LOVE THE "HELL" OUT OF THEM

[prophetess m. brignac]

SO MANY OF GOD'S PEOPLE ARE BOUND UP SPIRITUALLY AND NOT EXPERIENCING TOTAL VICTORY IN THEIR LIVES BECAUSE THEY HAVE ALLOWED THE 'ACCUSER OF THE BRETHREN", THE SOWER OF DISCORD, AND THE "OFFENDER" TO TRESPASS THEIR PEACE, ORDER AND CONTROL OF THEIR EMOTIONS. NO ONE, AND I MEAN NO ONE, SHOULD BE GIVEN THAT MUCH POWER TO , JUST BY ONE CONVERSATION, PARAGRAPH OR UTTERANCE, THROW YOUR WHOLE DAY INTO CHAOS AND UPHEAVAL AND ALTER YOUR MOOD! THAT, BELOVED, IS SIMPLY TOO MUCH POWER FOR SOMEONE WHO, IN REALITY, HAS NO POWER OVER YOU, UNLESS YOU SIGN IT OVER TO THEM. THERE WAS A SCENE IN THE MOVIE ABOUT MALCOLM X, WHERE HE LED A COUPLE OF HUNDRED N.Y. CITIZENS ON A QUIET , VERY STRUCTURED AND ORGANIZED MARCH TTHROUGH THE CITY STREETS FOR BLOCK S,AND BLOCKS,AND THAT ORDER WAS NEVER BROKEN. WHEN THEY REACHED CITY JAIL,WAITNG ON NTHE REPORT REGARDING THEIR FALLEN COMRADE, NO ONE MOVED, UNLESS HE MALCOM.MOVED OR SAID SO, AND WHEN HE WAS SATISFIED HE MADE A SINGLE GESTURE WITH HIS FINGER, AND THE PEOPLE RESPONDED AS ONE DISCIPLINED UNIT. THE POLICE CHIEF AND CITY OFFICIALS WERE VERY DISTURBED BY THIS SITUATION AND THEY SAID " THAT IS TOO MUCH POWER FOR ONE MAN!" NO ONE MAN, OR TWO OR THREE SHOULD HAVE THAT KIND OF POWER OVER YOU TO "MAKE YOU MAD", "UPSET YOUR NERVES", OR INTERFERE WITH THE PEACE AND JOY CHRIST HAS BLESSED YOU WITH! NOT, THE LITLE "SNUGGLE BUNNIES" YOU GAVE BIRTH TO OR THE ONE YOU STOOD NEXT TO AT THE ALTAR, IN MATRIMONY. THAT INCLUDES YOUR "BOSS", PASTORS, MOTHERS, MOTHER-IN-LAWS, THE MAILMAN, THAT RUDE BUS-DRIVER, MEAN MANICURIST, AND THE BUTCHER WHO SOMETIMES "SLINGS" YOUR PORK CHOPS AT YOU. I WITNESS SO MANY SAINTS COMING TO THE ALTAR FOR DELIVERANCE BECAUSE THEY CONTINUE TO DWELL ON AND MAGNIFY OFFENSES AND "WORDS" THAT SHOOK THEM "OFF THEIR SQUARE", AND, IN AN INSTANT CAUSED THEM TO FORGET WHO THEY ARE, WHAT GOD HAS SAID CONCERNING THEM, AND WHAT'S FOREVER SETTLED IN HEAVEN! MAKE NO MISTAKE, THAT NOT ONE WORD RELEASED INTO THE ATMOSPHERE EVER RETURNS "VOID", AND IT'S GOING TO MAKE SOME SORT OF IMPACT, BUT GOD HAS GIVEN US "HIS WORD" TO NEUTRALIZE AND DIFFUSE EVERY CONTRARY UTTERANCE THAT COMES TO KILL, STEAL, AND TO DESTROY. I'M SURE EVERYONE CAN REMEMBER A TIME OR TWO, OF GETTING READY ,IN ANTICIPATION, TO GO TO THE HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH FOR WORSHIP SERVICE, AND ENTERING INTO AN "EXCHANGE" WITH A CONTRARY MATE, REBELLIOUS CHILD, OR ONE OF THOSE VERY SPECIAL "CRABBY","UNGRACIOUS "GREETERS/USHERS" AT THE SANCTUARY DOOR, AND FOUND YOURSELF OUT OF SORTS, WITH A SERIOUS MOOD SWING, AND TOTALLY DISTRACTED FROM YOUR PURPOSE OF EXALTING GOD AND BASKING IN HIS PRESENCE. EVERYONE HAS, AT SOME TIME, HAD TO CONTEND WITH A UNFAIR "BOSS", BELLIGERENT CO-WORKER, BULLYING POLICE OFFICER, SCHOOL ATTENDADNT OR SHOP OWNER. AND EXPERIENCED SOME FORM OF INJUSTICE AND UNDESERVING TREATMENT THAT FOR SOME, SHAKES THEIR CONFIDENCE AND RENDERS THEM DOUBTFUL, TIMID, AND ENRAGED WAY DOWN INSIDE, WE, AS A "CIVILIZED AND "CULTURED PEOPLE HAVE PERFECTED THE COPING MECHANISMS OF SUPPRESSION AND REPRESSION, BUT BOTH CAN LEAD TO REGRESSION AND INFIRMITY,, WHICH IS UNDESIRABLE AND UNPRODUCTIVE. SO MANY WOMEN ARE BROKEN AND IN CONSTANT NEED OF PRAYER AND SPIRTUAL COUNSELLING TO UNDO WHAT CRITICAL, VICIOUS, DEVASTATING WORDS HAVE DONE TO THEIR "PSYCHE" SOULS, AND SPIRITS, IN THEIR FORMATIVE YEARS AND IN THEIR ADULT LIVES. THEY FIND THEMSELVES YOKED IN MARRIAGE TO SOMEONE WHO IS A VICTIM OF INNER "RAGE" AND REPRODUCE FRUIT OF LIKE MANNER, AND BECOME BITTER, ORNERY PEOPLE THEMSELVES, BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT THEY KNOW, UNTIL THAT CURSE IS BROKEN.. WE HAVE PASTORS WHO, SOMETIMES RULE OVER THE FLOCK BY CONSTRAINT AND TYRRANY, WIELDING AN UNMERCIFUL "ROD" BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT THEY SUFFERED UNDER SOMEONE ELSE. THEN THERE MAY BE THAT "CHURCH MOTHER" WHO HAS BECOME SPITEFUL, AND "SET IN HER WAYS", OR ANTAGONISTIC BECAUSE SHE CAN'T HAVE HER WAY, AND SO SHE MAKES EVERYONE ELSE MISERABLE. WE HAVE THAT SON OR DAUGHTER WE DON'T EVEN RECOGNIZE AS THE CHILD WE RAISED, BECAUSE OF THEIR REBELLION AND SEMI PSYCHOTIC BEHAVIOUR, AND WE FIND IT HARD TO "LIKE" THEM SOME DAYS. HOW ABOUT THAT ALCOHOLIC RELATIVE WHO DISRESPECTS, ANNOYS AND INSULTS ANYBODY WHO GETS IN THE LINE OF FIRE, AND KEEPS CAUSING EMBARASSING SCENES, AND YOU DON'T WANT TO DEAL WITH THEM? HOW DOES ONE HANDLE THIS ASSORTED BUNCH OF PROFESSIONAL "VEXATIONS AND AGITATORS?" YOU MAKE A DECISION AND A PACT WITH THE HOLY GHOST TO LOVE THE ABSOLUTE "HELL, PURGATORY, SHEOL, AND HADES, OUT OF THEM, BECAUSE GOD LIVED THE HELL OUT OF US, WHEN HE SENT HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON TO DIE FOR US WHILE WE WERE YET IN SIN! IT IS A PROVEN FACT THAT EVERYTHING RESPONDS TO LOVE BE IT "PLANT" OR ANIMAL, GIVEN TIME AND PATIENCE. SOME OF OUR ASSIGNMENTS ARE FITLY CALLED "LABORS" OF LOVE, BECAUSE THEY REQUIRE SO MUCH SWEAT , EFFORT AND FOREBEARANCE. YOU MUST ASK GOD FOR STRENGTH AND WISDOM TO SEE THOSE INDIVIDUALS "THROUGH THE BLOOD", TO SEE PAST THEIR MISERY INTO THEIR LOST SOULS, AND COMMIT TO INTERCEDING FOR THEM, NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOUR FLESH WANTS TO REVERT TO IT'S "CUSSING DAYS", FOR JUST 10 SECONDS! IN CHOOSING THIS STANCE, TO STEADFASTLY DEMONSTRATE THE AGAPE' LOVE OF GOD, THE LORD BEGINS TO WORK ALONG WITH YOU, AND TO CHIP AWAT AT THAT FALLOW GROUND, AND THOSE OFFENDERS WILL HAVE TO TAKE NOTE, EVEN IF THEY NEVER INDICATE THAT THEY DO, THAT YOU ARE SOMETHING DIFFERENT, AN THAT DIFFERENCE IS NOT OF THIS WORLD. USUALLY THE MOST BITTER PERSON YOU FIND, IS THE ONE WHO HAS BEEN DEPRIVED O THE MOST HEALTHY NOURISHING LOVE, AND THEY WERE "MOLDED" BY THEIR OWN CIRCUMSTANCES. EVEN THE MOST HARDENED CRIMINAL, YEARNS FOR LOVE AND AFFECTION SOMEWHERE UNDERNEATH ALL THE DIABOLICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF EVIL. I F YOU'LL BELIEVE GOD'S WORD, YOU WILL BE PLEASANTLY SURPRISED TO FIND THAT "HEAPING HOT COALS" UPON YOUR OPPOSITION'S HEAD IS A MIGHTY WEAPON IN THIS WAR-FARE AGAINST THOSE UNRULY, AND CONTRARY SOULS. SO THE NEXT TIME THAT YOUR MATE STRIKES A NERVE WITH THEIR WORDS, PRAISE GOD IN YOUR SPIRIT, AND LET THEM KNOW THAT YOU STILL "LOVE THEM BY CHOICE", EVEN IF YOU CHOKE" ON THE WORDS RIGHT AT THAT MOMENT! BUY THAT EVIL-SPIRITED CO-WORKER A NICE CARD, OR A CUPCAKE "JUST BECAUSE", AND PRESENT IT WITH THE LOVE OF GOD SHINING THROUGH! ABOUT THAT BROTHER OR SISTER AT CHURCH WHO FROWNS LIKE THEY SMELL SOMETHING FOUL WHEN THEY SEE YOU, OR HAPPPEN TO KEEP "BUMMPIMG" YOU, GO OVER AND GIVE THEM A HOLY HUG, TREAT THEM TO A SODA OR CUP OF JAVA AND MINISTER THE LOVE OF GOD TO THEM! THOSE OFFSPRING WHO ARE BEHAVING LIKE LUNATICS AND HEATHEN, REINFORCE YOUR UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, WHEN THEY ARE REALLY HAVING "HORMONAL" OR PSYCHOTIC DAYS. ( OF COURSE WE WON'T HAVE THEM RUNNING OVER US OR BEING DISRESPECTFUL, WITHOUR "HANDLING" THAT AS WELL, IN LOVE!) THE GREATEST WEAPON YOU HAVE IS THE LOVE OF GOD, BECAUSE THAT LOVE DREW YOU OUT OF WRETCHEDNESS AND A HORRIBLE PIT TO THE CROSS, AND WON YOU TO SALVATION. NOW, THAT'S POWER, AND LOVE! GO GET YOURS BACK! I MADE A DECLARATION A LONG TIME AGO THAT NO ONE WOULD COST ME MY SPOT AROUND THE GREAT WHITE THRONE' ON A "TECHNICALITY" LIKE NOT BEING ALLOWED TO LOVE SOMEONE, SO I MADE IT A MISSION, I'M GOING TO LOVE THEM ON PURPOSE!
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