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Date: Monday– September 20, 2021
Meditation Opportunities
Biblegateway.com Daily Verse
Joel
2:23 Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
(AMPC)
23 Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in
the Lord, your God; for He gives you the former or early rain in just measure and in righteousness, and He causes to come down
for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain, as before.
The Trees Are Bearing Fruit Again
21-24 Fear not, Earth! Be glad and
celebrate!
God has done great things.
Fear not, wild animals!
The fields and meadows are
greening up.
The trees are bearing fruit again:
a bumper crop of fig trees and
vines!
Children of Zion, celebrate!
Be glad in your God.
He’s giving you a teacher
to train you how to live right—
Teaching, like rain out of heaven, showers of words
to refresh and nourish your soul,
just as he used to do.
And plenty of food for your body—silos full of grain,
casks of wine and barrels of olive
oil.
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Daily Journal/Thoughts/
Prayers (Thinking out
loud)
Happy Monday
I wonder how my peers for work during meetings find that annoying. I will have to ask later. Yes, although we are not dancing in the
streets I am up and alive with shelter over my head, air in my lungs and
movement in this body. Far from perfect
as I am at peace for where I am at and the choices, I am able to make. However, I always need prayer for those loved
one’s that tie my heart strings up in knots.
From the littles to the grown when you see unrest, anxiety or
anxiousness and sometimes destructive behavior because of how they are
consuming life given. It can weigh heavy.
Nope, not every day do I get away with feeling God’s peace and presence
first thing. In fact, sometimes in the
least expected places things get turned upside down to where you have to give in
that its time to seek the new door that God is opening and do your best with
whatever or however it turns out. Just
always knowing he is with us; and if it is meant to be it will.
I spent the last 16 years rushing with anticipation to go serve on
weekends learning the tech booth and just worshipping during the time I have been
given to help bring others to the feet of Jesus. It is a simple but sometimes stressful
thing to do no matter if there are 8 or 800 people in a room and you’re helping
with A/V and all of a sudden something out of your control goes awry. The importance of unity and
communication is a must it is all one team.
Just like four walls holding up a building. When adjustments are being worked out and
all of a sudden, the front and back are segregated there is always room for things
to go wrong. Especially if when you
are not inclusive of the flow and you show up to help and you have no idea what
the plans are.
Maybe in my earlier days of learning and growing although it has always
bothered me when things went wrong. It
was not so painful; but at this stage it is not about performance as performance cannot take place without the
team knowing who each person is and how they contribute and putting it all in
the hands of the God you are there to serve.
Absolutely without a doubt when
there is no communication there is breakdown.
It is time for a change as I am far from perfect and once,
I got past the anxiety and actual tears as there was one moment when I
stood before the alter and realized I was feeling forced to not be there to
worship in that deep joy in and at the presence of Jesus.
And yes, when that happens, I hold onto it a few days. Trying to understand and even doubt my own
abilities. All the while being robbed
and robbing those around me with my downcast spirit because I for the first
time in many years did not know what this change in the house of God truly
meant.
I am tapped in and serve in other area’s but when it comes to music,
when it comes to worship it is just a different way of your heart beating
souring high above all the storms.
I watch so many around me that I am trying to keep my light even a flicker
of hope go through the pains of not having that wind, that strength, that deep
peace. And all the while here on that
one weekend I myself even that child of the most high lost it.
Does it change who you are.
Everything we choose or do not choose changes who we are.
Though a drug addict will always be a drug addict even though they stop
using drugs; an alcoholic will always be an alcoholic even if they stop
drinking. We will always be who we are
but what we choose to live for will have great impacts depending on what our
spirits are carrying or choosing to fly with at the time.
What others think of you does not really matter, even if you really love
and care about them or a situation. You
cannot force anyone to communicate, be real or love you for you. You cannot force anyone to love you or anything
you do. And you absolutely cannot force
anyone to treat you or anyone else with kindness.
Telling those you love to calm down and talk about what is really
bothering them and prevent them from destruction of themselves or any thing around
you is futile.
Especially when they are caught up in what they believe to be what gives
them life. When things are not going as
they think they should be. When they are
mentally and physically exhausted or even fighting unknown illnesses that is
taking its toll.
The world has so much going on and how easy to say if only everyone
would just turn to Jesus and seek God’s will. It sounds beautiful but never will it be
that easy. But when the static of the
world and all day to day of people, places and things consume us we forget to
hear the peace of God playing out into our lives and allowing the harmony of
what should be.
Instead, everything is just explosive and hurtful, working hard and
getting where we think life is; all of sudden storms come and wash everything away
showing us with nothing. People promising
to be or do and never even being who they say they are.
Even walking the walk, we are in the line of fire for darkness, hate and
injustice.
Yet nowhere in the bible did it ever say it would be easy. In fact, it says to pick our cross and die to
self-daily. Putting on the armor of God
to slay those unseen dragons that are out in full force
Surround yourself with the hands and feet and body in Christ. Not a filled church building. We all know not everyone that goes to church
on Sundays even really knows who Jesus is.
Although seating in a seat to hear a message from, about or with Jesus
is never wasted. It takes allot more
than just showing up in church once or multiple times a week. Or even serving. It takes truly dying to self and letting go
of all that the world offers in the sense that it is not the temporal things
that give us life. They may make us
temporarily content giving us abilities to do things we could not otherwise do;
beauty in places that we normally would never have seen and even dress up and
put on a façade hiding who we really are deep inside. But none of that will ever get us into
heaven.
Nope again I am not a theologian or expert. There are things I don’t know I don’t know!
And those things that you just know.
I know I believe in the love, mercy, grace and hope of Jesus Christ and
life eternal and want it far more than that which the world comes to kill you
for just to have it. I know I don’t
want to lose my soul for things that are irrelevant five minutes after you acquire
them because they will never be enough.
I know that Jesus gave his life so I could live, and I want Him to live
within me and show me how.
Sometimes that means even when with clean hands, pure hearts, serving in
love for the greater good. Things have
to change and always knowing who is in control.
So be it just me or a city on our knees. I need, we need Jesus and without a shadow
of a doubt. I need my brothers and
sisters who walk the walk and believe deeply in all He is to help steady me. Showing me how to help others when we have
no control. When we do not understand,
when none of it makes sense how we can have everything yet be filled with so
much anger and sometime hate taking even the breath of life from anything and
anyone in our way.
No matter the let downs, promises that turn empty; belief in those you would
have never thought. Just remember the
only truth is the creator and the life and way in the relationship between each
of us and him alone. Not readying and
depending on others to help give you the tools to lead by example. But that which you are filled already in the
spirit and truth with. What you do
with it matters!
No matter what is or is not transpiring in the world around us; may the
God of all the heavens and earth fill us with abundance, and we know through
Christ all things are possible and worth living.
Movers Motivations & Touches to the Soul
(YouTube.Com)
TobyMac
- Lose My Soul (Lyric Video) ft. Kirk Franklin, Mandisa
Hollyn
- Steady Me ft. Aaron Cole
Jason
Gray - "Nothing Is Wasted"
Meditation Opportunities
Daily Devotion
@Jesus Calling 365 Devotions with Real-Life
Stories @Sarah Young
“ Try and see more and more from My perspective.” “Let the light of My Presence so fully fill
your mind that you view the world through Me.”
Psalm 36:9 NKJV For with You is the fountain of life; in Your
light we see light.
Proverbs 20:24 A man’s steps ar directed by the Lord. How then can anyone understand his own way?
2 Corinthians 4:17-18 For our light and momentary troubles are
achieving for us an eternal glory that
far outweighs them all. So, we fix our
eyes not on what is seen, but what is unseen.
For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
