Friday, March 25, 2022

03.25.2022_March (PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

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Date: Friday March 25th   


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1 John 1:9 TLB The Living Bible

But if we confess our sins to him,[a] he can be depended on to forgive us and to cleanse us from every wrong. And it is perfectly proper for God to do this for us because Christ died to wash away our sins.*

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a.      1 John 1:9 confess our sins to him, implied; literally, “confess our sins.” Christ died to wash away our sins, literally, “he is . . . just.”

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1 John 1:9 MSG The Message

8-10 If we claim that we’re free of sin, we’re only fooling ourselves. A claim like that is errant nonsense. On the other hand, if we admit our sins—simply come clean about them—he won’t let us down; he’ll be true to himself. He’ll forgive our sins and purge us of all wrongdoing. If we claim that we’ve never sinned, we out-and-out contradict God—make a liar out of him. A claim like that only shows off our ignorance of God.

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We All Struggle || Spoken Word

Austin French - Wake Up Sleeper (Official Lyric Video)

Lionel Richie The Commodores - Jesus is Love

H.E.R., Tauren Wells - Hold Us Together (Hope Mix (Official Video))

Love Won't Let Go by Branan Murphy [Lyric Video]

Thank God For Sunday Morning | Cochren & Co.

 

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

That story, our story, we all got one.  Some are told and lived out to the extreme. While others think by the silence no one will notice what is.

 

We all struggle without a doubt.  My struggles are no less important or more for that matter than any other soul this world has been allowed to have travel through.

If we truly think we can master, it ; whatever it becomes.  We are sadly mistake.  Just as if we think the love of money, material things or even people are true love.  Then we have never really met Jesus to come to know all the love and grace he has poured out on that cross for every single soul to choose.   God’s loves us and that will never change.   He is love; He is life through his son Jesus Christ.

 

There is not a day that goes by that I do not ask his blessing to never let me go or my will to lost and let him go.      Some days are easy, some are really so hard I can barely breathe.   Sometimes it’s the things I do or don’t do.  Sometimes it’s the people I love or those I have to cut ties with.   Sometimes there is no rhyme or reason it just is what it is.

But I know even when I don’t know His love will never be fake or let go.   And if this makes me a leper well so be it.   I used to laugh because the best way to rid of vultures and thieves is start living the word.  Start talking about my Jesus and people that once were your buddies fly at lightening speed to disappear from who you thought they were.

Sad but true; even if, even when!

I will never stop thanking Jesus for Sunday morning or any morning he has allowed me back up.

 

And even more so those mornings I slept so well I found myself waking in some awkward position deep down in the bed.   So well rested not carrying how I got there, just knowing the safety and security he filled me up with allowed my soul peace and my mind, body, and spirit to follow.

That wonderment of all we are yet spinning out of control trying to understand what we can be, what we can do better like some self-help company charging thousands to improve company moral all the while the staff could find the same support through a feel-good movie or great tunes.

 

It is what it is or is not… This world is not our final destiny.  If only we could manage our flights while we are here to not hurt or disrupt anyone in the process of finding our way.

We are all working through something even if we do not realize where we are going.  Generally, we do not until some sort of pain from things sneaking up the way we did not anticipate.   Which is so very true to why choices matter every single day.

Choices to love from a distance or up close.  Choices to love at all or allow yourself to be loved.   Choice from the total opposite end of the spectrum and choosing hate, anger, bitterness over all that happens in any one given day.   Instead of taking that deep breath and getting back up, smiling, and saying thanks for the workout, thanks for the lesson, thanks for the motivation to be something better than that which you offer.

No matter if you were standing too close, or actually the one that pushes that button.  Choices matter with what next.

So many beautiful souls will never get that what next because of those around them and the choices being forced.    But when we are not in that path, we can be the light to shine brighter than ever before even if we are only a flicker.

Smile, laugh keep them wondering even when it hurts.   Get back up and show the love and always look around someone is always in need someone is always watching.   Not the vampires.   But true need of a listening ear, a watchful eye, a hug, a smile, a song, a conversation, a meal, or just a kind look.

 

So many ways to be the light and pay it forward for less than a split second that none of us deserve ourselves.

 

I personally didn’t plan to be where I am but I am beyond grateful the Good Lord allows me to call him friend and know the peace and beauty that so many will never know or get to keep.

Maybe over time I won’t either, but I doubt that because no matter what I go through the man who hung on the cross and took it back to the father and came back for all us.  Did not do that in vain.  

 

Rise up, lift you spirts high and send the darkness back where it belongs.    Tomorrow is never promised.    It just really sucks we see that firsthand to such a beautiful creation and cannot do anything about it.  Or at least convince us that there is nothing we can do.   While all we have to remember is love and kindness.  Paying it forward.

 

Well thank you Jesus for allowing this mind maze to flow freely never really knowing what might come out and on those days, I just cannot share it… You get me through and allow the next.    Until there is no more… Thank you then, thank you now, thank you always.  AlwaysMe

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

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Date: Wednesday March 23rd

 

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James 1:12 TLB The Living Bible

12 Happy is the man who doesn’t give in and do wrong when he is tempted, for afterwards he will get as his reward the crown of life that God has promised those who love him.

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James 1:12 MSG The Message

12 Anyone who meets a testing challenge head-on and manages to stick it out is mighty fortunate. For such persons loyally in love with God, the reward is life and more life.

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Hollyn | Bird's Eye View (Official Visualizer)

 

Riley Clemmons - For The Good (Live From Tour)

 

No One & You Really Are (feat. Chandler Moore & Tiffany Hudson) | Elevation Worship

 

Cochren & Co. - Grave (Official Music Video)

 

We The Kingdom & Tasha Cobbs Leonard – Holy Water (Church Sessions)

 

Brooke Ligertwood - Honey in the Rock (with Brandon Lake) (Live Video)

 

Citizen Way - Bulletproof (Official Lyric Video)

 

Building 429 - Press On (Official Music Video)

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

God we all need you; yet we all hold that birds eye view or tunnel vision to only what is in front of us.  What we think will make us worth the while in the view of the world’s mind’s eye. 

So many to never acknowledging if it were not for the grave we would not be.

I need you Jesus. Everyday!

 

Knowing, each day I acknowledge your presence allows me to sleep through the grind of spinning and life out of control all around.  

 

Those that tug on my heart strings, those I will never know yet in an instant tears flow.

I am reminded often control is an illusion and the broken pieces flying through the atmosphere of all those thinking they have it while turning their backs on moral value of their lives for no other reason, but they believe because they can it makes it the way to go.    From an absent parent to the one who came from too much who is troubled and slowly burying themselves in Satan’s sandbox.

The power struggles are real as the war that has been waged since the beginning of time.  Jesus you are for and always will be the good.

Wash through this universe and soften hearts, heal brokenness, stopping the wars against humanity.

 

You are all we need Jesus.  If only the world could see, we will never be more loved and able to do all things than that we are with you Father.

 

Never do I ever want to lose sight of you.  Keeper of my soul…

 

May we all get back up for you Lord and press on.

 

May the sleep I find in you in the comfort and protection from all my yesterdays be your gift alone.

Make yourself known Jesus to all I am connected.   Your will be done.

Thank you for the love, the lessons, the growth, and all the pains in the process.  May the purpose always sift and plant new growth for any future you allow.

Forgive me, for missing it.  May I never let go of who you are.

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

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Date: Tuesday March 22nd

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Ephesians 6:10-11 TLB The Living Bible

10 Last of all I want to remind you that your strength must come from the Lord’s mighty power within you. 11 Put on all of God’s armor so that you will be able to stand safe against all strategies and tricks of Satan.

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Goo Goo Dolls - Iris [Official Music Video]

 

Gravity by John Mayer

 

Morgan Harper Nichols - Storyteller [w/ Jamie Grace] (Official Lyric Video)

 

CeCe Winans - Believe For It (Acoustic One Take)

 

Kirk Franklin Pray For Me Lyrics

 

 

Kirk Franklin feat. Tasha Cobbs, Tamela Mann, & Sarah Reeves My World Needs You Lyrics

 

 

 

Priscilla Shirer: Making Prayer a Priority | Praise on TBN

 

 

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

We all at some point struggle in life and forget if we even know who we belong to and who to turn to.

 

It is hard not to chase what the world says we are defined by. 

I am a Mother, Businessperson, once wife, always Sister, Aunt, Grandmother etc...

 

If we are blessed enough to know we forget that we are truly defined by God and the beauty and unique beings every living soul is called to be.

 

All the brains, talent, wit, or anything we can do or collect are just bonuses, especially if we recognize we have any one of them.   

 

Yet from my own experience we lose ourselves to the world forgetting to take time with God through his son Jesus and just let him work in and through us.

 

Instead, we keep chasing what seems to be more yet no matter how much we have we are left empty and unfulfilled.

 

Man, if I only knew then what I know now.  And the thing is I have to believe it is my own faith and daily walk no matter how messed up I make or do things.  That I am as you are a child of God.  

 

Everything we have, everything we have been gifted is just on loan to us as it all belongs to Jesus.

 

So, we do our best with what we are given to work with and leave the rest up to him.

 

We are all defined by something greater than any labels. 

 

We all have greater purpose in courage, strength, and the beauty we are adorned with naturally.  Even when we do not see it.

 

We cannot change anyone else and half the time we cannot change our own being.

   

 Which is why no matter where we are when we are.  We always call upon our creator to walk, run, just be with us.

 

When we believe and we all believe in something!

We have purpose but we all have to purpose every day no matter what direction we are going.   Pushing forward owning it and being the best versions of who we are no matter what the outcome.

 

We cannot chase all that is temporal and think we will be filled up with peace and harmony for more than a minute in our time but a split second in the eyes of the creator.

 

Keeping it real from my minds eye and if I am wrong, it is only my peace that was gained while all others find whatever it is filling them up.

 

Life is too short, and the world is too vicious to allow gravity to hold me down in what eventually spins us out of control.

 

The freedom and will he has given us in the unique creation every single one of us were and are allowed to be.

 

All in the image of God and the cross that shed so much death just so a thing called humanity would have a chance to really live.

 

The greatest love story ever is when we lock eyes with you Jesus!   Even if we cannot physically hold you and show you off to all those, we have been blessed in the sense of the world can prove instantly.    

 

To have your love from the outside world in is to share the love you have within inside out.     If only I could pain the picture or fill everyone, I connect with the vibes you send electrify these veins with on any given day.   Beyond passion, the compassion shining boldly to see with your eyes; to believe in the depths of our souls.

 

You are the keeper of all things.    Taking the pain through all the beauty and ashes rebuilding one breath at time.     If only then you remind me that it is not my place.

 

Not to change or try to fix or do anything more but live the life I have been given knowing who controls the air that flows through these lungs.

 

We will all go down but those who believe in you are forever through eternity flying high.

 

May we stop waiting on the world to change and start changing who we are in what we believe.   Shining bright and stop picking and pointing the faults and misfortunes of others.

May we believe who we are created to be.   Not for power or control but for life itself.

 

Jesus here all that silent prayer that the many cannot step out in faith and just ask someone to pray for them.  

May we have your strength and will Father God.   For all that is good and more than just surviving.     May we live and be the reflection of hope every day we get back up.

For all who are struggling to know what defines them.   As I am not defined by this world.

 

Sometimes saying nothing at all is what it should be.  However, may we never dig deep and truly call upon the powers that be to be our eyes, our strength, our courage, our wisdom, as it fills our lights to shine brighter and brighter.

Teach us how to be soldiers in the army of all that is good.    Pour over Jesus pour over all that is lost in the spin of darkness shaking off the demons that we allow to entrap our minds, our spirits.   May we be the one in unity of you Jesus?

 

Thank you for this new day.  Shelter your children Jesus.

Sunday, March 20, 2022

03.20.2022_March (PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

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Date: Sunday March 20th


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1 Peter 2:2-3 MSG

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.

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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]

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  1. 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.”

 

 

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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

Sunday 5-11-2025_PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe (AlwaysMeKelly)

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