To See JESUS CHRIST!
1 Thessalonians 4:18 “Therefore encourage one another with these words!” Waiting for Five! A gathering of numbers, of such kindred souls, with reunions of hearts once again… What blessed embrace as each greets one another…on streetsmade gold…found in Heaven! So three went ahead by our SAVIOUR’s recall to serve HIMin HIS presence — rejoicing! With […]
Read More Waiting for Five!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!11/4/25 Devotional: A Wretch set Free! Do you recall Romans 7:24? “O wretched man that I am: who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” The Roman custom for a murderers’ punishment was to chain the dead body to the murderer until both were dead. What a horrific visual and experience that was […]
Read More Do you recall Romans 7:24?Hebrews 4:12a “For the WORD of GOD is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword…” Choosing Both! HIS WORD is complete yet ongoing still in regards to this life. The Bible keeps telling us what happens next yet some leave it closed. Since HIS Scripture is (both) living and active then choose…to be also! […]
Read More Choosing Both!Romans 8:29 “For those whom HE foreknew HE also predestined to be conformed to the image of HIS SON, in order that HE might be the firstborn among many brothers.” Transformation Day! When JESUS returns,what a change HEwill bring! What atransforming line weshall cross! From this body of flesh,even Death as Paul tellsus, to newness […]
Read More Transformation Day!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!Mark 13:33 “Be on guard, keep awake. for you do not know when the time will come.” Ever Faithfully Seeking! I’m praying for today though it may be tomorrow. My faith remains firm in HIS steps which I follow! HIS blood made me worthy with the Mercy I craved… yet if Time passes onward and […]
Read More Ever Faithfully Seeking!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?Philippians 3:20 “But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a SAVIOUR from there, the LORD JESUS CHRIST!” Gathering GODly Supplies! Serve then the LORD with your joyous refrains; uplift effort-filled praises with reverent displays! By accomplishing such without any delays, so our lives will soar far from “lukewarm”. Found building with gold […]
Read More Gathering GODly Supplies!Matthew 25:6 “But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Here is The Bridegroom. Come out to meet HIM!” Distinguishing Lights! As HIS mirrors sent into Life’s shadows; drawn to The LIGHT for reflection each hour, …then why we are called to not tolerate sin is so greatest we’ll shine by HIS power. Now remove every […]
Read More Distinguishing Lights!Proverbs 4:23 “Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life!” Victoriously Watching! None can defend against enemies already “inside”… who’ve been nurtured and coddled, protected as well, in dark corners of hearts and of minds. None can pretend they’re in power nor having control… when their gates are wide open […]
Read More Victoriously Watching!2 Timothy 3:16 “All Scripture is breathed out by GOD and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, Plumb Line Assessments! What is the impact of sin on your mission? Does Complaceny’s weight drag your footprints off course? Does a tolerant heart of a wayward transaction cause Doubt to distract […]
Read More Plumb Line Assessments!2 Corinthians 5:20 “Therefore, we are ambassadors for CHRIST, GOD making HIS appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of CHRIST, be reconciled to GOD!” Ready and Reconciled! Paths often altered by Pain’s redirections bring us to HIS throne room with prayers uplifted. Yet those without such — proceeding unhindered oft lead to the […]
Read More Ready and Reconciled!1 Chronicles 16:11 “Seek the LORD and HIS strength; seek HIS presence continually! Doubling Down! Sin without remorse betrays wickedness – embraced…while repentance for errors engages HIS Grace. Stay the course… Stay the course… Stand with The LORD! Conviction — when heeded — then blesses hearts quickly…but stubborn behaviors find wisdom yet missing. Stay the […]
Read More Doubling Down!Colossians 1:13 “HE has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of HIS beloved SON…” Led From! Thank YOU for breaking me Yet unforsakenly staying beside me while rendering Justice. Teaching, transforming and always restoring; adorning my soul with YOUR robe of Redemption. By which I am bettered, unchained […]
Read More Led From!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!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!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!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!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!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 […]
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