Tag: reflecting CHRIST
Inverted Spotlights!
1 Corinthians 11:1 “Take example by me, even as I also follow CHRIST!” Inverted Spotlights! Our claim to fame is CHRIST; Living sacrifices all. Breathing in such morning glory in HIS presence. Where — in prayer — still surrendered with devotion to The Call… so we bask within The perfect Light of GOD! HE only […]
Read More Inverted Spotlights!Leaving the Past Behind!
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!Torn Between!
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!Yet Closer Still!
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!Staying With!
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!With Total Resistance!
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!Straight Forward!
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!Closer Encounters!
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!Measuring with the MASTER!
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!Sacrificially Following!
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!Full Service Balance!
Galatians 6:9 “Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” Full Service Balance! Glory to GOD; yea, hallow HIS NAME. Be quick to speak up, every servant! So cast off complaints; replace them with praise and fill the air ‘round you […]
Read More Full Service Balance!With Un-Distracting Devotion!
Colossians 3:2: “Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.” With Un-Distracting Devotion! Headphones, EarPods VR Distractions… Elevations, suppressions by chemical means. These are a few of our favorite things so says those hosts driven — demonic. Mechanically neutral, misused by Intention; so transformed such are for deceiving.. Misleading the soul with another […]
Read More With Un-Distracting Devotion!Paying the Blind!
Matthew 15:14 “Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.” Paying the Blind! When debaters are paid to spew violence, and with arrogance claim they are victims as well… Then Justice must rise through our lives and each heart to display CHRIST as […]
Read More Paying the Blind!Increasing…IN HIS Steps!
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.” Increasing…IN HIS Steps! Winning with JESUS; LOSING with satan. Yet the steps of the flesh fit closest with darkness. Only with GOD’s discernment can we stay on […]
Read More Increasing…IN HIS Steps!…By HIS NAME!
John 10:3 “To HIM the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear HIS voice, and HE calls HIS own sheep by name and leads them out!” …By HIS NAME! What a SAVIOUR we have WHO exclusively saved our lost souls! HE is JESUS The LORD WHO both made and claims us as HIS own. So none other […]
Read More …By HIS NAME!Following Line of Sight!
Philippians 3:20 “But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the LORD JESUS CHRIST…” Following Line of Sight! Do we focus most on our sins than on CHRIST… as though darker these stains than HIS soul cleansing crimson? How dim does one think that HIS light seems around us… when […]
Read More Following Line of Sight!With Zealous Pursuit!
Psalm 63:1 “O GOD, YOU are my GOD; earnestly I seek YOU; my soul thirsts for YOU; my flesh faints for YOU, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.” With Zealous Pursuit! What if the blind man had not asked for Sight? What if Content rested just to have hearing? […]
Read More With Zealous Pursuit!“As Angels!”
Hebrews 13:2 “Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” “As Angels”! GOD sends HIS angels daily to watch over simple sheep. We HE calls to live with boldness as assigned and as released. Entwined with GOD’s provision to both preach and serve — thereby… …by HIS SON […]
Read More “As Angels!”Present not Pretend!
Titus 2:11-12 “For the grace of GOD has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to LIVE self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the PRESENT age…” Present not Pretend! Great actor, Wayward scripts; Accomplished actress Worthless words. What value then whose actions follow on paths off course… […]
Read More Present not Pretend!The Loudest Town Crier!”
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!”First — Each Morning!
2 Corinthians 8:5 “And this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the LORD and then by the will of GOD to us.” First — Each Morning! Reciting HIS Words, Repeating those actions done perfectly by our SAVIOUR… Must first be combined with Sincerity’s zeal! Else all is just motion without any […]
Read More First — Each Morning!With Window Cleaning Zeal!
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!Our ENFORCER!
Psalm 46:1 “For the choirmaster. Of the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A song! GOD is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in times of trouble!” Our ENFORCER! Our sins are great; GOD’s grace is greatest… compellingly drawing us forward. Our flesh is weak; HIS mercy — strongest… relentlessly giving support! Our Hope […]
Read More Our ENFORCER!Faith Stretching Fabric!
1 Peter 1:7 “These (trials) have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when JESUS CHRIST is revealed. Faith Stretching Fabric! We walk through this life wearing clothing which fades. It wears and it tears being […]
Read More Faith Stretching Fabric!HIS Anointed Waterfalls!
1 John 2:20 “But you have been anointed by the HOLY ONE, and you all have knowledge!” HIS Anointed Waterfalls! Love defined supernaturally: CHRIST! Our LORD WHOSE affections have given us life. As a waterfall soaking from heights set on high, so HIS outpouring floods through this soul! It’s power is endless, HIS depths — […]
Read More HIS Anointed Waterfalls!The Rest of Repetition!
Philippians 3:1 “Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the LORD. To write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you.” The Rest of Repetition! Those shadowy hosts which court darkness continue to tell every CHRISTian, “Be silent!” Such spirits rail constantly, spewing rejection since they cannot stand to hear […]
Read More The Rest of Repetition!Five Titles!
Philippians 2:25 “I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need…” Five Titles! We call upon others with names or with titles. Even “family” or “friend” can be one and the same. Thus we beckon to each with […]
Read More Five Titles!For Peer Review!
Philippians 2:5 “In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as CHRIST JESUS.” For Peer Review! Be careful of every available doorway. Use caution before any portal or gate. For though your faith’s height would protect you from evil, those following closely might not be as strong. So watch with Intent who you’re […]
Read More For Peer Review!Unfading Glory!
Luke 19:38 “Saying, “Blessed is the KING WHO comes in the name of the LORD! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” Unfading Glory! How close do we hold “cotton candy” possessions? How firm is our grasp on such things which just fade? Do we cling to what’s temporal or all that’s eternal? Will […]
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