Hello, I Am a 22 year old young woman that s struggling with being CONSISTENT in my vow of celibacy until MARRIAGE. During my teenage years I was very promiscuous. I had many sexual partners, and engaged in all types of illicit sexual activities. I was wild and sometimes didn’t make the best decisions about who I slept with and I didn’t always use protection. 2 abortions and sexually transmitted diseases later, I began to examine my sexual habits and appetite for lust. In 2011 after my sexual partner of 2 years scared me into thinking I had HIV, I…
Love means praying for them even when you’re mad at them.
I am a painter. Not by trade, but by hobby. I have painted pictures for years, giving to them to family, friends, and even hanging one or two of them on my own walls. Over the years, when I have begun a painting, I usually have the picture I want to create in mind. However, when I begin, the canvas is always white. It is empty. Soon I begin to smear colors together creating shadows and highlights, shallowness and depth. There have been times when someone has stood over my shoulder and with a hand to the chin judged my…
Wondering What Does The Bible Say About Gossip? We must know when to walk away. Not every conversation that starts with a good intention, ends that way.
God has blessed me with many wonderful things recently, a wonderful husband and in March I will be giving birth to a beautiful son. But with all this joy I am dealing with a major problem, my mother. I grew up in a very poor household with a single mother and my sister, and ever since I can remember my mother has always used drugs and alcohol. My sister left to be with her dad at he age of 11. I was stuck with my mom. She was very abusive and had horrible people over all the time, she was…
Last year Praise Philly held their 2013 Inspiration & Music Conference where up and coming singer; Tamika Patton was crowned “Best Inspirational Singer in America” The Best Inspirational Singer in America workshop is a nationwide search for the top gospel singer in the country. This workshop gives an aspiring singer the opportunity of a lifetime! The winner receives $5,000 courtesy of Kerry Douglass and World Wide Music, a SONG written and produced BY James Fortune and a single release. Almost one year later, here she is with her new inspirational video titled ‘God Won’t Let Me Fail’. It has a…
Gospel recording artist Fred Hammond is starting the year out with a bang! Many of us have watched Fred’s honest struggle with his knees. He even revealed a big disappointment last year. Well, he has let us in on a miracle in his life one year later! Just a couple of days ago, Hammond underwent knee surgery. Only twenty minutes after the surgery, Hammond posted on Twitter, “Physical therapy 20 minutes after surgery, let’s go,” and posted the above picture. He also said, “Literally learning how to walk again. Stretching and exercising left til 6:30 then right leg @ 8:30……
I’ve been making many internal changes to be able to live a life full of happiness. I’ve realized many things about myself that caused me to live a very “heavy” life, and those things, I have started to take lightly. Now I just have to shake that spirit of jealousy. I’m not a materialistic person, so I’m not one of those “keeping up with the Jones” types. My problem is being territorial over people in my life. I’m possessive. I tend to say things like “my grandma” instead of simply “grandma” while talking with cousins who also have the same…
Keep your faith! Things can turn around right at the moment you’re about to give up!
My name is Carrie and 13 years ago on the heel of a failed marriage I was set up on a blind date with a gentleman named Hal. I thought for sure nothing would come of it since he was younger then me and I was divorced with a child. Eventually we began dating seriously and after two years and having a son together I finally gave in to his request to spend the rest of our lives together! The first three years of marriage were so perfect, we had such a wonderful life together and he was an amazing…
My husband and I have been married for 14 years. We have 3 kids and the youngest is only 6 months old. We have just started our own church with a small following. My husband is a good husband in every way, don’t get me wrong but recently we have not been what you call sexually compatible. He’s into things that I’m not into. He wants to do things, I’m not quite comfortable with. He gets sex whenever he wants it, but when he doesn’t get it how he wants it, It’s a fight. Now he has asked me to…
Yes, we all have weaknesses in the flesh that God recognizes and is not at all surprised by. “He does not punish us for all our sins; He does not deal harshly with us, as we deserve. For His unfailing love toward those who fear Him is as great as the height of the heavens above the earth. He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west. The Lord is like a father to His children, tender and compassionate to those who fear Him. For He knows how weak we are; He remembers…
Hello, I have been attending my church for over 8 years now. Everything was fine up until a few months ago. I really don’t even know if this is possible, but I think I have outgrown my church. I usher, I’m in the choir, I run Children’s church etc. I do what I can wherever I’m needed. However, the people are so messy. It’s gotten to the point I don’t even talk to anyone anymore. Everyone is so nosy. They gossip and all talk about each other behind their backs. But that’s the least of my worries. My pastor…
No one will argue with the notion that we are all different and wired differently. We all do not share the same experiences, come from the same country, share the same religion, are not taught the same way etc. I was at a wedding ceremony recently where the couple were asked to say what they loved or liked about each other. It was interesting to note that not one of the things each person mentioned was the same. Each of the couple expressed their love for something different about each other. This leaves me to believe that our differences are…
Your healing begins when you forgive those who have wronged you and pray for those who have walked away from you!
Think of it as a “The Bachelor” (Church Edition). Members of a Christian congregation will play matchmaker in a competition to help an unattached fellow parishioner find their match. In each episode, ‘It Takes A Church’, visits a congregation from across the country to surprise one unsuspecting single with the news that they’re about to be saved from the dating world. The church’s Pastor will task their congregation of cupids to find the best possible matches for the dater. At the end of the matchmaking competition, the unattached parishioner will decide which suitor to put his or her faith in.…
“I choose gentleness… Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself.” ― Max Lucado When God made me, He made a girl who loves, loves, loves for everyone around her to be happy. A girl that wears her heart on her sleeve and is gentle in speech, in action, and in touch. Before I really knew God, I totally was run over by emotions 24/7.…
My husband and I have only been married for a little over a year. The 3 yrs before while dating he put me through everything a woman could possibly go through. He was addicted to drugs, cheated on me and left me several times. All the while I was a faithful and good woman who was always there when he needed me. After our last break up I finally moved on (or so i thought) and dated a man who would have been the perfect match for me. But I couldn’t love him. My husband, (not married at the time)…
Welcome to 2014! This is a brand New Year with the same great God. Every year people make New Year resolutions listing all the wonderful things they wish to accomplish, unfortunately most of those goals are set to the wayside before the first week of the year is complete. Thankfully all the great things God have in store for us still remain the same. The same wonderful things God wanted for you last year He still has for you this year and the years ahead: perfect health and strength, life of abundance, love, peace, long life, just to name a…
‘Gravity’ is a film about a female astronaut (Dr. Ryan Stone) and her race against time to make it back to Earth after an interstellar catastrophe kills her crew members. It is one of the best woman empowerment films this decade. Definitely, it is a cinematic masterpiece in regards to film technology. Whether this was deliberate on director/writer Alfonso Cuarón’s part or not, he created one of the best faith films in years. Gravity means the heaviness, the weights and pressures that exist on earth. The film explores the spiritual theme of the gravitational pulls within one’s life to believe…
