancy does not have to influence a woman to become mentally ill or suicidal. Roman Stoic philosopher Epictetus said, "Circumstances do not make the man; they merely reveal him to himself."
Mathew's mom prayed that her baby would be a priest, a writer, a singer and a whole bunch of other good things. God answered her prayer. Like Hannah she dedicated her first born to God. When Mathew came home from school, his mom encouraged him to pray.
Mathew says she didn't force him to pray; he liked to pray. In fact he loved to pray. His mother paid attention to Mathew's interest and encouraged it. The Law of Concentration says that "whatever you dwell upon grows and increases in your life."
Observe what good things our children are interested in and encourage them. My son, Rafael Damani Fowler, loves playing CDs. He enjoys it for hours. Mathew enjoys praying for hours.
Mathew prayed so much that when he was seven years old, someone asked him to preach. Mathew asked his mom what to preach. His mom said, "Never ask a human being what to preach." She further counseled him to go to his bedroom and seek God.
Mathew has been seeking God and preaching ever since. He also writes and sings among other things on an international scale.
Parents are called to mold a child capable of positively impacting people beyond measure. Lord Jesus, let us parents live in our calling daily.
Being the example we want our children to be is excellent teaching. Immanuel Kant advises, "Resolve to behave as though your every act were to become a universal law for all people." The Apostle Paul instructs in 1 Corinthians 11:1 Amplified Bible, "Pattern yourselves after me [follow my example], as I imitate and follow Christ (the Messiah)." Are you bold and truthful enough to instruct your children and other people likewise?
Showing posts with label Boldness. Show all posts
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Marian Anderson
We do not pull our own selves up by our own boot strings. Instead God and God working through us and many other people are our path to success.
I come from a long legacy of bold, bright, beautiful, black, Christian women -- Linda, my mother, Mildred, my grandmother, Pearl, my great-grandmother and many others including Singer and Civil Rights Activist Marian Anderson.
In eternity past God choose specific talents to give each and every one of us. God choose the singing gift for Marian. Marian has a strong, contralto voice able to climb more than 24 notes.
When she was six years old she joined her church choir. Marian's gift was so obvious that church members set up a trust fund to help pay for her musical training.
Marian worked her blessing. Marian realized her potential and discovered her unique individuality. She became a professional singer, singing all over the world and recording records that sold to millions.
Finding work and being prosperous were very hard. Many would not hire Marian because she is black. In 1939 the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to let Marian perform at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., because Marian is black, and they had a white-performers-only policy. Eleanor Roosevelt, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's wife, a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and a human rights activist, resigned from the group in protest. Eleanor then arranged for Marian to sing in a bigger venue -- on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., for an Easter morning concert. More than 75,000 came out for the concert that made Civil Rights history.
What Marian and Eleanor did is Christlike -- black and white working together for good. Romans 12:21 Amplified Bible says, "Do not let yourself be overcome by evil, but overcome (master) evil with good."
Marian with the help of others overcame other obstacles of discrimination. Marian sang in eight languages. She was the first black person to sing a leading role at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Some people are in sin and do not want to embrace black people and other people of color in the mainstream of American life. With God on our side nothing is impossible. We shall overcome in all areas of life surrounding ourselves with God and Christians who live by 1 Peter 4:8 Amplified Bible which says, "Above all things have intense and unfailing love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins [forgives and disregards the offenses of others]."
Please share on-line stories of people of color overcoming in Christ.
I come from a long legacy of bold, bright, beautiful, black, Christian women -- Linda, my mother, Mildred, my grandmother, Pearl, my great-grandmother and many others including Singer and Civil Rights Activist Marian Anderson.
In eternity past God choose specific talents to give each and every one of us. God choose the singing gift for Marian. Marian has a strong, contralto voice able to climb more than 24 notes.
When she was six years old she joined her church choir. Marian's gift was so obvious that church members set up a trust fund to help pay for her musical training.
Marian worked her blessing. Marian realized her potential and discovered her unique individuality. She became a professional singer, singing all over the world and recording records that sold to millions.
Finding work and being prosperous were very hard. Many would not hire Marian because she is black. In 1939 the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to let Marian perform at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., because Marian is black, and they had a white-performers-only policy. Eleanor Roosevelt, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's wife, a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and a human rights activist, resigned from the group in protest. Eleanor then arranged for Marian to sing in a bigger venue -- on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., for an Easter morning concert. More than 75,000 came out for the concert that made Civil Rights history.
What Marian and Eleanor did is Christlike -- black and white working together for good. Romans 12:21 Amplified Bible says, "Do not let yourself be overcome by evil, but overcome (master) evil with good."
Marian with the help of others overcame other obstacles of discrimination. Marian sang in eight languages. She was the first black person to sing a leading role at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Some people are in sin and do not want to embrace black people and other people of color in the mainstream of American life. With God on our side nothing is impossible. We shall overcome in all areas of life surrounding ourselves with God and Christians who live by 1 Peter 4:8 Amplified Bible which says, "Above all things have intense and unfailing love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins [forgives and disregards the offenses of others]."
Please share on-line stories of people of color overcoming in Christ.
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Unstoppable
"Now
behold, you will be and will continue to be silent and not able to
speak till the day when these things take place, because you have not
believed what I told you; but my words are of a kind which will be
fulfilled in the appointed and proper time," says Gabriel to Zachariah
concerning Zachariah's response to God planning a child for him and his
wife recorded in Luke 1:20 Amplified Bible.
When God speaks through His messengers He expects us to be welcoming and working toward manifesting His words not contradicting Him through withdrawal, avoidance, disbelief and rebellion. God has big visions. Zachariah and his wife, Elizabeth, were too old to be having a baby. To God, so what! If God wills it, it will be.
Feeling fear is not a sin. Sin enters when we act in fear toward God and His people. God likes to be chased and cooperated with not avoided and confronted with our attempts to block Him.
One of the wonderful things about some young people is the large capacity to believe the bold and to act on it. In 1967 Marie Sklodowska was born in Warsaw, Poland. Early in life she showed enthusiasm about education and an extraordinary ability to learn. However, her father could not afford to educate her beyond early childhood. Instead of responding to the obstacle with fear, unbelief and fighting to stay down, Marie took a job as a teacher then later as a governess to fund her advanced educational dreams.
We need others to help us develop the gifts God places in us. Marie and her sister, Bronislawa, helped each other. Marie paid for Bronislawa's education with her earnings from her governess job. When Bronislawa completed her studies, Bronislawa paid for Marie to attend university.
Unlike these Polish sisters some people are like fearful, unbelieving, fighting-to-stay-down crabs. Everyone has gifts from God, but some crabs don't work their gifts and would rather spend their time stagnating and sucking others down. When Marie and Bronislawa didn't have much money instead of stagnating and sucking each other down, they suffered to help each other.
Satan loves crabs. They work hard to destroy themselves and others. A fisherman puts bait in a wire cage and lowers the cage into the water. One crab after another after another enters the cage. When the bait is gone, the crabs could climb up out of the cage, but most don't.
If one tries, the other crabs will gang up on it to keep it down. Some people will gang up on us and try to stop us from leaving traps we are in. They aren't going where God calls, and they want to make sure we don't go either. Crabs will repeatedly pull a crab trying to escape off the side of the cage. If the crab is persistent, the others will tear off its claws to keep it from climbing. If it persists further, they will kill it. The cage is eventually hauled in, and all the crabs inside are eaten.
Marie and Bronislawa were not willing to have their educational dreams eaten by a lack of individual resources. Their work together helped both to become scientists.
By 1891 Marie studied at the world-famous Sorbonne in France. She also became the school's first female teacher.
People who overcome fear, unbelief, the crab-staying-down mentality live in and find more love because they are open to and willing to overcome the obstacles that could separate people. Marie married a physics professor in 1895. They devoted their lives to science. In 1903 Marie shared the Nobel Prize in physics with her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel. In 1911 Marie Sklodowska-Curie won a Nobel Prize for chemistry by herself.
Marie is the first person to earn two Nobel Prizes each in sciences. She developed a theory of radioactivity, techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes and discovered the elements polonium and radium. Sklodowska-Curie coined the term "radioactivity." She was one of the first to suggest using radiation to treat cancer. Curie helped usher in the atomic age and revolutionize chemistry, physics and medicine — while fighting deep prejudice against women in the sciences.
Not fear, not unbelief, not poverty, not a crab mindset stopped Marie from manifesting the gifts of God inside her. The love of sister, spouse and self formed a force stronger than the opposition.
And the best love of all is receiving the love of God the Father, God the Son Jesus Christ and God the Holy Ghost. With God we have all the love and everything else good we need to make our lives work and to share with others. God's love protects us from and propels us in spite of crabs. Black South African Jonathan Butler sings in "Falling In Love With Jesus" from his album Falling In Love With Jesus Best of Worship, "In His arms I feel protected. In His arms never disconnected. . . . There's no place I'd . . . rather . . . be."
When God speaks through His messengers He expects us to be welcoming and working toward manifesting His words not contradicting Him through withdrawal, avoidance, disbelief and rebellion. God has big visions. Zachariah and his wife, Elizabeth, were too old to be having a baby. To God, so what! If God wills it, it will be.
Feeling fear is not a sin. Sin enters when we act in fear toward God and His people. God likes to be chased and cooperated with not avoided and confronted with our attempts to block Him.
One of the wonderful things about some young people is the large capacity to believe the bold and to act on it. In 1967 Marie Sklodowska was born in Warsaw, Poland. Early in life she showed enthusiasm about education and an extraordinary ability to learn. However, her father could not afford to educate her beyond early childhood. Instead of responding to the obstacle with fear, unbelief and fighting to stay down, Marie took a job as a teacher then later as a governess to fund her advanced educational dreams.
We need others to help us develop the gifts God places in us. Marie and her sister, Bronislawa, helped each other. Marie paid for Bronislawa's education with her earnings from her governess job. When Bronislawa completed her studies, Bronislawa paid for Marie to attend university.
Unlike these Polish sisters some people are like fearful, unbelieving, fighting-to-stay-down crabs. Everyone has gifts from God, but some crabs don't work their gifts and would rather spend their time stagnating and sucking others down. When Marie and Bronislawa didn't have much money instead of stagnating and sucking each other down, they suffered to help each other.
Satan loves crabs. They work hard to destroy themselves and others. A fisherman puts bait in a wire cage and lowers the cage into the water. One crab after another after another enters the cage. When the bait is gone, the crabs could climb up out of the cage, but most don't.
If one tries, the other crabs will gang up on it to keep it down. Some people will gang up on us and try to stop us from leaving traps we are in. They aren't going where God calls, and they want to make sure we don't go either. Crabs will repeatedly pull a crab trying to escape off the side of the cage. If the crab is persistent, the others will tear off its claws to keep it from climbing. If it persists further, they will kill it. The cage is eventually hauled in, and all the crabs inside are eaten.
Marie and Bronislawa were not willing to have their educational dreams eaten by a lack of individual resources. Their work together helped both to become scientists.
By 1891 Marie studied at the world-famous Sorbonne in France. She also became the school's first female teacher.
People who overcome fear, unbelief, the crab-staying-down mentality live in and find more love because they are open to and willing to overcome the obstacles that could separate people. Marie married a physics professor in 1895. They devoted their lives to science. In 1903 Marie shared the Nobel Prize in physics with her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel. In 1911 Marie Sklodowska-Curie won a Nobel Prize for chemistry by herself.
Marie is the first person to earn two Nobel Prizes each in sciences. She developed a theory of radioactivity, techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes and discovered the elements polonium and radium. Sklodowska-Curie coined the term "radioactivity." She was one of the first to suggest using radiation to treat cancer. Curie helped usher in the atomic age and revolutionize chemistry, physics and medicine — while fighting deep prejudice against women in the sciences.
Not fear, not unbelief, not poverty, not a crab mindset stopped Marie from manifesting the gifts of God inside her. The love of sister, spouse and self formed a force stronger than the opposition.
And the best love of all is receiving the love of God the Father, God the Son Jesus Christ and God the Holy Ghost. With God we have all the love and everything else good we need to make our lives work and to share with others. God's love protects us from and propels us in spite of crabs. Black South African Jonathan Butler sings in "Falling In Love With Jesus" from his album Falling In Love With Jesus Best of Worship, "In His arms I feel protected. In His arms never disconnected. . . . There's no place I'd . . . rather . . . be."
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