Stay tuned to next weeks Bishop Speaks as I make some major "cut-throat" Clear Points. But in the mean time here are some Major Points for your breakthrough for letting go of dead weight! Well I’ll just give you one which is "the force of expectation." stay-tuned!
Close the account, let them go! Part II
Ooowee!
I’m speechless, laughing so hard that I can’t stop. I’m as happy as a kid in the candy store; just gone crazy eating up all the candy in sight. It’s Saturday, 3p.m. for starters and I’m home sitting in my living room with a big bag of popcorn, a can of Pepsi cola and looking at “The Three Stooges.” Any of my readers remember them? I grew up watching them. Now, at 57 years old, I’m a kid at heart watching them on a Saturday afternoon with no wedding or funeral to officiate, no TV or radio talk show to be interviewed on, no counseling session with anybody, or class to teach. I have not had a free Saturday in almost three years and I’m home alone spending it with the Stooges laughing like I’m crazy as I see on my big screen TV that Larry, Curly and Moe are in trouble.
They are in a small boat out in the middle of the lake and the boat has a hole in its bottom. The water is quickly sinking the boat as Larry and Curly are following Moe’s orders to use their caps from their head to get the water out of that boat. It was not working as Moe tells them both, “we have to get rid of some of this dead weight off the boat to keep it from sinking.” Moe tosses off items from the boat, but still the water keeps coming in and the boat continues to sink. Moe looks at Larry and they come up with an idea. They both look at Curly and tell him, “You're not only DEAD weight, but you’re HEAVY weight,” and both Larry and Moe toss Curly out of the boat into the water as the boat comes up out of the water. They both wave at Curly who is now swimming and they tell him, “we'll see you on dry land.”
Ooowee! I'm so happy that Curly can swim.
“You’re not only DEAD weight, but HEAVY weight,” that’s what they told Curly.
Last week I said, “close the account, let them go.” Ok, somebody reading this is not understanding what I’m saying as I feel them asking me the question, “let who go Bishop?” I’m telling each of you my readers to let go not only of dead weight, but draining heavy weight. I’m saying let go of individuals who not only bring nothing to the table, but drain you in the process and take from the table. In the South I’d hear grandmothers say, “you working my nerves.” What did they mean with that statement? They meant you’re draining me and getting on my nerves.
I’m here to tell each of you that for every set back, God has a major comeback. But if one wants to receive a major comeback from God, then one has to let go of individuals that are setting them back. Ooowee, read that sentence over again if you didn’t catch it. Sometimes we expect more from others because we would be willing to do that much for them. But guess what? Many of the individuals you’re doing for think you owe them and wonder why you expect the same from them. Ooowee! Read that sentence over again too if you didn’t understand it. See, you can do unto others what you hopefully expect them to do unto you, but in today’s times, many will not do the same loving, kind and thoughtful things back to you. They are not only dead weight, but draining weight as well. Ask yourself why you continue to deal with it? It’s not what people toss you, it’s what you catch. Just like Moe and Larry on the boat with Curly, you'll have to know when it's time to close the account and toss out dead, draining weight in your life. Remember what I said last week? If you allow more people to make more withdrawls then deposits in your life, you will be out of balance, and in the negative. Know when to close the account.
I asked the 22-year-old beautiful girl, “why?” I only asked her why when she said to me, “Bishop, I’m tired of taking care of grown men.” She continued, they don’t work, don’t want to work, always need you to buy them something, never have any money, I’m just tired.” She was referring to her new 22-year-old “thug” boyfriend. I told her as best I could, “daughter, you can never make a mistake twice, because the second time it’s not a mistake, it’s a choice.” I continued, asking her a question, “Why do you always select a thug, a bad boy, a broke boy, a male and not a man?” I told her, “there are men out here who work and know how to treat you like the queen you are." See, my point is one cannot pull trash out the trash can and complain about the mess, the trash. We say all the right things, “I can do bad all by myself,” but after that statement is made, why do we go and get draining dead weight? It's time to close the account. It’s time to say, “I’ve been out of balance to long.”
Here’s another point I want to make which is you'll never find the right person, if you never let go of the wrong one. Individuals that are pulling you down, draining you and bringing nothing to the table are wrong individuals in your life. We must stop praying to God to order our steps, and than not be willing to move our feet in the right direction by letting go of dead weight. Ooowee! Say amen somebody!
Stay tuned to next weeks Bishop Speaks as I make some major "cut-throat" Clear Points. But in the mean time here are some Major Points for your breakthrough for letting go of dead weight! Well I’ll just give you one which is "the force of expectation." stay-tuned!
You can e-mail the bishop at bishopspeaks@aol.com or check out the church website at www.intouchforchrist.com. Look Bishop up also on Facebook under Bishop Prince J. Moultry. You can write the bishop at the church, In Touch for Christ Christian Center 969 E. 140th St. Cleveland, Ohio, 44110 or call the church (216) 761-7100. Visit the church each Sunday 11a.m. for their Worship Service at the above address off St. Clair Ave, in the heart of the Collinwood Community.
