To See JESUS CHRIST!
Revelation 3:20 “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears MY voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with ME.” The Open Door! Depraved, Decayed and Diseased are demons who follow the sins of their father when Tomorrow finds them at your door. There standing and knocking, […]
Read More The Open Door!Ephesians 6:18 “Pray in the SPIRIT at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints.” Sacred Relief! Spiritual hand-to-hand combat iswhat this hour feels like;armed just with the WORD and HIS armor. Ever grappling with those forces which Flesh […]
Read More Sacred Relief!1 Corinthians 9:26 “Therefore I do not run without a definite goal; I do not flail around like one beating the air [just shadow boxing]. With Racing Perspective! It’s a “finish” or “dead” line, depending on perspective. Either way it’s the same symbol marking the ground. What then do you see? Does one grasp your […]
Read More With Racing Perspective!Exodus 23:20 “Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared.” Purposed Points! Setbacks are setups as the world defines them. They claim such retreats have no purpose nor point. “These are losses from which none can ever be freed!” […]
Read More Purposed Points!1 Thessalonians 5:13“See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.” Transitioning from Crime! “Crimes against humanity” are all our blame to bear. Flesh attacks the flesh with selfish wills, which will not rest. Yet worst of all our “evidence” was seen to […]
Read More Transitioning from Crime!John 3:30 “HE must increase; I must decrease.” Invisibly Standing! Put to death every“thing” of the flesh.Do not coddle norentertain darkness. Cast off such glancesfound backwardsbehind you and liveby displaying HISlikeness. For the closer we drawunto GOD, then withgreater transparencyshining… …the shadows of sin will fleefaster than Wind. So for HIM!Let’s “invisibly” stand! As HIServant […]
Read More Invisibly Standing!1 John 3:1a “See what kind of love the FATHER has given to us, that we should be called children of GOD; and so we are!” With Soul Transparency! There worketh no good thing within us save our GOD’s sovereign deposits; Yes! by gifts of grace indwelling do HIS talents give us profit. Shown then […]
Read More With Soul Transparency!Philippians 2:13 “…for it is GOD WHO is at work in you, both to will and to work for HIS good pleasure.” Hope…Displayed! Blessed are the “mended” GOD heals… for they have been broken before. They know of great pain and its losses…and wear all its scarsfrom the past. Yes, favored are we whose repairing […]
Read More Hope…Displayed!1 Peter 2:25 “For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the SHEPHERD and OVERSEER of your souls.” Returning to SENDER! Journey back home, precious Pilgrim;Travel safely returning to ME. Leave behind each regret and all baggage — distressed. Turn around, dearest child; come to ME. Choose Faith and such Zeal; run […]
Read More Returning to SENDER!Romans 13:11 “And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we (first) believed.” With each New Day! To some, each new year holds no happy refrains. No songs of great Joy nor of Peace. To others, the date means […]
Read More With each New Day!Isaiah 9:2 “The people who walk in darkness will see a great LIGHT; Those who live in a dark land, The LIGHT will shine on them!” Commonly Called, Sovereignly Sewn! Separate missions and varied paths are different strands within HIS hands. Uneven lengths and diverse colors with unlike strengths called “other than”. So we are […]
Read More Commonly Called, Sovereignly Sewn!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!Hebrews 5:14 “But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.” Meat over Minutia! Do you go to church just to hear HIS WORD — broken? Do you press through trials, as such, each LORD’s day? To reach its front […]
Read More Meat over Minutia!Matthew 5:8 “Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great…” Treasure Sharing! Spiritual emeralds with sovereignty’s diamonds are both gemstones of GOD. Not measured like gold nor as silver in worth; so CHRIST’s surpass all earthly values. What gain then those treasures which HIS heart creates: How priceless each gift HE gives! […]
Read More Treasure Sharing!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 34:5 “Those who look to HIM are radiant with joy; their faces shall never be ashamed.” As Beacons Brightly! Light does not appear when the Darkness increases yet shadows seem greater the brighter the day. So if GOD was absent, there would be no contrast. A “nothingness void” would be all that remained. But […]
Read More As Beacons Brightly!Proverbs 22:9 “Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.” Drawn to these Crossroads! Help us occupy wholly,relentlessly even,though troublessurrounding distractand dismay. Yea, LORD! Grant usassistance to keepstretching outwardsinstead of retreatingtill Faith stumbles too. For the needs now aregreater; with criesgrowing louder.Intercede through usthen…in power and love! […]
Read More Drawn to these Crossroads!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!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!Hosea 6:6 “For I will have mercy rather than sacrifice, and the knowledge of GOD rather than whole-burnt-offerings.” First Extensions! To love mercy exceeds Self’s compassion; to relish Release far beyond daily Judgment. To truly respond with Grace — passing over the faults of another since CHRIST took our stripes. For some have been constant […]
Read More First Extensions!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!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!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!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 […]
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