To See JESUS CHRIST!
Hebrews 13:8 “JESUS CHRIST is the same yesterday and today and forever.” Ever Present Tense! More memories are birthed the greater we age. But the older we get, more visuals just add to collections which often…become cobwebs. But GOD! Though recollection fades; though eyesight dims greatly, HIS never does! With Eternity’s records each constantly present, […]
Read More Ever Present Tense!Ezekiel 34:11 “For thus says the LORD GOD: Behold, I, I MYSELF will search for MY sheep and will seek them out.” Our SHEPHERD’s Presence! HIS bridge and crossfor us as sheepmight simple seemour path to follow. But from HIS narrowroad we stray, a feattoo soon gainedeach Tomorrow. For without pow’r tolead ourselves,nor get our […]
Read More Our SHEPHERD’s Presence!Hebrews 10:23 “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for HE WHO promised is faithful.” Love’s Second Scale! In a vision, a scribe of twelve thousand thoughts written carried each ink-filled page with him to Heaven. Expectantly certain, when weighed on the scales…of exceeding GOD’s number assigned for good works. But […]
Read More Love’s Second Scale!1 Timothy 6:12 “Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made the good confession before many witnesses.” Striving Skyward! Whatever your hand finds to do in HIS service, prioritize such without boasting. Do not draw attention beyond divine tasks as our enemy […]
Read More Striving Skyward!2 Corinthians 7:10 “GODly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret…” Except in the Ashes! From memory, LORD…please cleanse Past’s half hour. Remove I pray, every remembrance. Its record, oh GOD…please erase from review till none recall any detail. Yes! Purge all last minutes and seconds combining…as if those spans never […]
Read More Except in the Ashes!John 12:26 “Whoever serves ME must follow ME; and where I am, MY servant also will be. MY FATHER will honor the one who serves ME.” Two Birds, One Step! Step forward once more, this morning, this hour…with prayer from the heart on your lips. Step backwards always from the sins of our flesh, while […]
Read More Two Birds, One Step!Romans 12:11 “Do not let (the fire of) your zeal subside; keep your spiritual fervor, serving the LORD!”. Torch Transfers! All glory be given to GOD; all praise be exhaled from our hearts. Though battle fatigued and wearied our soul; even so! Speak as HIS witness… and spark. Then igniting the Lost and rekindling those […]
Read More Torch Transfers!Philippians 3:13b “Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what (even WHO) is ahead…” All Behind! Take HIS WORD which we have heard and trust in HIM WHO took our sin… …because designed were we for saving! HE aligned us then at Calvary! How unworthy these, HIS vessels, yet HE chose to label “blessed”… …because […]
Read More All Behind!Philippians 1:6 ״And I am sure of this, that HE WHO began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of JESUS CHRIST.” Growing Pages! Each disordered inscription and disheveled writing could point to a mind which was absent of focus. Rambling and unfinished sentences might also be deemed as […]
Read More Growing Pages!Psalm 18:32 “HE made my feet like the feet of a deer and set me secure on the heights.” Stretch Highest! Going where seems no footholds: ascending where few choose to fly… …are both actions of Faith performed for THE NAME. So rise, fellow pilgrim, yea! Climb! Amen and amen!
Read More Stretch Highest!Psalm 119:10 “With all my heart I have sought YOU; do not let me stray from YOUR commandments!” Binding Instruments! Oh to be bound just to CHRIST…where no other chains limit our walk. Oh to be by HIM constrained without any exception…just GOD! No failing of Flesh nor a single misstep…oh to be found just […]
Read More Binding Instruments!Isaiah 9:7c “The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this!” With HIS Zeal! GOD’s steps for you are not meant for another. HIS footprints lead onward; uniquely and sovereign. In truth, so specific is each that HE planned them before there was you…and ahead of all Time. Thus stand still at this moment; […]
Read More With HIS Zeal!Hebrews 12:6 ““For whomever THE LORD JEHOVAH loves, HE instructs, and draws aside HIS children with whom HE is pleased.” The Provision of HIS Presence! What do blessings feel like which HE calls “overflowing”? Is it health or abundance of wealth? Maybe both? Are those valued highest (as measured by CHRIST)… …on a yardstick which […]
Read More The Provision of HIS Presence!1 Peter 4:8 “Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.” Following HIS LIGHT! Humility’s display is intrinsic…or not;thus adopted and foreign or natively known. Love’s depths mirror also this “Either/Or” stance with Care planted deep…or yet unsown. Thus humbled Affection surrendered to CHRIST will express HIS heart’s message […]
Read More Following HIS LIGHT!John 10:27 “MY sheep hear MY voice, and I know them, and they follow ME.” Just Left! A ready CHRIST follower, by definition, admits that they cannot lead themselves. In contrast, a slumbering memberof the Faith…tries to. Those closest to CHRIST then are steadfastly watching HIM, from behind or beside HIS presence. So those errantly […]
Read More Just Left!Psalm 139:14 “I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.” Purposed and Sent! What it takes a warrior to do means another might not. What HIS preachers can share, some others cannot. Where a servant is sent then depends onGOD’s gifting, HIS sovereign […]
Read More Purposed and Sent!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…” Living with “ADHD!” Amazingly, dispensationally,GOD’s grace hasbeen given. Sovereignly,exponentially,HE calls us to listen. Eternally,supernaturally,we’re drawn toserve CHRIST. Thus, in light ofthese truths,do not simplyEXIST! As HIServant reminded to daily live with […]
Read More Living with “ADHD!”Ephesians 6:18 “Praying at ALL times in the SPIRIT, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with ALL perseverance, making supplication for ALL the saints… With Fervent Intercession! Let Anger give way to the floods of compassion since those who offend know not WHOM they’re grieving. Far be it from me to […]
Read More With Fervent Intercession!Isaiah 25:1 “LORD, you are my GOD; I will exalt YOU and praise YOUR NAME, for in perfect faithfulness YOU have done wonderful things, things planned long ago.” The Day of Faith! It’s just as GOD said through HIS WORD and the prophets. It’s just as HE wrote through HIS scribes for today. HE gave […]
Read More The Day of Faith!Psalms 86:11 “Teach me your way, LORD, that I may rely on YOUR faithfulness; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear YOUR NAME!” Just…in HIS Direction! Relent from pursuing the sins of the flesh. Reject such backslidden and deviant paths. Instead reaching upwards, grasp Zeal with your heart and repeat every movement with […]
Read More Just…in HIS Direction!Micah 6:8 “HE has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly WITH your GOD?” Still Walking! Error recovery trumps Failure avoidance where we stray from HIS Rest trying best in our strength. So “getting back […]
Read More Still Walking!Psalm 34:14 “The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.” Broken for HIS Service! Whose hands and whose feet does the LORD use for service? What mind and which soul bends its will to HIS ways? Yea, those who were broken yet now has HE mended!! AND! Others in process […]
Read More Broken for HIS Service!John 16:33 “I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world!” This Greatest Jubilee! With great jubilee and rejoicing, so HIS enemies “think” they’re now winning. But just like before at the Flood and the […]
Read More This Greatest Jubilee!Philippians 2:13 “For it is GOD WHO works in you, both to will and to work for HIS good pleasure.” Through it All…with CHRIST! When even the need Obligations require is too heavy a burden — increasing each week… …when even the air which our lungs would inhale is too heavy a weight without any […]
Read More Through it All…with CHRIST!Proverbs 28:14 “Blessed is the one who fears the LORD always, but whoever hardens his heart will fall into calamity.” Beyond Every Layer! All testing, failure, healing and experience grant us armor which serves as Life’s buffer. Calloused layers of lessons we’ve learned serve this purpose; protecting our hearts as footprints continue. So! Take all […]
Read More Beyond Every Layer!Acts 20:24 “But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the LORD JESUS, to testify to the gospel of the grace of GOD.” Final Here, First There! Oh the privilege of knowing our trials […]
Read More Final Here, First There!Psalm 139:14 “I praise YOU, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are YOUR works; my soul knows it very well.” Uniquely Designed! Many aren’t singers for JESUS; many others play no instrument for praise. Even more paint no pictures nor write words uplifting, still GOD says, “MY Child! You ARE gifted!” What the […]
Read More Uniquely Designed!1 John 2:6 “Whoever says they abide in HIM should (even must!) walk in the same way in which HE walked.” IN Steps! As Heaven’s witnessto all we walk through,so HE sees those thingswhich birth Prayer. Then lifting to Heavenboth trials and painsso joined are our criesby HIS care. IN steps HE purposedthere felt is […]
Read More IN Steps!Philippians 2:5 “Let this mind be in you which was also in CHRIST JESUS…” Picking Up the Pace! Forgive the Forgive-less withforgiveness instead. Give grace to the Gracelesswith most gracious steps. Yea, make way for the LORD asour Waymaker KING… by surrendering good to themjust as HE did! As HIServants re-forfeiting our own reactions to […]
Read More Picking Up the Pace!John 10:27 “MY sheep hear MY voice, and I know them, and they follow ME.” One’s Godly Goal! Where speech becomes thought, one’s talking subsides. Where waiting is favored, one’s actions decline. Where Fervor expands, one’s Zeal is heightened. Where Hunger is daily, one’s Faith is enlightened. Yea, think on “these things” and pause with […]
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