BLESSING OF GRACE Though His Word says we receive grace upon grace (John1:16), still I pray you don’t exhaust that grace to the point of ending your journey with spiritual drought or famine in the soul! May God revive in you all good fruits that had died. May He restore your former self to a greater version of what had been. May God shock even you in the restoration, transformation, of the received instruction of His correction. Where fields of weed had scattered may God tilt that soil of your being and sow seeds of spiritual growth for His purpose to overtake your life. May all the i’s be dotted, the t’s crossed in the story of your life. May all commas, semicolons, colons, hyphens, and periods serve as but a continuation of God’s blessing story in your bloodline. May you be bombarded with God’s utter blessedness when you look back, left, right, front and forward. May your eyes always be focusing on Jesus as your heart cling to the meditation of His Word. May you be awaken to God’s promises over your life, decree, declare, accept, receive and put to use All that God give to Glorify Him ALONE. May every setback that comes your way become a stepping stool lifting you higher, closer to greater promotion of blessings and may God always keep you in perfect peace as you toil to reach greater dimensions in Him. May God meet you at your point of need even in things you forgot to pray on. May your desire to please God always be greater than your yearning to dwell in sin. May God’s cloud pillar be over your household, family and generations present and to come in the day and the fire pillar your guide by night. May God show you Him in your obedience to draw nearer to Him and in wanting to cling to Him more. If I, (a mere human) yearn to bestow these blessings upon you, imagine how much more grandeur God’s desire to bless you must be! Use your remaining grace wisely! In the end, I’d like us all to hear “WELL DONE OH FAITHFUL SERVANT.” 07-23-2023 MBM
THE QUESTIONS I asked God a question, “God, why do you love me when everyone seem to despise me?” The answer came like a flash before I could close my thoughts mouth! “Because, you’re mine, and you’re created in my image and resemblance! To hate you would mean I hate myself!” Then I was directed to John 15:18-19, “if the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as it’s own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.” We all know God could never hate Himself or people, He only hates the things that people do that are against His will!
Have you ever been so vulnerable that you feel like everyone hates you? I mean, it’s not true; not everyone, but still you feel it because the enemy is working overtime to destroy you, because God’s grace overshadows your life and evil’s reign of terror isn’t over! He comes to kill, steal, and destroy. The more you draw closer to God, the more the evil one despises, hates, and is enraged at you because your efforts threaten him, reminding him of the loss that can never be regained. So, any chance he gets, he’ll infiltrate through any vacant heart lot to get to your very last nerve, even to the point of provoking you to turn against self! Because one person’s trial is different from another’s, when encountering such persons, pray for them if you can. If you can’t, let God handle them without adding false judgment on their pile because you don’t know their story that causes things to result to such a state. But your sincere prayer may bring things to light for you both. In doing this, you show God and self that you’re big enough to show grace toward others as He’s done for you. That’s actually living what you have been taught like a good student, while remembering your battle is NOT against flesh and bones as yourself but against principalities. Often, we may run into people that makes us feel like they’re walking principalities stuffed within a being, our focus of attack must never be against that person but against the evil that seems to possess, empower, control to use them. That, in fact, is also showing that you have history with walking with God, have received instructions for such situations, and you’re bold enough to put such learned skills into effect. Doing this with an understanding that, at one point you also was on the other side of that spectrum and God allowed someone to take patience with you until you matured and received enough of His Grace to overcome. That is actually sowing forward from what you received as a good student who learned well. Yes! Not everyone hates or despises you. You only have one enemy dear child, brother, sister in the Faith, that enemy is lucifer, satan, the devil, the ancient beast, the very first to corrupt God’s Eden, and dares to attempt to ransack God’s creation, creatures, children at every opportunity given or not! And so, your question to yourself should be, Am I living daily in the way of God’s word? Am I doing what God expects of me? Do I remain suited with God’s armors to withstand the enemy’s wiles? Am I projecting God’s image and likeness even when I’m sick, angry, sad, disappointed, or indifferent? How Godly am I today as opposed to yesterday? That is only some of the questions that one should ask of self to refine one’s relationship with God in such a fast growing cold and corrupt world. With these goods at heart, one can only project God’s loving goodness outward. For Jesus soon comes, and His word says, “…if it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?” (1 Peter 4:18)! Because “…from the days of John the Baptist until now the Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force” (Matthew11:12). If we must show violence in any form, it should be the fierceness in battle when going through spiritual warfare, being aggressive when fighting against evil in order to reach God’s ordained destination over our lives. This is part of the “hot” that God’s word speaks of in Revelation 3:16. To prevent God from spitting you out, it’s in your soul’s favor to have a spirit that’s heated or passionate on doing Godly good, it adds emphasis on the fear of God that resides within you. Because time is at hand, and we’ve been living the last minutes of that last hour before Jesus returns to take home His own. For those who battle until the end and achieve victory, Jesus will give the right to sit with Him on His throne as God did for Him, (Revelation 3:21). So my dear brethren, let us fight the good battle with focus on the crown of glory that is reserved for the faithful; when we will finally hear, “Well done, oh faithful setvant!” After all your toiling, wouldn’t you like to hear that welcome at journey’s end? 05-11-2023 MBM
Success is birthed where the intent or desire to act begins. Therefore it is imperative that the following actions are good. For it will matter to the affairs of the soul once conscience awakens. Beloved sons and daughters of the One Faith, One God, One Spirit unified; be informed that as sanctified souls you present a threat to and is highly feared by the prince of darkness. Why? Because your grace is the object of his envy and your sanctification blurs his vision, hence causing hindrance to his constant plot to deploy and defeat. So as devoted, struggling sanctified servants of God, infallible in His spiritual stature, irreproachable before God and man, you beloved are feared! Carry and cherish that thought throughout life’s journey but having the fear of God within first and foremost!
I can finally think of and remember one good thing that I did that I’m suffering as a result of it until now and it’s been years since it happened. Once while riding the bus more than twenty years ago, I overheard a conversation that filled me with a revelation. I guess you could say I was edified through a word or a phrase from the conversation. The lady was speaking with another about something she did, has done, will do or such but what I received from that was VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL AND HALLELUIAH NIGHT FOR THE KIDS DEPARTMENT. I went to church and shared my vision with another teacher in the kids department and we just ran with that vision to put it into fruition.
(You see, in God’s house you must be vision focused else you miss out on a big blessing coming your way). (God’s church/people cannot, should not agree to remain visionless. We ought to strive to become and remain visionaries for the purpose of God’s great commission because Jesus soon comes to collect His own! Ready we must be). I’m not sure we were well accepted for having had and put into action such a vision, but we surely were tested. Here’s why I said that! There was no one there to open doors for us when it was time to meet. We would wait a long time or hours patiently. No one considered that walking over an hour to go meet and over an hour again to go home might be tiring even to us. On our way to meet with kids that had gathered waiting we would get attacked by dogs roaming the streets and tell each other of our hardships upon meet with bitter tears then move onward. (You see, sometimes if you must cry, do so then afterwards move on with the task at hand for God to see though it hurts you’re trying). Parents who finally decided to send their kids to VBS didn’t comply fully with all aspects hence we had no funding to feed the lunch promised and we were unemployed. One single parent was consistent in providing the financial requirements at that time and through her we could meet all needs. (Until today, she hasn’t a clue just how God used her to feed our multitude so to speak. I feel she’s truly blessed and that God loves her. Never look down on others for you never know whom God will use to come to your aide). It felt like every eyes were on us watching to see if it was really God that was moving through us to do these deeds. We never complained but we made do with what God had provided being thankful for what came! We gave our all making each meeting as fun, productive and biblically purposeful as we possibly could. The kids seem to have enjoyed each meeting. Because we believed these revelations came from God we gave it our all with no complaints though we had ample reason to complain, pout, throw tantrums and give up. VBS was a complete success, God blessed it by honoring us with a few saved souls. Then came Halleluiah Night when we gathered to Honor God for bringing us thus far and closed it by eating together. Had we not obey, who’s to say what would have become of these few souls that came to Christ? Many of these kids found their voices in Christ during those times! (Never let anyone stifle your voice in God)! When God gives you a vision don’t question your situation in it! As you take a leap of faith after praying and knowing it is truly God leading just remain focused on the purpose! Be purpose driven always for God. No one said the road would be easy but let me tell you, it will always be worth the journey and your reward is not of men but God! Years later when God sent a vision to the man of God, God also told him to put Martine in that vision for it will flourish, I heard! …And when God send you someone after long awaiting, for God’s sake learn how to hold on to that person. It’s not about the person seriously but about what God has implanted within that person for your benefit. Some people are blessing carry-ers. They have the blessings to deliver to its owner but you must position yourself always to receive, hold and keep that blessing to expand it. A blessing at its best stage gives off a domino effect. Knowing this, check your blessing and work on expanding it!
Whose report do you believe? You should believe the report of the Lord! Do you have a God-given vision? What are you waiting for? Jesus soon come, get busy!
I never expected to reach this point in my life. It’s not because I minimized God’s might or power but simply because I didn’t deem myself worthy of getting this far. Although I never really knew God’s complete plan for my life, I’ve tried my best to not offend Him more than I’ve done in the past. But how many of you know that the more you try to prevent certain big things, the more other smaller things creep up on you? So here I am today, amazed of God’s grace, mercy and compassion towards me. If someone were to ask me, “what great accomplishments have you achieved?” I would scratch my head and begin to list about how I’m saved, I’ve mothered and fathered my sons, I teach adults with developmental disabilities (a very stressful environment that I need to survive). I probably would remember that I’m a poet, writer, song-writer, a prayer warrior but you know listing all these doesn’t begin to scratch any surface that would seem enough to me! I’m sure I’m blessed than most but the truth must be told. In my life, I do not feel like I’ve accomplished a grand thing worth mentioning to anyone. Honestly, I think I’ve lived a less than average life and would settle for an even lesser if given the opportunity. By that I mean if I was given a choice to live quietly in a remote corner of the world without too much socializing except for my kids I would gladly jump at that offer. I seem to have had enough socializing thrown at me for over a lifetime already and come this day and age I would prefer to reject politely anything supporting the likes of such and go by my business! That almost sound selfish and even as though I’m bitter. Maybe I am both selfish and bitter, maybe living in such an environment would allow me to do some soul searching to fix self before merging back with society or before moving on to an eternity with God. Maybe the outcome would be a best seller once I’ve done counted my blessings over and over again! Who knows? Miracles happen everyday and all my accomplishments so far have been nothing short of constant miracles overload! That is not average. It’s just that God uses ordinary people and being common can make a person think the happenings are usual too but it’s not! Either way, being true to self works best and I feel I need to look forward to the best that is yet to come. By Faith I call it to follow, walk with, cling to and abide with me because I’m indeed blessed above the rest! MBM-Tine Brice
List of people who hate to see you progress are: him, them and you!
Yes, sadly you’re on that list too! As long as you’re in the flesh you’ll forever be a threat to self. Once clothed in righteousness, led by the Holy Spirit you will have succeeded in eliminating that possibility of self destruction providing that you remain at that level with the fear of God within until you’re called home!
them-As long as they continue to be envious of your every achievement, they remain a threat to your growth. Whether they’re of blood relation or not, no one’s envy toward another should be taken lightly. Be mindful always that your prayer can bring people to their knees before God because even the wicked man’s heart is in the palm of God’s hands.
him-Since the beginning of time he has persecuted God’s people. Your potential is his threat, your possibility his envy, your steadfastness his defeat! Rebuke the devil at every given chance! Remind him of his future when he reminds you of your past!
Know your worth, stand your ground! You’re the child of the Most High God, Heir to the Throne! Royal blood is in your vein, your DNA is HOLINESS drawn! Stump on the ancient serpent’s head and crush all satanic endeavors like God has anointed you to! Command your inner self to abide by God’s plan for you! You got this! Jesus will NEVER fail you!
Martine Brice 