07.03.2021_July(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: Saturday -July 3^rd , 2021   

Meditation Opportunities - Biblegateway.com Daily Verse

Proverbs 14:34 (EXB - EXPANDED BIBLE)

³⁴ ·Doing what is right [Righteousness] makes a nation great, but sin will ·bring disgrace to any [diminish a] people.

Meditation Opportunities Daily Devotion @Jesus Calling 365 Devotions with Real-Life Stories @Sarah Young)      There is no condemnation for those who belong to Me.”

Luke 6:37    “Do not judge, and you will not be judged.  Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned.  Forgive, and you will be forgiven.”

2 Timothy 4:8 Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.

Titus 3:5  He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy.  He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

Romans 8:1  Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Motivation Movers & Touches to the Soul (YouTube.Com)

Build My Life - Peyton Allen

MercyMe - I Can Only Imagine

Rare of Breed - GOD KNOWS ft. SMO

So Will I (100 Billion X) Lyric Video - Hillsong Worship

The Afters - I Will Fear No More

Terrian - Light It Up

 

 

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)

Build my Life Jesus and may I never forget all you have done and allowed to be graced in this journey I am given.

As I reminisce what I was doing this time so many years ago on this day and this holiday weekend. 

You gave me a beautiful 6-pound 13-ounce 21 inches baby boy who changed my world forever.   Bringing new meaning to reason for living and truly how to love.

Thank you, God, for always hearing my prayers to let me live long enough to see my children grow up; thank you for allowing me to see the beautiful soul and man he has become and the love that he reflects with those he is called and connected.

Blessed with two beautiful lives I was able to not perfectly do anything right but raise up the best I could.    I am blessed to celebrate the memories as well. 

 

Thank you then, thank you now.

 

I can only imagine as I was allowed to experience life and being a parent.  What you Jesus feel.  Through all the good and successes of your children clinging to you or even the darkness and loss that you know better than any being in this universe.

 

I pray maybe someday I too can stand next to you, and you can remind me of these mind maze conversations that come from the depths of me.

Blessed beyond all I deserve even during the bad or hard times.   You have always been and always will be.     

 

God knows the journeys we take on and off the path be it we follow or lead.  The judgement will come to those in the end we do not have to waste our time doing it now.

Yet, our human flesh makes it that we do.  Even when we are fully aware that we have just as many demons or broken pieces in our own being or own space.    We are so lost, yet we think we are so together and have the right to call everyone else’s faults out.  God knows and I can only imagine in love, in fear what you may even say to me the day we meet face to face.

 

I have so many missing broken pieces still.   Yet each day you have allowed me up to live the best I can with what I get to work with.   Sometimes I forget and chase wanting more, sometimes I carry on thinking what I have is never enough.   But all the time you bless me, and mornings like today remind me of the days I was truly blessed with reasons to live and changes even before I grasped on and met your son Jesus.

 

Yet you knew all this long before the beginning of time.   Just as you said I am worth something to come to this earth and you also allowed the children I was blessed through the fires of what the world can burn.      Yet here and now I can sing your praise and not even really know how to explain any of it.

Telling the story of a journey as you speak life into every single life, only those who really want more will hear your call.

Not sure when I learned to fear no more.   Or how or when You Jesus changed me and allow me to look up and find that strength to trust and keep one foot in front of the other.

Battle to live, battle of the mind, battle amongst everyone,  or no one.    Battles just to know we have meaning.    You Christ Jesus are the strength and anchor when the storms come to pass.

Thank you for believing in me and allowing me just seconds in time for all things.

Teach me what is and should be next.     May all that I am be something to feed even the lowest flicker of light of anyone I am connected.

 

Even in the messes, lost dreams, empty promises.     Light it up Jesus!   Light it up.

07.02.2021_July(PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

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Date: Friday -July 2^nd , 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 [^TAbove all things], ·a person’s mind is evil [^Tthe heart is deceitful; ^Lthe heart is devious/crooked]
    and ·cannot be healed [^Tdesperately wicked; ^Lit 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 [^Lkidneys].
·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)

Same Power Jeremy Camp

Lauren Daigle ~ Everything

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.

07.01.2021_July(PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

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Date: Thursday -July 1^st, 2021   

Meditation Opportunities - Biblegateway.com Daily Verse

Romans 12:3  (EXB - EXPANDED BIBLE)

³ Because God has given me ·a special gift [his grace], I have something to say to everyone among you. Do not think you are better than you are. [Instead] You must ·decide what you really are [think sensibly; think with sober discernment] ·by [based on; in accordance with] the amount of faith God has given you.

Motivation Movers (YouTube.Com)

AFFIRMATIONS for Success | Wayne Dyer

 

Touches to the Soul (YouTube.Com)

H.E.R., Tauren Wells - Hold Us Together

Big Daddy Weave - I Know

Cody Carnes - Run To The Father

Rescue - Lauren Daigle

Casting Crowns - Who Am I

Meditation Opportunities Daily Devotion @Jesus Calling 365 Devotions with Real-Life Stories @Sarah Young)      “Delight yourself in me, for I am the deepest Desire of your heart.”

Psalm 48:9    “Within your temple, O God, we mediate on your unfailing love.

Deuteronomy 33:12 About Benjamin he said: “ Let the beloved of the Lord  rest secure in him, for he shields him all day long, and the one the Lord loves rests between his shoulders.”

Psalm 37:4  Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.

 

 

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)

There is not a day that goes by that even in the chaos you are not stuck in my head where the battle of what is real and what is the world or maybe the world is real, and you Jesus are just something that has consumed me for the better.     I will always trust in you Jesus.   For you seek nothing while giving everything even in the moments I am trying to chase all that distracts me out and away.

You are good, you are kind, and you are everything in my life God.   Holding that hope holds me together no matter what, when, who, where or the unanswered why’s of life.

I know you are good Jesus, even when I do not understand any day or all of my days. 

Thank you for allowing me up another new day; looking back that I have been given these past six months already into 2021 and all the years that have come and gone.     One thing for sure is I will never be enough to replace or share the gratitude you alone God deserve for all you have done to bring life and humanity to this world.

 

Thank you for all you have given me, all you have allowed me to connect and all the lessons and blessing within them on this journey so far. 

May all the running I ever do be to you Father God; I need you more than ever now and always in everything and all my days.

You are never hidden Lord, may I never forget to cling to you through all possibilities, desires, choices good or bad.   As you are waiting to rescue us at just the call of your name.   Through Christ Jesus.   Apart from you we are nothing but mare specs of dust blowing through this universe.

 

Though my desires of this heart are pure, sometimes lost in the dream of what could be with the pretenders of this world spinning.   May all that I ever can be never change the need or drive for what is true, what is real and never settle for anything in between.   Even when it hurts, even when it blesses.    May your will be everything it should be.     

You know all things so hear the prayers of those calling upon you Jesus.   Healing, direction, protection, next steps, new steps.  Love ever after knowing you are eternal.  Be with your lost, lonely and all who fight for you.  Be with all who are losing their grip and bring healing and life like never before.  In your mighty precious name.  Amen.