07.Wk5_2020_July(PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly

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Date: 07/31/2020 Friday

Soul Vibes and Starters (YouTube.Com)Lord the songs that pop in this head  or the vibes that keep me moving.  Thank you!  

https://youtu.be/9PdV0hcAwXk “You Keep Hope Alive” @Mandisa (Unity International)

https://youtu.be/Q5cPQg3oq-o      “Only God Knows” @For King and Country

https://youtu.be/1T2tMt0Ky6g “Stand In Your Love” @Josh Baldwin

 

Biblegateway.com (DAILY VERSE)

John 1:12-13 (TLB) ^11-12 Even in his own land and among his own people, the Jews, he was not accepted. Only a few would welcome and receive him. But to all who received him, he gave the right to become children of God. All they needed to do was to trust him to save them.^[a] 13 All those who believe this are reborn!—not a physical rebirth^[b] resulting from human passion or plan—but from the will of God.

Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (my perspectives and/or feelings):

When you know what you know and just do not have to have anything in front of you.  Is as strong and strange as when you do not know, what you just do not know.

Thank you for making me shut down yesterday and finding that deep sleep last night even if it was broken.

Thank you for allowing me up this day and thank you for allowing me to wake up on time.

Lord no matter what the storm, may we all take refuge in you.

You allow things to prepare us for your will, your work, and your blessings.

Wide awake or sleeping with our eyes and hearts wide open.   You God knows all things and all the why’s, when and what happens on the other side.

No matter what my day looks like if it shows up at all thank you for the clarity even in the darkness.

Thank you for allowing me reasons to cling to your hope and faith in the future with you.

I know without this I would be in the fire over and over again with my weak needy spirit thinking I cannot or doubting when I am good enough or even is that real.

None of it matters even when the weight of the world gets so heavy it makes your heart just hurt.

May we get through the storms and ride the waves with you alone Jesus and when, or if you allow someone to ride with us.   May we always do our best to shine bright for all you bless.    Not just what we think we must and setting up games, life, people to fit whatever that may be.

Yesterday, I clearly just did not feel the vibes, challenged once more with the overwhelming let go of social media and all that goes with it.

As more souls are stuck trying to learn how they will make ends meet, how they will pay for the expense to live.  More and more children going hungry, more and more people even just taking advantage thinking what is in this dark times will not be reflected in the light and they at some point will need to resolve what they have done harm to and with.

None of this is news to you though Lord; perhaps this is your way of shaking out all those that pretend to be what they are not.  Perhaps it is your way of teaching those how to live that have scars so deep, they themselves hold too tightly to what they should not and not enough to what you will.

In any matter, I pray Father that you lead me with each day you allow me up I am given your lesson and the blessings that come from it.  If something less is to be, you guide me through; if something more is that I cannot see.   I pray seeking forgiveness and you allow me all that truly will be.

In any event for me or all I am connected; Lead us Jesus.  Protect and guide those who are my family.   Protect our children of this future; those just getting out into the world those just born into this world.

Lifting up those who have been around a long time Father and are in the hands of our doctors and hospitals.    Those I know, those I do not.

There are not enough projects I can do Jesus, not enough health in me that will not be made to just lay down to you and rest the temple we are given.

Doing too much, in the heat, in the layers of all that is unknown.  Alone or with all those who pretend or all those that are going through it as well.

All that happens in this world in our today’s given; none of this is a surprise.  

I pray my heart you allow to share never hardens, that anything I say, to flow through you first and always Lord.

That the sweetness of this world does not blind us, and we keep it real, no matter what the result looks like.

Keep me and all my connections  from those that just cannot be real!  

Thank you for this new day.  

May I always respect, remaining loyal and non-abrasive as it is clear it does not matter if those I am connected are rich or poor, size or color; have titles of a POTUS or POPE or even those that I come to love, or even those that feed this spirit with music and are my number one go to artists or musical bands.   I will absolutely never have time for fakes, frauds, impersonators. 

No matter what their needs, their games.  Lord I pray protection against the thieves and harmful vessels.   May they be given another way to work, to walk in the light and feed and manage their duties.     Keep them from harming others.

Wash all the nonsense away be it family, friends, connections or all unknown.    May this moral compass never lead me astray into the pit where I think I am that deserving to be protected and not come out unscathed or tattered.

Lead us Father  https://youtu.be/1Ko4yroBP0A “Spirit Lead Me” @Michael Ketterer -Influence Music

As we are blessed and here wrapping out this last day of July Father, may we, myself and all I ever connect learn to trust in you.  May I let go and let your will wash through me for all the unknown.  May I love as you would love and let go even when it hurts to never sabotage what may be or shut down before ever finding out.

As my fear does not stand a chance when I am standing with you.  No matter what the storm, how high the wave, how desperately I seek that Agape love or for who may I always stand on firm foundation in your love for me not just for all I am blessed to connect.

Be with us all Lord, come wash through this world and truly reflect openly what matters and let go of what does not.

Guide me through these projects Father to finish up and rest and look through what ever will be.   Protect us through all the storms of life that will be or are.

As you Lord have a way to hold us until we are absolutely ready to deal with what may be.  Or a way of getting us out of harms way.    The power to move mountains or calm raging storms and seas.

Jesus calm the seas of unknown with healing, power, and your abundant love in 2020.  For all!   Not just what I do not understand.   None of us deserve mercy or grace; but you bless us.   May your people rise up; in hope, in love, in light together loving themselves with the respect and value of you first; then loving all they are connected.

Perhaps these thoughts are too grand to be understood by many.  Perhaps the dreams of saving the world or those in need are ridiculous when one cannot even save themselves from twisting and turning.   Perhaps not.

Perhaps the spirit that is within allows the love and connection it does to shine bright or steal others light to give them anew.

Whatever the case maybe Jesus.   Please hear all that is churning.   Lead us to the cross and may we remain calm until your time reveals it is now.

Thank you for this day and any others that shall come.

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Ephesians 3:20-21  (TLB)  ²⁰ Now glory be to God, who by his mighty power at work within us is able to do far more than we would ever dare to ask or even dream of—infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, or hopes. ²¹ May he be given glory forever and ever through endless ages because of his master plan of salvation for the Church through Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 12:9  (TLB) ⁹ Each time he said, “No. But I am with you; that is all you need. My power shows up best in weak people.” Now I am glad to boast about how weak I am; I am glad to be a living demonstration of Christ’s power, instead of showing off my own power and abilities.  

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Date: 07/30/2020 Thursday

Soul Vibes and Starters (YouTube.Com)Lord the songs that pop in this head  or the vibes that keep me moving.  Thank you!  

https://youtu.be/hTbeVXuWyaU   “Thinking Out Loud” @Ed Sheeran

https://youtu.be/0DQup4hd1_o     “Only God Knows” @Kid Rock

https://youtu.be/cnmnEc6gF3E    “He Knows My Name” @Fancesca Battistelli

https://youtu.be/HxuMiPHhNK0    “Streets Of Gold” @Isaiah Firebrace

https://youtu.be/P5AkNqLuVgY “Give Me Your Eyes” @Brandon Heath

https://youtu.be/RPYumdhRMkU  “One Call Away” @Charlie Puth

https://youtu.be/QkF3oxziUI4    “Stairway to Heaven” @Led Zeppelin

https://youtu.be/iFNbTdLfBwQ   “Tuesday’s” @Led Zeppelin

https://youtu.be/CqnU_sJ8V-E   “Free Bird” @Led Zeppelin

Biblegateway.com (DAILY VERSE)

Matthew 5:14,16 (NIV)

 ¹⁴ “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.

¹⁶ In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (my perspectives and/or feelings):

Thank you, Jesus, for this new day!   Be with all who call upon you Lord. Be with all who need you and are searching.  Protect, guide and comfort all in need that believe in you from the world and its darkness.

As I am short on words and the direction this mind is to go this morning.

As I am finally physically tired from staying up too late, be it watching a Netflix series or just unable to sleep.  With all that races through this head. 

Work, life, balance is hard to come by somedays more than others.

As I look into the mirror and thankfully blessed to be up and moving again.  

Seeking you and all that your will demands, prayers all I am connected at least for a time long enough to get it; every soul I am connected sees life and meaning through your heart and eyes Lord!

Father may I rest this day even with my day to day that must go on in and with you? 

Thank you for this day.

As it is just one of those turn up the music kind of days and drown out all that is nonsensical reminding me where the stairway to heaven really is.

Everyone always wanting to be something, someone they are not for their own personal gains.

Thank you, Jesus, for always allowing me to be as I was, I am and always no matter what just me!

That I never have to wonder about.   Life is so short to be anything less.

Perhaps that offends some or makes others want to tap in.   No matter what the cause or reason.

I am thankful for who you allow me to be.     In this big worldly canvas that some find me interesting enough, important enough to want to get cut on the broken edges and pieces of me that have been put back together but not yet buffed out.

I lift them all up to you Jesus; no matter if they are seeking what is not justified or just trying to catch the reflection you allow me.

How I am harshly reminded this week of the cycle of life and for everything new beginning something must end.

Sometimes those endings come with nothing left but the loving memories, sometimes the pain and strife.

No matter what the case we all get to choose what we do with the next we are given.

May we never forget the wolf in sheep clothing is particularly good at what they do as they come to rob, maim, or even kill your life permanently.

Choose wisely seeking council in prayer if you are not ready to own what may be next.

Yes, I get it sometimes it is right in our own families of those you put all you are into; that defy you and try to crush you for their own personal gains.

It is no big secret even the bible talks about family turning on family and death and destruction all around us. 

This world is not going to get any better.  We can steal away the moments in time that fill us with promise and hope but without deep faith living within; without a relationship with Jesus Christ we will never have any guarantees God will allow us in when we get to the gates to our eternal destination.

Once we are there is no checking out and being welcomed into the Hotel California where you can never leave will be just a dream that you would of, should of, could of as the pains of what is next rip you to bits.

Yesterday is gone, tomorrow is not promised.  What are you waiting for to tap into all that shines bright filling your spirit with abundant peace through any storm?

As I found my heart just aching this day  even prayers not helping knowing all the wrong being done shadowing over any right

Knowing those that will use you up tossing you aside while those who are real are no where in sight.

Father you know all things bring peace rest and harmony all remaining days or nights

Please Jesus never leave my side  

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Psalms 29:2  (MSG)  A David Psalm
    Gods and all angels shout, “Encore!”
In awe before the glory,
    in awe before God’s visible power.
Stand at attention!
    Dress your best to honor him!
His bright glory fills the whole earth.
    I’m as good as dead!
Every word I’ve ever spoken is tainted—
    blasphemous even!
And the people I live with talk the same way,
    using words that corrupt and desecrate.
And here I’ve looked God in the face!
    The King! God-of-the-Angel-Armies!”
    Gone your guilt,
    your sins wiped out.”
And then I heard the voice of the Master:
    “Whom shall I send?
    Who will go for us?”
I spoke up,
    “I’ll go.
    Send me!”

29 ^1-2 Bravo, God, bravo!

Isaiah 6:3   (MSG)   Holy, Holy, Holy!

6 ^1-8 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Master sitting on a throne—high, exalted!—and the train of his robes filled the Temple. Angel-seraphs hovered above him, each with six wings. With two wings they covered their faces, with two their feet, and with two they flew. And they called back and forth one to the other,

Holy, Holy, Holy is God-of-the-Angel-Armies.

The foundations trembled at the sound of the angel voices, and then the whole house filled with smoke. I said,

“Doom! It’s Doomsday!

Then one of the angel-seraphs flew to me. He held a live coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. He touched my mouth with the coal and said,

“Look. This coal has touched your lips.

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Date: 07/29/2020 Wednesday

Soul Vibes and Starters (YouTube.Com)Lord the songs that pop in this head  or the vibes that keep me moving.  Thank you!  

https://youtu.be/gYR0xP1j4PY “Rescue” @Lauren Daigle

https://youtu.be/QUU0g_RnM34  “Over and Over ” @Riley Clemmons

https://youtu.be/NdJz_mB1f_I     “Just Want You” @Sarah Reeves

https://youtu.be/RctWcSC6QNE      “Faithful” @Sarah Reeves

Biblegateway.com (DAILY VERSE)

Psalm 119:93 (NIV) ⁹³ I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have preserved my life.

Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (my perspectives and/or feelings):

Lord you are my strength and courage for every day you allow me back up.  Today is no different.   Blessed and given life when so many will not have the privilege.

So many will miss all the blessings just because they walk around in their world of whatever has them spinning and not knowing how to come to you  for peace.

I am no different, better, or worse.  Just at peace for the love, mercy and grace you have given me.

Even on those long slow passing sleepless nights.

Slowly allowing physical self to fade away.   Yes, that slow fade where this mind always thinking too much.

Blessed with all the broken pieces of this heart from a journey that started long before me.   Those that just never seem to go away.  

Filled by peace and knowledge of God’s blessings; yet you cannot figure out what, because as if always fall into place or why is it always in the way.

Mother, daughter, aunt, grandma, sister, best-friend.  Purely alive Christ child following through to the end.

Where are you, lover of my being all things to pretend.    Why can’t I see it?  Why can’t I see you?   If not there, here, then, or just when?

Thinking out loud all over again!  It is the real me, am I to be destined.

I knew you long before the dreams, before the why me, before questions to him.

You are better than this and beyond survival even if it seems freshly imaginative 24/7, as darkness cheers to what spins.

Broken pieces scattering color boldly where you go, where you have been.

When it is the flesh you bore; you know this is really going to hurt with scars that will never mend.

Wanting to hold so tight, forced to let go it cannot be possibly happening and it is too good to be true and right.

To the foot of the cross I go as it is my only proven truth and safe zone.

As the shattered pieces has been allowed to bleed.    This child awaits eternity forgetting all the almost, or not close enough.      All the misguided choices she remained accountable for hers and even at times others sin.

To the cross where the only Father ever known has bowed forward with open arms letting her know it is okay to just let go.

Sometimes you have to trust in what you will never be able to explain or show.  Knowing even if, even when just going through the motions will never be in the game.

Keeping the real in reality; no matter what the worldly end.  With Christ at the cross will always be, where truth shall always win.

So, no matter what is or what will be.  No matter what others say, do or see.

Holding tight to that moral compass of who God creates us to be.   Holding tight to that love craved from the outside in that you have from the God who fills you from the inside out giving you air to breathe.

Loving deeply, truly, passionately.  Seeing the soul and the beauty they bring you in life; in dreams in all that you have not seen yet.

Compassion fighting the world in rationalization spinning truth of unknowns so out of control.

Loving boldly is all you desire, while the spin of truth what will be causes rifts and turmoil even cutting off what could be if you could just see and hold what you have been told.

God’s got this, without any doubt.   No matter if your dreams come to life or nothing works out.

No matter this day, or another.    No matter friend, family, soulmate, or dream lover;  forever and a day is only the world’s way.   Whatever you do, whatever you think, whatever you live, whatever you say.

Always seek God first, in private, openly, and willingly choosing to pray.

For God is eternal, Jesus came lived, suffered, died for us to be saved.     The choices in this world will always be our own.

Prayerfully we will all be blessed to ride the life wave through the end of our journey forever on our own.      Through all the mystery or mistakes humanity makes.

The one truth that will live on beyond forever is that of the love Jesus always gives and never takes.

No matter what you think you need, no matter what you demand to be, no matter what you cannot see.   Our God is greater than all or anything.

Thank you, Lord, for allowing me up another new day.

Thank you for all the connections in this journey I have been allowed and the lessons and blessings I have sorted through.

Thank you for the love unseen or even that I dream of blessed by you.

All that I was, all that I am, all that I will ever be.    Lord may it be your healing hand that guides what is next in this confusing world; may your spirit wash through me.

May your spirit wash through all I care for, all I want for my family.

Hear the silence and unspoken prayers of all I am connected.

A healing Lord, for me for this world, for the many.

Thank you, Jesus, for the love you even if moments in time, of the world you allow me.

https://youtu.be/Z0s1bwIimRY   “Ever Be” @Natalie Grant

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Jeremiah 14:11-22  (NIV)  ¹¹ Then the Lord said to me, “Do not pray for the well-being of this people. ¹² Although they fast, I will not listen to their cry; though they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will destroy them with the sword, famine and plague.”

¹³ But I said, “Alas, Sovereign Lord! The prophets keep telling them, ‘You will not see the sword or suffer famine. Indeed, I will give you lasting peace in this place.’”

¹⁴ Then the Lord said to me, “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions, divinations, idolatries^[a] and the delusions of their own minds.

 ¹⁵ Therefore this is what the Lord says about the prophets who are prophesying in my name: I did not send them, yet they are saying, ‘No sword or famine will touch this land.’ Those same prophets will perish by sword and famine. ¹⁶ And the people they are prophesying to will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them, their wives, their sons and their daughters. I will pour out on them the calamity they deserve.

¹⁷ “Speak this word to them:

“‘Let my eyes overflow with tears
    night and day without ceasing;
for the Virgin Daughter, my people,
    has suffered a grievous wound,
    a crushing blow.
¹⁸ If I go into the country,
    I see those slain by the sword;
if I go into the city,
    I see the ravages of famine.
Both prophet and priest
    have gone to a land they know not.’”

¹⁹ Have you rejected Judah completely?
    Do you despise Zion?
Why have you afflicted us
    so that we cannot be healed?
We hoped for peace
    but no good has come,
for a time of healing
    but there is only terror.
²⁰ We acknowledge our wickedness, Lord,
    and the guilt of our ancestors;
    we have indeed sinned against you.
²¹ For the sake of your name do not despise us;
    do not dishonor your glorious throne.
Remember your covenant with us
    and do not break it.
²² Do any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain?
    Do the skies themselves send down showers?
No, it is you, Lord our God.
    Therefore our hope is in you,
    for you are the one who does all this.

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Date: 07/28/2020 Tuesday

Soul Vibes and Starters (YouTube.Com)Lord the songs that pop in this head  or the vibes that keep me moving.  Thank you!  

https://youtu.be/9pv5wVS7yzk   “Press On ” @Building 429

https://youtu.be/SXxBqbTM-2U  “Press On” @Mandisa

https://youtu.be/Sejv8a-vCyc   “Be The Moon” @Chris Tomlin ft. Cassadee Pope and Brett Young

Biblegateway.com (DAILY VERSE)

Philippians 3:14 (NIV) ¹⁴ I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

 Meditation Opportunities (Biblegateway.com): (NIV -New International Version, NKJV-New King James Version, AMP -Amplified Version, TBT-The Passion Translation)

Matthew 5:44-48  (NIV)  

⁴ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, ⁴⁵ that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. ⁴⁶ If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? ⁴⁷ And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? ⁴⁸ Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (my perspectives and/or feelings):

Thank you, Father, for allowing me this new day to press on.

Lord, you know all things and what we all need.  There is no doubt, I pray you guide, heal, and protect your children and guide them through the mess we become each day life comes and goes.

How many storms have we been through; I myself I know far more than I can count and whatever is going on this day or even tomorrow.  You will always be there to walk with those who call upon You.  

In this day that my weariness seems physically heavy this day.   With all that is in this mind and all I do nonstop physically I just need to just float and give all I am to you.

No sound, no activity, no projects, no worry of what cannot be controlled or changed by my own being.

So much in this world spins around us and sometimes carrying us off into the chaos the spin brings.

May we always, may I always remember who is really in control no matter what is or is not.  

 You Jesus did not come down; suffer in torment and humility and any pain beyond anything we may know.    So that we would not have the ability to choose in all that is good, all that pure all that is just.

Even if, we cannot see it; you Jesus hold all the power of mercy, grace and the abundant love we are exposed to.

For all who have lost someone or are losing someone please give us the comfort necessary.  Please keep us from the temptations that will consume us and steal who we are meant to be.

Allowing us to truly with pure hearts, clean hands love with all we are.

We all have those demons in our closet,  those things that drive us or make us chase whatever it is we chase.

No one is exempt.  We all get to choose what we do with our choices we all get to chose what we do with the results

Unfortunately, not everyone places priority on the blessings they have been given; while others do maybe too much.

When God blesses you with new life, life of children; he has blessed you with His most prized possessions.

So why is this world so filled with brokenness or so many children being failed when it comes to be protected, guided and given a chance at life.

What happen to the minds of those who are the parents that fall apart and fall into the world and only God knows what.

Life is neither fair or easy and absolutely nothing in life is free.  There is always a cost.

If you are given something free to help you grow forward the cost is that you pay it forward for someone else to be blessed and get started. 

Of course, my thought process and perspective with knowledge no where is it written we should have things easy or anyone is entitled to anything.

We lead by example be it we purpose to do so or not.

What happens Father when people choose not?  We see the fallout in the world today.  We see the impacts and heartbreak in the loss of innocence and if we are lucky, we see those harmed from the fallout make it through life and do and be something better.  Not being consumed by the world.

Lord I have no answers even for those who are closest to this heart.   I pray all I am connected do their best in all they do and want to be the moon with you Jesus.

Lord I am nothing without you and even then, I struggle with day to day and all the heaviness of what this world is spinning off balance around all that I am.

So many unanswered questions, so many doubts in me, in those I need, those I care for.      Shine down on us Father, even just to show our reflection and the promise of who we are in you.

If only our prayers were the healing and forgiveness for those lost and dear to our being.   

Though we are the intercession.  They must open the door and ask themselves. Sometimes the wait is extremely dark if not painful

However even the butterflies created from darkness with such beauty and promise.  We must hope humanity can recover just as precious.

May we all step up, stepping out being accountable and even when we fall short.  Shine bright in this vast world.

Jesus you know all things, we do not need to; we just need to cling to all you are.  So, when I cling too tight for those I love; please pour out of me what is needed for them to make that choice or move on.

This day or any others allowed.  Thank you for your mercy, grace, and abundant love even when I cannot touch it~

https://youtu.be/qULnbRmU0F8  “Father, Son, Spirit” - A Table Full Of Strangers @Jason Upton

Nothing, Everything

When nothing is everything, and everything is nothing

When the world has so much for you to play in, play with; yet we sit home alone, frozen in boredom or sadness, unable to move

When you have it all; yet you are still empty and missing whatever, whoever; all you have is that void that no matter what you try on, always seems to disappear and never last.

When you have all the money, all the fame, all the anything, all the everything of the world.

Yet you find yourself burning in the luxury furnace of the world’s hell.

When somehow you go to a third world country looking at the slums; tin roofs, dirt floors, ten people in one room.  

All smiling only wanting the well-being of their child as they are dying from some disease that could have been prevented if only, they had even a piece of what you do

When the world says you who you are because it has made you, leaving you with everything feeling as nothing.

Wishing for only a moment you could have the nothing that was everything long ago.

Instead all you have now is what the world says so every move, every word, every step you take is in the hands of what matters

God never says not to be blessed

God never says you cannot have it all

He says seek Him first always; then when you have everything you give praise; when you have nothing, you give praise.   Always you are never empty, and NOTHING IS ALWAYS EVERYTHING. 

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Date: 07/27/2020 Monday

Biblegateway.com (DAILY VERSE)

Discipline in a Long-Distance Race

Hebrews 12:1 (MSG)

12 ^1-3 Do you see what this means—all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we’d better get on with it. Strip down, start running—and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins.

Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we’re in.

Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed—that exhilarating finish in and with God—he could put up with anything along the way: Cross, shame, whatever. And now he’s there, in the place of honor, right alongside God.

 When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls!

Hebrews 12:1 (KJV) 12 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Hebrews 12:1 (NIV) 12 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,

Soul Vibes and Starters (YouTube.Com)Lord the songs that pop in this head  or the vibes that keep me moving.  Thank you!  

https://youtu.be/3_-HDkl_VWY  “Don’t Limit God” @Nick Vujicic

https://youtu.be/mkObVIj-BY8   “Love Won’t Give Up” @Elevation Worship

https://youtu.be/LjF9IqvXDjY     “You’re Gonna Be Okay” @Brian and Jen Johnson

https://youtu.be/BpyP4HR8FBQ      “I Will Rise” @Bethel Music and Kristi DiMarco

https://youtu.be/cPkCOuANayI       “My Hands Are Open” @Bethel Music and Josh Baldwin

 

Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (my perspectives and/or feelings):

Thank you, Lord, for a beautiful and productive Sunday

Thank you for allowing me up this new day with the blessings to dive in, moving forward one step at time.

May I always, may all I am connected always never put limits on you God.

May we all learn just who You are and  never doubt why we are here.

May we appreciate and respect every moment each and every one of us are allowed each day you allow us to rise up.

May we all know our purpose and value through you alone!

We are all made in the image of you God.   

May we/I never forget and remove the limits we put on ourselves.

May we always remember we cannot take anything in this world with us when our time comes.  

May we know it is our choice, what we do with our relationships, what we do with the love you allow us.  

It is our choice to believe and live with the mercy and grace you God show each one of us. 

May we reflect the same mercy and grace to others, even if they are not for us; as you bless us with Jesus.

Father as I try to continue growing forward, may I be blessed and shine up ahead on  the path you allow, reflecting the same for all who you have allowed me to connect; as I pray they do as well in you for all they connect.

Even those that mean us harm or ill will.

Lord I pray their souls to you alone, for all things.  We are and will be better than okay with you Father.

May we always just keep getting back up brushing off and giving thanks for even the smallest lesson once we have healed.

We will rise if we believe.   I will rise because of you Lord. 

I do not care if they label me Jesus; for I had the marks long before I ever had a chance in humanity.    What matters is the truth where we pick up our moral compass and do our best with and in everything we are given.

That we may not like or even absolutely hate what others are doing or not doing.

 Yet we never hate the soul.   Our world is so full of hate and pain.

May we find those that we cannot be around just removed and just truly pray for them.

Only God knows and that is a fact. 

 We do not know what wires crossed for anyone; we do not know why any soul does not call out to Jesus, or even give them whole selves to Him.

Leaving themselves wide open to chase the demons that will never fill the voids no matter who or what they keep stuffing in their space and being.  We are all collectors of sorts.   Be it of people, places, things, feelings.    Good or bad; that which gives us temporal pleasure and happiness; or even those that we just collect and display pity and brokenness.   We are all collectors.      

If only we all collected the way and the truth in and through you Jesus!

Do I believe in God, Without any shadow of a doubt!

Do I believe in Karma, Without any shadow of a doubt!

Do I believe each day we are given is another chance to be better than the day before no matter what situation is; Without any shadow of a doubt we all get to choose how we are going to fight forward!

However, no matter what I believe in or who I believe in, or what I choose to believe or not believe in anyone of this world.  

I would like to say the only thing that matters is making sure you have that relationship with God first and foremost and to do that you have to have the relationship with Jesus.

We all know, who we have in our lives and what we choose to tolerate or put up with and believe they say or do.   We all know when we should be doing more or pulling back.   And if we do not; we should be praying for guidance and abilities that will validate all the positives why we have them in our lives in the first place.

Yet, knowing  if it (anything the relationship is comprised of) is robbing our own emotional bank accounts, yet we find ourselves clinging to them hoping someday, they will change.   

    If the relationship no matter intimate, friends, lovers, husband, wife, family, friends or even someone you are helping.  

 Get a grip and know people change when they want to change.  

Not because of you or what you can do for them.

   If you think because you are supporting the slug on the coach that sits there drinking and drugging and hanging with their friends while you are out running yourself into the ground to support what you think will be the perfect family.    Stop!

If you think that the same soul that you have been verbally and physically or emotionally abused by from, someday will change because they cry real tears and promise if you stay, they will never do it again.  Stop!

I could go on and on with scenarios to just Stop and wake up knowing your choices are you own.

Although for that moment they fill your own voids and give you great pleasure later to be crushed by the pain of truths when it comes to light.

Everything in the dark always comes to light, and although the dark moments are here consuming us.

  Reach high and give it all to God and draw strength from all his promises that have been written and blessing humanity throughout time. 

 God’s word and will shall never go away.

Even when we are long gone, even when things are great, they will remain  and even when things are dark.

His word, His will shall always go on.    No matter what we choose.   God has been and will always be.

So, no matter what you are hoping for yesterday, today, or tomorrow.   

Prayerfully you are drawing all your strength, courage through Jesus first and foremost.

I can assure you; with or without walking with God there will always be those that tell you what you need to hear, promise you all your dreams all the while they are living out what they think is their best life.  Sometimes that means they have just you as the one that helps balance them feeding their needs.  Sometimes you are just one of many.

All the time we should never believe what was yesterday will be tomorrow.

My thoughts from lessons well learned; never put all your hope in people and what they can do for you to get by or make a life.   That does not mean as you are building forward, getting married and wanting to chase those dreams together with that one; cannot happen.    It just means to be able to own your path and count every moment you have with that special someone you have been given.   Well it is all bonus!  Do not leave all the responsibility to be on the other soul and do not think it is all you.

Put all your hope in prayer!

For you and what you want with those souls to excel to be their best selves.

If they really mean that much to you always pray that God allows you to be together.

Love them and raise them up, when they are at their best just as much as  He gives you all you need to stand in the darkest hour and low places.

Weird thoughts this morning, not so much! 

It does not matter what the relationship is or to whom you are connected. 

 For every relationship that has meaning, they all take work.

Sometimes we do look past the truths of imperfection or even lies and bad behavior they are spinning within.   Just because they bring us something.

The question to God I continually ask and do not always get that black or white answer.

Should I stay or should I go?

Why am I really here?

Love well that is a broad statement.   

And yes, I believe God allows us unexplainable love.    But also, that He will never bless you to be with anyone when they are in union with someone else.  

No matter what the situation or story.

He will never be behind abusive or painful situations even if He allows you to feel the pains for a while.

No matter what it is; no matter who it is; no matter where it is; no matter where you are; no matter where they are; no matter who you are, or I am!  

So it may be true you really love that soul and genuinely want to spend forever with them but you must play out all your cards right because you do not want to lose everything you worked so hard all your life for.

Or maybe that is what they are telling you.  All the while you are thinking they really care about you as they set you up with fancy things a great place to live and they love you as you have always dreamed.

Maybe in the world we are okay for just settling, maybe we are okay with the excuses why one minute you can be madly in whatever and celebrating that euphoric high that no one else or nothing else can give you like the relationship you have then and there.

Even in those times when you have no clue where they even are, but the best guess is doing life living out what is really important to them at that time.

Life is complicated for sure, adding others into the mix, oh my!    We are all actors and actresses in our own right.   Just some are really good and make tons of money with what they do.  Others just enough to get by.

   Hopefully in truth they reveal the real them to the real you and never waste any of the precious time we are given on lies, or one-sided relationship needs or goals.

Maybe I have watched way too many chic flicks, love stories,  Hallmark shows or movies; perhaps even just some of my own life experiences growing up.

I do know we need to give thanks and appreciate every second we are given live.

We need to be a light when we cannot find a light.

That laughter is the best medicine for our souls and God is the only peace that is everlasting.

That no matter what I need, dream, desire  I will always need the endless promises and hope in Christ.

I will always do my best to remain true to me, and always to others I am blessed with.

https://youtu.be/Mvo2gn6m4rI “Walk In The Promise” @Jeremy Riddle

Meditation Opportunities (Biblegateway.com): (NIV -New International Version, NKJV-New King James Version, AMP -Amplified Version, TBT-The Passion Translation)

Romans 12:12 (NIV)  

¹² Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.

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Date: 07/26/2020 Sunday

Biblegateway.com (DAILY VERSE)

Hebrews 11:1 (AMP)

The Triumphs of Faith

11 Now faith is the assurance (title deed, confirmation) of things hoped for (divinely guaranteed), and the evidence of things not seen [the conviction of their reality—faith comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses].

Soul Vibes and Starters (YouTube.Com)Lord the songs that pop in this head  or the vibes that keep me moving.  Thank you!  

Service on the Lawn 7/26  https://www.facebook.com/alwaysJustmeKelly/videos/3153011351458006/?t=3 

https://youtu.be/HEXWRTEbj1I “What Is Love” @Haddaway

https://youtu.be/G_1LP3Z6pW4  “Love Hurts” @Nazareth

https://youtu.be/AwjOgLzIYiA    “I Wanna Love Somebody Like You” @Keith Urban

https://youtu.be/6BkYpHJlebs   “Love Came Down” @Brian Johnson-Bethel Music

https://youtu.be/W_Ssl2MCy6I     “Love Broke Thru” @TobyMac

https://youtu.be/mkObVIj-BY8 “Love Won’t Give Up” @Elevation Worship

 

 

 

Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (my perspectives and/or feelings):

Thank you, Lord, for this new day and new week. May you guide my will, my actions, my words and all my steps.

As I get up coming out to have coffee and start this day; looking around thinking if I could just give this home and all the mess within it to those it was intended for and find my little peaceful sunroom to just breathe.

When good intentions well meant to step in step up giving family and loved one’s room to breathe and figure things out, stability and opportunity to dive and grow forward and not be tangled up in all the world’s layers.    When a parent just wants to see their children thrive and grow.    

 And all it does is make them incapable of using the God given strength and courage to be more, do more  and want more of their own.   

 Instead becoming statistically predictable losing respect for themselves and everything, thus allowing those who pray on such to flood in to where at some point they no longer are!

Instead now the good intentions turn from making a lighted path to constant picking up the pieces or running to protect the children they have.

The dark side of love;  not just meant for those who are just connected by spirit and soul and can never have each other. 

 But also, that of which the bonds of unexplainable depths that flow through the veins throughout the soul and spirt.

The deep passion and love and how you see and just know for someone and all the emotions that go with it.  Loving up close or from a distance.     

Love the most powerful emotion and force of this universe that is a true gift of God.   No matter how complex or what the experience is for all.

We can say I love you and speak openly  and even reflecting the many forms and ways love is.   

Yet, treat ourselves or others we cross paths with in this vast world with less than anything but gratitude and compassion.

I have no answers, or even why this topic other than lately I have had my ups and downs of feeling blessed in various ways of love.   However, one thing is for sure.   

 Love never dies, as it travels through the airways. 

  It may break us, chase us, create us, or even take us. 

   But when love has been given deep in your soul and connects with those that God allows.   No one is ever the same.  

 

I am no authority and I know there can be love of many forms long before we walk with Christ and that of truth that never ends after we walk with Him.  

I know we can fall deeply for whatever the reasons and fall out of love.  We can be stuck falling in that one-sided love.   And it can and will if you let it destroy who you really are.

I know we can get love crossed with day to day desires and what the flesh craves. 

Just as I know true love is beyond that five minutes of reeling good or the euphoric release of one’s climax that our human flesh and minds need.

Then comes that we are confused when we love and want something, we become obsessed with.  Yes, at times that is a mental deficit and crossed wires for sure especially when talking about the stalker situations. 

Crazed fans stalking that soul who used their talent well sharing it with the world and now no longer have a normal life.    And someone wants what they are in the world view so badly they stalk, chase and even at times do terrible things. 

Is this what the God of heaven and earth really meant when He says the most important command is to love?  

Doubtful I am sure even though I really do not know how such a beautiful gesture of God giving His only son in love so humanity could exist misses the mark throughout generations, time and space.    Have you found what God’s love really means for your life? John 3:16 (AMP)

Waking up thinking on this topic of Love, gosh I can tell you I am blessed to know people love me for who I am, and I hold great love for everyone I meet.   I break and hurt when bad things, sad things, or even evil things transpire in those, to those or with those that I have been blessed to connect.

It breaks my heart to see anyone forget how loved they truly are and what their worth is by the creator and they allow things and live out things that should never be.

Am I cursed on the other side of that coin to know what one sided love is like, to fall in love or even to love someone and know they genuinely love as well; but knowing it will never be?    Yes and No!

Does it feel like a curse or has it felt like a curse to love myself so much that I walked forward with Jesus and had to die to myself and all that in the world as I once knew it.

Knowing I am loved and blessed beyond anything anyone can give or take from me?

I can tell you to it is very lonely, and at times hurts.   To want something so badly but never touch, taste, or be part of.     But to know in the end the love and respect the spirit that lives within me has allowed.  

To learn my self-worth even when you want that one!  That always validates who and what it could be like if you had that love from the outside in that Jesus fills you with from the inside out.

Love hurts!   Look what Jesus went through on the cross.    Have you been there to visit Him?   Do you, have you, ever just went and sat at the foot of cross or do you go back often remembering no matter what is or is not in this world of flesh and bones.  No love will be greater than that of His!

I have to often, just so I stop falling apart and in the world of pity and poor me for what I want sometimes so badly I can taste it, I dream about it and even get caught up thinking if I dive in and just be me, and help maybe that will feed the fire of and depths of truly feeling that love back.

Love Hurts!      But never ever let it break you so badly that you cannot move forward.

Sometimes we just have to keep getting up and find balance in all the unknown and be thankful for the seconds, minutes, hours, days, years we are given and know the one truth is in Christ our ultimate love and desires if not allowed here and now for whatever the reasons; will be fulfilled throughout eternity.

So, no matter what takes your breath away; all I know is I love because God loved first I am able to love.   For this together, or across the miles, in my flesh or in my spirit, in the day or night or in my dreams.   

I will be forever loved and love beyond anything I can describe.

With that and all I will barely if ever understand, pray Jesus you will bless  humanity one more time with your mercy and grace where cures are found, hearts are mended, unions are met, reconciliations of your will are mended.

That Truly, madly, and deeply hearts are softened and given to you first Jesus.

Please guide all my days and protect all I am connected.   Forever my Sweet Soul King who has shown me what love beyond all time and space truly feels like.

As I sit at the foot of the cross, may the tears flow or the laughter howl.   Your will Jesus; not my own.    Bless deeply, lead boldly allowing us all to shine brightly all I have been given.

Thank you for this day, and all that is to come; no matter what I understand or not. 

 https://youtu.be/7GGJ8cyYNzQ      “Reckless Love” @Cory Asbury

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Meditation Opportunities (Biblegateway.com): (NIV -New International Version, NKJV-New King James Version, AMP -Amplified Version, TBT-The Passion Translation)

 

Isaiah 59 (AMP)  Separation from God

59 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not so short
That it cannot save,
Nor His ear so ^[a]impaired
That it cannot hear.
² 
But your wickedness has separated you from your God,
And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear.
³ 
For your hands are defiled with blood
And your fingers with wickedness [with sin, with injustice, with wrongdoing];
Your lips have spoken lies,
Your tongue mutters wickedness.
⁴ 
No one sues righteously [but for the sake of doing injury to others—to take some undue advantage], and no one pleads [his case] in truth; [but rather]
They trust in empty arguments and speak lies;
They conceive trouble and bring forth injustice.
⁵ 
They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s webs;
He who eats of their eggs dies,
And from an egg which is crushed a viper breaks out.
⁶ 
Their webs will not serve as clothing,
Nor will they cover themselves with what they make;
Their works are works of wickedness [of sin, of injustice, of wrongdoing],
And the act of violence is in their hands.
⁷ 
Their feet run to evil,
And they rush to shed innocent blood.
Their thoughts are thoughts of wickedness [of sin, of injustice, of wrongdoing];
Devastation and destruction are in their highways.
⁸ 
They do not know the way of peace,
And there is no justice in their tracks.
They have made them into crooked paths;
Whoever walks on them does not know peace.

A Confession of Wickedness

⁹ 
Therefore justice is far from us,
And righteousness does not overtake us.
We [expectantly] hope for light, but only see darkness;
We hope for gleam of light, but we walk in darkness and gloom.
¹⁰ 
We grope for a wall like the blind,
We grope like those who have no eyes.
We stumble at midday as in the twilight;
Among those who are healthy we are like dead men.
¹¹ 
We all groan and growl like bears,
And coo sadly like doves;
We hope for justice, but there is none,
For salvation, but it is far from us.
¹² 
For our transgressions are multiplied before You [O Lord],
And our sins testify against us;
For our transgressions are with us,
And we know and recognize our wickedness [our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing]:
¹³ 
Rebelling against and denying the Lord,
Turning away from [following] our God,
Speaking oppression and revolt,
Conceiving and muttering from the heart lying words.
¹⁴ 
Justice is pushed back,
And righteous behavior stands far away;
For truth has fallen in the city square,
And ^[b]integrity cannot enter.
¹⁵ 
Yes, truth is missing;
And he who turns away from evil makes himself a prey.
Now the Lord saw it,
And it ^[c]displeased Him that there was no justice.
¹⁶ 
He saw that there was no man,
And was amazed that there was no one to intercede [on behalf of truth and right];
Therefore His own arm brought salvation to Him,
And His own righteousness sustained Him.
¹⁷ 
For He [the Lord] put on righteousness like a coat of armor,
And salvation like a helmet on His head;
He put on garments of vengeance for clothing
And covered Himself with zeal [and great love for His people] as a cloak.
¹⁸ 
As their deeds deserve, so He will repay:
Wrath to His adversaries, retribution to His enemies;
To the islands and coastlands He will repay.
¹⁹ 
So they will fear the name of the Lord from the west
And His glory from the rising of the sun.
For He will come in like a narrow, rushing stream
Which the ^[d]breath of the Lord drives [overwhelming the enemy].
²⁰ 
“A Redeemer (Messiah) will come to Zion,
And to those in Jacob (Israel) who turn from transgression (sin),” declares the Lord.

²¹ “As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the Lord: “My Spirit which is upon you [writing the law of God on the heart], and My words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouths of your [true, spiritual] ^[e]children, nor from the mouth of your children’s children,” says the Lord, “from now and forever.”