To See JESUS CHRIST!
Psalm 27:14 “Wait for the LORD; Be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the LORD!” Standing By! By deciding that CHRIST is alive…we hail HIM as KING and none other. By reviving the dead with GOD’s WORD;we then strengthen hearts of all those who hear. By aligning our lives with GOD’s […]
Read More Standing By!Psalm 123:1 “A Song of Ascents. To YOU I lift up my eyes, O YOU WHO are enthroned in the heavens!” In the Instant BEFORE… Around the midnight hour, so a man with weathered clothes and calloused hands stood silently…as statuesque as the rustic, cottage church in the background. As well, in the full glow […]
Read More In the Instant BEFORE…1 Peter 4:10 “As good stewards of GOD’s grace in its various forms, serve one another with the gift each of you has received.” Healing’s Greatest Instant! The Body of CHRIST being thread as a blanket, aligned as Heav’ns fabric, with infinite lines… …combine then to cove the pains of each other with Zeal’s intercession […]
Read More Healing’s Greatest Instant!1 Corinthians 16:13 “Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong!” Based on the Bible! What Refuge, our Fortress and LORD, is to us; What Joy to just rest beneath Sovereignty’s wings! While the world storms away from the shortest of sermons, GOD’s children rejoice and press into HIS arms. So choose you […]
Read More Based on the Bible!Zephaniah 3:17 “The LORD your GOD is in your midst, a victorious warrior. HE will exult over you with joy, HE will be quiet in HIS love, HE will rejoice over you with shouts of joy!” With Both Hands and Whole Heart! The “Forsaking all others!” command filters Dross… the extras, the demons, those little […]
Read More With Both Hands and Whole Heart!1 Corinthians 6:19-20 “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the HOLY SPIRIT within you, whom you have from GOD? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify GOD in your body.” Temporary Housing ! Retreat to belief in JESUS CHRIST, our solid ROCK […]
Read More Temporary Housing!2 Corinthians 10:5b “We are taking every thought captive to the obedience of CHRIST…” Bound…for Heaven! We must stop telling others to “open their minds” or “free up their thoughts” for such claims makes one blind. Blind to the fact that such captive-less thinking leads only to sin. Therefore! Cease from Misleading! For CHRIST’s constraints […]
Read More Bound…for Heaven!Psalm 130:5 I wait patiently for the LORD, my soul expectantly waits, and in HIS WORD do I hope!” The Endless Consuming! As sinners whose stains have been cleansed by CHRIST JESUS; so are we reborn, wholly changed and transformed! Even nothing like we were before! With reflections now different than every past picture; so […]
Read More The Endless Consuming!2 Corinthians 3:18 “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the LORD, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the SPIRIT of the LORD.” Priceless Pressures! The tighter the screws turn the space inbetween is found ever decreasing till ground to a […]
Read More Priceless Pressures!Genesis 1:27 “So GOD created man in HIS own image, in the image of GOD HE created him; male and female HE created them.” Rest Wholly!! The Carpenter finished our temples by completing redemption on Calvary‘s cross; By rising again onto newness of life so we would be saved; no more labeled as lost. Yet […]
Read MoreJohn 10:10 “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly!” Resting’s Repayments! Some steal Rest from the Body as if such was treasure; as though it were gold. They restlessly crave it each hour and thirst for those peaceful to quickly devour. […]
Read More Resting’s Repayments!Colossians 1:13-14 “For HE rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of HIS beloved SON, in WHOM we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins!” Sweet Redemption! The stone — still rolled away — shows our sins are cleansed — now vanished! Calvary‘s cross yet empty stands thus reminding Death […]
Read More Sweet Redemption!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!” CHRIST Lines! Where I have rewritten those roads which were authored, and stepped over the boundaries YOU perfectly drew; then this prayer […]
Read More CHRIST Lines!Psalm 105:2 “Sing to HIM, sing praise to HIM; tell of all HIS wonderful acts!” With Praise Songs Preceding! With “Thank YOU, LORD!” lifted, (my hands as companions), these eyes rose to Heaven; all meeting with CHRIST! For this days’ unveiling had brought with it — blessings! Thus speechless this voice was… rejoining bent knees! […]
Read More With Praise Songs Preceding!Matthew 21:9 “Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying: “Hosanna to the Son of David! ‘Blessed is HE who comes in the name of the LORD!’ Hosanna in the highest!”” With Unfollowed Praise! Great praise comes from graciousness, flowing from vessels whose frames made of clay for HIS […]
Read More With Unfollowed Praise!1 John 2:6 “The one who says he resides in GOD should himself walk just as JESUS walked.” With HIS Blessed Alignment! Every thought we wish captured and wholly aligned on the Crossroad of Faith — Calvary’s tree. Till our only desire is CHRIST’s emptied cross reminding HE’s risen and “living in me!” With what […]
Read More With HIS Blessed Alignment!Galatians 6:3 “For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.” With Sovereign Assessments! The efforts we author and offers as “CHRIST-like” cannot be thus measured by our own perceptions. The path of our MASTER thus matters completely, comparing these steps to HIS given before us. May YOUR presence then. […]
Read More With Sovereign Assessments!Mark 13:5 “And JESUS began to tell them, ‘Be careful and watchful that no one misleads you!’” All Ready — Expectant! The upper barn doors sat contrasting each other. Both faded and worn yet one open, one closed. Its equally weathered gray structure, still silent, sat patiently waiting through decades of storms. Somehow this forgotten […]
Read More All Ready — Expectant!Proverbs 15:30 “The Light in the eyes [of him whose heart is joyful] rejoices the hearts of others, and Good News nourishes the bones.” As HIS Life-Bringing Lights! Beaming messengers, transferring HIS glow; make beacons from tinder and diamonds from coal. Igniting with Love, and fanned by great faith, so our Source creates more […]
Read More As HIS Life-Bringing Lights!Matthew 11:28 “Come to ME, all l you who are weary and heavy burdened, and I will give you rest! And I will give you Rest! The greatest addition to HIS finished work is Rest — thus perfected by CHRIST! The greatest “subtraction” is what our flesh adds to HIS cross…as if we had been […]
Read More And I will give you Rest!Hebrews 12:2 “Let us fix our eyes on JESUS, the Author and Perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before HIM endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of GOD.” Decisively Forward! Embrace the comparison of who you are now with who HE called […]
Read More Decisively Forward!Proverbs 4:25 “Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you!” Abandoning Yesterday’s Battles! Are we not sinners restaining our face with the sins of the past which no flesh can erase? Isn’t every day’s battle a constant reminder of being our own worst reflection? This — hell’s hosts — keep on […]
Read More Abandoning Yesterday’s Battles!Jeremiah 30:17 “For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the LORD…” On HIS Waves of Restoration! Found missing at sea as a mystery, without secured bindings or crew; so the captain-less vessel for decades adrift bore damage from weathering storms. Through the harshest of elements cast, through brutal […]
Read More On HIS Waves of Restoration!Matthew 6:33 “But seek ye first the kingdom of GOD, and HIS righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you!” Come LORD JESUS! The wicked deceptions surrounding our senses grow greater the closer HIS presence draws near. Delusions man-made,manufactured as lies, are like nets in our skies to hide what was once clear. […]
Read More Come LORD JESUS!Revelation 3:20 “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears MY voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with ME.” Else: Standing By! Opened doors cannot be shut when GOD’s will compels them solely… and closed doors cannot remain when HIS voice proclaims “Come […]
Read More Else: Standing By!Matthew 4:19 “Come, follow ME,” JESUS said, “and I will make you fishers of men.” THE Fisherman’s Few! Unschooled by Man’s textbooks the Worthy were gathered; heart-picked by CHRIST‘s yet unscarred hands. With rough edges, thus raw, were they drawn by design. as HIS Called! Yea, the righteously chosen. Sent out amongst wolves to the […]
Read More THE Fisherman’s Few!Philippians 4:13 “I can do all things through CHRIST WHO strengthens me.” With CHRIST, the Solid ROCK! “Be weary!” each attacker cries with vain remarks — degrading. Ever tripping, clipping, fighting every step I take — with CHRIST. “Now stay down!” their shouts keep rising, “No one’s coming for your soul!” “Your Faith is worthlessly […]
Read More With CHRIST, the Solid ROCK!Psalm 61:4 “I will make YOUR tent my resting-place for ever: I will keep myself under the cover of YOUR wings! Selah.” Our Resting Place! Selah! CHRIST’s sacrifice cleansed our faces. Thus spared Shame’s disgraces, Compassion excels. Without Self’s exception, HE mends all the Broken! So are we, by sovereign affections, made well! For Eternity’s […]
Read More Our Resting Place! Selah!Philippians 2:3 “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride, but in humility consider others more important than yourselves.” For: Given Grace! Does knocking one down make another stand stand taller? Shall such sabotaged actions unhindered — prevail? Do their “Victories” proclaimed ever fade — overusing deplorable tactics? Please tell me they fail! So […]
Read More For: Given Grace!Psalm 105:4 “Seek the LORD and HIS strength; Seek HIS face continually!” By the Light of HIS Face! The powers of darkness slither through symbols, entwining themselves as though centers of Life. As the snake on the staff was uplifted by Moses, its usage — prolonged — then became idolized. Such icons and images steal […]
Read More By the Light of HIS Face!
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