My, my, my how the time flies. It doesn’t seems all that long ago but 3 years ago to the day before the Angels & many witnesses that I made my great confession, was saved & born into the body. I can remember almost every detail about the day from the nervousness I felt as I sat waiting in the Westin Peachtree Hotel lounge with a bunch of New Orleans Saints fans, getting baptized with my t-mobile G1, to driving from a photo shoot in stone mountain with a special lady. As I reflect on where I’ve been I see how far I’ve come & how much further I’m gonna need to go. Things have not been perfect but that’s life & I have not been perfect but I’m a work in progress. The disappointments of life & the flaws I have leave room for improvement, growth, development & the grace of God to work. The hardships & trails that we endure are so that by faith we may trust turning to him so that we might also come to know him. Then by knowing him we might understand how we are to be utilized by him so we may serve him. We fulfill our true purpose when we allow ourselves to submit to his will. You see everything is not necessarily about us specifically but many times perhaps who’s lives he is gonna need us to touch. These battles & pitfalls we encounter, Well those are to prepare us so that we are able to help others who are placed in our lives facing the same challenges & struggles. As I reach the masses this morning I pray that our Father is magnified & exalted in all that I am called to do. I don’t deserve the love but I\u00a0receive\u00a0it anyway & I am grateful to be his chosen warrior.<\/p>\n
S\/O to my spiritual twin sister T.J. love you sis & I’ll be praying harder for you! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
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Mathhew 22:1-14 (14 \u201cFor many are invited, but few are chosen.\u201d)<\/p>\n
1Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: 2\u201cThe kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.<\/span> 3\u00a0He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.<\/span> My, my, my how the time flies. It doesn’t seems all that long ago but 3 years ago to the day before the Angels & many witnesses that I made my great confession, was saved & born into the body. I can remember almost every detail about the day from the nervousness I felt as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,214],"tags":[16,114,45,152,151,33,150],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grace-2","category-purpose-2","tag-grace","tag-growth","tag-perfect","tag-prepare","tag-progress","tag-purpose","tag-reflect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.love-compassion.com\/rTalton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.love-compassion.com\/rTalton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.love-compassion.com\/rTalton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.love-compassion.com\/rTalton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.love-compassion.com\/rTalton\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.love-compassion.com\/rTalton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"http:\/\/www.love-compassion.com\/rTalton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.love-compassion.com\/rTalton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.love-compassion.com\/rTalton\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.love-compassion.com\/rTalton\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.love-compassion.com\/rTalton\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n4 \u201cThen he sent some more servants and said, \u2018Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.\u2019<\/span>
\n5 \u201cBut they paid no attention and went off\u2014one to his field, another to his business.<\/span> 6 The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them.<\/span> 7 The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.<\/span>
\n8 \u201cThen he said to his servants, \u2018The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come.<\/span> 9 So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.\u2019<\/span> 10 So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as the good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.<\/span>
\n11 \u201cBut when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.<\/span> 12 He asked, \u2018How did you get in here without wedding clothes, friend?\u2019 The man was speechless.<\/span>
\n13 \u201cThen the king told the attendants, \u2018Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.\u2019<\/span>
\n14 \u201cFor many are invited, but few are chosen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"