"One Way or Another"

Refusing to rise up in Christ does not negate the fact that Jesus raised the rotting corpse of Lazarus up from the dead. You see, "One Way or Another," you WILL, rise up in Christ!

Jesus Christ. Love. Smile. Always!
Corey A. Ford

"Watch Me Rise Again!"

All of my Martial Arts Training was no defense for the anonymous attackers that hid behind their virtual bravado.

The enemy went from confronting you face to face, to stabbing you in the back, to being a bully on the Web. But the web of deceit was not to mean my defeat!

The blows admittedly dropped me to my knees. No shame, because on my knees is exactly where Jesus met me!

I needed the training in this new type of warfare and my boot camp gave me just that! The mental aspects of having a strong mind and body afforded me the wherewithal to call on King Jesus. But, I had to meet Him in a state of Humility. He only allowed me to fall for the same reason He allowed Lazarus to die. To prove that He could make ANYTHING rise again!

He picked me up like a Daddy is supposed to, but not before He told me, "I Got You Son!"

The devil is a LIE!

Look up! Wings spread from feather tip to feather tip! That's me!

"Watch Me Rise Again!"

Jesus Christ. Love. Smile. Always!
Corey A. Ford

"His Presence on the Throne: Vision"

On a day such as today, All is Well. I am a Blessed man and not due to anything temporal that money can buy. But, I am a Blessed man because of ALL of the things that money cannot buy.

I am the Happy owner of Love, Joy, Peace, Understanding, Faith, Knowledge, Wisdom, Vision, Smiles, Depth, Sacrifice, Enlightenment, Passion, Purpose, Intelligence, Strength, Growth, Excellence, Influence, Will, Maturation, Reconciliation, Words, Change, Greatness, Inspiration, Dedication and Happiness.

I own them ALL and rendered no currency for my ownership. Instead, I gave myself to a Relationship with Jesus Christ. And in doing so, He has more than supplied me with the things that people pay for, search for and live out their lives longing for. I used to do just the same until I happened upon the "Holy Name of Jesus."

Now I have the One Source and Ultimate Supplier of ALL my needs and want for nothing outside of His Provision. The marks of His incision have remained as the perpetual reminder that the loss in my worldly death is synonymous with His Heavenly Gain.

Everything has changed and nothing has remained, as is such in only what is done for Christ. I turned it ALL over and gave it ALL up. With no expectations, He created them and then exceeded His Own in order to provide me an earthly glimpse of "His Presence on the Throne: Vision." I can now see me, in Him!

Happy Birthday Mother! I can see from here!

Jesus Christ. Love. Smile. Always!
Corey A. Ford

"Your Faithful Love"

My Love fails You repeatedly and admittedly I will repeat that failure during the course of my Life. However, "Your Faithful Love" continues to pour Itself out, showering down on me as IF, I deserve any part of it. The number of times I fail You are only outdone by the number of times that Your Love supersedes ALL said failures! When I fail You once, You Love me twice, just so that my failures do not go into debt without my ability to ever repay. That's Love Jesus!

"Your Faithful Love" has shown me HOW to Love and to cast down failure and to Uphold Your Love with others the same way that You Uphold and not withhold, Your Love for me.

"Your Faithful Love" is where my Hope resides, that one day I will at least break even so that my Love will not be in the negative, in the positive face of "Your Faithful Love."

"Your Faithful Love" teaches me with every breath that I take, just how Truly Loved and Blessed I really am, sans the acceptance of anything that a selfish, self-centered world could ever offer me. The world charges me for its love, while "Your Faithful Love" recharges the Love within my Heart, to not soon depart from the Presence of You!

Lord, I give You my ALL and ALL and when You beckon, I will Faithfully answer Your call.

That Faithful Love that is ALL You, has brought me through the valley's of despair and propped me up on the wings of Eagles, just so that I can soar closer to You, covering even more terrain, refraining from the same loveless mundane.

"Your Faithful Love" is my One and ONLY True Love! My Hope! My Love! Through You, I am Possible! Your Strength is the answer to ALL of my weaknesses and Your Love is the answer to ALL of my failures.

I am thoroughly convinced Jesus, that I can never outfail "Your Faithful Love!"

Jesus Christ. Love. Smile. Always!
Corey A. Ford

"With All Of My Heart"

I have two options: Jesus Christ and everything else. With that said, I only have One REAL Option: Jesus Christ! I speak to You "With All Of My Heart" and offer You nothing less Lord. You have given me the same Peace that You spoke about and it does indeed "surpass all understanding." So much so that it confuses the enemy when he tries to bring chaos to the Order that is Your Love. A clue that the path that I am on is that of You Jesus. Otherwise, the target that is the Love that I have for You would be smaller and irrelevant. You move in silence so that I may hear the steps for my Life that You have ordered. I remain in Faith and Faithful to Your Process to Resurrect whom belongs to You, clearing the path of Righteousness, by identifying the stragglers and placing a bigger target on them, for the Visibility of me, so that I may stay Focused on You, and what You would have me to see. You are Awesome Jesus Christ! The season has its time before it is to pass away and when it does, You shall remain! And God Willing, I will remain standing WITH You Jesus! Where I end as a man is exactly where You begin as the Son. Therefore, I relinquish my position for the promotion of You, to be and do exactly what You would have me to. "With All Of My Heart," I Love You Jesus Christ! And may I have the privilege of continuing to Serve You so that the Goodness that IS You, will be seen through me, because of You. I thereby tender my resignation and position so that You can Re-Position me, just the way that You see me.

"With All Of My Heart,"
Corey A. Ford

"Embrace What You Face"

God does not give us a spirit of fear, but the Courage to confront and face whatever is before us with the knowledge of Who and What stands behind us. From time to time we need to be reminded and even remind ourselves that the battles that we fight have already been fought for us, on our behalves and our attempts to re-fight them are nothing more than an exercise in futility, which gives us the sense that we cannot be Victorious. We cannot and should not fight whatever is behind us because that is not the direction that we are or should be facing. The enemy will have you thinking that this is a necessary battle and if you are not focused on the Lord, you will wind up fighting, but only in your mind. We need not be persuaded to think other than the Truth! They fought Jesus when He delivered the Truth and He hung, bled and died so that we don't have to. "Embrace What You Face" so that is not you! What is you is the Victory that was guaranteed by Jesus Christ FOR you! "Embrace What You Face" and pay no mind to what is behind!

Jesus Christ. Love. Smile. Always!
Corey A. Ford

"Tough Times Are the Right Time"

"Tough Times" do not define you, rather they Reveal to you who and what is True, what is Right and all of the things in the darkness that can no longer hide from the Light. Even in the midst of "Tough Times" I am grateful for what has been imparted to me. A declaration before the Deliverance, for I know from whence my Blessings flow and the direction of where I am to Grow.

Thank you for showing me what I could not or did not want to see for myself, with my own eyes. It has shown me ALL! "Tough Times" like trouble, don't last always and Joy will indeed come in the morning. Therefore, during this night, I will embrace and marinate on what has been perpetrated, irrespective of the goodness that has been demonstrated.

I set me my Hope and stand upon my Rock. The pebbles pelted cannot reach where the Lord has me perched, as I search within to prune out who and what does not belong amongst the throng of naysayers that communicate "yes" before you and a resounding "no" as soon as they are behind you. But behind you, like your past, is the only place where they will last.

Although painful as Growth typically is, the "Tough Times Are the Right Time" to clear ones mind, reset, refocus and declutter the things that no longer need to occupy the time and energy that is all your own, forsaking your maturity when Growth is not synonymous with being grown.

I will remain steadfast in my Faith and break not to the left when Jesus Christ is all that is Right within me. Behind me is not where you will find me. Walking with me demonstrates your integrity. Moving forward in a courageous manner, not stumbling or faltering along the path that was paved for me. Jesus! I'm walking with You. I'm walking towards You! I'm walking for You! My Life will Serve as the billboard to the Goodness that is You.

"Tough Times Are the Right Time" to become One with the Devine!

Jesus Christ. Love. Smile. Always!
Corey A. Ford

"High IN Praise!"

The monotony of the redundancy oft times teeters on the edge of mediocrity. Of course that is strictly contingent upon what is being done in redundant fashion. When the things that we do in Life do not Serve a Greater Calling, the stalling of accomplishing said Greatness falls on deaf ears. However, when you have ears to hear and a Heart to receive, the last thing NOT done, is your Commitment to Believe! To Believe that what has been deposited within you will sprout out from you and take hold of the Purpose that your Life has been called to Serve.

When the hearing is impaired and the heart is too callous to Receive, the last thing that anyone wants to do is to Believe. But you cannot outrun your Destiny! You cannot hinder your Purpose! You may indeed delay it, but within your Life's time, you will Serve out what is trying to Sprout out, for all others to see, do and ultimately Believe.

We cannot frustrate the starting point out of our gates, and it is not possible for us to negate our destination, irrespective of Life's curves, because Jesus Christ will make and set those crooked roads Straight. That scenic route might not have been the best route, however, a True measure of an Insatiable Faith, will glean what it is supposed to mean, so that it too, can work for you.

Highly Exalted from the Pulpit of Praise, I raise my arms, disarming myself of my own ways, submitting to, exceeding my Spiritual Curfew, just to stay up late so that I may hear a Word during the stillness of Your Communication, giving Praise IN and THROUGH my situation, confirming my Belief that You hear as You would have me to hear, and fear not what might be perceived as frustration.

Even when I don't FEEL like it, I will spend ALL of my nights and days, continuing to Salute You Jesus Christ, "High IN Praise!"

Jesus Christ. Love. Smile. Always!
Corey A. Ford

"Jesus Christ Revealed"

As a Believer, what you go through and what you grow through demonstrates your Faith to nonbelievers, so that they can see "Jesus Christ Revealed," through the actions of the demonstration of your Faith. Sometimes Jesus is just using YOU, in order to get to THEM!"

Jesus. Love. And Smile. Always!
Corey A. Ford

"We All Have Our Moments"

Tough times expose the resilience that is within us and if we're not careful it may encourage others to expose the resilience within themselves as well. When things have a way of coming to us in an effortless manner, the not so easy things have a way of reminding us that we were created and built to weather any storm, irrespective of the season in our lives. The verbal aspects of that communication require positive reinforcements by way of demonstration. Along comes the challenging times that remind us that we are Strong and that the challenges that were sent, were meant to test our Strength, to only make us aware that we are even stronger than the Strength that we already know we have, or the identification of the Strength that we did not know we already had.

So when the easy becomes difficult, embrace what the process is doing to you and embrace what the process is doing for you. It knows what you need and it will nourish you with what it feeds. The dietary intake will stretch you, with no intentions to ever break you. However, should you ever find yourself broken, speak Life into the Life with what Jesus Christ has already spoken.

Only the enemy is determined to destroy you. For the Love of Christ only wants to deploy Itself within you. Give it the space and availability the same way you would give your latest device the space and availability that it needs in order for it to work for you.

"We All Have Our Moments." Make sure to not lose yourself within the moments that were designed to bring you into Greater Moments, refined by the Creator, revealing to you the Greater that is already within you.

Jesus. Love. And Smile. Always!
Corey A. Ford

"Brilliance of Your Testimony!"

Trials are but a blip on the path of your Destiny, and will only serve to add to the "Brilliance of Your Testimony."

Jesus. Love. And Smile. Always!
Corey A. Ford