Monthly Archives: February 2014

Assurance - Promise, Christian Living

Under the Radar

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I was thinking of a Scriptural concept this morning; making a mental note to look it up when I could slow down long enough to get to my laptop.

And as the HOLY SPIRIT would have it my Little Girl quoted it to me this afternoon.

Is there something troubling you? Do you know something corrupt is going on but it’s just below the radar of exposure?

Yeah me too!

And so this verse comforts me. This verse encourages me in my quest to exercise patience. It gives me the strength to behave myself when others don’t. It cheers me on to do right even when doing wrong would ‘feel’ better – for the moment.

26 So do not fear them; for there is nothing covered that will not be uncovered, or hidden that will not be known.
via Matthew 10:26 KJV;CJB – Fear them not therefore: for there is – Bible Gateway.

Be encouraged, my Friends.

Enjoying the HOLY SPIRIT and His Glorious, Loving ways on this 44th day of 2014,

Kathie

Thank You, ABBA. Thank You, HOLY SPIRIT, for Your perfect watch-care over us. Thank You for making Your Word alive for us. Thank You for strength. Thank You for enabling us to do well in JESUS’ name. Thank You for each Reader and I pray for each of them to be encouraged, strengthened, and made whole.

Assurance - Promise, Christian Living, KWT Paraphrasing

But Wait!

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I was about to share only one verse with you.

10 (9) Adonai, all my longing is known to you; my sighing is not hidden from you.

via Ps 38 KJV;CJB – O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: – Bible Gateway

And then I read a few more.

11 (10) My heart is throbbing, my strength is gone, and the light in my eyes has left me.
12 (11) My friends and companions shun my disease; even the closest keep their distance.
13 (12) Those seeking my life lay snares for me, those seeking to harm me speak of disaster and think up deceptions all day long.
14 (13) But I’m like a deaf man — I don’t hear it; and, like a mute, I don’t say a word.
15 (14) Yes, I’ve become like a man who doesn’t hear and in whose mouth are no defenses.
16 (15) For it is in you, Adonai, that I hope. You will answer, Adonai my God.

via Ps 38 KJV;CJB – O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: – Bible Gateway.

Do you see it? Have you lived it? Are you living it now?

The complete exhaustion of running. So worn out there is no sparkle, not even a glint of a smile left in the eyes.  And it has been going on so long that people avoid him (her) now; even her closest friends don’t come around as often anymore.  It’s like they are afraid they’ll catch it: the lack of luster, the no vision for a silver lining, the world has betrayed me, all is lost, woe is me.  And so the barrage does not stop for her; constantly, day after day her mind is filled with memories, taunts, dialogues spoken and not spoken, premonitions  of failure and defeat forevermore, the endless sameness of this nightmare; through it all her mind has snared her feet and bound her hands; she performs only what she must to keep the family breathing.

But wait! A revelation comes. She grabs hold and refuses to let go! She stops listening to the taunts, she releases the memories to Another. She ceases to talk the talk of the enemy; she surrenders the debate; she sees it now: her enemy deserves no words from her. Her trust in Him will now speak for her: get thee hence Satan.

How? How could this be?

For it is in you, Adonai, that I hope. You will answer, Adonai my God.

It is You, ADONAI! My hope is in You and even though I do not know all the answers to why or how or what, YOU are my Answer today and tomorrow.

ABBA, thank You. HOLY SPIRIT, I pray You will take this and direct it before the eyes and to the hearts of those You have prepared to receive Your Word and be made whole. Let not a one of us miss what You have for us here in JESUS name.

Rejoicing on this 43rd day of 2014 that none of my longings are hidden from HIM,

Kathie

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Christian Living

Hung Up

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I’m hung up on this one today.

16 For where there are jealousy and selfish ambition, there will be disharmony and every foul practice.

via James 3 KJV;CJB – My brethren, be not many masters, – Bible Gateway.

Disharmony and every foul practice.

When and where jealousy and selfish ambition flourish then disharmony and every foul practice will abound. The Text does not say may or might but will be.  I am thinking of families and churches. How many families or churches do you know right now that are floundering; even on the brink of disintegration?  And why is that?

Disharmony? We can readily admit that, right? Disharmony doesn’t sound so bad; just human, right? But according to our verse, what is linked with disharmony?

Every foul practice.

Let us look at two definitions of foul.

1. Offensive to the senses; revolting.  2. Having an offensive odor; smelly. 3. Rotten or putrid  via foul – definition of foul by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

Transliterated Word Akathartos
Definition: not cleansed, unclean
in a ceremonial sense: that which must be abstained from according to the levitical law
in a moral sense: unclean in thought and life

via Akathartos – New Testament Greek Lexicon – King James Version.

Is GOD saying that disharmony in the family, disharmony in the church is foul to Him? Is He saying that when we participate or stand idly by while disharmony flourishes that what comes of it is unclean and unable to worship Him? Is there uncleanness in our families and churches?

So what am I going to do about it? What are YOU going to do about it?

ABBA, I know about disharmony. I’ve experienced it, I’ve practiced it. Thank You for hanging me up on this verse today. I pray to be quick to recognize jealousy and self ambition in myself and to surrender it quickly to You for cleansing. I pray this too for every willing reader who comes to this page.  I pray we will come to daily live in harmony with You and help others do the same.

Looking for harmony with GOD and others on this 42nd day of 2014,

Kathie

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