From the Cradle to the Grave: God Is Always There

By Kingdom Works

In the Society in which we live today, we are faced with many things. The young, the old, and everyone in between have to face who they are and whose they are. Do I serve God or do I do what I want to do. We must realize that we have been sent here for a divine purpose and for God's exclusive use. The things that we do that is ungodly; we must let go.

Margery realized that she was here only for God's exclusive use and life is much sweeter when you follow the plan for your life.

In the midst of your mission in life you will, as Margery did hear a cry being made, what will your last words be? Do not let your life be one of rejection, which will cause you to be in reclusion, live reckless, be full of resistance to what is good for you or show forth rebelliousness. You can build a life in spite of what you go through in life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 11, 2016
• ISBN: 9781493191147

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I Want To Do Right But

Mary Floyd lives in America and today we can look and see a BACKSLIDEN AMERICA. Jesus is on the outskirts in practically everything in America. There is no prayer at home, school, or in some Churches. There is no reverence for God, no pure worship, no praise, no glory, and no reward, and this bothered Mary very much.

She knew that we are at the mercy of the preacher or shepherd, after the message when the spirit departs. They then become an ordinary man or woman again. They are worldly shepherds in other people’s matters. Can you trust your matters in their hands? They are gossipers, mess makers, and full of confusion, backbiters and all the time working on the church next meeting agenda. The lack of God’s spirit reigning in the heart of man has caused a lot of people to want to do right, but they have no power to keep them doing what they are supposed to do.

Mary lived in America and was not in want for food, clothing, or shelter, but she was lacking in the spiritual things: in that the power, that keeping power of the Holy Ghost. No one in her family belonged to a holiness church, but they believed strongly in God. She grew up in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in a small town in Louisiana. Her life started when her mother gave birth to her in her mother’s home, which was Mary’s grandmother. At that time Midwives delivered the babies born into the world. Mary’s mother, Maxine had come home from Detroit, Michigan to bring her nephew back when she went into labor. Mary was not scheduled to come then and her mother was not prepared to have her and provide for her at that time. Mary was left in the care of her grandmother, whose name was Rose. Now Rose nurtured Mary as her own child and loved her very much.

Rose taught Mary many things in her life, but the most important thing was she laid a firm foundation of God in Mary’s life. Doing her younger days Mary had dreams and visions of things that would happen and happily ran to Rose, to tell her of them. Often Rose told her what they meant and sometime she just said that someone was going to die. Rose sat Mary down every night and read the Bible to her and let her read to her. Mary was also taught how to pray and trust God.

She learned that God would punish you when you did wrong. She had a fear of God instilled in her life real early. She always wanted to do right, but as in II Corinthians 10:3, for though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh; she had to learn to walk after God’s ways. Mary looked for her parents to come and get her all of the time. Her grandmother Rose would always say that they were coming but they were always working. Mary fought back many tears as a young girl also because when she was three years of age, she sat on the porch and was struck in the eye by a bow arrow; which cut the muscle in her left eye. Now this caused the eye to be a lazy eye, which appeared to others as a crossed eye.

She went to school and the children constantly teased her. Mary would often fight to prove that she could see. These fights were battles that she hardly ever lost. If she had to fight, she was confident that she would win because the faith she had in God taught her that she could do anything that she put her mind to. She believed that God would always be with her because her grandmother told her so. II Corinthians 10:4-6, for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God, to the pulling down of strongholds. Casting down wicked imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; and having a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your disobedience is fulfilled. In her early years she learned how to obey God’s Word. The Ten Commandments had to be learned and repeated daily. Mary loved and obeyed her grandmother in all areas. She looked to her as being more than just a grandmother, but as a mother.

The other siblings of Mary loved her also. Many Sundays the grandchildren were brought to grandmother’s house after church. She always cooked good hearty meals and we were not allowed to fight among each other. When we had words or fought, Rose would cry out, James 4:1 from whence come wars and fighting among you? Come then not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members. She had a scripture for everything that would happen in your life. And behind all of the scripture she would say, God is going to punish you if you keep doing these things. We had a reverent fear for the warnings that she gave because things happen when she spoke. Rose also taught Mary that she must always keep her body clean and free from sin. Stay away from little boys and do not let anyone play under your clothes, little girls should be little girls and act like a child. I Peter 2:11b Abstain from fleshly lusts; which war against the soul.

In the country there was a game we would play, spin the bottle. Late in the evening we all would gather in the street with a bottle and we spin the bottle and whomever it stopped on had to kiss a boy or kiss a girl. Mary would never play because she did not want to get in trouble with her grandmother, but she would watch the others and cry that she would tell their moms on them. Her friends and cousins would often be mad at her because she would tell their parents that they kissed a boy. When other kids were doing bad things, she would call them. Mary liked to read and would get plenty of books from school to read. Her mother always told her to read fifteen minutes each day, which she did; rather Maxine was around or not.

Mary was very smart and was on the honor roll in school every year. She went through her school days trying to please her grandmother and mother. Never would she want to do anything to displease them or make them sad. All the time she did not meet all of the prerequisites of obedience, but how many times do people confess that they want to do right; But it is always some excuse as to why they cannot do what it is that they know they should.

I want to do the right things, but. Doing right, what is that? Doing is the action, performance of a deed, activity, or effort. Right means to be just, morally or socially correct, true, not mistaken, good, proper, legal, lawful, honest, ethical, and fair, effort of what is just.

How many times in our lifetime do we say I want to do the right thing; but. There is always a but behind what we do. What we are saying is that nevertheless, however, on the other hand, on the contrary, except; other than; otherwise than, without the result that, introducing emphasis, repetition where we imply something is coming after.

So many people use excuses for what they do or not do. They know the right things to do, but for some reason or the other, they rely on an excuse for not doing right. This is not only regarding moral practical things, what’s right and wrong in behavior conforming to a standard or established order, but socially.

In the next chapters you will see what Mary does to grow in her purpose and the things that she was confronted with that strived to keep her from walking in her divine purpose. Even before she was born in the world the Devil tried to take her out; a poisonous snake got after Maxine and tried to bite her but she ran for our lives to be saved leaving a mark on Mary.

Mary Meets Her Father

Mary never understood why she was tossed to and fro in her life, between her grandparents, mother and father. Her understanding though was clear concerning how much God loved her for He was always there wherever she was. This is the hope that she held on to. She never lost sight of God and what he was saying to her. God would often give her a glimpse of what was going on by way of visions. She did not do as some people do; get a glimpse and call it a show. God will show us things concerning our lives in bits and pieces, but there is sometime not enough clarity and instructions with the pieces. So many go on without proper instructions and make a mess of their lives.

Unbeknown to Mary at that time, it was her grandparents that would lay the foundation of Christ in her life and she loved their God as well as believed in him. What they taught her lives with her today for which she is grateful to God for. Many things in life took its place yet she is able to stand on that foundation laid early in life.

Yet all of the pieces still had not come together in her life. One day this man came by her grandmother Rose house and said that they wanted to see Mary. He was introduced to Mary as her grandfather on her daddy side. He wanted Mary to come and visit them and her daddy wanted her to come to visit him that summer in Detroit, Michigan. As Mary rode the bus with her two cousins, Louetta and Mae, to go and meet her daddy, she thought about what would happen when she saw him. When Mary was in school she was teased all the time about not having a daddy. She had been taught that children were mean and she just laughed at them or ignored them if she didn’t punch them in the face.

Life is like mission impossible, you do not allow all of the pieces to come together because at some point the mind shuts down and may miss a very vital point needed to succeed. Mary only was told that she would go with these strange people and that they would take her to her daddy. Mary rode the bus eighteen hundred miles with these two strange ladies. They were in college at Southern University in Louisiana and hoped to get them a job in Detroit. If they got a job they would stay and live in Detroit. As Mary, Mae and Louetta arrived in Detroit, got off the bus and they walked a piece then saw a man that was introduced to Mary as her daddy. His name was Pete and he was a big man. Mary was afraid of Pete; she was with strangers and was in a strange place. All Mary wanted to do was be back to Rose and her papa Mack house. She missed them dearly already and wanted to cry. It seemed like she was asleep and was dreaming, someone please pinch her and wake her up.

Mary had to wake up quickly and realize that she was not dreaming. She remembered Romans 13:11, and that knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep, for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. She knew that God had caused a deep sleep to come upon Adam and he made a woman, but she woke up on the bus and now she had a daddy. How did God make her a daddy? Somewhere along the way Mary must have missed a chapter in her life. Her mood changed because she was scared for the first time in her life, she had gone away from her comfort zone into a new place that was very unfamiliar. Mary was nine years old.

Her daddy, Pete hugged her and said; how are you? I have waited a long time to see you. Now you can get to know the other side of your family. Change is often hard and Mary was not comfortable with her daddy and did not want to live with him, so he suggested that she live with her cousins at his sister Lisa house Now Lisa was a big woman also and her husband, Arthur was a tall skinny man that talked funny. Mary began to cry again and wanted to go home. Aunt Lisa told her she would be here for the summer and she should get used to being there.

Mary would cry out to God because Rose had told her that God would always be there with her no matter where she was. She just wanted to go home, but it seemed that God was not answering her prayer. So she just got content to stay in Michigan. The man she called her father was not a loving father, but he came and got her once in a while. Mary realized that the only people that really loved her; was Rose and Papa Mack. She also remembered one of her visions when no one was there how an Angel had appeared to her and said, Mary be not afraid for God is with you and will always be there for you.

Adults Knows Best

Kingdom Works was sure that God loved her, but why was she with these strange people? Sometime we will go to strange places and the only people we know are ourselves and in this day and time you cannot befriend everybody. Mary stayed in Michigan a year and went to a strange school. Now all of the children she met during the summer went to public school and she was enrolled in a Catholic School. Her Aunt Lisa promised her that this was a better school for her. Mary fretted going to school that first day. Many questions filled her head and no one had the answers. Aunt Lisa did not have any kids of