Jeremiah 1:5 4The word of the LORD came to me, saying: 5“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you a prophet to the nations.” 6“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I surely do not know how to speak, for I am only a child!”…

HOW/WHY “GOD” KEEPS PROVING “HIS LOVE” TO ME… ONLY; “HE TRULY KNOWS, THAT “I LOVE HIM”! AND BY LOVING “THE LEAST OF HUMANITY” WE ARE THE POOREST OF THE POOR; GOD KNOWS, EVEN WHEN PEOPLE “DO ME DIRT” …I HAVE KNOWN THE LORD FROM THE TIME, I COULD REMEMBER; ABOUT 2 AND1/2 YEARS AND 6 OLD; I FELT SOMETHING OF A SPIRITUAL PRESENCE…WHEN I 1ST REMEMBER MY BIG BROTHER; JAMES V. REECE CAME HOME, FROM NEW YORK, THAT BIG OLD CITY; HE HAD RETIRED FROM THE “ARMY AND THE AIR FORCE”.
TO ME; HE WAS LIKE “20FEET TALL” A “SUPER HERO” SO PRETTY/HANDSOME, IN HIS MILITARY UNIFORMS, BUT SO MUCH MY CHAMPION IN HIS REGULAR, NEATLY IRONED CLOTHES. A GREEN PLYMOUTH CAR…

https://texasgravestones.org/view.php?id=64630

James Vincent REECE (VETERAN)

Chapelwood Memorial Gardens Cemetery
Bowie County, Texas

SPECIALIST FOURTH CLASS US Army
AIRMAN SECOND CLASS US Air Force
April 10, 1937-April 22, 2002

James Vincent REECE (VETERAN)

Chapelwood Memorial Gardens Cemetery
Bowie County, Texas

SPECIALIST FOURTH CLASS US Army
AIRMAN SECOND CLASS US Air Force
April 10, 1937-April 22, 2002

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I CAN REMEMBER, MY BIG BROTHER’S 1ST VISIT HOME, TO TEXARKANA, TEXAS AT 2807 ALEXANDER STREET. WHERE I GREW UP. IT WAS THE 1ST TIME I EVER SAW HIM. MMAANNN, HE WAS “BIGGER THAN LIFE TO ME!! I CAN REMEMBER, THIS WAS BEFORE MY “LATE-GREAT BROTHER-IN-LAW”; AKA MELVIN “TAPPIN” PORTER, AND HIS HELPFUL TEARING DOWN OF THE WALL, THAT SEPARATED OUR LIVING ROOM, FROM THE DINNING ROOM, OF OUR HOUSE. AND THAT WAS BEFORE, THE ASSIGNATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY AND DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

MOM HAD A “LAZY SUSAN” ON THE LIVING ROOM TABLE, WITH “POPCORN” CANDY, WALNUTS, AND PECANS AND SUGAR CANDY IN IT. MOM ALWAYS LOVED TO HAVE ONE OF THOSE ON HER TABLES…

NOW, MY BIG BROTHER, James Vincent REECE, WAS ONLY ABOUT 5FT-10; BUT, I THOUGHT HE WAS A “GIANT”; ALL “SUPER HERO-ISH” ….

I can remember MOM, screamed with joy, when “James” drove up, outside and parked that green pretty car, on the street, in front of the house and got out and so, i cannot remember “if” MOM had been told that James was coming, or not or if it was a big surprise??? memories fading, some things may be mixed up… but, I thought “HE WAS AS big AS THE WORLD=JAMES!!!!LOLSSOOO Handsome!! Proud and stood up straight to me!!

It really “tore me up” that, MY big Brother had “just moved back” to Texarkana, after retiring from the City of New York, and only about 1 year after my “Marriage to my Beautiful Wife”; we had to drive back to Texas for his Funeral (2002)…

But, some of the Memories and LOVE that the REECE/REESE family and extended families and friends shared; “YOU just “KNOW & FEEL” the HOLY SPIRIT in many, many situations that “HOW did we arrive to THESE days of “DIVISIVENESS” and “GREED” and “BACK STABBING” ..Lies and Nastiness???

Ecclesiastes 1:9 New International Version (NIV)

⁹ What has been will be again,
    what has been done will be done again;
    there is nothing new under the sun.

from the time, that “GOD” started messing with me, as far back as my faded memories, can go… “HE” has covered me “WITH THE BLOOD” and I am Here at 62 blessed years, with many loses of beloved friends and family members and some say “Never Question the LORD!”; but, “I DO!”… I have always “Talked, within myself and my own Spirit, as “IF” talking with You, My MOM, MY Sisters, my Brothers< my Friends, and/or MY Daddy… “preachers” and “pastors” somehow think that “THEY” have an “EXCLUSIVE” pathway to “GOD” and YOU, or me or anyone else cannot “Get a Message to GOD”, without them..SOOO, They believe that if you “GIVE them Your Money” then YOU can Somehow “BUY YOUR Way into Heaven, though them!”

“Y’ALL”…IT just does “NOT” work that way……

“For 1/ONE thing”…. “Before GOD, forms you/me, in the Womb, HE knows “IF” and “THAT” WE will be a “Faithful Servant”, and will “FIGHT for HIS PEOPLE” in “HIS ARMY” or not….Secondly…”HE” also knows “IF” you will ever, eventually “CHOOSE HIM” over all the other “TRASH/CRAP/EVIL/DEMONS/HATE/Devils” or not!!

MANY MISTAKES, WHICH I HAVE PERSONALLY MADE, AND “DISCERNMENT:” AND WISDOM AND RECOGNIZING “DEMONIC SPIRITS” WITHIN PEOPLE HAS BEEN AND WILL BE A “CONTINUING JOURNEY”… BUT, THEY ARE MORE RECOGNIZABLE TODAY, THAN THEY WERE, 20, 30 YEARS AGO TO ME…

IT WAS A “STRANGE NIGHT MARE” A DREAM, THAT i HAD, ABOUT 6-SIX MONTHS, AFTER I WAS HIRED AT A RECENT JOB, IN LAS VEGAS, THAT I WOULD BE FIRED, FROM THAT JOB. THE OTHER STRANGE THING IS; RIGHT, AFTER THAT; MY “PRETTY WIFE, HAD A “CRYING-NERVOUS/SPELL, AND WOKE UP AND CAME TO ME, AS I ALWAYS WAKE UP VERY EARLY, IN THE AM; (MY BIOLOGICAL CLOCK HAS NEVER “RESET” FROM THE 3 HOURS, AHEAD, WHEN WE WERE IN DETROIT…SO; WHEREAS I WOULD WAKE UP AT 4;30-5:00, IN DETROIT… ITS 1:30-2:00 IN LAS VEGAS…BUT, MY WIFE CAME INTO THE LIVING ROOM, WHERE I WAS “WRITING” WORKING ON ONE OF OUR NEWEST “COMICS-NOVELS” AND SHE WAS CRYING, BECAUSE SHE BLAMED HERSELF, FOR US MOVING OUT HERE TO LAS VEGAS AND HER NOT BEING ABLE TO FIND A DECENT JOB AND NEITHER HAD/COULD I…. I DID NOT TELL HER ABOUT THAT “NIGHTMARE/DREAM” I HAD HAD OF BEING “RELEASED/FIRED” BY THAT EDUCATIONAL COMPANY……OR EVEN THAT, AFTER MY DREAM/NIGHTMARE; A “little birdy” ..NOT REALLY, BUT A “FORMER CO-WORKER, TOLD ME, THAT I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FIRED, BEFORE THAT CHRISTMAS; 2018… AND EVEN ANOTHER FORMER CO-WORKER THOUGHT, I ALREADY WAS FIRED…..BUT, YOU SEE, GOD HAS ALWAYS TOOK CARE OF ME; JUST TO SHOW ME “HE IS LARGE AND IN CHARGE!”… SO, I DID NOT GET FIRED, BUT I GOT LESS THAN 20 HOURS PER WEEK, OF WORK AND SO I TOOK ANOTHER P/T JOB WITH A TAX PREP COMPANY, AND THEN A 3RD P/T JOB WITH A “AUTOMOTIVE TEST DRIVING COMPANY” AND I ALSO WAS BLESSED TO STILL “VOLUNTEER” AT THE NEVADA HOMELESS ALLIANCE AND OTHER BOARDS AND COMMITTEES AND THEN “GOD SHOWED” me, “HIS” AWESOME POWER…..

WHEN PEOPLE “LIE” TO A “CHILD OF GOD”, SOMETIMES THEY KNOW “NOT WHAT THEY DO”… IT IS “NOT THEM/HUMANS/PEOPLE” DOING IT; THEY ARE CONTROLLED BY DEMONIC FORCES/SATANIC SPIRITUAL BEINGS; I/WE HAVE TO PRAY THAT GOD MAY SOMEDAY/SOMEHOW “INTER-CEDE” AND “BLESS THEM TO SEE THEIR/OUR DEMONS”… “YES-ME TOO!”

BUT;

Isaiah 54:17 New King James Version (NKJV)

¹⁷ No weapon formed against you shall prosper,
And every tongue which rises against you in judgment
You shall condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord,
And their righteousness is from Me,”
Says the Lord.

SSOOO, WHEN I GOT “LAID-OFF”, A WHOLE YEAR LATER OF BEING “SUPPOSEDLY FIRED”… MY COMMENTS TO THE PERSON WHO CONTROLLED ME BEING “LAID OFF” WAS; “ITS OK” IT WILL BE JUST FINE! …NOW, I COULD SEE THAT “EXTRA DUTIES/PRESSURES/CRAP” WAS BEING PUT UPON ME, AND THAT

Daniel 5 English Standard Version (ESV)

The Handwriting on the Wall

WAS VERY MUCH “REVEALED” TO ME…. GOD HAD ALREADY MAD A WAY…. MY WIFE HAD GOTTEN BLESSED TO “GET A GOOD JOB”, WITH BENEFITS, AND THE “CONTRACT” THAT I HAD SIGNED, i WAS ABLE TO “INCREASE” MY DRIVING DAYS FROM 3 DAY PER/WEEK, TO 5 DAYS PER WEEK AND MADE MORE DURING WHEN I GOT “LAID OFF”… IN EARLY NOVEMBER, PER WEEK THAN I DID IN 2 WEEKS, AT THAT OTHER PLACE….A MORE ENJOYABLE JOB, A INDUSTRY THAT I HAD MASSIVE EXPERIENCE WITHIN AND NO MORE “NASTINESS” AND “BACK-STABBING” FROM THE “CLICKS & GROUPS” OF “SNAKES” AND “DEMONS” AND THEN ANOTHER “MAGICAL” BLESSING; MY LONG, LONG MANY YEARS OF “WORKING MYSELF” KICKED IN AND MY SS CHECKS BEGAN TO KICK IN…. WWOOOWW, “GOD CAN TAKE” YOU FROM “ZERO-TO-1,OOO-MILES PER/HOUR; IN A HURRY!!!!!!

HIS WORDS IN MY HEAD ARE; “STAND STILL-AND SEEK YE, AND SEE THE POWER OF THE LORD!”…

Exodus 14:13-14

And Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever. The LORD will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.”

there are a lots or variables to my life story and everyone has a story to tell;

but, when do “we” ‘KNOW THAT THE LORD IS ON OUR SIDE??

I, FOR ONE/1 HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN!!!

“IF” I TELL YOU ALL, THAT I WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE… Y’ALL CAN BELIEVE WHATEVER YOU WANT TO BELIEVE…. MOM TOLD ME THAT “DR KEMP” HAD TOLD HER THAT HER WOMB HAD “CLOSED” AND THAT MY BIG BROTHER, TONY; WAS HER LAST CHILD; THEN 2 YEARS AFTER TONY; “HER I POP UP INTO HER WOMB…. WHY/HOW WOULD I BECOME “THE BABY” OF THIS FAMILY AND SEEK TO WORK THE HARDEST TO KEEP THE “REECE/REESE/McKNIGHT” AND EXTENDED FAMILIES TOGETHER????

I DON’T EVEN KNOW ALL THAT, (HOW DOCTORS CAN EVEN, HAVE EVER BEEN ABLE TO SAY THAT A WOMB WAS CLOSED, ANYWAY??) BUT, I DO KNOW THAT IS WHAT “MAMA” TOLD ME….SHE LATER-IN-OUR MANY TALKS, EXPOLAINED WHY SHE WAS “HARDER ON ME”, THAN SHE WAS ON SOME OF THE OTHERS..”MADE ME CRY LIKE A BABY”…. AND STILL DOES WHEN SHE HANDED ME A CARD, WITH “TERRY”=MEANING “WARRIOR” AND SAID THIS IS WHAT YOUR NAME MEANS IN OUR NATIVE LANGUAGES AND “SUCH WIDE SHOULDERS” AND I SAID, MOM, AS I STOOD UP, AT 6FT 3 1/2 AND WAS BY THEN AT 235-240 LBS… SHE SAID= “I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT YOUR PHYSICAL STATURE… I AM TALKING ABOUT ALL THE PRESSURES AND WEIGHT YOU HAVE TAKEN ON TRYING TO KEEP THIS FAMILY TOGETHER, AND TRYING TO KEEP TOUR LANDS AND PROPERTIES.”…UNTIL THEN, I HAD NOT EVEN REALIZED THAT, I WAS DOING THOSE THINGS; I WAS “JUST DOING THEM!”

‘THEN IT HIT ME” HER WORDS, AND I SAT DOWN AND CRIED, IN HER ARMS AND HUGGED HER, AND SHE KISSED ME GENTLY RIGHT UPON THE LIPS AND CHEEK AND EVERYTHING OF MY WHOLE LIFE “FLASHED BACKWARDS” TO ME AND AT ME AND I REALIZED THAT “GOD” AND “MAMA” HAD MY BACK, AND ALWAYS DID!!!

This, today is just a “portion” of my “TESTIMONY” and “THAT IS MY STORY/MY FINAL ANSWER; I AM STICKING TO IT”..FOR “GOD HAS FOUND FAVOR, WITH ME, EVEN THOUGH I NEVER HAVE DESERVED IT; IT IS HIS HOLY CHOICE!!” AMEN, AMEN!

SOME PEOPLE NEVER FIND THEIR “SOUL MATE” AND SOME PEOPLE ARE TOO MEAN AND HATEFUL AND AS “MAMA” USED TO SAY; “FULL OF THE DEVIL” TO STAY WITH THEIRS (SOUL MATES) EVEN WHEN THEY HAVE CAME ACROSS THEM; SO, I AM “HIGHLY FAVORED AND BLESSED OF MEN” THAT GOD SENT ME MINE, FROM HALF WAY ACROSS THE UNITED STATES GLOBE….

I HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN OF GOD, BECAUSE “HE” KNEW ME 1ST !!!!