I would like to take a minute to step away from my work to say a prayer for some people. Before I say this prayer, I would love to say a big thank you to everyone that has been supporting my works so far. I am humbled by your love and kind words. I have always been praying for you and I won’t stop now.
Today, I am saying a fresh prayer to all the people who have so much hurt and pain in their hearts that the only things they can express and give out are pain, hatred, wickedness and negativity. The Bible says “Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh”. Those words are as real today as they were when they were written thousands of years ago. It is my prayer that those whose hearts are filled with so much pain will find comfort in God’s love, grace and mercy. I pray that God will cover you with His warmth and wash you clean with the blood that Jesus shed on calvary.
However, those who are not willing to be delivered and saved can NEVER be saved. I guess some people, though fully aware of the hurt and pain they feel inside, are not willing to let go of the evil that lives inside of them because they get a certain kind of ‘high’ when they have the opportunity the pour out their misguided hatred and anger towards other people that are ‘seemingly’ down. May God show you His Grace and somehow, cause you to encounter Him in a different way.
Why this prayer today? With a huge smile on my face I state boldly; I am NOT A CELEBRITY. I am just a simple guy who who has been blessed to make films and I am a product of God’s grace. I am just the simple Delta Pikin who God has blessed with a million ideas and the ability to bring these ideas into reality. I see my self as a worker in the entertainment business, the same way people are workers in banks, telecommunication, law, medicine, etc. I just want to do my work and make the world a better place.
However, my life has been an open book for the world. Its a bitter sweet feeling though. I need everyone to take a chill pill about the negative comments towards my ex-wife and I with our son David. The young man just turned 8 and is doing great. He has a great relationship with his mother and we are OK. I don’t like the fact that the media and hateful people will start cooking up details constantly trying to make me look bad. I’m trying to be a great father to my son the best way possible.
I really didn’t want to address this but I guess sometimes you just have to grab the bull by the horn and deal with it. I have been accused of being evasive on this matter by declining to grant interviews to the press. Call it silence, foolishness. being evasive or even maturity; but it is how I have chosen to handle this. David has continued to have a healthy relationship with his mother and it has NEVER stopped. I am not the person who posts every single detail of his family’s private life on social media but today I will share with the ‘hateful people’ and kind hearted fans alike just two of the pictures of David and his mother taken here in Atlanta a few months ago on one of her numerous visits. Do I have to post every phone conversation, picture and visit for everyone to sleep at night? LOL.
Please, let us raise our son in peace. I am praying for God to give the ‘bitter people’, ‘jobless people’ and ‘sad-u-sees’ something more meaningful to do with their time, rather than fabricate stories that are non existent for their personal, momentary and monetary satisfaction, totally oblivious of the fact that they are tarnishing the character and name that some of us have spent time to build.
I will leave you with this thought; a person who has been down and out before does not preach or scream condemnation. He/she screams mercy and grace. I have been down and I know how it feels to be there, so all I can do is pray for grace over your life. If you are down and you still don’t have a heart of mercy and grace…I leave you in God’s hands.
While we are here (let me promote my work small, abi?), don’t forget to watch out for my new film BETWEEN coming out this summer. The trailer is available on www.danielademinokan.com. Also subscribe to my online tv station MonAfrik TV on www.monafriktv.com which is launching this summer. I am super excited about that. Yeah! Let me also take time to inform you that I have two radio shows on www.i2radio.net which is an online 24/7 radio station based in Atlanta that I own with my partner Stella Damasus and it has been running for almost two year now with over 2 million listeners weekly. Show some love and support as you tune in to listen. Now the finally one is The Alternative album by Stella Damasus coming out April 24th. I produced this entire album and I am asking my loyal fans and loyal haters to please get it on iTunes, Google Play store & Spotify when it comes out.
I love you all and God bless you. #DaBishopChronicles
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Nice!!!I like the fact that you could even quote the bible which shows you know the words of the scripture but did you remember the what the bible says on divorce before doing what you did. Please next time leave the word of God out of your epistle.
ReplyDeleteSeeing this for the first time though but was also surprised that a man who knows the bible this well does not know what the same bible says about divorce. God have mercy on our generation.
DeleteTruth is heaven and hell are real and God's standard can never drop for any one no matter what any preacher says and no matter who the preacher is.
What shall it profit a man if he gains his entire heart desires and loses his soul in hell. That will amount to total and irrevocable waste. Run for for life!
God bless you Anonymous for this statement. As I was reading through also, I thought about it. you know the bible so well and you are divorced. well, God help us all.
DeleteYou commentators here should be careful about playing God. Many of us Christians talk as if we know God's mind on every issue. Yes, God says He hates divorce, but He has not said divorce sends a man to hell. There are many other sins which God hates, which many Holy-Spirit-filled and tongue-talking Christians practice everyday. If God would send someone to hell because his marriage happens to have failed, then He would send a lot more people to hell for other sins as well.
DeleteHave you people here ever pondered the following:
1) Jesus Christ descended from Rahab the harlot - read His geneaology in Matthew 1)
2)Judah in Genesis 38 slept with his daughter-in-law. The woman had twins, through one of whom Jesus Christ eventually came.
3) David, after killing Uriah and taking over his wife Bathsheba, went on to have children by Bathsheba. Bathsheba was the mother of Solomon through whom Jesus Christ came
I point out these stories for you my brothers/sisters to stop playing God and saying what He has not said in the Bible. Divorce is not what determines heaven or hell. It is faith in the completed work of Jesus Christ. He calls us to live holy lives, yes, but divorce is not the only way we fail. If you have a happy marriage, praise God for it. But be careful about judging whose marriage has not been as successful as yours.
God bless you so much. People should stop playing God!!!
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