Greetings!

I greet you all in the matchless name of Jesus Christ! My name is Rev. Carlton E. Neely and I am honored and pleased that you have come to share in God’s plan for me, you and quite frankly all of us. I have been in ministry since Dec 31 2000 when I finally accepted my calling from God and I was ordained Nov 28 2004. I felt a pull to come to ministry at an early age but I of course like others decided to fight it. Have you ever seen those contraptions where a mother has her kid tethered to a harness so that she can pull them back when she wants too? That harness was also meant to keep the child connected to her. Well that was basically what I felt God did with me, tethered me, pulling me back when I got as far as He felt I should go. I am forever grateful for that spiritual harness because it kept me from a lot more stuff that I would have gotten into.

I decided to start blogging after feeling the Lord calling me to a different platform to put the many things that He had given me to share. I would write poems here and there and I would write sermonettes in the notes section on my social media page and for a season I was content with that, feeling that those who were meant to see it would happen upon it eventually. I was content to keep myself hidden or better yet keep hidden what God gifted me with. As I was fasting and praying God dealt with me and placed it on my heart to take what He had given me and to go further. I was not being a good steward of the gifts He had given me and I was going to be held accountable for not doing what He said, and I didn’t want that!

The purpose of this blog actually has nothing to do with me; it is about all of us. This blog is meant to reach those who are lost, who are hurting, who feel alone, who know God but their faith is on empty sometimes, those who are spiritually bankrupt, those taken advantage of, those who have learned to be content with the good and the bad, those who are half-stepping, those running from God’s call on their life, those hurt by people in the church or those who just would like to spiritually grow more. I am tired of seeing people being spiritually abused, taken advantage of and led astray by others. I want as many people to be free as I (with the help of God of course) possibly can help to be free, and the only way I know how to do that is to show them Jesus. I’m just a lantern being used to help people find the way out of this dark sinful world. Please take my hand, let us walk on that road called Straight, even through the valley of the shadow of death together, knowing that we will get to that glorious destination that we long for, which is to see Jesus and to experience eternal life….