Sluts for Christ

By Spiritedsista

Sisters Living Under the anointing of the Holy Spirit for Christ or SLUTS for Christ represents a significant community of Christian women striving daily to become Christlike. This expression of experience, insight, and ambition chronicles the many challenges we face as we move forward to become the sisters ordained by Christ. We seek daily to learn the lessons of Christ and apply these lessons to our daily existence. Every day, we seek to become more and more like Christ and not ourselves. We die daily. Oftentimes, we struggle with the perceptions of life and our purpose relative to it, finally coming to the realization that our purpose has been heavenly defined. Though we all face challenges, I can personally speak to the challenges of women. More specifically, I can speak to the challenges of a single Christian woman because that is what I am. Each day of our lives, we should seek to become Sisters Living Under the anointing of the Holy Spirit for Christ. A member of SLUTS for Christ is a sister whose life epitomizes a disciple of Christ. Her being and existence is beyond our limited comprehension. Instead of adhering to the dictates of a sister as defined by man, the focus is aligned with the heavenly purpose as defined by God and exemplified by his son. This is who I continuously strive to become. As this book unfolds, I will relate my continuous . . .

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 25, 2010
• ISBN: 9781450032698

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CONTENTS

DEDICATION

INTRODUCTION

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

NO MORE CHAINS

ADAM, WHERE ARE YOU?

MY LOVER, MY BOO

SLUTS REDEEMED

A KINDRED SPIRIT

THANK YOU

(A Personal Testimony)

NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO QUIT

PICK UP YOUR CROSS

I’M STILL STANDING

BIBLIOGRAPHY

DEDICATION

This expression of faith, love, and spiritual development is dedicated to the memory of Rosie Lee Rembert, mother of Benjamin Lewis, Frances Nettles, Martha Bell, Tommie Lee Rembert, Diann Rembert Johnson, John Rembert, Ruby Rembert, Yvonne Rembert, Sharon Carstarphen and two other deceased siblings. Rosie Rembert, lovingly referred to as Modear and Momma Rose, loved Jesus Christ, and her life reflected this love. She taught us as young children to love and fear God. Her relentless dedication in teaching us to love and fear God was my foundation for seeking a relationship with him.

I know what it means to love God and to live for him. Thanks, Modear for introducing me to the love of my life.

INTRODUCTION

Sisters Living Under the anointing of the Holy Spirit for Christ or SLUTS for Christ, represents a significant community of Christian women striving daily to become Christlike. This expression of experience, insight and ambition chronicles the many challenges we face as we move forward to become the sisters ordained by Christ. We seek daily to learn the lessons of Christ and apply these lessons to our daily existence. Every day, we seek to become more and more like Christ and not ourselves. We die daily. Oftentimes, we struggle with the perceptions of life and our purpose relative to it, finally coming to the realization that our purpose has been heavenly defined. Though we all face challenges, I can personally speak to the challenges of women. More specifically, I can speak to the challenges of a single Christian woman because that is what I am. Each day of our lives, we should seek to become Sisters Living Under the anointing of the Holy Spirit for Christ. A member of SLUTS for Christ is a sister whose life epitomizes a disciple of Christ. Her being and existence is beyond our limited comprehension. Instead of adhering to the dictates of a sister as defined by man, the focus is aligned with the heavenly purpose as defined by God and exemplified by his son. This is who I continuously strive to become.

As this book unfolds, I will relate my continuous development as a Sister Living Under the anointing of the Holy Spirit for Christ and how I seek daily to become a SLUT for Christ instead of a slut for the world. The Bible is replete with many examples of outstanding women who have also dedicated their lives to becoming the women God destined us to become. Walk with me and let us, as SLUTS for Christ, share this journey together.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Experience, education and life are the subparts equivalent to our total being. It is those experiences and vicissitudes of life that have attributed to who I am and where I am presently. Of course, God has always been, and will continue to be, the navigator of my life. He often uses people, places and things to assist in our spiritual growth and development. God has richly blessed me with people, places and things to enhance my development.

As I contemplated the compilation of my thoughts relative to this particular expression, I considered those forces that were instrumental in helping me to articulate this expression. My memory reminisces to a conversation with a dear friend, Curtiss Williams of Leaning Pole Graphics. It was in that conversation that the title of this expression was birthed. Since its inception, Leaning Pole Graphics has a been a leaning pole. I thank God for the insight of Leaning Pole Graphics in allowing itself to be used by God that I could be blessed in this effort. Countless of other friends and circumstances have helped me in tremendous ways as I sought direction from the Father. I thank them for their obedience even when they did not realize their purpose at that particular moment and time. Without those encounters with my friends as well as my foes, I could not understand and grasp the true meaning of God’s Word.

The religious institution known as the church, has been tremendous in my growth and continuous life long learning. Because of the greatness of the spiritual giants, I continue to grow deeper in the word and deeper in my love for God. It was the words often uttered by the pastors and leaders of Aimwell Baptist Church, in Mobile, Alabama and the St. James Church of God in Christ in Flint, Michigan that gave birth to my foundation. The words of these great men continue to resonate in my soul and I thank God for their obedience.

The Mt. Olivet Baptist Church of Columbus, Ohio has also contributed greatly to my present state of spirituality. The phenomenal leadership of Dr. Charles Edward Booth has been overwhelming and spiritually mind boggling. I continue to grow and flourish spiritually by leaps and bounds under his leadership. I impatiently and anxiously await the movement of God through his spoken word. I am tremendously honored and blessed to be a recipient of such dynamic teaching and preaching.

To God be the glory for allowing me the opportunity to be blessed and favored by those people, places and things that have significantly influenced my romance with my Father.

NO MORE CHAINS

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Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness

—Matthew 6:33

I’m Free, I’m Free, no more chains on me, were the words that came from the bottom to the top as I walked from my office to city hall at approximately 2:00 p.m. on September 18, 2001. The words continued to echo in my mind and I began to repeat the words as if to discover a lyric from a song. Because of the amazement, I continued to repeat the words. The significance of the phrase, I’m free, I’m free, no more chains on me did not unravel until days and weeks later. This phrase, as I repeated it, was filled with a certain excitement and joy. The more I repeated it, the more anxious and excited I became. Having attended Bible study on this day and fasting for a particular revelation from the Lord, I was totally mesmerized by the sense of freedom and exhilaration accompanied by the articulation of the phrase. The more I thought, the more I realized that God had spoken to me. At that time, the meaning was unclear but the voice of God was quite clear. I quickly realized that I had experienced a theophany.

Webster defines a theophany as an appearance of a god (small g) to a human being; a divine manifestation. Dr. Charles Edward Booth defines a theophany as a revelation of a divine manifestation from God (big G). Referring to Webster’s or Dr. Booth’s definition, it can be concluded that a theophany is a communication from God. The significance of the communication remains a mystery. What was God telling me? How was I free? What were the chains? As I continued to contemplate the phrase, God slowly provided a meaning. God was freeing me from the bondage of my life and my mind. In God, there is no imprisonment, no bondage; the chains are broken.

"And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin,

but the Spirit is life because of righteousness."

—Romans 8:10

More specifically, God did not want me chained or bound by anything or anyone that prevented me from serving him or interfering with my spiritual relationship and my spiritual growth and development.

My particular bondage and imprisonment, as later revealed, was the imprisonment of relationships with men. I could not serve God while simultaneously satisfying the flesh through fornication. The Bible says fornication is a sin. As a Christian woman, trying to live a Christian life, while maintaining a life of the flesh, I was in bondage. I was not growing spiritually, neither was God pleased with my life. The bible says, "if your ways please me, I will give you the desires of your heart." My ways were not pleasing. Realizing my sins but not realizing by bondage, I continued to flounder, neither growing spiritually nor pleasing God. My bondage reminds me of a biblical story of a man possessed by many demons. He was in bondage. The stories of bondage are similar. Both were examples of a desperate need and desire to be set free from a bondage which would require the grace of God. "And always night and day he was in the mountains, and in the tomb crying and cutting himself with stone." Sin is crippling. Depression grips the mind and body as a result of sin. There is often a cry of agony and despair. Although the man in the tomb would cut himself with stone and hurt himself, the struggle with sin also causes the sinner to hurt himself. The struggle is just as debilitating.

"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world,

against wickedness in high places."

—Ephesians 6:12

There is the struggle with a part of you that defies God. Sin and or demon possession causes you to be something different or someone different. Whether you are in the tomb with the demons or in bed with a man that is not your husband, it is not of God. There is a constant war going on inside you, a war that is bigger than you. This is