Detox Your Destiny

Just a quick blog..... I had a interesting night tonight. It was one of those moments where you realize that your steps have to be ordered by the lord and you can not allow people who are not headed in the direction of destiny in which you are headed to distract you. The bible says it like this "Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go." (Proverbs 22:24).

Don't allow people who don't apprecite the things God has placed in you to drain you of your goals and dreams. Have you ever heard the statment "misery loves company?" Some people are so miserable that they want you to be miserable to. It is toxic to have these people around. No matter what you do they are never satisfied.

Detox the people out of your life that will not celebrate what God is doing in and through you.

The Church & Money

I was talking with a family member earlier today and decided to write a blog on the issue of church and money. This is going to be very short, but I have always wondered about this topic.

Because I am a gospel artist I get to see and hear alot of the behind the scenes on booking artist and booking churches for events (concerts, weddings, etc.) One thing I have noticed is that many churches have an issue with you charging people to come into a concert or event and they have a problem with you selling your merchandise, etc. Have you ever heard this statement "You ain't suppose to be selling stuff or charging to get in God's house." The question I have is why can't you sell merch or charge people to come into a concert or event, but the church can charge you to have it there? Is it that the church can charge, but you can't? Is it that you can't sell your merch, but they can sell (for a few hours) their sanctuary, fellowship hall, family life center, etc? Is that the same thing? Not only that, but it seems that the price to rent these grand cathedrals are getting higher and higher. We have even arrived at charging people "sowing seeds" for healing, financial blessings, miracles, etc. However, as an artist, I have heard this statment a million times "We really want you all to come to our event. Now... you know we can't pay you, but God is gonna bless you all for helping us." What???????????

I'm not saying if its wrong or right (YET). What do you think? What has been your experience?

Talented and Tormented

There are thousands of people still talking about the most prominant subject of Whitney Houston's death. It was sudden and unexpected. Many people called her voice the sound track of her life. The word sound in the greek is ehos where we get the english word echo. An echo is a sound of the past. What sound track are you listening to? What sound track was Whitney living or listening to that would make her unhappy and abuse prescription drugs as Amy Winehouse, Michael Jackson, or Don Coneilious with suicide?

We might not admit it but most people are either homicidal or suicidal at one point or another in their life. There is rage, anger, pain, hurt, and confusion. Her music blessed millions of people. She blessed the world. What was so painful that it could send to her prescription drugs. They found sleeping pills which means she wanted to sleep as did Michael Jackson. What was she trying to escape? Millions of people struggle to sleep and struggle to be awake because they are alarmed. YOu can be rich, famous, glamorous, talented, anointed and still be tormented.

What do you do when you are that gifted? She had a divine charge and authenticity about her life and her voice. She sang with such confidence and yet with so much reverance. But there is a human side. What was Michael Jackson thinking? What was the sound track of his life? What was Don thinking when he drew a gun on himself? It's that homicide and suicide thing that always lerks in the shadows of our lives. Some people express it in different ways-eating to much sugar, sodium, acholism, drug addiction. We all have to watch what is guiding us. What are you hearing. Faith cometh by hearing. Look at the word addiciton...something is DICtating to you what to do. You believe in what you hear. Paul said it best. He said that because he had been given this divine revelation or this special giftedness, he was given a throne in his flesh. A messenger from satan. Not the two horn satan, but negative emotions that says you can't be comfortable or live without excessive eating or sleeping pills. If you belive that you are less than what God says you are, it will manifest. Weather atheletes, musicians, entertainers, dancers, politians, preachers (anointed in the pulpit, but annoyed with there life)most gifted people battle between their divinity and the humanity.

The next time your humanity tries to challenge your divinity (who God called you to be) listen to that small voice inside of you. It will tell you what you what God thinks of you. Read Jeremiah 29:11. God knew you before you came here and developed these attitudes about yourself. Why are you here? God put you here for a reason.

Clark Kent A.K.A. Superman

Clark Kent is a fictional character that serves as the civilian and secret identity of the superhero Superman. He was seen mostly as a disguise for Superman, enabling him to mix with ordinary people. In the earliest Superman comics, Clark Kent's primary purpose was to fulfill the perceived dramatic requirement that a costumed superhero cannot remain on full duty all the time. Clark thus acted as little more than a front for Superman's activities. Although his name and history were taken from his early life with his adoptive Earth parents, everything about Clark was staged for the benefit of his alternate identity.

I know you may be wondering "where is he coming from?" Well, here it is. Jesus A.K. A. Elijah, A.K.A. Karen, A.K.A. Tommy, A.K.A. Benny, A.K.A. YOU went to the cross so that he could vacariously live through us. In other words, he went in the booth under your name so that you could walk in the world and fulfill your assigment in liberty. He died as Clark Kent so we could walk out as Superman. And just like Superman had power, God has given you power: Power to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy (luke 10:19), power to get wealth (Dueteronomy 8:18), power to be a witness (Acts 1:8). You get it????

We don't belong to this world. We are not from here. Jesus "the real Superman" is living on the inside of us to acomplish through us His will and purpose. When the enemy looks at you he doesn't see you because you died over two thousand years ago. He sees Jesus and that's why he attacks. He's not hitting you first, he's hitting you back. His main goal is to make sure you never find out who you really are.

If you wonder why so many people "hate on you", run your name in the ground, or laugh at your small beginnings, it's because they see what you can't see...FAVOR. God's favor is on you and the power you hold scares them.

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