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I wanted to first reach out to you all in gratitude for the many encouraging and uplifting comments. You all don't know how much a "hello" or "thinking of you" means to me. Especially with the major warfare that I have been facing for the last few months since I have stepped out of faith with the music ministry...
With that said... I am led to go on a sabbatical/consecration for a while. I only ask that you pray for me while I seek the strength, direction and wisdom of God in this time.....
God bless you...
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View the event details.
8/3/2008, 6:00 pm, The Church of the Redeemed of the Lord
Come on at CRL as we celebrate our 4th Annual International Day. The International Day event was organized 4 years ago to celebrate the different nationalities and cultures within our ministry and around Baltimore. Come and join us as we experience music, dance, the preached word and even FOOD from 14 different cultures that are represented in CRL. God blessed me to be able to open up for the Katina’s.... singing some original material.... it will bless your socks off... The great thing about this event is that whatever culture you are from, you can wear attire that represents that culture. It will be an experience of a lifetime!!
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For the past few weeks I have been really meditating on the previous message that spoke about cleaning your room/your temple. Now I pose a question to all of you who have ever found themselves in a circle of broken relationships, fellowships, etc... What's in your room? to those who have found themselves swimming in the same season of bitterness and depression, what's in your room? The first thing you have to do is to be real with God and yourself about you... it's funny because we often try to hide stuff from God when He already is aware of it.... think about it!!
So let's be completely unclothed before Him in prayer.... What's in your room? I know that you can't share everything, but confession is good for the soul. I believe that this website was not only formed to introduce churches to the internet community, but so we can be helpers to one another.... no one will judge... no one will condemn.... but we will pray...
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If I have learned anything about having a dirty room I learned that once it begins to get cleaned, it reveals the truth about it... you not only see the nice floors and the beautiful furniture, but you see the tarnish on them. God let me know that I was guilty of cleaning my room half way...
I remember when I was young. Every other Saturday, my mom used to tell us to clean our rooms really good before we can do anything else. We couldn't go outside neither play with our toys unless we cleaned our rooms. Because we were excited about going outside to play we would cut-corners. We would pile all of the clothes into the closet, push all of the trash and such under the bed, then we used to use straigthen the bed so the sheet can hang down to the floor so you couldn't see what was under the bed. We did this for a long time until one day, my mom wondered how we got the room so clean after it was a total wreck. I remember seeing her moving the bed; revealing all of the trash, the shoes, the dirty clothes that was hidden. Then she took a broom and sweep everything to the center of the floor. We stood there (4 of us) so disappointed because she found us out. Then she ended up opening the closet only to get attacked by falling stinky, dirty clothes, toys and whatever else we could fit into the closet...lol.
God let me know that this is exactly how I treated Him. I would constantly ask for promotions and rewards and even more of Him, when my room or my temple was "hiding" the dirt. It doesn't matter if no one outside the walls of my house knew what dirt I was trying to hide, but I couldn't keep it from God. So God began to take my peace (which signifies the moving of the bed). I couldn't sleep, I couldn't eat, my mind was everywhere. I couldn't get committed to one task, but I would run around everywhere and to everyone trying to find peace in even doing good deeds and through good intentions without having any regard for "God's instructions..."
6But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. Isaiah 64:6
Because of my disobedience and not completely yielding to His will, my good that I have done didn't account for anything. The closet (our prayer closet) gets filled with old and new things. The old things are those old sins; those things that we hold onto that God instructed us to let go. The unfrogiveness of people and self, the bitterness, the hatred and the anger that we hold in our hearts. Filthy... clean on the outside but dirty on the inside.... and just like mixing dirty clothes with clean clothes makes the clean clothes dirty, so have we in regard to others. We have allowed those things that we hold to contaminate our new friendships and new relationships with people who don't have anything to do with the past. I really wish that I could back to those ones that I really loved. One person in particular who lived far, but felt so near everytime we spoke. I shared "some" hurts and shared "some pains and revealed all of my imperfections to them. I took away the innocense when I wasn't true.... and took away the pureness because of my own insecurities.... How many of us feel this way? I had to be honest with myself and reveal 'everything" that was in my room....my temple...in my house, to a God that already knew but wanted me to freely share it with Him. Through all of the baggage, bondage, weights, sin, etc... it posed one question and I say to you.... Have you really told Him everything? Have you really emptied yourself of everything to Him? Have you really given it all to Him? In my consecration unto Him, and the time He has me set apart, even from myself... I ask myself these questions, and then I tell Him...
I started off saying." Lord, there is too much inside of me to tell it all..." but He tells me to start from the beginning...
There has to be another part to this.... cause I don't feel that this is it.....
7And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. 8But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. 9Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people...Isaiah 64:7-8
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