Before, then After!

Matthew 16:24 “Then JESUS told HIS disciples, “If anyone would come after ME, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow ME.” Before, then After! Please do not relieve those whose future potential will intersect such who believe in what’s false.  Yea LORD! May it be their lives reach full extension to […]

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Do you recall Romans 7:24? 

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 […]

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Hope Secured!

Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” Hope Secured! Anticipating, while watching and waiting, debating my steps, weighing each in HIS scales.   Thus contemplating  whose footprints I’m chasing, so now am I bowed before CHRIST without pride. For having learning HE  exceeds Life’s every need […]

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Ever Faithfully Seeking! 

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 […]

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Saved by The ANSWER!

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 […]

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Faith, Hope and What?

The Day of the LORD: This is for our encouragement! 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 VIP Verse 8! I have provided the section in its entirety below for context. 8 “But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of […]

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Surging Forward!

Luke 12:37 “Blessed are those servants whom the MASTER finds awake when HE comes. Surging Forward! As the LORD draweth closer, give heed to HIS words heard speaking through scripture…with Power. Watch then most expectant like Gideon‘s men…serving faithfully, daily, each reverent hour! Yea! Let’s sing till the End with the strongest of praises…our MASTER, […]

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The Best Alterations!

Psalm 32:8 “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.” The Best Alterations! To be crushed by GOD is far better than to be set free by oneself. To be broken by HIS holy hand is greater than left whole […]

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With Unending Praise!

Hebrews 13:15 “Through JESUS, therefore, let us continually offer to GOD a sacrifice of praise — the fruit of lips that openly profess HIS NAME.” With Unending Praise! One second slower then two steps behind. Yet Time runs faster  than thoughts in my mind.  Things slipping away then vanish they all! Good memories more often […]

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Nearer, my GOD!

Psalm 145:18 “The LORD is near to all who call on HIM, to all who call on HIM in truth.” Nearer, my GOD! As opposed to one foot in front of the other; “two steps behind” meets with Sin.  One progresses, two decline so when following GOD, we must keep our pace just with HIS.  […]

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Equally Equipping! (Next. Level Faith)

2 Timothy 4:2 “Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.” Equally Equipping! (Next. Level Faith) GOD’s message to us,the “last page” of HISWORD, points to unionforever with HIM. The Beginning we knowhaving read it before inthe chapters whichGenesis holds. So with Now’s “in-between”we […]

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Air JESUS!

1st Peter 3:15a “But in your hearts honor CHRIST the LORD as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the Hope that is in you…” Air JESUS! When one longs most for CHRIST then their language reflects HIM; a soul hungered for GOD — the […]

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With Stirring Focus!

Proverbs 4:25 “Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.” With Stirring Focus! Can one’s future self bring rescue to the present or the past? Or is there power in this moment to move forward…or shrink back? Glory! Here and now, in JESUS’ NAME is where we’re set in motion! […]

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The HERO’s Effort!

Acts 4:12 “And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved!” The HERO’s Effort! It took a hero without sin WHOSE sacrificed life bought this wretchfrom depths of Self staining. Only ONE matched that role which CHRIST filled without […]

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With Stripes into Wholeness!

Luke 7:47 “Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven — for she loved much. But he who is forgiven little, loves little.” With Stripes into Wholeness! Silent painsare both unheardand unvetted. Yet HE hears eachunspoken andheartbroken cry. Just to know thisis bliss; such bringsJoy to the soul. So to CHRIST giveyour […]

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Redemption’s Rest!

Psalms 23:2 “HE makes me to lie down in green pastures; HE leads me beside the still waters.” Redemption’s Rest! How glorious GOD’s power; how great are HIS comforts! Still! True heavenly rest begins only in Glory. So all earthly kingdoms — FROM HIS — stand apart; all pleasures in life pale at best next […]

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Meant Two!

Exodus 9:16 “But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you MY power, so that MY NAME may be proclaimed in all the earth.” Meant Two! We follow HIM WHO knew no sin; whose grace alone sufficient… …WHO took our blame upon HIS NAME; each stain and act — malicious. So keep […]

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Following HIS Directions!

Psalm 32:8 “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you. Following HIS Directions! Going back to Egypt wasn’t in GOD’s plans. But the demonic used human voices to claim that it was. CHRIST fulfilled all the law at Calvary but satan still […]

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The Rest of Reclining!

John 13:23 “One of his disciples, whom JESUS loved, was reclining against HIS chest.” The Rest of Reclining! There’s enough strings attached which constantly pull in different directions. Hero effort aside, more fail to “pull back”…and rather “press on”. At such, tears occurring, soon cause breaking points due to misplaced Zeal. Without HIS Foundation, thus […]

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With Endless Gratitude!

Psalm 113:2 “Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and forever!” With Endless Gratitude! While Unequal Gratitude some might choose to give…  it must not be for praising HIM; WHO’s due our souls’ Thanksgiving! Instead it then be Flesh with sins — embellished… … whose thoughts exalt themselves to turn the […]

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Waiting Up!

Psalm 121:8 “The LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore!” Waiting Up! Quietly sitting before the fire, the older woman slowly picked up an aged, cast iron poker and proceeded to stoke the coals nearly asleep before her. Sparks, startled by the sudden movement, then quickly rose up. As an […]

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“Less Than!” Learning

James 1:19 “My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger…” “Less Than!” Learning Know our prayerconnection with HIMWHO is sovereignstands — priceless. It’s a link we must dailymaintain at all costs. Since conversationsfound one-sidedbreed Silence… so Listening requiresour hearts to stopthinking. Then reading insteadwithout skimming […]

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Broken Progress!

1 Peter 5:5b “and all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, for GOD is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Broken Progress! There’s a point where Progression — doesn’t. It’s an intersection called “Complete Brokenness.” But once having passed through it, Forward Movement begins again.  Spiritually then, our […]

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Closing our Gap!

1 Corinthians 15:49 “And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly!” Closing our Gap! In Glory, what level oflove shall we witness?Will it be a massiveleap forward…or no? Meaning: How muchdevotion was shown inour lives? Will our firststeps in Heaven achasm — expose ? […]

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Unfailing Love!

1 Corinthians 15:57 “But thanks be to GOD, WHO gives us the victory through our LORD JESUS CHRIST!” Unfailing Love! For sure protection, endless grace and sovereign will, our voices praise THEE.  Blessings follow then because YOUR help for us exceeds amazing! So when difficulties drag us down — suggesting we’re defeated… …or when demons […]

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HIS Priceless WORD!

John 8:32 “And you will know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free!” HIS Priceless WORD! Bought with a priceversus “free” standas opposite poleson the Earth. So one’s self worthis lessened if told…they have no purposenor value. So heard screamingis satan at every lostsoul AND the Faithful! Though he wields Evil’stongue — ‘tis […]

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A Firm FoundationalAccess Reminder!

Ephesians 2:18 “…for through HIM we both have our access in one SPIRIT to the FATHER.” A Firm FoundationalAccess Reminder! The cost of access(since nothing’s free)is often lost on those“misguided”… …whose hearts forgotLife’s “price is paid”,where sacrifice camenot from them. On “all else built”could nothing stand ifGOD’s foundation hadnot been laid. Boast then — just […]

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Advanced Post Millennial Dispensationalism (?)

Proverbs 12:18 “There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.” Advanced Post Millennial Dispensationalism (?) What Man has labeled,defining positionshas served both toguide and distract. As lines of dividing,so like minds cangather yet also itcrafts intellectualbarriers. Thus distancing soulsfrom HIS simple truthsare those whose “greatstudy” […]

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Footprint Paths!

Proverbs 8:20 “I walk in the way of righteousness, along the paths of justice…” Footprint Paths! Uncertainty reignswhen “one” foot’s inthe gravest of places. Where “Two” incontrast in HISfootprint seemssteadfastly standing. On uneven ground.both unstable soonfall down — defeated. Direct then your feetJUST on pathwaysthat JESUS created! As HIServants walking on holy, even and purposed […]

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