Pablum???

Is our home becoming a storage unit?  

Now when I was much younger, I remember mothers' of small children recommending pablum to other women with small babies. My thought as a five year old was pablum could not be all good. In some cases, I would see some relatives would take to making their own cereal of sorts for their small babies. I thought the Gerber baby food was good. Not sure when it came, but that applesauce and pears was good. But anything else seemed so bland. Anything that was so watery, so dull with no flavor had to be on the boring end of no adventure in eating.

As a child I thought dessert would be great for the beginning course of any meal!

But did you know that even adults can show no emotion, be rather bland, watery, with no flavor, no pizzazz! And what is interesting to some, is that some folks can seem really "out there"! No, not that they are that different, but they seem emotionless till they come on some kind of gadget that really excites them and they have a fire to try "it" out.

My husband was looking for a specific thing for a gift some days ago, and when he had walked through the store, there was a display of this "lounge looking chair" that would wrap around a person, and massage their body. Yikes! And in a store with many in line to try out the "latest" thing seemed odd to me. But it must have held some kind of awe to those who looked on and relished the thought of the machine giving them a massage who waited in line to try the new thing!?!

But not to step on toes, what adds adventure to your day may not seem like an adventure at all to others. So what things allure us? If you are to teach others of Jesus, do you mention of the Lord's return?

Parent's of the twentieth century, and relative to the 50's and 60's had come to the time of the T.V.
For those of the 1950's and early 60's pablum and detergent were the optimum words. Commericals were rampant: like Salvo tablets for the wash, Breck shampoo for the hair (funny the model always had blond hair).
For that time period, many products did not find their way to the market shelf for you to buy. So in reviewing that I am reminded of words  like: gardening,  ironing clothes (Yikes), using dial telephones, no diet Pepsi or Coke (something called Tab was the diet drink of the day), athletic shoes were for the court, like basket ball and not for running 10 miles. Other words were: cooking dinner, washing out some linens (yeah) by hand, taking the trash to the dump (yourself), gassing up at the station, and men came out to gas up your vehicle, wash your windshields, and clean the dash if need be.

Sewing, mending, and starch were important words of the day. Everyone in the household needed to know what day the laundry was to be done. For all the clothing, sheets and such had to be in the laundry room, if you had one. There were still limited Interstate highway travel, limited plane rides, limited rail travel, but change must come to all, right?

And "Mom" would remind us when it was darning day?
And then one thinks of the Tomorrowland  at Disneyland.  With where their active thoughts took them in the mid-twentieth century seems lame to today's standard such as the people mover, Opening July 17, 1955, they had to have some great displays of rockets and rides to allure all ages.
In truth the future date they worked or looked toward was 1986...and it displayed the Monsanto House of the Future.

Of course some tag words never change:"get your homework done."

On thinking of that pablum, the mother worked hard and diligently to make that watery cereal. I am certain the baby ate it if they were hungry enough. And that recipe probably got passed around to many who found out a child was going to be born into their family.
I am certain that the pablum company in Canada made a lot of money making that product for some years. It certainly worked for that period of time, when most food was grown in people's gardens. Also lot of clothes were made at home by a sewing machine, and many things were ordered through a catalog: like Montgomery Ward's, Sear's, and J.C. Penney's. Alas though many are closing or have closed in the last 40 years like Ward's.
BUT,Why do I say this, why do I write in this manner?

Some "new things" are great to see, try it even and maybe, just maybe to take home., but sometimes things need to stay at the store. Or else our homes begin to look like storage units instead of an actual home to rest and find comfort in.

One day is coming where people will need to know how to prepare their foods, plant a garden, grow something the family can eat. Take a look at that market you shop at now and has it not changed in the amount they keep on stock? Yes, the earth has a great population of people to feed!
I started noticing this about 15 years ago.  Has it not changed to the amount of food or maybe such item you really liked to purchase cannot be found. Now in some instances you can purchase it on-line. But there are times they say the item is not available at this time.  And what if you need that one thing, can you find it in a moment's notice or would it take some searching?
Some hair products I once purchased can no longer be found. Some certain food items we once kept regularly are no longer available. And that is by searching all the food markets in this area of about 100 miles.


Yes, catastrophes can occur. Just think on all those in Tennessee who lost their homes and their jobs all in one day this past year of 2016. ( and that one fire was caused by two teenagers.)

In a moments notice, things can change for anyone anywhere in this world. We should know how to do some things, like first-aid, provide dried food to those in need, give them life support in God's word, pray for them, and see they get to the place they need to be.

Most people today cannot or don't want to cook a meal. Some will not try to plan a meal. But I know they take great pics. Alas, they won't help when a real need arises. We should take every effort to inform other's of Jesus' return. We should be looking for those opportunities to minister life and in doing so, to find joy and peace in the Holy Spirit. We find our place in the Son of Righteousness, with healing in His wings....

Habakkuk 3:17-19   NKJV....17 Though the fig tree may not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines; though the labor of the live may fail, and the fields yield no food; though the flock may be cut off from the fold, and there be no herd in the stalls----18 YET I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation. 19 The LORD God is my strength; He will make my feet like deer's feet, and He will make me walk on my high hills.

Although things may not go as you expect them to, always expect God to be faithful for you and yours. Our fellowship should be with Him who can feed us in famine and provide everything we might need. Truly He is with us, always, even to the end of the age. Amen. (Matthew 28:18-20)



IN CLOSING: I leave you with another scripture passage: Luke 12: 42-48  NKJV   42 And the Lord said, "Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his master will make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of food in due season? 43 "Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. 44 "Truly I say to you that he will make him ruler over all that he has. 45'But if that servant says in his heart, 'My master is delaying his coming,' and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk; 46 'the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in two and appoint him portion with the unbeliever's. 47 'And that servant who knew his master's will and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many strips. 48 'But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of strips, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, form him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they ask the more.


Leaders of the family (dad and mom) lead their children by teaching them the importance of being responsible of the household chores. Each of their children are communicated love in the beginning and healthy growth is expected in a loving home of support. So "a team adventure" has begun. The life of each should be with anticipation of what God has planned for those who have been introduced to knowing God, not just knowing of Him but to have a relationship with HIM!
Within the church, too, that leader is to lead the congregation. As an apostle, teacher/pastor or prophet they remind everyone that Jesus is returning. And each apostle, prophet, or teacher/pastor has the responsibility of teaching and always reminding of the Lord's return. If they are not they end up with the unbeliever's......that's the word of God!

He who is the faithful and wise will give those their portion in due season. The parent's give their children that due them for each age as they develop into adults. So too, the leading of the "church" has to give the "food" to those he leads. That which is due season is now being told of the Lord's return. If your leader has not, then pray for them, and ask the Lord if you should talk  with them about it. But most certainly tell your peers of Jesus' return.
For what food we need should have developed to the sincere"meat" God intends for us to mature. Our next step would be toward reading the book of Revelation.
If you lead others, much is required of you, are you telling them of the Lord's return? Or is your group still receiving "pablum"?



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Way of Fruitfulness or What Am I Agreeing With

Psalm 1
Blessed is the man
Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly,
Nor stands in the path of sinners,
Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;
2 But his delight 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 its season,
Whose leaf also shall not wither;
And whatever he does shall prosper.

4 The ungodly are not so,
But are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

6 For the LORD knows the way of the righteous,
But the way of the ungodly shall perish.
NKJV

Fruitfulness is seen in the warm months like June, July and August around here! Even like the huckleberries being picked is a sign that summer is passing quickly now and fall is making its "grand" appearance with some rain and very cool mornings. Which is no surprise to us here in this area. But in truth, fruitfulness can occur anytime of the year. We can see in the markets and grocery stores, products that are grown in far-away countries in their warm months and those fruits or vegetables come to us in our winter months.
I like the garden aspect of seeing that blossom to appear and then some fruit or vegetable to come on that plant or the vine to grow and be harvested. We had a surprise this year when planting the few seeds for plants of yellow squash. We planted only yellow squash but we now have some zucchini squash growing as well!  One is of good size, was harvested over the weekend and the others are small.They need a couple more weeks on the vine!
Fruitfulness! We know it is what seed we plant that we believe to harvest. Yes, something is suppose to come up by what seed you have planted. Am thinking someone, somewhere put the wrong seed in the wrong packet! What happened to the quality control person?
I am sure we will find something to do with the zucchini, but I had no plans of having any in the beginning of starting this little garden in early spring.

We certainly kept watch on the pepper plants and counted the blooms, but alas, only one plant actually produced the peppers. The one, yes the tallest one, has been a failure in producing any peppers at all. It sure looks healthy and tall. It has it's vibrant green leaves but NO PEPPERS! Looking at it from a distance, you would think it would have peppers on every branch.


Are we producing any fruit? Well of course we are! But what kind are we producing? Are we producing that which leads to life or death? Is our fruit that which we planted and see it when we are harvesting? Whatever we sow in the ground regarding anything to our lives, will either look good and produce an abundance to a good thing or will be bad and produce in abundance to a bad thing!


In the kingdom of God, we find a blessed man, who is sowing seed. It looks like the "blessed" man is one who keeps his walk, not among the counsel of the ungodly, never stands in the path of sinners and never takes a seat among the scornful!

1 Blessed is the man
Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly,
Nor stands in the path of sinners,
Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;
2 But his delight 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 its season,
Whose leaf also shall not wither;
And whatever he does shall prosper.

In Matthew 8:8-12, we find that we are told to bear fruits worthy of repentance........

8 Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, 9 and do not think to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. 10 And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 12 His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."    NKJV   

Bearing fruit....worthy of repentance.  Remember we have a pepper plant that will produce the flower but no fruit that even looks like the pepper. The godly man will look over how he walks, acts and conducts his life in accordance to the Word of God!

The counsel of the ungodly is......as we see them, we are not to facilitate anything the ungodly are doing or speaking. Do we see that today? It is God's Word that we should think on, act on and live by daily!

Luke 23:50-56
50 Now behold, there was a man named Joseph, a council member, a good and just man. 51 He had not consented to their decision and deed. He was from Arimathea, a city of the Jews, who himself was also waiting for the kingdom of God. 52 This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. 53 Then he took it down, wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a tomb that was hewn out of the rock, where no one had ever lain before. 54 That day was the Preparation, and the Sabbath drew near. 55 And the women who had come with Him from Galilee followed after, and they observed the tomb and how His body was laid. 56 Then they returned and prepared spices and fragrant oils. And they rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment. NKJV

Others were consorting ( mixing ) together, to crucify Jesus, yet this man Joseph, a good and just man had not consented to their decision and deed.


When we stay out of the path of sinners, we will stay out of the "affected area of sin". I like that as I read it in one commentary. It would be pretty much like standing out on the roadway like I-5 during 5 pm traffic or going to someplace where they have the "plague" or "disease that kills in a few days".
I think of the days many years ago, and it was time for either basketball or baseball. You were either picked to join or forget it. Basketball I was not good at. But give me a bat, and that ball was going to sail way past the heads of those who thought they could catch it.
The thing is though with sin, that if you dance with it, participate with it, you may sound like the crowd who you thought you would avoid entirely. Clothes do not make us, nor does that "new do" and men are affected by that thing as women are. God looks on our heart and where does our heart lead us? Many will just follow "a crowd" so that they feel either loved or a part of something that had not done before, either good or bad.

Now that seat of the scornful is the man who is the secure in their wickedness.  They like doing wicked. They care not whether they gain blood of another.

Proverbs 4:14-19
14 Do not set foot on the path of the wicked 
or walk in the way of evil men. 
15 Avoid it, do not travel on it;
turn from it and go on your way. 
16 For they cannot sleep till they do evil;
they are robbed of slumber till they make someone fall. 
17 They eat the bread of wickedness 
and drink the wine of violence. 

18 The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn,
shining ever brighter till the full light of day.
19 But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness;
they do not know what makes them stumble.  NIV

That scornful is one who will laugh at another in derision. The scorner is one who wants their way, and will scorn the one who wants more of the quiet, godly life. We have seen that too, today in our society. It seems the norm to laugh at another in an insulting way. But the truly godly will hold their steps in God. They will abide under the shelter of the Almighty God.
These three show us that the ungodly does not like the Word of God, resents those who do, and will seek out to change the godly to their agenda. And the sinner is the one who willfully sins against God and His commands. They are the ones who are willful to show their true colors either by drink, theft or even defile themselves in ways that causes them death in the end.

Proverbs 23:29-35
29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
Who has strife? Who has complaints?
Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?
30 Those who linger over wine,
who go to sample bowls of mixed wine.
31 Do not gaze at wine when it is red,
when it sparkles in the cup,
when it goes down smoothly!
32 In the end it bites like a snake
and poisons like a viper.
33 Your eyes will see strange sights
and your mind imagine confusing things.
34 You will be like one sleeping on the high seas,
lying on top of the rigging.
35 "They hit me," you will say, "but I'm not hurt!
They beat me, but I don't feel it!
When will I wake up
so I can find another drink?"     NIV

 From the Blog: BUTTING AND DISTURBING......What terrible problems that come when we desire or want that which we either should not have, or do not need. It is like becoming intoxicated with the thing "we so desire" to have or control, to have "my way", or add to our collection of things we think we need at the time! And being intoxicated with those desires, our want can cause us to start those quarrels that end nowhere, but in the place of many wounds JUST because "we want that thing."

In some respect, some will even go searching for those who will join in with them to agree for that "thing desired". And however good the appearance or thing may sound at the time of our desire, one will certainly know after some time has gone by, that it can come back to bite you in a big way! 
You can see that from some reports of the news of people wanting their thing done NOW! Certain peril will be evident like not making your payments on bills you owe, or putting yourself in danger to get something that may be wrong from the start for us like doing drugs or even stealing someone else's stuff! Some people just go and take from their neighbor and think it is okay. Well, it means stealing to most people of the civilized world. I heard the other day of a guy throwing ALL his mail away because it had bills in it he had to pay and he did not want to do it! He had charged so much and so much again, that he owed more than what he brought into his account each month. He wanted to have "fun" and do whatever he fancied and decided he would not pay any bills at all!

In closing: will we be fruitful to the things of God and stand for our country? Will we speak and give counsel that comes from God alone or the world? TODAY WE CHOOSE!

Father, in Psalm 1 the blessed man prospers. Fruitfulness is important to our daily living for we find Jesus talked about it in John 15. Our desire is that we abide in the true vine. Help us to see and know that abiding in You will help us bear much fruit (verse 5) Our desire is asking You to show us how to put this into practice every day for without YOU, we can do nothing. We also seek to glorify You in everything we speak and everything we do. We pray today to be found doing just that when You return to get us. We truly seek to keep to the path YOU have directed us to walk.
In and through Jesus we are reconciled back to You. We have salvation because of the love You had for us. Help us to realize that we are not to return to folly. Help us see the importance of binding in truth. As those plants, (Psalm 85: 11) to prosper, those that bear fruit, will be those that bear truth to glorify You and Who You are. Lord guide us into all truth . May we spring up everywhere we must be and bring truth to others. We desire to yes, look good, but that we would also bring forth fruit in its season that will not wither. That we would continue the way into righteousness, that which comes acting like YOU and speaking what YOU speak. We are thankful that righteousness will go before us.........and In YOUR righteousness, YOU shall make YOUR footsteps our pathway. (Psalm 85:13)
It is in Jesus' holy name we pray. Amen.

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COMPASSION FATIGUED !?!

compassion: racham: to love, to pity.....is the physical show of tenderness of love..... tender, pity with desire to aid one in distress, sympathy
fatigue: weary, exhaust, unwilling to continue, so worn the arms hang down feebly with no strength or effectiveness



Matthew 20:29-33........29 Now as they went out of Jericho, a great multitude followed Him. 30 And behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, saying, "Have mercy on us, O Lord, Son of David!" 31 Then the multitude warned them that they should be quiet; but they cried out all the more, saying, "Have mercy on us, O Lord, Son of David!" 32 So Jesus stood still and called them, and said, "What do you want Me to do for you?" 33 They said to Him, "Lord, that our eyes may be opened." 34 So Jesus had compassion and touched their eyes. And immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed Him. NKJV

Mark 6:30-44..........30 Then the apostles gathered to Jesus and told Him all things, both what they had done and what they had taught. 31 And He said to them, "Come aside by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while." For there were many coming and going, and they did not even have time to eat. 32 So they departed to a deserted place in the boat by themselves. 33 But the multitudes saw them departing, and many knew Him and ran there on foot from all the cities. They arrived before them and came together to Him. 34 And Jesus, when He came out, saw a great multitude and was moved with compassion for them, because they were like sheep not having a shepherd. So He began to teach them many things. 35 When the day was now far spent, His disciples came to Him and said, "This is a deserted place, and already the hour is late. 36 Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages and buy themselves bread; for they have nothing to eat." 37 But He answered and said to them, "You give them something to eat." And they said to Him, "Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give them something to eat?" 38 But He said to them, "How many loaves do you have? Go and see." And when they found out they said, "Five, and two fish." 39 Then He commanded them to make them all sit down in groups on the green grass. 40 So they sat down in ranks, in hundreds and in fifties. 41 And when He had taken the five loaves and the two fish, He looked up to heaven, blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to His disciples to set before them; and the two fish He divided among them all. 42 So they all ate and were filled. 43 And they took up twelve baskets full of fragments and of the fish. 44 Now those who had eaten the loaves were about five thousand men. NKJV

Jesus was effective in what He did to minister life to others! In Mark 6 we find Him leading the apostles to a rest in verse 31!  And even more in the verses above we find He ministered to the multitudes with food for the body to be refreshed. He fed them the Word, the Spirit and Life of the Word..........

John 6:63................ 63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.   NKJV

The compassion of the Shepherd WAS, IS, AND WILL ALWAYS BE to care for His flock! Whether early or late of day, the Lord Jesus looked after those who followed Him! He gave heed to those who called on His name. He let no one get past without doing for that "one" to whom He was sent to minister life!

So what is compassion fatigue and who has it? Who suffers with that really needed compassion for others...........to love others as we love ourselves? Maybe you know someone who has that kind of  "compassion fatigue" for another!
I certainly know of that fatigue and how any change in your hemoglobin can cause a fatigue that sends one to bed for long periods of time. But life for us is in the blood. So when any issues are addressed in regards to the hemoglobin, our blood gets healthier and our strength makes a gain in growing to do for the body what it did before the body began to reach the fatigue mark with low hemoglobin.
So, too, our compassion should and must be kept at the standard Jesus had His compassion set!
It is like a person interested in working the muscles for strength. In like a weight-builder for an example, they look for the kind of diet that feeds the muscles. They look into the kind of workouts they are endeavoring to have results to build some muscle and lose some fat. They check out the possible supplements like magnesium, zinc, and B-6 (to aid nutrient absorption). They find the amount of time they need to spend in exercise regarding the progress they hope to make in this quest of more strength in the body for optimum health!

We find today though many people are "compassion fatigued". They rather shoot now and talk later. Yikes!


COMPASSION: in the Hebrew......mercy....to be gentle to another. ....to have concern for another.........

James 5:11.........11 Indeed we count them blessed who endure. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and seen the end intended by the Lord--that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful. NKJV

From Strongs: oiktirmon.....(oyktir' mone).....NT 3627.........merciful, of tender mercy

Psalm 103:11-14...........11 For as the heavens are high above the earth,
So great is His mercy toward those who fear Him; 
12 As far as the east is from the west,
So far has He removed our transgressions from us.
13 As a father pities his children,
So the LORD pities those who fear Him.
14 For He knows our frame;
He remembers that we are dust.   NKJV

This verse in Psalm 103 reminds of His great mercy toward those who fear HIM! It reminds us that His great compassion exceeded what any believed could happen, but hoped for, as the prophets saw the coming of a Savior to the World. They saw the day when Jesus would appear and all things would change for good! Amen.

MERCY: OT: 2617...........checed (kheh'-sed);
from OT:2616; kindness; by implication (that placed toward God) piety: rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty:


KJV - a good (-liness, -ness) deed, kindly, (as in loving-), merciful (kindness), mercy


I think how awesome that when we show a fear to HIM, a fear to our God that He is God, there appears this beauty and yes as a reproof to us that shows to the outside world we are different. Displaying a character of God, by showing a beauty that is merciful, is displayed in loving those who may not look like us, sound like us and dress like us. We are to be like Jesus displayed for all to see!


Matthew 5:7......7 Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.   NIV

Matthew 23:23-24................ 23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.  NKJV

James 3:16-18.............16 For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. 18 Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.  NKJV

In the scripture passages above, that merciful and mercy are the love, that God compassion for others. It is one love, one great compassion that has good fruits without partiality and without hypocrisy.
Romans 12:9-17......................9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good. 10 Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another; 11 not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; 12 rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer; 13 distributing to the needs of the saints, given to hospitality. 14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. 16 Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own opinion. 17 Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men. NKJV

So meditating on Romans 12 and starting in verse 9 that love is to be without hypocrisy. 

It is to be a compassion that has no deceit, but speaks truth. It is a compassion that has no "masks", no covering up, but a true upright heart looking out for another person. It is one that does not trick another but speaks and operates in an openness to benefit another person's care.

We become the "good report" on another person. We become the voice that lifts up the weary, the defeated, that one which the world says is different because of color, or ethnicity or even by youth. God created us in His image and that certainly means to look like Him, sound like Him and act as He would act in any given situation.

1. giving preference to another

2. not lagging in being diligent to do what we can for the weary, like Jesus feeding them the Word and feeding them with the natural to keep their bodies going

3.fervent with a fire in our spirit man to light other's with a fire for the things of God

4.serving the Lord to how He has called us to serve Him.....giving Him glory for all that happens in your life

5.rejoicing in hope with everyone, even the low, the broken in heart, the downcast, those who have lost their effectiveness in serving the Lord

6.patient in tribulation, lifting the name of Jesus and have a camp around the Word that gives a yell that the victory is ours

7.continuing in prayer, just like we saw Jesus do, day in and day out......

8. distribute that which should go to the saints in regard.......to.........their raiment, food or any need considerable for them at the time

9.showing hospitality to those who come

10. bless and do not curse

And wrap all this up in the verse 9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good. Wrap all this in that compassionate love that abhors what is evil and will not participate with evil toward another human being or created thing of God and then have no thought BUT TO CLING TO THAT WHICH IS GOOD FOR ALL!

Sounds easy, right? Must not be for there are many today who are "compassion fatigued"!

Isaiah 50:4...............4 "The Lord GOD has given Me 

The tongue of the learned,

That I should know how to speak 

A word in season to him who is weary.

He awakens Me morning by morning,

He awakens My ear 

To hear as the learned.  NKJV

OT:3287.....ya` eph (yaw-afe';) from OT:3286; fatigued; exhausted

KJV - the  faint, the weary.

Like Isaiah, we can speak a word in season to him who is weary.......him who is fatigued and exhausted, the one who is faint and about to drop. We can speak to someone who "left church" a while ago, and we can speak to the baker or the butcher who just needs the Word of life. Will you speak it?

Let's pray to have the boldness to speak now to others. Let's speak truth with no masks, no jumping through hoops, but display the beauty of God in the place we meet someone who is weary, dry, exhausted. YOU may be the one who keeps them from making a "bad" move towards a another and keep them all safe by speaking the powerful Word of God into lives!

Father, thank You for Jesus and the love displayed through His sacrifice on the Cross. What a great sacrifice You gave for us. We are truly thankful. Today we pray to be those who will speak as the tongue of the learned. We pray to be those who will know how to speak a season to those who are weary, faint, fatigued and exhausted because YOU meant us to come to rest in YOU and find rest for our souls. Awaken us I pray each morning and awaken our ears to hear. We are looking to YOU the One who saves, heals and delivers and bring us to that place to give life to another. 

Father, in Jesus' name we pray our lives will always carry Your presence and Your tangible anointing. With YOUR anointing, all things are possible to the believer. We pray and expect to be the wise who values all that YOU accomplished at the Cross. We value YOUR presence above all else. As we learned Father of the scripture from Psalm 103: 11 that mercy is a beauty that is seen. That is which we desire to move in.........that beauty of the one who cares for another just like Jesus did while He walked on this earth. We pray to be those who will make a difference and maybe keep someone from making a bad mistake in regards to another man's life. Today, we believe and expect to be that "one" who will move and give the Word of God, that will empower them to be refreshed and keep them from the wiles of the enemy.

Thank You for that Word! We want to carry Your presence to the world so they can know You like we know YOU.  To God be all the glory. Amen.

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