Sometimes settling is not really settling, but a matter of survival that you may survive and then advance. Be wise and prayerful.
Galatians 6: 9. And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Psalms 37:3. Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. 4. Delight thyself also in the Lord: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. 5. Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. 6. And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday. 7. Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Rise and Shine
Rise and Shine, Beloved… God will do just what HE said…If HE spoke it into your Spirit, HE will bring it to pass…God can’t promise what HE can’t do, because HE can do whatever HE sets HIS heart and hand to do...God won’t promise what He won’t do, because HE is faithful and true...God will do just what He said…Give HIM thanks and praise…WORSHIP HIM…
If you find yourself restless in your spirit ‘round midnight—a discontented time in your life or a time when it seems all is well and you just decide to take a breather, a rest from your disciplined routine, stay on guard.
Strive to remain spiritually disciplined. Walk in the Spirit, pray fervently, praise God passionately, feast on the WORD, and stay purposeful, or else you may fall victim in a moment of weakness, contemplating and giving in to a temptation that seems to come at the right time to give you a lift, a quick fix or something seemingly harmless, but really is a devilish delicacy that can pull you down into a nightmare of long term aggravation hard to overcome…
Stay on guard…Pray on guard…Some things are easy to get into, but hard to get out of…The enemy is ever lurking, looking for an opening to ensnare and orchestrate our falling into sin…Stay on guard…Pray on guard…
Proverbs 4:23-27 (AMP) 23Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life. 24Put away from you false and dishonest speech, and willful and contrary talk put far from you. 25Let your eyes look right on [with fixed purpose], and let your gaze be straight before you. 26Consider well the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established and ordered aright. 27Turn not aside to the right hand or to the left; remove your foot from evil.
Proverbs 4:23-27 (The Message) Keep vigilant watch over your heart; that's where life starts. Don't talk out of both sides of your mouth; avoid careless banter, white lies, and gossip. Keep your eyes straight ahead; ignore all sideshow distractions. Watch your step, and the road will stretch out smooth before you. Look neither right nor left; leave evil in the dust.
You may choose to worship a god that changes to fit your whimsical desire but that don’t change the only living and true God who commanded you to change if you want to fit HIS holy desire…And HE not only commands change, HE, HIMSELF, will change you, if you let HIM…GOD don’t change…And why would ONE so perfect, need any improvements? Let us not be carried away from HIM in this time’s flood of foolishness, but caught up in and with HIM in righteousness and holiness…
For I am the Lord, I change not… Malachi 3:6
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. Heb13:8
Father, re-ignite those, close to flameout…settle down those just about ready to go off…It’s a mean, mixed-up, madly messed up world, some are imploding, as others are about ready to explode. Purpose us, granting power and peace, leading us to triumph over our troubles and overcome our obstacles. Help us look past what it looks like and see how marvelous it can be, if we can just hold on by faith, believing by faith we have already overcome by the word of our testimony, JESUS is LORD and GOD…
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Beloved, Rise and Shine… Beloved have you trials? If you do, don’t just be determined to go through, but be determined to grow through. Every trial we face comes with opportunity to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Jesus and how He cares for us and shares in all of our life experiences with us, becoming a greater part of our being.
The Hebrew writer said that Christ learned obedience through the things that He suffered. Hebrews 5:8 And, so should we…Some of us have been taught regarding trials, that which don’t kill you will somehow make you stronger…If you have prayed to God to strengthen your faith, your trials just may be the answer to your prayers—God being with you to help you reach the upgrade in faith you were seeking…Grow on towards perfection, Beloved…
The Hebrew writer said that Christ learned obedience through the things that He suffered. Hebrews 5:8 And, so should we…Some of us have been taught regarding trials, that which don’t kill you will somehow make you stronger…If you have prayed to God to strengthen your faith, your trials just may be the answer to your prayers—God being with you to help you reach the upgrade in faith you were seeking…Grow on towards perfection, Beloved…
Sometimes we allow one disappointment to so dominate and depress our lives that we blind ourselves to the too numerous to number or name appointments of grace and favor the Father has so thoughtfully, liberally, lovingly showered upon us…We can and should be and do better…
To truly know HIM is to know that all the good HE has done, is doing, and has promised to do, far and away exceeds any evil thing that can ever happen to us…
Psalms 103:1. Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. 2. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: 3. Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; 4. Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; 5. Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
To truly know HIM is to know that all the good HE has done, is doing, and has promised to do, far and away exceeds any evil thing that can ever happen to us…
Psalms 103:1. Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. 2. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: 3. Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; 4. Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; 5. Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
There is therefore now no condemnation…I have done dumb, repented and been forgiven. I am not burdened by the bondage of my former baggage for Christ has alleviated and annihilated the burden of my sin and shame. I’m free! Sin’s shackles no longer bind me. Though history doth record that I did what I did. But though I did it, because of my faith in His atoning grace, whatever I did, whenever I did it, my wonderfully merciful Christ hid it. You may have your views about me and may remember what God has already forgot but God alone has the ultimate authority to adjudicate me, man doth not. See what you want, say what you, God alone has a heaven or hell to command me to, you don’t…
There are times that you must undertake a task or journey, which has been revealed beforehand to you as one that will be slow and severe, but rewarding in the end. Envision success, embrace the challenge, educate yourself in the midst of the trial, exercise self-control, encourage yourself one step at a time, employ every tool of grace God has given you, and every now and then stop and enjoy yourself, celebrating small victories. Then endeavor forward, expecting God to bring about triumph. Whatever HE brings you to, HE not brings you through, but betters you through it…
Sometimes we only call friends the folk that agree with everything we say; only telling us what we want to hear even when we are in error, even to the point of lying to us. And call enemies, folk who contest our errant attitudes, behavior, and conversation. This doesn’t hold water with the God who calls, equips, and sends folk to help us see things HIS way. A real friend with concern will tell you the truth and love you no matter what you might do. If you shield yourself by falsity, your security system will fail, falling short of what is best for you in the end.
under construction
Excuse my mess, I’m still under construction…But Lord have mercy, when HE get through with me! Oomph! Oomph! Oomph! Just thinking about it, my Spirit shouts HALLELUJAH! I ain’t yet, but yet, I am…I can’t see it all now, but I surely will…My time is now, and yet there is so much more to come…I am becoming what I am, for the Lord has already seen what I was long before I WAS…Because HE IS, I am… But be thou patient with me, God ain’t through wit me just yet… I’m on my way to tight and right, fully, gloriously dwelling in and manifesting forth HIS light…
The body beautiful…
The body beautiful…
Jesus graced, dignified, and was glorified in a human body. He was not hung up on the appearance.
He used His body as a vessel to pay tribute to the Father, living holily, laboring amongst and lending a hand to His fellowman, enjoying this experience called life with those He loved, and then presenting His body in sacrifice that we may live through faith in His death, burial, and resurrection…
He gave His body to save us, raise us to eternal life complete with a resurrected glorious body beautiful no longer subject to the flaws brought by the curse of sin and shame, the flawed judgments of flawed hearts, but forever glorious, viewed in righteousness with purity and majesty.
Keep your body in Christ perspective…Love your body. Take care of your body. Use your body to holily live, love, and give as did your Christ—illuminating the fact that you are a part of His body…When the Father looks upon the body of Christ, He beholds a body beautiful…He looks beyond the veneer and sees the virtue, His Son in us…
God is good; praise Him all ye people...
Romans 12:1. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 2. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
1 Corinthians 6:14. And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. 19. What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
20. For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
RevLDReed
I Owe Jesus
11/15/11
Jesus graced, dignified, and was glorified in a human body. He was not hung up on the appearance.
He used His body as a vessel to pay tribute to the Father, living holily, laboring amongst and lending a hand to His fellowman, enjoying this experience called life with those He loved, and then presenting His body in sacrifice that we may live through faith in His death, burial, and resurrection…
He gave His body to save us, raise us to eternal life complete with a resurrected glorious body beautiful no longer subject to the flaws brought by the curse of sin and shame, the flawed judgments of flawed hearts, but forever glorious, viewed in righteousness with purity and majesty.
Keep your body in Christ perspective…Love your body. Take care of your body. Use your body to holily live, love, and give as did your Christ—illuminating the fact that you are a part of His body…When the Father looks upon the body of Christ, He beholds a body beautiful…He looks beyond the veneer and sees the virtue, His Son in us…
God is good; praise Him all ye people...
Romans 12:1. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 2. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
1 Corinthians 6:14. And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. 19. What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
20. For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
RevLDReed
I Owe Jesus
11/15/11
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Master the Moment
Master the Moment
There are moments one might wish,
That time could forever stand still.
For in that lovely moment,
Is all the ecstasy a heart can ever feel.
But, life is so fleeting.
Nothing seems to last.
You blink. Poof! It’s gone.
What was present now is past.
Time does not wait.
Without rebate, it marches on.
Prompt, never late, doesn’t negotiate,
Just keeps marching on.
Memories made, fade with age.
The pleasurable and the painful, swap.
Joyful days mingle with sad nights.
Dreams and desires rise and drop.
But, no matter, master this moment, live.
Endeavor to make beautiful memories today.
Listen, laugh, learn, love, leap with joy…
Live, master this moment before life fades away.
Ecclesiastes 5:18-20 (MSG) After looking at the way things are on this earth, here's what I've decided is the best way to live: Take care of yourself, have a good time, and make the most of whatever job you have for as long as God gives you life. And that's about it. That's the human lot. Yes, we should make the most of what God gives, both the bounty and the capacity to enjoy it, accepting what's given and delighting in the work. It's God's gift! God deals out joy in the present, the now. It's useless to brood over how long we might live.
RevLDReedSr
I Owe Jesus
11/10/11
There are moments one might wish,
That time could forever stand still.
For in that lovely moment,
Is all the ecstasy a heart can ever feel.
But, life is so fleeting.
Nothing seems to last.
You blink. Poof! It’s gone.
What was present now is past.
Time does not wait.
Without rebate, it marches on.
Prompt, never late, doesn’t negotiate,
Just keeps marching on.
Memories made, fade with age.
The pleasurable and the painful, swap.
Joyful days mingle with sad nights.
Dreams and desires rise and drop.
But, no matter, master this moment, live.
Endeavor to make beautiful memories today.
Listen, laugh, learn, love, leap with joy…
Live, master this moment before life fades away.
Ecclesiastes 5:18-20 (MSG) After looking at the way things are on this earth, here's what I've decided is the best way to live: Take care of yourself, have a good time, and make the most of whatever job you have for as long as God gives you life. And that's about it. That's the human lot. Yes, we should make the most of what God gives, both the bounty and the capacity to enjoy it, accepting what's given and delighting in the work. It's God's gift! God deals out joy in the present, the now. It's useless to brood over how long we might live.
RevLDReedSr
I Owe Jesus
11/10/11
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Rise and Shine, Beloved…
Rise and Shine, Beloved…
You and Your Three Bears
Beloved, I pray that you enjoy gettin’ it done today with your three BEARs…
BEARing the load of your personal responsibilities…
Helping others in your life BEAR their load where it is good and right…
BEARing the blessing and responsibility of being a Child of God…
There are times it seems all that we must bear is too much for us. Beloved we can do it…The reason I know is because of the fourth bear…The Lord who bears us in His loving heart, who bears us in His understanding mind, and who bears us in His strong loving arms makes it all possible…We can bear up, because HE is bearing us up…
For every man shall bear his own burden… Galatians 6:5
Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. Galatians 6:2
…I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus. Galatians 6:17
Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away. Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. Isaiah 41:9-10
Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great. Psalms 18:35
Affirmation "HE'll never put more on me, than I can bear..."
RevLDReedSr
I Owe Jesus
11/9/11
You and Your Three Bears
Beloved, I pray that you enjoy gettin’ it done today with your three BEARs…
BEARing the load of your personal responsibilities…
Helping others in your life BEAR their load where it is good and right…
BEARing the blessing and responsibility of being a Child of God…
There are times it seems all that we must bear is too much for us. Beloved we can do it…The reason I know is because of the fourth bear…The Lord who bears us in His loving heart, who bears us in His understanding mind, and who bears us in His strong loving arms makes it all possible…We can bear up, because HE is bearing us up…
For every man shall bear his own burden… Galatians 6:5
Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. Galatians 6:2
…I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus. Galatians 6:17
Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away. Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. Isaiah 41:9-10
Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great. Psalms 18:35
Affirmation "HE'll never put more on me, than I can bear..."
RevLDReedSr
I Owe Jesus
11/9/11
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Rise and Shine, Beloved…
Rise and Shine, Beloved…
Beloved, buckle down and keep on believing in your God’s love, goodness, and mercy towards you, no matter how rough or tough it gets in your life…
Many of us have always been taught, “The Lord won’t put more on you than you can bear.” In this season for many, things, concerning this life, will get worse before they get better and for many they have been bad for a long while. But, If HE doesn’t change our circumstances that we may endure; HE will change us that we may endure our circumstances…
HE never promised us that we would never go through pain or hardship, HE did promise us He would be with us always, even until the end…
And you, Beloved, certainly may be stretched by stress. But let your stress stretch you to stretch up to Him, calling out, “Father, I stretch my hands to Thee, No other help I know; If Thou withdraw Thyself from me, Ah! Whither shall I go?
I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. Joshua 1:5
O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine…When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee…For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour…Isaiah 43:1-3
RevLDReedSr
I Owe Jesus
11/8/11
Beloved, buckle down and keep on believing in your God’s love, goodness, and mercy towards you, no matter how rough or tough it gets in your life…
Many of us have always been taught, “The Lord won’t put more on you than you can bear.” In this season for many, things, concerning this life, will get worse before they get better and for many they have been bad for a long while. But, If HE doesn’t change our circumstances that we may endure; HE will change us that we may endure our circumstances…
HE never promised us that we would never go through pain or hardship, HE did promise us He would be with us always, even until the end…
And you, Beloved, certainly may be stretched by stress. But let your stress stretch you to stretch up to Him, calling out, “Father, I stretch my hands to Thee, No other help I know; If Thou withdraw Thyself from me, Ah! Whither shall I go?
I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. Joshua 1:5
O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine…When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee…For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour…Isaiah 43:1-3
RevLDReedSr
I Owe Jesus
11/8/11
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Rise and Shine
Rise and Shine, Beloved… Beloved, today enjoy your precious life… All life is precious, because the Creator of all life is precious.
Men ascribe value to things made based on the reputation or skill of the maker. Beloved, your Maker is God, His reputation is glorious and out of this world and He does all things well. God ‘don’t make no junk’. You were preciously made.
Men ascribe value to things based on what men are willing to pay to possess it. But, when things are wrecked, the value decreases, even if repaired the worth is never the same. But consider how much God was willing to pay for us, though sin had wrecked each of us. The Father was willing and did give His precious only begotten Son, who gave His precious life, giving His precious body willingly to His persecutors to be broken, and shedding His precious blood being nailed to the cross, because to Him, our souls, out of all the things men call valuable and beautiful on the earth, was the most precious of all. The sacrifice He made to redeem your soul is precious.
Because of our habits, hang-ups, and hindrances, the taunts of our fears, foes, and failures, we don’t always feel precious. But because of He who created us and what He did to save us, regardless our sin and shame, to Him our souls are precious. If God sees you as precious, all that’s left for us to say is, “AMEN!”
His care of you has been precious. He has beheld every step, breathed with you every breath. He has been there, though we have not always regarded Him, He has regarded us, longing to know us and reveal Himself to us, in a personal way, that we might know Him and experience life in His eternal presence.
Beloved, enjoy your precious life. Do know you can increase your value. Give yourself to Jesus to save you, sanctify you, set you apart in His service, and satisfy you early, often, and forever with His precious mercy, grace, and love.
Oh, how precious is the name of JESUS…
RevLDReedSr
I Owe Jesus
11/3/11
Men ascribe value to things made based on the reputation or skill of the maker. Beloved, your Maker is God, His reputation is glorious and out of this world and He does all things well. God ‘don’t make no junk’. You were preciously made.
Men ascribe value to things based on what men are willing to pay to possess it. But, when things are wrecked, the value decreases, even if repaired the worth is never the same. But consider how much God was willing to pay for us, though sin had wrecked each of us. The Father was willing and did give His precious only begotten Son, who gave His precious life, giving His precious body willingly to His persecutors to be broken, and shedding His precious blood being nailed to the cross, because to Him, our souls, out of all the things men call valuable and beautiful on the earth, was the most precious of all. The sacrifice He made to redeem your soul is precious.
Because of our habits, hang-ups, and hindrances, the taunts of our fears, foes, and failures, we don’t always feel precious. But because of He who created us and what He did to save us, regardless our sin and shame, to Him our souls are precious. If God sees you as precious, all that’s left for us to say is, “AMEN!”
His care of you has been precious. He has beheld every step, breathed with you every breath. He has been there, though we have not always regarded Him, He has regarded us, longing to know us and reveal Himself to us, in a personal way, that we might know Him and experience life in His eternal presence.
Beloved, enjoy your precious life. Do know you can increase your value. Give yourself to Jesus to save you, sanctify you, set you apart in His service, and satisfy you early, often, and forever with His precious mercy, grace, and love.
Oh, how precious is the name of JESUS…
RevLDReedSr
I Owe Jesus
11/3/11
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