Thursday, April 7, 2022

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Date: Wednesday April 7th   


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Galatians 2:20 (The Living Bible)

20 I have been crucified with Christ: and I myself no longer live, but Christ lives in me. And the real life I now have within this body is a result of my trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

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Galatians 2:20  (The Message)

19-21 What actually took place is this: I tried keeping rules and working my head off to please God, and it didn’t work. So I quit being a “law man” so that I could be God’s man. Christ’s life showed me how, and enabled me to do it. I identified myself completely with him. Indeed, I have been crucified with Christ. My ego is no longer central. It is no longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good opinion, and I am no longer driven to impress God. Christ lives in me. The life you see me living is not “mine,” but it is lived by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I am not going to go back on that.

21 Is it not clear to you that to go back to that old rule-keeping, peer-pleasing religion would be an abandonment of everything personal and free in my relationship with God? I refuse to do that, to repudiate God’s grace. If a living relationship with God could come by rule-keeping, then Christ died unnecessarily.

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Never Stop Knocking | Pastor Steven Furtick | Elevation Church

 

TobyMac - Move (Keep Walkin’) (Lyric Video)

 

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Nothing Left To Prove (feat. Israel Houghton & Naomi Raine) | Maverick City Music

Thinking Out Loud – Journal Thoughts/Prayers / Mind Maze Overflow

Wow

The storms of life and this world may come and go.   But nothing changes the love deep in one’s soul even after the heart stops pumping life through these veins.

Those gone too soon at the hands of darkness never stopped loving and caring for any left behind.

Those gone too soon because of choices they just did not grasp the implications that would come to be never stopped loving they were just trying to breathe their own air in a space given to them.

 

Being grounded to the place we came bringing us closer to the one who creates us just in silence planned or need for beauty to refresh the soul.   It all matters!

Forever my Sweet Soul King; that Love Beyond ALL time and space.

Storms

Our world will never be as we once knew it, yet the memories are burned in forever to what makes the harmony in our spirit stay alive or if we fret on what was, that would of, should of, could of.  We forever spin in the unsettled universe allowing more opportunities of the devil’s schemes and to take hold.

Our flaws and faults are that of our own if we learn and grow forward.   Yet when we choose to live within the unscrupulous endeavors thinking it really matters and will fill that void at the expense of the blessings given to us.   Well then, we deserve to have nothing at all.

Just sadly making a mistake is just that repeating it over and over is a choice and so many innocent souls suffer at the demise of those who choose to spread evil and darkness.

 

Even if, Even when it starts out as just a quick fix, quick scheme, easy get later to find it almost impossible to let go.

God is doing just what we ask.

Wake us up Lord, wash us clean.

At what expense and although he is not pulling the triggers, or he is not allowing the storms to come in a blink of an eye to take all you worked so hard for to be washed away.

He is also not stopping what is yet to come.

Does he have our attention yet?

Do you who are reading this; have you made amends and sought direction with Jesus Christ?

Or have you made a deal with the devil only to know in the end all you are just a slab of meat waiting for the vultures to come and pick your flesh never to be alive or blessed again.     That is only the human part; the living hell your soul will live over and over again.  Once we get there its too late, no matter what books are written for 1 minute or 23 there is no turning back once you have landed there.

We may not be able to secure our fate here on this land, but we can secure our souls and we can walk, talk, and do our best to live here and now.   But holding on to all that is temporal in people, places and things is fruitless.

No, I am not saying do not love on people or enjoy life or work to have nice things that bring you comfort and peace.    But know no matter what the situation is you need to know Jesus never leaves us and once we are written in the Lambs book of life it is never washed away.

Everything I have been blessed to live through, experience, learn, or grow through. Has been a beautiful journey that thankfully is not over.

Reminded every time a butterfly floats past me I am reminded the of the life just as Christ rose on that 3rd day, I too have been called for things I cannot prove but know.

With that all I can do is the best I can with whatever get to work with.  As I hope every connection I am allowed does as well.

 

I have learned deeply and greatly over these past few years about doing life based on what I feel.     Sadly, sometimes the greatest people and things that bring you the euphoric feeling of love and not just physical release genuine depth down in the soul.

And how sometimes you have to just stay silent and let it go to hold on to what allows life.   Sadness has absolutely been on me many times and thankfully I realized before it was too late it was not in me dominating any opportunity to move forward after getting back up.

We are all human, we all want something, we all need something and we even all fear something even if we deny it.

Life is so very short to be caught up chasing the reasons.

Getting stuck is easy even if we don’t realize we are.   Becoming free is a decision.

When I finally looked up and realized Jesus choose me.   I found my freedom.

Proverbs 28:13 NKJV

We can be left for broken and dead by others without even a care or second glance no matter where we are at in this vast world.  Face it we all have our own stuff and problems, and we fill the universe with them, or it feeds down into us.

 Romans 8:1-17 NKJV        Isaiah 53:6  MSG        Isaiah 53:6  AMP

No matter how far away we wander, we are always welcome and encouraged to run back to the arms of Jesus.   Proverbs 3:34 NIV 34 He mocks proud mockers but shows favor to the humble and oppressed.

 

I will never be perfect or worthy to have such blessings in life and learn these lessons along the way.   I don’t know what tomorrow will or will not bring.   I do know I am nothing without the blessings that the one and only true God of this universe gives me.

Come what may.   I only pray and hope that all of Gods chosen keep shining the light and planting seeds of hope and life and never quitting including me.

I need, I want, I have bad habits; some better than others; other not understood.  Yet every breath I am allowed to get back up I seek His mercy, grace, and all that he has to shine for, with and in me.

I am missing you, but I missed me so much more before I found myself.   Though I am not void any longer, those pieces that fit so well are waiting to be put into place eternally.

 

Hear those silent prayers from this heart Jesus.   Thank you for all that I am.

Monday, April 4, 2022

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Date: Monday April 4th   


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Ephesians 1:7  (The Living Bible)

So overflowing is his kindness toward us that he took away all our sins through the blood of his Son, by whom we are saved;

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Ephesians 1:7  (The Message)

7-10 Because of the sacrifice of the Messiah, his blood poured out on the altar of the Cross, we’re a free people—free of penalties and punishments chalked up by all our misdeeds. And not just barely free, either. Abundantly free! He thought of everything, provided for everything we could possibly need, letting us in on the plans he took such delight in making. He set it all out before us in Christ, a long-range plan in which everything would be brought together and summed up in him, everything in deepest heaven, everything on planet earth.

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Everlasting God (Chris Tomlin)

 

Mosaic by Ryan Stevenson

 

Terrian - Let Love Lead (Lyrics)

 

Crowder - Milk & Honey (Audio)

 

Crowder - He Is (Lyric Video)

 

TobyMac, Bart Millard - Overflow (Willyecho Remix/Audio)

 

Big Daddy Weave - "Redeemed" (Official Music Video)

 

 

Thinking Out Loud – Journal Thoughts/Prayers / Mind Maze Overflow

Thinking about the wrap up in yesterday’s we need to talk about it.    The meaning of sanctification and the journey it is to get there.

 

My thoughts this morning is nothing worth while and lasting will ever happen overnight!

Sanctification means to set apart, to separate us for pure, holy purpose.

It absolutely involves obedience in our choices and, commitment.    Thus, the term dying to self-daily.

The past is, becomes positional the moment we step forward wanting something better and eternal with Jesus Christ.  Ephesians1:4-5 (The Message)

Leading us, leaving us to make decisions as we all have a beginning, middle (that little dash) and an end.

Rebirth is the choice of future sanctification whereby the end prayerfully we are all wholly sanctified.      Romans 8:29-30 (The Message)

Positional to perfect to Progressive.  1 John 3:2-3 (The Message)

No; I am not a theologian but am learning daily and somethings I have to journal about.    We all have a lifelong process of transformation even if only at the time of our death it just reflects to the world our timestamp in the dash in the middle that is the lifelong process of transformation and of course our timestamp out. 

What we drive for, what we fill our minds with our heart will soon be consumed.  

Just because we may have messed up yesterday make note if God allowed you back up today.  No matter what your situation.    You have a choice to call upon the name of the Lord to start learning, start walking and accept Jesus Christ into lead your spirit and take you the rest of the journey on to home.

 

Nope I don’t know what that looks like for anyone of us.   Much less myself.   These past few years have opened my eyes to so many things and much misfortune and change I would have never wished on anyone.   Yet, many of my heart strings and people, places, and things that I have grown with or grown fond and down right loved.  I have seen suffer, lost, taken.

Including even misfortune of my own.

I know if I am wrong for holding on to Jesus, holding on to the only hope that fills me with indescribable peace even in the perfect storms.    I have lost nothing.   Lord knows me living in the world and knowing firsthand what it means.    

Have I been blessed with many souls that I have connected that I have had to let go because their lifestyle or intentions were just not healthy for my own future?    Oh yeah!   Without a doubt and many times walking away with missing broken pieces for the love and fondness I grew to have for their souls that I could still see their talent, their goodness, their own hurts that they just could not get past.   And as a fixer most times it is rubbing off into my already deepened wounds peeling back the scars over and over again.

 

I have never been good with waiting, which is why I have to believe and walk with everyday with the hope and love of Jesus spirit as a necessary.       So, what if I am wrong in the end which I am not.   The worse case is I have been allowed to not let the anger, the hurt, the brokenness of my own and the world consume me.

Let’s face it; after awhile we all grow weary when  we put all we are into letting others be the reason we truly live.     In the end reality is everyone God allows in your journey was just bonus to allow you to love on, grow forward and sometimes they get to ride with us, while others are just fragments of that mosaic canvas of the colors in our life we ride out.

Kudos and love to all who spread the seeds of growth all the while they battle the weeds and vines that try to take over and strangle them out. 

Sounds crazy but if we think about all the hurdles and derailments life has jumping on us or in front of us.    And all who just keep getting back up to be the best version of themselves with no expectations but to let love lead and grow.

It is not about color, we all bleed our red.  That will never change even for those who have lost their soul to the darkness while still walking this earth.

Hate the sin not the sinner but always do your absolute everything to protect what God has blessed you with.    But know you cannot do it on your own.  And like medication we sometimes take to heal us; we often can get others to do it with or for us along the way.


But!!! Eternally only Jesus Christ is, was and always will be unchanging loving us for who we were created to be.

We all are created in the image of God with abundant talents and gifts.   

Some of us chase them throughout life and play that game of starting over trying to recover what we lose along the way.  While others just lose balance and get back up before anyone notices.   

All of us are continually surrounded by enough noise of the world that others don’t notice we are going through that IT moment or time that makes us want to just disappear.

Even though someone is always watching, and someone always knows.

Fragmented thoughts yet impacting facts such as God is always right there with you waiting for your truth, your redemption and your transformation taking all the thorns you left or those you acquired to be redeemed.

Not by going behind a curtain and confessing to man and going back out and doing it again.  But truly coming to Jesus!

I don’t have the answers; like I said many times I am a mess, but I know who I belong to and although my days may not be perfect, and the hurt gets to be too much some days.   I am in the arms of Jesus!    That no matter what will never change and when that love breaks through to you.  You too will overflow with indescribable love and want for all that is good.

Far from perfect but I work towards remaining redeemed daily.    Life is what it is and the effort you put into it.    I love beautiful colors of all life can bring.  

I can only hope in whatever time I am given in this journey the light that has been given to me continues to grow into the future.

Good, bad, or indifferent.    Filled with knowledge of all things, or just blessed with specific talents.    Days filled with so much the blessings cannot be counted, or those days it just hurts so bad we, I cannot breathe.

May the God of all mercy, grace and love pour into every connection I will ever cross paths with.

In truth, strength, and good will.

Saturday, April 2, 2022

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Date: Saturday April 2nd  


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Matthew 20: 17-19 The Message

1Matthew 20: 17-19 (The Living Bible)

17 As Jesus was on the way to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside 18 and talked to them about what would happen to him when they arrived.

“I[a] will be betrayed to the chief priests and other Jewish leaders, and they will condemn me to die. 19 And they will hand me over to the Roman government, and I will be mocked and crucified, and the third day I will rise to life again.”

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  1. Matthew 20:18 I, literally, “The Son of Man.”

 

Matthew 20: 17-19 (The Message)

To Drink from the Cup

17-19 Jesus, now well on the way up to Jerusalem, took the Twelve off to the side of the road and said, “Listen to me carefully. We are on our way up to Jerusalem. When we get there, the Son of Man will be betrayed to the religious leaders and scholars. They will sentence him to death. They will then hand him over to the Romans for mockery and torture and crucifixion. On the third day he will be raised up alive.”

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Keith Urban - Nightfalls (Official Lyric Video)

 

Terrian - Light It Up (Sub. español) + video

 

Brooke Ligertwood - I Belong To Jesus (Dylan's Song) (Acoustic Version)

 

Nothing Left To Prove (feat. Israel Houghton & Naomi Raine) | Maverick City Music

 

Lead me back Morgan harper Nichols (lyrics)

 

I just need U. TobyMac Lyrics Video HD

 

Crowder - Red Letters

 

 

Thinking Out Loud – Journal Thoughts/Prayers / Mind Maze Overflow

Life is but a dream.   Sometimes the storms come crazing through the atmosphere leaving us trying to find the pieces scattered in all directions knowing how blessed we really are but mostly shell-shocked finding ourselves having a hard time sorting which direction to feel or go.

Kudos to the new release Night Falls by the guitar hero Keith Urban.

 

May we all be blessed to see it light up and find our way for who we are meant to be and not what we do.  May we all understand the world does not define us before it is too late.  Nothing is promised in this life only the truth spoken and lived is we so often make things much harder than they have to be.   That we never in the end find ourselves where we thought we would be.

No one wants to die alone.   Yet the heart wrenching truth lays where no matter who surrounds us, we can never let go of the emptiness that slowly takes our final breath.    When our children, friends and other family forget who we are to them and we do not even have them walking us to heavens door.    There is not much to fight for when we are not ground in Jesus’ spirit and aware of better days on the other side of this creation called life.

I have been really struggling since Wednesday this week with just day to day.  Ever since I learned that kind beautiful soul once well visited friend of mine somewhere, somehow took a turn for the worse and the cancer that she was in remission for spread all throughout her body and into her brain.    It was a matter of days if that from then to Friday I received the news she had passed.

My soul weeps for her, as the love of her life died a decade ago, her daughter died suddenly just maybe a year ago one son cannot be found her baby boy in jail and the other trying to keep his family the best he knew how.

She made that lemonade as long as she could, but the squeeze finally got to much.  And I wish I could say I knew everything she was going through sharing a meal and laughing doing karaoke.    But miles and life put that gap and everyday we just do the best we can with what we get to work with.     Doing my best to love those I have been given and not get to hung up on the hurts, habits or hang-ups that come to life at any given day.

The only saving grace I find is knowing I belong to you Father God.  Creator of all things and lover of my soul’s future.    No where near perfect, no where near together on any given day.    Working much harder than necessary on any given day.   Forgetting what should and doing what shouldn’t all the while holding on to what I couldn’t.    Jesus you are and always will be in the arms of your safety then, now, and always.

Despite the overwhelming rush of emotion as I think of elderly family and what will be, what is.   When I just can’t or even when the want is like starving from the depths of anything we could ever know.    All my strength, need and courage to just keep going is because of Jesus.

No great explanation other than life and all the pieces he put right where they made sense on any moment.

I got nothing left to prove to anyone.  Yeah, they say perceptions matter.   You want to make a good paycheck or sell tickets to whatever you have ready to perform.   But truth is though that check keeps a roof over our head and blesses us with more than many others.   And that stage allows a platform for people to make us into something we really are not.   Robbing the light and story to be shining all about you Jesus.

Good, bad in different learning this century what the terms of binary or non-binary mean outside of computer programming.   Or totally blown away how some dudes are dressing up as more beautiful women in this world.  

While all those created with such depth and beauty throw it all away for something different because what they have is never enough.

We can numb ourselves, climb that fence to the fake turf that looks so much greener, we can work our lives away, we can do all kinds of things because we are blessed to be given another new day.

But when do we make it really count and not for what we can get, not for what we can take, not for what we can make or hustle others to do or be?

If only

Yes, as the storms pour down this soul weary and trying to stop the sadness reality of then now and always leads me back to you Jesus.

Without you there is nothing but pain.

I need you now; please lead me back!    You Jesus are my only hope.

 

Be with all who are struggling to just hold on this day Lord.

Be with all those in the freezing cold, war-torn unknown.

Be with all that have it so called together, including me.   And show us how to be unstuck in the world’s reality and in the will and depths of all humanity was made to love and reflect.

Forgiveness; show me the way.   Show me how to take the walls down and really stop that reflection on to promises of any new day.

But if you cannot for whatever the reasons will be Jesus.   May you just hold us, me, myself, my family, my friends, my connections.  Those that are, those that were and all the in between.    Please just hold us in your protection, mercy, and grace for nothing more than to get back up and never stop fighting forward and trying to shine that flicker for brighter days you promise in all the red letters of your blood.

 

Thank you for the love.  Then, now and any tomorrows I may be given.    Be it through dreams wide awake or those in the depths of slumber.  What life does one have even if to have lost love is nothing compared to have never loved at all.


 

Ryan Ellis - Heart of the Father (Official Music Video)

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

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Date: Tuesday March 29th


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2 Corinthians 5:21 The Message

21 How? you ask. In Christ. God put the wrong on him who never did anything wrong, so we could be put right with God.

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2 Corinthians 5:21 The Living Bible

21 For God took the sinless Christ and poured into him our sins. Then, in exchange, he poured God’s goodness into us![a]

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  1. 2 Corinthians 5:21 For God took the sinless Christ and . . . poured God’s goodness into us, literally, “Him who knew no sin, he made sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in him.”

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Never Fail (Official Live Video) - Hillsong Young & Free

 

What I See | Red Rocks Worship

 

NF - WHY (lyrics)

 

God's not done with you - Tauren Wells (Lyric Video)

 

TobyMac - Favorite Song (Feat. Jamie Grace)

 

TAYA - For All My Life (Official Music Video)

 

 

Thinking Out Loud – Journal Thoughts/Prayers / Mind Maze Overflow

Yes, I know you never fail.  Even when it hurts as we watch those we love grieve.  Even when we watch those, we love slowly quit the fight of what was doing so well, yet they just do not have your strength within to carry them forward.

 

We all take off with intentions and although some not thought out, others planned and vile while most good taking us where we have much to think about after.  

When I received the text this morning from a friend’s sister I have not seen in awhile.  Just because distance, day to day caused us to stop hanging out.   And yes my lifestyle has been dedicated to staying busy and serving where I can… well life just is what it is.

Yet my heart aches to know that cancer is again taking its toll on such sweet souls of this world.   No one is exempt and well Father God please wrap your comfort and healing and hold Lisa tight as she lay in that hospital bed. 

Fresh wounds from just coming back from saying goodbye to pops and getting mom’s stuff that will fit in the rental and driving 1300 miles back with much to think about.

And so very grateful to know her flight with family was uneventful knowing her situation and she is starting to live a little before her time finally comes.

Just makes me hurt for the pain and sorrow that comes with cancer.

Lisa recently lost her only daughter Jen to a sudden heart attack at a very young age.  So am guessing the grief without you really without you Father is what has caused this fight to give up.

Please let this beautiful soul suffer no more.   May all I am connected come to know you personally through Jesus Christ. 

Even for nothing else the peace that fills us knowing forever and amen!

 

Do you see what I see?   From a child that walks alone 900 miles to find a new uncertain unjust life ahead that could have been just another tragic.   To the healing as we wave goodbye through the rainbow overhead when our loved one is taken too soon.

Choice’s matter, intentions good going wrong or wrong going into some beautiful growth and change that never had been planned.

 

If only, If and When and forgetting all the why even if in most cases of our day to day the why matters.

As long as God gives us air in our lungs our fight and purpose to keep fighting forward.   So many do not get that opportunity.  

Push through the pain like you would push when you thought life was great, good or even perfect.

Stop giving up.  Stop letting vampires no matter if person, places, circumstances suck the life out of you.    You, we are not defined by this world.  

God of all the universe through His son Jesus Christ is with you.  Let him in, learn to know who He really is and find your true being.

No darkness and all it consumes, and the little demons will never stop knocking as long as we live in a world of brokenness and lost faithless people.

But that does not mean we are anything more or less than the beautiful image created in and with God through the sacrifice of Christ Jesus.

Days will get longer and sometimes finding that favorite song to just keep moving towards hope and anything good becomes a struggle.

But unless he takes you home.   Keep going!

As long as we can crawl, walk, run or even just be still and have our voice, our vision, our hearing no matter how good or bad.   We still have purpose until we are blessed to reach the end.

 

I will never understand, but I lost that being mad thing a long time back.

I am at peace with the choices I make and even the abrasions that take place because I am taken far out of my comfort zone when I learn I really had no clue, or even when it just adds one more notch in this spirit as wounds heal and after the pain and the bleeding stops.   I realize just how important and full this life really is when we have faith and dive in hopefully to better days ahead and absolutely not only on what I may or may not understand.

 

Thank you for this day even as my heart is heavy and my unspoken prayers are crying loudly for all who need you now Jesus.   Give us strength, courage, and the wisdom of knowing it is your promise peace is that promise you eternally keep.

P E A C E (Live at Hillsong Conference) - Hillsong Young & Free

 

Jeremiah 29:11 TLB  11 For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. They are plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

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