Monday, March 18, 2024

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Monday March 3rd, 2024

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

 

 

 Joshua 1:9 MSG  The Message

1-9 After the death of Moses the servant of GodGod spoke to Joshua, Moses’ assistant:

“Moses my servant is dead. Get going. Cross this Jordan River, you and all the people. Cross to the country I’m giving to the People of Israel. I’m giving you every square inch of the land you set your foot on—just as I promised Moses. From the wilderness and this Lebanon east to the Great River, the Euphrates River—all the Hittite country—and then west to the Great Sea. It’s all yours. All your life, no one will be able to hold out against you. In the same way I was with Moses, I’ll be with you. I won’t give up on you; I won’t leave you. Strength! Courage! You are going to lead this people to inherit the land that I promised to give their ancestors. Give it everything you have, heart and soul. Make sure you carry out The Revelation that Moses commanded you, every bit of it. Don’t get off track, either left or right, so as to make sure you get to where you’re going. And don’t for a minute let this Book of The Revelation be out of mind. Ponder and meditate on it day and night, making sure you practice everything written in it. Then you’ll get where you’re going; then you’ll succeed. Haven’t I commanded you? Strength! Courage! Don’t be timid; don’t get discouraged. God, your God, is with you every step you take.”

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

Alright how time is fleeting within a blink of an eye, when you just staying busy with life!

On the days I say I need to go share some of this that is seeping out of my mind maze before you know it here, we are weeks later.

Of course, excuses fill the gaps of why I am too busy to go sit back at a computer or try to tap out on my iPad all that sometimes feels like I will short circuit these brain cells I have left.

 

And just like that life happens and here it is weeks later and well it is what it is until it is not.   

I will never regret living the life that I am given.

 

Monday March 18th  2024

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

 

 

 Romans 15:13 MSG  The Message

7-13 So reach out and welcome one another to God’s glory. Jesus did it; now you do it! Jesus, staying true to God’s purposes, reached out in a special way to the Jewish insiders so that the old ancestral promises would come true for them. As a result, the non-Jewish outsiders have been able to experience mercy and to show appreciation to God. Just think of all the Scriptures that will come true in what we do! For instance:

Then I’ll join outsiders in a hymn-sing;
I’ll sing to your name!

And this one:

Outsiders and insiders, rejoice together!

And again:

People of all nations, celebrate God!
All colors and races, give hearty praise!

And Isaiah’s word:

There’s the root of our ancestor Jesse,
    breaking through the earth and growing tree tall,
Tall enough for everyone everywhere to see and take hope!

Oh! May the God of green hope fill you up with joy, fill you up with peace, so that your believing lives, filled with the life-giving energy of the Holy Spirit, will brim over with hope!

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

That’s right, I never realized how much time flew by until just sitting back at my personal space seeing not even was I able to finish what was happening back on the 3rd as things came up and I had to step away.    But between busy days and nights or just not feeling it.    Today leads me back with no agenda.

Been doing this on and off over the years.  Some dear ones I am privileged to call friends.   Over the years when I let day to day consume me, they remind me with cute little writer’s block note pads.  

Caring for family, raising grands, spending weekends when not serving with my elderly mother.    I wish I could say I get more done when staying home.  But let’s be honest it’s been 3 years since I painted the exterior of the house, and it needs a good pressure wash from all this pollen that blows.

I do, however, at some point have more soil coming to try and grow some grass in the back yard soon.   Florida sand based doesn’t favor those who do not have lots of time to give to the great outdoors here.

If God was not already my life gardener maybe I would search out someone that would make my yard beautiful cause, we know my work hours won’t allow me time.

 

Not complaining at all.  Considering every single thing I have come through hard work, thankfully at times some hard but good choices I had to make to achieve my current blessings.

However, if I were 20 years younger, I would build a new house on a new piece of property.  But at this stage I don’t want another.30-year mortgage or 15 even.

This is house number two and I have gone to the school of hard knocks and at times missed the mark.   But I can say I would not change anything in my life to what led me to where I am today.

Good, Bad, Indifferent:  Each day I am allowed back up is another day full of opportunities on how and what can be done next.

There have been some rough patches day to day lately.  Especially when I work in a secular world and try hard daily to live in obedience.   Big things, little things.   Reactions, words, or even just sometimes wanting to quit.    Cause I don’t want to deal with personalities anymore.

Working from early morning to evening well we all got to do something to get by.   I absolutely could never just use others and live off whatever they give.   Course I am working on not allowing others to live off me.

God has me, thankfully so!  And on those days that it seems so many people and innocence are just caught up and bad things are happening.  I know He is still always in control too.

 

If there is one thing out of the many I have learned in my walk in this life, is I am good.  Even when I am not.    I am not out here to people please, if I am employed, I will do my best and if it’s not good enough it was never meant to be.   If my leading different programs is not what some fancy; well, it’s just not meant to be.  And in all honesty if I am not good enough to qualify for anyone and all those little check boxes waiting to be filled in if I qualify for anything in your or lives.   Well don’t hold your breath.   Cause bottom line is if I get that close to you, I will love you unconditionally and for who you are and enjoy the benefits of what you do and what I can learn.   But if that is nothing.  Then so be it.

Sure, you need to pay your own way and be a good person without being a door mat and without a doubt love and fear a God bigger than anything anyone could ever create to panic about.

I may still be learning how to keep my imperfect broken pieces into a kaleidoscope of beautiful promise in every day I am allowed.

Though at times the human side of me still weary comes out wondering if I made the right choices in what I do or don’t do.    Then you Father who it has been a while since I just openly talked with in front of anyone.   But I know you have never left me and allow just what you wish the whispers to be echoed in any day or night given.

I pray all who never have this chance to experience all of the real you Jesus they are given that hands on and feel your presence.

Your love, your beauty, your power, your radiance even in the storms; I can only say thank you.  

For none of us deserve a thing; yet you hold true to all you are and shine bright your promise for all who seek you.

The best thing I ever did in this life is laying all of me at your feet. 

Thank you for this day and all that I have had up till now. 

 

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

 

Welcome to New Life! As we continue our series on Core Values March 16th and 17th

 

Terrian - Worth the Wait (Official Lyric Video)

I Forgive You - Nicole Norton

Lauren Daigle - Kaleidoscope Jesus (Official Lyric Video)

Lauren Daigle - You Say(New 2023 Best Playlist Of Lauren Daigle Christian Songs – Ultimate Lauren Daigle Full Album)

Ever Be (Official Lyric Video) - kalley | We Will Not Be Shaken

 

 

 

Much needed Prayers / Praise 2024

Prayers for that needed job.

Prayers for healing after the fall and broken hip.

Prayers for neck issues.

Prayers for a son in Canada that he will call his father.

Prayers for Ashely’s surgery and healing.

Prayers for Joshua’s surgery and healing.

Prayer for continued healing for 2-year-old Martina gone through cancer, removal of the tumor and lung and continued treatments.

Prayers for continued healing of Ezekeil and his rare disease.

Prayers for a Cousin Bill with heart issues.

Prayers of healing and up-coming surgery for Annabelle

Prayers for a Brother-in-law shoulder surgery

Prayers for the mourning and healing with death for all those who do not know you and those left behind that do.

Prayers for the twins with transfusion syndrome and Kenzie

Prayers for all our lost children, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, friends.  May this world come to know you, the true lover of all our souls.

Prayers Lord for all that is seen and unseen; all that is spoken and unspoken.  You are life and all that is or ever will be.

Lead me and all I am allowed to your still waters in rest, peace, and abundance of love that only those who know you understand.

 

 

Sunday, February 18, 2024

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Sunday February 18, 2024

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

  

 Romans 8:38-39  International Children's Bible

38-39 Yes, I am sure that nothing can separate us from the love God has for us. Not death, not life, not angels, not ruling spirits, nothing now, nothing in the future, no powers, nothing above us, nothing below us, or anything else in the whole world will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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 Romans 8:38-39 MSG  The Message

31-39 So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? If God didn’t hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn’t gladly and freely do for us? And who would dare tangle with God by messing with one of God’s chosen? Who would dare even to point a finger? The One who died for us—who was raised to life for us!—is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us. Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ’s love for us? There is no way! Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture:

They kill us in cold blood because they hate you.
We’re sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one.

None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us. I’m absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us.

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Welcome to New Life! Join us as we continue our series about our Core Values - February 17th & 18th

 

Tenth Avenue North - Invited (Official Lyric Video)

Alexander Pappas - PAUSE (Live Performance Video)

Larry Fleet & Zach Williams - This Too Shall Pass (Live from 1979)

TobyMac - The Real You (2018 Tru's Song-Writing Demo/Audio)

TobyMac - Starts With Me (Lyric Video) ft. Aaron Cole

Charity Gayle - I Speak Jesus (feat. Steven Musso) [Live]

 

 

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

Only Jesus knows without a doubt.    Had a much-needed weekend off and thanking Jesus it rained all weekend keeping me still.  Sure, I had the blessing of having my precious mama over night and just getting some time.     But it is no secret I burn the entire candle all the time and not just at both ends.    This week was a bit rough from having crown work.  You know removing a crown by fixing a tooth that cracked underneath then readying for a new crown.   Not to mention just doing stuff that needs to get done when I am tired and not only rolling an ankle this past week but cracking my head so hard, I still have a bruise on my forehead.

 

It is no surprise for anyone that has known me.   I need to get it done and sometimes I have to be reminded to pause or I will make you.  

So been running in work life balance and forgetting to do the balance thing.   But despite any of it; I am truly blessed each day I am allowed back up.  Each hiccup, or thorn that sticks and even the moments I literally bang my head against a wall.

No one I promised tomorrow so I have always been one to know I will rest when the good Lord takes me home and I lay down that final time.

However!

I need not even say it cause everyone/anyone can read between the lines of life as we journey and do the very things, we help others take time and not do.   Even further what about the sin we all allow ourselves to be caught up in or cause or participate within.   Despite our best intentions our human nature makes us stupid at times and we put ourselves and others in harms-way by not taking time to rest in him.   It is no surprise and just because some of us are workaholics or open our selves up for those who play on good intentions.    Look at back in biblical times.  Look what Paul was going through. 

Romans 7:17-20 MSG  17-20 But I need something more! For if I know the law but still can’t keep it, and if the power of sin within me keeps sabotaging my best intentions, I obviously need help! I realize that I don’t have what it takes. I can will it, but I can’t do it. I decide to do good, but I don’t really do it; I decide not to do bad, but then I do it anyway. My decisions, such as they are, don’t result in actions. Something has gone wrong deep within me and gets the better of me every time.

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Anyway I am working on making whatever I do or get into count for more than just  a side hustle or some material things that will either get tossed to the curb or someone will try to take without putting the work in for themselves.

 

Life here and now with all the choices matters.

Laugh hard when you can don’t hold back!

Cry hard when you need to, don’t hold back!

Be your authentic self always and never hold back because you are trying to have someone’s lasting attention.

Be the real you that Jesus died so you can be!   

Never think you are unworthy of being called a child of God.   He is with you always and though you should be circled up with other brothers and sisters in Christ to help you build strength and relationship in Christ.    It starts right where you are with him and you.  Every single day you are allowed back up.

It starts with me and you right where we stand, sit, lay.  Good, bad or indifferent.   Dive deep into worship, dive deeper into His word through daily devotions, truth spoken, small group studies, podcasts, and yes find a good bible-based church and challenge what is being taught if you cannot  find in the bible.   Oh yes, we are all in control of how our destination will go.  With the blessings and indescribable peace even through the tragedy this world and all within will bring.

Heartbreak is never knowing the truth that not everyone even those you cannot breathe without are taken.  God is the same creator that allows the sun, moon, stars to hang in the sky.  Just as he is the same creator who allows the wind to blow as the same creator who fills our lungs with oxygen to be alive.

Heck no I cannot explain it.   Life for me is one big sticky bun and through out time I end up getting bit while trying to be just me.

All that sweet kindness often can be considered weakness and there are people out there that in a split second who try to suck it right out of you.

 

But that is a whole different conversation.    Take time to love you and meet Jesus right where you are.   Do not wait until your day of judgement.   None of us know when our time will end but we all know it will.  And we all will kneel before the creator Lord Jesus on judgement day.     Let go of any hurt and hangups and meet Him now to help you through before you miss the opportunity.

What do you have to lose?   Anyway, in this grand kaleidoscope with all the beautiful colors, rivers, and promises.   I choose Jesus.   Our choices matter, then, now and eternally.   Choose wisely while you still can.

 

 

Much needed Prayers / Praise 2024

Lord, you know every single prayer on the list in front of me.  You know all that is needed even for those who don’t talk about it.

Be with them Father.

Illness, Innocence, Healing mind, body, and soul.

You are the judge Jesus, as you took every single stripe for our way to live.  Consume us, Father God!   Consume me.

 

Thank you for each day you allowed me back up.  Thank you for the small things and the really big things.  Thank you for allowing the freedom to say your name.

 

I could put the list out her Jesus or those prayers from the littles each Wednesday.   May the eyes I see be your eyes directly into the souls calling out for and with you.

 

 

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

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Wednesday February 7, 2024

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

 

 Psalm 97:10  International Children's Bible

People who love the Lord should hate evil.
    The Lord watches over those who follow him.
    He frees them from the power of the wicked.

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 Psalm 97:10 MSG  The Message

10 God loves all who hate evil,
And those who love him he keeps safe,
Snatches them from the grip of the wicked.

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Welcome to New Life! Join us as we continue our series about our Core Values - February 3rd & 4th

 

 Faithfully - TobyMac

Terrian - Hope Road (feat. TobyMac) [Official Lyric Video]

Hulvey - Reasons (Official Video) ft. Lecrae, SVRCINA

We The Kingdom - The Plans (Acoustic)

Hollyn - Everything and More (feat. Aaron Cole) [Official Music Video]

The Weight | Featuring Ringo Starr and Robbie Robertson | Playing For Change | Song Around The World

 

 

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

We are all far from deserving any grace, yet He is worthy of more than we will ever comprehend.

Everything is fleeting except eternity.   There is so much happening in every  single person’s life.    Even if it is nothing that they wish could be.

Please always be kind and love people for who they are and not what they can or cannot get or do for you.

 

We are surrounded by the inevitable!     What we do with every single outcome of any choice matters.    Mine, yours there will always be a domino effect that comes from all of them.

 

Day to day can be super stressful or super-chill.  In either there can be good or bad.  And although we are programed as society to not care about anything but our individual beings.    What about our future?  What about the future?  What about the children of this world who will be our future?

What is the reason (the why)  day-to-day behind the choices you make, you react, you trigger?

What is the motivation that gets you up, or what is it that is holding you back?

Now being circled up and the feeling of the belonging is awesome.  However, you do not ever need to be in a building, or in a group to meet Jesus right where you are.   To dive in and start seeking answers directly from him in the word of God.

Even when we know him, love him, and do our daily best.  Sometimes life just throws lots of roadblocks and derailments to stay connected with him.   But I know He will never leave us. We allow interference and distance.

Once we figure that out we can work towards getting back to who we are meant to be and what in Christ matters most.

 

I remember some time back telling my daughter sometimes back do not bring any more rescues into this house.  Four legged or two.   It sounds funny but we have a soft spot for people, places and things that need help.     The lessons of life are true.  WE CANNOT live this life successfully on our own.   But there is not one thing in this earth that will be eternal and really make the difference that only Jesus can.

 

I don’t know how to ever explain that to anyone but just being me and trying daily to do the right thing and understand what the right reasons are.   It is an absolute journey every moment I am allowed back up.

From the tenderness of baby kittens, puppies, and babies to the harshness of the cold wars we have all around us and within.

 

Faithfully we will persevere in whatever direction we work in.  However, where is it you see those, you have been blessed with.  What does your heart feel for the depths of the world and all the lost souls within.  And we are all on that merry-a-go-round at various points and times in our lives.  Revelation will come.  We all will meet our maker and none of us will really know when God’s timing is.    We can do allot of stuff in between and change our destiny because of the choices we make but none of us truly  know what is in Gods vision for us.   Until we really get to know who he is and how much we are loved and needed here and now.

And even then, we cannot be sure of any predicted tomorrows.

It has been a hard couple of years as one-by-one loved one’s leave this planet.  Some age, some illness, some bad choices that no one could break through an help them realize just how much we need them.

Even so watching those here still struggle or turning on a TV and seeing so much hate and misguided ambitions around the world.  Calling it what you will organizational behaviors of one or many matter.

What we see for more than just the moment we are in and the impacts of end results and that bittersweet blessing from God himself on freedom of choice.  

Anyway, it has been a bit of a ride, not only am I facilitating this 12 weeks  a Dr. David Jeremiah study on Revelation.    And watching or experiencing in some form changes to people’s lives and my own of what may be.

I can only dive deeper into taking my faith over fear no matter what and always reminding myself the same creator of heaven and earth and the air that sometimes blows in the wind.  Fills our lungs each and every day we are allowed back up.  And if for nothing else I am thankful.   No matter how tired, how sad, how happy, how demanding, or how screwed up any of my days may be.

It far outweighs the alternatives.  For this I am forever grateful.

 

Prayers, blessings, good vibes whatever it is you need may you feel Christ the creator, maker or all things fill your voids and purpose and show you how to grow forward and lead those always watching to something more positive and eternal.

 

Much needed Prayers / Praise 2024

- Praying for the Feiler's healing from a fall and getting injured

-Praying for Scott and a speedy surgical recovery      

            Praising the doctors’ discernments and healing in process

-Praying for Staci and all involved in the healing and gaining her sight back, that was lost by a caregiver. 

-Praying for discernment, comfort  and healing with Doug's surgery 1/24/2024

            Praising successful surgery and steadfast healing.    

-Praying with  Ed & Pat and the struggles of elderly and dementia

-Praying with Janet for her cancer to stay away

-Praying for Kristine  and healing from Cancer

- Praying for those who are in sudden bereavement of family or friends.  May they be held tightly as they find their way through the next steps.

            Special prayers for my neighbor and her children as her broken family which split a year ago just lost a loving dad, former trooper and just a great soul who lost his battle with depression to suicide. 

-Praying for 11-year-old Ezekeil  who is still in the hospital, now in ICU and no longer talking.  Needing the doctor’s discernment and Gods mercy and healing as they place him in an induced coma to control his agitation and much needed healing.   Praising Jesus that Zeke was able to come off the vent and still in ICU but talking, eating, and playing his game. Even with a long way to go Jesus is alive in this moment.

            Praising prayers are working Zeke will soon go home and although have a lifelong illness that no one seen coming.  The medicines, doctors and discernment with the grace of God are allowing him life a little longer.

- Praying for a friend’s great niece Martina(she’s a 2 1/2 yr. old) with a rare cancer starting treatments.

            Praying hard for Martina as this baby is poked and prodded and going home but traveling to and from the hospitals for treatments.

-Prayers for all those who keep doing the best they can trying to reflect hope even when life seems knock the wind out of many moments they are sharing.  

Praising you Jesus for allowing us all the choice to keep getting back up and seeking you until the day you take us home.

-        Prayers for our leaders, for our nation near or far.  Prayer for a new generation stepping up and stepping in and bringing back hope.  

 

 

 

 

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