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James Version, AMP -Amplified Version, TPT-The Passion Translation)
Date: Friday, February 12, 2021
Soul Vibes / Motivation Movers (YouTube.Com
I Am Home
(sleep song) @Keith Urban
@https://www.calm.com
Not something I normally share, and I see it has hit
Youtube.com already. This is ABSOLUTELY PERFECT~
Canvas and Clay
@Pat Barrett ft. Ben Smith
Take Courage @Kristene DiMarco
Break Open the
Sky @TobyMac Feat. Israel Houghton
My Hands Are
Open @ Bethel Music & Josh Baldwin
God Turn It
Around @Jon Reddick @Church Of The City
The Proof Of
Your Love @for KING & COUNTRY
Meditation Opportunities
(Biblegateway.com) Bible Verse of the
Day
1 Corinthians 13: 6-7 (NIRV) 6 Love is not happy with evil. But it is full of joy when the
truth is spoken. 7 It always protects. It always trusts. It
always hopes. It never gives up.
1 Corinthians 13: 6-7 (MSG) 3-7 If I give everything I
own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t
love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I
do, I’m bankrupt without love.
Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
(@Jesus Calling 365 Devotions with Real-Life Stories @Sarah Young)
Psalm 139:1-2
O LORD, you have searched me and
you know me. You know when I sit and
when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
Matthew 139:1-2
“The virgin will be with child and
will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” – which means, “ God
with us.”
Psalm 37:4
Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of
your heart.
Daily
Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (my perspectives and/or feelings):
I wish I could, I wish I might. Instead, sometimes I just fight my own self
and the battlefield of the minds.
Sometimes we do, sometimes we don’t.
Most times we can and will even if we should not.
Yes, says the same one who takes off running spinning
around right into those proverbial brick walls and even sometimes real walls
not paying attention. Pieces of me all
over the place. Just doing my best to
keep it real, trying to not be what the world says I should be, all the while following
the rules. While remaining pure in
heart with clean hands.
Living that best life in obedience and running as fast
as I can away from all that comes easy, all that is too good to be true. While sometimes taking that break and
looking back and allowing those dreams or desires of a young girl swoop down
and consume my every breath.
Love eyes wide open, heart sealed shut. Loving others for who they are deep within
and not for what they do or can do. Yet
sometimes that beauty that radiates out from their very core, that talent that
makes your heart skip a beat, that very essence of who they are just consumes and
feeds our very being. Without reason,
without expectation.
Somethings just are what they are. Same when you know that vibe washes over,
and you know to just keep your distance or run. Trust what your gut says, not thinking you
can handle what might come next.
Life without truth and love seems to be the topic of
devotion from today’s daily verse.
Tough one’s for sure. No not
for everyone; I get it! Some are so
perfect that they can handle everything while they suppress anything that may
remotely spark a feeling and they are in control.
We all know control is just an illusion, right? Hope so.
We may manage things that make us feel we are in control. But if we put all we are into something really
turning out as we plan and expect. If
we really believe what has turned out is something that is forever. Brace yourselves for that roller coaster
drop in the ride of life.
Because we may be authors that co-write our story, our
songs our scripts. But in the end, there
is only one true master of control at the control board.
Everything between Us and Him is and can be the biggest
blessings, curses, or illusions as we let that IT whatever IT may be in the
middle.
Recently chatting with someone and they clearly let me
know how I offended them because of how I feel and what I believe.
First of all, we all get to choose. And although that is not my nature or
purpose to ever want to offend or hurt anyone.
However, I am a show me person.
And I have lived through experience that I know what I know and absolutely
what I do not.
Trust is earned and when you have it; once it is
violated or chipped away. Although a
love is forever; when it comes to believing just on what people say.
Well, I have learned in my life not to place expectations. Loving and riding the wave of all that is
good and working through all that is bad or needs work. Yet when your try to get me to be, say or do
something that is not me; or you place expectations on me. Well I cannot help the way I feel, and I
always speak the truth or shut down and say nothing at all.
So yes, I tick people off at times. And although I am not in a lifelong relationship
at this time. What I can say is for
those married. When you are done fighting and agreeing to
disagree. Make Up.
If two came together and committed
and you have not grown apart so much that you need to escape being around each
other no matter what the reason.
Work through it.
Lie’s and Cheating.
Well infidelity is just that and that is a hard scar to heal from. No matter which one of you do it. It does not matter how long you have been
together. In fact, the longer you are
together the more effort your relationship takes to absolutely keep it fresh.
My perspective (God first, your spouse next and then
your family and all that comes after)
Every day until you no longer get back up.
When you are just meeting someone, just dating. Stop putting so many expectations out there
for others.
Set them for yourself.
Respect yourself. Honor your
vessel. Really treat others with love, mercy,
and kindness; keeping distance from letting that physical attraction and heart
strings to be pulled so tight you do what you feel bad or regret later.
Growing up kids are cruel, and they are bullies by
nature. I can remember how everyone
else always had my reputation laid out for me.
Not one even those closest to me ever really took time to know me.
When we get tired of being bullied, we either fight or
we take off in flight. I was a
fighter. I remember my so-called best
friend and I who pushed and ran their mouth too far and too long one day
walking home from school and just there we were scraping in the middle of a
group of kids on the sidewalk. Proving
nothing looking back now but everything then.
We remained friends and still
hung out, but it was never the same.
We feel, we do, we change or repeat the cycles. Growing up in the inner city you learn to
survive or hide. Me crazy, stupid young
or just proving to myself I never hid.
I back in my youth could have cared less if I lived or
died. It just was what it was and some
of the biggest lessons to look back on and just know our true worth outside of
this world.
My stories can go on and on; and not being a stranger
to the vultures, thieves and wolves in the world that will always just be. There is always something new to learn
when it comes to survival.
Always something you will say or do or not put up with
that offends even those that flow through your veins.
But do not change or compromise who you are to appease
anyone. Do not settle just because or take
leftovers in the relationships you build.
Every connection you are allowed by the grace of God
has meaning. Every soul that lives and
breathes on this planet is a creation from God and is loved by God. Even when, even if!
You may be different and have much or little or not at
all. You are still beautifully and
wonderfully made and loved by the King of Kings and Lord over all Creation! Nothing or no one else can ever change that. No one can ever change or doubt your worth
and make it matter, but you! So,
when it comes to signing your life away, jumping into life time commitments,
giving up your identity, giving away pieces of yourself thinking its something
beautiful forever. Don’t rush it and
make sure you do everything you can to know who you are giving and doing with
are on the same page.
Never will I say don’t try. We are not meant to live in bubbles alone
without experiencing the blessings and dreams to grow forward alone or with
someone.
What I am saying.
Be your best self-first, for you with God at the lead. Let Jesus be the captain of your life and
vessel and seek those that are equally yoked with you spiritually and want to
grow and learn and dream and love like you.
I am no expert, but I know every relationship we have
takes work. And its not about what you
can do for the other person, or what they can do for you. If you constantly have to be giving any
piece of you away for the other person and they are not satisfied and wanting
to just be with you. It is never going
to be worth what you think; nor will it ever last. Knowing when it ends there will always be a
painful scar left behind.
Whew where this all comes from not sure. But I have seen, done, and lived through
allot and seen so many stories unfold.
With Love and Valentines coming up It’s okay to be
single, it’s okay to love life. It’s
everything to love and know the author of life and who He gave as the ultimate
love gift.
It’s okay to love and be loved even when you cannot
physically touch it or understand it.
My perspectives
Lord, please fill and protect every soul I am blessed to
be connected with. Protect them, heal
them, and guide them in love, with love and teach them and me; what real Agape
Love is poured out. May we all be blessed
with your mercy and grace daily and may we all cling to you first every breath
we are given.
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