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Yikes! Have you seen that first flick of the Boss Baby? Can you imagine being led by a baby Boss? Certainly one must be trained for the area of work they desired to be positioned in for hopefully good pay, and of course advancement within said company. Yet there is that "one thing" that one must remember and that is to be diligent to do the best work one can do and especially in knowing when we are doing it unto the Lord.
Of recent days, the house is painted a new color. In this process you find those who desire to do the job, show up early and get started quickly to finish their assigned painting for the day. Yesterday proved futile with the winds gusting to 35 miles per hour, but today is beautiful indeed and very little wind to stop the required work!
One shows up for the job and gets started early, but the other comes much, much later and gives their expertise on the subject. Again, we must be willing to learn but would be more apt to learn from someone who loved their job!

It was like the teen who wanted a job at the  local Hardware Store in this town called Carson. Yet, in the writing of this article in a letter to the editor of  the local paper, the young teen required a minimum of 35 dollars to start and wanted Saturday and Sunday off! Now I wonder when he was going to work and if there is that place that pays the clean-up person the minimum of 35 dollars to start...where can I speak with these folks! Now if school is out, then most likely he could work during the summer, but still this was while school was in session.

Education and training is very important. As our grand-daughter points out she is learning her math to see clearly the ingredients for her recipes she loves to prepare with her mother and dad! Her dad has created some games to play with coins and the such to learn algebra.
 It takes study time within a classroom or quiet place alone and time to actually do the work yourself and not use some kind of instrument to get the correct answer. Kids today are allowed calculators in what, the 4th grade? Not sure how one could learn the process of working the math out, if a machine or piece of handheld equipment does the answering for you.
For me I have always loved reading, and finding out information from history, from the Bible to learning what recipes came from which country!  (Consider this: it was stated that Sir Walter Raleigh brought the potato back from the Americas and it was promptly introduced at the royal court of Queen Elizabeth. The group viewed it and then ate it raw! Since that time England swings with the new concoction of fish and chips. And if you are in England try them, they are oh so good!)

To learn anything, takes time and the willingness to study to acquire that place of knowing good information that equates with going somewhere with that which one can stand on and not that which equates no quality, which brings pain, darkness and no favor anywhere.

Anyone seeking that study time will seriously seek some good  time and generally alone time in a quiet room. My quiet time is in the office.  I love looking up early preachers of the Word of God and love finding out what their lives were truly like over one hundred years ago. For a person to bloom into what God has for them today, it requires them to have that foundation of the Gospel. Reading and studying the Bible from cover to cover would be a good start. And what is awesome about that today, is that they have the Bible on CD! So you could take it in your car or truck, to work or to the beach and see some great change come into your life!


Was thinking of the teen wanting the "great paying " job, but did he know how to push the broom, clean up and stack things in order? Could he take out the trash or was that left for the owner to do?
I think also of those walking the "streets" for change in the schools and most who carry the signs are made by 13 -17 years old. Now what change could they expect...for they have only known a few years of life and hopefully it was in school?  Yet even today there are those who walk the streets during school time, so I ask you what are they missing that day of which they might require in the future?

My husband and I saw this story of a young woman who most likely was about 21 years of age and she had been raised as an orphan. Not of this country, she grew up in the slums of a third world country, but chose to attend school. Still within her inadequate care of good food and clean environment she became ill, not unto death but did  have the kind of sickness which affected her brain. (especially in the thinking region of her brain) Still she proved to herself she could study and become a responsible adult.
It took her some years, but she moved from the fantasy to living as the responsible and in that she actually found parents to care for her who were not her biological but loved her just the same! For many though who have the advantage here, seem to need proof to back their own opinions and ideas.
Saw a writing by a theologian who stated that many today lack resources, many have the lack of time and many lack the resource of education to make the search for God. Of course he was mentioning those of third world countries. Many have to walk to find water and then it is not drinkable. Many are women who have been abandoned by husbands and now must care for their children alone! But I am certain that would not be the case in the country of which we live like America! Of late, the leading was toward creating "a god or goddess"!  People like the Avengers and the false reality many adhere to living, and the feedback  that was sent out today echoed the sentiments of the writers or creators of such are getting tired of the new story lines. But many people choose a leading in that which makes them comfortable to their idea of living for the fun times. In their consciences, they truly dodge that which they should grasp in knowing God but conform to gods and goddesses where magic rules, and responsibility is thrown out the window.


Jesus was given the tongue of the learned. He as the Prophet was given the exact word given to Him by the Father. Ezekiel 3:17 NKJV   17"Son of Man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; therefore hear a word from My mouth, and give them warning from Me. Matthew 13:52 NKJV 52 Then He said to them, "Therefore every scribe instructed concerning the kingdom of heaven is life a householder who brings out of his treasure things new and old.
Jesus brought forth that which was spoken of Him from the Old Testament and Revealed the New Testament in and through Him!

Jesus spoke this in John 12:49 "For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak.

Jesus became the qualified. He became the Son . God opens our ears to hear. And like the Son we are not to be rebellious when He speaks. Jesus was willing to learn and to become what He was destined for as the divine sacrifice without sin! Despite the negative and the scorn, Jesus proved to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit. He did not demand 35 dollars an hour to start out in His walk. No He was steadfastly set firmed and focused to accomplishe which even meant His death!

Isaiah 50: 7 continues with this: 7 For the Lord God will help Me; therefore I will not be disgraced; therefore I have set My face like a flint, and I know that I will not be ashamed. 8 He is near who justifies Me; Who will contend with Me? Let us stand together. Who is My adversary? Let him come near Me.

God, His Father vindicates Jesus' character, approves of what Jesus did and declares Jesus innocent. And this was a prophetic word about HIM! With Jehovah as His advocate and His help, Jesus would prevail!

No "boss babies" here please! Truly our eyes are to be fixed on the word of God, following righteousness seeking the Lord always. We have received deliverance out of every phase of the curse for all men who will conform to His will. For when God promotes, others will desire to hear God's word through you and through me. For when God promotes, favor on our lives will be seen. And by faith we must believe and receive that which is in God for our light will break forth like the beams of the sun on a clear morning. Our righteousness that is of and in God will be seen as whole and healthy and God's glory will be our rear guard! Darkness has passed, light has appeared and in this day we delight. For in this process of time, we become what he destined for us to be in this moment now for His glory for now and forever. Amen!

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The Presentation Of God's Empathy

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The Corruption of the Faith Or The Agonizing Faith

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Cloudy with a Chance of What?

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Now if you live in the Northwest region of the U.S. you will certainly have some cloudy days. Of late we had those fronts come that bring not only low clouds, heavy rain, but also some dampness with cold brisk winds. This is April and not January, please! Now I realize the "old saying" that April showers bring May flowers, but the flowers we already have in sight require some much need sun and not a soaking pot of soil with extra amounts of water!
In searching or seeking the Lord, we can sometimes find those cloudy days with a chance of something we did not expect.
Was reading a book given to me by a neighbor to read on prayer. It has been quite a delight to read and the endeavors the author walked through provided answers to him through seeking the Father in prayer times, reading of the word and fasting!
Was thinking of David encountering Goliath...you know the young man charging the giant in front of multitudes that were more equipped than he in their active role of military, still the young man poised with God and His plan solved the dilemma for King Saul!
Noah too, had much rejection as well.....as the pastor of only what was of few people being his family, he built an ark in the desert and with very little help. We know it took him a while to build it since the one hundred years marked the end of construction and the beginning of much rain.

Faith is needed to live a spiritual life! Faith is required for those not afraid to see the unseen appear when they believe, fast and pray for the thing they seek. Certainly those things should be for the glory to God and to His praise, and He certainly does not mind us having things as longs as "things" do not have us!
The initial faith to just make it across town is certainly safety we all seek. It is also the faith most walk with. It appears as: "Lord help me to cross over to the other side in safety" and then when there, we pray the same to return home. But when we are really strong in faith we are those who live by the spirit, to see in the Spirit as the Spirit leads us home and to God's glory! It is a bulldog faith that pulls the crippled out of wheel chairs, and sees the dead live to walk again!

John 4:24 "God is spirit and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. Living in God is living in reality not what you see on those reality T.V. programs!  We are to reject those things that separate us from God. And we are to nurture an increasingly deepened relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ. It is only that which comes from Him that brings life.

The Spirit of God the Holy Spirit came and Jesus spoke of His coming.
Jesus is the example of the cultivated life in the Spirit. The Holy Spirit came on Jesus at the Jordan in the water baptism and the Holy Spirit proved vital energy to His life of devotion to God the Father. In drawing from the well of salvation, we draw on the very promises of God that produces the life God intended us to have. In the light of these promises we have the light of life that came through Jesus. And in that light we see both spiritually and physically. So there should be no blindness in our lives.

David with spiritual eyes took 5 stones but he only needed the 1 stone to slay the giant. The other four stones was for the brothers of the giant! (1 Samuel 17:40)
Noah had spiritual energy and spiritual knowledge to see how to build an ark with his family. Have you worked with family? And the wise men saw the star.....being led by the ONE who CREATED the very stars in the sky to lead them to the Messiah, to upset King Herod and to make a statement to the wise men in a dream to depart another way home! ( Matthew 2:12)

Clouds appeared on these situations but not so much as a real cloud, because Noah had never known rain, and still it was a "word" given that rain was coming to flood what they knew as home. David was flanked by military "know it all's "  who had a the savvy but not God's favor.
Those captured by God, and His excellence will find truth carried out in justice. These two sought to bind themselves to God's presence and His promptings. Being sensitive to God's Spirit quiets our spirit into His peace. Responding to Him is answering in obedience that is of worship to Him and for Him.
 In these it was of what one could count as cloudy with a chance of something happening, but God intervenes when He gives His word. These two were delivered out of adversity!
For Noah, his family was preserved. The first covenant of promise was given. Noah built but God gathered. In obedience, Noah put something together for God and when the structure was sturdy and ready God gathered. God gathered with the love to usher and place in safety that which God Himself wanted to preserve as the godly family and God's creation of animals.
For David, a throne was established that would come from the very lineage of a shepherd boy. Told of the enduring house (1 Samuel 25:28) for Abigail ,married to a scoundrel, knew by the Holy Spirit when meeting him on the way told told him that  he was one who fought the battles of the LORD and evil was not found in David throughout his days.
 In 2 Samuel 7 God declares in verse 13 that He would establish a throne of the seed of David. Through Solomon the generations were set to deliver the manifested King. Verse 16 God declared "your house and your kingdom shall be established forever."
Jesus lived out His time in the Spirit. He moved from place to place to declare the Father's glory. He lived by the spirit to see the future and we too, are to declare our future by the words of spirit and truth.
Jesus operated by the Holy Spirit of truth. And Jesus wore a crown of thorns. Cloudy with a chance of what?
For many people of that day expected Jesus to take over the throne from the king, move Rome out and live free and happy. Awe, but this was not to be done in this manner. For the Messiah was seen by wise men, and was expected by none else but only Mary and her cousin Elizabeth knew. Time reveals all and just because it is cloudy and raining out of that which may sound like defeat, death causing disease or loneliness, yet God is on the scene. He has never left us. He did not leave Noah, David nor did He leave Mary, Elizabeth or Jesus. In relying by faith we see that which we believe.
Down on our knees we submit to His plan, and by praying we seek to know the truth for our lives. And in that we find comfort from the psalmists before us that spoke of despair but rose to see justice in their time!
You may be saturated in mire, but God delivered us in freedom of salvation and with our debt paid we are to rally in the goodness of God and be comforted that help is here and available when we truly look with spiritual eyes in faith to see the way in which we are to walk according to His plan and for His glory! Amen.

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The Presentation Of God's Empathy

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The Corruption of the Faith Or The Agonizing Faith

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Once Saved Always Saved!?!

If going without the Lord
a ladder may not always be handy!

What? Once saved always saved, no that is so wrong in so many ways!
Our walk is with the Lord, not with the world, and people on a whim can drop whatever is worthwhile and go after that which brings no life or light to them or anyone else.
My husband and I were talking about this very subject yesterday and was telling him of the responses I had heard. He told me he had watched Ask the Pastor on Friday before noon, while I was preparing to teach, and he said this question was asked, again, once saved always saved!?!

When born again, our walk is with Jesus seated on the throne of our hearts! In that we are led by His Holy Spirit that directs to the very things Jesus spoke while on this earth. In these many years I have been alive, I have seen many leave a church but also leave the Lord. In their hearts they chose to worship someone or something besides the Savior, the Redeemer to the lost!

Jesus said this in the book of John11:25-26 NKJV 25 "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. 26 And whoever lives and believes in Me, shall never die. do you believe this?
In looking up the meanings of these words, this was the event to bring us back to spiritual truth and to have moral recovery. Now if you have ever gone through any kind of operation, you can find there is a time for recovery. It is not instant on the spot, and you are back on track, living pain free life to the full. Although we can believe for that still our bodies have some time of recovery, so too our spirit man was be brought to life to be born again into the things of God. That is, we are to find His ways and His thoughts and walk that way.
So if you were born again, ten years ago and walked out to do something else without regard to God, His Son Jesus or to your life forever, then you have walked your own way, doing your own thing and of which we know is destructive indeed!

Surely God has His plan, and His ways and truths are not burdensome. Jesus said, "My yoke is easy and My burden is light." (Matthew 11:30)
We are to be coupled with Him as two oxen in a yoke for plowing. For in this daily togetherness, He declares the way and light of the morals we are to have for useful and protective life. Of that which pertains to Jesus, is the easy way truly to go and walk daily!

Proverbs 3:17 tells us of the wisdom of God. "Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. 18 she is a tree of life to those who take hold of her, and happy are all who retain her.

Now retain is to hold fast. So if I followed my sister up a tree and found her laughing every inch of the way, I surely wanted the same laughter to come back down. But alas, I was not the tree climber she is or was. I wanted to do that, but for her it was a game, something of ease but spelled something totally different for me. I had to wait for help when someone hopefully would bring a ladder to aid or assist me down the thirty foot tree. Yikes!
Following after someone or something is not good at all! The only one we should follow and be excited about is following Jesus, the Son of God, who was resurrected so that we might have life everlasting.

Now there are things safe to do outside of climbing trees, like hiking, or swimming or even playing golf. But those things must be kept as exercise and not as a God to us. Now of course, my sister was being herself at age 6 who loved trees, and great heights. She love to stand in red ant beds and see them crawl over her feet. Yes, she out grew that thing, and today serves the Lord not looking for ant beds, but looking out through prayer for those who might be running down the wrong path, moving away from Jesus and just looking to live like the world.

God surely wants us to enjoy our life and He will give us those righteous desires when we delight in Him! Psalm 37: 3-6 NKJV tells us this: 3 Trust in the LORD and do good; Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness. 4 Delight yourself also in the LORD, and He shall give you the desires of your heart. 5 Commit your way to the LORD, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass. 6 He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light and your justice as the noonday.

God's  justice is supreme in power in authority as well! It is His truth that penetrates through of the excuses we can make about either our conduct or just bad attitude! But we must understand that it is all measured against His truth. It is so important for us to see His standard of truth, the very word of God as the path to follow and in having a true desire to live by faith in Him, then we see and recognize His very sense of justice.

So the entire picture of following God is paramount. Reality is God's justice and verses 4 through 6, that a committed person will  delight in the LORD, will set His standard of truth in their heart, and begin to see justice appear as the noonday in their life.

If delivered from sin, then why go back to the sinful life? That good life, that where the precious pearl is found in Jesus, the manifested Word of God

Once saved always saved........that is used to find an excuse to do whatever the flesh creature desires. The person with a heart for God will truly remove their wants out of the way to make room for peace, joy and love of God for themselves and their loved ones. May we truly stay within the Word and see His justice revealed for us and our families. May we truly desire to see our justice come as the noonday when we follow truth having moral recovery from sin and find the love we were meant to know. It is more exciting to follow Him in an adventure of faith than to follow someone say like up a tree and cannot get down without some assistance. The Lord will keep us in that place that is safe for  us and within this relationship we will see the effect of the permanent change that is for the positive in our lives! Amen.

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The Presentation Of God's Empathy

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The Ark: The Symbol of Strength 

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No WORRIES

There was a saying many decades ago about knocking on wood to ward off evil spirits and evil things from happening to you! I remember my mother wanting to do that and I told her that was silly! And yet today some many decades later, I see people still mentioning it while they speak.
Really?!?
So people speak this: Well really hoping no trouble with the car, knock on wood!
So people think this will ward off any difficulties?
Philippians 4:4-7 NKJV 4 Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice! 5 Let your gentleness be known to all men, The Lord is at hand. 6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Our character and conduct begin in the mind. Our minds must be made up to do what God has asked us to do. We are to rejoice always and pray continuously. Within our minds we prove His word out. Within our minds, we dwell on prayer and joy in the Lord being anxious for nothing. This faith walk is an adventure and just when you think you have some amount of knowledge, something rears its ugly head, and for a moment we must choose again whom we will serve.
Will it be the flesh creature or actually be our will to serve the Lord with gladness in our hearts? All of our circumstances are known to God, we learn to be content, knowing He knows all things. Responding in prayer, we throw our trust into His capable hands and expect great freedom for our lives.

BUT we must believe Him. We must believe that when we give that Worrisome circumstance to Him, He will see our faith move forward and be active daily understanding there is a work in progress. Looking into the rear view mirror will not help one to reach forward, for it is of an earnest effort that we keep focused on what is before them and not dwelling on yesterday. That forward look is toward the brightest light possible. Sunshades anyone?

Yet we are to be those marked in maturity, seekers of the good in the Lord, mindful that He is mindful of us and has got our backs. Our INTERCESSOR  is always going at it. He is fixed on the purpose for which He went to the Cross and ours is to expect Him to answer. And sometimes the answer may not look the way we expect it, but we are not to fear. Wonderful and faithful is He, the One Who loves us and shows us the way through!

2 Peter 1:2-4 NKJV Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, 4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the diving nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

In pursuing God and His holiness, we recognize that unrighteous behavior. By His word, we recognize when the flesh is crawling and wanting its way. But God is our TEACHER! In Him there is no darkness and when  we speak out His words in the promises, we testify that He is truth and truly He guides in the way, the truth and life that He is to us! Living holy is saying to our minds line up with God, align to His way of doing, and then we are safeguarded against the false, against those who would try to snare us into stupid thinking.
Receive all that God our Father has provided. Abiding in Him, there are no worries only benefits. Persevere, and recall His faithfulness to you in the past but participate with Him in your present moment. Be assured He is standing by and ready so that you will be found in peace. For it is by His power, you and I will live without worry for we walk today in a holy lifestyle that is marked with grace and the power of Almighty God! Amen.

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Paths & Landmarks

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The Gang's All Here

Jesus can even enter through locked doors!

Was thinking and meditating on John 20. Had received an email from family about Passover and Resurrection Day and thought of "the one day soon" when our Savior returns!
He came to deliver us to soundness, a perfect soundness of mind and of wholeness to the body
The important point was that Jesus prevailed by the Word of God. He was the Word manifested and can be the manifested word in our lives when we continue to speak that truth and believe it. When that occurs we can tell others of His word living and abiding in us and how daily we are living unto the purpose God planned for us to live.

John 20:24-31 Amplified Bible 24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. 25  So the other disciples kept telling him, We have seen the Lord! But he said to them, Unless I see in His hands the marks made by the nails and put my finger into the nail prints, and put my hand into His side, I will never believe [it].

Yes, there are still those like Thomas who exist too!

26 Eight days later His disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, though they were behind closed doors, and stood among them and said, Peace to you!

Even behind locked doors the Lord Jesus can reach us! Nothing prevents Him to reach us! (Now some believe this was church time, it appeared more like they were hiding)

27 The He said to Thomas, Reach out your finger here and see My hands; and put out your hand and place [it] in My side. Do not be faithless and incredulous, but [stop your unbelief and] believe! 28 Thomas answered Him, My Lord and my God! 29 Jesus said to him, Because you have seen Me, Thomas, do you now believe (trust, have faith)? Blessed and happy and to be envied are those who have never seen Me and yet have believed and adhered to and trusted and relied on Me. 30 There are also many other signs and miracles which Jesus performed in the presence of the disciples which are not written in this book. 31 but these are written (recorded) in order that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ (the Anointed One) the Son of God, and that through believing and cleaving to and trusting and relying upon Him you may have life through (in) His name [through Who He is].

My husband and I heard a teaching today that revealed much about that leaving the family that raised you and to cling to the wife. Much clarity revealed that when a man actually leaves....and begins to cleave to his wife....His wife is all he really needs in the plan that God put forth. With God leading the way, then the image of God is to appear, His righteousness is to also appear in our living day to day. The husband leaving his family now cleaves and clings to the wife. That is revealed even  in our walk with God.

We are to rely only on Him totally! Thomas still would not believe unless he did step 1...unless I see His hands, step 2, unless I put my finger into the nail prints and 3 unless I put my hand into His side I will never believe.

One other area of Thomas is found in John 11. In it Jesus was going to where Lazarus had died. But Thomas knew the Jews were there. His reasoned that if they killed Jesus, then all the disciples would die as well. Yes, this man had some obvious doom and gloom in his life. In making his decisions, they were made without the truth of the word of God. And there are some who will encourage you in doom and gloom. Thomas did that!
Thomas said this: John 11: 16 Then Thomas, who was called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples. "Let us go too, that we may die (be killed) along with Him.

The fear of men always brings a snare (Proverbs 29:25), and Jesus wants His disciples to avoid it and be stable in their faith.


We should be able to see Jesus in the pages of the New Testament. Although the Old Testament does give witness through prophetic words that He was coming. Still, today many are told of His return, but how many are watching and waiting for Him. As the disciples of Christ Jesus, we should go about to build one another in their faith. But Thomas did not receive from them!
Thomas was absent from the gang. And those who were behind doors sought to lock them tight because of their fear of the Jews! But Thomas had also individually locked out the Holy One of Israel. Thomas was limited in his thinking and convinced by his "own method" and do it his way....which pretty much left him in a state of unbelief! His friends in the Lord should have been enough to spark an enthusiasm, yet he was left there.....like in neutral and without the Lord, without joy and utterly hopeless. But the Lord Jesus came again.

Then ultimately Thomas faced his unbelief. He proclaimed to Jesus, "My Lord and my God!"
Where was Thomas when Jesus appeared the first time? When walking with the other disciples why did Thomas not believe them when they spoke of their Lord and Savior?
It all comes back to "heart issues"!
He appeared as the slow in faith and certainly weak as well. For we are to adhere to the Lord's teachings and of that teaching we are to embrace it. We are not to change to suit us but receive it as it is that word that sets the captives free! He had the same teachings as all the others. Judas betrayed Jesus and Thomas was held captive by his unbelief!

1 John 5:10-11 NKJV 10 He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself; he who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony that God has given of His Son. 11 And this is the testimony that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

For we should know Jesus in our hearts, know when He is present and know He is for us!

John 20:27-29   NIV 27 Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand & put it into my side. Stop doubting - believe." 28 Thomas said to him, "My Lord & my God!"     29 Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen & yet have believed." 

Stop doubting! The only one you really need is Jesus! Stop doubting, and remember that He went to the Cross as the sacrifice for our sins. Remember that receiving Him as Lord, we receive all that the Father has for us. We are to act like Jesus and be available to tell others of Him! If they need to see Him, then may they truly see Him in you and in me! For without Him we can do nothing of ourselves. Those who walk by faith honor God and they honor the Lord! God cannot lie. What He has spoken He will do it!

I think we should not dare miss the miraculous by being stuck on the side of the road. Hesitant of whether it be God or not, for in truly believing you and I have eternal life in His Name! WE continue in the forward motion of life and ever clinging to His goodness and the love He gave for us!

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Moses, Sent Back for Purpose

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Paths & Landmarks

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Attachments

To add  or attach long lists to what God has already done:wrong!

John 9:29-38 Amplified Bible 29 We know for certain that God spoke with Moses, but as for this Fellow, we know nothing about where He hails from. 30 The man replied, Well this astonishing! Here a man has opened my eyes, and yet you do not know where He comes from [That is amazing!] 31 We know that God does not listen to sinners; but if anyone is God-fearing and a worshiper of Him and does His will, He listens to him. 32 since the beginning of time it has never been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind. 33 If this Man were not from God, He would not be able to do anything like this. 34  They retorted, "You were wholly born in sin [from head to foot]; and do you [presume to] teach us? So they cast him out [threw him clear outside the synagogue]. 35 Jesus heard that they had put him out, and meeting him He said, Do you believe in and adhere to the Son of Man, or the Son of God? 36 He answered, Who is He, Sir? Tell me, that I may believe in and adhere to Him. 37 Jesus said to him, You have seen Him; [in fact] He is talking to you right now. 38 He called out, Lord I believe! [ I rely on, I trust, I cleave to You!] And he worshiped Him.


Attachments are good on a sewing machine! Attachments are good on say your Kitchen-Aid Mixer, or coffee maker, yet having attachments to people is not a good thing!
Now for these Pharisees that spoke with great words that they knew of Moses, that God spoke with Moses, but with this Fellow, they knew nothing. They had evidently a great attachment to Moses. They highly regarded him and continued to add even more rules to the Law Moses implemented. Their accountability moved from God to man! Yikes! And they confused personal preferences with divine law.

In verse 30 the young man speaks out with boldness..."Here a man has opened my eyes, and yet you do not know where He comes from [that is amazing!]
The Pharisees are so upset with this, they seem to point the young man to God and how He spoke to Moses and how God does not listen to sinners. These men became arrogant in speech when they retorted" and do you presume to teach us?" They resorted to their own kind of righteousness!

God heals today just like He did when Jesus walked here! And still there are those who will never submit to His healing power. Jesus certainly opened many eyes to see Him. And the ones of who really needed to see, were steeped in their own thing. They lived in inconsistencies, and with a judgmental spirit.  They desired to stay in their own goodness not going anywhere or doing anything for God caused them to miss out entirely on God's movements through Jesus.


How sad today there are those steeped in their own ways of living or think they are living for God and in truth have not seen Him in a long while. WE certainly need to know what we are connected to and connected with. Pharisees worshiped Moses. They worshiped the past. Instead of worshiping God they had no sight to see life when it appeared on the scene. When we start changing God's word to fit our lives, instead of allowing His word to align us to His thoughts and ways we fall into a big pit of trouble.

If we make our time only to connect with last years times with God, those wow moments that have long passed, then how can we possibly expect to connect with God today. Surely He knows where we are and what we are doing. But do we know where He is actively moving in and through today?



Without Him we can do nothing! Without the Lord, we lose big time! Without life from Him we find only dead things!
Isaiah 42:6-9 Amplified Bible 6 I the Lord have called You [the Messiah] for a righteous purpose and in righteousness; I will take You by the hand and will keep You; I will give You fro a covenant to the people [Israel], for a light to the nations [Gentiles]. 7 To open the eyes of the blind, to bring out prisoners, from the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness from the prison. [Matthew 12:18-21] 8 I am the Lord; that is My name! And My glory I will not give to another, nor My praise to graven images. 9 Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I will tell you of them.

The Lord Jesus came for purpose to bring to light them that were in darkness. And when the chosen people refused, the Gospel came to the Gentiles. When Jesus exposed the religious men they reviled Him and called Him terrible names. In their wickedness they called Him wicked! Their judgment would be seen some seventy years later when one stone would not be left on another.

Without Christ, we are empty, void of life and headed for a place with no God and much doom! What was revealed by the Holy Spirit in Jesus, can be the "new", going on a pathway that is well-lit, going in the sound of glory for God's name who wanted us. He desired us and we were to take nothing into this arrangement. We were to receive life by repenting of sins!
And the attachment came by the Blood of Jesus!
What is of religion must be removed from us! What is of rules and regulations set by men is to be removed as well. Our walk is to be in accordance what God our Father as set down. It is for boundary and safety. We are saved by Grace and in that the "shed blood of Jesus" binds us to the heart of God. The only attachment you or I need is the Blood of the Lamb and within that we are truly saved, looking upon the beauty of the risen Savior and looking forward to His soon return. Amen!

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How Far Can YOU Reach Out?

How Far Can YOU Reach Out?

Remembering when I was a small child that there was no fence to hold me. I could unlock any gate and could move pretty fast. And that was when I was three years old. My father told many stories of my adventures in the great outdoors. He said I kept him fit to run a good race. I had a great want to in my heart to get outside and enjoy the outdoors indeed!

For each of us, we too still have that need to sometime just “get away from it all” and unwind. I find I can be more keyed up if it is in a city of a million people. I remember the story of our daughter and son-in-law going to New York. When they returned from this trip the stories were many and rather scary!

I remember their descriptions of the loud horns honking and people running to get out of the way of the vehicles and this was on the side walk! Nope, not going to visit there….I will not find that enjoyable if cabs and such drive on the sidewalks in New York City.

But “how far” will we reach for something to grasp, to do or just to think on? How far will we extend ourselves in the pocketbook or extend ourselves in eating “too much”?

Awoke this morning in thinking of Paul and is his words in Acts 17. We must reach out to Him!

Acts 17:24-28  Amplified Bible 24 The God Who produced and formed the world and all things in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in handmade shrines. 25 Neither is He served by human hands, as though He lacked anything, for it is he Himself Who gives life and breath and all things to all [people]. 26 and He made from one [common origin, one source, one blood] all nations of men to settle on the face of the earth, having definitely determined [their] allotted periods of time and the fixed boundaries of their habitation ( their settlements, lands, and abodes). 27 So let they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel after Him and find Him, although He is not far from each one of us. 28 For in Him we live and move and have our being; as even some of your [own] poets have said, For we are also His offspring.

It is in Him that we live, move and have our being! When I allow my heart to rise in worship…….without the smoke and swirling lights, without the “bass guitar”, without Cindy Sue leading, I allow God my Father to invade my heart. My lifting my heart in worship I am seeking His presence, His love and His peace!

In choosing to adore Him, I am reaching into those places that is within my “own heart” that needs changing.

How far can you reach out? Well, how far is “your want to”…reach and what is it you are reaching for….another trip, another game, another new “thing” or another place just to “look”.

 Reaching out to our Lord is reaching out with an open heart! It is reaching out with a song in our heart.

When we reach for Him through worship we gain our strength through Him so our strength will increase. And when we do that, even our  determination will increase to reach out to Him.

This past week, we had spent some time with our family. Our grand-daughter had much to say about those with fat eye lids who cannot see God or the sun! And in her reflection she thought reaching out was going out to enjoy what God has created and then for us to enjoy the beauty of the great out-doors! I agree with her that our eyes will certainly see more clearly when we keep in mind Who created all this for us! But can you imagine the depths or heights one might ascend to in God when we worship with an open heart………..one open to the truths of God and never locking them out ever.

But reaching out for Him, requires us to yield to Him! And our God certainly wants to fill us with His presence. He certainly desires to give us opportunities to minister life to others through Him. One thing is certain, relationship is needed. In fellowship, we are expressing trust in Him who is more than enough. He truly is our sufficiency. God our Father desires us to reach out like children. He desires us to continue with Him and by His Spirit He will reveal tomorrow!

When we truly choose to open wide our hearts, we find He will reveal the hurts, the wounds, and the pain from previous calamities of the past. Reaching for Him, we reach His love that will penetrate the wounds and declare them healed. He will access that hurt and cause the light of His Word to reveal that which was just about a trust in a  man and not in God Himself. Like our grand-daughter said, God likes to remove the fat from our eyes so that we are no longer blind.

Psalm 73:5-9 Amp. Bible 5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they smitten and plagued like other men. 6 Therefore pride is about their necks like a chain; violence covers them like a garment [like a long, luxurious robe]. 7 Their eyes stand out with fatness, they have more than heart could wish; and the imaginations of their minds overflow [with follies]. 8 They scoff, and wickedly utter oppressions, they speak loftily [from on high, maliciously and blasphemously]. 9 They set their mouths against and speak down from heaven, and their tongues swagger trough the earth [invading even heaven with blasphemy and smearing earth with slanders].

One commentary notes these people are as common as the human “hog” that desires more and more. They are always pushing the envelope and never know the real truth. They like making stuff up as they go along in life. They do not like God and will have nothing to do with worship to Him. Even more they revile the saints of God. They hate those who follow as disciples of Christ Jesus.

Serving the world can certainly serve you up some “ grand stuff” but will not give life, will not bring you into the presence of the almighty God but will only bring you to the place of folly!

We each have an ability given by God to seek Him, yet many choose ease, that which dictates their choice of excuse to put off any work. They are passive, lack initiative, live by the habit of procrastination, ( their vocabulary is full of procrastinations ). They are oblivious to the dire results they will suffer by the lack of discipline their lives require! They speak : IT IS NOT A GOOD TIME!.....

Our hearts play a real role in our choosing: & from God we have creativity, we have flair to be the original that God created and not a copy!  We are to be leading by action, we are to be in motion,  to be responsible …Romans. 12:7-9 Amp. Bible 7 He whose gift is practical service, let him give himself to serving; he who teaches, to his teaching, 8 He who exhorts (encourages) to his exhortation, he who contributes, let him do it in simplicity & liberality; he who gives aid and superintends, with zeal and singleness of mind; he who does acts of mercy, with genuine cheerfulness & joyful eagerness. 9 Let your love be sincere ( a real thing) ; hate what is evil [loathe all ungodliness, turn in horror from wickedness], but hold fast to that which is good.

Reaching out is doing something. It is active and it is to seek the Good of GOD! We are to hate evil and love with sincerity. To do that we must give our hearts to Him, so that we will live and move and have our being in Him.

Hebrews 13:15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

Colossians 3:1,2 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

May we allow Him to invade our hearts when we give the sacrifice of praise to God continually. For the fruit will appear in thanks to His name and we will see with the new vantage point, not with fat eyelids but truly see with eyes wide open to see the beauty of the Lord  and abide in a joyful eagerness to reach for Him more and more every day. Amen!

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Studying to Give an Answer

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