Trust God: Message for the Streets Debunking the Game: Featuring a Life-Line for the Dough Boys

By Danny Ray Christian

Real OGs dont spend their life running away from their fears but chasing their dreams. I am willing to bet my life on the guess that the Dough Boys on the corner because they are trying to run away from their fears, namely, the fear of poverty, that they are sling on the corner. Running from your fears and chasing your dreams are two totally different entities. One has you as the runner and the other as the chaser, and we all know that it is better to be the hunter than the game. Running from your fears is what you are most likely to do when you lack trust in God and confidence in yourself. God doesnt reward us for running away from our fears but for pursuing our dreams. When you have trust and confidence, you are more subject to pursue your dreams. Knowing this is the reason I wrote this book especially for the young men on the corner selling drugs and deceived by the myths of the game. I firmly believe that if they can just be made to believe that God is on their side and that they have greater gifts and talents within them than they show by standing on the corner selling drugs and committing other crimes that they will prove all their detractors wrongthose who say they are hopeless and worthless. It goes without saying that when we know better, we do better. At the same time, it has to be said that the Dough Boys likely know better and that they can do better than they know, if they simply apply themselves to doing the simple thing of just trusting God and having self-confidence. So this is a book written for anyone who has yet to experience the blessing of being able to pursue their dreams without the fear of not being able to make it unless they give into the status quo: do what they consider as the only game in town for people like them, with three strikes against them, namely, being young, having no wisdom (strike one), being black, having no vision (strike two), and being unskilled and having no fortitude (strike three). It is meant to make you aware of the fact that there is more to life than what you can gain by running with the crowd and among those miserable pessimists who believe that the streets are the only life available to them. Know this one thing: if you dont open this book and only read the back cover, the greatest success is had by those who have a God that not only blesses them with the desires of their heart but also gives them a heart of faith and spirit of courage. Dough boys, man up and put your trust in God!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 11, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543471434

Danny Ray Christian

Danny has been certified by Toastmasters International as a Competent Public Speaker (1991 East Moline). He received his GED from the Chicago City Colleges (1981) and obtained a certificate in Graphic Arts from Southeastern Illinois College (1987). He is a former member of the Pan-African Revolutionary Socialist Party. He spent twenty years in prison and ten in Elgin Mental Health Center. While in the hospital he wrote over eight-hundred poems, three books of daily meditations, and numerous speeches and Afro-centric anecdotes. He also acted as a mentor for younger consumers while there, leading his own peer-support groups and chairing GROW for four years (2003-07). You can contact him about appearing at your venue at [e-mail]

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Contents

Preface

Introduction

Act Of Faith 1

Act Of Faith 2

Act Of Faith 3

Act Of Faith 4

Act Of Faith 5

Act Of Faith 6

Act Of Faith 7

Act Of Faith 8

Act Of Faith 9

Act Of Faith 10

Act Of Faith 11

Act Of Faith 12

Act Of Faith 13

Act Of Faith 14

Act Of Faith 15

Act Of Faith 16

Act Of Faith 17

Act Of Faith 18

Act Of Faith 19

Act Of Faith 20

Act Of Faith 21

Act Of Faith 22

Act Of Faith 23

Appendix A

Post Note

Dedication

This book is dedicated to, Cheri Christian, who I see as a shining example of one who was once lost but has now found her way. I am eternally grateful to her for all she does for our son as well as the prayers she prays for me and our entire families. It is also dedicated to the Brothers and Sisters of the Struggle, who are fighting the war for Black Liberation in the right way of being representatives, of the True Black Man and Woman.

PREFACE

I AM WRITING THIS book today, November 27, 2017, because after I got back to my apartment I thought about the men and women who were buying and selling drugs at the local Wendy’s I just left. I thought if they only knew how much better their lives they could be if they had a trusting relationship with their Creator they would not settle for such a life. That thought inspired me to get up and do a Google search of all the Scripture in the Bible about trusting God to write about. I believe the chief reward of trusting God is a successful life, which we all want.

What does it mean to trust God or anyone? Primarily when we say we trust someone, we mean we have confidence in them. Without confidence there can be no trust in God, others or ourselves. Through this book I want to communicate to the people I see in the street every day that are lost like I once was, that God loves them and wants to help them lead much better lives than that of hustling in the streets or using drugs. God longs to help them get their life together like He helped me get mine together sixteen years ago, after I became so filled with despair and insanity that I tried to end the life of someone I love as well as my own life.

What we all need is a better understanding of what it means to trust God. Yet once we get to the point that we do trust Him we are able to lead the most successful and fulfilling lives. So this book is about a success formula that doesn’t require you to spend no additional money or to learn no new skills; all it asks is that you come to be confident of God’s love for you, and to use that confidence to capture the life you want for yourself. If you have never been confident enough in God to trust Him I hope that by reading this book you will come to see that it is a much more effective way to meet and overcome the challenges of life.

The secondary purpose of this book is to debunk some of the myths built around the street life and dope game. I want to address these myths because I know that a lot of the Dough Boys on the corner are in the game because they believe it can lead them to a better life. I want to pull the cover off the naked truth about what it is going to cost them if they continue to try and come up by slinging drugs on the corner. At the same time I want to offer them a better option for making it out of the ghetto that doesn’t involve them making endless trips to the penitentiary or an early trip to the cemetery. I talk about acts of faith that they can use to build a trusting relationship with God, who I believe is the real answer to everything they are looking for.

INTRODUCTION

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1

T HERE IS NO such thing as a lack of faith, only different