The Bishop’s Mind: Christian Wisdom, Daily Devotionals & Empowering Messages for Kingdom Living

  My, My, My   Read – Matthew 27:46 Scripture : “ Whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother, my sister, my mother, my family (Matthew 12:50).” Denial : “I do not attach my to anything negative.” Affirmation : “I only attach my to the good that I AM and the good that I desire and deserve.” When Jesus, our Wayshower, said my Father, he was claiming his  personal relationship with God. Not only did Jesus say, my father  but he also said my brother, my sister, my mother, my family. It is important that we pay attention to how we use the word, “my”.  Whenever we say, my, we are claiming someone or something as  our own. When we say, my family, we are accepting roles,  responsibilities, rights, and rewards among a specific group of  people. In Kingdom, we understand when we say my sickness or my  disease, we are keeping ourselves in discomfort and dysfunction.  Instead of saying my headache, say the headache. When you say...

  What’s the Plan (Jeremiah 29:11) Many people quote the scripture I know the plan that I have for you says of the lord. I know the thoughts that I think concerning you say the lord, thoughts of good and not of evil to bless you and prosper and to bring you to an expected end ,  but what’s the plan. Jeremiah said this to the children of Israel when they were being carried off to captivity and Babylon and they were going to be there 70 years but God still had a plan, their  idolatry  and  disobedience did not cancel the plan of God and no decision that we  have made in our  li ves  or ever will make in our li ves  will cancel God’s plan. We  can’t cancel Christmas, God’s   plan is going to happen, the abortion and the miscarriage has not canceled God’s plan, the divorce and the separation has not canceled God’s plan. Yes the loss of a  job, the loss of a  house   none of those things can  cancel God’s plan . ...

  Acceptance is the Answer (Jeremiah 28:15) Accept God will for your life, that the only answer, accept yourself with all your light and your darkness, accept yourself, accept other people, accept exactly where they are on their journey. Acceptance is the answer to all the stuff that you going on and so Jeremiah is telling Hannah that you just got to accept what God said you are all going to Babylonian for 70 years just go ahead and accept it. It is the consequence for your action. It is the ramification for your idolatry and for your being disobedient to God. Sometimes what we receive is an acquittal well even through we are guilty that God  gives  us grace  and mercy and  what  our soul needs isn’t  quitter  and  so we don’t  get  any  of  the consequence  we just  experience  God’s grace  and God’s  mercy, so God  gives  you a  quitter accept it. Sometimes what God gives you is a ...

  House of God (Jeremiah 26: 11) Jeremiah was a prophet and things that he said  people didn’t like it  and they were going to kill him right in the house of  the lord  and Jeremiah said if you kill me in the house of the lord  my blood is going be on your hands , make sure you can take the  consequence,  but what blew my mind is that   they were going to do  it in the house of  the lord, and many times  things have happened in the house of the lord  and people talk about church hurt. There no church like  church hurt  and they wonder  why things happen  in the house of  the lord  and they are anointed, gifted people  who are sanctified, who love God, who don’t go to church no more  because they had an experience  in church that hurt them  that devastated them  and I really don’t understand  that,  because  people have experience at  grocery st...