TAKE ME TO THE KING

I take care of my parents, pets, and try to nurture my Children to be all they can be for God, yet there is something that feels so restless inside.

I know that after all I have walked through....after all I have experienced...maybe there's not much to offer....but my heart aches to always be in the Presence of the one who delivered me.

After you have become intimate with the Lord you can never go back to things in the norm.  It is more and more of him you crave.  More of his glory.  More of his presence operating in and through you.

No matter what I have or ever will face.  I know where to run to ....when I am feeling alone, hurt, worn, rejected, down, empty, broken......all I can utter is...."Take me to the King"  ...he'll know what to do.  He knows just want I need and where to heal me.


Song- "Take me to the King by: Tamela Mann

  "TAKE ME TO THE KING"

Born with purpose and set aside,
yet pushed away, feeling forgotten,
closing my eyes praying this isn't a lie.
That life will reveal truth,
and purpose will go with me till I die.

I was called as a child so tender,
not yet defiled and abused
Not knowing I would one day need the heart mender
to help me not feel so confused.


I don't need a shrink, or profound words quoted to me,
They can't reach were it hurts, that deep part you can't see,

I don't need lectures on what I could have done,
or if I would only have differently begun.

You can't change me over night,
Make me into your perfect protege,
I am who God created and he doesn't make mistakes
When he created me he got it all right.

I'm not perfect never will be that image you have in your head,
I work more on the inside because I have been crippled, walk with a limp
I try to be the Proverbs Women and praying till the old me is dead.

God saw me in a heap of nothingness, laying in a pile,
So glad my God recycles what others throw out as no good
He'll go to the deepest depths to rescue you, he'll go that extra mile.

I'm not what I want to be,
not what I could be,
but I am where I am supposed to be.

So when you see me down, or struggling, or in a fight,
don't hesitate to take me to the King....
He's the one that will make me more than alright.

Written By: Char S. Allen

GRANDPA MILLER

Song - "Heaven was need a Hero" by: Jo Dee Messina

My Momma, Sister and I would go to see my Grandpa Miller at times.  He looked very German.  He had a rough, scary look on his face sometimes, lolo, but when he talked to me, he was a very kind Man.

Every time we went over there he would tell me to hold my dress out in front of me and he would dump change that he had in a tin glass, full.  It was like those old gold, green, and red tin cups.  It was always quite a bit of money for such a little girl.  It thrilled me to no end...lolol

He would take me to see my cousin, Peggy, her ducks and birds she had.  I loved the house she lived in.  It was absolutely beautiful.  

I never knew Grandpa in a deep relationship but always held high regards of him.  I could tell he really loved Momma.  We would sometimes take Grandpa to the store and such.  It was always good to spend time with him.  

He never talked much of his family.  I know he had brothers but there must have been a dispute or something because he didn't speak of the.  It was very sad because when never knew his family.

Momma said Grandpa would go pick cotton in Arkansas fields.  That he worked very hard.  He would make them really good taffy for a special time.  He would gather snow and put syrup on them for a treat too. lolol  He sounded very special. 

Grandpa Miller was the only Grandparent I can remember.  Momma's Momma, died when she was 7 years old.  Daddy's Dad died before I was born, and his Momma dies when I was only 2 years old.  So I don't have memories of them.  That is why my Uncles and Aunts were alot like Grandparents to me.  They were always special.

I'll never forget when Grandpa Miller took Momma, my Sister and myself to Disney World.  We had such a great time.  We ate at the Polynesian Restaurant.  It was great memories.  Grandpa bought me this glass flower.  I still have it to this day.  Dearly wish that I had had more time with him.  He died when I was 15 years old.  Just a time of thinking of family.  Miss ya Grandpa Miller.

Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding.

Song - "My Steps are Ordered" by: Fred Hammond

I am reading Proverbs now, and over and over it instructs us to get wisdom, knowledge and understanding. 
You can have book knowledge but not totally understand what you have read.  You can have book knowledge, and understand what you have read but not know how to apply it.  

Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding is a great gift of God.  He will open it up unto us when we pray and ask for it.  As we read his word it becomes more clear to us and how to apply it to our lives daily.


Knowledge is information or a fact, Understanding is what the Holy Spirit opens up to you, and Wisdom is what you do with the Knowledge and Understanding. It is how you apply it.


Wisdom-

The quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgment; the quality of being wise. The soundness of an action or decision with regard to the application of such experience, knowledge, and good judgment.

Knowledge-

Information and skills acquired through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject. What is known in a particular field or in total; facts and information.

Understanding-

The ability to understand something; comprehension

KEEP TRYING

Song - Don't Give Up by: Island Inspirational Allstars (Hezekiah, Karen Clark, Donald, Kirk & Family)


It is so easy to judge someone whose shoes you have not been in.  You can hear people saying "If that were me I'd....." or "Why don't they just....".  Looking from the outside of people's lives one can only assume what they should do.

If you have told me 5 years ago that I would struggle with Fibromyalgia, I wouldn't believe you.  I never would have dreamed that I would loose my job, car and walk through some of the darkest times of my life.  I  got to the point that walking was so hard for me.  It hurt, and I couldn't hardly move without extreme pain.  Things have gotten alot better and I am slowly little by little regaining health, but from the outside I know it looked so differently.

I remember sitting in Church and looking over at someone that was going through a divorce and thinking...that is so sad.  I felt bad for them but had no idea what they were walking through or felt.  It wasn't until I went through my divorce that I found out what it was all about.  The pain and brokenness I had never felt before.  

That is why when we see our brother and sister fall, down, hurt, sick, lonely....don't even bother to think you can judge or know what they are walking through.  Just love them, pray with them, encourage them.

It isn't about so much advice as it is knowing that people care that you are walking through it.  That they are there to help you keep getting back up.

Many times I wanted to hang my hat and call it a day, but God placed people in my life to keep whispering...."It's gonna get better, try again". 

I pray that everyone facing something difficult today, will be surrounded by the Holy Spirit and that God will send people to encourage you.  People to hold your arms up when you are tired and worn.  

THE POTTER'S HAND

Song - The Potter's Hand by: Darlene Zschech


"Woe to the one who quarrels with his Maker-- An earthenware vessel among the vessels of earth! Will the clay say to the potter, 'What are you doing?' Or the thing you are making say, 'He has no hands'? Isaiah 45:9

Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the LORD, who do their work in darkness and think, "Who sees us? Who will know?" You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, "He did not make me"? Can the pot say of the potter, "He knows nothing"?

Isaiah 29:15-16

“O Lord, You are our Father. We are the clay, You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand” (Isaiah 64:8) 

“Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you My message” (Jeremiah 18:2).

About Potters

Perhaps most famously are these words from the classic hymn, “Have Thine Own Way” which serves as a our message title....

Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!
Thou art the Potter, I am the clay.
Mold me and make me after Thy will,
While I am waiting, yielded and still.

Here are four truths concerning the Master Potter:

1) The Master Potter is always in control.
2) The Master Potter is “hands on” (genuine pottery products are not mass-produced).
3) The Master Potter takes time and changes His work a number of times in ways that can be mysterious to the observer as he works on the finished product. As living pottery, changes in our lives can be mysterious to us also!
4) The Master Potter has the ultimate good in mind for His work.

Song -Have Thine Own Way by:Pastor E.Dewey Smith Jr

LEARNING

Song - Use me Lord by:Jotta A

Tonight I guess if there is anything I want to share it is that, just when you think you have gained knowledge, you realize you have so much to learn.  I don't regret this insight.  For it will make me seek after more.

I am a strong believer in "Never stop Learning".  As long as there is breath in your lungs you have the ability to learn something new every day.  It is only when we cease to believe that we need to learn or have the ability to learn that we no longer can.

Everyone is unique, and have different ways of learning.  Some it is by hearing.  Others, like myself, I learn greatly with visuals.  Some it takes both.  Others hands on.  However you learn best, your heavenly Father knows that.  He will put you in situations that will try you to the core.  You will wonder why in the world you had to walk through it, but in the end you will see what God was trying to teach you.

I can't say I would walk through everything I have walked through again, but I will say this....it has molded me and made me the Woman I am today.  It made me wiser, stronger, more caring, more forgiving, and much more aware of who God is in my life.

I love to learn things.  I love Encyclopedia's and Biographies and things that deal with self help and such.  I love reading.  Because I have opened my heart to learn, God pours things in me.  He places the right books and information I need to face whatever is ahead of me.  It is best to not wait till the storm comes to prepare for it.  You need to do things in advance.  So if you are wanting to date.  Then read about marriage, and good christian counseling books.  Prepare yourself for what is ahead.

Even though I have gained much knowledge of life's trials and tests, there is yet so much that is not tapped into. I hunger for more.  I long to have the wisdom, knowledge and understanding to help point people in trouble in the right direction.  I can't fix anyone, but I know who can and I have learned ways to find the keys to ones solutions.  I am believing God to unveil that part of me, and use me to guide people.  I am checking into online classes for Christian Counseling and Pastoral Care.  This will be a big step but I know it is the direction I need to go in.

Whatever you faced.  Whatever you have gone through....often these are things God will use to be a ministry to help others.  So you do have skill.  If you have suffered the loss of a loved one, divorce, break up.  Then you know grieving.  If you have done drugs, porn, alcoholic, then you about addiction.

I challenge you to pray and then sit done and write the things you have walked through and learned about it.  You will be surprised at how God can use that part of you to help someone else who is or has gone through it.  If you need to, do more research on it.  Study and prepare yourself to help someone else.

REAPING WHAT YOU SOW

Galations 6:8

⁷Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

⁸For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

Song- The Harvest by: Anthony Brown & Maurette Brown-Clark

In this scripture God is saying that whatever you invest in, time, money, love, life, spiritual things, church....you'll get back in harvest.  

Most people use this scripture in talking about sin, but God isn't just talking about sin.  He is also talking about what you talk about, what you do, where you go.  Your every day life.  If you only talk carnal then they is what you will reap.  If you only deal in the natural and never invest in the spirit realm you will gain your earthly goods.  

So what God is saying...is to take time to pray, read his word, fast, worship him, love your neighbor, reach to people.  The greatest thing you can do for a great harvest is to love with God's love.

A farmer thinks, and plans what he wants to harvest.  He buys the seed and does what he needs to do to make it grow.  When it comes up, it is no surprise.

Just a farmer plans, daily when we get up, when need to plan, what do we want to sow in the future?  Because what we say and do, the attitudes, how we treat people, etc... will be planted.

When you look in the bible, the ones whose hearts sought after God, cried out for God, found favor and God answered them.

My prayer for all of us, is that we gain wisdom , knowledge and understanding.  That we take the time to think before we speak, we take the time to know where we want to plant and what we want to harvest.  Earthly things are ok, but they will fade and only God's word will stand.  Let's invest in God and his Kingdom.