The Grant of GOD!

Philippians 1:29-30 For it has been granted to you on behalf of CHRIST not only to believe in HIM, but also to suffer for HIM,  30 since you are encountering the same struggle you saw I had, and now hear that I still have.” The Grant of GOD! A blessing, a privilege  and wholly a […]

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Carry On!

Galatians 6:2 “Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of CHRIST.” Carry On! When significant weightis removed from one’sshoulders;catching them so offguard with suchsudden release… Then the freedom itsabsence creates iso’erwhelming;Soon tears beginflowing with joyousIncrease! In this hour foundscarred but now helpedwith our burdens;may each wearied soulembrace CHRIST’slightened load! […]

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What Death to Self Births!

Ephesians 6:24 “Grace to all who love our LORD JESUS CHRIST with an undying love.” What Death to Self Births! What love is CHRIST’s which bought our souls; What grace HE brings our journey! What Hope – GOD’s guarantee – now ours to grow in with HIS Mercy! Thus all begins where Death precedes; with […]

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Happy Thanks-Making Day!

Proverbs 11:20 “Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered. Happy Thanks-Making Day! Today is HIS day  giving thanks, lifting praise. Every dawn brings us this gift to give back.  So Thanks-Making is our commission assigned! Therefore water those round you until HE returns!  As HIServant bent on fulfilling […]

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Keep Climbing!

2 Corinthians 5:20 “Therefore, we are ambassadors for CHRIST, GOD making HIS appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of CHRIST,, be reconciled to GOD!”  Keep Climbing! With gladness of soul to see life in another who struggles to breathe over Evil’s oppression… …so Joy fills my heart as a witness of healing which  […]

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With Truth’s Vision!

Psalm 32:8 “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with MY eye upon you.” With Truth’s Vision! Faith’s sight and Sight’s faith are opposing perspectives. Uncommon threads, daily transposed, confusion creates  to some souls.   Sight rests in Self bu  Faith within CHRIST! Thus Disappointment  reigns […]

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As Dawn’s First Reflection!

Psalm 57:8 “Wake up, my soul! Wake up, harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.” As Dawn’s First Reflection! Welcome to the Daylight whoseMAKER shines brightest;WHOSE offspring reflect HIMwith hourly intention! Yea, those who arise with HISpraise on their tonguesalthough trials awaken aswell bringing pain. So lifting HIS NAME is thePlace of complaint do […]

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HIS Prevailing Winds!

Matthew 8:27 “And the men marveled, saying, “What sort of man is this, that even winds and sea obey HIM? HIS Prevailing Winds! What a glorious dawn this newDay now brings…though trialsyet press; although Painstill confronts Life! How great is our GOD,Therefore! Lift HIS praise…For this morning has shownHE brings Light to our eyes! Our […]

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Word Mapping!

Proverbs 16:24 “Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.” Word Mapping! Language choices andchanges we make;as our preference to“dummy things down”. With shortcuts and slang,with words and withblanks, so altered ourspeeches are found. Both elders and youthdisagreeing;as to which verbiage ismost preferred. So Meaning getsdropped, Understandingis lost […]

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With Pride Ending Praises!

James 4:6 “But HE gives more grace! Therefore it says, “GOD opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” With Pride Ending Praises! Single us out, LORD… from Pride’s congregation. Remove all our steps from such selfish communion.  Till in great silence of Prayer most fervent, we only see YOU…just ahead all through Life. […]

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With Homecoming Praise!

Philippians 3:20-21 “But our citizenship is in heaven! And we eagerly await a SAVIOUR from there, the LORD JESUS CHRIST,  21 WHO, by the power that enables HIM to bring everything under HIS control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like HIS glorious body!” (In devoted and loving memory of Alberta […]

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Cross Walk Transparencies!

John 13:15 “For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you!” Cross Walk Transparencies! To stay consistent, to stay the course; To keep one’s composure…takes drive. Disciplined Zeal and  purposed Intent  are then both required  …through Life.  But what of those torches who’ve faded to […]

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That Chosen Hill!

John 1:13 “Who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of GOD.” That Chosen Hill! On a hill far away  Yet closer than home  stood a Cross on which HE chose to save.  When nearest was Death with its fractured unrest, there I […]

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Promotion Day!

Galatians 4:1 “What I am saying is that as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, although he is the owner of everything.”  Promotion Day! This training ground time is book-ended for learning; To know “whose we are”,  such knowledge — securing. Growing in Wisdom, GODly purposed for […]

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Sailing Still…Until CHRIST!

Revelation 1:3 “Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near.” Sailing Still…Until CHRIST! “Land Ho!” cried the sailor, both wearied and broken. With hopes beyond battered; sails tattered and torn. “Land Ho!” […]

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When Aligned with HIS Zeal! 

Romans 12:11: “Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the LORD!” When Aligned with HIS Zeal!  How often are motions “gone through” while expanding one’s smile as though seeming to care?  How subtle Deception is often “upfront” so that few see beyond it to find any truth! Reality then requires our […]

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Faith’s Food Critics!

Matthew 4:4 “But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of GOD.’” Faith’s Food Critics! Feed not the flesh, just the SPIRIT for by grace are we saved through Faith.  Which is not birthed by Self but from GOD WHO compels […]

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Before, then After!

Matthew 16:24 “Then JESUS told HIS disciples, “If anyone would come after ME, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow ME.” Before, then After! Please do not relieve those whose future potential will intersect such who believe in what’s false.  Yea LORD! May it be their lives reach full extension to […]

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Dually Purposed! 

2 Timothy 4:2 – “Preach the WORD; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.” Dually Purposed!   GODly repentance leads unto sorrow yet Calvary’s remembrance brings Joy. So leading one into Confession’s remorse comes before a soul knows HIM as LORD!  Though hurt and offense often comes with […]

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Waiting for Five!

1 Thessalonians 4:18 “Therefore encourage one another with these words!” Waiting for Five! A gathering of numbers, of such kindred souls, with reunions of hearts once again… What blessed embrace as each greets one another…on streetsmade gold…found in Heaven! So three went ahead by our SAVIOUR’s recall to serve HIMin HIS presence — rejoicing! With […]

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Releasing Obedience!

Proverbs 4:26 “Give careful thought to the paths for your feet…and be steadfast in all your ways. Releasing Obedience! Take every thought captive in obedience to CHRIST WHOSE command bids our hearts…ahead of sacrifices.  With so fervent a filter then serve we the LORD…obeying HIM without Delay’s compromises.   For we are HIServants called higher — […]

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Cross and the Lost…Carrying!

Luke 15:7 “Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance!” Cross and the Lost…Carrying! Pick up your cross then walk in HIS steps; without skipping those muddied or hardened.   Seek out the lost who  don’t go to […]

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The Battle Worth Losing!

2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore, if anyone is in CHRIST, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come!” The Battle Worth Losing! A most timely Demise is the death of oneself.  Without any delay nor with Pride’s hesitation.  Where wholesale surrender unveils the soul as one’s stance becomes prostrate… […]

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Do you recall Romans 7:24? 

11/4/25 Devotional: A Wretch set Free! Do you recall Romans 7:24?  “O wretched man that I am: who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” The Roman custom for a murderers’ punishment was to chain the dead body to the murderer until both were dead.  What a horrific visual and experience that was […]

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Choosing Both!

Hebrews 4:12a “For the WORD of GOD is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword…” Choosing Both! HIS WORD is complete yet ongoing still in regards to this life.  The Bible keeps telling us what happens next yet some leave it closed. Since HIS Scripture is (both) living and active then choose…to be also!  […]

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Tuning Into…

Colossians 3:2 “Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth.” Tuning Into… Searching the news as though peace increases the longer you watch…Listening to everyone’s view as though that will give you the clearest vision…Acting as though through such efforts you’ll decide the outcome…So we are lulled into […]

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By HIS Sovereign Call!

Psalm 27:14 “Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.” By HIS Sovereign Call! In Tragedy’s “accident” which had occurredin my life as a very young man…there a soul was transferred into Heaven…and in doing so left me behind. Having written a number of memoriesand reviewed every one several […]

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