Tuesday, September 12, 2023

09.12.23 September_PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe (AlwaysMeKelly)

 

 

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Tuesday, September 12, 2023

 

Thought Movers, Touching to the Soul coming from YouTube.com / Facebook, Local Worship, or other public venues.

   TobyMac - Everything

  Top Worship Songs of ALL TIME! - Instrumental Worship Guitar

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Motivational Reads / Daily Devotions from Biblegateway.com - Daily Verse

 

Philippians 4:4 NIV @Biblegateway.com

Final Exhortations

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!

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4-5 Celebrate God all day, every day. I mean, revel in him! Make it as clear as you can to all you meet that you’re on their side, working with them and not against them. Help them see that the Master is about to arrive. He could show up any minute!

 

  

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

No doubt there is absolutely some days just better than others.    Keep pealing back those layers every day and remember not to let any of it too close that like an onion it burns your eyes, and your tears flow so badly that you cannot see the light up ahead.

No matter what the tragedy or disappointment if you want to give it away lay it at the foot of the cross and plead the blood of Jesus over everything you are every single second you have to walk this grand universe.

From watching the pain of loss or experiencing it on your own to watching those you wish you could see bold, bright and living in deep joy and filled with so much health and wellness that it pours out over everyone they walk past.

Yet, the reality is a married couple goes out together on a casual motorcycle ride to just get a break while their kids are with family and friends and a drunk driver changes everything that ever was.   A mother dies and father is in critical condition with 3 children at home never understanding why mom and dad never came back.

Or that friend, that brother, that sister, that kid son, daughter; young or old consumed by the worlds addictions is so broken they cannot get enough of what is freely given so they start robbing their own life and future but choices that cost deeply to them and all they know.

They layer of fixing a vehicle only to have ten more things show up that must be repaired.

Or simple appointment mix ups.   So, forget about what you thought was major.   What you thought was so wrong when you put all your trust into another human being only to find out they were not who your always thought they were, and they pulled some distrust over you.

 

All the while they forgot who they should have remained.  But instead got caught up trying to be something else at the cost of what God intended them to be.

Forgiveness means everything even for those who will never give it. 

  Forgive yourself for being so consumed that you rob your moments of peace and life that was meant to be.

Forgive others even if they never change or forgive you for any part you have played in the situation.   Live in gratitude even for the purposes you will never understand why you.

Nothing else matters but the simple understanding of who Jesus Christ is and who you are to and with Him!

So, as you get up and realize they messed up on an appointment that they gave you a card for but never put in their systems.  As you look in your wallet and see what there was is gone, as you hear that diagnosis that you have been fighting so hard for.    When your loss of a piece of who your existence has been taken away.

With any given moment, song, sound, sight that brings you to tears and bleeding out on the floor.   So is the hand of God reaching down for you to get back up.  

Brush yourself off, look up and fight forward another day that he has given.

God does and will work it out.   I can only tell you from life experience even in the worse situations I have lived through He is still there.

He does not pick the skinny one or the one with money or the good or the bad.    He heals the broken and leads us through the storms if we let him; no matter what it is or who we are.   But we have to believe, and we have to live with our sights on the unseen.

And that is the hardest thing ever for me or humanity.   Especially while bullies and evil are rampaging through this world destroying and robbing so much innocence.

We have to believe in something good and place our sights on all that can be, all that has been and all that is.  Through the eyes of Jesus.

We all believe in something be it the celebrity who gave up his soul and life to be acknowledged by a world that will never allow them 5 minutes of soul solace or the idols that they chase are what is to be.

 

Where in our spec of this universe leaders who are supposed to help us grow line up their pockets; or we pay our athletes more than we pay the governing bodies that protect or care for us.   Where we would rather walk past the homeless in our own backyard than step up and do something about it.    

Or that homeless person found dead on a sidewalk near a hospital.

Isn’t it ironic like the song.  Someone wins the lotto and a week later they are no longer with us.  Or in places like Florida the sun can be shining brightly all while a downpour is happening.   Raining on one side of a building but not the other.

Life can be weird, hard oh really hard, but also joyous and the biggest blessing ever if we learn to keep fighting forward and doing our best while always knowing to whom we were created and believe in all that is unseen in Jesus.

Trust me when I say, I never ever predicted I would ever write about something that I cannot see, taste, touch but love so deeply.

Time is short and no matter what you believe.  Be it you will come back in your next life as a frog or maybe you are here in this one as such and next you will be the prince or princess.

 

Anyway, I need to get better at jotting down some really good topics and thoughts when they occur.    Cause I had some the other day.   Today I am blessed, I am up and have a few minutes and although I would love to have some mind-blowing soul moving wisdom to share and make anyone who reads really jump up and meet Jesus where they are.   All I have is me and another day given.

 

Never stop looking up and never ever give up without a fight.

Prayers you have a relationship that shines boldly for all that is good, all that gives and all that fills everyone you connect in love, with love, for love.

For all that we are, all that we can be may we never stop seeing Christ Jesus in everything~

  

 


Friday, September 1, 2023

09.01.23 September_PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe (AlwaysMeKelly)

 

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Friday, September 1, 2023

 

Daily Devotions from Biblegateway.com - Daily Verse

 

Proverbs 22:6 NIV @Biblegateway.com

Start children off on the way they should go,  and even when they are old they will not turn from it.

 

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Motivational Reads

John 16:33 NIV @Biblegateway.com  33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

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ACTS 20:24 NIV @Biblegateway.com  24 However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.

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

Interesting how as a parent when our children get older, we somethings beat ourselves up for the things they do and wonder how that could be.  That is not how I raised them.    Looking at today’s verse of the day and my previous motivational reading before my feet even hit the floor and it truly is a matter of the blessing and curse of freedom of choice; we have all been given.   Along with the fact every choice matters.

 

We may not see the fruits of our own labor as we journey through the abyss of this universe and the time we are given.     And what is that old phrase some of us have heard over time.   You can lead your horse to water, but you can never make it drink.

 

You can raise your children and teach them about light and darkness, right or wrong, but even at a very young age they will choose the path they want to go.

 

 When we use excuses as to why we are doing things instead of walking forward.  When they use the past as a crutch no matter how many blessing opportunities ahead are being ignored.    All we can do is pray!   Again, Laminin the cellular molecules that hold our very DNA together to allow us to walk around created in the image of God.   

So why do we not cling to Jesus and his strength, his protection, his direction.    Because the curse of freedom of will kicks in taking over our thought capacity of how to choose and most times we want what we want, when we want it no matter who it hurts, if it destroys our own being or how temporal what it is we want really is.   In Bible.com the below verse spoke to me this morning as did the odb.com message that is free and out there for everyone with internet.   Nope, not advertising.   Just useful tools to stay tapped in wherever you go.  Cause I know myself if I am not spiritually fed every single day, and even sometimes multiple times a day.   I get distracted and even though I know who Jesus is now, and how much he truly loves us.   I get caught up in what I think should be happening.   I am far from perfect but everything I am, is because of the blessing he has breathed life into me with and for.

 

 

I so wish it were true that our children would remember God is for them throughout the journeys they are given.   Yet sometimes they do not get the chance to truly live the prodigal son or daughter path because of the darkness that blocks their eyes from truly seeing the light up ahead or know how strong they really are.  Even how to fight forward calling upon Jesus.

Which is a direct relationship between each and every one of us and Jesus directly.

All of us believe in something far greater than we will ever get to understand.  Yet we all just keep doing life in the here and now.

And even when we do know how much we are loved and who we belong to still cannot take the pressure all the time, or deal with that one more thing.

What was my stressors this week.  Suddenly my car gear shift bushing goes out on my car and the dealer who will replace it for free cannot get me in for five days; all the while there is Hurricane Idalia heading for me.   What can I do.  

Not to mention what about one of my heart strings traveling around Europe, seeing the world by themselves. 

 Or how about another getting up and leaving in the middle of the night riding around while the storm is upon us.   And no, it’s not just about me.   It is about life and the blessings that we are given that we just cannot see even when others around us do so clearly.

Oh, I could go on and on and give you reasons why I should just run away.  Or at least try and numb the invisible pains that no one else sees.

I learned a long time ago; we never really know people.  Someone we know all our life can show up and destroy all we ever believed or had.  If we let it.

 

Never stop loving, never stop living.   Just put others at sometimes more than arm’s length and love from a distance and keep doing what shines bright.   No matter who or what tries to overshadow it.

I can tell you what its like as a child to trust adults and how imperfect they are and if you are lucky before you know who Jesus is and what God’s favor means. 

I can tell you how getting caught up in that moment of passion and giving away all that you are only to be beat down emotionally, physically, verbally.   Or even tossed aside.

I can also tell you stories of despite all my best efforts failing how the depth of love that Jesus has poured over and into me changed everything.

I never chose to be where I am today.  I just wanted to make it through.

I can tell you when I stepped up and stepped in that water the final time.  I can tell you the hunger I had wanting to know more.   I cannot tell you when exactly it was just one day everything was different.

Or when that peace seeped in and now flows through these veins even in the moments where it takes me time to really fall asleep; or even when I fall asleep soundly, I am woke by others.

Passion never counts the cost; Scars come with Livin!

If there is one thing I would what the magical powers for and that is to take every broken heart string I have ever been entangled and see them healed and cling to the same peace, love, strength that Jesus is and gives.

We all go through something, sometimes we are like that scratched album and it is just stuck on repeat.

Take a minute, take a deep breath, and get back up brushing off and keep growing forward.

I can assure you; it is hard. Especially for women.   Think about it even back to the most ancient times we were expected to be quiet and follow a man who in most cases never really knew where they were going.  Or they were stuck on a power trip and forgot to finish reading the scriptures to love their wives.   And please do not think I am anti men in anyway.  Because we have women in this world as well that think they deserve to be treated better than they treat their spouses or partners.     Just working through a 12-week study on I& II Timothy and Titus and because my journey has led me to be fully independent while growing through the pains of my own hills and valleys since a little girl.   The old ways were so…. Well, I would have issues; I do now when anyone tells me to do something or act somehow.   Ask me and I pretty much will give all I got.   Tell me and that is so different.   We get it so wrong so often.

Ephesians 5:25 NIV @Biblegateway.com 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

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We have to keep fighting the good fight as Paul writes to the church years and years ago in 1 Timothy 1:1-20.   And although we in humanity will get it all twisted based on our own perspectives and thoughtful or thoughtless choices.    Faithfully, believing in all that is good, all that is pure even when it hurts. 

 

 

Allows us to remember Jesus took the pain long ago and poured all that he was into all that we are.    Circling up with others who believe in all that God wants us to be and why, who Jesus is.    Helps us strengthen and grow forward.  And shine the light of Jesus.   But we, each, and every one of us have the ability to meet Jesus right where you are, and you do not need a building or others to this.  To help us understand and really dive into the truth.  Yes!

You, I; all of us are never alone.   And if you want an answer, we must become intimate with Jesus Christ first and always in every day.

 

Trust me I am no theologian, and I did not go to Bible college.  Although I have studied for years of allot.   I have learned if I don’t understand, or it does not fit or feel right.   Go to the Bible and question it.  Ask questions to your spiritual leaders and if they cannot go to the Bible to show us; or they force their opinions and what they have come up with on us.   It is not God breathed.

 

There will be trouble in this world.   Hold fast to all that Jesus gave himself away for so we could be.  So, we could live. So, we could shine in harmony.

If you get to really know Jesus and you have that significant other that is fighting forward with you.   It’s like having your cake and eat it too.

But if we are called for something else, we are not alone.   Don’t get caught up in the lie we cannot do or be something because of anything.

May we open the eyes of our heart and allow the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit dive deep into our souls.  Even when all our heart strings seem to be like a big ball of yarn so tangled up and breaking one by one.   May we know the depths of our creation and who the glue of it all is that hold us together.

To be loved on the outside as deep as the depths of all Christ is and ever will be.  Yeah, I can imagine.   But no one person, place or thing will ever do and be lasting.   It is every single second we are allowed to travel this universe and all that goes with it.  

It is very hard when others try reaching out wanting to chat, wanting to connect.  Man, I am sorry but I am not.     I want more than 5 minutes or 15 of pleasure, of what will be temporal.    I want it all to the depths and the bone of bone, washing and flowing through the veins of all that only the love of all creation can be.

We are owed nothing, and we absolutely should always be kind, considerate, caring.  Even if we do it from a distance.      Stop the madness of expectations and love people for who they are.   Right here right now.   Appreciate their gifts and talents if they make you smile.   But truly love me for me and I will love you for you.

 

Father of all creation thank you for all you have been and all that you are.  Thank you for allowing me another day in this uncertain world.  Uncertain for me and all that tug on these heart strings.   I wish I could always have the ability to never ask for anything; yet you know all the hurts, habits, and hangups of all that make this heart ache at times.   Be with them all Jesus.  Heal, shine bright and give them the strength and courage to get back up in you.

So much illness, brokenness and lostness because we put all that we are in all that is temporary and never enough into the blessings of who gives it to us.

Lead me and all I am connected in and through the healing process, through the fires into you Jesus.

Thank you for the very air I am given to exhale.  

 

Thought Movers, Touching to the Soul coming from YouTube.com / Facebook, Local Worship, or other public venues.

 David Crowder Band: How He Loves with Lyrics

 Firm Foundation (He Won’t) [feat. Chandler Moore & Cody Carnes] | Maverick City Music | TRIBL

  "Scars” by TobyMac, from the album THE ELEMENTS

 Open The Eyes Of My Heart | Paul Baloche (Official Live Video)

 Stand By Me - Music Travel Love (At Al Ain)

 Cody Carnes ~ Nothing Else (Lyrics) Acoustic

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

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Tuesday August 22nd, 2023

 

Thought Daily Devotions from Biblegateway.com Daily Verse

 

Romans 8:32 NIV @Biblegateway.com

32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

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If it’s not good, then He’s not done with you yet!    If you are awake, living, breathing and still full of so many opportunities.   Find your Joy in the situation and be that little flicker of hope for what is around you.

 

Even when uncertainty and often stress can consume the very seconds of what next.   Give it back to the foot of the cross.  There is no reason why we must carry the pain and sorrow that Jesus already took so we could live in and with Him!

 

Not easy to do when you are worrying how you survive and get out of an abusive relationship or situation.  Not easy to do when you are worried about how you will feed your children.  Not easy to do when you are worried when the next paycheck is coming, or where you will sleep for the night, or when the phone call of a loved one who was lost in the drugs and demons and lies of the world comes through.    

 

But nowhere was it ever promised or written life should be easy and carefree.  

 

Although God gave his son on the cross nailing all our sins and indiscretions to the cross through him with him.    He never said Hey now you, we have a free ride.

 

We all owe gratitude and obedience to all that has been blessed upon us; be it a true lesson or blessings of abundance of anything and everything we are allowed to have in such a time and place as we do.

 

We owe it to Christ alone and ourselves to know the moral value of our own mind, body, and soul in which we are created in and with His image.   I won’t ever stop referring to Loui Giglio’s talk on Laminin and the image that is burned deep into our spirits and being.  No matter if we choose to want it or not.

 

Before we start shooting down others and pointing out their faults or wrong doings to others or even to us.     Get your own temple in order and justified, sanctified with Christ Jesus alone.

 

We are all in this universe together; until we are not.  Prayerfully we all get the chance to live a full abundant life and give more than we take.   However, we know that is not true in many cases as we look around.  We are cruel to the universe and each other.    For some ungodly reason we have some that find darkness and hurtful if not tragic ways of feeling bigger, better than others when they inflict the power in ways that was never meant to be.

 

No matter if we are head bangers for some loud heavy metal lifestyle or a little Andy Griffith.     The spectrum of opportunities is wide and deep.   What we do is not who we are unless we allow it to be.     What we have is temporal and everything until the day we are taken to our final destination.

 

As I pray one of my heartstrings is seeing the world that all the common sense, right and wrong and self-respect guide her safely to see the universe and that she knows her worth and becomes all that is perfect in Him.    I have my worry for all that we connect with in passing or for time and place as this.

 

But all that I am is a gift and all I have including the blessings that came from the blood and bone of my being belongs to the same creator that breathed the moon, sun, and stars into the darkness as he breathes life into me each day.   No matter how far I run into or away from.

 

Beyond deserving!

Beyond grateful!

Beyond blessed! And still growing forward every day I am allowed back up in and with Him.      Sometimes it’s a crawl, sometimes its barely pulling myself across the floor.  Yet, every time is because of who he is that I am able to find and know who I am to, for and with Him.

 

So, I can call out the broken pieces or how all of me has been shook up or tossed up and landed all out of place.    But I have no doubt no matter what I see everything is perfectly placed as another stain glass piece of beautiful colors in this world that many will never be able to understand or see.    Yet only Jesus does!

 

No matter the pain and sorrow of all the tears he catches for my broken pieces in the loss of family, friends and so many broken heart strings.     Jesus Does!!!

Thought Movers, Motivations Touching to the Soul coming from YouTube.com / Facebook, Local Worship, or other public venues.

 Blanca - Something Better

 Tauren Wells, Elevation Worship - Joy In The Morning (Worship Version)

 Nine Inch Nails - Sanctified (VEVO Presents)

 Nine Inch Nails - We're In This Together

 Tasha Layton- How Far (Official Music Video)

 Cochren & Co - Stained Glass Window (Lyrics)

 We The Kingdom - Jesus Does (Official Music Video)

 

 

Tuesday, August 15, 2023

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Tuesday August 15th, 2023

 

Thought Daily Devotions from Biblegateway.com Daily Verse

 

Romans 14:8 NIV @Biblegateway.com

If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

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

Well, I stumbled on this song the other day and it just speaks volumes.  Cooper Alan - Never Not Remember You (Official Lyric Video)

   Loving this Cat’s voice too and I hope he goes places beyond his wildest dreams and uses it for the good sharing the laughter and love he generates when he is goofing around with his buds.

 

The first one that came to mind and tears flowed was that of my big brother who suddenly left us on May 28th.    Protector of all he cared about, the biggest gentle giant, friend, and confidant anyone could know.  I pray even though he left his beautiful second wife behind he found his first love and they are dancing in heaven. 

 

I will always treasure that last hug goodbye and our birthday season will never be the same.   Every year we three siblings always got together just to share love and laughter.    I don’t even want to think about it being he has been called to higher places and we are still blessed here doing life without him.

 

Not sure if you can relate.  Me, my brother, and sister always had each other.   No matter how far apart we were, no matter how mad or hurt we would get.  We never let it get in-between our relationship that cannot be explained.   Man, yeah we had that sibling rivalry going when we were kids.   But even on the worse days we knew we had each other.

 

We never used each other, never called each other out for all the things we would of, could of, done wrong.    We just loved being around each other when we would come together and pick up where we left off like it was yesterday.

 

I have lost some really great people in my lifetime but my big brother who I shadowed and drove crazy.    Our great loss is heaven’s gain.   I pray God has got him in the angel army looking out for those who need angels.

 

 Yeah, thinking about this song I could not, not share it even though its got my emotions all over the place thinking of the memories and he is gone.    Thinking about recent friends who lost loved ones.  Thinking about last year losing Pops and how mom is doing and all the changes.

 

Life on this earth is so dang short and we only get a brief second in the dash we are given.   I so pray we all choose to love those we are given and make beautiful memories.      Don’t waste time trying to prove anything and absolutely don’t hate someone because their ways do not line up with your own.

 

Every single soul we are given to cross paths with be it by blood, by happenstance, by choice.   All have great meanings with blessings that none of us deserve.

 

Don’t waste those moments of blessings or lessons on hate and rob yourself of the seconds you are given to be here.   None of us know when our time is up.     And we can never get back any time we allowed negativity rob from us.

 

Life is what it is until it is not.   None of us, despite our hard work, or entitlement thought process deserve a thing.  Be grateful for all we are given and be selfless to those who are connected to heart strings.

 

No matter what is not; I will always be thankful for the memories I am given even when they hurt.

 

I wish I had the magic pill or that crystal ball to fix things before they broke or were taken away.  But even if I did, most likely all that would do is make me complacent.  Not work or be as I am and do.  Maybe at times I work too hard and perhaps not so smart.  But I am who I am and well I getter done 😊

 

As time goes by working on or towards what really matters is always a chore.   What matters to me may not be in line even though it’s something we pray not stop for or part of a church or not; may not be inline with what God really meant.  But not for nothing, it is what it is, and I have learned an abundance of lessons during my time.   As long as I am able, the air I am given to breathe will remember to whom I belong and in turn be my best self in serving and loving even the hard people, places, or things.   And no; just because you love someone does not mean they need to be in your space.

 

Nor does it mean you have to accept anyone’s bad or self-destructive behaviors just because you love them.   Just means you pray them up and plant the seeds of hope, life, moral values, and truth of who Jesus is and who they are created in the image of.   Along with the blessings of freedom of choice.   We all have free will to choose!

 

On this day and many others, I only know where I have been.  And like the lotto those some days wishing I would just play and win.  While others I acknowledge nothing worth anything is free but the gift to get back up and choose.

 

Everything else, everyone else is that icing on the cake.  Bonus that there is time and place for everything and a season under the one true God the father’s son, Jesus.

 

We all will kneel at the gate and prayerfully able to wrap our arms tightly around the father once it is our turn to go home.  To find our family, friends, and loved ones.  What a great plan!  

 

 But what about loving them all right here and right now while we have them?

 

Love me when I am here.  Know me while I am here.   When I get to heaven with Jesus, I don’t need you would of should of could of.   You want to make a difference; do it now.   Live, Love and laugh with and in Christ.   And know when that song plays, and something pokes and cuts a little.  You have those memories in peace and love to remember all the good there really is.

 

Thought Movers, Motivations Touching to the Soul coming from YouTube.com / Facebook, Local Worship, or other public venues.

 The Blessing with Kari Jobe & Cody Carnes | Live From Elevation Ballantyne | Elevation Worship

 ðŸŽµEven when it Hurts Lyrics-Hillsong United)

 Walking Free by Micah Tyler [Lyric Video]

 Unspoken - Call It Grace (Lyric Video)

 The Prodigal Song - Cory Asbury | To Love A Fool (Lyrics)

 

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