Saturday, November 24, 2012

Children

Be careful who you allow around your children. Children are like clean pieces of paper; everything that touches them leaves a mark. Children absorb information through feeling. The Bible says, "Train up a child." When you look at a train, you see tracks. Children have to kept on track. A wrong relationship will derail your child. You have to make sure people hold the same ideas that you hold for your children.

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Hope Against Hope

We all have dreams that are given to us from God. God has put in you everything to make your dreams come true. "Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world" (1 John 4:4).  You have to believe in the dream even when it is against hope. You have to believe in the dream when the winds are displaying the contrary.  You have to believe in the dream when it is confusing to believe. There are some things that God has spoken prophetically that you have to believe when it is not easy to believe. Your only reality is that which is spoken.  When you are weak in faith, you will consider and affirm that materiality is reality. When you are weak in faith, you will consider your circumstances and affirm those circumstances as facts and allow those facts to be your reality. Abraham did not consider his own body and become weak in faith.  The  Bible says here, "Who  being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about a hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb" (Romans 4:19). After Abraham had heard the word of God spoken to him, he did not consider that he could be a failure. It was not even a thought in his imagination.  He considered not his own body, nor did he consider Sarah's.  Sometimes you have to look at the people around you and you have to stop considering them. Who are you siding with? Abraham did not consider. Weak faith is always siding with "otherness" (something or someone other than God). You have to make a decision not to side with weak people.


                                                                                 Prophetess Joyce