FOCUSED

With the holiday seasons fast approaching it is very easy for us to lose our focus on  those things that are of grave importance.  Truly it is a great pleasure to have fellowship with relatives  and friends whom we have not seen for months, but the important things of life should not be placed on the back burner.  Too often we sacrifice what is important and needed for a moment's pleasure.  Year after year thousands of people over spend during Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. This year I ask you to do something different. I also ask of you to challenge yourself to stay within your budget.  

Losing focus is something that happens so easily that without any indication we've been caught in all of the activities that have been going on around us.  We don't realize that we've over spent until it happened and the same applies to time spent having fun.  Too often during the months of November and December of each year thousands of people over exert themselves and are extremely exhausted after the holidays.  

I would like for us all to truly remember the essence of Thanksgiving and Christmas. Remember please, if you dare, the reasons why these holidays were enacted and enforce them accordingly.  I highly doubt that Thanksgiving was all about what we practice nowadays.  Many don't have a heart of gratitude although donations are given to the less fortunate. Too many of us are not wise stewards with our time, finances and energy.  Let us sincerely give thanks this Thanksgiving holiday and during our gatherings tell our family and friends why we are grateful for them being a part of our world. Let us do our best to stay FOCUSED. 

Tanya E. Munroe
Apostolic Teacher
Word Alive Ministries Intl.

Practice Being You

 I think it is a very good idea for us to forget who we are and allow ourselves to live as we were created to be.  Many of us know that we are living our lives terribly below the  required spiritual standard.  This knowledge too often is shoved to the back of our minds because the crowd demands of us to blend in.

For many of us it is a challenge to blend in with the crowd and the new thing that is happening in the world around us.  It is a challenge because we know better and when we fail to live accordingly we choose to  live our lives beneath the required spiritual standard.  Blending in is a discomfort and if you refuse to become who you know you should be, you have decided also to live an unhappy life.

How many people would want to maintain their relationship with you if your mask was taken off?  Would you be more loved or would they run away because the real you is not a person of their interest?  We need to get to that mental and emotional place in our lives whereby who we should be is what matters most and not what people expect of us and  who they want us to be.

We would never be able to please everyone, this is just impossible.  However what you and me can do is be true to ourselves and start living our lives as we know we should.  If you were wearing a mask I dare you to take it off and from this day onward start being true to yourself.  Learn yourself, become comfortable with who you are and allow people to learn the real you.  Acknowledge the spiritual convictions in your soul and seek peace with God.  You have yourself to live with for the rest of your life. It is time for you to make yourself happy and satisfy your soul by meeting its spiritual requirements.

THE CYCLE

We as God's children have the power to put a complete end to whatever vicious, demonic cycle that exist in our lives. The kingdom of darkness has no legal rights to invade our world once we've become Believers and walk in obedience to God's word. It does not matter what our parents, grand parents or forefathers did, we are a new creation in Christ and all the curses have been defeated. A vicious, demonic cycle can ONLY reoccur in our lives upon you and I giving the kingdom of darkness permission by us opening the door through our compromise with sin. Cycles are different from seasons and it is imperative that you know the difference. Cycles represents curses; the Israelites walked in a forty years cycle in the wilderness. Seasons are signs of times and shifts in our lives. Don't entertain a cycle believing that it is a season in your life. Know the difference between the two, for one is detrimental while the other is beneficial.

ALONE

If we focus on how society views  being alone we would esteem it as a problem. Many view being alone as being unloved, not special or insignificant and such is so far from the truth.  Your visions were received while you were alone.   Some of our deepest thoughts about life occurred while we were alone.  You and I were able to examine our lives and place a value upon ourselves while we were alone. Being alone does not mean that you are not loved. Sometimes being alone is because the individual is unable to love and appreciate you for the wonderful person you are. Rather than devaluing your life, causing emotional and mental havoc in your world, you were left alone to permit someone else to love, maintain, support and appreciate you.

Moses was alone before he became the deliverer for God's people. John the Baptist was alone in the wilderness and Jesus said that we could not find a greater prophet. Rosa Parks was alone when she stood against prejudice and racism and Martin Luther King was alone when he stood against the Catholic church.  The best visions, reformations and spiritual leaders were not birth as twins or triplets; they were born alone.  There is a special and significant reason for you being alone at this stage in your life.  I want you to know that it is not because you don't matter or because no body loves you; God is ensuring that the right people at the appointed time enter your world and become a part of your life.  

Have you ever purchased a gift for someone special? You did your best to find that specific gift that would convey to the recipient how you feel about him/her.  You also did your best to keep the gift as a secret until the appointed time.  This is exactly what God is doing in your life. He is preparing you as a gift for that special person and while so doing, He is keeping you as His secret  until the appointed time. There is a person who needs your friendship, there is a person who needs your advice, there is someone who really needs your love and devotion and there is also someone who need your skills to help solve a problem.  God is preparing you as His special gift to meet the needs so many and this is why you are alone. You are being prepared to be that SPECIAL PERSON for so many. Enjoy your alone time and allow patience to have her perfect work in you. You will be complete and wanting nothing. Love, friendship, marriage, church family and so much more awaits the completion of your alone time.  You are not alone after all because you are in the Potter's hands being prepared to be embraced by so many people who are waiting to encounter, receive, appreciate and love you. ALONE is good and also positive.

Spiritual Warfare

WRECKAGE

Are you one of those persons who come as one willing to help, willing to love and willing to befriend someone with selfish motives?  These types of relationships are formed daily and such have left the lives of so many in an emotional and mental mess.  Selfish is the last thought that such a person will have about himself/herself.  Hey...they helped in some sort of way so they are of the persuasion that the offended should be grateful.  

Too often people attached themselves to others and do more harm than good.  So many lives have been wrecked by false friends, rebound relationships whereby people have used others just to overcome their former mate and some get jobs just to get out of a financial rut.  This attitude is selfish in the utmost meaning of the word.  The person who became attached to their relationship with you now have to struggle with filling the void after you've left. The company that thought it had hired help now find themselves back to the drawing board seeking a suitable employee. During this time their  work is delayed and backed up; you having quit because you got what you came for - extra funds. Your selfish conduct has caused a set back in the company. Sadly for the person who was used by you because you wanted to emotionally overcome someone else whom you were involved with...shame on you.  WRECKAGE

While it appears to be very mean to forewarn someone about you, it is very difficult not to because forewarning is not an attempt to defame your character but rather to protect the potential victim. Many people just move on from one relationship to another wrecking lives. Many people move on from on job to another causing set backs in companies. There are numerous of people who have absolutely no idea of the meaning of friendship; these are the worse type of people to ever let into your world. They will wreck your life mentally and emotionally and thereafter wonder what is your problem.  Some of you know exactly what I am talking about. You be like, "Get it over it!"

King Solomon advised that we guard our hearts with all diligence for from it flow the issues of life. Carelessly we have permitted that person with a friendly smile or willingness to help to cause more harm than good in our lives and more set backs than progress.  Are you guilty of being one of those persons who wreck lives, move on and act as if it was no BIG deal?  How many broken relationships have you had, severed friendships and jobs you quit?  Upon examining your life what have you discovered about yourself?  Are you guilty of wrecking the lives of many?  WRECKAGE... lives that have been paralyzed by deceitful, selfish people whose thoughts does not exceed their personal gain, praise or comfort. Who are you and must someone BEWARE?

DEFINE YOURSELF

Whenever the female is sexually active, she is permitting the male to inject whatever he is into her.  The females emotions, thoughts and direction are subject to change thereafter.  This is why so much emphasis in the bible is placed on the female being chaste.  It prevents the male from having to struggle with whatever was injected into the female by her previous mate/mates. Whenever we as females compromise ourselves sexually we are agreeing to allow the male to rob us of our self worth and dignity.

Most definitely the adult female is at the legal age to be sexually involved, but many are  not wise enough to abstain.  It is important for you to come to the complete understanding that as a female you carry whatever the male injects into you. In relation to sex, your legal age of maturity is insignificant.  Life is not about living it in age stages but in wisdom and understanding  your purpose.  Recall the reason why the female was created.  She is the male’s helpmate.  Her purpose is not freedom to roam.  Where are you mentally?  Are you still emotionally immature?  Having sex in the absence of  marriage does not make you a woman or an adult it makes you a fornicator.  Having sex with a married man does not make you  a better wife than his spouse, it makes you an adulterer and a seductress.  

An excerpt from Definition By Character (Copyright by Pro Type) Available at http://www.amazon.com/Definition-Character-Tanya-Garland-Munroe-ebook/dp/B00R0PNHD0/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1431738768&sr=1-7&keywords=Definition+By+Character