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Friday, December 26, 2014

A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE - HOW BELIEVERS SHOULD RESPOND TO THE NEWS OF CHRIST BIRTH

Luke 2:8-14 (ESV)
And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.  And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear.  And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.  For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.  And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.”  And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, 
 “Glory to God in the highest,and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”

We should not treat Christ as if He is something common to man.

HE IS GOD!

This may be a radical Truth in this sick and wicked world. But it is the TRUTH!

Even the FATHER calls Him GOD and the angels in Heaven are commanded to worship Him. (Hebrews 1)

Let us not get it twisted!

This is not a holiday that you wish to celebrate with common worldly pleasures and self-indulgences. This is not a holiday that you wish to trivialize and make common with ornamentations and decorations, traditions and rituals, fairytales and false hopes.

This is not a common holiday.

This is a HOLY TIME that we desire to worship in daily!

This is a HOLY TIME of unusual praise and worship that we strive to be mindful of everyday.

It is always a HOLY TIME when we remember that God loved us so much that He came to be with us in the most intimate of ways and with the explicit understanding that He would be separated from His FATHER and His Heavenly Glory and suffer an horrific death so that we may know The Father through Him and know Him in a better way.

It is always a HOLY TIME when born again believers in Christ begin to worship Christ in Spirit and in TRUTH!

It is always A HOLY TIME whenever we receive a revelation and begin to express worshipful appreciation of the magnitude of what God did for us.

People lose their minds whenever a rock star or celebrity comes to town. Folks do some crazy and excessive things when their favorite musician, singer or politician visits them. People make some unusual arrangements and preparations when some big shot comes to town. All of these folks were born inherently wicked. Only our God is Holy!

There Is No one Bigger Than Our GOD.

AND THE GOD NEWS IS THAT OUR GOD IS WITH US!
“Glory to God in Heaven, and upon earth peace, Good News to the children of men.” (Luke 2:14)

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Friday, December 19, 2014

R.E.S.P.E.C.T.


I have made a terrible mistake and must rebuke myself.

It just occurred to me that I have been going at this thing of homosexuality and same-sex marriages all wrong.

You know that the way that you word things and the passion with which you word them can be interpreted as either hostile and confrontational or friendly and inviting.

I believe that the majority of what is said against homosexuality and same-sex marriages has been the former. We (Christians for Sexual Holiness and Purity) are always attacking homosexuals but we seldom invite them into our revelation of God and His Righteousness. We excommunicate them before they are even in fellowship of the Church.

How can they hear the Word unless we who have the Spirit of Christ speak the Word in Love to them? Admonishing, but with a kind loving and respectful voice. Teaching carefully and with patience, remembering the patience that God has with us; always depending upon the guidance of the Holy Spirit who is the True Teacher.

We who are mature in the FAITH can be faithful to our God and The Spirit of Holiness without being insulting and disrespectful to others and their beliefs. We can correct, rebuke and encourage without being confrontational argumentative and angry. We have the Spirit of Christ. Therefore we have the Spirit of Peace. And we should come in peace to bring the Good News of Peace to a world and a people lost in sin.

How else will they hear us?

I don’t want to listen to someone who is always attacking me verbally and diminishing me as a human being. I need someone to encourage me sometimes while correcting my errors in a respectful manner that allows me to hear what is being said and see the errors of my ways. I don’t need anybody trying to humiliate me or shame me or browbeat me into submission. I can’t find an example of Christ or his Apostles preaching or teaching in an antagonistic manner.

We can preach and teach the Truth of God’s Word, Will and Way without compromise or cowardice but our tone must be grounded in God’s inviting Love. We are to reflect the sacrifice and longsuffering of Christ toward us in our approach to witnessing to anybody.

Once you get a revelation of this, your voice and tone will change from that of an enemy to that of a friend.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is proved right by her deeds.” (Matthew 11:19)

Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage–with great patience and careful instruction. (2 Timothy 4:2)
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, And he who is wise wins souls.
~Proverbs 11:30~

Monday, December 1, 2014

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Business By The Book

Praise The LORD Everybody!

In this life we know that things will never be fair.  Those who want to rob steal and destroy will continue to do so.  The weak, uninformed and poor will continue to be at the mercy of those in power and authority.   That is why it is so very important that Christian entrepreneurs and businesses are challenged to demonstrate Christian principles in their business dealings and relationships with others.  

As many of you already know.  I do not endorse many people or organizations.  I remain focused mainly on the Word of God and on being an advocate for godly morality and Eternal Truth.

However, I would like to endorse Deacon Earnest Session in his groundbreaking effort of promoting Christian ethics in business.

Join Deacon Ernest Session and other Christian business leaders as he presents, “Business by the book” Seminar at Central Carolina's Health Science Building on Saturday, November 22, 8:00 AM to 3:30.

Lunch will be served.

This seminar is helpful and pertinent for business owners, managers, church leaders, politicians, public officials and whoever wants to do things Gods way in the marketplace.

Contact Deacon Ernest Session at …
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Thursday, September 25, 2014

TURN IT AROUND

What if Trayvon Martin had a gun and shot Zimmerman to death in self-defense?  Would the “Stand Your Ground” rule be interpreted in his favor as it was in Zimmerman’s?  How wound the trial have turned out?

American history has already answered these questions for us.

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

CAN SOMEONE SAY DOUBLE STANDARDS?



WARNING!!!

Don’t fall for the old switcheroo that the government sanctioned media is trying to feed to the public.


The recent media blitz about child abuse and domestic violence involving celebrities isn’t anything new in our society.  And I find it ominously strange that these old topics, although important, are suddenly made to be front & center against Mr. Michael Brown’s murder and the growing international awareness of America’s unjust and murderous treatment of its African American population- particularly its black males.

Why is it so important to make us aware of “domestic violence” and “child abuse issues” when we are still reeling from the numerous shooting deaths of young male African American teenagers by white Law Enforcement officers? 


I would venture to guess it is to further dismiss the value of a black male’s life and cover-up the shame, wickedness and hypocrisy of a government that preaches human rights to other nations while permitting inhuman and egregious racist actions within its own borders. 

WHAT'S GOOD FOR THE GOOSE IS GOOD FOR THE GANDER


Only a wicked person would seek to demonize the victim - an unarmed teenager - just to justify an unjust and wrongful shooting by a law enforcement officer.  

If demonizing an African American male is accepted as justification for the unjust shooting and killing of that male, then so must the argument be made that a raped woman must have deserved her rape because of her behavior and/or social habits, minor offenses and taste in clothes.

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

Saturday, September 6, 2014

“Saved By The Blood and Not By Religion”

By Bishop O.W. Prince

Some folks put entirely too much trust in themselves and their church.

Some folks’ hope of salvation is in their regular church attendance.  Some folks’ hope of salvation rests upon their church membership. Some folks’ hope of eternal life after death depends heavily upon their tithes and offering. Some folks’ hope of salvation is in their being baptized by burial into water in the name of Christ Jesus.   Some folks’ hope for eternal life rests in their speaking in tongues.  Some folks believe that strict observance of the Ten Commandments will guarantee their entrance into the Kingdom of God.  And albeit, these things may have their proper place as responses to God’s Forgiving Love in Christ Jesus, I trust only in the Blood of Christ and His saving work upon the cross.

THE BLOOD NEVER LOSES ITS POWER!

I am saved by the Blood of Christ through Faith (Trusting Obedience) in God.

In whom or what do you trust?

[ Experience the anointed lesson entitled “How The Blood of Christ Is Applied To Our Lives?”  By Bishop O.W. Prince.  Request further details by emailing owprinceministries@gmail.com ]

Friday, September 5, 2014

IS CHURCH "SEXY?"

There are some folks who go to “church” for the wrong reasons and with the wrong attitude. 

Some go to worship services lusting after someone and looking for someone to hit on and/or hookup with (Have sex with).

Some “churches” serve only as a hunting ground for the depraved mind, lustful spirit and sexually immoral.

I wouldn't play with God like that but some people just don’t care.

Why Do You Go To “Church?”

“Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.  The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever.”  ~ 1 John 2:15-17

“No one Can Serve The Lusts of The Flesh and The Spirit of Holiness.  Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other.” (Bishop O.W. Prince)

Saturday, May 24, 2014

NO RETREAT! NO SURRENDER!!!


God can’t use no weak, spineless,  inconsequentialpetty, wishy-washy coward soldier!


“For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.” (Romans 1:26-27)
“Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them; for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.” (Ephesians 5:11-12)



God has never called His people to step back.
He has always called us to step up!
Don’t take a backseat to the legalized immoralities that are being systematically forced upon the Christian Conscious.
Reject the very idea and all legislation that promotes homosexuality, same-sex marriages and any policies that criminalizes and demonizes The Word of God and the Christian’s right to speak out against sin, whether national or individual.
Step up and speak out.
WE DON'T RETREAT AND WE NEVER SURRENDER TO THE FORCES OF EVIL.
God can’t use no coward soldier.
STEP UP!
(Bishop O.W. Prince)

Monday, April 28, 2014

I am Just Trying To Keep It Real!

I haven’t done this in a while so let me post some uncomfortable historical truth about my race, culture and experience. To some this may be offensive material so please be warned. Some readers may want to stop reading at this point.
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This fact has always been a part of the African American males’ experience.
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Since blacks were allowed to own and drive their own personal vehicles, (A privilege that many of us take for granted.) it has always been and continues to be a very risky and life threatening experience for an African American male to be stopped on the highway by Law Enforcement, especially if he is by himself.

I will not bother to try to quote the statistic on the ratio of blacks to other races whose traffic stops ended in their deaths. I will not bore you with things that you already have been made aware of.

I just want to remind us that some of us live in a very different world than yours and our experience demands that we be more sensitive, more vigilant, more careful, more aware, more intuitive, more spiritual, more prayerful and more watchful in order to survive. Our instinct to survive is forged from surviving generations of oppression, murder, rape, subjugation, lynching and other horrors too inhuman to encapsulate in words. 
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So when traveling the highways of our great and awesome democracy, please remember that there are still some crazy folks out there wearing law enforcement uniforms and carrying hate as a weapon in their souls for the annihilation of the posterity of those whom they would enslave.

Remember that a black man literally places his life in the hands of his potential executioner almost every time he is stopped by Law Enforcement.

I am just keeping it real.

Bishop O.W. Prince
#KeepingItReal
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Why Are We Still Saying “One Nation Under God?”

I was watching “We The People with Gloria Allred” about a case between two co-workers.

During the deliberations, the plaintiff was shown to be an obnoxious bully who incessantly harassed the defendant about her weight and eating habits. 

The plaintiff made some remark that she believed the defendant to be pregnant and that the defendant may have been ashamed of being pregnant because she was unmarried.

Judge Allred questioned the plaintiff about what she meant by implying that the defendant may have been ashamed or embarrassed about being pregnant and single. She wanted to know if the plaintiff thought that the defendant should be ashamed of being single and pregnant. The plaintiff, in effect, back peddled and said “of course not” and that she was a good person – implying that good people do not think that being single and pregnant is nothing to be ashamed of or embarrassed about. 
However, this same “good person” was not admonished or questioned about bullying someone about their weight or eating habits.

It is obvious to me that the demonically clandestine and subliminal message in all of this is that it is alright to harass someone about their weight and how they look but it is unacceptable to suggest that someone should be ashamed of being a fornicator and becoming pregnant outside of the bonds of holy matrimony. 

“We don’t even have the common decency to be ashamed of our own sinful behaviors anymore. We have become brazen in our filthiness and disgusting in our whoredom.” (O.W. Prince) 

Why are we still saying “One Nation Under God” when our courts and laws openly contradict the moral principles of God?
THE WORD OF GOD SAYS...
"They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.  Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed. That, however, is not the way of life you learned." - Ephesians 4:18-20 (NIV)