To See JESUS CHRIST!
The Day of the LORD: This is for our encouragement! 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 VIP Verse 8! I have provided the section in its entirety below for context. 8 “But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of […]
Read More Faith, Hope and What?Psalm 27:14 ““Wait for the LORD; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the LORD!” When and Now! Re-set expectations which have a time table …to truly account for the schedule HE’s set. Though unknown to us, yet these moments are sovereign. Acknowledging such brings great patience to flesh. When the minute […]
Read More When and Now!Psalm 3:3 “But you, O LORD, are a Shield about me, my Glory, and the Lifter of my head!” Getting Air! For us to be found in right standing with GOD means we cannot be outside HIS footprints. For us to have Joy without equal requires we’re just in HIS presence without one exception. So […]
Read More Getting Air!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!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!I John 5:13 “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the SON of GOD, that you may know that you have eternal life!” We’ll be There! When the role is calledin Heaven,When each name isrecognized;When HIS voiceechoes up yonder…we’ll be there! For HIS promisedScript is crimson;guaranteeing placein Glory!So with expectation,listen…for […]
Read More We’ll be There!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!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!Titus 2:13 “Looking for that blessed Hope, and the glorious appearing of the great GOD and our SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST…” Treasured Hopes! Expectations, when set, offer Hopes to aspire to; anticipations to which souls look forward. Spiritually speaking, HIS WORD confirms such! So watch we and wait for our AUTHOR and LORD. But! What watch […]
Read More Treasured Hopes!John 17:3 “And this is eternal life, that they know YOU, the only true GOD, and JESUS CHRIST WHOM YOU have sent!” The Soul Answer! May the soul with no answers save CHRIST remain humbled for such knowledge surely — through valleys — is gained. Where all other theories have soundly been crushed and with […]
Read More The Soul Answer!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!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!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!John 13:23 “One of his disciples, whom JESUS loved, was reclining against HIS chest.” The Rest of Reclining! There’s enough strings attached which constantly pull in different directions. Hero effort aside, more fail to “pull back”…and rather “press on”. At such, tears occurring, soon cause breaking points due to misplaced Zeal. Without HIS Foundation, thus […]
Read More The Rest of Reclining!Joshua 23:8 “But you are to clingto the LORD your GOD, as youhave done to this day.” Static Cling! Between two materials,dry movement with Friction,exchanging electrons… …mimics multiple membersin church who are parched.;dried out by their Apathy’sunion. So the charge that occursbirths no progress forCHRIST. Instead, greatComplacency gains. As such, as a tinder boxgathering, they […]
Read More Static Cling!Psalm 107:9 “For HE satisfies the thirsty and FILLS the hungry with good things.” At the Banqueting Table! Come to GOD’s WORD though crippled you feel; Sit in the seat of HIS favor. A prodigal who cannot run any more; yea! Linger with HIM in HIS love. Yes, wait at this banqueting table! Then be […]
Read More At the Banqueting Table!Psalm 119:105 “YOUR WORD is a Lamp to my feet and a Light to my path.” A Question of Lenses! There’s a lens which theworld looks through daily…and one other whoseMAKER is CHRIST. Side by side in thislife — both observing;so Perceptions gain lifeand opinions…are born. Reformed are thesethen into glasses…wornto view our surroundingsand take […]
Read More A Question of Lenses!2 Corinthians 3:17 “Now the LORD is the SPIRIT, and where the SPIRIT of the LORD is, there is freedom! Freed by what’s Finished! By confessions to theNth degree will soulsso burdened —struggle. There weighted down,each guilty phrasebetrays them likenone other. Thus satan’s useof words we usedmake worse thosethings we’ve uttered. Reminding of pastindiscretions…untilwe begin […]
Read More Freed by what’s Finished!Matthew 27:66 “So they went and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone and setting a guard.” An “Every Day Calendar CHRISTmas!” “Merry CHRISTmas” is constant;it’s for every season; …each month full of days and thehours going with them! Yet! To the world, it’s compressedas one span… …of just 24 hours and then:Nothing more! […]
Read More An “Every Day Calendar CHRISTmas!”Romans 14:19 “So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.” Internal Strengthening, External Building! Home but not yetso HIS SPIRIT within…both shelters andkeeps us till then. Hope’s expectationmeets JESUS, as suchwhile we wait for HISwinds of Redemption! So by GOD’s righteousgusts we are carried:by CHRIST’s finishedwork we are housed… …in […]
Read More Internal Strengthening, External Building!Isaiah 26:3 “YOU will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.” Eternity’s Anchor! The size of a shipdictates how large thechain and its anchormust be…to beeffective. The Anchor’s weightthen proveschallenging to theone delivering it foruse. While those on thevessel don’t have tocarry it aboard, stillthey bear a burdenjust […]
Read More Eternity’s Anchor!2 Corinthians 13:14 “May the grace of the LORD JESUS CHRIST, and the love of GOD, and the fellowship of the HOLY SPIRIT be with you all.” Three Equal! The value of Paperexceeds spoken worthyet the coin is farbetter than both. Still GOD’s greatesttreasures HE spokeinto being and those— Hallelujah — arepriceless! Even so, scripteddiamonds […]
Read More Three Equal!1 John 3:2 “Beloved, we are GOD’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when HE appears we shall be like HIM, because we shall see HIM as HE is!” Fabric Transitions! When Heaven’s setfocus with Thought’stidal waves floodsone’s brain, then…won’t words flowin tandem? When withoutinterruption, CHRIST’sgaze […]
Read More Fabric Transitions!Matthew 28:20b “And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Swirling Upwards! Every drain swirls by cascading downwards with liquid flows surging; their currents — increasing. In some such is found never stopping nor slowing…whose anchor is missing or worse yet, abandoned. So tug on your line, weary Traveler, […]
Read More Swirling Upwards!Ephesians 4:32 “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as GOD in CHRIST forgave you.” Sacrificially Fueled! May selfish Ambitionwith Unforgivenessbe daily extinguishedtill absent of flames. May all worldly fuelswhich propel thisflawed pairing thenquickly expire beforeevery Dawn! Then comesSurrender and Forfeitreplacing those twodarkened forces thatPride always feeds. Most assuredly then!Both Relief andRelease shall […]
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