Know Your Calling - Couverture souple

Beasley, Omar

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1542347033 ISBN 13 : 9781542347037

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

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I’ve been through a lot in my life not knowing my Calling. I was born in Detroit Michigan with two club feet. As a child, I had to wear casts and braces on my two legs to straighten my feet out. Even though this was a tough time in my life, I would go around all of my family and friends, and at some point, I would feel special…everyone would make me feel good with their hugs and kisses. I thought I had my Calling figured out. At the age of 6, I started watching my father. You could say I was studying his walk. He was doing criminal activity. But, you ask, what effects would that have on a child? Speaking for myself, “a lot” because I was not sitting watching him go to work every day, I was watching him ride up on everyone selling product. So at age 7, I started to question myself – Is my Calling to be like my father? I guess I was fit out to hustle!! My father would fight my mother and be abusive to her. And I didn’t like that. I was very protective of my mother and told my father, “don’t put your hands on my mother again or I’ll kill you.” This was the woman who carried me for nine months, and at one point in childbirth, almost died giving birth to me. She is very special to me. However, of all the things a child could see or do, my father had me stamping dope packs in the living room for Detroit Michigan streets. This was the “straw” that broke the camel’s (my mother’s) back. She packed our stuff up…told my father we were going to do the wash and we never came back—we were going to Chicago to be in a better situation. My mother knew my Calling was not to follow in my father’s footsteps. She did everything she could mentally, physically, and spiritually to prevent me from answering the Calling of the streets. The ultimate decision however, is up to the individual. So, at the age of 15, I made my personal/individual decision to answer the call of the streets and follow in my father’s path. However, this did not, nor has it to this day, stopped my mothers’ prayers and encouragement she had for me…thank you Mom. I Love you! Now me being a grown man, reflecting back on my childhood, and knowing my Calling, I feel like Paul when he said that he learned the secret of being content in any situation. He told them about his situation in prison. Now, like Paul, I express the joy of my walk with Christ. There are challenges in this prison environment, and it seems that every day is a struggle for me, but I have learned what you have to do to go on with hope. That is putting on the armor of God. Ephesians 6:10-18. Every day you’re going to be faced with something or tested by Satan. As I began to live my Calling for Christ, at one point in time I had to ask myself what makes you any different from Job? Also, what makes you any different from Paul? Now at this point, God was trying to tell me something and that was to get on the path of righteousness…but, here I go being disobedient to God’s word. I am grateful for God’s mercy and love, because He lovingly set me down again to get my attention. I want you to know brothers and sisters, that what has happened to me has really served to advance and join others who are spreading the true Gospel (Good News about Jesus Christ) so that it will be known throughout the whole world especially to those who are in prison. And to all the rest, who know about my walk, when I was hanging, slanging, and banging… living for Satan, I want you to know that now, God has shown me that my imprisonment is my Calling to do work for the advancement of the Kingdom of God through Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Romans 14:17.

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I’ve been through a lot in my life not knowing my Calling. I was born in Detroit Michigan with two club feet. As a child, I had to wear casts and braces on my two legs to straighten my feet out. Even though this was a tough time in my life, I would go around all of my family and friends, and at some point, I would feel special...everyone would make me feel good with their hugs and kisses. I thought I had my Calling figured out. At the age of 6, I started watching my father. You could say I was studying his walk. He was doing criminal activity. But, you ask, what effects would that have on a child? Speaking for myself, “a lot” because I was not sitting watching him go to work every day, I was watching him ride up on everyone selling product. So at age 7, I started to question myself – Is my Calling to be like my father? I guess I was fit out to hustle!! My father would fight my mother and be abusive to her. And I didn’t like that. I was very protective of my mother and told my father, “don’t put your hands on my mother again or I’ll kill you.” This was the woman who carried me for nine months, and at one point in childbirth, almost died giving birth to me. She is very special to me. However, of all the things a child could see or do, my father had me stamping dope packs in the living room for Detroit Michigan streets. This was the “straw” that broke the camel’s (my mother’s) back. She packed our stuff up...told my father we were going to do the wash and we never came back—we were going to Chicago to be in a better situation. My mother knew my Calling was not to follow in my father’s footsteps. She did everything she could mentally, physically, and spiritually to prevent me from answering the Calling of the streets. The ultimate decision however, is up to the individual. So, at the age of 15, I made my personal/individual decision to answer the call of the streets and follow in my father’s path. However, this did not, nor has it to this day, stopped my mothers’ prayers and encouragement she had for me...thank you Mom. I Love you! Now me being a grown man, reflecting back on my childhood, and knowing my Calling, I feel like Paul when he said that he learned the secret of being content in any situation. He told them about his situation in prison. Now, like Paul, I express the joy of my walk with Christ. There are challenges in this prison environment, and it seems that every day is a struggle for me, but I have learned what you have to do to go on with hope. That is putting on the armor of God. Ephesians 6:10-18. Every day you’re going to be faced with something or tested by Satan. As I began to live my Calling for Christ, at one point in time I had to ask myself what makes you any different from Job? Also, what makes you any different from Paul? Now at this point, God was trying to tell me something and that was to get on the path of righteousness...but, here I go being disobedient to God’s word. I am grateful for God’s mercy and love, because He lovingly set me down again to get my attention. I want you to know brothers and sisters, that what has happened to me has really served to advance and join others who are spreading the true Gospel (Good News about Jesus Christ) so that it will be known throughout the whole world especially to those who are in prison. And to all the rest, who know about my walk, when I was hanging, slanging, and banging... living for Satan, I want you to know that now, God has shown me that my imprisonment is my Calling to do work for the advancement of the Kingdom of God through Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Romans 14:17.

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