Holy Spirit Confession Moment Series: Introduction


Disclaimer: 

This confession moment is purposed and packaged a little differently than previous Confession Moments.  Consequently, I will not be maintaining a 15 Words or Less limit approach.   While this post is more of a therapeutic writing, it is a public declaration of some truths that bore light today in my life.   Currently, there are seven HSCM segments planned.  This is the introduction.  In addition, this series will be heavily slanted to who I am in Christ, my teachings, and understanding of the Way.

In addition, there was a Confession Moment posted earlier this week, which you may have noticed received a name change.  Upon further investigation, I needed to shift the atmosphere in line with the characteristics of God.  Specifically,

1 John 1:5 – This, in essence, is the message we heard from Christ and are passing on to you: God is light, pure light; there’s not a trace of darkness in him. Gal 5:22 – But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, (MSG)

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Now, please allow me an extra moment to set the atmosphere, for what is to follow.

I call forth every spiritual being, every spirit of confliction, every deceiver, every adversary power, and constrictor of God’s Word out of the shadows.  I bind you in Heaven and in Earth from further interception, collusion, disruption, or otherwise violation of the covenant relationship I have with the Trinity.  So there is no confusion, the Trinity, herein, refers to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. I bind you in Heaven and in Earth from affecting the messenger, changing the message, or distracting the reader.  So it is written, so it will be.

Having properly set the atmosphere, please find the introduction to my new series HSCM below.

Somewhere earlier in the week, a few weeks back, I noticed a loud whirling and humming sound coming from my vehicle.   I took my car in for regular scheduled maintenance, most of it several months and in one case years past due.  I had strategically mapped out the experience.  An oil change, car wash, tire rotation, and one pre-ordered emblem later I was feeling rather content with my day.  I had requested a timing belt quote, which for some reason I left without. Productivity was still the name of the day.  I felt great.

The next day held similar promises of productivity or so I believed at the start of the day.  Stay with me, I’m writing faster than I can think and slower than I type.  I learned the emblem replacement in actuality required more steps than previously outline.   An hour later, the advisor informed me it would need a shop visit.  I was not inclined to follow his estimation of the issue, nor the five times the part quote for labor price tag.  Still seeking a success fix. I moved to the next item on my list.  Again, I left more frustrated than fulfilled.  I am just now discerning there was a spirit of degradation to the communication channel in the midst.

I paused, but not for long. Normally, in these moments, I stop and talk to the Great I Am.  This day was no different.  Afterwards, I went on with my day leaving behind the heaviness in the air.  Yet, it continued to plague me.  I played music and communed with nature as much as the moment would allow.  Descending upon my car the next morning, armed with my mini pink screwdriver and trusty tool pouch, I was prepared to conquer something that day.  Thirty minutes later, the front end of my car on the ground, my emblem rested in place and secure.  I praised him silently and perhaps publicity.  I honestly cannot remember.  I was grateful for the ‘breakthrough’.  Although small in comparison to what was to come, it was indeed a ‘breakthrough’.

The next morning the whirling sounds seem to intensify.  Hood popped, eyes focused, I surveyed the area.  Power steering and master cylinder both registered full.   Mental note to self, follow-up with mechanic about the timing belt quote.

Fast forward, today, while silent, the Holy Spirit urged me to check underneath the hood again.  Alert, the power steering fluid was in a condition of lack.  Pause.  Still pausing… this is not a preaching moment, but a therapeutic moment.  But, I see a word in what I just wrote.   A quick beeline to my local auto store and my car is now purring.  I promised a little happy dance that eventually moved into the upper room.

I have offered more than necessary, because I am still working this thing out as I write it out.  

Here’s what I know in this moment with the warning, this is all subjected to change with a more enlightened perspective:

1)      Sometimes, it is what it is.  However, there are times where, it is what we allow.

2)      The Spirit of Dominion

3)      Trust your helper.  If you are feeling uneasy, unusually tired or otherwise afflicted.  Investigate.

4)      The move of God brings out the enemy of God, but God is a way maker!

5)      There is a spirit of cloaking in operation, pay extra attention to your words, thoughts, actions, environment, and overall being. (Re-verification is not a weakness, but a decree!)

6)      Even is praise you must push through to discovery. Strike that, especially in praise you must push through to discovery.

7)      What is purposed for you is purposed for you.  Distractions and the length of time cannot remove the purpose.  Hallelujah! (This is a personal victory moment!)

Today, these revelations came into being.  It is essential to and for me, that I declare and decree purpose fulfilled in all things, at all times, and in every way.   Stay tuned for more on this series.   As I dissect them individually, I will bring my thoughts here.  For me, this is truly an exercise of reflective thinking.   

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Day 40 – Bernie Harris, Walks Above and Beyond


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Sometimes you must forego public opinion to achieve the improbable.

 

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Day 39 – Enforcement Act Repealment of 1894


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Having a voice and being afraid to use it.  

Invalidates the right to the platform.

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Day 38 – Chris Rock (1965): Warning Signs


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Take it as a warning sign if you can no longer offend me.

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Confession Moment #2: I Object Your Honor, I Need a Side Bar.


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Your honor, I request new council.  

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My attorney and I have irreconcilable difference.

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Daily Post’s Weekly Writing Challenge Submission (A Short: Karen’s Victorious Journey)


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The original short story has been removed. I decided to publish it through Amazon’s KDP and Amazon does not allow simultaneous digital publishing.
You can find the Amazon Kindle version here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B015S6NZ2U

Based on a work entitled Emptiness (Image only by Cheri Lucas Rowlands) found at http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/02/03/inspiration-images-1000-words/.

Day 37 – Bob Marley (1945 – 1981) Free Your Mind


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Don’t Think You Are Victorious. Know You Are. Now, show it!

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Day 36 – W. Johnson, Black Inventor (1884) and a Baker’s Best Friend


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Visionaries are the solutions to life’s ubiquitous dilemmas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Day 35 – Rosa Parks (1913 – 2005): How to Create Your Legacy.


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Love Deeply. Give Freely.  Walk Meekly. And, Inspire Sweetly.

You are  creating a legacy!

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Day 34 – Confession Moment: Some Days I Feel Like Morpheus


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Take the blue pill and free your mind.

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Drink the Kool-Aid and forget this conversation.

 

 

 

 

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Can Someone Tell My Daughter Who God Is Please.


Resolve: Can Someone Tell My Daughter Who God is, please?

I am charged with always being ready to offer a defense for my hope. Never has that been so prevalent than today. Yesterday, while scrolling through the Freshly Pressed section half way down the page this blog from W.T.F (Words, Thoughts. Feelings) appeared. It was somewhere after 12:30 am and I confess I was exhausted. I left the blog up and went to bed. All throughout the night, whispers came and went until I had no choice, but to arise and give a defense for my hope.

What follows is my response to the question.

I preface every word I write here with a little background about who I am today.

For me, it is important to recognize that my influences, experiences, and subsequent worldview both in my writings and life are intricately predicated on my version of who God is for me. I offer this preface as a way to way and test any theories, statements, beliefs, notions, or spiritual truths that follow here. They are my truths, and I am comfortable enough in them to acknowledge while in some ways they do exist in others, they cannot and should not be an overlay for everyone.

Throughout the course of my life I have used many names to describe who God is, because the God of my experiences during the formative years did not resemble the God displayed every Sunday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday at my childhood church. Yet, this is where my first memory of who God could be originated.

In search of evidence, I would leave the church for almost ten years looking for God, the Higher Power, the Supreme Being, Mother Earth, you name it. I sought to learn more about this then elusive God from other religions and/or belief systems, such as, Islam, Buddhism, and Wiccan. This is not a collective bibliography; it is offered to show the lengths taken to solidify God’s reputation with my reality. I offer this forward not as proof of who God is, but as background falter on who I am, which directly correlates to my relationship with God presently.

Through many trials and tribulations most of which carried a death sentence, had it not been for God, I would come to reconcile the God of ethos to the God of consciousness. Although, my attendance at church wanes at times, I do have a church home. It was here, I began to learn more about having an intimate and personal relationship with God, under direction of the Holy Spirit. It was here, for the first time in twenty something years, I was asked to test everything I knew or attributed to the Great I AM. It was here, God for the first time in a long time became both flesh and spirit. It was here, elusive imagery became substantive knowledge. There are those in my life during this time that saw a transformation I had unknowingly been seeking. To be truthful, I fought against such a transformation. Yet, I was no longer the same and uniquely still very much the same person from 20 years earlier. It was here above all else God became tangible to me.

To some my journey may sound crazy or even a little heretical at times. So be it.

I have learned my faith in God is based on my testing of God. Case in point, when I finally began to see God in church, it was a Wednesday night bible study session. At some point, the instructor almost caused me to fall out of my chair with these words, “Don’t believe me, don’t believe the pastor, read for yourself and test God’s faithfulness”. I confess, there were a lot of characteristics I held towards God at that time and faith was indeed one of them. However, not the blinding and unwavering faith present for most career Christians. So I began reading and searching scripture in a mnemonic way. Asking questions and then opening the Bible to an indiscriminately page. There would be an answer uniquely relevant to where I was in the universe at that time. After a while, I wanted to see if this ‘faith anomaly’ held real merit for application in my life. I began asking normative questions others would ask their friends or these days the GPS system on their phone.

A particular question from this time comes to mind.

I was headed to-night school from work one evening and wanted Taco Bueno. Now, consciously I could not figure out where there was a Taco Bueno in the area, I knew were Taco Bell was, but that’s not what I wanted. So, I posed the question, “God, you say I can ask you anything large or small and you will answer. I yield to your direction. Where can I find a Taco Bueno?Seriously, I was craving a B.O.B! I turned off the music, and listened. Instinctively, I began driving and made several turns all of them leading me away from school. For a good twenty minutes, I drove making a circle ending up close to where I started the trip. At times I had moments of doubts about posing such a question and following such otherwise intangible directions. Exiting a freeway, there was a Taco Bueno on the right-hand side. That was one of the best B.O.Bs of my life.

I make a concerted effort to speak and write from a universal worldview and often succeed in this attempt. However, I am a believer in Christ and a follower of The Way, as such; please charge any grossly scripture undertones or rhetoric supposition to my evolving worldview and not to the spirit of my heart.

Now, having laid the foundation about why you should even entertain my response to, Can someone tell my daughter who God is please? I offer the following commentary.

The short answer, God is indeed love which is not always reflected in the people we see or in the environment we live. Yet, above all else your version of God is directly related to your experience with God. Anyone can speak on the true character of God, but only you can speak on who God is in your life. I might even add an anecdotal statement, such as, “God knew you before you were in the womb, and he saw it was good. God is greater than the eye can see and bigger than the mind can comprehend. God is infinitely equipped to help you through every situation or circumstance presented to you. But above all else, God will forever be your reflection of self”.

The long answer, that’s an excellent question,”let’s find out together”.

T.Dawn, with your permission I would like to share this to my blog as it tracks well with delving deeper into reflective thinking. Thanks for the opportunity to share.

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“Momma, who is God?”.  

My daughter asked me that question last summer. I am still trying to figure out how to answer her.

I didn’t grow up going to church. I say that with no hard or jaded feelings about the fact. I feel like I heard a lot about God, having grown up in middle Georgia. However, the conversation always felt more like “someone” that other people knew. I never met him.

Like my daughter is starting to now, I saw a lot of gray matter in the way people, especially the ones that made it a point to remind you how often they went to church, presented themselves and the way they authentically were when around like minded people.

Hypocrisy was something I couldn’t name back then but I felt it every time I heard a self proclaimed Christian person use the N word. Sort of today’s version of “No I don’t think you’re going to hell because you’re…

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Day 33 – Today in Black History Eric Holder Became the 1st Confirmed United States Attorney General


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“Let’s deal with reality.”

It is contingent upon someone else’s perspective.

 

 

 

 

 

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Day 32 – Change Comes Through Adversity


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My story of adversity is uniquely designed

to strengthen my resolve.

 

 

 

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