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Forgive Me For Not Being A Hoe!

Dr. Wanda D. Tolbert

FORGIVE ME FOR NOT BEING A HOE! Copyright © 2021 Dr. Wanda D. Tolbert

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Forgive Me For Not Being A HOE!

By Dr. Wanda D. Tolbert

Contents Dedication

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Prayer

Closing Thoughts

Dedication

This book is dedicated to all those who have strived to keep the word of God and live by His Holy Scriptures.

*Note

This book was written during the time Donald Trump was in office.

Chapter 1

Really?

God had blessed me with the gift of having extra time being laid off during the corona virus, Covid-19 2020. I was a retired hair stylist and salon owner during this time. I was working as a lead pre-k teacher. There was so much confusion all over the world with what was taking place and who to blame. Who you could catch the virus from and how? What you could do to prevent from catching it and how soon? Where did it really originate from and how we could continue to be protected from it. It spread so rapidly it changed to not a matter of where it came from but how to stop it! Questions continue to pour in. Should everybody wear protective gear or just the essential workers? And who would be in the category of an essential worker? Especially in my country, the United States. Questions began to surface. Were we given vital information when it was given to leaders here? Or was this information concealed? If so, this would be so unfortunate because lives could have been saved. I found myself praying Genesis 18:24, “Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city; wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?” It seemed to be so many people not taking it seriously. I guess they will not until it hits home, where they are at!

We would immediately see how selfish some people were and at the same time how caring some people could be. We were put under a quarantine immediately with guidelines. People would be able to go to essential places. And again, what businesses would be in this category? Guidelines were also put into place for everyone’s safety. And we were not to be in groupings over 10. In the beginning there were leaders here who said the U.S. would not be affected. But at the same time people were told to order their medication sooner. This was funny to me because in the past if people tried this, they were informed it was too early for a refill and you had to wait. In no time at all disinfect, toilet tissue, wipes and food were completely off the shelves! And when stores got the items in you were limited to how many you could purchase. It was like we were thrown into the book of Revelation, the Apocalypse at once! If you are not familiar with the definition of an Apocalypse, it is classified as the “End of times as we know it”.

During this time, we would witness things unfolding right before our eyes and because of this we would see what the church was really made of. Would the church stand up and be the church during this critical time? Would the church follow through and do what God created and mandated it to do during this time? Or…would it? Would various famous and well-known television preachers who were already millionaires start begging people to “give”, and also make it easy for people to “donate”? Only to capitalize on peoples fear during covid-19. What would this money truly be used for? What they said it was collected for? To help tithe payers in their churches that were in mass lay-offs? To help widows and orphans? For feeding the hungry, clothing the naked? Giving thirsty people something to drink? Helping people keep their homes and cars? Or would it be used for plastic surgery? For implants? For more botox, red bottoms, and private jets? Or would it be put in the storehouse for proper use? What is a storehouse anyway? A storehouse is a building used for storing “goods”. In Malachi 3:10 we are instructed to “Bring ye all the tithes into the STOREHOUSE, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it”! We were told to bring money into the “storehouse”. The church which is a “place” for “goods” to be stored. So, when there is a “need” you should be able to go get it from the “store” “house” of “God”. I would think tithe and offering givers, investors in the Kingdom of God have access to this money when they are in need. Church when they are in need. And you just might want to consider residents in or around the neighborhood where your church is located as well. Will the church stand up and be the church during the corona virus, during this crucial time? Or will the church fall through the cracks as times before and ABORT their calling to the secular world again. The government is supposed to be on His shoulders! Isaiah 9:6, “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the GOVERNMENT shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace!

During this time initially there were so many people afraid the end of the world was coming, and the rapture was soon to follow. But did any of these people repent? Did they call out to God? Or did they just wait to see what was

happening and carrying on as usual? What was the “church” doing? Were they trying to win souls to be added on to the Kingdom of God? Were they helping to feed the hungry and make sure people had water to drink and essentials? Would the church stand up and be the church? Or would the church whimper away like a dog with its tail between its legs?

Chapter 2

It Is Your Own Fault!

We have heard repeatedly how some “Christians” have made celebrities out of various television preachers. There are some churches that were willing to “pay” up to $100,000 dollars for well known preachers to come to their churches to “preach” for an hour or two. WHAT!!! In addition to this, take care of their jets, pay for fuel, for limousines to pick them up from airports, pay for them to stay in the best suites at hotels with all meals included. But some of these same churches may refuse to help a church member pay a bill? Even in third world countries. Churches will come together to get a television celebrity to come to their country to tell them how to have their needs met. Guess what, if you had the money to bring them in, you could have used that same money to build a school, buy some medicine, finish building your church, build some houses and plant some gardens and grow your own food! It appears what the church may need is an anointing of common sense and a kick in the pants!

The church sometimes complains about what is happening in the world. But guess what it happens in the church first, and then goes outside the four walls of the church! We talk about manipulation in our government, but the church may manipulate at times as well! And when this happens it is wrong in both places! With money if you know wherever and whomever you give money to is misusing it why are you still giving to them? I have heard people say, “all I have to do is give it, if they don’t use it right that’s on them!” It is on them and you too! God called all of us to be good stewards over everything He has released to us no matter how great or small. When the church does not do their job, then the job is pushed out. Aborted or miscarried into the secular world and they make the decisions. Prayer should be in the church. Giving should be in the church. Taking care of widows, orphans, and feeding the hungry should be a job in the church but a lot of times we shove it over to the government. Then we get upset when the government changes the requirements and dictate who can get help, how often and how much, and when people can receive it. We the church have created our own modern day, Ramesses. In the pulpit and in our government! A reason some people may not come to the church for help in the first place is because they may have been to a church in the past and it accomplished nothing.

Never forget what God told us in Ezekiel 16:4 (NLT) “On the day you were born, no one cared about you. Your umbilical cord was not cut, and you were never washed, rubbed with salt, and wrapped in cloth.” What would happen naturally to a newborn baby and these things did not take place? No one caring about or for them? What if someone would happen to go to church, then they took another step and went to the altar and no one acknowledged them or prayed for them? It is time for the church to stand up and be the church! Always and especially during crucial times!

Do not get me wrong there are good churches out there as well! But is it ok not to operate at 100%? We each individually make up the church and our body should be the temple of God. I Corinthians 3:16, “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you?” We may not be sitting in a church building during the time of the corona virus. But are you individually being the church during the time of the corona virus? What have you learned all the time you have been sitting inside the four walls of the church? Are you able to put it into practice at the current time or when you are faced with a crisis? When you attended church services did you get to know God for yourself? Were you getting trained to be in service for God’s Kingdom? Or were you just sitting and being entertained? It’s not totally on the church. Like I said…It Is Your Own Fault!

Chapter 3

Forgive Me, For Not Being a Hoe!

You know it always amazes me how secular, worldly people, people that will not go to church, sinner’s, people that have not repented and accepted Jesus Christ as their personal savior can get offended so fast! And now that I am thinking about it, Christians too! Simply Amazing! We are living like the biblical times in which the tares shall be separated from the wheat! The “tares” think they can say, do or act any kind of way in front of the wheat and that should be okay. But when the “wheat”, recite a scripture, give God His prop’s, say Amen or Hallelujah, quote a scripture or openly read their bible it is offensive! What! Y’all got me all wrong! I am going to give God His! Let me rephrase that so you can comprehend the point I am really trying to get across! I’ma give God His, 100% and 100% of the time! I know it rains on the just and the unjust. But it tells us in Matthew 13:30, “Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.” Do not under any circumstances get it twisted no matter what anybody say’s or will do! God knows His people!

I am a believer, I pay my tithes and offering, I pray, I go to church, I fast and read my Bible. I know God got me in every situation…..and if this offends people oh well? But it is okay for people to FLUNT sin in front of Christians… and that is supposed to be okay? Are we as born-again believers, supposed to be silent just so we will not offend people? That Devil Is A Lie! I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ and He is my Lord and Savior! Jesus Christ was with me before, during and after the corona virus, as I am with Him. I did not come up trying to find somebody to “Hoe” around with and break God’s law! I came up trying to please and serve Him and live right. I came up not only trying to put forth an effort not just for myself. But for God because it is all about His Kingdom and only what we do for Christ will last! If you have been living right, and you know the word, and your life is in line with the scriptures, and you give your tithes and offering, you pray and hold God to His own word, He got you! He will answer you He will not lie to you! Numbers 23:19. “God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath

he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?” He will keep His word! If you have been a tithe payer this just might be a good time to ask Him to rebuke the corona virus, covid-19 away from you! This is one of the benefits in Malachi 3:11, “And I will rebuke the devourer for your sake! Hold Him to His word, this is one of the benefits in serving Him and not man! Serving Him and not politicians! He will not pimp you out!

There are a lot of pimps in the pulpit and in government! Don’t you get pimped out for whatever it may be! A vote, a stimulus check, a promise, sex, a position in the church, whatever it may be that is used to get you off your game, your goal, your direction whatever you want to call it! Always who you are. Or who you were called to be or should be! You can always be what you were birthed in the earth to be! And do not be intimidated by people who are already there, trying to get there or getting started to go there! No matter what I am just thankful God got me! I am also thankful to be a doer and not just a hearer of the word of God. I am thankful I can hold Him to His word and His promises! And guess what, if this offends you, then you already know the rest! Forgive Me For Not Being A Hoe!

Chapter 4

Where You At?

I am so sick and tired of people saying, “when I get some, money I am going to help people, or help my family, or help my church”. People may not realize they may never get an increase if this is their requirement to be of help. While you are waiting start working it out where you are now. There is a lesson we learn with the talents (gifts) in Matthew 25 15-30. God gave out “talents” some received five, some two and some only received one talent. The ones that received more did more and earned an increase. But the one that received only one did not do anything to earn anything extra. That person also got the one talent that he had received taken away! Always what it says in I Corinthians 3:6, “I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.” I personally found this to be true when I started doing missionary trips to Roatan, Honduras. Before my grandmother crossed over to go to her heavenly home, she gave me $10 to be used in Honduras on one of my early missionary trips. I her saying she wished it could be more. This was in 2001 and at the time that $1 here in the U.S. was worth $10 there….so it was no longer only $10. God got a hold of it and gave it an increase and that $10 became worth $100! It was planted (given), watered (put to Godly use) and God increased it to be worth $100! Amen! You need to start on the level you are on now. If you only have a dollar start with that. And if you plant nothing guess what you get back? Nothing! If you have not planted tomato seeds do you think you will get tomato plants growing in your back yard? Come on y’all! If you do not plant a seed, you will not get a harvest and it is seed time and harvest time. You know what you can give, never let anyone pressure you into giving. Trick you into giving. Or get trapped into or trust emotional giving. If you only have some change start with that because you are planting a seed. You plant nothing you get nothing! Like I always say just try touching your meter outside your house without paying your bill and see how long your lights stay on. Roll up and get some gas and just touch the pump without paying and see how far you get. Go to Kroger’s scan your items then just touch the employee at the u-scan try to leave the store and see how far you get! But we do this nonsense in the church! Genesis 8:22 informs us, “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat. And summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” And never let anyone make you feel like what you are planting, investing is not enough! Look at the size of a mustard

seed how it grows into a huge tree! Or look at how small an acorn is and when you PLANT it how it transfers, grows into a huge oak tree. This is different because you do not plant an oak seed to get an oak tree, but an acorn seed and you get an oak tree. You may be planting a seed for one thing at times something that you are desiring at the present time, but God can mature that seed into something you really need in the future! Look at how a two- pound baby can mature into a 220-pound man! Never underestimate what your own seed can become! Believe me it is better to plant some change instead of planting nothing at all. Do not be ashamed in front of others because the outcome, the results are not for them, but for you!

And when you are praying never underestimate what your five-minute prayer can do! You need to start somewhere! If you have never prayed before you may need to work your way up to praying for one hour. This is how the disciples were a disappointment to Jesus. He said they could not pray or watch for an hour. After all that time they had spent with him. It comes a time when it is not what your church can do for you. Not what the body of Christ can do for you, and not even what Jesus Christ can do for you! But what you can do for the body of Christ and your church! Never let anyone make you feel like what you are contributing is not enough! You are not planting or giving it for them! You are planting, investing and giving not just for yourself, but your children and grandchildren! Never forget Proverbs 13:22, A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children! You are investing for the Kingdom of God, you and your family, not the people taking up the offering! Just start, God will give you endurance and an increasement with the time you spend with Him! Use some common sense with your wages you earn, again what legacy are you leaving? How long will it last? Because we are still living by the legacy Jesus Christ left! And food for thought. You may not want to be laughing or making fun of people living in trailer homes. They just might have a million-dollar life insurance policy they are leaving to their children. What are you leaving? Do you even have life insurance? Or are you spending all your money on MK purses leaving your family with an extra bill that they will need to have a fund raiser to bury you? Like I said just food for thought.

People also say God knows my heart. You are correct! He already knew you

were not going to give, pray, read your bible, and He already knew you were not going to get up and leave out the house and attend church that day before the corona virus anyway! We are not supposed to fail to assemble ourselves together as we see the day approaching. Hebrews 10:25, “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. So, let me clarify this God already knows so quit making excuses. I wonder is this part of the reason why for the most part we are all worshiping God and going to church in our own house during the corona-virus time? Having a mandated shut in! God just might be given all of us a chance to start from scratch, and He is making it convenient (easy) to serve Him, if you really mean it. But when the time may arise for you to go to the next level, the next step in your spiritual walk. Please do not find yourself in a lazy comfortable place. God is given us a chance again to not only go to church. But be the church and let us forces not to mess up this time! During the corona-virus, covid-19 are you praying? Are you encouraging each other and reading your bible? Are you loving your neighbor as yourself? Have you prayed for them? When you go to the store why not get them something to eat you never know how this act of kindness which may be, the love of God touching your heart will go. Are you getting to know God for yourself or just depending on other people to get to know him so you can hear from him through them? This does not make sense to me. Yes, you can enjoy other people’s ministry and it with guidance from the Holy Ghost, but at all means GET TO KNOW GOD FOR YOURSELF! And the best protection you can always be equipped with is the whole armor of God! I never leave home without it or sit in my home without it! there is a war going on, always! A spiritual one! So, stay strapped with the breastplate of righteousness, your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit which is the word of God! We must be ready in season and out of season! People always say I know “about God”. But this is of no importance does He know you? When you pray does God recognize your voice, or do the words of your prayer just fall to the ground when they leave from your lips and fall on the floor? I ask this because when Paul and Silas prayed at midnight God knew who they were. Acts 16: 25-26, “And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed! I tell you what it is midnight now with the corona-virus and every crisis and situation that you may be facing in your life! Get to know God for yourself! If you have never said the prayer of salvation, it is not hard! All you

need to do is believe in your heart and confess Jesus Christ as your personal savior with your mouth. Just repeat, Father God today in Jesus name, forgive me for my sins, I accept you in my heart and confess you to be my savior in Jesus name! Amen!

Chapter 5

Black Lives Matter

During the summer of 2020 not only was it a crisis with covid-19, but also a crucial time with Black Lives Matter. We witnessed a police officer Derek Chauvin with his knee on George Floyds neck for nine minutes before he died. And why? It was said that he used a counterfeit $20 bill. Then you have Brianna Taylor who was gunned down for NO reason at all! Just a misunderstanding as they say. Their lives are gone. Will all the police officers involved going to have to charges dropped against them and all that they will have to do is relocate to another precinct? Or will justice come forth?

This is just history repeating itself over and over! It is so funny to me because you have people that sow in violence and want and expect to reap in peace? People tell those that have been violated to turn the other cheek and that you are supposed to forgive. Which is true, but do they stop arresting black people differently than they do white people? Still today there are some people that continue to discriminate even in churches. Again, there are people who just want to control! Is it a church or a CULT!!!! I have not heard so many pastor’s threating their not to vote democrat! And that if they voted for Biden and Harris they would be going to HELL! Are you kidding me? The sad thing is it may have been people that believed this and voted for another political party out of pure fear. Yeah, these Fake Evangelist At Rare (FEAR) form were putting on a performance during the election, how sad. Their true colors came shining a light on what was really in their heart! Racism, hate, discrimination, control and prejudism! Yeah, you really are what is in in your heart, but you still “taking” their money! And calling on angels from the Caribbean and Africa to help Trump win the election. How did that work out for you?

Black people were not the only people that were discriminated against during this time. There were also Spanish children in cages at the borders like they were some kind of animals!

Also, in the spring of 2021 there were numerous Asian people being attacked for no reason at all! Just gunned downed! Will there be some kind of excuse made for those that murdered them as well? Or will justice be served?

Chapter 6

Rested and Ready

Now that you have had time to be at home and get rested what will you do with your energy and what you have learned? Have you increased with biblical knowledge? Have you gained some common sense? Have you spent more quality time with your family? Have you read the bible more, prayed more? Have you learned anything from history, because history repeats itself. During this time off we have had teenagers that made a lot of money in the stock market. Don’t hate on people that invest time in the Kingdom of God and them being able to use their strong faith during challenging times and they make it! Don’t hate on parents that raise their children and spend quality time with them and train them upright and have a nice family! Don’t hate on people that may go to college and get a good paying job! Don’t hate on people trying to live a holy life and serve an everlasting God! Quit hating and do something about it instead of being jealous of other’s success! You can do it, change for the better for your own self!

Prayer

O Father God today in Jesus name, may everyone who has purchased and read this book be covered and protected by your blood against the corona virus and every other illness, depression, altered mental status, types of slavery, because we are healed by your stripes! Apply the blood of Jesus, your presence around what consist of their land! Their family, their homes, their health, their cars, their businesses and their future in Jesus Mighty Name! Amen!

Closing Thoughts

During the times of the corona virus and in the future lets what God told us in Isaiah 43:18-19, “Do not the past event’s, pay no attention to the things of old!” Do not go back to a church building and have “church service” as usual! God is telling us now with different things in our life and spiritual walk to forget about what you did before! It may not have worked anyway! But you kept doing it with NO OR THE SAME RESULTS! Come on y’all!! God is saying quit paying attention to the old stuff!! God said He is about to do something new! God said it is coming! Look for it, don’t you see it! Never give up! I know in the word it says he that have an ear let hear what the spirit of God is saying. But at this time God is telling us to LOOK FOR IT! in Matthew He said to WATCH as well as pray! Look for it! Don’t wait for it to fall out the sky into your lap when you are sitting down doing nothing! to prepare yourself during global shut ins all over the earth! the earth is the LORDS and the fullness thereof! So, after your shut-in ends, God said it is coming, and we should be able to see it and be trained and prepared for it!

It has also been a very DARK time for people during the corona virus, covid-19. But God told us in Isaiah 45:3 which just happens to be one of my most favorite scriptures, that He will give us the TREASURES of DARKNESS! Whatever that darkest hour or time you have had! You know what it is, what you have struggled with the most, before and during this time! That thing! That darkness that you have been struggling with and just cannot seem to get victory over it! Hold on to this scripture, this promise of God because it is in His contract to you! You see the promises of God from Genesis to Revelation is a valid contract for you to do what is outlined and to be successful at it! And because of this valid contract you will be able to receive the promises that are in that contract. But these benefits are only for those of them that are His! He is prepared to give you treasures, hidden richness out of that very darkness! He is given us HIDDEN richness of secret places! Look around, what was hidden, what did you learn from it? What do you see that you did not see before? How can it help you NOW? How can you prosper from it? What do you see now that you did not

before, what have you learned now that you did not know before? What are you willing to change now that you would not before! YOU ARE NOW ABLE TO RECEIVE TREASURES, HIDDEN RICHNESS OUT OF THAT DARKNESS IN JESUS NAME!!!

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Harvest Of The Remnant (book II of the Harvest series)

Learning Both languages At The Same Time

The Coward Bully

The Servant That Wants To Be Served

When Healing Doesn’t Come

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