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A New Want To

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I found this in my draft file. 
It appears to have been there for a while, like sometime between June of 2020 and January of 2021.
I’ve read it and guess what, it’s still true! So I thought I’d add a bit more and press the publish button. 

Sin.
It’s been on my mind heavily, lately.
Mine and yours.
The ‘yours’ meaning what we see every time we turn on a digital media screen or perhaps just walking public streets.
Seriously, have you noticed all the sin (evil) paraded in our world?
I mean people tell lies like it’s the truth.
Womb Babies are killed like they are nothing – a vegetable or less.
People kill. They steal. They destroy lives, families, marriages, property, industry, education . . . on and on goes the destruction.
That reminds me of Scripture. Something YESHUA said when He was speaking of Satan.

10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.  source  John 10:10

Sin destroys.
But we still do it.
Why?
Why do people sin?
I’ve heard for years that people are not sinners because they sin; they sin because they are sinners.

I have no doubt it is true.
People sin because we are sinners.
And here it gets really ugly. We sin because we like it!
Oh more than like it, we cherish it!  That’s why we keep doing it. 
Only when we see the ugly, awfulness of our sin do we even get the inkling that we might like to stop. The only thing is we can’t. 

We do not have the power to stop sinning even if we had the want to!

Don’t believe me? Try it!

Pick out your favorite sin, oh what the heck, make it easier, pick out your least favorite

and NEVER do it again.

Our flesh is totally depraved it cannot NOT sin. 
BUT when JESUS makes us a NEW CREATION we CAN. 
As we yield to HOLY SPIRIT, we can lay down any sin we want to. 

Now we must ask, how’s our want to? 
And if we don’t have a new want to; it just may be that we are still lost in our sins – no salvation has occurred. 

Does this mean we become sinless on this side of Heaven?
NO.
But it does mean we sin less than we used to.
It means day by day or perhaps year by year, we see ourselves more and more choosing to obey our Father.
We see ourselves conforming more and more to the Image of JESUS. 

Romans 8:29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters; source

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Snow

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Snow.
I am giving thanks for snow today; not that I see much of it here in L.A. 

But all the same, snow. 

At this time of year and in certain movies snow is honored and nearly worshipped.
It seems to make all things alright.
It seems to be the thing that makes the season of Christmas, Christmas in the movies. 
The final touch, we might say.

If only people would let snow speak to them. 

Snow.
Made of exquisite individual flakes. 
I have a link for you and I hope you will read it.
The Science of individual snowflakes is cause for awe of GOD our Creator. 

How do snowflakes form? Get the science behind snow

Would you please consider this with me? 
Snowflakes.
Individual.
Unique.
Yet each and every one of them is a six-sided snowflake. No two alike but all with the same makeup. 
Sound familiar? 
Humans. No two alike but all with the same makeup. 

At the center of each snowflake, as white and bright as they are, is a tiny particular of pollen or dust. 
The very center of the snowflake is not white at all. 

Neither are we at our centers, White.
We are dark and desperately need the WHITE (Righteousness) of JESUS CHRIST to make us fresh and new.
Shall we say like freshly created, untouched snow, glistening and bright?

O to be that! Untouched by sin. Clean, white as dazzling snow, and bright. 
We can be; we are IF we are IN CHRIST JESUS. 

 
Snow. 
I hope going forward when you are privileged to see snow you will remember what you have read here today and that you will be sure you have given that dust particular at the very core of you to JESUS and if not, that the very next time HE offers to make YOU whiter than SNOW that you immediately respond: YES!
 
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STOP!

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STOP!

A most important word.
Full of power and comfort.
When used in conjunction with Scripture.

2 Corinthians 10:5  (NKJV) 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,  source

When renegade thoughts invade with intent, stop is a refuge for deliverance.
Just that simple word spoken with the authority of the Blood of JESUS will shut the mouths of lions seeking YOU to devour.
Say it out loud.
Experience casting down those crippling, haunting, malicious thoughts.
Stop.

1 Peter 5:8 (NKJV) 8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. source

Stop!

Use it today.
You will surely need it.
I did.
That’s how I was prompted to share it with you this morning.
Happy Sunday!
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Pray With Me

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Father GOD, there is no one we can with full confidence believe other than You.
The world is filled with Liars and Opportunists – none of them can we safely trust.
It is hard to live in this world of Sin. There was a time when life here was more desirable but corruption is abounding and there is NO ONE on earth to save us.
There is None good, no not one You said and I believe You.
You said the death of your saints is precious in Your Sight. I understand that more and more now.
Yet I am still here as are many of Your Children and because we are, we are crying out to You for some early justice.
We understand and accept The Great White Throne is yet to be.
We understand the Bema is yet to be and we await those days, but for now, in the here and now, we petition You with all our hearts asking You to avenge us – we dare not do the avenging ourselves but ask that You please by Your Very Own Hand strike down long-standing evil in America and give us an extended space of grace with signs and wonders to deliver the Saving Gospel to the few it would seem who are interested in turning from death to LIFE.
I long to see You come and show us Your Kingdom on earth.
Satan and those who do his bidding have corrupted this place until it is barely inhabitable for Your Children.
It is only by Your grace that we can bear staying here. But since we are we desire to do some good and we desire to stand against and push back the darkness and the evil that is running rampant.
Please help us submit to You and resist the evil.
Please fortify us Holy Spirit. Fill us and engage us in the message of Salvation to every soul who desires to hear and be saved from the wrath that now is and is yet to come.
Amen and amen in the name of Adonai Yeshua.

Romans 3:10-18  (NKJV)  
10 As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one;
11 There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God.
12 They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one.”
13 “Their throat is an open tomb; With their tongues they have practiced deceit”; “The poison of asps is under their lips”;
14 “Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”
15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways;
17 And the way of peace they have not known.”
18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”  source

Psalm 116:15  (AMP)
15 Precious [and of great consequence] in the sight of the Lord Is the death of His godly ones [so He watches over them].   source

Revelation 20:11-15

2 Corinthians 5:9-10