God’s designed Plans and Purpose for my life, long before the world began, God blessed me with numerous gifts and talents which He deeply implanted within me, long before I were born, most of which is yet to be reveals.
At a very early and tender age of nine years old, I knew fully well that God had special drawn-up plans for my life. During such time, I find my self being blessed with endless dreams, all of which I pondered in my heart, which I never shared with no one, not even my mother who were so loving and kind-hearted to all her eight children and all the people she came in contact with. I kept on wondering to myself, why am I having all these strange dreams? I were not aware at that time, it were the intervention and preparation of the hand of God on me for a future matured life.
God has blessed us with a God-fearing mother who loved the Lord with all her heart, who were listening to God the Holy Spirit and just following and doing the things she were commanded to do, not giving heed to what man would say. Our mother taught us to read the Word of God, she encouraged and instilled with in us the imperatives of memorising short passages of scriptures, including the Psalms, and key memory verses of the Bible readings, during our mornings and evenings family devotional times of fellowship.
The first gift I can remembered I discovered or received coming out from the family morning and evening devotions of fellowship, were the gift of memorising the scriptures. This gift were developed over a growing period of years and automatically became a part of my present maturing life.
Vividly I can clearly remembered, during my teenage stage of life, I were then a member of a church-youth group, which were taught the word of God and were ministered too on numerous interesting topics. I remembered we had an Elder of that Church (Bro; Lincoln Glasford), a departed brother gone to be with the Lord, who single-handed ran this youth group, ministered to us and taught us from two letters of the New Testament; the letter of the Epistle of Paul, the Apostle to Titus the young preacher Titus and the letter of the Epistle of Jude, written by Jude one of the brothers of Jesus. During these teaching, ministering and training sessions, he helped us to grow, developed and mature deeper in the word, engaging us with Bible; drills, quiz, contest, boxing, questions and answers, using these two letters, the Epistle of Titus and the Epistle of Jude. During these teaching and trainings, something strange happened to me. Automatically without memorizing these two letters, I found myself reciting these letters at free will, from that time until this present period of my spiritually maturing life.
Presently I am fifty eight years of age, I were born on the 21st April, 1954, while Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, also were born on 21st April, 1926, who is presently this year (2012), celebrating her 60 years of “Diamond Jubilee’’ of reigning Queen, still serving the people, at age 86 blessed years. I also discovered her date of birth when I were 9 years old, this amazing-discovery I gladly shared with mommy, because I discovered it in my mommy’s little diary, who just arrived home to the Caribbean from England, 1964. This is why I speaks volume of this special lady, Her Majesty, the Queen, who is greatly blessed and blessed by God!
This Gift of memorisation, still continues to follow me. God blessed my/our departed mother as her spirit’s lives on within all eight of us her children! Our loving mother close her eyes on 8th February, 2004, but one week before the Lord took her home, mommy gave us her children, a number of scriptures individually to memorized in her absent. Mommy made sure she left us fully occupied memorizing the scriptures, although we were all grown and having our own families. All-eight of us jokingly called it our “Scroll for life’’and this is how we were trained-memorizing the Word of God. I do not know how many of my brothers and sisters obeyed mommy in her absent, but I did! Two of the itemized scriptures mommy gave me, which had me puzzled, were Psalms: 118 and Psalms: 107, these two Psalms unlike all the other scriptures, which had chapters and verses. These two scriptures were, Psalms: 118 and Psalms:107, I paused and studied. Has mommy forget to mention the real identical verse? I gave up wondering what she all meant and started to read both Psalms: twice daily, using the same pattern as the morning and evening devotions. Eventually, automatically, they became a part of me, unknown to my self. When I realized I were then memorizing these two Psalms, I happily laughed out loud at myself! People, the bible said, a man is known by the company he keeps, and this is prov en so true over and over again. People, in God’s word it is written, children obey your parents, in the Lord, for this is right. The bible also teaches, when we obey God, we are going to receive BLESSINGS and HARVEST of BENEFITS, and this is spoken by God who cannot lie.
Approximately, five (5) years ago, while living in the USVI, St. Thomas, I travelled to the Grand Cayman Islands for a holiday, while I were visiting, God the Holy Spirit, spoken clearly to me and said, “I want you to memorize 25 chapters of the Psalms’’! From a very early age in life, I trained myself never to question God when He speaks to me and this is what I practised until today. I started and in record time I were surprise by the ability of my memory, I were able to finished nineteen chapters (19), in a short space of time. I then got lazy and started to relaxed...one night in a dream the Bible opened in front of me in the Psalms, people, immediately I jumped-up out of bed, because the voice said, “finish the task’’! People, when God the Holy Spirit’s speaks, obey, then listen for the next word for direction. The next morning, I were so frightened, I did apologized to God, I said nothing to no one, because no one knew what I were doing, I were so afraid, I did five (5) Psalms, in one day (the next day)...when the day were ended, I could not believed what I did, which seems like a record-day! The most previous Psalms, I did in one day were two, feeling happy and fine. Then finally, God the Holy Spirit who hand-picked all the previous Psalms, finished the task with the final and last one, which carried a direct message for me, it were the voice of God ministering to my heart, with a powerful message, I am not ashamed to say, I cried like a baby. Then the Lord said, pack-up time to leave! I then returned to the USVI, St. Thomas.
People, I attended and worshipped at the Christian Fellowship Church, headed by Pastor, Bishop Gladstone Hazel, St. Thomas, USVI. One night at a bible study fellowship meeting, in 2008, Pastor asked, how many people can say the books of the Bible by showing of hands? I were so ashamed of myself, I hung my head in shame because since I were 13 years old, I gave my heart to the Lord and after all those years I can’t remember personally memorizing the books of the Bible. Yes I did it in songs, rhymes and choruses but not in that form. That night I went home, ashamed to look at myself in the mirror, I decided I will not go to sleep until I memorized all the books of the bible...It took me approximately twenty five (25) minutes to fulfil my promise to myself and God. I’ll tell you more, I can say the books of the bible much better in reverse than going forward. To God be the Glory! And you too can do the same and much more, just give it a try...age is not a barrier, it has nothing to do with this, it’s your mind and heart-desire! Be positive, ask God for His help and He will give you enough grace to fulfil what ever is the task.
People, God the Holy Spirit brought me to England, where I am still living, and while I am here, in the first two years, God the Holy Spirit had me busily occupied, drilling me with the gift of memorization. One night all alone by myself in the stillness, I heard a voice which said, “Go to Simple Prayers’’ and memorize that chapter, “Call me by my name’’ I got up took up that book and looked at the topic, I then closed the book and drifted off to sleep. One week later, I heard the same-voice repeating the same thing, I woke that morning looked at that topic, read it then put the book down. Few days later, while sleeping I heard the same voice, repeating the same things, the next day I woke-up, took up that book and never close it or put it down until I were able to memorized that chapter, as if I were reciting, the letters of the Alphabet then closed the book. People God is patience and long-suffering, let us be obedient and enjoy the abundance of great harvest of blessings...not just for us personally but also to share it with others.
The LORD brought me to a church in UK, this church, the Lord showed it to me one Friday at 3.15 p.m, on the 18th April, 2003, while I were still in St.Kitts, West Indies. I arrived at this church on the 1st July, 2008, of which the Lord gave me a drawing which I would not go into right now. People, when I arrived at this church, they started a bible memorization for everyone in the Sunday school and members of the church. I knew I were ever in the best form and shape of my gift of memorization, like the boxer, the champion of the world Muhammad Ali, I were then looked upon as the under-dog, that I welcome and happily enjoyed until the time came when I scored the upper-cut then the knock-out punch, upsetting the whole Bible boxing arena, leaning on the ropes showing the trophy...champion of Bible-boxing. Then I started to received threats like; you, you will never win another trophy in here again! People I am speaking of Christians...I continued to enter all the other contest, all which I won, these people over-looked me and gave the prizes to all sort of loosers, I never stop, just testing the depth of Christians behaviour, they continued to ignore me finding faults saying I am quoting too much scriptures...finally I heard these words in the last contest...“YOU ARE DISQUALIFIED’’! Then gave the prize to someone else. People it is a burning shame seeing other CHRISTIANS, Pastors and Reverends sit in their seats, hearing these words and not one person got up or sounded their voice in defense of the word of God...everyone kept quiet/silent.
I have a message for these Pastors and Reverends who sat there, hearing these words and did nothing. In the days of Noah, God gave His servant a task, a word for the people, the people ignored the word, they said to Noah, in others-words...“ Noah, we had enough of your crazy-saying “SHUT-UP, WE DISQUALIFY YOU’’! God then stepped-in and said to Noah, “Noah it’s time, shut-up the people has “DISQUALIFIED’’ you, now it’s my turn! I the Lord God of Host will shut you, your family and the animals up in the Ark of refuge and safety. Then the result...Judgement came for those foolish people. As it were in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the coming in the Son of man. When ever people DISQUALIFIED-GOD’S WORD, and his servant, the only thing left is JUDGEMENT from a Just and justified God! But God is still Mercifully-Gracious giving us; chances, time and opportunities to repent seeking God’s face and to turn from our wicked ways.
People of all walks of life, from this Gift of Memorizing the Word of God...the scriptures, God the Holy Spirit has spoken to my heart and encouraged me to Use this gift as a Ministry to families, the Church and to the world at large, encouraging people...people from all walks of life to memorize the scriptures which will help them in sharpening their memory-skills, finally passing it on from generations to generations.
People a gift is unique and precious when it is give by God, I encourage you to keep it shining, alive and well. Also if we do not use it we will surely loose it. God has blessed us with these gifts in order to blessed others. People are waiting to be blessed by your gift!
“People Beware of Gift Killers’’!
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