Unapologetically Apostolic

For years, I have listened to a song that I learned while in a previous church. I have loved the song and the meaning that I felt was behind it.  The song was titled Holy Visitation written and sang by Rita Springer. I'm sure many in the non-denominational as well as AG and COG have heard this song and worshipped to it. The premise of the song is the Spirit of God coming back to the people with a holy visitation.  But do we need just a visitation?  1 Corinthians 6:19 says, "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?"  1 Corinthians 3:16 says "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" This tells you that there is a need for more than just a need for a visit. Think of it in the sense of a child. If a parent has custody of a child, that child lives in the home of the parent. They dwell within the home and have access to everything insi...

Several years ago, I began a journey of writing about my life. I always went back to my birth and the shocked and awed doctor making an exclamatory remark that has dictated much of my life. When one's expectation did not meet reality in that moment, the statement became my identity. To hear the phrase, "Oh my God! There's another one!" exclaimed over and over as a mantra leads to a break in the psyche of that individual.  You develop a mindset that says you should not have been, you were not wanted, the after-thought that will never be anything in life. For years I struggled and when I started the writing project, I felt as if I had found a voice. But the focus of that writing changed or shifted from that part of my life to everything else that had happened in my life. I shifted from how that statement had influenced me for my life to glorifying the things I did wrong because of it.  I felt hidden and unseen.  But my pastor made a statement during the service last nig...