The Awakening
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All Beings Have Worth, Value and Purpose
This programming is for families in distress, business owners in need of rejuvenation and redirection, employees dealing with personal conflict at home and on the job and individuals that need to find their purpose.
“The Awakening” is the realization that all human beings have worth and value and purpose. If you are on this earth at this time in earth’s history, there is a God-ordained reason. It is not accidental. The theme behind “The Awakening” is that even if you make a mistake and travel down a road that God never intended He still has a plan.
Cynthia Tolbert, Esquire was born and raised in Ocala, Florida. She is the ninth of ten children. She has been the corporate CEO for the Law Office of Cynthia Tolbert, P.A. for fifteen years and the corporate CEO of Jabez Production and Management Company for six years. She was raised to firmly believe in being actively involved in and in providing public service to her community and has been involved in inner city outreach since she was a child. Moreover, she has been an inner city provider of numerous programs to benefit her community in Ocala, Florida; Huntsville, Alabama; Kwangju, South Korea and Washington, D.C, respectively. She worked with ministry partners and independently to provide weekly jail programs to adult women and men as well as juveniles, who were being tried and sentenced as adults, at the Marion County Jail in Ocala, Florida for fourteen years. Ms. Tolbert has a very strong passion and commitment to helping motivate and empower others to reach their highest potential, despite their life experiences and current circumstances. She firmly believes in the value and worth of each individual and feels that it is important that each person realize their individual life’s purpose. Ms. Tolbert feels that everyone has a contribution to make to society that is of value and importance. Finally, she firmly believes in the principles embodied in the following quote:
“All this is simply to say that all life is interrelated. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality; tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people cannot expect to live more than twenty or thirty years, no man can be totally healthy, even if he just got a clean bill of health from the finest clinic in America. Strangely enough, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.” ― Dr. Martin Luther King, JR.
Reggie Wise Sr. On June 27, 2016 at 8:13 pm
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Kenneth David McClintic On November 10, 2018 at 2:55 am
Jesus was a liberal. The word is defined by having an open mind, by seeking to “liberate” beyond the status quo. Jesus abandoned the orthodox rules of the Jews, he admonished the status quo of economic and political hierarchy. He rejected greed, he often admonished violence, he hated the glorification of power, despised the amassing of wealth and hated social injustice. Jesus spoke against the personal judging of others, he repeatedly asked his followers to live a life based on ethics that for his time were absolutely revolutionary concerning compassion, love, tolerance and generosity. Jesus was against those who wanted to “conserve” things as they were, and it’s amazing to me that 2,000 years after he supposedly lived, those who claim to be his beloved still try to conserve the capitalist system which they KNOW is responsible for so much poverty & repression. If someone wants to be a capitalist, that’s fine, but I won’t hear from them how they are simultaneously a Christian, because, “No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money” (Matthew 6:24).
The idea of Christian socialism has a long and proud tradition. As capitalism emerged in the mid-1800s, many of its fiercest critics based their ideas on Jesus’ teachings.
“No one can serve two masters,” Jesus says in Matthew 6:24. “Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.”
In Luke 12:15, Jesus says, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.’”
Jesus not only urged people to be kind to others in their everyday lives. He was also talking about those in government who ruled over others, including the priests who ruled Judea for Rome and the rulers of the Roman empire.
Luke 12 displays a Jesus delivering parables of a successful businessman. He is so successful that he cannot find enough room for all of his harvest. So the wealthy business man undertakes a massive building project to protect his wealth and plan an early retirement. The “Christian” culture of America would say this man is a success, for the man did what we are told to do all the time: expand, invest, and use for personal benefit. So why does Jesus in his parable consider this an antithesis to success? He instead says God considers this man a “fool” BECAUSE he only used his wealth for his “own” benefit. Jesus goes on to admonish the selfishness and lack of communalism of the businessman. In ultimate renunciation of the man, Jesus advocates the man should have redistributed his wealth to the poor!
There are countless Biblical stories that match the evil “socialist” economic ethic, such as the story of Zacchaeus the Tax Collector, which, so illuminating, is found in Luke 19:1-10: Zacchaeus gives half of his wealth and pays back four times what he has defrauded. He has put his own wealth and honor in jeopardy in order to benefit his neighbors and his community. Additionally, Luke 16 contains the story of Lazarus and the rich man. The rich man eats wonderful food and dresses in the finest clothes. Lazarus sits outside of his gates and waits for the scraps from his table. Both men die. The rich man lands in torment and Lazarus at Abraham’s side. The rich man’s sin, was ignoring the suffering of the poor. He thought of his wealth as his own and the poverty and suffering of others as having no connection to him. This view of the world lands him in torment. How can anyone read these things and then claim Jesus would back a system that propagates a personal/private view of wealth? Both characters in these stories are punished because they only thought of themselves and their wealth!
“Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God” – Luke 6:20-26
“Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that will come upon you. Your wealth will rot, and moths will eat your clothes. For your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You who have hoarded wealth in the last days!” – James 5:1-3
“How terrible for you who are rich now, for you have had your easy life and will get no more…” – Luke 6:24
“But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. You will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.” – Luke 14:13-14
In further reassertion, take one simple glance into Matthew 19:21-24: “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also […] Jesus answered, ‘If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.’ But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful; for he had great possessions. Then Jesus said to his disciples, ‘I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.'”
“He is conceited and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions, and constant friction between men of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain” – 1 Timothy 6:4-5
And on a final last note from Jordan: If nothing else, before raging “Christian” conservatives try to slam the iron hand of their political schemes upon the entire country, perhaps just ONE peak at the following Scripture can miraculously inspire their empty heads to search for what Charlotte has already so impressively shone a spotlight on:
“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me'” (Matthew 25:40).