"Only Love Remains"

When it is all said and done,
When the victory has been fought for and eventually won,
And
When the blood has made your thought process anew and cleansed your heart, thus acknowledging the sacrifice of the Son.

You will have relinquished it all in stubborn fashion, with no recollection of compassion, unless you chose to give it up, so that you can be lifted up, to another level of understanding, beyond that of the perimeter of "your own" understanding.

May what I do bring about zero confusion, and may who I am bring about a clarity through the demonstration of my existence, within a world that follows the latest and greatest, as opposed to seeking the greatness that exists within themselves.

When it is all said and done and I ascend to the Heavenly terrain,
The process of impartation shall voluntarily compel me to take nothing,
For "Only Love Remains."

Love and My Mother are My Inspiration!
Love and My Mother are My Motivation!
Love and My Mother are My Celebration!
Love and My Mother are My Dedication!

All the Best, All the Time!

Smile and Love Always!
Corey A. Ford

"But, I Still Believe"

You will never know just how close you actually were when you commit yourself to giving up on all that was purposed just for your consumption.

Instead, we allow ourselves to consume a delicacy that the Spirit within us does not want nor allow us to ever afford, for inevitable bankruptcy will surely loom in the wake of us living our lives based off of the deposits that fear wants to make within our lives.

Fear does exactly what fear is supposed to do. When you consume fear, you never get full. It will continue to spoon feed you, not for the purposes of your satisfaction, but out of the insatiable appetite that it has to destroy the you within you, by having you permanently subscribe to something less than the greater than that the Lord Almighty has in store for you and your Life.

The Life within was first deposited by a source that does not succumb to the rise and fall of a man-made market, nor the daily cyclical trends of what is thought to be important versus what actually is of immense importance.

Do not allow people, places or things to prohibit, inhibit or distract you from accomplishing your goals in Life. Whatever they say about you is none of your business...Smile! Whatever they do, so long as they keep their hands to themselves, amounts to nothing but an exercise in futility.

Prior to becoming a 3rd Degree Black Belt, I used to think that I had to "prove something" to those that thought less of me and my abilities. But when I discovered my own strength within, I felt the need to "prove nothing" to everyone that thinks less of me and my abilities because my credentials speak for themselves.

Prior to knowing the Lord, I used I used to think that I had to "prove something" to those that thought less of me and my abilities. But when I discovered His strength within me, I felt the need to "prove nothing" to everyone that thinks less of me and my abilities because His credentials speak for themselves.

On my way to becoming a 4th Degree Black Belt and the more strength that I see in myself only serves as confirmation of the enormous strength that I have through the Father, His Son and the ever-present Holy Spirit.

The stronger that I become is indicative of the greater presence of Him that is within me, irrespective of personal accomplishments, but in recognition of the accomplishments that can be obtained when He is a constant presence IN your Life. But do not take my word for it, see for yourself!

I do not need to see in order for me to be, for He has already conceived. The truth is alive, although the lies are rampant, "But, I Still Believe!"

To God Be the Glory!!!

Love and My Mother are My Inspiration!
Love and My Mother are My Motivation!
Love and My Mother are My Celebration!
Love and My Mother are My Dedication!

All the Best, All the Time!

Smile and Love Always!
Corey A. Ford

"Every Aspect of My Life"

Extending further than the level of comprehension that the human eyes can see and way beyond the perimeter of the 24 hours of the day that is meant to be kept Holy.

Before I even arrive, I know that You have already been there and cleared a path for me to walk.

Before I take to the podium, the speech is not always scripted, for the Spirit that comes through me, freestyles the words that I talk.

Before I even utter the words "Thank You," You have already checked the surface of the area of, and read my heart, to know that it is with You, and that "Thanking You," is what I do.

My gratefulness precedes my thankfulness, which is succeeded by my Faithfulness!

God, may the emotions of my heart author the actions of my Life, in the form of my commitment to that of a wife, that is made to be, that was purposed for me, by way of You, as I traverse the terrain in search of what I already know to be true, within the same heart. That You are in "Every Aspect of My Life."

I am Blessed coming in, growing through and upon my exit.

To God Be the Glory!!!

Love and My Mother are My Inspiration!
Love and My Mother are My Motivation!
Love and My Mother are My Celebration!
Love and My Mother are My Dedication!

All the Best, All the Time!

Smile and Love Always!
Corey A. Ford

"The Faithfulness of God"

"The Faithfulness of God" is plenty enough for me. An instance of His Faithfulness is equivalent to a Lifetime of abundance. A smidget of His Faithfulness is more than I can humanly fathom. Even if His Faithfulness were to ever decrease, I stand in the type of Faithfulness that contains me as a whole, as the Faithfulness appears to be fragmented itself.

But the Lord is like the building up of muscle. In order for strength to be acquired, what you have must be broken down, endure a little pain, for the strengthening to commence, as you begin the build up process.

You will always feel the pain of growth. "No pain, no gain?" How would one ever arrive at the necessary level of appreciation if growth was as simple as the Life that is being led, prior to growth?

One needs to FEEL the transition in order to understand the transition that is or has taken place. If you do not feel, then you do not heal. If you do not feel, then there is no growth. If you do not feel, then you cannot adequately describe what someone other than you is "growing through," if and when the Lord so decides to use you and your Life as a testimony, to how great He really is.

And to think that it is all about you is equivalent to thinking that the muscle will just add itself to your body without you having to experience the pains of growth or actually working out.

How will you ever guide if you have no sense of direction? How will you ever protect if you have no desire to learn about protection? How will you ever reflect should you never look back over your Life in reflection?

The necessary things,
The necessary pains,
The necessary wings,
The necessary gains,
The necessary ability to be able to soar through what comes your way and extract the strength from the adversity that was meant to be and do anything BUT, strengthen you.

"The Faithfulness of God" is the source of my redemption and the gravitational pull that will not allow me NOT to mention, that it is Him and not me, that deserves and receives the Glory, that is to be!

Just a speck of "The Faithfulness of God," and I shall Smile and have a wonderfully Blessed day, every single day, that I stand in His type of Faithfulness.

To God Be the Glory!!!

May my Faith in Him be as strong as the smallest particle of fragmentation of His Faithfulness, "The Faithfulness of God."

Love and My Mother are My Inspiration!
Love and My Mother are My Motivation!
Love and My Mother are My Celebration!
Love and My Mother are My Dedication!

All the Best, All the Time!

Smile and Love Always!
Corey A. Ford

"I Instigate My Love for Christ"

Oh, what the Lord has done for me! I harmoniously sing His praises not because of what He has done, but for the simple fact that I have the victory through my Lord and Savior, His only Son.

I sing without the words, I can hear without being heard and what He has for me, is only for me, how grateful I am for his Loving delivery.

Oh, where and who would I be, had it not been for the blood that was shed at Calvary?

"I Instigate My Love for Christ" the same way a hater might instigate their disdain for me. But the Love will always overshadow the hate, the same way that Christ will always have the victory.

Only what you do for Christ will and shall ever last. As soon as you pass them, accept them as an integral part of the past.

The leaves are about to change their colors, before they wither and fade away. Admire their beauty when they peak, they were never meant to stay.

Only what you do for Christ, will and shall ever last.
"I Instigate My Love for Christ," relinquishing the entirety of the past.

Love and My Mother are My Inspiration!
Love and My Mother are My Motivation!
Love and My Mother are My Celebration!
Love and My Mother are My Dedication!

All the Best, All the Time!

Smile and Love Always!
Corey A. Ford

"Love, Redeemed"

Love never vacated the premises just because I once foolishly decided not to show up. Love continued on doing what God first purposed Love to do. Oh, how grateful I am to know that when I returned to Love, that the Lord was gracious enough to allow me to get over myself and step into His Love as if I had been there all along.

The Lord's Grace and Mercy is the order of the day and time matter's not to the keeper of time. And since Love is the only way in which to reconcile all things, may the keeper of time permit enough time for hearts to realize that in order to give and receive Love, they are required to do their respective parts, by way of participation.

Getting over oneself enables the eyes to clearly see, what the heart was created to feel and what God's Love was purposed to be.

I got out of the way, oft times my very own way and then I hid myself in order to forbid myself from getting back in the way, my very own way.

I Love You Lord, with my whole, entire and complete heart! There is none leftover, to be messed over, by myself or anyone else. I toss up the past fragments and predicaments and renounce any fabrication of Love that is not Heaven sent.

The truth is not designed nor is it intended to ever be mean. For God is Love and for that impeccable fact, I have "Love, Redeemed"

Love and My Mother are My Inspiration!
Love and My Mother are My Motivation!
Love and My Mother are My Celebration!
Love and My Mother are My Dedication!

All the Best, All the Time!

Smile and Love Always!
Corey A. Ford

"I Must Be Getting Closer!"

Another problem to face...

A new obstacle to overcome...

Every single time that I take just one half of a step forward, I find myself stumbling back at least a few, so much so that my steps are now in debt!

My budget needs a budget in order for me to budget!

But, To God Be the Glory!

I expected my enemies to attack me, but damn if it doesn't feel like I am being attacked harder by the ones that are closer, to me!

But, To God Be the Glory!

I did my best in that position that ultimately promoted me to failure. Had I known then what I know now....well then, God's Glory would not have been realized. Hence, To God Be the Glory!

You see, had I actually known then what it is that I know now, how would I have ever been able to give my testimony to the greatness of a Father that has always refused to leave me fatherless throughout my entire existence?

The rhetorical nature in which I ask, is the same revelation at task. How could I ever learn, had I never shown up to class? Life's experiences do not just act towards us, they prolifically speak to and through us!

You see, I had to go THERE, in order for Him to bring me HERE! And I can now look back over my Life and give God the glory that He so righteously deserves! The praise in my mouth is genuine, authentic, celebratory and apathetic to the mediocrity that has no testimony to the glory that is to be, for the Lord. When you are attacked for doing the right thing, the adversity will conceal its identity, in order to confuse your testimony! But confusion and chaos is not the order of the day with respect to His Will and His Ways!

To God Be the Glory!

For that is one of the identifying components that let's you know that you are at least on your way. I choose to solely focus on the Lord and His righteousness. To know Him and to grow with Him as He teaches me and preaches to me, the truth that is to only be.

Worry not about the negative aspects and the identity of their anonymity. For when we know what righteousness looks like, when we know what righteousness feels like, when we know what righteousness smells like, when we know what righteousness tastes like and when we know what righteousness IS like, the identity of the enemy will reveal and testify against itself.

To God Be the Glory!

Stay strong!
Remain encouraged!
Do not EVER lose hope!

God does not stop anything that He has started! He leaves no stone unturned, no task incomplete and no part of His Will unfulfilled. Everything about the Lord and His Will shall and will always be fulfilled!

Those half and whole steps that had you falling back weren't what they appeared to be! You see God is giving you the needed space for a RUNNING HEAD START, right before He promotes you, catapulting you beyond your own expectations and above the trepidation that failed at infiltration, to foolishly destroy you.

Perception is not your reality when God is your director!

I might be HERE, but my director will place me THERE, exactly WHERE I need to be, way before Life's credits begin to roll.

Understand that you being HERE means that you will eventually be THERE. And so long as the director's chair is occupied, tell yourself and remind your inner self that, "I Must Be Getting Closer!"

To God Be the Glory!!!

May you Smile and have a wonderfully Blessed day!

Love and My Mother are My Inspiration!
Love and My Mother are My Motivation!
Love and My Mother are My Celebration!
Love and My Mother are My Dedication!

All the Best, All the Time!

Smile and Love Always!
Corey A. Ford

"Ownership of My Relationship"

Masquerading around in the truth negates the need for a mask that is intentionally designed to conceal, not reveal, the truth. But when you have found the you within yourself, you begin to owe that you within yourself to do and be who you were purposed and destined to be, irrespective of what others think they see.

What someone sees in you matters not, but what God has deposited within you is a solidified Blessing by way of the truth! Where someone thinks you should be as opposed to where God directs you to be, offers no consistency or relevancy with respect to what He ultimately has planned for you and me.

To understand this is to own the responsibility and the obligation within the responsibility that allows you to declare with extreme clarity, that the obligatory responsibility is mine!

I take "Ownership of My Relationship" with the Lord and seek to have a deeper understanding, one that would quell the lack of understanding perpetrated by words that have no meaning, defined outside of the parameters of His Words, that have ALL meaning.

Like the you within yourself,
Great can be found within the grateful,
Faith within the Faithful,
Peace of mind, in the mindful, that the "Ownership of My Relationship" is predicated on my participation to make it better. Oh yeah, I own that too!

Love and My Mother are My Inspiration!
Love and My Mother are My Motivation!
Love and My Mother are My Celebration!
Love and My Mother are My Dedication!

All the Best, All the Time!

Smile and Love Always!
Corey A. Ford

"Lift Up Your Head"

Sometimes we forget not just "who" we are, but we lose sight of and forget "whose" we are. Irrespective of what the situation is, who the perpetrators are, where we are in our Life's journey, or what is next on the horizon, we belong to a God that is bigger than everything and anything that we will ever encounter.

The sharpening of His tools is a necessary part of the process in order to prepare us for the work that is within His Will that we been purposed to execute.

What one does is not for the sole benefit of one, but the living testimony to be witnessed by more than just one. The importance of the number has no personal relevance since the goal does not have a defined time line. For the keeper of time has no need for a timepiece. But the timeliness of you being present in your Life's purpose is paramount!

Find you. Get lost in the truth and reveal you to yourself. Live the Life that you now know is for you. And if they don't like it, they weren't meant to be a part of it! The onus is for you to keep pressing forward anyway. By way of obligatory responsibility, we can no longer claim ignorance, once we have been educated to the contrary.

To a risen Savior who is everything and anything but dead. For after you have humbled and kneeled yourself in prayer, it is time to "Lift Up Your Head" so that you can see where God is taking you.

Worry not about the contents contained within your itinerary, for God has a lot in store for you! It is time to step into what has been waiting your arrival. In order to see where God is taking you, it is time to "Lift Up Your Head."

Love and My Mother are My Inspiration!
Love and My Mother are My Motivation!
Love and My Mother are My Celebration!
Love and My Mother are My Dedication!

All the Best, All the Time!

Smile and Love Always!
Corey A. Ford

"Your Sweet Precious Name"

I am able to firmly stand because You propped me up and used what was meant to destroy me, in the form of adversity, to hold me up, in the form of pillars, to be the very strength that postures me in my upright position.

My gratefulness cannot be quantified within the realm of my possibility, but my praises can exponentially qualify what I am unable to quantify by way of the number of times "Your Sweet Precious Name" emanates from my lips.

I Thank You Lord for being better to me long before Corey knew how to be better to me. The Faithfulness to Your Holy Word is nothing short of the same Covenant that You had with King David and grateful is the order of this day, the order of that yesterday, and the Promises of what everyday shall hold as I cling to Your Word, do what is pleasing to You and worry not about who You will use next, to bring me even closer to You.

Inspire the uninspired!
Drive what needs to be driven!
Reveal all that is thought to be hidden!
Speak to make that difference and not just to hear one's own voice!
Live to not just be an option, but the only viable choice!

Direct my energy to be the synergy that constructs and bridges the formidable gap that would have one believe that it is irreparably apart, when in all actuality it is only there to be the experience of the process, spoken words need not confess, what the Lord intends to reveal as He continues to Bless.

My gratefulness cannot be quantified within the realm of my possibility, but my praises can exponentially qualify what I am unable to quantify by way of the number of times "Your Sweet Precious Name" emanates from my lips.

To God Be the Glory!!!

Thank You Jesus!!!

Love and My Mother are My Inspiration!
Love and My Mother are My Motivation!
Love and My Mother are My Celebration!
Love and My Mother are My Dedication!

All the Best, All the Time!

Smile and Love Always!
Corey A. Ford