Daily Devotional – 3/9/12 “Why argue if you’re right?”

Have you heard the expression that says don’t argue with a foolish person because someone looking might not be able to tell the difference? Well, my question would be, why argue if you know you’re right? It makes no sense to go back and forth with a person who is accusing you of something you didn’t do because the truth will speak for itself. If it didn’t then how can you explain the apology you usually received after it is over? You know how your older sister accused you of taking her stuff and after you’ve told her 50 times you don’t have it, she finds it in her room and then has to apologize. This is my point, why argue? Take as an example; on last night after my husband and I got home he was looking for the remote to the TV in the living room. Of course neither one of the kids knew where it was even though Gabby was the last one to have it. Now this makes her dad upset and they, of course go back and forth but me I keep it pushing. Why, because I knew where the remote would be, in her room. Well after looking everywhere and her “looking in her room”, my sister tells her again to go look in her room because she was the last one with it in her hands and can you guess where the remote was, in her room on her bed under mounds of clothes. Now do you see why it doesn’t do you any good to argue when you know you’re right? Really, it doesn’t do you any good to argue if you are wrong or right because what good does arguing do anyway but I’ll deal with the wrong part later. The bible says in 2 Timothy 2:23 “Again I say, don’t get involved in foolish, ignorant arguments that only start fights.” Now, you know that a person who thinks you’re wrong will argue to the finish as will a person who knows they’re right, so it’s never-ending. Yea, I know that you have to try and defend yourself and your character but if you do all things in truth then it’ll show in your talk because the bible says in Colossians 4:6 “Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.” Now the salt is in comparison to you seasoning food because if you add the right flavor to the meal you’re serving then it goes well for all those who eat it and if you add the right amount of flavor to your talk, it’ll go down just as smooth.

Don’t you know that arguing can be the death of you? If not, try arguing with a teenage girl about wearing jeans that are too tight or filled with holes. Your blood pressure is steady rising while you are screaming go change and she is sitting there looking at her phone because she knows eventually you’ll give it up and walk off. I’ve learned, from experience, that some battles are not worth arguing over. While you are still upset about an argument from yesterday, the other person has moved on and forgot about it so why are you still mad? Usually when you argue with a person who thinks you’re wrong, have lied or been unfaithful, they’ve already made their mind up and it doesn’t matter that you keep trying to tell them you haven’t done anything because through their angry eyes they can’t hear what you’re saying anyway. This is the time you allow the truth to speak for you because the bible says in John 8:32, “And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” When a person is angry there is no reasoning with them, at that point. Tell them when they’ve allowed them and the situation to cool down to come and speak with you but until then there is no argument. There is no good that will come out of 2 folks standing face to face arguing and screaming because in the end you’re left with 2 angry folks with a headache and an unresolved issue.

Psalm 37:8 says, “Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.” And you know this to be true because when you’re angry to tend to make all the wrong choices because you’ve allowed the anger and the argument from the anger to take over. Now you’re calling that co-worker who comes to your desk every day when you should have your tail at home, you’re at the bar getting drunk and then getting behind the wheel to potentially kill yourself or somebody else, when you should have been praying for guidance or you’re sending a hateful text or email with those strong emotions when you should have just waited a few days. See, arguing with a person, when you know you’re right, stirs all types of emotions within you and now you’re making all kinds of bad choices when you should have just walked away and allowed, once again, the truth to speak for you. When you’ve allowed that person who calls you a liar to take you there, they have you bound so they may as well tie your hands and feet. Galatians 5:1 says “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” When you’ve allowed anger to consume you, it has won. So, they called you a liar, are you? So what, they said you cheated, did you? Who cares they don’t believe you, do you believe? If you continue to allow angry folks to stand over you calling you a liar when you know you’re not, you’ll soon start to believe it and now they have you second guessing yourself and feeling guilty when you have done nothing. Break those chains and stand firm on your word because your word, your honest word, is all you have. Stop allowing folks to take that because they don’t believe you. Don’t argue when you know you’re right because the truth always prevails and whether it takes a few minutes, hours, days, weeks, months or years, it will prevail.

Matthew 12:35 says, “A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart.” So stop letting angry folks ruin your day as you know they will because there is always someone who is naturally mean for no reason, always someone who wants to argue or someone who is always ready to fight, those folks make you unbalanced. When you are unbalanced, you’re off your game and when you’re off your game you get caught slipping and when you’re slipping you’re bound to make a mistake. Keep a level head, walk away and don’t argue! Let them do them because folks who have God are supposed to have the power to handle their tongue because Proverbs 14:29 says “People with understanding control their anger; a hot temper shows great foolishness” or John 1:19 which says, “Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.” . Don’t argue, calm down and then talk about it for Ephesians 4:26-27 says “And don’t sin by letting anger control you. Don’t let the sun go down while you are still angry for anger gives a foothold to the devil.” See, a foothold is defined as a secure starting position in order to advance. It’s like a person who climbs rocky mountains, in order for them to continue to move up, they have to place their foot into a foothold that boost them up higher and the only way for them to make it to the top, they have to keep putting their feet into footholds. Well, when we get angry with each other, the devil is grabbing our feet and the madder we get, the higher he rises until he is running things in YOUR house because you’ve given him the means to rise to the top and now you’re no longer in control and you’re so angry that your home is no longer happy and he has completed what he sat out to do. But if you, “Submit yourselves, then, to God, Resist the devil, and he will flee from you (James 4:7).” Arguing leads you to be angry and being angry turns you bitter and bitterness leads to resentment and resentment turns to hatred and hatred pushes you farther from the reach of God. Trust God and do what you know is best. Don’t argue whether you’re right or wrong because arguing never, NEVER, solves anything.

Daily Devotional – 3/8/12 “Why you hating?”

You know it’s funny how folks come out, against you, when God is elevating you to a new level. It’s common with politicians when all of the “women” they’ve been seeing behind closed doors just happen to get an interview on the nightly news when they are running for some type of election. It’s also common in the church, because the church is too busy trying to conform to the world instead of allowing the world to conform to them. You have women and men who only go after folk for their convenience and once they are no longer getting what they want, they start telling everybody but why not tell it during the sin? Please don’t get me wrong, if a person (man or woman) is doing wrong when they know they shouldn’t be, then they should be punished because all actions have consequences but what I’m saying is there is a big difference about shedding light on a bad situation and hating on the person. Now, the “hate” I am referring to in this devotional is basically the same as jealousy but with a new age twist. See, it used to be if folks hated on you for what you had or what you knew they would probably stop coming around but now when folks hate on you they make it known to the world. With Facebook, Twitter, text messages and email folks have become bolder in their attacks. I don’t have an issue with social networking because it isn’t the problem but it’s the folks who use it in the wrong way. When they don’t have to stand face to face with you they tend to gain power in the words they used.

If I get a promotion on my job and you stand behind me throwing rocks and then hiding your hands, by trying to get me fired or talking negatively then you are a hater! If the Pastor ask Sis Shoutly to be over Women’s Day this year and now you’re trying to convince everybody to not work with her then you are a hater! If every time your brother pulls up in the car that he’s had for over a year and you get mad and say he thinks he’s something when he ain’t nothing, you’re a hater! If you continue to bring up all the bad things I did in my past each time you see me working for the Lord, you’re a hater! If you’re still caught up on your ex who has moved on and remarried and you still post negative comments with his name tagged in it on Facebook, you’re a hater! If you follow your baby daddy on twitter and then re-tweet when he talks about his new girlfriend, you’re a hater! If you constantly wish bad over my life because I’m doing better now that you’re gone, yes, you are a hater! The bible says in 1 John 3:15, “Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.” See, you can’t expect God to stand for you when you are busy trying to bring down your brother and sister all because you choose to hate! Baby, God won’t be in the midst of this. You have to realize that favor isn’t fair but it sure is fabulous and if you want it, get it for yourself. If I’ve worked hard to get where I am, you hating won’t stop it because I’ve come to realize that if you don’t have haters, it means you’re not doing something right. See, I choose to make all those who hate on me my motivators. Yea, I thank God for them daily because they keep me striving to be better in my Christian walk because if my Christian walk is better then everything I touch will be anointed by God and when my touch is anointed I won’t be disappointed. When my touch is anointed, everything I put my hands on is blessed which means I can’t be stressed. When my touch is anointed everywhere I place my feet is filled with grace so it just quickens my pace. When MY touch is anointed I’m bound to have haters so I welcome you!

James 4:2 says, “You want what you don’t have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can’t get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don’t have what you want because you don’t ask God for it.” There isn’t a reason for you to hate when all you have to do is ask God for it. I know you expect him to be as quick as a microwave dinner but God doesn’t work that way. He said, “If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you” (John 15:7) but he didn’t say it’ll be on your terms because most times we ask for the things we want and not the things we need so he determines when you’re ready. Yes, you may think you’re ready for a new car note but God knows that sickness is getting ready to attack your body and your finances will be off for a while, so he makes you wait. Yes, you may think you’re ready for that brand new expensive house but God knows the man/woman you’re with won’t stick & stay, so he’s saying not yet. Yes, you may be ready to find a new job and move out of town but God knows your mom is going to need you so he is saying just wait a little while. When God doesn’t give you what you think you need or he removes something from your grasp it only because it’s for your best. Don’t you know that God has already predestined your life so the things you go through and will go through are already planned? Child, God has already told you “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I set you apart for my holy purpose. (Jeremiah 1:5).” God didn’t allow his only Son to die so that you could live everyday hating on folks. God doesn’t put breath in your body everyday so you can make a point to speak negative about folks all day long. God doesn’t give you strength and a right mind every day for you to tear folks down. The bible says in Psalm 97:10 “Let those who love the LORD hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked.” It is your God given duty to love me. I didn’t say you couldn’t get mad but don’t stay mad and stop hating because hating doesn’t look good on you and it blocks your blessing. Psalm 145:20 says, “The LORD watches over all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.” Don’t let your mouth destroy all that God has for you here on Earth and all that he has prepared for you in your new home. When you hate, you hinder healing and without healing you don’t have hope and without hope you have no faith and without faithfulness you have no favor without favor you have no flavor and without flavor you fail!

Daily Devotional – 3/7/12 “It’s not the world!”

Haven’t you realized yet that life is what you make it? When it seems like everything is going wrong around you, everywhere you turn there is conflict and you always seem to run into a situation and nothing can go right; well, it might not be the world or the folks around you causing the issue, it might just be you. If everything was going good until you got there and now all hell is breaking loose, you may be the one bringing the hell. See, the devil is a spirit which means he doesn’t have legs to walk so the only way he gets into your home or your situation is if you or someone around you brings him in and if you bring the devil then you get evil because after all it’s in his name. Now, maybe you aren’t the one to bring the evil into the room but you may know who is and you’re too afraid to say it because you don’t want to risk losing a friend but the bible says in Colossians 3:9-10, “Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.”

You have to know by now, by reading these devotionals or studying for yourself, that trouble is promised to you so why add any more? You are always trying to tell other folks how to live, how to raise their children and how they need to change this or that when you can’t even handle your own mess. Haven’t you read Matthew 7:3 which says, “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?” You volunteer for more than you can handle and then complain and take it out on others when you knew you didn’t have the extra time to give in the first place. You wonder why folk suddenly leave the room when you come around; it’s not them because the bible says in Proverbs 22:10 “Throw out the mocker, and fighting goes, too. Quarrels and insults will disappear.” If every time you go to a family function and there is strife, it may be you. You come in with an attitude and go off because you didn’t get any of the spaghetti when you knew dinner started at 6PM and you come in at 9PM, you can’t expect any to be left but you still act like everybody owe you. The world isn’t the one with the problem, baby it’s you. You always want to blame other folks when you can’t get a job when the truth of the matter is, you barely fill the application out right and then when you get the interview, you show up late and you wonder why no one will hire you. No, it’s not the world with the issue. You get upset at simple stuff that folk say or do and now you got an attitude but instead of taking responsibility, you’d rather blame the folks around you when you know it’s not them. Maybe you need to take off the hell that’s tied to your back and look at yourself. Humph! Don’t you know that mouth of yours can write a check your butt can’t cash? Let me show you. You come to work pissed off because you and your spouse had an argument on last night. Your boss sends a email to the entire group, not just you, about some things that need to be addressed, as a whole, and before you know it you go into his/her office ranting & raving about how tired you are of this and how you are always being picked on. You’re talking so fast that you’ve yet to realize you’re talking yourself out of your job and by the time you see the mess you’ve stepped in, it’s too late. You’ve just fell into quick sand and no one is around to pull you out. Now, you’re packing up the few things you got at your desk to go home and explain to your husband/wife how you actually lost your job. You need to realize it isn’t the world with the problem! Don’t you know when you eat hot potato chips, cheese puffs or buttery popcorn they leave your hands dirty and greasy which then you get on your clothes, well when you dabble around in hellish things you tend to get some on you which means you rub it on others when you touch them. You need to be careful where you spend time and the things that influence you because Romans 12:2 says, “Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.”

And please stop putting your mouth on folk just because you’re mad, stressed and/or jealous because Proverbs 21:23 says, “Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.” When God said in 1 Chronicles 16:22 “Do not touch my anointed ones; do my prophets no harm,” he wasn’t only speaking about Pastors, Bishops and Elders, because anoint means to dedicate to the service of God and if you’re dedicated to him, then he is speaking about you. So when you talk about me because of the gift that I have, you’re talking about God’s anointed. When you defame folk’s name by spreading lies and gossip, you’re putting your mouth on God’s anointed. When you talk about Pastor Soul, you’re putting your mouth on God’s anointed. When you talk about Deacon Dudley, you’re putting your mouth on God’s anointed. When you talk about Sis Shirley’s clothes and hair, you are putting your mouth on God’s anointed. No matter how a person lives outside of worship service, it isn’t for you to judge them because Matthew 7:1 says “Do not judge, or you too will be judged.” But who are you anyway? Who are you to judge how my life or folk’s lives are lived? Just because we won’t wallow in your pit of pity, it doesn’t make us more than you, it just means we’ve accepted this thing called life and choose to make the best of it. Just because we won’t be mad at Momma for the stuff she used to do, it doesn’t make us less than you, it just means we’ve let go of the past and forgave. Just because I don’t look like I’m struggling, it doesn’t mean I have more than you, it just means I’m making the best of my blessings. Just because our paths were separated and I went one way and you went another, it doesn’t mean I don’t know where I came from, it just means I’m looking forward and not back. What it means is I’m not letting my past define me. Baby these scars that I have, whether they are visible or not, on my skin made me who I am. The scars on my knees shows that my pray life is busy. The scars on my hands are from me climbing up the rough side of the mountain. The scars on my back are from the folks who said they were for me but stabbed me when I turned around. The stains on my face are from the many nights I had to cry myself to sleep when the world was being extra cruel. The scars under the bottom of my feet are from the many roads I’ve had to travel on my Christian walk. So, whatever you’ve been through, going through or about to go through, don’t let it take you out. You’ve got to stop blocking your own blessings by running your mouth or keeping that chip on your shoulder. When you are mad at someone, pray and let the situation cool down before you react because the words that come out your mouth can’t be taken back and words can cut deeper than any knife. When someone has let you down, pray and move on because the actions you do, while hurt cannot be taken back. Be careful what you say and who you say it too. That person you’re talking about today could be the one saving your life tomorrow. The person you are crossing out because you’re mad, may be the one helping you up when you fall. The person you constantly step on may be the one helping you through your sickness. This is your life and it is what you make it so make the best of it every day. Don’t let your bad attitude affect your relationships. Don’t let your mouth get you into things that your hands can’t get you out of. So even if you have hell on your back now, the only way it stays, you have to keep holding it or you’ve strapped it on! Unbuckle it, let it go, stand up straight and press on. God got a blessing with your name on it but you’ve got to be willing to accept it and you can’t with that frown on your face!

Daily Devotional – 3/6/12 “Pay it Forward!”

There was this young man who was homeless and would spend his days sitting in the subway station with a cup asking anyone who would help him for change. Each day this young woman would pass by in her expensive suit, expensive tennis shoes (her expensive heels were in her expensive bag), while talking on her expensive cell phone. Although she passed the same way every morning and every evening, looking him in his eyes, she never would place even a penny in his cup. After a month or so, the young man got up the courage to say, “Excuse me ma’am, can you spare some change?” She looked at him, again in his eyes, but never mumbled a word. One late evening, the young man was again in the empty subway when he saw this young lady pass by on her way home but this time he noticed a man, a suspicious looking man, following behind her so when she got ready to pass by he grabbed her arm. At this point, she is furious raising her voice asking him why he would put his dirty hands on her $300 suit. She kept ranting and raving saying I don’t know you and for you to touch me, you must want me to scream for the police. Finally after a few minutes, he let her go. She said, “The nerve of you to grab me like that, who do you think you are?” “I can’t believe you just did that,” is all she kept saying. Finally able to speak, he said, “Ma’am, please excuse me for grabbing on you but..,” she interrupted, “But what? What gives you the right or the authority to put your hands on me?” He said, “Ma’am, if you would let me explain. I grabbed you because there was a man walking closely behind you with a knife and he was about to snatch you and your bag and the only way I could stop it was to grab you. My apologies ma’am, I won’t ever touch you again.” She slowly stepped back to regain her composure because she couldn’t believe someone, a stranger who she avoided like the plague, would risk his life to save hers. Tears started to swell in her eyes and although her mouth was open, no words were present. He stood there just to make sure she was alright and when he started to leave, she placed her hand on his arm to stop him. With the tears now streaming down her face, she said, “Day after day I walk past judging you because of the way you look without even stopping to ask how you got in this situation or putting money in your cup even though I have it to spare. I never take the time to offer you a cup of coffee or the sandwich in my bag because I think I’m better than you and wouldn’t ever allow myself to be in your shoes but who am I? You risked your life to save mine after the months that I’ve ignored you. You risked your life to save mine even though you don’t even know my name and I never speak. Why would you do that?” He simply replied, “I’m just paying it forward. See, I didn’t ask to be in the situation that I’m in but when I got sick with cancer I lost my job then I lost my apartment and all my so-called friends but I never lost God. Even in the midst of my begging for change in this subway, God healed my body. Even in the midst of you and others ignoring my pleas for help, God never allows me to be hungry. Even when folks judge me without knowing my story, God never allows me to be cold while I’m sleeping outside. So, because God never forgets about me, the least I can do is be true to his word which says in Hebrews 13:16 “Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.” Although I don’t have much all that I do have, I’ll share with others.”

She stood in amazement at the mere sight of this man because although the world had forsaken him, he still stood strong in the midst of his circumstance. She couldn’t believe the strength of him and his will but she knew that he wasn’t alone because God was right there by his side. She put some money in his cup that night and she left there with the thought of him ringing through her head. He didn’t know this but she had connections in the city and after a few months, she reached every one of them to help her open a recently closed homeless shelter. She made sure it had all the resources it needed and she knew the perfect person to run it. She went back to that subway station and she grabbed him by the hand. She took him to the place and as they stood in front of the door he asked why he was there. She told him that the night he saved her life, he saved her and now she was returning the favor. She asked him to be the head of this homeless shelter, he would have a small apartment on the top floor, new clothes, health insurance and it would pay him a weekly stipend. He was amazed and gladly accepted. She took him back outside so that he could be the one to unveil the name and when he removed the covering from the window it read “Paying it Forward Mission.” See, she knew what God was doing in her life and the way she could repay him was by paying it forward to others who needed it.

When I read one of my fellow bloggers blog on this morning, it reminded me that no matter where we are in life, how big we are in our careers and although we may not be homeless or sick, we can still pay it forward. Philippians 2:4 says, “Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.” This doesn’t mean you have to help every homeless or less fortunate person that you see, but it means a little bit to you may be the world to someone else. Don’t throw away the clothes and shoes you no longer wear, donate them to charity. Skip eating lunch out one day this week and donate it to the Food Bank whose shelves are almost empty. Help somebody across the street, let the car cut in through traffic, volunteer or donate to your local shelter or simply whisper a prayer for your neighbor or coworker. You can never tell what a person is going through or dealing with so smile sometimes at someone else. James 2:14-17 says, “What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.” You are supposed to help one another, pray for one another and stand by one another because God has commanded you to do so. Take the time to bless someone else with a simple text, call or unexpected visit. While God is being good to you, pay it forward, by being good to someone else. Being a blessing brings you blessings. Well, that’s what God said. Don’t believe me, read Luke 6:38 which say, “Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.” I don’t make this stuff up, study for yourself and you’ll be glad you did.

Daily Devotional – 3/5/12 “When you sow dirty, you get dirty!”

Didn’t your mom tell you that if you play in dirt you get dirty, if you walk through mud, you usually get some on the bottom of your shoes and if you are around somebody throwing dirt a little might spill onto you? Well, this is the same thing as spreading lies, gossiping and backbiting against folk – you’re playing in dirt. Haven’t you heard that whatever you sow, you shall reap? This wasn’t just talking about seeds for vegetables, fruits or flowers but it is also taking about sowing seeds of deceit, lies, etc. Proverbs 22:8 says, “He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.” If you’re constantly planting trouble for other folk, you’re bound to harvest that same trouble. Take as an example, you and your friend decide to go to the mall to shoplift and you ask her to get you a few shirts while you stand watch and once you both get home, you find out that she didn’t get your shirts but she got a few for her boyfriend, so now you’re pissed off. You decide to go to the store to turn her in but what you didn’t think about is once they look at the security videos, they see your crazy butt as a lookout so now you both get arrested. See, while you’re plotting evil for other folks you need to take into consideration the same evil for yourself. The bible says in Zechariah 8:17, “Don’t scheme against each other. Stop your love of telling lies that you swear are the truth. I hate all these things, says the LORD.” Why are you mad at me because of the favor that God is raining down on me? Don’t be jealous, get smart and stand beside me so that some of this favor can fall on you too. There’s no need of trying to push me out the way to get what God has for me because you might not be able to do the same thing with the blessing that he sends me. See, God may have given you the ability to write but it may be poetry and not a devotional. He may have given you the ability to cook but it may be for pastries and not soul food. He may have even given you the ability to speak but it may just be evangelizing and not Pastoring. And just because I am able to do something better that you think you’re good at, you don’t have to sow seeds of failure in my life.

Haven’t you figured it out yet that when you sow ugliness in other folk life because you’re not accomplishing what you want in your life, you are blocking your blessings? Don’t you know when you plant seeds you’ll reap a harvest of whatever type of seed you plant? When you plant a seed of failure in my life, you reap failure. When you plant a seed of hurt, you reap hurt. When you plant a seed of death, you reap death. Don’t believe me, Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 says “For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven. A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant and a time to harvest.” Whatever is planted has to be harvested at some point and time. When you put your mouth on folks and start wishing bad for their life, you’re going to reap the same thing. Why do you think you’re having is so bad during this life of yours? Every time somebody makes you mad, you start telling all the stuff they did or used to do even though you promised you never would without even realizing you’re also telling on yourself. Let me throw this in for free- you allowed somebody else to use your child on their tax return and they promised to give you a few bucks for it but when the time came they stopped answering the phone. Now you decide to turn them in to IRS and they got audited and guess what, so did you. Why? Because this was a mess to begin with so you had to know nothing good would come out of it so while you are telling on them you’re also telling on yourself. (What you sow, so shall you reap!) Oh, don’t think that because you turn somebody in for stealing, you will get a few favor points from God when you bought what they had before turning them it – you are just as guilty.

Stop sowing seeds of malicious intent into folks lives for Proverbs 6:16-19 says, “Here are six things God hates, and one more that he loathes with a passion: eyes that are arrogant, a tongue that lies, hands that murder the innocent, a heart that hatches evil plots, feet that race down a wicked track, a mouth that lies under oath, a troublemaker in the family.” If you fall under any of these, then God isn’t pleased with you. Just because somebody else got the job you wanted, it doesn’t mean you keep trying to get them fired when they make a mistake because you can lose your job just as fast. The only thing you should be sowing in dirt is those things that are supposed to be. Stop sowing death and sow life. Stop sowing lies and sow truth. Stop sowing backbiting and sow friendship. Stop sowing hate and sow love. Stop sowing hurt and sow help. Mahalia Jackson once said, “If you dig one ditch you better dig two cause the trap you set just may be for you.” Be careful when putting down traps for other folks because you may just forget where it is and fall into it yourself. God doesn’t need you to handle getting even with folks down here because he’ll have the last say so up there. So when folks hurt you, lie on you, stick knives in your back, and slap you in your face while kicking you when you’re down, let God handle it. No need of sowing seeds of revenge because you’ll only reap regret. God is capable of doing just what he said he would do, so let him handle it. Throw out all the seeds of doubt, lies, slandering, back stabbing and hate because they’ll only reap you the same thing to harvest.