Quote: Set The Rain On Fire......

"A pure element of substance breaks the silence of a guarded heart.....glass could not withstand the strength of an overabundance of water.....shattered pieces disperse into the midnight sky unrestrained.....A damaged soul set free.....evolving into a life of prosperousness continues to inspire.....the love of these two souls with each touch.....sets the rain on fire..."~Sass~  

Quote: "Sweet Serenity....."

"No matter the strength of the rain or the power of the wind, deep in this love I've embraced him. A memory that could never be buried.....A shelter from the storm guiding me through.....A painless love, never helpless.....we finally found our identity......A breath of life with such sweet serenity....." ~Sass~

"I will wait for you" by Official P4CM Poet JANETTE…IKZ

Quote: Love Letter.....

Daydreams of a love that’s soul deep.......so lost in the sweet scent of Lilies as they bloom over a pasture so green. To YOU my dream…..the truth lies in my love, so never doubt it. To YOU my future…..with a heartbeat the same as mine…..I need your faith in me. The power of my love inspires you to conform, never feeling insecure. To YOU my inspiration…..I am embracing the poetic vibes in my soul. A love that yields to the highest degree…..bitter sweet surrender…..a living proof of God’s love changing an untamed heart. Beyond defeated, a war I can no longer fight…allowing love to be my guide. Intimate moments calm the storm of the raging sea, as our two souls turn into one, we overflow with anxiety and expectations….thankful you became my imperfect dream…… ~Sass~

Being a "Good Man" isn't enough! By: Todd Covington

I always admire growth and maturity, I pray that this post blesses you as it did for me! - Becca

Being a "Good Man" isn't enough!

Written By: Todd Covington 

A good man is.....

A good man isn't hard to find! There are good men throughout the community. In churches, schools, homes, jail, and right in front of you.

Question is how many men are willing to become unselfish, righteous (not religious), and live their lives as a model?

I know a good man when I see one because I see myself everyday in the mirror. I have a great voice, beautiful ideas and thoughts to resonate with others, but something is missing from the mirror. 

Hidden behind the handsome image, quality conversation and beautiful body language is a man while good, lacks spiritual relationship to heed his own words. 

It's one thing when a man knows the truth, but it's another when he knows and ignores it to become the reality of his lies. 

As men we need to become the model of what other growing boys need to see. They need a blueprint into what they are to be one day. Women need to see what a real man looks like so she can understand what to expect and look for when she seeks a relationship. 

Men lets be very clear. Often we do not realize we are a vision of God that others look to. We have to be able to come forward and admit in our selfishness that we let people down that mean the most to us. 

We cheat people out of choices, voices and lie to the person they have come to know and love. They need to know who we are by our consistent life, not the mistakes we lead. 

I can admit in selfishness I have let friends, family, and my daughters down. They expected me to do what I said I would, and instead I chose to look out for myself. Men I know it can be hard, but if we hold a spiritual relationship we must believe through faith that God is shaping us into the pillars of strength that will hold up our character.

Gentleman. it's okay that we want people to look at us as men, but we have to act as a real man! They have to see the God in us when we are doing what we are supposed to do. We need to stop knowing who we shouldn't be and start asking God who we should be!

The longer we go without spiritual accountability, the longer we will be permitted to operate in a place of fear and insecurity.

No woman wants an insecure man that she cannot feel safe with, respect or trust. We are losing our title as men because we aren't living up to the "good" we show. 

Ladies a good man isn't hard to find! A man who is comfortable with his heart, soul, and who he is, is ready to be a consistent part of your life. Empathy and compassion are what drives his will to want the best for you, first. 

In selfishness some men have blinded what they believe into an alternate life of truth, twisted into lies. 

We often fear being honest. Gentlemen we have to realize we make mistakes, and they are correctable if we speak up! 

Men we can no longer run toward irresponsibility only to fall into a pit of the reality of our ego. If we choose that life we choose a life of failed relationships, blame, insecurity, fear, lost friends, divided family, and not being able to let the people in that God has for our lives. 

I want to see men as a model of what real men should be. It starts with you young man. It continues with the men who can repent and ask God what he needs to do.

It starts with honesty, accountability, and the confidence that God has all we need when we keep a consistent growing relationship with him. 

Let's be real with the people that we care about! We have a choice to live according to fear, or we can live in reverence to what God has promised and reach Him to reach others.

Women want to see the model of a real man! Gentlemen it takes more than being a good man to make others a consistent part of your life. What do you want them to see when they think about you? 

Let us choose righteousness, and not a personal religious battle.

Amen Todd!!! Really proud of you!! - Becca :)

Quote: Rekindled.......

"A passionless fury forsakes two hearts distressed. Careless acts of selfishness result in divine emotions taken for granted. Even in the midst of a war, butterflies can flutter by so delicately. A peruse of empathy educates two hearts to fight for the love and not each other. As tears cleanse the discomfort it inclines a forgiveness so sincere....A love that laughs through the pain and cries in the wind.........it harbors a bond deep as the ocean. It's a love that covers a multitude of sins.....It's a love not in vain..... ~Sass~ 

Are You Ready!?

Sept 11 (NY) 

 Jan 11th (Haiti)

 March 11th (Japan)

Luke 21:10 Then Jesus said to His disciples: "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from Heaven. 'Jesus says for behold I come quickly....so ask yourself.....are YOU ready!?

Love Embraced the Pain Deep Within My Soul..

Love is Patient..Love is unselfish....it's not Boastful, nor is it proud....

This love is not a product of human thoughts or emotions. This love is unique.....it's a divine gift. It's freely described as a selfless kind of love that involves giving without expecting anything in return. 

A Sacrificial love that is not based on a feeling but determined by act of will. A love that loves as God loves. A love that has the power to consume. It's the highest and purest form of love.

The essence of this love is self-sacrifice.....a love that is pure. A love that is peaceful in the midst of storms....it's not in vain....it's never lacking. 

This soul may have been confused about a lot of things in life....but loving this love wasn't one of them.....

This soul was able to experience the devastation felt when life was pictured without this love....

This soul was able to love this love who was incapable of giving and receiving love.....

This souls eyes were windows to your soul......seeing right through you......

This soul was in need of encouragement and refuge....a place to hide and heal......

This souls reflection of love can be a shelter from any storm.....

As this soul grows...it knows that things will get better in time.......

This soul is filled with love......never walking alone....

As this soul embraces the peace that lies within...she is basking in the agape love that has overcome her soul....she is preparing and purifying herself for her king to come.....

To YOU my lost love........I Thank You.....

I humbly bow out....... 

In A Growth Process....

A person can have a positive outlook on life, but going to church does not make them grow. There has to be a need or a desire within a person to want to grow stronger in the Lord, and this occurs when you want to build a stronger relationship with God. Simply put.....this is Maturity. 

Healing is so important......there are wounds from childhood that we carry into adulthood, that allows us to suffer from personal insecurities. 

There are some things in us that we must be honest about. Why are we fighting?........What are we so afraid of losing?........Truth is were not even in control. We've become so selfish that we have allowed our sinful situations to be passed onto others. What we fail to realize.....in the midst of all this, God comforts us in the sin and helps us to see who we really are. 

As messed up as we are, God can use us to help with someone else....

Yes we mess up.........but we learn.... 

From the mistakes...........were able to teach others....

From the pain........we are able to uplift, provide comfort and inspire..........

Yes we hurt...........but in time we heal......

If your not doing what God wants you to do, YOU are blinded. God does not want to beat us to hear His Word.  Ungodliness is a waste.......God wants us to be clean and pure for His Will, so what does God have to do to move YOU? 

We are still learning and maturing in some areas......it's a process, but never be ashamed for mistakes made during growth.~ Sass~

Are You Glorifying God?

 

Are You Glorifying God?

When we say that we are glorifying God,  we are truly saying that all praises and honor belongs to Him. Our thoughts, our words, and our actions are examples that tell others who God is to us. 

We bring God glory by the way in which we live our lives, which should be according to His standards. When we live life this way, it is an example of how the impossible is possible. It shows others who do not know Him, exactly what is possible when living for Him. 

Those things that they could not imagine conquering or controlling, those lonely and desolate times, unbearable pain and suffering that they experience, all these things should look differently in the life of a person who knows God. Your response is different, your attitude is different, your demeanor is different, your character is different, YOU are different. 

God gets His glory when others see Him take impossible obstacles that you perceive to be impossible and turn them to your advantage. On;y the Creator of all things can do this, and we glorify Him with how we live our life.

In short, God gets the recognition for your life, not you. It is the God that is in us that allows us to walk in true divine spirit. It is God that speaks to us and gives the courage, strength, wisdom and knowledge to be used for His will and to fulfill His purpose. We don't just owe Him the glory, we owe Him our life.

The Harden Heart

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The Harden Heart 

When you harden your heart, you are unable to receive the spiritual fruit that you are in need of to grow. You have blocked out and shut down anything that even comes close to your heart, that you miss out on the things that are beyond important in life.

 

When our hearts are harden we lose spiritual sensitivity of God, and when He speaks to us we can not focus on what He has to say. We become spiritually blind and deaf, so we can't perceive it.....we can't hear it......we can't see it.....

 

If we respect God.....we must respect people. Relationships and friendships filled with love break up because the hardness of the heart and no relationship will work until that personal relationship with God has been repaired.

The heart that you have will be the same unless the heart changes. The heart that needs to be of flesh.....will be of stone. The heart that needs to be filled with warmth.....will be ice cold.

 

A heart that is not right can not reach others nor God and He can't move in a hard heart. When there is difficulty with an internal heart......the external reflection is dim and dark and it does not glow.

 

A harden heart that is desperately wicked can only be cured ultimately by the grace of God. We must allow God to do the spiritual surgery that is needed, to take out the stone and add some flesh.

If you keep doing the same things that you did last year.....nothing will change for YOU this year.

 

 

Assuring Hope

When life caves you in, you do not need reason’s….you need comfort. God is a Comforter, bringing to mind useful things at times when we need them the most. At times we feel the woes of life and we can’t seem to find a way out, but I want you to continue to be encouraged.

When we face weariness, confusion  and hardships, we do not need to pray for an easier lives, we should pray to become stronger men and women of God. Every test and every trial we are to gain renewed strength. It is God’s grace that sustains us, each and every step in our lives.

Jesus does not come to us with an explanation…..He comes to us with His Presence. When you stumble and cry out to God in your distress and your shame, He inclines His ear to you and  when we can not stand, He will bear us in His arms.

“In the shadow of His hand we find spiritual refreshment, for there we feed on His Word. Under His protecting hand we are safe from every evil that would assail us. The shadow of His hand affords peace and rest. Because we are hidden in the shadow of His hand, no foe can alarm us, no harm can befall us. In the shadow of His hand He hid me…….”

Worry....Don't Let it Steal Your Joy

 Many tend to walk around with this attitude that they won’t allow anyone to “steal their joy” but why do we allow worry too? Have we lost our trust and faith in God that He won’t provide us with all we need? Fact is when we worry, we actually are calling God a liar.
 

Worry is a disease….a sickness that leads to stress and depression. God said that He will never leave us nor forsake us, We must trust God in ALL that He has said, because what God promises, God will provide.

We all have carried worry in our lives, but we must allow God to be in control of our problems and our circumstances. With every test and every trial, we gain strength and our faith becomes stronger. We learn to trust God that He will see us through. Every burden that we have is not ours to carry. Give everything to God and stop allowing worry to steal your joy…..

A Cleansing For Your Soul......

There comes a point in time in our life, where we just become weak and tired trying to win this war called LIFE.....but we know deep down inside we can't win by ourselves. What is it that we are trying to prove?......and whom are we trying to impress? Are we that prideful and stubborn, that we rather suffer and miss out on the true happiness that God has intended for us?

The hurt and disappointment that we all carry from so many people has caused us to lose TRUST, a word that we don't even know what the meaning is, we even lost all hope in that word even when it pertains to God. We have completely shut down, so scared, we don't even know who to look to. Our mind is telling us one thing and our heart and soul is telling us something completely different.

The answers that we need sometimes are right in front of us.....but FEAR steps in because were so afraid of loosing whats left of the control we have. We were told to be strong, continue to fight, don't lose yourself, don't show emotion.......don't cry. If we stop for a moment, we will soon figure out that this battle we seem to be fighting, is not against the world or the people around us...this battle is within YOU.

We wake up everyday and don't even have the strength to smile, we even lost all the energy that we had left because of the restless sleep we had the night before. Constantly battling with ourselves because we know deep down there is someone or something that is just missing.

Stop allowing your past....the mistakes made and the shame, hold you back from whats truly yours....an opportunity to be FREE. What's in the past is the past. God will make a future out of it. He will waste nothing. Don't worry about others and what they have to say. God says in His Word: "Out of the same measure that you judge others, you will be judged with the same measure of judgment" We weren't created to be a people pleaser, we were created to please God.

I encourage you today....right now.....at this very moment to just LET GO....fall on your knees with tears in your eyes and surrender. God says that " If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature...old things are passed away and behold all things become new".

We needed to go through some things in our past to get an idea of where we are going. We have to look back and remember where we have been and reflect on God's goodness. Who we were then is not who we should be today. When we have been brought out of sin, we must know that we were not brought out by ourselves.

Stop fighting this battle within yourself....if you don't find God....trust and believe.....He will find YOU.

The Lost Soul......

You walk around as if the world revolves around you, but the reality of it all is the weight of the world is on your shoulders. You feel the need to have all this power and control over the people and things around you, but you fail to realize you will lose yourself in the process.

This soul is lost.....it's bitter, vindictive....it's spiteful. When this soul feels threatened or sees any sign of losing power, it tries it's hardest to break people. This soul will always reap for the harm it has done to others. The motives of this soul are so wicked that even the slightest grin or smile will never reflect joy.....it will always reflect pain.

This soul is in bondage, it is tired and worn out, it doesn't even know what it is like to be free. Daily walks in darkness with no sense of direction on a path that never ends. No matter how much power or control this soul absorbs, it will always have a feeling of emptiness....never fulfilled.....never complete.

This soul is lost....it's lonely, it stands solo out on a limb. Disappointment is never to far away from this soul. The strength that this soul carries will never know the true significance of it's power on a broken foundation built on self.

Never think that you are to powerful to be broken. It's never to late for this soul to embrace the grace that God has already extended from above.....

I'll pray for this soul because it's a reflection of who God is in me.........

A Healing For Your Soul....

Don't let someone break you. You can hurt, cry and be sad, but you can also keep it moving. You can't fall apart. They didn't put you together, so they shouldn't be able to pull you apart. If you lose yourself to every person you are with and they have the power to pull you apart than you need to be by yourself.

We all fall hard for someone, and when you lose yourself, you allow them to take a piece of you with them. Stop looking for someone to complete you, when you don't feel comfortable in your own skin. You can't make someone happy if your not happy with yourself. Loving yourself is not the beauty you see in the mirror for that is just the surface....look deeper than that....look at your soul....reflect.....than heal.

We all have those open wounds that are in need of closure, that's why we have a hard time trying to heal. You can't get over the hurt until you admit the pain. Pain is never easy...we all go through it..try to focus each day on taking back a piece of YOU.

Unhappiness comes from the poor choices we make.....don't run from suffering...embrace it! God can restore your heart, mind, body and soul. A heart that is broken is never to broken to mend. Take your brokenness to God and He will make you heart like new.

When in a healing process don't go back to the source of where that hurt came from, until you have completely healed.

Your Decision.....By Lois Mowday Rabey (The Snare)

You can begin to win the battle of immorality only by having a new or renewed relationship with Jesus Christ. This is not a decision assuring that you will never be tempted again. But it does show that you desire to put the relationship with Christ above your own desires. 

Just as there is a process that leads to immorality, there is also a process that leads away from it toward a godly lifestyle. The first step of the process back to God is to make the relationship with Christ number one in importance in your life. The decision is not to stop immorality, but to follow Him. 

Decide now to commit to Jesus---or decide not to. If you claim to belong to Him, decide to make that relationship a priority. If you don't want to do that, stop claiming that you belong to Him and stop further degrading His name by your behavior. 

Jesus said, "He who is not with me is against me....." (Matthew 12:30). When you say that you are with Christ, you are making a commitment to make your relationship with the living God the number one priority in your life. 

The difference between this commitment to Christ and any you may have made in the past is that this time you are putting your relationship with Him in the forefront of your awareness. The first time your commitment may have been to gain eternal life. But with this commitment you are saying to the Lord of all you say, think and do....the Lord of your life. 

If He is first, then relationships with others will only be fulfilling if they are ones He would approve of. If Christ is Lord of your life, there will be a power present to begin the process of turning from situations that are ungodly. When you decide to establish ( or re-establish) a relationship with Christ, you have taken the first step in the process back to godliness. 

Are You Living a Life of Holiness

We are called to show God's Holiness in the way that we live. When we live a life of holiness, we should be pure and show love, honesty and generosity towards others. Living a holy life is pleasing to God and a sign of the believers true commitment to God.

When we live a life that is not holy it is described as "uncleanness" which is the opposite of living according to God's plan. Everywhere we turn people try to influence us but the Word of God is where we can learn to act like Christians.

Living a holy life not only helps us but it helps others as well. If we are living as God calls us to do it makes our commitment to Christ stronger, therefore our lives serves as a witness to others. 

Always remember that you represent God and you have a godly responsibility to display godly character to the world. The best way to do this is to love others as you love yourself. 

The Unseen Christ By @SoulSupply

The words from this post were so deep and profound. When words speak to my soul, they need to be shared.

The UnSeen Christ 

Dawn had broken, but the early morning cool had not lifted. Unhurriedly he sat and prayed, knowing that very soon the pace of his day would change.

Silently a bare foot appeared, motionless at his window. The blind was down- approaching the floor, so the remainder of the visitor was unseen. This foot stood alone. There was no second one beside it.

Neither good-will nor ill-will was indicated by this foot, only mystery.

This foot demonstrated no emotion and indicated no pain.

In an almost fearful stillness he sat, consumed, peering at the window and wondering what the foot would do.

He did not give even a minutes thought to opening the blind so as to reveal the foot's owner. This was advantageous because to see more would only bring him terror. There was in fact no more to see.

Many have come to the foot of the Cross. Many have refused to look up and expend any effort to grasp its meaning. Surely terror too would ensue for them if they did.

So many had approached the Cross, seen its foot, but ignored He who was above and affixed on it. They had walked to the foot of the Cross, but would never grasp the suffering above it.

The foot of the Cross is not to be gazed upon - the owner of the Cross is.

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Self-Reflection

How you treat others is a reflection of yourself. You always will reap what you sow. Bitterness, negativity and misery are a disease that you should keep in your own world. Just because you are unhappy with your life doesn't give you the right to interfere with someone else's.

Be wise with the choices you make when you try to bring down others, you could be digging your own grave. You want to disrupt other people's lives when you need to evaluate your life because you are not living right.

You wake up everyday and choose not to thank God.....YOU need to self-reflect

You make someone else's life a priority over yours......YOU need to self-reflect

You are so judgmental and always having something negative to say about someone or something.....YOU need to self-reflect

You carry yourself as if you are better and above everyone else.....YOU need to self-reflect

You are sneaky and have foul motives towards people......YOU need to self-reflect


The same people that you mistreat, will be the same ones that you may need one day. It's in you best interest to keep your misery to yourself. Work on your own soul before you try to tip toe on someone elses and  YOU need to self-reflect!