“This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success”
Raised on the farm, George Washington-Carver began to create his own medicines and had been known as the “Plant Doctor”. George Washington Carver, in his early life, had fallen in love with Mother Nature. Growing up he received an excellent high school education and made many attempts to apply to a lot of University’s. He was accepted to Simpson College in Iowa. He was more interested in science and agriculture, so he transferred to what is now, Iowa State University. In 1894, he distinguished himself in school, and upon graduation received an offer to work at the University. Carver was the first colored man to graduate as an honor student. Later on in the years, Carver discovered 325 different ways to use peanuts in everything from cooking oil to printers’ ink. He later discovered 300 products that were made from the Lowly Plant. With many developments and products, George Washington Carver continued to work with peanuts, sweet potatoes and pecans. Because of George Washington Carver’s inventions and discoveries, peanuts became a 200 million dollar industry and a major product in Alabama. He was honored, praised, and loved for all of his accomplishments. Carver inspired many with his quote, “Where there is no vision, there is no hope.”
Happy Saturday to all of my readers and viewers of World In Focus International Ministries. (WIFIMinistries)… Today as we continue on this wonderful 40 day journey of prayer and our Lenten Season with Dr. Jamal Bryant and the Empowerment Temple Church family… So far, this experience has been great and just keeps on getting better and better everyday.
This is a very easy subject to tackle on today being that my mom has sold real estate for of 30+ years, and my sister Shirley has done home and commercial loans forever. Being that my family is well off into Real Estate and loans, this terminology has been apart of my life since I was around 10 -years-old. I hear a lot these days how the market has changed, so I have enclosed some updated information for anyone who may be interested in owning their own home or refinancing their home mortgage or commercial loan.
My Sister Shirley is an expert in this field, and would probably be more than happy to talk to you about all of your home / commercial mortage needs. She is well qualified and was the President of a major banking corporation for many of years before she branched into full commercial and home loans as a private consultant with Clarion Mortgage Company…
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I will be participating in the “40 Days of Lent” Intercessory Prayer Guide with my (Empowerment Temple) online church family.. I do believe that it’s going to be phenomenal, and lives are going to be changed by Easter Sunday… I invite you to journey with me and WIFI ministries as we join our Empowerment Temple Church family that I attend all of their online anointed church services including bible study on Tuesday nights… I invite all of my World in Focus subscribers, visitors and friends to participate in the life changes prayer experience… I’m certain that you will be blessed… I have enclosed the schedule we will be following starting today…
DATE: PRAYER ITEM:
February 22, 2012 Sacrifice
February 23, 2012 Sanctification
February 24, 2012 Success
February 25, 2012 Strength
February 26, 2012 Society
February 27, 2012 Economy
February 28, 2012 Environment/ Ecology
February 29, 2012 Evangelism
March 1, 2012 Enlightenment
March 2, 2012 Entertainment Industry (Movies, TV)
March 3, 2012 Integrity
March 4, 2012 Ideas
March 5, 2012 Anointing
March 6, 2012 Opportunity
March 7, 2012 Election
March 8, 2012 HIV/AIDS
March 9, 2012 Entrepreneurship
March 10, 2012 Home ownership (Mortgages)
March 11, 2012 Marriages
March 12, 2012 Ministry (Find your ministry)
March 13, 2012 Medical Issues
March 14, 2012 Mental Health
March 15, 2012 Armed Services (Active & Reserve)
March 16, 2012 Mentorship (God send someone to mentor you vice versa)
March 17, 2012 Middle East (Israel, Syria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Yemen)
March 18, 2012 Motivation
March 19, 2012 Miracles
March 20, 2012 Children
March 21, 2012 Challenges
March 22, 2012 Churches (All houses of Worship that lift up Name of God)
March 23, 2012 Pastors (Leaders in Ministry)
March 24, 2012 Charities (Red Cross, World Vision, UNICEF, Cancer Society etc)
March 25, 2012 Influence
March 26, 2012 Individuals (Pray specifically for 3 people outside of yourself)
March 27, 2012 Encouragement (Pray against spirit of discouragement, depression, stress)
March 28, 2012 Order (No Confusion, Chaos
March 29, 2012 Incarcerated
March 30, 2012 Pray against Injustice
March 31, 2012 Employment (Find Jobs)
April 1, 2012 Forgiveness (Forgive others and God will forgive you)
April 2, 2012 Education (Teachers, Students, Charter Schools, HBCUs)
April 3, 2012 Intervention (Resolve family, financial, and personal issues)
April 4, 2012 Salvation (People to get saved)
April 5, 2012 Discipline
April 6, 2012 Maturity
April 7, 2012 Closure
April 8, 2012 New BeginningsPrinciple of Lent:
Lent is a special sacred season of separation/consecration between Ash Wednesday
and Easter Sunday (this year Feb 22 – April 8). The 40 days of Lent are symbolic and
strategically significant in the Bible. The number 40 is used by God to represent a period
of testing, trial, probation, or judgment and ends with a period of restoration, revival
or renewal. The rain in Noah’s day fell for 40 days and 40 nights, Moses was on the
mountain 40 days and 40 nights, the spies searched Canaan for 40 days, the Israelites
wandered 40 years, Elijah ate one meal for 40 days, Jesus fasted in the wilderness for 40
days and was seen on the earth for 40 days after His crucifixion.
By observing Lent, we follow Jesus into the wilderness, resist temptation, pray,
and proceed to Jerusalem and the cross on Good Friday which then culminates in
resurrection on Easter Sunday. This most sacred season on the Church calendar is marked
by repentance, intercession, service, giving and self denial. For so many, Lent is a
moment to give up things we cherish in exchange for prayer, fasting, acts of mercy, and
meditation on the Word of God.
Power of Prayer:
When nations needed healing they prayed. When families needed reconciliation they
prayed. When churches needed revival they prayed. Everything we do as individuals,
church, or nation should be birthed in prayer. Jesus the Son of God was devoted to prayer
and He put priority to prayer than anything else. “One of those days Jesus went out to
a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God.” Luke 6:12. He frequently
withdrew to the wilderness and mountain sides to pray. Prayer was not just Jesus’ habit
but in times of emergency, He resorted to prayer. When tempted, he prayed. When lied
upon, He prayed. During his most trying hour when he was about to be crucified, He
found time to pray. Before He gave up the ghost, He prayed. Today, He seats at the
right hand of God the Father still praying for you. His prayer life was so powerful and
impactful that the disciples said, “Teach us how to pray.” Nations need our prayers,
Individuals need our prayers, families need our prayers, the sick need our prayers,
governments needs our prayers, the lost need our prayers and the needy need our prayers.
Practical Ways to Help:
• Choose to fast from a particular pleasure: Food or TV or Social Media or Internet
or People.
• Join our daily Church-wide Online Blogs expounding on Prayer Items at
www.empowermenttemple.org
• Corporate Prayer every Sunday Morning from 7:00am – 7:30am.
• Attend Intercessors 1 hour of Power / Prayer Clinic every Saturday from 10am –
11am at the Family Life Center (1505 Eutaw Pl, Baltimore MD)
• Read through the Gospels between now and Easter.
• If you don’t already journal, begin now. Reflect on your readings, prayers and
questions.
• Make a list of people with whom you need to be reconciled. Pray for them and let
Jesus guide you in your thinking and feeling toward them.
1And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,
2The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,
3And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
4Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.
5But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:
6And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.
7But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
8Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.
9Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
10So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
11And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
12And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
13Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
15Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.
16And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men.
17Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not?
18But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?
19Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny.
20And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?
21They say unto him, Caesar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.
22When they had heard these words, they marvelled, and left him, and went their way.
23The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,
24Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
25Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother:
26Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.
27And last of all the woman died also.
28Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.
29Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
30For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
31But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,
32I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
33And when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his doctrine.
34But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.
35Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
36Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38This is the first and great commandment.
39And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
41While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,
42Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The son of David.
43He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying,
44The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool?
45If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?
46And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
Isaiah 40:31 King James Version (KJV) 31But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
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Isaiah 40 (KJV)
1Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
2Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD’s hand double for all her sins.
3The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
4Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
5And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
6The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
7The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
8The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
9O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
10Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
11He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
12Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
13Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?
14With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
15Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
16And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
17All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
18To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
19The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
20He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.
21Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
22It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
23That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
24Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
25To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
26Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.
27Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
28Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
29He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
30Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
31But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
John 3:16 – For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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