Real Ministry with VeeVeca- The God in Me

Exhortation: The God in Me

Scripture in View: But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us (2 Corinthians 4:7)

In the spirit of Kwanzaa, today is day five-Nia (NEE-yah) Purpose encourages us to look within ourselves and to set personal goals that are beneficial to the community.

I had a very interesting conversation with my boss. He saw an infomercial featuring a motivational speaker, Tony Robinson, that mimicked a conversation we recently shared. Mr. Tony Robinson said and I am paraphrasing, "We all have the ability to be happy and successful but we have to reach out and take it. But so many are afraid to get it." This was so similar to the conversation we shared during a book discussion.

The fiction book commented that human beings can evolve to greatness by God. This led us to conversation. I said, "God himself lives in us. Why can't we be great, if he is IN us? I believe we are not great because we are afraid to acknowledge a key factor– God is me and I am God, in that the creator of all is present and active inside of me. Now this great power should never be acted upon in arrogance or conceit. Rather the human being that aligns their lives around this phenomenon should act in complete gratitude and great thanks. Withal, it should power them to greatness."

The Message Translation 2 Corinthians 4:5-15
5-6 Remember, our Message is not about ourselves; we're proclaiming Jesus Christ,
the Master. All we are is messengers, errand runners from Jesus for you. It
started when God said, "Light up the darkness!" and our lives filled up with
light as we saw and understood God in the face of Christ, all bright and
beautiful.

7-12 If you only look at us, you might well miss the brightness. We
carry this precious Message around in the unadorned clay pots of our ordinary
lives. That's to prevent anyone from confusing God's incomparable power with us.
As it is, there's not much chance of that. You know for yourselves that we're
not much to look at. We've been surrounded and battered by troubles, but we're
not demoralized; we're not sure what to do, but we know that God knows what to
do; we've been spiritually terrorized, but God hasn't left our side; we've been
thrown down, but we haven't broken. What they did to Jesus, they do to us—trial
and torture, mockery and murder; what Jesus did among them, he does in us—he
lives! Our lives are at constant risk for Jesus' sake, which makes Jesus' life
all the more evident in us. While we're going through the worst, you're getting
in on the best!

13-15 We're not keeping this quiet, not on your life. Just like
the psalmist who wrote, "I believed it, so I said it," we say what we believe.
And what we believe is that the One who raised up the Master Jesus will just as
certainly raise us up with you, alive. Every detail works to your advantage and
to God's glory: more and more grace, more and more people, more and more
praise!

16-18 So we're not giving up. How could we! Even though on the outside it
often looks like things are falling apart on us, on the inside, where God is
making new life, not a day goes by without his unfolding grace. These hard times
are small potatoes compared to the coming good times, the lavish celebration
prepared for us. There's far more here than meets the eye. The things we see now
are here today, gone tomorrow. But the things we can't see now will last
forever.

So with that in mind, you have this hidden treasure [God] on the inside of you, what are you going to do with your life? Nothing is impossible. Take a moment and make yourself a list or write yourself a letter listing personal goals that you want to achieve. Allow God to be your inspiration and guide. Put them out in plain sight and review them daily. Work hard and again I say– Nothing is too hard for the God in you.

No matter the climb or struggle within, trust God with every heavy situation and circumstance. He is still the God of catching cares. His glove is never frayed or broken. Stay encouraged in the heavy– and move Forward.

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Real Ministry with VeeVeca- Children are a gift

Exhortation: News – Children are a gift (True news story attached)

Not every story in the news is worth reading. But today, I just read the news below and I conflicted.. I was a single parent with a dead beat dad. Lord knows, I know all about that. But somewhere between me being the single parent and my exhusband being a dead beat dad, are the children that still need encouragement, discipline, love, tenderness, direction and assortment of life skills just to make it in this world. Somewhere the mission of being a parent gets lost between ‘all I gotta do' and ‘all he ain't doing' that the child or children are lost. And right now, I am sad for the little boy in this story. I don't know the inside story, but for a 4 year old child to go to this extreme just to see his daddy somebody (one or both of the parents) have fallen off the mission of being a parent. Children belong to God first then God trust them to individuals to parent. I pray right now in the name of Jesus and the power of God that every person that has a child become more sensitive to the need and needs of that child. Children are a gift.

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Beer-buzzed boy, 4, wanted to visit jailed dad
Mom says he got drunk, stole girl's dress because he 'wants to go to jail'

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34465839/ns/us_news-weird_news/?gt1=43001

updated 4:18 p.m. ET, Thurs., Dec . 17, 2009

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - Tennessee investigators say a 4-year-old boy was found roaming his neighborhood in the night, drinking beer and wearing a little girl's dress taken from under a neighbor's Christmas tree.
The child's mother, 21-year-old April Wright, told WTVC-TV that the boy "wants to go to jail because that's where his daddy is."
Wright said she and the boy's father are going though a divorce.

The boy, found outside his house in Chattanooga on Tuesday, was taken to a hospital and treated for alcohol consumption.
Hamilton County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Janice Atkinson said the incident is being investigated but the department declined to release the report.
The boy's mother said she met with child protective services and was told she will get to keep custody of her son.

Exhortation with VeeVeca-More than an Image

Exhortation: The Secret: More than an Image

When you look at yourself in the mirror, what do you see? Do you smile lovingly at yourself and declare, "I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well." [Psalms 139:14] Are you smiling at yourself showing all of your beautiful teeth? Or, do you look at yourself distastefully with a growl and a heavy burden of dissatisfaction? This is your body, your temple, and you hate it.

Today, millions of people woke up without the secret. What secret is that? Glad you asked. The secret is this– You are more than an image.

From clay to egg to development, you were created by God in the image of himself. Your eyes, your nose, your ears and even the way your smile twitches when you laugh. It’s his mark of identity that claims you as his own. What if the twitch was God’s way of identifying you amongst all of his children?

Imagine this, we are in heaven. God calls for you, but he doesn’t call you by
your birth name. Rather, the father calls you by the birth mark. The very
identification imprint that he gave to distinguish you from all the rest. Dare
you believe that God is smarter than a fifth grader! The Almighty Father made
the human frame and perfected genes and hormones, marrow and bones to come
together to construct a perfect you, in his own image.

The father calls out, "Twitch, where are you?" He looks over the whole crowd. His voice is soothing like waves moving in water. "Twitch, I am looking for you."

The children move about in hurried anticipation. Talk about the
old lady in the shoe having so many children she didn’t know what to do. With
God, that’s not a problem. He has many mansions and children to fit them all.
And he knows exactly what to do. "Twitch are you playing hide and
seek?"

You cover your mouth, but it doesn’t completely hide the twitch. No matter what you do the twitch never leaves. It’s your thorn in the flesh and your Achilles heel. You mumble, "Nobody loves how I look, not even me."

God is walking among his children. He sees Big Eyes over there. He smiles. He winks at Full Lips. Then he pats Big Ears on his way. Bald Head tells him a joke and they laugh out loud. Contrary to popular belief, the father loves to laugh with
his children. "Now , Twitch, where are you?" He says recovering from a hardy
laugh.

You hear the father’s voice. Your head hangs low. "If only I didn’t have this twitch," you think silently. Ah... Ah..." You sneeze pushing your head upward and your hands away from your lips.

"Well there you are, child." God’s face gleams with expectancy. "I’ve been looking for you. How are you today?"

What will you say? "Well dad you really screwed up when you made me. See this twitch here... It won’t let me in the right places, meet the best people. It’s sorta like a handicap. A bottle, I can’t unscrew. It’s the ugliest mess I’ve ever seen. I mean really, if I didn’t have this.... I.."

The father stares. "So, let me understand you. The twitch...
that I gave you doesn’t work for your image. It doesn’t profit you in this
world? And basically you are telling me that my craftsmanship of creation
is now unacceptable?"

If you had to stand face to face with God about your twitch, how would you
score?

There are millions of people who hate the skin they are in. Today, consider the maker of your body. God loves you just as you are. He wants you healthy, happy and free. "Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth." [3 John 1:2]

No matter the climb or struggle within, trust God with every heavy situation and circumstance. He is still the God of catching cares. His glove is never frayed or broken.

Stay encouraged in the heavy– and move Forward

Real Ministry: VeeVeca VeeVeca Lavoira,Author http://www.verbalconquest.net/
Kind words are short to speak, but their echo lasts forever..."

Real Ministry with VeeVeca-Hold Tight to what you Know

Hold tight to what you know

At church, on tv, a powerful word comes your way. Immediately, it catches your attention. Your issues are up front and very personal. What you hear springs you to movement. It feels so good. Your troubles seem so far away like dinosaurs. Although physically you may look the same, but inscribed on your chest feels like a big letter ‘S' for super man/woman has been etched into your skin. At that time, nothing feels impossible. So much so that you feel a wiry zealous and confident appeal combing over your demeanor. As if, a striking sense of ‘I wish you would' brute awareness rolls smoothly from your mouth. "This is it," as Michael Jackson would say.

Hold tight to the moment. Don't let it slip or return to you void. In Mark 4, Jesus gives a parable (a lesson) that believers should study regularly, after getting a dose of God and positive array of his fuel for life. Why? Because when the feelings are gone– it's gone gone. Then like the song, you'll be left singing, "Bring back that loving feeling."

[Mark 4: 13-23 The Message Translation] "Do
you see how this story works? All my stories work this way. "The farmer plants
the Word. Some people are like the seed that falls on the hardened soil of the
road. No sooner do they hear the Word than Satan snatches away what has been
planted in them. And some are like the seed that lands in the gravel. When they
first hear the Word, they respond with great enthusiasm. But there is such
shallow soil of character that when the emotions wear off and some difficulty
arrives, there is nothing to show for it. "The seed cast in the weeds represents
the ones who hear the kingdom news but are overwhelmed with worries about all
the things they have to do and all the things they want to get. The stress
strangles what they heard, and nothing comes of it. "But the seed planted in the
good earth represents those who hear the Word, embrace it, and produce a harvest
beyond their wildest dreams." Jesus went on: "Does anyone bring a lamp home and
put it under a washtub or beneath the bed? Don't you put it up on a table or on
the mantel? We're not keeping secrets, we're telling them; we're not hiding
things, we're bringing them out into the open. "Are you listening to this?
Really listening?"

Point 1: God has a positive fix for your drama-The Word. For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. [Hebrews 4:12]

Point 2: The devil is coming for what you have. The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly [John 10:10]

Point 3: It's on me to stir up and remember what God says about me. Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee [2 Timothy 2:1] Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; [2 Peter 1:13] This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance [2 Peter 3:1]

No matter the climb or struggle within, trust God with every heavy situation and circumstance. He is still the God of catching cares. His glove is never frayed or broken.

Stay encouraged in the heavy– and move Forward

Real Ministry: VeeVeca http://www.VerbalConquest.net

Real Ministry with VeeVeca-Where's your confidence, Soldier

Where is your confidence, Soldier?

"Endure hardness, as a good soildier of Jesus Christ." (2 Timothy 2:3)

Times of hardness are inevitable. Stop playing. Life happens fast. Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't. When living is easy, it's hardly a fuss from your lips. Money isn’t funny. All is well. But everyday isn’t so sunny.

Just when the tables turn, living shows up with chaos and drama. In a fret, the attack is closer than the hair in our nose. It stops all passage including the air flow. We can’t breathe. Where’s the victory now? What about the rescue scriptures?

Child of God, did you forget what you are? You are a soldier in the army of God. You are as the dictionary describes, (1) one engaged in military service and especially in the army b : an enlisted man or woman c : a skilled warrior (2): a militant leader, follower, or worker.

War is hard, you think! Um... it’s war. Stop playing. It is suppose to be hard. Endure the hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. Meaning, put on the whole weaponry of God to battle against the attack. Don’t shriek or lament in combat. It’s time to fight. Man/Woman/boy or girl, you are the called, the equipped, ordained and anointed. You are the vessel of honor for God's victory.

Historically, the levites were on the front lines charging ahead in battle. They ran with zeal because they were confident of victory. They new the secret: It is God that goes before you to make crooked places straight. If God is for you, who can be against you? Today soldier, get your confidence and move forward!

No matter the climb or struggle within, trust God with every heavy situation and circumstance. He is still the God of catching cares. His glove is never frayed or broken.

Stay encouraged in the heavy– and move Forward
Real Ministry: VeeVeca

Real Ministry with VeeVeca-Still need saving

Exhortation: Still need saving?

People who experience a life change with Jesus often declare, "I am saved." The excitement and expectancy is all over their faces. Over the years, though they are still saved, some of the thrill is gone.

Where is your excitement today? Have you gotten weary in well-doing. Is your happy gone and your down is now your norm? Honey, don’t trip. We have all been there. There is absolutely nothing going on that God hasn’t seen in you, me, and the rest of the believers of the world. The same ‘I am saved’ is the same ‘saved’ that will turn your frown to a smile.

Allow me to share some encouragement. God made a phenomenal promise in Zechariah 8. He is talking about saving Zion, which is conveyed toward us. Believers are Zion. He mentions the city of Jerusalem, which is primarily regarded to being wherever he is. If you really need saving today, I send these words to encourage you.

Zechariah 8 (The Message)
And then these Messages from
God-of-the-Angel-Armies: A Message from God-of-the-Angel-Armies: "I am zealous
for Zion—I care! I'm angry about Zion—I'm involved!" God's Message: 3"I've come
back to Zion, I've moved back to Jerusalem.Jerusalem's new names will be Truth
City, and Mountain of God-of-the-Angel-Armies, and Mount Holiness." I've come
back to Zion, I've moved back to Jerusalem. Jerusalem's new names will be Truth
City, and Mountain of God-of-the-Angel-Armies, and Mount Holiness."

"Old
men and old women will come back to Jerusalem, sit on benches on the streets and
spin tales, move around safely with their canes—a good city to grow old in. And
boys and girls will fill the public parks, laughing and playing—a good city to
grow up in."

"Do the problems of returning and rebuilding by just a few
survivors seem too much? But is anything too much for me? Not if I have my say."
A Message from God-of-the-Angel-Armies: "I'll collect my people from countries
to the east and countries to the west. I'll bring them back and move them into
Jerusalem. They'll be my people and I'll be their God. I'll stick with them and
do right by them."

"Get a grip on things. Hold tight, you who are
listening to what I say through the preaching of the prophets. The Temple of
God-of-the-Angel-Armies has been reestablished. The Temple is being rebuilt.
We've come through a hard time: You worked for a pittance and were lucky to get
that; the streets were dangerous; you could never let down your guard; I had
turned the world into an armed camp.

"But things have changed. I'm taking the side of my core of surviving people: Sowing and harvesting will resume, Vines will grow grapes, Gardens will flourish, Dew and rain will make everything green. "My core survivors will get everything they need—and more. You've gotten a reputation as a bad-news people, you people of Judah and Israel, but I'm coming to save you. From now on, you're the good-news people. Don't be afraid. Keep a firm grip on what I'm doing."

No matter the climb or struggle within, trust God with every heavy situation and circumstance. He is still the God of catching cares. His glove is never frayed or broken.
Stay encouraged in the heavy– and move Forward

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West Charlotte student named Good Samaritan

West Charlotte student named Good Samaritan