A CONFIRMATION

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Hebrews 9:27 NKJV 27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,

Paul writes in Colossians 2:11-14: In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. And you, being dead in your trespasses and the un-circumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

Two points we must note here: first, it is God’s sovereign authority and almighty power that is the source from which mankind derives any ability to share in the exercise of the kingdom of God. And the second point, sinful man lost all privilege, he had no claim to the early ruler-ship given to man in the garden of Eden. The power is only restored to those who have received Jesus as Lord of their lives, it is by the grace of God and empowered by the Holy Spirit!

Every person who has lived on earth will die at some point in their life. We find from this passage in Colossians 2,  that the apostle explains that a Christian is free from the bondage of death because Christ's death has removed the charges of sin against us. Truth is given here; yet today there are those who think there are many pathways to heaven and to God. It sounds like a pick and choose time of which god you desire to choose for your own privilege. But when we continue to look into the pages of the doctrine given us by grace we find this: that Jesus, in Revelation 1:18, adds another factor in our favor or the favor for the saved one who has confessed Him as Lord of their life!

Revelation 1:18-19  NKJV states this: “I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.” Jesus Christ paid the price. 19 Write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after this.

Here both present and future events are recorded.

 That price was the penalty for our sins. At the Cross Satan was the defeated foe. Christ Jesus has the power and has given us authority too! The price paid for us was over the Second Death. Going further we find this in Revelation 20 and verse 14: “Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.  Detail is given to us in  Revelation 21:8 “But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

BUT we are to be prepared! As living stones, we are being built up as a spiritual house. That is called the holy priesthood.  1 Peter 2:4-5: NKJV 4 Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, 5 you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Yes, this is confirmation to being prepared for something called the spiritual house that looks like and sounds like a holy priesthood. As His “special people”, we are the chosen generations, a royal priesthood, His own special people; that we may proclaim the praises of Him who called us  out of darkness into His marvelous light. (1 Peter 2:9)

 As the living sacrifices, we deliberately choose to allow the Holy Spirit to change us into the image of Jesus Christ. That is, we allow the doctrine of the kingdom that has come go deep into our hearts and change our thinking where we follow after Jesus. We become obedient to His plan for our futures. Salvation is important to come into His kingdom but the paramount objective is to be leaders in His kingdom.

It is not about how many people we have in a congregation nor is according to how we as the leaders lead many people, but that we stand responsible to learn truth and teach truth. Being created into Jesus Christ’s image teaches us that. Leadership certainly is what God is looking for in you and in me! The most important note here is that we overcome our carnal natures. When we begin to see leadership in our lives leading others to truth then that becomes the norm for us. It comes by living by the spirit man that is led by the Spirit of God.

It is about being faithful as He is faithful.  As we allow more of His truth in, light dispels the darkness. We are to embrace and protect that which is truth.  We should not take part with that which is to unrighteousness.  Many today are becoming discouraged. They somehow choose not to stretch minds when thinking on Christ Jesus and the standard He represents!

 Remaining in Christ Jesus is the real test. Keeping to the teaching of His truth shows where the heart lies! Many will say it is about whether you go to church or if you are staying out of church. But truly not about opinions but where the standard of God’s word is given without any interference in each person’s life. People are to be given the whole truth and not just pieces of it.

Then when truth is given them, then that truth is to be proclaimed. It is not just to be kept by you although that is important, but is about God  who is desiring us who are grown spiritually to lead in the future world that is coming when Christ Jesus becomes the seated king in Jerusalem. If you cannot lead now, how could you possibly lead in the future!  May we not be cold, the frozen chosen and the depleted of life not to recognize that it is God who turns up the heat so that we not fall into a frozen lifestyle and frozen mentality that things will continue just as they have. For Jesus is returning and God’s Word will judge.

A Closing Point: In Revelation 21: 2-9 describes the setting of the Jerusalem come down from heaven. In Revelation 21 and verse 9 tells of the Lamb’s wife. Verses 22-27 gives details that nothing impure will ever enter the city’s gates. It is God’s “shekinah” glory that will be the light, yes, it is His own presence to shine in as the “holy place”. Those who enter, those nations and “the kings’ of the earth” will bring into this place their splendor. These kings stand for the peoples of the earth who are the very servants of Christ Jesus. Offerings will be brought to the throne of God. Those who belong to God will enter here. Their names are written the Lamb’s Book Life. Total loyalty will highlight these people. Truth will be their standard and their character will have the witness that glorifies God.

Confirmation is found among those who follow the process by submitting his all to God to gain the life Jesus came to give us. It is in the here and now one will be confirmed and not later. It is walking holy before God today remembering that it is given that a person will die once and then the judgment.

Which will we be at? Will we be leaders in the holy city of Jerusalem that is coming or will we find a different destination?

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Talking Too Much

I have a list of verses next to my work area when studying God's word. I have several pages typed on such verses of "talking too" much! We live in a world today that people every where think they have a voice and a platform to speak! In most cases, they spend much time talking, not much time listening and end up on the " poor, poor pitiful me" pile because no one listened to them.
Was going over these verses this morning like:
Proverbs 10:19 ESV 19 When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.
Proverbs 17:28 ESV 28 Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.
Proverbs 29:20 ESV 20 Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Yikes!
That is dangerous when speaking many and especially hasty words and this tells us there is more hope for a fool than for him.

David was one who regarded help in this area. He asked the Lord: Psalms 141:3 Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!
There is great benefit to speaking wisely! For when we speak many words, then sin is close by. We are told in Proverbs 10:19 that transgression is not lacking. Yes, that is sin! James 1:19 tells us to be "swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath."

Our lives must represent the character to which we speak about to others. Do our lives appear as the "disciplined" or one of chaos? Do we make those rash decisions speaking rash words because we are bound and determined that we are "right". We must check our hearts and check within God's word where our though process is headed. Everyone wants to stand out, to be the different, but being different must mean that which stands against killing babies, against lies and hypocrisy and to stand with truth within God's standard which is His word. When we align there then our way is made level.
Jesus spoke this: Matthew 12:36 ESV 36 "I tell you on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak.
Amplified Bible reads this way: 36 But I tell you, on the day of judgment men will have to give account for every idle (inoperative, nonworking) word they speak.

Hebrews 4:12 Amp. Bible 12 For the word that God speaks is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing and effective], it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of and joints and marrow [of the deepest parts of our nature], exposing  and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart.

It is only God's Word that will work! Man's words are many, full of boasting and pride. But God in His Word gets down to innermost of our being to brings us into the revelation of His truth and deliver us from the miry past into a life of peace, joy and love in the Holy Spirit.

Proverbs 18:21 reminds us that 'death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit." Yes, one pathway is unto death and the fruit it produces. The other is the pathway of life leading to more life.
That same power works in everyone's tongues, not just for those who are saved, but those who are lost: those who sing songs about death and dying, who speak of killing and posting it, of speak of defilement and proceed into it, for we truly must guard our eyes and our ears.
There have been Christians songs that tend toward rendering death to the listening ear. No, truly we must know and understand........regard that our heavenly Father knows best and that we must watch what we put into our hearts. We must ask for the "discerning" heart to know truth and reside in it.

May we become content in God's word for when we do we will not go out to harass others with quarrels and fretfulness. When the peace of God resides in you and in me, we make for the peaceful home, the peaceful community and nation. May we be used to encourage others with truth, and reflect God's extravagant love and not be given to speaking too many words!

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True Joy or Scattered by Grief

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Living in a fallen world, we can experience the harshness of the world. Though being born again to life we are still in this world but not of it! If we are not in joy, then we are in sadness and grief. And outside of God you will find no true joy of any kind!


Proverbs 14:13 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
Proverbs 14:13 NKJV reads this way: Even in laughter the heart may sorrow, and the end of mirth may be grief.

As we know the outward appearance of a person does not always portray the true feelings of the heart. Within this verse given in the Amplified Bible, verse 13 gives the end of mirth is heaviness and grief. Yikes!

Now when someone gets to that place it is as foreign to them as being in another country speaking no English or like being on a planet where no one lives!

Psalm 137:2-6  NKJV  …..(2) We hung our harps upon the willows in the midst of it.(3) For there those who carried us away captive asked of us a song, and those who plundered us requested mirth, Saying, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"   4 How shall we sing the LORD's song in a foreign land? 5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget its skill!  6 If I do not remember you, Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth—  If I do not exalt Jerusalem above my chief joy.

Bitterness describes the complaints of those in exile. God forced Judah, not to harm but show their way was destructive to them.  These people had been scattered by their continuing to disobey God!

In this setting people desire to sit by the banks of the river under the many willows that grew along the banks, and in that coolness of the day, they desired rest from toil, but their thoughts turned to the home far away and the loneliness of being on foreign soil. They thought of the lost time in their homeland, their loss of years and heartache due to their own "desires". And while in all this, they are bullied by the nation that took them captive, to scoff and make fun of their instrument the harps and because of their God. The captors desired the captives to play them "the fun song".  This period of time they, the captives, mingled their tears with the waters that ran so freely through the region. Their grief overwhelmed them, and the present worship was only in laments of the sorrowful.

In this moment of time, they were far from life that they knew and their instruments was the bitter reminder of  life that what once was held with festive songs, delight and food in the land they called home. But in this moment ,grief challenged their hearts. No songs would serve them but the songs of Zion. What honored God would be truly noted.

Psalm 39:1-6 reminds us about pain and injustices of life often arousing an amount of indignation. It states: I said, “I will guard my ways, Lest I sin with my tongue; I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle, while the wicked are before me.” 2 I was mute with silence, I held my peace even from good; and my sorrow was stirred up. My heart was hot within me; while I was musing (meditating) the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue. 4 “LORD, make me to know my end, and what is the measure of my days, that I may know how frail I am. 5 Indeed, You have made my days as hand-breadths, and my age is as nothing before You; certainly every man at his best is vapor. 6 Surely every man walks about like shadow; surely they busy themselves in vain; he heaps up riches, and does not know who will gather them.

Repressed grief, and pent up emotions over man’s broken plans produced a flame that had long been smothered. Anything causing heat can be built up to produce a “hot” flame. In the place of the hidden heart, the many rooms contain plans, dreams, and most likely brokenness from previous relationships or with current ones. People need to talk about things but not to the extent of hammering others to the ground. We each are responsible to ourselves. We are to be responsible at the age we are and not hammer others or badmouth another when our own mouths and actions got us into that place of “trouble” and possible exile!  Being out of God’s will is like being in the “wrong” land at the "wrong" time! 

 It is willfully doing our own things when God has directed us to a certain path and to safety. And when we do not listen or obey, we find ourselves in a heap of a mess. Surely we must come to our senses and quickly not to lose the foundation of that which was placed by God in our youth or in the learning stages of His grace.

 There is something to exile, to that scattering, that God finds very good. For it certainly is not all grief, but stages the Father will take to see us kept safe and to know that we have done “wrong” will be readily before us. And we choose to see repentance is the needed answer, then we are to respond to Him so our relationship with Him continues.

Proverbs 19:21  There are many plans in a man’s heart, nevertheless the LORD’S counsel---that will stand.

Jesus told us of the heart! In Matthew 15:19 we are told that out of the heart proceeds evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, and all of these kinds of things. The heart, yes, is your driving force. And some people have them “souped- up, and turbo charged. They have a hidden danger of heat burning within the heart and without allowing God to lead them through, they thrash others with verbal sword strikes that can kill.

When they "text' their friend, it appears has the hate message. In posting something, they attack someone, and list their very bad issues of character.

Still others will take a trip to fantasy land. They will make the required reservations, check their finances for the availability of  the quick purchase, fun-fare, rides of amusement, fancy dining and the quick snack on-the run thinking they are having a great time, the "great family vacation or family time together,  till they arrive home, and their old “friend bitterness” is there spilling over into grief of lost ones, lost family dinners with the crowd of loved ones, grief over what might have been and ending up on foreign soil. 

Finding their solitude painful they try silence only for the patient few days and then the flame of grief  is fanned into flame by the tongue of anger for the lost.  Their money spent, their tired from long drives, tired from long days and short nights with little or no sleep and pretending all the while that the party is still going and growing.

God does not want us to stop making plans, but He always wants us to understand that those plans are subject to His will and His purpose. God is judging the thoughts of our hearts and the plans that we make, and if they are not in harmony with His plan, then His judgment may result in something that might be emotionally or physically painful to us in order that we are put back on track.

The word of God is to be our "plumb line". Anger can appear and frustrations can be revealed, but we cannot be led by what we "feel". We must know the Word of God, regard it as the standard and not move off it . Party time is not the answer when a heart is about to blow with frustrations and many questions. And if you or I lust after other things as to what people do, what people wear and  to what people have, then we have the wrong thought process. For lust only brings the loss of most likely our good health and life.

Living godly, will bring life that is long and far from the land of exile. The next time something tries to send you into exile, remember God has a plan of good and not evil for a hope in our final outcome. Do not lose focus of His word of truth to lead you out into the light. Turn toward your Father in heaven ask in Jesus name for the expulsion to begin of the grief and pain. Be reminded He lost His Son for our benefit. He lost His first son Adam and His second Son Jesus, but gained life back for us through Jesus. What may be before you should not dictate your life for bitterness as it is harmful and grief can be devastating. It can devastate your life, your home and family.
Remember Jesus came as a human not as God to walk here. He came born into suffering and pain but it was His empathy that made the perfect sacrifice. He is for you and He will help!

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Lies in the Street

Proverbs 6:16-19 NKJV 16 These six things the LORD hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to Him; 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, 18 a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift in running to evil, 19 A false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren.

Proverbs 19: 9 NKJV A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who speaks lies shall perish.

Proverbs 29:12 If a ruler pays attention to lies, all his servants become wicked.

From the above wisdom, we find “the things” God the LORD hates. The proud, the lying, and shedding innocent blood are to name some. In this a false witness is revealed. And he who sows discord is found doing it among brethren.

When I was home, I paid attention to my parents especially about the “the things you can do, and the things you should never do”. One of them was lying to another was not received at our house ever. So when I left home after graduation, I was captured by the news, by journalists who gave their best journalism efforts forward to keep the brethren on the same page. Of course without God in the thinking, what prevails is the plan of mice and men.

I remember many protests of the streets at the time. I could not figure why people could not sit down and talk things over on the “thing” that was out of order. But then no one seemed to know what that “one thing” was that so many were outraged about. From my thinking and views of the protesters of the 20^th century I saw many young and not so young people outraged. I wondered when they worked if they were out in the streets protesting. Did they all take their vacations at the same time?

From the decade of the 1960’s when voice was given to being justified in turmoil protesters spoke with signs in hand that they “were disillusioned” by the leaders governing the country and by  a war that seemed endless! I watched a documentary over the weekend for Memorial Day and it was of the Vietnam War and how many did not burn their draft cards but willing went to volunteer to fight for people who encountered terrors of communist hiking through their rice paddies with the agenda of taking over a land of farmers and to remove the control of that country out of their hands.

 For what many saw it as money spent on a time consuming and money wasting war, actually kept a country from becoming lost forever to tyranny, hate and out of their hand.

Then came the decade of the 70’s of the 20^th century and much was revealed of General Motors misrepresenting Oldsmobile cars with the Chevy engines! Yes what lies came to be revealed at that time. 

During the second World War, British Prime Minister Chamberlain of England ran with the thought of their own to stop Adolph Hitler from his plans. In their estimation Sudentenland was the target area and this seemed right in their eyes. In his endeavors he had leaders to sign a pact of peace. In reality, the truth was the agreement not only put 3 million ethnic Germans into his hand (Hitler’s), but also 66 percent of Czechoslovakia’s coal, 70 percent of its iron and steel & 70 percent of its electrical power. In short the country was open to complete domination by Hitler. By September 1939 “Czechoslovakia “ no longer existed. Chamberlain might be remembered for the championing of the Munich Pact, but Chamberlain would prove to be in a serious and embarrassing situation for he thought and considered Hitler “a gentleman” proved the opposite. Hitler invaded Poland a year later. And Chamberlain had to give his nation the word: State of War!

As a leader, he allowed some things to prevail by the lies given him by another who had the desire to rule the world. Yes, war came, and Chamberlain was replaced by Winston Churchill. A man who served honorably within his nation in the most critical time of war and events one could encounter. It all stemmed from lies of one who wanted to rule by their own plan and ideas. Churchill once said, "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies."

From Proverbs 6 we see a picture of what the LORD hates. And if one know Him as Lord and Savior then we would understand there is to be no lying or exaggeration at all. I remember my dad speaking of crooked politicians and today we hear the same thing. If we truly expect politicians to lie then why vote for them?

We must hate lying within ourselves, our lives and thinking. Any falsehood, fraud, and dissimulation is an abomination to God. So it is that God and all good men then should hate and abhor lying. It is of the devil who is the father of lies. So for one to reside in the camp of lies shares the same father of  the lies of the devil with others when they try to commit such fraud by lying. Have we not been guilty of this in the past? But surely this is not our present weakness?

Mischief is bad enough when a child does it, but it is severe when one of mature age does it. Truth is to prevail .  Those who will try to carry out their own plans will lie, make up stories to make another lean toward their plans of ill-will. I remember the ad for Zenith televisions: “the quality goes in before the names goes on”. Then other television brands came on the scene like Magnavox, Admiral and RCA. Yes times have changed and so have the names that we see today: like Panasonic, and Sony.

If we as parents fall for lies and speak them, then the whole of the family is down the drain so to speak. We must live by truth and speak it, for anything else of the false witness is destruction. We are told to guard our hearts for out of its springs the issues of life. If we find ourselves lying before men, then are some again lying to ourselves?  For within that our name before God is not good. In order to have a good name, we, as God’s children must face our vanities. We are to stop deceiving ourselves that God will just have to take us as we are.

We must stop blaming others in our own failures, problems and shortcomings. For those within this tendency will justify what they are and what they do. Change will not occur in this way of life until each of us face up to truth that we are responsible for what we are. We bear much responsibility to becoming what we hope and that comes  in and through Jesus Christ only! Nobody can or will do it for us. We must walk that way of truth as the truthful witness!
Will you let God be Himself in YOU?

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Where is that Ball?

Where is that ball?

My husband and I had some errands to run yesterday about noon. We had left a little before noon and not finding what we went after, we had to venture further down and to the east to find a store that sold this Kombucha drink. Now this drink has some health benefits, and it is wise to get that which was just created to drink. After the drive over the river, we returned down the interstate.
On arriving, put our newly purchased items in the refrigerator, I walked to the patio door to put the dog outside. There is no need to coax her for at this time, she needs to go, and just after her instant on the spot to check our the visitor to the back of the yard  she took care of her 'business'.

I watched someone in a "golf cart" drive ever so slowly by from the south to the east and he must have spotted some ball in the yard. Watching me and my reaction to his moving around the cart and into the yard, he waved and of course I just waved back. Still watching him, he leaned down to pick up this ball laying in full view. He said laughingly like: "the wild playing and swinging caused his ball to go wild and out of control"!

He  appeared anxious to leave, and I started to mention the other ball to him that I saw closer to the big tree in the yard, but like a flash he was gone. I saw him go around the hill and back onto the golf course and again he appeared to examine the ball. I am thinking the ball he really wanted was the one next to the 'willow' tree but he dare not come close or attempt to check out the other ball in the yard. I figured he was thinking about the dog and the woman who would not leave the back door so about two minutes later the man drove off in his golf cart and our dog came indoors. About 2 hours later, I see him appear, again driving slowly, like looking for "his" ball, and then he headed back towards the club house. Am thinking he was really wanting his ball and not someone else's to play with!

Our habit is to check our yard for any balls and bring them to be washed. We find people who like playing golf and will put them into egg cartons to give them balls for their use for their time out on the golf course.

We were on a walk about this morning and took the leisure time to searched among the tree seedlings and "yes, some weeds" but did not find any except for the one that the  "golf" courses lawn groomer ran over with blades and caused it to split open. It is those tiny balls that people will practice with for that specific game. Today, I am still in awe of those who play and have the expertise to get that tiny ball down a fairway to "a hole in one". I always tell my husband that golfers on this course close by to this house, do not know the amount of hole in ones they get when hitting it toward our yard. For surely you have to look hard sometimes when the grass is needing a real good cut job! And when searching, it is there that we find the little ball as a "hole in one"  shot within the tall grass!

While walking in the brisk air, and sustained wind of about thirty miles an hour this morning, I was reminded of the walk with the Lord. Surely we would like our days to hold many "hole in one shots ", to hold many rainbows with  no rain, to have many windless days to enjoy the peace and quiet! Yes, we desire to hold have many days of receiving a mystery gift from a close friend or family member who lives far away, yet our days should hold the significance that God paid a big price for each of us.

Some people will denote their day the "moment they saw their baby smile" for the first time. Some will delight to tell of their seeing their child walk or graduate college. Still others will mark the day when they married or when their children marry.

In my life, I have seen and heard the stories of many relatives and friends of my parents who served their country. My uncle, as a young man flew as a pilot in World War II. He would land on those ships with a landing runway and a short one at that.  My brother-in-law served in the military for more than one term. He also went to help those in Guatemala when they were ravaged by earthquakes. And in my life, I see someone like my husband who goes the length to see people treated fairly, not because of entitlement, but because they love God, love this nation and choose to work for this nation. And as a people to see the glory of God to fill this world with His glory.

We have to choose life in Jesus and through Him see many others come to Him for salvation. But even more we can look to life eternally with Him, where the atmosphere is filled with life and joy, where He lights our days forever with His beauty and His glory.
Those certainly without Him and remain that way will be that way forever. They will forever be in darkness, forever be in torment of "what if", forever in the atmosphere where there is no refreshing breeze or water to enjoy but only darkness and sulfur filled darkness. What is sad is we each have "the choice" to choose to make a difference like Jesus did.

We have the choice to worship Him now, we have the choice to view His likeness in the Word of the truth now and we can participate in His love, His life and His joy that is found in the peace of God now!

For many it is see how big a house can one buy now, how fancy can that new car be, how fancy can our vacation be this 'summer' (now). For me, I have joy all around me. I have the joy of seeing my husband while he is checking out a a new recipe to prepare for a meal. I have joy of seeing our grand-daughter pretend she is surfing, and yes with surfing music on..( I think is was by the Ventures) and of having joy when our dog brings us her stuff toy to us the first thing in the morning.

I have joy, not for what I have lost but for what I have gained through Jesus for it is in Him that we live and move and have our being. One scripture that stands out today is John 15:4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.

Our energy for a life of devotion to Jesus comes by the Holy Spirit. In this we draw our lives from His life, from this we have energized prayer, energized worship, the partaking of the Lord's supper and see healing come to every part of our being.

Our focus is to be on Jesus, not to one man or one woman, for each of us is learning, growing and becoming what God planned. It will take all of us not just a few of us to participate in His kingdom that has come. Do the works of Jesus while there is still time while it is still day. Go through your day and tell others of those parables Jesus taught from, and pray. Ask the Lord to direct you into His perfect plan He destined for you to live.

Sometimes when we lose something, it is likely it was not needed, but that which is for life we need every moment of everyday of our lives. The Word of God is life to us,  and from that Word Jesus appeared and was crucified. In that we should no longer fear man or death. Don't be hard-headed but be willing to let go of your life to gain His. For truly God is good and His truth is everlasting. Unity is allowing Christ to be the head of our lives. Unity is not a building, a pastor, or a religious doctrine, but is Christ, the anointed One Who is head of the believer's and King of the Jews. There is one God and His Gospel that came through as GRACE in Jesus.
Ask God what He has placed in your hand for His good and then ask Him how to walk in it. For then truly joy is heard, rainbows are seen, peace resides when truth is coveted from the word of God.
Remember you can always buy more "golf balls" but will never buy your way out of hell for we all need a Savior. Amen!

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