Prayer Warriors Join Me in this Purpose Filled Prayer!

My Prayer For a Powerful Man of God:

Dear God, I am coming to you on bended knee with head bowed on today.   We don't know the minute, the hour, nor the day you will have your way but we do know you hear us when we pray. We can count on your grace and divine mercy to see us through the most difficult of times.  And right now Lord I ask that you touch the hearts that need mending, the bodies that need healing, the minds that need your precious peace.  

When medical doctors have given up, when family and friends have had enough, when the medicines no longer ease our pains the one thing we can always still count on is calling on your sweet name.  We can call on the Sweet Name of Jesus.  So on this day Lord with bowed head and on bended knee I am asking you heal my friend.  I am asking all the Prayer Warriors to come in agreement in prayer that you touch his body and cure him of what ever ails him. Where there is more than one of us gathered in your name you are right there in the midst. Hear our prayer Lord.

We are putting our faith in knowing you will carry us through.  You have a handle on his situation and every situation.  Sometimes a setback is just a setup for us to reconfirm that You are the Alpha and the Omega.  You were great yesterday, You will be great today, and forever more.  We constantly can confirm that your goodness and mercy is truly everlasting.  

We are asking you to fill our hearts with the same joy we had on the best of days to help us make it through the rest of days. Lord rain down your healing mercies.  You ain't done with us yet and the best is yet to come.  Let a smile be our umbrella showing we have faith in knowing Jesus you are the "J" in our "Joy".

We know, recognize, and accept that it is by your stripes we are healed.  The doctors can diagnose and prescribe but we are going to put our faith, hope, and trust in those commandments on Moses' scribe.  

It is you, Dr. Jesus, the one we can call on when modern medicine won't answer our call.  When operations, procedures, and medicines are little more than a crutch, My God, My God, My God, we are here standing steadfast in prayer in the need of The Master's Touch.  We are calling on you, Jesus, to fix what man and medicine cannot cure. We are the clay we are pleading for you to make us simple and pure.   We know there is no testimony without a test, and you can bless any mess.  Fix it Jesus, fix it! This cancer and no other weapons formed against him shall prevail.  

Please bless us with your healing mercies and touch us with your grace.  You know a man can't be judged by just looking at his face.  So I ask in your Holy Name that you touch my friend: a mentor for my children, a man who is a brother, a loved one, a father, a grandfather, a leader, a church member, a Psalmist, a family man, an in-law, a husband, but most importantly a Powerful Man of God, touch him Lord Jesus, touch him.  Touch his heart because love conquers all, touch his mind so he can keep the faith in knowing that even though cancer is in remission it doesn't hold water without your permission, and touch his spirit to keep him walking by faith and not by sight knowing your divine intervention is always just and right.  The cancer can disappear and reappear but you are always near.  Your omnipresence and your omnipotence never fails.  No weapons formed against the children of God ever prevails. 

This re-occurrence is but yet another occurrence reaffirming God is still God. He healed his precious body once he can heal it again because with you there are no odds.  You are the truth, the way, and the light on goodness we can rest every night.  Lean not to our own understanding but lean to your divine way.  Shower down your tender healing mercies upon your child Lord.  God and God alone no matter how troublesome the medical report may be has the permission for a remission and by your stripes he shall be healed. 

In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit I pray a Sinner's Prayer in the midst and agreement of Prayer Warriors everywhere because I am stand saved and as a witness and testament to your Divine Grace.  Those dark hours bring us closer into alignment in knowing how vulnerable we really are and who has the power.

Amen!

Why Does Your Trauma have to be My Drama!

Men are a trip.  So I have decided to stop waiting for the inevitable and move forward with getting out and meeting someone who I feel I can spend the rest of my life with.  I am just too old to be playing games.  Then when an ex-boyfriend thinks they can get back in without a ring or a stronger commitment of it is just not happening.   I am hip to all the games.

My gut feelings is telling me the real issue with two guys who I have known at least one of them for 15 years a horrible truth lies underneath.  Both are single, and both are really eligible bachelors for all I know.  They are the type who are real hard on women.  They really have no compassion for women.  And definitely no real respect.

I have spent years on being there as a friend.  Even at one point when we were more than friends. But it felt like beating a dead horse to death. It is funny because I was on the phone talking to an friend recently and my son asked who was I talking to because I was so abrupt.  I really didn't realize I was being abrupt at all.  I think the years will do it to you.  

Mind you I haven't been intimate with either one for years.  One there will never ever be anything between us again. He is the low down type that is attracted to married women and laughs uncontrollably about how he has treated unmarried women in the past.  I don't and never did find it funny.  He always said if I stopped selling houses and had my house just in my name again he would marry me.  Too bad it took me too long to do either.

Now I just gone speculate a little bit.  Years later I find out the two guys know each other.  They used to work together.   The one told me the other had a bad reputation for how he would cut anybody down.  They even gave him a nickname to that affect.

Well now I am thinking because one admittedly and even motioned his hips that he would do a man.  I was appalled to say the least.  My children had always said he was gay from day one.  But now my gut feeling is telling me they know each other a little bit more than professionally.

I wish there was some lie detector test or some other gadget that could be used when you meet someone.  Personally, I seem to always pick the wrong one.  I am tired, I am frustrated, and I ain't getting no younger.  I don't have time for these foolish games.

That's reason number one why over the past three years I have become basically a loner.  I prayed to God that he would take the taste out of my mouth for feeling I need to be in a relationship or have companionship with any man.  Then as Murphy's Law would have it there was someone who I just had to see another challenge in which would have been worth the catch as so I thought.

But from here on out the men who send up a red flag by saying women ain't no good, mention anything about side pieces, and has no good history of establishing and staying in relationships I am just going to keep it moving forward I have no time for that.

This past week I had someone to catch me up on my bills and help me save my home.  I told him point blank I wasn't going to consider his proposition.  He is much older and I have grown much colder. He told me I am less mature than when he tried to be my friend twenty years ago.  Do I lose everything and save my soul or do I save everything and lose my soul?  I'll keep one little bit of my soul I have intact.  I ain't never need money like that.   I almost considered it an insult the little help he was offering compared to all he has.  He has always been a miser but I know he is very wealthy.  I told him no way unless there was a ring and a wedding.  I am not going out like that.  I am tired of in the meantime and in between time type situations.  And the use of the word "friend" is also a red flag.  I know how friends will do you.

So many men are hurt by the relationships they have with others.  I think they are even more hurt by the relationships they have with each other.  From my being a very attentive listener.  I heard two guys talking and they were comparing lists.  They basically date in the same circle of women.  How nasty I thought.  I definitely don't want to be a part of that.

They pass women around like they are loaning out a pair of golf clubs.  The ones I fault the most for the way these single men act nowadays is married women.  Married women seem to be at the top of their list of priorities.  Mainly because married women can't take nothing home and it means they don't have to do anything to maintain the connection.

Now as far as single women go, they want to be wined and dined, go to the movies, go on mini-vacations, and so much more.  The men are complaining what the women won't do and the women ain't happy with what the men are doing.

The downside of this all is that all this foolishness is doing nothing to make the family structure look favorable.  I think grown adults should concentrate on being families again.  It used to be a time when you could count on your mate like being a team member, you were on the same team.

I have found with these single men dating married women that they confide more in the married woman and talk about all the issues of the single women with them.  They don't realize the married women pass it on.  They think it is the single women ratting them out when it's not. I was told a few months back one single guy had ten women out on a string.  Then I thought with side pieces and main pieces how that can really be possible.

It is very traumatic the relationship scene of today.  Just pray for me that I find a good, caring, kind, considerate, passionate man to spend the rest of my life with.  I am tired of being alone but I be dang if I am going to be lonely.

Whatever Happened to Investigative Reporting?

I was just reading an article on FACEBOOK and rather than vent with a long status post there I decided to blog about it.  It has been a minute since I posted a blog old anyways.

What ever happened to investigative news reporting?  I remember when as a child we would get the morning newspaper on Wednesdays in school and we had to do a short write up on a piece of paper identifying the who, what, when, where, why, and how (if applicable) for the news article we selected.  It could be a little silly article it still had details. 

They can't be giving children an assignment like that anymore because half the news reports answer one question, then the next day you get a few more details, and if it is a juicy article you may end up finding out more as the days progress.  If the event loses its steam a full report answering the basic questions becomes non-existent. 

News reporters I imagine get paid pretty hefty money.  Some of that money news outlets spend needs to be dedicated towards developing better investigative reporters.

The leads for most articles of the day seem to be coming from the public.  The best video coverage, footage, and interviews seem to be coming from the unknown. 

Is it because the celebrity newscasters got spoiled?  It seems as the upswing of doing all the research and investigation from sitting behind a keyboard has desensitized news reporters on what is really happening in the world. 

I would imagine news reporters and news outlets have enough people in different places around the world where they could really be on top of investigative reporting.  Every city just about I am sure has a news station.  I think it would benefit these news conglomerates more to use their technology resources to network and have a field person in each locality as needed to report on events happening around the world.

I haven't read it in print but I think the way the Walter Scott as a victim of police gone wild was a travesty.  The incident report was a laugh.  I recall there used to be a time when the news reports on a case that big they would go out to the scene and try and reenact what happened.  They didn't go just based on what they could pull up on the Internet because there was no Internet to that magnitude.

For heaven's sake if they even start soliciting private and public individuals to provide better and more conclusive reporting everyone can trust will be a step up from where they have come to.  Really get back out in the field.  Don't keep relying on the friend network and you scratch my back and I scratch yours way of doing things.  Show a little more smarts than that and go back to hiring smart people rather than people based on popularity.

Don't get me wrong, popularity is important however it is more important to keep a news product that people can rely on and trust.  I think it is totally sad that so many news outlet had to recant their reporting because the Incident Report provided by the police officer was totally bogus. 

No one has said it but we saw it in Ferguson the media is the cause of some of the mayhem.  If the police can get to them and get them to side with them based on their authentication solely as police officers why wouldn't police officers feel they can get away with so much? 

The news media needs to be impartial.  Go back to only reporting what they can verify.  And the most important part of all is to actually verify it and get the who, what, when, where, why and when applicable the "how" of it all.

This is Lynne Ruffin and I am reporting from some random thoughts.  More to come when another random thought that I feel like venting about rather than holding it in comes across my mind.  Unless I can pick up a position of investigative reporting then I will be out in the field trying to get the meat and bones of the situations.

I'm out.  Hey I don't get paid to write, so maybe my post doesn't take that into account either.