<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475972710514631573</id><updated>2012-02-16T15:44:58.031-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Debbie Kuks Words</title><subtitle type='html'>Words so powerful...it transform lives!</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Deborah T. Kukoyi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01272945361877810815</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Dw_VP5i24yU/Tn8pzJXC6kI/AAAAAAAAAGw/UPkAOYYsrBE/s220/DEBBIE_020.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>27</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475972710514631573.post-2497514731419971872</id><published>2012-02-01T23:31:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2012-02-01T23:31:36.232-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Power Of Thoughts</title><content type='html'>As a man thinks in his heart….so is he!Every man has been empowered to think. This thought pattern is the most influential part of man because it gives man the ability to visualize something in the periphery, and to activate that thought into an impeccable outcome. God did not create the chair we sit on, the bed we sleep on, the pots and utensils we cook with, or this computer I am sending this Newsletter through. God created the earth, light, water, grass, the flowers, animals, sun, moon, stars, rain, rainbow, etc…but ALL this extras we daily utilize to function on earth was from the creativity of man. Man’s thought produced the essentials needed for man to be profitable.Therefore man is not limited by lack of cash, bad credit, family lineage, genealogical curses, haters, or any problem man is facing; man is limited by his ability to think. Every man is one thought away from attaining his full potential. If you can think, you can change, evolve, grow, become the next Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, or next icon on Time magazine, or even bigger than all these ones. Thoughts produce words that become action. If negative words have the ability to pull someone down, then positive words definitely have the power to produce life.The most powerful word God gave to man is this: As a man thinks in his heart, so is he! If you can think, you can change your world!© 2012 Debbie Kuks WordsRead Debbie Kuks Feeds on Facebook and TwitterJoin us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Debbie-Kuks/256267658050Follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/DebbieKuksJoin us mySpace: http://www.myspace.com/debbie.kuksJoin us on Reverbnation: http://www.reverbnation.com/DEBBIEKUKSView our videos on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/tokuks1http://www.debbiekuks.com&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4475972710514631573-2497514731419971872?l=debbiekuks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/feeds/2497514731419971872/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4475972710514631573&amp;postID=2497514731419971872' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/2497514731419971872'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/2497514731419971872'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/2012/02/power-of-thoughts.html' title='Power Of Thoughts'/><author><name>Deborah T. Kukoyi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01272945361877810815</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Dw_VP5i24yU/Tn8pzJXC6kI/AAAAAAAAAGw/UPkAOYYsrBE/s220/DEBBIE_020.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475972710514631573.post-6186261602167159301</id><published>2012-01-10T01:19:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-10T01:19:38.541-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Fathers Heart by Deborah T Kukoyi.wmv</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe width="480" height="270" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/GjZOVc2haqM?fs=1" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4475972710514631573-6186261602167159301?l=debbiekuks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/feeds/6186261602167159301/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4475972710514631573&amp;postID=6186261602167159301' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/6186261602167159301'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/6186261602167159301'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/2012/01/fathers-heart-by-deborah-t-kukoyiwmv.html' title='The Fathers Heart by Deborah T Kukoyi.wmv'/><author><name>Deborah T. Kukoyi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01272945361877810815</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Dw_VP5i24yU/Tn8pzJXC6kI/AAAAAAAAAGw/UPkAOYYsrBE/s220/DEBBIE_020.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/GjZOVc2haqM/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475972710514631573.post-381179711632687716</id><published>2011-12-14T23:16:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-14T23:17:22.672-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Who Told You So!</title><content type='html'>Happy Thanksgiving to you all. I believe we all have something to be grateful for. Well I am grateful that I am not bound by any mistake(s) I have done in my past. This is the liberty that I have in God that old things are passed away and all things have become new. So I see myself the way God sees me. If He, The Omnipotent— All Powerful One, has forgiven me and launch me to go further in my purpose, who is that 'created being' that can hold me down? Absolutely NO ONE!!!Sometimes we are limited because we carry this heavy guilt of shame called “heavy loads” over our heads and immediately cut our unprecedented future short by doing so. Some people say, ‘I am an ex-prostitute, so I can never date a decent man? I am an ex-convict, so I can’t get a good job? I have a baby out of wedlock, so I shouldn't expect a single man to marry me? My father says I will never amount to anything, so I better not start my own business because it will definitely fail? I am a product of child molestation so I am sure no one really wants me?”…and the list goes on—but my question to you is: WHO TOLD YOU so?I remember the first man Adam, after he’d eaten the forbidden fruit, found out he was naked, and hid himself when he heard the voice of God in the Garden of Eden. God called out to him, and Adam’s response was, “I heard your voice and hid myself because I was naked.” Do you know what God’s response was? God said, “WHO TOLD YOU thou was naked?” God is Omniscient, meaning He knows everything, (He knows what we will do even before we do it); and because Adam had a change of perception of who he was to who he believed he should be, therefore his opinion shifted his position! (Genesis 3)My challenge to you this week is: Who told you, you cannot make it? Who told you, you will never amount to anything? Who told you because you have babies, your life has ended? Who told you, being married limits your potential in life? Why are you waiting to be married before pursuing after your dreams? Who told you just because you have a baby or babies out of wedlock you cannot date a single man? Who limited you? Whose report are you conforming to? Just because you made a mistake does not hinder your wings from still soaring? Take the shackles off your feet this week and walk in the liberty God has given you. Your opinion of yourself is what others see and believe!Whom the Son of man sets free, is free indeed! Do not let your past define who God has called you to be! Have a heart full of thanksgiving for the liberty God’s given you inspite of what men think should be done to you. Go forth this week soaring like you have no boundaries whatsoever!Have a thanksgiving week!© 2011 Debbie Kuks WordsRead Debbie Kuks Feeds on Facebook and TwitterJoin us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Debbie-Kuks/256267658050Follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/DebbieKuksJoin us mySpace: http://www.myspace.com/debbie.kuksJoin us on Reverbnation: http://www.reverbnation.com/DEBBIEKUKSView our videos on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/tokuks1http://www.debbiekuks.comRead Debbie Kuks Feeds on Facebook and TwitterJoin us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Debbie-Kuks/256267658050Follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/DebbieKuksJoin us mySpace: http://www.myspace.com/debbie.kuksJoin us on Reverbnation: http://www.reverbnation.com/DEBBIEKUKSView our videos on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/tokuks1http://www.debbiekuks.com&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4475972710514631573-381179711632687716?l=debbiekuks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/feeds/381179711632687716/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4475972710514631573&amp;postID=381179711632687716' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/381179711632687716'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/381179711632687716'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/2011/12/happy-thanksgiving-to-you-all.html' title='Who Told You So!'/><author><name>Deborah T. Kukoyi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01272945361877810815</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Dw_VP5i24yU/Tn8pzJXC6kI/AAAAAAAAAGw/UPkAOYYsrBE/s220/DEBBIE_020.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475972710514631573.post-1461430413743632283</id><published>2011-11-13T19:40:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-13T19:42:34.606-05:00</updated><title type='text'>JUST DO IT!!!</title><content type='html'>Wow! The year is almost gone.Do you have things you wrote down beginning of the year and still not accomplished? Are you being held up by your own fear? What would you do if fear wasn't a factor? Would you walk on water? Or would you wait until the ground is dry before you do anything? Has God spoken to you about something but the fear of stepping out has held you bound?If God has given you a task, just take a step of faith and do it; He will meet you before your feet hit the ground. This is not what I was told, but this is what I know.A personal experience of mine; I was in prayer on a week day in New York City and I heard God say to go for a conference in Los Angeles, California. I knew I couldn't afford to go to L.A because I wasn't financially fit at that time; but because I know Gods voice when I hear it, therefore I moved. I went to a traveling agency to have an idea the cost of the ticket and was told it was around $550 for a round trip while a one way ticket will cost $350. I called a friend of mine in Maryland for assistance, and all I could get was $250. I took the $250 to deposit for the one way ticket, because I decided to take it one step at a time. My flight was scheduled for a Wednesday, and on Tuesday night prior to my flight, before midnight, a lady knocked on my door and said God told her to give me $100. The lady was shaking while giving me the funds so I knew God must have apprehended her. I couldn't sleep all through the night because I knew the flight was scheduled to leave J.F.K airport at 10:30am the following day. I ran to the agency in the wee hours the following morning to pay for the balance of the ticket, although the agency didn't open until 9:00am, but still got the ticket in a timely manner and made it to the airport on time. Remember it was just a “one way” ticket that I got; I still didn’t have money for hotel, conference fee, and return ticket. I didn't really care about food because fasting has never been a hard task for me. When the plane landed in LAX, Los Angeles International airport, I saw a lady struggling with her luggage and decided to help her. Saw a bible in her hand and asked if she was here for the same conference and she said yes. After helping her with her bag, I took my bag and headed out of the airplane. This lady caught up with me and started conversing with me; she asked where I was staying, my exact words to her was "I'm about to find out!" She was astonished; later found out she'd lived in L.A before moving to Colorado and she knew the state better than I did. I believe she figured I didn't have a place to stay and she told me to come with her. She had a ride to pick her up and also had a whole room to stay in a friend’s house. God used this lady to fill the missing links: sheltered me, paid for my conference fare, took me to and fro to the venue of the conference, and fed me daily. When she found out how I went on a limb to obey God, she marveled and said to me, she's never seen anyone with such a great faith. My birthday fell around the time I was in Los Angeles. My hosts and couple of their friends gathered to celebrate me. These people baked me a cake, cooked, and had a little party for me. I was celebrated like I've known them all my life. I felt so special and humbled, because no one ever celebrated me like that besides my immediate family. I must confess I wept that night. It was the night of my birthday that this angel, that God used to help me, told the story of how we met to everyone. All the while everyone thought my angel and I were friends prior to coming to L.A, even our host didn't have a clue we met on the plane. Everyone was marveled at the steps of faith I took to get there. At the conference, I shared my testimony on how I got to L.A with some ladies, and God used one of those ladies to buy my ticket back to New York. If God tells you to do something, obey Him, because He has made provision every step of the way. So run with the vision, go after your dream, and achieve the goal you have set for yourself. If you don’t see the fishes stop swimming, birds stop flying, and foxes stop hunting, who stops you from achieving your goals? You can do the things you dream of if you believe and act on your belief. The supernatural can be seen only when you step into the realm of the unknown—faith!So go out this week pondering on these words. End the year stronger than you started!  Everything is possible if you believe.Have a great week!© 2011 Debbie Kuks WordsRead Debbie Kuks Feeds on Facebook and TwitterJoin us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Debbie-Kuks/256267658050Follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/DebbieKuksJoin us mySpace: http://www.myspace.com/debbie.kuksJoin us on Reverbnation: http://www.reverbnation.com/DEBBIEKUKSView our videos on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/tokuks1http://www.debbiekuks.com&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4475972710514631573-1461430413743632283?l=debbiekuks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/feeds/1461430413743632283/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4475972710514631573&amp;postID=1461430413743632283' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/1461430413743632283'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/1461430413743632283'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/2011/11/just-do-it.html' title='JUST DO IT!!!'/><author><name>Deborah T. Kukoyi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01272945361877810815</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Dw_VP5i24yU/Tn8pzJXC6kI/AAAAAAAAAGw/UPkAOYYsrBE/s220/DEBBIE_020.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475972710514631573.post-7880765375989605246</id><published>2011-10-27T06:28:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-27T06:28:48.885-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Be Kind!</title><content type='html'>What I know now, I wouldn’t have known had I not gone through some great challenges in my life. I hear people say to me: you are genuine, kind, selfless, beautiful in and out, etc. When I hear such accolades, I cannot but have a flashback. I did not get here overnight. My wilderness journey, which is what I call it, was what God used to take the stony heart out of my flesh, and gave me a more tender heart, that’s propelled me thus far.My most cherished experience is when I went through my own life’s struggles and challenges. Growing up, my parents practically provided the best life they knew how, to my siblings and I. I don’t recall lacking anything. Living in New York City I lacked everything you can think of. I saw the other side of life that I had never seen before which I believe birth compassion, and some other great attributes in me (I have not yet arrived, I'm still progressing). I remember this particular event; I was homeless, barely squatting in a tiny space in a homeless shelter, I met this lady from church that came from Chicago and didn’t have anywhere to lay her head, I told her to come with me, gave up my tiny bed I was given to sleep on, and I slept on the bare floor. She was shocked when she found out I was homeless myself and was still hospitable in my state. It could only be God.When life throws you in a ditch, don’t send bitter signals? Be kind, be patient, and learn from whatever it is you are in. From experience, God sometimes throws you in a ditch, and he wouldn’t bring you out of it until you have learned what he wants you to learn from that experience. God will put your life on display, not to kill you or put you to shame, but to birth character in you and to strip you off of some stinky flaws. When you have been processed and gutted out, He shows you off to the same people that had talked about you when you were facing your challenges, and those that were happy you faced them. God will even show you off to those that thought you will never rise again to see how better He’s made you. The truth is you don’t rise the same way you fall. The goldsmith doesn't display a non-refined piece of jewelry, but makes sure all the impurities are totally gutted out until its displayed.Therefore, be kind to everyone you meet, treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are. Mark Twain said "Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong.  Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.~George Washington CarverHave a great and full of kindness day!P.S: Purchase ‘The Father’s Heart’ today at www.debbiekuks.com © 2011 Debbie Kuks WordsRead Debbie Kuks Feeds on Facebook and TwitterJoin us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Debbie-Kuks/256267658050Follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/DebbieKuksJoin us mySpace: http://www.myspace.com/debbie.kuksJoin us on Reverbnation: http://www.reverbnation.com/DEBBIEKUKSView our videos on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/tokuks1http://www.debbiekuks.com&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4475972710514631573-7880765375989605246?l=debbiekuks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/feeds/7880765375989605246/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4475972710514631573&amp;postID=7880765375989605246' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/7880765375989605246'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/7880765375989605246'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/2011/10/be-kind.html' title='Be Kind!'/><author><name>Deborah T. Kukoyi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01272945361877810815</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Dw_VP5i24yU/Tn8pzJXC6kI/AAAAAAAAAGw/UPkAOYYsrBE/s220/DEBBIE_020.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475972710514631573.post-2215690631485422632</id><published>2011-10-01T10:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-01T10:04:04.285-04:00</updated><title type='text'>www.debbiekuks.com Re-Launches</title><content type='html'>Welcome again to my new and improved site!!! Yah!!! This is the tenth month, October, and the same time of the year when God remembered Noah after the flood. (Gen 8). Therefore, if you have been in a dark season, or a season of abandonment or rejection, rejoice, because God has remembered you on the first day of the tenth month!This is the month that you need to walk before God in fear and trembling; adhering to his word and ordinances and doing that which pleases Him. If there isn’t a better time to give your heart to God, this is it. God is seeking those that will give Him their hearts…not anything else but their hearts.Out of all the giants God used in the bible days, God chose to come out of one man’s lineage, which is David. Why? It is because God says He found a man after His heart…which means a man that has given Him his heart completely! So please sit back and watch God manifest in every situation of your life as long as you keep your own part of the deal by walking before Him in holiness. God wouldn’t bless an accursed thing but wants the heart of man to be turned towards him.Have a great October!DTK. © 2011 Debbie Kuks Words&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4475972710514631573-2215690631485422632?l=debbiekuks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/feeds/2215690631485422632/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4475972710514631573&amp;postID=2215690631485422632' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/2215690631485422632'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/2215690631485422632'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/2011/10/wwwdebbiekukscom-re-launches.html' title='www.debbiekuks.com Re-Launches'/><author><name>Deborah T. Kukoyi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01272945361877810815</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Dw_VP5i24yU/Tn8pzJXC6kI/AAAAAAAAAGw/UPkAOYYsrBE/s220/DEBBIE_020.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475972710514631573.post-4406144777713778712</id><published>2011-04-15T07:37:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2011-04-15T08:17:55.510-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Author encourages Christians to fight good fight to save humanity--The Father's Heart by Deborah T. Kukoyi</title><content type='html'>“The Father’s Heart” by Deborah T. Kukoyi highlights how living life according to God’s rules will help us avoid further destruction of society and innocent lives&lt;br /&gt;DALLAS – Deborah T. Kukoyi worries about the condition of the world today, an era in which war, adultery, rape, robbery and child abuse are becoming more common. In “The Father’s Heart” (ISBN 1456502654), Kukoyi encourages readers to leave behind their lives of sin and follow the law of God. &lt;br /&gt;Kukoyi compares the demise of today’s society to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Just before the historic cities were devastated, God told Abraham that he would spare the two cities and all of their people, provided that He could find 10 righteous people. As the biblical story goes, God was unable to find 10 people living in his likeness, and destroyed the cities.&lt;br /&gt;The author points out that many Christians are left to wonder why God has spared our world, as it is full of evil and wrongdoing. Kukoyi directs to the few remaining righteous individuals as our saving grace. While living life according to God’s will, Kukoyi suggests that in the end, the world will be a better place, one free of murder, infidelity and pain. &lt;br /&gt;“Can you imagine how the world would be if everyone followed God’s commandments?” Kukoyi asks.&lt;br /&gt;Kukoyi challenges readers to leave their lives of sin behind and begin anew, according to God’s wishes. Inspired by the cries of innocent children and the bloodshed of unnecessary wars, the author speaks out in “The Father’s Heart” in an effort to create a better world. &lt;br /&gt;“The Father’s Heart” is available for sale online at Amazon.com and other channels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About the Author:&lt;br /&gt;As a devout believer in God and His word, Deborah T. Kukoyi is a writer, psalmist, minister in songs and host of a yearly worshipper's conference called ‘The Gathering of Worshippers.’ Kukoyi is also a motivational speaker and a counselor to the brokenhearted. She is the CEO and founder of Debbie Kuks Words, a company geared toward motivating people through inspiration and artistic words. Her debut single, ‘Beautiful Day’ is available on Amazon or iTunes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MEDIA CONTACT:&lt;br /&gt;Deborah T. Kukoyi&lt;br /&gt;Email:              debbie.kuks@gmail.com&lt;br /&gt;Phone:   (979) 319-6475&lt;br /&gt;Website: www.debbiekuks.com&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;REVIEW COPIES AND INTERVIEWS AVAILABLE&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4475972710514631573-4406144777713778712?l=debbiekuks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/feeds/4406144777713778712/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4475972710514631573&amp;postID=4406144777713778712' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/4406144777713778712'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/4406144777713778712'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/2011/04/author-encourages-christians-to-fight.html' title='Author encourages Christians to fight good fight to save humanity--The Father&apos;s Heart by Deborah T. Kukoyi'/><author><name>Deborah T. 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A hug, a ‘hello’, or a smile, are all priceless&lt;br /&gt;But embodied in the epitome of love.&lt;br /&gt;The greatest love is when one sacrificially gives up himself for others!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Debbie Kuks&lt;br /&gt;© 2011 Debbie Kuks Words&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4475972710514631573-7245578567594770123?l=debbiekuks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/feeds/7245578567594770123/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4475972710514631573&amp;postID=7245578567594770123' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/7245578567594770123'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/7245578567594770123'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/2011/02/love-selflessness.html' title='Love | Selflessness'/><author><name>Deborah T. Kukoyi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01272945361877810815</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Dw_VP5i24yU/Tn8pzJXC6kI/AAAAAAAAAGw/UPkAOYYsrBE/s220/DEBBIE_020.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475972710514631573.post-664679004795038022</id><published>2010-12-24T08:50:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2010-12-24T08:50:55.417-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Check out music from Debbie Kuks</title><content type='html'>&lt;img style="visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;" border=0 width=0 height=0 src="http://c.gigcount.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.0NXC/bHQ9MTI5MzE5ODYxMzY3NSZwdD*xMjkzMTk4NjU3NDQ2JnA9MjcwODEmZD1wcm9fcGxheWVyX2ZpcnN*X2dlbiZuPWJsb2dnZXIm/Zz*xJm89ZmRiOTMzOGUwNTE4NGJjOTkxYWZlNjY*OTIwZDdjNjAmb2Y9MA==.gif" /&gt;&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://cache.reverbnation.com/widgets/swf/40/pro_widget.swf" height="200" width="262" align="top" bgcolor="#ffffff" loop="false" wmode="opaque" quality="best" allowScriptAccess="always" allowNetworking="all" allowFullScreen="true" seamlesstabbing="false" flashvars="id=artist_1188966&amp;posted_by=artist_1188966&amp;background_color=EEEEEE&amp;font_color=333333&amp;border_color=000000&amp;auto_play=false&amp;shuffle=false" &gt; &lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;" border=0 width=0 height=0 src="http://www.reverbnation.com/widgets/trk/40/artist_1188966/artist_1188966/t.gif" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4475972710514631573-664679004795038022?l=debbiekuks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/feeds/664679004795038022/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4475972710514631573&amp;postID=664679004795038022' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/664679004795038022'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/664679004795038022'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/2010/12/check-out-music-from-debbie-kuks.html' title='Check out music from Debbie Kuks'/><author><name>Deborah T. Kukoyi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01272945361877810815</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Dw_VP5i24yU/Tn8pzJXC6kI/AAAAAAAAAGw/UPkAOYYsrBE/s220/DEBBIE_020.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475972710514631573.post-1011111908617912200</id><published>2010-08-09T01:00:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-09T01:05:38.848-04:00</updated><title type='text'>PAIN!</title><content type='html'>Pain the gift nobody longs for but still comes&lt;br /&gt;This is a plight that no one envisages&lt;br /&gt;A clear-cut agony that no one love or desire &lt;br /&gt;But somehow leaves you stronger when it’s gone&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pain causes you to shut down, and it blurs your vision &lt;br /&gt;Compelling you to cut your dream, and dim your foresight&lt;br /&gt;Causing you to say the most absurd things…&lt;br /&gt;That makes you second-guess your existence&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do not make pain your utmost treasure&lt;br /&gt;It's important to see your tomorrow while in pain&lt;br /&gt;Because if you don't, your today might hold u back…&lt;br /&gt;From pushing through to the next day&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pain is a process which doesn’t make sense to the human mind&lt;br /&gt;A hideous growth that brings so much emotional torture&lt;br /&gt;But definitely designed to build and shape you&lt;br /&gt;Preparing one for greater storms of life&lt;br /&gt;Making one stronger, unshakable, and able to withstand all storms! &lt;br /&gt;You can't be unshakeable until you are being shaken first?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The promise of God and His desires for your life&lt;br /&gt;Have been interwoven inside of you, for you to come into agreement with Him…&lt;br /&gt;So that the gift(s) He’s deposited in you will come to full manifestation!&lt;br /&gt;Therefore, embrace your pain, and never let it debar you from purpose!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pain is the fuel that births forth the passion&lt;br /&gt;Passion geared towards fulfillment of your dream!&lt;br /&gt;Pain, the gift no one longs for but still comes…&lt;br /&gt;But makes you stronger when it’s long gone!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Debbie Kuks&lt;br /&gt;© 2010 Debbie Kuks Words&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4475972710514631573-1011111908617912200?l=debbiekuks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/feeds/1011111908617912200/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4475972710514631573&amp;postID=1011111908617912200' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/1011111908617912200'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/1011111908617912200'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/2010/08/pain.html' title='PAIN!'/><author><name>Deborah T. Kukoyi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01272945361877810815</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Dw_VP5i24yU/Tn8pzJXC6kI/AAAAAAAAAGw/UPkAOYYsrBE/s220/DEBBIE_020.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475972710514631573.post-4254876849636937100</id><published>2010-06-17T22:25:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-17T22:32:07.035-04:00</updated><title type='text'>HOMOSEXUALITY!</title><content type='html'>Homosexuality: Confession of a Gospel Artist!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Growing up in Nigeria, West Africa, Homosexuality was a non-spoken word in homes and in the church. I do not recall if I ever heard any preacher talk about homosexuality act in any form or recollect parents asking their kids if anyone ever touched them indecently or molested them. I would not have had interest in the topic myself if I was not rudely awoken to the reality of my past. My quest for knowledge started when God took me to the genesis of my life when He mandated me to write about the iniquity of our nation in my first book, “From The Bleeding Heart of God…To A Bleeding Nation.”(A must read!). It was not  until then that I started discovering the revealing truth about homosexuality. Homosexuality is what I call a sexual vice!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My name is Deborah Kukoyi aka Debbie Kuks and I am a gospel artist and psalmist. I was a victim of child abuse and molestation. As a child growing up in West Africa, you couldn’t voice out such abuse or molestation to anyone because no one believed in such sexual abnormality and it was considered a taboo. As long as most Africans are concerned, it does not exist in this part of the world. I am putting a DISCLAIMER out there that it does exist and my sexual orientation was jumbled up as a child as a result of it. Am I saying I practiced homosexuality? NO! Am I saying I had thoughts of it in my teenage years? YES! Am I saying God has fully erased such thoughts and killed the desire? YES!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The truth is the society that I grew up in does not endorse such abominable act, and besides that, you could barely hear anyone verbalize such dilapidated acts. Therefore if you are one with such thoughts or feelings, you will be jolted out of it before you attain adulthood; ending the abnormality in your sexual orientation. Well, most people that were known back in high school as lesbians are now married with kids, which proves the point I am stating. Subsequently, growing up in West Africa did play a vital role in my outcome as an individual besides the mercy and grace of God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now married and living in the United States of America, I look back and sometimes I sit down and ponder on the “what ifs”? What if I had grown up in the United States of America? Or the United Kingdom, or Netherland, Germany, or other parts of the world where the society accepts such abnormality, what would have become of me? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Living in America has exposed me to damnable and iniquitous acts being practiced in and out of Christendom, and the latest news these days are gospel artists coming out of the closet announcing their sexual preference or orientation; some who had practiced heterosexual relationships prior to now or most of their adult lives are now professing to be homosexuals, and also having illicit sexual affairs with same sex genders.  &lt;br /&gt;Jennifer Knapp, who sold a million records and won a Christian music’s prestigious Dove Awards vanished in 2003, and resurfaced in April 2010 with a barefaced confession of being in the same-sex relationship for the past 8years. Knapp said in an interview: “I am aware that the evangelical community has problems with divorce and many other facets of their artists, let alone homosexuality,” Knapp said. “I really felt a strong obligation to be able to address that because for many people, it was really clear that they would not participate in buying a record because it was against their beliefs.”&lt;br /&gt;“For many people who buy Christian music or have been familiar with me and my writings as a person of faith, I felt like it was the honest thing to do,” she added. “The last thing I wanted to do was to have someone go out and buy a record and feel like they had been hoodwinked.”&lt;br /&gt;Knapp is not the first gospel artist to come out with such audacious confession. In 2008, Christian singer/songwriter Ray Boltz came out as a gay man after a 20-year career in the industry. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2009, gospel star Tonex, (ton-nay), went public with his homosexuality as a guest on “The Lexi Show,” a popular program on the Christian channel, The Word Network. I sat down by my computer to actually watch Tonex’s interview in its entirety on YouTube and was perplexed and mesmerized at the same time. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tonex was profoundly clear on his thoughts on homosexuality. He stated: “Many times you hear people blame their sexual experiences or explorations on molestations and rapes, and I want to say yes, I was indeed molested. True, I was exposed to sexual activities and exposed to things that obviously at my age I should not have been exposed to, which opened up a box of awareness. However, I’m not blaming those situations on the choices I made later…could have been a foundation or seed planted but I take ownership for every bit of sexual exploration I have made.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In retrospect, Tonex was given over to his own lustful desires. How do I know this? When Lexi asked if Tonex’s homosexuality was a struggle, he stated “It was not a struggle, yeah, and people like to blame the struggle on molestation…be honest and stop blaming it on that experience.” This is well expressed by Paul in one of his writings: “Wherefore, God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves” (Romans 1:24, [Read the whole chapter]). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What I love most about Tonex’s confession is that he didn’t put any blame on his past experiences or the devil, but took full ownership of his present state. I know Christians are known for putting all blame on Satan for ALL their sinful acts, and magnifying him bigger than what he is not. I strongly believe, a sinner should take full responsibility for sin blatantly committed, and not blame anyone else, but to seek the face of God for mercy. Also note that Tonex’s desire and wantonness led to his present state. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This brings us to the core of this write up which is, God is more than able to deliver anybody from the demonic act of homosexuality but the willingness of man wanting to gravitate towards such exploration is man’s sole decision. Temptations, addictions, or lust is common, but God says come to me and I will show you the way out of it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.” Although sometimes we fall, but that’s when His word is there to be proven to be true! God will keep His word if you give yourself completely to Him because He is more than able to keep you from falling. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Consequently, I say this “No one was born a homosexual!” No one! It is a lie of the devil and you can be delivered from that mindset if you allow God speak to your heart. For God has no pleasure in the death of a sinner, but for all to come to repentance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe no devout Christian or gospel artist falls into sin intentionally, but the lust of the eye, added to man’s desire to explore that lustful desire, breeds forth iniquity in its finality. God wouldn’t take you where He wouldn’t be able to keep you. Sometimes our pursuit for the unknown gets us to start questioning an Infinite God with our finite minds that gets us thrown into a whirlwind not endorsed by God. Although God sends us signs to know when we are delving on the wrong paths, but we ignore those signs blatantly because our emotions and sensual desires have taken over our senses or mindset, and gotten us lost in the midst of the winding turns of sins. God then gives you over to that which you lust after if you refute His ways. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Watching the whole clip of Tonex’s interview, or reading about Knapp’s, did not make me condemn them nor made me judgmental of their conduct, but made me more humble, and wanting to reach out to God more, and be completely consumed by His presence. I strongly owe my ‘present’ and ‘future’ to God; His words will I continually write on the tablets of my heart that I may not sin against Him. Can you imagine the risk of taking “a break” from God? Satan is not just roaming the earth looking for whom to devour for nothing? He is waiting for you to take “a break” from His presence to lure you into full blown sin!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So pondering on how far I’ve come is just an attribute of worship. I am absolutely thankful. These thoughts make me more appreciative of God’s love and mercy. I cannot help but meditate on His grace. So as an artist and psalmist, I cannot stop singing and lifting Him up because there lies my complete security, deliverance, and completeness. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This article is not to indignify any artist, nor is it to be emitted for gossip, judgment, or criticism; because no one can say he is not guilty of one sin or the other, but it is the grace of God that has kept us thus far. It is only God who can keep any man from falling. I love the way Jude put it in verse 24, “Now to Him that is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless…” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Being kept from falling into any lustful sin or intentional sin isn’t by position, hierarchy of the body of Christ, (Bishop, Pastor, Evangelist, Prophet, teacher, or pew member), or any good deed anyone has done, but the Lord who shows mercy on such a soul.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In conclusion, I will leave you with these words: “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world” (2 John 2:15-16). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God bless you all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Debbie Kuks&lt;br /&gt;Writer, Author, Psalmist&lt;br /&gt;© 2010 Debbie Kuks World, Inc.&lt;br /&gt;www.debbiekuks.com&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4475972710514631573-4254876849636937100?l=debbiekuks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/feeds/4254876849636937100/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4475972710514631573&amp;postID=4254876849636937100' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/4254876849636937100'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/4254876849636937100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/2010/06/homosexuality.html' title='HOMOSEXUALITY!'/><author><name>Deborah T. Kukoyi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01272945361877810815</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Dw_VP5i24yU/Tn8pzJXC6kI/AAAAAAAAAGw/UPkAOYYsrBE/s220/DEBBIE_020.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475972710514631573.post-3796070745637410178</id><published>2010-04-18T23:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-18T23:26:03.595-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Loving....</title><content type='html'>Loving my baby is loving me&lt;br /&gt;In everything I do you are feeling me&lt;br /&gt;Feeling you more baby because you make me…&lt;br /&gt;More than just a man and I am loving it&lt;br /&gt;You are more than just a woman because you are you&lt;br /&gt;Everything a man needs is in you&lt;br /&gt;In all that I am and in all I do&lt;br /&gt;You will always be my lady because you are true…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Debbie Kuks&lt;br /&gt;© 2008 Debbie Kuks Words&lt;br /&gt;www.debbiekuks.com&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4475972710514631573-3796070745637410178?l=debbiekuks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/feeds/3796070745637410178/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4475972710514631573&amp;postID=3796070745637410178' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/3796070745637410178'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/3796070745637410178'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/2010/04/loving.html' title='Loving....'/><author><name>Deborah T. 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My life was given to Him before my great ancestors ever thought of bringing me into this world…and I am glad I accepted His plan and path for my life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I came into this undone world, I tried to fit in places my path was never ordained to tread upon and I was rejected by the undone people in a sinful world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All my life, rejection had been part of my day because I wanted to get comfort from the uncomforted souls and couldn’t because The One who’d held me on the palm of His hands wouldn’t let go!&lt;br /&gt;He holds me so close and watches me so jealously from anyone and everyone who tends to take me off track.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I didn’t understand all this while growing up but now I do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There’s so much that’s been entrusted in my care to do for my God, and I must work while it is day—when I still have my strength in me&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This Deborah was born to sting the devil until he looses every battle he thought he’d won&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deborah means “bee”…and a bee does two apparent things: give honey and stings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God made me to bring honey to this undone world. God made Deborah to bring the sweetest thing to the taste bud of mankind. To bring sweetness to the sour of man and to give hope to the hopeless—it sure doesn’t matter what it is, or how tough or difficult it has been, it can still get sweeter and sweeter each and everyday…because God’s sweetness has no end.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other purpose I am here for is to sting the destroyer of mankind himself—devil!&lt;br /&gt;Deborah will bruise the head of the demonic force, with the host of angels backing her up. &lt;br /&gt;Deborah will prick at the devil painfully. &lt;br /&gt;Deborah will cause the devil to suffer acutely until he’s finally destroyed, at the appointed set time of God.&lt;br /&gt;Deborah is a warrior, a demon killer, and also a seer.&lt;br /&gt;Deborah is a bond-daughter of God who fights relentlessly until God wins all her battles for her.&lt;br /&gt;Deborah will fight a temple destroyer, and will cause the undone world to know a DONE, COMPLETE, &amp; LOVING GOD!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is why I fight when the “O” is taken out of my name. I am D-e-b-o-r-a-h and not D-e-b-r-a or D-e-b-r-a-h. I am incomplete without my “O”! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deborah will provoke men to worship the Sovereign God&lt;br /&gt;Deborah is a psalmist, a worshipper, a writer, and one who that has been betrothed to the Lord eternally!!!&lt;br /&gt;Deborah will not look back because she’s fit for the kingdom&lt;br /&gt;Deborah daily carries her cross because she knows it is a daily walk, and&lt;br /&gt;Deborah walks circumspectly before God with the help of the Holy Spirit within her to keep her relationship with God pure and holy.&lt;br /&gt;Deborah is totally sold out to God and she will never go back to the unfamiliar because there’s a task ahead of her that she must fulfill.&lt;br /&gt;Deborah is what the world’s been waiting for—(the manifestation of the sons of God)&lt;br /&gt;Deborah carries the divine sperm of God within her that teaches her daily the way of righteousness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If God cannot fail, Deborah will not fail because God and Deborah work together and they are both intertwined, never to be separated!!!&lt;br /&gt;Deborah will leave this world at the appointed time to go be with the Only Man she’s given her whole being to—Ishi!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Deborah finally sees Ishi…hmmmnnn…she can only imagine what it will be like!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deborah is eternally Gods’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;**(written by Deborah Kukoyi on Oct 31, 2005--found this piece in my archives and thought to share)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4475972710514631573-6682506658405075811?l=debbiekuks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/feeds/6682506658405075811/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4475972710514631573&amp;postID=6682506658405075811' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/6682506658405075811'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/6682506658405075811'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/2009/10/deborah.html' title='D.E.B.O.R.A.H'/><author><name>Deborah T. 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Kukoyi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01272945361877810815</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Dw_VP5i24yU/Tn8pzJXC6kI/AAAAAAAAAGw/UPkAOYYsrBE/s220/DEBBIE_020.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475972710514631573.post-6618844030993002786</id><published>2008-10-11T14:00:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-11T14:16:44.225-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Our Deepest Fear</title><content type='html'>“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actually, who are you not to be?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We were born to make and manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; –Marianne Williamson, Return to Love&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a id="myphotolink" href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=276761&amp;amp;id=815362781"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4475972710514631573-6618844030993002786?l=debbiekuks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/feeds/6618844030993002786/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4475972710514631573&amp;postID=6618844030993002786' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/6618844030993002786'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/6618844030993002786'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/2008/10/our-deepest-fear.html' title='Our Deepest Fear'/><author><name>Deborah T. Kukoyi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01272945361877810815</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Dw_VP5i24yU/Tn8pzJXC6kI/AAAAAAAAAGw/UPkAOYYsrBE/s220/DEBBIE_020.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475972710514631573.post-1841659034721999303</id><published>2008-10-08T12:43:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-08T12:56:19.573-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hater/ By Maya Angelou</title><content type='html'>A hater is someone who is jealous and envious&lt;br /&gt;And spends all their time trying to make you look small so they can look tall.&lt;br /&gt;They are very negative people to say the least.  Nothing is ever good enough!&lt;br /&gt;When you make your mark,  you will always attract some haters...&lt;br /&gt;That's why you have to be careful with whom you share your blessings and your dreams, Because some folk can't handle seeing you blessed...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's dangerous to be like somebody else...&lt;br /&gt;If God wanted you to be like somebody else, &lt;br /&gt;He would have given you what He gave them!  Right?&lt;br /&gt;You never know what people have gone through to get what they have...&lt;br /&gt;The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but theydon't know my story...&lt;br /&gt;If the grass  looks  greener on the other side of the fence, &lt;br /&gt;You can rest assured that the water bill is higher there too!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We've all got some haters among us!             &lt;br /&gt;Some people envy you because you can:     &lt;br /&gt;a) Have a relationship with God      &lt;br /&gt;b) Light up a room when you walk in     &lt;br /&gt;c) Start your own business     &lt;br /&gt;d) Tell a man / woman to hit the curb (if he / she isn't about the right thing)     &lt;br /&gt;e) Raise your children without both parents being in the home&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Haters can't stand to see you happy.&lt;br /&gt;Haters will never want to see you succeed.&lt;br /&gt;Most of our haters are people who are supposed to be on your side&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How do you handle your undercover haters?&lt;br /&gt;You can handle these haters by:             &lt;br /&gt;1. Knowing who you are &amp;amp; who your true friends are *(VERY IMPORTANT!!)            &lt;br /&gt;2. Having a purpose to your life:&lt;br /&gt;Purpose does not mean having a job. You can have a job and still be unfulfilled. A purpose is having a clear sense of what God has called you to be. Your purpose is not defined by what others think about you.             &lt;br /&gt;3. By remembering what you have is by divine prerogative and not human manipulation.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fulfill your dreams!  You only have one life to live...&lt;br /&gt;When its your time to leave this earth,&lt;br /&gt;You 'want' to be able to say, 'I've lived my life and fulfilled 'my' dreams,...&lt;br /&gt;Now I'm ready to go HOME!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When God gives you favor,&lt;br /&gt;You can tell your haters, 'Don't look at me...Look at Who is in charge of me...'              &lt;br /&gt;Just pray for them, that their life can be as fulfilled as yours!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Watch out for Haters...BUT most of all don't becomea HATER!      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'A woman's heart should be so hidden in Christ that a man should have to seek Him first to find her.'                                   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maya Angelou&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4475972710514631573-1841659034721999303?l=debbiekuks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/feeds/1841659034721999303/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4475972710514631573&amp;postID=1841659034721999303' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/1841659034721999303'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/1841659034721999303'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/2008/10/hater-by-maya-angelou.html' title='Hater/ By Maya Angelou'/><author><name>Deborah T. Kukoyi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01272945361877810815</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Dw_VP5i24yU/Tn8pzJXC6kI/AAAAAAAAAGw/UPkAOYYsrBE/s220/DEBBIE_020.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475972710514631573.post-7833833588971438169</id><published>2008-10-07T04:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-07T04:27:28.881-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Turns...</title><content type='html'>Sometimes life takes us through unfamiliar turns&lt;br /&gt;Just because its unfamiliar doesn’t mean it should be obliterated&lt;br /&gt;Look beyond the turns and see where it’s leading you&lt;br /&gt;The turns of life is saying something&lt;br /&gt;Telling a profound message…if only we listen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes where we find ourselves isn’t unfamiliar&lt;br /&gt;If we had adhere to the message of the turns&lt;br /&gt;We would have been wiser and made better decisions&lt;br /&gt;But because we were stuck in the same circle of life&lt;br /&gt;The result doesn’t differ from the outcome of the prior&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The lessons of life are called experiences&lt;br /&gt;These make us wiser and better as acclaimed&lt;br /&gt;But some folks still find themselves in the same circle&lt;br /&gt;Refusing to break free to turn into another direction…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the same thing has produced the same result&lt;br /&gt;The same unsuccessful &amp;amp; unfulfilled result…&lt;br /&gt;Isn’t it time to think of the path you’ve always embarked on?&lt;br /&gt;Leading the same direction without new road signs&lt;br /&gt;Making the journey so boring and miserable…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Acknowledge the turns of life…&lt;br /&gt;At first it might look unfamiliar and uncomfortable&lt;br /&gt;Embrace it and keep going…&lt;br /&gt;Don’t quit on it too early…learn to cuddle change&lt;br /&gt;Because the journey of life is all about turns!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Debbie Kuks&lt;br /&gt;© 2008 Debbie Kuks World, Inc.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4475972710514631573-7833833588971438169?l=debbiekuks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/feeds/7833833588971438169/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4475972710514631573&amp;postID=7833833588971438169' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/7833833588971438169'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/7833833588971438169'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/2008/10/turns.html' title='Turns...'/><author><name>Deborah T. Kukoyi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01272945361877810815</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Dw_VP5i24yU/Tn8pzJXC6kI/AAAAAAAAAGw/UPkAOYYsrBE/s220/DEBBIE_020.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475972710514631573.post-4351653405698889166</id><published>2008-09-14T23:20:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-14T23:37:18.150-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>I didn't write this piece...just thought to share:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"There comes a point in your life when you realize who matters, who never did, who won't anymore... and who always will.  So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So dear friends, celebrate those in your future knowing they made it...to make your future what it is!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Debbie.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4475972710514631573-4351653405698889166?l=debbiekuks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/feeds/4351653405698889166/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4475972710514631573&amp;postID=4351653405698889166' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/4351653405698889166'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/4351653405698889166'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/2008/09/i-didnt-write-this-piece.html' title=''/><author><name>Deborah T. Kukoyi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01272945361877810815</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Dw_VP5i24yU/Tn8pzJXC6kI/AAAAAAAAAGw/UPkAOYYsrBE/s220/DEBBIE_020.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475972710514631573.post-8480086723536147515</id><published>2008-09-04T01:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-04T01:01:07.930-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Dreams</title><content type='html'>Where we live isn’t who we are&lt;br /&gt;Who we are isn’t what we do&lt;br /&gt;What we do isn’t what we love&lt;br /&gt;What we love isn’t always good for us&lt;br /&gt;What is good for us isn’t easy to ascertain&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Attainment of self recognition is a personal goal&lt;br /&gt;Reaching one’s destiny is a decision&lt;br /&gt;Spreading one’s horizon is a determination&lt;br /&gt;Living life to its fullness is the gift of God!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No one can stop any man from Rising&lt;br /&gt;No one can stop a man from Soaring&lt;br /&gt;No one has the power to cut a dream short&lt;br /&gt;But a man has all the power to kill his own dreams!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don’t let your dream die while sitting on it&lt;br /&gt;You only know what it entails&lt;br /&gt;And you only can execute it the best way how&lt;br /&gt;Bringing it to reality is your mission&lt;br /&gt;Go after it with all your might&lt;br /&gt;Because you are best at what has been given to you!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Debbie Kuks&lt;br /&gt;© Debbie Kuks World, Inc.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4475972710514631573-8480086723536147515?l=debbiekuks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/feeds/8480086723536147515/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4475972710514631573&amp;postID=8480086723536147515' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/8480086723536147515'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/8480086723536147515'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/2008/09/dreams.html' title='Dreams'/><author><name>Deborah T. Kukoyi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01272945361877810815</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Dw_VP5i24yU/Tn8pzJXC6kI/AAAAAAAAAGw/UPkAOYYsrBE/s220/DEBBIE_020.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475972710514631573.post-2961564197071243312</id><published>2008-06-21T17:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-21T17:39:55.264-04:00</updated><title type='text'>America!!!</title><content type='html'>America!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She is so beautiful and yet so stained&lt;br /&gt;Full of resources and death warrants&lt;br /&gt;All these stains makes her very unpretty&lt;br /&gt;And her resources empty&lt;br /&gt;Although she stands as one of the richest and smartest,&lt;br /&gt;But so ignorant about her world&lt;br /&gt;Or does she purposely ignores the very things that make her unpretty?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is this? What is happening here?&lt;br /&gt;America, the "Land of the Free and Home of the Brave"&lt;br /&gt;Has blatantly been unwise concerning matters of the heart...&lt;br /&gt;Her freedom has totally brought so much bloodshed on the land&lt;br /&gt;And left so many people broken and dilapidated&lt;br /&gt;Likewise Her braveness, which has caused so much destruction&lt;br /&gt;And left many despondent...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where does she go from here?&lt;br /&gt;How can she make it right?&lt;br /&gt;How can she build the broken breaches?&lt;br /&gt;How can she totally wash away her stains?&lt;br /&gt;How can she stop the bloodshed from flowing?&lt;br /&gt;How America?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Her weather is beautiful and yet her food so poisonous,&lt;br /&gt;Almost everything ‘everyday people’ can afford is grown artificially&lt;br /&gt;The grains, chicken, animals, vegetables, and fruits&lt;br /&gt;Are all injected with chemicals that makes a chick fly on its 'birth-day'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Organic' which is supposed to be the way of life has been aborted&lt;br /&gt;Aborted for the fast life of quick growth&lt;br /&gt;Food so prompt it bolts out its natural biological process&lt;br /&gt;Causing a fetus to be brought forth from the uterus before it is viable&lt;br /&gt;An everyday people epidemic!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This process is birthing forth numerous uncommon diseases&lt;br /&gt;One that causes in-depth research for the medical world&lt;br /&gt;And still not knowing the origin of some diseases...&lt;br /&gt;Because America yeans her own ailments&lt;br /&gt;Leaving some folks with scars of 'incurable diseases'&lt;br /&gt;Shortening innocent lives because of her goal…&lt;br /&gt;Goal to satisfy the innocent with expeditious food&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Her laws are making more thugs out of our lil'boys more than it develops their manhood&lt;br /&gt;Making them so ungovernable because her freedom inundates them...&lt;br /&gt;Luring the innocent girls into more promiscuity than the generations before them...&lt;br /&gt;Making them so uncontrollable and providing shelter for that 18 yr old&lt;br /&gt;Who still needs the guardian of a parent/elder/grandparent&lt;br /&gt;Stuffing them with liquor at the age whereby self recognition isn't fully developed&lt;br /&gt;Exposing them to dangerous drugs that kills and destroys their innocence&lt;br /&gt;Applauding child birth and not looking for a solution to the problem&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Making the word "discipline" a taboo!!!&lt;br /&gt;Refusing to strike the balance between 'abuse' and 'discipline'&lt;br /&gt;Apprehending parents whose job is to instill reputable characters in the lives of their babies&lt;br /&gt;Making their jobs a nonentity and making them look like the real enemy to these kids&lt;br /&gt;Affirming the rudeness of a child and painting parenting as foolishness&lt;br /&gt;Making imprisonment out of innocent parents and causing the drift in many homes&lt;br /&gt;America, daunting the growth of the ones who needs it most!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Her braveness has caused the young to be more brave in their misconduct&lt;br /&gt;Leaving parents despondent in their leadership&lt;br /&gt;Birthing babies out of wedlock, and making their future more hopeless!&lt;br /&gt;Employing babies and thereby causing education miscarriages&lt;br /&gt;Raising up the banner of non-education and greed for money&lt;br /&gt;Rearing a ton of hooligans and disrupting the peace and serenity of our world!&lt;br /&gt;Harassing those who genuinely want to climb the highest ladder of education…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Birthing forth kids with foul tongues...&lt;br /&gt;Using coarse language as the only means of communication&lt;br /&gt;Making cool what used to be uncool&lt;br /&gt;And watching these kids blatantly display their fearlessness&lt;br /&gt;Right in the face of the elderly and those called "parents"&lt;br /&gt;And handicapping their authority with mundane laws&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is so pretty about America?&lt;br /&gt;What is so attractive about her? What draws people to her?&lt;br /&gt;Why is her freedom choking the free and her braveness killing the braves?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If a man is diagnosed with a prostate cancer, know it is America,&lt;br /&gt;When a woman has a stigma caused by a tumor, know America did it,&lt;br /&gt;The child with a scar of cancer was caused by America&lt;br /&gt;The obese 9 yr old was killed by America&lt;br /&gt;When a child is imprisoned, know it is America,&lt;br /&gt;When another child is born out of wedlock, America has her hands in it...&lt;br /&gt;When that 700 pounds man sits in that wheelchair desperately looking for help...&lt;br /&gt;Don't make fun of him or make him feel sub-human,&lt;br /&gt;Reach out and help...because America is at work in him!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One day her fields will close up on her&lt;br /&gt;One day her dead will rise to the injustice done to it&lt;br /&gt;One day her land will mourn all those who struggled...&lt;br /&gt;Through life, through health, and through poverty...&lt;br /&gt;Taking only what America gave them without strength to fight back&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For those still here contemplating on a bypass surgery&lt;br /&gt;Or those thinking of going through another abortion&lt;br /&gt;Or that teenager thinking of dropping out of school&lt;br /&gt;Or that parent thinking of giving up on her child&lt;br /&gt;Or that single parent craving organic food for her dying obese kids&lt;br /&gt;But without a good income and thinking of unlawful ways to get it...&lt;br /&gt;Before you take another step toward your goal...&lt;br /&gt;Sit back and look around you...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rise up and sound the alarm...&lt;br /&gt;Raise your voice and cry out to America&lt;br /&gt;And cause her to stop the atrocities done to you and your loved ones&lt;br /&gt;Cause her to disengage her cruelty on innocent souls&lt;br /&gt;Cause her to stop that child from walking out on you&lt;br /&gt;Cause her to stop your 16 yr old from giving birth to yet another child&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tell her she's hurting you and your babies...&lt;br /&gt;Giving them tumor at barely 6yrs old...&lt;br /&gt;Heart failure at 12 yrs old and shortening their lives&lt;br /&gt;Ripping off their natural growth for the unnatural&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tell her how she makes you cry daily...&lt;br /&gt;Handicapping you to do the best thing for your family&lt;br /&gt;Homes empty because most kids are incarcerated&lt;br /&gt;Putting an end to Sunday dinners because no one is barely around&lt;br /&gt;Tell her the disruptive impact of her self laws&lt;br /&gt;Her Impetuous Laws causing parents to outlast their kids&lt;br /&gt;Cause her to know the cost of her Braveness and Freedom....&lt;br /&gt;America, snuffing life out of both the poor and rich!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America my America&lt;br /&gt;Wake up and do right!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Debbie Kuks&lt;br /&gt;© 2008 Debbie Kuks World, Inc.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4475972710514631573-2961564197071243312?l=debbiekuks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/feeds/2961564197071243312/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4475972710514631573&amp;postID=2961564197071243312' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/2961564197071243312'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/2961564197071243312'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/2008/06/america_21.html' title='America!!!'/><author><name>Deborah T. Kukoyi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01272945361877810815</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Dw_VP5i24yU/Tn8pzJXC6kI/AAAAAAAAAGw/UPkAOYYsrBE/s220/DEBBIE_020.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475972710514631573.post-2310509888372618245</id><published>2008-06-03T20:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-03T20:21:03.500-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Lets Just Kiss N Say Goodbye...</title><content type='html'>Hi Friends,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I didn't write this piece but would love to share it with you...it goes thus:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"There used to be a group called the Manhattans. An early 70's group. This group had one of the smoothest tenor lead singer of all time. His name was Gerald Austin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The groups hit song was entitled "Let's Just Kiss and Say Good-bye." It was a song about a break up between a couple that had been together for a long time. Many of you old-heads may say, "What do you know about that song boy." Well mom and dad used to play it a lot on the record player, we had it on 45!! Some of y'all know what I'm talking about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I thought of the lyrics of the song it made me wonder about a kiss. "I had to meet you here today. There's just so many things to say. Please don't stop me til I'm through, this issomething I hate to do. We've been meeting here so long.....etc....Please darling don't you cry, Let's just kiss and say good-bye! Powerful lyrics. But why a kiss?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A kiss is a term of endearment. A kiss is something that is the seal of approval. Guys always felt that getting the first kiss from a young lady was the start of something. A kiss is usually how you greet your wife. A kiss is how you say good night to your children. A kiss is what you share when you want to let a person know that you love them! So why in Luke 22:47 did Judas betray Jesus with a kiss?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This gives a whole new meaning for a kiss! Jesus had 12 friends that we know as disciples. He chose his disciples Himself. The bible says that he knew one of them was the devil. So for 3 years of Jesus' life he walked, talked, and had breakfast, lunch, and dinner with a man that he knew would betray Him. Some may wonder, why didn't Jesus expose Judas for what he was? Why did Jesus allow Judas to continue on with Him. The answer is simple. Jesus knew that prophecy had to be fulfilled. He knew he had an ultimate purpose in life. So in order to fulfill the promise, Jesus had to let someone he didn't necessarily care for as a person tag along to keep Himself focused on the purpose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here goes....Get ready to SHOUT! There are people in Your life that are there only to bother you. These people are in your life to keep you on your knees. These people are in your life because they are a part of the problem and the solution. These same people will help catapult you to your destiny! When Judas betrayed Jesus with a kiss, he opened our eyes to the fact that a kiss is not always what we intend it to be. Be careful who you let put their lips on you. When I say lips it's not always in the kissing form. Be careful of who speaks well of you. Be careful of who always has an answer. Be careful of the ones that seem to like you but it's just something about them that you just can't put your finger on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everyone in your life is not meant to stay in your life. Let's just kiss and say good bye. You can't carry everyone with you. There are some places that God wants you to go that only you can go. Learn to love, leave, and live your life as God intended! Next time you're betrayed by someone you THOUGHT was a friend, just remember "Let's Just Kiss and Say Good Bye!" Jesus already knew the betrayal was on the way. So get over it, step on it, but don't live your life wondering why. Instead, learn from your experience and believe that everything happens for a reason."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So guys let us learn from this piece and know that if someone decides to walk away, let he/she walk; life is about knowing where one's destination is and not about those who are or aren't in it...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Best Regards,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DT Kukoyi&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4475972710514631573-2310509888372618245?l=debbiekuks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/feeds/2310509888372618245/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4475972710514631573&amp;postID=2310509888372618245' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/2310509888372618245'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/2310509888372618245'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/2008/06/kiss-n-tell.html' title='Lets Just Kiss N Say Goodbye...'/><author><name>Deborah T. Kukoyi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01272945361877810815</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Dw_VP5i24yU/Tn8pzJXC6kI/AAAAAAAAAGw/UPkAOYYsrBE/s220/DEBBIE_020.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475972710514631573.post-8956717219715403284</id><published>2008-06-03T13:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-13T15:28:53.439-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Much Power!!</title><content type='html'>Hi Friends in Blogland,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some friends and i were talking about anger today and how people stay angry for silly reasons...&lt;br /&gt;Like i told them, to be angry is good because it shows the emotional part of you that can never be denied, but to stay angry is the worse thing one can ever do to oneself...it is detrimental to anyone's health.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anger, meaning, a strong feeling of displeasure and belligerence aroused by a wrong, can be inevitable sometimes but when you stay angry, you give the person that you are angry with so much power over you. Power on the other hand simply means the possession of control or command over another.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What happens when you stay angry is the person you are angry with start controlling your emotions, your thought pattern, your facial expression, and how you ought to react in an event where he/she is present! They basically start controlling all that you stand for and remolding you into the person that you are not just because you chose not to forgive and move on...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why give that much power to anyone?????????? No one deserves that much power!!! No one!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So my peeps, let us rise up from that bench of resentment, anger, and fury, and learn to forgive whoever it is has wronged us in order to be able to forget the incidence that wrought the anger in the first place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have decided to forgive whoever it is that has ever hurt me, that is hurting me, and has plans of hurting me...you cannot have that much power over me...i totally denounce it!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Forgiveness, which is the act of excusing a mistake or offense, is so pleasurable to your soul... it is one of the best gifts one can give to one's soul...it is beautiful!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Poeple ask me, how do you stay beautiful...it is because i always forgive...sometimes i wonder why i forgive so easily...but because it is the way it makes me feel afterwards...it is an absolute freshness that makes me glow in my beauty!!! I recommend it to all!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whatever you do today, or any other day God allows you to see, please make sure you take a step of forgiveness so that you can live a life of pleasure that your soul truly deserves...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I ascribe much power to true forgiveness...because THE UTMOST POWER aids one's ability to do that which one wouldnt have done without His ability...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Love you loads...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DT. Kukoyi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;N.B:&lt;br /&gt;Just wanted to share this also...About a yr and some months ago, someone close to me took everything I ever owned in this life and gave it all away to one of the charity homes here in the U.S....all because I was in the middle of a great transition and had to leave all my property with this precious person.&lt;br /&gt;The truth is I was so broken and and althoough I didnt want to forgive, but I just couldn't stay in unforgiveness and didnt know why? Then today it all made sense to me that it is because of God's Love that has been shared abroad in my heart by the help of the Holy Spirit,that has full control over my inability to forgive. And because Love covers a multitude of sins, my heart CANNOT BUT to forgive every wrong done to me.&lt;br /&gt;Love is a powerful key that helps each and everyone of us learn the secret of forgiveness...&lt;br /&gt;Love you all more...God Bless...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ciao&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4475972710514631573-8956717219715403284?l=debbiekuks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/feeds/8956717219715403284/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4475972710514631573&amp;postID=8956717219715403284' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/8956717219715403284'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/8956717219715403284'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/2008/06/power.html' title='Much Power!!'/><author><name>Deborah T. Kukoyi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01272945361877810815</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Dw_VP5i24yU/Tn8pzJXC6kI/AAAAAAAAAGw/UPkAOYYsrBE/s220/DEBBIE_020.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475972710514631573.post-1121400386472643665</id><published>2008-05-26T07:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-26T08:42:12.427-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Great News...</title><content type='html'>I woke up this morning thinking about the Man I have always loved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He is the only One that has completely stolen my heart, my thoughts, my desires and now my emotions...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have such a weakness for Him...the kind a wife has for her husband she loves very dearly. This Man truly invades my mind, my thought, and all that I stand for.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whatever aggravates Him aggravates me..whatever pleases Him pleases me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I go to bed with Him on my mind...and wake up with His very presence...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The good news is He is very giving..He has given me so much to be grateful for and I cannot but say 'Thank You".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The gifts He has given me is so enormous and I am willing to utilize them all. Sometimes I wonder why I think about too many ideas at the same time and having the strength to carry them all out..now I know I got it from my Daddy/Husband/Best Friend/Mentor/My ALL.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Right now I am working on different projects and He is helping me through it all. Connecting me to the right sources, orchestrating and putting new people in my inner circle...people that are significantly needed in all that I am doing right now. People of great minds and high notoriety...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The most amazing and the greatest news of all is He is the Chief Writer within me...He puts the phonetics, ideas, the words, the sentences, and the final touches to all my writings. He is the One I go home to kneeling, crying, and thanking because of the things that He does pricelessly!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now being the gentleman that He is, He has decided to open all the doors for me and watch me walk through them without me lifting my fingers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He is the Perfect Man for me and I love Him so dearly. I will do anything to stay in love with Him because His Love is deserves it!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DTK&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4475972710514631573-1121400386472643665?l=debbiekuks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/feeds/1121400386472643665/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4475972710514631573&amp;postID=1121400386472643665' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/1121400386472643665'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/1121400386472643665'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/2008/05/great-news.html' title='Great News...'/><author><name>Deborah T. Kukoyi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01272945361877810815</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Dw_VP5i24yU/Tn8pzJXC6kI/AAAAAAAAAGw/UPkAOYYsrBE/s220/DEBBIE_020.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475972710514631573.post-1492227101120724637</id><published>2008-05-15T13:39:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-26T08:44:06.027-04:00</updated><title type='text'>"From The Bleeding Heart of God... To A Bleeding Nation"</title><content type='html'>This is the book God gave me the honor of writing to you. The title came to me while in service one day having one of those moments with Him. Prior to the birth of the title, God opened my eyes to see a lot of things that is transpiring right now in our Nations and World. He truly troubled me to sound the alarm!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lawlesness, better known as sin, is at its highest ascendency, and are we going to sit down and watch this foolishness take over our future? This generation has almost lost the 'good old morals' that the generation before this were governed by. With the rate sin is skyrocketing and being accepted as the norm, we are going to end up with a generation that knows nothing about morals, chasity, love (in its purest meaning), kindness, purity, marriage, and all the good old stuff...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People call me outdated and old fashioned, because i lean solely on what is right, and i look strange to those who have accepted wrong as right...but it is okay-- I want to stay old shool/outdated because I am willing to put my life down on what I believe is right! It is way cool to be on this side of the fence...trust me, because the other side brings so much baggage with it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My question to you is: If this generation is lost, what is left of the future? Is there even a future without a generation?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;Synopsis of the Book:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a clarion call to all nations and to every one that has an ear to hear what God is saying in this season.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There has been great blood-shed in our nations; innocent people have lost their lives due to what the nation has gravitated toward-lawlessness! The same sin that led to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is the same sin our nation is lusting after!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have adopted sin as a law and lost many souls in the midst of all this. My question is if we are a replica of Sodom and Gomorrah, Why should we be spared? Why should God spare our lives?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just before Sodom and Gomorrah was consumed, God and Abraham had a conversation and God said if He could find ten righteous in the land, He would save the nation, but ten righteous could not be found, and this led to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do not think that God is unjust for sparing us? No! The reason why we are not yet consumed as a nation is because God has found a few righteous-the remnant, that will not bow their knees to sin or its lawless ways. God would never consume the righteous with the wicked!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cry of the guiltless and the innocent, the cry of the abused children, the fatherless, the widows, and all those who have been directly affected by the detrimental world we are in, has been heard by God. The blood of the innocent has come up to God and He has risen to redeem a dying world!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are people who have lost their lives in the midst of the evil we have brought upon ourselves as a nation, and there are still so many souls wounded from our lawless state. The world is immorally corrupt, and this has come up to God as a very displeasing and nauseating attitude. God is displeased! God is bleeding! It is because of this dilapidated act caused by the lawless in our nations that has brought so much destruction upon the land that we live in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are we going to sit lackadaisically and watch many more souls lose their lives?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let us arise and re-build our nation! And if it means we have to incorporate the Ten Commandments into our constitution to bring back serenity and tranquility, let us do it! Our lost glory must be restored!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He who has an ear let him hear what the Lord is saying in this season.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The book can be purchased at:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.authorhouse.com/"&gt;http://www.authorhouse.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/"&gt;http://www.barnesandnoble.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/"&gt;http://www.amazon.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/"&gt;http://www.amazon.co.uk/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bandn.com/"&gt;http://www.bandn.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fatbrain.com/"&gt;http://www.fatbrain.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bookstreet.com/"&gt;http://www.bookstreet.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.powellsbooks.com/"&gt;http://www.powellsbooks.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The book can also be ordered via telephone by calling these numbers:&lt;br /&gt;1-888-280-7715 (US)&lt;br /&gt;800-197-4150 (UK)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you all for your support!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Love you much,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DTK&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4475972710514631573-1492227101120724637?l=debbiekuks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/feeds/1492227101120724637/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4475972710514631573&amp;postID=1492227101120724637' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/1492227101120724637'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4475972710514631573/posts/default/1492227101120724637'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://debbiekuks.blogspot.com/2008/05/from-bleeding-heart-of-god-to-bleeding.html' title='&quot;From The Bleeding Heart of God... 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