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Date: Friday -July 2nd , 2021
Meditation
Opportunities - Biblegateway.com Daily Verse
Jeremiah 17:9-10 (EXB - EXPANDED BIBLE)
(the blessing of freedom of choice)
9 “·More than
anything else [T Above all
things], ·a person’s mind is evil [T the heart is
deceitful; L the heart is devious/crooked]
and ·cannot be healed [T desperately
wicked; L it is perverse/sick].
Who can ·understand [know] it?
10 But
I, the Lord, ·look into a person’s [investigate/test
the] heart
and test the ·mind [L kidneys].
·So I can decide what each one deserves [L …to give to
each according to his way/path];
I can give each one the right payment
for what he does
Motivation Movers
& Touches to the Soul (YouTube.Com)
Pat Barrett - The
Way (New Horizon)
Black Eyed Peas -
Where Is The Love
Mandisa ft.
TobyMac, Kirk Franklin - Bleed The Same
Talk To Him -
Chris Tomlin with Russell Dickerson
Meditation Opportunities Daily Devotion @Jesus Calling 365 Devotions with Real-Life Stories @Sarah Young) “Let Me show you MY way for this day.” I guide you continually so you can relax and enjoy My Presence in the present. Living well is both a discipline and an art. Concentrate on staying close to Me, the divine Artist. Discipline your thoughts to trust Me as I work My ways in your life. Pray about everything; then leave outcomes up to Me. Do not fear My will, for through it I accomplish what is best for you. Take a deep breath and die into the depths of absolute trust in Me. Underneath are the everlasting arms!”
Psalm 5:2-3 Listen to my cry for help, my King and my God,
for to you I pray in the morning, O Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I
lay my requests before you and wait in expectations.
Isaiah 26:4 AMP So trust in the Lord (commit yourself to Him, lean on Him, hope
confidently in Him) forever; fore the Lord God is an everlasting Rock [Rock of
Ages].
Deuteronomy 33:27 The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath
are the everlasting arms. He will drive
out your enemy before you, saying. “Destroy
him!”
Daily Journal/Thoughts/
Prayers (Thinking out
loud)
Woke up this morning after a restless night fighting for room on
my bed with my beast of a dog that snuck in. Crazy as it sounds with the song from Jeremy Camp
“Same Power” playing in my head. No, I
have never been wrapped too tight. As I
chuckle at myself knowing how true that statement really is.
Somehow, someway even if I may not have confidence to battle
anyone physically to prove its true as I do not have the theologian doctrine experience
or the grit to fight to prove how you need to call upon Jesus in your life.
I know he is real; He is everything and the maker of all things.
In every storm, every battle Jesus is my truth. Seeking harmony, far from being qualified
but through every challenge he has carried me places I never could have on my
own.
Unlike so many that have that great family foundation and
surrounded by love or even those who were raised up in Christian faith and
families.
I had none of that.
Every single thing I have I have had to work to achieve, gain or if my
purpose were to gain it to give it away.
I worked most times harder than smarter.
I am who I am as you are who you are. Full of wrinkles and scars from choices of my
own or being in the wrong place wrong time or believing too much in those I should
have never given the time of day.
But God has created ever soul in his image. Uniquely designed, full of self-choice and
will to drive our selfish or selfish agenda on any given day.
In most cases we choose what is right in front of us not
thinking about that wave of results and all that impacts when things flow in
directions we could have never anticipated.
Where is the love?
Where is the love we seek, we have to give? Have we allowed the world and all that is
temporal to shut us down, or are we out playing with fire of unknown results,
yet we know how wrong it is to step on the other side of the fences that do not
belong to any of us to be or own?
God created us for so much more than controlling legalistic
demands or even the misconception of Woodstock and all the peace love get high
harmony so many sought out back in the day.
So many wrong decisions with me and everyone. We are all broken people, and we all need the
spirit of eternal goodness to drive us forward; helping us to grow.
Instead, we use our lack of abilities to leave us addicted in
masking the unknown, pain, or just what we cannot figure out, so we try to bury
what does not feel good because of our lack of control. All the while we forget control is an illusion
all the while we find ourselves stuck in the middle of rage, hate and demanding
entitlements.
Maybe not even demanding.
Maybe we somehow think we are it and we play the game to see how far it
will go playing out anyone or everyone along the way that we can. And only when it fails, falls short or comes
to light and we are held accountable we rage out to destroy everything someone
else is all the while we forget why we are here in the first place.
Not necessarily to do anything.
But to shine and help others grow just by what we do not do for our own
selfish ambitions.
Yet that same power that raised Jesus from the grave breathed
life into existence called you and me.
My crazy life of ups and downs, broken bones, broken hearts,
broken minds wanting to just check out to proving everyone and anyone that repeated
I would be nothing as I found myself so alone and far from knowing what life
really was supposed to be. And the
realization that even though I prayed all my life to that big guy in the sky
through so many things. It was not
until I think I watched the Passion of the Christ that I purposed to seek who
or what was this Jesus all about.
Yes I walked forward and gave my life as a child in front of a
room of strangers and got back on a bus and went home and no one ever knew but
those that day. Just as when I was
called to walk forward in 1995. Finally
in 2005 I took that dip to say really show me who you are Jesus.
The hunger that followed and passion I could not get enough of
and even today though I am the same but different. I cannot tell you what exact moment it was
that I was changed forever.
I still love on everyone I meet; no one is ever a stranger. But thank you Jesus that I realized some
places I am just not meant to be. Just because you are doing, thinking or being
does not mean I am.
Guilt by association.
Be it you hang with them, run with them, plot, scheme or die with
them. Good bad or indifferent you will
lose the freedoms in your choices, and will the good Lord gives us all if we do
not think for ourselves.
Dare to be who Christ died do you could live to be. Do not stifle or stuff down who you or your
abilities are, because someone says so.
Yes, there are rules and regulations in this world. A time and place for everything. But do not stop living because of fear.
Fear is a liar and faith is far bigger, brighter, and bolder
than anything the devil whispers in your head. Be your own person, think for yourself
and if your choice is to come together with another; do not lose who you are.
Do not think because they may have fame, fortune, things that make
you look good on the outside. Never lose who you are and who you are meant
to be from the inside out. Big, small,
a different shade of skin or the same.
We all bleed red and we are all children of the most high. We are all made with purpose to pay it
forward through the eyes of Jesus.
Just talk to Him to learn how, find your blessings to feel it
and appreciate even the pain when it comes.
And will, sometimes over and over while you are being you. Sometimes it hurts. But Love who you are and invite Jesus in to be
all you cannot on your own.
Think, learn, be and never stop growing forward. Know that even though yesterday was the best
day of your life if you are given tomorrow.
There is so much for you to say, be and do shining so others can be
their best days.
Even if it’s just sitting there to listen or just sitting next to
that person. Or you have abundance to
share with those who will truly appreciate and need it. Not just those who want it because they know
you will.
Plant the seeds of light, plant the seeds of hope, plant the
seeds of comfort, plant the seeds of healing.
Even if we do not know how, or if we do not have anywhere to do so. Start planting the garden of faith and hope
within your own spirit.
Thank you for this new day and all that is or will be. Guide me and Lord may I see no evil, speak
no evil, and say no evil. But when I
am in that corner as I am no different than anyone of this world. May we never forget we are made for so much
more in love of you with you and for you!
In this giant sticky bun of life where everything we touch can get
messy. May the sweetness of your truth
in love, mercy and grace pour out into the canvas that brings you ever lasting joy.
Help is not on the way.
You are standing, sitting right where we are just waiting for us to
invite you in. Give us, give me courage
to keep getting back up and fighting forward.
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