WHEN ‘FEVER’ VISITS YOU

  Hi folks,

When fever visits you, take some time out to deal with it.  Fever is always present due to something going on in the body!  That would be my discovery  this past week.  I drove hundreds of miles ill, was hospitalized and found out about a non visible illness that may have helped to bring on a fever as high as mine.

Would I have checked on the little ‘signs’ with my busy life?  Did I?  No – I kept going,  BUSY!!!  But when fever is high enough or pain is strong enough we stop and sometimes we find we have waited too long and now the situation is complex; now hospitalized.

So when fever visits at the level of at least 100 df on a constant or recurring basis, that’s enough to call your doctor’s office to inquire  of him on what you should do. I am not a doctor nor nurse but that’s what I will do for me – going forward – because this time the temperature was well over that!

Friends, you are empowered to act!

PROJECTS & MANAGEMENT

I juggle a lot of projects at once.  I do not get paid for everything I do, but I do everything as if I am being paid.  It is a major challenge at times because I work with deadlines.  I have a greater job to find to pay off the mounting student loans (for sure!).  I have a 501C3 to complete.  I have my freelance/dba clients to take care of… yeah, and then there’s that dissertation I need to complete – yeah, that’s a big deal. 

I am active in church and so glad right now, I am an Overseer and not a Director!  I was an extremely busy Director for about 11 years, so I breathe a little easier these days.  I do need to keep up with my interpreting for the deaf because I am moderately active there.  I praise God for the privilege of ministry and preparation to do well takes time.

With all that I do, I still have a job and a family and do need to take time out for me.  I love living and not just surviving, but in the leaner times I make the best out of surviving.  I need that extra time to locate that job that will pay me what I am worth.  Who knows, it could be right in my current building. Who knows but God.  I hold to his unchanging hand.

When projects multiply in our lives, we must learn time management.  Sometimes we must teach it to ourselves.  Take time to do well that which you do and remember that All things will work together for you and that you can do all things through Christ for He’ll give you the strength.

THE BUSY-NESS OF LIFE

Are we really enjoying life? We are so set in routine with people counting on us at every twist and turn. We tend to run ourselves weary in a single day without a period of mediation; without stooping to whiff a fragrance from a nearby bloom; without daring to jump off the wheel to experience something new or exciting. Life is by far to be lived rather than just survived! What are your thoughts?

Success!

4/15/10 – I spoke with a group of ladies in transitional housing and caused them to envision themselves better within the next 12 months.  I had them to reach back, find the pain or the mountain that seemed to high and release it and then move into forward thinking.

The women were quiet but they started to come alive after about 10 minutes.  The begin volunteering on our interactive portions of the seminar and had heart-felt  information to share.  I was so elated that the ladies were receiving what I had brought for them.  Our focus was GETTING A GRIP by letting go of the past and looking toward the future.  

We had a mixed cultural group and women ranging from 29 to 58.  I didn’t ask their ages but used my discernment.
Feedback  from the ladies  included:  “She is genuine and believes in her message.”  The same person said “great reminder of whom I know I can and will be.”   Another attendee said “made me think a little more about the future.”  A third attend wrote “positive motivator.”  Thank God the ladies received!

I talked to them about their scars and bruises and how they needed to free themselves.  I talked about forgiveness and how this and pains of our past can hold us back.  The conversation was flavored with faith and focused on getting ‘the right now’ right in order to embrace the tangibility of their visions of success they have for their future.

We got in touch with the little girl in us and emerged with the self-esteem of the women ready to conquer the challenges in front of us to reach the destiny prepared for each of  us.  

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FIRE STRIFE AND ENJOY LIFE

Today’s thought: Challenge your thoughts to be noble, true
and just. Accept that God has once again given you a sound
mind! 2 Tim 1:7 helps us to think Godly. Consult the word.
Don’t strive with negative thinking…. bathe in the positive
thought and enjoy life!

Women struggling with ‘Being Whole’

Best Advice: Seek God on this and ask him to take
away the inferiority you feel to others. Bad advice may
have put you in that place; or abuse, physical or emotional.
But your issue is not too big for God. Be Strong and trust Him.

Single Woman! Single Ministries! This one’s for you!!!

It is not what you are called, it is what YOU answer to!

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Can a Pastor be Biased?

     We are all the same kind – humankind!  Just as pastors struggle with smoking addictions, eating addictions, sexual addictions, surely they struggle with other human frailties.  In an effort to love God with all of one’s heart, some pastors never have any of that named among them.  God forbid, idolatry (hard to prove sin) but so is unforgiveness. 

    I believe pastors struggle with what the congregation struggles with – maybe not as long, but unless one can devote hours to prayer and meditation on God and His word, a ‘door’ is liable to be left open where the devil can get a foothold.  If we feel a struggle or a tug of war, we have some options:

     First and foremost:  Pray and ask God to make you immune to the spirit to lash out or retaliate.

     Second, there is a choice of do I stay or remove myself.  Your church is assuredly not the 
     only church that is preaching and teaching truth.  However, if you believe God led you there, you  
     should tough it out until you believe God has reassigned you.  You do not want to be ‘tricked’ into  
     jumping out of God’s will, right?

     So to answer the intial question, Can a pastor be biased?  Based upon my experience with church
pastors, my answer is Absolutely!  What’s yours?

TAKING THE CITY by Kenneth H. B. Adderley

THE ELDER

 

The author says “don’t die without fulfilling your life’s assignment,” (Adderley, 2008).    

We must rise up and take our cities; be passionate about doing so - God has entrusted them to us.    

We must understand our cities and boundaries and be watchmen over them.    

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 New Orleans,  5 .m., wish you could come!!! FREE EVENT!

LEADERSHIP

Great leaders inspire others to do their best and to be
their best. Remember to leave the emotions out of the
leadership decisions.