~Too Busy too Pray~

you must hear and understand what you are about to read. It is imperative that you comprehend, because by doing so you will gain a new appreciation about the need and privilege we have to pray to God.

~When you are sick and tired of being sick and tired, then you will learn to Pray and then you will hold this reading close and dear to you hearts and mind and one to stand in the gap!~

What you are about is a key to success and I believe the one of the most important keys to success you can own and share:

 Now what you are about to read does not mean that you are to be poor, have nothing and not have the best. As you read ask God to open your hearts and minds to understand what is being said here because I believe this writing is anointed by God.

No Angel was ever invited to share this high privilege. No archangel was ever invited into  the throne room of the universe. Only redeemed humanity has this privilege. And many of us are too busy to pray. why --- were are busy watching television, sports, hunting, fishing boating or engaging in business. we are so busy with care and pleasures of this wonderful life. Trying to keep up with trends in new cars, new homes, new appliances, new furniture, that we do not have time to pray.

We can describe a modern American as a person who drives a bank -finance car over a bond financed highway on credit card gas to open a charge account at a department store so he or she can fill their financed home with installment purchased furniture. May this not also be a description of many modern professing Christians? And may this not be one reason why Christians have so little time to pray?

Perhaps some may be thinking : Are we not to have anything ourselves?The answer is no. Christ is to be all and in all. You are not your own. You were bought with a price ( 1 Corinthians 6: 19-20). "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink or whatsoever ye do, do all in to the glory of God" (1 Corinthians 10:31).

If you can buy a new car, the new home, the new furniture, the new gadgets, hold down two jobs, and so on, for the glory of God ---well and good. But if we didn't have to have such a high standard of living would we not have more to pray? If we were not so drunk with travel, pleasure, vacations, and recreations, would we not have more time to pray?  If we were not so enamored of sports and entertainment, would we not have more time to pray?

Enamored: means captivated, charmed, or fascinated by someone or something.

We have more leisure than ever before---but less time to pray. We are not only cheating God and the world but we are cheating ourselves. By our failure to pray we are frustrating God's high purpose in the ages. We are robbing the world of God's best plan for it and we are limiting our rank in eternity.

Also, we are robbing our children, grand-children, the sick, the lame, the blind by not praying. Again, prayer is a privilege, an honor and our right to enter the throne of The Living God!
and the devil hates it when we pray because prayer thwarts his plans.

God said " I looked for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none". (Ezekiel 22:30).

Today is February 17. I sat in my chair, at my desk to work. The Spirit of God impressed me after I read the Word of God to Pray and Praise Him. My flesh was reluctant, but my spirit within was stronger. As I began to pray and praise God there came a sharp pain at my heart. The pain was painful and getting sharper but I would not stop praying and praising God.

While I continued praying and praising God I saw in my spirit this emblem ---). I do not know if I was about to experience a heart attack or not, but in my spirit I saw this as a spear --- and this as a shield ) which protected my heart from what could have been fatal. Finally the pain went away.  But what if I wasn't obedient  and refused to pray and praise God. Could this pain have been fatal? Was God protecting me from what could have happened. It was too easy to be obedient that disobedient. Pray and praise Him then not.

You may or may not believe me or you may or may not understand. But hear and understand this: DON'T cheat you, your family, friends, the sick, lame, and the blind from your praying from them. Prayer is our strongest weapon against the fiery darts of the devil. Prayer covers you, your children, grands, your home and all that you are associated and not associated with.

So ....... Pray without Ceasing!

I honestly welcome your feedback

~The Mind and Relationships~

All relationships began with eye contact or a feeling in the heart. From there our minds compute what our eyes have seen and proceed to make a decision on pursuing or not.

There is a relationship between the eye contacts we make and the perceptions that we create in our heads.

A relationship between the sound of another's voice and the emotions that we feel in our hearts, a relationship between our movements in space all around us and the magnetic pulls we can create between others and ourselves.

All of these things (and more) make up the magic of every ordinary day and if we are able to live in this magic, to feel and to dwell in it, we will find ourselves living with magic every day.

These are the white spaces in life, the spaces in between the written lines, the cracks in which the sunlight filters into. Some of us swim in the overflowing of the wine glass of life, we stand and blink our eyes in the sunlight reaching unseen places, we know where to find the white spaces, and we live in magic. 

Our minds can take us wherever we desire!

The mind is so creative. It is so imaginative. It can take you places where our bodies have never physically gone. It can send you into a space where no man or woman has ever gone before.

When the mind is at peace in a relationship and the heart agrees the sky is the limit with that person.

The mind can make you believe you are rich or think you into the poor house. It is the mind which help create the world around us. We can hide ourselves in our own private world, via our minds.

The mind as stated, “Is a terrible thing to waste” So, think positive.

Listen, our hearts set about finding other hearts the moment we are born, and between them, they weave nets so strong and tight that you end up bound forever in hopeless knots, even to the shadow of someone you knew and loved long ago, in your imaginary mind!

Love is beyond reason. Love is not measurable in words. Love cannot be partial; it cannot have owners. Love is essentially beyond definition or concept.

I hope this writing makes sense to you, if not, please let me know...

~These are my thoughts ... I welcome yours~

~A Key To Success~

Back in 1970, I was attending a Church revival where the preacher was speaking on success from God's point of view. As he began to talk I began to write. The preacher  began to give the definition of success from a biblical stand-point and I began to write like a thirsty Camel drinking water.

I memorized the definitions in 1973 because the definition caught my attention and got my mind and heart pumping for this knowledge.

 This is what I remember the definition of success is, as a believer in Christ:

• Success is having all that you need and the capacity to enjoy it.
• It is the ability to get God into action at the point of your needs.

There are so many stories in The Bible that prove the definitions above are truly God's will for each of us.

Now, if you and I can get God to move on our behalf at the point of our needs, then we are far more richer than Bill Gates or Warren Buffett could ever be. Why? Because The God who made Heaven and Earth, who knew you and I before we were ever conceived and protected us once we were conceived and growing inside our mother's womb is working on your (my) behalf and at the very point of our needs. That makes you and I very RICH.

Listen to this: This is the same God who took you and I out of our mother's womb; made us trust while on our mother's breasts. We were cast upon Him (God) from birth. From our mother's womb He has been our God and has never been far from us.

I just describe God to you. Please read it again, because He has our best interest at heart and you and I were destined to be successful. You must believe that. We were not created to for failure.

Tell that to your children, spouses, friends, to yourself, ETC.

Moving forward: This is what I believe about you; I believe that you are great, that there's something magnificent about you. Regardless of what has happened in your life, regardless of how young or how old you think you might be, the moment you begin to think properly there's something that is within you, there's power within you, that's greater than the world. This power will guide you, protect you, direct you, sustain your very existence, if you allow. Now, that's what I know for sure.

This something within you, you cannot always explain, but there is an inner drive that continues to draw and pull and push the greatness out of you.

That something is the very Spirit of The Living God, that we must learn to trust totally.

Along with that:

I advise you of this, stop sharing your dreams and goals with people who try to hold you back, even if they're your parents, siblings or so called friends. Note: Always make sure your friend is your friend.

If you are the kind of person who sense's there is something out there for you, beyond whatever it is you are expected to do - if you want to be Extra-ordinary  - you will not get there by hanging around a bunch of people who tell you, you're not extraordinary or this or that is out of your reach.  If you listen to them, you probably will become as ordinary as they expect you to be. 

Hang around positive people, people who encourages you, have your best interest at heart and is not afraid to speak truth to you whether you like it or not or want to hear it or not. Associate with people that speak health, wealth, positiveness, prosperity into your life. That will have your back and stand by you even when you are wrong, but never condone your wrong, yet will still encourage you to strive to do what is right.

Lastly, before success comes in any man's or woman's life, he or she is sure to meet with temporary obstacles and perhaps some failures. When obstacles or failures enters a man or a woman's life the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit.

Quitting is what many men and women do when obstacles, defeat or failures come their way. But remember, the darkest time of the day is just before daybreak. And, many times success comes one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken you. In other words, along with success comes perseverance and determination.  So, take the next step anyway.

This is the bottom line and its just this cut and dry ... Trust God, Trust God and continue to Trust God. Depend on Him in every situation. His Spirit, His Holy Spirit is that something within you, but only if you allow Him to enter into your hearts and take full control, as you surrender all of you!!!

True Success awaits you. This writing is not meant to sound good, interesting etc. It was written for you to take charge of your life, by surrendering to Him. After all, He sent His Son so that you and I can have true success while we are in life. This is true success.

Read The Book of Joshua chapter 1 verse 8.

~These are my thoughts ... I welcome yours~

*~Image~*

Why did I choose to write about images? Well, I was getting dressed one day and the mirror I was looking into didn't reflect the image I wanted to see. So I found another mirror.

I didn't stop changing mirrors until I found the mirror that reflected the image I wanted to see.

After that I sat and thought. I ask the question, what was I trying to accomplish? what did I want to see, or of a better question, what was I trying not to see.

I then decided to look up the word image: 1) A physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible. 2) An optical counterpart ...

After obtaining the meaning I focused on the second meaning ... An Optical counterpart.

I have surmised that although a mirror reflects my image, it does not depict who I truly am. Yet many people when you ask them who they are will reply by giving you their occupation. But, your occupation is not who you truly are.

Now back to our image: Our image can prove to be a great and detrimental enemy.  Or, it could be an asset, but only if the image I'm portraying is honest. Many of us hide behind our an image. We display what we want people to see, knowing quiet well that sometimes the image we are displaying is not who we truly are.

And yes, both men and women sometimes hide behind false images. The  enemy has only images and illusions. Behind which he or she can hides his or her true motives and self.

My question to you is this:

• Is the image you are seeing or portraying your true self?
• Do you think the image you are portraying make it difficult for you to live up to?
• Is your image your enemy?
• Is your image keeping you away from family, friends and finding true and honest love?
• Is the image you're seeing in the mirror the person you want to be, trying to be, need to be?
• Are you your biggest enemy?

The transparent  life is the life we should desire. The attitude should be, I know who I am and others know me. There is nothing hidden. We should be able to say ... I have come to know who I am as an individual and basically people get what they see in me.

Hiding your true self, pretending to be what you  are not can lead you to embarrassment. Don't let you become a farce.

Destroy the image that is not you and you will destroy at least one of your biggest enemies.

~These are my thoughts ... As always I welcome your thoughts~

~Life's Disappointments can end in Victory~

Life is filled with disappointments. Many of God's greatest servants experienced deep disappointment in their journeys of faithfulness to God. Joesph, after spending years as a slave and in jail for crimes he did not commit, revealed deep disappointment when he was forgotten another two (2) years in prison. John the Baptist, when waiting on his execution, doubted whether Jesus was, in fact, the Christ because he was sitting there waiting to be killed.

Elijah, losing all hope and despondent to the point of death, asked God to take his life in the desert; Peter, who left his fishing business and invested three (3) years of his life to watch his Savior crucified, wondered whether the purpose of those three (3) years were truly worth it.

Even you, when you lost love ones, including family and friends fell into despair. You have even got angry with God, could or refused to pray, even to the point of being afraid.

Despair: Cause of hopelessness ... Someone or something that makes somebody feel hopeless and exasperated.

When life doesn't add up, it leaves the heart heavy and sick. It can leave the body physically weak, loss of appetite, it can leave the mind confused or discombobulated, ETC.

When we have done all  that we know to do and the formula has not added up or worked, it leaves us questioning and doubting God. These are times that try the souls of men. There is no human sense to be made of it. We are left with a choice: to cling to God's unchanging hand or not to cling. There are times when holding on to Our Lord and Savior's robe is all that we can do.

It's all that He wants us to do. Read Mark chapter 5. Focus on  Mark 5:28 (KJV)

Here is a Poem:    
"The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not obtained by sudden flight;

But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

Standing on what too long we bore, With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern-unseen before-

A path to higher destinies"!

~Longfellow

Remember, following life's disappointments comes fear. Fear paralyzes the mind. Note that God did not give a spirit of fear, but of POWER, LOVE and a SOUND MIND! ... 2 Timothy 1:7 (KJV

There is only one (1) answer to life's disappointments. Like the Psalmist, we must "Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from Him. He alone is my rock and my Salvation; He alone is my fortress, I will not be shaken" Psalms 62:5 (KJV) and Psalms 62:6 (KJV).


If you do not understand what the poem is talking about, please write me and I will be happy to explain.

* The poem was copied and pasted.

~These are my thoughts, I welcome yours~

~Strength, Value and Beauty of a Woman~

I have lived long enough to understand this, yet men must not just understand what I'm about to say, but must be willing to except it and not be offended nor feel as though their manhood is in jeopardy.

A woman should be three things: 

• Who she is. 
• Who she wants to be.
• And, the woman and person God created her to be.

This is what I believe:

Women are very strong creatures created by God and are placed here to be a helpmate to man.  I believe they are beautiful, sensual, strong and courageous.

Yet, some men see them as the weaker sex and impose their physical strength  and dominance over them.

Sometimes, this dominance can create insecurities in women:

Some women are insecure of who they are because ignorant men have caused them to be this way. Women are treated as sex objects so often, until the weaker ones present themselves the way these men desire see them.

By doing so, they dress to flaunt this to hide that. They bleed because they are desperate to sell what men want. Desperate to be what they are not just to be loved and excepted by men.

 I believe that men are a great part of the problem when it comes to a woman's self-esteem. If a woman dress shabbily men will remember the dress; if a woman dress impeccably or sexy men will remember the woman. 

Man's fear can come true: 

Guys ... A woman will stay in love with you for as long as you can keep her in love with the person she becomes when she is with you.  Do you understand? 

When she is with you and you make her feel like she is everything to you; make her feel like a queen, make her feel that she is the most special being on this earth; when she's in your presence she feels exuberant, refreshed, happy, complete and you can make her smile with thoughts when you are no where close to her. When you can accomplish this, you will have her love for a very long time. This is part nature of a woman. 

My advice is this: Don't attempt to make her jealous of  other women, but rather make other women jealous of her!

I thank God for women. They know how to express there feelings, they can articulate their vulnerabilities. Their weakness is their strength, There ability to feel and to express their feeling are their characteristics.

To top that all off, they have to contend with a man's emotions, put up with a man's demands and desires, his attitude, help build him up when he shows weakness, fear and insecurities and they can still express love. 

What a great asset to man!!!

I sometimes wonder if a man can ever know the loneliness a woman knows. Especially when we fail to give her the respect she so truly deserves.

Women, don't compromise who you are. Yes, respect him. But, he must respect you as well, by allowing to be who you truly are. Why do I  say this?

Well, God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination can easily shake up positively or cripple the brain of any man! 

Women, use your God given strengths and intelligence without fear! Use rightly the tools God has equipped you with. 

Lastly ... I believe a woman will give any man she loves strong follow-ship, if he provides strong leadership!

~These are my thoughts ... I welcome yours~

~*In Life*~

Some say this life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Friends will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go.

The ones that stay with you through everything, which includes hard-times, sad times and even goods - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, brothers and sisters make the best friends in the world. 

This doesn't always mean biological (brothers and sisters). As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. But the one who truly loves you will always have your best interest at heart and will be around when family seem to disappear or become to busy with issues in their own lives.

Note: Because family gets busy dealing with their own issues and fail to visit or call, it doesn't mean they don't care and love you. It simply means they are dealing with their own issues at that moment in time. 

Listen... I hate to say this, but almost everyone you let in your life will bring disappointment at some point. Not all, but some. This includes friends and lovers. 

However, the one or ones that dearly love you will always make amends quick, fast and in a hurry. They will remain with you through whatever it is you are going through. With no selfish or hidden agenda. Simply out of love and concern for you. 

This interest may include a daily phone call or frequent visits. Some will silently pray for you. This is because, your best interest is in their heart and mind.

Keep your head up, confidence high and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there is so much to smile about!


Who are the people or person to have left a precious and loving memorable foot print on your heart and in your life? Hold on to them and never let them go.

These are my thoughts .. I welcome yours!