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2022, KWT Paraphrasing, Psalms

Taking It Personally

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Personalizing Scripture. 
Some folks frown upon it. I’m not one of those.
Albeit, some passages of Scripture do not lend themselves to personalizing, but Psalm 23. That one I have taken personally. 

And so this morning, I’d like to share with you my own personal personalizing of Psalm 23.

It is as follows:

You, O LORD GOD, are my Shepherd and because You are I lack nothing.
You provide for me. You provide rest and food. You nourish me. 
You make sure I have what is needed for this life in the here and now and to Come. 
You give me quiet water. Water – vital, essential water. Quiet, not rushing, not stagnant, not diseased but wholesome and quiet – just right for me.

You restore the inner me. The place where I really am. You guide me.
YOU. GUIDE. ME.
Oh, what a thought. YOU, GOD of the universe.  YOU guide me. 
You guide me in right paths. Not wrong turns. Not futile places. But RIGHT Places. Why?
Because You have character that You uphold. You are faithful and You prove faithful ALWAYS. 
Your very Name is at stake with how You deal with me.
By Your very own character and Name, You assure that Your dealings with me are Who You Are. 

Even in this, even when I come to death-threatening, dark, deep places You are with me. Even if I came to these places by unintentionally wandering off the path, You are still faithful to me.
And so I WILL fear no disaster in these places because YOU ARE WITH ME.
(oh help me truly WILL this.)
Your rod and staff reassure me. Your correction, Your Discipline, and Your refusal to leave me in sin reassures me that You really are MY Shepherd. 

You prepare a table for me – a table, a place of nourishment, of communion, of strengthening, of fellowship — even as demons watch, even as those who do the will of demons watch. They watch while You take care of me!
They watch as you anoint my head to remove and heal my hurts, my bumps, and bruises, my thoughts, and things that would harm me.
They watch as YOU groom, tend, and mature me. So amazing! 

Such knowledge overflows me. My cup is full – overflowingly full of YOUR goodness and faithfulness to ME. 

Because of all Your goodness and Your grace to me, I will surely live in Your House, O LORD, for years to come – forever. 

 

There is more. There is always more we could say about HIM and His goodness and grace and kindness – His watch care over us, His needy sheep! 

 

Scripture. 
I encourage you, where appropriate, to take it PERSONALLY. 

Now, time scheduling and efficiency would tell me to save this post and schedule it for tomorrow (as I may not write again today, for tomorrow) but I’m not. 
I’m not because frankly, I just don’t want to wait. I want you to have this today! 

Love, Kathie 
2022, A Quick Hello, Ephesians, You Tubes

And Dawn Will Come

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As I sit to write for Monday morning, we can confidently expect the morning will dawn – who it will dawn to shall be revealed. 

As night turns to day
As the sun’s rays streak across the sky,
We have hope for a new beginning; we have a new and fresh canvas — what shall we paint?

Father GOD, thank You for each dear one who comes to this page, on whatever future day it might be and I pray their visits here will be fruitful – that they will find something on these pages that You can anoint and use to refresh their souls.
I pray my words here will be understood and received as a message of hope even when You use those words for conviction and correction. I want these pages to be useful. I want these pages to encourage people to read Your Word and obey You day after day until YOU come for us. Amen and amen. 

Ephesians 3

2022, A Quick Hello, Ephesians, KWT Paraphrasing, Repentance, Salvation

Easy Sunday

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Ephesians 2

It’s a chapter to be read with keen awareness and devoted appreciation. 
Oh, how I would love to read it aloud to you with all the passion and thankfulness that washes over me. 

I paraphrased the first two verses. 
Would you like to see them?
Good.

Ephesians 1: 1 I used to be dead because of my sins and acts of disobedience. 2  I walked in the ways of the world and obeyed the Ruler of the Powers of the Air, who is still at work among the disobedient.  original source 

The chapter goes on to say we all used to live this way; this natural, old nature with which we were born BUT GOD in His mercy and grace came and offered us more than just this natural sin-cursed life. He offered us through The Messiah Yeshua deliverance from sin, death, hell, and the grave. 

Not many in comparison have said yes. 
Have you? 

It’s been a quiet Sunday here at our lovely abode; these PJs sure are comfy.

Ephesians 2

Read.

2022, An Opinion Piece, Revelation

Spillage

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Deep and wide darkness has come upon the world, specifically in the West, more specifically, North America.

It took a bit for me to notice the shift but looking back, the hovering mass of encroaching, life-stifling, demonic dominion unmistakably lowered itself upon us in early 2020.
For many moons, it had been hiding in plain sight and at just the prescribed time it flexed its muscles and masked this docile, intoxicated humanity.
What fools are unrepentant, unenlightened homo sapiens.
We have two classes now those who think they are in control of the rest of us and those who believe that tripe and have prostrated themselves before them.

How ironic, people refuse to submit to a Holy, Holy, Holy GOD who is pure love and pure justice but will without a question submit to unholy, ungodly, evil, depraved, lustful men and women parading themselves as god.
Go figure.

We who fit in neither of the two aforementioned classes have believed the Scriptures, so we are no longer scratching our heads wondering at the beast; but, we are endeavoring to speak to the few who have ears to hear and we are waiting for the culmination.

Even so, come quickly LORD JESUS.
The masses have earned Your WRATH.
Come and avenge The Name of Your Father and ours.
Come soon and put an end to the sin and wrong we pray.

Revelation 22:20

As I was about to send this post to go live, I heard the Supreme Court has ruled; that they have sent the question of abortion back to the States – abortion is no longer a legally held FEDERAL right. 
Now each State will have the opportunity to snuff out abortion for their State or keep on snuffing out the lives of womb babies. 
At least it is a pinprick in the shroud of darkness.