To See JESUS CHRIST!
Zephaniah 3:17a “The LORD your GOD is in your midst, a mighty ONE WHO will save…” Embracing our SOURCE! A battery’s power is loweredwith usage. Fuel sourcesdiminish when load is applied. Renewable levels of energythen are what everyone dailydesires through life. But how often Lack isdiscovered within! In wavesof Frustration, we sinkwithout Strength! Even more […]
Read More Embracing our SOURCE!1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 “Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is GOD’s will for you in CHRIST JESUS.” With Paired Pursuit! Bring HIS prayer song with each morning and HIS praise with each evening. Lift CHRIST’s NAME with the Dawn and keep singing — believing! For with the sunrise and each […]
Read More With Paired Pursuit!Ephesians 5:8 “…for you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the LORD; walk as children of Light!” As Living Life Lights! Let us leave this world behind while yet remaining as HIS witness. Let us press towards our calling as our most important business. By abandoning those thoughts which fuel the flesh […]
Read More As Living Life Lights!Isaiah 42:8 “I am the LORD; that is MY NAME; MY glory I give to no other, nor MY praise to carved idols.” Lifting and Living Up! Often we’re found making names for ourselves in the flesh. With such temporal titles then Self takes the spotlight in Error. So! Thank GOD for the banner of […]
Read More Lifting and Living Up!2 Timothy 4:2 “Preach The WORD; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage — with great patience and careful instruction.” Serving Through the Storm! Set your affections on WHO reigns above and those here yet remaining who’ve not met HIM yet. Yes! Displaying our love for The LORD is best […]
Read More Serving Through the Storm!1 Corinthians 15:53 “For thiscorruptible must put onincorruption, and this mortalmust put on immortality.” Fire Proving! Fire can only prove steadfast content which is made of such things which cannot be consumed. But wood, hay and stubble, unlikein all manner, will burn in an instant; no more to be used. Be then one transformed by […]
Read More Fire Proving!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!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?Matthew 6:21 “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Laying Up Treasures! “Paradise lost” marks the end of this life and begins greatest joy found with GOD. “Heaven regained” shall our souls shout with rapture where “HIS Promise fulfilled!” fills our souls! So look no more downward to passing attractions! Such […]
Read More Laying Up Treasures!Romans 10:9 – “That if you will confess with your mouth the LORD JESUS, and shall believe in your heart that GOD raised HIM from the dead, you shall be saved!” Saved by The ANSWER! Who gets the answerthen works their ways backwardsTo half truths and proofswhich prove – partial? Who hears HIS solutionbut blinds […]
Read More Saved by The ANSWER!Mark 16:15 “And HE said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.” Heaven’s Heart Deliveries! Let us assert HIS priceless worth; “CHRIST came to Earth with purpose!” Let us present gifts Heaven sent to all GOD meant receive them. Not just to those, as some suppose, “deserving […]
Read More Heaven’s Heart Deliveries!2 Samuel 22:29 “For YOU are my Lamp, O LORD, and my GOD lightens my darkness.” Surrendering Steps! Decadent shame brings daily disgust while disciplined Fear births Devotion’s increase. Reverent praise creates Joy in the soul while blatant indifference births Moral decrease. So make now your choice as HIServant, dividing your Self from each darkening […]
Read More Surrendering Steps!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!Psalm 75:1 “We praise YOU, GOD, we praise YOU, for YOUR NAME is near; people tell of YOUR wonderful deeds.” With Loudest Praise! Oh Church! Hear HIS cry for your soul to draw near! Not with thousands of others but truly — one voice. Let each elevate praise to the LORD without ceasing! Yea! A […]
Read More With Loudest Praise!Mark 16:15 “And HE said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.” HIS Crimson Talent! Invest then HIS talent bestowed for your life. Pricelessly offered and paid in advance…. by HIS sacrifice, both eternal and full! Yea, CHRIST our REDEEMER with scarred, callous hands! So gather great […]
Read More HIS Crimson Talent!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!Matthew 5:16 “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your FATHER WHO is in heaven.” Uncovering the Wick! Does your soul prefer sin to pursue HIM — “Whenever!” ? Is HIS call from The WORD yet unanswered? Do others discover you lukewarm in church or in […]
Read More Uncovering the Wick!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!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!Mark 16:15: “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation.” The Loudest Town Crier!” Oh GOD, LORD GOD: How great YOUR NAME is! This soul craves more, my lips proclaim this! “Surrender all; make HIM your Sacred!” Yes — go and tell the world! CHRIST’s message then must be repeated […]
Read More The Loudest Town Crier!”1 Chronicles 16:11: “Look to the LORD and HIS strength; seek HIS face always!” With Window Cleaning Zeal! Staring through those window panes I’d placed around my soul, So was noticed slivered images alone with nothing whole. Some more, some less since childhood, some bright with others shadowed. Till this present time when through these […]
Read More With Window Cleaning Zeal!Isaiah 26:3 “YOU will keep in perfect peace all who trust in YOU, all whose thoughts are fixed on YOU!“ With Fixation’s Focus! An obsession is not an addiction. Rather said, it’s a chosen compulsion. The latter seems formed by surrendering will to some chemically skewed alteration. BUT GOD (to this fool) is both — […]
Read More With Fixation’s Focus!Psalm 97:11 “Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart. Light Sowing Joy! HE moved, is moving and shall for Eternity. With seed HE sows all that is precious and good… …for the souls and the sakes of every believer! HE is light, gives life and sows both every hour. […]
Read More Light Sowing Joy!John 3:11 “Truly, truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, and yet you people do not accept our testimony.” “You People!” A different “kind”, a separate “group”, Another “faith” — all together. Yet next beside, (in church residing) do not relent from Law’s pursuit! […]
Read More “You People!”Romans 12:11 “Do not be lacking in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the LORD!” With Exclusive Reflections! Mountainous seas of humanity surge through the valleys; From darkness and night, drawn by GOD’s sovereign light, to the heights of Redemption’s rejoicing… WHEN our vessels reflecting HIS glorious presence… touch those yet rejecting HIS merciful blessings… […]
Read More With Exclusive Reflections!Ephesians 6:17 “Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the SPIRIT, which is the WORD of GOD!” The Sharpest Sword! Watching the smiths of both metal and stone sculpt a sword over time, ever zealous. I sat mesmerized by their fervent intent to keep edging this object …to make the blade sharper! Though […]
Read More The Sharpest Sword!Genesis 1:16 “And GOD made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night…HE made the stars also.” More than the Stars! The night skies adorned with shimmering starlight boast boldly of GOD’s sovereign hand. HIS fingers thus dotted the Heaven with lights which give worshipful […]
Read More More than the Stars!Psalm 113:3 “From the rising of the sun to its setting, the name of the LORD is to be praised!” Rising Together! Another day dawning, another night’s close. A separate exhaling till inhaling Hope. For come the next morning, HIS light shall appear! With prayers most zealous, our hearts HE’ll draw nearer! So watch for […]
Read More Rising Together!Ephesians 5:6 “Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of GOD comes upon the sons of disobedience.” By Rightly Discerning! Let us stand for what’s right and ignite fires within…to do truly what’s right without compromise. Let us bow without Pride and surrender inside to display solely […]
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