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It’s okay to Love ❤️
It’s okay to love. It’s okay to grieve after loving someone. Don’t allow people to tell you how to process your feelings. Take your time. Don’t be ashamed of how much you love someone or how quickly you fell in love with them believe that was it.
Love fully, love completely, but most importantly, let love happen naturally.
Sometimes timing is it or sometimes that person was there to teach you something. You don’t have to apologize for loving someone. Some want love but do not know how to receive it or recognize it. Some want it but are afraid it will not work out or they just don’t want it.
If this is the case just let people be. Dont even approach the person if you are unsure because people grieve. Their soul attaches.
The soul connects bodies way before you meet physically and it’s on the individuals to recognize that. When they do but they don’t someone ends up grieving while the other one keep repeating the cycle that causes one to grieve. With all of that I say but God it will come around again just take your time and keep your cookies until you know that it’s real.
Love has a plethora of emotions.
Do what you need to do to heal.
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Keep Going
For all of us in this season.
I want you to know that no matter how heavy you feel right now, your feelings are always valid.
It is not easy to tell yourself that everything will be okay when you feel so hopeless, but I pray you always try to make yourself feel better no matter what life is throwing at you.
I pray your scars begin to heal.
I pray that you never get tired of picking yourself up every time you fall.
Life is all about experience but that only kicks in when we don’t listen to those who have walked before us.
You have to remain focused in a world of chaos.
I pray that the universe will be more accommodating to us especially on the days we dislike ourselves.
Life give us rewards and consequences with our choices therefore, let us be mindful of our actions.
Whatever you do keep going.
If you stop now those younger than you will pass you by.
Find your strength in He that placed the sand on the earth. #Countree -
A Caregiver’s Prayer
Father God we start off by giving thanks to you. Thank you for who you are. Thank you for the placement of our lives. We could have be born anywhere but placed us with love.
Lord I ask that you pour out your strength to the reader of this. Lord I ask that you give them the mind to endure those they care for.
Lord we often have those what about me moments when life is overwhelming, and that can be selfish at times.
Father I ask that you replace that with you peace. Lord thank you for making us who we are and in the capacity to deal or handle those you place in our care.
Caregiving is not easy and it takes sacrifice. Lord send the caring team help from time to time. Capture the tears that may fall when the house has closed their eyes for the night. I ask that you place compassion on the hearts of the ones we look after. Sometimes as they age they turn mean. Some knowingly and some unknowingly but Lord speak to our hearts. Don’t let what we do be in vain even though at times it feels like it.
Help us to keep our hearts right. Help us to not break when the layers of the world attack us from every side. Help us to keep a positive attitude when family doesn’t want to help. Maybe they were not built with the tools needed to perform the assignment.
Help us to look back when this season is complete and see what it was all about. Lord we trust you, honor you and praise you. Cover these homes in you blood. Provide the necessary services and financials need to provide the level of care that is needed.
Opened hard to penetrate doors. Send your angels.
This prayer I ask in your son Jesus Name Amen! ~ With love Talesha
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Praying for Male Caregivers
My spirit man woke up praying for males that care for their parents and grandparents. Lord we just thank you on today. We send a covering to those men that are caregivers that feel as though their day of happiness will never arrive. Lord I pray you send their rib someone that understands where they are. Someone who is suitable for them. Lord heal their heavy heart. Allow them to not feel as though they were forgotten because they were selected to care for their loved ones. I thank them for even giving themselves for the assignment. I don’t know who needed to hear this but God hears your prayers. Lord we thank you on today and we cover all that is in a role of caregiving for their loved ones. Your rewards are far greater than the flesh. I pray for the endurance to continue smiling when they are mean and says hurtful things. I pray that you are surrounded by the angels. The Lord hear and sees your tears. There is a lesson in caregiving and sometimes it’s not easy sometimes it’s painful but count it all joy! I’m praying for your partner that to have the patience and the sincere understanding of what it is you do. Even if you’re the male that uses his finances to care for his mother or grandparents.
There is a sacrifice there. Bless you but you all don’t forget yourselves.
Caregivers need love to.
Stop being fearful. Stop rejecting you! Stop rejecting the women that love you no matter what. God is sending them but you are rejecting them because you of fear. God would not send them if He didnt know they were going to be a perfect fit. God is perfect and all knowing! You are not and that’s when you Trust God and the outcome.
Fear hallelujah will keep us from the partner that is supposed to give you your strength, pray you through, be available when you need a caregiver. Alright I’m done but I hope it makes it to who it was for!
We cover this prayer in Jesus name Amen🩵 Countree -
The minute things.
Man growing up the things that mattered were the things that you could see, like your car, house, job, bad relationships, clothes, hair and money.
Stupid ish.As you grow that shit don’t matter.
What matters most are the things you can’t see.
The love you share with others, your inner purpose, your comfort with who you are, where you are heading, the seeds you deposit.
God is jealous for real and life will happen to you causing you to seek Him.
Once you do that He provides.
We know how to worry and doubt well.
Don’t worry about your finances. Don’t worry about love. Don’t worry about what your children are doing. Once they are adults most of them are choosing the hard way to learn.
Guide them as you can, pray for them but trust the creator.We need to trust and believe well but while we are doing that incorporate some action.
We will never know the why. We will never know why people were removed to soon. Why relationships didn’t work out . Why we lost it all. Why we had to be the one hooked on drugs, alcohol or sex. Why we were the one that had to spend time in prison. Why we had to go through but God still is in the midst of it all.
When life is good most folk still find a reason to complain.
All I’m saying on today is enjoy your time. Enjoy the now. Don’t let fear win. Stop allowing doubt to win. Stop inserting yourself where you shouldn’t be. The enemy wants to keep us right there. ~Countree
There is so much more.
Whose report do you believe?
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I never sleep. Always thinking.
Many are nonbelievers and that’s fine. Many have chosen their own path and that’s fine.
Imma sit this with you though.
Some will read it and some will keep scrolling.
But YOUR day for you to take your last breath is getting closer.
Count it all joy if you woke up today!
Matthew 7-13-14
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.Life takes work. Life’s challenges takes work to overcome.
There will always be test, after test, after test, but these test have a way of bringing us closer to God.
The narrative is the same in all religions. The players are just called something different. If you really want to talk about it.
No one religion is better than the other.
One thing that’s a fact, that you see and I see, we ARE DEAD longer than we are alive. That’s a fact!!!!
Therefore, what are you doing?
Are you living to bust hell wide open or are you passing your test to go in through the narrow way?Life’s ish make you call out! Oh you will yell at the heavens!
It challenges us (at least it should) to do better. To want more for ourselves. We don’t have the time you think.
Get you some people that can pour into you in good and bad times.
What does your core look like? Are they dragging you to hell? (That’s a movie)
You still have time. Stop blaming folks and be accountable for your actions.
People say life is not a game. Well it is, will you get played, or will you win. Wide many will fit in.
Narrow only a few will make it!
Good things take work, patience, your time, dedication, trust and so much more.You don’t need much to do bad. That shits easy.
Easy to get into and hard to get out of! Think about it!
Identify the warnings. His speaks to us. He meets us right where we are.
(He,She,It, Mother Earth,Energy,Allah,Yeshua) you get my point.
It’s not a bad thing. The end goal is forever. We’ve already said that’s the only fact we can see. Daily. Don’t miss it people. ~Countree
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Art and Marie
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His Grace is Enough
His Grace is Enough
II Corinthians Chapter 12:7-9 says “he has a thorn in his flesh, and he had pleaded three times. Lord, take it away. But he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you. For my strength is made perfect in weakness. Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ power may rest on me.” Paul was writing this letter to the Church of Corinth, and in some of the other podcasts, I speak on how Paul was in prison, sending letters of encouragement, checking on the people, reassuring them, and letting the people know his status. Paul’s letters were personal, heartfelt, and uplifting. He was making sure God’s word lived on in the people.
That thorn is something Paul struggled with. We don’t know exactly. It could have been physical, mental temptation or external, but it was uncomfortable for Paul while also being used by God for his benefit. Paul says Satan is the one causing this pain and God is allowing it. However, the pain is not in vain. God is turning it around; He is turning his weaknesses into something good.
How many of us have had some thorns or are being poked right now?
I was placed in a situation a few weeks ago and I cried at least 24 hours. I could not process the fact that I was being accused of something that I would never, ever do. It’s just not me. Once I friend you or call you family, it is just that and so that situation was a thorn for me. But then God spoke through some people and the revelation came. We want to be close with God. At least we say. We at least say we will, or we do. Then God has us go through some stuff. That will leave thorns to test us, and we cave. In these thorns God builds our character, causing some to be intimidated by you and all you’ve done was enter a room. Pass your test and stand. We say all the time. Lord use me, but when that heat comes, its Lord why me? Then He replies with, why not you. When he used me, I cried for 24 hours, trying to make sense of it all. It hurt, caused a great pain, had me step away from some things, but it also caused something even greater for the other person who was going through some thorns as well.
After speaking with those close to me, I had to go back to God and say I’m sorry. Though I will never know what your test will look like, I must keep my heart right. So, then look at Paul. Paul knows, like Solomon, that stuff doesn’t matter. Paul knows that if you have nothing on this fleshly side, that Jesus is more than enough. We be focusing on everything we want instead of what’s right in front of us, the gifts that we already have. Instead of looking at the thorns, we need to look at God’s grace, and His grace is enough.
Let’s talk about weakness. When you are weak, you tend to cry out. Whether it is to a friend, spouse, parents, spiritual leader, whoever it is and when what they say is not enough, you then learn how to express to God. When that is where you should have begun. You should always start with your spirit man, and then you communicate with the flesh afterwards. When we are weak, we tend to want to listen and take advice. We are open and that is when God’s power is greatest. When we are at our weakest, we have to be gracefully broken, all the way down. Sometimes we must have multiple thorns to help us grow, to draw us closer to the Most High. We need Gods abundant grace. When we are high and mighty, we don’t hear God. We don’t even care to communicate, but when those thorns come in our lives, we have some of the best conversations with God. That’s all He wants is a conversation. Some of these storms are to get our attention, causing us to pray, fast, meditate, communicate with the Most High. Some of those storms are for the other person to teach them whatever it is they have been questioning all the while building strength, trust, casting doubt, on all who is involved. Some thorns never leave and get worse. Some thorns are caused by the choices we make, and some thorns are just destined to be. No matter the situation, all thorns give us a reason to cry out to God.
If you look around you and your past, no matter your age, God’s grace is sufficient. So, today no matter what life looks like. Trust that if God is the author and the finisher of this life, that he has already figured this thing out. Our flesh is weak. It wants to control, but our higher power is the one in control. Don’t miss out on the goodness of God because you won’t forgive, or you are stubborn, or you want to control your outcome. God says cast your cares on me. Believe. Have faith. See past your eyes. Some diagnosis is hard to receive. Some grief is hard to overcome. Some friendships are hard to let go of, but if it does not add value to you, let it go and allow God’s grace to be enough. God is a merciful God. He is a forgiving God, trusting God, a providing God. He gives light to those dark places, those places we thought we would never overcome. God is awesome.
As I reflect over the 45 years that he has allowed me to grace this earth. I shouldn’t be here. When I lived with my aunt in Texas rest her soul. She did a tarot card reading on me and the death card was pulled. She said I would not make it to see 25. I have flashes of moments in my life to this day. I see many times where my life could have ended BUT GOD saw a new me. He knows my name. A me others could not see. Now that I am older that card meant change. We don’t always accept the thought of change, but change is good. If you are routine change, it up. No one should know your schedule better than you. They can set you up. Life will set you up. They had me cast out and destroyed But God. But my grandfather! He spoke to me on his death bed and said little momma get it together. I won’t be here to save you. So, I am so grateful, and I continue to give the people Him, because that’s what this is all about, giving the people the good news. God loved me so much, that He allowed me to make it to 45. And if you are not out here sharing, spreading the good news, then what are you doing? We should be asking ourselves that every day. Are we wasting our time? Are we adding value to our time? What is it that we are doing in our time that is positive? If we are taking in all this negative stuff, then the outcome is going to be negative. But if we can wake up with a smile and plant seeds and deposit seeds of greatness into somebody else, one word at a time, one open door at a time, one bag carry at a time. Then you are definitely on the right track.
So, on my birthday, I want to tell you that God’s grace is enough. God’s grace is sufficient, and that is just the place to be with God. Be patient. Be strong. God has something waiting. Keep going. Stop looking back. Receive the blessings. Stop shutting down the blessings of God. God’s timing is everything. His ways are not our ways. His thoughts are not our thoughts.
This is my His Grace is enough Chapter!
And on that note, if you hang in there with me, I’ll hang in there with you. Peace. 😊
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Looking Back
Looking Back
I speak on Paul often.
In Philippians, Chapter 3. He writes, “brethren I count not myself to have apprehended, but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before. I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
Jeremiah Chapter 6 tells us “To stand at the crossroads and look to the ancient path. This is a call to not go back to our old ways, but to choose the path of life instead. God offers a new life to us and wants us to take it.”
We often go backwards because of the worldly pleasures. It’s a familiar place. It’s comfortable and we have a fear of what lies ahead. Some have a fear of failure.
This makes me think about Lots wife. God spoke a command and that was to flee from Sodom and Gomorrah before it was destroyed. There was so much deceit and worldly stuff going on and God decided to make a call and end it. Lot’s wife raised her family in a city known for its sexual manners. She did not want to leave her familiar place to go into the unknown. She loved her past, where she had come from, so then, to give it all up mentally had her in a place of captivity. It’s what many people fight with in relationships, careers, and friendships. It’s hard to let go of that familiar place, but when God is shifting you and placing people into your life, you must let go. Do not get stuck in a place. Stop letting life pass you by! Leave the home boys in the hood. End some of those negative relationships. Gossiping gets depressing. You get sucked in a place. Leave that job. When you are blessed, God elevates you. With elevation some things and people fall by the waist side. Bad things happen when you look back. Most of the time. If you are going back to assist and mentor, great! We must pay attention to the end goal. God wants to use us. You are not curious for nothing? Start questioning yourselves. Are the things of my past adding value to my future? Do I have positive outlets surrounding me such as meditating, running, reading, drawing or whatever you consider to be positive? Most importantly, don’t rush life! If you are not ready to advance take your time and grow. Prepare yourself. Do that extra year of college. Don’t commit if you are not ready. On that note if you hang in there with me, I will hang in there with you! Peace😊
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Hosea Chapter 4
Well, hello everybody and thank you again for joining me. I wanted to do a brief intro to a discussion we are going to have later. So, in this intro I wanted to shine some light on chapter 4 of Hosea. Because this applies to this generation as it did the generations before us. I think it’s II Kings where it speaks on the havoc that was going on, and he, meaning Hosea, had seen this coming because he was a prophet. A lot of people are not believers of those who are blessed with the gift of sight, but I won’t stay there. It’s three main parts to Hosea and in the beginning, God told him to marry Gomer. Gomer liked to sleep around, and the people knew it which attach labels to her.
We must keep in mind that we all have a past and that we are not our labels. God told him to have children with her, and he did. They had three in the first round. Can you hear the chatter and the ridicule he must have faced. Everyone knows his home situation. That grapevine must have been lit! I am sure he was sad, and people were pointing fingers at him. This had to be overwhelming for him and frustrating. So, what do you do when things like this arise (you run of course)? He divorced Gomer.
Keep in mind that all things happen in God’s timing. Period there is no way around it.
God tells this man to go find her again, his wife, and clear her debt with those she loved and had sex with and marry her again. (Wait what)
Now many of us hear God. Go back and forth with God on why it won’t work, I can’t do that, you’re not good enough, the other person not good enough, I’m not ready yet, but you missed the point. God IS! And if God feels you are in a place of receiving He gives to us and it is up to us to receive. Now if we don’t then don’t cry about why, because you rejected it. God showed you and you did not act. So, no matter what you think. God is the one who gets the glory in all things. So, this man had to swallow his pride and marry her again and have more children.
The brokenness, the marriage, the children. It’s all a prophetic symbol of Israel and all God ever asks, and return is that the people be faithful to him. God loves us. He is compassionate and faithful. He gives grace and shows mercy. Daily. Could we afford to be divorced by God? In chapter 4. God has a case. He is looking at us. What does he see? No faithfulness, kindness. No acknowledgement of who he is, swearing, deception, murder, stealing, adultery, violence, bloodshed. And people are hurting. No one is taking accountability. Yet a whole lot of fun is taking place. Does this sound familiar? So, then God says you will stumble, stumble by night, I will destroy your mother. (This is a promise, people miss the verbiage) That was a guarantee. I will is a command. He said my people. And when he said my people, I can hear God crying. Literally. Because as a parent and a friend, I see, and I hear the choices that those close to me make. I can hear the Lord saying my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you rejected. Because it’s not that you aren’t being told, but because it doesn’t fit what you are looking for, or because it doesn’t feel good. Or because you’ve been hurt before or because it needs to be your way, and you reject my message. So then since you have forgotten the law of your God. I will also forget your children. The more people it was, the more they sinned against God. So as the world kept having kids more people continued to sin against God.
God said I will change their glory to shame. They feed on the sin of my people and direct their desire towards their iniquity. And I will be like people like Priest. So, I will punish them for their ways and repay them for their deeds. They will eat and not have enough. They will play harlot but not increase. Because they have stopped giving heed to the Lord. Harlotry is a word that continues to come up. But what is it? It’s just another name for prostitute. And so, he says. Harlotry, wine, and new wine take away the understanding. When you are under the influence of substances, you cannot hear the voice of God. The frequencies are crossed. When you overeat, how do you feel? Your mind is tired. Your body is full. God said my people consult their wooden idols and their wizard wands warns them, for a spirit of prostitution has led them astray. And he goes on and says, because their shade is pleasant.
In other words, people are having fun doing their own thing, so the people without understanding are ruined. And when you are ruined and life happens, what do people do? They cry out to God and expect him to respond. God has already given you the command, but you are choosing not to listen for selfish reasons for what your eyes see, for fun and games, for convenience and whatever else. But you will have to cry out again and again, and I pray he listens. People don’t want to know God until life happens. Most people anyway. Most people join church and come to God when they are in crisis. But God is a strategist, and he strategically places people and things into your life at the timing in which he wants them there to help get you to the next level. Do we reject those people, all the time? This is one big game of choice. You can be set up for good, or you can spiral for the lack of knowledge and understanding, for rejecting the gift he sends to you.
This was just an overview of Chapters 1 through 4.
I will pick up this chapter later, but Jeremy SaDon and I will cover this in a deeper discussion, so stay tuned.
And on that note, if you hang in there with me, I will always be there for you. Peace. #countree
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