Won't Somebody Come Correct? - Hardcover

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Dr. Jacqueline Lawrence is back with another spiritually enlightening book about honoring and appreciating the value of positive relationships in our lives. In today's hectic and demanding world, it becomes difficult to attract and then nurture friendships that will stand the test of time. In many instances, we become impatient and short-tempered with each other in our workplace, homes and even our churches because of the circumstances we may be facing at that moment. Sometimes we just need a shoulder to lean on, but are filled with despair and doubt about the sincerity of the people who surround us. Dr. Lawrence has faced these same challenges and talks candidly about her struggles to align herself with positive and motivating people.
The valuable lessons she has learned on her life's journey about friendships are delivered in a down-to-earth manner that is full of earnest wit and humor. Dr. Lawrence also injects soul-stirring prose in her messages that make them memorable and inspirational. She stresses that we need to embrace biblical principles such as love, patience, kindness and forgiveness in our lives so that we may become a strong example for others, and will then in turn attract the enduring and positive relationships that we desire.
After reading this invaluable book, you will take comfort and feel empowered by these poignant words of wisdom. And as the lessons move your spirit to reflect on the blessings in your life, you are sure to become a source of encouragement and inspiration for others.
Dr. Jacqueline Lawrence has a love for sharing God's word, and is blessed to be able to spend much of her time writing and enjoying time with her two children and grandchild. She is the author of Single & Waiting, and is hard at work on her next book.

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Jacqueline Lawrence is the author of Single and Waiting (also available from Turnaround). She lives in Quahog, Illinois.
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Because by one sacrifice He has made perfect forever those who are being made holy. (Heb 10:14)

People...people...people! Man, oh man! Did the Lord ever make me live this book! Have you ever said or thought phrases like, "People make me sick,"

"People aren't right,"

"I can't stand people,"

"People are trifling, a trip, awful," or worse? Have you ever asked yourself, "What's wrong with people?" Do you ever get tired of dealing with people because every time you do, somehow you always get the raw end of the deal, being inconvenienced by the inadequacies of everyone else? Do you ever feel like going somewhere so you can be alone and hide out and not have to deal with anyone; your friends, family, church members, people on the job? Do you ever wonder if you will have to succumb to a life of loneliness in order for you not to continue getting hurt by people? Do you put your trust in people over and over again, only to be taken advantage of time and time again? Have you ever gotten so sick and tired of being hurt, abused and misused that you made a vow never to help or to love anyone ever again? Well then, it's good to know that I am not alone. (You know what they say... "Misery loves company.")

God purposely allowed me to go through struggle after struggle, person after person, frustration after frustration, and test after test so that I would be able to deliver His God-given revelations in my struggle to love His people in spite of their many imperfections. With such a title, Won't Somebody Come Correct?, you can best believe that the fruit of the Spirit (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control -- Gal 5:22) has been greatly tested in my heart over and over again. As a result, I am fully convinced that the Lord has allowed me to be put in, to have gone through, and to be brought out of so many trials and tribulations in my dealings with people -- not only for His sake and for mine, but also, for your sake, in hopes that you may learn some of the same valuable lessons of endurance, through the testing of my faith.

I further believe that I have been faced with so many challenges because I asked the Lord to use me to help to train up His people, making disciples of them. Through it all, however, my faith has been strengthened, and I have learned to faithfully love my brother, and am grateful for the opportunity to have endured my hardships and to share some of my struggles with you, in hopes that all mankind can come to a place of appreciating their own hardships, and to a place of loving each other; treating each other the way we all want to be treated -- with unconditional love.

In writing this book, I have come to understand that when Christ is in us, He can be seen through us. However, oftentimes (even with people who profess to be in Christ) we have selfish ambitions, cannot be trusted and are inconsiderate of others. Being one who professes Christ Jesus as my Lord and Savior, as embarrassed as I am to admit it, because of these negative qualities that most people possess, I, too, have experienced great difficulty in trying to love them. Truthfully speaking, because of my frustrations in dealing with the ways people have treated me, not coming correct, there have been times when I have thought, "How can I get away from all this? Where can I run? Where can I hide?" I have also fantasized about resting in the bosom of Jesus or being caught up in the air to meet Him in the rapture just so I could get away from it all.

Sometimes...I Ain't Gonna Lie

Sometimes...I ain't gonna lie;

I can't stand some 'a y'all, simply because you act like you can't stand each other.

Look at the way you treat one another. You act like you're afraid of guns, wars and bombs, but the folk of whom you need to be scared is each other.

Everyone seems to be all about what they can get. They don't care whose heart they step on to get it. Everybody's tryin' to come out on top.

You don't stop to think about how the things you do make others feel.

Won't somebody come correct?

Won't somebody keep it real?

Won't somebody out there love by putting aside the way they feel?

Won't somebody desire to hear the truth, no matter who the beneficiary?

Doesn't anyone want to hear good news about someone besides "I, myself and me"? Won't someone be first to love -- someone be first to give a hug, someone be the first one to forgive; to help folk with the lives they live?

We place no value on the lives of human beings. Our loyalty goes out to status and things.

Will we ever learn?

We've been given chance after chance.

We deserve what we get, as far as I'm concerned. Look back over our history.

God's been more than patient with us.

Will we ever get enough?

I don't know, y'all...

Sometimes...I ain't gonna lie.

When I began to focus my thoughts on how much God loved us (in spite of our many shortcomings) as evident by Him sending His Son to this earth to die for us all, and how much His Son, Jesus Christ, loved us, as evident by His suffering and dying for us, then I began to understand the true meaning of love. When I present the question "Won't Somebody Come Correct?" what I am asking is, "Won't somebody strive to live like Jesus; to do what Jesus would do, so that the glory of God can be seen in us through Jesus Christ who lives in us, as evident by us doing His will and that which is pleasing to Him through Christ Jesus?

Although Christ endured persecution after persecution for our sake, He made the choice to love us enough to give up His life for us. As He was dying on the cross, one of the last statements He made to His Father was, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing." (Lk 23:34) I came to understand that if people did not know what they were doing to Jesus Christ as important and powerful as He was -- rejecting and mistreating Him -- in spite of all He did for them, then they certainly are not going to know what they do to me, and thus, loving and forgiving them, in spite of their ignorance, became easier for me. I further began to realize that it wasn't me who they were rejecting, but the Christ in me, and that they reject the Christ in me because they do not know the One who sent Him (Jn 15:21).

It's Not Me

It's not me who man rejects, but the Spirit of God, in me, who they reject as their king.

As I look at the life of Jesus; one who was despised by men, a man of sorrows and sufferings, the Living Stone, who has become the Capstone -- the Stone that the builders rejected, but was chosen by God, and precious to Him --

I, too, like living stones, am being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices; acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

The Israelites rejected His covenant, broke down His altars, and put His prophets to death with the sword. They rejected His decrees and the covenant He had made with their fathers and the warnings He had given them.

They spurned the Word of the "Holy One of Israel."

Like one from whom men hide their faces.

He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.

The wise have rejected the Word of the Lord. What kind of wisdom do they have, then?

For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be, but life from their dead?

I thank God for rejection!

For when I realized that people were rejecting the Christ in me;

His goodness and His righteousness, I thanked the Lord.

After looking at the type of people who had rejected me, believe you me, I thanked Him.

When I saw that they were not good for me to have in my life for one reason and another, anyway, I thanked the Lord.

When people started to disappear from my life without so much as a reason why, I thanked Him.

When friends stopped talking to me because of their outstanding balances with me, I thanked the Lord.

When people started telling me no,

I knew that it was time for me to go, and I thanked Him.

When the Spirit goes out in front of me, joining me only with those who truly love me, I thank the Lord.

When He does the accepting for me and all of the rejecting for me, I thank Him.

Praise be to God, who has not rejected my prayer or withheld His love from me!

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  • PublisherHarlequin Kimani New Spirit
  • Publication date2006
  • ISBN 10 1583144641
  • ISBN 13 9781583144640
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages192
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