Label Me.

 Labels - a piece of paper, card, or other material attached to an object to identify it or give instructions or details concerning its ownership, use, nature, destination, etc; tag

    We are programmed to stand up against "labels"

To be our own person, to live to a standard of life style that we want. 

But what if what we want, leads to regret and hurt.

In trying to get what we want, we lose our self respect.

We cast out labels and cast out our self worth. 

What about perfecting ourselves?

And perfecting ourselves for the king of kings?

My other,  is the greatest label one could ever know.

I’m a one God Apostolic tongue-talking holy-roller
Born again, heaven bound, believer in the liberated power of Jesus name
I’ve been washed in the blood, sanctified by the spirit.  

My Identity? My instructions? 

Acts 2:38

My ownership?

Jesus. 

My destination?

Heaven

"The Outside informs the world, what is on the inside" - Pastor LaFave.

I am who I am, because Jesus paid it all. I owe my all to him, everything. Tonight my Pastor taught on a lesson, he taught about "perfecting holiness", not perfect holiness, but perfecting it. He said that holiness is the one thing that we don't ever want to lose, and as long as our church stands, so will holiness. I couldn't agree more with the words being spoken from our pulpit. I felt challenged, to remember that our churches have been growing with the truth everyday, NOT conforming to the world, not creating a "seeker friendly" church in his words. The idea, of changing how we witness, how we connect with people, to have more seats filled in our churches is devastating. But the truth sticks, and where things stick, people stay. I pray that we don't become discouraged because other churches, seem to be bigger, or that they seem to have more "saints". Because the truth sticks, and the truth stays.

Our churches have staying power, our preachers have staying power. 

Our doctrine has staying power.

So today, claim the victory.

Scream with everything you are "I am victorious" 

Because, you are.

Keep Calm.

There are so many ways these days to "keep calm"

Praying on.

Open Doors.

Sometimes, when there may be arguments, disagreements or even tension. 
I leave my door open, so that maybe people won't see it as intimating, open door, open hearts.
I am not even talking about a crack though, I LEAVE it WIDE open. I have a small room too, so you can definitely see everything. I'm not hiding. Just sitting in an open room, waiting for you. 

Through everything I always want to have an open door, open to discussion, chats, anything. 

But What to do when no one wants to come through your door?

They don't even want you in their door?

So you sit there with your door wide open, and realize that no one is even looking your way and if they are they are pretending not to see you. 

So what if we sit in open rooms with no doors?

Nothing.

What about if we stood in the middle of many rooms with no doors?

Nothing.

"Every Wall is a door" - Ralph Waldo

Take out.

I have an idea. See I live in "upstate" NY. I was watching a movie and they got city take out- and I have decided that I want to get "city" take out in an upstate world. 
Or more or less. I like food, so I'll get back to you on the take out world, recently it was nothing impressive cause, well it was nothing. 

Prayer.

Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things.  ~Samuel M. Shoemaker


I definitely most certainly don't always know the answers to things. 
Actually most of the time, I never know the answer. 
I have a difficult time making up my mind, I struggle with making decisions and sometimes I want prayer to do it all for me. 
Sometimes, I want prayer to SOLVE everything to fix relationships, problems and situations. 
I suspect for God to hear my urgent, tearful, regretful prayer, then rush to fix it. 


But what about fixing me? 
Maybe the reason I am where I am, is to fix something anything within me. 


The answer is, I have no idea what I am going to do with my life, and I have no clue where I am going to end up. Right now though, it's exactly where I want to be. Cause if you were me, you would want the same thing. 


Cause I am not ready to be me, without being all of me.