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T
he politicians know. Investigative
news reporters know. And we the
people know.
Know what? That in this world---there are
those who have their agenda, step by step, and
if not collectively---then separately each per-
son's resolve is to get their slice of bread.

Indeed "ain't nothing going on without the rent
and until the age of eighteen, your baby will al-
ways need a new pair of shoes".

This is the funny thing about humanity---with
the Living Word in their mouth and end results
being no laughing matter.

Look out into the world---upon the lives of
others, even your own, if such is the case.

Long is the curse of one's father's---visited
upon whose generations, unto the third and
fourth.

And so---with the hand of God upon my life,
here comes the blessing of my anointing, unto
other, as it's purposed by the God I serve.

Ergo---as of late, given I reside in the nation's
capital and in each day murder, grave abduc-
tions, corruption, theft by proportions, etc.,
rise and thus reason literally stemming from
why and how the of hanging of 78 nooses in
the past year, across the country---I've been
studying the lives of Cain and Able.

Enter the Good News for any day,
illuminating to what extent we are
our brother's keeper.

Indeed---as Bishop Jakes teaches
---"the blood speaks".

And this is what we all know---
as I initially posed the question.

Thus when standing along-
side a brother or sister,
whether in "the ghetto"
and especially
when in the so-called "standard-bearing
economically red-lined" Caucasian
neighborhoods---pose the perspective
herein and note that you can do so ab-
sent the politics and any other diatribe.

Hence preface followed with the Living
Word, as God said, in the forty-first
chapter of Isaiah prefaced as, "God's
Assurance To Israel" and thus ensuing
context for under- standing, beginning
with verse twenty-one, prefaced as,
"The Lord's Challenge To False Gods".

Enter another sum total answer for
man's woes, the evil men do, and who
can bring necessary solution in the ab-
solute, ensuing change unto the better
good, as God said, "Produce your cause,
bring forth your strong reasons."

Hence our Lord follows with remem-
ance to never place our faith in men
and that no man can do or deliver
what only God can.

Ergo---as God said, "I will heal the
land, if My people called will pray."
Thus to expounding upon the depth
of power in His people, I make ac-
count is to digress; and hence account
for another day.

Yet power of the people called and
Gentile with ears to hear is none-the-
less made clear.

Hence truth and reality rising and illu-
minating both, to what extent we are
our brother and how God empowers
us to do so.

Thus amidst your varied conversa-
tions or during those Metro Smart-
Trip ticket commutes---pose the
following:

Consider when Jesus said---"I came
that you may have life more abunda-
ntly, above and not beneath, as lender
not borrower, as the head not the tail;"
we can't help but see where life in the
ghetto meets the economic red-line
---ushers forth the supposed picture
of prosperity and standards to live
by.

Thus we first understand why God
said, 'the production of such cause
and strong reason, belie any definition
of things to come'.

A picture of this fact is aptly and
necessarily visible in the nation's
capitol streets.

Consider the working force, as its
populace is 60% Black and yet---the
moment you reach those economical-
ly dividing  red-lines---it is the coni-
tion of the streets that first
meet you.

Ergo---political science or
POVs aren't necessary in the
math of deliberate disenfran-
chisement---when you consider
60% African-American work-
force, thus row-house after
row-house of neighborhoods
are not reaping the benefit of
their tax dollars and especially  
in the form of even, "street
cleaners", let alone infrastruc-
ture rehab and regenerating
greater than "mom and pop"
store business dollars.
Enter the Living Word---presenting
solution, where there is a problem
and in the absolute.

Consider the "vail's, veil" being no
less a concision wrought upon the
earth---let alone upon U.S. soil and
no less the only affirmative action,
from which to draw absolute solu-
tions.

Enter the Lord's people called and
especially those of strong meat---
which is to say, "those whose level   
of faith has been tried by the fire and
long"; and hence "some real movers
and shaker", as I believe myself to be,
as evidence by all that encompasses
this online magazine.

Hence the long and short of the fire
I'm made of, prefaced, thus confirmed
in the "Living Word".

Take opportunity to talk up the reali-
ties before us, beginning with making
the Living Word, tangibly applicable.

Ergo---which is to convey---no mat-
ter what the situation looks like or
when the proverbial lightbulb, enligh-
tens, God rests in the beginning,
throughout, and in the end of all
things.

Enter the beginning of Ezekiel's
wheel, within the wheel.

Jesus said, "Come as you are and I
will meet you, even in the middle of
any road"; thus "with Christ---ergo,
study in the word---all things being
possible".

So consider fact of God having placed
in each of us, an innate drive to seek
Him, no matter the reason and no
matter who we are, or where we are.

I hear the gospel song write, "That's
when He blessed me" and I, myself
coming through a certain fiery furnace
especially built and from my youth---
we understand "how to give up self",
and realize, that in being made in His
image---take all due comfort, relief,
and release unto, as Mose did.

Thus God is the fire.

And so understanding---there is no-
thing made that God didn't make, that
He is in all things and so---no weapon
formed can prosper.

Moving on...as I often then say, as
the gospel truth states, as sung by
Tri-City Singers, "Now go get your
inheritance!"

Enter the model of Abraham---though
he erred, hold fast to the promises of
God and He will impute this as
righteousness.

Enter Joseph's model---therewith no
matter if your enemy will buy you
out of a pit and then enslave you---
therewith be content, as God makes
your enemy your footstool and
restores familial ties.

Thus all the while---through the fire
raise one's consciousness with this
first realization, which the enemy will
strive long and hard to make obscure
and even bereft thereof---"God will
never leave you nor forsake you.

Ergo---this is why Jesus said, "Train
your children up in the way they are
to go; thus to be ready, apt, and able.

And in my case---I can tell you the
enemy knew this very fact and
worked the word of God against me,
like few others have been tried.

Yet in testimony I can tell you---the
minute your enemy and weight of
struggle upward and out says---  
presence reveal and teach us--- He
too walked "a predestined path".

Thus tell another---as Bishop Jakes
reminds---"life is not a random series
of chaotic events and thus, teach
your children how to wrap their mind
around the fact early in their life, that
God is in control of everything."

As it is written in the gospel, 'oh
what needless burdens we bear, if   
we do not carry them to the altar; and
yet our salvation begins with leaving
"your counted
out, abandoned,
and
discarded"---tell
another, "lean
hard" on the
everlasting arm
of God.

Thus---as Jesus
was lead by the
Word of God,
but "the lamp
unto our feet"
---it is for us to
understand our
Lord came in
the flesh---to
by His very
G. Helnwein's,
"Righteous Man"
(G.H. vision illumi-
nating the Holocaust,
in his Face It',
exhibition. View works
this collection.)
all hell, cares, struggle, and storms--- at the altar.

Thus rises salvation from---"the cross, any cross we need
not bear"---as Jesus came to bear witness, by bearing all
burden to fiery furnaces, and even death for us.

Hence the beginning of our breakthrough and with the reali-
zation of all the above---begins with faith and fact of each
fire is but to increase our faith in God's will and power, to
bring us through.

Hence understand the fire is but the mountain regulator---
who comes to remind, change, and remove what should not
be---in whomever and whatever need be; and note this teach-
ing by biblical examples---the greater the fiery furnace,
thus trial---the greater God's intent and purpose in you,
and especially in we---His people called.

Thus take heart by God---as He restored David's dance in
praise and thus as the contemporary gospel in song teaches
today, "What kind of God can do this for me"; thus as David
said, "What is man, that thou art mindful of him?"

And I hear the God of fire answer---as He called me forth,
through the fiery furnace the Ku-Klux-Klan, first built and
then wrought upon the lives of my family and those Black
like me.

In two words---His tribulation. We are His tribulation.

Thus convey to any other---that indeed, no matter where
you begin and no matter what this day holds or even if the
wickedness of men seek to take hold of your existence---  
put your hand to the plow, never looking back---understand-
ing faith without works is dead, just as works without faith
is dead".

Ergo---we then realize that Jesus teaches He couldn't feed
5,000 with two fish and five loaves of bread, until He raised
up "what little was in His hand"; and yet---that what little
was in His hand "couldn't be multiplied", "until He asked the
God we serve, to multiply what was in His hand".

Indeed---who holds the day's storms, but the God of our
weary years---as we are taught by the wilderness of Moses
and thus---teaching how to seek, find, take hold, but by
faith, and learn "how God will deliver".

Thus empower another by conveying the greatest gift
God brought---which is His Promise and in which rests
---all provision.

And therewith your teaching Able in the field is but example
of Christ being crucified in the earth and hence as God noted,
"their true countenance doth witness against them".

For Cain was bitter already and hence labor necessarily re-
flective of the soil already cursed and thus Cain's toil was
first to uproot debris, stones, all that impeded, and then
work the soil to serve its purpose, to ensure any ensuing
growth of its fruits.

Yet we learn why Christ came to reveal how we overcome---
what surfaced in His own life---Cain's already existent bit-
terness over his toil was hardly reason to slay his brother
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