Country Strong

God devotion makes a country strong! (Voice of Prayer)

God-devotion makes a country strong;

God-avoidance leaves people weak.  Proverbs 14:34 Message Bible

Proverbs 14:34   Amp. Bible Uprightness and right standing with God ( moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation ) elevate a nation but sin is a reproach to any people.

Came across this in my reading last week and made note of it! It inspired this writing.

When I was in school, I worked hard very on some subjects I took. For instance I loved history, geography, science, language arts and English. But really did not care for the math part, or P.E. Music was a fun period time, for we had a teacher who really loved music and all sorts of instruments. She made it fun to learn: like when a score was written and for what purpose the particular person proceeded to create it in music and lyrics. She would teach about the creator of such work and in what time period they lived. Her name: well we called her Mrs. Rich and she was truly rich in the knowledge of that history that was vital to America! She loved her job of teaching and her love of music to teach others. I pray I teach like she did and that others would experience that love I have for the Lord in every word and that it would be in harmony with God as an orchestra to those who will read and hear!

In church for time, you learn that the devil came to steal, kill and destroy in that order. The Amplified Bible states it this way: John 10:10 The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows); 11 I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd risks and lays down His [own] life for the sheep. 12 But the hired servant ( who merely serves for wages) who is neither the shepherd or the owner of the sheep, when he sees the wolf coming, deserts the flock and runs away. And the wolf chases and snatches them and scatters [ the flock].

My mother was wise in that she took us to church, and she talked with our instructors. She also saw to it that she met with our school instructors and took that instruction from them for her counsel in checking our work at home. In that she continued to train us. For whatever issues she had,  they meant nothing because she wanted her “kids” educated in church and in school!

Good job, Mom!

Making Jesus our Good Shepherd will keep the enemy away. But it is our faith that must be spoken, you know that language of faith to declare He is our God.  It is not by declaring a world spectacular as our god. It is not missing out on those school days when an education is required today to get a job interview or even the job tomorrow!

Any avoidance of God weakens our life, the life of our children, and even our community and nation! When people choose to do only that which strikes their “fancy” as to entertaining the flesh, one looks for all the great buys to get out there and experience “that world”! From this get- away to that get-away....and what are people getting away from?

Now when my sister and I were in school, our mother saw to it that we read the word at night and she would pray with us, especially if our dad was on a long trip away from home. Now her thinking was that we needed “Sunday school” and to school we went on Sunday! The same worked for getting that education, for both my parents knew that getting an education between reading and writing your name and not learning to write or read anything.  I remember stories of some great grand-parents in our family who had little education and how they had the chore of finding someone available so they could have something read to them before they could sign their name on any formal document. That was enough to influence me: I was getting a diploma to know for certain all I needed  to be educated in reading and writing  and to understand before I signed anything of the formal nature!

But today, so many young people seem to disregard education as not needed. I had heard an alarming report of those who have missed more school this year than the 10 days allowed by the district. It seems they choose not "to attend'.  But these teens certainly have seemed to miss an opportunity to learn something that might benefit them twenty years from now! 

My question: how do they graduate if they have not fulfilled their amount of time for study of those subjects required? Are they expecting some kind of handout all their life? Is there something else available I had not heard of in this day and time, for we know jobs are important to have for bringing in a check to care not only for oneself but also for the family if one is married. It is those important things: like renting a place when first starting out, buying groceries, paying bills and hey, how about the upkeep of a new cell phone? Who will pay that bill?

All the jobs I had applied for in my lifetime required you have the High School diploma or you were not hired.  Even up to the beginning of the 21 century I saw and heard stories that if you had quit school you would not be hired until he or she had produced a document proving that he or she had acquired that “diploma” (like G.E.D.)

In reading on to the next verses in the Message Bible, I read this Proverbs 14:35 Diligent work gets a warm commendation; shiftless work earns an angry rebuke.

Now if you are working for you, you still must have God as your lead in anything. For the above mentions that the king, any man or woman who is in charge of the company or business is the one who will commend another for the work done in the company or business. But if one is the “slacker” and does not required the paycheck they will certainly find his place in being unemployed.

Slacking also means you do not tell your boss how to do his job your way! If you have a boss, he got his job by the amount of years he remained faithful to learn and understand the way he sought in either learning a trade or field or area of work and maintained in a good position as he or she ages. Slacking also means that you do not go and change what the company or business is already doing. If you are hired you are hired to do exactly what you are paid to do, no more and no less…but be faithful to it!

We take a local paper here in this area. It is always delivered to our mailing address in town. In some of the editorials, we read of the frustrations by some local business owners who hire the teens for either the summer season or hire those who want to work  after high school is finished and they need regular work. One such individual wrote of his hardware business and what he had sent out in the paper that he was hiring for someone to do clean-up and haul large items of lumber or such to a customer's vehicle. He had a few other things listed, but in short, he put that he got people who wanted to work part-time hours, and required really enlarged salaries, like the starting pay at 30 dollars to start? Now where has this “kid” been living?

Anyway, the short of it, either the work for the said persons was not what they wanted and not enough pay! I remember when my mother made $1.65 an hour to start her job. And her increase was very slow paced. Of course that was back in the twentieth century!

Making demands should not be our lifestyle! If we are in the Lord, we learn His wisdom and how to grow not only in knowing Him and His word, but also how to work with others, learn the needed knowledge we require for a certain job and move ahead with God’s hand of favor on our lives.

Staying close to the Lord will give us the protection to know when some “unexpected something” is coming your way! Unless prepared by the Lord, we miss it! Many an opportunity has been missed by many people, just look at the graveyard you pass maybe to church or to work or maybe the next time you buy groceries. I always note seeing one somewhere when we are driving out any direction of where we live. And I wonder how many really did something that God had placed in them to do.

The most I have seen for the youth is they died suddenly when driving too fast while texting!
Now I do hear of some world changers and history makers, but they are not from around here!

God and prayer work for our families, our neighbors and our nation!

My thought is what is the heartache one experiences when their young teen dies so suddenly when it most likely could have been prevented. Now some things can occur, but prayer is important to keeping God’s power going out to keep our families strong in Him. Prayer amounts to the power of God released into their young lives. Prayer for our youth and those teens surrounds them with God’s power of protection to see that they come home safely.

Considering God is powerful and able to save, I desire to stay with Him. I have made too many trips to the “city” and see so many still disobeying the rules to answer that “all important” text while driving. I don't need to watch for horror movies on TV, I can drive in the nearest city to observe that and without the benefit of a good bag of popcorn.

Education is so important, and so is knowing the Lord. In the world where so many are missing the great opportunity of receiving a good education to thrive,  they miss out not only by being absent from school but also miss those days they might really be needed……..and within that, they vacate that which could have been a really good life being submissive to learn and to achieve. In the end, they most likely miss their opportunity to a life in God. If school is not important, would knowing God and learning the truths in the Bible be important?

God devotion makes a country strong! May our desire together in unity be for His kingdom to come and be done on earth as it is in heaven. May God the Lord be praised! He sent Jesus and with the thankfulness of our heart’s we can see things change when we pray! 

It is our God Who has delivered us from the evil one who came to steal, kill and destroy us, but God sent us HIS Son that we would have life and have it in abundance. Are our lives significant of abundance or that which is diminished, the lacking with no life of God in it?

Thank YOU Father for delivering us from every evil work and thank YOU for the authority YOU have given us with the name of Jesus. We love YOU and praise YOU.

Oh, Lord may we praise YOU every day and within that find those new reasons to praise YOU!

Father, according to Proverbs 14:34   Amp. Bible we desire to have the uprightness and right standing with God ( moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation ) elevate a nation but choose to push  past sin as we understand….it is a reproach to any people.

We pray for those who know YOU and their families today that any who have floundered may be brought back into the fold of YOUR truth and love. May all children everywhere know the importance of a good education no matter their age and within that may they have regard for God first and His plan for their lives that which brings abundance for every area of their lives. We pray for those who know the Lord, may their children grow spiritually, physically, financially, socially and emotionally through God’s Word of truth!

Father, may Your peace rule this nation, this state, and this community. May the people of this nation become kingdom people and give praise to the one true God. It is all about serving the Lord with gladness in our hearts. To God be all the glory. Amen and Amen.

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Flint into Fountain of Waters

Compliments of the Barrows family

Ever held a piece of flint in your hand? A friend gave us a sample many years ago. It would fill the hollow part of my hand. I have it somewhere in a box of things from other church members (you know things you like to hold onto to remember that friend or family from long ago)


In the tales told me long ago, anyone going out for a camping trip always had their flint rock with them in case of rain. Unless you smoked back then, and no kind of lighter was available, then yes, matches would be required at number one on my list of things to take on that outing.
Now that was decades ago, and today they have waterproof matches! In those ancient times, flint was used as a weapon like for the arrowhead used by the Indian tribes. We held it important for its use in igniting a spark to start a wood fire!



Was reading through Psalm 114 and I thought of that rock of flint.
I mean, someone like passing by a rocky region with much limestone and the such might come across some kind of flinty rock and unless you knew where to search for arrowheads you might miss seeing that rock already shaped into an arrowhead by person long dead.

My husband knew where to search for them and found some from time to time. He tried teaching our daughter but her heart did not seem to be into that kind of thing at the time of her youth!

Let's look into Psalm 114!
Psalm 114
When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language, 2 Judah became His sanctuary, And Israel became His dominion. 3 The sea saw it and fled; Jordan turned back. 4 The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs. 5 What ails you, O sea, that you fled?
6 O mountains, that you skipped like rams? O little hills, like lambs? 7 Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, 8 Who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

In this writing, the focus is on the distinction of two kingdoms, yet still one group of people, not lost like what is given as the Anglo-saxon theory of the 10 tribes being lost.

No, God in His mercy keeps His own and keeps them safe.
In this passage: we see the six marvelous works of our great God! The Red Sea was divided (Exodus 14:3), the Jordan River was divided ( Joshua 3:13; 2 Kings 2:8,14) , mountains skipped like rams.
the hills jumped like rams (from v.4) , the rock poured rivers of water (seen in Exodus 17:6)
Exodus 17:6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at [Mount] Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

............And the flint into a fountain of waters.
Many a traveler through that region describe what is to be the very rock that Moses struck. It is said to be a vast size of granite. The Dake's Bible states: it was a rock: 15 feet long, 10 feet wide and 12 feet high. It is described as a rock with holes and channels through it which could only be formed by the exertion of water running through it. It was stated also that the water that flowed at that time supplied water to 6,000,000 people or more and also for their stock as well!

When their need was met by being filled, the water cease to run!

God is not hindered! He is our sufficiency and what could make fire like flint became what the people needed. It was the needed water that came rushing forth, and watered the people and their stock as well. What we must do, whether man or woman, grown or a as a child, it is we each individually must seek the Lord for His plan for our lives.
We can certainly work to make a living. Each, male or female can do the work around the home or even in the work place, but it takes God to make us into what we are destined to be come in His hands. The fire rock became gushing torrents of water; not limited to any firmness of the rock.
The Israelites came to the place of hardness. They had a hardness of heart and even within seeing all this wonderful things God did to deliver them, they were found in the desert without the surplus of water for survival!
But God! But God in His mercy blessed them with water. These people did not need to make weapons for war or make a fire, they needed the much desired cool water to quench their thirst.

John 4:13-14  Amplified Bible 13 Jesus answered her, All who drink of this water will be thirsty again. 14 But whoever takes a drink of the water that I will give him shall never, no never, be thirsty any more. But the water that I will give him shall become a spring of water welling up (flowing, bubbling, [continually] within him unto (into, for) eternal life.


God is our help and He is our shield. But we must stay with Him, talk with Him, and be people who pray to keep the communication lines open!

May we as His people seek His beauty and His love giving thanks for His word of truth that sets us free. It is in Him that we are alive. He meets our thirst and gives us our daily bread (Matthew 6:11)
Friends can come and go throughout our lives, but God must always be present for us. Keep your watch on Him, and desire His peace and comfort. Know He brings you to that even place, His habitation (Psalm 33:14; Psalm 52:5) and will bring to you a strength that will carry you through all your tomorrows! And may your inner most being bubble forth with praise to our God and King! Amen.


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Prayer for a Friend

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Job 42:7-10 And so it was, after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, that the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, " My wrath is aroused against you and your two friends, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has. 8 Now therefore take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and offer yourselves a burnt offering; and My servant Job shall pray for you. For I will accept him, lest I deal with you according to your folly; because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has." 9 So Eliphas the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zohpar the Naamathite went and did as the LORD commanded them; for the LORD had accepted Job. 10 And the LORD restored Job's losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Wow the power of prayer when we care enough to pray for our friends and our neighbors! Whether close by or far away, it is important to cover others with God's thoughts and not ours. And of course, those words are found within that Bible.
In the midst of any trial, we must focus not only on getting through it but to pray others will get through their obstacles as well. We should always know that satanic forces can mount when people are loose with their lips speaking of wicked intent or blaspheming others.
Enduring means we keep watch over our neighbor as we keep our walk with God. Although those trials and tribulations come, we have victory by our faith we hold in God.
Greater is He that is in us than he who is in the world. (1 John 4:4)

We must never think someone is sick because of of some stinking sin! The devil cares not for anyone but himself and will use anything to steal, kill and destroy (you) John 10:10
God has given us His word and love and within that we are to encourage the downcast, comfort any who may be afflicted and yes, we are to strengthen those who may be weak in their walk with God. As we hold fast to God and His Word, you be comforted in knowing He is for you and not against you.

Trials can come and go, but God is forever. As the Sustainer of all things, I believe us to be in "good hands!'

In the spirit of forgiveness, prayer allows us to reach across the street or across the country with God's love. In our action to prayer, we are seeking to seek Him who hears from heaven and answers.

Hebrews 2:14-15   NKJV  14  Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, 15 and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

Understand that we have an opponent. Satan is his name and he is real! And he is active since he is running out of time for his rule!

  John 8:44, in accusing the Jews of unbelief, it is Jesus Who puts Satan's nature in plain words:

You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.

Seek out God and His way, truth and light! Seek God and know the way in which to walk for trials will occur, and other's exist on this planet so they can affect your walk. But we should remain to be the committed to God and His plan for our lives. In and through prayer we can find life that is real, that comes to pass and is manifested for others to see!

As our granddaughter would say: "take your peace, and seek". Take your peace and be seated before your CREATOR. BE seated, and become acquainted with Him. For our faith walk is to honor God. And the honest struggle should be of the spirit and not by the flesh creature.
Pray today for those who may not understand or know you. If anyone falsely accuses you, know the devil is on the scene. Pray for the man or woman and pray to forgive "no matter what" the circumstance may be.

Pray confidently for the Lord hears the prayer of the righteous. Trust Him to speak the answer you desire of Him. Acknowledge Him to clear the way and ultimately honor Him for He blesses the home of those who will be honest and a sincere heart.

Father, thank you for friends! Thank you for those we have not met yet but hope to soon! We pray for their safety and for their homes. We pray for their families and their jobs.
Thank YOU that we have hearts knitted together to see YOUR glory fill this land. And for whatever trials, tribulations or anything else the enemy might try, we seek to glory in YOU and YOUR word of truth. Come kingdom of God and be done in our lives today as it is in heaven. It is in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.


Notice: 

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NO EXCHANGING GLORY

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Same Page, Same Glory, Same God

Taken by R. Twiner

Psalm 34:11-14    NKJV     (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.

Now we know this is an interesting thing to speak, "come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD."

And David made it regarding that fear.

Living out of a good conduct appears as the one who is taught about the Lord, is for the one who desires life that is of an abundance of good days. Within that boundary we see one is to keep their tongue from evil , and their lips from speaking deceit. Departing from evil and to do good is the "one who seeks peace and pursues that peace"!

That peace is with God. It is Who He is!

David also wrote Psalm 12! I will place it here and we will look at what he had desired of God as he prayed!

Psalm 12:1-8    nkjv       Help! LORD, for the godly man ceases! For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men. 2 They speak idly everyone with his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak. (inconsistent mind: speaking that which is the false, that which gives no life….they are speaking with insincere words or arrogance…..). 3 May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things, 4 Who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail; Our lips are our own; who is lord over us?” ( once godly now they are self-willed)

5 “For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, Now, I will arise,”    says the LORD; “ I will set him in the safety for which he yearns.”    

6 The words of the LORD are pure words, Like silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. 7 You shall keep them, O LORD, You shall preserve them from this generation forever. 8 The wicked prowl on every side, when vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

*From verse 1 prayer is given out to God for help because the godly man ceases to exist. David refers to those who speak idle words who flatter with their tongues and lips bring the false, that which has no life in it and possible destruction even to death. Godly men cease to exist when they speak insincere or arrogant speech. When those in leadership disrespect authority, they use their self-will to excess resulting in oppressing others.

*From verse 5 the LORD hears the cry of those who seek His safety. God hears the words He gave them. That word which is tried in fire shall keep them, to preserve them forever. But of the wicked they prowl on every side as vileness is exalted among them. Where immorality is promoted by elected officials, those civic leaders or media personalities, crime is increased.

* God is absolutely trustworthy. Amen!

Our mouths are to speak the good things God gave us in His word. From cover to cover that is the measure of faith. What we have placed in our hearts is that by which we abide and then ask in His name, when we pray.

Learning of God, is learning how He speaks, how He operates by the spirit.

 Romans 3:18 is just as true now as it always has been: "There is no fear of God before their eyes." The reason it must be taught becomes obvious once we understand that it arises and grows from one's relationship with God.

Of the passage above, we found in Psalm 12 those who were godly at one time, but now have become non-existent. They are now those who oppress others, and God answers those who cry out for help from those who now oppress! 

Our speaking must always line up with God's word. Our speaking is to be that which is true and follows that thread through the Old Testament all the way through the New Testament to the book of Revelation. That thread is of Jesus, the Son of God's love who was sent and do what God asked. Our relationship is to be much like Jesus'. Oh no you do not need to be crucified, but we must remember of what was done for us through Him.

The Apostle Paul wrote this in 2 Timothy 2 and verses 1-2. In the Amplified Bible it reads like this: So you, my son be strong (strengthened inwardly) in the grace ( spiritual blessing) that is [to be found only] in Christ Jesus. 2 and the [instructions] which you have heard from me along with many witnesses, transmit and entrust [as a deposit] to reliable and faithful men who will be competent and qualified to teach others also.

Our learning of God is so that we can teach others, not only by the example but by God's Word taught. If we speak only idle words, they flatter but fall to the ground. They accomplish nothing.

And in that thought, one who has known God and chooses to speak empty talk, that which is useless and vain, will find themselves moving into ungodliness.

Placing value on God and that relationship with Him ensures we are strengthened inwardly. We are found in Christ Jesus and the instructions we have embraced, we speak to others.

We must be found on the same page with God. For when we watch and seek, we find what we are looking for, our eyes opened and our hearts receptive, and in that time with Him we draw forth more life, more favor of Him and gain strength to move forward in our lives.

Note at the end of Psalm 12, David wrote this: 8 The wicked prowl on every side, when vileness is exalted among the sons of men. Notice whatever news media you watch, or take note of one who leads maybe as governor from your state. If they move toward that kind of talk, violence will be in their streets. Ungodliness leads to more ungodliness and then one sees the "blame game" begin!

Let's really take the time to abide in Him, and find that beauty that was planned not only for me but you as well. For in seeking Him in His words, we dwell in His presence, active in hearing Him speak, to see His peace manifest in our lives and our children's lives as well. Demonstrate His glory today! BE found with Him and abide everyday so that you can ask what you will in His name and see it done for you, for His glory! Amen!

(John 15:6-9.....6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.  

7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. 8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. 

9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. KJV)

Notice: 

The Voice of Prayer  has a new teaching:

NO EXCHANGING GLORY

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You can also visit my You Tube channel The Voice of Prayer for more teaching at:  http://bit.ly/1tNyBhV

Is That Door Locked?

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Saw this movie the other night. One scene was three people trying to get a door to open, but the door was almost frozen shut. It took two of the three people to open the frozen door. One of the younger men mentioned putting the oil to it.
Now this specific story-line is from the early 1950's and was located within a church with a priest. Yes, I must admit it is one of mystery and intrigue and that night it had a very squeaky door without oil to make it turn on its hinges easily. Of course, the door could make some scary noises in the mid-night hour, but the funny thing from this story timeline, they mentioned the oil can and to get it to oil those hinges!
 Now many probably turning fifty today would not know what an oil can is for, well, except for our son-in-law......he probably would know.
And anyone watching the Wizard of Oz, from the 1930's would know by relating to the character of the tin man. But anyone else might not have an idea of the need for an oil can. Of course, today, we like WD-40. I mean, it will remove grease from laminated floors with one quick spray!.
But then hydrogen peroxide will remove grease from new carpeting as well. ( and I mean a real chunk of black greasy, grease on soft pastel orange carpet)

There are many doors. They open up areas to be visited, like in a movie theater or to a church! Doors can be old, new, fairly new, molded out of wood products, made from plastic, can be metal, glass or just plain wood. You could paint some, remove some, and even replace the really used doors, but what about a door that is " not used"?

I saw this movie the other night, and it was made in the early 1950's and one door was boarded up     (on the inside of the upstairs room), not to be used at all, yet the covering was just a few boards, and the covering was made with hinges to swing open. Odd I thought, when the thought was to board it up and not be used at all. Yet some clever one made it real work to create a door that could swing open using actual hinges and those pieces of plain wood just nailed together was to cover another actual door!

Proverbs 26:14 Amplified Bible
14 As the door turns on its hinges, so does the lazy man [ move not from his place] upon his bed.
Now in the Middle East, a door made thousands of years ago was not made with hinges but rather with pivots. Of course, too, the doors were made of stone (slabs of stone) which made for a very weighty ( and very serious) door to handle.



I wonder sometimes about folks who never leave the place they were born to visit another place: like another state, or another country. You know those are doorways too!
I wonder sometimes why so many stay pretty close to their childhood start. I also wonder why many will not try doors they might otherwise overlook while passing by on a walk or driving by while looking for a gas station. I remember us going to an art museum and a rather small science museum, and also a wild west museum. All were so different, with so many different names who either painted, collected the artifacts of bones, pottery and glass sifted out for all to see or made history while the west was being populated by vast numbers of many different people who all had one purpose. That purpose was to know God who created heaven and earth and create something out of nothing in the 'ole west!

Many doors were open to those who painted great works of art. Many doors were opened to those who searched by sifting through sand and dust that covered great works of the pyramids and the pharaohs, yes those buried deep beneath the surface of the ground.......forever covered in mysteries, darkness and dirt!
I think of those places we have visited and although all were fun and done in different periods of my life, yet the only door that remains is the one I think people, yes many people overlook. I believe many miss the DOOR! They will miss the DOOR that counts.
I see people standing in line to get to be 1st at a new casino. I see them standing to buy that lottery ticket. I see them standing in line to get................!(something, anything)

Jesus said this and was recorded for our benefit. Found in John 10:9 I am the Door; anyone who enters in through Me will be saved (will live). He will come in and he will go out [freely] and will find pasture.

Entering through Jesus we have a fresh life! In Him we gain to move freely by His wisdom, power and love. Without Him we can do nothing.
If we enter by Him, we are saved. we find pasture to lie down in, be refreshed by residing by still waters to walk in paths of righteousness for His name sake.

In that DOOR, we find the Bread of Life! John 6:35 and Jesus said to them, " I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst. ( see also John 6:48)
When we enter that DOOR, we find the Chief Shepherd. 1 Peter 5:4 and when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that will never fade away.
Entering that DOOR, we come face to face with the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. (John 1:29)
We encounter the Lord of All (Acts 10:36-39) 36 the word which God sent to the children of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ---He is Lord of All---37 that word you know, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, and began from Galilee after the baptism which John preached; 38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.
We encounter the Lord of Glory ( 1 Corinthians 2:7-9) 7 but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, 8 which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But as it is written: "Eye has not seen, nor hear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.

Yes, some folks thousands of years ago encountered doors made of slabs of stone. Whatever their thought of or way of life, they encountered doors of stone only to be put behind one when they died. To return back to the dust, gather their bones up  about a year later by loved ones who remained and carry said bones to a family burial plot.

Is that Door locked? Have you tried to enter?

Have you pushed hard to open....? Have you mentioned the Door Keeper.........Jesus? For it is in Him we find the Bread of Life, the Chief Shepherd, the Lord of All, the Lord of Glory. Oh we find so much more when we open that door and take steps forward in him.

Proverbs 10:29 Amplified Bible teaches us that the way of the Lord is strength and a stronghold to the upright, but it is destruction to the workers of iniquity.

And Proverbs 10:20 mentions this: 20 that the tongues of those who are upright and in right standing with God are as choice silver; the minds of those who are wicked and out of harmony with God are of little value.

YIKES!

Opening up to Jesus, and make our way with Him we have strength. He becomes our Stronghold in time of trouble. But the main thing, He is our salvation.

Will we see Him, see His ways and act to move through or be satisfied where we began? That bed is no place to stay. Some rest at night to be refreshed is good, but to lay down and remain is not healthy for anyone! Remaining to stay within the confines that is only for comfort is sad indeed when we can touch other people's lives and maybe visit some odd type museums. We must go through some doors to experience life. There are doors opened to attend school and be educated to write and read. Doors are open to attend high schools and colleges and yes even jobs. Doors are open to marriage, children and grand-children. Doors are open, but the one that really matters will count in the long-haul.
There is a Door talked about in Revelation 3:8 and this one is mentioned in the letter to the church in Sardis. 8 I know your [record of] works and what you are doing. See! I have set before you a door wide open which no one is able to shut; I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept My Word and guarded My Message and have not renounced or denied My name. 11 I am coming quickly; hold fast what you have, so that no one may rob you and deprive you of your crown.

Yes Jesus is returning! He returns for His believers, who trust in Him, have sought His face and to hear Him speak. Those who have entered will have a safe place,  a victorious place....He is the faithful and true Witness...He is the origin and Beginning and Author of all of God's creation.

Unlock that door.......and speak His name..........He will be found!

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No Mirage

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Isaiah 49:8-11 Amplified Bible
8 thus says the Lord, In an acceptable and favorable time I have heard and answered you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you; and I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant to the people, to raise up and establish the land [from its present state of ruin] and to apportion and cause them to inherit the desolate [moral wastes of heathenism, their ] heritages. {2 Corinthians 6:2]
9 Saying to those who are bound, Come forth, and to those who are in [spiritual] darkness, Show yourselves [come into the light of the Sun of righteousness]. They shall feed in all the ways [in which they go], and their pastures shall be [not in deserts, but] on all the bare [grass-covered] hills. 10 They will not hunger or thirst, neither will mirage [mislead] or scorching wind or sun smite them; for He Who has mercy on them will lead them, and by springs of water will He guide them. 11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and My highways will be raised up.


Have you ever driven across a desert area in summer? Ever noticed the waves of heat touching the ground to give off something of an image or maybe a pool of water or even an oasis? Then as you make your way past that scene, it disappears and the desert sand, cactus, and hot scorching sun prevails.
Next time you take a trip, plan a ride across the desert floor and see how the very heat and light of day can cause images to appear, yes right before your very eyes.


We have experienced salvation! It is not a mirage, or something that will disappear. We have the Redeemer, the One who delivered us and with that covenant we are the preserved. But in that preservation, we are to be raised up and be established in that good land. As it is in verse 9 tells us to come forth, and come into the light of the Sun of righteousness. We are to feast, no longer in desert areas, but on the grass-covered hills that HE provided for us. In that place, there are no mirages leading us down a unfavorable way!  In believing on and in Jesus, our trust is showing, speaking, ans yes always revealing Him in our lives. And it is in Him that we live, move and have our being.
No mirages, please! Do not mind the ride across the desert area, and experience the heat for while traveling, but to live there permanently is not my idea of living in the good that God has for us. Are we searching and chasing mirages?
Are we trying to see out in the far distance, without fellowship with the Holy Spirit?

Do we ask Him to help us see so that we may go further for the Lord's glory and to look for the next best thing? We have a hope in Jesus who will never leave us or forsake us. Even in times of alone, apart from others, still God is with us.

When the Gospel of Matthew began in chapter 1, and spoke Emmanuel, God surely meant He was with us.
Matthew 1:23   KJV   23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

God was surely with His Son and was revealed in His speaking. Will we do the same in this year of 2017? Will we be a part of His plan or chase mirages in a dry and parched land?
I would rather be found with God and tell others. For our witness is important, and will we not come out of the dark and into His wonderful light to see and tell others? If not now, then when? And if not you and I, then who will do it?

If we are truly feeding on His faithfulness, then would not our actions dictate that very thing? And if not, then why not?

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Hypervigilance

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2 Kings 13:20-21...........20 Elisha died and was buried. 

Now Moabite raiders used to enter the country every spring. 21 Once while some Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders; so they threw the man's body into Elisha's tomb. When the body touched Elisha's bones, the man came to life and stood up on his feet.  NIV

Even when Elisha had passed. His bones still had the life of God in them to cause a man to live and stand on his feet! Even in death, he was still in motion for God!

Are we passing a mantle that others can experience in their own lives?

Are we giving others the wisdom we have acquired to teach the young how to move forward in God?

We cannot do this if we are stuck in stuff or distracted by stuff!

Yes, God knows those who are His! He knows those who thirst........!

Recognizing glory is when we see Jesus so strongly, so powerfully, in someone and know that all of heaven is behind what they, the person says and does.

When Elisha passed, no one received that mantle he carried and he had the "double portion" from Elijah! What do we leave behind, if Jesus should tarry? Is anyone interested in receiving the "double portion"?

What we fix our eyes and hearts on determines what will be accomplished in our lives! Heard the most alarming report the other night on 60 Minutes. It was by what people call today " a whistle blower" but I like what they called them in the days of "old".....the Messenger, the Watchman on the Wall.

But this young man surely had a good heart in what he is seeing from the "silicon valley" in regard to the cell phones and their "apps". He told of how they ...the business people want your time and complete focus....to keep one's attention through the day and night.

He gave the example of the monkey and banana thing. Yes, he compared people as the monkey and the banana as the prize..........and how it is always about the prize to win or the prize to gain!

The greatest prize I can think of ...is to know....Him.....and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death. That I may press toward the prize that which  Christ Jesus laid hold of me. Always pressing forward to those things which lie ahead....the spiritual kingdom that Jesus came to bring ...........salvation and life with the Father.

The technological things certainly makes one take note, but should not be that which distracts us from what God speaks. Our citizenship is in heaven and we are to stand fast in the Lord.

I am no monkey and I am not punching buttons for others to make their money. For whatever craze that may be on the horizon may it not make you crazy thriving to hear its every ring, ping and song that someone liked you, tweeted you or texted you!

The young man gave some very good evidence of how people are being manipulated by a system. He called many men who had worked on it and in truth one man of the company he worked for, did bring some thought on it, but after two years nothing was done so the young man left that place. 

I believe in the young man' heart, he desired others to know the hazards of doing overtime with your phone in hand. He wanted people to know that  hypervigilance is against keeping the mind and body safe. He made me think of a teaching recently how hypervigilance is being experienced not only in those who went to war but also those who stayed home. It is that part of the adrenal glands that is always producing more adrenaline for the "fight or flight" mode of the gland.

Our peace should be found in God. And for one who has seen this hypervigilance.......it is always on and always active when one tries to rest. So for me and others like me, we stay in God's presence and within His peace. God is loving, active and is always available to our call in need. 

We should be willing to hear and act out of what God has given and shown us. What wisdom that comes from the world we should certainly discern how much is needed for our own wise decisions. In the end, prayer is our guard. In keeping close to God in word and prayer, we find we are made in God's image and we are not here for another 20 year study on how people's bodies, especially the young teens fair in hypervigilance. We must be warned, but we must heed and follow God's commands............to love our neighbors and yes pray for them............but to love God more and more. He is the true God, the One God, holy, mighty and self-existing............I will keep my focus on HIM to recognize glory. In accordance with purpose of His will, His kind intent was so that we ( that means you and me) might be to the praise and the commendation of HIS glorious grace (favor and mercy) which He bestowed on us in the Beloved. 

We celebrate His resurrection, the Beloved's this week. That which is is of the true and to be valued is in Him Jesus Christ the Anointed One, to the honor and praise of God that His glory is manifested and is recognized. Choosing to stay out of the hypervigilance arena...........to God be the glory. 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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WATCH OUT for Snakes!

Voice of Prayer....R. Twiner

Was viewing the evening news....well, more like muting it, and watching and waiting for something news worthy to watch and hear about last night. (Friday evening)
One came up about this little girl....so I took it off the mute button. Story was out of Australia I think it was and this woman had taken some pics of her little two year old out along some old highway..sounded like a outing while weather was nice........well, long story shortened, when the woman got home and got her pictures made, she noticed that where her daughter stood to pick wild flowers or such...was next to this old fallen down fence...and across it was "what she thought to be a part of the broken down fence." Well in truth, it was a massive, poisonous snake that slithered slowly next to her two year. Yikes!
And in the pic, I saw neither it's head nor tail. And its size in its middle was bigger than my arm.


Psalm 91:7-16   NKJV
7 A thousand may fall at your side, And ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you. 8 Only with your eyes shall you look and see the reward of the wicked. 9 Because you have made the Lord, who is my refuge, Even the Most High, your dwelling place, 10 No evil shall befall you, Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling; 11 For He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways. 12 In their hands they shall bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone. 13 You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra, the young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.
14 Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high, because he has known My name. 15 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him. 16 With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.

Verse 9 reminds us that when we have made the Lord our refuge, our dwelling place, then no evil shall befall us. Do we run to our refuge in time of trouble?
Verse 10 reminds us that no plague comes near our dwelling, for the Lord (v.11) gives His angels charge over us to keep us in all our ways.
Now those ways....are being submitted to the Lord! It is not following anyone or anything else. Even the Most High is our dwelling place.
Verse 13, we shall tread upon the lion and the cobra, the young lion and the serpent shall we trample underfoot.
That treading is God the Lord leading us through any adverse situation. In this meaning, the lion is anything that roars against what God is doing in and through us. The cobra, or adder is in some translations is that which contorts or twist........anything. Contortion of anything that looks like:
warped, crooked or bent..
It is used in speaking and again doing anything against God. Trampling under foot is that each step we take we endure in the mercy of God to go forward and expand His kingdom that has come. We endure in God and His word. We flourish in Him who is enough for us.


In working on this today, I was reminded of this passage in Luke 4:22-32 in the NKJV.
22 So all bore witness to him, and marveled at the gracious words which proceeded out of His mouth. And they said, "Is this not Joseph's son?"
23 He said to them, You will surely say this proverb to Me, 'Physician, heal yourself!" "Whatever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in Your country." 24 The He said, "Assuredly, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own country. 25 But I tell you truly, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a great famine throughout all the land; but to none of them was Elijah sent except to Zarephath, in the region of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. 27 "And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian." 28 So all those in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, 29 and rose up and thrust Him out of the city, and they led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that that they might throw Him down over the cliff. 30 Then passing through the midst of them, He went His way.

31 Then He went down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee and was teaching them on the Sabbaths. 32 And they were astonished at His teaching, for His was with authority.



We are the saved by the salvation that came through Jesus. And we live in a world that is ruled by the adversary, for "this present evil age (Galatians 1:4) lies under the sway of the wicked one" (1John 5:19)
Staying under the Refuge of the Most High, we know that through Jesus that satan had nothing in Jesus, that is in regard to no control. Satan had no control over Jesus who remained in the Father. He who is in us is greater than he who is in the world.

There will always be conflict until Jesus takes His rightful rule. And He is returning soon to do that. What we do with it in the here and now is to remain in Him, and hear the leadership of the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit that directs us through the here and now. Just like Jesus passing through the midst of those who would harm him, even to kill Him, he passed through the midst of them and went His way.
In verse 31, it is recorded for our benefit that we continue to find Him speaking still as He was teaching to them on the Sabbaths, and His teaching was with authority.

His teaching with authority was marked by the divine presence of His Father that was with Him. Jesus held the approval of the Father. Will we take note of that today? Will we observe when a snake has entered the environment, but we have the authority to continue to speak and do as Jesus did.
There will always be the "roaring" and conflict of many words.  (watching the news for 15 minutes)

For again this world is under the sway of the enemy, the old serpent himself, the devil and anything that is of disorder, confusion, and sin-riddled, and yes of many tragedies is from the enemy who came to steal, kill and destroy, but we are to abide in God and in Him we abide in safety. We abide in Him who is our shelter, our high Rock, fortress that is fortified for our protection.

Psalm 61:3-4    NKJV   3 For You have been a shelter for me, as strong tower from the enemy. 4 I will abide in Your tabernacle forever; I will trust in the shelter of Your wings.

Setting our love upon God our Father,  we are the delivered.
Setting our love upon God, we are set on high.

Because we know His name, and are intimate of knowing who He is .....we can call on His name.
AND WE CALL, God our Father will answer us.
He is with us in trouble; He will deliver us and honor us.
AND it is with long life God our Father will satisfy us and show us His salvation.

Staying with Him, residing within His presence, we stay out of confusion, we are the comforted, and choosing Him above all worldly favor we are the protected. We have been, given His grace and have been given good things. Will we see them, acknowledge them and give thanks for them?

He has given us by His grace to know when someone is speaking twisted words to us. And we can tread on it and move forward to expand the kingdom of God that has come, never missing a step or the opportunity to minister life to another about the love of God and Jesus His Son.

Father God, today we pray Psalm 91. Cover us with Your feathers for it is under Your wings we take refuge. Let Your truth be our shield. Show us those things that are twisted in speaking, and help us to walk on Your word of truth that is peace and safety. You are our Shelter, a strong tower from the enemy and we will abide with You forever. Our trust is in You! Ten thousand may be having accidents on interstate highways or state routes as well but it will not come near us as Your word is given to us we stand.We have made Jesus our Lord and no evil befalls us. We are thankful for the shed blood of the Lamb and we live in a land that flourishes and with every need you provide, we rise in the glory of the Lord, the devil is under our feet and we believe Jesus is returning soon. Thank You Father for your love and we abide in Your everlasting arms and to Your glory. Amen.


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