Wednesday, March 3, 2021

03.03.2021_March(PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

Music pulled from https://www.youtube.com/ and are free for public consumption**** Bible Verses pulled from https://www.biblegateway.com/ unless noted otherwise and are free for public consumption****   (NIV -New International Version, NKJV-New King James Version, AMP -Amplified Version, TPT-The Passion Translation)


Date: Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Soul Vibes / Motivation Movers (YouTube.Com)

 

Chase Me Down @Courtnie Ramirez

Can't Wait for Perfect @ Bob Reynolds Guitar Band

Should Of Been Us @Tori Kelly

"Start Over" @FLAME feat. NF

What Mercy Did For Me @[feat. Crystal Yates Micah Tyler Joshua Sherman]

Meditation Opportunities

(Biblegateway.com) Bible Verse of the Day

Isaiah 55:8-9 (NIV) 

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.   “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

 

 (@Jesus Calling 365 Devotions with Real-Life Stories @Sarah Young)

 

Ephesians 4:1-6  As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.  Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.  Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.  There is one body and one Spirit---just as you were called to one hope when you were called---one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all,  who is over all and through all and in all.

 

John 10:4   “When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.”

Jesus Freaks @dc Talk and The Voice of the Martyrs

“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. @Jim Elliot Speared by headhunters in Ecuador while serving three as a missionary, 1956.”

 

“But even if you suffer for doing what is right, God will reward you for it.  So don’t worry or be afraid of their threats.  Instead, you must worship Christ as Lord of your life.  And if someone asks about your hope as a believer, always be ready to explain it.”  @Peter the Apostle Crucified upside down in Rome, A.D.65 (1 Peter 3:14-15)

 

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

Chase me down Lord, never let me go.  

 

So many of us give up everything for that one love, just to be worth and with that one soul in life.  That one that we will always have in reach when needed.

 

Some learn how to keep it when they have it.  They never give up, they never let the waves of life to interfere with what they are after.   They fight, they work, they do it together they do it apart.

 

Many more just quit never fully into it never fully transparent to know what they were doing was filling a gap, a need  a moment in time.  And when they see something greener on the other side of that fence they jump.

 

Sometimes they come back in truth and sometimes it works out; sometimes the damage and layers left behind were just too much and the one left will never look at relationships the same.

 

Chase me down Lord and show me where to run after you.   Never do I want to treat the relationship I have with you Christ Jesus like that which transpires in the worldly day to day.

 

I cannot wait for perfect as perfection takes time and our time, my time here and now will never be yours Father God.    You are the only being that is perfect in every way.

You are the air that I am able to in and exhale!   Without you none of this has meaning.

 

Yes, those moments deep in this soul when it should have been an US.   Yet before too much damage is done you protect and guide us for whatever the reasons.   Protecting us from ourselves, from the wolves and players in sheep’s clothing with smooth talk, fast tongues and flash that blinds the truth.  

 

Never is our worth in what we do for others or they do for us.   That is a blessing and bonus in this physical life.  Yet all so temporal.  Yet even when it passes the memory that flows through the veins deep into the hearts and souls of every being who has been there.   Lives on forever.

 

Your mercy Lord as I am so undeserving of good or evil.    Your mercy is beyond anything the world we are given.

 

Forgive me for the foolish pride, the things I do from the layers of all that has been when I shut down before anything that could be.   Forgive those who have really added to circumstances that should have never been.  As they try their hands in the worldly chess or card games.

 

A lie is a lie.    A thief is a thief.  Black is black as white is white; no matter how you alter it, change it, add to it or take away.   It remains the same.  Anything other is just what you make it not what it was before the twists, turns and manipulations to get something different.

 

If only life were that simple as colors; after all we do in the world use it to stir troubles, be hateful and judge when we have no right to do so.

 

Good is good, bad is bad.    Just because I am foul on any given day or anyone else for that matter.   It is not because of our color.    It is what we  are harboring in our hearts and releasing towards whoever is in reach.

 

We all bleed red Father God.    So, no matter the moments crushed or exhilarating it is not because of the excuses we make or the labels we place.    It is because of what we are choosing to do with the very fibers in our beings each day you allow us back up.

 

We all get twisted up.   We all get to pick what we will do with the many or limited blessings we are given.  We all get to choose how we will react when someone else violates us, purposely for their own moments of whatever they are trying to achieve.

 

Even when it feels like they take so much away from you; never let that be the end of your story.   Rise up!    Take back and live more abundantly and pray for God to serve the justice needed.

 

Another one of those much easier than ever done.    I know it; someone jumps in my face or puts those I love in harms way.  Absolutely if I cannot get away from it. I will not allow it continue.  

 

So important, with keeping your circle small and knowing who is by your side.    Not everyone by your side is who you think they are, and you find out quickly when you need something who would really be there at the drop of a phone call.

 

Life just is what is and if you dwell too much on the lessons along the way and those you thought would be there or those you had to let go.    You will miss some especially important moments of starting over.

 

We all have a story, we all have baggage, demons in our closets.    We have to purpose to change what and who we allow to lead us every day we are allowed back up.

 

That is hard.   With so much glamour and shine.  All those chasing fame, even those who have in the world to what we seem to think is forever only 15 minutes or  blink in God’s timing.

 

It is not where we land, but what are we doing with it?  What do we do with all the abundance we achieve for the least of these, for those  who just need someone to listen, to be?

 

What about our own persona’s?   Have we gotten too busy, too good to pious?   

 

In the whisp of the wind blowing everything we think that we are because of our status, our toys, our appearance.     It can all be wiped away to nothing just like that.

 

So why when we know this; why do we not truly love and come to know people for who they are deep in their souls and not what they do or have or can do?

 

Why do people have to hide their authentic selves and pretend to be anyone but the real deal.

 

Why do we find our goals to be in magazines, and inanimate objectivity?

 

Why do we build relationships on anything less than no agendas filled with only love for the life right here and now?

 

Oh well, this mind maze is way out there thinking today.   I am blessed and so is every soul who has gotten back up.

 

Make it count, be a light and be the smile, the hope, the conversation.   People just want to have meaning and do more than survive day by day.   To be held in our hearts, in our minds and be able to smile.    Yes, if we are doing better than others, we should love them well anyway.   God loves all of us and none of us are better than the next in his vision.    He sees, hears, and knows all that we hide from and he still loves us abundantly.    So much he sent his son Christ Jesus to die for us.

 

Anyway, we have to learn to love ourselves with no agenda by perfect peace, mercy and grace and let that flow.

 

My thoughts, my mind dump.   My prayers for love, grace, mercy, harmony within and without our journey and all that surround us any given time.

 

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

03.02.2021_March(PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

Music pulled from https://www.youtube.com/ and are free for public consumption**** Bible Verses pulled from https://www.biblegateway.com/ unless noted otherwise and are free for public consumption****   (NIV -New International Version, NKJV-New King James Version, AMP -Amplified Version, TPT-The Passion Translation)

 

Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Soul Vibes / Motivation Movers (YouTube.Com)

 

Backseat Driver (Lyric Video) TobyMac ft. Hollyn, Tru

Yes and Amen  @Pat Barrett @Bethel Music & Housefires

Wrecked @WorshipMob Original

 

 

Meditation Opportunities

(Biblegateway.com) Bible Verse of the Day

Job 23:10-11 (NIV) 

10 But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
11 My feet have closely followed his steps; I have kept to his way without turning aside.

(@Jesus Calling 365 Devotions with Real-Life Stories @Sarah Young)

 

John 11:25  “Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life.  He who believes in me will live, even though he dies.”

 

Matthew 11:28-29  “Come to me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give your rest.  Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.”

 

1 Peter 1:8-9 KJV Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though not ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full glory:  Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

 

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

Okay it has been a crazy day, but one thing is for sure now that I finally am able to get to my daily devotional with Jesus Calling.   Which I must do all of them before I write anything.

 

I need to break 1 Peter 1:8-9 down into simple English. 

 1 Peter 1:8-9  (NIV) Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.  or 1 Peter 1:8-9  (MSG)  8-9 You never saw him, yet you love him. You still don’t see him, yet you trust him—with laughter and singing. Because you kept on believing, you’ll get what you’re looking forward to: total salvation.

Okay I remember when I first started out, I used to read only the King James Bible.  And it has allot of good stuff, but it took me years to catch on, and even then, once I learned there were so many different versions saying the same thing.   I need to keep it simple with this mind that imagines a squirrel and it takes off running in other directions.

 

There are so many ways to just keep challenging yourself to learn and grow.  Not just biblically but through out life, relationships and simply basic skill and knowledge.

 

Never doubt and hold yourself back.  If there is really something you want to achieve, obtain, and grow forward with.   You have to just keep trying.   If you quit because of doubt for any reason you will always have that what if popping up to haunt you.

 

However, somethings are only common sense that you must let go to grow.

 

So last night I dozed in the big ole recliner watching the season kick off of the voice.   Waking up not even sure what time or when I fell off, I go into bed and all I can think is I need to get back up and write.

Many times, when I know if I do that, I would be wrecked for a busy day that was coming.   I spent most my day in back-to-back meetings, learning and helping others learn what was transpiring.  So, I can assure you as soon as I am done, I am going for a nice walk to help me move these bones.

 

My writing is like a daily vitamin for me.   Sometimes it is great and full of much benefit and others being nothing is ever scripted except to always do my devotionals first.    You just never know what might come out.   Laughing out loud on that one; however, I always keep the names to  a minimum to protect the innocent in my crazy mixed-up portion of the world I am allowed to live.

 

Be it in my mind like just thinking last night; if only everything that was playing in my heart, in my soul and in my head poured out to music what would it sound like.

 

When tomorrow is not promised and it is already so incredibly sad in the world of so much that will never be done, or never be said before those we really wished it could are gone.

 

The one thing that I can always manage to get out even when I sometimes miss the mark for others is: Thank you Jesus for the days I am given.

 

Good, bad, indifferent.  Just knowing no matter what.  With you it will always be better than okay.

 

Each moment you allow us up is a moment for new opportunities to make, take, change, or even when we are allowed to walk through the trenches, or our hearts just break.

 

Wondering what kind of song would that really be?  Especially when so much is withheld, or too much of something that shouldn’t be directs our steps at any given time.

 

All I know is there will be no pain that will ever be that of yours Father God or what your son Christ Jesus endured for such an ungrateful world that many will never even acknowledge him, and the sacrifice made so we could live.

 

The word is truth, and the truth is clear.    Just as all the stress not needed to transpire because of unknowns, let downs, or missing what you never had to start.

 

Life is what it is,  remain faithful to what is good, what is clean, what is true.

 

When we get derailed, distracted on what is too good to be true.   Reel it back in.   Get back up when you fall, get knocked down or even pretty close to taken out.   If you have been given movement in your body, air in your lungs, even if it hurts, even if its hard.   Make it count in counting your blessings and enjoy the simple things so when something big comes you can really celebrate.

 

Celebrate the moments in and with thanks.   Those we are given, those that teach us something, those that we are allowed to keep growing through even when the process sometimes is painful.

 

Yes, there are allot of critics out there and yes, we should be caring for our own beings and learning to live in and with real humility.  Not becoming judgmental and living for what anyone in the world demands.

 

We should always have great respect for everyone and never contempt or plans to harm them.   Nor let anyone do that to our own being.

 

Yes, sometimes life gets away from us and it just happens. As we find our addictive behaviors trying to escape to that just once more if only.    Keep it real, be accountable and own what you are doing, saying or being.

 

Our choices matter and we own what we become part of or pull others into.    Never be that backseat driver.    Always step up, step out and stand for something.   But if you want that lasting eternal stamp of approval you had better be calling upon the name of the father and getting the truth before making your own version of what you think things should be.

 

Everything in this world is temporary.   Including the very beings, you absolutely never wanted to do life without.    Sometimes it just is what it is.     I am perfectly fine with Jesus at my wheel even if; even when!   His will not mine.

 

 Even when hurts and there have been times I know he is right in the middle the mix and things are just as they should be but then something changes and he removes something, someone or even me.   I am all in for what is real, what is truth.    Not to condemn, not to condone.  

 

Yet, so far from perfect but perfectly placed where he wants us to be.

 

 

I will forever miss my worldly sweet soul king as the Lord takes me to places, I will never deserve or fully understand.   But I will always know I am loved and held.   Someday maybe, while I keep getting back up whenever I end up down for any reason.   No matter how hard.   All we can do is keep trying and let go and truly let God.

 

Dive in and do your best with what you get to work with.    If its good enough it will be; if it’s not it never was and most likely was never supposed to be in the first place.   Only God knows.   Not me.

 

Just some of my thoughts and sometimes perspectives.

Glad on this crazy day I am still able to call upon His name.   Praying peace, love and all that comes with.   


Monday, March 1, 2021

03.01.2021_March(PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

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Date: Monday - March 1. 2021

(Biblegateway.com) Bible Verse of the Day

Psalm 73:25-26 (NIV) 

25 Whom have I in heaven but you?
    And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
26 My flesh and my heart may fail,

    but God is the strength of my heart
    and my portion forever.


(@Jesus Calling 365 Devotions with Real-Life Stories @Sarah Young)

“The world has it backward, teaching that peace is the result of having enough money, possessions, insurance, and security systems.  My Peace, however, is such an all-encompassing gift that it is independent of all circumstances.  Though you lose everything else, if you gain My Peace you are rich indeed.”

John 10:4  “When He has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.”

 

Philippians 4:6  Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petitions, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

 

Isaiah 26:3  You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind I steadfast, because he trusts in you.

2 Thessalonians 3:16 NKJV  Now may the Lord of peace Himself give you peace always in every way.  The Lord be with you all.

 

Soul Vibes / Motivation Movers (YouTube.Com)

  Stayed On Him (Isaiah 26:3) @Terrian

Even If @MercyMe

Red Letters @Crowder

Surrounded (Fight My Battles) @Michael W. Smith

Good Grace @Hillsong UNITED

Battle Belongs @Phil Whickham

Dive In @Ed Sheeran

Live Out Loud @Steven Curtis Chapman

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

Life the greatest show of all time; just one that even when we flip the script, flip the channel, flip who we have in our lives, who we will treat kind, who we will love.   The ultimate scene of it being our greatest show on earth or the biggest nightmare like a panic room has already been set into motion.

 

So many not even thinking about what they are doing set the stage; so many even if there are those that really intend on the outcome, so many do not.   They just keep doing until they get the result they want, or the script gets too hard to manage or read and they no longer want the part.  

 

We all get to choose be it the script we are going to be part of in any scene and what and how we will react to that of others. 

 

Panic, anger, getting even unfortunately floods this earth we have been given to live.   And although I do not believe anyone needs to be coddled.     Loving kindness could change so much if we all started even with our own selves.      

 

I won’t deny when I get up each morning after giving thanks for another day,  After getting done and doing devotionals to set my mind in that positive vibe.  It is hard not to feel the layers of the day or previous day sneak in.   From that which people say they are going to do what they should be doing and last minute it becomes your objective because you are the adult in the house; or just that which things just have to keep going on.

 

Frustration hits all of us at one time or another and how we deal with it is up to us.  Our choices matter.

 

Its hard to smile when the world as you know it that you are in is falling down around you or for those you care about.

 

Sometimes its worry and stress for what turns out to be nothing and others especially in these past couple years the losses just keep pounding waves all around us, with us or to us.

 

Believing in a mighty God, Creator, and only Father I have every known.   I have to keep talking about my Jesus.     No matter what hurts, what becomes a habit that should not or even what I get hung up on.   It is the hope in Christ Jesus through anything on this journey.

 

Been there done that!   To know what it feels like to hurt so badly physically, emotionality; and all that leaves you mentally questioning what the point or purpose is.

 

All that would of, should of, could of~

 

God and the hope, love, kindness filled with mercy and grace.  That no one here and now can ever take away.

 

All those red letters in the Bible mean something before, then, now, and forever will.

 

Life is hard and just because I let my heart reach for more than I can ever touch.   I know God is always with me.

 

Fighting for survival all my life.  Trying to fit in, have meaning for me and not just what I had to be taken.   Wanting that deep, desire love emotionally and physically balance.

 

I leave the fighting for the one who gives me air in my lungs and not that does not mean I would not do what it takes to defend myself or family when it comes down to it. 

 

It just means I know that my God the same being that allows air in these lungs will cover me and if He does not.  There is something to learn, something to do, something more to be.   This is how I fight my battles no matter what I feel.

Transparency yeah it is a necessity and painful most times than not.  Because most people would rather not hear the truth if it does not really fit their own scripts they are trying to play out.

 

It is what it is until its not.    There is great pain in life and in death.   Yet nothing will ever compare to what Jesus went through up to the cross or on that day.

 

Balance where we have to constantly know what to hold on to, what to let go is hard and something we choose every day.   By what we say or don’t say; by what we do or do not do.

 

I have nothing to prove to anyone in this world but just living clean.  Staying healthy and stepping up where and when I can.

 

Giving all the battles, the fears, the doubts, the hurts and all the good that comes each day we are given.    Seeking opportunity to do more than just go through the motions and exist.   Sometimes caring too much for what really does not matter.

 

Sometimes caring for the wrong souls, believing in others is a beautiful thing.  Yet if they cannot see to believe in themselves to be a better version of themselves it’s a vicious cycle filled with pain and time we will never get back.   Although everything in the time you had with them will forever be with you until you too leave this world.

 

People coming together and getting along, with no agenda’s but to create light and shine is a beautiful dream.  

 

If that means I work on being my best self who is far from perfect and walking in respect, loyalty, obedience for who I am and for what God expects.      So be it.    I will never be perfect only God is.   

 

It’s not my or your place to judge, although we do.      We want it all and boy do we get upset even when we do not  put our all into it, yet we expect those around us to have it together.

 

I spent the better portion of my life growing up and proving others wrong.  Family, so called friends.    People I deeply loved, deeply trusted only to find now what is they are just imperfect humans just like me.

 

Some gone too soon, others still existing.   Some flying high with the blessings of the one who allows them up others where they played hard, are suffering hard and will die hard.

Some with the biggest hearts and dreams with lots of common sense in a nonsensical world.   Others just trying to believe the best in those who they are given and allowing it to beat them down.

 

Making the choices that only they are responsible to make and living with the results the way they choose.

 

Thankfully, my imperfect self in this abstract world that I am given a little bit of color to add knows that the battles belong to the Lord.   

 

 

What that means in my comedy life movie with twists of drama, and abundant love.  Well, the ending is yet to be seen.

 

In the meantime, I will hold on to what is deep inside, fight in faith forward to keep getting back up and know where every breath comes from.    Knowing that the winter and darkness will fade out and soon new things will come to life and bloom and the colors of yesterday will matter no more with what we have for today.

 

So no matter what is, no matter what is not.    Love yourself well and that does not mean dressing up, collecting all the cool things, or knowing you are the top of your game for whatever it is you do.

 

Love the real authentic you for who God created you to be.   When in doubt call upon the maker through his son Christ Jesus.   Talk with him, fight with him, cry with him.   But be honest with him in your needs, your desires, your everything.    And listen to and for him.

 

Dive in; read and learn about who Jesus is, who Jesus forever will be and who you are in all things.

 

Live, Love and Laugh basking in His Light and you will absolutely find yours along the way.

 

 

Sunday 5-11-2025_PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe (AlwaysMeKelly)

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