Dionne L. Brown: Blog

These are my opinions, and I have experienced these things, so I am sharing, some of you maybe much more smarter than I, or just as naive, but this information will bless someone, that is my hope. We all want to get to the point of courtship and eventually marriage. Take a look and just think on these things. God Bless


1. Establishing a friendship first will help you learn more about this person character and help you to determine, if its something you really want to pursue.

2. Don't allow your heart to get involved too quickly, whatever you are feeling is an emotion of many things(newness,excitement), pray for discernment!

3. Don't make your home dating central! No matter how tired he claims to be, he can rest before he comes to p/up for the date! Your sofa is not a date!(wanting to chill and relax at your house is not a date)

4. If he won't take you out in public, he doesn't need to see you in private either! That's shady!

5. When in a relationship your guy, if he is really a [...]

For the wages of SIN is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord Romans 6:23. For Sin is the sting that results in death, and the law gives sin its power. 1Corin 15:56. Once you were dead because of your disobedience and your many sins Ephesians 2:1. Something had to die....What has died in your life because of Sin? In most of these scriptures, the Bible is speaking of a Spiritual Death, or if you look deeper, it could be the death of something in your life, Relationships, ministries; it could be anything at all. Also consider because of the Sin in our life, what have we missed out on because of sin and disobedience? I shudder to think where I would be right now had I not let my flesh have its way and I had listen and obey the word of God. Sin is all around us, but it doesn't mean we have to participate. Something Had To Die, I think of King David, Bathsheba and Uriah. While having a conversation with a Pastor friend of mine, he brought to light, [...]

Just a couple of days ago a friend and I were on the phone, talking about a situation that my family is going through, very heavy and energy consuming. She just kept saying, God your people are hurting and we don't understand, why are so many of your people going through and hurting like this, it turned into a very heavy whaling coming out of her spirit, behind this situation, I felt her pain, because its also my pain. I started to think, yes God what is going on, why are so many of your people going through? I don't consider myself anything like the Israelites who worshiped other gods and murmured and complained about any and everything. Well now, I know I do complain when things don't go my way, and I have worshiped other gods so to speak, for instance, making men and relationships more important, than the relationship i have with God. We can make our own problems and then we want to cry out to God why, lawd why me, when all we had to do was seek the Kingdom of God first (Matt 6:33), [...]

I once had a man tell me, that it was hard for him to believe that someone wanted to care for him or even think about him. I thought is was a line he was using, but then i started hearing other women saying this about the men they were dating or just breaking up with. Why is it, that there are men out there, that can't believe a good woman, can love and appreciate them. I get the fact that, in past relationships, men and women alike have been hurt, abused or mistreated. My only issue here is, I'm not the woman before me, I'm me and if you don't give yourself a chance to get to know me, really see who I am, not only are you short changing yourself, you doing the same to me. Obviously I saw, enough in you to make and take the time to want to get to know. OK, so we all can't be dating the same wounded man, I really want to know, what is it with men, that make them very skeptical about the new woman, why won't you give her a real chance? You have to know that shes not your ex-wife, your [...]