Happiness Depends on.... but Joy doesn't and neither does Happiness...

So often we say oh if I had this I would be happy.. or if this were to happen i would be happy with the truth being if it happened you would be no happier than you are when you made the statement.... because the emptiness, the void you are trying to fill cannot be filled with material things... its an internal spiritual or mental issue that is keeping you from experiencing the happiness and joy you are longing for.. first you must know that all the joy you need in found in the Lord Jesus Christ.... secondly, that in him we have everything we need.... why are we so dependent of these outside things to make us happy.. we see other people with them.. we see them on television... or we have experienced them in some shape, form or fashion. we have to take our focus off of them.. focus on us.. within us is the happiness the joy to truly live the life we want.. to truly experience the joy that will not be broken by an empty bank account, a non-existent relationship, a dilapidated car, or a broken relationship with a parent.... in us and the Lord lies the strength we need to be happy and experience true joy.. when you are stripped naked or down to the bare essence of your heart and soul how do you feel? if the happiness or joy is not there then you are not truly happy or joyful. working on a blessed and prosperous 2010!!!!

Been Down Too Long, Don't Sell To The Lowest Bidder!

I know i know it seems as if this title doesn't make sense but it makes perfect sense.. Some of us been down so long, fighting in the trenches so long that as soon there is a ray of sunshine, someone making an offer better than the situation we are in we jump on it.. selling to the lowest bidder without even weighing or waiting on the next bidder or prospect.... so is our plight... so is our story of selling short to achieve the feeling, the temporariness of escaping our situation... we think we are escaping but selling to the lowest bidder hurts us.. it limits us.. we are not able to reach our full potential..... we have sold our soul to the one who was not meant to purchase it.. the thing is we have been down this long.. we have been fighting this long.. we have endured the pain this long.. we have been in this story this chapter of our life this long.. hold out.. continue to fight.. continue to wait.. dont sell out or sell just yet.. there is something better.. something more worth while.. someone or something that is truly willing to pay the price of your worth..... don't sell just yet.. selling too soon will only put you back in the same situation further down the line... So just because it looks good doesnt mean you have to sell.. Don't SELL!!!! DONT SELL!!!!

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Changing Your Posture to Position for Your Blessing!

So often many of us blame other things for us not achieving or succeeding, yet we fail to look at our posture in the position we are in.... as I was writing my 2010 action plan I noticed that a lot of things on there I could change on my own and some of my own bitterness and misfortune came because of the posture I had taken in the situation..... For instance, I really like Houston but because of the posture I had taken I had taken myself out of position for a blessing here... I look at a lot of other people's situation and how we blame this or that but then I ask what was your posture in that situation.. did u slump down get defeated and take your lumps? did u retreat? did you go into the situation with a game plan? See your posture sets you up for your blessing... Now that I have realized this I know that I must posture myself differently in order to receive what is truly mine.... So before you blame any outside source check your posture more than likely its off....

Open Your Mouth...

Sometimes you just have to drop the fear and pride and say what you want and mean because if you dont then you might never fulfill your dreams....... Open your mouth!!!!!! I just learned that again tonight..

Happy Face....

So we have dropped the burdensome bags and told our slave owners that we are now emancipated.... guess what? put on that happy face.. today one of my slave owners tried to take back the rights to control my future... but i thought about it..... its just a tactic to send me back into the shell i once inhabited....... i wanted to respond to their childish rant.. they seem to use facebook to defame and pick mess.. the one song that came to mind was Happy Face by Destiny's Child... I cannot apologize because in the last 8 years you have done NOTHING to improve yourself and that in 8 years I have graduate college, law school, passed the TX bar and now a contributing member to society... i cannot help that your plot to destroy me did not work.... I cannot help the 10 friends you took from me turned into 100's... Slave owner its OVER!!!! Tonight is the last night.... the happy face is on..... GOD IS GOOD.. GOD Is LOVE.. and HE will make your enemies your foot stool!! Trust and Believe and watch him work... So after you have read the last word of this blog, SMILE, you are now free....

Tell Your Slave Owner.... I'm Free.....

So often there is one person or a group of people who bring such negativity.. whether its people that talk down to you.. talk about you.. manipulate you or lie to you... it harms every aspect of your life.. and what we don't realize is that in return we do the same thing to someone else... if someone manipulates us we find someone else to manipulate.. if someone brings negative energy into our life we transport that negative energy into someone else's life.... if someone uses us we in return find someone to use... if someone hurts us in a relationship we make sure the next time we hurt the person before they can hurt us therefore transferring the hurt to someone else.. how many times have we allowed our slave owner to hurt us and we in return hurt someone else? So today with the bags you began to drop yesterday begin to free yourself from the slave owner who inflicts the hurt and pain.... don't allow them to place the shackles of hurt, manipulation, and negativity in your life.. for you only have the power to free yourself.... one by one.. take the shackle off the right ankle.. then the left... then both wrist.. then finally your neck.. because the one thing that hurts you the most has you in a choke hold.... the tightest grip... has you gasping for air.. begin to fight back.. free yourself... free yourself.... fly... God gave you wings to soar not to fly at ground level.... God is LOVE...

Classic

Bag Lady... Drop Them Bags!!!!

Man, I was just relaxing in the house today and on V101 an ITUNES radio station began to play Bag Lady by Erykah Badu..... I always liked the song but never really paid attention to the lyrics.. Lo and Behold a message that I and many other people needed to hear.. Bag Lady, Bag Man, Bag Child drop all that heavy weight and BE FREE!!!!! Man a lot of us have been toting around baggage from past relationships, past jobs, past encounters, just everything that should have been left in the past... we are also carrying around bags of financial problems, guilt, love woes, and other types of worries.... one by one we should drop those bags that hold us back... that stifle us from being the free flying birds GOD created us to be.... drop the bags of expectations... the bags caring of what others think and say about us.... let the bags go..... we didnt come into the world with all those bags so we definitely should not have to pack them around.... so I am telling u... let this be that last month that you tote around all those bags... take them off one strap one bag at a time... place them behind you and never look back.... now that you have taken bag 1 off dont you feel lighter? now take bag 2 off... its like you can almost run... keep taking those bags off... you will see dropping all those bags will make you light.. carefree and a more enjoyable person.... more appreciative of the little things.. God is Love... what Erykah should have said is.... Bag People... DROP THEM BAGS... Let the people who placed them on your shoulder carry them!!!

Classic!

Back By Popular Demand...

So it has been so long since I have blogged and I feel that I have been depriving myself of my public outlet to vent and discuss issues that I have.. Well, a lot has changed since July.. I have a job/ career, I have my own apartment, and things are going pretty well.... I am still serving the great GOD who is my provider, my stronghold, my Savior, my deliverer, and my ROCK. I could not have made it this far without the LORD on my side. Wow, my traveling has expanded somewhat... I have been to NYC twice and that is where I currently am writing this blog... Beginning now I am going to start writing as much as possible.. even daily.. I am going try something new and that is writing down random words throughout the day then writing on how they have influenced me..... Well, I must go to sleep because I have a 6am flight to catch in the morning and until tomorrow... Be Blessed.

At A Crossroads

I know its been almost two months.. well it has been two months since I have left any words on this page and I am back again because my brain is cluttered.... I have a job offer that has some stipulations... There are pros and cons.... Finally a paycheck.... But wants me to enroll back in school... Already in debt.. schooling would bring more debt.... Being able to move on my own.... Able to help my sister... But also bringing on burdens... I am just so confused right now...... I am going to my devotion and prayer to get answers.. God always sends me an answer...

Best Regards,

Nervous, Uncertain, Needing the Lord's Guidance!

Steps To A Breakthrough!

Well as you can see from the post below it is official I successfully passed the Texas Bar Exam on April 30th, 2009, my grandmother's 73rd birthday. The victory does not belong to me it belongs to the LORD! God up above and him alone got me through and no one but HIM! It is funny because through this I can give my testimony which in returns gives GOD the praise. There are some steps we must take to receive our breakthrough.

1) We must praise HIM in advance for the valley HE has us in because the same GOD that can allow us to venture into the valley can also set us atop a mountain top. See GOD tests our faith at our lowest levels he places us there to draw nearer to HIM to seek his face. So when in the valley you must ask yourself are you seeking GOD? When I did not pass the exam the first time I immediately prayed and asked GOD to give me peace of mind and then I made up my mind that the second time will not be like the last as evident in an older blog around that time. I told GOD if this is my test I know with GOD I can pass. After having to take a 7.50 job at Best Buy just to stay a float for the Christmas holidays, living off an income tax check, and collecting unemployment GOD placed me in the valley but while in the valley he supplied all my needs. When the bank account was running low Best Buy called, when the Holidays ended it was tax refund time, when the tax refund money was running low I was able to accept unemployment. I never did without, God supplied all my needs. All I did was draw nearer to GOD, still attending church, joining the young adult choir, and continuing to tithe even though I was receiving unemployment. I praised GOD, praised HIM in advance for the blessings and breakthrough that were on the way.

2) Give our time, our service, and our praise. See everyone always asks GOD for a blessing but never want to give GOD anything. Its funny we dedicate time to do household chores, to go shopping, to watch certain TV shows and nowhere in that schedule is time to give GOD the glory. During my period I found my refuge at my church where the spirit of the LORD dwells and GOD receives the HIGH PRAISE AT ALL TIMES! See for me church is a hospital, a doctor's office, a psychiatrists office, the LORD's house is somewhere we can be rehabilitated, tell the LORD (doctor) about our ailments, or just cry out to the LORD... Its the one place we can go and give the LORD unmitigated praise for past, present, and future blessings. A lot of us will not even gather with people of our same faith to Bless the LORD so GOD knows we won't bless HIM with others who don't believe like us. Don't get me wrong I attend church regularly but I never just let go like I did... Now I am in a new place with a new attitude. Everyday we should take time to give GOD the glory, just a little bit of our time... I also found refuge through listening to homemade GOSPEL CD's! Time could be on your way to work listening to gospel music and just meditating and thanking GOD, it could be having a prayer time during the day, or however you give GOD the glory, but you must give him your time... Through PRAISE we receive our breakthrough..... Remember the BIBLE said where our heart is, that shall our treasure be, WHERE IS YOUR TREASURE?

3) Pray for the LORD's will. When you pray in the morning and at night do not ask the LORD for specific things ask for his will to be done! Or when you ask if its your will then LET IT BE DONE.

4) Humble Yourself. God had to me HUMBLE ME. See our degrees, our accomplishments mean nothing to GOD for only what you do for HIM will last. GOD sat me down and let me know who was really in control. He placed me in the valley so that I could relinquish control and LET HIM TAKE CONTROL! Now HE is in the driver's seat completely and I know and I truly TRULY know that HE WILL NEVER LET ME FAIL! If you have to take a lower paying job so be it. If you have to give up shopping, eating out, and other extra curricular activities so be it.. How much are you willing to give up to receive GOD's blessings...

5) PRAISE PRAISE PRAISE!!!!! PRAISE HIM WHILE YOU DOWN TO COME OUT, PRAISE HIM WHEN YOU UP TO GO FURTHER, THROUGH OUR PRAISE WE RECEIVE OUR BREAKTHROUGH!!!!!

6) Don't be afraid to share the LOVE of GOD with someone else and don't be afraid to PRAISE him in front of others... When you give GOD the glory publicly and HE begins to bless you, people will look beyond the materialistic things and see that its truly a blessing and had it not been for GOD none of those things would be possible....

7) Don't make your own plan ask GOD to show you his plan.... Planning is great but if its not HIS WILL then its not going to work!

Make it ALL ABOUT GOD!!!! I praised him in the valley low, I am not praising him in the mountain TOP to GOD be the GLORY!

Basking in God's Favor,

Joseph K Plumbar, Esq.

I PASSEd

I PASSED THE TX BAR EXAM!!!!!

Do You Really Believe What You Say?

So many times we all profess things that we want to accomplish and how we believe in this and that, but how much of that do we actually believe? Do we actually believe the words that come out of our own mouth? Its one thing to say I want to be successful, but not believe it.... Its another thing to say I trust God in all circumstances, but everyday worry about things you know God is going to take care of.... See we tend not to practice what we say... We say things to make ourselves feel better about some situations, but just think if we started living or practicing all the positive things that we professed.... The problem are not the words they are the beliefs.... Start putting some of those positive thoughts into motion and let's see where it takes us....

Just Can't Sleep

Have you ever had a night or a couple of nights where you just couldn't sleep. You prepared for bed early and prepared for a good 6-7 hours of sleep but you just couldn't sleep. Well, at 3:36 abruptly woke up and couldn't sleep. I laid down in my bed and tried to make myself sleep but I just couldn't fall asleep. Is it that I am worrying too much about things that I currently cannot control? Is it that I am not eating properly, which I am. I am not sure but whatever it is for the past week I just have not been able to sleep all the way through..... I really do not know what is going on... After trying aimlessly to fall asleep I decided to get down on my knees and pray and ask the LORD to remove whatever I was worrying about from me and to soothe my mind.... I also prayed for his never-ending favor. I just do not know why I cannot sleep tonight... Its hard.. I guess while I am up I will search for a job or do something constructive... It seems so hard right now to accomplish anything or get anything accomplished.... At some point you get tired of saddling the same horse and riding it over and over and over again, but the only way to get by is to finish the race. Sometimes I feel our load and our heart could be so heavy laden that we forget who actually is in control. Well, i thought maybe this blog would help me sleep I hope it does.. I know its a bunch of random nothingness but I really want to sleep.

Appreciate The Rain.. The Cold...

It has been raining forever here in Houston and it has inspired me to write this blog... Although the weather has been horrible it has not stopped me from getting out of the house and enjoying life.

Many people are afraid of the rain and the cold and use them as excuses not to go anywhere and not to do anything but truth of the matter is we need the rain and the cold......... Although navigating in the rain is difficult it often creates a reality that if you can navigate through life's rain storms then when the calm comes the visibility is even clearer.. Smooth sailing as some would say.. Rain is the nurturer of new growth and new beginnings.. After a cold brutal winter that has sent animals into hibernation and plants into a frigid outward death the rain comes and revives the roots to start anew for the new year and the new season that lies ahead... Animals come out renewed ready for three seasons of flourishing.... So what we have a raining/ cold season one out of four seasons is not bad at all... Although the cold season may seem to set us back it actually destroys the branches and dead leaves that cannot sustain our future goals while the rain nurtures our roots and prepares us for a fruitful season... Things that are not fruitful must die in order to reproduce.. So there is nothing wrong with the rain and cold for they help us navigate the days full of sunshine.

Get out don't let the cold and rain hold you back let it help you flourish.. The cold and raining season is almost over.... Sunshine ALL DAY!!!

When Do I Get My Wants........

As I arose this morning I begin to think when will I start getting my wants... ? I thank God everyday for keeping my needs met and allowing me to make it thus far but I want some things... A couple of things.. Some of them I will not name here but there are some things I want to happen in the very near future... VERY NEAR! So when is it okay to start expecting to get what we want? I need FEEDBACK!

If Opposites Attract... Then...... We're Screwed!

We have been taught since elementary school that opposites attract whether it was in science when learning about magnetism or when you were discussing dating with friends or family the story has been over time that opposites attract... Well I have come to the conclusion that if opposites attract then we are all screwed....

Just from the theory of the simple magnet... The positive pole tugs at the negative pole and the negative pole tugs at the positive pole to create a strong bond that is only destroyed by extreme force. It so funny when you reflect over your life that at your most positive, optimistic moment there is always some negativity pulling you away from your positive outlook and thoughts on life... There is always negativity that will follow a positive person.. That really sucks ASS.... Why must at our must optimistic, positive moments be polluted with something so nasty and vile as negative people or opposition....

Its the same in dating if we consider ourselves to be good, honest, hardworking why would we date someone who is that total opposite of what we are? Sometimes having a little dissent in your life is good, but to totally disassemble everything you have earned or worked for because opposites attract is silly. So because you are a 85% good person you would like to date someone who is 85% bad to counteract your good side.. Last time I checked a negative subtracts from a positive so why would you lessen yourself? It is a lot easier to take away than to add.... I have never seen a negative add to a positive.. Have you?

This is why I figure.... If opposites are destined to attract we are all screwed.

I'm Back!!!!!!!

Well it has been another journey but I can honestly say that I am back. I have cleared the major hurdle I was preparing for now the waiting game begins... Man have you ever noticed when you are alone at home and have nothing to do that that's when you begin thinking about the most random stuff.... or when you are driving a good distance and actually not on your phone that your brain tends to throw out thoughts that are hidden in your sub-conscience? It is weird... I have the deepest thoughts and I often ask myself if this is how I truly feel or is this that little devil on my shoulder.... Sometimes I feel it is how i truly feel... I had this one thought where it feels like I lost something forever and I often debate and wonder about it... It irritates the hell out of me but I know its nothing I can do about it. Anyway, so now I am ready to start posting to tell you all about my confused cluttered thoughts.. See you in a little while.

End The Search Party.....

In 2009 a lot of us have begin searching for things that we want to conquer, gain, or just have but I am here to tell you that you can end the search party for what you are looking for has been found its just waiting on you to receive it.  I had a realistic dream last night and it inspired me to write this blog.  No, I will not go into detail about the dream but let's just say it revealed to me that some of the things I had been searching for I had already found and was close to losing because I had yet to claim them.

So as you send out the search dogs searching always remember things you search for can be found right under your nose.  Whether its love, companionship, happiness, inner peace, or success it right there within you.  One bad thing about searching for something is sometimes you find it and sometimes you don't.  I know you may be thinking well if I don't look for it then how will I ever find it?  Well, its funny because when the time is right things seem to always find you right where you began looking.  Here is my piece of advice for today if you are going to search make sure you look around home base first because what you are looking for my be right there.  Take off the blinders and if it shows up at home base then accept it and claim it before you lose it!

HYPE

2009.

Well, it has been quite some time since I have blogged so I decided it was time for me to get back in the habit because this released so much pressure and allowed me to talk to the world uninhibited.  To catch everyone up I am currently studying for the Texas Bar Exam but this time it already feels different I already feel successful and I am going into the Exam knowing I will Pass.  Other than that LIFE has been great and I have really learned to trust and lean on God, I gave up all my worries and told him to lead me for I will follow.

I have decided to take some risk in 2009 and see if they will pay off.  I cannot sit here and complain and not make any moves to change my situation.  Therefore, there are some things I am going to do to see if they will help me get ahead if they do GREAT if they don't GREAT also.  Well, I promise to blog more often.  It's getting late and I need to get some rest for another full day of studying but I promise to write and present more insight and inspire you all to make 2009 yours.  Oh yeah My name for 2009 is Hype!! I will blog on the name change later... LOL!

Sincerely Yours,

HYPE