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Preparation is a MUST. One day you are here and the next you are not. We do not know what tomorrow might bring. Everything we are or are not doing effects others now and in the days to come. We would do well to remember the benefits listed in Psalm 103. The events of a single day are continually changing. One minute the sun is shining brighter than it ever has and then within that same hour we look up and heavy thick clouds are rolling in unexpectedly. Later on you go for a walk and step in poo, and at the end of your exercise time you are standing down-wind of the honeysuckle bushes. One morning you might be contemplating an idea or possibility, next thing you know you are living smack dab in the reality of that dream coming true.  The fulfillment of it had nothing to with your abilities or lack thereof, but everything to do with the faithfulness of the One who created you and has given you everything you need for life and godliness. We can prepare for...

PrayerLESSness is an epidimic. Most of us who have prayed and believed and seen amazing answer come from our small efforts know good and well that the more we pray the stronger our immune systems get against laziness and unbelief. There is something different about us when we follow through and do what we know we should do and what we want to do deep down, and we were made to worship and commune with our Creator. When we neglect our times of prayer and worship our countenances reflect that and the world around us feels the effects of it. Romans 12 speaks about THIS IS HOW WE CAN TEST AND APPROVE AND KNOW WHAT THE PERFECT PLEASING WILL OF GOD IS.  By renewing our minds and allowing it to transform us. This is how we guard against being barren and unfruitful. This is how we stand against temptation. We are enabled to walk and live out of the truth that sets us free when we pick up our sword and let the high praises of God be in our mouths. This simple act empowers us to...

When your good is evil spoken of, when your wishes are crossed, your advice disregarded, your opinion ridiculed, and you refuse to let anger rise in your heart, or even defend yourself, but take it all in patient, loving silence...that is dying to self. When you lovingly and patiently bear any disorder, any irregularity, any impunctuality, or any annoyance; when you stand face to face with waste, silly extravagance, spiritual insensibility, and endure it as Jesus did...that is dying to self. When you are content with any food, any offering, any climate, any society, any clothing, any interrogation, any interruption by the will of God...that is dying to self. When you never care to refer to yourself in conversation, or to defend your own good works, or itch for commendation, when you can truly love to be unknown...that is dying to self. When you can see your brother prosper and have his needs met, and can honestly rejoice with him in spirit, and feel no envy, nor question God, w...

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right . Honor your father and mother—which is the first commandment with a promise— that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth. (Ephesians 6:1-3) Certain legalistic viewpoints take the scriptures completely out of context to suite their cult-like, unloving, right in their own eyes ways of living. Nowhere in scripture does it give you permission to write off, disregard, or neglect your own flesh and blood. If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. (Luke 14:25-27) If you look at the passages around these verses you will find that the people were making many statements and most of them were making excuses. I earnestly believe that Jesus is saying DO NOT LET ANYTHING come between you and I. ...

He's more than a friend. We are absolutely emotionally involved. He has revealed himself to me in our years of friendship, and even though he has alot going on he still takes time to share his thoughts and listen to mine. Every time we talk I am overjoyed to see how much more there is to know about him, and the more he shares, the more I realize what is hidden in my own heart. I have gone through so many different seasons and he has remained patient all along. Initiating questions that bring the answers to prayers from long ago. He is familiar with all my ways, and even when I was in denial of my feelings towards him, he calls me 'beautiful.' There is no half-n-half when it comes to relationships. There is either communications or there is not. There is intimacy or there is none. There is understanding or there is not. Agreement or disagreement. Clarity or confusion. And the list of either or's could continue on forever. Determine to make up you...

From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.  Psalm 61:2 Gnosis. Knowledge of spiritual matters. Kick the door in on yourself! Have you ever wondered why you are swallowing so much stuff that other people say? Why are so many people spending so much time and money medicating themselves just because someone says, "This is what you need" to avoid discomfort and pain? Put the pill bottles down. Why do you put your trust in what is only covering up the symptoms, and not actually dealing with the problems? Pain is a positive sign that healing is not far away. Numbness or at least continual numbness is not (I REPEAT) IS NOT helping your situation. Non-formal drug bust! Reality just flipped the lights on so you can see what's attempting to steal your valuables while you are right there in the room. The thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy and guess wha...