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God took a pile of dirt and breathed life into it! With a simple and profound thought of you! Every hair, every dream you would ever have! With that breathe of life came His hope…a profound and simple hope that you would return to him and share His love in a life eternal he has planned for those who love him. A love so deep so profound He gave His only Son that who so ever believed and turned from sin and seeks His Son shall find peace everlasting. Is not someone who loved you so much worth a second look, for you shall not find another with a love so pure…

More on the promises

NKJ 2 Corinthians 1:20 For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.

‘IN HIM’ is a reference to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; So that we know all of God’s promises are fulfilled in Jesus.  And Jesus backed up that promise and made another to return for us in:

John 14:1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled, Trust in God; trust also in me.” 2 "In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you 3 "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also 4 "And where I go you know, and the way you know." 5 Thomas said to Him, "Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?" 6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” 7 " If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him." 8 Philip said to Him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us." 9 Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, 'Show us the Father'? 10 "Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.”

In my walk with Christ I have found great consolation in knowing where I came from and where I am going; it creates a self assurance within me. That is one of the leading reasons I find the promises of God so important.

In addition, my personal experience with God has been wherever I encounter fear I find a promise. And the more of these promises I learn, I find that if I stand on faith in God’s Word an obey His Word; I grow spiritually in leaps and bounds, and it is easier to follow after Christ and obey the commandments.

I would like to wind this up with two quotes I love about the Word of God:

1. John Herrmann “Our hope is not to found in running from place to place or in smug resignation to the evils of life, but rather in belief and trust in the Word of God…Thank God for this lamp of truth that burns ever brightly telling us of Jesus of Nazareth, the promised Messiah sent by God to redeem us from slavery to sin, death, and hopelessness.”

2. Is from Haldor Lillenas based of Psalm 119:105 “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”

“The Word of God is like a light that shines serenely thro’ the night; its rays will light my weary way to the realms of a fair unending day.”  “The word of God is strong and sure, forevermore it shall endure, when oceans cease to kiss the shore, when suns shall set to rise no more; ‘Mid crash of worlds it shall remain unshaken midst the starry rain, upon it firm foundation strong, I will plant my feet thro’ the ages long.“

That’s all for today I leave you with a blessing

That God grow your inner man in both grace and understanding in Jesus Name….

Where I find love!

Happy Valentines Day to all....

If you get a little lonely on this love holiday as I sometimes do; I find peace in reminding myself of the great love I do have!


As darkness tries to surround me a light comes within my bones the light of the word ignites in my soul and burns in my bones like I will surely explode if not to praise my Savior as he lights the way I should go.

No matter how dark the darkness nor how hard it presses in; the light is there to guide me and protect me; that the stars become my friends for I listen intently to hear their soft song to ease my soul. I feel love upon me as I listen to the sounds of the universe singing gently in my soul your gaze and curiosity is near sometime I can almost feel it touch in the amber glow before morning when all is alive in anticipation of that first ray of light.

The steps I take hold no logic yet some where deep I know they guide me to my destiny all written in God’s Word.

As I set my eyes to the horizon I see the amber glow with a promise of a sunrise that shall bring the risen son. In the darkness of self when darkness presses in hope ignites and love is found when you move from self to love.

When you receive that love a flame ignites deep within your soul that edges away the darkness with the security of God’s eternal love.




When darkness comes to find me I search all around me for eyes that see or ears that hear another of heart to understand. Finding not, I strain to hear the song of the Morning Star to ease my darkness’ rage. I imagine your nearness the softness in your eyes and gentle trough trying hard to understand.

Are you in a life of lies

The following is something I wrote several years ago and I am posting it as a special request from a dear friend may God Bless and touch the hearts of those who read it with understanding.  I normally do not post this type of writing. After starting my own journey toward finding out why my life was so messed up and starting to a form understanding of some of the mentioned conditions in life.  I wrote this for a dear friend who was more or less in the same boat I was when I made these reflections in my life I shared with my friend and this is being posted that they might share it with others.

My next post for God's promises is almost ready and will be posted soon!  And yes, I will try to eliminate these rabbit trails I go off in....However special requests should be treated as such....


The life you led to reach this point in your life you have just always been the victim Hun? I bet one of your favorite lines is “well if this had not happen or that had happen or if so and so had not done this; I was abused as a child, I am from a dysfunctional family, no one has ever given me a break, no one has ever really understood me! And the list can go on and on; so I am going to take that last one and focus on it, “No one had ever understood me, poor poor me!”


How could anyone of understood you when you have never even told yourself the truth…Never have not in a whole life time…Have you uttered the truth to yourself…That is that private part deep inside your heart that place you do not go! You avoid those Christians God has been so cruel to you, you will never strike a deal with him! And those you surround yourself with all their problems are their problems…they probably deserve the disaster they are living in! A real Mr. Tuff Stuff! You’re not remorseful or sorry for anything you have always done what you had to do to survive!

So now you are in a mind set….you are ready, convinced yourself you are going to reign in hell! Well I don’t think so! You are too easy! Satan could care less about you…He has won and never had to do anything but place that first lie in your heart and get you to believe it! Those influencing demons that have controlled your life probably do not even know your name! The influence of the world is so strong in your life you just went right by the devils program. You see the devil has a program the D’s I call it, and you are no more that a D to the devil one of the easy marks, he knows if you continue you will be there with him in the burning pit and he did not have to urge you on at all just hand you a program of his D’s and you will do it all yourself.

I am of firm believe that the D program is not only for you desiring to reign in Hell but many who seek Jesus also fail to be Christ like because one or more of D’s they have not uprooted from their lives; blocking them from the ability to walk in love…

First let us go through the D’s

The first D is deceit some of us first learn to lie at a very early age almost as if it comes naturally and when we lie we almost always first internalize that lie. Can you remember that first lie? When you did something you knew you were not supposed to do? First you probably told yourself you where never going to do that again! Lie? At the same time you may have also pronounced you “Did not to it”! It was so easy! Now trouble begins; you see as we grow, so do the lies; sadly we have discovered how easy it is to lie to ourselves! And those lies will grow and remain with you, unless rooted out.



Second D:deception: is planned lying. Remarkably a synonym of deception is imposter and this is where we begin to invent and develop this image of who we will become if not stopped. This person we are inventing with our lies. For we have found lying is easy! Our lies begin to take on an entity of their own within us! So we start planning our lies so they will fit in with our other lies; sadly at this point far too many even begin to believe the lies they tell their selves. For every lie we tell to others we internalize and tell ourselves a lie to justify the lie we told. Slowly and predictably as you create this alternate person that can pass off as ourselves; since you have never taken the time out to find out who you really are.



Third D detachment: yep, now you have to keep your distance from others so they won’t figure out you are not who you say you are at all! So no one can break through the facade you have created with your lies. And it is easier to believe yourselves the façade rather than experiencing the pain of digging into who you really are and what your purpose in life really is…So now here you are someone you invented through your lies half believing them yourself with no idea of who you really are. Fear and panic now setting in that someone might break your great façade…You must not allow anyone to close!



Fourth D defense: now you start your strategy to defend who you have invented…Your defense never letting anyone come to close…never tell anyone everything, never a soul mate for you…Only someone who will believe the image you have built for yourself. If anyone grows to close you will destroy the relationship completely and yes this includes family friends’ loves…



Fifth D deep depression: you’re alone! You must not let anyone to close. You are the person alone in the middle of a crowded room. The person you have made turns out not to be the person you wanted to be at all…Your depression is building now to anger…you don’t want to be alone…you are going to start over now (lying to yourself) You are going to draw someone else into your depressed state…then you will be better (more lies to yourself). There is no way you can keep up a relationship you are too busy keeping up with yourself. So all you are doing is drawing someone into your web of deception the world of lies you have built to live in. You have your pattern set up so well and in place just the way you think you want it! For relationship all you can do now is force another to live your lie; sadly there will be others in your same state that will! (Can anyone see the word abuser here?) Now to keep any relationship from getting to real we must add alcohol, no one wants to drink alone, drugs yes, no one wants to get high alone and of course sex! Careful here, it may feel good for a few times, however, even sex will become another place your façade will dominate it is way too close to intimacy for you to ever fully enjoy or be comfortable with…

Can you relate to any of this? Let me share something with you here most of the world is right with you to this point in the D’s every lie in their live is like a little grain of sand that has accumulated into rocks with a firmness that could out last the ages. Where is this accumulation? Your heart! You have gone beyond feeling to hardness in heart, a heart so cold as stone there is only one who can make a difference! YOU!

Well I will get back to you! Let’s finish the D’s!

Sixth D depravity: Webster says “a depraved condition; corruption; wickedness;…a depraved act….

So here you are! So high on alcohol, drugs, and sex you really don’t care who you are! Nor do you give any care to what you think about and dwell on (a real danger zone). Worst, you do not even care what other people think including friends and family! You just want to feel good at all costs! So you really blow out to the extremes your façade kick up those lies a notch or two…So no one finds out you have reduced yourselves to nothing more important than the next high! Now you have abused every substance and every person along the way by any means available at the time. A lot of people just stay stuck right here; until their master the devil escorts them out of this life to the pit of fire for their eternal judgment! Sadly they leave this world never knowing why they were here, so they never really know why they where here; or what their destiny could have been. Also sadly some do not stop here and go on extremely fixated on that next high….



Seventh D debauchery: I am leaving this to Webster: “extreme, unrestrained indulgence of one’s immoral appetites; sexual pleasures and other indulgences….”
You can outline that one yourself…. To me it simply means your own manner of self-indulgence no matter what the price! And that is total victory for the Devil!

I call these the Devil's D's

There is still time if you are reading this, I honestly believe in my heart this is a life time progression that many of us follow. It is possible to jump out of this cycle by excepting Jesus Christ into your heart and giving up that person you created and allow him to create a new you. There will still be some paying the price of the life style you chose to indulge in, but Christ makes your road one of understanding if you ask, He answers. It is at that point you meet the true person you are and learn to stand and walk upright for you are on the journey to your true destiny.

February 4, 2012

Why search God’s promises!

Romans 15:4 give us assurances to the word of God.

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

For me I have found to remain close to the word of God is benefit for me in all things, to search out his word seeking wisdom and understanding within the scriptures. Proverbs 4 is one of the scriptures I keep close to my heart to remind me God has not denied me anything but that all things are possible.

NKJ Mark 9:23 Jesus said to him, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes." NKJ Mark 10:27 But Jesus looked at them and said, "With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible."

Solomon was granted much wisdom so I keep his writing about understanding close to my heart for he looked to wisdom as his sister!

NKJ Proverbs 4:1 Hear, my children, the instruction of a father, And give attention to know understanding; 2 For I give you good doctrine: Do not forsake my law. 3 When I was my father's son, Tender and the only one in the sight of my mother, 4 He also taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words; Keep my commands, and live. 5 Get wisdom! Get understanding! Do not forget, nor turn away from the words of my mouth. 6 Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you; Love her, and she will keep you. 7 Wisdom is the principal thing; Therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding. 8 Exalt her, and she will promote you; She will bring you honor, when you embrace her. 9 She will place on your head an ornament of grace; A crown of glory she will deliver to you." 10 Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, And the years of your life will be many. 11 I have taught you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in right paths. 13 Take firm hold of instruction, do not let go; Keep her, for she is your life. 14 Do not enter the path of the wicked, And do not walk in the way of evil. 15 Avoid it, do not travel on it; Turn away from it and pass on. 16 For they do not sleep unless they have done evil; And their sleep is taken away unless they make someone fall. 17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence. 18 But the path of the just is like the shining sun, That shines ever brighter unto the perfect day. 19 The way of the wicked is like darkness; They do not know what makes them stumble. 20 My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. 21 Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart; 22 For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh. 23 Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life. 24 Put away from you a deceitful mouth, And put perverse lips far from you. 25 Let your eyes look straight ahead, And your eyelids look right before you. 26 Ponder the path of your feet, And let all your ways be established. 27 Do not turn to the right or the left; Remove your foot from evil.


So you see I seek understanding and desire wisdom to be as close to me as a sister to gain understanding which God gives forth abundantly! Therefore I am at this point in my life to seek out God’s promises in the word of God as that is how the Holy Spirit is guiding me…

I have always been quick and quip in saying I am standing on the promises of God…I believe God is telling me it is time for me to have understanding of those promises…God willing…

That’s all for today I leave you with a blessing

That God grow your inner man in both grace and understanding in Jesus Name….

February 3, 2012

WOW!



I have to admit I had no idea that the whole Bible is interlaced with the promises of God! It is truly a book of promises! Anchored securely with an oath from God

KJV Hebrews 6:17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: 18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: 19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; 20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

Do we not serve an awesome awesome God!

I have really pondering on this with this follow up in Peter:

KJV 1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.


In my heart this gives a whole new meaning to: KJV 2 Corinthians 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

So along with the busy of life…you can see I have been doing some real thinking about just how extensive, complete, secure, unmovable, unshakable, eternal and everlasting God’s love for us is! God’s love is truly beyond any thing our minds can conceive in its fullness!

So my word for the day…God sure does love you, consider that an think about it…God’s love for you is so extreme and beyond anything you can even think or imagine….He create you to live and walk in that love…You are the apple of God’s eye and he wants to polish you up!!! Forever!

I will continue in the promises for awhile!

I leave you with blessings for the day:
May God bless and grow your inner man!

January 29, 2012

Wow!

Promises of God! God is the ultimate extreme promise maker!

The ultimate promise keeper! And we can walk assured he will fulfill every promise He has made! How utterly awesome is that! I will be covering why we can believe that today and tomorrow!

I had no idea the vast amount of promises the word of God holds! This cannot be another of my rabbit trails, it is deeper than I ever imagined…

So I will walk slowly through and share how my mind explores this miracle of truths the Lord has stored up in His Word! There are so many I do not where this study is going to go…but I am on board!

My first thought was just what is a promise? Simple right, until you think about it, for it requires faith to believe in promises. I have asked several people what a promise is to them most answered it is “someone committing to do something without fail”. Words like assurance, guarantee, pledge, secure and undertake are all synonyms of the word promise. Every day we place faith in every day circumstances that our cars will run, the gas we buy will be good, the food we eat safe, our prescriptions will make us well.

Therefore, when we receive a promise we must place a certain amount of confidence in the source from which we are accepting the promise; in this case God through His written word. Perhaps that is why God gave each of us a measure of faith “KJV Romans 12:3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith”.

All of us having a portion of faith then what promises does God give us toward placing that faith in Him and His precious Son Jesus Christ and his Word?

Let me stop there for now and look up the scriptures where God’s promises show us He is indeed who He says He is and will do what He said He would do!

I leave you with blessings for the day:


May God bless all that you so for His names sake!