ABLE TO SEE (a poem)

TO THOSE WHO STARE THROUGH ROOFS
YOU ARE BETTER OFF INSIDE
YOUR EYES OPEN WIDE
SEEING WHAT OTHERS CANNOT

THEY SEE WALLS
MATERIALS WITH LIGHTS BUILT IN
LIGHTS THAT WILL EVENTUALLY SHUT LIKE SUNDOWN
SO SADLY THEY ARE TRAPPED

AND OUTSIDE THEY SEE SKY
SUN, CLOUD, STARS AND MOON THEY SEE
ALL THINGS BUILT IN
BUT SADLY THEY ARE TRAPPED

BUT; YOU
YES, THOSE WHO STARE THROUGH ROOFS
YOU ARE BETTER OFF INSIDE
YOUR EYES ARE OPEN WIDE
SEEING WHAT OTHERS CANNOT

Spring Break wk1 (Reflection if My Mind's Eye)

Week one of Spring Break is practically over. Tonight i go to an art show with a friend. Last night we finished our work so far for the CRIBS, the ministry i serve on Thursday. Christians Radically Impacting Brothers and Sisters...we work w high school age students in the hood. that's where my church is...Reborn Community Church...
PRAY FOR US!

Also, this week I've been working 6-12/1pm mon-fri...that has been ok. i was late to work yesterday though...i know, myyyy baad. I've had the privilege to help with coaching my lil brother Lynell and his junior high bball team. We lost our last game that was to determine whether we would go to the play-offs, but that's ok. they may want me to coach the team next year though...that is, if they dont close down the school for testing scores...I know.
PRAY FOR THEM

I've been reading the Word lately and it has been so very good of course... the last 3 weeks or so I've read (in order) Job, Hebrews, Daniel, Revelation, and just finished Ecclesiastes this morning...
What more can I say...PRAY FOR ME!

And now, finally the first week in April we will jump start CRIBS again, after a semester of preparation, after a church move, a leadership change. And we need God. We need our walk to be on point or we will do damage working in our flesh. We talked about this yesterday. I've been blessed to sit in on some Grad School modular classes this week on spiritual disciplines and spiritual warfare w/ a great professor that i admire here. So as my church begins to draw near Resurrection Sunday and our youth ministry starting back up and getting ready to fast and pray more. It is going to get tough...This week alone has been tough...so if you would Saints!
Please Pray...I Love You all...
God be merciful and bless you!

Things are ok

Today i spent most of it at church painting and helping set up there. It is so vital that we are serving somewhere, as Christians if we are not taking part in ministry then we risk becoming idle in our faith. Not saying that we are not active in other capacities but it is so important that we support the ministry of reconciliation in one way or another. The gospel of Christ cannot be void of the message we preach, and this we must preach. It is a message right, the proclamation of testimony that Christ came and died for sinners. When we are producing the fruit of good works, our sacrificial daily sacrifice of how we live and what we do which is our act of worship in service to one another, including "everyone". This is what love looks like right.
It is much to often that we expect the church to serve us, we are to be the church serving each other..hahah....like "right D-roc, we know" well then we should do it. Those of us who want to be future leaders in the church have got to stop going to what we consider "good churches" because we like the ministry there and the pastor has good preaching. rather we should look for a place to serve that needs some real dependence of the Holy Spirit and the gospel of Christ to see some transformation.

Question: if you found yourself in a church that were preaching heresy, would you stay?

The average person, if they could recognize heresy when they hear it, would say NO, most likely.
Yet, what if it is beneficial to stay and be a light in that place, building relationships with those who are being deceived by half truths, which are actually lies. Now this is not my church, but I wonder if it were if I would stay. It would be such a wonderful work to speak the truth against it until the Lord without doubt said that it was time to move on. That either people were beginning to see and He would do the rest or that these people will fall and that I should no longer be counted among them... just a thought...

anyway, i just got back from a movie i could have waited to see. so I'm going to go to bed. Ive got homework to do tomorrow before i go to church..at 4pm...so let me be useful of my time

Pray that the Lord enable me to buckle down and be studious (of which i am not).. i need help here...Integrity to my studies and discipline in them... thank you...love you guys

D-roc