To See JESUS CHRIST!
Psalms 23:2 “HE makes me to lie down in green pastures; HE leads me beside the still waters.” Redemption’s Rest! How glorious GOD’s power; how great are HIS comforts! Still! True heavenly rest begins only in Glory. So all earthly kingdoms — FROM HIS — stand apart; all pleasures in life pale at best next […]
Read More Redemption’s Rest!Isaiah 25:1 “LORD, you are my GOD; I will exalt YOU and praise YOUR NAME, for in perfect faithfulness YOU have done wonderful things, things planned long ago.” The Day of Faith! It’s just as GOD said through HIS WORD and the prophets. It’s just as HE wrote through HIS scribes for today. HE gave […]
Read More The Day of Faith!Psalms 86:11 “Teach me your way, LORD, that I may rely on YOUR faithfulness; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear YOUR NAME!” Just…in HIS Direction! Relent from pursuing the sins of the flesh. Reject such backslidden and deviant paths. Instead reaching upwards, grasp Zeal with your heart and repeat every movement with […]
Read More Just…in HIS Direction!Micah 6:8 “HE has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly WITH your GOD?” Still Walking! Error recovery trumps Failure avoidance where we stray from HIS Rest trying best in our strength. So “getting back […]
Read More Still Walking!Proverbs 4:25 “Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.” Relentlessly Repeating the Process! Giving glory to GOD and praise to the LORD is most done not with mouth nor with action. Instead! In our thoughts there are spans without chains to both worship and pray…endlessly! But the devil is […]
Read More Relentlessly Repeating the Process!Psalm 34:14 “The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.” Broken for HIS Service! Whose hands and whose feet does the LORD use for service? What mind and which soul bends its will to HIS ways? Yea, those who were broken yet now has HE mended!! AND! Others in process […]
Read More Broken for HIS Service!John 16:33 “I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world!” This Greatest Jubilee! With great jubilee and rejoicing, so HIS enemies “think” they’re now winning. But just like before at the Flood and the […]
Read More This Greatest Jubilee!Philippians 2:13 “For it is GOD WHO works in you, both to will and to work for HIS good pleasure.” Through it All…with CHRIST! When even the need Obligations require is too heavy a burden — increasing each week… …when even the air which our lungs would inhale is too heavy a weight without any […]
Read More Through it All…with CHRIST!Proverbs 28:14 “Blessed is the one who fears the LORD always, but whoever hardens his heart will fall into calamity.” Beyond Every Layer! All testing, failure, healing and experience grant us armor which serves as Life’s buffer. Calloused layers of lessons we’ve learned serve this purpose; protecting our hearts as footprints continue. So! Take all […]
Read More Beyond Every Layer!Psalm 82:3 “Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute!” Attending to Life! Are we still found faithful in small things after larger ones fill our lives? For instance, would we minimize the life of a tiny, baby animal that’s injured just to make sure we […]
Read More Attending to Life!Acts 20:24 “But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the LORD JESUS, to testify to the gospel of the grace of GOD.” Final Here, First There! Oh the privilege of knowing our trials […]
Read More Final Here, First There!Psalm 139:14 “I praise YOU, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are YOUR works; my soul knows it very well.” Uniquely Designed! Many aren’t singers for JESUS; many others play no instrument for praise. Even more paint no pictures nor write words uplifting, still GOD says, “MY Child! You ARE gifted!” What the […]
Read More Uniquely Designed!Job 4:4 “YOUR words have steadied those who stumbled; YOU have braced the knees that were buckling.” Un-Automating Stumbling! The works of the flesh and the deviloften coincide in the same steps. Where our flesh tends to go, so the devil will make such paths those of “least resistance”. Add in the tools of the […]
Read More Un-Automating Stumbling!1 John 2:6 “Whoever says they abide in HIM should (even must!) walk in the same way in which HE walked.” IN Steps! As Heaven’s witnessto all we walk through,so HE sees those thingswhich birth Prayer. Then lifting to Heavenboth trials and painsso joined are our criesby HIS care. IN steps HE purposedthere felt is […]
Read More IN Steps!Ephesians 5:1-2 “Therefore be imitators of GOD, as beloved children. And walk in love, as CHRIST loved us and gave HIMSELF up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to GOD.” HIS Promised Signs! When a personal rainbow reflects down from Heaven, a soul MUST take notice. Yet not just with the passing of glances… […]
Read More HIS Promised Signs!1 Timothy 2:5 “For there is ONE GOD, and there is one mediator between GOD and men, the man CHRIST JESUS.” Pointing ONE Way! The “round-about way” when one answers… paints a picture of wandering thoughts. As randomized paths which have countless, “blind turns” thus misled are such souls from our GOD. So let your […]
Read More Pointing ONE Way!Philippians 2:5 “Let this mind be in you which was also in CHRIST JESUS…” Picking Up the Pace! Forgive the Forgive-less withforgiveness instead. Give grace to the Gracelesswith most gracious steps. Yea, make way for the LORD asour Waymaker KING… by surrendering good to themjust as HE did! As HIServants re-forfeiting our own reactions to […]
Read More Picking Up the Pace!Nahum 1:13 “So now, I will break his yoke bar from upon you, and I will tear off your shackles.” Once Prisoners! What has already happened shall History ever be; intersection points of footprints where Time’s passage makes them seen. And try as though we may to sweep away their many outlines, they cannot be […]
Read More Once Prisoners!John 8:12 “Then JESUS again spoke to them, saying, “I am the LIGHT of the world; he who follows ME will not walk in the darkness, but will have the LIGHT of life.” Boundless Beacons! A constant light leads faithfully while a part-time beacon misdirects. Shining without interruption attracts attention while intermittent voids create confusion. […]
Read More Boundless Beacons!John 10:27 “MY sheep hear MY voice, and I know them, and they follow ME.” One’s Godly Goal! Where speech becomes thought, one’s talking subsides. Where waiting is favored, one’s actions decline. Where Fervor expands, one’s Zeal is heightened. Where Hunger is daily, one’s Faith is enlightened. Yea, think on “these things” and pause with […]
Read More One’s Godly Goal!Ephesians 4:24 “And to put on the new self, created after the likeness of GOD in true righteousness and holiness.” Reflections in Heaven! Oh Anticipation! Your excitement soon shall meet its joyous end. In this earthly life, your longings to see CHRIST will be surely filled! Eternally satisfied, even overwhelmed, so our journey shall be […]
Read More Reflections in Heaven!John 17:6a “I have revealed YOUR NAME to those YOU have given ME out of the world.” In, Never Of! Separate ingredients sometimes co-exist. Others immediately conflict, ignite or dissolve into one. But such oppositions aren’t worthless or always meant to be avoided. For instance, if fuel was never sparked, no combustion would take place. […]
Read More In, Never Of!1 Timothy 2:1 “First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people…” HIS Pilgrim’s Prayers! Those “pressing in” prayer often weep for the Body with such tears as pre-requisite Faith. A cost then of sacrifice (which isn’t small) thus combines to produce such outpourings. So let none […]
Read More HIS Pilgrim’s Prayers!Exodus 9:16 “But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you MY power, so that MY NAME may be proclaimed in all the earth.” Meant Two! We follow HIM WHO knew no sin; whose grace alone sufficient… …WHO took our blame upon HIS NAME; each stain and act — malicious. So keep […]
Read More Meant Two!Psalm 32:8 “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you. Following HIS Directions! Going back to Egypt wasn’t in GOD’s plans. But the demonic used human voices to claim that it was. CHRIST fulfilled all the law at Calvary but satan still […]
Read More Following HIS Directions!2 Corinthians 2:15 “For we are the aroma of CHRIST to GOD among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing…” Fit for The KING! There’s a feeling of bittersweet emotionswhen we think of HIS face AND the visage of souls. Those gladdened to see their REDEEMER at last and those left […]
Read More Fit for The KING!1 Timothy 2:5 “For there is one GOD, and ONE mediator between GOD and men, the man CHRIST JESUS…” Crossover Chasms! Chasms call for bridges to discover their gaps…to fill in each void with so firm a foundation. Not just for crossing the Jordan but to build out a path like was shown at that […]
Read More Crossover Chasms!Psalm 37:39 “The salvation of the righteous is from the LORD; HE is their stronghold in the time of trouble.” HIS Coming Rescue! May our hearts CHRIST first follow so these steps will align with each footprint HE left…both behind and before. To remind us of rescue in past times as well as HIS promise […]
Read More HIS Coming Rescue!John 16:4a “But I have told you these things so that when their hour comes, you will remember that I told you about them.” The Security of Scripture! You have every hold on me; the mystery of YOUR grace unfolding. So these hands I lift with trust in THEE…WHOSE promises — unfailing! Now insect infestations […]
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