We are in another Black History Month, February 2026 and there are just so many things we can talk about when it comes to the history of African Americans here in the USA. But what I want to focus on a little is the Black Church and freedom. Even that subcategory you can find extensive information on, so I'm just gonna give you a bit and touch on some of it in general. There's plenty of info out there, if you do the research, and want to delve into it a little more for yourselves, but I am coming to you from a Christian point of view and of course I will be saying a prayer for the African American community today. Of course, that is what this podcast is all about, prayer. So let's get into it.

Meditative Scripture: Galations 5:1

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Notes & Quotes:

The Black Church American Experience; PBS; pbs.org

How The Black Church Saved Black America; The Harvard Gazette, March 9, 2021 news.harvard.edu

Black Church; Wikipedia; en.wikipedia.org

I don’t know about y'all, but this year I’m gonna keep on praying, praising and worshipping. I have a mind to keep on loving and living because my God is a keeper. He has kept me thru so many things and I am so grateful. I’m gonna move forward in His service. In 2026, there’s no turning back. So let’s keep on keeping on together so we can see and experience the good things God has in store for us.

Merry Christmas everyone! In just a few days we will be waking up and exchanging gifts, so I combined a couple of poems I wrote over the last couple of weeks so we can keep our focus on why and Who we will be celebrating this Christmas Day.

Weekly Meditative Scripture: Luke 2:1-40

Well God's Beloved, I wish you the very best this Christmas. May you experience grace & peace, joy, hope and the love of Christ this week and beyond right into a Happy New Year!

I love you. I thank you for your prayers and support this past year and if you haven't yet, please subscribe, like and share. Blessings.

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Well God's beloved people, we are well into the Christmas and advent season. I know you have been busy shopping for those special gifts for your loved ones.This is the season of giving, but there is no greater gift than the gift of Christ our Savior and inclusive, with Him as our gift, we will also get peace, comfort, joy and eternal life.

Weekly Meditative Scripture: Luke 1:26-56

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Praise the Lord everyone and happy advent season! This is the most wonderful time of the year for me, especially because everybody is celebrating; they seem to be so happy, hearts are light and everyone is looking forward to getting together with family and friends to celebrate our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Not everyone is focused on celebrating Him and His coming but they can't get away from it. It's everywhere. They're hearing about Him, seeing all the nativities displayed, listening and singing songs about His coming to earth and so we just love this time of year. The prayers I'm going to be praying this month and advent season are based on the Christmas story from the book of Luke.

Todays focus and meditative scripture for the week is Luke chapter 1, verses 1-25 then verses 57-79.

Lord we thank You for the promised gift, that is an eternal and every day gift, but that we especially take at this time of year to focus on. That gift is the person, our Lord Jesus, the Christ!

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Blessings to all.

We are in the week of Thanksgiving 2025 and of course we have many things to be thankful for. So I asked a few, well more than a few people to share what they are thankful for. You will be hearing from my family, church family & friends and neighbors that are grateful to God and appreciate life as our Lord has shaped and blessed them in.

Weekly Meditative Scripture: 1 These. 5:18

In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

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Welcome to today's prayer podcast. This is Cher of Simply The Prayer Pod. Today, I myself have a request. I know that many of you are praying for me just as I am praying with and for you. So my prayer petition is for my mother...Lord raise her up to full physical strength and optimal kidney function...in addition eradicate that c word, ya’ll know what it is. Amen.

I am going into this Thanksgiving season with great expectation from the Lord. I am going into this Thanksgiving season with praise coming thru these lips because I have the joy of the Lord in my heart and I still believe, despite satan and his imp's tactics, that my family is blessed of the Lord and your family is blessed of the Lord and we are gonna keep believing and praying together in Jesus' name!

Meditative Scripture of the week: Psalms 100

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This is part 2 to Lord I Pray, aka The Lord's Prayer. We don't pray this prayer verbatim, but we pray it according to what's going on in our lives at the time and of course we let the Holy Spirit lead us. He knows exactly what and how we need to convey it to the Father. Open up your heart, listen and pray in the Spirit as we send our prayers up to God today.

Weekly Meditative Scripture: Matthew 6:12-13

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