Revelation 1:5: “And from JESUS CHRIST, the faithful Witness, the Firstborn of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To HIM WHO loves us and has released us from our sins by HIS blood!” HIS Apostrophe’s Power! How can our vessels be stained and impure yet found spotless? How is it […]
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With each New Day!
Romans 13:11 “And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we (first) believed.” With each New Day! To some, each new year holds no happy refrains. No songs of great Joy nor of Peace. To others, the date means […]
Read More With each New Day!Commonly Called, Sovereignly Sewn!
Isaiah 9:2 “The people who walk in darkness will see a great LIGHT; Those who live in a dark land, The LIGHT will shine on them!” Commonly Called, Sovereignly Sewn! Separate missions and varied paths are different strands within HIS hands. Uneven lengths and diverse colors with unlike strengths called “other than”. So we are […]
Read More Commonly Called, Sovereignly Sewn!Ever Present Tense!
Hebrews 13:8 “JESUS CHRIST is the same yesterday and today and forever.” Ever Present Tense! More memories are birthed the greater we age. But the older we get, more visuals just add to collections which often…become cobwebs. But GOD! Though recollection fades; though eyesight dims greatly, HIS never does! With Eternity’s records each constantly present, […]
Read More Ever Present Tense!Un-Virtually HIS!
3 John 3 “For I was overjoyed when the brothers came and testified about your devotion to The Truth, in which you continue to walk.” Un-Virtually HIS! Honest appraisals.Factual statements.Called “As it is!” SoReality speaks. But! Camouflaged lies.Untrustworthy words.Deceptive replies.Such is “virtual” speech. For though these, the latter,seem real…they’ve nosubstance worth everrepeating. Although true “appearing”aloud, […]
Read More Un-Virtually HIS!Gaining Holy Ground!
Exodus 3:5 “Then HE said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” Gaining Holy Ground! How shortened isthe distance in betweenour given missions… …and have weagreed to listen;moving closeras HE calls? How importantto keep watch;to mark bothprogress andour loss… to yet […]
Read More Gaining Holy Ground!Except in the Ashes!
2 Corinthians 7:10 “GODly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret…” Except in the Ashes! From memory, LORD…please cleanse Past’s half hour. Remove I pray, every remembrance. Its record, oh GOD…please erase from review till none recall any detail. Yes! Purge all last minutes and seconds combining…as if those spans never […]
Read More Except in the Ashes!CHRISTmas…Daily!
Titus 2:14 “HE gave HIMSELF for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for HIMSELF a people for HIS OWN possession, zealous for good deeds.” CHRISTmas…Daily! Our efforts, HE watches;each heart is examined…not for earning HIS favorbut measuring Zeal. To see if our hands areserving utmost…or tolevels — much lesser— bent down. […]
Read More CHRISTmas…Daily!Treasured Hopes!
Titus 2:13 “Looking for that blessed Hope, and the glorious appearing of the great GOD and our SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST…” Treasured Hopes! Expectations, when set, offer Hopes to aspire to; anticipations to which souls look forward. Spiritually speaking, HIS WORD confirms such! So watch we and wait for our AUTHOR and LORD. But! What watch […]
Read More Treasured Hopes!Two Birds, One Step!
John 12:26 “Whoever serves ME must follow ME; and where I am, MY servant also will be. MY FATHER will honor the one who serves ME.” Two Birds, One Step! Step forward once more, this morning, this hour…with prayer from the heart on your lips. Step backwards always from the sins of our flesh, while […]
Read More Two Birds, One Step!Meat over Minutia!
Hebrews 5:14 “But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.” Meat over Minutia! Do you go to church just to hear HIS WORD — broken? Do you press through trials, as such, each LORD’s day? To reach its front […]
Read More Meat over Minutia!Prayer Reviews!
Psalm 19:14 “Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my ROCK and my REDEEMER.” Prayer Reviews! Intently listening to conversations, sifting through each strand of speech… …are those whose learning bend transforms the words they choose. Not simply waiting to respond but trying […]
Read More Prayer Reviews!All Behind!
Philippians 3:13b “Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what (even WHO) is ahead…” All Behind! Take HIS WORD which we have heard and trust in HIM WHO took our sin… …because designed were we for saving! HE aligned us then at Calvary! How unworthy these, HIS vessels, yet HE chose to label “blessed”… …because […]
Read More All Behind!Growing Pages!
Philippians 1:6 ״And I am sure of this, that HE WHO began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of JESUS CHRIST.” Growing Pages! Each disordered inscription and disheveled writing could point to a mind which was absent of focus. Rambling and unfinished sentences might also be deemed as […]
Read More Growing Pages!As Beacons Brightly!
Psalm 34:5 “Those who look to HIM are radiant with joy; their faces shall never be ashamed.” As Beacons Brightly! Light does not appear when the Darkness increases yet shadows seem greater the brighter the day. So if GOD was absent, there would be no contrast. A “nothingness void” would be all that remained. But […]
Read More As Beacons Brightly!The Provision of HIS Presence!
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!Following HIS LIGHT!
1 Peter 4:8 “Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.” Following HIS LIGHT! Humility’s display is intrinsic…or not;thus adopted and foreign or natively known. Love’s depths mirror also this “Either/Or” stance with Care planted deep…or yet unsown. Thus humbled Affection surrendered to CHRIST will express HIS heart’s message […]
Read More Following HIS LIGHT!The Soul Answer!
John 17:3 “And this is eternal life, that they know YOU, the only true GOD, and JESUS CHRIST WHOM YOU have sent!” The Soul Answer! May the soul with no answers save CHRIST remain humbled for such knowledge surely — through valleys — is gained. Where all other theories have soundly been crushed and with […]
Read More The Soul Answer!Just Left!
John 10:27 “MY sheep hear MY voice, and I know them, and they follow ME.” Just Left! A ready CHRIST follower, by definition, admits that they cannot lead themselves. In contrast, a slumbering memberof the Faith…tries to. Those closest to CHRIST then are steadfastly watching HIM, from behind or beside HIS presence. So those errantly […]
Read More Just Left!Purposed and Sent!
Psalm 139:14 “I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.” Purposed and Sent! What it takes a warrior to do means another might not. What HIS preachers can share, some others cannot. Where a servant is sent then depends onGOD’s gifting, HIS sovereign […]
Read More Purposed and Sent!Living with “ADHD!”
2 Peter 1:13 “I consider it right, as long as I am in this earthly dwelling, to stir you up by way of reminder…” Living with “ADHD!” Amazingly, dispensationally,GOD’s grace hasbeen given. Sovereignly,exponentially,HE calls us to listen. Eternally,supernaturally,we’re drawn toserve CHRIST. Thus, in light ofthese truths,do not simplyEXIST! As HIServant reminded to daily live with […]
Read More Living with “ADHD!”The Day of Faith!
Isaiah 25:1 “LORD, you are my GOD; I will exalt YOU and praise YOUR NAME, for in perfect faithfulness YOU have done wonderful things, things planned long ago.” The Day of Faith! It’s just as GOD said through HIS WORD and the prophets. It’s just as HE wrote through HIS scribes for today. HE gave […]
Read More The Day of Faith!Just…in HIS Direction!
Psalms 86:11 “Teach me your way, LORD, that I may rely on YOUR faithfulness; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear YOUR NAME!” Just…in HIS Direction! Relent from pursuing the sins of the flesh. Reject such backslidden and deviant paths. Instead reaching upwards, grasp Zeal with your heart and repeat every movement with […]
Read More Just…in HIS Direction!Broken for HIS Service!
Psalm 34:14 “The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.” Broken for HIS Service! Whose hands and whose feet does the LORD use for service? What mind and which soul bends its will to HIS ways? Yea, those who were broken yet now has HE mended!! AND! Others in process […]
Read More Broken for HIS Service!This Greatest Jubilee!
John 16:33 “I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world!” This Greatest Jubilee! With great jubilee and rejoicing, so HIS enemies “think” they’re now winning. But just like before at the Flood and the […]
Read More This Greatest Jubilee!Through it All…with CHRIST!
Philippians 2:13 “For it is GOD WHO works in you, both to will and to work for HIS good pleasure.” Through it All…with CHRIST! When even the need Obligations require is too heavy a burden — increasing each week… …when even the air which our lungs would inhale is too heavy a weight without any […]
Read More Through it All…with CHRIST!Beyond Every Layer!
Proverbs 28:14 “Blessed is the one who fears the LORD always, but whoever hardens his heart will fall into calamity.” Beyond Every Layer! All testing, failure, healing and experience grant us armor which serves as Life’s buffer. Calloused layers of lessons we’ve learned serve this purpose; protecting our hearts as footprints continue. So! Take all […]
Read More Beyond Every Layer!Un-Automating Stumbling!
Job 4:4 “YOUR words have steadied those who stumbled; YOU have braced the knees that were buckling.” Un-Automating Stumbling! The works of the flesh and the deviloften coincide in the same steps. Where our flesh tends to go, so the devil will make such paths those of “least resistance”. Add in the tools of the […]
Read More Un-Automating Stumbling!IN Steps!
1 John 2:6 “Whoever says they abide in HIM should (even must!) walk in the same way in which HE walked.” IN Steps! As Heaven’s witnessto all we walk through,so HE sees those thingswhich birth Prayer. Then lifting to Heavenboth trials and painsso joined are our criesby HIS care. IN steps HE purposedthere felt is […]
Read More IN Steps!Pointing ONE Way!
1 Timothy 2:5 “For there is ONE GOD, and there is one mediator between GOD and men, the man CHRIST JESUS.” Pointing ONE Way! The “round-about way” when one answers… paints a picture of wandering thoughts. As randomized paths which have countless, “blind turns” thus misled are such souls from our GOD. So let your […]
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