To See JESUS CHRIST!
Titus 2:14 “…WHO gave HIMSELF for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for HIMSELF a people for HIS own possession, zealous for good deeds.” (Us also…HIS disciples!) The Surrendered Disciple! So one beginsby pressing into disciplinetheir senses. When held, their jewelmost priceless: Proved!Is CHRIST WHO rules.Then! Victory! With hearts well […]
Read More The Surrendered Disciple!Proverbs 10:12 “Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs.” Haste without Hate! As rubber bands stretching in Noon-Day’s extremes where Hate’s heat melts Love’s kindness, disfiguring hearts… …this dream of mine surges; Still! Onward — extending — expectant through all…as HE purposed us be! So though Life’s compassion seems waning — devolving; […]
Read More Haste without Hate!Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you…” Once Again — Heaven! We shall sing of YOUR excellent greatness; with our words filled exalting YOUR NAME! YOUR praise will be heard from our lips with each breath as before THEE our songs have […]
Read More Once Again — Heaven!1 Peter 2:9 “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for GOD’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of HIM WHO has called you out of darkness into HIS marvelous light…” Exclusively bound, HIS Bondservants – wholly, extremely detached from the chains of this world; […]
Read More CHRIST’s Purchase as GOD’s Possession!Proverbs 8:13 “To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct, and perverse speech.” HIS Choice Chains! How Pride so entangles our lives with great ease! Its’ web lets none free save surrendering souls… …whose choice leaves behind what the Flesh holds so dear. Yet the “unchained” were not freed […]
Read More HIS Choice Chains!1 Peter 2:16 “Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of GOD.” Freely Bound! Holding fast onto CHRIST makes one loosed from this world. In HIS chains we find freedom as children of GOD. In the bonds of HIS service, our hearts […]
Read More Freely Bound!Isaiah 45:22 “Turn to ME and be saved, all the ends of the earth; For I AM GOD, and there is no other.” The Turning T’wards! Who loathes their love for any sin which turns their heart away? Who hates the harm it causes to the point they cling to Grace? Only those so broken […]
Read More The Turning T’wards!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!Matthew 18:20 “For where two or three are gathered together in MY NAME, I am there in the midst of them.” In Two’s Congregation! Where whispers attack and “nay-sayers” gather, where words which are evil are thinly disguised… …is found often the place where the broken yet steadfast become congregations of two — or much […]
Read More In Two’s Congregation!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!Hebrews 1:3a “HE is the radiance of the glory of GOD and the exact imprint of HIS nature…” The Only Reflection! In light of longing for HIS appearing, so! My own reflection fades. Not as dying, but! Transparent… where alone is seen HIS face. Thus unseen yet surely heard, continue…pressing till HIS presence surely glows. […]
Read More The Only Reflection!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!“If you should hear a teardropfall from any one in view…then run to catch it so the next timeone will come and comfort you!” Selfless service! Give the heart of CHRIST!
Read More Many years ago The LORD GOD gave me this…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!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 85:13 “Righteousness will go before HIM to prepare the way for HIS steps!” HIS Way Makers! As John was created to forge forward CHRIST’s pathway, so too are we destined to preach of HIS steps. To speak well of HIS coming return from the Heavens, thus have we been purposed; the “road ahead” preaching. […]
Read More HIS Way Makers!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 PrayerPsalm 77:14 “You are the GOD WHO works wonders; YOU display YOUR strength among the peoples!” The .77 Cent Reminder! If I only give to those who can give back then I’m doing a little More than exchanging the same $10 bill, over and over again. It becomes a limited transaction where faith is not […]
Read More The .77 Cent Reminder!John 10:10 “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly!” Resting’s Repayments! Some steal Rest from the Body as if such was treasure; as though it were gold. They restlessly crave it each hour and thirst for those peaceful to quickly devour. […]
Read More Resting’s Repayments!1 John 2:6 “The one who says he resides in GOD should himself walk just as JESUS walked.” With HIS Blessed Alignment! Every thought we wish captured and wholly aligned on the Crossroad of Faith — Calvary’s tree. Till our only desire is CHRIST’s emptied cross reminding HE’s risen and “living in me!” With what […]
Read More With HIS Blessed Alignment!Galatians 6:3 “For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.” With Sovereign Assessments! The efforts we author and offers as “CHRIST-like” cannot be thus measured by our own perceptions. The path of our MASTER thus matters completely, comparing these steps to HIS given before us. May YOUR presence then. […]
Read More With Sovereign Assessments!Romans 12:11 “Do not lack diligence in zeal; be fervent in the SPIRIT, serve the LORD!” The Forte’ of the Gentiles! Surging power propelled through his veins. Servant ink, then outpoured, filled these pages. With praise overflowing from him who bowed — broken, such Truths thus were penned — for the Ages. By the Ancient […]
Read More The Forte’ of the Gentiles!Psalm 52:8 “But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in the house of GOD; I trust in the lovingkindness of GOD forever and ever!” Anchor Point: The amount of oil produced for CHRIST has far more to do with into whose hand we relentlessly press our lives. HIS Sovereign Pressures! Pressing […]
Read More HIS Sovereign Pressures!Colossians 3:23-24 “Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, for the LORD and not for men because you know that you will receive an inheritance from the LORD as your reward. It is the LORD JESUS CHRIST you are serving! THROUGH the Hearts of the Lost! The masses who sing in the […]
Read More THROUGH the Hearts of the Lost!John 16:33 “I have told you these things so that in ME you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!” The Cry of HIS Own! What content might HE hear that hasn’t been already shared?, said my weary soul confessing to the mirror’s empty […]
Read More The Cry of HIS Own!Isaiah 49:16a “See, I have engraved you on the palms of MY hands…” By HIS Scars! At rest in HIS hands though embattled be! So kneel we with Faith, both awake and asleep. When gone is the tide and absent the sun; with breath nearly failed and when Hope has run. In tandem when Grace […]
Read More By HIS Scars!1 John 3:2 “Beloved, now we are children of GOD, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when HE appears, we will be like HIM, because we will see HIM just as HE is!” For: Given Grace! When beneath Love’s open hand rebuked, bow surely. To rise above […]
Read More For: Given Grace!John 3:6 “Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the SPIRIT.” Releasing The SPIRIT! Oh for the moment when “Holy!” indwells us; when All’s apprehension consumes wanton will! When all which is errantly thought and sought after becomes a distraction that leaves us unfilled. So turning again with our LORD’s HOLY SPIRIT: […]
Read More Releasing The SPIRIT!1 Thessalonians 5:11 “Therefore encourage and BUILD ONE ANOTHER UP, just as you are already doing.” House Joining Faith! With YOUR SPIRIT, heal our house and each temple within. For collectively standing, our frames are combined. Thus made to be modular, building each other, so move we as one when none left are behind. And […]
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