It’s not over until it’s over, but as man or woman thinks in their heart, then so are they!~
(Proverbs 24:16-18) For a just man falls seven times, and rises up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. Rejoice not when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles: Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
Brothers and sisters, It’s not over until life is over, but if you think it’s over in your heart, then life is over for you in reality, because as a man or woman thinks in their mind, then so are they!
If you say you have fallen and you can’t get up, then you will never get up, and the way you think about yourself will eventually be spoken of out of your mouth, because out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks!
Brothers and sisters, it does not matter how many times you fall, but it matters that you rise again, because we only fall to rise again!
I remember when I was deep off in the world, I was a drug dealer, a gangster disciples, a whore monger, a 4 time felon, I had been to the penitentiary 3 different times in my life, and then I went to jail for murder!
When I was in jail for murder they had my name all in the paper, and to me and everyone else it looked like it was the end for me, but I knew I did not kill anyone, and even though I knew I was terrible from my beginning onward, I never gave up hope for myself!
And when people told me to give up, plead guilty, and cop out, I never did!
When people walked away from me, and abandoned me, I stayed hopeful, and full of faith!
I remember talking to my mother from jail, and she asked me did I do it, because even she knew I was terrible from my beginning onward, but I told her no, I did not do it, and she told me I need to pray, and ask GOD to help me!
And I did pray, I asked GOD to help me, I never read the bible, but I started reading the bible in jail as a drug dealer, a gangster disciple, a gang leader, a whore monger, a 4 time felon, a man who had already been to the penitentiary twice, now in jail for murder!
And GOD met me right where I was at, in jail!
I remember I was reading the gospels, and the book of acts about the life of JESUS, and the apostle Paul!
I remember feeling sorry for both of them, because they were falsely accused of things, they were treated wrong for the right they were doing, and they just kept on doing what was right, even though they were suffering wrong for the right they were doing!~
I remember reading it for the first time in jail fighting a murder case, and I was a gang leader at the time, after I read it I sat up, and tears just started running down my eyes, and my heart was very heavy, and I felt the presence of GOD fill that jail cell, and I could not stop crying!
My cellmate came in the room, and I covered my head with a towel so he could not see the tough guy Reese crying uncontrollably, and I went to take a shower because I felt dirty all of a sudden, even in the shower I could not stop crying, and I never cried about anything!~
I remember I told GOD if you help me, and get me out of here, I will serve you with my whole heart, and I did not know where those words came from, but they flowed out of my mouth!
And GOD put it upon my heart that I was going to get out jail, and he even gave me the wisdom to do it, but I hired lawyers, investigators, and I spent all my drug money trying to beat this case on my own, and the more I did the worse things looked for me!
It was not until I listened to the voice of GOD that things started to turn around for me, I had to read the whole case file on my own, I had to study the case like I was studying for a test, I had to give my lawyers information that I was paying them to get for me, I had to investigate my own case for myself, and then give my lawyers the information I found for myself, that I was paying them for!
And I eventually beat the murder case, not with lawyers or with my money, but from listening to the GOD’S voice, and I did not even keep my word to GOD, I had good intentions on keeping it, but when I got out of jail all my possessions were gone in eight months, I was homeless with my wife and 2 daughters, and I started back selling drugs again!
Before I went to jail for the murder case I already had a drug case pending, and they were going to wipe the drug case of my record, because they had me wrongly accused of a murder I did not commit, and the judge told me all I had to do was get a job, and he would wipe it off my record!
But when I returned to court for the evaluation, the judged asked me did I have a job, and I lied, I told him that I worked for Pm security, and Pm security is the investigators I hired to investigate the murder case, and the judge looked at me, my wife looked at me, my lawyer looked at me, and the investigators looked at me, because they could not believe the lie I just told, and I could not believe it myself, and the judge gave me 42 months to think about that lie I told!~
And when the sheriff came to get me to take me back to jail, I was not even upset, because I knew it was GOD, and I told GOD, “this is your doing!”
And I went to the penitentiary for the last time in my life, but I was not there to do time this time, I was there to learn the ways of GOD!~
It’s not over until it’s over, but as man or woman thinks in their heart, then so are they!~
Brothers and sisters, the bible has many life stories in it about amazing people who had amazing faith, but some of my best are GOD’S anointed servants like JESUS, King David, and Samson, because people counted all of them out when things looked bad, and they did not turn out the way they were expected to, but it was not over for anyone of them, until it was truly over!
And you can see King David fall from grace, you can see his kingdom being taken away from him by his son, men cursing him, and him hiding in wilderness running from his own son, but that moment made him an even greater King in the long run!
You can see Samson get his eyes put out, and the anointing leave him once they cut his hair, you can see GOD’S anointed treated like a slave, and made to entertain the enemies of GOD who once feared him, and the strong anointing that rested upon his life leave him, but many did not see that same anointing came back to Samson while he was in prison, and when they brought blind Samson out of prison to entertain them, as a blind man Samson did more for GOD as a blind man in prison, then he did for GOD free with sight!
You can see the Lord JESUS is betrayed, persecuted, crucified, and killed for the good he did, the truth he was, and the truth he spoke, and they buried JESUS in the grave as if it was over, and all was lost, but JESUS rose from that same grave, and became the savior of the world!~
It’s not over until it’s over, but as man or woman thinks in their heart, then so are they!~
(Micah 7:7-10) Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me. Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: WHEN I FALL, I SHALL ARISE; WHEN I SIT IN DARKNESS, THE LORD SHALL BE A LIGHT UNTO ME.
I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God?
MY eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mud of the streets.