Psalm 119:105-112
The Message
By your words I can see where I’m going;
they throw a beam of light on my dark path.
I’ve committed myself
and
I’ll never turn back
from living by your righteous order.
Everything’s falling apart on me, God;
put me together again with your Word.
Festoon me with your finest sayings, God;
teach me your holy rules.
My life is as close as my own hands,
but I don’t forget what You have revealed.
The wicked do their best to throw me off track,
but I don’t swerve an inch from your course.
I inherited your book on living; it’s mine forever—
what a gift! And how happy it makes me!
I concentrate on doing exactly what you say—
I always have and always will.
Psalm 63
O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you;
my soul thirsts for you;
my flesh faints for you,
as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary,
beholding Your power and glory.
3 Because your steadfast love is better than life,
my lips will praise you.
4 So I will bless you as long as I live;
in your name I will lift up my hands.
Before we arrive in our Father's Heavenly Kingdom,
we have decisions to make
I rarely doubt and, yet, I have to say I worry.
Worry is fear. Fear and doubt go hand in hand.
That's threading cross-hairs.
I don't doubt the promises of God,
I wonder how they apply.
I wonder about circumstances.
God, I firmly believe, is Vast as the Universe and is Love.
God, I firmly believe, is Vast as the Universe and is Love.
I believe the Universe is the size of the Lord God Almighty and He gently holds us.
I wonder about the learning the path.
God sends us out to learn what kind of people we will become. Like His very own Prodigal Son.
When we return to the Lord,
How we present to Him what we did with our talents. Like the prodigal son and Father. I believe God puts us in this life like we send our children to college. Father God anticipating running to us, when we arrive, finished with this life, to the open gates of Heaven.
Radical Love
Fear - this word appears in the Old Testament 437 times and in the New Testament 96 times.
Courage appears 38 times. This is extremely radical. And teaches us, God runs to us. Our Father does not tell us to buck up and leave. In real circumstance, God Himself, The Almighty, our very own Father - does not Leave, nor forsake us.
Jesus arrived to help us understand God the Father is in all circumstances of life. All Things. All things are in His Hands. Nothing exists He has not seen before. We do not out maneuver God.
Our Father doesn't say, COURAGE. And move on, instead He tells us He knows about the world and will help us daily. In real life.
We have to walk the path Home to the Lord.
Eye-yi- I
Like the song I yi yi yi
Doubts usually are about the word "I".
I've been well off. And I've been poor. I've been befriended. I've been forsaken. I've been hurt. I've been apologized to. I've suffered the death of my dad twice. I've suffered the death of a baby. I've had a miscarriage. I've seen family suffer horribly with addiction. I've suffered seeing my family rail at God. I've seen weird comedians devalue all I love about God in insidious ways. I've been made fun of for things people think about God. I've had confidences betrayed. I've seen a family not really recover from my parent's divorce. I've see polite. I've seen really rude. I've seen avoidance, I've seen users. I've seen my friends suffer. I've seen friends recover when I haven't. I'm in the fifties of life.
I really don't like it when people refuse to do their very best
and, then, are mad at God for His humor.
I've seen hurt with doubters who spread their poison and then blithely leave their worldly wisdom parked at my door and depart from the loved one they polluted. They left...why are we believing their values still. But before you think I'm really, really sour. I'm only sometimes sour.
I've seen hurt with doubters who spread their poison and then blithely leave their worldly wisdom parked at my door and depart from the loved one they polluted. They left...why are we believing their values still. But before you think I'm really, really sour. I'm only sometimes sour.
I'm not happy with people who have all the answers and no love.
I'm annoyed with the current devaluation of Christianity as wicked.
When the knowledge is so sparse.
Where is the Seek?
Things can be tricky.
I'm annoyed with the current devaluation of Christianity as wicked.
When the knowledge is so sparse.
Where is the Seek?
Lava Lamps
We are the generation that believed once Halloween candy is usually scary. And now, with the Borders Open, we will have legitimate reasons to think upon our environment and decide if the children will Trick or Treat.
We are the generation that believed once Halloween candy is usually scary. And now, with the Borders Open, we will have legitimate reasons to think upon our environment and decide if the children will Trick or Treat.
Things can be tricky.
I was the child who cut off the white tops of Corn Candy. And told my mother she should call the Tooth Fairy. She asked if I meant on the phone. I said, SsssURE. That night, the Tooth Fairy discovered I had 48 very small, teeth under my pillow. Exactly the same size, each tooth. My mother let me discover the teeth were gone and no gift or money was left.
As I reported the Tooth Fairy jipped me, my mother said the Tooth Fairy never liked to be fooled. I said, you could call her and explain I left her edible teeth. Lots of them. What? Yep, edible teeth. My mother said maybe the Tooth Fairy would re-negotiate. Within a week, I had a quarter under my pillow.
The quarter was definitely better than Fentanyl. The choices we have to make, today. And how we are honest with our children, yet protect them.
Psalms 36:7
How priceless is your unfailing love,
O God!
People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
Matthew 10:16
I am sending you out like sheep among wolves.
Therefore be as shrewd as snakes
and
as innocent as doves.
John 14:19
Because I live, you also will live.
Stand
2nd Baptist, Houston, Dr. Ed Young's Church is taking a Stand.
90,000 members
Divided all the Houston area, all Churches into a grid
and for a year
we all fed Katrina Refugees in this grid plan.
This is: Stand | Dr. Ben Young | Woodway Campus
Psalm 73
Truly God is good to Israel,
to those who are pure in heart.
Abba, Father,
We Bless You for Jesus.
He enables us to have a Hope and Future.
Covering us in His Righteousness.
When we believe Jesus,
He gives us this immeasurable Gift.
Father, we will Trust in the Lord with all our heart, and do not lean on our own understanding.
In all our ways acknowledge God,
and He will make straight your paths.
Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, Jesus, Himself, likewise partook of the same things, that through death Jesus might destroy the one who has the power of death,
that is, the devil.
Knowing we were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from our forefathers,
not with perishable things such as silver or gold,
but with the precious blood of Christ,
like that of a Lamb
without blemish or spot.
We give You thanks for the Lavish Love of Jesus, especially on the Sabbath.
Realizing the Magnitude of Jesus.
And giving thanks knowing our sincerity
in Thanking Him,
is our Joy and is pleasing to Him.
God who bends so far, we will Live forever
with God in His Kingdom.
Abba, Thank You.
And for the ones I love, the People You have given me and we pray for.
Thank You for helping me with my ears.
For Helping Edward. For P and for D. For their complete recoveries. Thank God, Truly, my experience in life testifies when you rejoice with the chances of others and ask with joy the storehouses of God do not grow small - Abba loves and provides.
So thrilled to see 150 amazing Relics
at St. Anthony of Padua.
This was a marvelous and Living path of Jesus.
His Holy Spirit moving.
Thrilled to see
how diligent 1,000 people could be
in quiet
and in joy
and faith.
Love in Jesus Christ.
Love in Jesus Christ.
A work of Jesus Himself,
This exhibit faithfully travels the world
from the Vatican
explained perfectly
is one of the most marvelous
exhibits I've seen in my life.
So Grateful, Jesus, to participate.
Thank You, Jesus Christ.
Thank You, Father.
Blessings of the Holy Spirit.
This day, I'm grateful
I held relics of Padre Pio,
In my heart and hand, St. Rita, my favorite.
Popes and so many Teachers.
So many Saints from 400 AD
and 1902.
St. Anthony of Padua.
Greatful for the Heart
and Memory of
The Holy Catholic Church
we all pray for and with.
In Jesus Christ!
Saint Rita b 1381, always wanted to be
part of the nuns. To be in a nunnery.
As a widow, she still couldn't afford to pledge
a sum, as an older widow.
The Lord Provided in His Paths.
He provided all.
And this exhibit was free
as a Work of the Holy Spirit.
How Priceless is Your Unfailing Love, O God
The dead stick harshly given to the novice nun to water, is today St. Rita's 600 year old grapes covering the nunnery and sending wine to the Vatican for 500 + years. A miracle of Jesus and His Abba. This is really quite rare.
How many 600-year-old roses
have we heard of O Lord?
St. Rita's Roses are alive.
Blessed Be Jesus Christ.
Father, Your Word is Life.
God dwell in us, please, Father.
Dwell in those I love and the people You have given me.
Help us to seek You first.
And in Jesus Christ, we will finish well!
(And on just a small, home note,
I love Opossums. We have one again today, years later.
They live 2.5 years, love peanut butter sandwiches
when they can't find mice and large bugs to eat.
Love Opossums with me, please!)
Thank You, Jesus, for Your Creation
and All Your Creatures!
Thank God for His Goodness, covering us with the Grace we need. Amen.
John 10:28
I give them eternal life,
and they shall never perish;
no one will snatch them out of my hand.
My hands were so blessed today,
and filled with Your Heart and Love.
Thank You, Jesus.
Yay Jesus we will do this
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