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Date: Sunday March 20th
Meditation Opportunities coming from Biblegateway.com
The Daily Verse
2 1-3 So clean house! Make a
clean sweep of malice and pretense, envy and hurtful talk. You’ve had a taste
of God. Now, like infants at the breast, drink deep of God’s pure kindness.
Then you’ll grow up mature and whole in God.
1
Peter 2:2-3 TLB The Living Bible
2-3 Now
that you realize how kind the Lord has been to you, put away all evil,
deception, envy, and fraud. Long to grow up into the fullness of your
salvation; cry for this as a baby cries for his milk.[a]
Footnotes
- 1 Peter 2:2 An alternative paraphrase of these verses could read:
“If you have tasted the Lord’s goodness and kindness, cry for more, as a
baby cries for milk. Eat God’s Word—read it, think about it—and grow
strong in the Lord and be saved.”
Thought Movers, Motivations Touching to the Soul coming from YouTube.com
New Life Christian Church –
Spring Hill Services 3-20-22 https://fb.watch/bTy1W_a6is/
Terrian - Stayed
On Him (Isaiah 26:3) [Official Music Video]
Danny Gokey - We
All Need Jesus (feat. Koryn Hawthorne) (Official Music Video)
Lauren Daigle -
Hold On To Me (Official Music Video)
Skillet - Refuge
(Official Lyric Video)
Zach Williams -
Turn It Over (Official Lyric Video)
Zach Williams - To
the Table (Live from Harding Prison)
Thinking Out Loud – Journal Thoughts/Prayers / Mind Maze Overflow
Bring it all to the table… He
knows what it is, but He cannot carry, take, or even lift some of the burden if
you choose to never let go. Life is
not easy, but we are blessed and some of us are blessed far more than others.
Yet in our day to day with
our family, our friends, our jobs, our searching, seeking, and trying to fill
all the gaps that the world makes us think we will never be or do enough leaving
us breathless.
If only we remember, we are
created in the image of the same God who came to this world in the form of Man
and went to the cross to take on the brokenness we in this world that he allowed
to be to live even though we are so adamant to self-destruct.
We want what we want when we
want it. We try to fill the wants of
those we love those we promise ourselves to even when it is never enough. We try yet let ourselves down leaving us in
that endless spin hoping for some miracle to just come and give us some sort
peace.
Desperately wanting harmony,
we numb the unspoken pains, we hide from it in our own addictions trading that
which we consume to that what we do. In
the end forgetting the peace we have when we have given it all back to the
creator of all things in thanks, repentance, and truth knowing not one ounce of
worry will ever add anything positive no matter if Christ shows up clear enough
for us to reflect or not.
If nothing of this world is
working. Why do we not take it back to
the table? Why when we see the good do,
we not stay on Him? We are all out there
chasing that promise land that we envision in our own minds eye. Doing what we think we can handle, doing what
we think will be the performance of the lifetime only to realize it was just a
curtain call for another day in sometimes great days but not paradise.
We cannot fight our demons on
our own. Satan is a liar if you think
you can hold him at bay without Jesus Christ or even the body of Christ praying
you up no matter what it is you need.
No none of us need to go
behind the curtain and tell our stories and have man tell us to go say ten hail
Mary’s and not do it again yet we find ourselves back there over and over.
Call upon Him to fill you up,
guide your steps, give you strength and courage to keep growing on the path to
life that he created you for.
There is no doubt we all need
Jesus! Everyone of us are awesome all
the while there are days, we really suck being the human being that God
imagined when he breathed us into life.
But that does not mean we quit. In fact, it just means that when we face
plant in the room full of life or all alone.
We get up we brush off and say Thank you Jesus for allowing me this
lesson show me what it means. And keep
going; keep being your best self. Love
who you are, and no one else can love you for you. It is their loss.
In my lifetime I have learned
we cannot fix anyone. We cannot take anyone’s
self-destructive behaviors and fix them or make them change. You can only change who you are, and your
change is based on how much you really love yourself and those that have been
given to you as a blessing.
That gift may be a lifetime a
decade or a moment in time you never forget.
I am no expert but have lived
enough to know we all believe in something; and almost everyone believes there
is a God just very few in the grand scheme of how vast this universe is believe
in the Bible or the same truth that has been unchanged for more than 2000 years. Or the son of man Jesus Christ.
I am not here to debate what
anyone believes in unless they are doubting their own self-worth. Because there is nothing in this world that
God will not forgive or heal you from.
If you call upon him through Jesus Christ.
If you want to live in that
rear-view mirror or even if you are just tired and weary and just ready to quit. Look back and when you do seek out all the
times you made it to the other side of the darkness that tried to consume you.
Look back and know with Christ
all things are possible. That nothing
about our lives are happenstance.
I have been broken and robbed
of precious time. I should have been
dead more times than I can count as a child, as a teen, as a young adult and even
a grown adult. From the hands of others,
from the self-prescriptions I would numb all the pain being so lost. From guns being put to my head, to being
thrown from vehicles, to beat downs to just nature and the physical attributes
that we sometimes have. From
swallowing a bottle of pills because I just had no purpose all before the age
of 16. All the while so many critics
who knew so much but all they really know how to do was criticize and flap their words in the wind just so they
could be heard. Yet never once really
stepping up and stepping in to make a difference. Yes, coming from a broken home where a mom
who was married at 15 was divorced by twenty and so broken, she could never
recover intime to raise the children she was given.
Did I understand even the
slightest bits and pieces of life then?
No way… in fact as a kid I was desperate to just be loved and want
someone to see me. But the noise was so
loud of all the answers everyone had yet not one ever showed the way. I had to make choices myself.
We are all either part of the
problem or part of the process to get better.
Everything we do, everything we say is just the broken pieces of the puzzle
waiting to be put together and if it doesn’t feel right, fit right then we need
to shake up, mix up and do it again with God as the framer.
My thoughts of this mind maze. As I learned today a beautiful 23-year-old
girl trying to have a life. As she kept
talking about her boyfriend. Love a
beautiful thing. Yet my own judgement
came to mind as I wanted to meet him and shake him. He is still married, and he has kids. They only get to see each other once a week. And I just met her so I could not speak what
I wanted to shout. Even if he really
is getting divorced do not go there until he is. This sweet soul looking for love in all the
wrong places.
But what do I know? WE are all going through something. Some just want the relationships and fun
without blessed commitments. Some just
want the commitment yet who we are with is not on the same path and others well
they win the lotto and fight like hell every day together for each other to
keep the winnings.
Craziness at its best in my
humble memories. Been there done
that. Nope I just loved them too well
and although I learned share in kindergarten.
The only love I will ever share is that which is God’s given blessings.
I never want to feel the
feeling of my one and only had been playing me and anything else that would let
him. When I hear young gullible ladies
are playing in someone else’s marriage be it a mess or not. It’s not right. And will never be anything
but trouble.
I won’t lie I have been
sucked in. Been in love with the dream
with my eyes wide open. Until God said
blink and know there is more to this than throwing all you have come through to
lose.
There is never a moment I do
not need the God of the universe to continue having mercy and grace on me. There is never a moment that Jesus Christ
could release me and me be okay.
My refuge is the blood that
flows through the veins of life that come from Him alone. Prayers for mercy and understanding in all
the gratitude knowing the pain, suffering, wars and just day to day that is
taking tolls all over this planet. That
I am still allowed to get back up. Prayers
of forgiveness in every area I fall short when I speak and I should have been silent,
or prayers when I should have grabbed that girl and shook Jesus into her. I cannot fix anything, but God can.
If only we love people for
who they really are and not what they do, not what they have.
If only the moments, we wait
were big neon signs of Jesus calling saying this way follow me to the promise
land and everything will be alright.
Even if we know in the end
its true. We must be silent and still to hear and
see. Regroup gaining strength through prayer
and petition calling God on the carpet and having him show us.
But when we do that, and he
shows up there is no turning back and there is no guarantee we are going to
feel warm and fuzzy over any of the changes that will naturally progress.
I won’t stop now though. He has been so good for this girl for so
long even when I never knew it.
The times of learning we all
get there in our own time. The times I
am able to look in that rearview and thank him immensely. The times I need to just be held and some how
some way he has me even when I cannot see it.
Thank you, Jesus, for that is
who you are. Be with every single
connection you put in my path. Healing
this land and across the universe. Protect
your people Jesus. May you wash away,
stamp out and clear the evil and hard hearted. Protect those under siege and heal the
broken places that on one of this world that no one will ever erase or ever be
able to fix.
God, I need you in Him, with
Him yesterday, today, and whatever my mortal forever turns out to be. May I and all I ever connect be our authentic
self that you created and not what we are trying to be for the world. May we flicker in the love and light you
allow growth forward in and from.
Come Jesus. Wash this world in your abundance. Forgive my lack of grammar, lack of sense,
lack of anything the world says I must be.
For I as the world is yours.
Show us what to do. Here, now or across the world stop the evil
Father. Heal the wars that rage within
and around us.
Thank you for this day, thank
you for this mind maze you allow to pour out.
May all they are reflect a pleasing and useful spirit to allow us to keep
getting back up and growing forward. In
Jesus Name. Amen
