WHEW ! Fruitfulness and obligations..... family and seasonal duties.... I always slump off from my Blog with You at this time of year, Jesus. I am so glad that You are right here in me. We never lose track of each other... only of the letters and records of the joys that You grant me through the days going by. Sooooo many things I wanted to get here to record and thank You for since last week. Post-its everywhere with thoughts and blessings and lessons grasped and Bible verses...
Anyway, let's just start with today, huh? Lessons on overcoming temptation and persistently standing in You, through to the end of a passage in life... in coming again and again and again ... yet AGAIN to win out over the enemy's tenacious opposition. Was pondering about a lot of the conversations that I have had with family and friends at all the recent get-togethers. Me and Hubbs have been really busy. I LOVE that aaaannndd I don't, too. I find that there is NOTHING as good as people to love and share with to gain perspective while gathering gifts around me that I don't necessarily have (spiritual gifts, that is. ) We are a fuller circle in fellowship and the load is shared so much more, as well as the burdens. What I don't like about being 'busy or obligated' is that I lose too much of my time that I would be spending in my journals with You, Jesus. Few, whenany, of the people I spend time with are manifesting You for me. I NEED YOUR company like air in my lungs !
In reflection, while seeing lots of family and friends these past few weeks, I notice that the 'fruit of decisions rendered' has come to bear on the tree of many lives that I have shared for decades. Some fruit is excellent, generous and kind. Some fruit is self consuming, bitter and sad. I was there for the stories that lead down many of their roads. While some of us seemed occupied and more absent, at least below the radar in recent years, others seemed to be more out there, on the map and transparent. Many took questionable roads that panned out and others seemingly reasonable roads that lead to loss and suffering. Aging... it gives us hindsight, but there isn't always a reasoning in what we see.
One thing rings true to me, though, in all I witness in the lives of others, and myself. Good times or bad, flush or scrimping, lame or dancing, ... the only witness that really matters is how well someone's eyes twinkle and how their tongue wears the heart in their story. I STILL want to run from the sound of bitter anger and the grief of lying pride. There's ALWAYS opposition to the birthing or the building of life's fruit.... so, how do we wear our heart's story? Do we show a suppleness and a humility of character borne in thanksgiving and teachability? Do we credit the King of Everything with His due? Do we truly worship Him as the very breath of all we are, do and have? Are we the second man, the one that rises above the many deaths on life's roads, fueled with Your resurrection on the inside? Have we learned that love is a verb sweetly served, and even more sweetly shared, like an endless sacrifice? Do we rush to a beloved to give or do we whine to receive, still, eluded and evaded for reasons we can't comprehend?? Have we released 'ownership' and grasped 'stewardship'?
I guess those questions could pour from me all night, huh, Jesus? You know my heart, even when my own actions betray it...
I suppose the thought most dear to me right now is the need to keep my eyes on You, on Your promises and on Your Heaven. TO SPEAK THAT OUT OF MY OWN FACE with courage and diligence. There is a day, now and later, when fear and trembling become grace and glory. There is a day when suffering and sorrow DO become peace and joy. The stories that lead to that day for each of us, when tailored in Your service, look very different for all. The comfort along the way is in the lit eyes, gentle hands and evocative tongues of those who offer Your fruit in a life as the 'second man manifest.' The comfort is in those who have overcome the bumps and breakdowns along the roads they've traveled. We all seek out such company. You are the best of these. You are the first 'second man.' Lead the way, King of Glory... You are the best of me. Thanks for ushering me, in all Your gentleness, this far. You ARE THE KING OF ME.
Move their mountains, Jesus. Help them to come again and again and again... to wear out the opposition... to BELIEVE in You as the First, the Last and the Second man, in them.
We follow this sequence in Scripture: The First Adam received life, the Last Adam is a life-giving Spirit. Physical life comes first, then spiritual—a firm base shaped from the earth, a final completion coming out of heaven. The First Man was made out of earth, and people since then are earthy; the SecondManwas made out of heaven, and people now can be heavenly. In the same way that we've worked from our earthy origins, let's embrace our heavenly ends.
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Strong's:3467 ~ [Xy [ yaw-shah'] ~ Definition : to save, be saved, be delivered
(Niphal)
to be liberated, be saved, be delivered
to be saved (in battle), be victorious
(Hiphil)
to save, deliver
to save from moral troubles
to give victory
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You're sons of Light, daughters of Day.
We live under wide open skies and know where we stand. So let's not sleepwalk through life ...
Since we're creatures of Day, let's act like it.
Walk out into the daylight sober, dressed up in faith, love, and the hope of salvation.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:5...8
~ The Message Remix ~
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Shachah ShaqatBi tchahYasha !
Guard the USAs leaders. Guard hearts, minds and spirits IN YOU. Impart Your wisdom, understanding and stewardship.
Anoint them as peacemakers.
Own them, use them, or replace them ... for Your purpose and YOUR Glory, our edification and the edification of those to whom we minister.
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Well, as You know, I have been praying for Michael Jackson, for years and years. It's partly a selfish pursuit, because I know that many of my favorite musicians are out of my realm, socially, yet the more of them my prayers help to receive You, the more of them come to Heaven to be with me. I can spend a few decades with each of them. Michael Jackson has long been one of those prayer requests.
Jesus, be with his family, I hope that You have him there with You, now...
As a member of an incest family, I KNOW that the only ONES who know the TRUE story of any sexual violations are YOU, the perp and the survivor.... and I KNOW that the contraversy around Michael's morality has obscured one of the greatest musical talents and gifts EVER to grace our Earth, Jesus. Even perps, IF he was one, deserve forgiveness following repentance. Most are survivors themselves, of SOME sort of abuse... Too often the chains go unbroken and meander into generational repetition of the brokeness. Spare his children in the days ahead from undue unkindness and insensitivity. Heal them fully of any harm their Father's high-profile morality may have rendered in their spirits, for Your glory. Usher them to Your Kingdom, Jesus. As they grow and gain voice, may they shine with Your glory. YOU, JESUS, _KNOW_ the entirety of all that is and was and is to come.
I hope I see Michael in Heaven. I pray that You answered my prayers through the years, for Your Glory. Amen.
Here's a video that inspires me for ONE reason. These are inmates. The 'refuse of society' they are coined to be. Among them a raging 'queen,' is my guess. In all the full-blown rebellious outworking of lives in need of physical containment... they were so inspired by one of Michael's greatest hits that they became a cohesive TEAM to create this tribute performance. His inspiration was a phenomenal investment of his talents. He didn't bury them in the sand, Jesus.
22 And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, Master, you entrusted two talents to me; here I have gained two talents more. 23 His master said to him, Well done, you upright (honorable, admirable) and faithful servant! You have been faithful and trustworthy over a little; I will put you in charge of much. Enter into and share the joy (the delight, the blessedness) which your master enjoys. 24 He who had received one talent also came forward, saying, Master, I knew you to be a harsh and hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you had not winnowed [the grain]. 25 So I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is your own. 26 But his master answered him, You wicked and lazy and idle servant! Did you indeed know that I reap where I have not sowed and gather [grain] where I have not winnowed? 27 Then you should have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I would have received what was my own with interest. 28 So take the talent away from him and give it to the one who has the ten talents. 29 For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will be furnished richly so that he will have an abundance; but from the one who does not have, even what he does have will be taken away.
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Strong's:3467 ~ [Xy [ yaw-shah'] ~ Definition : to save, be saved, be delivered
(Niphal)
to be liberated, be saved, be delivered
to be saved (in battle), be victorious
(Hiphil)
to save, deliver
to save from moral troubles
to give victory
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You're sons of Light, daughters of Day.
We live under wide open skies and know where we stand. So let's not sleepwalk through life ...
Since we're creatures of Day, let's act like it.
Walk out into the daylight sober, dressed up in faith, love, and the hope of salvation.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:5...8
~ The Message Remix ~
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Shachah ShaqatBi tchahYasha !
Guard the USAs leaders. Guard hearts, minds and spirits IN YOU. Impart Your wisdom, understanding and stewardship.
Anoint them as peacemakers.
Own them, use them, or replace them ... for Your purpose and YOUR Glory, our edification and the edification of those to whom we minister.
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Well, I have found it, with Your help. I have found the ONE THING that I hold too dear to release to You, Jesus. Ultimately, I release him to You. AND.... I want to say and convict to," I am NOT taking another step until You restore him to us."
That's real talk. That's what I want to say to You. Is that wrong? Can fellowship with my Teknon BE a line in my spiritual sand with You? Or do You require him from me, too? Do You want me to stand in prayer for his return to us from this day forward? Or do You want me to release him as lost to Your safe-keeping? Because for the life of me, in allllll these years, months, tears and prayers.... my heart won't let go of him. He's been gone again for a few days shy of four months and the distraction inside over his absence is as acute as ever. THIS TIME I told him that I can't abide his unforgiving unkindness in my life. His callous cruelty is beyond ugly..... and STILL.... I ponder over his absence every single day, Jesus.
How COULD You require this loss of me ? How COULD You allow my Teknon to be lost to us AGAIN !!?!! Even if he came back today.... somehow he is still lost. He has lost sight of the mercy and compassion that is all that You are. He is unkind. I am undone.
Still, I found my bottom. In that there is joy, today. I may have other bottoms, someday. But, today, this is the line in the sand. Today.....I NEED Teknon to return with his heart and spirit in You. I NEED him, Jesus. All is marred with his absence. All is dusty, dull and dead. Even the joy is gasping for breath.... and there has been PLENTY of it in my days, too. Plenty other that I could rave about as Your beauty revealed in my walk. So how has this loss glorified YOU?
Originally Posted by from 'VESSEL' ~ Nine Inch Nalis
I am you and you are me
We will never be alone
I have finally found my place in everything
I have finally found my home
We can leave all the past behind
I can see right through the whole façade I'm becoming something else
I am turning into God (into one of YOUR Bodyparts, Jesus)
Oh my God, can it go any faster?
Oh my God, I don't think I can last here
Jesus, Thank You for the FREEDOM to pray and worship as we choose. Help us to receive a renewed and lasting witness of Your providence with gratitude for that Freedom, as bought with both Your Own Blood and the blood of the those who have stood in battle to defend our freedom in military service. Empower Your angels to continue to deliver us in ways we can't even fathom.
We need you to join us in prayer on Sunday, July 5. Let me explain...
America is in desperate need of change. But the kind of change we really need doesn't come from Washington or Wall Street, it comes from God.
This call to pray for our nation is being spearheaded by the Call2Fall movement. The vision is for Christians in America to come together on the day after Independence Day to repent of our nation's sins and ask for God's mercy.
They also encourage pastors and churches to set aside time to pray for this on July 5.
Why are we doing this? God's Word tells us that if we pray for our country, then He will bring true, lasting change that is better than anything we could do on our own.
2 Chronicles 7:14 (NIV) says: If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
This scripture indicates the basis for the Call2Fall:
We must humble ourselves in repentant prayer. In the original language, the word for "humble ourselves" literally means "to become low" and speaks of getting on our knees and faces before the Lord.
We are to pray.
We are to seek God's face to know what our part is now.
We must turn from any evil ways or sin, which displeases God.
After we celebrate our independence, let's re-declare our dependence upon Jesus Christ. We hope you spend at least a few minutes on your knees in prayer Sunday, July 5.
And remember, prayer is not just a one-time event. It's a way of life.
~ Joy in abundance of Spirit, even in really crap times....
Well, well, well.... Hi Jesus ! I haven't been here for a few days. THANKS THANKS THANKS for the great life I've been having lately. Lots of good company on our new deck this year. Really awesome since we spent the whole summer last year preparing the project and making it happen. WOW really worth the wait. What a blessing, King of me ! Thanks for growing us into the patience and the communication to create some reality behind our dreams. You are doing a pretty good job of growing us up and together. Of course You are, right?
I guess this is one of those THANKS-for-fureakin'-everything-posts, Jesus. Even though we have to give up a cellphone and the satellite TV this month... we really couldn't be more blessed. The partial unemployment is a drag, too...it would be really awesome if there was an end to that. It's been a year and a half for me, already. Hubbs is coming up on a year in a few months, too. Thanks for the jobs we do have, though. We both have really great bosses. That's like gold all its own. Who wouldn't be thrilled with righteous management in authority over them ?
I pray that You continue to cover our jobs and bosses in the Blood covering of Your righteousness, Jesus. Empower us by the hour to walk in the building of Your will ever into our day's walks, for Your glory and our edification. There seems to be opposition all around to the passing of peace through our days. Though our enemies come before us in one way, make them flee in seven ways from the power of Your presence over, above and beneath us.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT) `Jehovah giveth thine enemies, who are rising up against thee -- smitten before thy face; in one way they come out unto thee, and in seven ways they flee before thee.
You've recently been ministering to my spirit regarding the Truth of the opposition that we feel in the ongoing re-positioning for continued building that we are accomplishing with You... both in the actual building of Your house within our's and in the building of our home into a place for gathering of our patchwork family and friends, Jesus. As with the plight of Zerubbabel's opposers, I am beginning to learn to IGNORE the parade of thieves and wounded ones who refuse to get up, only draining resources and energies from Your work in and through my walk. I am NOT very good at it though. I NEED You to hold my hand and heart all the way there and back, Jesus. I try to return to the letting go and to keeping focus on Your voice, always. There are those who derail me, plenty.
I shudder to think that it should be fine and I'm the one who blows it... ME. I can be my worst enemy of all ! I send the monsters to myself as often as the phone rings on a hospital switchboard ... SHEEZE ... it's too crazy how I get when You take so long to work things out in my life, Jesus. I act like I am the wrong color to be blessed, chartreuse and puce with violet spots, sometimes.... lots of times, really.
I always wonder why You made me this way ? .... I mean it WAS YOU who allowed so many VERY VERY hard things to occur for me the last few years or decade, really. So, when I am 'waiting for the other shoe to drop' after a blessing, You KNOW You allowed that to be the habit that I foresee, now. Even though I know that You ultimately WANT to bring all things to work together for the good .... of those who love You.... I haven't seen that for any stretch of time in years. I remember when my childhood was like that all the time....what was I soooo blessed for then ?
ANYWAY... running headlong down a rabbit-trail here....
MAN.... I'm falling asleep....more tomorrow... nitey nite !!! BOTTOM LINE: THANKS FOR THE BLESSINGS OF THIS SPACIOUS PLACE
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Strong's:3467 ~ [Xy [ yaw-shah'] ~ Definition : to save, be saved, be delivered
(Niphal)
to be liberated, be saved, be delivered
to be saved (in battle), be victorious
(Hiphil)
to save, deliver
to save from moral troubles
to give victory
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You're sons of Light, daughters of Day.
We live under wide open skies and know where we stand. So let's not sleepwalk through life ...
Since we're creatures of Day, let's act like it.
Walk out into the daylight sober, dressed up in faith, love, and the hope of salvation.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:5...8
~ The Message Remix ~
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Shachah ShaqatBi tchahYasha !
Guard the USAs leaders. Guard hearts, minds and spirits IN YOU. Impart Your wisdom, understanding and stewardship.
Anoint them as peacemakers.
Own them, use them, or replace them ... for Your purpose and YOUR Glory, our edification and the edification of those to whom we minister.
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It seems like for months and months and years, even, I have been living with a shortness of breath. It's the weight of grief over the repeated loss of Teknon that has collapsed my breathing, really. Compounded with the complete lack of understanding of HOW he could be so ugly toward me, and WHY ? It's both a figurative and a literal truth. My spirit has been impaired in his absence.
Spirit, pneuma, also meaning breath and the seat of power, emotion, affection,... has often impacted my physical breathing. It's just who I am, how I'm made.
Originally Posted by pneuma
...
the spirit, i.e. the vital principal by which the body is animated
the rational spirit, the power by which the human being feels, thinks, decides
the soul
a spirit, i.e. a simple essence, devoid of all or at least all grosser matter, and possessed of the power of knowing, desiring, deciding, and acting
a life giving spirit
....
the disposition or influence which fills and governs the soul of any one
the efficient source of any power, affection, emotion, desire, etc.
a movement of air (a gentle blast)
of the wind, hence the wind itself
breath of nostrils or mouth
My Mother tells me that when I was very wee, I used to lose my breath when I cried, until I was turning blue. It scared her. I have no idea what grieved me so as a wee one. From my side as an adult, the inside, it feels like a sadness so deep it defies expression through sobbing, wailing or mere tears. It is always accompanied by a sheer disbelief and exasperation at a blind unkindness or injustice. It is JUST not possible to solve such a pain with an effort to cry out. From anyone else's view, it looks like I can't breathe. And from the reactions I receive during those deep deep grieving places, it must be very alarming to view, like I will drown in my own tears. It rarely rarely happens as an adult. Only Teknon and Hubbs have ever hurt me enough to invoke it, in recent memory. In the last five years ONLY Teknon has done so.
This past few weeks I am actually beginning to breathe. I almost completely lost the depth of breath... and it is returning to me. Thanks, Jesus. It's far from fully returned... but, I can notice it is back, now and then. The damage to my body is far more than the lack of breath could have caused. I have been fighting to keep full-steam depression at bay for so long that it has, unfortunately, harmed me physically. Even though I run 12 miles a week, instead of getting the benefit of such a routine that I expect, I am simply riding the endorphine buzz for a day and coming back to a new fix the next. I KNOW diligent 'going through' with You will get me through. Life has been this way for 4 or 5 years. I am not right without Teknon.....off-kilter. He doesn't need to be near me, he just needs to be with me in You. He's not been for about 5 years. It will never be good enough for me to be seperated from him in the Spirit. I CAN'T abide it.
Yet, recently, there have been windows... short ones. Places where joy has found an in, full -blast. Until they are done, I don't think of him. Sometimes, not for a whole day. I only will realize it when the day is done and all grows quiet again... then, there he is on the edge of a tear cresting over my eyelid, again. But, I suddenly will notice that that is the first time all day.
John 20:22-23Amplified Bible (AMP) View commentary related to this passage 22 And having said this, He breathed on them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit! 23 [Now having received the Holy Spirit, and being led and directed by Him] if you forgive the sins of anyone, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of anyone, they are retained.
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Strong's:3467 ~ [Xy [ yaw-shah'] ~ Definition : to save, be saved, be delivered
(Niphal)
to be liberated, be saved, be delivered
to be saved (in battle), be victorious
(Hiphil)
to save, deliver
to save from moral troubles
to give victory
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You're sons of Light, daughters of Day.
We live under wide open skies and know where we stand. So let's not sleepwalk through life ...
Since we're creatures of Day, let's act like it.
Walk out into the daylight sober, dressed up in faith, love, and the hope of salvation.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:5...8
~ The Message Remix ~
<--~~~-->
Shachah ShaqatBi tchahYasha !
Guard the USAs leaders. Guard hearts, minds and spirits IN YOU. Impart Your wisdom, understanding and stewardship.
Anoint them as peacemakers.
Own them, use them, or replace them ... for Your purpose and YOUR Glory, our edification and the edification of those to whom we minister.
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I saw this somewhere when I was poking around and I LIKE IT ! The many flavors and manifestations of Your kids, Jesus. No one thread can create the tapestry of Your Body manifest. Thanks for flavor .
Matthew 11:18-19 Amplified Bible (AMP) View commentary related to this passage 16 But to what shall I liken this generation? It is like little children sitting in the marketplaces who call to their playmates, 17 We piped to you [playing wedding], and you did not dance; we wailed dirges [playing funeral], and you did not mourn and beat your breasts and weep aloud. 18 For John came neither eating nor drinking [with others], and they say, He has a demon! 19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking [with others], and they say, Behold, a glutton and a wine drinker, a friend of tax collectors and [especially wicked] sinners! Yet wisdom is justified and vindicated by what she does (her deeds) and by her children.
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Strong's:3467 ~ [Xy [ yaw-shah'] ~ Definition : to save, be saved, be delivered
(Niphal)
to be liberated, be saved, be delivered
to be saved (in battle), be victorious
(Hiphil)
to save, deliver
to save from moral troubles
to give victory
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You're sons of Light, daughters of Day.
We live under wide open skies and know where we stand. So let's not sleepwalk through life ...
Since we're creatures of Day, let's act like it.
Walk out into the daylight sober, dressed up in faith, love, and the hope of salvation.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:5...8
~ The Message Remix ~
<--~~~-->
Shachah ShaqatBi tchahYasha !
Guard the USAs leaders. Guard hearts, minds and spirits IN YOU. Impart Your wisdom, understanding and stewardship.
Anoint them as peacemakers.
Own them, use them, or replace them ... for Your purpose and YOUR Glory, our edification and the edification of those to whom we minister.
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PSALM 90:12-18
Last edited by Yasha; 8th October 2009 at 06:56 PM.
THANKS, Jesus. It's a time of promotion and of sorrow. Embracing the new motions of Your Hand in my world and letting go of the familiar and long held motivations that have moved through toward completion. HALLELUJAH.
Gardening's done. Deck is done. Fundraiser is done. Graduations are done. Father's Day is done. Mom's 90th is done. Fourth of July is done. The 3 MONTH long saga of a refi is done... and, sadly, my 3 1/2 year project under my current Project Head is done, too. He announced his promotion and departure, today. I'm truly sorry to lose this one. Bless him on his journey's way, Jesus. Bless those of us left behind to carry the light he shared in us all. Good bosses are RARE and they also never stay put. They grow and change and inspire all of us to do the same.
So, it's time to commence the next item on my TO-DO list. The fund raising raffle for the trip to India. I have a few key players and prayers in place... well, You do. SO, I ask for Your continuing hand holding of mine as I embark on this new adventure in You. The RAFFLE.
You are quite an amazing God.! One day I wake up and You have familiarized and provided me with the means, information, resources and inspiration to move ahead into a new work. It is never really boring is it ? Help PastorP, SassyB and bossmanM to be the prayer and motivational support that we all need to be for each other.
Step one... decide to begin on my knees.
Step two... be quick to return to my knees.
Step three... bow down before the King of Glory and remain teachable, receptive and thankful in the humility of Your power's forward motions.
Step four... don't let the dust remain off of my knees for any length of days.
Okay. Begin. Be magnified. Keep the enemy at bay. Use his plottings against him and for You. Weed my garden of those who choke Your purposes from my heart and hands, Jesus, for selfish and proud reasons. Raise up the team to bring the glory best fit for YOU. Create in me a pure heart, oh God of my salvation. Keep me ever in Your placement of me, no more, no less. Amen.
PSALM 104:24-35 The Message (MSG) View commentary related to this passage 24-30 What a wildly wonderful world, God! You made it all, with Wisdom at your side, made earth overflow with your wonderful creations. Oh, look—the deep, wide sea, brimming with fish past counting, sardines and sharks and salmon. Ships plow those waters, and Leviathan, your pet dragon, romps in them. All the creatures look expectantly to you to give them their meals on time. You come, and they gather around; you open your hand and they eat from it. If you turned your back, they'd die in a minute— Take back your Spirit and they die, revert to original mud; Send out your Spirit and they spring to life— the whole countryside in bloom and blossom.
31-32The glory of God—let it last forever! Let God enjoy his creation! He takes one look at earth and triggers an earthquake, points a finger at the mountains, and volcanoes erupt.
33-35 Oh, let me sing to God all my life long,
sing hymns to my God as long as I live!
Oh, let my song please him;
I'm so pleased to be singing to God.
But clear the ground of sinners—
no more godless men and women! O my soul, bless God!
1 Thessalonians 5:16-24 The Message (MSG) View commentary related to this passage 16-18 Be cheerful no matter what; pray all the time; thank God no matter what happens. This is the way God wants you who belong to Christ Jesus to live. 19-22 Don't suppress the Spirit, and don't stifle those who have a word from the Master. On the other hand, don't be gullible. Check out everything, and keep only what's good. Throw out anything tainted with evil. 23-24 May God himself, the God who makes everything holy and whole, make you holy and whole, put you together—spirit, soul, and body—and keep you fit for the coming of our Master, Jesus Christ. The One who called you is completely dependable. If he said it, he'll do it!
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~~---->>> Love; from above and within, Yasha' <<<----~~
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Strong's:3467 ~ [Xy [ yaw-shah'] ~ Definition : to save, be saved, be delivered
(Niphal)
to be liberated, be saved, be delivered
to be saved (in battle), be victorious
(Hiphil)
to save, deliver
to save from moral troubles
to give victory
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You're sons of Light, daughters of Day.
We live under wide open skies and know where we stand. So let's not sleepwalk through life ...
Since we're creatures of Day, let's act like it.
Walk out into the daylight sober, dressed up in faith, love, and the hope of salvation.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:5...8
~ The Message Remix ~
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Shachah ShaqatBi tchahYasha !
Guard the USAs leaders. Guard hearts, minds and spirits IN YOU. Impart Your wisdom, understanding and stewardship.
Anoint them as peacemakers.
Own them, use them, or replace them ... for Your purpose and YOUR Glory, our edification and the edification of those to whom we minister.
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You know, Jesus... this all started sooooo many years ago. Now we 'blog'... then it was notebook after notebook. I figured out today that I have been writing letters to You for 26 years, now, consecutively. That's a long time to write to anyone, huh? I never run out of things to say, either. And, You never fail to respond in new and different and unexpectedly awesome ways. It sure is easier keeping track of this web type than it was with all the paper.
I still DO the paper notebooks, too, as You know. I just like to type and use the resources of this funky etch-a-sketch-box. We still do most of our very best rollin' in the privacy of the paper trail... my sanctuary in You. How have You managed to capture my attentions for so long and still I look forward to time alone with You every day ! ? !
Any way, I hear this song on my MP3 player all the time. It comes up in rotation. I can apply it to just about anyone that I have lost love with... and it best describes how very much I treasure time spent with You. I LOVE to record the stuff we ponder and grow through in a day.... BECAUSE I LOVE TO READ IT BACK LATER. You are always fresh and new and REAL in the things You show and teach me... and in the ways that You mold and lead me. It's like almost impossible for ANYONE to compare to You. I search high and low for any who might manifest You. I DO find them along every road... but they are rare and transient and fragile... because we are ALL so subject to falling and getting "dull" of heart, mind and spirit. SO few are diligent to be on their knees in You, Jesus. How could so few see what I see, or more ? How could so few be in Your entourage ? Why do You spread so slowly and so rarely into the hearts of men and women ? I so don't get it ! People think people like me are like whacko drunk or nutz... I think that is so sad and hurtful. How can You stand to see, with perfect Truth, the ignorance manifest in us all ? You are FAR FAR FAR stronger and nobler than me, Jesus.
Please continue to lead me into the LEARNING of this missions fundraising path, for Your glory, my edification and the edification of those I might manifest You to. Protect me from what I don't know that I don't know. Help me to recognize and tap the resources of gifting, time and knowledge in the people that You place around me in the days ahead, so that I don't go plain unnecessarily uphill all the while. I learned last night that 70% of missionaries do their own fundraising. Show me what I need to know and provide me with the teachable spirit that receives of those who have longer teeth in this.
Matthew 17:24-27 (The Message)24 Then they arrived at Capernaum, the tax men came to Peter and asked, "Does your teacher pay taxes?" 25 Peter said, "Of course." But as soon as they were in the house, Jesus confronted him. "Simon, what do you think? When a king levies taxes, who pays—his children or his subjects?"
26-27 He answered, "His subjects."
Jesus said, "Then the children get off free, right? But so we don't upset them needlessly, go down to the lake, cast a hook, and pull in the first fish that bites. Open its mouth and you'll find a coin. Take it and give it to the tax men. It will be enough for both of us."
Thanks for all You remain to be in me. I love You, King of the Angel Armies. Flank GR and me and Hubbs all around, so we can get some work, some play and some rest in good balance. Sandbag us against undo distraction, error and calamity.... though I've learned that I become more focused and determined in opposition, maybe You could start to teach me to focus even better in peace, Truth and providence under the protection of Heaven's Angels all around, for Your glory. amen.