04.01.2021_April(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: Thursday, April 1, 2021 

Meditation Opportunities

Isaiah 53:5-6 (MSG)    

^2-6 The servant grew up before God—a scrawny seedling,
    a scrubby plant in a parched field.    There was nothing attractive about him, nothing to cause us to take a second look.  He was looked down on and passed over,  a man who suffered, who knew pain firsthand.

One look at him and people turned away.   We looked down on him, thought he was scum.
But the fact is, it was our pains he carried—    our disfigurements, all the things wrong with us.
We thought he brought it on himself,  that God was punishing him for his own failures.

But it was our sins that did that to him, that ripped and tore and crushed him—our sins!

He took the punishment, and that made us whole.  Through his bruises we get healed.
We’re all like sheep who’ve wandered off and gotten lost.  We’ve all done our own thing, gone our own way.  And God has piled all our sins, everything we’ve done wrong, on him, on him.

 

Psalm 14:1 (NIV)    

For the director of music. Of David.

¹ The fool^[a] says in his heart, “There is no God.”  They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good.

 

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

“Accept each day just as it comes and find Me in the midst of it all.”

1 Thessalonians 5:17  Pray Continually

Proverbs 3:6  In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

Galatians 5:25  Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.

 

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)

 

Lord you know this heart.   Be with friends going through it.   More dear loved one’s down for the count.  Be with Rob as he is going through it in ICU and be with Irene as she paces the floors sick and alone at home.  Not sure what is next.   May their faith in you heal them and keep them comforted during this storm.   May all that know and love them lift them up in good spirit, well-being, and all they need to keep going forward if this is your will? Your Will Be Done @ CityALight

Thank you for this new day, this new month.  Lord give me direction, strength to finish what you tasked me to do. Let Me Finish @Erik Vargas

 

Day to day is such a whirlwind and the layers different but same just keep coming.  Somedays lighter some days heavier.    As I reflect and know how blessed I am with everything or nothing.  Still blessed beyond deserving.

Ready for the winds of change Jesus.  Ready for something meaningful and lasting and not just the spin trying to keep things floating especially for those who really do not care.  They just ride the coattails and waves of everyone who has arms wide open to receive and care. Arms Wide Open @Creed

 

It is not about me, really it is not.  Although I am so ready to just sail off and not care so much any longer.   I have always struggled with feeling as the winds of time has shown me the truth that sometimes cuts deeper than what I care to want to heal through.   

The world will never be the same and knowing you Jesus gives such a deep peace, but the weight and the weariness still come.       So over what is temporal in this place.   People, places, and things.   Those that you believe in and find you were so confused or those that were so beautiful, and they are taken.      Why are we working to just go through the motions? 

Working since I was 14 then to just survive and grow forward; now everything I worked for was for so many years for everyone else and in the end none of it matters.  Just okay is never enough; doing for everyone else who really only live for the moment and never really stand in the truth for everlasting  purpose.  At least not for the reasons they market and sell out in the world.  I am weary Father God for so many reasons, May I rest in you and renew and not just keep going through the motions even though I do good things.  The Motions @Matthew West

 May they be great things for you and for more than what I see and feel.  May I feel that energy to just fight a little more.  Because today reality says I am done…I'll Find You (Video) @Lecrae ft. Tori Kelly

 

Love what I do serving you Father!  Without a doubt, yet here I am again at the crossroads where those detour signs letting me know danger is up ahead if I do not find the direction needed to be more, be better, be me for what matters and clean up all that never should have even been considered in my view; yet it was.    Have mercy on all that I am connected including me Jesus!    Waitin' for the Bus / Jesus Just Left Chicago @ZZ Top

 

Resurrection is coming, no doubt about.   You left that tomb long ago and are coming back and are with those who believe here and now.  No matter what we feel, what we do.  You will never turn your back on those suffering, hurting, broken or together.  You will never just let your children go.  You always come back for the one even when there are 99 others.  It is your reckless love that teaches us what life truly is. Reckless Love (Live with story) @Cory Asbury

  It is your love alone that will never fail, never compare to anything this world is or ever will be.

You know what I do, what I feel, what I want, what I need.  Jesus come for me and all this world as we know it.     Show me the different view of what you see and that all this has not been wasted time we will never get back. Wasted Time @Unspoken  I cannot change what was, nor would I ever want to.  Who would I be if I did not go through these lessons?     Jesus help me make sense of the time you give me and all I am connected.   Show me how, show me when.  Show me you!   My world needs you!!!!   My World Needs You @Kirk Franklin, Feat. Tamela Mann, Tasha Cobbs, and Sarah Reeves

 

 

03.31.2021_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 31, 2021 

Meditation Opportunities

Isaiah 53:5-6 (MSG)    

^2-6 The servant grew up before God—a scrawny seedling,
    a scrubby plant in a parched field.    There was nothing attractive about him, nothing to cause us to take a second look.  He was looked down on and passed over,  a man who suffered, who knew pain firsthand.

One look at him and people turned away.   We looked down on him, thought he was scum.
But the fact is, it was our pains he carried—    our disfigurements, all the things wrong with us.
We thought he brought it on himself,  that God was punishing him for his own failures.

But it was our sins that did that to him, that ripped and tore and crushed him—our sins!

He took the punishment, and that made us whole.  Through his bruises we get healed.
We’re all like sheep who’ve wandered off and gotten lost.  We’ve all done our own thing, gone our own way.  And God has piled all our sins, everything we’ve done wrong, on him, on him.

 

Isaiah 53:5-6 (NIV)    

⁵ But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.
⁶ We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way;
and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

 

 

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

“The more intimately you experience Me, the more convinced you become of My goodness.”

Psalm 34:8  Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

Genesis 16:13-14 AMP  So she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her…[the Living one Who sees me]

John 20:19  “On the evening of the first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”

Colossians 3:15  Let the peace of Christ rule your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace.  And be thankful.

 

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)

 

Well March you have come and gone already.  Here we are blessed up and running already 3 months out of the year is gone and everything is the same but different.

 

Here we are with many lessons of each new day and the ability of getting back up because of you alone Lord, and the knowledge of so much more to learn, do, be or even seize in the moments of opportunity for each second, we are given.   Thank you for this day and all that have come to pass.   Thank you for allowing me riches of connection and abilities to understand it is not about me.  All The Riches Of You @Christ For The Nations Worship

 

Never knowing what is up next, just trusting in you Jesus.   I would be a hot mess and am most days even knowing you have me.   If I did not know you, I would be a psychotic minion always trying to have things worked out and freaking out because they just do not always work out how we think they should.

 

First of all, Lord forgive me for those offenses small or big I have done inadvertently or directly to anyone I have connected.    More so, forgive those and lead them to your will and guidance in doing what is right not for their own selfish needs or ploys and schemes.   But your will alone.    May they pay forward the kindness and love that has been showered on them even if it was not to their substantial requirements.

Some time back I prayed all the bad fruit be removed and you are true to your children Lord and with that some of the least expected moments and memories are forever deep within.  

Heal my connections through you and your will Jesus!  Heal this nation, this world.

It is no different in our inadequacies from day one to now.   We have just gotten louder in force and still all are abundantly selfish getting it consumed and confused in releasing all we are and are to be in your creation.  Image of God @We Are Messengers

 

 As we are working our way to Resurrection Sunday.  Even when we do not realize our good person lacking Jesus persona’s God forgive us please; just one more time while we are still here to choose.

Protecting the innocent, the babies, the future, and the elders and all the wise who have found you and have lived through more than anyone ever gives credit or talks about.

 

I could pour out all the things that weigh heavy on my heart and being.  But Jesus you already know these things.   You know the who, the what, the when.   As I faithfully remain holding on to you Jesus you are and always will stand true to your promises.  Even if we cannot see or hear the truth coming to life.    Even if I never have a chance to see you face to face I will always believe in, with and for all you were Jesus, all you are and all you will be throughout eternity.     Promises (feat. Joe L Barnes & Naomi Raine) - Maverick City | TRIBL

 

Search me and all I am connected and for each day you allow us back up Father God.  Direct every step, every breath and every second of any days allowed.   Hidden Places @Veritical Worship

Gratitude is just a small portion of worship and thankfulness within even the smallest spaces of life we know things could be so much different.   Being a productive member of society, working towards being smarter and not working harder for all that is temporal.   Living beyond more than what is temporal.   Loving in the depths outside in as you love us all inside out.  May every soul experience being in the middle of thousands praising and singing to you Jesus where your life flows moving the electricity of love, truth, and abundant peace.   Consume me Jesus; and all I ever will be.    From The Inside Out @Hillsong UNITED

 

None of us really know if a tomorrow will come and if it does; how will it really turn out?  We can plan, we can panic, we can fight, we can hustle, we can do everything right or we can set the stage doing whatever we feel like it to no matter who we feel like.  In the end we all pay the price for all the deeds we do and even when all those deeds are good, and we cannot see the blessing; we know it will come.    May that hope, that faith of it will come! Shine brighter than ever before for all those really feeling the world this day, no matter what the cause.   You are a God of miracles    Miracle @Tauren Wells

No matter what is, what was or what will be.  Show me how to lead those you put in my path.  Leading by example, reflecting we are just humans.  Believing in what we believe and seeking the greater good, the something better and sometimes spinning out of control as our heart strings get caught up on the edges of life.        May only you Jesus be what unravels me, unravels all I connect and touch.   Unraveling @Cory Asbury  No longer a slave as I cling to your freedom.    Thank you for all the days I have been given.  All the heartbreaks, pains to grow through, and life of blessings to know I am up again this day with no one to thank but you Jesus!    I am a child you called out of the darkness as I look back so early on.

   As so many moments I could have been that statistic and gone from this world.    You called me out of the darkness, and I am no longer a slave of what the world says we should be.    Yet I am glued together in your promise and light of light awaiting to be set free. May every soul come to know the choice of freedom and be set free from the darkness lurking.  Spiritually, physically bind every connection in love, in hope, in all that is good.  Thank you Jesus!  No Longer Slaves @Bethel Music

03.30.2021_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 30, 2021 

Meditation Opportunities

Isaiah 53:3-4 (MSG)     

^2-6 The servant grew up before God—a scrawny seedling,
    a scrubby plant in a parched field.    There was nothing attractive about him, nothing to cause us to take a second look.  He was looked down on and passed over,  a man who suffered, who knew pain firsthand.

One look at him and people turned away.   We looked down on him, thought he was scum.
But the fact is, it was our pains he carried—    our disfigurements, all the things wrong with us.
We thought he brought it on himself,  that God was punishing him for his own failures.

But it was our sins that did that to him, that ripped and tore and crushed him—our sins!

He took the punishment, and that made us whole.  Through his bruises we get healed.
We’re all like sheep who’ve wandered off and gotten lost.  We’ve all done our own thing, gone our own way.  And God has piled all our sins, everything we’ve done wrong, on him, on him.

 

Isaiah 53:3-4 (NIV)     

³ He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.

⁴ Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God,
    stricken by him, and afflicted.

 

 

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

Trust Me at all times!

Proverbs 3:5  Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.

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!”

Jeremiah 29:13-14  “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.  I will be found by you, “ declares the Lord, “and will bring you back from captivity.  I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exhile.”

 

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)

 

Life is what it is until it is not; period…

Make it count now and get it right with the maker and creator of all things.  We do not get any do overs once our post mark to exit this planet is stamped and we leave the vessels we were given and are at the crossroads waiting to meet Jesus’ face to face.

Do you know what changes you have to go north or south eternally?    Have you purposed in life of the here and now to meet Jesus while living?   

If you have denied him here, you have no chance in the thereafter to reconcile and ask for forgiveness and change your ways.

If you are holding back because your friends will not understand or may even laugh at you.   Well, you are not acknowledging your own self worth or that of what matters most.

Real friends will always be friends for the best of life and the worst of life. 

Real friends will always want to just be your friend no matter what crazy you plug into.   So if they think you are crazy for believing in all that is true, all that has been written for centuries, all that will always be.    Then ask them to ride that train with you.  Hallelujah Train @Kay Morris

 

 

 

I have to admit as I am writing and things trigger, I search out music and it makes it allot of fun with some of the tunes I am able to tap into.  All the while stories unfold or are just being written.

 

So, one thing is for sure.  I am not perfect or 100% pure in worth for God to even give me the time of day.  But I am 210% pure in intentions and love for the savior who gave it all so I can live.    That alone and the peace I have been given since I openly stop worrying what others think when it comes to who I call my best friend.  Is worth every second of those that couldn’t hang for what may never be seen here and now but will always be pure and abundant eternally.

I do not have to prove anything to the King of Kings, Sweetest Soul maker and keeper ever.  I do not have to have it all together, I do not have to have millions or even a dollar.  I do not have to be a super model.   To know I am enough for the one who gives me life itself.

Jireh @Elevation Worship & Maverick City

 

Thankful for this day and any others given; even when I miss the mark. 

Lord for all those who cling to these so-called friends who within a second of them not getting what they want; turn on a dime.   Talking negative and trash at times trying to make others look bad so the light does not shine on their own being.   For all those who lie, cheat, steal and use up; taking advantage of those who believe in them.   Lord bring their darkness into the light and cleave and put them in the fire them until they are clean.

May they deal with their own demons and stop trying to hide in others. 

 

There will always be those days when someone has something to point out that we are doing wrong, or looking wrong, or just not fitting in the mold they think and sometimes insist we belong.

 

Lord give all those in need, even the one’s that cannot be truthful with their own self, much less anyone else.   The knowledge who you really are and the forgiveness and chance to just be who you created them to be.  

Who You Say I Am @Hillsong Worship   

As I walk through events of days past and maybe even going forward.   Lifting all that is in my heart up to you Jesus.   Lifting the healing needs of family, and friends to you and the foot of the cross.   Seeking wisdom and guidance for even my own day to day.   It is you alone Lord that knows everything thing before it ever happens.  It's You @TobyMac, Matt Maher, Terrian

Be with me and all I am connected especially on those days we just are floored and unable to get back up without your hand.

Those days when we watch those, we love in the spin of all that is temporal yet life itself seems to be coming to an end for them and nothing we can do to make them understand or just breathe.    Just Breathe @Jonny Diaz

 

The players keep playing, those who choose to not want to dare to be different but just follow for whatever reason.     At some point we all have to pick and choose what we will allow to keep putting up with, doing or accepting.    

 Living in a world of daily hard lessons, even the best intentions go for bad reasons that we just do not pay attention as they were there all along.     Never say never and for all those who tell you trust them they will never.      Run! 

 

Yesterday I myself had to ask someone to leave my property just because they are not healthy for themselves and especially not for my family members that I allow to share life with.    It is not always easy, but boundaries are necessary.    

What I can say is I pray they do not come back because I do not like the ugly me that triggers choices some may regret.     I wish everyone I have ever crossed paths with; good, bad or those I should have run from.  Nothing but what God allows them to have.

He gives and takes away. Praise You In the Storm @Casting Crowns

 God  calls us to be good stewards of our lives and those that are precious to us.   Not just for money but he calls us to be good stewards for everything he gives us.   Our very own beings, and all the gifts of housing, material items, money, and people.

If we do not stand for our own beings, and what has been given; who really will?

 

Jesus gave all He was in human form and more so that we all could have abundant life.   And as hard as it gets at times.   I am going to keep fighting forward to hold onto what good I am allowed in this life.   I don’t care who is with me and who is not.

Sadly, yes it does bring tears to my eyes at times that I think this way.   But I cannot control what others choose to do.  I can only pick up the pieces of the choices I have made and just keep fighting forward until I am able to see the maker face to face and at least beg if needed that I am enough to make it to the big house in the heavens  Big House @Audio Adrenaline

With that Jesus, Come heal us and this land!

You know all things, may that same sweet voice that called me out, call every soul I am connected and better yet; may they answer your calling.   If not; please give me strength for the heartbreak that will happen, for the healing that will always be needed; and your direction and will alone and limit my own.   As you know I can make a mess of things quick and easy believing so much in the world and those in it.    May I always seek and follow you first!

 

Thank you for this day and all the spin of my own mind maze.