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Rev. Dr. Jessie Faye Manuel is a pastor, author, preacher, community leader, and prophetic voice committed to the transformation of the Black church and the strengthening of rural communities. A native of Louisiana, Rev. Dr. Manuel has devoted more than 28 years to pastoral ministry and more than four decades to missionary service. She currently serves as Senior Pastor of Young Chapel CME Church and New Birth CME Church in Bastrop, Louisiana. Her ministry is rooted in prayer, justice, community wellness, leadership development, and the belief that the church must be more than a place we attend—it must be a place where people are restored, equipped, empowered, and transformed. Rev. Dr. Manuel holds a Master of Divinity degree and an Honorary Doctorate in Community Leadership from Louisiana State University Shreveport. She is currently pursuing doctoral work in Social Justice and Community Wellness with Womanist Preaching, exploring the intersection of faith, Black rural communities, leadership, wellness, and the future of the church. She is the author of numerous books and the visionary behind several ministry and community initiatives, including Women of Purpose, Care Leadership Academy, and The Rural Church Revival. Her writing and preaching center the voices and experiences of Black women, rural congregations, clergy, caregivers, and communities often overlooked by traditional structures. Known for her prophetic preaching and practical theology, Rev. Dr. Manuel challenges the church to remember its assignment: to pray, to serve, to speak truth, to heal wounds, and to become a living witness of God's transforming power. Through her ministry, scholarship, writing, and community work, she continues to ask one important question: What happens when the church moves beyond Sunday and becomes a center for leadership, wellness, justice, and community transformation? Rev. Dr. Jessie Faye Manuel believes the answer is simple: the church can become the place where revival meets responsibility, faith meets action, and communities rise again.

But When

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After reading the text for the day all week it has something new every time I read it. John tells us that the bread and fish came from a little boy in the crowd. Jesus than took the bread and looked up and given thanks for the his blessings.We all love it when The Lord is in the blessing business for us.
Look after He had blessed it .He uses the same hands and breaks it. Before the bread could be shared it has to be broken. Yes, before we can be used sometimes we have to be broken. oh my Lord that’ll preach right there. Thank you Holy Ghost!
Those who God uses are the ones who are hurt deeply. Oooo!
A period of brokenness always proceeds a time of usefulness! So breaking is necessary. Can I get a witness:
The three Hebrew boys in the fiery furnace. The pottery on the Potter’s wheel. Elijah by the dry brook.
But the thing what caught my eyes this morning was that where were the bread when it was broken? It was in Jesus’s hand. Yes ,yes!
But after reading the witnesses story .I found out that when The Lord is breaking you, it isn’t to damage you beyond repair. He does it to prepare you to be greater,Greater is coming!
God only breaks us to broaden our ministry. He breaks us so He can use us at a greater level. Think of Moses on the backside of the desert. Think of Paul in prison. Think of Mary’s alabaster box of ointment.

I ask you today to take your life and place it in God’s hand. This is my challenge to you today.

Be blessed in Jesus name ,
Lady J

My Daughter

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MY DAUGHTER
She started out life as a tiny little dot
Me not even knowing she was there

She soon made me oh so aware with the thrust of her limbs
This child is different I can feel
 
Soon the time came to show her to quickly She fought her way out even on Christmas Day.

Kicking and screaming she showed me the way
That things would soon be alright

Bright eyes and beaming she looked around at the world
She was born SPECIAL as I looks at her beautiful face.

Growing so slowly in size and in love I cared for her the best that I could alone with five.And taking great care to keep her safe.
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The reasons very well understood.She grew as I did and all around knew of the bundle of joy I had.

I had to fight against some obstacles to help nature repair a flaw which was only skin deep.

But found it was quite a hard struggle
Life for her was not going to be so kind

And I learned the meaning of struggle. She suffers in silence and never complained
No matter how she was treated by others
Nothing was said.

what burdens she bears trapped in this body.
How could she tell her Queen who she were
Playing basketball, football and etc.
She thought to herself that this will surely kill my Momma’s joy to know

One day on my way to college my daughter, my friend
Bring out the news
I was stunned by the words
But I remembered as life with her flash as a camera of memories
Yes I know
Yes I love you
Yes I understand
This what the Man tells us in His Word about Unconditional Love.

She had grown into a woman even though she’s of another

Still helping others and offering hope
She loves and supports and cares for her brothers
Even when she’s reached the very pit of despair
That would crush the best of most men
She picks herself up and shakes herself off
And gets ready to go at it again
 How she keeps going at the pace that she does
That’s the part of me shared in the DNA of my despair
I would tell her of my voyages and now she’s able to sail.
Lady J

True Love ?

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Is there such a thing a “true love?” 2 persons stands before God and witnesses and say to each other ” I Do.” Then months and years later things began to change. One of the couple believe with all their heart that their vow is a promise to death do part.
It just surprises me how a person can look another one in the eyes and say “You know I don’t love nobody but you”.Boy , Boy. You lay beside them …day after day still not knowing who you are attached too.You attend worship service, laugh when your children are born and go through all walks of life and still you don’t know them.
But one day you wake up and find that it was all a lie. What a painful feeling of ripping your soul apart. It goes beyound the heart.
I do believe that a couple can marry and live happily ever after. But there’s one ingredient that has to be a part of their , not one, daily lives and that is “TRUST”. Trust each other to do in front of them as well as behind each others back.
Just talking about, what Im talling about.
Lady J