To See JESUS CHRIST!
Psalm 32:8 “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with MY eye upon you.” Turning T’wards Home! Turn again Home Child…turn again Home. When your ship runs aground out at sea, so I pray! Just turn again, turn …t’wards Home. For all other waters save […]
Read More Turning T’wards Home!1 Corinthians 13:3 “If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.” Completely…for CHRIST! Insincere gifts are as half-hearted cries; Insufficient at best and at worst, worthless lies. So too is one’s Faith if “for show” it is shared; Thus […]
Read More Completely…for CHRIST!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!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!3 John 3 “For I was overjoyed when the brothers came and testified about your devotion to The Truth, in which you continue to walk.” Un-Virtually HIS! Honest appraisals.Factual statements.Called “As it is!” SoReality speaks. But! Camouflaged lies.Untrustworthy words.Deceptive replies.Such is “virtual” speech. For though these, the latter,seem real…they’ve nosubstance worth everrepeating. Although true “appearing”aloud, […]
Read More Un-Virtually HIS!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!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!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!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!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 17:3 “And this is eternal life, that they know YOU, the only true GOD, and JESUS CHRIST WHOM YOU have sent!” The Soul Answer! May the soul with no answers save CHRIST remain humbled for such knowledge surely — through valleys — is gained. Where all other theories have soundly been crushed and with […]
Read More The Soul Answer!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!Revelation 7:9 “After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, …from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the LAMB, …clothed in WHITE ROBES, and palm branches were in their hands.” Given HIS Robe! Naked came we into this world […]
Read More Given HIS Robe!Psalms 23:2 “HE makes me to lie down in green pastures; HE leads me beside the still waters.” Redemption’s Rest! How glorious GOD’s power; how great are HIS comforts! Still! True heavenly rest begins only in Glory. So all earthly kingdoms — FROM HIS — stand apart; all pleasures in life pale at best next […]
Read More Redemption’s Rest!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!1 Timothy 2:5 “For there is ONE GOD, and there is one mediator between GOD and men, the man CHRIST JESUS.” Pointing ONE Way! The “round-about way” when one answers… paints a picture of wandering thoughts. As randomized paths which have countless, “blind turns” thus misled are such souls from our GOD. So let your […]
Read More Pointing ONE Way!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!Nahum 1:13 “So now, I will break his yoke bar from upon you, and I will tear off your shackles.” Once Prisoners! What has already happened shall History ever be; intersection points of footprints where Time’s passage makes them seen. And try as though we may to sweep away their many outlines, they cannot be […]
Read More Once Prisoners!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 […]
Read More One’s Godly Goal!Exodus 9:16 “But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you MY power, so that MY NAME may be proclaimed in all the earth.” Meant Two! We follow HIM WHO knew no sin; whose grace alone sufficient… …WHO took our blame upon HIS NAME; each stain and act — malicious. So keep […]
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