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You have to be wise!

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^{Matthew 10:16 (KJV) 16}Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

The whole point this passage of scripture is trying to convey is that you must be WISE!

Matthew 10:15-17

King James Version

¹⁵Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
¹⁶Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
¹⁷But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;

Even back when, there was deception and all types of acts of sin going on in the camp, and God’s people were being falsely lead by Men of God that represented one way but was living another way! Lies and deceptions are nothing new! It existed back when and truly exist now; however, you must be WISE, study your BIBLE and know God’s word for yourself, stay prayed up and develop a closer relationships with God! It sounds complex, but it’s a daily process that can be accomplished as we grow together!

On this journey, there’s always going to be someone that will misrepresent and try and take advantage of innocent people. Then on the other hand, there are some upright, Men and Women of God working for the Kingdom of God, spreading God’s Word, Feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, housing the homeless, taking care of the widows and doing all sorts of charitable acts of kindness that should be recognized and these Great leaders should be put in a category of their own or at least not be looked upon as everyone is the same. We are not! We all have the opportunity to change and want to be upright and a better person in Christ. We must pray and ask God for guidance and help along the way because everyday are brand new mercies and we serve a great God who sits waiting with his arms stretched wide open with the ultimate plan of salvation which is always on the table for all people no matter what the situation is!! God is FAITHFUL and he is a Just God!

It’s too often that one or two bad wolves in sheep clothing misrepresents in front of the world, and the world tend to have a misperception of what the CHURCH really is and what Men and Women-of-God are really about! No matter how you look it, We as individuals are the church, so therefore we must act accordingly because the world is watching and there are those that are sitting around waiting on the next mess up instead of staying prayed up!!

This COVID 19- pandemic has taught us a lot as each one of us has had to dig deep within ourselves and we’ve actually come to realize that our body is our Temple, just as us seasoned Saints of God has known all the time as we’ve been taught by the word-of-the-Lord. We’ve found things within ourselves that we didn’t know existed. Some of us have gifts inside of us that we’ve been able to use and share with our family and friends from right where we are and you never left home, but you still felt that connection to God!!! If you hold on I’m going some where!!

Some of us have been believing all these years before COVID-19 that we needed to be in a “church building” to seek, find and accept God and do his will. Not so!! We have found out that you can have a RELATIONSHIP with God and do his will right from where you are, AND NO four wall experience is necessary!! Although, the Bible does say in:

Hebrews 10:25 (KJV)

²⁵Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

However, God still made a way through technology for some of us to come together as usual and never miss a beat!! Some churches were in full swing and we were yet having faith and praying for God’s protection over his people. Nevertheless, we should be thanking God for technology!!!

When I heard man say that Church was not essential, that’s where we knew as Saints of God where to draw the line. What the people of today didn’t realize is that most of our churches/ bible studies and prayer meetings started in our Grandparents, or somebody’s living room, way before we ever got to a four wall church edifice experience.

Church is in us, and the harder the time, the more creative we will become to get to God and to get God’s word out to God’s people and that alone should be celebrated and counted as WISE!

Then there’s that one person that you must look out for and be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

BE WISE!

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🎼There’s Nobody Like JESUS! 🎼

Link June 15, 2020 Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas Leave a comment

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“Ain’t Nobody Like Jesus!”

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There’s NOBODY like JESUS!

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It’s good to be Free!

Video August 11, 2018 Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas Leave a comment

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Jesus, we can’t live without you!

January 12, 2018 Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas Leave a comment

Acts 17:24-27 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth. He doesn’t live in shrines made by human hands, and he isn’t served by people as if he needed anything. He himself gives everyone life, breath, and everything else. From one man he made every nation of humanity to live all over the earth, fixing the seasons of the year and the national boundaries within which they live, so that they might look for God, somehow reach for him, and find him. Of course, he is never far from any one of us.”

Today’s message is simple: Learn to lean on Jesus! When we learn to love and lean on him, our lives becomes easier. Our burdens become lighter, and our lives seem to change for the betterment. It’s nothing magical, but it all comes with accepting Christ and being a believer. God gives you hope and every determination in the world to hold on to, and every reason to believe that you can’t live without him. I’ve concluded that I don’t want to live without Christ in my life. He is our savior, and he died for our every sin. He is almighty and all-knowing, and he will be right by your side when you feel like all hope is gone. In the midnight hour when you need someone to lean on , he’s right there. God is our provider. He is the great I am, and I can’t live without him. He is easy to love and I feel his presence all around me. We can see his beauty everywhere we go. From the desert to the sea, his beauty is all around me, I just can’t’ live without you. Thank you Jesus! Thank you, Jesus! Thank you, Jesus for saving a soul like me!

When we love Jesus our brothers and sisters become easier to love because Jesus is so easy to love, and his love is so wonderful and so overwhelming. In this life, we must take the time to encourage and love on one another and stop tearing each other down and learn to build each other up in love. If we profess Jesus as our Lord and savior Jesus Christ, we should start acting like it! It a shame that there seems to be no difference in some of the people who profess to be saved, then the laymen you meet on the streets. I said that to say this: Something is wrong. In our Christian faith, most of our churches lack love. We have the right message but most of our churches practice the wrong method. Let’s get back to LOVE and holiness and stop being so judgemental toward one another and catch the fish before you try to clean it up. That’s another message. Yes, it’s right. Let’s start with loving God’s people first, and then learn how to treat our neighbor right so the next man can want to accept Jesus Christ and say: They can’t live with Jesus either because he is the great I am and we do serve a mighty and wonderful God!!! Remember this: God doesn’t need us, we need Him.! Jesus, we can’t live without you!

Evelyn Diane

Mark 12:31 “The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”

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WHERE IS THE LOVE?

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John 3:16 (KJV)

“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.”

It seems in this day and age we live in, we find people everywhere seeking for unconditional, genuine love. People want love, but most are unwilling or may I say incapable of really loving another human being the way they really want to be love. So, I pose the question on this 4th day of January, 2018: WHERE IS THE LOVE?

I’m glad you asked… Well, in the book of John, the 3rd chapter and the 16th verse describes the greatest love of God when he gave his only begotten Son, Jesus that you and I may have the right to the tree of life. If that’s not love, then I don’t know what love is! In today’s world, that would be asking way to much according to the standards that most of us live by. That would be considered ultra crazy love! You can barely ask someone for a piece a bread, let alone give their life for you. Aren’t you glad that we serve an exceptional God!

We all know that there are so many different types of love, but the love I want to focus on is God’s love. God’s love is patient, and God’s love is kind. God’s love is forgiving. God’s love is everlasting. God’s love is free. God’s love reciprocal. God’s love is ever-present. God’s love is contagious. God’s love is everlasting! God’s love everything you and I need. I could go on forever about God’s love because I’m so grateful that he would think enough of you and I to die for us. We serve a loving and kind God!

When I think of all the love God pours into us, all I can do is tell God THANK YOU! Thank you God for loving me! Thank you God for not giving up on me! Thank you God for saving me! Thank you God for looking after me when I couldn’t look after myself. Thank you God for being there for me when I felt all alone. Thank you God for providing for me and making a way out no way. Thank you God for taking care of my family and friends. Thank you God for healing and keeping me. Thank you God for listening to me! Thank you God for loving us unconditionally. I see the love. I feel the love. I hear the love. I want God’s love. We have to get to a point in life where we desire real love. Most of us have a tendency to push real love away.

I am here to serve notice today and let you know that God is love! Everywhere you look you see the love! Let’s learn to love one another and stop beating each other down with our mean and nasty words and our intimidating ways. It’s better when we learn to kill each other with our kindness and love. Yes, I couldn’t agree more that it’s hard to love people who you know do not love or care about you, but we must love them anyways because God has commanded us to! He didn’t command us to like their ways, but he did command us to love them because one of God’s greatest commandments is LOVE!

As I write on this morning, I’m reminded of this old secular song : “ Where Is The Love?” song by the group, “The Black Eyed Peas” This song really hits home in 2018: Where is the love? Listen to the words and you can agree and ask yourself today, where is the love?

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The Black Eyed Peas – Where Is The Love?

Father, Father help us, where is the love?

My answer today for the world is the LOVE is in God, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

“God So Loved The World”
Vanessa Bell Armstrong

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I dedicate this mug to my good friend the late Elder Virgil Jones. I really miss you and wish you were here to make me laugh and sing while you play that piano like no one else could!!!

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Out With the Old, In With the New (2 Cor. 5:1-21)

Video December 30, 2017 Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas Leave a comment

1 For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven; 3 inasmuch as we, having put it on, shall not be found naked. 4 For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed, but to be clothed, in order that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge. 6 Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord—7 for we walk by faith, not by sight—8 we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. 9 Therefore also we have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. 11 Therefore knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest to God; and I hope that we are made manifest also in your consciences. 12 We are not again commending ourselves to you but are giving you an occasion to be proud of us, that you may have an answer for those who take pride in appearance, and not in heart. 13 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you. 14 For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; 15 and He died for all, that they who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf. 16 Therefore from now on we recognize no man according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. 17 Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. 18 Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ, and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation. 20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were entreating through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Thank you for my mansion: The late Frank Williams

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“Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him!”

Video December 29, 2017 Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas Leave a comment

Job 13

Still I Will Hope in God

“Behold, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it. What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you. But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God. As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all.

Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom! Hear now my argument and listen to the pleadings of my lips. Will you speak falsely for God and speak deceitfully for him? Will you show partiality toward him? Will you plead the case for God? Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man? He will surely rebuke you if in secret you show partiality.

Will not his majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall upon you? Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

“Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may. Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand?

Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face. This will be my salvation,
that the godless shall not come before him. Keep listening to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears.

Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be in the right. who is there who will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die. Only grant me two things, then I will not hide myself from your face:

This will be my salvation, that the godless shall not come before him. Keep listening to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears.

Withdraw your hand far from me, and let not dread of you terrify me. Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you reply to me. How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin. Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy? Will you frighten a driven leaf and pursue dry chaff? For you write bitter things against me and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth. You put my feet in the stocks and watch all my paths; you set a limit for the soles of my feet. Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Though You Slay Me – Shane & Shane featuring John Piper

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Though You Slay Me – Shane & Shane featuring John Piper

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“Though You Slay Me – Shane & Shane featuring John Piper“

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You made a way!

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We should be grateful for the things we have and the people God has placed in our lives to love! I am certain that the only reason why a Iot of us are still standing is because of the God that we serve, who has made a way! God has opened doors that were closed in our faces and he commanded blessings to be released that were held up from us for years. He calmed the waters, and he restored things in our lives that were lost. It’s not enough to ask God for material things when your life is not order, but it is in order to ask God to continue to restore and change our minds to think good and not evil, mend our broken hearts back together, restore families and do the miraculous like only God can do!

We are certain that God has some great things in store for us! Keep the FAITH and BELIEVE always especially in 2018! God has showed up and showed out in most of our lives and for that, I am truly grateful, happy, thankful, and overwhelmed by Jesus’s precious LOVE!

Keep going, and know that the God that we serve made a way for you and he will surely make a way for me! There is no secret of what our God can do, what he’s done for others he can do the same thing for you!

Let’s continue to pray for those who are struggling with the trials of life and trying to find their way. Lend a helping hand and your prayers to someone in need and pray their strength in the Lord, and believe by faith that God can make a way for them just like he did it for you!

~ Evelyn Diane

Ezekiel 34:26-29 “I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing And I will cause showers to come down in their season; they will be showers of blessing. “Also the tree of the field will yield its fruit and the earth will yield its increase, and they will be secure on their land Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bars of their yoke and have delivered them from the hand of those who enslaved them. “They will no longer be a prey to the nations, and the beasts of the earth will not devour them; but they will live securely, and no one will make them afraid. “I will establish for them a renowned planting place, and they will not again be victims of famine in the land, and they will not endure the insults of the nations anymore.

MADE A WAY – Travis Greene (Amazing worship!!)

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God is a restorer..

Image December 26, 2017 Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas Leave a comment

On Christmas Day, #2017 I received one tangible, sentimental gift that came from my niece, Ayisha. As I drove down the dark, desolated road, my son handed me this beautiful, turquoise blue envelope that contained a beautiful card inside and a little blue pouch which held an original Tiffany bracelet, just like the one she gave me brand new, over 20-years-ago that I never took off of my arm. . She restored unto me the bracelet that was forcibly taken from me 4-years-ago as I cared for my Dad dying with bladder cancer. It was a painful ordeal that brought tremendous hurt and pain to my life. Nevertheless, life goes on and I want someone to know that no matter what may happen in your life, stay positive, keep your head up, and keep it pushing and turn all of your problem and worry over to God because he is a healer, a provider, a comforter and a restorer.

The bracelet I received on yesterday has helped me to release all the pain inside that led up to the most devastating, traumatic crucifixion of my life. It helped me to realize how blessed I really am to be alive after being beaten by 10 cops for no reason at all in a cell and stripped of my every possession, down to my expensive Wacoal brazier that I never got back.

Getting this bracelet helped me to know that I did overcome after being treated less than dog. It hurts but I had to face reality that I shall continue to do good no matter how people treat me. I understand that it was a real life Jesus moment that only I could pay the price for doing a good deed. (the tears won’t stop falling) but I feel God doing the miraculous in my life.

Thanks again to my niece, Ayisha, I really appreciate you for helping my heart to heal. No bandage needed. God has me in his care.. In the book of Deuteronomy 30:3-13 explains how God will restore the lost things in our lives. I have enclosed the scripture as a reminder to myself that God is man that he can’t lie. God is a RESTORER!

Deuteronomy 30:3-13

“God, your God, will restore everything you lost; he’ll have compassion on you; he’ll come back and pick up the pieces from all the places where you were scattered. 4 No matter how far away you end up, God, your God, will get you out of there 5 and bring you back to the land your ancestors once possessed. It will be yours again. He will give you a good life and make you more numerous than your ancestors. 6 God, your God, will cut away the thick calluses on your heart and your children’s hearts, freeing you to love God, your God, with your whole heart and soul and live, really live. 7 God, your God, will put all these curses on your enemies who hated you and were out to get you. 8 And you will make a new start, listening obediently to God, keeping all his commandments that I’m commanding you today. 9 God, your God, will outdo himself in making things go well for you: you’ll have babies, get calves, grow crops, and enjoy an all-around good life. Yes, God will start enjoying you again, making things go well for you just as he enjoyed doing it for your ancestors. 10 But only if you listen obediently to God, your God, and keep the commandments and regulations written in this Book of Revelation. Nothing half hearted here; you must return to God, your God, totally, heart and soul, holding nothing back. 11 This commandment that I’m commanding you today isn’t too much for you, it’s not out of your reach. 12 It’s not on a high mountain – you don’t have to get mountaineers to climb the peak and bring it down to your level and explain it before you can live it. 13 And it’s not across the ocean – you don’t have to send sailors out to get it, bring it back, and then explain it before you can live it.”