To See JESUS CHRIST!
Matthew 5:16 “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your FATHER WHO is in heaven.” Making Faith’s Footprints! Days dawning and fading while life presses onward… …remind of our “blade of grass” lives being temporal. Thus with moments in time to give GOD every breath… …let […]
Read More Making Faith’s Footprints!Matthew 7:14 “For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.” The “Intolerant” Few! The tolerant gap bears a chasm for fools whose space decries limits, constraints and set rules. Yet excess unhindered called “fairness for all” ends the same for those claiming […]
Read More The “Intolerant” Few!1 John 2:6 “Whoever says he abides in HIM ought to walk in the same way in which HE walked.” With Face Time Faith! May Self’s face time bewithout excess exceptreflecting CHRIST. May each mirror showthe LORD in us to everypasserby. May we “leave” thisworld ahead of Time bycasting flesh behind us. Yea, may all […]
Read More With Face Time Faith!1 Corinthians 3:11 “For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is JESUS CHRIST.” Footprint Foundations! Being keenly aware of our spiritual battles is first and foremost a foundational need. For those who sit solely in darkness discouraged are yet unaware of the LIGHT WHO is coming! This life […]
Read More Footprint Foundations!Matthew 14:31 “JESUS immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?” Doubt Relief! None can reach down to their own drowning Self and taste rescue outside of Faith’s height. For those believing like waves tossed both forwards and back cannot see […]
Read More Doubt Relief!Isaiah 55:6 “Seek the LORD while HE may be found; call on HIM while HE is near!” Before The Finish Line! In Hell, there’s no repentance; in Heaven, there’s only praise. Yet here while Life continues, the height of both remains. For HIS Joy comes through this pairing; giving all through whole surrender! So repent […]
Read More Before The Finish Line!Isaiah 12:2 “GOD is indeed my Salvation; I will trust HIM — unafraid!” Faith Following! Standing against storm winds and tempest waves crashing takes more than “just effort.” With prayers continued and fasting unceasing WHILE nothing seems different…well! Such requires Faith! Yes, at levels increasing which overtake shadows, such pace must we keep…as HE leads. […]
Read More Faith Following!Matthew 24:14 “And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.” HIS Criss-Crossed Shout! Criss-crossed eclipses foreshadow HIS warning. HIS order of things cannot not will be dismissed. The sign of HIS coming and time for repentance are both […]
Read More HIS Criss-Crossed Shout!Psalm 143:8 “Cause me to hear YOUR mercy in the morning; for I have hoped in THEE; make known to me, O LORD, the way wherein I should walk; for I have lifted up my soul to THEE!” THROUGH! Walking briskly on cobblestone sidewalks, so a tall figure moved in a hurried fashion. As he […]
Read More THROUGH!Proverbs 4:25 “Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.” With Stirring Focus! Can one’s future self bring rescue to the present or the past? Or is there power in this moment to move forward…or shrink back? Glory! Here and now, in JESUS’ NAME is where we’re set in motion! […]
Read More With Stirring Focus!Psalm 55:6 “I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest.” Transitioning Steps! Protect our steps as we press forward daily; Grant YOUR rest to those who stretch towards… …that coming Hour when Faith no longer needed! Yes when face to face we join THEE, dearest […]
Read More Transitioning Steps!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.” Turning T’wards Home! Turn again Home Child…turn again Home. When your ship runs aground out at sea, so I pray! Just turn again, turn …t’wards Home. For all other waters save […]
Read More Turning T’wards Home!John 12:26 “Whoever serves ME must follow ME; and where I am, MY servant also will be. MY FATHER will honor the one who serves ME.” Two Birds, One Step! Step forward once more, this morning, this hour…with prayer from the heart on your lips. Step backwards always from the sins of our flesh, while […]
Read More Two Birds, One Step!Philippians 1:6 ״And I am sure of this, that HE WHO began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of JESUS CHRIST.” Growing Pages! Each disordered inscription and disheveled writing could point to a mind which was absent of focus. Rambling and unfinished sentences might also be deemed as […]
Read More Growing Pages!Psalm 18:32 “HE made my feet like the feet of a deer and set me secure on the heights.” Stretch Highest! Going where seems no footholds: ascending where few choose to fly… …are both actions of Faith performed for THE NAME. So rise, fellow pilgrim, yea! Climb! Amen and amen!
Read More Stretch Highest!1 Peter 4:8 “Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.” Following HIS LIGHT! Humility’s display is intrinsic…or not;thus adopted and foreign or natively known. Love’s depths mirror also this “Either/Or” stance with Care planted deep…or yet unsown. Thus humbled Affection surrendered to CHRIST will express HIS heart’s message […]
Read More Following HIS LIGHT!John 10:27 “MY sheep hear MY voice, and I know them, and they follow ME.” Just Left! A ready CHRIST follower, by definition, admits that they cannot lead themselves. In contrast, a slumbering memberof the Faith…tries to. Those closest to CHRIST then are steadfastly watching HIM, from behind or beside HIS presence. So those errantly […]
Read More Just Left!Psalm 139:14 “I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.” Purposed and Sent! What it takes a warrior to do means another might not. What HIS preachers can share, some others cannot. Where a servant is sent then depends onGOD’s gifting, HIS sovereign […]
Read More Purposed and Sent!Romans 8:29 “For those whom HE foreknew HE also predestined to be conformed to the image of HIS SON, in order that HE might be the firstborn among many brothers.” Transformation Day! When JESUS returns,what a change HEwill bring! What atransforming line weshall cross! From this body of flesh,even Death as Paul tellsus, to newness […]
Read More Transformation Day!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!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!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!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!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 […]
Read More The Security of Scripture!1 Peter 1:15-16 “Just as HE WHO called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: “Be holy, because I AM holy.” By Chainless Example! We are bound to these bodies of death till HE transforms our vessels of flesh. Till then we remain to do as HE said […]
Read More By Chainless Example!John 8:32;36 “And you will know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free.” “So if the SON sets you free, you will be free indeed!” JUST…because! We are JUST because HE made us so! We are righteous in HIS spotless robes. We are blessed beyond the curse of sin…blood bought and Glory bound. […]
Read More JUST…because!1 Samuel 2:2 “There is none holy like the LORD: for there is none besides you; there is no rock like our GOD!” ROCK Building Materials! What says the soul who expects others’ Silence while rambling on about inward reliance… …as though ten percent of the LORD is sufficient! What fool would boast of false […]
Read More ROCK Building Materials!Psalm 25:12 “Who is the man who fears the LORD? HE will instruct him in the way he should choose.” Walking within HIS Lines! Teach us to treasure YOUR ways and to number our days. Yea, keep training our hearts to — in step with you — stay. Grant us Wisdom and Knowledge to understand […]
Read More Walking within HIS Lines!
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