‘My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge…’ Hosea 4:6
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I used to think that the reason I write and teach so much is because people just needed to understand. But over the years Lord, You’ve revealed many times they do. They just refuse the knowledge.
I then started thinking that maybe if they were able to see the correlation between the real issue and Your Word that it would change their mind. But it won’t. They may still reject the knowledge. Rejection as in it doesn’t meet their standard or may not be something they want to do or think is necessary or required.
Just now, while watching Dr. Johnson teach on justice, You revealed my real objective and why I do what I do.
Though my hope is to still to help people to see the correlation between the real issue and Your Word but not so that they can change their mind but also to allow the Word of God to pluck up and uproot any wrong thinking and tear down any stronghold, one small piece at a time.
It’s similar to the analogy You gave me in my book about the tallest mountain.
In order to remove Mauna Kea, “you’d have to…dig up 19,700 feet of mountainous rock submerged underwater as well as 13,796 feet towering above ground…one dig or one excavation at a time.”
Sometimes, I may not be able to change a person’s mind. Come to think of it, I’m not the one who can. That’s the job of the Holy Spirit. But even then, the Holy Spirit may not be able to change a person’s mind.
My job isn’t to change a person’s mind but the Word I teach can be a high reach demolition excavator (for strongholds), a shovel or tree puller (to pluck up wrong thinking) and/or a seed (to plant Your Word). Your Word or the goal of my teaching ministry is to bring a Word that will bring truth and shed light where there was darkness.
But I just need to be reminded that there will be those who will refuse the truth and turn off the light. Some may even post a no trespassing sign to prevent the Word from excavating. Neither of which is my concern. Write, teach and share what You give.
​In Mark 4, after keynoting for a large conference, we find Jesus and His staff boarding a two-deck yacht, in route to Gadarenes, where He and His staff encounter a hurricane. Oftentimes, when we hear this account, we tend to focus on Jesus being able to comfortably sleep through and speak to the storm, while safely making it to His destination thereafter. But what or who was so important, that the Lord ignored a category 4 wind advisory? You could assume that He was scheduled to keynote another conference, in some 20,000-seat venue, but He wasn’t. The Lord had one person on His itinerary. One unlikely, unpopular individual, and that was a mentally ill homeless man living in a cemetery. That means Jesus went through a storm for one mentally deranged homeless man, or as He cites in Matthew 25:44, 45, the least of these. Like Jesus, I too write for an audience of one. Those that are hungry, thirsty, naked, sick, and in prison; physically, financially, and spiritually.
​In fact, I’ve written books and blogs for the hungry and thirsty – ‘The Do-It-Yourself Guide out of Homelessness’.
​The naked, ‘Real Sex Issues: Real Talk About Life Before, During, and the Aftermath of Sex’, ‘Side Chick’, ‘Girl, Get Your Mind Right’, ‘Girl, Get Ready! Your Future Husband is Coming!’, Outercourse Education for Moms and Dads, with a companion playbook for teens entitled, 'Girl, You're Not Ready!'
​The sick, ‘Deep-Pression: Real Talk About Hyperspirituality and Depression’, ‘You Are Not Losing Your Mind’, ‘Cross-Eyed’, and ‘Crash Course Faith for Parents of Terminally Ill Children'.
​And for those in prison, ‘Crime, Criminals, and Redemption: What the Bible Says About Certain Crimes and Those Who Commit Them.’
And those are only a few books I've written. I currently have 64 books, plays, and screenplays in the works. Truthfully, I don’t write for the sake of popularity. I tackle hard-hitting, unpopular, real life issues that plague the saved and the unsaved. Therefore, my mission is to write for the uncoachable and the unapproachable while creating game-changing content for the unreachable and the unteachable. You know, the folk nobody wants to be bothered with. Yeah, I write for them and about stuff seldomly discussed in church which is why I'd be absolutely thrilled if you'd consider supporting my ministry so that I ensure these life-changing biblically banging materials get into hands, homes, and hearts of the least.
Real Issues Ministries (RIM) is a woman ran, minority operated, registered ministry. We are a tithing ministry which means 10% of what you give will be given to other ministries and/or churches. All donations given will be used for the sole purpose of the ministry which includes publishing, recording equipment, studio time, travel and other expenses. We will not be able to issue a charity receipt for tax purposes as we have opted not to obtain a tax exempt, 501(c)3 status at this time – only because it is expensive, and we are unable to purchase it at this time. You will however receive a receipt and will be able to view our financial statements at the end of the year.