Is the Shield Working?

When flooding rivers cover golf courses, block roadways and cause chaos...

Have been reading through the book of Proverbs and surely we need the wisdom of God for every decision we make today and everyday. Proverbs 30:5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in Him.
To put God in that place is putting His word there, is speaking it by faith, placing it before the unseen enemy and declare it daily.
We are told in Ephesians 6 and verse 16 this: "above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. Now of course we know the wicked one to be satan himself! 1 John 5:4 for whatever is born of God overcomes the world---our faith. 5 Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
Romans 10:17 reminds us :"so then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

We must know the word of God! Psalm 119:113 I hate the double-minded, but I love Your law. Now that hate is referring to the one who has a divided heart or divided mind. And we know those "folks" to be unstable in all their ways. James 1:8....he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

A river out of its banks is unstable, and it will run its way or course that is when the bank is weakened by much rain and it overflows, it will wash away any surrounding ground around the weakened area. In the said region a tremendous rainfall will overwhelm any rivers or creeks with more water and they will in turn begin to move with a force as the volume is increased to move into areas like the golf course in picture above and into neighborhoods.


So too, when something occurs in a person's life and they do not have knowledge of the word of God, they will begin to be overwhelmed by the continuing false reports even though the x-ray or any other tests might prove that "something exists " in a certain part of body, knowing God's truth, we should be speaking to that "ugly " thing that we deny its right to exist in the body we call our own.
We must continue to read and have knowledge of the Holy One!
We should also learn as much as we can of what the report might be about, but we also must know Jesus took all that to the Cross. WE must speak truth about the said report given in the light of Jesus Christ.

You and I cannot live by our emotions. Proverbs 4:23 Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life. 24 Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you.
We are to keep our heart and value what we put it from the word of God. We should protect our heart from hearing of false reports, those things that are counter to God's thoughts and ways. How we communicate, give attention to and yes even our behavior has it start in our hearts.
If we meditate long hours of "soap" opera lifestyles, then your life or mine could certainly look like a soap opera before us. We are to put away anything that is perverse from us and keep working toward seeing that transformed life Jesus came to give us in and through salvation.
Jesus told us this in Mark 7:20-21 "What comes out of a man, that defiles a man 21 for from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders...

No, our shield should be up! Each of us will experience trials, those times of anguish or even sorrow. And when we visit say the book of Psalms, we find those who have their fill of tribulations and sorrows. Still the walk of faith is adhering to God. We should come to Him about that which might bring about "the fear factor", or that which we have unbelief in, yet God proves His faithfulness time and again. Speak out to Him with cries of your heart, but also bring forth those promises He has given to us in His word the Bible. Cry out, but also understand HIM when you are troubled!

Emotions we carry are not based on His truths. Think about the good He has brought to you and yours. Meditate on Him and talk of His good deeds with other's. Choose life in Him and expect Him to bring you through the "trial, the ugly tribulation" and remember God has a plan for you and He planned a good plan. When the rain begins to fall, may you not be overwhelmed. May you rejoice and know your shield is in place when you have chosen to follow Him all the days of your life. Earnestly seek today to have an undivided heart, fear the Lord and carry a heart of praise.

Father, I pray, in Jesus’ name for all who have read this and faith in YOU to redeem  soul’s today from negative emotions. You have said in YOUR Word that You redeem our souls when we put our trust in You according to Psalm 34:22. May each person never be controlled by depression, anger, anxiety, jealousy, hopelessness, fear, or suicide.  Specifically, I pray about anger and depression. Deliver them today from this and all other controlling emotions. (Psalm 40:17).

It is only You WHO can deliver and heal, but use me today as Your instrument of restoration. Enable the hearers of this word  to understand and embrace words to speak and bring life.  Liberate them to cry when the need is there to do that thing! May they have the the gift of laughter and ability to find humor in even serious situations. May they sincerely take their eyes off of their circumstances and trust in You, regardless of how they may be feeling at this moment of time!

Thank YOU Lord for patience to possess their soul and the ability to take charge of it (Luke 21:19) . Anoint them with the “oil of joy” (Isaiah 61:3), refresh them with Your Spirit, and set them  free from negative emotions this day. Amen and Amen!

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Potty Training

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Yikes! Potty Training....what has that got to do with godly things?
In scripture, we were told that God created the heavens and the earth. We are also told that He created them Adam and Eve, male and female.

Proverbs 3:3-4  ..Let not mercy and truth forsake …you;…Bind them around your neck,

Write them on the tablet of …….your heart,

4 And so find favor and high esteem

In the sight of God and man.

God thought it important enough to remind us from these verses to not letting mercy and truth forsake us. We are to bind them around our neck, see that they are written on the tablet of our heart and in doing so, we would find favor and high esteem in the sight of God and man!

Yet these very important words have been abandoned either by neglect or by choosing a "new pathway" that is against (out of alignment) from God established for us in His word of truth.

In training a child, you start early (like when they are mastering their walk) and introduce them to the potty chair. For some, this is a continual work in progress. For others though it flows quickly and smoothly. In regards to children we have had or seen within our families, our own seemed to take to the potty chair quickly. Always regarding her care as the utmost in bringing her up, we always mentioned the words: modesty, discreet, remembering modesty was the best policy and quality for a young girl or woman to maintain.

In regards of morals, we continued to seek encouraging her of the importance of being respectful to her body and to keep an appropriate behavior in the use of the "potty".

Now some may think this is absurd or something other than useful, but if our mouth is the "potty" mouth, then we are not useful except to someone else who has that "potty" mouth!

In training someone up to be virtuous, we remind them that God planned for them. He spoke of their coming and with our own, the Lord had me speak specific things to her on the day she was born. If GOD thought that important, then we viewed her knowing who she was and what she was to do for Him would come from Him.

Not sure where people got off on their thinking that what you were born with according to being male or female played no role in who you would be later in life. I am not certain how people who were educated could get into a whole world of hurt by thinking of you change your hormones, have some medical procedures or two that you will be "normal". WRONG!

In the rules of conduct: we are to conduct our lives with the respect that God planned us and He knows who we are and what the plan is for each of us. Psalm 127:3 Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb is a reward.

Psalm 139:13 For YOU formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb. 14 I will praise You for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed, and in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.

Yes, can you imagine it right now, what some have had sex changes will be telling God has they stand before Him, and telling Him "you made a mistake"! Yikes!

For the God, the Creator of the heavens and the earth does not make mistakes and scripture tells us that He knew us in the depths being formed and He has a book that is written about my life, your life, your children's lives and your grand-children's lives!

In what God fashioned for each of us is written. What He planned, He noted it to show us. Yet there will be many tears, many denials and certain heartache beyond what anyone could stand when confronting truth in the FACE of God's TRUTH!

In the closing verses of Psalm 139, the author wrote Search me O God, and know my heart; try me and know my anxieties;  24 and if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Lord God, see if there is any wicked way in my heart...search me O God.

Anything of the false that is contrary to God and His truth is spoken in this short prayer. The author needed to offer that which he knew could keep his heart from hate and from the practices that men tend to do by their human nature. The author wanted to be led in that way that is holy toward God…that is in spirit and truth. For in truth, we are to walk following the way the Lord is directing and not by human standards, human reasoning and human wrongs. For we know that the way that is right in a man’s own eyes is seldom the way to God but for their own satisfaction and desires.

News alert: what you were born with is who you are, whom God created with a plan in mind! Don't shipwreck your life for a moment in the flesh.

 Basing our decisions on our senses is folly. So when we see something, feel something, hear something, based without true knowledge is detrimental to you and me. When confronted with fear, confusion takes over to cover us in darkness and hide us from the very knowledge we need and that is God’s word. As fear is cloaked in darkness of confusion, then pressure will take over to be the driver to move one to act out of fear. This pressure looks much like selfishness and strife! It is a wanting to protect oneself from the thing fear has created. Words spoken from the natural man using these five senses can cause a lot of unneeded problems birthed through the false evidence.

We must have true knowledge to make right decisions. That knowledge of the heart is that we gain from the Lord and His Word. Proverbs 12:1 Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge. But he who hates corrections is stupid. (NKJV)

Proverbs 15:2 The tongue of the wise uses knowledge, but the mouth of fools pours forth foolishness.(NKJV)

Proverbs 18:15…………15 The heart of the prudent acquires knowledge,

And the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.  NKJV

His Counsel. His eye is of favor on those who regard His counsel. It is the knowledge of who He is and all that comes with friendship of that with a great King. (Proverbs 22:11)……

Proverbs 22:12 The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthrows the words of the transgressor.

To maintain the walk God planned for each of us, is to stay within the boundary of His word of truth. To do anything else would be sin and far from God!

Psalm 1: Blessed is the man who walks not in counsel of the ungodly nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scornful; 2 but his delight in is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night. 3 He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that brings forth its fruit in season, whose leaf  shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper. 

If one is due for potty training, may they know God has a plan for their good and not evil to give them a hope in their final outcome. May we be found in faith knowing God is for us and not against us! Amen.

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No Victim Mentality

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That overcoming faith prevails when it is born within God!
1 John 5:4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world----our faith. 5 Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

Birth is evident in the newest little squirrels that find adventure in chasing little birds in the backyard of this place we call home. Still have about nine squirrels that seem to stay close by, but the newest ones of whichever bunch, they are of course the smallest of the group and they appear rather skittish. Every new sound makes them stand up to expose their tiny white bellies. New baby birds in nests can be heard especially in the early morning if one is up around 4:45 am or so. And yes the trees are giving out new leaves to proclaim spring has come. Though the temperature on the Weather Channel reveals a rather cold start on the day, still sun is in the forecast with no rain!

Of recent days I was looking for this black cat that roams the neighborhood. Was concerned he did not fair well in the ice storm of January 17, 2017. Alas, I saw him today, and he has grown.....no doubt he has some kind of cat food that help him grow quite well. He showed off this morning that he could scale the willow tree in seconds. But he did not stay...............no birds were there!


Psalm 36:6 in the NKJV reminds us that the Lord is the preserver of man and of beast.
6 Your righteousness is like the great mountains; Your judgments are a great deep; O LORD, You preserve man and beast.

Clearly,it is God's omnipotence that is seen in creation. God said, “Let there be…” and it was so (Genesis 1:3, 6, 9, etc.).    In creating anything, you and I must have tools and some kind of material. BUT God simply spoke, and by the power of His word, everything was created from nothing.

I remember creating cakes from actual cake flour and all the specialty items for 7-minute icing and such. I can also recall taking sewing classes in my high school years. And I could create using all kinds of fabrics and styles to suit the desire I had. But those are things which must be replaced.

But again God just spoke a word............and what He spoke came into being!

Psalm 33:6 …. “By the word of the LORD were the heavens made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth”

God’s power is also seen in the preservation of His creation. All life on earth would perish were it not for God’s continual provision of everything we need for food, clothing and shelter, all from renewable resources sustained by His power. 

Psalm 147:7-11  NKJV     7 Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praises on the harp to our God, 8 Who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth. Who makes grass to grow on the mountains. 9 He gives to the beast its food, and to the young ravens that cry. 10 He does not delight in the strength of the horse; He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man 11 The LORD takes pleasure in those who fear Him, in those who hope in His mercy.

THE horse was to serve man. AND mans legs can take him places when effort is enforced, yet it is only God who can bring out of us WHAT He placed in us at our beginning .......when we were CONCEIVED in our mother's womb.

Psalm 139: 13-16 NKJV 13 For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb. 14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth, 16 Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed, and in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me. When as yet there were none of them.

So precise is God, so strategic, He knew how to plan for all those beasts of the fields, those crying ravens and you and me! He planned out a victory that we would know within Him and within His gates of love, peace and life! It is fashioned by God Himself and it cannot look like anyone else's life.

Psalm 138:7-8 NKJV 7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will revive me; You will stretch out Your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and Your right hand will save me. 8 The LORD will perfect that which concerns me; Your mercy, O LORD, endures forever, Do not forsake the works of Your hands.

With all that is written for our benefit, that love story God has for us is one of victory born within Him, and IT is a preservation of His creation. It is He Who gives the capacity for a rich, full life.

It is by faith that we put our hope in God and His word. It is He Who comforts us and reminds us of the thoughts He has for us. Spend time today, tomorrow and every moment available to read of His love, abide in His peace, and know the victory of life that is a walk in His righteousness and knowing His pleasure is in those who fear Him.

Cross the FINISH LINE.....be happy, for to know Him, is to KNOW Your Helper.....AND......you will not regret one moment of adventure in Him!


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