Are the Children REALLY the Future?

In a recent conversation with a group of friends, one chic shared how hard it was to explain the current events to her young 6yr old son. Although I could only imagine the difficulty in finding the right analogies to give to a kid, I empathized with her... then gave my take:
Yea, what has taken place over the last 5 days has been nothing short of crazy, bizarre and downright disrespectful, to ALL mankind. To a degree, it was unfortunate that her son had to experience history like THIS. But the flip side of it was that it was to his advantage that he got to see it... so he would never forget it. That he would know beyond a shadow of a doubt, that no matter what happens, in AMERICA, he was (and would always be) BLACK first... most times before they will even see him as a MAN.They are trying to whitewash history. Remove important facts, and alter the relevancy of the struggle. THESE events... help to affirm that history, for the younger generation. 
These younger kids have no real understanding of the struggle our grandmothers, Big Mommas, and Great-Grands went through. And they will forever be absentminded of it as long as we keep criticizing the past being brought up. When people like Nick Cannon, Wendy Williams, Stacy Dash, Snoop Dogg, and others publicly criticize black America for wanting to stay relevant,  wanting White America to SAY OUR NAME and #NEVERFORGET like a new hash tag created every time a young black man is slain, it shows that there is racial division amongst the house. And we all know what a house divided will do (fall). It also gives them a subliminal thumbs up of approval, to continue to sweep under the rug the struggles, tears, and breakthroughs of our antecessors. Its is OUR job to ensure that our history is apart of AMERICA's history... both the past, present and future. So like like a journalist, someone has to give an account of what happened... but just like an eyewitness, someone has to be there, to tell it. Let's just pray that those the live the experience... also LIVE TO TELL IT....      ~Selah

Are you Subscribing to Denial?

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PSA: Where are the Parents???

Hello all!

I've been busy attending graduation and graduation festivities as you know May and June are PRIME Graduation season. This week, I decided to try a Vblog to get my point across.... Check it out and let me know your thoughts...

 

The Idenity of a Lost Nation

While doing some reading, primarily in Jeremiah, I somehow found an interest in the biblical ethnicities and cultures mentioned of the ancient days, specifically the Aremeans. A lot of the Old Testament, especially the first couple of chapters of the Pentechutes mentions the Aremeans. In a recent conversation with someone I mentioned, Elisha and the Arameans. The other person disputed by correcting that I was referring to the Armenian people. I regarded that the Arameans, are the ancestors of current day Aram => Arameans; which are not current day Armenians, as they are actually present day Syrians.

So in my study of the origin of the Hebrew Arameans and Israelites, it turns out that the Aramaic term for the word Hebrew is “Yri” “Apiru” and “Habiru”. The actual context of the word Hebrew is used as a noun, 3 different ways:

1. By foreigners used to describe the Israelites [mostly referred to as Ibri]
2.  By Israelites, to identify themselves to foreigners  [bene Yisrael: meaning children of Isreal/ Isrealites]
3. A term used to refer to slaves [a term given to mean foreigner]

So genealogically speaking, the Isrealites can be traced back to Heber, one of the sons of Shem, the grandson of Noah. In knowing this and understanding that the term Ibri, originates from the word Abar: meaning to pass over, cross over, march over, overflow, go over. This is often translated in modern term to the (n): the other side. Ultimately, Abar has a true meaning of: from the other side of or the region beyond; came from afar.

So in retrospect, the term Hebrew was not used to classify a race or nationality of people, so much as a social class of people. Anyone considered a foreigner, alien, or lived on the margin of society without a fixed place in society, was considered a Hibiru (Hebrew). Naturally this seems befitting considering the Grandfather of the Israelites is the nomadic Abraham, who entered Canaan as a foreigner. Going back to Genesis, when God decides to tell Abraham that he would be the Father of Many Nations, he actually foreshadows the redeeming of an unclaimed people. We know that later on, God changes Jacob’s name to Israel. I believe that was done to now establish these people with an identity of their own. This took me back the many references heard throughout the O.T. where non-Israelites would say things like “Pray to YOUR God” or refer to him as “The God of YOUR people”, because they were not as established as the Egyptians, or the Persians or other ancient cultures.

So the next time you have intimate time with God, remember to Thank HIM, for redeeming you and giving you an IDENITY. For if you think about it, we are much more like Jacob than anyone else for we have received a “Double Portion”; first the claiming of non-descript nation of wondering people; next the adoption Gentiles to be claimed as the Children of God, allowing all of us non-Jews to be called God’s Holy people.          #getfreetoday

When will the Church start BUILDING and stop CRITICIZING?

Hey guys its Friday so I hope you are as excited as I am to be entering the weekend! This week I was on social media and found this video. Apparently, some organization by the name of "Go Ministries" posted this and it has gone rather viral. Now I don’t know them... not mad at their OPINION, because that's what it is... and OPINION. But I do have a problem when people post, state, or mention things that are not factual in factual stance. For example, if I ask you "Is raining outside?", I’m asking for you to give me a FACT, not tell me "NO, based on you THINKING the weather will clear up today. You have just given me an opinion like it was the truth (aka factual stance). Get it now? Anyhoo, check out the video below and tell me what you think?

Interesting....  Yep, that's my new word I used to describe something when I don't have good/nice/happy words for it.  (lol)

I will say this though... This video is bull crap, and is EXACTLY how propaganda works! This TOTALLY takes his interview out of context. I actually saw the FULL interview (which I posted below), and agree with Kirk on MOST of what he said. That many people really are so caught up in the "words" and "stigma" of RELIGION, doing for the sake of doing, rather than being more concerned with the "action" of SPIRITUAL ONENESS AND UPRIGHTNESS WITH CHRIST. This generation does NOT care if you have a 18pc suite on... this generation does NOT care that you cooked Sunday dinners after church... this generation does NOT care that you GO to church every Sunday and Wednesday... this generation does NOT care that you know all the books of the Bible and quote them like you quote your top 5 Facebook friends... they don’t even care that you serve or speak in tongues; to be honest, I really could less myself! ALL they want to see is DO YOU HAVE GOD? CAN YOU SHOW ME HIM? Better yet, can you SHOW ME HOW TO LIVE IN TODAY'S SOCIETY while being FREE? Period point blank. At no point in that or any other interview have I EVER heard Kirk deny, God, the POWER of God, Christ being his Lord and Savior, him being perfect, him being so saved that he could tell you how you're a part of the illumed, or any other foolishness.

What I HAVE heard him say is how he battled with his issue (porn addiction to be exact); how he fell from grace, but was covered and restore by the Grace of God and how his mission is to bring people, young people and NON-believers to Jesus Christ. WHO CARES about him taking picks with NON-Christians?! IF you plan to impact the marketplace outside of the four walls of your church you just may have to actually interact and network with others (NON-believers) to be exact. I tell you, I’m sick of the silliness of the Christian community and I'm a part of it!!!

Now, on the "homosexuality question", I admit, he was doing a LOT of stuttering.  *lol* My opinionated argument is that he was probably trying not to "say the wrong thing". BUT, the Bible does speak of Spiritual Indignation. We are to stand for what is right and what is Holy. Yes the Bible is very clear on what GOD says about it, there is no in between. But again, without judging, my opinionated argument would be that his answer of saying "the same thing it says about heterosexuality" was him saying "it says the TRUTH, for both and is not changed". Again, that was me not jumping to conclusions and actually LISTENING to what he said. Im reminded of the scripture in James:

James 4:11-12 ESV Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?

Final Thoughts: I’m not a DIE-HARD Franklin fan, but I do like his music and I do respect his hustle. As mentioned, I do think this was taken out of context, as most things and every meme of a picture with someone else's words are.  At the end of the day, there are SO many more things, issues, concerns, and demons to fight and protest about... Let's not do it our own (God's people), the world does it enough for us.  #Sela #getfreetoday

here is the actual video from Kirk and the Breakfast Club