Words Identify a Person's Character

It is important how we use our words.

Words used without carefully considering the harm they might cause, should never be published.

The words of the wise are carefully chosen before they are spoken, to avoid hurtful feelings.

Words spoken by those who are arrogant, comes from within a soul that is uncaring, unforgiving and unremorseful.

Words Identify A Person's Character

Words of the Wise Are Carefully Chosen Before They Are Spoken

A fool open his mouth and speaks without knowledge.

The words of  fools are unkind. Such people are uncaring, unforgiving, and unremorseful.

A fool is a prisoner of his own soul, one who will never experience freedom.

___ Ellen J. Barrier

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When The Chain of Command Is Broken

Ellen J. Barrier

God’s Instructions to Follow The Chain of Command:
Teaching our children to “Do the right thing.”

Many parents have failed to do the above. If each generation had continued to teach their children to treat others the way they, themselves, would like to be treated (that is with respect), we wouldn't be confronted with the violence we see in the “Mirror of Society.”  The chain of  command has been broken. It was broken when parents neglected their parental duties.




Reference:

“But I Know him that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord to do justice and judgment.”
Genesis 18:19

God commands that every parent be a good  role model to their children. That means the parents are to teach their children by example:

Work, support them financially, take good care of them, educate them,  give them the moral support they need, being there for them, and teaching them, to understand what their priorities should be.

What happens  to Earth When the Chain of Command is broken?

When our children deliberately disobey us, we let them know that what they did was unacceptable. And they are grounded. God does the same thing for us when we disobey him.
He takes things away:

Draughts and storms takes away the vegetables and fruits and kills the livestocks, that supply our food. That  results in high prices at the supermarkets, due to lots of crops and livestocks got wiped out. It cause financial losses to those who grow them. Therefore, they have to recover their losses by charging more, so they can continue to grow their crops and livestocks.

Storms wipe out lots of structural property and destroy lives. The damages are tremendously costly. The insurance companies have to raise the premiums, to recover the loses of their insureds money they used to pay claims.

Like any child, when they are grounded, they often times are disappointed with the parents. And sometimes feels that the punishment is too harsh. But they understand that their parents loves them, and always wants  the best for them.

The punishment is to correct the child, so that they learn responsibility. That is the purpose for which God wants us to achieve, by accepting the responsible that he has given us to follow, The Chain of Command.

__ Ellen J. Barrier

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Supernatural Strength

Ellen J. Barrier
Author/Spirituality Counselor

Quote:

 Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.

Arab Proverb

Scriptures:

Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall.

But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength;

They shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. Isaiah 40:30, 31

My Thoughts:

In times of stressful situations that become difficult and impossible for us to deal with and overcome, we seek God for his intervention to give us the power to withstand. When we are confronted by our enemies whose purpose is to destroy us, we face the battle unafraid.  If we should become weak from the battle, God gives us power to continue to fight.  And to those who are on our side that will at some point during the battle, become discouraged and feel like giving up, God increase their strength.

Scripture:

He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. 

Isaiah 40:29

No weapon that is formed against us shall prosper; and every tongue that riseth against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn.  This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their judgment is of me said the LORD.  Isaiah 54:17

Source of Information:

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When Tragedies Strikes

Ellen J. Barrier
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In times of tragedies, and loss of loved ones, we seek for answers and for strength to deal with the pain that causes discomfort. We know that within our souls, only our creator can comfort us, and give the needed strength within us, to enable us to rise up! And deal with the situation that we have encountered, victoriously. Many ask, Why?







Each individual have to find the courage and strength to continue to live their lives at their own pace. Not everyone deal with tragedies and losses the same as others. Some people need a longer time and a slower pace. 

Scripture:

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.  Ephesians 6:10, 12

God holds accountable those who inflict pain and cause the death of another individual without justifiable cause such as in the case of self-defense, or to save another individual’s life. He will not allow such individual to go unpunished by his own judgment and time.

He also, will judge those in leadership positions who are using politics and passing laws and are using their influences that are not helping to better the nations, but are rather destroying its people and separating them.

When a tragedy happen, each one of us should ask ourselves, what can I do to make this world safer?

As a parent, we should ask, am I being the parent that I need to be?

Am I living the example for my children that will help them to be respectful to others and to value the life of others?

We live in a society that is addicted to violence. It is up to us to teach our children, and other children not to commit wrongful acts. It is time for all parents to work together, with teachers, and with other leadership individuals, to help our young people avoid violence.

 A young person should be able to have the knowledge to make a righteous decision, about what they view. A song, or a movie, or book that portrays a violent act, is no cause for anyone to commit those acts upon another individual. Acting is what it is! It is not real! The people are entertainers, who are paid to do their job. They don’t commit the acts of the individuals they are portraying.

Case in Point:

The Bible is filled with violent acts committed by young and old. Those things were recorded for our learning, for the purpose that we shouldn't commit them. And to know that those things displeases God, and to expect his punishment.

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Religious Bullying

  Ellen J. Barrier/author/Spirituality Counselor

Religious Bullying

The religious bullies are those who are self-righteous. They  feel morally superior above others. These individuals don't feel guilty after having committed an evil act. They sit in the seat of judgment against others, according to their religious beliefs. They use certain biblical words to defend their position based on the way they believe things should be, that are contrary to common sense.

Religious bullies are dangerous to themselves, and to others, because they place themselves in a position that they feel is godlike, and therefore, they are disconnected to God.

When the religious bullies start touting bibles and placing themselves in leadership positions, they become a powerful and evil force against society that is very dangerous, because out of their organizations hatemongers are reproduced. They don’t like anyone who disagrees with their philosophy.

Hatemongers desires to destroy, and to harm those who they feel are immoral, and is unworthy to exist. They believe, they are doing the right thing religiously, by punishing those who they deem to be judged and condemned to death by their standards.

The danger to these particular individuals and to others

They are listening to a spirit they believe is God, who is speaking, and telling them, the right things to do. Whatever they hear, they believe -  and there is no one who can convince them, they are wrong in their belief. 

What the Bible Says:

For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth.

Romans 10:2-4

Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?  And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Matthew 7:21-23

But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment:
Matthew 5:22 continued 

God's Judgment for offensive name calling:

Whosoever shall say to his brother 'Raca' shall be in danger of the council:
But whoever shall say, 'Thou fool' shall be in danger of hell fire.
Matthew 5: 22

 Definitions: 

Self-righteous: 1. filled with or showing a conviction of being morally superior, or more righteous than others; smugly virtuous.  right·eous (r ch s) adj. 2. Morally upright; without guilt or sin: a righteous parishioner. 3. In accordance with virtue or morality: a righteous judgment.

Hatemongers: 1. People who incites others to hatred or prejudice; 2. People who kindles hatred, enmity, or prejudice in others.

Raca -vain, empty, worthless;  It is derived from a root meaning "to spit."

The Word of God:

For the Word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intense of the heart.

Hebrews 4:17

Warning to Society

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

 Ephesians 6:10, 12

Source Information: Kings James Bible

Source for definition: Wikipedia, encyclopedia
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____ Ellen J. Barrier

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God's Sacrificial Offering

Ellen J. Barrier/
author/Spirituality Counselor

                                                                                                  
Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I ,  Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

Hebrews 10:5, 6, 7 (K.J.V)

Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed  
                                                           (1 Peter 2:24). K.J.V

Why Was Jesus Sacrificed for The Sins of The World?

The People of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy:  yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

And I sought for a man among  them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: But I found none.

Ezekiel 22:29, 30 (K.J.V)

Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of host will perform this.

Isaiah 7:14

Isaiah 9:6,7

___ Ellen J. Barrier

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The Power of God's Word

Ellen J. Barrier/
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 When an individual worships God in the way that pleases him, there is a power within that individual that no one can resist.  The demons fear that individual, because God has given him/her the power to defeat their enemies.

'No weapon that is formed against me shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD."

_Isaiah 54:17                                                                                                                                    

When the army of God’s people come together, and pray, great and mighty works are done.  We live in a day and time where we are seeing lots of people struggling with heavy  burdens.  Many have been created by others, and placed upon the shoulders of the innocent to bear: loss of homes, financial distress, loss of income, sickness, disease and many other problems. Many of these victims have given up. Some of whom are angry at God and President Obama.

I know that the person who take hold of God’s Word and refuse to let go of it, will win.  The Word of God, is POWER!  And it never fails. Because, “ God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make  it good?" Numbers 23:19

Here is the evidence:

And they that know thy name will put their trust in  thee:  for thou, Lord, hast  not  forsaken  them that seek thee. Psalm 9:10

Defense: When God takes a case to defend his defendant, he will defeat the enemy.

The evidence:

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty  so that  their hands cannot perform their enterprise. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness;  and the counsel of the  forward is carried  headlong. They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night. 

Note: There is no lawyer, no government agent, or judge, that he fears.  He fears no one. No one can fight against God, and win.

The Victory!

But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

So the poor hath hope: and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

Source of Information:

Psalms 5:12-16 (K.J.V)

The invitation to come:

"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."___ Jesus
Matthew 11: 28, 29, 30

We must pray continually, and never give up, regardless of what the situation appears to be.  I pray for, guidance, instructions, and directions,  in all my thoughts, decisions and judgment.  I ask him to increase my wisdom , knowledge and faith.  I pray throughout the day  for help and everything I need for myself, my family, and for others.

*God’s angels are always here to defend and to secure his people.
___ Ellen J. Barrier

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Patience is The Pathway to Opportunity

                       

Ellen J. Barrier/
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Patience is the path to opportunities. We gain patience through prayer and meditation. Within that vein, we never consider ourselves having failed. We see something greater ahead through the hope within us - that if we continue pushing forward and never looking back to consider, what if? why? and listening to negative advice, but trusting in God, who can make all things happen for our good, VICTORY! is ours.

Scripture: 

For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

Hebrews 10:36 

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this,  that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

 ~ Thomas Carlyle                         

Because of the lack of patience, many people don't complete their goals. If success is not achieved within a short period of time they will give up, and start on another goal. To train for a career or a job, one has to have the patience to receive the skills that are required to do the requirements correctly. That could take several months or years to require the proper training needed to avoid mistakes that could be costly or cause injuries or death.

Patience is necessary in having a successful relationship. Meeting an individual today and trusting them to be the soul-mate, one desires, is not logical. Some people become impatient while waiting to meet someone who they can have a trustworthy relationship with, and therefore, they aren't willing to allow both - them and the person they have met, enough time to get to know each other. The quick relationships, can be dangerous.  It takes more than one day to get to really know if you can trust an individual to have any kind of relationship with, be it friendship, or romance. The mind of an individual is very difficult to understand, because people can be great pretenders. They can disguise themselves to be everything that you want them to be, and yet they are the opposite of everything you thought they were.

Source of Information:
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____ Ellen J. Barrier

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Success and Prosperity

Ellen J. Barrier       

                                                                                         

God’s Plan for Your Life

“ For I know the plans I have for you, “ declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

JEREMIAH 29:11 NIV

Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

3 John 2 KJV

Question:

Why are there so many who are in poverty, and sick?

God has promised his people financial success and prosperity. Yet, there are many who are living below their privilege. No child of God is supposed to live in any way that is contrary to the promises of God. To do so, would make his promises of no effect. The Word of God states, God is not a man, that he should lie, neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? Numbers 23:19

According to Matthew 7:11, Jesus said, our Father, which is in Heaven, gives good things to them that ask him. Those good things are health, financial success, prosperity, and security among, other things one might desire for complete happiness.

When we look at the shortcomings of these promises, we have to take a look at the reason why, they aren't being fulfilled. That leads us to explore further: What does God require of us? Are we meeting all of his requirements?

When we closely examine our own lives, we find that we need God, to help us meet his requirements, to receive his promises. Parents have conditional promises for their children. Children aren't rewarded when they deliberately disobey their parents. There are rules we expect our children to follow, because we love them. We want to give good things to them. It is our desire for them, to be successful, and have a prosperous life. Those are our promises we make to our children. However, these promises have to come with a condition. God want that same thing for us: His desire for each of us, is to be in perfect health, and to be successful in everything we do, and to be whole in our mind, body, and soul. That means to be completely happy.

____ Ellen J. Barrier

                                                               

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A Place Called Hell

Ellen J. Barrier/
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For those who ask "Is There such a place called Hell?" I have noted scriptures from the bible that I hope will answer this question,  along with another question that is asked, "Why would God send people to Hell?"








                                                       

Based on the writers description of a place called, "Hell" that is talked about in biblical terms, I have noted those things in this book, from the information I have read. Hell is not a subject, that most people feel comfortable talking about. No one ever says it is a place they want to see. Because the thought of Hell, and the description of it is a very horrible place where - those who have been condemned and sentenced by God, will spend eternity. 

Scriptures:

"Hell" also, called the "Pit"

 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Hell with them that descend into the pit:

They also went down into Hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.
 Ezekel 31:16:17 {K.J.V)  

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these:

Adultery,  fornication,  uncleanness,  lasciviousness,  idolatry,  witchcraft,  hatred,  variance,  emulations, wrath,  strife,  seditions,  heresies,  envyings,  murders,  drunkenness,  revellings,  and such like.

 They which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
 Galatians 5: 19-22 (K.J.V)

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Love and Mercy

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"Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it". ~ Swedish Proverb

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O GIVE thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth  for  ever.

To him alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever:

Who remembered us in our low estate:

Who giveth food to all flesh:

For his mercy endureth for ever

                                                        Psalm 136:1, 4, 23-25 (K.J.V)

God loved us when we didn’t deserve his love.  He had mercy on us. Though we were undeserving of his love, we needed it. There are parents who hold grudges against their own children, for something they did or said, that they didn't agree with. Such parents will punish their children by not visiting them or speaking to them. Holding grudges, divides families. Love, bonds the family. Hate, divides families. Holding a grudge against a family member, prevents loving them, when they need it the most. Life with Father in chapter 9  is about a family divided by alcohol and violence.  It shows us  how the love of a mother held this family together by her faith in God.

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The Danger in Holding a Grudge

Ellen J. Barrier/
Author/Spirituality Counselor

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

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Grudge  ___ a feeling of deep-seated resentment or ill will; syn. see malice

Malice ___  desire to see another suffer:  to cause pain, injury, or distress to another. 2: intent to commit an unlawful act or cause harm without legal justification or excuse.

(Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary)

                                                                                                                     

Scriptures:

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another,  tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s  sake hath forgiven you. Ephesians  4:31, 32 (K.J.V)
                                           

Having viewed all these things regarding the term used for the definition of malice, and the instructions given by the forefathers of the Word of God, who taught the people, who came before us, have left the same instructions for us to pass on to our generation and those to come –  I have concluded these feelings of my thoughts on malice:

 Holding a grudge, is malice, it weakens an individual, and disallows room to forgive.  It preys on the mind of such and individual and grows as a terminal disease, until it consumes that individual’s entire body, mind and soul.  The individual is unable to think soberly because they are consumed with bitterness, anger, wrath, and evil thoughts of plans to destroy someone else.

Such people will hold a grudge against their very own flesh and blood.  There are reports of some family members who harmed others due to a grudge they had against them. I know of one particular case of some family friends. This couple ‘married out of their own race’ and the mother of the bride, didn’t approve of their marriage.  And to pay her daughter back, she never visited this couple, and didn’t accept their children as her grandchildren.  This is a grudge that hurt and destroys family relationship.

The spirit of malice is demonic, it brings in other spirits and dwell within an individual - taking over in the form of multiple personalities. They weigh down such individual, and can cause depression and stress, leaving the human tired and worn-out with  serious mental and health problems.

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The Strong Shall Survive

Ellen J. Barrier/Author/Spirituality Counselor

"The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character."

~ Dwight David Eisenhower

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Scripture:

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

Romans 7: 18

The things we find in greatness are vision, integrity, courage and understanding. Those who possess these fine qualities, also, have power of articulation, and profundity of character. However, there is a spiritual foundation that is needed for such characteristic values to exist, that is strength. Without it, greatness can’t exist.

We all want to obtain greatness and to perform that which is good, as both writers stated in the quote and, in the scripture. But, how can we possess all these qualifications: goodness, vision, integrity, courage, understanding and profundity of character?

Scripture:

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God;

but with the flesh the law of sin.

 Romans 7:22-25

Conclusion:

In order for us to possess goodness, greatness of character, and have vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character, we must find the spiritual strength through Jesus Christ.

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A Soft Answer Turns Away Wrath

Ellen J. Barrier
/Author/Spirituality Counselor

“A soft answer turns away wrath.”  ~King Solomon

 Anger blocks the senses of reason and reasoning. It clogs the pores of all sensible thoughts thereby, preventing the individual to use righteous judgment and make the right decisions. Many lives have been taken and many people have been injured because of anger.

Reason is a term that refers to the capacity human beings have to make sense of things, to establish and verify facts, and to change or justify practices.

Inductive reasoning also known as induction or inductive logic is a kind of reasoning that constructs or evaluates propositions that are abstractions of observations of individual instances of members of the same class.

Scripture:

Make no friendship with an angry man, and with a furious man thou shalt not go: lest thou learn his ways and get a snare to thy soul.

Proverbs 22: 24, 25 

Quote:

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

~ William Ward

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The Power of Prayer

Ellen J. Barrier/
Author/Spirituality Counselor

Prayer is a petition, we make to God in times of needed help. People of all ages pray to God. I am reminded of a group of dedicated children who met at a flagpole on the campus of their school on a rainy day, September 16, 2004 in Wichita, Kansas.

These students took part in a prayer event called “See You at The Pole.”  They gathered at 7:00 a.m., to sing Christian songs and pray for their teachers and local and national leaders, and for grace to deal with the pressure of student life.



They stood in the rain showing their commitment to prayer, under the flagpole.  The 13-year-old student who led this event said, “Prayer is an awesome thing.”

Children understand the need for prayer. Their trust and faith in God, is powerful, because these are the things that moves his power to answer prayer.

One day two little children found a beautiful bottle.  And they wanted to open it to see what was inside. However, the top was sealed too tight for them to open the bottle, which was said to be very old. So, they took it to all of the adults in the house, and no one could open the bottle. These children really wanted to see what was in this beautiful bottle. So, one of them said, “Let’s ask, God to open it.”  And they did. The child who was holding the bottle, placed a hand on the top and gave it a twist, and it opened.

To receive anything from God, we must have the focus, commitment and determination these children have; Being willing to pray, even, when it takes you out of your comfort zone; Praying for others, and, most of all, knowing when to ask God, for help.  

Daniel, who we read about in the bible, was placed in a lion’s den, prayed persistent to God daily.  God delivered him. The lions didn't harm him, because he had God’s protection.
He didn't wait until trouble came to pray, as so many people oftentimes do. He prayed before trouble came.

 Prayer
Heavenly Father,

I need your protection and your blessings upon me and my family members; therefore, I am asking you to protect us from danger, and from sickness. I am asking for your blessings in all of our efforts and work that we do, that we may be successful and prosperous with plenty, and that we will bless others abundantly with the things they need. Amen
____ Ellen J. Barrier

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The Cost for Being Poor

Ellen J. Barrier/
Author/Spirituality Counselor

The Poor can’t afford to pay for justice in the court system.  Therefore, they can be punished even when they aren’t guilty of having committed a crime. In the case below, a  lady is an example of such a crime committed against her by our own Justice System:

News Report:

Atlanta woman wrongly imprisoned for 53 days because of name mix-up

Year: 2011

The Event as Told:

An Atlanta woman says she was mistakenly imprisoned for 53 days because police confused her for someone else with the same first name.  She called the police to report that her truck had been stolen in August. But when they showed up at her home, they arrested her for aggravated assault committed by another lady by the same name.

These two women, didn't have the same address, birth date, height, or weight. According to the report, both women are of the same nationality.

Past History:

No criminal record

Background:

 Lives in a rough neighborhood patrolled frequently by police.

Unable to post the $12,000 bond to get out of jail, so she wasn't released until her public defender found the victim of the assault, and brought him to the court to say, she was not the "lady" he had accused.

"I didn't know what to do," She reportedly told the news person. "I didn't know how to get out this situation."

"I just don't think in another side of town this would have ever happened," quoted, another source.

One can only imagine how they would feel, if such a thing happened to them, or a family member. There are serious flaws in our Justice System.

I’m very sad for this innocent lady having been imprisoned for a crime she didn’t commit.  I pray that many wonderful things will come her way. No one should have to experience a wrongful imprisonment.
___ Ellen J. Barrier/ Published Author /Spirituality Counselor

                                                                                                                                                                 

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