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I like to write with certain music pieces sounding in the background.
Yesterday, I wrote this while listening to some of Beethoven's music.
For each set of four lines, I provide the range of the recording time.
If one listens to the music and slowly reads the words (in some cases, a syllable...
So, it is communion that defines our relationship with Abba?
Then, I must admit that there are times when He has missed me.
Oh, we say that Abba "is a perfect gentleman" and will not force
Himself upon us. That cannot be, I know He is missing me,
my person within the act of trust, when it...
(after reading about Saul's "Damascus Road" humbling--and his subsequent healing and conversion in Acts 9:1-19)
What ran through Saul's mind as he lie, in a Damascus house, recovering from having crumpled to the ground and been rendered blind by Divine light? Surely one whose life centered on...
When one passage of the Scriptures resounds with
a similar inspiration as another passage, these
are the "deep calls unto deep" (Psalms 42:7) moments
that stir my heart with confidence that the Lord reigns.
His truths are so beautiful and weave indestructible
pictures of God's character and...
If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire,
and it shall be done for you (John 15:7 NKJV)
I have given consideration to Your Word, O Lord. You have loosed within me
the assurance that knowledge, planted and settled into an active, abounding trust,
will yield a...
I’ll bear your burden,
you’ll know my own.
We each have our cross,
our shoulders sore.
But somewhere along the way
to self-denial,
suffering for the Faith,
together, makes it worthwhile.
I wrote this after reading the Scripture verses provided below:
What! Live it up?
Rather, we shall live it out.
Emotions handcuffed, discarded? Hardly.
There are more stirrings where service shouts!
The "new man", in us, seeks to move through sinews that bend
to fulfill God's call...
After reading the story told by Jesus of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32):
What I hold the most dear on this earth,
among those things we would count as providential blessings,
would I begrudge my bitterest enemy receiving any of them, even if it meant that the gift to him was a sign of God’s...
LISTEN, FOLKS, TO WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS! THIS COMES FROM
THE BOOK OF LUKE:*
As He [Jesus] entered a village, there met Him ten men who were lepers,
who stood at a distance. They lifted up their voices, saying, “Jesus,
Master, have pity on us!” When He saw them, He said to them,
“Go, show...
Revelation 21:21-23
21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls,
each gate made of a single pearl. The
great street of the city was of pure gold,
like transparent glass.
22 I did not see a temple in the city,
because the Lord God Almighty and the
Lamb are its temple.
23 The city does not need the sun...
Matthew 26:31-34
31 Then Jesus told them, "This very night
you will all fall away on account of me,
for it is written: " 'I will strike the
shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will
be scattered.'
32 But after I have risen, I will go ahead
of you into Galilee."
33 Peter replied, "Even if all...
What is dark to us is not even dark to You, O Lord.
That which is brightened by your Light ushers You in.
Dark is dispelled from us. Your Presence--Light occupying the seized.
Basking, here is the new creation you’ve made of your shining saints.
Change undeniable! This knowledge...
(After reading John 15:1-17)
Father, I extend my soul to follow your rules,
to befriend your heart, do service for you,
because your Son sought you, fulfilled the Law,
I seek you, too, demonstrate love.
First by the knowing he gave all for me.
By this grand mercy, I show grace secondly.
Thirdly...
Over the past few years, I've noticed that in praise music, emphasis on
the Lord taking our shame away has been the norm for many song lyrics.
All well and good when we isolate the emphasis to its meaning. But,
the trend also seems top-heavy and out of proportion to what a balanced Christian...
When I have a party, dancing is part;
the joy of companionship is how it starts.
We clap for the fiddler as he taps his toes,
and the swaying of happy collaboratin' flows.
As we are one Body, we rejoice as one kin,
the joy of our fellowship is how it begins.
We clap for the Master, who in...
Contemplating Philippians 1:3-6
3 I thank my God every time I remember
you.
4 In all my prayers for all of you, I always
pray with joy
5 because of your partnership in the
gospel from the first day until now,
6 being confident of this, that he who
began a good work in you will carry it on
to...
Life before light,
before substance illumined.*
Life before light,
grace, before saints’ soul-soothing.**
To each dead of night,
Daystar came pursuing^:
a crash per dark’s knights,^^
for us, soft-landing to His bosom.+
___________
All scripture quotes are taken from the King James Version
*...
When we are thinking about the relationship between our "faith" in Messiah Jesus and our "works",
it helps to consider the words that Jesus said to the Apostle Paul:
Acts 26:17-18
I am sending you to [the Gentiles] to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from
the power of...
Concerning Luke 2:21-24:
On the eighth day after Messiah Jesus was born, Joseph and Mary had Jesus circumcised. This could have been done by a rabbi at Bethlehem or in Jerusalem:
On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise him, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before...
Could the action described in Mark 2:3-5 be an early form of “retaining and forgiving sin”?
The point is that when Jesus “saw their faith”, it was then that He told the paralytic “your sins are forgiven.
It appears to me that the ones carrying the stretcher knew that the man needed healing...