C'est Mon Anniversaire! June 15th is Here

 And all I have to say is THANK YOU LORD. You are Alpha and Omega and I worship you today!

From my heart to yours, here's my birthday gift to all of you (click the below link for the vide0). Enjoy the PRAYERtime. God bless you more! 

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Words Can Take You Places like ABC

 

The journey to the Executive Mansion of The Republic of Liberia has begun. Presidential Aspirants are making their case to a distressed nation and a watching world. Who are they? 

HortenseInspiration takes a closer look at one of the leading candidates in Elections 2023.

ALEXANDER B. CUMMINGS - The man who has probably desired to be "President of Liberia" since his teenage days. The power of vision. Whether it is recognized or not words do manifest. 

A few years ago I discovered, upon casually perusing a College of West Africa (CWA) Class of 1973 high school yearbook, the ambition summarized about graduating Class President, young Alex Cummings, was that he would become "President of Liberia". In more recent time, from a distance watching, I have marveled at the realization that this prophetic dream spoken of Alex did not die along the way. That graduation day came and went. And life happened on. No doubt, Alex Cummings did not pursue a political career.

The young Alex Cummings would go on to become highly educated, and blaze trails in the world of Corporate conglomerates, emerging at the top of a global giant corporation. He would give back valiantly to society through generous philanthropic deeds. Following a briliant career and successful tenure, the respectable executive, Mr. Alexander B. Cummings, would retire extremely wealthy. Topping it off with a blissful marriage and beautiful family life, an enviable network of powerful colleagues and associates, very well connected, and full of options. 

In layman terms, Alex Cummings was set for life: the perfect "don't worry be happy" scenario. But no...Oh no! To do more subtly tugged at him. A bit of unfinished business, regarding written words uttered over him, way back in high school. I am not sure if even he, Mr. Cummings, realized that this was a prophetic declaration on his life and also that this declaration would remain pending activation. Tossing aside a life of leisure, Alexander Cummings hand in hand with an awesome wife, Theresa Cummings, found himself in his little country of birth, Liberia. He had returned voluntarily, exhausting every ounce of strength and willlpower, determined to change the trajectory of his home. This home which is now remarkably different than the country it was when he was in high school. The same home where once called a beacon of hope in Africa the world now label a failed state. Alex Cummings desired no better way to relax with his millions but to come home and be president, just like had been stated about him a long time ago. Wow. Wow! The power of boyhood vision following him.

Let's reiterate. Fifty years ago, in December of 1973, it was stated about young Alexander B. Cummings in his high school graduation yearbook, a prophetic ambition to become President of Liberia. Fast forward to today, Mr. Alexander Benedict Cummings has made his case to the Liberian people and the watching world. He shunned a life of ease to change the failed state of Liberia to a passing mark. Presidential Aspirant Alexander B. Cummings has stated clearly and concisely his Vision for restoring Liberia to its glory days and beyond. 

I do not believe in coincidence. What are the chances that 50 years since that day Alex Cummings is poised to be, and could very well become, Liberia's next president! And should this happen a young boy's prophetic ambition will marry the determined statesman ardent aspiration. When that happens we will see the emergence of His Excellency Alexander B. Cummings, President of the Republic of Liberia. Do you see the power of prophecy! I hope you see the force behind spoken utterances.

Words are powerful. Dreams may take different twists and turns. Words never die. Words have life attached to them. 

The young man's high school position in 1973, Mr. President, has waited fifty years to come to real life ambition in 2023.  I cannot call this mere coincidence. 

STAY TUNED 

Servant Hortense D. Grimes  ~HortenseInspiration 

Founder, DO IT FOR CHRIST Ministries 

DISCLAIMER: I do not know Mr. Alexander Cummings personally. This writing is part of my thorough analysis of a public figure and their public persona.

Find Your Way to the Mourners Bench

HortenseInspiration ~ Maybe I need to go from preaching to meddling? I think so, too. Let me go there right now before I change my mind! Hear me.

. . . NATIONAL REVIVAL. The Republic of Liberia needs a move of the Holy Ghost. Meanwhile, for the most part, the CHURCH is silent and Sunday morning "institutional churching" go on business as usual. Liberia needs an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Weekly revivals everywhere. Where people go on the MOURNERS BENCH and pray, repent, cry out for mercy and get SAVED with Salvation in Jesus Christ. This is the only formula for removing wickedness from the heart of human beings. We all know Liberia's number one problem is "wicked heart" for one another. Your know wicked heart is a form of witchcraft, right? Yes. 

Liberia needs NATIONAL REVIVAL and mourners bench conversion. The Church must lead this way. Meanwhile, for the most part, churching have become competitions for university building projects. Maybebecause the Catholic and the AME church each operate a great standard university. The Methodist have theirs too. This must be why that Baptist prelate wants his name on one too. No wonder the one lil Seminary is struggling. Meanwhile new "outstanding concepts" for more church universities follow. Who thinking 'bout National Revival. Is that even the church business sef? The CHURCH got better things to study on than lead the Nation in an OUTCRY of sackcloth and ashes repentance. "People talking money Miss Hortense you talking souls...you girl go sit down mehn." hum hum (Liberian lingo for grunting).

You must talk so: You talk so. On the other hand if you stand straight for a cry of repentence, holiness, Salvation, prayer and fasting, the first people to tear you down is the church folks. So, the thing is hard to talk yah. On one hand you want get vex with the big big church lords. On the other hand you can't blame them because the whole people self not serious enough. Besides. University got plenty money inside. National Revival throughout the length and breadth of the nation! You talking spending dollars not gaining pennies. Day after day, proclaiming a CRY OF REPENTANCE ain't got nothing much inside when it comes to plenty money business. You see the fix? You must talk so you talk so! For true. It hard to talk.
I can understand why the denominations are acting like that. Mammoth is difficult to resist. Elohim himself said it is impossible to pay attention to God and god the same way. 

BUT HERE IS MY TOOTHACHE. In a land teeming with higher institutions of learning, primary children freely sell in the streets during daytime. Teenagers sell their bodies at evening time. Traumatized young adults terrorize communities at  nighttime. Foreday in the morning (before daybreak) unrehabilitated former child-soldiers and accomplices embark on death-squad assignments into private residences leaving bloody trails and open bellies spilling out intestines. The once precious jewels now live on Center Street smoking the vapors off bones from century-old dead bodies in those graves they busted open to have sleeping place next to buried corpses. In the meantime THE CHURCH, for the  most part is shaping lives. So the Church says it is doing. For who? I swear. Uhm uhm uhm. Shaping university lives while unshaping churching life. Something doesn't sound right. 

So, tell me, who will lead the NATIONAL REVIVAL. Who? When? 
We are failing miserably as THE CHURCH. The Church of Liberia. For the most part. I myself am ashamed how much we the Church have failed the State. GOD ELOHIM please help us in Jesus Name.

My prayer: Father forgive my part in this mess. Show us the right ways forward. We the Church are the only tool you have on this earth, to use for your purposes. Help us, we the Church in Liberia, collectively, to find our way back to where you would have us be. Thank you, Lord. In Jesus mighty name.

My people, I love you all. We're in this together. Blessings abundant to you.

~Servant Hortense

*Writing contains African vernacular and Liberian English 

Executive Mansion Liberia 2024

HortenseInspiration ~ Friday Morning on MONTSERRADO VERDANT HEIGHTS

. . . Liberia on my mind soon this morning! Of course, I am paying attention. I have been listening. I have been quietly following. I see the maneuvers. I hear the agendas. I applaud the efforts. I respect the hustles. You all mean well. At least. I pray so.

BUT HERE IS MY HEADACHE with all of you patriotic, stalwart, dynamic, well meaning President in the making. I have not heard a "Vision" for where you want to take the country. No candidate is giving a serious blueprint for their rulership. Not a single one of you have shared with Liberian people your Vision for Liberia.

Furthermore, here's the NO NO NO part. Just telling us how bad the current regime is and has been is NOT stating to me that you can do any better. Pointing out what is decisively wrong does not elaborate what you would do right. Recycling repetitive narratives of how corrupt the current government is, or reiterating how volatile law and order/national security has become, does NOT communicate how improved it will become under your rulership. Simply telling our people, over and over, that the present government is terrible DOES NOT present ideas or solutions. We all are fully aware of the mountains of problems in Liberia. What we are not aware of are those solutions you are offering? Where do you plan to take this country when you resume at the helm of Power?

We are tired of being the least among Nations today. Liberians may be traumatized from decades of conflict and wars, but we are emerging. Our stupid days are ending. Fast. Talk to us like people who got sense. Your dead silence on HOW is traumatizing to us. It is very possible, and equally as easy, that any situation can "progress" from worse to ridiculous. We do not need mere handlers taking over in 2024. Show us the VISIONARY LEADER in you.

Whomever YOU are. You, the aspirant, Presidential Candidate in 2023 Elections, Liberia.  Listen up. Republic of Liberia. This is no time for games. Tell the world your VISION for the future you foresee for Liberia. Tell us your expected deliverables. Tell HOW YOU ARE GOING TO BE DIFFERENT. Tell what YOU PLAN TO DO about the conditions we are complaining about. Everything YOU detest now, and complain about! How will you be different than the current situation on ground!!!???

I am listening. Everybody is listening. I hope so, at least. Everyone wants to know. I pray they are all listening to hear you point out your HOWs. Stop telling me how bad the George Weah-led government is. Start telling me how good a government you will lead. Maybe, begin by answering these. Tell us how will you approach crisis points. What's the plan from you? What are your plans to achieve the following of my expected deliverables from you, upon your ascend to the highest Office in the Land,  as  the next and newest President of Liberia. For starters: Tell me how you plan to:

1) Implement domestic Law and Order and upbuild a fortified national Security  Sector;

2) Dismantle, disrupt, or disable the Massive Corruption syndicate;

3) Turn around wayward youth, zogos (former combatants-child soldiers)  into normal citizens, for sustaining a decent society for the population;

4) Upgrade Educational System nationwide;

5) Curtail the tremendous wastage of youthful potential;

6) Manage the Sanitation disaster and reduce mounds of filthy trash, disease causing garbage strewn everywhere;

7) Address food security? Don't give me no white-wash language. I'm talking addressing food security in AFRICA, the bedrock of civilization. 

BOTTOM LINE... What will be different under your rule, and how are you  planning to deliver this different period?

Hear me. We are not stupid people. Liberians are not all that stupid. In this new Era, we plan to merge the remnants of The First Republic with what is good or better about The Second Republic and forge a brand new day, that begins the rise of a Third Republic. One that will show the world how much Almighty God still loves LIBERIA. Are you truly on board for it? The question is for you, presidential aspirant aiming to occupy Liberia's Executive Mansion beginning 2024. Are you on Liberia's side? 

If any candidate seriously believe you are the next leader to sit in the Executive Mansion, start by stating your VISION. Clearly and Concisely. All of us know or have heard everything that is wrong about the country. We nah hear eh enuf nah. Enough already. What will you do differently? Are you even planning to be any different? Talk to me. Talk to us. 

To Whom It May Concern... START TALKING... We're here listening oooo...!!! We got time. Start talking to sensible us.

Blessings and Peace. Much love from my end. Let's not forget to remain prayerful and trust Jesus.

~Servant Hortense

*writing includes Liberian local vernacular and African jargon

Ethnic Authentic Black History

 HortenseInspiration STRETCHING MY MIND AND YOURS . . . Black History

~ I have no idea why in more recent times, Africans on the Continent have begun to celebrate a "Black History" month. 

I have always thought this month-long period to be a Black American holiday that commemorates the triumps of the Civil Rights era. A worthy reminder of the massive progress integration has achieved. A momentum that systemic racism in the United States have been defeated. Hence we celebrate Black History Month in the USA. To remember, recognise, celebrate, and NEVER FORGET the sacrifices of Dr. Martin Luther King and the heroes and heroines, along with their many collaborators-- Collectively, the giants of Black America triumphs. 

Sadly, in today's America this history is being rewritten. Rewritten, for the most part, by many Black Americans themselves. If they do not snap out of it soon enough the coming fifty years will indicate it wasn't Dr King and other stalwart, brave, bold figures in Black American history who won that struggle. The history is being craftily and cunningly rewritten to place the triumph in the hands of those who own the Presses that record and write down history. As They want to see history be remembered.  Still yet shall it be coined "Black History" in America. 

When Black America return the Black church foundation to its proper, rightful place in its life their liberation is preserved. When Black America place its value system back to the Church and godly principles of Christ, their history is unerased. When Black America take back its traditional family values. The morals, ethics, culture, and foundations that dominated Black life during segregation. Black History will outshine detractors. The real Black history will remain. Only then. 

My Africans, hear me. The way to be African is not that African ethnicity must blindly mimic everything about Black American culture. In the Continent of Africa it is being African that is the history. African itself is a system. Africa does not need to rehearse extensions of itself to redefine what it means to be African and/or of African descent. Africa is a whole. Any connection of it is parcel of it and not the other way around. Western comforts should not dictate what being African is. Africa is itself.

The African Continent has not systemic racism. Our issues in Africa are far more grave. We are free today. Technically. The colonialism era is over. Technically. We learned how to free ourselves. We set our ownselves free FOR FREE. We found a free way to free ourselves. The whole world see it now. Africa is free. Try denying this.

Black History Month on the African Continent is mental slavery. Enslaved by your own self. Parallelism! You bet. 

Hear me. I have witnessed a trend. The past decade has shown that Africa is emerging free, at last. That free at last train is being made possible by the move of the spirit of God Almighty across the African Continent. As Jesus Christ is being lifted up in lengths and breadths along the shores of Africa, we Africans are finally set free. We are telling our stories. Our way. Our pride. Our perception. Our African life. We have forced anybody and everybody to listen. Those of African ethnicity outside the Continent must watch and learn from how it means to be African. Truly African. 

Whomever them gates of hell is [intentional mis-grammar]. The gates of Hell are frustrated. But they are relentless. Satan! They, those gates, know the African and his God are insurmountable. The Gates come on platforms. They come screaming, "Look at me I am here for you; I alone am here for you; I have always been on your side." Says the gates of hell. The Bible says it shall NOT PREVAIL. Wake up and read the Word. They want to keep you from your God by making you dilute your worth with sin. The Gates of hell are smart. Satan! But the gates are defeated by omniscience. Pure eternal wisdom. Almighty God in Christ. The gates have lost. Boom!

Outside the church of Jesus Christ, there is nothing Africans both at home on the Continent and abroad in the Western diaspora can fasten onto permanently. Take God away from the Black man and you snap out his soul.  This is Black History 101 African version. Authentic Black Proud. My History. And You?

Wise up my people!  I love you. Blessings galore!

-Servant Hortense

Shout Happy Thanksgiving LORD GOD

Wonderful world. Beautiful people. Here's to you with much love from my heart to yours. Enjoy a happy, awesome Thanksgiving Season! ~Servant Hortense

Stay ahead of Nimrod and 'em

Wonderful world. Beautiful people. How are you this morning? I pray life is great to you. I know life is fantastic with you because you are reading this. It means you are alive! Where there is life there is beautful hope. And may I add, life is meant to be lived and enjoyed and cherished. Live Christ-like!

HEAR ME . . . Children have resumed school and are out and about by the droves. The Devil loves such innocent-mind mortals. Satan's demons have been discharged by the hundred-million-thrillions to patrol schools zones and playgrounds. Demonic forces are daily sent out on neighborhood watch. Your neighborhood. Prayer Walk your streets. Begin a vigorous habit of Prayer Walking the territory around you. 

Prayer Walking means taking a walk for the purpose to pray and declare the Word of God over your streets and neighborhoods and communities. Praying out loud or praying quietly but fiercely! Prayer Walk.

BECAUSE your Seed, your offspring, is their target. By "Their" I mean Nimrod and 'em. They are after your children. Satan and his minions need those young impressionable minds to groom with demonic, hatred of Godliness, disdain for all things Jesus, Anti-Christ mentality. Pray for your seed. Pray against demonic manipulation by Satan and his minions against your offspring. Prayer will preserve your seed. PRAY.

All Power belongs to Almighty God. Jehovah alone is Omnipotent. Yahweh alone is all powerful. The Ancient of Days is the definition of might, Almighty God. It is only at the name of JESUS that demons flee. Jesus Christ is The Word from the Beginning; The Word that was with God, The Word that is God. God the Beginning!

My friend. Have not started prayer walking? Ready Set Go! Begin foot patrol of your streets today.

Much love from my end. Blessings always.

~Servant Hortense (DO IT FOR CHRIST Ministries)