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11月9日 LONG TIME NO SEE Hi there, it has been a long time since i was last here and part of that has been because my computer was in the shop, and the other part has been because i have been having brain lock. i don't know which is worse for me, not having any new thoughts coming to me, or having too many coming to me all at once. i think i should get a tape recorder and just talk these thoughts into the machine.
Anyway, it has been a wonderful time for me. i have been enjoying the grand babies and the first grand son is so awesome. His birth means that the family name will go on at least one more generation. How great is that? If i live as long as my dad did then i hopefully will be able to witness great grand kids. i know i will be old and a shell of myself but hopefully, i will still have a sound mind. At least that way i will be able to tell them stories. i have been writing stories for my grand girls and for my youngest son, so maybe instead of reading Aesop fables they can read grand dads lies! Phillip has been getting on me to write him a story for his third grade class, and so far i haven't but i will get to it because he love it when i write a story and then come to school and read it to his class.
Well i guess this is all that i have for now. i will ease on down the road and get in some more reading time before the game come on and hopefully the meds will have done what they need to do in order for me to get a good nights' sleep.
Love
Bro.ken 9月15日 MRS WILLIAMS Yesterday i went to see my oldest friend. Man, it was a blessing to see her. i met Mrs. Williams thirty years ago at bible study and she and her husband took me in as if i was their own. At the time that they took me in she was already sixty-five. Mr. Williams was seventy-four. He died in 1985 before our first son was born and Mrs. Williams has been hanging in there ever since. Although the other kids that they "took" in called them Lois and Garland i've never ever called them any thing but Mr. or Mrs. Williams; yet with just as much affection as the rest. The two of them never had any children of their own so they would "take" every one elses kids. Those are their words. i was glad that they took me, because they came into my life at the most turbulent time of my life and gave me wisdowm, love, comfort, and a safe haven.
This September she will be ninety five years old, and for an old girl she is still pretty sassy. She has all her wits about her and she is still getting around on her own; still cooking- and she can really cook- and she still has the letter and bible that she took from me. Well the letter is one that she had written to me when i was living in Texas working on the railroad. i would call them and write to them while i was away, this one time she was a little slow in responding to my letter, so Mr. Williams got on her about answering me, and she said to get him off her back she started to write me about one o'clock in the morning. So she hurried up and wrote the letter sealed it in the envelope and mailed it to me. Well when i got the letter i couldn't help but laugh because it seemed as if she had been dozing off while writing it because the words were all over the pages and rarely in between the lines. After reading the letter i gave them a call and asked Mr. Williams whether or not he had been chasing her around the bed while she was trying to write to me, and we had a good laugh about it. Well when i came home one week end she asked me if i had the letter and i told her i did. She said that she wanted to see the letter, so i took it out and showed it to Mr. Williams and we laughed about it again. Well Mrs Williams took the letter and never gave it back to me. This was twenty- seven years ago, and she still has it!
The bible she has had for about twelve years. She reads it and she leaves it out for me to see it when i come by but she will never let me take it. Ninety- four and counting and still a joy for me and my family. She has witness the birth of JESUS in my life, and now she has seen all of my kids and their wives, and the grand kids; and as i sat there with her and phyllis and phillip yesterday, in the same house that was such a rest haven for my weary soul i couldn't help but marvel at the fact that it has been this long, and that she is still as witty, fiesty, and loving as he was the first time i met her. i pray to GOD that one day i will be able to be the same thing for some one else in my lifetime. God bless you Mrs. Williams
love,
kenny 8月16日 SUNDAY Well the day is over now but it was another of those glorious days that the Lord send to His own. i didn't make it to church today, had the grand kids with us for the weekend, but i did get to talk to others about Jesus and that's always a good thing.
Some would like to make you feel as if you have done something so wrong when you don't make it to Church, but i am always in the midst of Gods' people and i always tell others of the good news of the gospel of Christ. Sunday is not the only day that i take the time to praise the Lord, or worship Him. For me, everyday is a good day to tell some one about Jesus. i didn't get out of the house today, but i talked to three people on the phone about the Lord.
One of thosee who i talked to asked me about Jesus while on the cross calling to God asking Him why he had forsaken Him. His question was this: Why is it that all through out Jesus ministry, he referred to God as his Father, but when he was on the cross He called Him God? We came up with opinions, but if there is anyone out there who can give me Biblical truths to pass on to him i would appreciated it.
Another of the callers was talking about the need for us to really go by the plan that God has laid out for His children to follow. One of teh things that came up in this conversation is the fact that out of all the people who were living in the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah there was only one person that was righteous. Stranger than that, however, is the fact that out of all the people in the world during the time of the flood, there was only eight people who was righteous! Out of all the people in the world at that time, only eight people were deemed righteous by God! His thought was this: How is it that there was a time when, out of all the people in the world , there were only eight that was righteous can we be so cavalier in our thinking that so many of us can be saved even though we are living no better than some of those people. The thought being this: Not every one of those people were such unholy sinners, some of those people were just ordinary people who didn't commit adultry or fornicate, their fault was that they saw no need to heed the word of God as it was spoken to them by the man of God!
Jesus saith: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Matthew 7:14 So tell me how is it that we can think that all of us, who are good in our own eyes, are heaven bound? In a city of a few hundred thousand? only one man was found to be just, and in the world at that time, and i haven't found any estimates of how many people was on the earth at the time, there was only eight; tell me how can all these people who have clearly died out of the will of God, be heaven bound? Why do we always say that someone who died under questionalbe spiritual circumstanes are in a better place? i wonder, and if there is anyone out there who care to talk to me about this, give be a hit.
Finally, i talked to a church member for about an hour about the good news of the Gospel of Jesus and we enjoyed the fellowship and the sweet communion of the Holy Spirit! Just because i didn't make it to the church building does not mean that i didn't make it to church. i church everyday! Life lived for Jesus is awesome!
Love
Bro.ken 8月5日 HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARCUS Today is my oldest sons' birthday. He is twenty four. i remember when he was first born, after the nurse gave him to Phyllis and she was done counting his fingers and toes, she gave him to me and i held him for four hours until the nurses came and pried him from my hands. This was one of the happiest days of my life, Phyllis and i had two miscarriages before Marcus made it, and times were tense. She had a hard pregmcamcy and she had to be off of her feet a lot doing this pregnancy, and there were times when she would go all day without feeling any movement from im and she would call me at work and tell me that something didn't seem right; but when i got home i would put my hand on her stomach and talk to him and he would start kicking and stretching out. Then i would tell Phyllis that he didn't like being called Raven- Phyllis name for her girl which she thought Marcus was going to be. We would go back and forth over whether the baby was a boy or girl until one night i had a dream and woke up and told Phyllis that this one would be a boy, and then i discribe him to her, and he came out looking just like i told her he would look.Needless to say he came out as a daddys' boy.
Whenever i was down in life he would always sense it and come over and hug me or just start talkiing and my spirits would be lifted up. i was so happy to finally have my son, and now he is a married man with his own spitting image, but a girl and now he is twenty- four and so much different from what his daughter is who, by the way, is named Raven! He love his moms' too. Happy birthday son, and like i've always told you and your brothers, i love you because you are mine not because of what you are or may become. Continue to take your time and learn the lessons of dad and believe in Jesus and everything will work out for you,
love,
Dad 7月7日 MICHEAL JACKSON'S FUNERAL So the self proclaimed king of pop has been laid to rest! i have talked to some of my friends, who all grew up listening to the Jacksons and the line is drawn on the issues of Mikes legacy and the hoopla that surrounded his death. i am of the mind that he will go down in history as one of the greatest talents of our time, his musical genius and his extraordinary ability to dance and entertain will forever be without equal, but was he worth all this fawning over? NO! i have to disagree with Al Sharpton, MJ was weird. He had many flaws and as a Christians i see his life lived left a great deal to be desired. He was talented, but man the television coverage was a tad bit much. Hopefully, the church will do her job and seperate the fact from the fiction about MJ and all these other celebs who live a life of decadence then die and the world try and put them in heaven.
Love
bro ken 6月29日 HERE COME THE RAIN Well the rains are here and the yard is all happy. The garden is running in place all happy and sticking her tongue out at the pasture. i think the butterbeans are having a party and not wanting to invite the rest of the garden, but right now i am not stressing. The rains have stopped and now the garden looks all wet and happy. The watermelons are coming along just fine and there are four different kind of melons out there. i need to spray the plants because i see bugs coming around trying to get in on the eating party, and i don't want to share with nature any more.
i planted four different kinds of cucumbers, and one of them is really long and looks similar to squash but it is all cucumber. It is a thing of beauty to see the different things that GOD has blessed mankind with and to be opened to these differences. Life just never cease to amaze this little ol' country boy.
Phyllis and i are starting a compost and she's excited about being a gardener. She has really come a long way, every thing she used to plant usually died, we used to say that she had a black thumb. Now, however, she is doing a great job of growing things, i think being retired has helped in her concentration, and she is really more relaxed now that she is at home EVERYDAY. Man it has been such a revealation seeing how now i am dealing with the same issues that house wives have dealt with for forever! What to do with the now retired spouse, who has come home and re-arranged everything in the kitchen so that she can make dinner every once in a while. She's retired and now i have to get out of the house! i need the man version of Calgon to take me away!
Bro.ken MICHEAL JACKSON AIN'T DEAD Surprise surprise, MJ ain't dead! Now all you hysterical, I'm gonna kill myself because the king of pop is gone, folk can come back to earth and get a life. I have the inside scoop. MJ has been re-incarnated as the notorious B.I.G. Irony of ironies, MJ was born Black, died a skinny white man, and comes back as Biggie Smalls! And, he is still moonwalking and hitting the high notes. He is still the crotch grabbing heehee singing showman that you cry babies have all longed for since he died, only he is this big black guy with somoe extremely big soup coolers! Imagine the possibilities! Can't you just see the big black MJ standing on his toes leaning back and singing Beat It? I can! I guess is what make me the sicko that i am. So rest easy my MJ sickies, he is not dead, he has not been spotted in the local Wal Mart, but he is the new and improve MJ singing i love it when you call me big poppa!
bro.ken 6月12日 HARD WORK AND DEDICATION`` Well it is another day without rain here and the field is looking like the dust bowl. i went out to water the crops tonight, man it is so hot out there, and i think my water bill will be about a hundred dollars this month. It is beginning to look as if it would be cheaper to just go to the market and buy the vegetables and give them away. It never fails whenever you are doing something for GOD there will always be obstacles in the way that will test your faith and your patience. i'm preparing myself for the next ten days where there will be no rain and i will have to haul the hoses for teh next week to try and make these plants get up and start to bear.
Earlier today i went to see my other grand kids in McComb and i had a ball there with them. It gave me time to get some of the dust out of my eyes and throat and make the grand babies laugh. i see why my grand parents always had us over, the grand kids keep you young at heart and keep you with a reason to live and looking forward to seeing them get older, because you want to see what these little ones will eventually turn into when they are grown. If i live as long as my dad i will have another thirty- four years to hang out with the grand babies; that's long enough for me to see great grand babies and maybe even great great grand babies! i wonder if i will be able to make it to the birth of all of my grand babies? That would be awesome! So far i have made it to the birth of each child and each grand child. God has been good to me.
Back to the garden, i did see some of the bell peppers trying to make a comeback from the deer eating off the top of them. I am hoping that they will rebound and produce because that is one of the best of the give aways that we do. Everyone don't eat the rest of the crops but most people will use the bell peppers and the onions to go in their seasoning. i looked at the squash as i was watering the field and they are growing like mad, so i will have to pick them tomorrow and give them away. i also noticed that some of the cucumbers, that didn't get eaten by the deer, are beginning to make some cucumbers. YES! i can make a good veggie salad now, and the tomatoe plants are coming along really strong, ad that will give me a really great salad.
Well friends it has been good talking to you and pray for me that we get some rain down here so that the people can benefit from the garden and the love offerings can be giving and the community be blessed. As i have stated before i live in a very poor community and although i am not rich by no stretch of the imagination ( i am a retired postal employee who preach for free) i have been blessed tremendously by GOD to do what i do. So pray that we get some rain and that God will bless the field and we will be able to be a blessing to those in the community.
God bless you
bro.ken 6月6日 ALONE WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT Today i am here alone but i am getting ready to go to bible study. i have been reading the lesson for Sunday school class tomorrow and i am already excited about the lesson. i just finished showering after coming out of the garden replanting butterbeans and cleaning grass. Man the ground was so hard, we haven't had rain in a while, even though it has rained all around us. The Lord be magnified, He is righteous in all of His doings and i will praise His wonderful name.
Thirty years ago, when i first came to Jesus, i was bombarded by the negativism up my family and friends. After eight years of being out there in the drug world and after twelve years of total rebellion from God, i'd come in out of the rain and what did i get from those i loved?! You'd think that they would all be happy for me, but noooooooooo, i got grief. i constantly heard the voiice of my friends as they said that i had lost my mind. My girlfriend, at the time, told me that i either had to put the bible down or leave her alone. When i went around my parents and my brothers all i heard was negatives.
It seemed, back then, that everything that i touched was turning to dung, and being a new convert i just couldn't understand all the animosity. One day, after crying for what seemed to be forever, i went off by myself and asked God why were they treating me so; and why was it that people seemed to love me more when i was out there as a sinner? God told me two things that day: Kenneth, I called you and not them, so you follow me and one day i will bring them along with us. And then he showed me Micah
Micah 7:5-6 (King James Version)
5Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. 6For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house. Man, when i saw that i was blown away! More tears followed, He used two verses of scripture to cover all three of the areas that i was having problems with: My friends, the one that lieth in my bosom (Well come on, i was a fornicator before i was saved, and she was pregnant with my first child) and my family! Afterward He showed me the same thing about the family in Matthew and Luke and from that day on i got a better understanding of the thing that was happeniing to me. However, the single most important thing that came out of this was His telling me that He had called me and that i had to be obedient. this has stayed with me from that day forth, when i find my preaching falling on deaf ears, when i see that as a pastor i am barking up the wrong tree-as far as some people faith is concerned- i remember that God called me, not them. When i see that God is calling me to be holy, i have learned to understand that He has called me to that holiness, He may not have called those who i am talking to to that holiness. It matters not that they are in church, my girlfriend was in church even when i wasn't, she sung in the choir, and i thought me coming to Jesus would have made her happy; but i guess she was just a church goer, and to her and her family i had become a Jesus fanatic. i know it must have really been hard for them to accept, because here i was this radical that hated all things Jesus, and now i am a bible toting Jesus quoting fool. i took my Bible every where with me, i carried it in my back pocket and i wore it out within the first year and a half of having it. i can see why people thought i had gone crazy because i had made such a drastic change in my life. i went from a fornicator to abstinence in a matter of months. i got saved in April of 1979 and by Oct. of !979 i had quit dealing and doing drugs, quit smoking cigarettes, quit having sex, and lost all of the things that were gotten outside of teh will of God;including the girlfriend. Just so you know, she and i had a daughter together, and even though she and i didn't make it because i chose Jesus, my daughter and i have always had a strong relationship with each other. We talk almost daily and of all my kids ( Well i only have five, Phyllis and i have four boys) she is the one that looks most like me. She is now thirty, or she will be in July, and we have always enjoyed that closeness of a father/daughter. A little side note to all those dads who think just because the mother won't have anything to do with you, you don't have to do anything with your child, well my daughter never ever saw me comiing out of her moms bed and i was always there for her and her sisters; who are not my kids, but who also call me daddy. It is about the children, not the grown ups. The mom and i couldn't get on the same page, but there was only one page that had to be when it came to my child, and that was the one that said i took care of her spiritually, financially, emotionally, and lovingly! God called me, not the mother! So now i look at this walk that i am seeing before me, and i realize that this may ot be the walk for the rest of the church, but it is the walk that God has called me to walk. i will walk before Him holy, and my walk will be right with Him, and hopefully i will find grace in His eyes and those who i have prayed for, all these years will recieve the blessings of God. God Bless you, Love, Bro.ken 6月5日 BUILDING MY ARK Praise the LORD! i am so excited about the time that i am now in. We are living in the most important time in the history of the Word of GOD. There are so many things that are happening today that many thought they would never see the day that these things would come to pass. Well, i don't have any explanations for those things, i am just happy to be here and be on the side of the LORD, and to know that one day, when all is said and done, i will be able to go home with him and be with him for ever.
The thing that really get me excited about this time is that there was a time in my life when being with him was the last thing that i wanted to do. There was actually a time in my life when i didn't believe in the existence of GOD. Boy, talk about Agape'! Behold what manner of the love the Father harh bestowed on us that we are called the sons of GOD! He loved me when i didn't want him in my life, and now he has come and given me new life, an abundance of life, and he has given me joy unspeakable; there are times, still, when i think of the time when i ignored him, rejected him, slammed the door of my heart in his ace, and i just weep. How can some one love me so much?! Why would he love me when i couldn't stand him or any of his kind?!
Praise the LORD! He has shown me love unconditionally and taught me to look beyond the outward man and see the heart of those that i come in contact with. He taught me to look past the color of a man skin and see whose side he is on. i am truly blessed and it make no difference if i am the head, or just a strain of hair on the head, as long as the head is on the body of CHRIST, the bride that our beautiful Savior is coming back for, then everything is okay. i am excited to be in this time, a time when i can praise the LORD and lift up the name of JESUS and let the world know that there is, indeed, a reality in serving a true and living GOD. i am excited because i didn't have to be here; if satan would have had his way with me i wouldn't have been here but Praise the LORD his love said not so! Therefore i am here enjoying all these wonderful gifts that he gives, and breathing in the sweet savor of the victory that i have in him through his Son Jesus.
i am excited about the time that i live in, the moment that i am in that allow me the opportunity to tell you that GOD love you with all his heart and that you are precious in his sight, and it doesn't matter where you are right now, if you are in him, he is there with you; and if you are not in him, all you have to do is ask him to come in to your life. Trust me, he will be in there in a New York minute!
GOD BLESS
love
bro.ken FEEDING THE SHEEPWell finally i have solved the deer problem that i have been having. i put up an electric fence today. i hate having to do this, but farming is hard work. i am originally a city boy and farming is new to me, so when i plant an acre of crops the last thing i want to have to see is that the deer has gotten in the field and eaten up everything.
Before you all get upset with me please allow me to explain. Every year we plant the garden to feed the poor in our church, it is just something that the LORD has laid on my heart to do, and we raise the crop and take them to the church and allow the poor and the elderly to get fresh crop. My wife and the kids and i pick them and in certain cases we peel the peas and butterbeans and cut up the okra and prepare them for the freezer for some of the people, and for the younger folk who can afford it we sell them some of the crops, but at a reduced rate. Most of the time, however, we end up just giving the stuff away.
Because i started late with my setting out of the seeds for the peppers i ended up having to buy pepper plants and we had seventy- six plants and they were growing so beautifully, and then one day the deer decided that they would eat the peppers. Last year was the first year that i had ever seen deer eat peppers. We went through a long stretch where we didn't recieve any rain here and the vegetation was scarce so i guess the deer said "Catch where catch can!" and they ate up all the peppers. We had cayenne, jalapeno, and hot banana peppers and they ate them all. So i wasn't as surprised to see them eat the bell peppers this year, just disappointed, because i was so looking forward to being able to give away so much more his year. We wanted to break the record that we sat in 1999 of feeding two hundred and fifty families from the garden. Well God had another plan this year. i just thought that this year would be so different from the other years, seeing that this is the thirtied anniversary of my salvation. i just had a feeling (and still do ) that God was going to do something special with me this year.
Anyway, back to the fence. We had planted nine rows of okra, five cowhorn and four of a different breed that is not as itchy and slimy as the cowhorn, and we had five rows of pink eye peas (my favorite) eight rows of crowder peas, five rows of butterbeans, five rows of squash, five rows of cucumbers, two rows of tomatoes, four rows of watermelons, three rows of canteloupes, five rows of purple hull peas, and i'm missing soomething else, but you get the picture. Well the dirty little old deer came and ate the tops out of everything except the squash, which i have never eaten and it doesn't matter how it has been cooked, and the watermelons...okay so i like the watermelons. (CORN that;s what i was missing, we have five rows of it, three different varieties, and the deer ate the tops of them, too) Well you can imagine how heartbreaking this was to wake up to and see. Add to this the fact that i am on disability with three disc messed up in my back, athritis in my left hip, knees that pop whenever i get up, sciatica and plantar fascitis in both feet and you can see my frustration. So after using all the rememdies that old farmers told me to do, putting the the empty milk jugs on sticks, hanging plastic bags around the garden, putting irish spring soap on sticks around the garden, and even leaving some of my clothes in the garden ( really, one year i left out of the garden with just my underwear on, my wife saw me coming to the house with no pants, shoes, socks, or shirt and said that it was a good thing that we don't have neighbors because they would have me arrested) to no avail, i finally broke down and bought the material to put the fence up, so before you all get on me for being cruel to bambi and his family remember this, the county agent told me to put down some lead when i asked what i could do to get rid of the deer. Silly me, i asked where do i get lead from, and he smile and said " you really are a city boy aren't you ken? the best way to rid yourself of your deer problem is to SHOOT them!) The fence will only give them a slight jolt that, hopefully will only make them not want to come back around.
Now tell me, do you love the deer more than you love the people that we will hopefully feed from this garden? and if you have a better idea, one that actually work, please pass it on to me. i think the deer are really beautiful animals and i have never hunted them in my life but they are also a bunch of pest; all they don't eat, they will stomp! Pray for me,
love,
bro.ken 5月5日 NOTHING BUT BEAUTYRecently i have been marvelling at the way that GOD has allowed my life to unfurl. i am presently in a church that the leadership tries to silence the only person in there who speaks what THUS SAITH THE LORD! As i watch the struggles of this man i am reminded of the struggles of Jesus and His disciples. The leaders of the church didn't want the preachings of Jesus to be proclaimed before the people because they thought it was heresy. Yet the people of GOD were moved and inspired by this preaching and they were turned from Judaism to Christianity.
Today i can look over my life and see that it was because of these men of GOD staying the course and getting the message of JESUS out that has allowed me to know this peace and even in the midst of the darkest night i know that the LORD is my light. i've been through some storms in my life but i can honestly say that i've experienced nothing but the beauty of the LORD.
thank you for loving me
bro.ken 4月9日 EasterThere have been this debate raging in the church over which is more important...the birth,death, or resurrection of CHRIST? This, to me, is like asking who is the most important...GOD, JESUS, or THE HOLY SPIRIT? Where would we be without either? i love celebrating the birth of Jesus, i have had to really be comforted about the brutal beating of my beautiful Savior, but i get really excited about the Resurrection of Jesus. Although it hurt me so deeply to see Jesus beaten, and battered and hanging on the cross with people like me, mocking and scorning him, i know now that His death was necessary for me to be able to live this life victoriously through CHRIST JESUS.
Ah the things that He accomplish on that cross just for me. Jesus took my place, died my death so that i could take His place, and live His life. The swap is so one sided, in my favor! What a lovely and loving GOD we serve. Jesus came into this sinful world, took on my sins that He knew that i would commit almost two thousand years after His death, and nailed them on the cross, just for me! He took all my darkness away, so that i could live in His light. Jesus hung there naked so that i would have the right to put on the whole armour of the Lord. Then on the first day of the week, my Lord, my Savior, my Brother, my Friend rose from the grave with all power in His hand and ascended to the Father, so that He could descend once again to walk and talk with His Apostles, and assure them of that power from on high being given to them. After forty days He ascended again into heaven where He now sit on the right hand of the throne of GOD. Then ten days later He sent to them the Holy Spirit who brings us the power to walk like Jesus, talk like Jesus, live like Jesus, give like Jesus, forgive like Jesus, and love like Jesus.
When i think of Easter Sunday these are the things that i think on. Jesus, the SON OF GOD, is my PASSOVER! and because of His blood i have now been sealed by the Holy Spirit. For me, this is the seaon that JESUS IS THE REASON FOR. This is the season of love personified. For God so loved the world that He gave us Jesus. And Jesus loved us so much that He laid down His life for ours. He didn't think in His mind that none of us were unworthy of His love, He didn't come and die for just the righteous, He died for a sinful man like me. Thank you for seeing for me where i couldn't see for myself. Jesus knew the day would come when i would turn from my sinful ways and seek His Fathers' face and by His birth, death, and resurrection He made a way possible for me to do just that. Without money, and without price.
THANK YOU
may you all have a BLESSED EASTER.
BRO.KEN 1月29日 grandchildren are the bestwell, here i am again. its been a long time and i have no good reason for being away other than i have been away. sue me, all you can get in these financial times is me, and i'm not worth it. i spent yesterday evening with my first grand son and his sister. lol really, it was kaylie and her brother matt. well i have an addition to the family, he is three weeks old and matt came in weighing 8lbs. 5ozs. so now my second son and wife have two kids. three grand kids altogether. life is good.
i went over to give the love birds a chance to get out of the house and go see a movie, and i watched the grannies. yeah i know, i'm a man and the oldest is 15 months, but i was born for moments like this. when miranda and matt returned home she was expecting me to be at my wits end, but all was calm. matt was changed fed and burped and all happy, and kaylie was changed fed and happy. we were all sitting there with smiles of contentment on our faces. you see, just like i have always wanted to be a dad, then it is natural that i am relishing the opportunity to be a grand dad. it was more joy for me being with the grannies than it was for matt and miranda to be away from them; especially miranda because she is a stay at home mom. which, may i add, is the best moms.
i understand well the pressure that are on a stay at home mom, situations and injuries ( i am disabled ) made me a stay at home dad. to see your kids grow up with out breaking a leg or arm or never sustaining any major injuries or illnesses due to neglect it a very hard thing to accomplish. you can't ever really rest when you are with the babies because they are always into something and there is always that other work to do: cooking, cleaning, washing etc. you can really allow yourself to fall into that deep peaceful sleep, because there are always those late night screams of terror that come from the kids room that you have to be on the listen up for. and there are always those get out of bed and make the rounds that you do at night just to be sure.
that is why i want to do as much as i can to relieve the pressure on my kids. my wife and i are there for them and we are the old fashioned grand parents. and the grand babies love every minute of it.
bro.ken 8月21日 GIVING GOD'S WAYFeel free to share this e-mail with others. If you wish to be added to my address list, just say so: onegod3p@yahoo.com. If you wish to be taken off my address list, contact me at the same e-mail address. Thank you!
First of all, greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and peace to all the Saints of God who will read this. Praise be to God our Father for His love, mercy and grace that He has bestowed upon us. It is just a blessing to be alive and saved at this time in history. We, the children of God, have such an enormous responsibility placed upon us and i, for one, really feel privilged to be one of those who He has called into this ministry. Our job is to make known to the lost the blessings of God, and the love of Jesus, and to help them make the right decision; a decision that is not based on denominations but upon Truth. So, on that note:
Luke 6:38 "Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down,and shaken together, and running over, shall men give unto your bosom. For with the same measure that you mete withal it shall be measured to you again." i love this verse of scripture, but i wonder if we are really seeing the things that are being said by Jesus, here. Most people who i talk to about this always seem to think in terms of money. Most times when we see preachers speaking about giving it is always in terms of money, but i was struck with the thought yesterday: Who did Jesus ever give money to?
As i watch Jesus' walk i noticed that He gave us a great deal of things, but money was never one of them. He gave us love, hope, joy, faith, health, time,peace, salvation and a whole host of other things; but never money. The greatest of the gifts that Jesus gave us was HIMSELF. So i started to see things under this light. What if, in this passage, Jesus is saying to give yourself? What if we are being commanded to give peace to others when they are going through the midst of their storms? What if He is saying to give joy to those who are saddened and heavy laden? What if we are commanded to give hope to a hopeless world by telling them of the good news of the gospel of Jesus? What if this means that we are to give love to those who others feel don't deserve it, but loving those who have hurt us and seek our hurt? And what if what we are getting back from people; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over; would be the same? Is being a Christian all about making or receiving money? i have always thought that being a Christian was all about being a follower of the example that we have in Jesus.
Don't get me wrong, i give money also; but even more than the giving of money i give Me. Why? Because in God giving me Jesus, He also gave Jesus me. i am His, i belong to Him, i am His servant, His slave, i go where He send me, say what He want me to say, Do what He want me to do, and i seek not my own. i do this because i realize that if God never give me another thing in this life i know that i have gotten all that i will ever need: Salvation. So i am free to give without asking for money, or making people get out of the will of God by doing things that they have not been commanded to do. So, brothers and sisters: GIVE. Give both the physical things that you have, but more so, give those spiritual things that you have been given from God. Give love. Give joy. Give peace. Give hope. Give exhortation, and exaltation. Give Jesus, don't keep HIM for yourself, don't be selfish; give the wisdom that you have been given by the Holy Spirit, to others. Give it, don't sale it!! Remember, freely ye have received, freely give. It didn't cost you a thing, so it shouldn't cost those who have gotten it from you. Then sit back and watch as those things that the Gentiles seek will be added unto you.
Love,
Bro.ken
*The reason for using i and not I is to remind me that in this gospel it's not about me. The less significant i am the more the focus will be on GOD. Since coming to Christ i have become more aware of how selfish my thinking was before i knew Him. i just want to always remember it was what HE did for me that made me who i am and not what i do for HIM. Bro. Ken
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Isn't it strange when we fall, we also try and cover ourselves? We promise God that we will pray more, fast more, read more, go to church more often, be better friends, lovers, husbands, wives, Christians; and we forget that GOD has already covered us. God does not have a problem with us dressings ourselves. In fact, He rejoices when we do dress ourselves. His problem with us is when we try and dress ourselves in our own way. So i've come to this conclusion: when i fall i will remember the covering of God. i will remind myself that No ritual that i can do that will bring me back in good stead with Him. i'll just rmember that i have been washed in the blood of the LAMB. i will remember that, even though i may fall, i am still gathered under the shadow of His wings. i will remind myself that by His stripes, i am healed, and that there is nothing or no one that can seperate me from the love of GOD through CHRIST JESUS, and then i will dress myself in the clothes that my GOD have laid out for me. i will let my loins be girt with TRUTH, i will put on the breastplate of RIGHTEOUSNESS, i will shod my feet with the preparation of the gospel of PEACE, as a weapon of defense i will bear the shield of FAITH, cover my head with the helmet of SALVATION, and as a weapon of offense. i will use the sword of the SPIRIT, which is the Word of God. In short, i will remind myself that when i fall, all i have to do is get up and put on JESUS. He has, is, and shall always be our covering, and this too, is a GIFT from GOD.... which mean it, too, is free.
love
bro.ken
*The reason for using i and not I is to remind me that in this gospel it's not about me. The less significant i am the more the focus will be on GOD. Since coming to Christ i have become more aware of how selfish my thinking was before i knew Him. i just want to always remember it was what HE did for me that made me who i am and not what i do for HIM. Bro. Ken Attainable Perfection
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Hello again,
Have you ever noticed how people are always talking about empowerment, and taking it to the next level. That's great and all, but they only talk in terms of the pursuit of carnal happiness; whatever that may be. Today, i want to talk about another kind of empowerment, the kind, sadly to say, that isn't even talked about in the churches today. That is: The Empowerment To Live Perfect!
"He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own, and His own received Him not. But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believed on His name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of man, but of God."
There are several key points in here, some that i will touch on another time, however for now i want to look at the fact that once we receive Jesus in our hearts He empowers us to become sons of God. Some of the newer translations say that we are children of God, and this is a very significant fact. You see, in the Old Testament every reference of the sons of God pertained to angels: Genesis 6:2&4, Job 1:6 & 2:1, so there is some significance to keep the translation as it is in the King James version.
Another significant point is the last verse:"Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of man, but by GOD." Why is this significant? When we look at the genealogy of Jesus in Luke 3 we will find, in the 38th verse, these words: Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of GOD!!! The significance of this is the fact that all the other names in this genealogy were of sons born of men, that is until we get to Adam...he was born of God.
Now let us see how Adam came forth. Genesis 1:26-27: "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in His own image, in the , image of God created He him, male and female created He them. So i ask you what is the image of God? Isn't He perfect? And remember now, that Adam was born of God.. not man. As is Jesus, who is called the last Adam. And when we receive Jesus in our lives He give us the power to become the sons of God.
Some like to argue that no one on can live perfect while on earth, that we are to strive for perfection, and we will become perfect when Jesus returns for us. They say we will be perfect in the sweet by and by. Well let us look at what the Word of God has to say about that.
1 John 3:1-2 "Behold what manner of love the FATHER hath bestowed on us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not. Beloved NOW are we the sons of God (not in the sweet by and by, but right now!!!!!!!) and it doth not appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him for we shall see Him as He is. Now allow me to repeat myself -- the first Adam was created in the image of God and he was empowered to overcome this earth and speak those things that be not as though they were. Everything was under his command, and he was under the command of GOD. So was the last ADAM. The differnce is that, while the first Adam fell to the whiles of the serpent, whom he had power over, Jesus did not. Here comes something that really gets me with all those "You-can't-be-perfect -here-on-earth" folk: in Matthew 5:48, we are (or) commanded by Jesus to "be ye therefore perfect, even as your FATHER in heaven is perfect". Now here is the kicker for me, and i hope you can follow me on this: If we can't be perfect like our FATHER in heaven is perfect, because we can't live perfect on this earth; can't you see that we won't be able to make it to heaven? We have been a commandment by Jesus to be perfect like God. If we can't, Jesus will judge us to have fallen short and the sentence will be the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone! i ask you, does that seem like a Holy and Righteous God? He's gonna condemn us for not doing what He commanded us to do, knowing that we couldn't? That is not the God i serve. The reason we have received that commandment from Christ is because He knows that He has made the way for us to be perfect, He knows that we CAN be perfect here on earth. Phillipians 4:13 "I can do all things through CHRIST which strengtheneth me. (vinetta i should have underline Ican do all thiings). Well to me it seems reasonable that if i can do all things through Christ Jesus, one of those "all things" would be the ability to live perfect; if not then the scripture should read " i can do most things through Christ which strengtheneth me".
Now back to this perfection thing. When we are born again we are born from above. John 3:6 "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. So when we received Jesus in our lives as our Lord and Savior we became a new creation. Our old man passed away, now we stand with the indwelling of God the Father: 1 Corinthians 3:16 "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwell in you?" You have the mind of Christ: 1 Corithians 2:16 "For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he make instruct him? But we have the, mind of Christ. 1 Corinthians 6:19 "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which you have of GOD and ye are not your own?
My question is this: If Job, in the old testament, could be considered perfect by God (Job1:1 & 8; Job 2:3), a man that had only the Spirit of God upon him, could be considered perfect-- by GOD HIMSELF, how in the world we can't live perfect here on earth when we have the indwelling of the Spirit of God, the mind of Jesus, and we are the temple of the Holy Spirit. We can, but we have been conditioned by lying shepherds to think that we can't.
Strange thing: One of the Hebrew translation for perfect is blameless. When Paul was instructing Timothy and Titus the kind of man to make a pastor (1 Timothy 3:1- Titus 1:7) the first criteria for them to look for was a man that was blameless! If no one can live perfect/blameless then why are they Pastors, Shepherds, Bishops? It would seem that no man could qualify for that position. And that Jesus left us leaderless. That did not happen. What we have are (or) child molesters and pediphiles, whoremongers and liars, adulterers and fornicators standing in the pulpit making (an) excuses for their shortcomings. Just think, if man gave himself over totally to performing the will of God, like we do in our pursuit of other carnal things, we could realize the perfection that God has bestowed upon us.
Now, understand, i am not advocating that on our own we can be perfect; we can't. However, through Jesus we are perfect already. We are covered by the blood of Jesus, and we have been sealed unto God by the Holy Spirit. Now we are told by John in 1John 2:1-6 "My little children, these things write I unto you, that you sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: And He is the propitiation for our sin: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. And hereby we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His commandment, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But, whoso keepeth His word, in him verily is the love of GOD perfected: hereby know we that we are i Him. He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked. The emphasis being not on when we sin, but on "if we sin" God, because He has given us all this power, expects us not to sin... the same expectation He had on Adam, and on Israel. God has empowered us to before Him upright, blameless, perfect.
Let us now "Study to show oourselves approve unto God, a worker that need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth" 2 Timothy 2:16 And may you never let the enemy lie to you again about who and what you are in the eyes of God. May the Lord add a blessing to the lives of all those who read this.
AMEN
bro.ken
*The reason for using i and not I is to remind me that in this gospel it's not about me. The less significant i am the more the focus will be on GOD. Since coming to Christ i have become more aware of how selfish my thinking was before i knew Him. i just want to always remember it was what HE did for me that made me who i am and not what i do for HIM. Bro. Ken Time and God
BrokenJesus...
The beginning and the end,
My lover, and best friend.
The mender of my broken heart.
Love that will never part.
Jesus...
Tonight i just don't have the words. i want to say so much to you, but words are failing me. tears are welling in my eyes,
Jesus... i apologize. i haven't always loved you the way that you have loved me. in fact Lord i have done to you the very thing that i was broken by when others did it to me. Jesus, forgive me. You have loved me with an everlasting love, and there have been times when i just didn't want to talk to you, didn't want to listen to you, didn't want to be near you because i was too busy; too caught up in me. i forgot, Jesus, that there would be no me, if it had not been for you. Lord why is it that even when i know that i need you and i can't live without you, i can't win without you, i can't abide without you; i feel a need to stay away from you?
Jesus...
Why is it i don't boast about you and your goodness and your loving kindness, everyday, to others like i know you talk about me to the Father? i have hurt you, Jesus, by my silence, my neglect, my disobedience; and the Lord knows that i don't want to hurt you. Not you, you beautiful, loving, caring man of GOD. But i do...i ignore the call to come and sit at your feet, to sup with you in your house, to hear your voice as it speaks to my heart. How can i be so stupid to not want to hear you, when i know that you bring to me love, joy, and peace?
Jesus...
Storm clouds are rolled away when you speak. When you speak, my sin sick soul is healed, my broken heart is mended, my fears are replace with love power and a sound mind. So tell me, Jesus, why is it i don't let you speak to me? Why is it that i cover my ears with the cares of this world, this life?
Jesus...
When you are welcomed in my heart, love fills my life. Power comes in the building that is called my temple, my life is delivered from the distress of bondage that engulfs me when i walk away from you...So, tell me, why is it i don't welcome you in my heart everyday?
Jesus...
When i call on your name
satan cowers in shame
demons hide
love abide
angels in heaven sing
your voice ring
in my soul
more precious than gold
so... Why do i not call? i need you, i want you, i can't live without you...
Jesus help me to call on you. i'm losing, and it's not your fault, nor is it your will.
Jesus...
Save
Me!!!
i'm drowning.
Father, forgive me for i have sinned against you. i have rebelled against your will for my life, i have taken my soul out of your hands and put them in my own, and i have grieved your Holy Spirit. i am not worthy to be called your son Father, and i know that whatever i am going through i am going through because of my rebellion. Father i know that you have to chastise me for my foolishness, and i don't ask that you let me go unpunished; because i know that better men, and women than me have not gotten away with being rebellious to you; i just thank you for the mercy that you have shown me during this time. Father, tonight i call on your Son Jesus and ask that he come again and let me walk with him... i know that he will take me through this valley of the shadow of death that i am now in. Forgive me Father, in the name of Jesus.
AMEN
bro.ken God's Church
In Act 4:4 we find that five thousand more men believed the teaching of Peter, concerning Jesus, and they were added to the church; however, Before they believed they were outsiders. they were not numbered with the Saints. In Acts 8:5-17 5Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them.
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