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Date: Saturday – September 11, 2021

(9/11/2021) Spiritual Health @Dennis DeRight @New Life Christian Church-Spring Hill

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Meditation Opportunities

Daily Devotion

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

“Rejoice in Me Always!  No matter what is going on, you can rejoice in your Love-relationship with Me.”

Philippians 4:4, 12  Rejoice in the Lord always.  I will say it again: REJOICE!... I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty.  I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.

Psalm 102:27   But you remain the same, and your years will never end.

1 Peter 1:8  Though you have not seen him you love him; and eve though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with inexpressible and glorious joy.

Biblegateway.com Daily Verse

Psalm 121:1-2 (NIV) New International Version

A song of ascents.

¹ I lift up my eyes to the mountains—
    where does my help come from?
² My help comes from the Lord,
    the Maker of heaven and earth.

 

Psalm 121:1-2 (MSG) The Message

^1-2 I look up to the mountains;
    does my strength come from mountains?
No, my strength comes from God,
    who made heaven, and earth, and mountains.

 

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

 James Arthur - Avalanche

Jeremy Camp - Steady Me

TobyMac - Help Is On The Way (Maybe Midnight)

Wait On You | Elevation Worship & Maverick City

Jireh | Elevation Worship & Maverick City

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b61wsBdqrKM

 

 

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)

 

“We can’t change what we have experienced, but we can choose how the experiences change us.” #Lysa Terkeurst #Forgiving What You Can’t Forget

 

God, you hear every broken aching soul even 20 years later where hate and evil changed our worlds forever.     Thank you for never giving up on a world that has given up on itself. 

Wow how appropriate that I am still in this study and the reminders when the world stops because we are reminded just how evil and dark things from choices people that have been lost to the darkness and what scars and reminders that come full circle over and over.

Lord I will wait on you.

I do not know what that looks like.  I know the avalanche of life, pain and so many cuts that left me bleeding out and lost in my early days.  And even the brokenness from the lost trust where I have made choices that betrayed my own good works or those that betrayed me for their own personal gains when I really believed in them.

Broken bones, broken promises, scars cut straight through all the while we just keep getting back up and either let it spin us so bad, we never find the track back to really try and journey through life.    Or we get up swinging and fight forward in baby steps sometimes big kid steps sometimes we make it and get knocked back tenfold.    But Lord in you while we are hanging on the balance.  You carry me!!!

There is no doubt.

Growing up living in a New York State winter with no heat, hot water, living off whatever we could get from friends’ homes.  Going to school to find warmth and relationships.

Times are hard now and we serve to help no kid going hungry; but Jesus what is different then to now.

At least in my day there were some adults that truly stepped in and said what they had to say and kids did have half a chance.   It seems now days if they are not being robbed on of their innocence, they are turned on to empty promises of the high that will take them straight to hell and back if they make it out at all.   That does not even touch the evil exploiting and human trafficking or worse.

It has always been there all of it.  There have always been sick minds with dark souls.  But now there is so much more instant.    

Everyone wanting what someone else has worked for.   For no greater purpose but to just take it.

Lord on this dark day when confused lost dark souls picked a cause and gave their life to hurt and harm so many; be it 9/11 or individuals for all those lost never talked about.  

Come wash this land clean Jesus.  

Give those knocked down, broken and left bleeding out from all the hurt, hate, harm your will; your strength; and your purpose for all the pain even if we never ever understand it.

Waiting on you as I know help is on the way for all who seek you.   Jesus make a way for all those stuck in the darkness and unable to see any flicker of your mercy and grace.

All this unnecessary that spins us sometimes.   Caught up on so much that yes needs to be fixed but we must fix ourselves deeply upon you Father God.

If we must perform; Jesus may we perform for you. 

Change is coming there is no way around it.   May I dive in and wait on you for all you are Father.

Hear this heart, you know this soul and all that is tugging and knotting up these heart strings. 

For all you have pulled me through and carried me when I never knew it.   When you have protected me in those places I should no longer be. Never even knowing you.  

May you do the same for every single soul good, bad, or indifferent I am connected.   Lead them to the truth and way.

As crazy as that sounds.  Your will be done; for me and all that will be.

Thank you for this day and all that have been and any yet to come.   May all I am never let go.

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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: Friday – September 10, 2021

 

“We can’t change what we have experienced, but we can choose how the experiences change us.” #Lysa Terkeurst #Forgiving What You Can’t Forget

 

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)

So, writing before devotionals today is my disclosure here and setup to see what God will put me in check or align for me.    One of the things without music without just thinking about all the WHAT IF’s everyone out in the world is allowing to get the best of them all the while God is waiting for you to turn to him daily through His son Jesus to vent, cry, jump for joy whatever you got He wants you to share with him for a new day that you are even allowed up to do so.

We have to own our decisions and absolutely start living in and with kindness.   Take care of our own business and know who it matters to scream and shout at if we have to and those that do not.

Scream about your own issues and stop getting in other people’s business to take the light of yourself.

 

Given life we are all given freedom of will and choice.   Stop forcing people by manipulation, disgraced behaviors and just plain hate and just riding that train because everyone is to make choices that disrupt, destroy, and harm their space, and being.

 

So, all the controversy and hate and broken relationships when we cannot even stay dedicated to the blessings we are given.    We are nothing but a bunch of kindergarteners that don’t know how to play nice and nobody really wants to share we just keep chasing the shiny ring and things that we can say we took, we got it.   But in the end do we really care about our own being enough to know who we really belong to?  Do we really care about anyone we were given in life?  Instead of just riding the mile high club and making that money chasing that paper, getting  a big screen name all the while God is allowing us time for now to see things getting shook up and allowing us to turn to Jesus to learn and know who we really are meant to be and who God really is.

 

First, I will apologize for my candid thoughts today.

As I am far from being an expert or telling anyone to pick one way or the other when it comes to health and wellbeing of your own bodies given as a gift.   However, I will speak on the fact it’s not just you or not just about me.     Think about who you surround yourself with, think about what you do daily.   Be it are totally alone and killing yourself slowly because your fear will not allow you to interact with humanity.  Or you’re out there hanging with your buds and doing your puff puff pass routine.

 

What is a fact is viruses are as deadly as an STD with long suffering and easier to pass and not by kissing on someone or sleeping all over the place and not valuing the temple you were given for a journey you really do not know will when it will end?

 

One thing is for sure the God of all creation allowed you to come and be and only He knows the time you will be taken home.  And unfortunately, he will know how it will occur for every one of us.   From dust we are formed to dust we will return.

With that being said with all the energy we are spending out here screaming and squawking about wearing a mask, not wearing  a mask.    Making fun of those who are so scared they drive down the road in an empty vehicle with their masks on or even those who have no regard for life at all and do more than just expose everything and everyone to their bad careless behavior.    What are each one of us doing and are we minding our own business and managing our own house before adding to the noise and anger feeding demons in this world?

 

I don’t need a response this is just thoughts that normally would stay on my blog page but today I just thought the need for me to go out and see what we have done in the past and what makes 2021 so different they decades before.       With that I suggest everyone do the same.  

 Take care of your own house.

Take care of your own children.

Before screaming the sky is falling and I hate everything and everyone.

What have you found to be the problem, and have you given any real depth and thought to what could a solution be for you and your circle?   

Write your government body scream at them and if you have a solution share it with them.

But come together in unity and stop destroying the very existence you were given to have life being fruitful and multiple.

All we are doing as a nation is complaining while we should be praying and doing anything and everything positive for our own and those around us.    So many are so ready to go out and hustle and take whatever free they can get.  All the while thinking entitlement means to take from those really in need.   

And the government well I try never to get into politics or religious arguments because firstly I am not educated enough and the bottom line for government, they all need term limits and when something is not working replace all of it until it does. 

As for talking about my Jesus.    Well, He is yours too!      God gave his only son to die on a cross who went freely and willingly so we could have life and be abundant with and in mercy, grace, love, and more beauty than I could ever describe.    Yet we spend more time finding faults and pointing out the brokenness or judging everyone around us all the while we ourselves are right there in the thick of it.

Speaking life is a necessity and remaining morally valuable in this world that has lost what respect, and loyalty means.   Well, I get it… It has always been easier to remember that one bad thing over a billion good.   It has always been easier to make noise but put no effort into life.

Well, I could go on and on and even disclose my faults, my dirt, my own shortcomings with judgment even though I believe and serve something greater than I will ever be able to prove.

But what I can say is you want it to get brighter.   Be the light, you want it to get better, do your part!

Dig in and find the truth, the facts and share your ideas and go for them in peace and love.

Stand up in truth with Christ and with your family that you were given and take the noise to the government and make those that get paid far too much hear and act for change.

Shut down the radicals by not participating.       Yeah, easier said than done.   But it all starts with each one of us.

Stop panicking and own your world you have within your reach. 

 

Here is just a little history and the point is this is our generational pandemic that will be in the history books.     I get the fact we are a Free not Free country.     And the government many elected in are screaming left, screaming right, and doing nothing in the middle.   

Make your choices for you; and stop hating those who do not think like you or act like you.    

Call out the bad behaviors and stop allowing them who are misbehaving be anywhere near you.     If its your kid, put them in check…   

Do something positive   Live! Learn! Love! Laugh and share God’s peace, wisdom, and eternal grace.

 

Thanks for reading and apologies for any offense.  I am far from perfect, but everyone is getting freaked out over so much and I say what has history taught us, who do we really believe in to no the end result.  And no; just because I love who and what Jesus was, is and always will be.  Does not mean I get a free ride.   I have to do my part in my own choices every single moment of every single day as well.  However, I just miss where we once could really talk to people and hang and have life and just live without constantly fighting just to get by day by day or more importantly not hear the world around us that is filled with so many we know and love fighting or having to defend who they are and what they do or do not do.

I am not one to be locked in a box or not keep moving.    For sure and thank the good Lord I am not who I was 25 years ago.  I absolutely would be controversial and loud.     Fighting first and digging in later.

We are all blessed and for that for me, for my own little slice and moments I am able to recognize the love and give some back.    I can only give thanks.    Even if, even when…

Some history

Vaccination Resistance in Historical Perspective | The American Historian (oah.org)

 

Polio

No Lockdowns: The Terrifying Polio Pandemic of 1949-52 – AIER

Wiping Out Polio: How The U.S. Snuffed Out A Killer : Shots - Health News : NPR

History of polio - Wikipedia

 

Spanish Flu

What did Congress do during the 1918 flu pandemic? | by GovTrack.us | GovTrack Insider

Rapid Response was Crucial to Containing the 1918 Flu Pandemic | National Institutes of Health (NIH)

How the US Handled the Spanish Flu Pandemic in 1918, 1919 (businessinsider.com)

 

Measles

History of Measles | CDC

Measles - Timeline | History of Vaccines

Why It Took So Long to Eliminate Measles - HISTORY

The MMR and Single Measles, Mumps and Rubella Vaccines: The REAL Facts | The BMJ

 

Biblegateway.com Daily Verse / Meditation Moments

Isaiah 46:4 (NIV) New International Version

⁴ Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you.
I have made you and I will carry you;  I will sustain you and I will rescue you.

 

Isaiah 46:4 (MSG) The Message

“Listen to me, family of Jacob, everyone that’s left of the family of Israel.
I’ve been carrying you on my back from the day you were born,
And I’ll keep on carrying you when you’re old.   I’ll be there, bearing you when you’re old and gray.   I’ve done it and will keep on doing it, carrying you on my back, saving you.

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

 Train -Calling All Angels

Alec Benjamin - Beautiful Pain

OneRepublic - Someday

Tori Kelly - Soul’s Anthem (It Is Well)

Sufficient For Today (feat. Maryanne J. George) | Maverick City | TRIBL

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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 – September 9, 2021

 

Biblegateway.com Daily Verse / Meditation Moments

Titus 2:2 (MSG) The Message

A God-Filled Life

2 ^1-6 Your job is to speak out on the things that make for solid doctrine. Guide older men into lives of temperance, dignity, and wisdom, into healthy faith, love, and endurance. Guide older women into lives of reverence so they end up as neither gossips nor drunks, but models of goodness. By looking at them, the younger women will know how to love their husbands and children, be virtuous and pure, keep a good house, be good wives. We don’t want anyone looking down on God’s Message because of their behavior. Also, guide the young men to live disciplined lives.

Titus 2:2 (NIV)New International Version

² Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.

Read full chapter

 

 

“We can’t change what we have experienced, but we can choose how the experiences change us.” #Lysa Terkeurst #Forgiving What You Can’t Forget

 

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

Kane Brown - Good as You

CeCe Winans - Believe For It

Brandon Heath - I'm Not Who I Was

Spirit Lead Me (Official Video) - Influence Music & Michael Ketterer

 

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)

What if!

Will you allow yourself to not live?

Will you stay paralyzed?

Will you take all that you think you need, want, or worked really hard for that is no longer; be filled with anger and hurt to take out on others?

We are immortal and all that we do here leaves the legacy for every soul watching, feeling, living right next to us or miles always.

What legacy are you pruning to grow in the future of whatever this world has left.  But even more so for the eternal life we are promised to see.     Our vessels may turn back to the dust that God breathed life in so we could exist; but our souls will  be either North or South.

The choice is up to you for eternal peace and the deep joy that cannot be bought or lost in the pains and sufferings of this world.   Or you will relive you worse nightmares over and over and over again with no end in sight.

Yes, perhaps I did and do watch too many movies and maybe I will be wrong, and we all end up in the same lost in space zone.    Maybe I am right.   Personally, I prefer to live doing my best in harmony and love and peace for all things around me and not watch darkness and evil hateful crimes towards humanity now.  Not even for the worry or hope that eternity is real.   But for peace on earth with what we are given right in front not chasing all that is far away or maybe, maybe nots!

 

Far from perfect  and always will be.  I do not pretend to be anything but me.  I work harder than I should.   I get frustrated, even overwhelmed at times and some of those old habits I learned very young, or reactions creep up and out.

But who I am, and what I do I own!   I make no excuses for my lack of anything; or my quick to feel and react at times when I should learn to just breathe.

I am not out to prove anything to anyone; but that life is what we believe, and we work, and we make it.    I believe in Jesus Christ, God the Father and all creation formed with and from a God greater than anything we will ever understand.

I believe in the good and evil, just as the light and darkness.    Just as we can know someone all our human lives and realize we never really know them at all.    That the awesome fun-loving soul down the street that has always been so kind and loving and had that charisma that drew you near turns out to be a mass murderer or a child that comes from such horrific abuse fights forward to be something better giving back and not a statistic full of excuses and always taking because they earned in the strips the world gives them to have everything, they think they want.

If you think you are done when it ends here.  That is your right to believe in whatever you want.

 

If I am wrong about eternity, then at least I have done my best to live kind and work for what I want and not flip out too badly when things do not go according to my purpose.    If I am right, then not only will I have worked being my best self here and now and purposed with what I am given.  And will celebrate on the other side of heaven when it is my time.

What if

Those dreams you chased were not anything as you planned.

What if

Like a bad taste after a meal, you bit into was not even close to what you anticipated?

Do you quit?

Do you hate the world and every moment you are given taking your anger and misconceptions out around you?

Do you get back up?

Go wash the bad taste out of your mouth and learn from the experience and keep trying with a purpose to keep growing forward?

Look around anything can happen here and now.  Silent, invisible killers consuming everyone and anything in its path.   From the whispers in our minds to take that little something to mask the pain and get us through until we have no control and we one day do not wake back up.   Or even that little party favor that helps us feel more comfortable and have fun with our friends we hang.

To the physical altercation down the road where a child takes its parents life, or a parent takes out the family because they can no longer cope with what this world is.

What about that pregnant mother that gave birth by C Section that lays in ICU on a machine with the world praying around her just to be given a chance to live life and meet the beautiful baby waiting at home that may never know her.

What about the elderly mother, brother, sister, grandmother grandfather, uncle…? The president of a company or president of the world.   The teamster, or Lawn staff.    All who gave their all being their best imperfect selves that lay in nursing homes and when storms come those that are hired to care for them  and instead of the workers taking care and learning from the wisdom of those that went before; they selfishly do more harm than any good.

What about those that do everything to give our elders the best in the remaining days.  

In the end who grows in love and prospers in wisdom and life in the end.

There are no guarantees just because we are the best most caring, loving God following people.  Does not mean there will be no suffering and dark times.    In fact, in many cases where darkness is God will place those with the ability and want to shine bright.

 

Just because you have  fancy homes, one or many and the person down the road barely gets by and lives in a tent.   Does not make you any better than they are because of stuff.

It just means you have much more to be responsible for in payment, up-keep, and responsibilities.    It is truly what you share from the inside out.    Look around this world we have.   All that stuff all those collectibles mean nothing.  You will never get what you paid for them.   The West Coast of North America burning to the ground taking every animate and inanimate object in its path.   The East Coast of North America flooding and ravaged by storms that each storm season get stronger and stronger.

In the blink of an eye who you are and what made you is gone.      What legacy will you have to your true self to leave.

It does not matter who you are as good as.   You need to be good as you are for all the right reasons that contribute growth and harmony to this world.

We could talk love but really what in the world does that mean with people in this world we have been given any more.  Those words fly so freely when people do not even know the meaning well enough to love their own selves.

Pure agape true love is God’s gift of Christ Jesus to us.   No matter what you believe or do not.    God’s gift of our military who lay their lives down for people they will never know.  Just to give humanity on our speck of this earth the chance to live.

What is it that we believe or are we just going through the motions?

I personally am not who I once was, and I cannot even tell you when that changed.   But I know this, I am no better or worse of those who have not made the choice to live abundantly in Christ.  In fact, in this journey, I have learned greatly the difference of religious verses spiritual and the truth of those who really believe and live for the greater good of all God’s sacrifice.

Judgement belongs to God alone.  However commonsense is a gift that many here and now even me at times forget to use.

Thankful for this day and the moments I am given.   Prayerfully from the depths truth shines bright; miracles flow freely; life is filled with peace, love, and harmony that only those who seek the goodness and abundant life of eternity with internal understanding, love, mercy, grace and all the fruits of Christ spirit.

Spirit of all the good that can possibly ever be.   Lead me.   Lead us and fill this world full of so much mud and muck with the healing power that glorifies God himself.

Teach us how to lead in love.

Breath in harmony.

And Live for all that is selfless purpose.   May we make the streets of gold here and now for all to dance and sing together praises of the mission to God himself.

What that mission belief is holds true in every single soul that was given life in his image and the great freedoms of choice and will.  Even if we forget to think and choose for ourselves.   It was never taken away.

 

Lord I do not know where I am going with whatever remaining days I have left.   But I pray you lead me to never stop standing in awe at your vast beauty and amazing love.   Be it wandering on a mountain top or desert seeking refuge and whatever it is you allow.  As long as you are there; life has hope and meaning.