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REKONÉSANS/GRATITUDE

Lè m égzaminé byin mw wè Bondyé mérité anpil louwanj ak glwa pou zantray li t réyusi jwenn é utilizé pou l t rivé minnin m nan lavi saa. C pa pou l ki t pònn mw tankou zé, ni c pa nan yon laboratwa yo t miksé pwodwi ki fòmé kò ak nanm mw. Bondyé ki mèt tout zantray é tout vant t rivé jwenn yonn pou anfanté m pou li. Li pat kité chalè anndan vant saa tuyé m anvan lè épitou nan pasaj mw pou m antré nan mond saa Séyè a épanyé m. Mw koubé byin ba devan majésté béni Bondyé a pou m bali glwa, onè, louwanj, remèsiman li sèl merité pou mwa saa ak jou sa yo li kité m wè nan vi mw. Séyè a pat kité ni vyann kòm ni zo kòm t fè ni soup ni bouyon anndan kay méchan yo. Lavi a gin anpil inpas ladann é pafwa padan nap pran kou anba obstak yo nou konn minm arivé pèdu. Gin anpil moun ki né min ki pa rivé koté m rivé a, soufrans lavi voyé yalé nan péyi san chapo avan lè sanzatann. Min mw minm Bondyé fè gras ak favè c pa pi bon mw pi bon ké tout lòt yo, c yon onè mw pa mérité. Pou tou sa Bondyé fè pou mw déja é pou sa lap kontinyé fè mw vlé di BONDYÉ MÈSI!!!

When I examine things carefully I realize God deserve many praise and worship for having finally found and used a womb to bring me into this life. It wasn’t a chicken that laid me like an egg, nor was it a laboratory that mixed the products that formed my body and soul. God who owns all womb and stomach had succeeded in finding one to birth me for Him. He didn’t let the heat inside that womb kill me before time and through the birth tunnel to this world He prevented harm. I humbly bow before God’s blessed majesty to give Him glory, honor, praise and thanksgiving that only He deserve for this month and these days He’s allowed me to see in my life. The Lord didn’t let neither the meat nor the bones on my body to be in the soup or stew in the wicked men’s house. Life has a lot of detours and often times when we’re going through these obstacle courses we could even get lost. Many who were born haven’t reached the point I’m at, life’s sufferings has sent them to the hatless country before time. But me whom God has shown grace and favor, it’s not because I’m better than them but it’s an undeserved honor. For all that God has done for me already and continue to do, I want to say THANK YOU GOD!!!

Written 02-08-2021

MBM-Tine Brice

THE GREAT AWAKENING

No matter how worthless, unworthy you think you are, before God you must believe that Jesus blood sacrifice at the cross was also for the salvation of your wretched soul. And even if all your efforts have proven vain throughout your life and you’re still struggling to do right by God in Jesus, you owe it to yourself to believe that even on your death bed a second before your last breath you might do one thing right before God to change your course of destination into God’s glory. It’s possible your whole life hardship has been about helping you to understand and to take seriously the sacrifice Jesus gifted all humanity in laying down His life. But for you to understand fully and completely you had to have gone through such bitter heart-wrenching life moments and these turmoils brought you to humility in God. Yours has become a genuine relationship that cannot be shaken or compromised by evil desires. Don’t you understand? You’ve been selected, seen and discovered God’s HAND in each and every obstacle, hunger, temptation, anger, injustice, false judgment, threat, inferiority, deception, abuse and harm done against you; yet you live still. What other power could’ve kept you sane and thriving still if not for God’s loving grace and mercy? He has His plan accomplishing over your life so look to His Word for direction over your life! God loves you and think so highly of you that He would give you such an important task at life and living! As this season comes to a close and blooms a new leaf, may your efforts in Christ never be in vain. May you always have spiritual eyes to see, understand and agree with God’s will for your progress. May God’s Holy awakening and awareness find you and lift you to new heights as now it’s time!

Written in 01-18-2021

MBM-Tine Brice

ACKNOWLEDGE

One of the far-fetched or set-up phrases often heard is “witchcraft can’t do anything to you,” or “if you don’t believe in it then it can’t harm you,” or another, “that’s all fake.” Fake or not, believe it or not, whether it can do something to you or not, you should know how to arm yourself against the wiles of the evil one. (There’s nothing wrong with being informed).
You might think a knife is no threat to you but in the hand of your worst enemy or a robber it can end your life! Putting a cute little dress on slavery and calling it integration does that stop it or change its course? The wind though unseen can cause extreme catastrophic damage during a storm. You never know when your house is going to be a target of attack but you arm yourself with weapon, alarm and guard dog. You never know when sickness will befall you yet you have health insurance to tend to your health issues. You know there might never be a flood in your neighborhood but still you make sure your home insurance covers flooding for those rare possibilities. How then do you not arm yourself for the rare possibilities of witchcraft, voodoo, wiccans, santería, brujería, wangoma, abominations of this world? (Ephesians 6:10-18)
A serious relationship with my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ that begins with accepting Him into your heart, receiving His gift of salvation for your life and making Jesus your life role model; doing your utmost best to live as He did, constantly repenting along the way because in the flesh we err, that’s the only absolute way! Even if you didn’t believe in the rain, when it comes down would it skip you in respect to your wishes or would you still get drenched in the rain? Whether you believe God exist or not, that doesn’t stop His existence, omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence and at your point of need He still shows up for you who believe Him not! Whether you believe Jesus can heal or not there are times when your belief gets an override for your life to be saved or just so your soul won’t go to waste. (That is God’s grace and favor). Whether you believe there’s a heaven and hell or not, the fact still remains that when your heart stops, the blood flow through your vein ceases, when you close your eyes in this world for the last time, you will meet your maker and a judgment will be pronounced based on how you lived. (Ecclesiastes 12:14) It’s your ignorance that keeps you in the guessing game so that evil can have its way with you in the end because to not choose a side is to choose evil. (Luke 11:23)
Whether you did the act or not in this world if all the evidence points to you and you’re found guilty by the court, you serve the time. When you’re the child of the King of kings, your affairs are not tended to the same way as in the secular world. The seal of the blood of Jesus marks your every possession, that includes you! Be clothed in God’s righteousness because He holds you dear as the apple of His eye! Isaiah 61:10-11
Psalm 17:8-9, Zachariah 2:8
Being the apple of God’s eye, think not He would throw His own to wolves, savage beasts or mockers. You Dear, have worth in His eyes! He would give Egypt in ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place Isaiah 43:3. If He considers you of such worth shouldn’t you at the very least turn to Him who would have mercy on your soul? He’s God of all the ages and holds in the palm of His hand the heart of men both wicked and not. He controls the circumstances, the seas obey His every command. He can handle anything you lay before Him, so surrender it all to God through Jesus for you won’t be put to shame! If even the wicked person’s life God respect, would He not pity yours? Ezekiel 33:11-12
To believe is to be aware, accept as true but to be ignorant is to lack knowledge of the obvious. To repudiate the obvious on the other hand is to refuse to acknowledge, validate or associate. At times sadly, we find that those who refuse to acknowledge a truth that exists is often the source of the problem or the carrier that transfuses the load. When you choose to arm yourself with Godly armors you’re telling the devil that you refuse to become his advocate, you’re taking a stand and won’t be his agent, ambassador or instrument. Once you’ve received Jesus’ transfused blood through salvation that connects you to the Father and you’re now one with Royalty and heir to the throne, evil has no hold on you providing you keep your focus with constant repentance. Because as I’ve said before while in the envelope of the flesh you will err but it’s of utmost importance to ask forgiveness to God then to fall into place. Soldiers shouldn’t dawdle. Linger no more Dear one. Suit up, show up, guard post for you to be found there at last! Remain in God’s word while guarding post for you should be well equipped with time.
MBM-Tine Brice

Wangoma-combined word of wanga which refers to majic/voodoo works in Creole and the african sangoma which refers to a person  that provides such service.

POTHOLE LESSON

I fell in a pothole, it felt so natural that I could’ve just stayed there. I didn’t get hurt, that was the tricky part. It was on the grass, that was another trick. It was raining real hard and there was flooding everywhere so to prevent swimming to get out of my predicament I went walking through the train tracks to get to public transportation. One minute I was above the earth walking and the next, I had one whole leg swallowed inside the earth. Get this though, it was not muddy inside the pothole. It had been raining for over an hour and cars had to drive super slow in parking lot to prevent damaging their cars and to find escape. I thought I was at an advantage the cars didn’t have, from this rain I won’t develop a rust. My organs are well protected and beyond rain reach, I thought. Although I tied a plastic bag to each shoe to keep them dry as I battled fierce weather to get to the bus stop as the umbrella wasn’t enough; before even falling in the pothole, before leaving the parking lot, less than half a mile away from the starting point my shoes had already been drenched in rain water from flood crossing. The bag around the shoes no longer had purpose but I kept it on for two more hours as I traveled to get home to dryness. I tied the bag again, an attempt to keep my shoes dry still though it’s been sloshing already thinking there might be more puddles, floodings or the likes ahead. My mind kept going back to the pothole all the while, how something so dangerous that could’ve caused damage to ankle, knee, leg, hip to me felt so comfortable. I need no one to remind me this, someone caught me as I went down and it was the Divine hand of God! When battling arthritis, rheumatism and such, falling in a pothole is a major deal. I can’t overlook it. What could’ve been a bigger issue got smoothed over because He who watches Israel neither slumber nor sleeps. Through faith God caught me! He’s there at each smart or foolish decision we make to help, support, deliver and carry us. I finally took off the plastic bag when I was close to reaching my destination because the weather had cleared completely. I looked foolish to the people on the bus with plastic bags up to my knees but none of that phased me because they haven’t been where I’ve been, haven’t gone through what I have, and no one questioned me openly so I had no reason to explain. I just kept doing my thing, focusing on my situation to complete my journey. I overlooked the glares, the facial expressions, the smirks, the insinuations, appearance disapprovals, and just focused! Often times in life we lose focus due to these distractions and end in wasting precious time. If it’s not informative, life threatening, ordered, commanded, or imposed don’t stop on your journey to achieving success. Accomplish your goal first then if you must, review what got your curiosity! The pothole wasn’t the only curious happening but it sure left an impact as it represents many obstacles in life that could hinder someone’s path to greatness. Take note and apply it well at better living. Your journey is happening, make it count for others as well as for you!
MBM-Tine Brice