To See JESUS CHRIST!
Zephaniah 3:17a “The LORD your GOD is in your midst, a mighty ONE WHO will save…” Embracing our SOURCE! A battery’s power is loweredwith usage. Fuel sourcesdiminish when load is applied. Renewable levels of energythen are what everyone dailydesires through life. But how often Lack isdiscovered within! In wavesof Frustration, we sinkwithout Strength! Even more […]
Read More Embracing our SOURCE!Do these read “the same” to you? Proverbs 11:30 KJV “The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.” Proverbs 11:30 SEPTUAGINT “Out of the fruit of righteousness grows a tree of life; but the souls of transgressors are cut off before their time.” Always study and […]
Read More What Does It Say?On a large movie screen, two people were seen deep in discussion. With all eyes riveted on the moving picture before them, they heard: “What if…(one of them said earnestly), when you looked across a crowd and saw faces…you also saw numbers? What if each soul had a four digit display, portraying the scope of […]
Read More A Shared Time!Job 31:4 “Does not HE see my ways and number all my steps?” The First Measure! (Excessive) cautious steps versus boldness displayed, which choice is more often selected? Is our trust in the LORD or the work of our hands? Do we move through this life… “self-directed”? OR! Have we surrendered our ways to The […]
Read More The First Measure!1 Peter 2:14 “But thanks be to GOD, WHO in CHRIST always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of HIM everywhere!” HIS Sovereign Cause-Way! Brought to our knees when the flesh was surrendered, we find GOD’s love caused us — again — to be born. Drawn by […]
Read More HIS Sovereign Cause-Way!Isaiah 14:24 “The LORD of hosts has sworn: “As I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand.” The Whole Truth! There’s a dime for every dozen souls proclaiming “gospel truth”. With divided tongues deceitfully such errant speech they choose. Though entwining light with shadows, still produced are […]
Read More The Whole Truth!Psalm 139:16 “YOUR eyes saw my unformed substance; in YOUR book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.” Prior to Birth! To define a Life only as “some clump of cells” shows rejection of GOD’s sovereign plans. To choose to extinguish […]
Read More Prior to Birth!Psalm 139:6 “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.“ The Highest Knowledge! No greater scope of knowing life can stand apart from GOD. HE solely has each last detail and surely knows our thoughts! Far above the very Heavens yet inside our hearts HE listens… Always nearest to […]
Read More The Highest Knowledge!Ephesians 6:17 “Take (put on!) the helmet of salvation and the sword of the SPIRIT, which is the WORD of GOD.” Helmet Wearing, Battle Ready! Who fights with savage zeal against the wickedness of Thought… where demonic interruptions teach what isn’t taught by GOD. Who musters every strength to stem that tide of darkened shadows? […]
Read More Helmet Wearing, Battle Ready!Psalm 86:11 “Teach me YOUR way, O LORD, that I may walk in YOUR truth; unite my heart to fear YOUR NAME.” HIS Way, Less Traveled! Would we take the greater blessing if invisible HE stayed… though we pray to see HIM moving in our lives — before our faces? Would we choose the greater […]
Read More HIS Way, Less Traveled!John 4:4 “Little children, you are from GOD and have overcome them, for HE WHO is in you is greater than he who is in the world.” Repeat After me! “I relinquish every credit given satan’s demon hoard.” “My eyes strip every focus fully from Hell’s face to seek The LORD!” “No more dark, deceptive […]
Read More Repeat After me!Psalms 32:8 “I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go; I will counsel you with MY eye upon you!” With GOD’s Guidance! An inadvertent step. A “chance” occurrence. An errant thread. Yet! All have Purpose! For HE WHO directs and guides our lives is sovereign o’er all and is […]
Read More With GOD’s Guidance!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!Hebrews 10:23: “Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for HE WHO has promised is faithful”. Unwavering Set! Going through; not side stepping. Carrying on past each challenge. Pausing solely in prayer; Praising always with Zeal. For HIS drawing is certain; HIS calling straight-forward and true. So Today flood with […]
Read More Unwavering Set!2 Samuel 22:7 “In my distress, I called to the LORD; I called out to my GOD. From HIS temple HE heard my voice; my cry came to HIS ears!” When GOD Intervenes! When we witness HIS move of another to join us whose path intersecting is filled with Depression… When HE pauses our steps […]
Read More When GOD Intervenes!Matthew 5:16 “In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your FATHER WHO is in heaven.” Collective CHRIST Lights! With each son in HIS steps and each daughter — reflecting… …CHRIST’s light won’t need “sought for” as all shall shine brightly. […]
Read More Collective CHRIST Lights!John 19:30 “When JESUS had received the sour wine, HE said, ‘It is finished,’ and HE bowed HIS head and gave up HIS SPIRIT.” Multiplied Meanings! Willingly dying for unworthy friends and lifting us up from the depth of these sins… …so CHRIST sacrificed HIS own life to save ours! Hallelu, Hallelujah…HE rose! Living to […]
Read More Multiplied Meanings!Ephesians 5:25-26 “ Husbands, love your wives, as CHRIST loved the church and gave HIMSELF up for her, that HE might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the WORD.” HIS Cleansing Road Home! Wash away, wash away, wash away all. Sin and shame’s weight; Guilts’ stains and Remorse! Cast away, […]
Read More HIS Cleansing Road Home!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!1 Samuel 16:7b “For the LORD does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.” Surrendering Unbelief! Hearing Love“Accepting” CHRISTyet falling shortwith Unbelief… Still are Self’sAs their own “rock”:who — lost — remain.unchanging. So The ROADwhich they must crossfrom Lost to Foundrequires all. Therefore […]
Read More Surrendering Unbelief!Ephesians 6:18 “Pray in the SPIRIT at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints.” Sacred Relief! Spiritual hand-to-hand combat iswhat this hour feels like;armed just with the WORD and HIS armor. Ever grappling with those forces which Flesh […]
Read More Sacred Relief!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 139:4 “Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, YOU know it altogether.” Eternally Discerning! HE knows one’s thoughts from afar; their heart’s many plans and varied intentions. HIS wisdom has limitless length; from the past to the future with eternal dimensions. From our psalms and loathed sin then to song […]
Read More Eternally Discerning!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!Isaiah 30:21 “…and your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, ‘This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.’” In Between HIS lines! Who drew the lines in the sand which we cross? Who measured their length and the depth […]
Read More In Between HIS lines!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!Philippians 2:13 “…for it is GOD WHO is at work in you, both to will and to work for HIS good pleasure.” Hope…Displayed! Blessed are the “mended” GOD heals… for they have been broken before. They know of great pain and its losses…and wear all its scarsfrom the past. Yes, favored are we whose repairing […]
Read More Hope…Displayed!Revelation 1:5: “And from JESUS CHRIST, the faithful Witness, the Firstborn of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To HIM WHO loves us and has released us from our sins by HIS blood!” HIS Apostrophe’s Power! How can our vessels be stained and impure yet found spotless? How is it […]
Read MorePsalm 144:1 “Blessed be the LORD, my ROCK, WHO trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle.” Prepared…as Instructed! When the tempest clouds swirl inward with wind-whipped waves surging… …when such darkness surrounds you, may — this — be in hand. Even more so, in heart and in mind — memorized — be […]
Read More Prepared…as Instructed!Hebrews 10:23 “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for HE WHO promised is faithful.” Love’s Second Scale! In a vision, a scribe of twelve thousand thoughts written carried each ink-filled page with him to Heaven. Expectantly certain, when weighed on the scales…of exceeding GOD’s number assigned for good works. But […]
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