Drawing Near to JESUS!

In the old one room schoolhouses, there was a usually single coal stove that was meant to warm the place.

If you were at the back, you wouldn’t gain as much warmth as those closer to the fire.

So! In like manner, get closer to GOD and HE will draw closer to you right now!!

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The Pencil’s Dream!

A pencil wears down and is thrown away. But we, like a pencil wearing down, dream of transformation when we are made to be like HIM in glory!

So let the graphite flow through each day of your life pointing others to JESUS!

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With Finish Line Praises!

We live this life often with our eyes just on the Present. The challenge is such views are looking backwards at past mistakes.

Time is both lost and wasted through such gazes. So! This devotional is encouragement to look forward and upward!

Daily in JESUS!

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Surrender’s Ascension!

We, in our oh so limited Wisdom, often assume the acquisition of Knowledge is all that’s needed for promotion.

But it’s so much more than what we could ever achieve!

Surrender’s Ascension puts us in a kneeling position as a reminder of WHO promotes us!

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For the Glory that Awaits!

What will we first see when we enter Heaven? Unless it’s at the Rapture where we meet HIM in the skies!

So much that couldn’t be explained, let alone in greater detail!

So let us serve JESUS and others well here as we long for the sights of Heaven!

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With Testifying Power!

What we are privileged to do is share HIS NAME daily. Our flesh fears death in this life to certain degrees.

But as we serve, focused on Heaven, then any concern for our earthly life greatly is diminished by HIS guarantee of eternal life!

So let us preach faithfully without fear!

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Fearlessly Trusting!

There are countless souls who preach CHRIST without funding nor comfort but who risk intense persecution daily, even death.

Yet some will get offended by simple words as though they too are “sacrificing” for their all.

May our love for GOD and others find us serving HIM without fear!

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Beyond Liquid!

Ever gone to a church where the music is good and the people are nice but the only thing taught week after week…are children’s Sunday school lessons?

We are called to STUDY and eat the meat of GOD’s WORD so as to fight the good fight of Faith, doing spiritual warfare!

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What is YOUR will?

When we move emotionally, Error can occur. When we jump the gun so to speak and pretend to step in for GOD, the worst can happen! We do not operate in fear but we do move in faith WHEN….HE releases us!

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Be as The WORD!

To be like CHRIST, we must walk and talk like HE did. We must mean what we say and be truthful. HE has promised us good if we’ll seek first the kingdom of GOD, amen?

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Bringing out the Gray!

John 1:7 “But if we walk in the light, as HE is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of JESUS HIS SON cleanses us from all sin.” Bringing out the Gray! The LORD as our Shepherdknows all our diseases andhears every confession ofsin which still grieves HIM. With sadness […]

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Our Race for The ONE!

We all start at the beginning with birth and we all finish when HE calls us home.

But HE has a perfect plan and race designed for us to do HIS will!

So we don’t compete against others but against unseen powers which would delay us from doing work for JESUS.

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The Constant Watch!

Revelation 4:11 “Worthy are YOU, our LORD and GOD, to receive glory and honor and power, for YOU created all things, and by YOUR will they existed and were created.” The Constant Watch! Promises “made and kept” linethe whole “history” of CHRIST.All HIS earthly life’s travelingsand those before Time. So without one exception,what HE’s said…transpires!All […]

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With HIS Whetsone WORD!

Hebrews 4:12 “For the WORD of GOD is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.” With HIS Whetsone WORD! What if one’s point of view is so dulled that nothing feels […]

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Crosspoint Reunions!

Deuteronomy 31:6 “Be strong and courageous! Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the LORD your GOD WHO goes with you. HE will not leave you or forsake you.” Crosspoint Reunions! At Heaven’s crosspointwhere we first saw the CHRISTby surrendering willand our own very lives… ‘Twas there where we learnedof […]

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Paying Perfect Attention!

Isaiah 26:3 “You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on YOU, because he trusts in YOU!” Paying Perfect Attention! Every word has a weight,and its meaning might change…both depending what contextgets “lost in translation”. So casual thoughts riskus far more than realized…for who can – perfection –obtain without trials? Begin thus with […]

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