NUMBER ONE!

First and foremost, every WORD in that Book is True!  Have no doubt, have no fear, trust HIM!  Again I am delighted, singing His praises, thanking Him for rescuing me, opening my blind eyes,  unstopping my deaf ears.  Most of all I thank GOD for strategically placing Jerome Walters in my life.  I know a lot of people claim that their loved ones died and went to Heaven, undisclosed flaws and all.

This is not the case.  This man, my grandfather, was by no means and ordinary man, he was indeed extraordinary!

#1 - He was in Covenant with GOD.  He gave his life to Christ in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean!  He was on his way to France, he was on his way to fight for his country, a country he always loved and was willing to sacrifice his life for.  He said he was standing on the deck of the ship and fell on his knees convicted by the Holy Ghost.  GOD's Holy Spirit fell on my grandfather that day in 1918, engulfed him, gripped him, never left him.

#2 - Jerome Walters was not and educated man by this world's standards.  The apartheid system in the South prevented him from earning a formal education.  That did not stop him. Granddaddy educated himself.  He told me that he attended the school the state provided for the "colored" for a total of 9 months, 3months for three years in a row before his daddy placed him permanently behind a plow.  All my granddaddy needed was the the rudiments.  He learned reading, writing and arithmetic!  That is all he needed.  From there he became a voracious reader! A brilliant wise man that was more than happy to share the wisdom he acquired.

#3 - My greatest desire is to become like my grandfather; gentle, kind, understanding, forgiving.  No matter how vulgar and harsh my mother was towards him he was always quick to forgive her.  I am sure he forgives her for MURDERING him.  He knows she did it out of ignorance, weak faith and Malignant Narcissism.

#4 - Dear LORD, I pray that all of the ignorance, crudeness, vulgarity, anger, hatred, hurt and self-pity be taken from my spirit today.  Please anoint me with my grandfather's spirit, his patience and understanding.  More Jesus, sweet Jesus, less Rachel, no Mathy Jane.  No hatred, no rancor, no revenge, no ignorance, no stupidity.

#5 - Dear LORD, thank you for Your WORD!  Thank you for your patience and understanding.  Thank you for telling me; "Love never fails."  and "The Just Shall live by Faith."

[Excerpt from The JR WALTERS Chronicles Copyright June 25, 2014  All rights reserved]