DEAD WEIGHT, DRAINING WEIGHT INDIVIDUALS ARE LOOKING FOR YOU! ARE YOU LOOKING FOR THEM? Stay tuned to next week as I continue on my series of DEAD WEIGHT and getting your breakthrough of letting go of it.
Close the account let them go! Part III
Ooowee!
Her I go again speechless, at a loss for words as the letters, e-mails and people stopping me when I'm out and about handling my business, serving the Lord, ask me how they can let go of dead?
Others have asked and even answered some of their own questions of how to let go and close the account of individuals who are not only dead weight in their life, but also draining weight as well. Ooowee!
The women approached me at the gas station while I was pumping gas into my car, "You're the Bishop, and I read all your articles." Not giving me a chance to answer that I was the bishop, she continued, "Bishop, my granddaughter is living with me. She moved in with me six months ago and was only to be with me for a couple of weeks and now I'm trying to figure out how to put her out without hurting her feelings. Bishop, she is not only dead weight, but draining weight. I'm on a fixed income and everyday she needs me to give her money, loan her money which she never pays back, feed her and her baby and I'm just tired. I just need to put her butt out." The woman gives me a hug, and tells me, "thanks Bishop for hearing me out."
The woman in reality stated her problem and at the end she stated the answer. "PUT HER OUT!" Now personally, I'd maybe keep the precious grandbaby who is a victim of her mother's drama and cannot take care of herself, but I'd put the daughter out. What's that saying we hear so often? “I CAN DO BAD ALL BY MYSELF.”
I asked a few questions in last week’s column of Bishop Speaks and I suggest if you didn't get that Bishop Speaks column go to www.callandpost.com and read it for yourself. But here's the first question which is why do individuals go get DEAD WEIGHT and than later complain that same DEAD WEIGHT IS HEAVY?
When that dead weight was picked up was it an emotional move or was the move thought out? Many of us make decisions without thinking and then regret it later.
The mother said in a sad tone, "I let my son move back with me so he could get on his feet. Since he's been back here in my home I've gotten off my feet and off balance with his issues of not even looking for a job. Now I have to figure out a way to ask him to leave." The women was silent for a few seconds and continued, "Some people in life you just can't help ‘cause they just don't want nothing in life." Here we go again, as the women answered her own question. The problem is that many individuals get caught up with family members trying to help them, when in reality it's those same family members that will be DEAD WEIGHT with a touch of DRAINING WEIGHT, acting as if you owe them. Anybody have family members like this?
What did Larry and Moe of the “Three Stooges” do with Curly when the boat was sinking and they tossed out most of the DEAD WEIGHT? Larry and Moe looked at Curly, saw how big he was physically and tossed him out the boat into the water. What did Curly do? He started kicking his feet, moving his hands and arm and started swimming. Ooowee! SOMEBODY SAY AMEN!
What does the WORD OF GOD SAY ABOUT DEAD WEIGHT, DRAINING WEIGHT AND DEALING WITH INDIVIDUALS IN LIFE WHO DON'T WANT ANYTHING BUT A HANDOUT? Notice I said a handout not a hand up. It's a big difference! Ok, let me tell you the difference before I go any further. A hand-out is giving someone something that they really have not worked for or even deserve. A hand-up is seeing an individual trying to do for themselves and you give a helping hand to help them, help themselves. Ooowee! Many individuals will see you go and work a job 24/7 and they will expect you to bring home the bacon, meaning money and they will expect you to support them and bless them for doing nothing in life. If you start this madness you need HELP and you need to ask yourself, “WHY you're doing this?” Doing what? BEING A FOOL! "Pray for me."
Last week I said I was going to talk about the five forces of a “Break Through,” with one being the force of EXPECTATION. If you expect nothing you get nothing! There are some individuals who go through life with no expectations. They get up in the morning to chill and do nothing all day long. The go to sleep, only to repeat that madness all over again. The only expectations they have is what OTHERS CAN DO FOR THEM.
Let's go to the Word of God, as many of you my readers need a BREAKTHROUGH to let GO of DEAD WEIGHT. Let's go to the book of Proverbs in the Bible Chapter 22:26. It reads; “Don’t promise to be responsible for someone else's debts.” Now the book of Proverbs is the BOOK of WISDOM, COMMON SENSE. Remember those common sense days? What does this mean, "Don't promise to be responsible for someone else's debts?" The young man told his mother, "Moma, I have a felony and can't find a job anywhere, can I come stay with you till I get on my feet?" The mother responded, "Son, I love you, it was you who sold drugs, didn't complete High School, made two babies you could not support and it's you who don't even go looking for a job." The mother continued, "this is the third girlfriend of yours putting you out because they are tired of DEAD WEIGHT." The son responded, "Moma, I didn't ask you for a sermon, I asked you if I could come home until I get on my feet?" The mother responded, HELL to the NO," kissed him gave him a few dollars and sent him on out her house as she herself was preparing to go to work.
See, we cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. This mother could not make her son do the right thing, but she also realized that she could keep the storms of his situation OUT OF HER HOUSE.
DEAD WEIGHT, DRAINING WEIGHT INDIVIDUALS ARE LOOKING FOR YOU! ARE YOU LOOKING FOR THEM? Stay tuned to next week as I continue on my series of DEAD WEIGHT and getting your breakthrough of letting go of it.
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