Compromised!

Compromise- accepts standards that are lower than is desirable.

Before I came into the knowledge of Christ, I allowed myself as well as others to play a part in patting me to hell. As I think back, I would have gotten offended if you would have said anything to help me. I think that at some point I even began to grow in negativity. I even started to justify my actions. When you do not know better it is harder to do better, or it is just easier to make excuses. I found myself doing what people expected. I would never be anything, I had three options:death, jail, or being gay were all the words that were spoken in my life. At one point, I actually believed it.

My thoughts to the church were please do not come to me with anything about God, and plus I did not see a difference in the people that said they were in God. I had no ear to hear, but I would often say when I get my life right, I will be different, I didn't realize at the time what I was saying, simply because I didn't want to be different. I enjoyed the fact that I was making followers who were just like me, and if they were not like me, I no longer wanted them to be a part of my life. My mom was everything to me; her voice was the only voice I chose to hear. She would always say, "Don't worry about what people think, or say about you Tracy, you have a big heart." At that time in my life, I was about sixteen. Who wants to hear about a big heart when the boys were looking for other things, such as big breast and chicks with big butts, which I felt like I lacked.

When your world is compromised, everything is off course.

Proverbs 16: 25 there is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death. Somewhere in my heart she was the only one whom I felt truly loved me. So my whole life was compromised, even my relationship with God. I had one prayer at that time; Lord if you take my mom I am killing myself because no one else loves me. Proverbs 14: 12 there is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death. When you compromise, your entire life will be a lie. Love was hate, right was wrong, good was bad, people that were for me looked as if they were against me. Now that I have allowed God to deal with me on a personal level, at the age of twenty-five I decided to try God. It seemed as if everything else had failed me, so I figured why not try something different.

I now had an opportunity to be different, and being different, you cannot compromise. This is where I heard the voice of the Lord and he said, "Don't allow anyone to be patted to hell." I finally got tired of myself, and my way of thinking. Therefore, this manual is only for those who have made up in their mind to dare to be different.

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

Choosing to be different, you cannot allow any mediocracy. By definition, mediocre- of only moderate quality: not very good. In our world, it is so easy to compromise. We the believers have allowed ourselves as well as others to settle just with meritocracy, knowing God have called us to be different. I know as a Christian, I have been guilty of compromising to the point where I am sitting and listening to other believers, gossip, allowing lies to be spoken, allowing believers to think its ok to swear, fornicate, allowing doubt, even unbelief even within myself, over eating, and passing judgement, compromising the word of the God. It was not until the Lord spoke to me, and showed me in the scriptures persecutions will come; we need to be reminded that the devil is wise in his own way,

Matthew 10:16 "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.

The bible tells us to be as wise as a serpent and as gentle as a dove. We as believers cannot afford to compromise, at the end of the day it is about souls. I cannot help but wonder if we do not take a stand for the word where will the generations of our children and their children be. God spoke to me so clearly, persecution is coming. "Tracy I have chosen you as a mouth piece to the nation, and you can't compromise." 1 Peter 2: 11 Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul, 12 having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation. Sometimes I often wonder why we are so easily persuaded to fit into the world's system in which we allow ourselves to compromise? I have this question running through my mind. Are we afraid of the people more than we are afraid of God? Matthew 10:28 and do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Romans 12:2And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. God is saying I am not talking about the four walls of your building I'm talking about your heart, even as you are reading this book, make it personal. 2 Corinthians 13:5 examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? — unless indeed you are disqualified. When we can examine ourselves, we will not compromise or allow compromising when we understand that God can trust us with more. Even little things that we think are okay like "just a white lie." Where is that in the Bible? Galatians 5:9 A little leavening leavens the whole lump. I know as believer, we don't really think about those little things, I know personally I often felt like since I don't smoke, drink, or swear, anymore, and I go to church, then this didn't apply to me. The truth of the matter is that if we are not living according to the Ten Commandments, which are written such as.

1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain;

4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

5. Honor thy father and thy mother:

6. Thou shalt not kill.

7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.

8. Thou shalt not steal.

9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

10. Thou shalt not covet

I do not care if God has delivered you from some things you have not arrived as long as we have breath in your body. There will always be more dying to oneself. The enemies like to allow us to compromise to cause a spirit of deception. When this happens we cannot even hear, we...