I absolutely HATE WITH A PASSION the dark vs light and good hair vs bad hair culture. I believe in pursuing God’s creativity and beauty with what He gave you. Its all about confidence, not looking to emulate what the media shows you.
Iniquity is in the Heart of Men
The root of it is really just the sinful human nature that uses any chance it can get to spread pride, superiority, and self-seeking merchandising strategies.
Its not limited to just African American racism or Eurocentric culture either. Believe it or not in India there are caramel colored women that think they are ugly because they are not beige. They even have skin cream lighteners sold on nationally televised commercials where a lightskinned Indian woman gets paler and paler, and all the sudden her dream man wants her.
Proverbs 16
6 By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil.
Men everywhere in every culture have to purify their iniquities with Mercy and Truth, and build their faith in God and His Creative Glory…
Gods Creativity and Your Confidence
Man looks on outward appearance, but God looks at the heart. Everyone has a purpose and if you connect to God’s Creativity your beauty will eventually shine.
The more you allow yourself to receive communication or marketing from the workers of iniquity, the more you will hate yourself and give them the advantage over you, because that’s Satan’s goal. Dark skin is just as beautiful as light skin but if the dark skin has no confidence and doesn’t smile, how can it be beautiful? (SoS 1:5 I am dark and lovely, black and comely…)
Discipline and Order
One of my sons has soft hair, one has harder hair. They both are appealing to me, but in culture coarser hair is considered lesser.
Why… because the human eye is drawn to order… that’s just a natural fact. Order is beauty because it makes you wonder about the person who ordered it. The human eye is also drawn to symmetry and balance.
It takes more work to bring order to harder hair than softer hair. Soft hair doesnt go wild until 2 or 3 inches, and can be ordered with a swipe of a comb. Coarse hair needs to be trained from the beginning. That’s why discipline is key.
A wild bush looks less appealing than a pine tree that grows straight up with straight needles. But when that bush is trimmed it is just as beautiful. Both the bush and the pine tree were created by God and have the same potential for beauty. One just needs more input and discipline.
As a matter of fact you can do more with the bush than you can do with the pine tree. The harder hair needs more discipline but it looks just as good and even better when it is disciplined.
I believe if you pursue God’s creativity with discipline you can be just as powerful and beautiful as someone who came out with an easier appealing look in the eyes of man.
Creativity, Confidence, Discipline, and Balance = Opportunity
That’s the value of using what God has given you even if it seems at first to be less in the eyes of man. Your confidence and discipline in God’s creativity can create something the world has never seen… Which can ultimately bring glory to God.
This is an encouragement to those who, like Moses, forsake the ways of the world, not fearing the wrath of the kings of this world. You would rather have the reproach of Christ than the treasures in Egypt. Because you see the heavenly reward in the future. Your Faith is Real. You are a prisoner of hope. You are not looking for honor in man’s eyes, but you are a Nazirite, set in heart to see God’s glory alone. The world is not worthy of you. The Hall of Faith continues in Hebrews 11.
The world system is still exactly the same. From torturing those in Hebrews 11, to killing Christians in Roman Colliseums, to the literal deathly persecution that is prevalent in the world today. Even the financial and media “persecution-lite” that you get in America. They kill and persecute those that stay true to God’s truth. They only accept those that compromise, copy the world, and mix the holy with the profane. But you have overcome the world. God is providing something better for you. Just like the prisoner of hope, you will get double! Keep praying and preaching the truth, and saying no to the world, and yes to the Kingdom of God.
Make your way to Detroit on 11-11-11 for The Call. Pray with us. Join people all over Detroit that are fasting and praying in preparation for God to do something BIG in our city, nation, and world… NOW. Yes, NOW.
November 8, 2007 at 12:54pm
Connections: Body, Spirit, and SEX SLAVERY around the World
Do you realize that the body is connected to the spirit? Your body is not cheap, or to be used for prostitution, but for GOD, and very valuable.
Connection: the spiritual support that we give to sin helps increase the number of girls being raped, molested, and forced to be prostitutes.
We may not be able to save every molested little girl, or sex slave in Thailand, Africa, or America, but We can make a difference! How? By refusing to support sin, and the cheapening of the human body, in ANY form.
Also, by praying that God would save them, and save their abusers, and CRUSH any industry that abuses the human body to advertise or make money. (magazines, music, movies, clubs)
Do you realize that every time you support:
a porno video
a party, club or nightspot that uses sex to sell
a porn website
a hip hop video that cheapens womens bodies
any other magazine or advertisement that cheapens womens or mens bodies
using the term ‘pimp’ as a positive word
a movie that uses sex or naked bodies to attract viewers
that you are spiritually or financially supporting ‘human trafficking’ aka SEX SLAVERY
which is the NUMBER ONE SLAVE INDUSTRY EVER in the World?
Did you know that there are more SEX SLAVES in the world right NOW then all the African American slaves ever?
Did you know that Prostitution is the BIGGEST FASTEST growing Industry across the EARTH right now?
Most of these are preteen (4-12) and teenage girls that are either sold by their parents for money, or kidnapped by strangers.
How does America support the Child Prostitute Slave Industry?
Financially.
A Lot of it is Purchased through the INTERNET!
Bought by vacationers.
Entertainment Industry
Pornography over the Internet
watching horny videos. Or even “Positive” Rappers that make body cheapening songs like Talib Kweli’s “Hot Thing”
supporting Filthy music about sex
Strip clubs, orgy parties, American sin-clubs
Advertisements that display sexual images, that should be private
These things make the human body a cheap thing for display, not the temple of God like it should be. This contributes to people’s thinking that they can sell it for real.
Travel Industry
“business” vacations in Asia with a LOT of extra curriculars
Spiritually (In Yourself)
Men, when you let sexual sin use you as a slave, in your eyes or your body, and allow others to do the same you are contributing spiritually to the rape of an 8 year old girl in Thailand, Africa, or Cambodia… or the molestation of a little girl in America… How? Because sin grows and spreads spiritually. The lifestyle we live spreads into the culture that surrounds us. The culture that surrounds us spreads into other cultures. (Look at hip hop and the American entertainment culture. it spreads everywhere.
You have to hate sin to destroy it.
Fashion Industry (Spiritually)
Women when you sell your own body with the clothes you half-wear, showing cleavage, not covering your bootie (not being modest acc to 1 Peter 2 ), you spiritually contribute to lust of men, and to the prostitution industry, and the CHEAPENING of the body of a 13 year old girl in Thailand, Africa, or Cambodia… AND America!
This message is about connecting our lifestyles to how it affects others. You will definitely suffer for it, but sin affects more than just you.
Teach someone else not to support sin in ANY way! Do not support the cheapening of the human body in ANY way.
Look it Up!
STORY OF A GIRL SOLD
SEX SLAVERY VIDEO
hip hop video about it by Mr. J (this video is an answer to Talib Kweli’s song “hot thing”)
November 8, 2007 at 12:54pm
Connections: Body, Spirit, and SEX SLAVERY around the World
Do you realize that the body is connected to the spirit? Your body is not cheap, or to be used for prostitution, but for GOD, and very valuable.
Connection: the spiritual support that we give to sin helps increase the number of girls being raped, molested, and forced to be prostitutes.
We may not be able to save every molested little girl, or sex slave in Thailand, Africa, or America, but We can make a difference! How? By refusing to support sin, and the cheapening of the human body, in ANY form.
Also, by praying that God would save them, and save their abusers, and CRUSH any industry that abuses the human body to advertise or make money. (magazines, music, movies, clubs)
Do you realize that every time you support:
a porno video
a party, club or nightspot that uses sex to sell
a porn website
a hip hop video that cheapens womens bodies
any other magazine or advertisement that cheapens womens or mens bodies
using the term ‘pimp’ as a positive word
a movie that uses sex or naked bodies to attract viewers
that you are spiritually or financially supporting ‘human trafficking’ aka SEX SLAVERY
which is the NUMBER ONE SLAVE INDUSTRY EVER in the World?
Did you know that there are more SEX SLAVES in the world right NOW then all the African American slaves ever?
Did you know that Prostitution is the BIGGEST FASTEST growing Industry across the EARTH right now?
Most of these are preteen (4-12) and teenage girls that are either sold by their parents for money, or kidnapped by strangers.
How does America support the Child Prostitute Slave Industry?
Financially.
A Lot of it is Purchased through the INTERNET!
Bought by vacationers.
Entertainment Industry
Pornography over the Internet
watching horny videos. Or even “Positive” Rappers that make body cheapening songs like Talib Kweli’s “Hot Thing”
supporting Filthy music about sex
Strip clubs, orgy parties, American sin-clubs
Advertisements that display sexual images, that should be private
These things make the human body a cheap thing for display, not the temple of God like it should be. This contributes to people’s thinking that they can sell it for real.
Travel Industry
“business” vacations in Asia with a LOT of extra curriculars
Spiritually (In Yourself)
Men, when you let sexual sin use you as a slave, in your eyes or your body, and allow others to do the same you are contributing spiritually to the rape of an 8 year old girl in Thailand, Africa, or Cambodia… or the molestation of a little girl in America… How? Because sin grows and spreads spiritually. The lifestyle we live spreads into the culture that surrounds us. The culture that surrounds us spreads into other cultures. (Look at hip hop and the American entertainment culture. it spreads everywhere.
You have to hate sin to destroy it.
Fashion Industry (Spiritually)
Women when you sell your own body with the clothes you half-wear, showing cleavage, not covering your bootie (not being modest acc to 1 Peter 2 ), you spiritually contribute to lust of men, and to the prostitution industry, and the CHEAPENING of the body of a 13 year old girl in Thailand, Africa, or Cambodia… AND America!
This message is about connecting our lifestyles to how it affects others. You will definitely suffer for it, but sin affects more than just you.
Teach someone else not to support sin in ANY way! Do not support the cheapening of the human body in ANY way.
Look it Up!
STORY OF A GIRL SOLD
SEX SLAVERY VIDEO
hip hop video about it by Mr. J (this video is an answer to Talib Kweli’s song “hot thing”)
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