08.04.2021_August(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, August 4, 2021

 

Meditation Opportunities - Biblegateway.com Daily Verse

Jeremiah 33:2-3 (EXB - EXPANDED BIBLE)

² “These are the words of the Lord, who made it [^Cthe earth; Gen. 1], ·shaped [formed; ^Clike a potter] it, and ·gave it order [established it], whose name is the Lord: ³ ‘Pray [^LCall] to me, and I will answer you. I will tell you ·important secrets [^Lgreat and hidden things] you have never ·heard [^Lknown] before.’

YouTube.Com) New song for me for the day~

Too Good to Not Believe - Brandon Lake

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

TobyMac - Heart Of My Beat

Passion - Worthy Of Your Name (Lyric Video) ft. Sean Curran

Jordan Feliz - "Next To Me"

Be Alright (LIVE) - Evan Craft, Redimi2, Danny Gokey

Warrior - Hannah Kerr

You Keep Hope Alive - Mandisa

 

 

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)

In most cases if it is too good to be true, too good to believe.  It Is!

With you Jesus, you are too good to not believe.    If we just take the moments, we are given to look back to you and at our life and those moments that it is truly and only the hand of God that has granted us mercy to be here and now.

 

Through it all have we given you even a speck of gratitude for the day you allow us back up to move forward in any direction.

 

It does not take a song to call the facts to light.   Yet, music speaks to our souls and allows our hearts to dance even for a moment in time.      Swaying to the past and waves to the future and that beautiful harmonic beat of our hearts when the excitement of rhythms consume us in all the instrumental moments or vocals crying out like war cries in the moonlight or bright spotlights.

Rocking it out or slow dancing; just knowing without the wonders, talents, and abilities of so many to take time and appreciate even a glimpse in the concerts of our own life.

Yet we turn everything meant to be shared, to be beautiful into something so more.  

May we never forget where we came from, even when we are growing forward.   It is not about the lined-up warehouses of all the toys we will never take with us upon the exit.

Keeping it real when real is so painful in the world of everyone gets a trophy.

 

What is the passion and thoughts thereof that makes your heart race at just a single second?   Are you worthy of receiving it to come to life; are you confused or just a collector, so it is not the  ever lasting but just to know you conquered and took what was not yours to take?

Christ alone is the only one worthy of His name, story, and all that He has done, and will do for a world of what we are called humanity, even if day-by-day we are losing ground and knowledge of what the definition of Humane means.  

It is more than a moment of sympathy, or consideration for other humans.    It is all things without an ulterior motive waiting to see some hidden agenda or expectation at the end of an act of kindness.

Paying it forward is far beyond giving a loan that you know will never be repaid or cleaning up your own mess instead of leaving everything you been blessed to be sheltered with a total mess for someone else to clear or clean up.

Or even being that co-dependent enabler that you think you are doing something really good for someone else that they could absolutely do for themselves.   All the while setting yourself up for risks and falls that you yourself may never recover from.

Jesus did not have to go to the cross.   He could have went about his own business and made some really awesome friends along the way and hung out had a couple drinks and kept fishing.

Laughing, carrying on and just doing life without any cares for anyone or anything but that which was right in front of him.

Thank you, God, for having a son who was so selfless and set the bar to an unreachable height in what it means to be so.

 

Thank you for allowing us to reap the rewards of all Christ sacrificed and set the pace for us to just believe and be our best self in obedience.

 

Thank you for allowing me the feeling and indescribable peace through it all.

Life is what it is, but we have to know everything will be alright and know the truth that the whole world is in your hands and unless we build our own personal relationship with your son Jesus and seek you.  Our souls will be lost in torment beyond forever.

 

It will be alright:  But I personally want to meet you at the pearly gates and see you face to face.  Just as I am so lost without your presence in my life every day I am allowed back up.

We are not given life by good works, or thinking we are paying it forward in our own process.

We are given life and sanctification through your blessing of salvation; because of our commitment that we fight forward every single day we are given for all you are God.

How that looks for every soul on this planet.  Yes, we could find what has been written by man but honestly, I am concerned for my day to day with you and sharing what feeds the beauty planting seeds in your garden and praying the beautiful colors of so many souls burst forward.

 

The beauty of redemption is between you and every soul you breathed life into Jesus.   None of us are perfect and yes all created in your image we all need you now.

 

Lord, when I fall it is only because of you I am allowed back up and have any strength that so many think I carry.    So often I just am done.    For the mistakes I make and live through all those I care about, and I watch them make.   Yet what do we do live in a bubble and not live.

No, we fight like warriors to keep hope alive in and with you.

Jesus only you have the power to get us back up, only you have the power to heal what is broken and bring us back to life.   Thank you for allowing me to call upon your name no matter how crazy, messed up or spot on my day to day is by the choices I make.

 

May I never let you go even when my mind no longer remembers what is.  Never may I stay down each time I trip and faceplant or am caught up and just fall from the avalanche of blind ambitions and empty promises that really have no foundation proven to be true.

 

Thank you for allowing me to be called a daughter, a friend, yours; chosen and written in the eternal book of life.

 

Be with all I am connected teaching, loving, leading  and breathing abundance through only your mercy, grace and salvation blessed.

 

 

Love those I cannot love, heal all that is broken and shine brighter than anything this world makes available that derails and distracts us.

Bring to light all that is pure intentional and filled with life ever after Jesus.

Your will be done~

 

Meditation Opportunities Daily Devotion

@Conversations with God (BIBLE.COM)

Isaiah 55 8-9   

“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)      “Be on the lookout for everything I have prepared for you : stunning scenery, bracing winds of adventure, cozy nooks for resting when you are weary, and much more.”

Philippians 4:13 NKJV  I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

Isaiah 58:11  The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame.  You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.

Colossians 4:2  Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.

08.02.2021_August(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 August 2, 2021

 

Meditation Opportunities - Biblegateway.com Daily Verse

James 1:22 (EXB - EXPANDED BIBLE)

²² ·Do what God’s teaching says; when you only listen and do nothing, you are fooling yourselves [^LBe doers of the word, and not only hearers, deceiving yourselves; Luke 11:28; Rom. 2:13].

YouTube.Com) New song for me for the day~

Isla Vista Worship - Jesus Christ

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

Lauren Daigle - First

Lauren Daigle - Here's My Heart

 

 

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)

Deep cleaning the house at 4 a.m. beats the alternative of being overwhelmed by what wreaks havoc on our emotional state when we want so badly for things to be well, and we just do not know how they will turn out.    Knowing God is in control gives me that deep peace that if he gets me up another day it and I will be okay for me.  But not for those who are at the point they have no balance and are beyond the danger zone.  It does not stop the agonizing volts that flow through a parent, grandparent or even that of someone who cares so deeply for others, and you just cannot make it happen already, so you know they have made it to their destinations and now you feel a little bit better they have all they need to start again.

 

When your kid with no plan loads their child and a dog in a vehicle and takes off across the country with no blanket of protection and they themselves are not well.   You pray all the survival lessons of this life they watched you get through kick in and they find that place of comfort to grow again.

The world is so hard and so different from when my generation came up.     And although you gave up everything because you are fully aware of it for them to be protected and live.    Dealing with the facts over and over that they were only given to you on loan.  And what will be will be as God has them regardless.

As a parent you can evaluate over and over again but there is no science to the fact that just because any parent does everything right; just because you have given your family fame, fortune and all the material items of the world.  Or even raised them up with the strictest rules and regulations.   There is no law in place that guarantees your child will be or do what you see spinning in your mind’s eye.

It is our job as parents to love them, teach them and always be for them.   Not live their lives for them no matter how that feels.

 

So as elderlies chronically deteriorate, youth fights forward with their own agenda even if there is nothing on it.    At some point we all have to live our own lives to move and grow forward.    Helping pull the weeds in God’s garden along the way and just not getting tangled up in them ourselves as we are doing whatever we are doing.

You can come from nothing and become everything; and you can come from everything and throw it all away for what becomes nothing.

 

We all get to choose.

 

So how I choose to survive and ready for the next  drop in this giant roller coaster ride of life.  Well, that is yet to be seen.  However, it will always be with Jesus having me 200% because I know; I just do not have it like that to make all the right choices or have my own.   No matter how many people think I am strong.   It is by the grace of God every day I am allowed up to keep trying to take one more step.

 

Where does that leave me.

My addictions and we all have something is working through it.   Knowing I have been given the freedom of will fighting for life as every soul in this universe.

As my home is quiet and empty and I am ripping things out to scrub, disinfect, bleach, sweep repeat watching the clock because I will then go worship and serve praying God consumes every soul in the building.

Life is what it is until it’s not.  None of us are getting out of here alive.    So be it we are out doing great things and being consumed by what the world makes us; yet never give anything back for the blessing we are allowed to get back up each new day.

Or we are out serving in missions and ministries.   We all came in this world and we all will leave.

What we do planting and sowing the legacy seeds that will grow forward is yet to be seen.

 

Instead of living up to everyone’s expectations or even game moves.   What are we doing to enforce our own moves, our own master class winning strategies?     What I find to be fulfilling or helping me grow and thrive is not what you do.     Though I want and need love I am not out there giving myself away trying to fill a void that only God can fill.    I say that with a lifetime of experience.  Five minutes of that rush that you got it, added one more star to your vision board or notch on your ever-growing belt of life.     Is never everlasting and eternal.

 

Sure, that rush of endorphins and excitement making you want more and more as the drugs of whatever it is rushes through your veins even allowing you to become really good at playing and hiding the pieces that fall off or break off along the way.

 

Our very own life is like one giant investigative process that never ends.   Really diving in using our minds and train up the way you want to go.  As a parent or responsible party for someone else.   Train up those and lead the way to all that is good, all that is light that helps those you are there for.     The best way you can.  From experience even if we walk around with a chip on our shoulders thinking we are doing our children a favor by doing it for them, by buying them.  But tossing all the material items they want does nothing for them to survive or be able to work growing into their best selves and being productive and caring while not being steam rolled over by those who walk around entitled and take from everyone and do nothing for themselves.

 

Yes, deep thoughts this day Lord.   Abrasive and real.  We can all use the excuse we do what we do and are a product of our environment.   But this is not true.  We are all given the blessing of life to live.   Selflessly and doing our best to remain obedient and love the temple we are given to travel this journey.

 

Knowing we do not and will not always get it right.  But not taking all that goes wrong turning hateful and demanding the world owes us something and being determined to live a life that if the world doesn’t give to us, we become hateful or self-destructive.

 

I never really thought much in my youth about what tomorrow might be.   Now as an adult I realize none of us are promised any tomorrow’s and I personally am doing my best to not let today get the best of me.    Be it love, life, brokenness, or something new being added.

If it takes me shutting down, eliminating that which is harmful and deceitful filling any space with negativity or consuming that what helps me grow.  To scrub it out, play it out, sing it out, dance it out.   As long as you are part of its Jesus.  Let’s Go!!!

No matter how many messes we clean up or hide of our own.  No matter how many messes we cleanup for those we are co-dependent and love with all we are.    Nothing matters without you Christ; and nothing counts unless we call upon you our very own selves.

As a parent I learned firsthand each child is love.  Each child is their own reckoning, and each child is not comparable to the other.  As they are all blessings and beautiful created for something bigger and better than anything we as parents can see or miss or toss aside for our own selfish ambitions.

 

Just as they are given to us they are taken away.   Sometimes it’s just their time; sometimes to save them from their own demise and sometimes just so they can grow and learn where their own blessings really are.

Love them all for who they are!  Stop worrying about all that others stuff and just know once you or they are gone there are no do overs.

Outreach, discipleship, education all starts at home for the better nothing more nothing less.

 

Dig deep and find you first; call upon Jesus and listen and absorb all that was, will be or always has been through the eyes of Christ.     Music, Podcast, a good bible-based church, small groups, brothers, sisters, and no agenda friends.  With the just mission to grow forward and shine boldly in life, for life.   Pray, your relationship with Jesus starts with you not me. 

 

Every single day you are given.   It is not about pointing out legalistic ways or that what we think we understand of the bible.     We are to plant seeds to grow beauty and life that shines bold and bright for all that is good.    It is not my job to point out the heresy that the new world we have today is trying to make truth.   It is your job to dig in and get the facts and challenge learn and light the path for others to learn.

 

Find those who are true biblical teachers and learn and grow.   Grow your spirit, grow your love, and know.    God delights in his creation; delight in him and grow in his word in truth. 

 

2 Corinthians 3:18  And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the spirit. 

Acts 20:32  Now I omit you to God and to the word of his grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified

 

Start now, wanting the truth and relationship with who Jesus is and will forever be. 

God fill us up with all you created us to be. Allowing us to see our worth and obediently become more than just a number productive but to be everything you call us forward to be.

DCC Collective - The Place You Found Me

 

 

 

 

 

Meditation Opportunities Daily Devotion

@Conversations with God (BIBLE.COM)

Luke 11:13 “If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

John 14:26 But the advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom  the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.

 @Jesus Calling 365 Devotions with Real-Life Stories @Sarah Young)      “Bring me the sacrifice of your Time: a most precious commodity.”

Psalm 2:16  Surely you have granted him eternal blessings and made him glad with the  joy of your presence.

John 7:37-38  On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.  Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.”

Psalm 103:11  For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him.

Psalm 34:3  Glorify the Lord with me; let us exalt his name together.

08.03.2021_August(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, August 3, 2021

 

Meditation Opportunities - Biblegateway.com Daily Verse

1 Samuel 16:7 (EXB - EXPANDED BIBLE)

⁷ But the Lord said to Samuel, “Don’t look at ·how handsome Eliab is [his appearance] or ·how tall he is [his height], because I have ·not chosen [rejected] him. God does not see ·the same way [as] people see. People look at ·the outside of a person [appearances; the outward appearance], but the Lord looks ·at [on] the heart.”

 

YouTube.Com) New song for me for the day~

John Mark Pantana - Mighty Grace (Tradução)

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

"Scars In Heaven" - Casting Crowns

Ryan Stevenson - Not Forgotten (feat. tobyMac)

Dreamers - Land Of The Living

Courtnie Ramirez - Perfectly Loved

Crowder - Good God Almighty

 

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)

Perfectly made in your image and beyond loved.  Thank you, Jesus, for your willingness to choose without question.  Doing what you did, doing what you do even still today.  For this sea of lost abyss in humanism.   You knew and knew what you are doing for God the Father.

Thank you for not giving up all these years on me Father God.   Making me hear you and holding my attention through all the beating my own head up against the wall thinking it was about me.    Protecting me through life even healing those scars that even sometimes somedays they break open and seep the distrust that allows me to survive.

We are all dreamers in this land of what should be living but all walking around in our own death drowning in the sins we think you cannot see.

So caught up in the Jones and trying to keep up and be more like what the world says it should be; all the while you are there telling us to rest and trust in you.   And when we do, we see the priceless freedom and abundance that nothing of the world can replace.

Even if we play that spiritual tug of war and sometimes wander off the path.  You never leave us your shine consumes us like a snow globe over Santa’s village.

Those moments when we have everything, and we are basking in the love and blessings with those you allow.   Then the next it’s all tossed aside, and we are trying to understand why broken or just out trying to find that greener patch of grass and convincing ourselves that the next change will work.  All the while we forget to give all of us to all of you Jesus.

 

We say we want to be more like you Father.  Merciful and gracious; yet here we are in a world still so full of hate and demands of contemptuous covetous and so full of anger we constantly break down when we are not working hard to consume and break others.

The disease of the world is more than that unseen virus that shut the world down in our time and labeled Covid19.    Manmade, man triggered, humanity did this and if we start diving into conspiracy.   Yes, the ones with the power and money played the biggest role in trying to own the universe.   We are beyond the superheroes and their superpowers.    Green Lantern, Batman, Robyn, or any of the Fantastic Four can do what you do Jesus.

 

Here we know this, yet we forget and think we can do what we do, and it be lasting and really matter.    Without life there is no love; without you there is no life, and the meaning of love is no more than that of passions in the dark leaving the broken pieces along the way where daylight comes shining through.

 

We may have strong or weak tolerance through the pain of any kind.   But nothing will ever compare to what you Jesus took for us to be given the chance to learn what it is like to really want to be love.  To be alive where growing forward only needs your living water and nourishments through relationship with you in all that we freely have given.

 

Your mighty grace does not even come close to the indescribable peace, love, and comfort you bless us with through all the storms.

 

Show me and all I will ever be able to connect; how to live Father

Walking on the ocean with those 100-foot waves crashing or through the fires where we just cannot breathe, or we are spinning so fast we feel the heat and friction of change needed.

You are always with us when we want you to be.   And even when we do not you never leave our side.

Times are beyond hard for many.   Be it that single parent losing their job and no where to shelter or even feed their children.    To those going through the health crises.  Some of their own self infliction and others just collateral damage of what caught them when the wind blew their direction.

Some broken at the hands of those they gave everything others just broken and unable to shake it to be anything more.

 

Good God Almighty I hope you will find me praising your name no matter what.   Lord knows I do not deserve anything; yet you bless those who call upon you in truth every day given.

I know I am nothing without you, knowing even then just a speck of some microscopic particle blowing in the wind.   Allowed to stick here and there and purposed to help shine a light even when at times I forget who controls the switch.

Thank you for allowing me up.

Be with all that have my heart strings tied in knots.    Good, bad, or indifferent.     All I am yours; then, now and eternally never forgotten…

 

 

Meditation Opportunities Daily Devotion

@Conversations with God (BIBLE.COM)

Psalms 17:6   A Prayer of David.

I call o you my God, for you will answer me; turn your ear to me and hear my prayer.

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Rejoice always, Pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

@Jesus Calling 365 Devotions with Real-Life Stories @Sarah Young)      “Watch your words diligently.  Words have such power to bless or to wound.”

 

Proverbs 12:18  Reckless words pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

James 1:19  My dear brothers, take note of this:  Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry.

Ephesians 4:29  Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs,  that it may benefit those who listen.

 

You either speak life unto your own being or those around you or you speak death.  You have the freedom to choose but know what you speak, what you consume and allow into your mind, your soul, your body matters to ever soul especially your own…  We are all guilty of opening the gates of hell or lightening the path to heaven.   We just need to be vigilant in what we reap we will sow even in the here and now.