Focus determines direction, direction determines destination! " I , If I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto Me ...."John 12:32 Notice that He does NOT say, if you magnify all that does NOT lift Me up! Nor does He ever suggest that it is our job to...
Secretarial Skills: Must excel at organizing! Must be able to schedule appointments; to remember all individual schedules simultaneously, along with all pertinent contact information, trip directions and individual needs as well as personally managing...
As hymns, traditions, their songs employ, we seem to have a war on Joy; The sadness, as a heavy smog, dampens joy in misty fog. Yet we Light the candles, and the tree, Honoring One who can make us free! Another friend, has turned to foe, choosing pride...
Again, I am writing in response to a Devotional entry, which is included in posting on Face Book, my favorite, "My Utmost for His Highest". Today's devotional began with an extraordinary promise, "In that day you will ask in my Name ... because the Father...
This is one of the many popular current catch-phrases of today's increasingly "tough-guy culture. It is an imposed persona which is intended for intimidation! Otherwise known as the "bad-ass" image, which is a psychological self-defense mechanism - that...
... Let No Flesh Put Asunder" You may recognize this phrase as the final emphasis which the minister reverently utters as the "seal the deal" declaration in many "Christian/Western Religion" oriented marriage ceremonies. What a small and conveniently...
(Shepherd, Rabbi, Lover, Lord) Awaken me morning by morning, patiently teach me Your ways, Forgive my dull resistance, sometimes I feel so dazed. The damage of my former "life" still laying around my feet, is difficult to overlook, it represents defeat,...
This the grave expression that is usually uttered, if we are diagnosed with a grave illness, a condition, which has a brief life expectancy. We are told to "get our affairs in order" - so that we can die in peace knowing that our family is not unnecessarily...
... to all those kind enough, intrigued enough or astounded enough to keep reading my writing; First of all, thank you hanging in. This is going to be a long one, but since it these are complicated times I can not express what I am feeling in a few lines!...
This morning as I woke up I felt like a million pounds had fallen on me in the night! The particular circumstances do not really matter, they change minute to minute, but the way I handle the weight makes all the difference. So as I sat, trying to gather...
We've all been there. At one time or another in our lives we reach that place where we feel we've done all we can to get God involved in our exploits, or, rather, to feel like we are involved in His, but seemingly to no avail. The heavens echo our prayers...
I first read L'Abri, which is a French word that means "The Shelter", as a newly married woman without children. It is a great book by Edith Schaeffer about the early years of foreign ministry with her husband Francis and their children. I remember vividly...
This is a well known phrase among the religious. It is "King James" vernacular for "getting tired of doing the right thing without seeing the commensurate results, and therefore ceasing (or at least being tempted to cease) to do right". What does the...
... Between God and His Own... I see too many believers now days who are caught in a great impasse. Including us! What I mean is that place where God is saying to them, "Go, and I will show you..."; and they are stonewalling Him by saying, "Nay, Lord...
The men of God fall by the score, what makes us think we'll win this war? In thick of night, the battles rage, what antidote will disengage, from fear of death, from dread of pain? What makes us live to fight again? The Light of Life within our souls,...
An eagle fears no cliffs - fiscal or otherwise. In fact the eagle fears very little! As one of the best of God's flying beings, at least in this realm, the eagle, once discharged from its mother's careful instruction, has no fear of "falling off" anything!...
For the Observant Jewish Home (and in a growing number of homes of Followers of Yeshua; who have allowed the Ruach to open their eyes to these Appointed Times of the LORD) this has been a bustling time of preparation! Much work is required to ready the...
Be my center, be my sun, let my all revolve on Thee! Never leave my flesh alone, nail it, Lord, to Calvary! Let my abandon, and my love be all consuming, faithful, real, make my motivation pure, not self-exalting, religious zeal! Ruach Ha Kodesh, shine...
Such a yearning, such a burning, longing ever to be free, of the fleshly, ugly, strongholds, that keep our souls from Thee! Longing evermore to Worship, in Your purity and light, yearning to escape the shadows that still haunt us in the night! Do come...
I was reading my daily devotional today and I was stricken with a sudden revelation! Brother Chambers frequently astounds me with his profound insights and today was no different! He said, "Being saved and seeing Jesus is not the same thing. Many are...
... What Does This Say About Us? Response to Article on "Obama's Narcissistic Condition" {* A note of explanation: Recently I received an article in my inbox from a trusted source, written by a Dr. Michael Habberman, which seemed to prove in no uncertain...
A Timely Question. Ezekiel was asked this question by the Spirit of God, who had just shown him a vision of the valley of dry bones! His profound answer was the only rational answer to be given, "Oh Lord, You know!" The conversation from there becomes...
"Feelings, nothing more than feelings, trying to forget those feelings of love....." So goes an old love song. Or was it yet another forlorn, "lost-love" song? Which ever it was, it rightly expressed to some extent, the undependable nature of our feelings....
Come and Heal Me Again Lord, I'm letting go of this pain in my heart, cold disrespect, has nearly torn me apart! I can't hold on, through the hurt and the pain, Hold onto me, Lord, and heal me again! I'm walking away, while I have some esteem, Don't want...
The prophets have historically been slaughtered in the name of enlightenment! That is the same as accusing the candle of the darkness to justify snuffing it out! But, of course, it is because they inevitably come to cover the flesh's happily irresponsible...
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