The Joy of Denim and Lace

Finally Friday

2012-02-17T05:54:00.001-06:00

May your Friday, the day before weekend, be stress free, be a beginning of a restful delightful weekend!

This week has proven to have been a difficult week for me, therefore I am in need of a couple of days of peace and joy. All in one week I have experienced, Sunshine, Snow and Rain and a fender bender!

I'm ready to wake up with "nothing pressing to do" and just shuffle my little sock feet to the coffee pot get my morning cup of Joe and do whateva' this gal wanna do!

So if you pass by my lil humble abode and you hear a racket going on inside, you just never mind me, you just go on about your business unless, you want to join in for I will be about my house,

Making a joyful noise unto the LORD!

Have a delightful weekend in the LORD! Let His Presence fill your cup up to and over the Brim!

The Hands of God

2012-02-16T07:30:00.001-06:00

Psalms 37:1"FRET NOT thyself....."

Verse 3 "TRUST..."

Verse 4 "DELIGHT THYSELF...."

Verse 5 "COMMIT ...."

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Isaiah 40:12"Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighted the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

Who hath done this?

Jehovah - The Self -Existence One - The One that Reveals -

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We are but a tiny portion of the creation that God formed and molded with his hands, and gave life by breathing in His breath! That would mean every little tiny issue, situation, circumstance or people are but in His Hands also....true? There is "nothing" outside of God, he just "IS".

He is:

Omnipotent, Omnipresent, and Omniscience!

No way around HIM....for around is within Him also!

When in our "fretful" times, in our lack of trust, delighting in something besides him, and lack of commitment to him we are still in his hands!

Does this not validate His Mercy and Grace? I am afraid if you knew sometimes the thoughts I fret over, or some of the thoughts I delight in, the ways I do not trust or the ways I lack commitment, you may open your hand and let me fly to the bottomless pit! But He continues to hold us, spite our fretting, spite our lack of trust, in spite of delighting in other things outside of Him and committing our selves to other images or idols within our heart!

I say this morning, there is no higher power above HIM regardless of what any organization states! The Higher Power of Your Understanding is a statement that an organization out there uses to help those crippled by vises of this world! That is nothing but a rejection of God as the Higher Power ~ some will see it as Jehovah God, others may see it as Buddah or Alah or whoever or whatever, but there is no other God higher than Jehovah! Their purpose is so that those that do not trust or commit to Jehovah will not be offended!

I say it is time that America "offend" the other gods of this world ... How? Not by walking with a stick declaration

For then it is just people against people and their prejudices, and deceptive and wicked hearts warring against one another!

If I will be a doer of God's Word, and Fret Not, Trust in the LORD, Delight myself in Him, and Commit my ways unto HIM, then it will be my ways that will offend and not me with all my tainted thoughts and deeds!

Verse 6 of Psalms 37, "And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday."

To be brought forth as the noonday means all things will be evident, no shadows to be seen, no emeny can creep upon you for all four sides are clearly exposed by the light!

I am reminded of another scripture in Psalms.

Psalm 23:4 ...... I will fear no evil .....

How can I not fear evil? Evil is an abundant source of destruction in this world! We can, "not" fear, simply because we go back to the very knowing of truth, He's Got The Whole World In His Hands!

That means You, Me, and even the "evil"...

Isaiah 45:7"I form the light, and create the darkness: I make peace and create evil: I the LORD do all these things."

The only way Noah and the others that entering salvation from the destructive waters that swallowed up earth, was that they fretted not, they trusted, they delighted, and they committed to the LORD. If we will do these four matters of the heart, we too, while in the Hand of God, can float above the destructive waters that are in abundance in our world.

The Truth is our Ark for today! The world of deception with their false doctrines, the evil hearts, their wickedness, their pride and arrogancy, and the spirit of the anti-Christ already in abundance are the storms of life that will beat against our doors. And they do make a LOUD NOISE!

And to know that all the while, all this commotion going on, is yet still in the Hands of God!

I find much peace and hope in the promise of safety and deliverance in that one single truth.

Verse 6 and 7 of the same chapter commands us to Rest in the LORD and Cease from anger and forsake wrath!

Hallelujah verese 11 states:

"But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace."

While in the Hands of God! Amazing Isnt' It!

Introducing A New Blog

2012-02-15T07:02:00.002-06:00

I would like to intro you to my new blog! I will continue to keep this one for this blog is for the sole purpose of exalting the LORD through my life's journey, trials and errors, humility and exaltation's. My heart is that of a teacher and many many times this blog becomes my podium for sharing God's Word!

My new blog: First impression may run some off for it may seem a bit "Gothic" it is NOT...it may appear dismal and dreary but it is NOT ....it very well may seem evil and not good but it is NOT!

The purpose of this new blog, is one that I with much courage and boldness step forward in attempts to reach those held captive, those that are confused, those that long for a newness of life but do not know how to arrive or fear the coming forth!

Abuse is a terrible thing to experience in life. Some have had extreme abuse, some have had only verbal mental abuse, some have had all that could possibly come underneath the heading, "Abuse".

I desire your prayers, for I must journey back to the depths of my heart's memory of the experience of my own abuse experienced as a child and somewhat as an young adult and then as a wife. Mostly as a child!

To cry out the song that a child living in violence sings, a child living in a torn world of dysfunctional people calling themselves loving parents, that knows the lyrics of the song too well. What I have discovered as maturity, family life, and the LORD became my awareness, these people, loving parents, do love but they are held prisoner by their past darkness every bit as much as the child held prisoner by them.

The hour in which we live is but an evil dark time, and if I but for a moment can bring hope, a bit of the Light to someone through a connection of sharing the pain of abuse, as I share with the death of my son, Craig, I shall allow the LORD to take that which was meant for my harm and bring it forth as "good"!

I would appreciate all the encouragement possible. If you would follow me that would be wonderful, if you relate to some of the words from the soul of an abused child then comments are welcomed! Please sometimes it will appear that I am "glamorizing" darkness, I am NOT, but for those held prisoner to the darkness, for most of their lives, grew to see it as the norm and became a friend to the darkness: It is kind of like a hate love relationship!

I will move forward in this new blog, if at any point that it begins to take its toil of me and I begin to draw away due to the frequent visitation into the past, I may delete it but for now, I go forward with a passion to reach into the soul of a lost child that lives and breathe within the body of an adult!

Thank you for your support, your prayers, and your friendship. For those that choose to follow this blog, thank you from the depth of my heart. For I believe it will also be beneficial in others beginning to follow that long to be free from "darkness". I had thought about keeping it separate and not allow anyone to know I the Christian gal, loving God the way I do, wanting to serve HIM in all things was afraid of condemnation from others....but isn't that a portion of the darkness that still rules? Light is freedom!

It is not about poetry but yet isn't life poetry?

Please check out my new blog!

http://cloakofdarkness101.blogspot.com/

Cloak of Darkness Visions in the Night

I chose Beethovan background music. Because to me it is but a beautiful blend of both darkness and light!

The title is very clear ~ a person that grew up in abuse , does wear a "cloak of darkness"... It is the covering for they know not the joy of the Light or the peace of the Light. Visions are the revelations of the inward being that Light touches and creates new images of hope, and laughter.

The Night represent the darkness, the space of time without the Light, also sometimes for those held captive "night" is a nightmare but yet it has become "friend".
A child learns to laugh but as the old saying states, " All that glitters is not gold". The many times I found laughter but yet I wept bitter tears within at the same time.

Thank you so much from my very depths of my heart!

A Day Of Love

2012-02-14T06:35:00.001-06:00

How could I forget my blog friends on Valentine Day? No Way!

May Love be your experience today!

The joy and the laughter that lace the very essence of love!

May you discover a new level of delight in the Love the LORD has for you. May the Love Bond between you and your brothers and sisters in the LORD increase and grow stronger and may you know that even when I am not on my blog, you go with me throughout my day.

Many of you I call you by name and speak of your goodness, your good humor, your trials and struggles and most of all, your love!

I'm Blessed!

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO

Snow After 5:30 a.m.

2012-02-13T15:15:00.001-06:00

This is after the first shots I snapped at 5:30 a.m. this morning. I took these shots around 7:30

This is my backyard

I was so thankful < bet the birds were also > that I had filled up the feeder Sunday afternoon!

I snapped this one out of my bedroom window!

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The remaining pictures are ones I took while I was on my lunch break: I was sooo happy that today was Monday, and I was working from home. Taken around 1:00 p.m.-1:30 today

If you "squint" your eyes really tight or if you are as I am...just go get the magnifying glass

You may see the six or seven birds in this shot! wink wink

My Cedar Tree: I was really "stupid"....I stood underneath the limbs and noticed how they were drooping so low with the heavy wet snow /ice and I took my hand, b/c I did not want them to break off .... LOL ...and shook those limbs like you would not believe...uhmmm Yes I got wet wet wet ...LOL.....Hope the neighbors was not watching me....I'm sure they are convinced the new girl in the "hood" is weirded out....for I am out there when it rains, thunderstorms, snow and just about for anything else ...with my camera! I just smile at them and think,

"Say Cheese"

I had taken several shot of two red birds, but "from my bedroom window" ...dumb ... dumb.dumb....but when I would go out they would fly away ....this is one of the better shots ....

Blurred! I was so frustrated I just knew this shot would be a good one! WRONG!

And this is the border decor on the front walkway of my house.....edited a bit ...

I have had fun today, worked and earn a few dollars, and the snow is still about 5" thick out there ...but melting off the trees really fast. It looks dreary outside but I love this kind of weather so I do not have the "dread" and "grumbles" for this kind of weather. It makes me wanna kick up my heels and scoot out the door! Oh and grab that camera on the way out!

It Is Snowing

2012-02-13T06:34:00.000-06:00

The first snow of the year 2011-2012

It is 5:30 a.m. time to get up! Much to do, pray, Bible study, let Abby out ...OH MY OH MY OH MY....

LOOK what I found when I opened the door to let Abby Girl out! The first snow of this winter season. I was thinking we may not get any snow this season but there it is!

Now the pictures I am showing off, are not to exalt photography, as you very well can tell, but too share the excitement and joy of the first snow of the season at the end of the season!

I do apologize that the pictures are not of good quality but I do not have one of those fancy dancy cameras of yet! But I will get there.....I cannot run with the big dogs and their cameras just yet but I promise you I am running all over the porch with mine! :)

I opened the door and both Abby Girl and I were shocked at all the white sparkling heavenly dust blanketing Abby "outhouse".....I turned quickly shutting the door and went and put Abby's sweater on her and shoes on my feet and snatched my camera! This was the first shot I took and YUP that is my shadow bottom left hand corner....

I love tree limbs that are covered in snow.

My Gardenia Bush covered in snow....I had to cut it back this year because she was ill. She had some kind of disease and well I was told to trim her back and spray her down with diluted anti-bacterial soap and water: Sure hope she makes it back this year!

Snow in backyard...this is my fig tree that uhmmm Steve whacked on when we moved here. It was covered with figs last year but due to extreme heat the much desired fruit dried up on the branches.

A decorative plant I have hanging outside

A shot from the carport

Uhmmm I noticed only after I had downloaded the pictures the tracks...which look like "people tracks" where I had NOT been...maybe it is a dog scouting out the white stuff....? I sure hope so..guess I will have to go back out "once the sun comes up"....It is too cold to go outside imitating Sherlock Holmes....getting hit in the head and falling down in the cold cold snow it not on my "to do list" this snowy morning! wink wink

After the Sun comes up I will take more visible pictures until then, these will have to do.

Isn't it awesome how you can be old and boring and you let a bit of white powder from the sky blanket your yard and that kid within all of us is jerked alive and ready to put on the snow boots, jacket and grab camera and get out in it. It brings joy and excitement!

Have a wonderful Monday! "Snowy Monday"

Laying Our Lives Before Him

2012-02-12T07:56:00.000-06:00

Don'tcha' just love it when you wake up with a song from the depth of your heart bursting forth with all kinds of zeal?

This morning I woke up singing the song about laying my life before him! And I got to thinking...yes indeed I did....what the "laying my life before him" truly means to HIM.

Father, I adore You
Lay my life before You
How I love You
Jesus, I adore You
Lay my life before You
How I love You
Spirit, I adore You
Lay my life before You
How I love You

"To lay down" has the meaning to become prostrate. Prostrate means to cast oneself face down on the ground in humility, submission or adoration.

What is the old saying when one person is angry with another and wants to set them straight, "we are going to get face to face".

This morning my very being, my deepest desires are to lay "all" of my life before HIM. I want to know and obtain the sweet sweet humility of Jesus Christ, that I may not hold the rein in any portion of my life. To be led completely, and with all submission to the power and leading of the Holy Spirit. Scriptures state He will lead us down the path of righteousness! Psalms 23:3.

My life is laid out before him, yesterday's thoughts feelings and deeds for reproofing and for correction and today to declare once again my total dependency upon HIM, I confess:

I am nothing, I know nothing, I have nothing and I can do nothing apart from HIM: All else is but sinking sand!

To lay my life before him by the act of total submission is "love" saying, I trust you, I trust you!

Let us be encouraged this morning and every other day to lay our lives before him in love and adoration so that He may be exalted in our lives and not we ourselves.

It is all about HIM!

Open House

2012-02-11T08:23:00.000-06:00

What does open house mean to you? When you read it what is the first thing you would think of?

Open House = School Advents, Real Estate Terms, but this morning I feel a bit different, a truth or wee nugget of heavenly manna that the LORD desires me to experience and to understand about "Open House" spiritually.

I am thinking it is going to be an exciting journey this morning trekking across God's Holy Land of Revelation! Come go with me please!

Let us not forget to notice the "welcome"mat before the "OPEN DOOR" invitation!

How many times do we say, come on over you have an open door? That would mean you have an open invitation without the need of constant beckoning to come and entering into my domain, my treasures, my sanctuary, would it not? I mean if you told me you have an open door to your home, or life, I would think I need not sit and wait for an invitation, for you have made it known that my presence, my being is always welcomed!

The door "opened" reveals to me no barriers, no hindrance, no division or separation. The welcome mat is a reminder that you are desired, come and walk, enter into the midst of my house.

House is a dwelling place. House is a sanctuary. House is a shelter, an establishment, my house is my personal domain.

We take time to adorn our homes with trinkets, colors, and styles. We will carefully select the furniture, flooring, the drapery, and in every fine detail we take great efforts for it is all to be an expression of who we are from within: Warmth, Cozy, Natural, Cosmopolitan, Country Charm, Rustic, or Nautical. Regardless of which style we express, it is coming forth from within us to please not only ourselves but that our "open house" can be a inviting place, a wonderful pleasant experience for others.

When we take the time to go back to the Old Testament Tabernacle we see that the LORD had an "open house". There was a welcome mat also!

Each piece of furniture is a spiritual truth for us to experience in Christ.

God has given us an "open house" invitation and the welcome mat is none other than His Holy Son, Jesus Christ. Before we can ever enter into the "house" "sanctuary" "temple" "dwelling place" we must cross over, we must put the sole of our feet upon the very heart of God, the welcome mat. Come allow the welcome mat to cleanse your feet from the grit and grime of the world. Come allow the welcome mat to purge the crevices of your shoes, which are those things that encase or cover your feet which is your walk. Is your walk led by the leading of the Holy Spirit or by carnality?

Jesus said, I am the way the truth and the life!

John 14:6"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."

We cannot enter into the throne room of God, we cannot experience the brazen altar, the point of first sacrifices made, salvation, least we first use the welcome mat to cleanse our feet. The Father will not allow any of man's iniquities, transgressions, sins and trespasses to enter into the "House" tainted with the dirt of mankind's rebellion. We must allow the welcome mat

< the Son> to cleanse us before entering into the his dwelling places.

We cannot enter into the courtyard, we cannot enter into the holy place or the most holy place.

Each of the departments of the tabernacle are made available if we will use the welcome mat before entering.

When you arrive at a person's house, and you glance down and you see the welcome mat, you are seeing an invitation to enter into the dwelling. Before you can enter into my house, there are requirements to be met. I must know you, you cannot be dirty and grimy. I may have an "open house" invitation to you but you must cross over the welcome mat first to cleanse your feet of the day's journey.

Open House = John 3:16

John 3:16" For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

Open House with the welcome mat laid out!

Salvation made possible through the Blood of the Lamb!

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Time has captured me this morning, much on my to do list. My preference is to stay right here and study, blog, and not get dressed...wink wink......but I must be off.

Ladies Praise Night treats need to be purchased, Valentine Day Candies need to be purchased. I have four very wonderful special kids that need to be reminded with something tangible.

Son - Doug -Daughter n law -Susan - Granddaughter - Brittany and Grandson - Hunter.

And we cannot forget Abby Girl.

She loves the new dog food that is found in the refrigerated section of pet food isles. She loves it....and she loves those Mint Chocolate treats. Which is not chocolate but she thinks it is!

shhhh let's not tell her!

Have a wonderful weekend and may the LORD be with you, guide you, and lift you up above your enemies today! Let us soar with the Eagles and remember we have an

"Open House" invitation and a welcome mat of pure God and Holiness and Righteousness!

Heavenly Day

2012-02-10T06:26:00.003-06:00

" Go to bottom of page to turn off my music player"

It is raining this awesome Friday morning! The earth needed a refreshing drink, the roots of the spring flowers need nourishment to bring to life once more from a place of rest, the root system of the dormant grass needed revitalized, and I needed to experience the truth of another season. Every day is a Heavenly Day regardless of what may come or go in a day, it is still a Heavenly Day, because it is always filled with His Love, His Mercy, His Grace...bringing His Pleasures, His beauty, hidden within the canvas of nature is His Truth, being revealed in a raining day, a cloudy day or the bright bright sunshiny day....because it is all a part of the Master Plan to teach you and I of His Powerful Sovereignty....Nature is not God is is his expression of love, peace and also HIS judgments, the justice of a Holy Righteous God. Oh Heavenly Day, O Heavenly Day! Today, LORD I thank you for the gently rain that cascades from Heaven, the voice of thunder amplifying the complete sound of unity, Oh Heavenly Day O Heavenly Day, I love you LORD!

I am thankful to be here with you on this Heavenly Day LORD, that you have planned and purposed ~ and if this should be the last day I experience, then thank you LORD for the rain and this Heavenly Day!

Have a Heavenly Friday Day my Friends! May Peace be our companion today, May Joy be the strength that brings our victory today, May Truth Hold us strong in the face of many oppositions today, May YOUR Presence O LORD of this Heavenly Day go before us, behind us, and with us!

Happy Valentine Day From Our Heavenly Father

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Changes come unexpectedly....bringing devastation, bringing fear

Today you are here tomorrow you are elsewhere

Loving arms surround you arms of hate push you away

words of promising love actions revealing betrayal

Forever I will forever I shall

Is the Promise of a Holy God

I will hold you in your devastation I will shield you from that which you fear

I am omnipresent I am everywhere

Arms of faithfulness, arms of long-suffering keeping you close

Forever I will forever I shall

In the Past eternity

He chose you lovingly

In the his lap of delight

He laughs with joy

In his plans and purposes

You and I became

Happy Valentine Day from our Heavenly Father!

Let Freedom Ring For All Who Desire It

2012-02-08T06:49:00.001-06:00

I want to express with the deepest gratitude, a warm hearted soft smile, twinkling eye thank you, to all of you that have responded so wonderfully towards the issue of my blog being too serious and the suggestion that, "I need to "not be so serious".

I am a firm believer in scriptures and when the LORD reveals a truth to me, such as prepare yourself, circumcise your heart, encourage yourself and be a light unto all the world, HIS LIGHT...I take that serious! So serious in laughter, in teaching, in sharing I will take to heart, I will take heed and I will "behold" the Truth given for the purpose of the Father's Will.

Freedom came to me through the Holy Righteous Pure Lamb of God being offered up on an altar as an acceptable sacrifice for me before the Father. So I shall not spew doubt, reasoning, or scorn upon that sacrifice by allowing the influence of others to governor my earthly journey and the plans and purposes of God for me, His daughter, His chosen vessel, and instrument in His Hands, a mouth piece for His Words of Love, Light and Life.

Truth came for all of mankind, but some prefer the darkness over the light. In the days of slavery freedom came but fear kept some bound to the evil Master's rule. Though their heart desired freedom, the fear overcame the desire and they settled to remain in the darkness of an evil ruler! "NOT ME"!

Daily I die as Paul states, in the attempt to reach more Freedom found in the land of the Father, Canaan's Land! The evil Master of hate, darkness and death wars against my freedom.

The LORD instructed me several months ago when I had decided to delete all three blogs, not to delete this one. He shared with me that there were those that read my blog that I was not aware of, not to be moved by a "number of followers".....God wanted this avenue to be available to Him to speak, to love and give hope to those He has planned and purposed to touch through this blog. < Not my Will but His Will be done >

It must be working, for the enemy will use whatever avenue, person or thing to try to discourage those that are attempting to walk the walk that God has called them to walk. In fact one person that replied to the previous blog made that statement. That I was trying to be discouraged in posting topics of interest: The LORD has shown me to love everyone even those that may discourage me. For you see each and every individual has the Name of the LORD within them, each and every individual has that one drop of creative blood within them.

We all came from the same source of Life....

Some are

Vessels of Mercy

Some are

Vessels of Wrath

I am to love regardless of the evil influence that other's may yield too. I at times will yield to the wrong influence and regret my words or my deeds, and pray for mercy from the one or ones that I may have offended in some form or fashion.

If I long for God's Mercy towards me, a sinner saved by grace then I must also extend the same depth of Mercy I long for, toward another that has stepped wayward if but for a moment or even if that is the journey they maintain for "now"! Just maybe, just maybe, my obedience to love in spite of their words or deeds, may be the very luring, God will use to pull them to the path of Light in HIM. A Saul to Paul experience!

So I shall continue on as a ready writer, I shall continue on with sharing the LIGHT as the LIGHT is given to me: As instructed in the Word, if rejected...then knock your two feet together and knock off the dust of rejection and move forward!

Onward Christian Solider!

There are those that are sickly due to the darkness of this world. They have ingested the poison of this world's darkness, hate and death and it has made them feeble and weak. They are without life, they are blind, they are deaf, and they are sentenced to die. The Word of God is the antidote needed to bring them back unto the LORD. If the sickly will not, due to the stubborn control of the darkness, ignorance of the true Light, come to the center of health then the LORD will take us equipped with the antidote, to the sickly and the weak!

There are many that need such people that will go at the command of the LORD:

Mark 16:15"And he said unto them,"Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature."

How can I reach the world from this one tiny spot in Arkansas that I live...."Blog"...through the leading and guiding of the Holy Spirit I shall continue to "Blog" as God has inspired me to do.

It is His responsibility to bring in the sickly weak flock, I am only the tool in his hands to administer the antidote!

Go Ye!

Don't Be So Serious

2012-02-07T12:00:00.001-06:00

So it was suggested that I not be so serious all the time on my blog postings! Uhmmmm my first reaction is to ask, who what when where and why ....but falling back on all that the LORD has so graciously taught me in the last several months.....I will do my best to offer a more variety of interest on my blog.

I am a teacher by heart, by nature by interest and I love to share all the wonderful truths the LORD opens my eyes to that life can be free from the bondage of hate, darkness and the death of this world. I forget that not all people want to just sit and learn ....I know I sure did not when I was underneath the authority of a teacher in my school days....we would say, Lighten up "Teach" make it more fun for us! Maybe I have been guilty of taking the enjoyment out of learning due to my intense desire to help others see this powerful life saving message of Love!

If so please forgive me?

So with much effort to release myself from the intensity to be serious I will attempt to be more fun, more interesting, and offer a bit of laughter to my readers! Please please be patient with me....change never comes easy or quick...not a lasting change anyway!

Thank you

Learning to Dance in the Rain

While In The Pit

2012-02-07T07:07:00.002-06:00

Psalm 40:1-3"I waited patiently for the LORD: and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings."

Allow me please to share with you, the Manna from Heaven that the LORD fed me late last night. O'tis delicious and so worth sitting still and allowing the LORD to serve his eat and drink!

Delighting in the will of the LORD, in pleasure or pain, is my desire!

The scripture states "I waited patiently for the LORD".... where was the writer of the Psalms speaking of, " I waited patiently"? Where was he waiting while waiting upon the LORD?

I always go to my Strong's Concordance to gather the full impact, the original thought of the Scriptures. For you that have followed me, you know I am a researcher or a student of the Word!

The first word I needed to understand was, "waited patiently". The Hebrew root of the word wait is:

waited patiently - Strong's Concordance = Hebrew = 6960 = to collect, bind together, to look eagerly

further comments the "bind" is to be strong, robust, is applied to strength

Our Western understanding of "waited patiently" would be to sit still with an expectancy of the arrival of someone or something. Someone else is making action, while we sit still! The word "bind" implies that while waiting, the author of the Psalms was "binding"....bind means to make strong such as the twisting of a rope, or to bind ourselves with the Word of God, His Promises of Deliverance, we bind our thoughts or reasoning with God's Word while we "wait patiently"

We cast down every evil imagination that rise up against the knowledge of God!

Please know that these scriptures are for the Believer not the sinner man, then in the writer's time or now, our time!

Where did the writer of the Psalm wait patiently? Verse two tells us!

"He brought me up also out of "an horrible pit", out of the miry clay!

Strong's Concordance = an horrible = noise, tumult, rushing

Jeremiah 48:45".......the crown of the head of the tumultuous one....referenced to Hebrew "children of noise"

Pit = well, dungeon to "bore" into

How many times do we try to mimic the LORD by trying to redeem ourselves from the "horrible pit" experience? The "noise" is our own thoughts, our own reasoning. Remember the threefold nature of man that I shared about the body soul and spirit...the reasoning is found in the soul realm of man from the sense of taste: And we must remember our five senses became corrupt upon the entry of the serpent, when Adam male and female in the garden chose to be disobedient to the command of God and heed the sermon of the serpent.

body - soul - spirit

mouth - reason - prayer

In our efforts to redeem, we can clearly see that we are not "waiting patiently" upon the LORD.

We mimic God by trying to reason a way out of this horrible pit. We justify ourselves with our reasoning such as:

1) I deserve better than this

2) I am worth more than they think

3) I do not have to deal with such ignorance as this person or circumstance

4) I will show them just who I am and what I can do

None of these thoughts are "waiting patiently"! We set forth with our ability to weave images, a way to escape from the pit, instead of waiting patiently upon the LORD's deliverance, for His perfect time of deliverance.

The "horrible pit " as was with David, is a circumstance, a situation that we have created by "binding" ourselves to the corruption of our fleshly desires. David's pit was due to his binding himself with the pleasures of another man's wife.

Miry = now the origin of this word amazed me = wine = as bubbling up

The LORD showed me in "my mind's eye" how that our corruption bubbles up creating a sense of excitement, joy and laughter outside of God's excitement, joy and laughter. Our corruption ferments within us....oh wow oh wow oh wow...how this lesson has and will continue to aide me in making right choices! We become intoxicated by the bubbling up of our corruption:

Do we recognize it? Let's see!

Anger is corruption = for it is opposite of Peace = A person comes to me, and creates a "horrible pit" for me. My reasoning immediately begins to "investigate" a redemption, a way of escape, by intoxicating me with anger: I'll show him thoughts will bubble up from the "pit" within full of the noise of corruption: How many times have each of us been overcharged by our anger until we absolutely said something we regretted later, or a deed we were ashamed of later?

We became intoxicated by the bubbling up of the corruption the "miry" of clay.

We all are aware of the "clay" or the mud on the potter's wheel....uhmm "US"!

Clay = origin root meaning "sweep away"

Our nature is of the clay or the dirt. This clay was created from the highest dust and corruption captured it and now holds it as a slave to its dictates! Before corruption, we were created in the likeness of God, His image! The nature of clay is to be held, to be governored by authority, to be molded by a force, to yield to the hand of dominance, rule or reign!

Isn't that good?

I will bring this lesson to an end, I just get so excited over the truth the LORD reveals to my as He enlightens my eyes of understanding that THIS day can have victory over defeat in my life as a Believer!

There is more He showed me about this lesson, the "goings" and the once again, a "new song"...lately He has so intensified the truths in regards to "songs" of the lover heart!

While in the "pit" the dragons, the evil , the horror of the experience is our own reasonings enticed by the bubbling up of our own corrupted five senses:

My imagination became evil

My memory is full of idols < thoughts and opinions>

My affection are towards self and self pleasures

My reason became tainted with self redemption

My conscience has been seared

Those underlined are the five senses found in our soul realm that became corrupt:

The horrible pit that we experience are due to these corrupted senses within us!

Let us learn to be as the writer of this Psalm, "waited patiently" or while in the midst of an horrible pit, that we would by the strength of Christ bind up our corruption and be determined to "know nothing but Jesus Christ and Him Crucified".

The redemption of the LORD while the writer waited patiently is what gave the "new song" in his mouth: His mouth sense is: taste reason prayer: O' taste and see that the LORD is good!

In other words, the words of his mouth became acceptable before the LORD

His Reason became holy and righteous

< let the meditation of my heart be acceptable before the LORD>

and

His prayer was pure without selfish gain before the LORD...it became true worship, true praise and true gratitude!

He set my feet upon a ROCK = Jesus Christ the Son of the Living God, our solid foundation!

Good Monday Morning

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Just wanted everyone to know I wish them a very Good Monday Morning and may the rest of the week make your feet dance, your arms wave in the air with delight and your heart to sing!

My feet are shod with the gospel of peace, come on all ye good people, dance with me!

Let your up lifted arms be a banner of love this week!

Sing a song that is so full of life that others want to sing with you!

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My prayer for you and me for this week!

Dear Heavenly Father, as Mercy and Truth go before me, that I may follow behind, leading me to your very throne, may I come with a heart of gratitude for your love, for your goodness, your kindness. You are the God of provision, protection and all possibilities!

We thank you for your very breath of life you have breathed in each of us today. May we return your gift of life unto you in the form of praise and worship. May we exalt you in all things today regardless if it is pleasure or pain. Father, we desire our valleys and mountains to be made one plane in that our praise is always to you, our thanksgiving is always in great reverence for your just judgments, our joy is not in the valley or the mountain experience but in YOU!

Father God, I plead with you today that your peace and joy be that which runs through our very essence producing within each of us a delighting that is only for you and your precious son, Jesus Christ! May we set our affections on things above, forgetting those things that so easily beset us.

Thank you for the opportunities planned and purposed for this day and week! Thank you for the avenues of victory, revelation, and humility!

Father, I pray keep your hand upon each of us as we walk from day to day as you have appointed unto each of us. May we be obedient due to our love for you and not for that which we may gain. Let your Light, Love and Life be seen in us that others may know of your abundant patience, forgiveness, and long-suffering toward mankind.

May our heart sing unto you a song that brings great joy to you once more. May the meditations of our heart and the words of our mouth be acceptable before you this week dear Heavenly Father.

We go in peace, your peace and we find strength in the joy of the Lord to go forth and accomplish that which your heart desires for us this week. May you experience delight in our acts of worship, praise and obedience to your Word today and the rest of this week.

Each of us longing for the unity of the brotherhood of Love, Light and Life!

Amen!

Much Better Than They

2012-02-05T06:55:00.000-06:00

Matthew 6:25-26"Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet our heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

Ingratitude = Lack of gratitude!

We get so busy minding the LORD's business, trying to find satisfaction for our soul, trying to find that which will quench our thirst, and busy about trying to cover, protect our needs with falsehood coverings!

The fowls of the air, God feeds them, God provides drink, and covers them with feathers for their protection. They do not fret over sowing, planting, reaping, harvesting, or storing up food in the storehouse.

When we are placed into a season of drought we will recognize our doubt and unbelief in God and so clearly see our confidence and faith in our own abilities. We will reach into our closet where all those "sheep" clothing are neatly hung up for the day we need them and drape ourselves with false notions of taking care of self. We look like sheep, we can even bleat out a nice baa baa but yet underneath that sheep covering is fear, is doubt, and our own will taking control because "it appears God is going to let us starve, die of thirst or freeze to death".

"I'd better get up and do something quick!" is our thought! Carnality or as Joyce Meyer calls it, "stinking thinking" taking over!

Zechariah 4:6" ......Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the LORD of hosts."

We need to realize feeding, drinking and clothing is God's business! Our business is to Bless the LORD in all things, Praise the LORD through all things, Thank the LORD in all things, and Glorify HIM always in every circumstance, situation and among all people!

When we do not trust the LORD to provide all that is necessary for us, we can see clearly, it is because we are lacking in gratitude.

God has given us the incredible ability through the Power of the Holy Spirit to soar above the hunger, the thirst, and have confidence and trust in HIM to cover us with protection. Yet each time we have been fed, each time we have had our thirst quenched by the watering of the Word, eat time He has covered us with HIS GLORY we forget it as soon as the next season of drought comes along, or a hit of loneliness, or a smack of sickness, or a swift kick in the bottom with lack!

God is stating in this scriptures, "Are ye not much better than they?" He is speaking of the fowls of the air. When the enemy comes for them, they fret not, they position themselves, and allow the wind to lift them, soaring above the reach of that enemy. The wind is but God's breath! It is when we attempt to deliver ourselves with a profession and or confession through the act of Pride that we are snared by the enemy. He does lurk for us as a snake in the grass!

Ingratitude will bring us to scorning the plans and purposes of God for our life. We are, we on earth, we are being taught through the experiences of life, Spiritual Education and Moral Development!

Verse 31 in the same chapter states, "Therefore take NO THOUGHT, saying, What shall we eat? or What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?"

It is when we TAKE THOUGHT that we get ourselves in trouble! For that is when we lean upon our own carnality which opposes the very plan and purposes of God for our lives.

This is a lesson the LORD taught me while I was going through an elongated season of drought. I had lost my job in 2006, was on unemployment for the most of three years. It was tough times and I found out really quick how "religious" I was and how I was lacking in true faith in the Power of God's Love for me, you know one of those that "are much better than they".

Today, my heart having more gratitude than yesterday, I, when drought comes to reveal to me more Spiritual Education and Moral Development, I cease to attempt to provide my needs. I have learned that is God's business and my portion is to Bless, Praise, Thank and Glorify Him!

Is that not what Paul and Silas were doing in the inner prison? Is that not what the three Hebrew Children were doing in the fiery furnace? Is that not what Peter was doing while sleeping between two guards that were to take him to his death the next morning? Is that not what Daniel was doing in the Lion's den? Is that not what David was doing as he stood before Goliath? Is that not what Joseph was doing in prison for a crime he did not commit?

They recognized that they were among the "Are ye not much better than they" and rested in the knowing and understanding of God's Promises to them!

Because they were among the elite with God among all creation, they knew this did not exempt them from the hardships, the struggles and hide them from the enemy. However, because of this elite status, it did provide every need they had and in the midst of the Spiritual Education and Moral Development their gratitude grew more and more.

God will perfect that which concerns you!

For us most of the time it is the hardships, the struggles, and the opposition that we learn our Spiritual Education and Moral Development.

I want to be among the "much better than they" group! Of course we are already there, we just fail to recognize it because of our lack of gratitude. "I can do it" attempts, at bringing forth "good things" in and for our lives. Independence from God, relying upon self to bring forth healing of our wounded soul from abuse, destruction, wrong choices of our past, or scrambling around to make provision for us to live comfortable among a poor needy world. I do not have to live like that, I do not have to hunger or thirst, I do not have to fear because "I" will provide all I need with my elite self! Ignorant Pride keeps us from learning true gratitude!

I promise you, < myself also > if we would but commit our selves to having a true intimate prayer closet, a trysting place with the Lord, we shall escape the threat of our carnality rule and reign and our flesh will become an endangered species! It is dying off! Hallelujah!

Becoming extinct!

Trivial Information For Some

2012-02-04T10:40:00.002-06:00

What was the odd original name of February?

From Dictionary dot come

Though February is the shortest month of the year, it often feels like the longest in cold, snowy climates. Why does the month have only 28 days? (Well, 29 this year.)

First here’s a little history of our calendar. The original Roman calendar only had ten months, because the winter was not demarcated. In the 700s BC, the second king of Rome Numa Pompilius added January and February to the end of the calendar in order to conform to how long it actually takes the Earth to go around the Sun.The two new months were both originally 28 days long. It is lost to history why January acquired more days, though there are various unverifiable hypotheses. At that time, March 1 became New Years’ Day. Later, in 153 BC, the beginning of the year was moved to January 1.

The word February comes from the Roman festival of purification called Februa where people were ritually washed. There is a Roman god called Februus, but he is named after the festival, not the other way around. Other months, like January, are named after Roman gods. "Februus is an ancient divinity the etruscan god of riches.

Curious about the duplicity of January?

The interesting linguistic story, though, lies in England. Before we adopted the Latin name for the second month, Old English used much more vibrant names to describe it. The most common Old English name was Solmonath, which literally means “mud month.” It is pretty clear what they were describing. A lesser-used term was Kale-monath, which meant “cabbage month.” We can imagine that the English were eating a lot of cabbage in February in the 1100s.

Clinging To Hope

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When in trouble cling to the cross, when in sorrow cling to the cross, when in doubt hold tighter to the cross, when angry let the peace of the cross fill your heart, when hungry let the cross be your manna, when thirsty let the cross quench your thirst!

The cross offers crucifixion that brings resurrection!

Without crucifixion one will never experience resurrection!

One must smell the aroma of the Lily of the Valley before they can breathe in the exaltation of the mountaintop Rose of Sharon

The Cross is your friend purposed by the Almighty God of the Universe

Hidden within the crevices of the wood of the cross are the blood stains of the precious blood that bled from your best friend!

John 15:13-14”Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.”

Joyful Noise

2012-02-03T06:53:00.002-06:00

Psalm 100:1"Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands."

Psalm 95:1"O Come. let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation."

Psalm 98:4"Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise."

Noise within itself is empty and meaningless! The noise is to be joyful!

Joyful = Strong's Concordance = Hebrew root = shout, alarm, cry, triumph

and

Noise = Strong's Concordance = Hebrew root = shout, alarm, cry, triumph

Joyful Noise = to sound a signal for war or march, to shout in triumph over enemies, to shout in applause

What brought victory to us? What do we have to shout over? What brings joy to us in our every day life? What is joyful noise?

As I was preparing for this posting, I thought of the Shofar blowing and the two different sounds teruah and tekiah sounds, but that is not where I want to go this morning. I want to focus upon the joyful noise for us today! It is hard to bring myself away from the discussion of the Shofar shouts for it is so vital and necessary for us today to understand our "joyful noise".

However!

The Cross has its own song! Those that have learned to submit to the crucifixion of this Holy Cross will learn this Holy Song! Those that has truly seen with their inward eyes within the depths of their heart, they will see the crucified journey as the way the Lamb walked! And and let me say, AND they will make a joyful noise for they understand it is the crucifixion that brings forth the resurrection!!!

To many people want the exaltation of God and absolutely will run from any crucifixion planned and purposed for mankind. I want the pleasures of God but excuse me "you" can have the pain side of the scales!

Pleasure The Shaft is God's Will Pain

To make that joyful noise we must understand the song of the cross!

If you take the scales of justice and draw out from top to bottom one line, then cross bar them from the left to the right you find the cross!

The top to the bottom line is the perfect will of God, standing upright! If you take the cross bar that is from the left to the right you find the submissive will of mankind to the perfect will of God and you will discover, the Cross once more!

I lay my Will down, surrender, submit, to the upright righteous Will of God!

You have a portion or the song of the cross at this early age of maturing in the Lord.

Okay I have an oops on this illustration! I did not make the bottom reading large enough to read.

It states, The Formation of the Cross within our lives!

Once the eyes of understanding are enlightened, then the Cross and its song will be the joyful noise made unto the LORD.

This morning I desire that we all learn a new portion of the Song of the Cross with its lyrics of Crucifixion.

Paul stated, I must die daily! Each day that I submit more of "my will" or lay down my will to the perfect upright will of God, I learn a new line of the song! This song is the song that only those that have found the joyful noise hidden within the crevices of the cross where the blood stains of Jesus Christ are not visible with the naked eye. The eyes of faith take you into the crevices to discover these blood stains.

Revelation 14:3"And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders; and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth."

These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth! The Lamb will take you to the Green Pastures, Still Waters and comfort us while in the valley of the shadow of death, but this Holy Lamb will also take us to the Cross that we may learn this Holy Song!

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Please know I am not asking for debate on this posting per your belief, my belief in opposition: So if you are displeased with my post, and you feel that I am out in left field, that is okay, but don't rebuttal me! Please!

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Today, with gratitude coming forth from my heart, I am thankful that the Lord, the Holy Lamb of Jehovah, is teaching me the Song of the Cross, so that I may be a doer of the Word, and make a joyful noise unto the LORD.

Sounding the alarm, making a war cry, battle cry, a sound of triumph before the LORD in my prayer closet, my studies, and among others that HE may be exalted, that others may hear the Song of the Cross and long to know it!

From the pages of the Written Word, discovering the Living Word, filling my heart with Songs of the Cross!

His Rewards

2012-02-02T06:33:00.002-06:00

Ruth 2:12"The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward to given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust."

I was given a small book titled, "Peace Like A River" Devotional Thoughts of Comfort From Classic Christian Hymns. I have truly enjoyed this little book. Yesterday while at work, I was reading this little book and ran across this hymn and wanted to share it with you.

Some of you are friendly casual drop ins and that is just okay, I appreciate the drop in, and then there are those that come by every day and say hello and I appreciate that also. We all have a couple of things in common:

1) We love the Lord

2) We have both pleasure and pain experiences in our lives

3) We enjoy blogging

Each of us have purposed our blog for an inner release of some sort. Seeking friendships across the globe, far from our own city, state and even country. Some needs a place they can release inward thoughts that dwell in the secret places of the heart. Some as me desire to use the blog avenue as another means of lifting up the Name of our LORD.

My life is "so about" the LORD and I want all things to exalt Him....every opportunity, every road traveled every person met ....I want to be a Light of His Love, His Light and His Life.

That is why you find so much of my blog to be about the LORD and the truths He reveals to me, to declare the songs of love coming forth from the Bride's heart to her Bridegroom! A service as a Bond servant unto the Master! Not every blogger will enjoy my blog, there are those that I visit that I have nothing in common with and choose not to follow those blogs. It doesn't mean I exalt myself above them or deem their blog "useless" not in the least, I just did not connect. As many read my blog and doesn't connect:

Now to the hymn I read yesterday and wanted to share with you today!

Gain After Loss

Frances Ridley Havergal 1836-1879

< She died so young >

Light after darkness, gain after loss

Strength after weakness, crown after cross;

Sweet after bitter, hope after fears,

Home after wandering, praise after tears.

Sheaves after sowing, sun after rain,

sight after mystery, peace after pain;

Joy after sorrow, calm after blast,

Rest after weariness, sweet rest at last.

Near after distant, gleam after gloom,

Love after loneliness, life after tomb,

After long agony, rapture of bliss,

Right was the pathway, leading to this.

The graphic I chose for this blog is one that sets His rewards above others! Others shall read, praise, applause, and reward us for our good works, pretty artworks such as photography, painting, drawing, and poetry but there is none that will reward us with such royalty as the Royal One Himself! Every praise, every moment of exaltation given to us by man, is but temporal and full of vanity. If I dare to receive the praise, the applause, the glory for a talent, a gift given me, for the very purpose of exalting "HIM" then I am as a thief in keeping that praise and heaping it upon myself as a mere reward. Oh but if I dare be grateful to acknowledge all, is because of HIM, then at that moment of exaltation, I will have seen or will see that it is an opportunity given me to exalt HIM among all people, in all circumstances and situations!

The hymn is a promise that after the darkness there is light, after the loss there is gain!

As we journey upon this massive ball of earth, choosing the right pathway each time, in each circumstances among the people we shall reap a Heavenly Reward of Royalty.

There is none like HIM ~ None ~ I seek the Royal Kingdom ~ I seek the King of this Kingdom

I seek not the reward but Him and His Righteousness! The truth is as the bond servant his reward is but the "service" he can give to the master. He has no other expectation of reward! Truly his heart is unto the Good Master!

Frances Ridley Havergal's, realization of the Word of God brought her peace and flowed out from her heart out through her hands to pen such hymns as this one. She realized that life upon this earth was but full of pain, suffering and sorrow but there would be and is coming a day when that darkness shall be light, when the loss shall be gain, when the bitter shall become sweet, when the cross shall be a crown, because of the Resurrection Life of Jesus Christ.

I Corinthians 15:40-42"There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrail: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrail is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:"

What greater reward than to receive the reward of a Royal Resurrection Life in Christ?

A New Book

2012-02-01T07:00:00.001-06:00

I have started reading a new book titled, "Drops of Doctrine" by B.R. Hicks. I purchased it a while back but it has had to wait due to the other books I was reading! Last night I thought to myself, I want to read this book, therefore I started it last night. I can already tell that it is not going to be a fast read. This book will take time and meditation and the Holy Ghost to help me grasp all the wisdom within its pages.

The author uses the scriptures found in Deuteronomy.

Deuteronomy 32:1-2"Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. My doctrines shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass."

The author states, that God's principles of humility and exaltation are precious and priceless treasures to Him. That is why He does not reveal them to sinners; that is why He does not pass them promiscuously to self-willed, carnal minded Christians. She also stated that there is a world of difference between true doctrines and the thing commonly called doctrine, for God's Word has suffered much at the hands of carnal minded man. Much of what the Christian world today calls doctrine is in reality nothing more than the dogma of man's philosophies and opinions. Doctrines has to do with God's divine principles of humility and exaltation.

Chapter One

Witnesses to God's Existence

The author tells us and we know this, that God has placed within the depths of man's heart an awareness of Him as the Creater but we form strange wrong ideas about "God".

Atheists state, there is no God!

Agnostics state, there may be a God but we know nothing about Him!

Heathens believe in many gods, and use their imagination to create all manner of grotesque images to bow down to and worship.

Many people living in the land of Christianity are guilty of failing to recognize God as a living reality in their lives. These individuals think of God as being nature, as an influence for good, as an impersonal mind, a force, a mental crutch, or as "The Man Upstairs".

As I read "just" these few pages within this book, I question myself to the sincerity of my belief.

I am not an Atheist, I know there is a God. I am not Agnostic for God "IS" revealing Himself to me that I may know Him.

I am not as most living in the land of Christianity for I do realize God as a living reality in my life. I know He is not the wind, the wind is but His breath, he is not a higher power as some groups call him...HE IS THE POWER....and a mental crutch....NO WAY...He is my God, He is my refuge, He is my deliver, He is my hightower, He is the very essence of who what I am, where I am to go, what I am to do: For without HIM:

I am nothing, I know nothing, I can do nothing, and I have nothing; For all else is but sinking sand! The foolish man's foundation is but to think he is something, he knows something, can do something and all that he has is because of "Self".

But my thought was turned inside to the "secret places" of my deception and wickedness! Oh are we surprised that we are deceitful and desperately wicked?

Jeremiah 17:9"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?"

The author of this incredible book tells a story about six blind men. Each of them did not know what an elephant was like. Each of the six blind men touched a different portion of the elephants body and then stated that the elephant was as the portion of the elephant's body they touched: Such as one touched the tail of the elephant and he weaved the image of a rope in his mind so an elephant is as a rope! One blind man touched the side of the elphant and visualized a wall so he believed by his own visualization that an elephant was as a wall.

Do you see the foolishness of "carnal thinking"? How many times are we guilty of the same "wrong preceptions" of God because of an experience, that we were blind and ignorant of God being in that experience?

Job could have stated that there "was not a God" due to the extreme loss and suffering he experienced but he did not. However, he did moan and complaining and even cursed the day he was born. Job did not allow the suffering of life, the loss of possessions be the preachers against God's existence. Most people today state, if God, is love, why then does He allow so much pain and suffering! Ignorance of God and His ways are unnecessary. That statement alone is a declaration that this person stating such a question, and we all have at one time or another questioned the goodness of God due to our own suffering and losses, that this person is shallow, lacking in knowing God.

Our guilt lies within disinterest and neglect. How? If studying God's Word, or spending quality time in prayer is boring, too much commitment, then God will not reveal himself to you. Remember the author's statement, "He does not pass them promiscuously to self-willed, carnal minded Christians."

In all truth, it matters not if you believe or I believe when it comes to our own individual life! For I alone will stand before God, you alone will stand before God in the near future and what we did or did not do will be exposed at the day of judgment!

We must have fellowship with Jesus Christ, God's Son then through this fellowship, God will become a reality to us. He will not be some "power up there" you know a mere vague idea of Him. He will become real, alive, and powerful and full of Mercy and Grace toward us.

For the increased realization of God and Who He Is, the more we realize who we are and how desperately poor and needy we actually are: All the finest of the world does not make you but the borrower of earthly goods, how rich are you spiritually speaking?

The existence of God!

Do we dare lift up hands full of wrath and doubting?

I Timothy 2:8"I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting."

The existence of God is made manifest by the witness of creation, the witness of man's own conscience and the witness of Jesus Christ. The witness of the written Word of God and the witness of our own personal experience with Him, is the evidence we need to know that God does exist!

I Corinthians 13:12"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known".

We know God exist and for those of us that know he exist we do look forward to the day that we can see him face to face.

To believe in God, who does exist is to also believe in His Holy Righteous Judgments. I go to the mediator, His Son, and plead my case before Jesus Christ to present me to the Father daily.

As I learned the other day that before I can even enter before His Throne, Mercy and Truth must go before me...who is but mercy and truth? The Son of the Living God, Jesus Christ!

I can no longer scoot by on my backside thinking, "Oh God understands, one little drink will not hurt me" or " just this one time, I love this man so much" or "God understands I am just too exhausted to go to church today" or "God is love full of mercy and grace he understands my need and desire for the world's pleasures".....and we think He will not sentence us with punishment for our wrong thinking and evil deeds!

God does exist! And so does His Love Light and Life but also His Justice and Judgements exist:

For He is Holy and Righteous!

I can no longer "play" with the wrath and doubt of others, I can no longer be lukewarm in a time that is close to the coming of the Lord, I can no longer be "medium" I must burn for the Lord, I must shine bright His Love, I must turn my other cheek in humility, I must believe He exist always in every circumstance, every situation and among all people!

Oh let His Drops, His Dew, His Small Rain and His Showers be my experience, my truth!

Blessing The LORD Always

2012-01-31T08:15:00.001-06:00

It is Tuesday morning, if you are reading this lesson then know that God has given us again, life that we may live within the borders of His Love, Light and Life so that He may be exalted among all experiences purposed and planned for this day!

Psalm 103:1"Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name."

It is an amazing morning, it is an incredible privilege to rejoice before the LORD, it is a tremendous opportunity to let our light shine, before all, today!

Thank you LORD for another day that I may bless your name!

This scripture states, "all that is within me"....reckon what the "all" is? I, right now do not know so I am pulling up my bootstraps and pulling out my gold digging tools and going prospecting for gold. I mean I know what "all" is but what could it entail in this scripture for doctrine, reproof, correction and instructions in righteousness: < 2 Tim 3:16-17>

LORD = Jehovah = "the self existent" one. The one who reveals Himself and expresses his revealing powers.This was the secret tetragram name of God which was first revealed as

J-H-V-H, the vowels were later inserted to form the name Jehovah.

We have God = Elohim = is a uni plural noun and is a revelation of the Creating Power of God.

We have "Lord" = Adonai = also a uni plural noun, is a revelation of His Possession Power, referring to the Master-Husband relationship.

But David has commanded his soul to bless the LORD, the self-existing one, the revealer with the revealing powers.

My first clank of the prospecting pick upon the ground of hidden treasures is toward the word, soul.

Back to my belief in the threefold nature of man we find a body a soul and a spirit. The three are one but yet they each are different:

The soul realm has five senses and they are:

1) eye-Imagination

2)Hand - Affection

3) Ear - Memory

4) Nose - Conscience

5) Mouth - Reason

This is our soul realm "all that is within my soul" !!!! So may, my imagination, my affection, my memory, my conscience and my reason bless the LORD, bless His Holy Name!

Okay the scripture states "O my soul" now we know what David is speaking of, when He commands his soul to bless the LORD; but then he goes on to say, "AND" "all that is within me"!

Clanking my prospecting pick harder against the hard soil of knowledge of truth that my eyes of understanding may be enlightened by the brilliance of the "glory of Truth". I just may need my shovel now....going deeper!

All = midst, among, inner part, middle: as seat of thought and emotions: from a primitive root as a verb meaning "approach" "at hand" "presented" and "draw near".

I love to Bible Study!

As I have learned some of the deep truths from my spiritual mother that we have a Blesser Mind. Its purpose is to approach, to draw near, to bring us closer to God. The Hebrew word is

"keh-reb" and it is translated into English in the following ways: This mind < keh-reb > mind Satan has captured and turned our blessing into cursing! Instead of blessing we curse circumstances, situations and people! If our blesser mind is aligned as God purposed then we can draw near to God, we can praise Him in spirit and in Truth in all things!

The translations are:

1) heart

2) thought

3) spirit

4)midst

5) inward

6) within

7) me

Isn't that just awesome? The translation of the Hebrew word "keh-reb" of the Blesser mind, which many of David's songs speak of this blesser mind in blessing the LORD's name, is the same as the definition of the "all ". I'm so excited as I am getting closer to the Gold of this day! I know it will be priceless for I am already experiencing great joy as the prospecting is taking me closer to the treasure of truth for this "appointed day"!

This blesser mind, purposed by God, is intended to bring man's soul and mind together in unity to praise the Name of the LORD, and this would bring mankind to giving God all the glory and honour for all things! Would it not?

We know that the word "Bless" in the original Hebrew means to kneel, to bow so that also would mean that humility is involved with "Blessing the LORD's Name". Our blessing the LORD's name is "as we kneel, on bended knees "humility" we plow upon spiritual ground through our prayers! This is why David commanded his soul and all that was within him to "Bless the Name of the LORD"....he was aware that he needed to plow on bended knees in prayer so that the LORD's Name may be exalted always in all circumstances, in all situations and among all people! This is why the flesh wars against us having or being obedient to having a prayer closet, or entering into that prayer intimacy with Christ. He does not want us plowing up spiritual grown for the seeds of truth to be planted in, because prayer will toil or break open the hard soil of our heart that we may receive these seeds of life that will produce growth, or fruits of the spirit within us, pushing out the defilement!

We learn in Mark 7:20-23 what also is "within" us.

Mark 7:20-23"And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man."

Someone SHOUT PLEASE!

I get so excited when the God brings more of the pieces of the puzzle together for me!

SO EXCITED!

Truth comes to set us free! I am being set free this morning in knowing that when I declare, when I confess, when I command my soul to bless the LORD, all these things have to bow their knee and confess that Jesus is Lord. It is not about me recognizing your wrongs or your recognizing my wrongs ...it is about recognizing the "evil within self" and allow truth to set the hate free to be love, to set the darkness free to be light, and to set the death free to be life, by the crucifixion and resurrection power of Jesus Christ! Hallelujah!

John 8:32"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

Philippians 2:10-11"That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, < are we not earth?> and things under the earth.; And that every tongue < yours and mine > should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."

This "O my soul and all that is within me bless his holy name" is a humility praise. It takes becoming one with the humility of Jesus to command our pride, our evil eye, our deception and all those other defilement to bow their knee and confess the lordship of Jesus Christ.

SOOOOOO, David was saying, to his blesser or "keh-reb" mind, that was corrupt with all this defilement, we are going to BLESS THE LORD TODAY!

Philippians 4:13" I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me."

These defilement are the very nature of the fool within us!

Proverbs 12:15"The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise."

What have I learned? When my blesser mind, "keh-reb" mind is not blessing the LORD it is then scorning. It is active, it will bless or curse something. But if I will through the strength given to me by Christ will command my soul, my five senses, and all this defilement within me, command them that we are going to Bless the LORD O'my soul TODAY...then by the power of the Name, nothing can stand against the Blessing!

Oh thank you Father, for the eyes of my understanding have been enlightened more and more each day, today! Thank you for truth that sets me free. I pray that all that looks upon the words of this lesson shall glean your truth towards their spiritual freedom today. May each of us that read this lesson, declare by your Mercy and Grace, that we will

"BLESS THE LORD, O OUR SOUL AND ALL THAT IS WITHIN US".

AMEN!

Woman, Thou Art Loosed

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Luke 13:11-13"And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could not in no wise lift up herself. And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, "Woman thou art loosed from thine infirmity".

And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God."

Imagine for eighteen years this woman saw nothing but the feet of others and her own feet. She saw dirt, muck and mire! She saw the dust of scrambling feet without the sight of what brought the scrambling feet. She felt the warmth of the sun without seeing the full brightness of the sun. She heard the thunder of the clouds crashing together but did not see the union of these clouds. She heard laughter but could look upon the faces of those that laughed.

Have we not been "bowed together" with our own infirmities?

Infirmity = Strong's Concordance = weakness, disease, frailty, impotent, to understand a thing, to bear troubles and trials

Another woman in the word that was healed by faith.

Matthew 9:20-21"And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment: For she siad within herself, If I may but touch His garment, I shall be whole."

This woman reached out and touched the hem of his garment. The garment was the Prayer Shawl with the fringe or tassles. The tassles was symbolic of the law which had the Name of the LORD within it. She knew if she could but touch the law or the Name she would be healed.

When we are burden down, bowed together with infirmities, or diseased with natural afflictions, and though we have a desire to do well but cannot due to our own feeble weakness we must reach out and touch the hem of His garment, or His Name.

We have been bowed together and all that we can see is the dust of rejection of others towards us, harmful words, physical and mental abuse, scorn, all that we can see is the muck and mire of this ground made ugly with the dung of others upon it. Spit and animal dung upon the ground that she crawled to get to her healer. Would we dare go to the extreme to but touch the hem of his garment?

What encouragement we gain from her testimony of healing! She had not been able to look up at the face of the healer, she could not look into his eyes, she could only but see his feet. Though her desire was incredibly strong, yet she could not stand straight nor even look up due to her "infirmities".

But both women could hear!

Romans 10:17"So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God."

She could not look upon the face of the healer, but she had heard of this healer in the city. She had heard of the great miracles he had performed. She knew in her heart that if she could but touch the hem of His garment she would be healed due to her hearing the word of God. The Word of God brought to her first faith, that brought her to action to the crawling on the ground to the healer and then reach out and touch His garment.

And immediately she was made straight, and glorified God!

and was made whole from that hour!

Matthew 9:22"But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour."

Was it not the woman that serpent went to first in the garden? Ladies, we must be set free from those things that has us, "bowed together". We are as these two women if we strive to do it "our way"....let the Word of God bring to us faith in the healer and be healed of our infirmities, our issues of blood. Blood is symbolic of life, and issues is the "flow" so our flow of life without the healer's touch is but diseased. How dare we think or believe that we are "wise" without the All Wise One dwelling within us! How dare we thing or believe that we have "understanding" without our eyes of understanding being enlightened by the Holy One that Reveals.

Let us reach out and touch his NAME and be HEALED of all those infirmities, all those things that "bowed together" in our lives.

We can experience the "immediately" and the "wholeness from that hour we are touched"

I am encouraged this morning as I humble myself to crawl on the ground covered with the spit and dung of others so that I may reach for the Hem of His Garment. Set our determination like concrete.....I shall not be moved....I am going forward .... I may not see what I need to see but I have heard the Word of God and my faith is increased!

Unstoppable by the Power of Faith in the Word of God!

Photography Evidence of Yesterday's Advents

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I watched a documentary on Martin Luther King on the Fox Channel. What a passionate man he was, what peaceful determination he had, a sacrificial life given, and to expose himself brave enough to die for justice, for equality for a people that were discriminated against! I was but a mere young one at his time, but today his message of hope, is still clear for all mankind!

Equality for all mankind!

Black or White

Rich or Poor

Healthy or Sick

Man or Woman

Adults or Children

Truly a man of courage and divinely appointed

Remember when this was the normal appearance of the American family?

Boys looked like boys and girls looked like girls!

I found a book that I used to look at, I could not yet read, when I was but four years old, wow 50+ years ago for me. The copyright of this book is 1962. It pages mesmerized me then and I still today I enjoy viewing the pictures found in this book. "Bible Reading for the Home". I snapped a few pictures of the pages to share with you!

The Sunday Look

The Casual Look

I love this past generation, with its wholesomeness, when girls and boys were separated by appearances, when girls learned to be ladies, and boys learned to be men. A time when manners were important, Yes Sir, No Sir, Excuse Me, Thank you!

In this past generation, God and reading the Bible, and prayer were not considered, "religious activity", "old fashion" or "not necessary". It was a part of, for the most part, every American home across the land from California to the New York Islands. I am not dramatizing that the "ideal" environment for I was brought up in this time, there were plenty of heartaches as there is today, but the level of rebellion, the level of blasphemy was not to the degree of acceptance, as of today's time! Almost every home had a Bible, and family prayer, a rare oddity in today's time!

I remember sitting for hours viewing the pictures in this book, and this is one of those pictures that always always and I mean always captured my heart. Oh I so wanted to meet this King surrounded by heavenly angels. And I Have!

It appears the Red Bird is stating to the little bird, "We gotta talk"

Two Red Birds out by my Cedar Tree with its bird feeder filled to the brim. You would have thought it to be Sunday morning with all the dressed up pretty birds that came to fellowship and feast on the banquet of seeds!

I was joyous to notice the sweet lil Chick A Dee visiting my bird feeder. I am so thankful for the beauty of life that the Lord has blessed me with here at my new home now for almost two years!

How time flies when it is a pleasurable ride!

Mr Red Bird

I was so happy when my two little deer Bambi's showed up! I said a quick thank you prayer that they had made it through Deer Season with all those hunters out there with their guns.

This is the border I purchased for my front walkway. I thought maybe it would be to fancy for the country charm look but actually it blended well. I am very pleased with it. It appears black in this picture but actually it is a dusty brown to match my brown window shutters, that I had put on last year.

I found this yard ornament at Ross Department store and I thought how cute he is. I had discovered him last year and thought no I'd better wait on buying him, then I went back and he was "gone"...oh I was saddened by his disappearance....but my sad was made glad when I found him lurking on the shelves of Ross Department store once more. THIS TIME HE WAS MINE HE CAME HOME WITH ME! He is a flower pot, there is a small tin pot attached to him to put some flowers in: I had put some silk dry Ivy Leaves in it but a windy storm came and took it away! :0(

And of course what is a day without my Abby Girl? Boring, Empty, Lonely!!!! She adds so much joy to my life. Another prayer going up to the Lord for the small pleasures that He has so carefully decorated my life with!

And here is my bright yellow shelf I purchased and now is painted black and on the wall. I have yet to complete all the arrangement etc on my walls that encase my bed, but I was so excited to get the shelf and it painted that I had to put it up ....it is so much fun making this house "mine".

Still so much hard work to be done, but it is coming along. It is not anywhere close to the beautiful home I left behind in Poteau OK, but my life is anything but what it was while living in that beautiful home. Sometimes peace and happiness comes with a cost! ;0) See my elbow on the bottom right hand side.... ! I just noticed it!

My dear sister in the Lord, Cindy, at Ladies Praise Night. I had snapped a couple other shots of everyone but sadly this is the only pic that was not a bit blurred!

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I hope you enjoyed my photo adventure of my week and weekend! Our church cancelled meetings today due to extreme illness among the members, so my friend and Linda are headed out to visit the Church of God In Christ across town. So looking forward to the fellowship of my brothers and sisters. I know we will have had church when time to go home.... my black brothers and sisters in the Lord know how to "worship" in song!

Have a most blessed SondayJBR says, Just Be Real, and let us dance and sing before the LORD today!

Carnally Minded is Another Word for Death!

2012-01-28T07:24:00.002-06:00

Roman 8:7"Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be."

I've read this a million times or two and I never truly saw "neither indeed can be"....isn't that amazing how you can know scripture, read it daily, and then one morning you go OH! When did God insert that portion?

Read verse six: " For to be carnally minded is death: but to be spiritually minded is life and peace."

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One of the key words for me is "subject". We understand that this subject is the same as put under, submit one's self unto, put in subjection under

The one definition I truly relate to is:

to submit one's control

to arrange under, to subordinate

2) to subject, put in subjection

3) to subject one's self, obey

4) to submit to one's control

5) to yield to one's admonition or advice

6) to obey, be subject

Oh how I have struggled with being submissive to the authority placed over me!

Carnal mind = Our reasoning

Most of you know that I believe that we are a threefold being and that we have five senses and three channels of these five senses. At the time man became disobedient, our five senses became corrupt:

Chart from book Threefold Nature of Man

Body Soul Spirit

Eye Imagination Faith

Hand Affection Worship

Ear Memory Reverence

Nose Conscience Hope

Mouth Reason Prayer

When Adam Female < she became Eve "after" she sinned> chose the sermon of the serpent in the garden, these fifteen senses became corrupt, which makes up our carnal mind, the Human Will piercing straight through these senses.

He man and female both were called Adam!

Genesis 5:2"Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called "their name" Adam, in the day when they were created."

Now if you have any other version for the most part, that I have discovered, it has done away with this scripture and restructured it to say, "human beings".

The carnal mind is the corrupt imagination, affection, memory, conscience and reason which corrupts our faith, worship, reverence, hope and prayer.

The only way for these five senses to become pure again is by walking a crucified path. In other words as Paul stated, "I die daily"...we must allow our own corrupt imagination that brings forth a corrupt faith, to be destroyed by Truth.

How?

Example of our corruption:

Our imagination weaves an image before our eyes of faith and we will put our faith in that image, being our own ability, our own wisdom and understanding, our own knowledge to justly judge a circumstance, situation or a people.

Our affections longs for attention, praise, and exaltation, before others and due to this corrupt affection we seek to worship mankind's opinion of us.

Ladies, we say we do not care what other's think, but yet when we dress, when we apply makeup or adorn ourselves with the golds and silvers of this word we are doing it more for "them" than "ourselves"...if you deny it then you are deceived! I used to argue to the "hilt" on this one but finally God opened my eyes and I saw clearly ... just how deep the desire for man's approval of me , was layered within me!

He is merciful...layer by layer and still continues to deliver me from the corrupt desire!

We as little girls were taught to seek a natural beauty....how many times did we hear, you princess, your my beautiful little girl, how pretty she is, or what a looker she is?

Okay back to the main thought of this blog....I keep rabbit trailing! :0)

Therefore the only way to be free of the "carnal mind" is to allow the two-edged sword to come in and cut the head of the corrupt source off.

Hebrew 4:12"For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sowrd, piercing even to the dividing asunder of the soul and the spirit and the joints of the marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."

There ya go, the threefold man: soul spirit and body

This power has been given to us by the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The nail being "truth" must be driven through the head of deceit to destroy it.

Jeremiah 17:9"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

I must, you must realize we can no longer claim to be the wise one of our lives. I must, you must realize that we have a corrupt nature within us, a corruption inherited from Adam and Eve from the Garden.

If you will allow me to state, the forbidden fruit was "independence" from the authority, from the rule of the LORD. Mankind has drawn it out to be an apple because spiritually speaking an Apple represents understanding. In Hebrew the word for knop means apple. And where do we find "knop" we find it on the Menorah or the candlestick in the Old Testament Tabernacle. Before there ever was a Holy Bible with sixty-six books, you had the Menorah, or candlestick with sixty-six bowls, flowers and knops. And we all know that the Menorah or candlestick represents the pure mind of Christ. It was the only piece of furniture in the Old Testament Tabernacle that was pure gold, all other furniture was mingled with woods which represents humanity. If I will accept the LIGHT of TRUTH, or the PURE MIND OF CHRIST then my carnality is destroy by the LIGHT ~ flip a light switch on and watch it swallow up the darkness! Same goes spiritually for us! The natural things typify the spiritual!!!!

Therefore, knowing this, that our carnal mind in its own tenacity will never submit therefore it has to be destroy by the Word of God which brings death to the corruption and then brings healing to us by giving us Resurrected Life.

"Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be."

Before His Throne Boldly

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Psalm 89:14"Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face."

Thought of my morning: If I dare be bold enough to go before HIS THRONE boldly then I shall also know that I shall also face the Just Judge and anything within me that is not of HIM shall be condemn and sentenced to die!

For His justice is of righteousness

For His judgments are holy

Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne.....AND mercy and truth shall go before thy face:

Mercy = that which pushes back what we deserve! We are never righteous enough, holy enough that we can enter before His Throne...it is only because of His Mercy that we have that avenue made available through and by His Holy Righteous Begotten Son, Jesus Christ!

If I dare to come before him in my own might and power "pride" then I shall experience tremendous incredible death ... for I am but corrupt without the covering of His Son.

Even still, as we "boldly move forward to His Throne" we "MUST" remember it is by HIS MERCY only that is pushing back His Just Judgments of my condition that I may enter before His Throne and receive HIS Grace:

Grace = that which I do not deserve!

Each time I kneel to pray, each time I petition Him of His Will for this or that, each time I stand before Him with uplifted arms, each time I choose to speak to the God of the universe I must know that it is only by His Mercy that it is all made possible!

I can never enter before His Throne without Mercy going before me to make away for me to enter boldly before the Throne of God!

How incredibly ignorant we are to even think we warrant such a degree of Mercy... never ... are we worthy.....never!!!

It is the path of the Blood of Christ that leads us to this place of incredible amazing love for us!

Oh thank you Jesus for your Blood ~ thank you thank you

His Mercy making a way for Grace to come in abundance to each of us each day as we kneel to pray, to study, and to fast. I do not know about you but that brings me to my knees with a heart of gratitude, rivers of joyful tears flowing as a mighty river.

This habitation is His Foundation which means established, prepared, provided, confirmed, ordered, fashioned.

Justice and judgments are the foundation of His Throne! Then it is correct to say, Righteousness and Holiness "is" the authority that reigns.

Truth shall be the faithfulness of the throne....it shall be the reliability of the throne ... it shall be the divine instructions of the authority that reigns

Now let us go before His Throne Boldly..

Hebrew 4:16"Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in the time of need."

Do you know what this boldly means in this scripture? I did not!!!! I had my own thought of boldly...without fear without trembling without dread or with much confidence....let me share with you the original root meaning of this "boldly"....oh I love studying God's Word.

Boldly -Strong's Concordance - after or behind

Does that not set your feet to dancing, your arms to waving towards the Heavens, your mouth making a joyful noise? It is after the "MERCY" that goes before me that I enter "boldly" ...

I go in behind "Truth and Mercy" ....that is what makes the way for me to the Throne of the Just Judge....or else I could never enter before the LORD of the Most High God!

Oh time has captured me this morning I must be off and prepare myself for my 40 minute drive to the office today. I do hope you have enjoyed and have been enlightened as I have this morning by the visitation of the Holy Ghost to impart "wisdom understanding and knowledge" to me today! I with much joy share this awesome treasure with you my brothers and sisters in the Lord.

Lynda Randle-With out Him

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I grew up with this song, and today I stand with up lifted arms and declare with great joy and boldness without HIM I would be nothing, without him I would be drifting as a ship without a sail.....I tried to walk a season of my life without him.....I drifted far from peace, joy and happiness....He is everything to me, He is my life, He is the breath that I breathe, He is the my everything! I shall never try it alone again! I am poor and needy without HIM, he makes me rich with Heavenly Treasures!

Morning Thoughts

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Rapture Ready?

Luke 21:34-36"Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man."

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As I was praying this morning the thought crossed my mind, " cares of this life "!

I immediately started evaluating my "cares" and their priorities in my life. The scriptures, which is the inspired Word of God through a willing anointed vessel, instructs me to take heed of the cares of life that will come upon me "unaware".

Realizing that the cares of this life, you know the responsibilities we have to our family, home, employer, utility companies, church, hobbies, blogging, all these things are "cares of this life", how easily they can become like a sponge in soaking up our time that belongs to God for studying, praying and fasting. We can be so "overcharged" that we do not give him Praise that He is worthy of, we do not take time to express gratitude or thanksgiving for the very breathe He breathed in us today, that we may live another day, a gift from God to have the privilege of exalting Him one more day! Surely we may look up and ask self a question as when was the last time I attended services, paid tithes, or went to Wednesday night service, or prayed or fasted.

The cares of this life captured us as the snared laid carefully cunningly before us, due to us not taking heed, watching, or praying always!

Per the scripture it is obvious the only ones that will make the rapture are those that take heed, that are watching and praying always! Nothing is more important than being prepared for that glorious day! NO-THING

Have we turned a deaf hear to the Word of God?

James 1:22"Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves."

Many times because we hear the word and agree with the word, we become confident that we are obedient to the word. Wrong! Our biggest enemy is self? Self seeks its own pleasures and satisfactions. Well I do not think the Word means to "pray always" how can you do that? Do we see the carnal reasoning setting a snare before us? A person's thoughts and actions will always be a result of the abundance of his heart.

Cares of this life will rule over our minds, consuming our heart with everything except spending time with Jesus Christ. How many good intentions have we had to go spend quality time in prayer, or declaring a fast from the pleasures of this world, but never just never got around to it? This reveals the dullness of our heart and the unawareness of our mind.

We are commanded as the children of God to walk as children of light.

Ephesians 5:8"For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:"

We are to take heed to the type of music we feed our soul, the television programs we feast upon as the "daughter of darkness" projects the thoughts and ways of the world of darkness before us and we call it "entertainment". We do not even flinch any longer at a actress walking across the screen dressed in her undergarments. There was a time that we would have been absolutely shocked by the nakedness before us and would have turned the television off. It is a common thing now and we are calloused to it's ungodliness. The songs and or television programs will have sexual connotations, that we fancy and it will lead to lascivious thoughts and affections, that you may not admit to yourself let alone others but these songs, these television programs can reveal their "snare" in our dreams while our conscience mind sleeps.

It takes more than just a confession of believing in Jesus Christ to make the rapture! It is not an easy journey before us to be Rapture Ready! For we have an enemy that lurks around, sneaks upon, sets snares, and deceives us constantly with the pleasures and satisfactions of this life that appeases our hunger and thirsting within. Paul stated, " Put ye on the LORD Jesus Christ" and "make no provision for the flesh"! That means turn off that "DeGrasse Series" or "Vampire" or "Big Brother" or those Songs of darkness that takes you anywhere but in the presence of the LORD and put on the Light of Jesus Christ. Boring you say! Then that statement alone would reveal to us the condition of our heart! We are or have been taken captive by the snares set before us and we are held as a prisoner of darkness, hate and death. Yes, a Christian....a lukewarm christian....! A lukewarm status will keep us grounded upon the blowing of that trumpet!

Good news for us that desire to go all the way with the Lord! Some are so content to stay just within the courtyard experiences, but there is a remnant that wants to go all the way and those that do, will walk a crucified life before God and the world!

A Christian does not put Jesus on all at one time, but he must be awake and watching for "every opportunity" to lay hold of Christ's Nature: Praying and Fasting are two examples of opportunities.

Many are deceived by false doctrines, doctrines of devils, and their own fanciful notions of the Word of God and its meanings. If we do not know truth, it cannot and will not set us free.

I know many of you are as I am, and want to be Rapture Ready! Paul stated, in II Timothy,

II Timothy 4:6-8"For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing."

If I or if you are loving his appearing, we shall not fear it, we shall not tremble with a tormenting fear....but we shall rejoice with thoughts of rapture unto our Lord and Saviour!

To those that refuse to heed God's warning and instructions, sorrow will come! Some "will" choose the world; therefore, God will leave them with their choice. Some "will" not take heed and watch and pray, and will be captured by the cares of this life. Sadly they shall miss the return of the Lord in the sky!

My pastor stated, "God took some time to send the flood, but He took only a moment to shut the door of the Ark."

I want to be one of those that heeds the warnings and instructions of God.

Kodak Moments!

2012-01-24T05:51:00.001-06:00

Received yesterday these pictures of what I am calling Kodak moments! Always and I mean always have your camera ready for you do not know the moment it is a Kodak Moment!

The little guy sure looks like he is trying to be one of "them" so he can get his chomps on that meat!

NO WAY! Seriously! Reckon' which one was given the ticket for being at the wrong place at the wrong time?

You're not going anywhere I need your body as an electric blanket, brrr it is cold!

Yes dear, remember, we are pretty! Just think " Trend Setter"

NO words necessary!

No matter rain or shine, when ya gotta go ya gotta go!

Thank you all that took time out to post a comment on my blog yesterday! I was feeling very ill and this morning when I signed on I saw that there were so many special love tracks across the pages of my blog. Thank you for your prayers and good wishes!

Feeling somewhat better today! Now to make up the eight hours of work....my company does not offer sick pay....so off I shall be to earn a few of those dollars I lost! Dang sometimes it is the bummer being the poor working girl! :0)

Truly though, I am thankful for employment....just wish they had sick pay ....

Have a wonderful Tuesday good people!

Heart Monitor Revelations

2012-01-23T07:35:00.002-06:00

My heart is meditating upon you guys but the rest of me is screaming ....bed bed bed !

Feeling a bit under the weather today ....have taken meds and headed back to bed!

Have a most wonderful Monday .... surely I will be better by the a.m.!

Sunday Praise!

2012-01-22T08:55:00.001-06:00

A quote from my Spiritual Mother ~ who has taught me Truth from the inspirations of God ~

I am eternally grateful for such a wise mother that the LORD has given me to teach me and share the truths hidden within the Word of God. She has taught me to pick up my "own" spiritual shovel, my "own" spiritual pick and dig for the hidden gold ~ For once, I will confess, I'm a Gold Digger ~

Her quote:

"God desires for His believers to grow up into spiritual maturity until they henceforth be no more children, that is being infantile in knowledge, immature in judgment, weak in faith, and quickly yielding to the flesh. Children are easily tossed about as when the wind blows upon a filmy cloud. When one's childish soul is tossed about with its immature thoughts, it feels constant disturbance, agitation, and disquiet. The childish soul, that is tossed about, moves impatiently, angrily, and disdainfully amidst the contrary situations of life. It lacks the food from Jesus Christ, the Tree of Life in the Promised Land to give it the solidifying roots to stand firm and true in God's Purposive Will and Master Plan. Childish immaturity prevents believers from discerning and resisting the mischievous subtlety of seducers who lie in wait to deceive them. But, when the soul confesses the truth of Christ and joins itself to a love that is willing to obey its illuminating rays, that soul grows up into spiritual maturity and accepts Christ's governing head in all things."

Once again it is but our choice!

Yesterday, Saturday January 21, 2012, was a most pleasurable day! My day started at 5:00 a.m.! As I woke up the Lord brought to my remembrance the scripture about pressing toward the
"mark" and of the "prize" of the "high calling" and said what is the mark, prize and high calling Rhonda,.....though I had been taught and knew by learning from my pastor I truly had not done a deep study on this passage of scripture myself. WOW is all I have to say....I gathered in much Gold with my spiritual shovel and pick.

Off to my friend's house, Linda, and we loaded up and went to this little old lady's house. She was having a moving sale, everything for sale! Gotta Go! Now before I left my house I prayed, Lord help me to spend wisely not foolishly, help me to see the good deals over the "rob me deals" and guide to those things that I are on my list: He always answers prayers!

Upon arriving at the little old ladies house, which I was surprised because I had been told she was a wealthy woman. When Linda and I arrived in her husband old trashed up, nasty truck so we could load up on goods, I was surprised to see that the "wealthy was living in a very modest small trailer house" .... I was expecting "huge manifestations of wealth"....first spiritual lesson and validation of truth for the day ahead of me! Her wealth was hers and truly there was "wealth" but she flaunted it not! You would have not know that most of the land and homes in her area was "hers". She was this little ole sweet lady, about 4'11'' high, blue gray hair, and the sweetest, from ear to ear smile upon her face delight.

One of the first items that possessed my eyes was her swinging glider on her front porch. I have searched and refused to pay the prices that I had seen online and at new stores for such a jewel as this swing glider she had: She had others helping her mark items, and they had put $35.00 on it..now that was a good deal but inside of me the frugal one said, you have lots on your to "purchase list" today, do you want to spend that or not? So I bravely asked the lady standing in the doorway....would Mrs. Green come down on the swing glider? If she will take $25.00 I will take it...she asked the lady, she said yes, I stated "boldly, SOLD" ..and loaded it up. I also had been looking for a planter stake to hang plants on for this spring considering almost all my tree's limbs are high and unreachable for me ....I found the stake leaning up against the house, whitish and rusty...I ask if it was for sale. Mrs. Green was standing in her doorway she said sure, I ask how much, she looked at me and said I do not know, someone said $1.00...I stated "boldly, SOLD"... then the only other item I purchased was a bowl that my friend had picked up and I thought wow that is a good buy, and then she set the bowl down. I ask her are you not going to buy that she said no....it had $1.50 on it ...I looked at Linda and stated, " boldly, SOLD"....it was a large size Pyrex Bowl with Lid...we priced it at Ross Department store later that day and the new one was priced almost $8.00.... at the other store where everyone else goes it is about $10.00...

Here are my jewels:

I am going to sand it down, and paint it brown to match the shutters I have put on the windows of the front side of the house!

It is a lot taller than this, it is the average size about 8' or 10' tall. $1.00.....I had been pricing them and I was going to have to pay at least $10.00 for one. Thank you Lord for your generosity and guiding me!

I will paint it black considering I have gallons of black paint.

A dear friend from my past, his mother had passed away and due to short notice of her passing away I could not get off from work to attend her funeral. He had requested that someone let me know his mother had passed away and I felt so "wrong", I felt like I was betraying our friendship, for not going to her memorial service so I made a quick trip out to her grave site and said my goodbyes to her and bid her farewell into the land of rest!

R.I.P. Edith Edwards Beck

You all know I have been remodeling this house, making it "mine". I have been working on my bedroom. I needed a long shelf with no frills. I had thought I would have to go to the wood store and have them make me one and then I would have to paint it. But as Linda and I shuffled around we discovered a Mexican Food Grocery .... and we decided we wanted to go in and just look around.

There was some awesome brilliant brightly painted chairs and a desk and two shelves one was a bright yellow and the other was a bright "jade like" color. The yellow shelf had no frills and just the right length. I stepped upon the platform, not knowing if I should be there or not, not knowing if the shelves were even for sale...it appeared they were still in the early stages of setting up their store. I picked it up no dents, no chips....perfect except for being bright yellow ....I waited to see if the two ladies would see that I had climbed upon their platform...uhmmm not they did not, so I spoke "hello"...and one of the ladies looked up and around I waved my hand she saw me and I asked is this for sale. She said, YES...I was so excited and I asked how much, and she said $6.99...I stated, "boldly, SOLD". I was so happy ...

and then we went to the Ross Department Store...I needed a headboard or something to work as a headboard over my bed..... we found so many cute little things in there.....I found my headboard ... it is a metal wire designed in leafs and little tiny flower buds.. $9.99 ...oh wow ..."boldly, SOLD"...

and I found some nick-knacks....

By this time I was starving so we made a quick detour and headed out to Panda's Chinese Buffet

I was really disappointed in the quality of my plate....it appeared delicious but was not hot, it was a lukewarm.....the green beans were really tough....

Linda's plate appeared more delicious than mine but she said it was not as good as what she has had before: Panda's used to be the best Chinese place to eat in Texarkana.

Not So ...or maybe the cook was having a bad day!

Just lost two customers though!

We continue to shop, went to Building Wholesale Dist., Sam's. and then headed to my mom's to pick up my Hide a way bed Love Seat. I had been given several months ago a daybed, but I did not want it after I got it, it was too big for my computer / work / prayer room. Mom wanted it so we worked up a trade. She wanted my daybed I wanted her Love Seat....we traded yesterday!

Here is what I came home with: I am so happy with it and it looks great in my room.

One day I will have this whole house finished and "mine".

Now after I purchase this house, I will change the flooring but for now I have throw rugs galore...and quite honestly I love throw rugs! They add such personality to any room!

After we loaded the Love Seat and headed home there is an American Flag that a company flies over his store. It is big, beautiful and has for years captivated my heart: She flies with all her Glory and Beauty!

The last couple of years she was tattered and torn by the cruelty of the weather. I noticed the man had purchased a new flag ....Oh she is beautiful....God Bless our America and may O'Glory Fly in memorial always of our Fore-Father's and our American History:

Saturday at Sonic between whatever hours it was, it is half price on drinks. Linda was thirsty so we stopped in and she treated me to a "Strawberry Lemon Burst" or whatever....uhm... I was not crazy about it ..... but it did wet the mouth: While I was there I, of course have my camera and out it came and I snapped this pic of the neon light "limeade". I did not get the results I had visioned in my head but none the less I am okay with the results:

Once we arrived at my home we unloaded her truck. And we so dreaded the two us "old women with doctor's orders "do not be lifting" ....moving in this "hide a way bed" love seat....but the good Lord must have sent angels in for us....for it went with great ease and no stress to our spines.....

I had purchased some little fencing that was cheap cheap cheap and I was afraid it was look "cheezy" but it did not....it looks pretty good until I can afford the "real stuff".

Then last night I went to visit a friend's church. They were having a "Gospel Meeting" and she had invited me. Our paths just recently crossed again. It had been since 11th grade that she and I had seen each other. Though I knew our beliefs were like from the East to the West, I was "not" going to "not" go. I arrived.... "giggling now" " snicker snicker" .... all eyes upon me for I am dressed altogether different than anyone else ... LOL .... and then I found my friend and another friend of ours and put myself safely beside them. Who'da guess'd it"""" this preacher man, taught against everything I believe.....it was so comical for me....there I sat this little pentecostal woman and he was teaching against eva'thang I believed. Too Funny!!!! He even so much as stated that "I was not even saved"....now he did not look at me or point his finger at me ...but jeez Louise .....who did not know in the house who and what was different than their congregations own personal beliefs...

< giggling now > . Afterwards my friend, Lavon, called me and thanked me for coming and apologized for the awkwardness I must have felt....I snickered and told her, Lavon, it is okay not everyone will believe or shall believe alike most of the time. That I was not offended and just thought to myself, "reckon' he knows he has one of those creatures he is speaking about in his audience"....it was just too funny!

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You know starting over at fifty-five "55"....is not easy....and of course I'm starting over with a huge decrease in wages...and alone .... .but I am learning so many wonderful "wilderness miracles truths".... my Heavenly Father is amazing and so generous! The Manna from Heaven is so life supporting, the still waters "do" quench my thirst! God has supplied every need I have had: Regardless if it is an inside crises that came up over night like "leaking over the $1500.00 range" when the storm was furious, or leaking over the brand new hot water heater.....the drops of rain sounded like "a dam bursting to me"...oh no, please not over the new hot water heater: or the one acre yard that needs to be mowed and groomed during the "green season" .... the potty chair flapper thingy not working correct....the shower stop showering ....where is the plug to the tub so I can take a bath grrrrr! oh where did I see it ...took me two weeks to find it ......imagine a 20lb overweight woman, with butt long hair, 55 of age, squatted in a tub trying to wash her hair and bathe....okay if you just ate you may not want to try and vision it! It had been since I was 17 that I had to bathe instead of shower....

I have experienced some difficulties but still yet ...I know not of true difficulties.....

So this Sunday morning, as I take time to reflect over the experiences of this weekend, I am joyful, happy and so at peace with the life the LORD had planned and purposed for me. I am excited to get dressed and head out to my lil ole church of about five people. Five people that are sold out for God and do not mind being the "odd" ones, "religious ones"...or even the "wrong ones going to hell"...giggle giggle! I am so thankful that God is and will be the Just Judge before me on Judgment Day!

Let God Arise! Let His Enemies Be Scattered!

What would be my enemies this morning? Pride ~ Self-Pity ~ Bitterness

People are not my enemies! We are but tools in the hands of two sources of power:

1) God's purpose

2) Satan's purpose

If I choose to live in the Spirit today, and I shall and have, then I shall walk in the Spirit today!

Weekend!

2012-01-21T05:29:00.000-06:00

Need I try and say more than the "Garfield"?

Have a wonderful weekend my friends...I'm going "junkin" today! Oh what fun awaits me!

I've Been Redeemed

2012-01-20T06:21:00.000-06:00

I Peter 5:8"Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour."

Intense emotions and awareness toward this scripture this morning! Carnal Reasoning may very well be the "adversary that walks this morning" to devour my time, my peace and my joy.

My hope is this:

Revelation 12:11"And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death."

I am an overcomer not by my works but only by the Blood of the Lamb and the testimony of that Blood......

I am redeemed by the blood of the lamb I am redeemed by the blood of the lamb

I am redeemed by the blood the Lamb filled with the Holy Ghost I am

all my sins are washed away, I've been redeemed!

God is Never Wrong! Never!!

2012-01-19T05:47:00.004-06:00

Blessed be His Holy Name

YOD HEY VAW HEY

WISDOM UNDERSTANDING KNOWLEDGE AND PRUDENCE

THEREFORE

God is never wrong

A king who did not belive in the goodness of God, had a slave who, in all circumstances, said: My king, do not be discouraged, because everything God does is perfect, no mistakes!

One day they went hunting and along the way a wild animal attacked the king. His slave managed to kill the animal, but could not prevent his majesty losing a finger.

Furious and without showing his gratitude for being saved, the nobleman said "Is God good? If He was good, I would not have been attacked and lost my finger."

The slave replied: "My king, despite all these things, I can only tell you that God is good, and he knows the "why" of all these things. What God does is perfect. He is never wrong!"

Outraged by the response, the king ordered the arrest of his slave.

Later, he left for another hunt and was captured by savages who offered human sacrifices.

In the altar, ready to sacrifice the nobleman, the savages found that the victim had one of his fingers missing, so he was released. According to them, the sacrifice was was not complete, and could not be offered to the gods.

Upon his return to the palace, he authorized the release of his slave, and he received very affectionately.

"My slave, God was really good to me! I was almost killed by the wild men, but for lack of a single finger, I was let go! But I have a question: if God is so good, why did he allow me to put you in jail?"

"My King, if I had gone with you in this hunt, I would have been sacrificed for you, because I have no missing finger, therefore, remember everything God does is perfect. He is never wrong."!

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Often we complain about life, and negative things that happen to us, forgetting that nothing is random and that everything has a purpose.

Nothing and Everything

Every morning, offer your day to God, don't be in a rush.

Ask God to inspire your thoughts, guide your actions, and ease your feelings. And do not be afraid. God is never wrong!

Not Rejection But Protection

2012-01-18T06:40:00.002-06:00

And as I cried out from the enclosure of my prayer closet, my voice, my weeping, my intercession heard beyond the confinements of this natural earth, a Father hears and speaks peace into my heart!

"A door closed is not rejection, a door closed is but my protection"

It is 2007 I had been without work for almost six months. I had completed 100 applications sending them out to my own state of Arkansas, to Texas, Louisiana, Indiana and Oklahoma. All doors were closed!

Every interviewer was impressed with my work history, every word was encouraging, promising! But yet none wanted me! The income from unemployment wages was more than what I could have made going to work at most of the places that were hiring. My budget was not prepared to experience the extreme decrease in the wages...what on earth will I do?

Robbing from Peter to pay Paul....you know the circus juggle! I would tap into my savings, or skim off the "mad money jar". And sometimes Peter was Visa to pay Paul, MasterCard! Though every debt for the month was paid and I was not behind, my Titanic was sinking, slowly but surely. What on earth will I do?

Cutting corners, no I do not really need that skirt this month, no I do not need that choice cut of meat, no I do not have to have this or that! I will trust God! On one hand but on the other my thoughts were, "What on earth am I going to do?"

I would wake in the mornings spend time in prayer, reading and studying the Bible. Then some mornings I truly went to prayer and study! There is a difference in our prayer and studying! Sometimes we go to gain and then sometimes we go to worship!

I was struggling with free time, with fears that I was unaware of, that now were Goliaths before me, I was seeing that I had been as the children of Israel as in "this wealth" was due to my own works, my own wisdom, my own abilities to maneuver skillfully.

Deuteronomy 8:18"But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day."

I was seeing too clearly that I had Pride due to my success! I was not a bad person, but I just had reached a place in my life that I credited myself with the ability to "confess" "pray" and "work good deeds". I remember a dear friend confided in me that he and his wife had to file bankruptcy. They had moved to California and with the extreme increase in wages between the both of them, they became quite greedy. Then they relocated back to the southern portion of the states, where the wages were "slacking" in favor of high debts maintenance. Though I did not say a word of negativity, though I smiled and said I understood, I lied! YUP good ole Christian Rhonda, out right lied. I was appalled! How could a spirit-filled God fearing man of God file bankruptcy! Oh my ignorance! This was in 2005 when this friend confided in me!

A turning of the tables were about my midst! I did not know it, I was getting out of debt, I had chosen my new home blueprints, I was searching for a piece of land to build my new house, times were good, I was rich, and increased with goods!!! My debt balance was a mere $5000.00 and then I would be debt free! My budget was that by 2008 I would be completely out of debt! This prosperity message is working...ain't I special?

Then June of 2006 I was fired!

Revelation 3:17"Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked."

After much stress, after many interviews, after applications after applications, I had now entered into a new year, it is now 2008. Relocating was now a serious consideration, Oklahoma, maybe Indiana. Church being the priority of my choice, both states had my church. Oklahoma well, no, maybe Indiana I do have family there....oh but I will be leaving behind my only son and his little family. My grandson, was staying with me every weekend...how could I run out on him!

Received a call for an interviewer! The hourly wages was wonderful! It compared to the one I had lost!

Interview was great! Employer HR was delightful and friendly! All smiles! I skipped and whistled all the way home! My Christian Confessions has worked! The HR had told me that by 5:00 that day they would make a decision and they would definately let me know their decision:

Tick Tick Tick Tick 3:30 ....nervous as a cat on a hot tin roof ... tick tick tick tick 4:30.....oh the butterflies are powerful within my belly .... tick tick tick....Dear Lord you know I "need" this job ....tick tick tick...5:15 ... why have they not called, tick tick tick 6:00...totally castdown was I..

Thoughts oh maybe they will mail me noticed, surely if I had received the position they would have called me! Surely! Friday no mail, Saturday no mail, Monday a letter of rejection in the mail.

Hired again fired again! Oh what is wrong with me! Hired again I quit oh dear Lord have I gone mad? Now the unemployment wages were extremely low, it paid the rent, and utilities but that was all it covered!

A medical billing company called in response to my application. I went in for the interview, it went well, but once again "rejected".

Upon recieving the phone call that morning to give me notice that they had chosen another applicant for the position, I knew I must get to the prayer closet, what I call the "honesty room".

It is now the year 2009! All the struggles, all the ups and downs, all the efforts to be strong in the Lord, all the confessions, all the desires, all the failures, all the debt, all the condemnation, all the rejection was before me.

While in the prayer closet that morning, before the call came to let me know I had not been given the position, I desperately went to my prayer closet. My secret place, my trysting place, and I entered into it with nothing but honesty, I was poor, naked and had need of everthing!

" A door closed is not rejection, a door closed is but my protection."

The scriptures state, for us to trust in the LORD and not the arm of flesh. What, had I learned, in this three year wilderness journey? I had learned that the most dangerous arm to put trust in, is your own arm! My own abilities to judge rightly is but deception! My own wisdom to governor my life is but ignornace! My light is but self-righteous, my life is but death, my love is but hate toward the dependence upon another for good things in my life!

I am thankful it was not a forty year round and round wilderness journey. While I was traveling through the planned and purposed three year wilderness, the LORD revealed to me such awesome nuggets of truth....He did feed me, Manna from Heaven, He did bring to me, meat of His Word, he did give me drink for my thirsty soul!

December 12, 2009 I was employed by the company I now work for: It within itself has been a struggle. But each day I cling to the truth that sets me free!

Psalms 112:1"Praise Ye the LORD, Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments."

Psalm 109:30-31"I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude. For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him, from those that condemn his soul."

AND

Psalms 1:3"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners. But his delight is in the law, of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper."

VERSE 6

For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish."

My ungodly pride perished! I no longer took counsel with the darkness of my own judging, I no longer stood in the midst of my sinful thoughts of prosperity but I delighted myself in the LORD and HIS LAW....

IT IS NOT ABOUT ME EVER.....IT IS ALWAYS ABOUT HIM

He Set Me Free

2012-01-17T06:56:00.002-06:00

A song written seventy-three years ago, still has a full impact message for us today!

For those that were bound and desired freedom, this song reveals the depths of our longings.

To be confined, limited, bound, held captive and then to experience such freedom

O'tis a wonderful delight to be free to be free to be free!

Once like a bird in prison I dwelt, No freedom from my sorrow I felt....

How many of us have been distraught, discouraged, depressed, without hope?

The prison bars of a sinful life! The ability to smell and taste freedom but yet not have it!

To hear the fluttering wings of other's liberty as they passed us by!

Oh to fly in the deliverance of freedom is what we desired!

But then

Jesus came and listened to me and glory to God he set me free. He broke the bonds of prison for me; I'm glory bound my Jesus to see, For glory to God, He set me free.

And Now

I am climbing higher each day, darkness of night has drifted away, my feet planted on higher ground and glory to God I'm homeward bound.

Goodby to sin and things that confound, naught of the world shall turn me around, daily I'm working, I'm praying too, and glory to God I'm going thru!

Bless you Jesus for the liberty found in you! Bless you Jesus for the thirsting of my heart's desire has been quenched! Bless you Jesus for you have satisfied my hunger to soar, to be free!

Each day I am discovering new dimensions of your liberation from the darkness of sin, the sorrow of death and the agony of hate. Each day I fly higher and higher as I learn from the Holy Spirit! Teaching me to fly fly fly, to soar above the Eagles to soar above the limitations of the earth's borders! To allow the winds of your breath to take me higher and higher each day!

Once like a bird in prison I dwelt, no freedom from my sorrow I felt but Jesus came and glory to God he set me free!

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I have been in a season of such intense learning! If while I was in prison held captive by the strong arms of darkness, hate and death, and I did not have hope for freedom it should have never came to me! To be free to love the unlovely, to be free to bless the selfish, to be free to exalt the Name of the LORD among the evilness and wickedness of this life, such freedom, such liberty, such goodness given to me, my freedom purchased by Jesus Christ. He paid for my freedom and yours through the Offering of His Holy Righteous Blood!

Thank you Jesus, for giving to me the freedom I desired! Thank you for giving to me a new life found in your borders of liberation!

To soar above the naught of the world, to rest in the branches of your plans and purposes, to feed upon the Heavenly Manna, and to drink from the still waters of truth!

O'tis sweet this freedom given

To one that deserves not the cost

O'tis sweet the song of liberty to sing

Broken chains, opened doors, captives set free

O'tis sweet the one that loves me!

Forests of Danger and Tribulation

2012-01-16T06:13:00.001-06:00

From the book, Hinds Feet on High Places

Hannah Hurnard

"In the Forests of Danger and Tribulation"

With the joy they welcomed the Shepherd as he sat down in their midst, and after cheerfully congratulating them on having surmounted the precipice, he laid his hands gently on the wounds which Much-Afraid had received when she fell, and immediately they were healed. Then he began to speak to them about the way which lay ahead.

"You have now to go through the forests which clothe the sides of these mountains almost up to the snow line. The way will be steep, but you will come to resting places here and there. These are Forest of Danger and Tribulation, and often the pine trees grow so tall and so closely together that the path may seem quite dark. Storms are very frequent up here on these slopes, but keep pressing forward, for remember that nothing can do you any real harm while you are following the path of my will."

"The Forests of Danger and Tribulation!" she repeated with a piteous quaver in her voice. "O Shepherd, wherever will you lead me next?"

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Proverbs 3:5-6"Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."

How many times are we as Much-Afraid? The LORD will deliver us, redeem us, heal us, from all kinds of difficult circumstances, frightful situations and a cruel people and yet when the next week rolls around and we are faced with "yet another" trying time and we fear that we shall fail.

I cried out, "How much more can I take"....or "I just cannot take much more"

This is a moment of true identity!

Our desire is to run and leap with the Hart on the High Places from the reaches of our enemies.

What are our enemies? They are principalities, powers, rulers of darkness of this world, and spiritual wickedness in high places. Oh wait, "High Places" isn't that where the Shepherd runs and leaps?

The LORD is gracious enough to apply a bit more pressure through circumstances, situations and people to our life with the purpose to squeeze out a bit more of corruption within.

This is why I can give thanks for those moments of suffering and sorrow!

I Thessalonians 5:18" In every thing give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you."

We moan and groan over the intensity of our season of sorrow and suffering because we are spiritual blind in that we cannot see that it is actually working for our good.

Life happens to all none are exempt! To be exempt one must be covered with layers of dirt six feet under! I can approach the will of God concerning me with a joyful heart or a begrudging heart! It is but a choice given to all mankind.

Most of the time the suffering or sorrow we experience is actually none other than the death of our very own Pride! Even in this knowing, we will experience suffering, for death of any kind is never a pleasant experience. Never!!!

I am thankful this morning that my eyes of my understanding have been enlightened that I may see and know that this ugly situation, this venomous circumstance, this perplexing person is but here for my good! Oh Hallelujah why? Because of the ugly and venomous and perplexing within me needs to be exiled from the city of God within!

Does the Word not say, the Bride of Christ shall be pure, clean, white and without wrinkle?

Job declared with his confession that these times of suffering and sorrow "wrinkles him".

Job 16:8"And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face."

This word "wrinkles" means to cut down, to seize, to be snatched away prematurely

If Job had trusted in his LORD instead of his self-righteous self, he could not have been cut down prematurely but this truth applies to all of mankind that desires to go to the High Places with the Lord. This is the awesome truth that gives us all hope, and the truth is that we all start out as babes in Christ and as we journey to the High Place, we stumble, we fall, we cry, we scream, we hurt, we love, we pout, we we we we ....remember the end result of Job?
Being in church for x amount of years, singing in the choir for the last x amount of years, serving on the board, means nothing without humility and is not growth! "Growth" is an increase of the spiritual man within, and it is not the degree or amount of works done!

Let us learn from all of those before us, their testimonies for the good and for their failures, their right choices their wrong choices. Let us learn from the avenues the LORD has given us to trod as we grow and grow to the strength to mount another cliff, walk across another dry barren wilderness, stand before an impassable river!

In this Forest of Danger and Tribulation, her enemies also lurked behind cliffs, trees and in the dark places. Who were they? Bitterness, Pride, Self-Pity and Fear!

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For Much-Afraid a new song was heard from the forest sounds and the music that came forth.

"How lovely and how nimble are thy feet,

O prince's daughter!

They flash and sparkle and can run more fleet

Than running water,

On all the mountains there is no gazelle,

No roe or hind,

Can overtake thee nor can leap as well --

But lag behind."

Songs of Solomon 7:1

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In the beginning of this book, Much-Afraid feet were cribbled and her mouth was crooked! These "life experinces" are what brought healing and mobility to her!

And we are as Much-Afraid and can have the same victory she had, if we will allow Him to give us, Hinds Feet in High Places!

Welk.Humor.wmv

2012-01-15T13:24:00.000-06:00

Let US Rejoice

2012-01-15T08:18:00.002-06:00

I searched out the words in this one scripture this morning and I have become more concrete in that every day is a day to rejoice regardless if the pleasure is abundant or the pain is excruciating abundance! I have no reason at all to "not" rejoice.

Let me share what the Holy Spirit has taught me this morning!

The word, "day" in the original Hebrew root meaning is "continually" "always" "lifetime"

WOW this is the day or continuation or as always or my lifetime that the LORD hath made for me! Today, full of His Just Judgments for the continuation of my rejoicing! When the co-worker goes betrayal, when the supervisor believes without fair questioning, when the pocket book says, No you cannot purchase groceries, or when the doctor says, "Get your house in order"....this is still the day the LORD has made and I will rejoice.....this is the continuation or this if my "lifetime" to rejoice. My opportunity given to lift His Holy Righteous Name above the evilness of a co-worker, the immaturity of a supervisor, the emptiness of the check book, or above the conclusions of any doctor!

This morning as I was feasting upon the banquet table of the LORD, I ran across this scripture and thought how amazing, it is so for me right now! Isn't it amazing how the LORD always gives us His Word in His perfect timing for He knows our every need at the moment we need?

Psalm 119:23-24"Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant < me > did meditate in thy statues: Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors."

If you will go back to the Old Testament Tabernacle in Exodus, you find that the statues are found on the right hand of the Son, or where the Candlestick is located, and testimonies are found in the courtyard where you find the Laver ....

Laver - washing away of sins, transgressions, trespasses and iniquities

Represents the Baptism

"Remember the Priest had to wash his hands before He could enter the Holy of Holies?"

Candlestick = was made of pure gold = the pure mind of Christ = Light

Represents the Truth

So when I am washed by the water of His Name, death and Life by the going down with humility into the Laver, to allow His Water < or cleansing > to wash away all that defiles me I come up rejoicing.

When I allow the Light of Christ to swallow up the darkness of this life I find myself rejoicing

Sometimes you will find the word "L o r d" and then sometimes you find "L O R D " ....what is the difference?

LORD = is the self-existent one

Lord is the master, adonai, the messiah

So in this particular scripture the word lord is emphasised by all capitalization: LORD

This is revealing to me, the self-existent one has purposed has planned this "day" this "lifetime" this "continuation" that I may make a choice to rejoice in His Just Judgements! Someone shout

Hallelujah!

If he has purposed it, planned it from the very beginning then the end results are for my good ..... are they not?

Romans 8:28"And we know that "all" things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to "his" purpose.

What is His Purpose? For me to REJOICE and in my rejoicing HIS NAME IS MADE KNOWN!

How is that?

Instead of retaliating back with dastardly deeds, we give more love!

Instead of punishment we give mercy!

Instead of choosing death we choose life!

When a person does an in depth study of the name LORD by means of Hebrew study, you will find that His Name LORD is equivalent to YOD HEY VAW HAY < Hebrew alphabets letters >

Each letter in the Hebrew alphabet has many meanings. Such as in the American alphabet, and L is an L and will be nothing more or less than an L...not so with the Hebrew alphabet.

So when I am rejoicing I am making HIS NAME KNOWN by

choosing HIS NAME:

Wisdom = Yod

Understanding = Hey

Knowledge = Vaw

Prudence = Hey

Made = how simple can you get right? We all know what "made" means do we not?

"the LORD hath "made" "

Original Hebrew root word of made = commit, execute, shew, prepare, perform, dress, maintain

So this is the day the LORD has "prepared" "performed" "maintained" or "committed" for me to make His Name known by rejoicing always....regardless of the pleasure or the pain. He has committed it unto me to make a choice to rejoice or scorn His Plans and Purpose by denouncing His Ways and Thoughts which are always higher than our own.

If I am one with HIS NAME, TRUTH, then I will make His Name known, if I am one with self, I will make my name known. I will exalt me and not Him!

Me = demands goodness, love, favor, pleasure: I will give you a piece of my mind letting you know I deserve to be treated different than what is at hand.

HIM = when I am exalt HIS NAME I will choose His nature, love forgivness, humility, gentleness, meekness, I will turn the other cheek....so that HE can be seen and not Me.

I will not redeem my self by making my thoughts and ways know ..... I will submit I will surrender to the offense, that HIS Thoughts and Ways can be made evident through my actions of being a bondservant ... a servant is one that serves and expects reward ... a bondservant is one who serves and expects no reward...for the reward is the serving !!!!!!!!

Hallelujah

When others see that I am rejoicing in the midst of their efforts to destroy me, to harm me, to discourage me, to shame me, to reject me, HIS NAME IS MADE KNOWN...HIS LOVE, HIS LIGHT, HIS LIFE IS SEEN!

Now they may even get more angry with me because of the puppeteers of darkness, hate and death that rule their emotions hates the NAME of the LORD.

Rejoice = delight = to dance to tremble with fear or a reverence =

I will delight in this day this continuation, this lifetime, this planned and purposed time in HIS Statues and His Testimonies or In His Light or His Truths, and His Baptism of the Waters of Humility that will cleanse me this "very moment" in the midst of the darkness, the hate and the death that surrounds me.

Glad = joyful or merry

Oh excuse me what did you say....be joyful when I am being persecuted? Excuse are you sure that is what this is saying?

YES! Paul confirms it!!!1

James 1:2"My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations."

Okay there ya'go!

Before and After Bedroom

2012-01-14T18:13:00.000-06:00

Drop sheet dropped, day has begun, paints all mixed, brushes out, sleeves rolled up and off we go!

I am remodeling my bedroom. It is still not finished much yet still to do ...but today we put a huge amount of work behind us.....here are the before and after pics:

change the neutral tan to gray

the closet doors will be the next project....I have had my eye on a nice mirror closet sliding door for my bedroom. It will also make it appear a bit larger!

Melody

Good Friends ~ They painted I was the go'fetch'em girl and I made lunch

Gerald Dean

Mom stated I would hate my bedroom, that gray and black will not look good !

Wrong!

Uhmmm thinking mom may be correct!

Uhmmm thinking Mom is wrong!

Did not want the color white in this room, but the Pinch of Salt Gray Paint refused to be gray and was white ....so white is now included!

Need flooring and ceiling fan ... curtain needs tie backs

I moved into this house August 2010, there was so much to do ...outside work inside work ...it is a slow go and I am doing it alone...on not much pay ....but I am enjoying the journey in making the house mine. I have added shutters outside to front window, birdhouses, bird feeders, humming bird feeders, flowers, rose trellis, welcome flags, bird baths, so many plans so little time, so little money....

But all this makes me appreciate it so much more!

Uhmmm it was not until I saw this picture that I realized the "white" candles do not appear too white...gotta make a change there!

This shot blurred but it shows the comforter and rugs!

I am open for suggestions on extras for the room.....I need a guy that knows how to install mirror closet slide doors....and a ceiling fan ....

God will provide ...I have found most of the items thus far on sale, or someone had extra and shared....I am having so much fun...this is the first time I have had the opportunity to do "exactly" as "I" choose with my house! YeeHaw!

Having A Bad Day?

2012-01-14T07:36:00.002-06:00

Yesterday was a nightmare! And that is speaking lightly of the intense stress that was brought on by the betrayal of a co-worker! I had prayed a prayer yesterday morning about the opportunities in the day to be given me to exalt HIS NAME, and I sure "got'em". I did fair in exalting his name but it was after I had been beaten down with rejection, after discovering betrayal of a co-worker that added to and took with with her own diseased perception of life, a comment I had made about some of the expectations of work place authorities and ran told the supervisor.

Oh I was fit to be tied...I was angry...for this one person runs her mouth viciously of others, and I have never shared her words with anyone....!!!

Needless to say it was a very stressful day for me. I never got up in any one's face, I did not cop an attitude, however I did withdraw and became extremely quiet. I had printed off before leaving for work, yesterday's prayer and I, ALL day, read it over and over ...weeping inside of me because the struggle to do right before my LORD and the flesh wanting to jump up and make a scene...oh dear me, the struggle within was a frightful thing!

Though I did not sail out from the stormy seas onto the safety of the sandy banks with a Praise You LORD Hallelujah Amen bellowing; I did move slowly to the banks of salvation with thanksgiving and a humble realization how desperately I need a Saviour!

For one to think it is a wimpy person that needs Christianity, a Saviour, a Refuge, A High Tower, a Redeemer, a Secret Hiding Place, Defense, a Buckler, is the revelation that they know not the Love of God and His provision, His protection, His Might and His Power!

When I saw this picture of the baby elephant being attacked, charged, threatened by the alligator, I thought of the five senses and the sense of our Nose being one of them.

Nose or the sense of smell = Conscience = Hope

Body = Soul = Spirit

When the darkness, hate and death of this world attempts to destroy us by taking captive our conscience then our hope is destroyed right along with it. How many times have we heard or even spoken, "I smell something fishy"....that is our soulish realm sensing something is not right.

So it goes with the spiritual application!

If my conscience has been darkened by the powers of darkness then my hope has lost it vigor to keep me on the right path.

My Pastor has written a small book on animals of the Bible and their symbolism.

Alligator - Spirit of Fraud and Robbery = the act of robbing, thief, artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured .... deception

I was as the baby elephant yesterday, the attack of dastardly deeds done was committed with intent to injury me and bring suffering to me. Why? Because of the control of the darkness, hate and death that resides in the heart of the other co-worker. As I continued throughout the day, the LORD ministered to me:

Reproof Correction and Instructions in Righteousness!

Yes He Did!

He reminded me to love that one that is but a puppet to the powers of darkness, to love that one that knows not Truth, to love that one because HE loves her! To do otherwise would have been to rebel against the LORD and the moment that has been planned and purposed because HE wants to be exalted in hopes that the "offender" would recognize

HIS FAITHFUL LOVE TOWARD MANKIND..

< Am I not to let His light shine>...

I was as the baby elephant walking to close to the edge of the waters that lurked, my enemy. I did make a comment about the authorities expectations = guilty =

So part of my suffering, hurting, was due to my own actions....."Rhonda keep your mouth shut".

I know not to put my trust in the arm of flesh but I did anyway!

If I think for one moment that the serpent of darkness, that slithers around daily will not use whatever, whoever, and whenever opportunities to rob me of my treasures of peace and joy, then I have set my own self up for sorrow and suffering!

God has allowed all of the yesterday to come forth in my life as He allowed Satan to come against Job! Why? I needed some cleansing, I needed to recognize areas of my life that are unlike him, I needed to understand more the Truth that God is a Just Judge always and all things do work for my good because I love Him.

So when the alligator reaches up and bites your nose and tugs on it to bring you to his fantasy, or when the serpent has cunningly slithered its way into your house, took your peace and joy....know that God is Sovereign and has a Holy Divine Purpose for all things!

Psalm 19:8"He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good."

Psalm 19:11"The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression."

What is transgression? It is a violation of the law! What law? The Law of Love!

Her Flowers Not Mine

2012-01-13T20:40:00.000-06:00

These flowers belong to one of my co-workers. Today was her wedding anniversary and her sweet man sent her these flowers! Of course "every season she gets flowers"....

I saw them and of course I wanted to snap a few pics. I did and brought them home downloaded them and cropped and edited and now I share them with you! < On his dollar > ;0)

I want to play some more but my lil Abby Girl is begging for attention. She has been shut up in the house by herself since 7:15 this a.m. ... until 7:00 pm.....she wants company. So I will get off here now and play with her.....

Have a wonderful weekend ~ Yes tomorrow my friend and her hubby are coming to paint my bedroom....I'm sooo excited!

Who are They?

2012-01-13T06:51:00.002-06:00

Psalm 3:1"LORD, HOW are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me."

"They" are defined in Ephesians 6:12

Ephesians 6:12"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."

So I can love my brother and my sister for it is not them that wages war against me, it is but "they" who rise up against me through them. Why me? Because of the Holy Precious Name of Jesus Christ that abides, dwells within me! I'm not all that, I'm no threat to the kingdom of darkness, hate and death, I myself have no power or might to come against "they".

When we get our spiritual eyes enlightened we will see clearly that it is only the darkness, hate and death of this world that longs to destroy the light, love and life that abides within a child of God. People, or things are but instruments for the principalities, powers, rulers of darkness, spiritual wickedness to maneuver as a puppet. "They" are the puppeteers!

The war is against the Name: The war is purposed to destroy Holy and Righteousness: The war was before I was in flesh form: The war started in heaven in the loins of the LORD when I was but a stone of fire.

Ezekiel 28:14"Thou are the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire."

< you and me in soul and spirit form before we took on flesh or a body >

"Wast and hast" are all past tense words.

One day those that are puppets to the hands of the principalities, powers, rulers of darkness of this world, and spiritual wickedness in high places, will need the power of the Love Light and Life of God.

And if I have made myself wise through prayer and studying God's Word to gain wisdom understanding, knowledge so that my prudence shall be holy and righteous, then the Love Light and Life of God will have been seen and the Truth that abides within me, they will be drawn too.

People we must understand, Rhonda you must understand this has and is never about us, me!

There are two works:

1) Works of Light

2) Works of darkness

Which will employ us? Pay day does come!

It is not the spouse that has been captured by alcoholism, it is not the parent that administers abuse, it is not the sibling that hates, it is not the friend that betrays, it is not the employer that robs, it is not the supervisor that deceives, it is NOT!!!!! So we "must" stop hating the vessels that are as a puppet to the evil puppeteers, and love them through the Power of Christ so that they may be liberated unto Truth!

When my grandson ask me this weekend about loving someone and not liking them it started me really thinking about my actions. You can love someone but what is it that makes you dislike them was my question to him. He said because they are not pleasant people to be around, all they do is act mean and say cruel things. I ask him if he thought God loved them and he said, yes. I told him we love but dislike the powers that rule them. That each and everyone has some area of their life that is governed by the powers of darkness. I explained to him the control of the darkness, hate and death of this world that has them held captive and it is not the person we dislike but the manifestation of the darkness, the hate and the death that is within and controls them.

My pastor has taught me that there are two categories of people:

1) vessels of mercy

2) vessels of wrath

Which do I want to be? One comes natural and the other is warred against!

Let us not grow weary in our well doing!

Galatians 6:9"And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not."

I Rhonda, purpose this moment, for this day, to be a vessel of mercy. Father the very Mercy I desire to experience from you I shall give to others! Enlighten my eyes of understanding dear LORD today that I may exalt YOU in all circumstances, all situations, among all people. Let me not forget the agony of being a prisoner of darkness, hate and death that I may be a vessel that liberty may flow through to another held captive. Dear Father in Heaven, hold me close that I might hear the very beat of your heart for your people, that I may hear the whisper of your voice of love extended to those that are blind, deaf and mute toward your righteousness and holiness. Let your Light be seen in my Light!

Let my voice be an echo of your Words of Promise and Hope. Let my walk be that of the Holy Spirit that will lead me down the path of righteousness. Let my heart be filled with gratitude today as I receive the nutrition of the green grass and the refreshment from the still waters today.

O'LORD I pray grant me the opportunities today to have the privilege of making your Name Known in a perverse and wicked generation! Father if I live in the Spirit today I shall walk in the Spirit today.

Amen

OH NO

2012-01-12T06:35:00.001-06:00

All these news way to do this to do that .... why does it bother me so much now ????

I'm becoming as the old dog.....but I have realized it is "not" because the old dog cannot learn new tricks......He just doesn't understand the need for change....

Isn't it working just fine the way it is?

Why all this comments about an old dog? Well, I read that they were going to do away with Google Friend Connect and I value my followers friendship, visitations and enjoy so much going to their blogs that I freaked out thinking ...OH NO I do not want to lose contact or my 'door' to their blog. SO I signed up for Google+......is it hard, no mam' it is not.....I just find myself saying, what was wrong with simple?

Maybe it is the level of stress that I am living under now for the last three years and change is actually good but Jeez Louise, I don't wanna do it!

Can't it just be simple, life I mean? Why is it so necessary to have fifty steps to get to one measly function? Turn it right then turn three times to the left, then go back four times and then go forward one time: HELP....just give me a key with one turn, ya know what I mean?

Just take the day one step at a time, ONE STEP at a time! Run with joy, leap with happiness, find a good chew toy and relax.

See this little critters smile? He is smiling because he is free to run...

No No little one that is "NOT" your chew toy

We have to sharpen our teeth on something, do we not? Find something without feelings, something that doesn't bark back, Oh I know, prayer works wonderful!

IF Fido knows to be thankful then so shall I?

I'm guessing they built the front porch for when I get too old to run with the big dogs, I can take my bowl of water, my blanket and chew toy, and watch the "rat race" from the porch! Some say, "I will never get too old"....that's good....some say "old age is all in the mind" ....that's good....but I say, Old Age is reality .... and I'm getting old!

What a wonderful blessing it is to have someone to share the "getting old" with. But then again I live alone, and find a peace within that. We are were we are in life, it shall be what it shall be, it is what it is! Acceptance with Joy ....

I have had the companion and I guess I find it less stressful living alone! Get the King size bed to myself, no one wasting the toilet paper....Grocery bill is way way lower than before....No inlaws with their paws in the money bag, no more he said she said they said I said....

The quality, size, and appetities of the companion makes the difference as to if it is a pleasant union or a frightful union.

I do not have to fret over to be pretty or the other! wink wink

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder! And we all are beautiful in some form or fashion. I am finding my beauty on the front porch taking it easy now, that is a faith statement, seeking the path that has already been trodden down for me. They say with old age comes wisdom! I'm becoming pretty wise, not as wise as I will become but getting there "rapidly"!!!! One step at a time....wishing change would not come for me

~ wanting all the combinations to continue to work as before ~

I just do not want to deal with the intense stress any longer! Give me my chew toy please, my blanket so I can find me a nice spot on the front porch.

Please know I am not suggesting to find a place and die but I am saying, getting older does have it rewards. And the one reward I seek, I desire is the simplier beauties of life. Ya'know! Friendlier Friendlies, Smiles of all Smiles, Hello how'ya doing, excuse me thank you yes sir no sir, and a simple instruction that states, slip key in keyhole turn to right ....BAM ... your in!

My little Abby Girl teaches me a lot about getting older. She loves me in the middle of my cranky, she is faithful to always come running to the door wagging her "nub tail", yepping at me, I am so happy you're home ....happy happy happy ....she is my destresser so many times!

Getting older I find is a whole new experience. YUP a whole NEW experience. I can make it stressful by stressing over the changes of time or I can say give me my "stuff" I'm headed to the porch! It is always our choice!

The truth is this for me anyway, if it comes with three pages of instructions, I don't want it ....if it requires a week of reading before I can take one step....I'll sit ....not that I am rejecting by stupidity the changes to come but if it took me three hours to put together one shower caddy pole for my shampoo and one bar of soap I need to understand the front porch is where I need to be! Not be resentful over it, just smile and head on out!

I'm so looking forward to getting older and wiser, how about you?

My front porch probably looks and is something different than your front porch. Some folks find intense pleasures in milking cows, gathering eggs, throwing cubes out for the cattle, some enjoy the walk by a rushing stream of water, the breeze blowing through the leaves of the tall trees, a bird singing in the background, some like my Grandma loved to sit in her rocking chair on the front porch with her Sweet Honesty Snuff rocking and spitting.

Whatever your dream of getting older and wiser may be, one thing that we all have in common. "We all are aging" ... the intense stress of this world will bring us to old and cranky to quick if we do not know how or find a way to eliminate it from our lives. The more stuff we have the more stress there is: Living more simple is a goal I have set for myself...right after I paint the house, built the doggie door, put up the new glass sliding closet doors, lay the new floors, hang all four new ceiling fans, gut the bathroom and start over, purchase that flag pole for front yard, shampoo the "one" room that has carpet....I do not want carpet so I need to plan on pulling up that carpet and add it to the list for new flooring.....
OH DEAR ME WHERE IS THAT FRONT PORCH!

First Shots of the Year 2012

2012-01-11T20:22:00.001-06:00

This was takenWednesday morning 1-4- 2012 on my way to work early one morning. I love the smoke pipes from the papermill.

This was taken the same Monday morning...what a beautiful sky it was! I am looking so forward to purchasing a Nice Camera.....but until then I'm snappy happy with the one I have!

This was on the way to work this morning, Wednesday 1 -11-2012....I had to pull over on the side of the road and stop to snap a few pics of the beautiful sun coming up this a.m.

Another shot I captured this morning on my way to work.

This was taken today while I was on my lunch break. I have a folder I have titled, Seriously for all these kind of shots! I dunno? Don't ask!

Well, it is just a few shots and not really good ones either! But the one of the car is one of those that make you go, Seriously?.....it must be a Wal-Mart Shopper ....

I promise as time permits I will get off to those places where the good shots are located and use the other camera I have that will take better shots but I have to take time to focus and select settings....these pics were taken with my Canon Power Shot.