03.22.2022_March (PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

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Date: Tuesday March 22^nd

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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.

03.20.2022_March (PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

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Date: Sunday March 20^th

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1 Peter 2:2-3 MSG

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.

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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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Footnotes

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

03.17.2022_March (PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

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 Date: Thursday March 17^th   Happy St. Patrick’s Day

 

Some fun facts… I am sure there is more maybe all true maybe just a myth but thing is when you grow up Irish getting where Nannie grabs both cheeks to talk to you and you are taken to the traditional parade every year and yes the celebrations.   Well, you believe in the blessings and maybe even chase the rainbow for that pot of gold.

 

You need not be Irish for this one!

 

Always remember to forget
The things that made you sad.
But never forget to remember
The things that made you glad.
Always remember to forget
The friends that proved untrue.
But never forget to remember
Those that have stuck by you.
Always remember to forget
The troubles that passed away.
But never forget to remember
The blessings that come each day.

Irish Blessing

 

Saint Patrick’s Day | History, Traditions, & Facts | Britannica

St. Patrick’s Day, feast day (March 17) of St. Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. Born in Roman Britain in the late 4th century, he was kidnapped at the age of 16 and taken to Ireland as a slave. He escaped but returned about 432 CE to convert the Irish to Christianity. By the time of his death on March 17, 461, he had established monasteries, churches, and schools. Many legends grew up around him—for example, that he drove the snakes out of Ireland and used the shamrock to explain the Trinity. Ireland came to celebrate his day with religious services and feasts. Saint Patrick's Day is celebrated on Thursday, March 17, 2022.

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Psalm 23:1-3 MSG

^1-3 God, my shepherd!
    I don’t need a thing.
You have bedded me down in lush meadows,
    you find me quiet pools to drink from.
True to your word,
    you let me catch my breath
    and send me in the right direction.

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Be Alright - Evan Craft, Danny Gokey, Redimi2

 

The Rolling Stones - Wild Horses (Lyrics)

 

Jeremy Camp - Getting Started (Music Video)

 

Jeremy Camp - Keep Me In The Moment

 

Anne Wilson - My Jesus (Lyrics)

 

TobyMac - Promised Land (Lyric Video)

 

Good News by Mandisa with lyrics

 

Bob Marley Every Little Thing Is Gonna Be Alright LYRICS

 

Don't Worry, I'm Yours - Jason Mraz vs. Bobby McFerrin vs. Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

 

 

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

“People of the Promise Land” “Letters Of Hope from Revelations”  @We Over Me @Whitney Capps  “God promised to make Abraham into a mighty nation.  Like every promise God makes, He kept it. From Abrahams line came the nation of Israel, God’s chosen people.  They were set apart by Him and for Him.  God’s chosen people would dwell in God’s chosen place, the promise land.”

 

From the seven churches  Laodicea through Sardis to right here and right now.  God’s tender plea has always been for us.    Jesus made it personal and sealed it with God’s love.

“if anyone hears my voice …I will come to him… he with me.”  While Jesus wanted the church to change, it’s the individual who must respond.” !!!

“Jesus doesn’t call us to the carpet to trash us; He does it because He loves us.”

He did not go to the cross because it was fun.  “He gave it all for us to live.”

 

So somewhere over that magical rainbow and all that Irish luck even through the atrocities of this world that we never will understand the streets of gold are not in that pot filled with coins or little cute or not so leprechauns.     Its all right here and now in the relationship you build with Christ Jesus.

That is the great news not just good.   Be it looking back to all the situations you have ever made it out of and wiped your brow trying to understand how you did.    Good bad or indifferent.  Give thanks and be the light that even flickers a little hope for anyone you connect in passing or are blessed to have in your life. 

If the good Lord allowed, you back up yes, we need to be grateful.  No matter what we ignore and want more or complain about here in now.  There are so many others that more strength and faith that never know when they won’t have that chance again.   Yet they take every breath and fight forward getting back up and shine in the strength and courage of God’s angel army.

 

Things are hard, things have changed, man have they ever.    Will it get worse I am sure and are we all impacted.   Yeah… just like the pandemic and the unseen virus that did more than bring a unity that no one will ever get to busy to forget about.    The war is real, physically, mentally, and spiritually.

Light it up with the good news and declare victory over all that is wrong through the name and blood of Jesus.

Meet him daily.   We all believe in something.    I believe in love!  I believe in Jesus and all he is over every drop of life he poured out he is exactly that.

If only I could recognize and feel that love from the outside in as it sours deep in my soul pouring out wanting more.    For you, for me.  In a world that we will never really grasp until eternity arrives.     All we can do is just breathe as much life while we learn and keep wanting to grow more and more forward.

Adoring those that bring us that skip in our heartbeat or step.   Appreciating all that was, all that will be knowing to whom we were created and to who we belong.    Just call His name…Jesus!

It will be alright even when it is not.  Don’t quit.   Dig in fight forward recognize and ask God to show you His will because you either allow Him in and for you or cry more later when its too late and you cannot make it through the pain or what is yet to come.

 

We are all broken pieces to this life puzzle.   But sometimes in the putting back together we become something more beautiful especially when we are unified with purpose sharing mercy and grace that is poured out for each one of the souls that walk this earth.

When did it get so real?  Always has been in my lifetime however it took me 32 years to realize what truth was.    We all get there in our own time.   I pray we all get there now because time is running out.    The devil is a liar, and he has consumed his prey and the demons that are unleashing all the death and sorrow on innocence will spread like wildfires before the rains and white horses come.

 

Live your best life now and call upon Jesus’ name to dwell within you.   Don’t be just another good person that stands up and fights for humanity.    Fill your soul with Gods love and promises.    Even when it hurts know the strength, he gives you and know where it comes from.    Put the armor of God on now before it is too late.

It does not make you any better or worse, but it seals your peace and life eternally.  And along the way while we are here fills you up with abundant unspeakable underserved blessings when we are not being pounded on by the devil.   

If you are not in a wave, you are coming out of one being pounded on by stuff.   If your out of one there will always be something or someone else around the corner waiting to drag you into the misery likes company.   Trying to break apart your family, trying to make you think everything you have lost stops you from living or even that of lasting suffering even if it seems that way.    Give it all to Jesus.   Let Him in truth every breath you have give you strength.    Let him fight with you in prayer in hope in all the mercy, grace, courage and Love.

Well, it’s a late day for me and my head hurts from all the stuff I am doing for the choice I made and career I am riding.    So, I am blessed to know he still had more to be shared.   And I pray if for nothing else you rise up and be your best self no matter who, no matter what.   And never stop loving yourself, never stop loving those you have been blessed with.  And as they leave because whatever the reason makes it there time up with you on your journey.   That you keep on living and take the lessons and the blessings and shine so bright teaching and lending those behind you hope for tomorrow.

 

Much love, peace, and gratitude now and always.   God be with all of us, and his son Christ Jesus consume all we are for the greater good.

May you forever and beyond know who you belong to and own the blessings you are created to live and be.