We are Watching and We are Praying

Lord You are our Strength, You are our Song

Touch our Lips with coals from Your Altar….

Father, thank You for the paths of mercy and truth to those who keep Your covenant of blood through Jesus Christ. It is YOU Who whispers Your unconditional love deep into our souls and remind us that Your mercies are new every morning.

 You are our Strength & Shield; Our heart trusts in you and songs of praise we give. For we know to render that which is for our God Most High, who knows the voice of our supplications when we cry, who gives us courage in our hearts and gives us eyes to see the spiritual.

With hearts set toward You, we look for YOUR return and we look to keeping our prayers before you, not only for our families but this nation as well. We ask for strength in this walk of faith for You give strength to them who are weary and You increase the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary and men stumble and fall; but those who hope in You, Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary. The will walk and not faint.

Lord, You are our Strength and our Song. You have become our Salvation. We praise You tonight with our hearts exalting You in Your unfailing love it is You who lead the people YOU have redeemed. There are famines, earthquakes, fires, floods and violence occurring in our land, and men’s hearts are failing them because of fear. But Jesus spoke of discerning the signs of the times. And with the Help of the Holy Spirit we are watching and praying.

Search us tonight and know our hearts; try us and know our thoughts today. See if there be any wicked way in us and lead us in the way everlasting. Forgive us of judging inappropriately, complaining about leadership in our land and cleanse us Lord. Tough our lips with coals from Your altar that we may pray prayers that avail much for all men and women everywhere.

Father we are thankful for the Holy Spirit of Promise: Thank You Holy Spirit, the giver of LIFE! Thank You for the air we breathe and for that which we see with our eyes, the very beauty of this autumn day! The days are crisp indeed and the nights seem to send a shiver a promise of the coming cold winter into our bones, but we know what You created was good for man to enjoy. 

Precious Holy Spirit, we give thanks from the depths of our heart at this time for bringing each of us into Your world. We love being here in this moment of time. We enjoy the truth God has delivered in His kingdom through His Son Jesus. Oh what beauty You have imagined, what sights to behold and yet, just the movement of the breeze through colorful leaves of gold and crimson remind us of You. You come so gently and cause us to turn from distractions to the living God who brought to us so much and yet He gave so much for us to avoid hell and gain a home in heaven with the Father of love in whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. He never changes His mind. We are always on His heart and He relishes to tell us of the things to come because He loves us and because He wants to perfect holiness in us!

Holy Spirit, You are a wonderful gift to us. You are our Companion. YOU mentor us and teach us, You are truly our treasured Friend. Thank YOU for taking time to talk with us, to converse with us and to reveal instructions to us. Forgive us for the times we have not listened, obeyed, and completed Your word. If we have failed to do any instruction, please speak again to us in such a way we cannot doubt it. Help us if we doubt! Please un-clutter our life of distractions so that we may hear Your voice and obey You without question.

Father, we pray for our brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus, who live around the world and are in trouble at this moment. We repent of anything within our hearts that is not true worship toward You with a true heart so that we may pray accurately for them as You intend us to pray. It is with full hearts  of love and passion for You our Father that we know we will reach out to those in need of prayer this very day. Thank You for the hedge of protection and it is because the fear of the Lord is a fountain of life to us that we depart from the snares of death. May our brothers and sisters in You have peace and long life in those endeavors that they seek Your glory in their life situations that may ultimately bring death to them. May their boldness to speak faith-filled words continue to bring evidence of Your goodness in them and through them in the land of the living.

We ask for intercessors to weep for the destinies of our nation and that of Israel. We ask for intercessors who are called to weep for the nations and to pray out those vital promises for their safekeeping. For there are many hurting people all over this world and many need our prayers right now.

 From Revelation 10:8-9 we thank YOU for the sweetness in the mouth ….YOUR word that the Lord has toward nations is a good word. We know YOU speak life over the United States and Israel. We know when the spies came back with their report on the new land of promise, ten prophesied an evil report. It was a judgment that was rendered on the basis of their testimony against a nation. They prophesied the wrong word from a wrong spirit and got a wrong verdict. (Numbers 14:33-34)

But we believe for those of the good report to report that which is true in God, that which is true, noble, just, pure, and lovely. Father thank You for Jesus and for the kingdom He came to give us through Your love and grace.

Father thank You for reaching out to us through the birth of Your Son and then through the man who became Emmanuel with us! He came to participate in this life on earth. Jesus, we give thanks at the remembrance of Your name and Your sacrifice. It was a sacrifice required and the bloodshed revealed grace and mercy meet had met at Calvary. It is in You that we live and move and have our being. For it is by your sacrifice indeed that we experience so greatly the love of God, and we see new mercies revealed to us every morning. As we grow in our faith, may we become so aware of that which has been given so that we might live for God and give glory to His Name. For in this all has been revealed that truly the kingdom of God has come, sins are forgiven, sickness and deformity are healed and for us there is resurrection and eternal life to enjoy with our Lord and Savior forever.

Father, we thank You for Alpha and Omega  the beginning and the ending, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

Lord, You are our Strength and our Song. You have become our Salvation. We praise You with our hearts exalting You in Your unfailing love for it is You who lead the people YOU have redeemed.

There are famines, earthquakes, fires, floods & violence occurring in our land, and yes around the world at this time and men’s hearts are failing them because of fear. But Jesus spoke of discerning the signs of the times. And with the Help of the Holy Spirit we are watching & we are praying!

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SATISFIED!

Psalm 63:4-5............4 Thus I will bless You while I live;
I will lift up my hands in Your name.
5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness,
And my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips. ..NKJV

My soul, my mind, will and emotions shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness.
David saw that being satisfied was found within a worship toward God in seeing a healthful body, fullness of all that he needed to live, and having comforts for his life. In his worship he was delighting in what God has for him and was ready to receive them all!

No desire left unfilled.........all would be met by God! All that David aspired to, and had a passion for in God, determined that his desires, those righteous ones would be met in God!

Proverbs 10:24..........24 The fear of the wicked will come upon him,
And the desire of the righteous will be granted.
NKJV

So what is the fear of the wicked...........they are far from God, but the righteous, those who will be satisfied are those close to God. Those who lift holy hands to God in worship are satisfied in their spirit, soul and body! Being satisfied, is being up close and personal with God!

Proverbs 30:15-16................15 The leech has two daughters--

Give and Give!

There are three things that are never satisfied,

Four never say, "Enough!": 

16 The grave,

The barren womb,

The earth that is not satisfied with water--

And the fire never says, "Enough!" ..NKJV

Proverbs 19:23............23 The fear of the LORD leads to life,  And he who has it will abide in satisfaction;  He will not be visited with evil. 

NKJV

Being satisfied is more than just being fed and clothed. If it were enough, then people would stop quarreling among each other. But being satisfied means a lot more than having the need of man met. One neighbor can see another's new car, and that craving for more, of not being satisfied with all that they already have now puts them into jeopardy (danger) for more, more, more!

Ever looked at a fire on the slopes of a great hill or over a land filled with dry vegetation, and it sweeps through like a train keeping its schedule to be on time. The grave receives the body, but demands more. It makes a demand that those who have lost a loved one will pay more. That open grave speaks loudly of its intent to keep the grieving person captive to its desires for more. 
I remember this elder man dying in a community of about 1,000 people. He had been a drinking person and had no friends. When he died, one family member stepped up to see he got the proper burial. We had been invited to attend with them. There were just 5 people attending this man's funeral. There was no celebration of his afterlife in God. And I remember thinking on that poor man in all that, no man came, no person sang, no one cared, but the five who came. It seemed to me even then that the grave demands more on those who place the body, that tent, now empty into the ground. I thought many years after how the grave was demanding more of people, especially of those who attended this one funeral.

People in one part of the country are inundated by floods while another part of the country is in a great famine! The earth is not satisfied with water.....

Psalm  34:11-14 .......11 Come, you children, listen to me;

I will teach you the fear of the LORD. 

12 Who is the man who desires life,

And loves many days, that he may see good? 

13 Keep your tongue from evil,

And your lips from speaking deceit. 

14 Depart from evil and do good;

Seek peace and pursue it.  NKJV

Being satisfied is having everything we need to accomplish what God has for us to do in this lifetime. People can experience the never being satisfied like the grave or the barren womb. Nothing is more sad than a couple who cannot have a child together. Today we see that the earth requires more water for we see it in our yards and the spans of dry pastures and fields.

And those fires.......always speaking more........with an unique energy, will take on every car and truck on a major interstate highway like we just saw on I-15 near San Bernardino, California. Two weekends ago,  we saw a fire move like a snake up a hillside and over a major highway to engulf vehicles in flames and keep on moving up the hillside. And the most amazing thing was this: the people like the department of transportation could have stopped them long before they got to the place the fire raged, but let the traffic continue so........that a traffic jam stopped the traffic in the middle of nowhere and to be overtaken by a fire with bad attitude! In determining to stop people from driving through a firestorm, who makes the decision and are they qualified to make it?

So if we are not satisfied, then where lays the problem? Is it on God or on us? Well, it certainly has to be with us.

Psalm 37:18-24.........18 The LORD knows the days of the upright,
And their inheritance shall be forever. 
19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time,
And in the days of famine they shall be satisfied. 
20 But the wicked shall perish;
And the enemies of the LORD,
Like the splendor of the meadows, shall vanish.
Into smoke they shall vanish away. 
21 The wicked borrows and does not repay,
But the righteous shows mercy and gives. 
22 For those blessed by Him shall inherit the earth,
But those cursed by Him shall be cut off. 

23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD,
And He delights in his way. 
24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down;
For the LORD upholds him with His hand. 
NKJV

The Lord knows the days of the upright. He knows those who follow Him, mention His name daily, and ask something in prayer. He keeps those who are His, and in the evil time they shall not be ashamed, they are satisfied in the days of famine. Yes, from Psalm 37, we find those who are blessed by God and those who are cut off from Him forever. The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD, and He delights in His Way. Though a righteous man may start to fall, but GOD CATCHES HIM, BREAKS THAT FALL FROM HAPPENING AND UPHOLDS THAT RIGHTEOUS MAN WITH HIS OWN HAND. PRAISE GOD!


The Greek for "satisfaction" is to the full, suffice, have plenty of, and satiate. I like that word satiate!
Satiate: one who is completely satisfied....for oneself or in a need......to the point of being overdone, so that one could not have room for any more......!
I think of a dry sponge plunged into a sink filled with water........and when I raise the sponge it is dripping with much water. It is satiated, overfilled in the water department.



Psalm 36:7-9....7 How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God!
Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of Your wings. 
8 They are abundantly satisfied with the fullness of Your house,
And You give them drink from the river of Your pleasures. 
9 For with You is the fountain of life;
In Your light we see light. NKJV

Satisfied, abundantly with the fullness of God's house are we to look like to the world. As we draw our life from the fountain of life in God, we see light! Our lives are to be depicted....in detail...to be the same as His in that of righteousness (Psalm 33:5) of love (1 John 4:8), and of wisdom and truth ( Colossians 2:3)
Yes, Shelley, I know that. 

In God's rivers of delight are our pleasures. Those of God are those that are spiritual, they are clear as crystal (Revelation 22:1) It is by His Holy Spirit that we become, not only acquainted, but ready to reveal this to others. But to be able to tell others, we must first make a habit of visiting with the Lord daily through the Word, through Worship and through Prayer. Our hearts must be satiated in the things of God. Our hearts should be plunged into the Rivers of delight that is of God as in Revelation 22:1.

It is in Him that we live, and move and have our being. So each of us will have fruit in our lives. We will have more than enough food, more than enough water, more than enough love and vision for a lifetime. In His light we have a Perfection of Who God is, and we gain it in having His wisdom, His knowledge, His joy and able to give it to others in a vast amount! There is no holding back! As we freely allow His waters to flow into our lives, they will freely flow into another's life. But if we cut off ourselves and drink from the world's supply of putrid waters, all we will have for another is .....a putrid puddle! That puddle is one that is corrupted by the follower going after worldly things.

Taken from "PUDDLE JUMPERS".....A BLOG I wrote from.......February 27...2015.
 Having to get from point A to point B certainly can take some effort and work when dealing with other people.  But anyone knows that some people just create mud puddles, and are known as puddle jumpers. They like making things hard, difficult, and sometimes just hard to understand. But truly having God and His favor causes us to have a shield of favor. That when God our Father favors us, He surrounds with a shield where the mud from those puddle jumpers just rolls off us. When God our Father is for us, then all other things must bow to the name of Jesus.

SATISFIED!
For me, it looks like this! When I was a young child I remember going to a Theater to see a movie. The cartoon came on at the beginning. It was in black and white..........and looked a lot like a mouse whistling down this roadway out in a country area, but as he kept walking and kept whistling and singing, the scene started to change, and the black & white became a screen filled with color. He, the mouse, then had color, and his clothes had color. (yeah, a mouse wearing clothes, can you imagine?) 
But I think about this when I see something new that God is doing, not only in my life, but in those around me. I see that black & white become the bright color of life much like the rainbow that is over the Throne of God!


Revelation 4:2-3...... 2 Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne set in heaven, and One sat on the throne. 3 And He who sat there was like a jasper and a sardius stone in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, in appearance like an emerald. NKJV

Those satisfied are the radiant.....they have a glowing face that beams with a glad heart and a voice of faith in the One Who created them! Psalm 34:4-7... 4 I sought the LORD and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. 5 They looked to HIM and were radiant, and their faces were not ashamed. 6 This poor man cried out, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. 7 The angel of the LORD encamps all around those who fear Him, and delivers them. NKJV

Radiance is that beaming with all that God is.......and it is being given to a world in much hurt and pain!

Father, thank You for Jesus. We are not ashamed of the Gospel. For it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes; first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.  For in it, the righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith." (Rom. 1:16-17)
Father, You say that the steps of a good man are ordered by You. We pray that our steps are ordered by YOU and that we follow every direction You desire for us to walk out for YOUR glory. We desire to be those with a radiant face and a glowing heart that speaks truth in that darkness where some people reside. We desire to speak the LIGHT of YOUR Word and see the darkness dispelled.
We expect that no righteous desire will be left unfilled. We are those who have sought the face of God......to see Him in the sanctuary........Our heart said to YOU, "Your face, LORD, we will seek. (Psalm 27:8) Even though our father and mother make forsake us, then the LORD will take care of us." We believe YOU to strengthen our hearts, and see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
We give praise for YOUR goodness to us........now bless the works of our hands for YOUR kingdom in Jesus' name.(1 Cor 10:31.....31 Therefore, whether you (we) eat or drink, or whatever you (we) do, do all to the glory of God. NKJV)
 Amen.



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