What would you do?

His name is Bill. He has wild hair, wears a T-shirt with holes in it, jeans, and no shoes. This was literally his wardrobe for his entire four years of college.

He is brilliant. Kind of profound and very, very bright. He became a Christian while attending college.

Across the street from the campus is a well-dressed, very conservative church. They want to develop a ministry to the students but are not sure how to go about it.

One day Bill decides to go there. He walks in with no shoes, jeans, his T-shirt, and wild hair. The service has already started and so Bill starts down the aisle looking for a seat.

The church is completely packed and he can't find a seat. By now, people are really looking a bit uncomfortable, but no one says anything.

=0 ABill gets closer and closer and closer to the pulpit, and when he realizes there are no seats, he just squats down right on the carpet.

By now the people are really uptight, and the tension in the air is thick.

About this time, the minister realizes that from way at the back of the church, a deacon is slowly making his way toward Bill..

Now the deacon is in his eighties, has silver-gray hair, and a three-piece suit. A godly man, very elegant, very dignified, very courtly. He walks with a cane and, as he starts walking toward this boy, everyone is saying to themselves that you can't blame him for what he's going to do.

How can you expect a man of his age and of his background to understand some college kid on the floor?

It takes a long time for the man to reach the boy.
The church is utterly silent except for the clicking of the man's cane. All eyes are focused on him. You can't even hear anyone breathing. The minister can't even preach the sermon until the deacon does what he has to do.

And now they see this elderly man drop his cane on the floor. With great difficulty, he lowers himself and sits down next to Bill and worships with him so he won't be alone.  

Everyone chokes up with emotion. When the minister gains control, he says,  "What I'm about to preach, you will never remember. What you have just seen, you will never forget."

"Be careful how you live. You may be the only Bible some people will ever read!"

I asked the Lord to bless you
As I prayed for you today.
To guide you and protect you
As you go along your way....
His love is always with you,
His promises are true,
And when we give Him all our cares,
You know He will see us through.

Only if you feel to, pass this to People you want God to Bless.


...I DID!

 


Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.


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Good bye Summer! hello Fall

Just a few pictures of my living room and free standing fireplace, a few of the comforts of home, the air is getting cooler, the end of summer has come......see you next year summer! hello fall !

Single ladies in Waiting can we Real-Talk ?

If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay. Stop making excuses for a man and his behavior. Allow your intuition (or spirit) to save you from heartache.

Stop trying to change yourselves for a relationship that's not meant to be. Slower is better.?Never live your life for a man before you find what makes you truly happy.

If a relationship ends because the man was not treating you as you deserve then heck no, you can't "be friends." A friend wouldn't mistreat a friend. Don't settle.?If you feel like he is stringing you along, then he probably is.

Don't stay because you think "it will get better." You'll be mad at yourself a year later for staying when things are not better. The only person you can control in a relationship is you.

Avoid men who've got a bunch of children by a bunch of different women. He didn't marry them when he got them pregnant, Why would he treat you any differently?

Always have your own set of friends separate from his.

Maintain boundaries in how a guy treats you. If something bothers you, speak up. Never let a man know everything. He will use it against you later.

You cannot change a man's behavior.?Change comes from within. Don't EVER make him feel he is more important than you are...even if he has more education or in a better job. Do not make him into a quasi-god. He is a man, nothing more nothing less. Never let a man define who you are.

♥ Never borrow someone else's man. Oh Lord! If he cheated with you, he'll cheat on you. A man will only treat you the way you ALLOW him to treat you.

All men are NOT dogs. You should not be the one doing all the bending...compromise is a two-way street.

You need time to heal between relationships...there is nothing cute about baggage... deal with your issues before pursuing a new relationship You should never look for someone to COMPLETE you...a relationship consists of two WHOLE individuals...

look for someone complimentary...not supplementary.

Dating is fun...even if he doesn't turn out to be Mr.. Right. Make him miss you sometimes...when a man always know where you are, and your always readily available to him- he takes it for granted.

Don't fully commit to a man who doesn't give you everything that you need. Keep him in your radar but get to know others.


Share this with other ladies.....


You'll make someone SMILE, another RETHINK her choices, and another woman PREPARE.

They say it takes a minute to find a special person,

an hour to appreciate them,

a day to love them and

an entire lifetime to forget them.♥



Author Unknown

( above is a picture of my son and his beautiful fiancee, their picture is just to reflect a happy relationship )

© Continue to be blessed from the Well!

Who's Stealing Your Thunder? ( Correction)

This is a Correction to a posting I wrote on " Who's stealing your Thunder"? The ((singing)) lyrics at the end are credited to my former Pastor Woodson Hopewell,

He is the Senior Pastor of United Bibleway Temple. Below is a partial email he sent me, God bless you all and forgive me for not giving proper credit where it is due and rightly deserved!





Won't You Give Him the Praise music and lyrics by W. Hopewell, Jr. 1981

Verse I

Won't you give Him the Praise?

Give the Praise to the Lord,

Give the Glory due His Name (to His Name, to His wonderful Name!)

Give Him the praise! (repeat)



Verse II

So we ought to be more grateful

For in due season Jesus died,

He died to save all sinners

For sinners He died -- He died to save Us!

for that reason - Give Him Praise, give Him all of the Praise

Give the Praise due His Name!



(chorale) Give Him Praise, Give Him all of the Praise! (repeat)

repeat Verse II



Thank you for inspiring this memory! Have a blessed day!



Brother Hopewell



Woodson H. Hopewell, Jr.



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Who's Stealing Your Thunder?

Who's stealing your thunder? --


I was watching a commercial on television, where one person told someone a idea and another person took credit for the idea, then that person told another person, never telling who told them the original idea.

We steal Jesus thunder everyday when we don't give Him , his proper due, the glory due His name....

St. Luke 2:14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

We drive nice cars, wear beautiful clothes, jewelry , great hair styles, and lined haircuts, .....We live in good homes, have great jobs, our children are doing well and in good health, yet knowing and processing all this , yet we take the credit for everything thinking within ourselves its all about us..

the Word says the earth is the Lord and the fullness there of, We are without God nothing ! Styled as a brand plucked out of the fire...It takes the spoken Word of God that has creative power for us to become anything worthwhile......


Zechariah 3:2 And the Lord said unto Satan, The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan, The Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?

The next time someone gives you a compliment, a accolade, a present, make sure you give God the praise, the glory and the honor due his name.... Don't steal his thunder, He gives it to you anyway, He cares nothing about accolades, He is the Accolade of Accolades ...... but considering all Jesus has done for us we should willingly by our own choosing praise the Lord!

We should seek every opportunity to say " Thank You....Lord".

He sent His Son to die on a cruel cross, in a non human , barbaric way , in this day in time we would call this cruel and inhuman punishment,all at the hands of people who not only hated Him but did worse, they rejected Him openly and chose a murderer.....

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

(((Singing)))) won't you give Him the praise, give Him all of the praise, the wonderful praise..... For we ought to be more grateful for in due season Jesus die...He died to save us, For that reason give Him praise, all of the praise......


Continue to be Blessed from the Well!

Being in Love

Subject: Being in LOVE...





Think back to when you met that man/woman that you just knew would be the one.



Remember when you realized/admitted to yourself that you loved him/her.



Now remember how much you wanted to act like you were in a movie, and yell to everyone in the football stadium 'I love (fill in the name)!' You told family and friends how perfect he/she was; he/she was just what you were looking for.



Well, I told THE LORD that I love Him today.



And He said to me, ' How much do you love me ? You haven't told anyone how good I've been to you. You haven't shared how perfect my love is. You haven't spread the good news that I am always there to listen to your problems.



You haven't told your family how I helped you pay your bills when you didn't have a high paying job, or how I got you a better one. You haven't shared with anyone how I took away that addiction that would have cost you not only your job, but also that man/woman that was just what you were looking for.



So how much do you really love me?



So...........................I said I would share with my friends and family (for starters) just how wonderful , perfect, understanding, patient, loving, unselfish, considerate and forgiving GOD really is.



He has blessed me with a family that loves me and friends that I can confide in. But even more than that, He has saved me from destruction I couldn't even see coming. He gave to me the peace of knowing Him, and He has never broken a promise. Truly He is the best thing that has ever happened to me.



And I stand in my stadium today to tell all of you,





'I DO LOVE THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WITH ALL OF MY HEART!'





BE BLESSED & SHARE THIS WITH SOMEONE ELSE...

A Friend of mine went Home Sunday.......

A friend of mine went to be with the Lord on Sunday...


for those of you saying what? He died.


Well I went by to comfort the family and offer prayer and words of consolation, but when I left hours later, in my quiet times ,

I had to reason it out and come to grip my self with my flesh man of my self. You see when you are by yourself , you fool no one but yourself what's in you comes out .

Your fears, your doubts and your concerns, we are passionate emotional being so when emotional overwhelmed in your quiet times it will come out. Nothing is hidden or held back, your emotions will bring it all to the surface.

The Word of God says when my heart is over whelmed led me to the rock that is higher than I... Jesus is the Rock He is the only way out...Earth has no sorrow heaven can not heal.

I thank God on some level, for the opportunity to take a inventory of myself, to sit and reflect on how really fragile life is. Without Christ in my life I am nothing, I am nothing without Christ.

So At the end of the day

I am not a or someones wife, mother,

auntie, grandma, pharmacy technician, neighbor,

best friend, cousin, BFF, sister, missionary,

usher, minister, evangelist

or any other role

or hat I may wear or desire to wear .......

At the end of the day I am just Christine

a vessel seeking the love, mercy and grace of a loving God called Jesus Christ. My roles , position, status, where I live ,

my sweet mustang car I drive mean nothing to him, so I lay all I have at his feet,

I lay down my hopes, my material possessions, my dreams and aspirations that I may be more like him and less like me!

I am just a vessel that's striving everyday to make a difference in this life,

by showing and manifesting the Love of God in the earth!

Rest in Peace Deacon Eric Coles, you fought a great fight now take your rest in the arms of our Savior Jesus Christ .....until we meet again peace!

Continue to be blessed from the Well!

The Women in your Life

To my sisters in the Lord...

There comes a time in every woman's life when she has to take a close look at herself. Not at her circumstance, not at what she did, not how unfair life is, or at who made you do it.

She has to just look at herself in all her glory and imperfection. Have you ever admired a woman who has been through changes in her life? Or have you made up in your mind that she is just messed up.

Before you make this mistake, take a closer look. A woman who has endured the most unusual life is someone of wisdom, someone who has been chosen by God to go through things that have made her stronger.

Think of all the great women in the Bible: Mary Magdalene, Ruth and Naomi, the woman with an issue of blood, and Esther, to name a few.

Mary was a very uneasy woman. But by the time Jesus was done with her, she was His closest follower.

Esther was unfortunate in marrying an abusive man, but by the time God was done with her, she had married one of the wealthiest men in the land..

Women are so quick to beat the next one down instead of trying to hold her up. Before you wonder, ' What's up with her?' ask yourself, 'What's up with me?'

That woman could be my mother, sister, aunt, in-law, stepmother, niece, grandmother, great-grandmother, neighbor, friend, or co-worker, etc.

That woman could be ME. Women are the carriers of life, not the channels of death.

Let's build and encourage each other, as did Ruth and Naomi .

Pass this to all the women in your life.

Encourage and love, forgive and forget, and trust

that the woman that receives this will be touched in some way.

Unknown


Continue to be blessed from the Well!

Happy Labor Day Weekend

Rest in Peace my Sister, Pastor Carol Daniels

This story is a sad, tragic story, I warn you , it is graphic and gut wrenching,

but yet still a reality many face on a day to day basic when you boldly proclaim and carry the Word of God. Please pray for the intruder or intruders,

that they will be caught, also pray for this community, the church members and the family of Sister Carol Daniels ........

earth has no sorrow heaven can not heal... thank you The Marriage Report , writers> Mr and Mrs Sangster for blogging about this issue,

http://themarriagereport.blogspot.com

I read it there originally and I couldn't rest in my spirit until I had passed it on, so others can be aware, pray and use good informed judgement. I got a lot of information from CNN as you will see below.


We should be wise as serpents but harmless as doves. The battle always belongs to the Lord.

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Oklahoma pastor was found nude, stabbed behind altar, source says
Story Highlights
Pastor Carol Daniels' clothes were removed from the crime scene, source says
Source: Dissolving agent had been sprayed around her body
FBI profiler brought in during the weekend to help with investigation
Authorities have increased to $15,000 a reward for information

(CNN) -- A 61-year-old pastor who was killed in a rural Oklahoma church was found lying behind the altar with her arms outstretched, a source close to the investigation told CNN.

Carol Daniels, a 61-year-old pastor, was found nude behind the altar of a church in Anadarko, Oklahoma.





It was one of the latest details to emerge in the killing of Carol Daniels, whose nude body was found in the Christ Holy Sanctified Church in Anadarko, Oklahoma, in a crime scene the district attorney described as "horrific."
Her clothes were taken from the scene, and a dissolving agent had been sprayed around her body, the source said.
An FBI profiler was brought in during the weekend to assist investigators, Steve Neuman, a spokesman for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, said Monday. Authorities also have increased to $15,000 a reward for information.
Daniels, from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was found inside the church August 23. She died from "multiple sharp-force injuries," according to a preliminary autopsy report obtained by CNN. Sharp-force injuries mean cuts or stab wounds.
Diagrams in the autopsy notes show Daniels suffered injuries to the side and back of her neck, her back and her left breast. She also suffered wounds to her hands, a typical spot for defensive wounds resulting from attempts to ward off an attack.
In addition, the autopsy notes say a portion of Daniels' hair appeared singed or burned. The medical examiner classified her death as a homicide.
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District Attorney Bret Burns has called the crime scene the worst he'd seen in 17 years as a prosecutor but gave no further explanation. Jessica Brown, a spokeswoman for Oklahoma's State Bureau of Investigation, said last week the body was "staged" after the killing, but declined to elaborate.
Meanwhile, Neuman said, video surveillance from a convenience store near the church is being analyzed, a process that started Friday. He declined to comment on the condition of Daniels' body when found.
Alvin Daniels told HLN's "Nancy Grace" that his mother was "always joking with us and always taking care of us, even giving her last dollar, even if she didn't have it."
He said she took precautions at the church. "She was very cautious for the most part, and she would usually leave the door open in case people came to worship," he said.
The death has unnerved religious leaders in Anadarko, said Ted Mercer, pastor of Grace Christian Fellowship, which is about three blocks from the church where Daniels' body was found.