To See JESUS CHRIST!
Revelation 22:12 “Look, I am coming soon! MY reward is with ME, and I will give to each person according to what they have done.” Come Quickly, LORD! There’s a day coming soon when all failing flesh will crumble. There’s an hour soon arriving where this Life pays its due. There’s an instant nearly now […]
Read More Come Quickly, LORD!James 1:21 “Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.” The Engrafted WORD! To the unlearned and simple resembling, through grace is extended HIS knowledge so broad. To understand mysteries which once had been hidden; To be made as […]
Read More The Engrafted WORD!Full Flight Jackets! Once more the five foot, two inch, blond-haired professional of nearly 30 years, passed through the spacious length of Boeing’s 747-8I cabin. For this energetic, often intercontinental airline stewardess, this marked her third extended flight of the week. It was only the first Tuesday in June and for Lynn Chambers, her heaviest […]
Read More Full Flight Jackets!Psalms 27:13 “I would have lost heart, unless I had believed That I would see the goodness of the LORD In the land of the living! Equal Expectations! Walking up the steps confronting — every fire of faithless Fear, bound solely for the WORD of GOD WHOSE NAME their souls revered; so those chosen for […]
Read More Equal Expectations!John 15:9 “Just as the FATHER has loved ME, I have also loved you; abide in MY love!” THE Root of Love! Without eternal love, few develop such within. Apart from gracious hearts, none can learn what isn’t given. With daily life untrained, one can’t taste graceful measures. Absent of Compassion then none know of […]
Read More THE Root of Love!2 Corinthians 4:6 “For GOD, WHO said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made HIS light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of GOD in the face of JESUS CHRIST.” Free Will Offerings! Preaching CHRIST is not a sales pitch as some perceive HIS message. It’s […]
Read More Free Will Offerings!John 3:30 “HE must increase; I must decrease!” More and Less! Engaging Faith, disabling Want… save more of CHRIST and less of self. Simplistic thoughts beyond profound… yet gained can be with no one else! Then More and Less combine for Peace… where HE inclines as Pride retreats. Thus Blessings rain as CHRIST — increasing […]
Read More More and Less!Matthew 5:16 “In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your FATHER in heaven.” Transition’s Point! May every good work which YOU planned for this pen be extended through ink upon canvas. May then I be emptied past Residue’s presence and dry by the […]
Read More Transition’s Point!Philippians 3:14 “I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of GOD in CHRIST JESUS!” Lower Deck Redemption! The aged schooner lay at anchor, buoyed by its long, wooden hull. Wallowing anxiously in place, it lumbered next to a large yet crumbling wood dock. There this weathered, two-masted vessel sat […]
Read More Lower Deck Redemption!Ephesians 1:7 “In HIM we have redemption through HIS blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of HIS grace.” Upon HIS Emerald Balance! We borrow against tomorrow using sins we choose today with deep debits against credits which get redder by the day. Such Interests then diminish all our efforts — inconsistently […]
Read MoreActs 13:52 “And the disciples were continually filled with joy and with the HOLY SPIRIT!” Upping Our Intake! (For More of YOUR SPIRIT!) Longing for more of YOUR SPIRIT, oh LORD; We are craving Outpouring‘s o’erflowing. Expectant beyond what this life has to offer…for Good without Fearful’s foreboding. So rekindle Faith’s flames by YOUR NAME […]
Read More Upping Our Intake!Song of Solomon 2:1-2 “”I am the rose of Sharon, The lily of the valleys.” “Like a lily among the thorns, So is my darling among the maidens.” With Blossoms of Crimson! Red flowers adorned the stone table before her…their fragrance as strong as the color they bore: Cut freshly and stripped of the thorns […]
Read More With Blossoms of Crimson!Romans 12:11 “Do not lack diligence in zeal; be fervent in the SPIRIT, serve the LORD!” The Forte’ of the Gentiles! Surging power propelled through his veins. Servant ink, then outpoured, filled these pages. With praise overflowing from him who bowed — broken, such Truths thus were penned — for the Ages. By the Ancient […]
Read More The Forte’ of the Gentiles!1 John 5:19 “We know that we are from GOD, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.” Believing: Once for All! CHRIST is larger than life yet the world shows no interest. HE is brighter than bright but none give HIM their witness. Thus Darkness remains as its children dig […]
Read More Believing: Once for All!Psalm 4:3 You can be sure of this: The LORD set apart the godly for HIMSELF. The LORD will answer when I call to HIM!” The Mass Distinction! How can trees and common stones lift hands with praise unto the LORD? How might mountains bow before HIM and Creation sing HIS NAME? What is man […]
Read More The Mass Distinction!Psalm 52:8 “But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in the house of GOD; I trust in the lovingkindness of GOD forever and ever!” Anchor Point: The amount of oil produced for CHRIST has far more to do with into whose hand we relentlessly press our lives. HIS Sovereign Pressures! Pressing […]
Read More HIS Sovereign Pressures!Colossians 3:23-24 “Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, for the LORD and not for men because you know that you will receive an inheritance from the LORD as your reward. It is the LORD JESUS CHRIST you are serving! THROUGH the Hearts of the Lost! The masses who sing in the […]
Read More THROUGH the Hearts of the Lost!Psalm 56:9 ”Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call; This I know, that GOD is for me!” Safe and Secured! Even diamonds can be broken. All possess a “breaking point”.No matter what our earthly hedges are, they melt before the LORD. Why possess such substitutions; why then seek those temporal […]
Read More Safe and Secured!Colossians 1:13 “HE has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of HIS beloved SON!” For The KING WHO is Coming! We shall “get through” because sovereign blood passed before us! On Calvary’s hill, there ‘twas shed in our place. Now resounds all our voices with Heavenly praises with […]
Read More For The KING WHO is Coming!Mark 16:5-6 “Going into the tomb, they saw a young man in a white robe seated on the right side; and they were startled. 6 But he said to them, “Don’t be alarmed! You are looking for JESUS of Nazareth, who was crucified. HE is risen! HE isn’t here. Look, here’s the place where they […]
Read More Reviewing the Empty Tomb!John 16:33 “I have told you these things so that in ME you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!” The Cry of HIS Own! What content might HE hear that hasn’t been already shared?, said my weary soul confessing to the mirror’s empty […]
Read More The Cry of HIS Own!Proverbs 22.6 “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” Hallmarks of Faith! Brought to the LORD as a vessel devoid of both Wisdom and age: lacking learned Understanding. Taught on the knees of my mother and father, there Knowledge was born […]
Read More Hallmarks of Faith!Psalms 119:35 “Make me walk in the path of YOUR commandments, for I delight in it!” Prioritized Purpose! Send me where I’m to go; don’t let me question…why or what path YOU chose! Please help me listen! Teach YOUR will LORD, I pray. Lead me surrendered…till I see all YOU made and heard all YOUR […]
Read More Prioritized Purpose!Hebrews 10:9 “Then HE added, “Behold, I have come to do YOUR will.” HE does away (has fulfilled) with the first (covenant) in order to establish the second. CHRIST’s Crimson Keys! Red Righteousness robed yet whiter than snowflakes and lighter than each pardoned soul once in Debt. No more chained to Death, released to serve […]
Read More CHRIST’s Crimson Keys!Psalms 51:10 “Create in me a clean heart, O GOD, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.” A Second past Seven! After taking in a deep breath, the immense brown bear exhaled an expanding steam cloud. Then closing his eyes within the white haze, there was a momentary pause as if listening for some sound. […]
Read More A Second past Seven!Isaiah 49:16a “See, I have engraved you on the palms of MY hands…” By HIS Scars! At rest in HIS hands though embattled be! So kneel we with Faith, both awake and asleep. When gone is the tide and absent the sun; with breath nearly failed and when Hope has run. In tandem when Grace […]
Read More By HIS Scars!John 10:2-3 “But The ONE WHO enters by the gate is the Shepherd of the sheep. To HIM the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear HIS voice, and HE calls HIS own sheep BY NAME…and leads them out!” ONE! As the earth began filling with children, their names were unique or at least “rare” inscriptions. But […]
Read More ONE!Matthew 5:16 “In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your FATHER in heaven.” Igniting Creation! If Faith were a flower with petals unfolding then Grace is the ground in which Righteousness grows. HIS rain bringing Life, giving increase with sunshine, remains as our […]
Read More Igniting Creation!1 Corinthians 9:24 “Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.” Uniquely Finishing! With a solemn surrender of prayer made in silence, thus uplifted on knees which are calloused and scarred… from a heart as […]
Read More Uniquely Finishing!Psalms 100:3 “Know that the LORD is God. It is HE WHO made us, and we are HIS; we are HIS people, the sheep of HIS pasture!” Into HIS Everlasting Arms! The lamb quickly bounded beyond outstretched arms. Yet with base, detached thought, it knew not their intent. They seemed bent on capture; restraining all […]
Read More Into HIS Everlasting Arms!
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