Tuesday, August 22, 2023

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Tuesday August 22nd, 2023

 

Thought Daily Devotions from Biblegateway.com Daily Verse

 

Romans 8:32 NIV @Biblegateway.com

32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

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Romans 8:32 in all English translations

 

Thinking Out Loud – Journal Thoughts/Prayers / Mind Maze Overflow

If it’s not good, then He’s not done with you yet!    If you are awake, living, breathing and still full of so many opportunities.   Find your Joy in the situation and be that little flicker of hope for what is around you.

 

Even when uncertainty and often stress can consume the very seconds of what next.   Give it back to the foot of the cross.  There is no reason why we must carry the pain and sorrow that Jesus already took so we could live in and with Him!

 

Not easy to do when you are worrying how you survive and get out of an abusive relationship or situation.  Not easy to do when you are worried about how you will feed your children.  Not easy to do when you are worried when the next paycheck is coming, or where you will sleep for the night, or when the phone call of a loved one who was lost in the drugs and demons and lies of the world comes through.    

 

But nowhere was it ever promised or written life should be easy and carefree.  

 

Although God gave his son on the cross nailing all our sins and indiscretions to the cross through him with him.    He never said Hey now you, we have a free ride.

 

We all owe gratitude and obedience to all that has been blessed upon us; be it a true lesson or blessings of abundance of anything and everything we are allowed to have in such a time and place as we do.

 

We owe it to Christ alone and ourselves to know the moral value of our own mind, body, and soul in which we are created in and with His image.   I won’t ever stop referring to Loui Giglio’s talk on Laminin and the image that is burned deep into our spirits and being.  No matter if we choose to want it or not.

 

Before we start shooting down others and pointing out their faults or wrong doings to others or even to us.     Get your own temple in order and justified, sanctified with Christ Jesus alone.

 

We are all in this universe together; until we are not.  Prayerfully we all get the chance to live a full abundant life and give more than we take.   However, we know that is not true in many cases as we look around.  We are cruel to the universe and each other.    For some ungodly reason we have some that find darkness and hurtful if not tragic ways of feeling bigger, better than others when they inflict the power in ways that was never meant to be.

 

No matter if we are head bangers for some loud heavy metal lifestyle or a little Andy Griffith.     The spectrum of opportunities is wide and deep.   What we do is not who we are unless we allow it to be.     What we have is temporal and everything until the day we are taken to our final destination.

 

As I pray one of my heartstrings is seeing the world that all the common sense, right and wrong and self-respect guide her safely to see the universe and that she knows her worth and becomes all that is perfect in Him.    I have my worry for all that we connect with in passing or for time and place as this.

 

But all that I am is a gift and all I have including the blessings that came from the blood and bone of my being belongs to the same creator that breathed the moon, sun, and stars into the darkness as he breathes life into me each day.   No matter how far I run into or away from.

 

Beyond deserving!

Beyond grateful!

Beyond blessed! And still growing forward every day I am allowed back up in and with Him.      Sometimes it’s a crawl, sometimes its barely pulling myself across the floor.  Yet, every time is because of who he is that I am able to find and know who I am to, for and with Him.

 

So, I can call out the broken pieces or how all of me has been shook up or tossed up and landed all out of place.    But I have no doubt no matter what I see everything is perfectly placed as another stain glass piece of beautiful colors in this world that many will never be able to understand or see.    Yet only Jesus does!

 

No matter the pain and sorrow of all the tears he catches for my broken pieces in the loss of family, friends and so many broken heart strings.     Jesus Does!!!

Thought Movers, Motivations Touching to the Soul coming from YouTube.com / Facebook, Local Worship, or other public venues.

 Blanca - Something Better

 Tauren Wells, Elevation Worship - Joy In The Morning (Worship Version)

 Nine Inch Nails - Sanctified (VEVO Presents)

 Nine Inch Nails - We're In This Together

 Tasha Layton- How Far (Official Music Video)

 Cochren & Co - Stained Glass Window (Lyrics)

 We The Kingdom - Jesus Does (Official Music Video)

 

 

Tuesday, August 15, 2023

08.15.2023-AUGUST_PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe (AlwaysMeKelly)

 

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Tuesday August 15th, 2023

 

Thought Daily Devotions from Biblegateway.com Daily Verse

 

Romans 14:8 NIV @Biblegateway.com

If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

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Romans 14:8 in all English translations

 

Thinking Out Loud – Journal Thoughts/Prayers / Mind Maze Overflow

Well, I stumbled on this song the other day and it just speaks volumes.  Cooper Alan - Never Not Remember You (Official Lyric Video)

   Loving this Cat’s voice too and I hope he goes places beyond his wildest dreams and uses it for the good sharing the laughter and love he generates when he is goofing around with his buds.

 

The first one that came to mind and tears flowed was that of my big brother who suddenly left us on May 28th.    Protector of all he cared about, the biggest gentle giant, friend, and confidant anyone could know.  I pray even though he left his beautiful second wife behind he found his first love and they are dancing in heaven. 

 

I will always treasure that last hug goodbye and our birthday season will never be the same.   Every year we three siblings always got together just to share love and laughter.    I don’t even want to think about it being he has been called to higher places and we are still blessed here doing life without him.

 

Not sure if you can relate.  Me, my brother, and sister always had each other.   No matter how far apart we were, no matter how mad or hurt we would get.  We never let it get in-between our relationship that cannot be explained.   Man, yeah we had that sibling rivalry going when we were kids.   But even on the worse days we knew we had each other.

 

We never used each other, never called each other out for all the things we would of, could of, done wrong.    We just loved being around each other when we would come together and pick up where we left off like it was yesterday.

 

I have lost some really great people in my lifetime but my big brother who I shadowed and drove crazy.    Our great loss is heaven’s gain.   I pray God has got him in the angel army looking out for those who need angels.

 

 Yeah, thinking about this song I could not, not share it even though its got my emotions all over the place thinking of the memories and he is gone.    Thinking about recent friends who lost loved ones.  Thinking about last year losing Pops and how mom is doing and all the changes.

 

Life on this earth is so dang short and we only get a brief second in the dash we are given.   I so pray we all choose to love those we are given and make beautiful memories.      Don’t waste time trying to prove anything and absolutely don’t hate someone because their ways do not line up with your own.

 

Every single soul we are given to cross paths with be it by blood, by happenstance, by choice.   All have great meanings with blessings that none of us deserve.

 

Don’t waste those moments of blessings or lessons on hate and rob yourself of the seconds you are given to be here.   None of us know when our time is up.     And we can never get back any time we allowed negativity rob from us.

 

Life is what it is until it is not.   None of us, despite our hard work, or entitlement thought process deserve a thing.  Be grateful for all we are given and be selfless to those who are connected to heart strings.

 

No matter what is not; I will always be thankful for the memories I am given even when they hurt.

 

I wish I had the magic pill or that crystal ball to fix things before they broke or were taken away.  But even if I did, most likely all that would do is make me complacent.  Not work or be as I am and do.  Maybe at times I work too hard and perhaps not so smart.  But I am who I am and well I getter done 😊

 

As time goes by working on or towards what really matters is always a chore.   What matters to me may not be in line even though it’s something we pray not stop for or part of a church or not; may not be inline with what God really meant.  But not for nothing, it is what it is, and I have learned an abundance of lessons during my time.   As long as I am able, the air I am given to breathe will remember to whom I belong and in turn be my best self in serving and loving even the hard people, places, or things.   And no; just because you love someone does not mean they need to be in your space.

 

Nor does it mean you have to accept anyone’s bad or self-destructive behaviors just because you love them.   Just means you pray them up and plant the seeds of hope, life, moral values, and truth of who Jesus is and who they are created in the image of.   Along with the blessings of freedom of choice.   We all have free will to choose!

 

On this day and many others, I only know where I have been.  And like the lotto those some days wishing I would just play and win.  While others I acknowledge nothing worth anything is free but the gift to get back up and choose.

 

Everything else, everyone else is that icing on the cake.  Bonus that there is time and place for everything and a season under the one true God the father’s son, Jesus.

 

We all will kneel at the gate and prayerfully able to wrap our arms tightly around the father once it is our turn to go home.  To find our family, friends, and loved ones.  What a great plan!  

 

 But what about loving them all right here and right now while we have them?

 

Love me when I am here.  Know me while I am here.   When I get to heaven with Jesus, I don’t need you would of should of could of.   You want to make a difference; do it now.   Live, Love and laugh with and in Christ.   And know when that song plays, and something pokes and cuts a little.  You have those memories in peace and love to remember all the good there really is.

 

Thought Movers, Motivations Touching to the Soul coming from YouTube.com / Facebook, Local Worship, or other public venues.

 The Blessing with Kari Jobe & Cody Carnes | Live From Elevation Ballantyne | Elevation Worship

 ðŸŽµEven when it Hurts Lyrics-Hillsong United)

 Walking Free by Micah Tyler [Lyric Video]

 Unspoken - Call It Grace (Lyric Video)

 The Prodigal Song - Cory Asbury | To Love A Fool (Lyrics)

 

Thursday, August 10, 2023

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Thursday August 10th, 2023

 

Thought Daily Devotions from Biblegateway.com Daily Verse

 

Psalm 46:1 NIV @Biblegateway.com

For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. According to alamoth.[b] A song.

God is our refuge and strength,
    an ever-present help in trouble.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 46:1 In Hebrew texts 46:1-11 is numbered 46:2-12.
  2. Psalm 46:1 Title: Probably a musical term

Psalm 46:1 in all English translations

 

Thinking Out Loud – Journal Thoughts/Prayers / Mind Maze Overflow

As I looked up to the sky this morning seeing the bright bold beautiful colors awakening the earth and walking back to the front door and spotted God’s creators two beautiful wild rabbits feasting in the grass already needing to be cut.    I am reminded how often we forget to just look around and see the beauty, promise and gifts that surround us each day we are allowed back up.

 

I too get so caught up in the day to day sometimes it's hard not to be stuck on the things we cannot change or have no control over.   Sometimes we get stuck on the judgement to others or that of others.

 

Everyone is a critic, and absolutely in this world we are given everyone always has the right answer according to everything they know and believe.

When in truth the answer really is in creation and the beauty loss or gained by our lack of sustenance and caring for what we are given in the here and now.

 

No, we cannot physically change the stars, moon, sun, sky.   However, we can do our part in taking care of mother earth and all the creatures living within.

 

Starting with humanity.  We can live to where when we see something, we do something.   When it comes to protection of innocence and growth into positive, productive futures of the generations to come.

 

Like history our world does not tend to have a great track history.  We take just because we want, then we discard out of boredom or the chase to take something else that caught our attention.    Sometimes leaving deep scars if not death in the pathway.  

 

We forget to give back and know we lead by example no matter if we are leading through the light or the darkness into no return.

 

Jesus, who poured out on that cross, who allowed life to continue by taking our sins with only the request we be our best selves and follow Him, live in Him, live with Him.      And when we do; suddenly even though we will never be perfect everything around us is consumed deep within a peace and the sights that look past all understanding.

 

If only we could remember, we have to purpose the bond with the goodness of God daily and beyond all things remember that there is something to be grateful for in every moment we are given.  Even when it can be physically killing us here and now.

 

Like a fish who has been given human form looking from the outside in, trying to understand this world all the while yearning for the depth and colors only the beauty of creation and the maker can bring.      The wonder of how we got here is short lived when we know who we are in Him.

 

We know what we need to do even when we do the things we do not want to or find they have no real purpose; yet we still find ourselves doing at times things against our own gut feelings, or not listening to when God says it is finished.  Let it go, move on.

 

We love to deny that tug of war we give and take back over and over again.  As we walk the path in the journey, we are sometimes getting confused over control which will always be an illusion and that proverbial fork in the road in our journey that although every connection we are given has a purpose.    It is not for us to try and drive or own the reasons we at times we are not given and if we are trying to change to better suit what we think we are receiving, or others are doing.   

 

What happened to looking out and loving our brothers and sisters in Christ for who they are and not what we think they can do for us?

 

What happened is that all this material stuff that contaminates the soul, the earth and kills off all the beauty that was meant to be.   Where we strive to grow up too fast and complain as we get older.    Yet, forget not everyone has the blessing to make it a day much less 29,200.

 

Without even a beat our lifestyles train-up our youth to be expectant and self-deserving; yet we truly deserve nothing and especially when we have no gratitude or stewardship for even a glimpse of thankfulness in any given day.

 

Elders robbing babies of life, evil consuming any chance of souls to know what Gods love and mercy was meant to be for all humanity.     History is cruel as we are that make it.

 

Where are we now?

Where is Jesus in your life right here right now?   If you do not know it is because you do not allow that relationship for Him to come dwell within.   It is because we move, he does not.  It is because we do not choose to learn who he is, by sight, by sound, by touch and by being.

 

Yet every moment we are allowed back up; every second we are allowed to breathe we still have a billion opportunities to meet him, live with Him, for Him and all the good he gave His life for us to be, to do.

 

Once we are no longer traveling this universe; here and now.   Our souls will either be damned in eternal hell or dancing in the streets with all our loved ones in front of Jesus.

 

And just as the beauty in a sun rise or sunset; a baby coming into this world, God’s nature in all the birds, bunnies, or anything else cute and cuddly.   I pray we all never stop hearing the contagious laughter of that child that laughs over silly things.    Seeing the colors of all the beauty when we come together in harmony.    Or allow our souls and spirits to dance together in the melodies of love and honor and all that has moral values.

 

Even when it hurts deeply and the brittleness of life is chipping away may we know no matter what, no matter when Christ is with and for us and will sustain all who fight forward with Him, either here or on the other side.    That all the blessings of here and now are gone in a split second we still once on the other side of the storm that is will soon be calm and new things will transpire if we just believe and hold on.

 

Thought Movers, Motivations Touching to the Soul coming from YouTube.com / Facebook, Local Worship, or other public venues.

Is your life bearing fruit? FANS & FOLLOWERS - WEEK 2

 Baby Laughing Hysterically at Ripping Paper (Original)

 Chris Tomlin - O Lord You're Beautiful (Lyric Video) feat. Steffany Gretzinger

  “Life On It” by TobyMac featuring Sarah Reeves

 Austin French - Jesus Can (Official Lyric Video)

 Blessing Offor - Brighter Days

 Danny Gokey - Stay Strong (Official Music Video)

 

Sunday 5-11-2025_PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe (AlwaysMeKelly)

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