To See JESUS CHRIST!
Matthew 6:21 “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” The Great Unpacking! “Are you ready to meet Jesus?” was HIServant’s outcry, “…because I see your suitcases filled with this life.” “To the last bag, o’erwhelming, so are your possessions found stuffed in like gold which you hoard as obsessions.” And such […]
Read More The Great Unpacking!Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen!” Beyond Borders! All that is heard and everything seen is still just a sliver… representing this Life. Far greater that realm which is beyond every sense granted Flesh! Exponentially so! And greatest its’ height is Heaven, our home… […]
Read More Beyond Borders!Hosea 4: 6 “MY people perish from a lack of knowledge.” THE Only WAY! Indifference is “sameness” as though one of a dozen; As if “template stamped cookies” which mirror each other. Thus Difference IS contrast: Unique and Uncopied! As such, YHWH’s plans can’t — by darkness — be changed! Now choose ye HIS WORD […]
Read More THE Only WAY!2 Peter 1:1 “Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of JESUS CHRIST, to those who have received like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our GOD and Savior JESUS CHRIST:” Of Like Faith! Memory’s stains, within sinners, are often refreshed by Belief’s weakest side where Self’s doubtsare unleashed… …where Deceit’s errant darknessattempts to […]
Read More Of Like Faith!Psalm 73:28 “But as for me, the nearness of GOD is my good…” I have made the LORD GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all YOUR works! Closer than Yesterday! Let YOUR NAME consume what remains of Self Till “Hid with CHRIST” — between crimson letters. Consume me then with YOUR sovereign truth […]
Read More Closer than Yesterday!Proverbs 3:7-8 “Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and shun evil. This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones!” Bend the Knee! Please heal each “healthy” soul, oh LORD, whose hearts betray no sickness! Whose sights are plagued with earthly wealth whilst they conceal Ill’s symptoms! […]
Read More Bend the Knee!Mark 10:28 “Peter began to say to HIM, “Behold, we have left everything and followed YOU!” The WHEN Exchange! When exchanging our emptiness for CHRIST’s whole indwelling; when donning HIS robes of pure righteousness — woven… then Faith rises up! But when focusing downward, retaining our Lack as if Worth; when shunning Surrender as though […]
Read More The WHEN Exchange!Psalm 18:30 “This GOD — HIS way is perfect; the WORD of the LORD proves true; HE is a shield for all those who take refuge in HIM.” GOD’s Woven Ways! Through hundreds of cultures and thousands of years comes the threads which unite — bearing History’s blanket. As an accurate timeline with colored cross-stitching, […]
Read More GOD’s Woven Ways!1 Corinthians 13:12 “For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known!” The Greatest Answer! “How little I understand!” said the child. “How great is the gap between the known and unknown!” “Overwhelmed in HIS […]
Read More The Greatest Answer!2 Corinthians 3:18 “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the LORD, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the SPIRIT of the LORD.” Gapless Binding! The LORD is my JESUS;my JESUS is GOD…and the gift of HIS Spiritindwells me. Sewn […]
Read More Gapless Binding!Ecclesiastes 5:20 “They seldom reflect on the days of their life, because GOD keeps them occupied with gladness of heart.” Disrobing Regret! Regret is a well worn and drenched blanket…with huge holes in it. On only the coldest of proverbial winter nights it is pulled out…and then thrown atop a most grieving soul. Thread bare […]
Read More Disrobing Regret!Matthew 24:46 “Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing!” Just CHRIST! So much of my steadfast belief comes by Faith. Coupling verses and prayer, so stand I in CHRIST. Not as one with all knowledge and answers for all…but as someone decidedly fixed upon GOD. As tomorrow’s injustice […]
Read More Just CHRIST!Psalm 27:4 “One thing I have asked from the LORD, that I shall seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life; to behold the beauty of the LORD and to meditate in His temple.” With HIS Feathers Unfurled! The unfurled fan of kaleidoscope colors fills each […]
Read More With HIS Feathers Unfurled!Isaiah 55:11 ”So shall MY word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to ME void, But it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it!” WORD Feast! Blessed reassurance is found by reciting… repeating the words of our SAVIOUR: CHRIST JESUS. […]
Read More WORD Feast!Matthew 25:23 “His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master!” Divinely Distracted! LORD JESUS, our prayers are lifted this hour, before YOU our praise comes entwined! In the midst of Life’s madness, […]
Read More Divinely Distracted!Matthew 10:38 “And whoever does not take their cross and follow ME is not worthy of ME.” The Whole of CHRIST! Meet me where the Crossonce stood upon Golgotha:the rock which bore HIS spotlessblood and all our weight of sin. Hanging there within our place,HE was a nailed note.HIS story rings aloud each hour!JESUS died […]
Read More The Whole of CHRIST!Psalm 63:8 “My soul clings to YOU; YOUR right hand upholds me.” A Psalmist’s Prayer LORD, May these fingers inscribe that which comes from YOUR heart — every line. May those reading partake of one page or one poem at least…while there’s Time. And within that devotion, may one verse be held in their hearts […]
Read More A Psalmist’s PrayerPhilippians 1:9-10 “And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of CHRIST…” Given: CALVARY! What blessed release; what relief brings our SAVIOUR! Though once crushed and defaced, yet […]
Read More GIVEN: CALVARY!2 Timothy 1:7 “For GOD has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” With Fear’s Enemy & Doubt’s Foe! The spirit of this world rages against both vessels of clay. Yet men and women alike sometimes hold it captive within…as though a captor enjoying […]
Read More With Fear’s Enemy & Doubt’s Foe!2 Corinthians 3:18 “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the LORD, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the SPIRIT of the LORD!” Together, Unveiled! Discernment in JESUS excludes veiled offerings for isnt it clear that no curtain remains? Torn from […]
Read More Together, Unveiled!Psalm 17:8 “Keep me as the apple of the eye; Hide me in the shadow of Your wings!” When HIS Light Appears! With missiles raining down within thunderstorms of hatred,with verbal arrows propelled by hearts darkened with sin…so the coming of CHRIST is precededby shadows. And not solely with wisps of Gray’sdim-threaded curtains!And not only […]
Read More When HIS Light Appears!Job 14:5 “Since his (man’s) days are determined (set), and the number of his months is with YOU, and YOU have appointed his limits that he cannot pass…” Unwavering Truth! No weapon formed against us can get past HIS armor; No arrow nor sword shall pierce through to our souls! By Love’s WORD defense, have […]
Read More Unwavering Truth!Hebrews 9:28 “So CHRIST, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for HIM!” (Rapture!) Heaven Bent! Steadfastly, within Sovereign fingers, we’re held… as instruments meant for inscribing GOD’s praises. With HIS right hand, HE […]
Read More Heaven Bent!Proverbs 10:25 “When the storm has swept by, the wicked are gone, but the righteous stand firm forever!” Depending on WHO you stand! Miracles are often found more prevalent at the “front” than the “back” of the Battle! Pressing closely then into HIS presence each day, so behold we HIS movements…all the more visibly! As […]
Read More Depending on WHO you stand!1 Corinthians 13:12 “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known!” Transparently Glowing! Vessels half full equal vessels half empty. The portions are mirrored: their measures — the same. But what difference is found […]
Read More Transparently Glowing!Galatians 5:1 “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith CHRIST has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage!” Because Faith Creates Freedom! Since gifts are given blessings, Faith’s presence isn’t the result of self-creation. Belief, then, is the followup to this favorable outpouring from GOD. But what if, like […]
Read More Because Faith Creates Freedom!2 Corinthians 10:5 “Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of GOD, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of CHRIST…” Guarding the Gateways! Managing minutes in the margin of moments so we do taking captive each worldly thought. For they are not of GOD! Thus they […]
Read More Guarding the Gateways!1 Corinthians 15:58 “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the LORD, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the LORD!” The Red Lens! Oh that the mercy of CHRIST felt extended…for days which seem graceless at best. Oh that HIS hands of compassion were present; embracing […]
Read More HIS Red Lens!1 John 3:1 “See what kind of love the FATHER has given to us, that we should be called children of GOD; and so we are! The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know HIM. As the MASTER’s Pieces! Seen by the world as mundane, so our ways […]
Read More As The MASTER’s Pieces!
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