To See JESUS CHRIST!
Hebrews 13:2 “Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” “As Angels”! GOD sends HIS angels daily to watch over simple sheep. We HE calls to live with boldness as assigned and as released. Entwined with GOD’s provision to both preach and serve — thereby… …by HIS SON […]
Read More “As Angels!”Job 31:4 “Does not HE see my ways and number all my steps?” The First Measure! (Excessive) cautious steps versus boldness displayed, which choice is more often selected? Is our trust in the LORD or the work of our hands? Do we move through this life… “self-directed”? OR! Have we surrendered our ways to The […]
Read More The First Measure!1 Peter 1:7 “These (trials) have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when JESUS CHRIST is revealed. Faith Stretching Fabric! We walk through this life wearing clothing which fades. It wears and it tears being […]
Read More Faith Stretching Fabric!Philippians 2:5 “In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as CHRIST JESUS.” For Peer Review! Be careful of every available doorway. Use caution before any portal or gate. For though your faith’s height would protect you from evil, those following closely might not be as strong. So watch with Intent who you’re […]
Read More For Peer Review!Isaiah 26:3 “YOU will keep in perfect peace all who trust in YOU, all whose thoughts are fixed on YOU!“ With Fixation’s Focus! An obsession is not an addiction. Rather said, it’s a chosen compulsion. The latter seems formed by surrendering will to some chemically skewed alteration. BUT GOD (to this fool) is both — […]
Read More With Fixation’s Focus!Luke 19:38 “Saying, “Blessed is the KING WHO comes in the name of the LORD! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” Unfading Glory! How close do we hold “cotton candy” possessions? How firm is our grasp on such things which just fade? Do we cling to what’s temporal or all that’s eternal? Will […]
Read More Unfading Glory!John 6:44 “No one can come to ME unless the FATHER WHO sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day!” Relentless Drawing! Well increased is HIS drawing for things set above; now my longing exceeds every Yesterday’s measure! The future as such is much brighter each day as HIS […]
Read More Relentless Drawing!James 1:4 “And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.” HIS Steadfast Command! These trials seem brutal, incessant and growing when “locked-in” every step with the LORD. While dark unrelenting and shadows still beckon, our souls must fight through this “short” battle. Because in the end […]
Read More HIS Steadfast Command!Hebrews 11:1: “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” With Faith Forward! Faith isn’t stagnant. It’s zeal isn’t stale…within every soul who exhibits its heart. For to solely display just its face would prove Folly and stop well before it can start. Temporal at best then begs […]
Read More With Faith Forward!Ephesians 2:10 “For we are GOD’s handiwork, created in CHRIST JESUS to do good works, which GOD prepared in advance for us to do.” VIN Verifications! To verify something or someone requires our senses. All measure with facts and combine for the Truth. Yet Sight holds the highest of values amongst them. So living without […]
Read More VIN Verifications!2 Thessalonians 3:5 “May the LORD direct your hearts into GOD’s love and CHRIST‘s perseverance.” To Do Likewise! The stressors of life are at times like a pot which is sealed, full of water,lp beginning to boil. The steam cannot rise any more nor decline since the fires still rage as our own strength recoils! […]
Read More To Do Likewise!Ezekiel 22:30 “I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before ME in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one.” Gap-Standing In! Those who live unaware of life’s spiritual warfare fight only part time and without […]
Read More Gap-Standing In!Psalms 32:8 “I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go; I will counsel you with MY eye upon you!” With GOD’s Guidance! An inadvertent step. A “chance” occurrence. An errant thread. Yet! All have Purpose! For HE WHO directs and guides our lives is sovereign o’er all and is […]
Read More With GOD’s Guidance!Matthew 5:12 “Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.“ As Zealots Called! There’s none else worth craving than CHRIST WHOSE blood saving shall one day — us raising — bring Rapture to bear. Yet who found among us has shed blood […]
Read More As Zealots Called!Hebrews 12:11 “For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant… …but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.” Service Scars! Who seeks HIM through tears are the often times broken, who crave for HIS presence with faith, without “hoping”. Repeatedly tested and tried yet […]
Read More Service Scars!2 Timothy 4:7 “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” First Breaths! How do prophetic announcements entwine with life’s progress expected? How join such strands daily? When all seems unraveling past Today’s present, how shall one continue to press on most bravely? Ah yes! Find we […]
Read More First Breaths!Ephesians 2:10 “For we are HIS workmanship, created in CHRIST JESUS for good works, which GOD prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” Pictures in PICTURE! Colorful tiles which rest side by side each assist in creating a much bigger portrait. So CHRISTmas was born in the heart of our LORD before Time had […]
Read More Pictures in PICTURE!1 Peter 2:21 “For to this you were called, because CHRIST also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in HIS footsteps…” ONE’s Directions! GOD leads us through valleys and lifts us up mountains. HE makes us lie down by HIS waterfall fountains. How blessed are we then for HIS promises […]
Read More ONE’s Directions!2 Corinthians 3:17 “Now the LORD is that SPIRIT: and where the SPIRIT of the LORD is, there is liberty!” In This Moment! May our sins far shorter — not longer — be found. May our spans of attention before HIM grow greater. Sing praise revelations then lost in HIS presence while letting our feet […]
Read More In This Moment!Psalm 37:3 “Trust in the LORD, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.“ Just Trusting GOD! Thank GOD above WHOSE limitless love proves more than enough! Our REDEEMER! Giver of Grace and Increaser of Faith is JESUS WHO loves each believer! So just rest in HIS hands though we don’t understand all […]
Read More Just Trusting GOD!Ephesians 6:12 “For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places.” Those who Whisper! Those who whisper most within our ears have vocal chords unlike ours. Still they fight against each […]
Read More Those who Whisper!Psalm 143:8 “Let me hear in the morning of YOUR steadfast love, for in YOU I trust. Make me know the way I should go,for to YOU I lift up my soul.” More like THEE! Say something different which still doesn’t pain me. Preach with Insistence of things which won’t change me. Then I’ll fill […]
Read More More like THEE!Matthew 5:16 “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your FATHER WHO is in heaven.” Making Faith’s Footprints! Days dawning and fading while life presses onward… …remind of our “blade of grass” lives being temporal. Thus with moments in time to give GOD every breath… …let […]
Read More Making Faith’s Footprints!Ephesians 4:1 “I therefore, a prisoner for the LORD, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called…” Measuring our Broken Steps! Let’s be “downed” by spiritual accountings which honestly finds us assessing our depths. Let such measurements bind our attentions to treasure the good and abandon […]
Read More Measuring our Broken Steps!Luke 19:10 “For the Son of Man (CHRIST!) came to seek and to save the lost.” Preferential Proximity! Choosing presence with sinners is not what it seems. For the LORD HIMSELF chose this group — greatest in need. Those such, HE said surely, require physicians. Those self righteous rather discard HIS commission. Be ye sent […]
Read More Preferential Proximity!Psalms 25:4 “Make me to know YOUR ways, O LORD; teach me YOUR paths.” With Ever Honest Appraisals! To progressively align with HIS image requires daily transformation. To look more like CHRIST most necessitates feedback then from others…on the same journey. Often those without faith will assign observations and sometimes they’re valid. But none who […]
Read More With Ever Honest Appraisals!Hebrews 13:16: “And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices GOD is pleased.” Sharing Revival! Revival, renewal, complete restoration are often so distanta goal. So Denial, descension, and total decline more impact those days when our viewpointsare low. As such, oh my Soul! Let no downcast gaze grasp you! Cast off its intentions; wage war through […]
Read More Sharing Revival!1 Peter 2:2 “Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation…” Within Every Moment! For us it began with thebreath of GOD WHO isand WHO was andforever exists. HE chose to create ourfrail frames in HIS image.Made strong in ourweakness, relying on HIM. So as […]
Read More Within Every Moment!James 4:8a “Draw near to GOD, and HE will draw near to you.” Our Closest Encounters! We are favored together through all kinds of weather; one flesh bound forever in CHRIST. We’ve been paired to be single, by HIS fires kindled, to flee what is sinful…always. So! Join seamlessly with HIM through humbled position where […]
Read More Our Closest Encounters!Acts 10:43 “To HIM all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in HIM receives forgiveness of sins through HIS NAME.” Intentionally Off-Course! Wastelands of blocks where injustice is valued speak volumes to each viewer. Observing the chaos while leaders claim “Progress!” proves only that Flesh surely fails. But GOD! HE has readied our […]
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