When
you close your eyes, what do you see?
Selah
Do
you see red, black or light? None of
those? Do you see your potential,
possibilities or failures? Can you see
yourself as: (you fill in the blank)?
Let’s
assume you see your future and it’s filled with all of the things you want to
happen, what are you doing to make it (your desires) a reality? In other words, what’s your plan? - Benjamin Franklin said: If you fail to plan; you are planning to fail;
- The
Bible says: “But don’t begin until you
count the cost. For who would begin construction of a building without first
calculating the cost to see if there is enough money to finish it? Otherwise,
you might complete only the foundation before running out of money, and then
everyone would laugh at you. They would say, ‘There’s the person who started
that building and couldn’t afford to finish it!’ “Or what king would go to war
against another king without first sitting down with his counselors to discuss
whether his army of 10,000 could defeat the 20,000 soldiers marching against
him? And if he can’t, he will send a delegation to discuss terms of peace while
the enemy is still far away. Luke
14:28-32 (NLT)
Brother
Ben probably got that inspiration from Brother Luke who gives a much more
detailed explanation of planning before taking on a project which is: Common
Sense 101 at least I find planning to be quite effective.
It’s
great to celebrate the accomplishments of others, for example: Sinai J’s hair product line (http://www.sinaij07.com); Shonda Dillehunt’s
book: (http://acoldpiece.com/); La Tanyua
Thompson’s empowerment group: (https://www.facebook.com/groups/296067430598185/);
Mz Dee’s community work; Marcus Dyson’s record deal (TBA); Declare Victory
birthed through Dionne TheRadical Midwife; https://www.facebook.com/ideclarevictory;
My book release: The Fire Didn’t Burn Us (www.tanianottanya.com),
Do you think those things “just happened
magically?” Do you think Tina
Heard-Andrews kept her ideas in her head and they magically appeared in the
plastic bottles? Do you think Shonda
just thought about her book and it ended up on pages? Uhhh, no!
Everyone I mentioned and anyone you can think of that has done something
worth mentioning, good or bad had to think about their idea, strategically map
it out and then implement it. They
probably didn’t do everything but they employed the efforts of others to make
their dream a reality.
So
again I say, what is your plan? Oh, I
see; you think that because it’s in your head it’s safe from anyone stealing it
or hating on you, is that it? Oh, my
bad, you haven’t had the time to plan your dream because you’ve been busy
building someone else’s dream? Well, may
I be so bold as to ask, “How’s that working for you?” You’re expected to remain loyal, work from
sun up to sundown with no overtime if you’re an exempt employee; or train
others who are then promoted while you have held your position down for the
past umpteen years; or you are barely making ends meet always running out of money
before running out of month; or you have been waiting for just the right time
to start your business, write your book, open your shop, record your music,
etc. however, something always seems to come up (e.g. illness, finances, your
children, your church, your job, etc.) and you my dear are not getting any
younger. Soooo, what is your plan?
Then the Lord said
to me, “Write my answer plainly on tablets, so that a runner can carry the
correct message to others. Habakkuk 2:2 (NLT).
NKJV says: Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may
run who reads it.
Tania
Not Tanya Nugget: And you thought “tablets” were a new technology. Ecclesiastes
1:9 (NLT) History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing
under the sun is truly new, nothing is new under the sun. Seriously, the author was talking about a
writing instrument which in all likelihood was a stone tablet used to record history,
sacred writings, messages, etc. until the creation of other more practical
writing materials like Papyrus which is a thin paper-like material made from
the pith of the papyrus plant. This
material was once abundant in Southern Sudan along with the Nile Delta of Egypt.
Vision: the act or power of anticipating that which
will or may come to be; an experience in which a personage, thing, or event
appears vividly or credibly to the mind, although not actually present, often
under the influence of a divine or other agency; a vivid, imaginative
conception or anticipation.
The
message, vision, dream, plan, idea, etc. comes from God. What? You thought you were that creative, ‘chile’
please. Every desirable and beneficial gift comes out of heaven. The gifts are
rivers of light cascading down from the Father of Light. There is nothing
deceitful in God, nothing two-faced, nothing fickle. James 1:17 (The Message)
I’m
gonna run out for a minute so hold on tight; you ready? If we look closely at
James 1:17 and focus on the first nine words, it says: every desirable and beneficial
gift comes out of heaven and the sentence ends with a period which
means there is no further discussion about the statement. OK, Tania, what’s your point? Hold on, I’m
getting there. The point is that the “gifts”
are not confined to spiritual gifts. For
example:
- There
are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit is the source of
them all. Healing, prophecy, word of knowledge, discernment, faith, gift of
unknown languages (speaking in tongues), etc. as discussed in 1 Corinthians
12:4-11 (NLT);
- The
fruit of the spirt: Galatians 5:22-23 (NLT):
But the Holy Spirit produces this
kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these
things!
The
gift to the unbeliever who is an incredible singer, the passionate scientist,
amazing clothing designer, awesome chef, incredible artist, etc. as well as
believers who are gifted in secular fields as well. The point is that all good gifts come
from heaven, God’s hood and he distributes them to those he wishes, you and I
don’t get a say so. What we and/or
others do with those gifts is completely left up to us, but make no mistake
they come from God the father, every cotton pickin’ one of them:
- Every: all possible; the greatest possible degree of ...
- All:
the whole of; the greatest possible ....
I’m
out of time, let’s pick it up tomorrow
In
His New Excellence,
Tania
not Tanya
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