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Christian Living

Look Away

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Sunday morning sermon. Text was found in Hebrews. And in a stray moment my eyes wandered to chapter 12 and verse 2. Two words caught my eye and I knew I’d be here writing to us before the day was out.

First, the two words: 2 looking away

Now the passage is familiar to me so I knew what was coming and words started streaming. 

Looking away. What do I need to look away from?

I pretty much know the answer to that. I can give you a list. I probably have given you a list in all these years that we have been meeting at this screen. 

This I would suggest: I mostly need to look away from ME!

I must become less self-aware so I can be more HIM aware!

The Him who is the Initiator and Completer of . . . trusting

The Initiator of trusting! That was not ME! This life of trusting faith did not begin with me so how in the world would I think it could continue focused on me. Well, I really don’t think that, but I act like that sometime. 

So He, Yeshua. Also known as JESUS in this Western World. He is the One who started me on this faith walk and He is the One who will complete it! It was good reading it again this morning. It’s good reading every time I read it. 

So what’s the rest of it?

Hebrews 12:2 (CJB)

2 looking away to the Initiator and Completer of that trusting, Yeshua — who, in exchange for obtaining the joy set before him, endured execution on a stake as a criminal, scorning the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

And since He is seated there, I have the privilege and the responsibility to look away from myself here to HIM there! And in Him I will find every good thing needed to finish this earthly journey well; and as we said in Sunday School this morning, be ushered into the Throne Room of Heaven someday to SEE HIM face to face! Oh what a day that will be!! 
Sleep On It!

 

Prayers for We the People

A Washing (13)

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Abba, I am here because I think my feet need washing; I have read and heard so much media fodder that I am feeling the filth and I am publicly coming for cleansing because well some of my reading and hearing I have made public. I have ingested more than enough to discern the political climate; the right and the wrong of both scenes and agendas.

Even so I am not buying the lie that we as Your People should be politically silent; I am confessing our lack of participation in the political and public arenas is one of the reasons this Nation You founded is so desperately ill; why I am asking for cleansing is I am overloaded and I need You to balance me. I am confessing that my soul is bleeding for the fate of America. I am so grateful You chose for me to live here in this century for such a time as this and I want to be solid and grounded and balanced to make a holy difference.

You said righteousness exalts a nation and You still have many people in this country that You have made righteous (in position) by the Precious Blood of Your Son and for His sake and ours I am asking You for help for America. I am mindful that You have given every soul born on this planet free will and on November 8 people will exercise their vote. You will be present with every Christian American that does or does not step into that voting booth. I understand that we are all accountable to You for what we do on that day. Some want to separate faith from politics and public living; I know it’s folly from the pit of the evil one, but people have bought into it and I am reeling from the agony of watching this so I am asking for strength and wisdom to stop watching this and commune more with You instead. If there is any soul that You can connect me with that You can touch, that we could come and reason together with so that a righteous decision can be made for November 8 and for all the other days of this life, please let it be and until then let it be that my focus is You.

I’m not asking for a withdrawal just a respite from the inundation of filth, the pandering and all things evil going on in this political season. You know with my passion I need Your help to turn it off and focus on You; to turn the hours to prayer instead. So instead of me trying to inform my world, it is much too big a job for me anyway, I am asking You to step in with Your Mighty Hand as You will so Your Will will be done. I long for Your Rule on this planet instead of man’s. Even so come LORD JESUS and if You would come before November 8 I would like that. And if You tarry, You know best. Thank You, Abba. 

A Quick Hello, Christian Living

Pick a Seat

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Water and pressure accomplished the results you see here. img_8905 I wouldn’t resist the picture and now the analogy. :)

26 to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word. Ephesians  5 (source) 

JT was the handler of the power washer to clean our backyard chairs. The Holy Spirit of God, when we will be submissive, is the Power in the Water of the Word to cleanse people.

The difference in the chairs is remarkable, wouldn’t you say? So is the difference in a soul continually washed with the Water of the Word applied by the Power of the Holy Spirit.

Let us pick a seat. Which do we want to be? The one on the left or the one on the right?

I hope we are continuing to pray for We the People in Jesus Name. img_8861