Upon Us Series

UPON US

by

Dr. Gale A. Ragan-Reid

(January 8, 2020)

“Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.” (Psalm 33: 22 King James Version [KJV]).

Greetings in the Holy Name Of Jesus Yahshuah,

My sisters and brothers, let the mercy of God truly follow us all the days of our life, for the nonbelievers just do not know—-they pretend to know to get a little further along their way, each day [Psalm 23: 6, King James Version (KJV), “Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.”]. But while they tell you, I never sat next to a Doctor of Education. I never talked to a Doctor of Education, before, they still are trying to hood-wink you and enslave you—-spoken in the vernacular, take all you got, you best put your boots on, for the soldiers of God are marching on, through the highways and byways, alleys ways, dirt roads, jails, prisons, schools, and households. Sometimes, you just want to scream, for the relief of it all—-the obvious mistaken identity.

You feel the words coming up out of you, hard to suppress, I do not know who you mistake me for but I am the Doctor of Education living on the same road as you, to benefit you, while I still have $300,000 more to pay for this education at 5.25 percent. I am the Doctor of Education who retired early, yet if I did not live at the poverty-level, as a priest does—-a woman of God, then, I would have to pay at least $3,100 per month. These are rough numbers, I am trying to remember the raw data, of my own finances. I am the Doctor of Education who must live at poverty-level to continue to pay $0 per month, for 25 years and I lost 4 years because I consolidated my loans, so the timeframe reset, giving me now this year 8 years towards the 25 years when I should have 12 years towards the 25 years.

Interestingly enough, I dare not consolidate again—-just be satisfied at 5.25 percent when before I consolidated the last loans I was in at 3 percent. Well, enough of talking shop, I just want you to know that I am the Doctor of Education—-the factor that you put in your mind as the least of all, out of hate, who you dramatically speak-out against so you can get your hands on the monies coming out of the collection and tithings plate and get all the calls for speaking engagements. Why, pray tell? You did not even attend school or the seminary; just want to take from God, not knowing what you are talking about—-just a collection of quotes you liked, strung along from each speaker that you heard. That is all that you give the people and block those with the knowledge to interpret, in truth.

Of course, you also aggressively block the people from receiving the knowledge because you are the backbiters, whoremongers, and haters, the gospel readings speak of gossiping, spitting-out false teachings to discourage growth in the Word of God [2 Corinthians 12: 20-21, KJV, “For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.“]. You are not ready! I get the light go on—-a sense of readiness just the other day and I have been immersed in scripture all my life and emerged out of scripture, it seemed, just the other day. I know you must get this renewal of faith feeling, too, after you have, since you felt down under, fighting the good fight, surviving the battles and wars of the good faith life with the help of God. Lord, restore my faith!

When we speak of debt, do you not feel a sense of indebtedness to God, to Jesus, for dying, for you, for the wages of sin is death [Romans 6: 23, KJV, “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”]. Of course, non-profit organizations could get me gain reductions in school loans or write-offs until it is paid—all said and done and I did that when I was a teacher. I was able to write-off school loans because I was a teacher but those school loans are paid, thanks be to God—-the Bachelors degree and the Masters degree. It’s just the Specialist degree and the Doctoral degree, I am in-debt for. It s good to get jobs that you can write-off federal loans, in the federal forgiveness programs.