Yesterday was my Mother’s Birthday. She wanted to cook herself a dinner and have all her family over, and that’s just what she did!!! We had a good time. We had a ball. This morning I was so sleepy for work, all I could do was lay in the bed and pray for strength. Well, I made it through. Thank you Jesus.
When I got home my brother was on the caller ID wanting me to come over to his high rise apartment near the Detroit River and watch the fire works. It was late when I got home, no way was I going to be able to get through all that traffic. Going to the fireworks, everybody is so cool, as soon as the final finale is over, people lose their minds trying to get out of there and into their cars. I sat myself on the couch, propped up my legs, turned off the air, and watch the fireworks in HDTV. Sure did!!! After it was over, I was glad NOT to be driving home. LOL Last year I went and had so much fun OMGoodness. But I’m good. I’m off tomorrow, so I can finally sleep in and rest.
Yesterday we were all fixing plates from the backyard to the house. My nephew Gary * 14* came in the house to fix himself a plate. Well his 3 friends were outside * they all live on the block* and 2 of them wanted something to eat. So, we were like yeah ,yeah fix them something to eat if they want something. Later on that night, I saw 3 boys standing on the corner. So, I’m saying to myself who is that standing on the corner? I asked my niece and she said it was Gary * her brother* and his 3 friends. One of them wanted to ig the boys across the way, because of some words being exchanged earlier. So, me being Lacrease * don’t like mess* walked 
to see what they had to say about standing on the DOGONE CORNER 
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Gary saw me and gave me a hug and kiss, he knew what time it was. 
I asked him to introduce me to his friends. They all *seemed* respectable. So after the intro. I said let me ask y’all something, why are y’all standing out here egging that boy on? I said don’t you all have something to do. They all said yeah we play basketball. One of the guys has a cast on his arm. I asked him what happened, he told me he had just got shot. Anyway I started preaching on that. How people get into stuff, and the next thing you know their family members will get hurt or killed OVA NOTHING!!! I had to use their language. They were listening too. I said don’t you all know that if something happen to any one of you, your family suffers? After I went on and on and on, I made them all repeat 2 times. LIFE, NOT DEATH. LIFE NOT DEATH!!!
That was the end of that. I went on home and they left that corner. This evening after work I was about to go in the house when my nephew Gary was coming out. Me and my sisters allllllll live around the corner from each other. So my nephews are always playing ball with the boys down the street. I said to Gary, did you understand what auntie was getting at boo. I said I don’t mean to preach to your friends, but YOU KNOW ME, LOLLLLLLLLLLL WE WERE CRACKING UP!! I said Gary please let me give you this last example okay?
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I said, remember that time you saw me pulling out of the driveway, and you asked me did I have some money, and I gave you some, and since YOUR friends were with YOU. I said Gary what about your friends, do THEY need some too? He said yeah I remember. I said boo that’s how it is on the streets. One of those guys * YOUR BOY* that I was talking to last night who got shot in the stomach recently? Well those people meant to kill him. And if you are hanging with him, and those guys sees him, guess whose going down with him? I said ain’t no telling what they might do. I said, JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE WITH THEM, YOU CAN BE IN DANGER TOO!!!! His eyes got so big. He said Auntie I got that. All he could do is smile and stare at me. AT that point I truly believe he got it. Now what he does with that information I’m not sure what’s next for him but I had to wire him up. He really feels that since its not his battle he’s safe. Who you are connected too, is LIFE OR DEATH!!!
Which brings me to THE WORD!!!
1 Kings 14
Ahijah’s Prophecy Against Jeroboam
1 At that time Abijah son of Jeroboam became ill, 2 and Jeroboam said to his wife, “Go, disguise yourself, so you won’t be recognized as the wife of Jeroboam. Then go to Shiloh. Ahijah the prophet is there���the one who told me I would be king over this people. 3 Take ten loaves of bread with you, some cakes and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy.” 4 So Jeroboam’s wife did what he said and went to Ahijah’s house in Shiloh.
Now Ahijah could not see; his sight was gone because of his age. 5 But the LORD had told Ahijah, “Jeroboam’s wife is coming to ask you about her son, for he is ill, and you are to give her such and such an answer. When she arrives, she will pretend to be someone else.”
6 So when Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps at the door, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why this pretense? I have been sent to you with bad news. 7 Go, tell Jeroboam that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I raised you up from among the people and appointed you ruler over my people Israel. 8 I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you, but you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commands and followed me with all his heart, doing only what was right in my eyes. 9 You have done more evil than all who lived before you. You have made for yourself other gods, idols made of metal; you have aroused my anger and thrust me behind your back.
10 ” ‘Because of this, I am going to bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam. I will cut off from Jeroboam every last male in Israel���slave or free. [a] I will burn up the house of Jeroboam as one burns dung, until it is all gone. 11 Dogs will eat those belonging to Jeroboam who die in the city, and the birds will feed on those who die in the country. The LORD has spoken!’
12 “As for you, go back home. When you set foot in your city, the boy will die. 13 All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will be buried, because he is the only one in the house of Jeroboam in whom the LORD, the God of Israel, has found anything good.
Here’s another one…….who you are connected too IS LIFE OR DEATH!
1 Kings 17
Elijah Fed by Ravens
1 Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe [b] in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word.”
2 Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah: 3 “Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan. 4 You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply you with food there.”
5 So he did what the LORD had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there. 6 The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.
Here’s another one…….who you are connected too IS LIFE OR DEATH!
2 Kings 2
Elijah Taken Up to Heaven
1 When the LORD was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal. 2 Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here; the LORD has sent me to Bethel.”
But Elisha said, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.
3 The company of the prophets at Bethel came out to Elisha and asked, “Do you know that the LORD is going to take your master from you today?”
“Yes, I know,” Elisha replied, “so be quiet.”
4 Then Elijah said to him, “Stay here, Elisha; the LORD has sent me to Jericho.”
And he replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went to Jericho.
5 The company of the prophets at Jericho went up to Elisha and asked him, “Do you know that the LORD is going to take your master from you today?”
“Yes, I know,” he replied, “so be quiet.”
6 Then Elijah said to him, “Stay here; the LORD has sent me to the Jordan.”
And he replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So the two of them walked on.
7 Fifty men from the company of the prophets went and stood at a distance, facing the place where Elijah and Elisha had stopped at the Jordan. 8 Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up and struck the water with it. The water divided to the right and to the left, and the two of them crossed over on dry ground.
9 When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?”
“Let me inherit a double portion of your spirit,” Elisha replied.
10 “You have asked a difficult thing,” Elijah said, “yet if you see me when I am taken from you, it will be yours���otherwise, it will not.”
11 As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind. 12 Elisha saw this and cried out, “My father! My father! The chariots and horsemen of Israel!” And Elisha saw him no more. Then he took hold of his garment and tore it in two.
13 He picked up the cloak that had fallen from Elijah and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan. 14 Then he took the cloak that had fallen from him and struck the water with it. “Where now is the LORD, the God of Elijah?” he asked. When he struck the water, it divided to the right and to the left, and he crossed over.
15 The company of the prophets from Jericho, who were watching, said, “The spirit of Elijah is resting on Elisha.” And they went to meet him and bowed to the ground before him. 16 “Look,” they said, “we your servants have fifty able men. Let them go and look for your master. Perhaps the Spirit of the LORD has picked him up and set him down on some mountain or in some valley.”
“No,” Elisha replied, “do not send them.”
17 But they persisted until he was too embarrassed to refuse. So he said, “Send them.” And they sent fifty men, who searched for three days but did not find him. 18 When they returned to Elisha, who was staying in Jericho, he said to them, “Didn’t I tell you not to go?”
Who are you connected too? *LIFE OR DEATH*
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