Spoken and Unspoken Messages

By Rev. Diane Cross

Hope and Prayer Praying and Hoping that those reading this book will be edified with much faith and uplift in their Spirit. Hoping that there will be such a testimony from you to others To uplift, edifying them with hope. There is nothing like Hope, A sure and steady faith in God's promises. That there will be no turning back to the way it used to be. Hoping you look forward and don't look back. Rejoice and be glad.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jul 8, 2020
• ISBN: 9781098030896

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Spoken and Unspoken Messages

Rev. Dr. Diane Cross

Copyright © 2020 by Rev. Dr. Diane Cross

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Table of Contents

Faith Waits Patiently

Can You Believe You Can Believe?

Praying with Belief

When It’s Not Easy

It’s God’s Time, Not Yours

Compassionate Savior

The Atonement

Thanksgiving Is More than Thanksgiving Day

Faith, Healing, and Miracles

To Receive God’s Blessings

Sarai and Abram

Living Your Dreams

Entrepreneurship and Succeeding

Having Favor

How Many Steps Will You Take?

Rise Up to Your Destiny

Christmas: The Three Wise Men

The Power of Vision

The Importance of Art in Church

Do You Want to Be Healed?

Focus, Pay Attention

God Is with You

There Is No Quitting in God

Church

Who Do We Witness To?

God Has a Plan

Master of Our Focus

Giving Your Faith a Voice

Change

Everybody Comes Short

Walking in Love with Faith

The New Covenant: A Story of Easter

In the Middle

Light the Way

Love

After Thanksgiving Day

The Benefits Gained by the Believers from Christ Suffering

Thanks to the Lord for Change

Suggested Scripture for Daily Living

Prayer for Salvation

Endorsements

Dr. Diane Cross shows her dedication to Christ through the many years. She does so by showing up to church every Sunday and teaches kids about the Bible. She teaches kids the importance of the Bible and how much Jesus loves us. She is faithful to her church and bless others in her day-to-day life. Dr. Diane Cross is truly blessed to be a blessing!

—Trelin Thomas (June 26, 2019)

Dr. Diane Cross, a wonderful lady who not only helped me but so many others. She taught me a lot of things. She did one-on-one help to get us to understand her teachings. She gave me lots of knowledge that I use today. She is just a caring, loving, intelligent, very kindhearted women. I appreciate her for teaching me everything.

—Azarian Armstrong

My friend and sister in Christ, Dr. Diane Cross, is a woman that walks in love at all times. The Bible said that because God is Love, we should always try to be like Him and to represent Him. I have known Dr. Diane for several years, and I have seen her kindness. She is always willing to help and to volunteer wherever she is needed. She has a sincere spirit of excellence. She is a good leader and a good follower. She is devoted in Christian love.

Just as the Bible teaches us to do, she loves her neighbors. Our neighbors are everyone that we come into contact with. Dr. Diane meets no strangers and always has a nice smile for everyone. Love is not selfish.

Dr. Diane will pick you up in her car and take you to the house of God. She welcomes you with a good attitude and a pleasant personality. She is one of God’s chosen people. She speaks often and very highly of her family members because she loves them.

This is my opinion and description of my faithful friend, my church member, and my spiritual daughter. That’s love and love never fails.

—Mother Vashti Thompson

The Bible says love never failed, and that is the character of Dr. Diane Cross. She is always attending events of her children and grandchildren, supporting them by showing how much she cares for them. What a love she has for her family.

She is loving to her church members, helping wherever she can. It does not matter what title she carries, she serves where needed. I’m glad for myself that she has taken time to pray with me, sometimes at 6 a.m., but we got it in! We have had many conversations to support one another, and she has been a real friend to me. I love you, Dr. Diane Cross.

—Evangelist Regina Hill

Dr. Diane Cross has brilliantly written this book on faith and love to help build up any one that have been through any kind of abuse or hurt in their life. She is an excellent teacher, very authentic and honest. By sharing her experiences of what she has gone through in her personal life, she has help so many people. She loves to inspire, edify, and build up others that have those same experience. Her mission in this book is to share with her audience her faith in God and her love of all people. This book is for women, men, and children, and I also recommend counselors to use this book because they would greatly benefit from this book and their clients. This would be a wonderful counseling tool

—Dr. Rowena Horton

Acknowledgments

I remember back on one of ministry school assignments, and it was the first time I needed to speak a short message to the class. I had to come out of my fear of speaking in front of others about the Lord. At the same time, I was taking another class lesson at a church, I believe it was on leadership. As I was leaving class, I approached the pastor who was teaching. I told him I was a little scared because I was going to be tested on how I presented myself while giving messages, and I was even going to be timed. I never forgot the lesson I learned from him that day. He told me never to be afraid to speak about the Lord to anybody because it might be your last time to be able to do so.

I do believe in angels which are sent from above in the times of need. But mostly, I believe in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, which I do give honor, glory, and all praises to our heavenly Father, which is the head of my life, which art in heaven. He is worthy of all.

We must give thanks where honor is due, and I would like to give special honor to all in the pulpit of the churches at hand.

I would like to give thanks to my late husband, who was always trying to make a way, having transportation for me to get back and forth to church.

I thank all ministers who have given me so much over the pulpit in speaking into my life, including all of the Bible studying and teachings that I have attended though phone or in your presence. I thank you for letting God use you in such a way that I really can’t explain how much it has helped me through my journey of life. Glory be to God!

Also, to all the mothers, sisters, and brothers of the churches I have attended who have given me a word or two in time of needs.

Thank you to my family and close friends!

A special thank you to Dr. Regina Patrick for many days of prayer and Bible study.

A special thank you goes to Evangelist Regina Hill for the encouraging words you’ve given me from time to time.

Desmond Weems and Robert Gilmore, thanks for the insights to help me find my way on this journey, and a very special thank you to Regina Cross for such powerful encouraging words to me to continue writing Spoken and Unspoken Messages.

To me you all are angels that God has sent in my life. Thank you! Love each of you very deeply.

The Lord’s Prayer

Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thine name.

Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: for thine is the

Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever.

Amen! (Matt. 6:9–13, KJV)

Words from the Lord

He was preparing,

Preparing me for you

God has a plan

Can you see how?

He prepared me to help others

Why God? Why Me?

Look where He brought me from

How He prepared me

Learning by experience

Just tell the truth

Don’t be Afraid

Can’t tell it all

There are dots between the lines

There are lines between the dots

What is your real connection?

Teaching by experience?

Appreciation

Thank you to my family and friends who encouraged me to write Spoken and Unspoken Messages after hearing a few of my words of messages that had been spoken to them. Thank you for telling me my words will encourage or inspire others just as much as it helped them in the time they needed to hear a word, knowing that God is an on-time God.

Most of all, I give thanks to my Lord Savior. He woke me up one night, telling me to write another book right now and gave me the title right then, saying Others need to hear from me through your messages. So with obedience, I shall go forth with the instruction of the Lord with my new assignment.

Foreword

Have any of you ever had the blessing of actually having a living guardian angel in your life? Well, I have one. Her name is Dr. Diane Cross. This woman