To See JESUS CHRIST!
1 Corinthians 13:7 “Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” Leaving the Ledge! Sin’s horrors should cause us to quickly recoil from its clutches. Yet! Many are found who still linger. At the edge of a cliff looking downward in darkness, they stand. Yet! Not steadfast! Hence, unstable ground! […]
Read More Leaving The Ledge!2 Corinthians 12:9 “And HE said to me, “MY GRACE is sufficient for you, for MY strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of CHRIST may REST upon me! The Greatest Grants! Grant grace be your own, oh penitent servant; confessing your sins […]
Read More The Greatest Grants!Psalm 145:21 “My mouth will speak the praise of the LORD and all flesh will bless HIS holy NAME forever and ever!” Rejoice without Ceasing! Make my wants and needs align just with YOUR thoughts. Yea, this broken heart consume within YOUR presence! Divinely thus distract this soul till all my sight beholds YOU… and […]
Read More Rejoice without Ceasing!James 5:16 “Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.” Prayer-Filled Robes! The prayers of Intention and Intensity linger as light wool which the rains cause to cling to the Body. Thus petitions […]
Read More Prayer-Filled Robes!2 Corinthians 3:18 “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the LORD, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the SPIRIT of the LORD.” Gapless Binding! The LORD is my JESUS;my JESUS is GOD…and the gift of HIS Spiritindwells me. Sewn […]
Read More Gapless Binding!Proverbs 3:6 “In all your ways acknowledge HIM, and HE will make your paths straight!” LEFT: To our Own devices The direction is such to those rightly corrected; divided from Truth and abandoned fo Self… Whose face turned to straying from HIS — disobeying till wholly betraying HIS words, written — red. Yet how blatant […]
Read More LEFT: To our Own devices!Ecclesiastes 5:20 “They seldom reflect on the days of their life, because GOD keeps them occupied with gladness of heart.” Disrobing Regret! Regret is a well worn and drenched blanket…with huge holes in it. On only the coldest of proverbial winter nights it is pulled out…and then thrown atop a most grieving soul. Thread bare […]
Read More Disrobing Regret!Proverbs 18:22 “He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.” GOD’s Blessing: my Wife! More beautiful today than yesterday; more precious than rubies or diamonds; is she who’s continually gifted to me by the LORD of Creation. Yea, priceless indeed! Reading thoughts as if texts born within me, […]
Read More GOD’s Blessing; my Wife!Revelation 19:16 “HE was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and HIS NAME is called The WORD of GOD! Wearing HIS WORD! With papers in hand so are soldiers commissioned: instructions for battle with acts to perform. With tasks “checking off” as their list grows no shorter, so does such assignments become part of […]
Read More Wearing HIS WORD!2 Corinthians 10:17 “But, “Let the one who boasts boast in the LORD.” The Pride of CHRIST! Pride is a coin double sided, two – faced. With Self esteem, it looks up yet with Greed it looks down. When humbled, it blesses; When not, it’s greed filled. When Godly, it’s gracious but unchecked, it’s loveless. […]
Read More The Pride of CHRIST!Matthew 24:46 “Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing!” Just CHRIST! So much of my steadfast belief comes by Faith. Coupling verses and prayer, so stand I in CHRIST. Not as one with all knowledge and answers for all…but as someone decidedly fixed upon GOD. As tomorrow’s injustice […]
Read More Just CHRIST!Deuteronomy 33:27a “The eternal GOD is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms!” HIS Waiting Arms! JESUS has waited with patienceo’erwhelming! Abundant — HIS mercyand grace are displayed. Though HIS wrath against sin is in ourthoughts — delayed. Yet! HIS timing isfaultless and flawlessly set. What loving constraint HE has shownwhich has saved […]
Read More HIS Waiting Arms!John 1:42 “And he brought him to JESUS. Now when JESUS looked at him, HE said, “You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas” (which is translated, A Stone). Peter > Simon Known truth is HIS WORD; both written and spoken. Known lies come from foes; most notably satan. As such, […]
Read More Peter > Simon!1 Corinthians 1:3 “Grace be unto you, and peace, from GOD our FATHER, and from the LORD JESUS CHRIST!” With GOD’s greetings of Grace! To the gathered assembly,Peace be to you.To the saints in your house,may GOD’s blessings abound.Grace to you all in the NAMEof our LORD! So count it all joy to be HIS,CHRIST’s […]
Read More With GOD’s greetings of Grace!Ephesians 6:13 “Therefore take up the whole armor of GOD, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand!” Standing, UP! The Stand is a marker, well more than some line. It’s a point of defense by the Steadfast. What’s telling is often most others have none. […]
Read More Standing, UP!Psalm 85:13 “Righteousness will go before HIM to prepare the way for HIS steps!” HIS Way Makers! As John was created to forge forward CHRIST’s pathway, so too are we destined to preach of HIS steps. To speak well of HIS coming return from the Heavens, thus have we been purposed; the “road ahead” preaching. […]
Read More HIS Way Makers!Psalm 91:7-8 “A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you. Only with your eyes shall you look, and see the reward of the wicked.” When Justice Stands! In Justice, we find the payment for crimes. Injustice we see often happens instead. So […]
Read More When Justice Stands!Psalm 34;18 “The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves such as have a contrite spirit!” 2CJC! / Individual Renewals “To see JESUS CHRIST” requires an open heart, open ears and eyes, and an expectancy which draws one to seek HIM with daily zeal. “To see JESUS CHRIST” is an […]
Read More Individual Renewals!Psalm 27:4 “One thing I have asked from the LORD, that I shall seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life; to behold the beauty of the LORD and to meditate in His temple.” With HIS Feathers Unfurled! The unfurled fan of kaleidoscope colors fills each […]
Read More With HIS Feathers Unfurled!Psalm 27:8 “You have said, “Seek MY face.” My heart says to YOU, “YOUR face, LORD, do I seek!” From a Child’s View… One’s view equates to Perspective, doesn’t it? So whenever our sight is hindered, then context is lost. Therefore! Our hope is inseparably entwined with Vision, even when we close our eyes. Perhaps […]
Read More From a Child’s View…Isaiah 55:11 ”So shall MY word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to ME void, But it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it!” WORD Feast! Blessed reassurance is found by reciting… repeating the words of our SAVIOUR: CHRIST JESUS. […]
Read More WORD Feast!Matthew 25:23 “His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master!” Divinely Distracted! LORD JESUS, our prayers are lifted this hour, before YOU our praise comes entwined! In the midst of Life’s madness, […]
Read More Divinely Distracted!Revelation 19:1 “After this I heard what sounded like a large crowd of people in heaven. The people were saying, “Hallelujah! Victory, glory, and power belong to our GOD! Shout to The LORD! Sing of HIS praises; Yes!Lift up HIS NAME!Pour out of your soul,even empty your heart! Share the heights of suchworship — with […]
Read More Shout to The LORD!Psalm 18:28 “For it is YOU WHO light my lamp; the LORD my GOD lightens my darkness!” Those Souls! The beauty of the LORD is to darkness — repulsive. HIS grace filled aroma — a stench — to its senses. So those clothed with shadows: who loathe HIS glow’s presence… find — foul — every […]
Read More Those Souls!Proverbs 19:23 “The fear of the LORD leads to life, and whoever has it rests satisfied; he will not be visited by harm.” Resting Satisfied! Walking on marbles is better than eggshells. “Unless solid footing is surely required”; so say those on physical paths. But streets through the mind counter all of this logic: trying […]
Read More Resting Satisfied!Matthew 10:38 “And whoever does not take their cross and follow ME is not worthy of ME.” The Whole of CHRIST! Meet me where the Crossonce stood upon Golgotha:the rock which bore HIS spotlessblood and all our weight of sin. Hanging there within our place,HE was a nailed note.HIS story rings aloud each hour!JESUS died […]
Read More The Whole of CHRIST!Psalm 63:8 “My soul clings to YOU; YOUR right hand upholds me.” A Psalmist’s Prayer LORD, May these fingers inscribe that which comes from YOUR heart — every line. May those reading partake of one page or one poem at least…while there’s Time. And within that devotion, may one verse be held in their hearts […]
Read More A Psalmist’s PrayerPhilippians 1:9-10 “And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of CHRIST…” Given: CALVARY! What blessed release; what relief brings our SAVIOUR! Though once crushed and defaced, yet […]
Read More GIVEN: CALVARY!Ecclesiastes 3:11 “HE has made everything beautiful in its time. HE has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what GOD has done from beginning to end.” Forward Engineering! By GOD’s weaving of every threadknown and unknown;using every strand found withthose undiscovered…is not (as some say) HIS “reverse engineering”.Far from […]
Read More Forward Engineering!
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