To See JESUS CHRIST!
1 Thessalonians 5:22 “Abstain from every form of evil.” Self Prevention! By HIS stripes on the road from Damascus, we walk within Wisdom and bask in HIS Grace. With robes of HIS right- eousness so HE has clothed us…anointed with oil for Faith. What blessed steps take we AWAY from Self interest…now changed by HIS […]
Read More Self Prevention!2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore, if anyone is in CHRIST, they are a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” Leaving the Past Behind! Do we extend HIS resurrection power to the past or present things?Do we gaze with “dry bone Faith” on those possessing broken wings? Or are we looking […]
Read More Leaving the Past Behind!Philippians 1:21 “For to me, to live is CHRIST, and to die is gain!“ Torn Between! We want YOU, LORD with less of “me” with each step taken. Yea, as we breathe! For how much angst with longing weighs us to see YOUR face! Oh come, LORD JESUS! Thus unfulfilled, leave not our frames; our […]
Read More Torn Between!Luke 9:23 “And HE said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow ME.” Yet Closer Still! LORD, Help us to live more fully for THEE without waver or doubt nor a “less than” belief. Grant us YOUR strength to shout louder each […]
Read More Yet Closer Still!2 Timothy 4:7 “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” Racing Home! (In loving memory of Chris Burkhart 7/4/25) From the morning hour,his pace was brisk!From birth — we knowhis story goes. “Things to do!” withpaces kept that fewcould match, andfewer chose. So, in service, Chrisdrove […]
Read More Racing Home!Ephesians 6:10 “Finally, be strong in the LORD and in the strength of HIS might.” Lesser Forces! More and more forces greet me with each dawning. These senses of mine find them growing with age. Increasingly painful have mornings become with stiffness in joints and aches in my bones. Though slower this frame finally moves […]
Read More Lesser Forces!Isaiah 41:10 “Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your GOD; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with MY righteous right hand.” Staying With! Being “so far gone” suggests a distance out of range. Such “road positions”, thus implied, lay past the reach […]
Read More Staying With!Matthew 26:40 “And HE came to the disciples and found them sleeping. And HE said to Peter, “So, could you not watch with ME one hour?” GOD’s “Carry your cross!” Calling! Often kneeling at Calvary, we pick up our crosses. Each morning such action should surely be seen. Without fail nor delay so it waits […]
Read More GOD’s “Carry your cross!” Calling!Isaiah 26:4 “Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting ROCK.” Our ROCK of Ages! Our foundation is found in the heights of surrender; To CHRIST bowing down, gaining Faith’s elevation. Oh what increase with GOD WHO secures every CHRISTian… …in the palms of HIS hands and the depths of HIS […]
Read More Our ROCK of Ages!Colossians 3:4 “When CHRIST WHO is your life appears, then you also will appear with HIM in glory.” At Rapture’s End! Always lean on the LORD and cling to HIS side ever asking for more of HIS steps as your guide. Ever cast from your frame every stain and its sin always filtering thoughts with […]
Read More At Rapture’s End!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.” In Step, On Course! If we follow our own steps, then we’re walking in circles. Only pacing around, Looking just at the ground, simply seeing the very […]
Read More In Step, On Course!We’re in part two of this four week study on 2 Kings Chapter 4. Join us at 7pm on my Facebook page! 🙏🙏
Read More Sermon Tonight!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!1 Corinthians 3:4-6 “Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the Truth.” With Uncompromised Truth and Love! What child is this who […]
Read More With Uncompromised Truth and Love!James 4:7 “Submit yourselves therefore to GOD. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.“ With Total Resistance! Reject all returns to Egypt and deny any steps back to prison. Stay true to the LORD in each sense of the phrase and give way to HIS words filled with Wisdom! For the time is […]
Read More With Total Resistance!Romans 8:38-39 “ For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 NOR HEIGHT NOR DEPTH, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of GOD in CHRIST JESUS our LORD!” No Height nor […]
Read More No Height nor Depth!Psalm 32:8 “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.” The Best Alterations! To be crushed by GOD is far better than to be set free by oneself. To be broken by HIS holy hand is greater than left whole […]
Read More The Best Alterations!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!Psalm 73:28 “But for me it is good to be near GOD; I have made the LORD GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all YOUR works.” Closer Encounters! We compare ourselves in the mirror and with others. Our tendency then is critically set… …against any image which makes us “look bad”. With such […]
Read More Closer Encounters!Psalms 37:23 “The steps of a man are rightly ordered by the LORD: and he will take pleasure in his way.“ In HIS Order! The Soul questioned Discipline. “Where did you go? HIS WORD is spelled out, HIS footprints — well known.” The reply soon was heard. “Friend, I’ve always been here…like CHRIST. So my […]
Read More In HIS Order!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!Romans 1:17 “For in it the righteousness of GOD is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.” With Timeless Faith! When the hourglass empties to silence, when no fanfare follows its sands to the bottom… …then we hesitate not to stand quickly once mor….for HE WHO is […]
Read More With Timeless Faith!John 1:29 “The next day he saw JESUS coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the LAMB of GOD, WHO takes away the sin of the world!” Passover to Promised Land! The key to stand firmly begins with the ground. Is it level or sinking? Up the mountain or down? Are HIS footprints in view? If […]
Read More Passover to Promised Land!Galatians 6:9 “Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” Full Service Balance! Glory to GOD; yea, hallow HIS NAME. Be quick to speak up, every servant! So cast off complaints; replace them with praise and fill the air ‘round you […]
Read More Full Service Balance!Proverbs 19:5 “A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape.” Crushing Newspaper Waves! To look past the articles of newspapers posted which burst at the seams with more fiction that fact; To value such content’s distractions above what GOD’s WORD says in print…proves such thoughts are off […]
Read More Crushing Newspaper Waves!Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” Our Baseline Belief! Faith’s baseline belief, by Definition’s summary, is Trust that’s steadfast though unseen be HIS hand. In JESUS standing, with confidence — unwavering! Though dark be the night and towering — the waves! So stand without Fear; […]
Read More Our Baseline Belief!1 Timothy 1:15 “The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that CHRIST JESUS came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.” The Broken Role! To claim chief “of the good guys” is worse than “of sinners”… as one viewpoint is pride while the other — surrender. Thus confession of […]
Read More The Broken Role!Colossians 3:2: “Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.” With Un-Distracting Devotion! Headphones, EarPods VR Distractions… Elevations, suppressions by chemical means. These are a few of our favorite things so says those hosts driven — demonic. Mechanically neutral, misused by Intention; so transformed such are for deceiving.. Misleading the soul with another […]
Read More With Un-Distracting Devotion!Matthew 15:14 “Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.” Paying the Blind! When debaters are paid to spew violence, and with arrogance claim they are victims as well… Then Justice must rise through our lives and each heart to display CHRIST as […]
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