There is a threat on the church, and it is a silent epidemic.  The plight of the church believes that many traveling down a dead-end road due to this destructive force; which is taking our men.  If a man gets saved 90% percent of the house gets saved. It is time to on our Kingdom Mindset.  No longer should we be content with forcing our women to carry and hold up the blood stain banner. This should our duty as men.

 How longer will we allow our family, children, communities and church to lay harm’s way?  We are in a war zone! We must end the process of forsaken of our loves, leaving them to fend for themselves.  Little that we know, we are running for shelter which is the war ground.  There is a cry in the distance...how much longer will we allow them to cry.

Fortunately in our mess, there is the gift of Grace. Oh How amazing is Grace, that we are held safely and sure in a rocky situation.  Though, we are in the dispensation of Grace; Grace is in the dispensation of the mercy of God. Moreover, there is an allowance of entrance and access to an undeserving people. When we really reevaluate our lives; are we truly worthy of HIS Love? There is a commencement ceremony, we must prepare for that will catapult you in a graduation to actualization.

Grace is more than place or an act that was done. We must really get to know grace.  It is so amazing how we don’t understand, but we are able to abuse it.  We accept the gift but won't give a gift. Yet in still, we have Grace…now that’s amazing!

What does love have to do with it?  Well, in order to answer the question, you must first understand what love is.  Love has only one Condition, to love unconditionally!  Pure love takes on acknowledgement; do you recognize the essence the true love? Better yet, is it being extracted by your walk as you confess to be lovely?  Love should be your name, you should embody it.  John 15:13 reads: “Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends”. Are you willing to die for the ones you love?  Are you really a true friend?  The love of a true friend is exemplified through self-abnegation and self- sacrifice.  So what secretes from you being.  Are you a man, or a shadow of a being?

Lent is best described as a season of Soul-Searching.  When was the last time you searched your soul? When was the last time you reflected on your present position, to determine whether or not you need a “Spiritual Alignment”? I admonish you my dear friend, minimize the distractions in your life.  Draw closer to God! Reconnect, Revisit, Recollect, Reminisce, Replenish, and Reflect for 40 days of things that hinder you from getting closer to God! Incite to Reflect and Search your soul!

~Let’s all LeNT to Repent…

What is love?  Seriously, what does it have to do with your salvation, redemption, deliverance, or even securing your residence in heaven? Honestly, what is the correlation between love and you obtaining life more abundantly?  Your answer: Love has to do with EVERYTHING! Had it not been for love, where would you be? Really the question has nothing to do with significance of love, as it does to you believing you are worthy of the LOVE.  Love is a gift, but it is not true love until you give it away.  Jesus did it; now, I dare you to love!

Why is it that we proclaim to be devout Believers, but are afraid to work?  How is it that we can work with a spirit of excellence in secular sectors, but refuse to operate in the same manner as it to our spiritual development? I dare you to work out your own salvation… after all, I was given to you; the least you could do is work for it!  Do you believe your salvation is worth working for?

We must first understand what remission is; it deals with Sins that are remitted when the offender is treated as though the offense had never been committed. Remission allows entrance into forbidden territory due lawlessness.  See, this is very much different from atonement; which focused more on forgiveness by covering up sin.  However, with the arrival of Jesus, it dealt with forgiveness by the removal of sin. 

So, if we really take a look at this: if God is able to remove things that have stop Him from getting to us; then we should be willing to remove the things that stop us from getting to Him.  This allows us to receive life anew…but we must first be willing to see  us as something new. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new (2 Corinthians 5:17).  Ties so closely with forgiveness; why are you holding on to what God has let go?

Question 1: What are you holding on to?

Question 2: What does the blood mean to you?

The devil has emotionally and mentally emasculated the minds of believers and placed them in a prison of illusion and beguiled them into thinking that they will never be free; better yet…they are not redeemed! He keeps us busy for at least twenty one days to develop a defeated mentality (Daniel 10). When in actuality, contrary to popular belief, depression, materialism, wickedness, treachery, lasciviousness, lust, blasphemy, pride, etc.; is not what people are bound by; these are only the manifestations, instruments, and/or tools of the true bondage and that is the mind. The Bible says in Proverbs 23:7 “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” The devil knows, that the way a person thinks is how that person will act. If he can convince a person to believe something untrue then he can cause them to fall and defeat them in this spiritual war.

Question 1: What do you believe?

Question 2: Is what you believe an illusion or is it the real thing?

The theme for GCC for 2010 is Fullfillment.  Are you ready for what God has in store for you?