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2020, Psalms

A Wee Bit of a Chat

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Dusting floors (for me) lends to thinking.
I am continuing to pray and I continue to hope for a miracle.
Even so, I am a realist and I don’t see as far down the road as He does. 
I think He wants to give us this ultimate miracle that I know I am not alone in seeking.
I really want it to look the way that seems good to me. But He is GOD. I’m not.

This year for many has been a nightmare.
One we want desperately to wake up from.
What if we don’t?
What if the American Dream we once enjoyed, never returns?
What then? Will we be so disillusioned our faith will fail? 
 
I expect millions will rejoice for a while, but in time blinded eyes will open – some will cry out to GOD (which is what I ultimately want) and He will individually save them in the midst of their desperation.
Others will see but pride will ride them to the grave. I do not want this for them.
Neither does GOD but there’s that precious gift of free will.
There are not voluminous things for which I can be absolutely sure but I am of this. Every soul not received into Heaven is because they chose to stay on the road they began on.
 
Church, we have much more praying to do I think. And even more, Bible Studying. His Word will sustain us in great times or long and drawn out nightmare times. 
 
 
105 Your word is a lamp to my feet
And a light to my path. (NKJV)
 
112 I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes
Forever, to the very end. (NKJV)
 
33 Teach me your decrees, O Lord;
    I will keep them to the end.
34 Give me understanding and I will obey your instructions;
    I will put them into practice with all my heart.
35 Make me walk along the path of your commands,
    for that is where my happiness is found.
36 Give me an eagerness for your laws
    rather than a love for money!
37 Turn my eyes from worthless things,
    and give me life through your word.
38 Reassure me of your promise,
    made to those who fear you.
39 Help me abandon my shameful ways;
    for your regulations are good.
40 I long to obey your commandments!
    Renew my life with your goodness. (NLT)  source

2020, Prayer Requests, Psalms

Necessary

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Abba, this life sucks the life out of people; it always has but we are noticing it more this year.
I am wondering today though if I have done enough in this life-draining year of 2020 to show people that YOU ARE THE GIVER OF LIFE still even in this year.
And I think I’ve not been as encouraging as I could have been.
Please forgive me and I pray my brothers and sisters will forgive me too.
 
You love us no less in this COVID year.
You are no less FULL of Power and Authority in this COVID year.
You are no less JUST in this year of more visible corruption.
You hate sin and injustice no less in this year.
You are not lazy or slow or apathetic in this year, but I am, please forgive me.
YOU have NOT changed even though our day-to-day breathing in and out of earth’s air has changed – a change we don’t like.
But who are we, who am I to complain when I know this world is not my Home?
YOU have provided a HOME for me and YOU have assured me YOU will get me safely there when it is ready for me.
What in this world do I have to worry about, fuss about, or be afraid of?
Good questions, huh?
Thank YOU for reminding me.
YOU are so good to me.
YOU alone are AWESOME. Thank You.
So, I pray for the will to love You and People more and more. I pray to rest easy in Your Love and Faithfulness to me, to do what YOU tell me, and wait for YOU to deal with what I cannot.
Amen and amen in The Name of the Only Wise and Holy GOD, Adonai Yeshua. 
 
Here’s a taste. Use the link above for more. And there is more. So, much more!
 
3 Trust in the Lord, and do good;
Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness.
4 Delight yourself also in the Lord,
And He shall give you the desires of your heart.  source
 
A special Thank you to a sister named Rachel. Thank you for speaking the truth, correcting truth to me.
I have received it.  I love you always. 

2020, A Morsel 2020, Psalms, Revelation

A Dose

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Of reality.

This life drains the life out.

What do I have to live for some are asking in this COVID nightmare? 
Others try to go along to get along pretending the nightmare is temporary.
It’s not temporary if it continues. And who gets to decide when it ceases to continue?
The ones who started it?
And what gives evidence they want it to stop?
The Power Ones are virtually unaffected. They get the same paycheck. They fly the same airplanes. They eat the same rich foods. They drink the same fine wine. They have the same employees to fetch for them. 
Why would they lift their thumbs?
And with all this — where is the average, common Sue and Robert? 

This is our world for those without GOD. 

Revelation 6

Psalm 37:25  (NLT)
25 Once I was young, and now I am old. Yet I have never seen the godly abandoned or their children begging for bread. source

2020, A Morsel 2020, Gospel of Luke

A Certain Widow

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Luke 21

Luke 21 (NKJV) 1 And He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury, 
2 and He saw also a certain poor widow putting in two mites. 
3 So He said, “Truly I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all; 
4 for all these out of their abundance have put in offerings for God, but she out of her poverty put in all the livelihood that she had.”  source

The Text does not say just any widow but a certain widow. A poor widow. This is what we know about her. A Certain Poor Widow that Gave. 

And from this, I see that GOD pays attention.
The Penman, Luke, was not moved to tell us her name but he did use the word certain. Meaning GOD knew for certain who she was.
And surely there were other widows in Jerusalem. But this certain widow GAVE.  She gave out of lack, not plenty.  Others made much noise as their coins flooded the coffers. (Perhaps the Temple Vessels looked something like these pictured – or not.)
Her offering likely made little noise.  She quietly gave all she had. 

And GOD noticed. 

I think He still does. 

2020, A Morsel 2020, Christmas, Gospel of John

Not Piddling

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As I have been piddling with laundry, coffee-sipping, and the like, my thoughts were here and there. One of those places was 2021. It is just days away. 
I’ve decided – if I shall get it accomplished is yet to be seen – I have two phrases I’d like to speak most in 2021. 

One. I love you.
Two. The Bible says in:

So. Let the practice begin!

The Bible says in John 14  (NKJV)1 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.
2 In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.  source