To See JESUS CHRIST!
Isaiah 42:8 “I am the LORD; that is MY NAME; MY glory I give to no other, nor MY praise to carved idols.” Lifting and Living Up! Often we’re found making names for ourselves in the flesh. With such temporal titles then Self takes the spotlight in Error. So! Thank GOD for the banner of […]
Read More Lifting and Living Up!John 13:15 “For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you!” Cross Walk Transparencies! To stay consistent, to stay the course; To keep one’s composure…takes drive. Disciplined Zeal and purposed Intent are then both required …through Life. But what of those torches who’ve faded to […]
Read More Cross Walk Transparencies!2 Timothy 3:16 “All Scripture is breathed out by GOD and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, Plumb Line Assessments! What is the impact of sin on your mission? Does Complaceny’s weight drag your footprints off course? Does a tolerant heart of a wayward transaction cause Doubt to distract […]
Read More Plumb Line Assessments!1 Peter 2:21 “For you have been called for this purpose, since CHRIST also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in HIS steps…” While In Route! Self injuring blows we often apply without weighing the costs to our lives. “Shooting ourselves in the foot” then becomes a truth that repeats […]
Read More While In Route!Proverbs 3:6 “In all your ways acknowledge HIM, and HE will make straight your paths.” Straight Forward! “Weak and without self control!” is the claim which so many believers hear echo within. Struggling with stepswherein Compromise hides, so such souls battle daily with oft disguised sin. Within footprints found which lead through darkened shadows, so […]
Read More Straight Forward!Romans 12:11: “Do not be slothful in zeal, but be fervent in spirit. Serve the LORD!” Measuring with the MASTER! How great is this hour; How wondrous each second! There’s no grave to fear for we’re bound in HIS presence! Never leaving nor ever forsaking our souls, so give praise to the ONE WHO bears […]
Read More Measuring with the MASTER!Hebrews 12:2 “Looking unto JESUS the Author and Finisher of our faith; WHO for the joy that was set before HIM endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of GOD.” Sacrificially Following! When will YOU come reaching down for our souls which we uplift to […]
Read More Sacrificially Following!1 Peter 2:21 “For to this you have been called, because CHRIST also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in HIS steps.” Increasing…IN HIS Steps! Winning with JESUS; LOSING with satan. Yet the steps of the flesh fit closest with darkness. Only with GOD’s discernment can we stay on […]
Read More Increasing…IN HIS Steps!James 3:12 “Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.” The RIGHT Footprints! When the line has been drawn by another…to limit your progress till matching their will; When the time has come to recover but your Zeal’s decline creates Nothing — instilled. […]
Read More The RIGHT Footprints!Ephesians 6:13 “So 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 in Place! Though we’ve asked for release, YOUR silence says “Stay.” Though Discomfort attacks, YOUR WORD says, “Remain”. Though Angst fuels Life’s fires, YOUR waters have quenched […]
Read More Standing in Place!Isaiah 66:2 “All these things MY hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the LORD. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at MY WORD.” With Offtrack Redirections! The heart which accuses with Discomfort’s intention …acts no […]
Read More With Offtrack Redirections!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!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!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!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!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!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!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!Matthew 16:23 “But He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind ME, satan! You are an offense to ME, for you are not mindful of the things of GOD, but the things of men.” Abandoning Avatars! With Reality buffered by compromised Sight, an alternative view has arisen. Unlike CHRIST in all ways, so this errant […]
Read More Abandoning Avatars!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!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!Psalm 63:3-4 “Because YOUR love is better than life, my lips will glorify YOU! I will praise YOU as long as I live, and in YOUR NAME I will lift up my hands!” Praise Persevering! Praise ye the LORD from each mountaintop high and when stumbling through shadows in valleys below. Praise ye the ONE […]
Read More Praise Persevering!Romans 4:21 “And being fully persuaded that, what HE had promised, HE was able also to perform.” Wholly Reflecting HIS Commitment! With sovereign uniqueness…transformed by design, we were drawn in HIS outline and made in HIS image. Then daily progressing…in footprints so deep, we can stand on our feet since HE is within us! Whether […]
Read More Wholly Reflecting HIS Commitment!Jeremiah 10:23 “I know, O LORD, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks…to direct his steps.” Beside or Behind! Retiring ChiefJustice positionsmust we of thesetitles assumed…which GOD neverappointed to us. Like “independent”,“self-made” or as “king”,so these labels nevergave HE. At least not tothose of HIS […]
Read More Beside or Behind!1 Peter 2:21 “For to this you have been called, because CHRIST also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in HIS steps.” HIM-Prints! Your feet of Faith do not “fit” in these footprints though this path which I’m led on — with yours — here connects. Though at points […]
Read More HIM-prints!Proverbs 13:10 ”Where there is strife, there is pride, but Wisdom is found in those who take advice.” Pride’s Un-dwelling Unconvinced by sin’s memories which insistently press,so we’re NOT our past scars sinceour wounds CHRIST dispensed. Cleansing souls upon Calvary, as such, we are flawless!Stained solely by crimson so…. HIS verdict is “Faultless!” Then no […]
Read More Pride’s Un-dwellingPsalm 119:59 “I considered my ways and turned my feet to YOUR testimonies!” Accepting HIS Directions! Would we know whatwe’ve been savedfrom if no crossroadever came… …where the path wetook was all we knewwith every stepunchanged? So on simple thoughtwaves sailing do we“find” our waysseem best. Without “contradicting”voices thus still “lost”our souls progress. Consequences then,by […]
Read More Accepting HIS Directions!Psalm 95:1 “Oh come, let us sing to the LORD; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!” Born to Climb! Love’s Living Hopeonce breathed like us;CHRIST JESUSWHOSE example lives! What Joy divineGOD’s blessed lovewould call us “HISforgiven!” So worship in theSAVIOUR’s hands;reflecting HIM bylifting yours! Giving thanks withevery exhale,may we […]
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