Giving and Trusting!!!!!

I must admit that I just started really tithing. Before I got delivered I always said "well God knows how much I get" so I would give 20.00 here 40.00 here and I never thought much about it. I always listened to the pastor say "will a man rob God" I would always say oh boy here he goes. Lol. Well this year I said OK Lord you've blessed me with a great job so I'm going to pay my tithes correctly, the first thing I'm going to do when I get my check is take out my tithes and we shall see. I also wasn't too keen on giving to the homeless, I know I know, well let me say this first, most people believe that when they pay tithes it means God is ready to flood your wallet with cash, not necessarily, God can bless you in any aspect of your life. God can give you joy, he can heal your body, he can give you things you've been waiting on and much more, so don't only look for a financial blessing. So let me tell you what happened to me, first I have unspeakable joy, second I got a raise at work and for some reason my bills have decreased, I don't even worry about the bills. I then started seeing the homeless and just started giving. I realize I was selfish, I idolized money because it was my main focus but once I stopped chasing money and started chasing God my perspective on money and my finances changed. I realized God has always taken care of me and he always will. "Bring ye all tithes into the storehouse" I'm not saying if your ready to be evicted turn over all of your cash, but if God has blessed you with an income give him what's due because as quick as God gives he can take away. I trust him to always take care of me, so today while listening to my favorite station K love, I heard people who have less than me giving and then the spirit led me to give. God said its time to increase your giving. The devil tried to stop me by reminding me about my trip to Jamaica coming up, I said nope I'll be alright and gave anyway. Do you trust him? Do you know someone in need? Children are starving, people are homeless and jobless,why not give? Or maybe not caring is easier for you but I see things differently now. We don't realize how many things we put before God because we are so wrapped up in our everyday lives. Is there something that is controlling your life, maybe it's time you turn it over to God I know he'll bless you. Maybe it's not money, maybe you put your job before God, or your family, or Face book or just anything. God wants to be first and once he is first and at the top of your list he will take care of everything else. Trust me I know, I'm definitely working on it and the spirit is working in me teaching me day by day. Even though I'm learning, I've learned to trust God, for his love never wavers and whatever he has planned for me is way better than what I have planned for myself. Be blessed my brothers and sisters!!!

It's Time You Choose A Side!!!

"He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad" Matthew 12:30 NKJV These past couple of weeks, I have been keeping to myself, not saying much, just being observant. I happened to notice a couple of things. Some of us that I claim to be Christian have it completely twisted 80% of us are lukewarm Christians. We scream Jesus but don't behave the way he wants us to. We lie, steal, be drunk, commit adultery, fornicate, and so on and so on. Not saying I don't sin, we are all sinners but through Christ we can have strength and chains can be broken but I notice that we don't want to give up what we do. Half of us don't even try, we say God will forgive me or the famous line, "God knows my heart" smh. What does that mean? You can keep on sinning and get into the gates of heaven. Ha at you if you believe that.  No man knows the day, hour or minute when Jesus is coming so why not be prepared for his return. Why not work on being delivered from the sin that keeps you bound. You can't keep riding the fence, it's either you are team Jesus or team Satan, there is NO in between, there is no riding the fence, there is no space for Luke warm Christians. God is building his army, don't you wanna be in the number, don't you wanna see Jesus, or maybe the things of this world is more important. Let me let you in on a little secret when you pass on you can't take any of that with you, the world will go on and depending on which team you choose you'll either be in paradise or in a place that is a million degrees, and I for one don't like to sweat. Trust God , spend time in his word, the world has nothing to offer, you can't be on both sides.  Anything that you feel like you can't live without has power over you (ex: money, alcohol, drugs, your boyfriend or girlfriend (not even husband or wife smh), and so forth). "No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon." Are you of the father or of the devil "If God were your Father, you would love me.....................you are of your father the devil and the desires of your father you want to do"John 8:42-47. Strive to be more like Christ, we are suppose to bring others to Christ, how can we do that if we are doing what everyone else is doing. The days of riding the fence are over, choose a side, as for me I choose Christ, what about you? Peace and blessings and may Christ be with you.

You Are More!!!!!!!!

"Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the children of God" (1 John 3:1). It took me 30 years to love myself, 30 years to find love and 30 years to express it. While looking at myself in the mirror the other day, I smiled and thought to myself Pam you are beautiful. My heart was smiling and I exhaled. I had never felt that before. I mean I always thought I loved myself but realized there is no possible way that could be. After finding Christ, I realized I'm soooooo much more than I thought I was. I'm a daughter of a king and why I never behaved so bothers me, not really for myself but for others around me. I use to wear little dresses and tight fitting clothes, I stayed with men who couldn't possibly give me what I wanted or needed, I degraded my body by having sex with someone who wasn't my husband, I would drink harder than any man and so forth and I realized now, I couldn't have loved myself the way I do now because if I did, I wouldn't have acted in such a way. You are more than what you are selling yourself for. A man/woman who really wants to be with you will wait and if he/she doesn't she want to then they are not worth your time. I see people on fb/Instagram going off everyday about the relationship they are in, the job they have, the money they don't have and so on. God has so much more for you but for some reason you think by doing it your way, you're gonna accomplish something. You lay up with your partner every night, has he or she mentioned marriage?  9 times out of 10 nope, y'all are still in the "dating stage" for 3 or 4 years. You are at the bottom when it comes to your job, everyone gets promoted but you, when will it end? You've been there forever and you don't see a problem with making the same pay for forever. I mean is it just me but it takes a whole lot of coins to live to survive these days. When do you say it's time for a change, when do you start asking God to remove the unnecessary from your life and when do you start making the change. I've always been a "go-getta" if that's what you would even call it. This time I allowed God to make the choice of job and trust I love my job. I was always in the bad relationship, trying to change a man, trying to make a family without the wife title, living with the man, planning this one sided future until God had to step and say, daughter you are more than this. Then when I said yes to God and let him do the work, I allowed him to send me who he wanted. How are we suppose to teach our children if we can't even get it right ourselves. Out the window with that 90 day rule, unless it ends with an I do. Out the window with working every single day of the week, out the window with  the devil manipulating your mind making you think you have to be a slave on your job. Like Paul, I'm only a prisoner of Christ!!! YOU ARE MORE!!! I'm not saying mistakes won't happen, I'm definitely not saying quit your job and sit at home, I'm saying trust God to make the decisions for you, trust God to lead you where you need to be and trust God to find your mate. I'm scared for our youth, I mourn for them because they have no one to guide them, the parents don't have them in church, the parents are lost, the parents are still playing house. Children mimic what they see, so it's okay for your daughter to be shacked up with some man who isn't her husband, it's okay for your son to be playing house with some woman or out in the streets all night and day. No it's not. I know every one wants to be turned up but I'm going to need you all to turn down for minute. I love myself so much more than I did years ago, my soul has joy, I see great things in the future and that's only because I'm going to work towards them, but God has something greater! I can feel it. For God says "eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." Love God and trust him, I can't promise all flowers and lollipops, but I can promise that he will mold you into the beautiful person you are meant to be and you'll look back and say I was WAY more than I thought. Be blessed my brothers and sisters. May the peace of God be with you.