Today's Encouraging Words: Month of May

By Jerome Rollins

Today's Encouraging Words (Month of May) is a daily devotional, which delivers uplifting words of encouragement, filled with God inspired encouraging words, of love, hope and faith.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Apr 26, 2014
• ISBN: 9781312070905

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Today's Encouraging Words: Month of May

About The Author

Jerome LaMont Rollins lives in Upper Marlboro, Md., a family man, married to Patricia (Goldie) with two children Dartaynian Rollins and Chaka Dorcean. He is the proud grandfather (poppie) to three adorable grands, Little Dart Rollins, Cooper and River Dorcean, who are the love of his life.

Jerome is much like any other man who tries to live a good life, serve his family and help others where he can. He truly has grown to be a Man of God through the teaching and leadership of Reverend Lee P. Washington (Reid Temple AME), who's vision and inspiration lead to the first Today's Encouraging Words book in November 2008, which was freely given away as a gift. Through Pastor Washington's teaching, Jerome's passion to understand the Bible continues to inspire him to put his God given thoughts into a daily devotional.

My Personal Testimony... Today's Encouraging Words are a result of overcoming a devastating life circumstance. I built a successful life, tried to be a good man, had a good job, was making good money, pursued worldly things, lived life in the fast lane and as I pleased, so I thought. Then in the blink of an eye, God took everything away! The big house, the fancy cars, the money, the desire to pursue worldly things and living life as I pleased. It all changed. God didn't change my family and he didn't change my desire to live. He changed my mindset and revealed himself to me. He showed me that I was not doing this all on my own and gave me a yearning to develop a closer relationship with Him. This lead to my sitting down every morning for the next year and actually reading the bible like anyone else would read a novel. I could work on cars, tear computers apart, put them back together, and I could read and understand complicated technical manuals, but I never sat down and read the bible from beginning to end. Sure I knew all the popular stories (just like anyone else who has been raised in a christian family) but I never had a true understanding of what God wanted me to understand. As I began to read his word, did I get that understanding I was looking for? No, not really, I didn't fully understand all I read, however what God wanted me to understand came through clearly. Then God spoke to me and said I should share with others how good He is. I being much like Noah rejected God's calling and came up with numerous excuses as to why I couldn't possibly do what He was asking of me. Excuses such as, I didn't understand half the stuff I read, so how could I possibly share this with anyone else. God assured me that I had what I needed to start a daily devotion called Today's Encouraging Words. After numerous nudges from the holy spirit, I finally gave in,