SPECIAL MESSAGE & DAILY SCRIPTURE REFLECTION #116 - GALATIANS 6:8 [NKJV]

SPECIAL MESSAGE

  

I know I haven’t posted a scripture reflection for two days, I had to contemplate whether or not I should continue doing this and cease having this blog continue its existence. The reason I had to do this is I’m not getting any individuals deciding to become a new follower of my blog. The Lord had given me the inspiration to write my first two Christian books because of all the reviews I’ve written for nonfiction Christian books. After publishing these two books I had received a dream about my starting this blog, a dream I only could have received from the Lord.

It’s frustrating “Trying to Be a Good Christian Woman” and not having anyone listening to what I’m desiring to share regarding the Lord and His divine scripture. But, during these past two days of meditation/reflection, I’ve come to the realization that these past 115+ days and the lack of followers has been His way of testing me and my commitment to the task He has given me to undertake. With this being case, I’m going to continue writing this blog as my commitment to sharing His glorious presence with all those who want to read about it.

It’s therefore fitting that for the topic I have chosen for my Christian blog today is about us setting our minds on the spirit of our Lord.

“For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.”

Let us say AMEN, and let us reflect on this today.

Here’s to you having a BLESSED WEEKEND with your families !!! 😊 😊 😊   

Please feel free to leave your comments, I would love to read them, as well as having you become a follower of this blog.

'IT HAD ONLY BEEN A GAME" - SNIPPET #3

If you haven’t read a snippet on this blog before, then read this first.

https://rlmorgan1951.blogspot.com/2020/02/why-am-i-posting-snippets-from-my-two.html

This snippet comes from my debut YA/NA Christian romance story entitled, “It Had Only Been a Game.” It is design to give you an idea of what is going on in various parts of the storyline.

FROM CHAPTER 21

After coming back from their celebratory dinner together for Brian’s new promotion which got paid for by his company, Chelsea had to inquire, “Are you sure you can charge the expensive meal we’ve just eaten.”

“I’m positive as everyone involved with the deal got told to take their spouses out for dinner, and you’re the closest thing I’ve got to having a spouse,” replied Brian as he gave Chelsea a hug and a surprise kiss on her lips.

“Aren’t you afraid someone might see and report us.”

“Nonsense. It’s nighttime, we’re in a secluded area near your dorm, and besides, we’re still in my car with the top down.”

“You’re right. I always get worrisome with things like this.” After this, she returned a kiss to Brian.

Brian then drove Chelsea to the front of the dorm just as Sister Beatrice began locking the doors.

“You’re just made it, Ms. Bailey. Another minute and you would have been locked out and would need to wake me to open the door again.”

“I know the rules quite well, and I am well aware of the embarrassing punishment you hand out for violating this one.”

Chelsea turned and waved at Brian, still sitting in his car but with the top now down before heading to her room. Getting there, she found that Amanda hadn’t returned yet and wondered where she could be.

Chelsea decided to take a nice, hot, fragrant bubble bath for a change, and after lounging in the bathtub until all of the bubbles had disappeared, she showered to remove the soap residue and then popped into her bed, dressed for a night’s sleep after a very rememberable day.

All of a sudden, shortly passed midnight Chelsea got woken out of her sleep by Amanda.

“How the heck did you get in with all of the doors securely locked by Sister Beatrice?”

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"IT HAD ONLY BEEN A GAME' - SNIPPET #2

If you haven’t read a snippet on this blog before, then read this first.

https://rlmorgan1951.blogspot.com/2020/02/why-am-i-posting-snippets-from-my-two.html

This snippet comes from my debut YA/NA Christian romance story entitled, “It Had Only Been a Game.” It is design to give you an idea of what is going on in various parts of the storyline.

FROM CHAPTER 11

Grabbing Chelsea’s hand, Brian instructed her not to say another word until they would arrive at his destination.

No doubt, Chelsea wasn’t pleased by his behavior, a behavior she’d never had seen before. Furthermore, she wasn’t pleased with his pulling her along by her hand so fast; she could barely keep up with him.

“Stopping dragging your feet, Chelsea. I’ve got some important news we need to talk about.”

All of a sudden, Chelsea sees a familiar site coming into view, it’s the enclave they’ve been to several times already when they wanted some real privacy.

That sweet, sneaky Brian, trying to get me angry enough that I wind up yelling at him so that I’d have to apologized and kiss him.

I wonder if what he wants to tell me has to do with the mysterious comment he made at the diner while we had our lunch, the explanation which he couldn’t go into any details.

If that’s the case, the intuition which I’ve inherited from my mother, the critical news he wants to talk about, has to deal with the part-time job offer he told me about when we first met.

I’ll play it calm, and won’t overreact enthusiastically for his good fortune, when he finally reveals his secretive message.

I won’t even give him the obligatory he’s probably expecting me to give him.

We’re almost there.

I’ll transform myself into the coy, unexpecting woman he’d love for me to be.

“We’re here, Chelsea.”

“So, we’re here. Right in front of our favorite spot on campus for intimacy. Why couldn’t you have just me you wanted us to have some?”

“The reason I brought you here has nothing to do about us being intimate with each other.”

“You better have not found another woman you’d rather be with.”

“You know I can never have anyone besides you, my dear Chels. We’ve known each other since we’ve been about five-years-old,” nervously replied Brian.

“So, give my dear Brian. What’s up?”

Once they were in their hidden enclave spot, Brian attempted to hug Chelsea so he could kiss her.

“Not so fast, Hot Stuff. Not until you reveal the real reason you’ve brought me here.

Hot Stuff. Wow, this is the first time Chelsea’s ever called me this. She must have become infatuated towards me. I better become a good boy and do whatever she wants me to do.

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'IT HAD ONLY BEEN A GAME" - SNIPPET #1

If you haven’t read a snippet on this blog before, then read this first.

https://rlmorgan1951.blogspot.com/2020/02/why-am-i-posting-snippets-from-my-two.html

This snippet comes from my debut YA/NA Christian romance story entitled, “It Had Only Been a Game.” It is design to give you an idea of what is going on in various parts of the storyline.

FROM CHAPTER 1

When they reached the gym, building a huge banner hanging on the outside greeted all of the incoming freshmen. Once inside, under an arch made up of bright balloons of the school colors of black and gold, they saw the all-important welcoming table.

“Hi there, I’m Chelsea Elizabeth Bailey.”

“And I’m Amanda Phillips.”

“Here’s your badges, guys. Welcome and enjoy the festivities.”

They’d been in the gym for only less than five minutes when Chelsea heard someone calling her name.  The voice sounded familiar, but she couldn’t recognize anyone as she looked through the crowd already gathered there to whom the voice could belong

“Hi Chelsea,” came the masculine voice again, still time from behind her. The unknown guy the voice belonged then began to slowly placed his arm around her shoulder and kissed her on her cheek from behind her.

Chelsea gasped and quickly turned around and with a gut reaction swiftly slapped him across his face as hard as she could,

While Amanda merely stared in amazement of what she’d just seen happening, the poor guy Chelsea had slapped got taken back from what had happened, he didn’t know what to say or do next as he never had anything like this happening to him before.

“That was some quick response,” said Amanda.”      “I guess coming from New York, things like this must have happened to you at one time or another,” replied Chelsea.

“It has. Once I slapped a guy’s face so hard that his eyeglasses flew off, and he picked them up off the floor and then quickly disappeared.”

Chelsea took another look at the poor guy she’d just slapped as he continued to rub his cheek, and in disbelieve, said: “Aren’t you…”

“Yes, I’m Brian. Brian Gregory Williams.”

“Oops. Sorry, Brian, about the slap I just gave you. I didn’t recognize who you were.”

“Don’t worry about it. It’s quite okay.”

“Brian, what happen to you?” remarked a shocked Chelsea. “I couldn’t recognize you. You’re tanned, got wavy blonde hair, and your horn-rimmed eyeglasses are missing; and most shocking of all is you’ve become quite forward towards a woman.”

“For now, let’s just say, I’m not at home,” replied Brian, still in shock and feeling the pain from having been slapped in his face by Chelsea.

Feeling sorry for what she did, Chelsea gave Brian an apologetic kiss on his cheek.

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"CHRISTIAN SHORT STORIES & ESSAYS" - SNIPPET #3

If you haven’t read a snippet on this blog before, then read this first.

https://rlmorgan1951.blogspot.com/2020/02/why-am-i-posting-snippets-from-my-two.html

All the items in this book revolve around having a prompt word. In this snippet selection, the prompt word becomes the theme for the story that follows:

PROMPT = PERFECTION

NO NEED TO IMPROVE OURSELVES

Let’s begin by remembering that we are all loved according to 2 THESSALONIANS 2:13:

“But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth,”

But, due to the harried lives some of us might be living, we’re frequently are feeling like we don’t exist as far as others are concerned, and that is like H.G. Wells well-known character or like Waldo in Where’s Waldo, waiting to be found, that we’re invisible.

However, this is as far from the truth as we can get, for, in reality, we’re far more incredible than we could ever dream of being. And perhaps what needs to happen to us is rediscovering that we’re perfectly okay the way we are and getting loved by practically everyone around us.

However, with the blinders we’ve currently have on, the possibility of this happening doesn’t even exist and what is needed can be found in ISAIAH 41:13:

“For I, the LORD your God, will hold your right hand, Saying to you, ‘Fear not, I will help you.’”

And what we need most of all now is some help. We need to beseech the Lord to grant us the wisdom of someone who’s been on the road we’re currently traveling on. We need a mentor who’s able to intertwine biblical scripture and stories, as well as perhaps happenings from their own life experiences so that we might, in the end, come to realize what the Lord is saying to/about us, which is essential that we’re perfectly okay the way we are and need no sort of self-improvement for the Lord has made us according to His secret plan for each one of us.

Which should bring to our minds the scripture found in GALATIANS 3:3:

“Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?”

And if we come to this realization, we should all reflect on and remember PHILIPPIANS 3:12:

“Not that I have already attained, or am already PERFECTED; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.”

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"CHRISTIAN SHORT STORIES & ESSAYS" - SNIPPET #2

If you haven’t read a snippet on this blog before, then read this first.

https://rlmorgan1951.blogspot.com/2020/02/why-am-i-posting-snippets-from-my-two.html

All the items in this book revolve around having a prompt word. In this snippet selection, the prompt word becomes the theme for the story that follows

PROMPT = CHILDBIRTH

HAVING THE LORD BE PART OF YOUR LIFE

DURING YOUR PREGNANCY

Any woman who’s given birth knows how wondrous and rewarding the feeling is, they also know it’s also an arduous task it can be at the same time. While some women might have marvelous support from their mothers and husbands, some Christian mothers from time to time might need some additional inspirational assistance from the up above or from some of her Christian sisters.

When Christian women talk about CHILDBIRTH, they need to keep in mind what’s written in PSALM 127:3:

“Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, The fruit of the womb is a reward.”

In addition to which they need to reflect on what’s written in GENESIS 1:28:

“Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Women who have never given birth before having no idea of the level of pain which awaits them and these women are the ones who must be comforted and get informed of everything that will happen when the time for the glorious event has finally arrived. They need to get a particular scripture to read regarding it; they need to get JOHN 16:21:

“A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come; but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.”

So, if you’re a Christian woman with child, sit down with your Christian sisters, and learn all about the wondrous gift the Lord has given you by making you a woman who has the potential of fulfilling the Lord’s commandment of being fruitful and multiply for you’re carrying the seed which will make this happen.

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"CHRISTIAN SHORT STORIES & ESSAYS" - SNIPPET #1

If you haven’t read a snippet on this blog before, then read this first.

https://rlmorgan1951.blogspot.com/2020/02/why-am-i-posting-snippets-from-my-two.html

All the items in this book revolve around having a prompt word. In this snippet selection, as you can see, the prompt word has gotten transformed into an acrostic around which the story got written,

PROMPT WORD = ASCENSION

NUMBER 40

AShley Warden has always been a devout church-going girl since the day she was born.

CEcil Peterson has, for the last 25 years, been the lay leader of the church where Ashley’s family has gone to and where she had gotten baptized.

Every Sunday without fail, her parents made sure she was in her Sunday school, which Cecil also lead.

Nothing Cecil could say, would get pass Ashley’s curious young mind.

Striking questions came out of Ashley’s mind each week, questions which most adults could never have thought of asking.

It never had even come to Cecil’s mind that she might ask a question that would be truly profound.

Ordinally, Ashley would accept the answers Cecil would give her, but on one particular Sunday, she didn’t. The class that Sunday dealt with the Lord’s ASCENSION to Heaven. Ashley’s question hadn’t been about anything about that glorious event; it dealt with a number, the number 40 to be precise.

Number 40, Ashley knew had been the number of days it took after the Lord’s resurrection to go to Heaven and sit next to his Father. But why had it been 40 days, and not seven which had been the number of days of Creation, nor three which she knew was the Holy Trinity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, had been the question she wanted answered, a question Cecil Peterson couldn’t provide an answer one for, a subject she’s hoping the Lord will answer one day.

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WHY AM I POSTING SNIPPETS FROM MY TWO DEBUT CHRISTIAN BOOKS

I had never intended to become an author of not one but two Christian books, but that’s what He probably had designed for me to do.

During the process of writing and publishing my writing endeavors in August 2014, I began my 2^nd-second career since retiring after working for 33 as a civil servant for New York City as a book reviewer, and somewhere in the second half of 2018, I began reviewing nonfiction Christian books. In 2019, about 45% of the 263 books I’d reviewed were for books belonging to this genre, and it was during this year I received the inspiration to forsake ALL of my writing endeavors and to begin writing a YA/NA Christian romance novella entitled, “It Had Only Been a Game.” During the writing of this endeavor, I got the urge to write an anthology of “Christian Short Stories & Essays,” which got published along with my other debut Christian book, along the time I was celebrating my last birthday in the middle of January. The timing of this could only have occurred due to the plan that someone, whose name I don’t have to mention, had been responsible for making it happen.  Perhaps that’s why for the last item in my Christian anthology book, I had written a testimony THANKING the Lord for His guidance [usually as a dream] in my writing these two books.

I want to share these two books with the readers of this blog, so I’ll be posting a few snippets from both books here. Here is the link to my two Christian books on Amazon.com

https://www.amazon.com/R-L-Morgan/e/B084G8JQP3