You Are An Achiever! I am speaking to the achiever in you! You Can Still Accomplish all that you have dreamed of! Your dreams are not dashed, and there is still time on the clock for you to see them come true! Yes “Your Dreams Can Still Come True”! You Can Still Make It To The Winner’s Circle For All To See! God Wouldn’t Have Given You The Dream Unless He Knew That The Fulfillment Of That Dream Already Resided In You! Do It Big!

Your Coach In Christ,

Pastor Stephen F. Smith

I am thinking of all of the mindless assaults on one’s being that we all suffer in this thing called life! In life there is a hodge podge of gut-punches and uppercuts, that one will have to bear! However; I am confident that you are one of those who will boldly go the distance! You may feel like you are out on your feet, but I see the Fight Being Called On Your Behalf! Victory Is Yours! Now Let’s Get Ready to Rumble!

God Says The Fight Isn’t Over Until He Says It Over! I see you wearing the crown of a true champion!

Lord Deliver Me From the Seven Times Hotter!

I am preaching and teaching in these clips of being Delivered From the Seven Times Hotter!

Let Me Talk to You! I see another level and another depth that you have yet to tap into! I see you soaring to the heights that many aircraft can’t! I see you so in your zone, that others will want to just bump into you! You have been through a whole lot, but you survived all of the land mines and traps that were set to destroy you! You are valuable, and the centerpiece of God’s Own Private Collection! You are created in the very image and after the likeness of God himself! The day that you were born on this planet, you came here dressed in dominion! You and Dominion are life partners!

While you have had a rocky ride on this side, I will boldly submit that the rocky ride and the pressure has made you better! There is an inner revolution bubbling up inside of you that will leap unto the world stage very soon! Who wouldn’t love you? Who couldn’t love you? Well if they found a way not to, God has an Everlasting Love and Concern For You! You Are A Winner! The Heights Are Yours! Victory is Yours! Greatness is Yours! I see some stupendous days coming your way!

Your Brother,
Pastor Stephen F. Smith

Riding the Highs and Lows of Life! When Life Sends So Many Questions Your Way? Everyone has their own challenges! While they are not all the same, we all have to go through in this thing called life. Underneath all of these good looking profile pictures on the Web, are folks that are going through so much. We all have had the experiences of having good times, but we all know that we have to endure many valleys in this thing called life. Can anything make the pain go away? How could so many give their all to others, only to be left spurned and pushed to the side? How could others seem to travel on flowery beds of ease, while your every step seems to be filled with barking hell hounds? Will you ever get out of the financial fix that you are in? Will you ever find the love at first sight that everyone else seems to find? Will your very own Prince Charming or Cinderella ever present themselves? Will the stain of a serious mistake from the past ever stop taking its toll? Will happiness ever become more than a dream for you? Will your time ever come? Will my family ever return to the way that we used to be? Will your day to day operations stop resembling some off track spine tingling soap opera? God Oh God Can You Make All of the Pain to Stop?

Life indeed carries with it many questions. The right set of afflictions or trials will often leave us with so many questions. Often we feel that since many of us have chosen to pick up the torch of Christ, we feel like that all of our messes would be cleaned up over night. I wish I could promise you days of the sun only shining, but I do think that if there would be no rain, we would not know how to appreciate the sun right. While many of us are endeavoring to see the day where we will see a land of no midnights, but on this side on this Earth we will encounter many of the most trying of circumstances. Could it be that life somehow dealt you the wrong script? Your problems were obviously designed for someone else, Right? Folks pain is no stranger to any of us. In this life you will go through. Going through we all will, but we need to go through with a Hope that some might not have!

Our Hope should be in One that can overcome our every obstacle, One who has the power to change Time and Space on your behalf. A Faith in a Living God sends solace to so many that are fighting mind-numbing pain. God is still sitting on His Throne. God Loves You and He Cares For You! This season will soon pass! This trial didn’t come to stay, it Came to Pass! The Holy Writ’s purpose is to Reveal Jesus Christ who presents a future of promise and negates a negative past! God can and will deliver you from all of the aforementioned questions that life presents! God is a cure and the Answer for your every problem and your every question!

God Sees and God Knows what you are going through. Don’t lose your mind over that which Your Loving Heavenly Father Controls Any Way! God can turn the mess that you call your life into a message! There are better days ahead for each of you, and it is my sincere prayer that you will overcome the lows of life, and you will find the Answer to all of life’s questions! You Can Make It! You Can Take It! You Can Endure It! You Can Overcome It! Your Can Get It Back! You Can Soar Once Again! Your Health Can Come Back! Your Drive Can Come Back! You Can Once Again Soar and Compete with the Best! My prayers are with you, and I see You Rising in the days to come!

Your Brother In Christ,
Pastor Stephen F. Smith

Sleeping In a Bed that Was Once Shared With Someone Other Than You! I promised one of my good friends that I would write a piece that would address the world that seems to be closing in on her. She has just had a spouse to pass on, so she is in so much pain and in a state of wondering how and why. While I was thinking of this undertaking, I thought that she was certainly not alone in what she is feeling. There are so many that are sad over the loss of a spouse without that spouse dying. There are scores of folks that have been hit hard by divorce or abandonment. I would certainly say without any inhibition at all that we live in one of the most challenging days for relationships that this world may have seen. The stress, the drama, the demands, and the swift pace of this day all presents challenges for any and all relationships! I am writing this piece to uplift the spirits of others, and by no means am I proclaiming to be a relationship expert, but I do want to write a word that would address the pain that some are feeling. It is more than a chore to confront a bed that was once accompanied by a spouse. Whether through death, or via divorce or abandonment, this is a season that one needs to adjust to. There are many that have seen a spouse depart, and have gone on with their life as if nothing happened , well I am not addressing them, my purpose in this note would be to address those of you that are hurting ever so bad.

Many of you remember the days when one’s vows were extolled ever so loudly to a crowd of folks. Dreams of growing old together were the order of the day! Yet in the midst of your living happily ever after and growing old together dreams and visions, the unexpected happened. You never envisioned that you would be “back on the block”, what in the world Lord, do you mean I once again have to play the dating game? That game has changed so much, so how in the world am I to navigate those waters once again? Being a preacher of the Gospel I am primarily writing to those of you that have lost a spouse, yet I am not oblivious that many of you are grieving over one that you have no papers on or for. The various common law situations that cover this land are so great in number, did the church’s cry of the word “shacking” ever hit its target? If so, it didn’t hit it squarely! So if I hit you with a word, folks don’t send me to Hades if those who lost a “shackee’ get a word by continuing to read. Well besides the obvious things that married folks do, an empty bed presents challenges for those of you that are just not used to it! In this note I know that there are ever so many of you that could be married that are sleeping in a bed that was once accompanied by someone else. This is quite a day for relationships, I just don’t see how any of us can deal with the stress, the drama, the pain that it takes to make relationships work without prayer. Not going deep on you, but a relationship is the mending of two case histories together, and combining those two into one! What a challenge!

While some women have dreamed of getting married since they got their first Easy Bake Oven, many men have had so little training in the relationship department. A man seldom got pats on the back from his friends in the old neighborhood for preparing for marriage. In the midst of playing with one’s racetracks, GI Joes, and Dump Trucks we were seldom prepared for this thing called relationships. Many men have been applauded over the years for their conquests, and not for enduring relationships by their peers. This part of the spirit of this age, can’t be addressed without prayer folks. When you heart’s inner lining has been ripped asunder by the loss of a spouse for whatever reason, it takes a lot more than some catchy jingle, a silent relationship mantra, or some “Oprahisque” saying to overcome it. It is a challenge for those that once had married folks actions if you know what I mean, and all of a sudden there is not the availability of one that is betroth to you that you have papers on to help you meet that need. When things go bump in the night the words of a prayer partner often present a calm that may not last through the night! God sees your pain! God knows that you are challenged by your desires.

While I will get stoned for this message, it was needed. The church is one of the last places that people would seek help for their relationships. The counseling of one’s relationships are challenged ever so greatly by the rising amount of church leaders that are having problems with their own relationships! Well Folks I am not taking some standard bearer action by writing this note, but I am lifting up the need for a joint prayer for all of you that are hurting ever so badly! Maybe if the church gets its head out of the sand, and admits that we have relationship challenges in the day which we live in, then maybe folks will stop running to the world for help with their relationships. Yes being with someone else is a mighty mighty challenge! The enemy knows that if he hits mom and dad with enough problems that often he gets the kids by default. Did I say kids? Kids are often the collateral damage of losing a spouse! They miss the person that is gone as much or even more than you. Their world has been rocked also, so they are in need of healing to. My prayer would be that your heart’s inner lining and theirs would not snap.

God is a friend that will stick closer than a brother, and closer than most lovers. In your pain seek Him that is a Healer of Hearts and the one that can bring you out of the pain that you are experiencing! Folks it won’t happen overnight, but if you trust He who can deliver Peace in the Midst of The Storm then day by day in every way you will be better. God doesn’t want you to live in a dust heap, folks your life is not over. He Knows and He Cares! Folks I am busy praying for you! So please pray for me! You Can Make It Through This! I Promise You That You Can! Your Work Is Not Over! Pick Up The Pieces and Let’s March Into A New Realm! Yes it hurts, but doesn’t anything in this world worth fighting for feel the same way? God can Heal You From the Dark Shadows, and The Waves of Pain! Your Physical Needs Meter Can Be Tempered Also! I am busy praying for you once again! If God is Able to Do That Which Is Impossible, Will You Please Trust Him With This? He Can and He Will Be a Shelter From the Rain and The Pain! May Almighty God Hold Your Firmly In His Awesome Arms!

Respectfully Submitted,
Pastor Stephen F. Smith

Don’t Throw in the Towel! There are literally times when the best of us feel like throwing in the towel! Many of us have been punched by life so hard and so often that we want to throw in the towel. Why does it seem like when it rains it pours in so many of our lives! It seems that sometimes a dark ominous cloud must be following us. Well my brother and my sister I know that we all see days that are so hard to describe that volumes could be told about the amount of troubles you have encountered in life! Folks don’t lose heart! Our God has your times in His Hands! While you seem to be going under, God is the Life Preserve and Life Guard over all that is yours!

God will never leave you nor forsake you! God Has His Eyes on You! Don’t throw in the Towel! God Has An Incredible Deliverance Planned For You! Don’t Faint and God Will Richly Reward You! The enemy may seem to be winning, but God has a comeback planned for you that will register as one of the greatest of all times! You Can Still Win! Folks God sees your every tear! Your tears for the Kingdom’s sake will be richly rewarded soon! Your Weeping Won’t Last Always! You Have Some Joyful Times Coming Soon!

Relentless In My Pursuit of Him,
Pastor Stephen F. Smith

Speaking Peace Amidst Life’s Storms! All of us have had to deal with storms in our lives. I am not speaking about the atmospheric and weather related storms, but I am speaking of those times when life seems to move on you! We all have had those moments when we looked upward and even asked God those timeless words, “Why Me?” Yes we have each had those times when we felt like our heads, our bodies, and our entire lives were being bashed in by the hammer that we call life! Pain and disappointment have knocked on our door so much that some of us feel that they are neighbors. God how in the world can we get out of this storm! Well My Brother and My Sister the 4th Chapter of the Gospel of St. Mark records Jesus’ response to a storm in his life! Jesus spoke peace to this great storm that rose up in this chapter! Jesus’ words are those that are in the Red! Those that are in the red, are what you and I should take hold as Rhema Words!

A Rhema Word spoken to any storm in your life will still any storm that is raging in your life. Matthew 4 verse 4 records the words: Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Well folks in this text the word “word” that is used in this text in the Greek is the Word Rhema! There are two Greek words for the Word! The First is the Logos which represents the Written Word! Rhema represents a tailor-made or personal use of the Word of God that applies specifically to your current situation. The Logos records the stories of many of the patriarchs and matriarchs of the Faith, while a Rhema words speaks specifically to the Hell on Earth State that you seem to be living in right now.There is a Rhema word for nearly any storm that you seem to be weathering!

If you are going through financially, Philippians 4 verse 19’s speaking of My God Shall Supply All of Your Needs According to His Riches in Glory should jump off of the pages of The Holy Writ! No one likes storms, but if you build yourself up in the Word of God you will find that in the confines of The Word of God is a word that will speak peace to your storm! Saints we have to stand on the Word of God even when the storm’s winds seem to be festering at a record clip! Yes even in the midst of you shedding tears of agony, we need to continue to stand on the Word of God! Inside of The Word of God is that passage of scripture that would resonate Peace in the midst of all of life’s storms! It is foolhardy to not expect storms in your life! In the scriptures wherever storms are recorded they are representative of trouble! Well if you didn’t follow me on the storm piece, I know that we are all familiar with trouble! Trouble has seemed to have all of our numbers at home and even sometimes at work and church!

Your trial isn’t greater than the Word of God which will calm any and every storm! There is not a storm that the enemy can send your way that the Word of God can’t bring you out of! In the midst of your storm, let your fingers do the walking through the Word of God until you find that which speaks specifically to your situation! The Word of God is a Storm Chaser that has never met its match! Are you bold enough to speak The Word of God to your case right now? When you do I wholeheartedly believe that Your Storm Will Soon Have to Pass Over You! You are not going under Saints, but you are Going Over! I see you in a future where your hands and your entire being grips the Word of God as the greatest protection from storms in your life! Still your mouse for a second and speak the Word to your storm! It will soon be over Folks!

Additional Preaching Note: When is the last time that you spoke to a raging storm in your life? Could it be that you lack of doing so, may have led to your current storm raging much longer than it should have? Put your head in the Word of God and locate that special Rhema Word that will be a storm-chaser without compare! The Word of God can and will speak Peace to any storm that you are weathering! Preach Steve Preach! The Weatherman ain’t got nothing on me! He records the storms, while I repel the storms with God’s Word!

Relentless in My Pursuit of Him,

Pastor Stephen F. Smith

When Tragedy Knocks At Your Door? Many of us are often taken by surprise by much that happens in life. Sometimes tragedy itself even finds its way to our door. My prayers are with any of you that have been snared by one or more of the many “gotchas” that life can throw one’s way! You are not alone there is no temptation taken you, but such that is common unto man! There is someone somewhere that has had it as bad as you have, and believe it or not there is someone that has had it worse. My prayers are that God would apply his healing balm to all that ails you! You may be numb by the intense pain that some “life events” throws our way! God is a deliverer and a protector without compare. The same way that he delivered those in the Holy Writ from lion’s dens, fiery furnaces, Red Seas, drought, famine, pestilence, angry seas, enemy invasions, vengeful armies, and so many other adversaries, can still deliver you from anything that has taken you by surprise!

God is yet on the Throne! God Isn’t Slipping! God Can Still Do It! God Can Still Deliver! God has the answer to your dilemma! God has the answer to your crisis! God has the answer to your affliction! God has you on the screen of his “Omniscient GPS”, and yes my brother and sister he is tracking you and your progress! We serve a God that never slumbers and sleeps! We serve a God that is always on post! We serve a God that is always watching over you! Your God is bigger than any tragedy that the enemy had meant for your evil, and he consistently turns it around for your Good! Be Blessed and you are still the apple of God’s Eyes! When life throws a curve, God is a catcher unlike any in the annals of baseball history! He can catch the mean curve balls that the enemy throws, and he can turn it around for your good!

Your Brother in the Struggle,
Pastor Stephen F. Smith

Can God Bless a Barren Woman? Yes He Can! I have always seen the torment that comes from the enemy to many great women who have not been able to bear children for one reason or another. Whether that was a product of not having found a man suitable, or whether that is a product for some health reason that a particular lady could not bear kids. You are not a lesser individual for not having kids. One of the simplest answers that the world can give you is for you to adopt. That is so easy for others to say. Does that replace the inner yearning of one that has longed for children? I don’t think that it does. I am not against adoption at all, but the purpose of this note is to minister to those of you that have longed for kids and haven’t been able to bear them for one reason or another. In the days of the Bible, barrenness was essentially looked on as a curse, but I am coming with Holy Boldness to let you know that your worth isn’t determined by your ability to produce offspring. God loves and cares for you! It is never his desire for you to suffer heartaches over your yearning for kids.

I truly believe that God is the answer to that void in your life. Turn this burden over to the Lord, and I am sure that he will fix it. Many of you may have miscarried, or lost a child in childbirth, I submit to you that for every stripe that our Savior endured there is enough healing virtue to heal you of your heartache! You are not cursed! You are not less of a Woman! I believe with all that is in me that God Can Bless What Others Call a Barren Woman! If that is you, I am praying that God would send you a sheer tsunami of his virtue your way! I see the God and the Good in You! Stay Blessed My Sister! I know that Mother’s Day Weekend Can Be Tough! God loves you! I send out my highest regards to you, and I yet see the day when you will shine as the brightest star in the universe! God can make you fruitful in so many other ways!

Additional Note For Mother’s Day Weekend-In a week like this, it can be especially troubling for those of you that have longed for kids. I don’t have every answer, but I do know The Answer who can solve your every problem. I am busy praying for you! I don’t take this lightly; I have often heard the heartache of many over not being able to have children. I am praying for any and all that find that as the case! God will put his arms around you and love you as no other can! I am praying that God would send his fruitfulness in whatever manner he may your way! You are not cursed! You are blessed! That means you are empowered to prosper! God has his eyes on you!

Your Brother In Christ,
Elder Stephen F. Smith

When It’s a Rainy Night in the Kingdom! I was thinking of the Brook Benton hit of yesteryear It’s a Rainy Night in Georgia. In one of the choruses of the song the lyrics say Lord I believe that it is raining all over the world. Now this song was never meant for those that choose to be upbeat 24/ 7, but this song had and has appeal those who have been through trying times. Could it be that there are not only raining nights in Georgia, Tennessee, California, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, or even Alaska, but could there be some rainy nights for those that have choose to be in the Kingdom of God?

Psalm 30 verse 5 states that His anger endureth for a moment and in his favor is life, weeping may endure for a night, but Joy cometh in the morning! Can I hold up this gospel train just for a second? How many of you have ever wondered just how many tears that you have shed since coming into the Kingdom? Is there some malevolent injustice afoot here when those who have accepted the call of a loving Heavenly Father have had to shed so many tears on so many mornings, noonday’s, and nights?

Dear Lord we love you so much, yet many of us have to confess that we didn’t know that signing up for the gospel team will expose some of us to so much pain. It is quite amazing that those of us that have decided to travel the road that is less traveled have to endure on so many occasions what others would deem as a literal Hell on Earth?” Why Oh Lord Why” has been the cry for so long of so many Christians. So many have wondered Lord When in the World will this pain ever stop? I know that the Holy Writ states that a morning of joy is coming, but how many of us have nearly grown weary of looking for that morning?

Lord I have the Kingdom clothes, the Kingdom shoes, and I get a Kingdom Word on a weekly basis, why in the name of everything that is Holy, am I exposed to so many Hellish situations? Lord when will things look up for me? My brother and my sister God has heard each one of these cries from us all! We do serve a God that might not send his delivering hands at the very moment that you seek it, but we do serve a God that knows just how much you can bear, a God that will always arrive before the buzzer of your game of life goes off! We even serve a God that will send his might deliverance sometimes after the final buzzer has seemed to have gone off in your life. Our God is a deliverer as no other!

When It is a Rainy Season of Weeping for many of us Kingdom Folk so many of the world are prone to ask, If Your God is So Good then why are you going through what you are going through? I humbly submit that your trials don’t define the extent of your relationship with God. In 2nd Corinthians 11 The Apostle Paul used his trials and not his accomplishments to certify his Apostleship. He instructed others that one that is truly called to the things of God wouldn’t enter each day expecting peaches and cream. Your are being tried on a routine basis because it is the way of the righteous.

When it seems that you have done all that one could possibly do, take hold of faith, patience, and endurance because we serve a God that will never let you or I down! Those Rainy Nights in the Kingdom will never last forever even though it may seem that they will! God has you on his mind, and his thoughts of you are off of the charts! You are called to greatness regardless of the trial that you are fighting currently!

It may hurt, but you just endure and hold on because God will send his Help your way! God has not forgotten you, and our Great God has you on his mind. When It’s a Rainy Night in the Kingdom, please my brother and my sister Hold On because Joy is Coming Your Way! It is my most sincere prayer that God will put his loving arms around you in a way that you have never felt before! Our God Reigns! Always remember that when there is a Rainy Night in the Kingdom!

Thank you Lord for giving me this Word! Preachers if you want to preach this one, go head! The Lord has freely given this to me! I pray that this note will help someone that is navigating some of the most treacherous waters that there has ever been! One day the Rain will go away. Hold on my fellow Saints!God has been so good to so many of us despite our current trial. We must stop defining our relationships with God by our current trial. Your going through trials have burst you into biblical company and a kinship of sorts with many in the Holy Writ! Those that were greatly used in the Holy Writ were usually greatly opposed!

Relentless in My Pursuit of Him,

Pastor Stephen F. Smith

Attend This Biblical Job Fair!

In lieu of the dire straits that are plaguing the employment market the Lord inspired me to look in the Word of God and locate enough scriptures that would enable the folks that will read this note; to navigate the harsh winds of this employment market! Take these tips and use them!

1. Hebrews 9 verses 27: It is appointed unto man once to dies and after this the judgment! There will always be opportunities in the death industry! Death is scriptural! So there will always be available funeral home, cemetery, and life insurance jobs!

2. Job 14 verse 1:Man that is born of a woman is of a few days and full of trouble!- Again echoing the strength of the death industry/ and the full of trouble piece means that there will always be openings in law enforcement, security, psychologists, psychiatrists, and openings in the mental health industry!

3. Proverbs 8 verse 12-I wisdom dwell with prudence and find out the knowledge of witty inventions. Proverbs 14 verse 22: In all labor there is profit! Isaiah 48 verse 17: Thus saith the Lord thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. Proverbs 10:4: He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand, but the hand of the diligent maketh rich! Proverbs 22 verse 29: Seest thou a man diligent in his business he shall stand before kings , he shall not stand before mean men!—In any economy there will be entrepreneurial opportunities! When you work hard enough you will locate opportunities! There are ideas inside of you that will set the world on its ear! When others won’t hire you, then go hire yourself! Follow you passion and find your purpose there you will find your treasure!

4. Matthew 26 verse 11: For you have the poor with you always-There will always be opportunities in marketing to the poor, or serving the poor through one’s business. There will also be opportunities for those in the non-profit/ social services’ world to serve and service the poor!

5. Matthew 9 verse 36-38-But when he saw the multitudes he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad as sheep having no shephered. Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest. Luke 10 verse 7: And the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give for the laborer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house top house. Matthew 10 verse 9-10: Provide neither gold nor silver for your journey neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves; for the workman is worthy of his meat!-There will always be a market for those who have a call of God to the 5-Fold Ministry! These ministry gifts should be provided for!

Biblical Job Fair Part 2

Here are the rest of the nuggets from the Holy Writ for you to unearth opportunities in this shaky employment market!

6. Romans 3 verse 23-For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. 2nd Timothy 3 verse 1-This know also, that in the last days perilous times will come.-There will always be openings in the Fighting the Effects of Abounding Sin Industry. There will always be security and law enforcement jobs. There will always be a need for social service and counseling jobs. Attorneys and mediators will always be in demand. Rampant sin will lend itself to a need for military personnel, 911 operators, police officers, peace keepers, and emergency personnel.

7. Luke 8 verse 43-And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any. Jeremiah 30 verse 13- There is none to plead thy causes that thou mayest be bound up: thou has no healing medicines.- There will always be opportunities in the medical and pharmaceutical field. As America is started to gray as least as far as the Baby Boomers are concerned, there will always be job opportunities in this arena!

8. Proverbs 17 verse 22-A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit drieth the bones.-There will always be opportunities in the entertainment industry, when one can make one smile via the singing of a song, the acting out of a play, or through some form of comedic relief or other entertainment venue, one will always find a nice amongst a world that craves a smile, or an escape from the daily problems that we all face!

9. Isaiah 47 verse 4-And even to your old age, I am he and even to hoar (Gray) hairs will I carry you. Joshua 13 verse 1: Now Joshua was old and stricken in years and the Lord said unto him, thou art old and stricken in years and there remaineth yet much to possess. –The Growing Old business will always provide many opportunities! There will always be employment opportunities amongst an aging populous!

10. Matthew 23 verse 11: But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant. Luke 19 verse 13: And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds and said unto them, Occupy till I come. –There is a great need for leaders and business people that are looking to serve others! Going the extra mile in business will find you a following not seen in common hours! Serve others, Stay busy, and Do business until He Comes and you will never be out of Work!

Your Brother In Christ Who is Now Ending this Biblical Employment Fair,
Pastor Stephen F. Smith

The Word Yet is a Game Changer! I am teaching this class on today folks which will illustrate the awesome power of the Word Yet! The Word Yet is a Game Changer! It should be in the arsenal of every person of faith! This word takes you from the melancholy and emits hope for all that say it! Notice in the examples below how powerful this word is!

1. I Don’t Have the Money! Correct Statement: I don’t have the money Yet! ( Shouting all over the place)

2. I don’t have a car! Correct Statement: I don’t have a car Yet! (I see a New Honda) Important note here this is not a ripoff of a tongue you heard from the saints!

3. I don’t have a spouse! Correct Statement: I don’t have a spouse Yet!(Order Up the rings)

4. I don’t have my degree! Correct Statement: I don’t have my degree Yet! ( Order your cap and gown)

5. We haven’t moved! Correct Statement: We haven’t moved Yet! ( Order your moving boxes)

Well you get the drift! My prayer is that you will discover the resilient power of Yet in your life! Yet is a word of hope! Never lose the power of Yet in your life! Yet unleashes possibilities! Yet is the language of the battlefield, and not of the Hammock! Keep a Yet on your person! Preach Steve!

God is Not Through With Me “Yet”,
Pastor Stephen F. Smith

Can You Pass The Strength Test? One’s strength is not determined by mountaintop experiences! It is determined by how one deals with the valleys of life! How can you possibly know how strong you are, if you haven’t been through anything? The proof is in the pudding, don’t call yourself a prayer warrior when the times are peaceful. Who attends motivational seminars by those who haven’t gone through anything? Grace and Power usually follows those who are not afraid of being in the heat of the battle! Success usually follows blood, sweat, tears, and pain most times!

How can one know God as a healer if one has never been sick? How can one know God as a way -maker if one has never needed to have a way made! God’s strength is made perfect(Mature,Whole, Complete) in weakness! Maybe we should thank God for the thorns, thistles, and sticker bushes we have to face in life! You are better because of it! Let that valley that you are going through right now prepare you for the sheer greatness that I am praying will come your way real soon! I see you in the future looking a whole lot better than you look right now!

Stay in the Chase,
Pastor Stephen F. Smith
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Does My Wonderful Public Profile Cover Up My Private Pain?

The social networking world is such a blessing to many. The opportunity to network with seemingly like minded people all over the globe affords many priceless opportunities. In the midst of the wonderful profiles that grace Facebook, Ning, MySpace, Twitter, WordPress, Blogger, Linkedin, BlackPlanet, and any of a myriad of other social networking sites are many people that are dealing with secret struggles, and private pain. I once mentioned in a sermon that many of us are hurting in places that others simply can’t see! Do our powerful public profiles cover some of our private pains! Does anyone else see my struggles?

We all go through, we all have struggles! Even that person who has that great looking profile on the social networking sites that has all those friends, yes they also have struggles. A good looking personal photo doesn’t exhibit all that another may have gone through, or may have gone through. The picture may show the glory, but believe me the picture doesn’t tell the story. In the midst of any social networking site, are the profiles of many who have been through hell and high water! Yes you are not the only person that is going through! When one writes his or her bio for any social networking sites, one tends to highlight the highpoints of one’s life! Very seldom would one list their bottom of the barrel experiences, their valley experiences on their profiles. Here’s my prayer that God would bless all of you folks who have all of these wonderful profiles in the social networking world. It is my prayer that God would heal any private pain that you may have! It is also my prayer that God would alleviate unbearable burdens that may be tormenting you!

Yes, I am sure that we all have some private struggles that only God can deliver us from! That pain that torments, that thing that keeps you from sleeping is limited from affecting you from this day forward. That thing that you have carried down the halls of work, school, or church will no longer torment you any more. There is a God that can heal even those whose struggle, and don’t even whimper about it. I don’t have to know what you are going through, but I do know that you are going through!  Behind that wonderful looking profile is a person that is struggling with something that very few even know about! Those tears that have been shed, that no one else ever sees are almost over. The tide is getting ready to turn! Those insecurities that have limited you over the years will soon give way! I am telling you with Holy Boldness that you are ready to turn the corner! I am seeing you a few days down the road in the future, and you are looking and feeling a whole lot better than you look right now!

After all of the flossing online, there are many people who are going through just like you. You are not born under a bad sign; you were not born in an awful sign, or an awful season. God has not frowned on you! God has not tuned his back on you! Your best days have not been seen yet! Your happiest days haven’t been seen yet! The sleepless nights will soon pass away! The biting of your fingernails will soon be yesterday’s news! I see you overcoming each and every private struggle and private pain! I see boundless joy in your future! I am earnestly praying for your complete and total deliverance from any private struggle, and private pain that may be in your life! God is ready to take you from the places of torment, and deliver you to a place of triumph!

Respectfully Submitted,
Pastor Stephen F. Smith
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