Interpreting the Bible

We must interpret the Bible from the stand point of being on the bottom not being on top. Our ministry must be a bridge for the least, lost, and left out. We must understand their hurts and pains and provide healing, and relief through the power of the Holy Ghost.

Our Power and Authority

The uniform gives the policeman the authority but the gun gives him the power.

Our authority comes through salvation but our power comes through the Holy Ghost.

Who Has The Preacher's Back

The people we help, in many instances, will break our heart because they will not reciprocate the love and appreciation for what we have done for them.  We give relentlessly and it seems that there is no return on our investment.  I know the spiritual mind says that our reward is in heaven, and that is true, but the emotional side of us still has an expectation from them.  Our business is transforming lives.  We attempt (through the Holy Spirit) to bring life to death.  It takes a toll on our body, mind, family, finances and reputation.  There is no remedy to this problem, it's just a reality.

The reality is that many preachers feel alone, and insecure because many don't take the time seriously wonder what the preacher needs and how they struggle just like everyone else.  When everyone expects you to have all the answers and to carry the whole load, it is inevitable to become stressed, frustrated and unhealthy.  Who has the preacher's back?

5 Stages of Destruction

The Five Stages of Destruction as it Relates to America’s War on Drugs: “The House I Live In”

At approximately 1:27:00 into the following amazing documentary, “The House I Live In”, reflecting on the work of Raul Hilberg , Richard Lawrence Miller provides a summary of the step-by-step process of destruction as it relates toAmerica’s War on Drugs (relevant video segment follows the full documentary):

1. Identification – a group of people is identified as the cause of the problems in that society. People begin to perceive their fellow citizens as bad or evil. Their lives become worthless.

2. Ostracism - we learn how to hate these people, how to take their jobs away, how to make it harder for them to survive. People lose their place to live and are often forced into ghettos where they are physically isolated, separated from the rest of society.

3. Confiscation - people lose their rights, they lose civil liberties. The laws change so that it becomes easier for people to be searched and for their property to be confiscated, and once you start taking people’s property away, it makes it easier to start taking people away.

4. Concentration - the State begins to concentrate undesirables into facilities such as prisons and camps. People lose their rights. People can’t vote any more. They can’t have children any more. Often their labor is exploited in a systematic form.

5. Annihilation - this might be indirect, by withholding medical care, by withholding food, or by preventing further births. Or it may be direct, where death is inflicted, where people are deliberately killed.

Tell Your Situation

I'm With Him

Tell you problem, your situation and your mountain that you are with Him.  God is responsible for you and will make sure that His creations are taken care of responsibly and carefully. He said, "lo I will be with you always."

7 Steps to fight poverty

Ideas to end poverty:

1. Training for jobs that's coming not for jobs that are on their way out.
2. Teaching in schools that don't teach our kids to be good workers but inventors and thinkers that expose them to other lifestyles and technology.
3. Affordable housing that is not inflated
4. Healthy foods and restaurants at affordable cost
5. College college college
6. The talented ten come back to the neighborhoods they were brought up in.
7. Change laws that are geared to keep the poor poor

What 3 Things Did You Learn From 2013?

2013 has gone.  I made it another year.  Thank you Jesus! 2013 was a year of discovery for me.  I discovered that I had to let some people go in order to get to the next level.  The crazy thing is that as soon as I did, doors started to open and I begin to get opportunites I only dreamed of.  I also learned or was reminded that the race isn't given to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but to those who endure to the end.  In 2013, I continuously fought/advocated/protested/etc. for the rights of the least, lost, and left-out.  To God be the glory things started to move on our behalf.  Although, we have a long way to go, it was good to see some victories.  Finally, I learned how to accept this path that God has me on.  I realize that if I just keep pushing, everything else will fall in place in time.

God is great! I am excited about the things that are getting ready to happen this year.