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Date: Sunday, January 23, 2021
(Biblegateway.com) Bible Verse of the Day
Doing Good to All
6 Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin,
you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But
watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted.
Meditation Opportunities
(@Jesus Calling 365 Devotions with
Real-Life Stories @Sarah Young)
Matthew 13:46
“who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he
had and bought it.”
James 1:2-3
Consider it pure joy,
my brothers, wherever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing
of your faith develops perseverance.
John 16:33 ESV
“I have said these
things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But
take heart; I have overcome the world.”
Worship and Message @New Life Christian Church 01-24-2021
Soul Vibes / Motivation Movers (YouTube.Com
Arms Of An Angel @Sarah McLachlan
Into The Sea (It's Gonna Be Ok) @Tasha Layton
I'm Going Free (Jailbreak) @Vertical Worship
Overflow @TobyMac,
Bart Millard - Overflow (Willyecho Remix/Audio)
Graves Into Gardens ft. Brandon Lake | Live @Elevation
Worship
Just Wanna Be Happy @Kirk Franklin
Amadeo (Still My God) @Ryan Stevenson
Ever Be @kalley | We Will Not Be Shaken
Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (my perspectives and/or feelings):
Thanking God for
each day given be it with blessings or messes is a privilege.
Taking one out of
their comfort zone to just keep getting back up and trying. Is not for the weak or faint of heart. The battles of survival are in many
layers. Be it for day to day, for love,
for life itself.
Do you know whom
you belong to?
Created from dust
and dust we will return. So why do we
waste so many years, so many days, so many seconds of every breath given
chasing things that rob us from purpose?
Why do we have
the answers right in front of us; Like Jesus allowing Peter to walk on water
and he was right there with him. Yet
Peter looked straight past Jesus and begin to panic and sink.
We lose hope in
many things and find ourselves drowning
or flailing trying to make it back to safety. All the while the sharks, vultures, thieves,
or those so messed up because they quit are hot on our heals trying to just get
a piece of anything better than what they have or just to add to their
collection.
Crazy thoughts
this evening.
Way out of my
comfort zone this morning being part of a choir in the middle of a pandemic; or
just trying to blend. When clearly
routine is so much easier. Staying
between the lines serving and not risking.
It was fun, it
was short and yes, I am sure I will do it again.
I have never
before and will not start be crazy risking anything, but I also will not live
in a bubble.
A bubble that
bounces all through life taking on or bumping in things picking up thorns and
shards that cut us along the way. Most
cases finding our ways to heal others just drowning in pity or worse making
others pay for what should have been let go long back.
Jesus and the cross
and all that blood that poured out for each and every soul washing us clean
giving us hope giving us strength allowing us back up each and every day we
open our eyes and get to do it again.
So, what do we do
with it? Shut down, hide, bury ourselves
in stuff, or dive in and just keep trying.
Even if it turns out to be wrong.
There is nothing
wrong when not knowing how to hold on; or when to let go. But there is when you just don’t try.
Loving yourself
well is hard. Without a doubt, thinking
it is hard loving anyone else. Just try
to love yourself the way Jesus says we should.
Selflessly not selfishly. More
than name brand anything or what is on the outside. What is it deep inside that makes us tick and
what is the value on your very own existence when those storms in life come
along and wash it all away or like the 2020 pandemic that everyone is put in a
time out to reevaluate?
Here we are still
in 2021 maybe with an inch or two more in space to be creative but still in
time out. Or Else!
What is it doing
for us? what is doing to us? What are we
allowing it to do with those we truly, madly, deeply love and care for?
For years thinking
back the vultures and thieves and the days we acknowledge times changed and
kids could no longer just be kids or play until the street lights came on.
Thinking about
what about the children as they are put into boarding schools for the rich and
left to fend for themselves from the poor.
Then all those in between trying to make a difference and finding how it
hurts when the spirit is crushed when the child is lost to the ways of the
world, or the demons lies.
How easy it is to
just stay because of a present image yet not once calling upon the Lord to show
the way.
Oh, I remember walking
forward in 1995 not knowing why I was even there but someone invited me, and I
just did.
Just as I
remember in 1997 falling to my knees screaming at God what do you want from me! Doing my best and doing my best to numb
everything that hurt every moment I could.
There are moments
when I was not so strong, not so proud laying on a floor unable to just get
back up. Times when I gave all I had
and all I was only to find out I was never the intention of the other souls.
Don’t get me
wrong there are some really awesome beautiful souls that I love dearly that
still stay numb... While I moved on as
you know to always be careful what you ask for. When you scream at God or whisper a
name. He is there always, and He wants
nothing less than all of you that he created.
Crashing, burning
with the help of others I was a pro. So
tough not taking any crap from anyone and just keep forging through. Until that one day you look in the mirror
and realize it has taken the toll.
Like that time
travel looking back through the glass from the days when you were a child to
the moments of yesterday.
Thankful for all
that God has allowed me to learn along the way.
Webster Hall and
NYC for Times Square 1996. Those days of
cramming 12 people in a hatchback just to go have fun to the days you are
picked off the payment as the road is gone.
Jesus my Halo! Awakened then, and now my soul allowing
love and moments in time that I will never understand. Never be able to describe or perhaps ever
recreate. Forever my sweet soul King;
moments in time.
Then, now through out the rest of my
days onto eternity.
Those moments of loneliness those
moments of almost when one day you wake up and realize its someone else’s game.
It is what it is until its not and the
day you let Jesus in; your cup up overflows with such a sweetness that you cannot
get enough of what only He can give.
More than money, more than material
items, more than anything this world will ever give or take.
Even if you stumble and try to justify
what you think you need you have this understanding, He alone sustains all that
you are and all that you will ever be.
Once you get a taste you cannot just
give away unless you are sharing what you have found. We get to choose our next steps no matter if
we are in a fire, in a storm or climbing out of the boat to move on to what will
and should make the difference. WE get
to choose how we will react in our timeouts, how we will react to that which
others pour upon us like some dump truck of cement. Or shower us with rose petals. We get to choose. We get to do what is necessary to be happy,
to be real, to make life the best we can no matter what all the critics say.
If you have not met him yet or if it’s
been a while since you have had that one-on-one deep spiritual relationship
with him. He is waiting. He is always with us. We are the one’s that shut him out and shut down anything that may put us in awkward
spots.
No matter how far in or out of your
comfort zone; nothing is promised for tomorrow.
So, if we do not find our best selves right now and do what is right
morally, physically, mentally we forever spin in the trenches.
Change does not happen until we do our
best to make it. All things are
possible with and in Christ. So why
not.
I am no expert, I only know the
ripples I find myself swimming some days never getting anywhere; all the while
that rescue is with the bull horn shouting back telling em trust me, it will be
alright. Trust me do this, do that and
it will work out as the weights to my ankles pull me down under, I keep
fighting believing in all that is said but never seen. As I take my own eyes off of Jesus and all
that is right in front of everyone in black and white for centuries on in.
It is when I cling to all that He is
and is for me. It is when we are circled
up with those no agenda friends that require nothing but will give you their
very last moment. It is when those
times that worship choir is created and the entire building shakes from worshiping the creator of all things.
Those moments no matter how bad it is
that deep seeded peace fills you with abundance.
God is still my God and forever my rock,
my breath, my life. No matter what is
happening. That day like yesterday and
those moments when I beat my head against the wall ever so long and hard and forgot
or never knew just then. But it was
that one day He the Father, Son and Holy spirit came and led me to the cross
and took all my burdens.
Because my own humanity so confused,
so fragile, so filled with expectations thinking anyone in the world could ever
do what He alone does.
Never planned, never on the vision
board or even in class writing out goals.
Never even thought there would be a
day I would make it in life long enough to grow up.
I don’t know where I will be tomorrow,
I know who and what I yearn and sometimes hurt for when I take my eyes off the eternal
prize. I know where I have been, but no
way do I know where or what tomorrow will bring. I just know no matter what; it will be okay!
No matter if its just life, no matter
if someone is letting me down and all I thought they were really just on the
surface or I let them down. No matter
if just that one day at a time has more unexpected waves that just keep
slamming down. It is going to be
okay. Here or on the other side; Jesus
is, Jesus was, and Jesus always will be.
Lord may all I am connected near or
far meet you right where they are right here right now. May the be blessed with that peace that lets
them know its going to be okay.
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