To See JESUS CHRIST!
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!1 Corinthians 12:18 “But now [as things really are], GOD has placed and arranged the parts in the Body, each one of them, just as HE willed and saw FIT [with the best balance of function].” Fit In! When seeds grow togetherSide by side — entwined closelytheir sprouts will unite— becoming one stock. But when […]
Read More “Fit In!”Psalm 143:6 “I stretch out my hands to YOU; My soul longs for YOU, as a parched land! Selah.” Heaven’s Peak! When Moses climbed Mt Nebo, his view of Promised Land awaited. Yet Life’s breath would soon elude him when GOD’s Hour Glass expired. When the final grain of sand did fall as one, completely […]
Read More Heaven’s Peak!Psalm 73:28 “But as for me, the nearness of GOD is my good…” I have made the LORD GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all YOUR works! Closer than Yesterday! Let YOUR NAME consume what remains of Self Till “Hid with CHRIST” — between crimson letters. Consume me then with YOUR sovereign truth […]
Read More Closer than Yesterday!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…John 12:25 “He that loves his life shall lose it; and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.” With the Beginning in Mind! Release your grip, oh Pilgrim; Release your grasp, oh self. Cast off all of Want’s attentions which are bound to “Here and Now”. For CHRIST’s […]
Read More With the Beginning in Mind!Proverbs 3:6 “In all your ways acknowledge HIM, and HE will make your paths straight!” LEFT: To our Own devices The direction is such to those rightly corrected; divided from Truth and abandoned fo Self… Whose face turned to straying from HIS — disobeying till wholly betraying HIS words, written — red. Yet how blatant […]
Read More LEFT: To our Own devices!Ecclesiastes 5:20 “They seldom reflect on the days of their life, because GOD keeps them occupied with gladness of heart.” Disrobing Regret! Regret is a well worn and drenched blanket…with huge holes in it. On only the coldest of proverbial winter nights it is pulled out…and then thrown atop a most grieving soul. Thread bare […]
Read More Disrobing Regret!Psalm 91:7-8 “A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you. Only with your eyes shall you look, and see the reward of the wicked.” When Justice Stands! In Justice, we find the payment for crimes. Injustice we see often happens instead. So […]
Read More When Justice Stands!Psalm 34;18 “The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves such as have a contrite spirit!” 2CJC! / Individual Renewals “To see JESUS CHRIST” requires an open heart, open ears and eyes, and an expectancy which draws one to seek HIM with daily zeal. “To see JESUS CHRIST” is an […]
Read More Individual Renewals!Matthew 25:23 “His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master!” Divinely Distracted! LORD JESUS, our prayers are lifted this hour, before YOU our praise comes entwined! In the midst of Life’s madness, […]
Read More Divinely Distracted!Psalm 18:28 “For it is YOU WHO light my lamp; the LORD my GOD lightens my darkness!” Those Souls! The beauty of the LORD is to darkness — repulsive. HIS grace filled aroma — a stench — to its senses. So those clothed with shadows: who loathe HIS glow’s presence… find — foul — every […]
Read More Those Souls!2 Timothy 1:7 “For GOD has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” With Fear’s Enemy & Doubt’s Foe! The spirit of this world rages against both vessels of clay. Yet men and women alike sometimes hold it captive within…as though a captor enjoying […]
Read More With Fear’s Enemy & Doubt’s Foe!Job 14:5 “Since his (man’s) days are determined (set), and the number of his months is with YOU, and YOU have appointed his limits that he cannot pass…” Unwavering Truth! No weapon formed against us can get past HIS armor; No arrow nor sword shall pierce through to our souls! By Love’s WORD defense, have […]
Read More Unwavering Truth!Within the flowing fields of Terra…Endless stretching – ranged HIS steeds.Before ordained to take HIS message to the masses.Thus mare and stallion, young and old,with every breed known and untoldcomprised HIS stable which at present…filled these grasses. All appeared as vibrant trottersGrouped together as one bodyWith every heart empowered to carry out HIS missionThus gazing […]
Read More The Master’s Stable!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…” (With Zeal!) With Zeal Propellant! Why bow if not humbly? Why preach if not broken? Why run if not certain your race is not lost? Far outweighing each hope known to […]
Read More With Zeal Propellant!Galatians 5:1 “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith CHRIST has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage!” Because Faith Creates Freedom! Since gifts are given blessings, Faith’s presence isn’t the result of self-creation. Belief, then, is the followup to this favorable outpouring from GOD. But what if, like […]
Read More Because Faith Creates Freedom!Isaiah 59:19 “So they will fear the NAME of the LORD from the west and HIS glory from the rising of the sun, for HE will come like a rushing stream which the wind of the LORD drives.” What The Wind Says… When the wind chimes in softly, whispering with the leaves, what is heard […]
Read More What The Wind Says…2 Timothy 4:8 “Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the LORD, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have longed for HIS appearing!” Heaven’s Homesick! Wonderfully, beautiful SAVIOUR is HE WHOSE transfusion thus bought us Eternal […]
Read More Heaven’s Homesick!Matthew 28:19a “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations…” HIS Footprints Fill! There but for the grace of GOD go I! ‘Cross shadowed plain and valley deep, so in HIS steps go mine. Through passage rough, to mountain high, thus on such paths ahead go I. And “Why?” your question follows me as if […]
Read More HIS Footprints Fill!Psalm 145:14 “The LORD sustains all who fall and raises up all who are bowed down.” The Finished Line Stretching to Heaven yet coming up short; Pressing in zealous yet grasping thin air. So feels Self’s resolve: past zero — restrained… when Strength stood within but not in The LORD. When on knees — fallen: […]
Read More The Finished Line1 John 3:18 “Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.” HIS Outspoken Mime! The outspoken mime who speaks just with their motions is one whose consistent display… …reminds of the talk which the Christian must walk. Thus, through Action… conveying CHRIST’s footprints. Even so, only movement […]
Read More HIS Outspoken Mime!1 Corinthians 15:51 “Listen, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we will all be changed…” Forever’s Changing! Committing ones life back to CHRIST requires behaviors intrinsically changed. Transformed from the inside but not by Self’s strengths…. for The SOURCE is far greater than any known flesh! Yea, a verbal commitment […]
Read More Forever’s Changing!Psalm 139:14 “I praise YOU, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are YOUR works; my soul knows it very well!” With Perfect Delivery! Why does the very image of GOD appear to “them which are perishing”…as “less than”, unattractive and incomplete? Both small and great and rich and poor seemingly seek enhancements or […]
Read More With Perfect Delivery!Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen!” Undoubtedly Joining! Doubt is like a shadow cast yet which has no light source. It clings both to the ground and the soul with a darkened ferocity…unyielding even to others, just as shaded. As a low hanging mist, […]
Read More Undoubtedly Joining!2 Corinthians 3:18 “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the LORD, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the SPIRIT of the LORD.” Priceless Pressures! The tighter the screws turn the space inbetween is found ever decreasing till ground to a […]
Read More Priceless Pressures!John 8:12 “Then JESUS again spoke to them, saying, “I AM the Light of the world; he who follows ME will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life!” CHRIST Lines! Where I have rewritten those roads which were authored, and stepped over the boundaries YOU perfectly drew; then this prayer […]
Read More CHRIST Lines!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!Hebrews 12:2 “Let us fix our eyes on JESUS, the Author and Perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before HIM endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of GOD.” Decisively Forward! Embrace the comparison of who you are now with who HE called […]
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