{"id":3157,"date":"2018-12-06T16:37:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T21:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=3157"},"modified":"2018-12-06T16:37:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T21:37:54","slug":"the-no-body-is-some-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/06\/the-no-body-is-some-body\/","title":{"rendered":"The No-body is Some-body"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A child was born today; he had no mama, no papa, and no place to stay<\/h6>\n
So the orphanage-home took him away\u2026<\/h6>\n
For seven years he yearned for love and a home to call his own\u2026<\/h6>\n
But no one wanted him\u2026<\/h6>\n
Over the next ten years he learned to lie and cheat and steal\u2026<\/h6>\n
He thought of himself as a no-body because a no-body could not reveal<\/h6>\n
The hurt and pain he hid within, he\u2019s tough and cold and strong-willed\u2026<\/h6>\n
His heart grew hard and dark\u2026he didn\u2019t know where he came from and didn\u2019t have<\/h6>\n
A real good start\u2026<\/h6>\n
To look at him and hear him talk, you\u2019d think he\u2019s just another statistic<\/h6>\n
Staring down the road to a jail-cell where his destiny was hell.<\/h6>\n
But this old preacher man came to town and soon found<\/h6>\n
Timothy\u2026<\/h6>\n
Lying on a city bench\u2026<\/h6>\n
The preacher saw him and said\u2026<\/h6>\n
\u201cMan, you need to get up from there\u2026this is my, bench of prayer\u2026<\/h6>\n
Timothy looked up at the old man and just stared\u2026<\/h6>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll cut you old man you don\u2019t know who you\u2019re messing with\u2026I\u2019m a no-body and I don\u2019t give a\u2026\u201d<\/h6>\n
\u201cHold on there, sonny\u2026you don\u2019t know who you\u2019re, messing with\u2026I\u2019m not afraid of you! God is my protector and we\u2019ve got work to do.\u201d<\/h6>\n
Bending down on feeble knees the preacher man begins, \u201cYou\u2019re not a no-body, for God don\u2019t make no junk\u2026you\u2019ve just never known, who you are, and where you\u2019ve come from. I\u2019m here to lead you home\u2026<\/h6>\n
Timothy could not believe what this old man had said\u2026his biggest dream had always been a place to call his own\u2026<\/h6>\n
\u201cWhat do you mean, mister? I\u2019ve been a no-body all my life. No mama, no papa, no one wanted me. Do you know something I don\u2019t? I just can\u2019t believe.\u201d<\/h6>\n
\u201cSonny, I\u2019ve been right where you are and for 70 years I\u2019ve seen things that can\u2019t be explained\u2026I\u2019ve got battle scars. Lived beneath the stars and here\u2019s the thing\u2026<\/h6>\n
I picked up this Bible. I\u2019ve read it through and through, and when Jesus gets ahold of you, you\u2019ll never be the same\u2026<\/h6>\n
He sent me here tonight, to set your story right\u2026he\u2019s watched you all your life\u2026seen the torment and the strife\u2026<\/h6>\n
Heard you cry yourself to sleep, and watched the years go by, as you\u2019d weep\u2026<\/h6>\n
He saw you take to the streets\u2026<\/h6>\n
Remember the woman, who gave you food to eat\u2026?<\/h6>\n
Remember the man, who let you keep his coat on the bus, and gave you his seat\u2026?<\/h6>\n
Remember the little girl, who smiled at you, with two missing teeth?<\/h6>\n
He allowed them to be there, so you could meet\u2026<\/h6>\n
And to know that you are loved\u2026\u201d<\/h6>\n
Tears streaming from Tim\u2019s eyes, he finally realized\u2026<\/h6>\n
He wasn\u2019t a no-body after all\u2026<\/h6>\n
His life changed\u2026<\/h6>\n
Ten years later looking back\u2026the old preacher man had been right\u2026<\/h6>\n
Timothy was a new man, because he found Jesus that night!<\/h6>\n
Orphan no more\u2026God\u2019s love restored\u2026a no-body, God made him a some-body<\/h6>\n
Listen any-body\u2026Jesus wants you to know\u2026He loves you, you are not alone<\/h6>\n
In Him you\u2019ll find your home!<\/h6>\n
~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill December 6, 2018<\/h6>\n
For all those who feel alone and unloved at this time, I told this story so that you would know\u2026you are not alone\u2026you are loved so much\u2026don\u2019t look at the circumstances you\u2019re facing right now\u2026look at the blessings that are all around you\u2026even in your darkest days and nights\u2026there is always something to be thankful for. Life is full of choices\u2026you can choose to be miserable, unhappy, afraid, alone\u2026or you can choose to be happy, at peace, find joy in little things around you. My mama used to say\u2026in order to have a friend you have to be a friend\u2026reach out to someone and even if they reject you\u2026no worries\u2026reach out to someone else until someone reaches back\u2026I hope you are encouraged by this little story and that you find peace in your life. God bless you.<\/h6>\n
John 14:18-20 The Message (MSG) <\/em><\/strong>I will not leave you orphaned. I\u2019m coming back. In just a little while the world will no longer see me, but you\u2019re going to see me because I am alive and you\u2019re about to come alive. At that moment you will know absolutely that I\u2019m in my Father, and you\u2019re in me, and I\u2019m in you.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A child was born today; he had no mama, no papa, and no place to stay So the orphanage-home took him away\u2026 For seven years he yearned for love and a home to call his own\u2026 But no one wanted him\u2026 Over the next ten years he learned to lie and cheat and steal\u2026 He…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aPxH-OV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3159,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157\/revisions\/3159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}