To See JESUS CHRIST!
Psalm 37:5: “Commit your way tothe LORD; trust in HIM, and HEwill act.” The Greatest Gain of Surrender! To lay down one’s life forCHRIST is a singular matter.To first offer up Pride isentirely different. One’s all, sacrificed, isa permanent gesture,while a temporal offeringof Self is far less. Unless by HIS words onelives wholly surrendered,then there […]
Read More The Greatest Gain of Surrender!Proverbs 4:26 “Give careful thought to the paths for your feet…and be steadfast in all your ways. Releasing Obedience! Take every thought captive in obedience to CHRIST WHOSE command bids our hearts…ahead of sacrifices. With so fervent a filter then serve we the LORD…obeying HIM without Delay’s compromises. For we are HIServants called higher — […]
Read More Releasing Obedience!2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore, if anyone is in CHRIST, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come!” The Battle Worth Losing! A most timely Demise is the death of oneself. Without any delay nor with Pride’s hesitation. Where wholesale surrender unveils the soul as one’s stance becomes prostrate… […]
Read More The Battle Worth Losing!Revelation 7:9 “After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, …from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the LAMB, …clothed in WHITE ROBES, and palm branches were in their hands.” Given HIS Robe! Naked came we into this world […]
Read More Given HIS Robe!1 John 3:16 “By this we know love, that HE laid down HIS life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for others.” The Greatest Concession! So let us choose forfeit, Full surrender’s advance, To dance with our SAVIOUR — HIM leading. WHO swirls around us at present with Love while surrounding […]
Read More The Greatest Concession!2 Corinthians 13:5 “Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or…do you not realize this about yourselves, that JESUS CHRIST is in you…unless indeed you fail to meet the test!” Church Hopping? We sit in the pewsof a number of churcheswhich all claim the NAMEof our SAVIOR and LORD. But […]
Read More Church Hopping?Matthew 11:30 “For MY yoke is easy and MY burden is light.” This Blessed Burden! While bicycling, an older soul with a near empty backpack, saw three small crosses off the side of a country road. Though in the distance, they stood with obvious reference to Calvary. And upon drawing closer, these plain wooden markers […]
Read More This Blessed Burden!John 8:36 “So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed!” The Tears of Freedom! We, searching for Mercy whose partner is Peace, who are oft feeling ”lost” though HE calls us “the found”… …are CHRISTians in truth who still struggle at times. Yea, who daily wage war as the Body of […]
Read More The Tears of Freedom!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!1 Corinthians 15:57 “But thanks be to GOD, WHO gives us the victory through our LORD JESUS CHRIST!” Our Victorious Surrender! The cross of CHRIST exceeds each compassion ever shown. HIS display is our example to reflect upon the world. GOD’s height of sacrifice? Calvary’s gift without a peer! No greater love exists nor equal […]
Read More Our Victorious Surrender!Psalm 95:6 “Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD, our MAKER!” With Royal Surrender! As sons and daughters for royal ascent, whose bloodline directly connects to the LORD… …let us not forget that our FATHER is sovereign. Yea, may we stay always aligned and outpoured. For the proof […]
Read More With Royal Surrender!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!Matthew 7:24 “Everyone then who hears these words of MINE and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the ROCK.” ROCK Building! Confessions in order will supersede borders which harbor Disorder to walk closer still… …with the GOD of Creation WHOSE CHRIST died to save us! WHO lives as […]
Read More ROCK Building!Romans 12:11 “Do not let your zeal subside; keep your spiritual fervor, serving the LORD.” Willingly Inconveniencing! What depth of soul should we be for all others; stretched at her thinly for moments at most? Or rather so deeply engaged with just one that the rest feel no touch of HIS Love? Nay, rather than […]
Read More Willingly Inconveniencing!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!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!John 8:36 “So if the SON sets you free, you SHALL be free indeed!” Daily Cleansing Reminders! CHRIST has cleansed us from our shame and brought Salvation through HIS NAME. So why the backwards glance to debts HE’s fully paid already? It’s a matter then of Focus bent on progress with HIS power; Existing for […]
Read More Daily Cleansing Reminders!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!1 Corinthians 13:3 “If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.” Completely…for CHRIST! Insincere gifts are as half-hearted cries; Insufficient at best and at worst, worthless lies. So too is one’s Faith if “for show” it is shared; Thus […]
Read More Completely…for CHRIST!Hebrews 12:6 ““For whomever THE LORD JEHOVAH loves, HE instructs, and draws aside HIS children with whom HE is pleased.” The Provision of HIS Presence! What do blessings feel like which HE calls “overflowing”? Is it health or abundance of wealth? Maybe both? Are those valued highest (as measured by CHRIST)… …on a yardstick which […]
Read More The Provision of HIS Presence!John 12:32 “And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all unto MYSELF.” Drawn to The Answer! What love is expressed which cannot be measured? Whose heart keeps expanding our own with Compassion? Where can such be found and WHO will bring such care? Oh, sing out just the NAME of […]
Read More Drawn to The Answer!Revelation 7:9 “After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, …from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the LAMB, …clothed in WHITE ROBES, and palm branches were in their hands.” Given HIS Robe! Naked came we into this world […]
Read More Given HIS Robe!John 10:27 “MY sheep hear MY voice, and I know them, and they follow ME.” One’s Godly Goal! Where speech becomes thought, one’s talking subsides. Where waiting is favored, one’s actions decline. Where Fervor expands, one’s Zeal is heightened. Where Hunger is daily, one’s Faith is enlightened. Yea, think on “these things” and pause with […]
Read More One’s Godly Goal!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!Luke 12:15 “And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of their possessions.” Our “Empty-Handed” Treasure! Surrendering Will and the wants of this Flesh, are the most blest of losses to have. Like a gain which increases, so too […]
Read More Our “Empty-Handed” Treasure!Psalm 19: 1: The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” Naturally Drawn! Dry rain and wet sunshine, soft rocks and hard flowers would be contrasts imagined. Unnatural thoughts. So too are our sins when compared to HIS ways which HE solely assigned us. The footprints of GOD! […]
Read More Naturally Drawn!Psalm 39:3 “My heart became hot within me. As I mused, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue…” Fanning HIS Fire! Going back to the beginning must mean our CREATOR…to WHOM, as our AUTHOR, we owe everything. Yes returned to our starting line breaths are we found…no more lost in the crowds of […]
Read More Fanning HIS Fire!2 Timothy 2:2 “And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.” Three for the Crossroads! In summary, HE knows of all of our needs: HE threads them together with sovereign solutions. Priority given is then to those pressing…according […]
Read More Three for the Crossroads!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 […]
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