Acting as Though…
We are called to justly pray for others in trials and tribulations JUST AS IF we were in them exactly like them!
This is sacrifical prayer and it’s what we are called to, Beloved!
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Living without Baggage Claims!
The easiest thing to do in the moment of offense is to lash out. To get a pound of flesh for what’s been done to us.
In the moment it almost feels like it’s righteous indignation like when CHRIST tossed out the money changers.
But GOD didn’t call us to that. HE calls us to surrender, seek HIS favor and rectification for the matter AND!
Leave it with HIM! Will we do that?
Read More Living without Baggage Claims!Drawing Near to JESUS!
In the old one room schoolhouses, there was a usually single coal stove that was meant to warm the place.
If you were at the back, you wouldn’t gain as much warmth as those closer to the fire.
So! In like manner, get closer to GOD and HE will draw closer to you right now!!
Read More Drawing Near to JESUS!CHRIST’s Core Compassions!
The LORD has blessed us with the unmerited favor of HIS perfect love and eternal freedom!
What forgiveness! How great our salvation!
So set the captives free all around you by witnessing about JESUS every day!
Read More CHRIST’s Core Compassions!Surrender’s Ascension!
We, in our oh so limited Wisdom, often assume the acquisition of Knowledge is all that’s needed for promotion.
But it’s so much more than what we could ever achieve!
Surrender’s Ascension puts us in a kneeling position as a reminder of WHO promotes us!
Read More Surrender’s Ascension!Beyond Liquid!
Ever gone to a church where the music is good and the people are nice but the only thing taught week after week…are children’s Sunday school lessons?
We are called to STUDY and eat the meat of GOD’s WORD so as to fight the good fight of Faith, doing spiritual warfare!
Read More Beyond Liquid!What is YOUR will?
When we move emotionally, Error can occur. When we jump the gun so to speak and pretend to step in for GOD, the worst can happen! We do not operate in fear but we do move in faith WHEN….HE releases us!
Read More What is YOUR will?Crosspoint Reunions!
Deuteronomy 31:6 “Be strong and courageous! Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the LORD your GOD WHO goes with you. HE will not leave you or forsake you.” Crosspoint Reunions! At Heaven’s crosspointwhere we first saw the CHRISTby surrendering willand our own very lives… ‘Twas there where we learnedof […]
Read More Crosspoint Reunions!Lifted Up!
1 Peter 5:6: “Humble yourselves, therefore, under GOD’s mighty hand, that HE may lift you up in due time.” Lifted Up! Re-humble yourselves in the sight of the LORD until HE lifts us up. Remaining HIS faithful, so yet bend the knee until GOD raises highest our head. For often we err by our choice […]
Read More Lifted Up!One of Some!
2 Corinthians 7:10 “For GODly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.” One of Some! Reconfessing one’s sins isn’tdoubting of CHRIST’scrimson payment. Often times it is simply acognizant statementof thanks; With Gratitude given forthis present life tokeep living! Though some whose remorsefulrepentance heartfeltis repeated… still they greatly […]
Read More One of Some!With Waves of Peace!
1 John 5:14 “This is the confidence we have in approaching GOD: that if we ask anything according to HIS will, HE hears us!” With Waves of Peace! Whatever stokes anger and sparks those with faith is of devilish substance, demonically charged. Righteous Ire is different, CHRIST’s steps prove this true. Yet others still argue […]
Read More With Waves of Peace!Keeping Sharp Sticks!
Acts 26:14 “And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’“ Keeping Sharp Sticks! When the sting of Sin’s swordno more gains one’s reaction…When the soul barely […]
Read More Keeping Sharp Sticks!For Pilgrims’ Progression!
1 Timothy 4:15 “Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress.” For Pilgrims’ Progression! Advancing through lifethis naturally seemsto be certain asif it’s a given. Expectantly set,with goals and with hopes,yet too often such gainssoon go missing. This surely becauseour sight has left CHRIST.Instead “looking behind”,we […]
Read More For Pilgrims’ Progression!The Cross Between!
Colossians 2:14 “And HE has blotted out, by HIS authority, the bill of our debts which were against us and HE took it from our midst and nailed it to HIS cross!” The Cross Between! There’s a cross betweenNight and The Lightwhere Gray exists,and even surges… …at an intersectionwhere the middleground holds partsof both. Though […]
Read More The Cross Between!Elevation’s Assigned Timing!
1 Peter 5:6: “Humble yourselves, therefore, under GODs mighty hand, that HE may lift you up in due time”. Elevation’s Assigned Timing! To be passed by, ignored andwalked over,although “next in line” stillfound waiting… …is more than some slightor mistake when one’s lifeis engaged in the bestof behaviors. So it seems as what weperceive – […]
Read More Elevation’s Assigned Timing!Lifting and Living Up!
Isaiah 42:8 “I am the LORD; that is MY NAME; MY glory I give to no other, nor MY praise to carved idols.” Lifting and Living Up! Often we’re found making names for ourselves in the flesh. With such temporal titles then Self takes the spotlight in Error. So! Thank GOD for the banner of […]
Read More Lifting and Living Up!Staying Hidden!
2 Corinthians 3:5 “Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from GOD…” Staying Hidden! What’s the best a soul can liftwithout hands and just their heart?Where’s the rest someone can gainwhile standing still? It’s HIS praise with Zeal’s heightsfor their peace inside whichCHRIST gives […]
Read More Staying Hidden!Supernaturally Gained!
Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of GOD,” Supernaturally Gained! The gap between “Highest!”and just “one step down” ismuch further than rulerscan measure. Such space though appearingas nearest and next is, in fact,beyond distant and pastlesser pressure. So! Those reaching the top havea disciplined manner. They’vepracticed through everyfatigue and […]
Read More Supernaturally Gained!Trusting the TimeKeeper!
Psalm 74:16 “The day is YOURS, and also the night; YOU established the moon and the sun.” Trusting the TimeKeeper! What a difference a day makes in wonderful ways when a soul depends solely on GOD WHO is Holy; relying on HIM by obeying. For our sum of perspective at best displays Lack as our […]
Read More Trusting the TimeKeeper!The Greatest Gain of Surrender!
Psalm 37:5: “Commit your way tothe LORD; trust in HIM, and HEwill act.” The Greatest Gain of Surrender! To lay down one’s life forCHRIST is a singular matter.To first offer up Pride isentirely different. One’s all, sacrificed, isa permanent gesture,while a temporal offeringof Self is far less. Unless by HIS words onelives wholly surrendered,then there […]
Read More The Greatest Gain of Surrender!Choosing the Right Keys!
Proverbs 25:28 “A soul without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.” Choosing the Right Keys! Found often driven are matchbox collections in which we travel distances great. Like using Emotional transports each day, so we make different vehicle choices. Thus the keys to our Laughter and Sadness are varied… just […]
Read More Choosing the Right Keys!What Death to Self Births!
Ephesians 6:24 “Grace to all who love our LORD JESUS CHRIST with an undying love.” What Death to Self Births! What love is CHRIST’s which bought our souls; What grace HE brings our journey! What Hope – GOD’s guarantee – now ours to grow in with HIS Mercy! Thus all begins where Death precedes; with […]
Read More What Death to Self Births!Happy Thanks-Making Day!
Proverbs 11:20 “Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered. Happy Thanks-Making Day! Today is HIS day giving thanks, lifting praise. Every dawn brings us this gift to give back. So Thanks-Making is our commission assigned! Therefore water those round you until HE returns! As HIServant bent on fulfilling […]
Read More Happy Thanks-Making Day!With Pride Ending Praises!
James 4:6 “But HE gives more grace! Therefore it says, “GOD opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” With Pride Ending Praises! Single us out, LORD… from Pride’s congregation. Remove all our steps from such selfish communion. Till in great silence of Prayer most fervent, we only see YOU…just ahead all through Life. […]
Read More With Pride Ending Praises!Cross Walk Transparencies!
John 13:15 “For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you!” Cross Walk Transparencies! To stay consistent, to stay the course; To keep one’s composure…takes drive. Disciplined Zeal and purposed Intent are then both required …through Life. But what of those torches who’ve faded to […]
Read More Cross Walk Transparencies!That Chosen Hill!
John 1:13 “Who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of GOD.” That Chosen Hill! On a hill far away Yet closer than home stood a Cross on which HE chose to save. When nearest was Death with its fractured unrest, there I […]
Read More That Chosen Hill!Promotion Day!
Galatians 4:1 “What I am saying is that as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, although he is the owner of everything.” Promotion Day! This training ground time is book-ended for learning; To know “whose we are”, such knowledge — securing. Growing in Wisdom, GODly purposed for […]
Read More Promotion Day!Releasing Obedience!
Proverbs 4:26 “Give careful thought to the paths for your feet…and be steadfast in all your ways. Releasing Obedience! Take every thought captive in obedience to CHRIST WHOSE command bids our hearts…ahead of sacrifices. With so fervent a filter then serve we the LORD…obeying HIM without Delay’s compromises. For we are HIServants called higher — […]
Read More Releasing Obedience!The Battle Worth Losing!
2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore, if anyone is in CHRIST, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come!” The Battle Worth Losing! A most timely Demise is the death of oneself. Without any delay nor with Pride’s hesitation. Where wholesale surrender unveils the soul as one’s stance becomes prostrate… […]
Read More The Battle Worth Losing!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 […]
Read More Do you recall Romans 7:24?
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