Parakletos International Ministries

12/25/2017

Merry Christmas to my family and friends.

12/16/2017

Do you want a promotion either in ministry or at work? This video offers some practical wisdom of how to go up the organizational chart.

11/25/2017

Enjoy Your Parent(s)
If one or both of your parents are still living thank God for them, celebrate their life, and spend as much time as you with them because when you are parentless you will long for those days and you won’t be able to get them back.

If you have a parent who is no longer in the land of the living and you are a witness to what I’m saying ... say Amen.

11/23/2017

11/19/2017

The Bait & Switch Marriage
You may have dated someone and while dating they seem like Mr. or Ms. Right. They do all the right things, say all the right things, and has all the right looks and things. But, when you married what you married is not what you dated. Unfortunately, this happens in marriage all too often. But, it doesn’t have to be that way. Just because you are married that doesn’t mean that things have to change for the worse; but, they can work out for the better. To keep from having a bait and switch one must be willing to work hard to keep the flames of romance stirred up. No one has to take the attitude that “I’m married, now I can relax and change.” Change - yes for the good of the spouse and marriage by improving on the things that attracted the person to you in the first place.

11/18/2017

https://youtu.be/u9mwgNaEAfQ

11/18/2017

Lord, when You bring me through all the hell, turmoil, tests, trials, afflictions, disappointments, ups and downs, battles and what ever else the devil throws at me, I’ll be able to look back and say, It was God’s goodness and grace.

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11/06/2017

God uses our TESTIMONIES to bless others; but, He uses our TESTS to bless us. There can never be a testimony without a text.

10/21/2017

A repost from last year.
Please don't make the same mistake I made. I was a Jonah for over 30 years. Back in 1982 or 1983 God spoke to me and told me when I got out of the Army that He wanted me to pastor a church. For 30+ years I chose to do something else. In 2008, God spoke to me and told me that He had called me to the office of apostle. Again, I disobeyed and continued my "Jonah" ways for 7 of those 30 years. I often sit and think and wonder where I would be if I had obeyed. I wonder if my wife would still be alive if I had obeyed. Even, my finances, I wonder what my finances would be like if I obeyed. Today I sit alone, in many ways broken, and lonely. Now, don't get me wrong, God has forgiven me, He has restored my ministry, and He is demonstrating the vastness of His grace and mercy. But, I can't help but wonder, what if. If you are a Jonah STOP and OBEY. I want to tell you, disobeying God is not worth it. I am not beating myself up, but, I am appealing to the Jonahs not to pattern after my example. PLEASE!!!!!

09/26/2017

I refuse to get into the argument involving athletes bowing or standing during the national anthem. However, I want to address statements made by Joy Reid of MSNBC. She made the following two statements that are, in my opinion, offensive to every church-goer in the world. Her statements are:

Her first comment: “A lot of people who are mad at Collin Kaepernick will be kneeling in church today.”`

Her second comment: “Odd that kneeling in church is considered the highest reverence. Yet kneeling in protest is taken as hostility.”

Ms. Reid apparently doesn’t know the difference between reverence and protest. When a child of God bows we bow in reverence to God and we are not bowing in protest to a country, it’s government, nor its national emblems. In fact, when we bow we are lifting up our nation before God. We are not praying for the overthrow a government but, for wisdom and guidance for our governmental officers. Yes, I will proudly kneel before God for this nation!!!!! And every churchgoer is honored to bow the knee in reverence to God and in support of our country and it’s government.