“Make the most of your time...........When we fail to operate in what God has given us we become stagnate which is to cease developing; become inactive or dull,…… bitter, jealous and just plan unfruitful. We were designed to work be creative. When we are not doing the work of the Lord we become idle and ineffective”- Pearle

This past Wednesday I spoke to the young adults for the first time at my new place of fellowship. It had been about 3-4yrs since I have spoken on something other than praise and worship. I was called as a preacher in my early teens but did not answer until I was 18. It was awesome to share what God had been speaking to me and is still speaking to me. I just wanted to share in my blog with everyone. I find that is still developing and I am being challenged everyday by it and in this blog I added a lil of what is being said.……The word the Lord had given to me was “Make the Most of your Time”.

Ephesians 5:15-17 says

Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise, making the most of your time, because the days are evil. So then do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

God’s desire is that we all make the most of what He has called us to, but we can’t do anything until we start doing something. For some of us we know exactly what God has called us to do. Some still maybe seeking the Lord, but I guarantee it is already in you. God is not just calling His people to be preachers, singers or anything else that may be in the front. For many of us our dreams goals visions calling all look different. It could be anything from athlete to pastor but the main purpose of all of them should be to glorify God. Whatever we have been given to do we have to be disciplined stewards. We must make the most of our time here on Earth. His desired is that His light shines through us so the world may know who He is. Our gifts and our talents are not just for us but for others. Whatever God has called you gifted and anointed you to do is first to His glory and for kingdom building. We are called to be world changers. The world is hungry for something but it is not sure, but we have been given an opportunity to impact this earth by showing people Jesus.

Many of us have dreams and visions that we have given up on or figure because someone else looks like they can do it better or it’s just not working out so it must not be the will of God. The dreams and desires that we have, that are in line with God’s word, are not by given to us by accident. Sure sometimes they seem too big or too much, but that’s ok it’s not too big for God to fulfill. Personally I am being challenged in my faith walk in this area of giving up too soon on what I know God has placed in me to do. I figure I’d just take the backseat because clearly if it were God’s plan for me I would have already been doing it and I am doing too much so maybe I just need to “wait on the Lord” and stop pursuing the vision. I realized it’s nothing but a distraction and the laziness of my flesh and sometimes the enemy of our soul. Giving up is easy it takes no effort, but it will take everything from you.

1Timothy 4:14 Do not neglect your gift, which was given you through prophecy when the body of elders laid their hands on you.

Some of you may literally have had the words of prophecy spoken over you, things that were confirmed because you know God spoke it. It is not entirely up to us to figure out how it is going to be fulfilled. But know Number 23:14 says

God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent; Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good.

Here’s another verse for encouragement sake.

Isaiah 55:11

So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; It will not return to Me empty, Without accomplishing what I desire, And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.

When we fail to operate in what God has given us we become stagnate which is to cease developing; become inactive or dull,…… bitter, jealous and just plan unfruitful. We were designed to work be creative. When we are not doing the work of the Lord we become idle and ineffective.

When we fail to operate in God’s will for our lives we not only deprive ourselves but we deprive others. When operate or spend our time being unfruitful we cannot be effective and we can’t be spiritually healthy. You’re just occupying space. The children of God are supposed to be fruitful we are supposed to be growing and actively doing the will of God.

The people of God are special we are chosen predestined. Ask God to pour His Spirit upon you and in you until you filled with the Holy Spirit. The Baptism of the Holy Spirit is for everyone. I always want to encourage this because you need the Holy Spirit in you to do the work.

In whatever you desire to do actively seek God in prayer and in reading of His word. Saying prayers is not enough. Communicate with our God and Savior.

I could say a lot concerning make the most of your time and do the work now but I leave you with this.

Conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunity.-Colossians 4:5

But the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.-Daniel 11:32

Making the most of your time, because the days are evil- Eph 5:16

Reasons Why Women Expose Themselves

An article I posted years ago but is still update with times unfortunately 9/21/06

REASONS WHY WOMEN EXPOSE THEMSELVES

By Dennis Prager  Feb 17, 2004

You may have noticed that many young women wear less, and more sexually provocative, clothing in public than they did a generation, or even 10 years, ago.

It is easier to notice, however, than to explain.

But explaining it is crucial to understanding what has happened to men and women in the last 40 years and where male-female relations are headed. Women exposing their bodies in public is a big deal. Playing with the sex drive, the most powerful force in nature, is far more dangerous than playing with fire. Even if one welcomes this development -- and for the record, as a male I am turned on, while as a man I am turned off -- it begs for explanation.

I will offer at least five reasons that may be less obvious but more important than the valid ones usually given -- peer pressure, women buy what stores sell and the sexual revolution.

The first is "equality."

By equality, I do not mean the belief that men and women are equal human beings, a belief that all decent people hold. Rather, I mean the feminist and politically correct definition of equality: sameness. Men and women have come to be regarded as the same, not simply as equals.

Thanks to feminist doctrines that pervade education from kindergarten through graduate school, men and women increasingly believe that the sexes are largely identical. Therefore, the arenas wherein women can feel and demonstrate their feminine distinctiveness have narrowed appreciably.

By showing more of their bodies, women can announce that they are women. There are other ways young women can publicly demonstrate their distinct female identity -- for example, by wearing feminine clothing and other feminine behavior, being a wife, being pregnant and being a mother.

But those ways are increasingly ignored, deferred and discredited. Among egalitarians, being a wife is no different a role than that of husband, and motherhood is no longer regarded as distinctively female. Husbands and fathers are supposed to play identical roles, and because of the movement for gay equality, mothers have been declared unnecessary -- two fathers, most well educated people now contend, are every bit as good for a child as a mother and a father. But children need both mother and father!!!!

So, for the young woman for whom marriage, pregnancy and motherhood are remote or even undesirable given the anti-traditional education she has received, her primary vehicle of proclaiming she is a woman is literally to expose the fact.

A second, related, reason is the death of femininity.

In the past, expressing one's femaleness was done through expressing femininity. In addition to the female roles of wife and mother, there were numerous ways of doing so. One was, of course, dress. But in the name of equality and comfort, distinctive female dress -- such as dresses and skirts -- has been largely abandoned. A young woman who wore a dress or even a skirt and blouse to a college, let alone high school, class would probably be considered stranger by her peers than one who wore a see-through top.

Today, instead of women wearing feminine clothing, they either wear essentially male clothing (such as pants and pants suits) or flesh-baring sexually provocative clothing. Feminine attire -- i.e., clothing that is very female but not very revealing -- is rare.

Femininity was also expressed by sexual reticence. Again, such a notion is laughable in much of contemporary society. The idea that a man made great efforts to be allowed sexual contact with a woman rendered women feminine in men's eyes. They are different from us -- they are feminine. Women who act as sexually available as a man -- through their behavior or their dress -- are not perceived as feminine, since they are perceived as being male-like.

Likewise, the myriad ways in which men treated women as women -- such as opening doors for them -- all declared that women were feminine, i.e., different from masculine. That is why many feminists opposed men opening doors for women -- it reinforced notions of femininity, a value that feminism has sought to extinguish.

So, femininity is largely a dead concept. Ask most young women -- or men -- what it means, and you will get either a blank stare or a hostile reaction.

Thus, many women are now saying: "I am a woman. And I will declare it in one of the only ways left to me -- I will show you my female body."