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Daily Grind

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Probably not a lot to write today; just some I’ve been thinking stuff.

This daily grind also known as this day-to-day stuff we do when we drag (or jump) ourselves out of bed to do breakfast (or not), out the door to work or not (but work at home); gas in the vehicle, a few things from the store, on and on you know the drill: life! The stuff we do because we live here on planet earth – it’s for our survival, yours mine and ours. Is that it? Is there more to this it, than that?

Yep. There is! For sure there is for those who have entered the family of GOD. It occurred to me again yesterday that when the HOLY SPIRIT of GOD convicted me and I agreed with Him that I needed a Savior and that JESUS the Christ (YESHUA) was the only Savior and I said yes, that there was no reason after that for Him to leave me here to do this daily grind. I mean it was a done deal. I said yes. Heaven was home. Lets go. But that did not happen. And after these what, 4 decades plus since then, I’m still here.

Why? What’s the point? I believe I got it!

Obviously, this human experience has requirements. See paragraph 2.

The daily grind.

But what if. What if our daily grind  and even our play time and our play time toys; what if all that is designed and provided to be tools? Tools to connect us with people. People looking for answers. People wondering is this it! People needing a Savior but not sure there is One or how to connect with Him.

Our daily grinds are the perfect springboard connectors. Our daily grinds are the way DADDY GOD intends for us to share His Good News. That’s the only reason He has left us here. I’m convinced He’d much rather have us at home with Him!

But . . .

18 Jesus came and told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. 19 Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 20 Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” [source] Matthew 28: 18-20 NLT 

Heaven is a big place . . . there needs to be lots and lots of people there.

2 Peter 3:9 (KJV) 9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. [source]

1 Corinthians 3:9 (CJB) 9 For we are God’s co-workers; you are God’s field, God’s building. [source]

I was wordier than I expected. :)

Until Next Time ~ ~ ~ Kathie
Your Prayer requests welcomed

Day 76
290 days remaining after today.

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Not a Suggestion

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Day 75
291 days remaining after today.

This is in my face.  I dare not take it as a suggestion.

27 Only let your manner of life be worthy of the Gospel of Christ, . . . standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel, 28 and not frightened in
anything by your opponents. Philippians 1:27-28 ESV [source]

ABBA, my soul is troubled, I’ve not seen this world as messed up as it is now. I pray for mercy; please grant to us the holy gift of repentance. I pray for each one who comes to this page that You will speak and I pray we will pleasingly respond to You. I ask You to heal the sick, and raise those dead in trespasses and sins to new life in YESHUA. 

Until Next Time ~ ~ ~ Kathie
Your Prayer requests welcomed

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Promises for our Day

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Day 63
303 days remaining after today.

Psalm 32:8  (NIV)

8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
    I will counsel you with my loving eye on you. [source]

Who of GOD’s children does not need this encouragement today? These promises?!

I will instruct you. 
Surely there is something today about which we need instruction. (If nothing else, what to do with this stuff :) yes I am still dealing with the stuff)

And teach you
Not only does He give us instruction but He teaches us how to operate those instructions! How good is that? That is so much better than a lecture of instructions from someone who leaves you then to figure out the rest on your own.

In the way you should go
He NEVER leads us astray. His path for each of us, individually, is perfectly suited for us; for our strengths and our weaknesses, our passions and our dislikes. He chooses the path for us that will bring out the best in us; our part is to believe and follow.

I will counsel you 
And not just any counsel, but counsel we can trust because that counsel comes from the One who always perfectly loves us; always keeps His loving eye on us.

Psalm 32:8  (NIV)

8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
    I will counsel you with my loving eye on you. [source]

Keep it close today.

Until Next Time ~ ~ ~ Kathie
Your Prayer requests welcomed

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How Huge is That?

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Day 61
305 days remaining after today.

First off never allow it to escape your mind that YESHUA came here 100% man, 100% GOD.

Let it comfort and fortify you that He gets it! He knows what it is to be human!

Where am I going with this?

First let me tell you where it started.

I picked up my Journey Magazine, March edition, because I couldn’t find my February and because it is the last day of February I chose to read Cafe Connection, an extra feature, not one of the daily devotions for the month of March. Beth Moore is the writer of this particular feature and she wrote of the LORD as He was saying on the cross, “Father, into Your hands I entrust My spirit.”  That is HUGE, y’all. Huge!

Get this: JESUS had never died before!  Have you ever had to do something you have never done before? Of course you have. Have you ever wondered how am I going to do this? Yep. Me too. The answer for us is the same as for JESUS. By Faith!

I told you it was HUGE!

There on the cross when His blood was nearly spent, YESHUA knew it was time, time for Him to die. Time for His inhaling, exhaling, hearing, seeing, tasting, feeling, touching – all those human body things to cease. His human journey was ending. You see the SON chose to trust the FATHER. He chose to believe that when He closed His eyes and His human heart stopped pumping that His Spirit would continue to live and that in three days His body and Spirit would come together again. JESUS chose to trust the FATHER to make it happen. That’s faith, Folks. Simple Faith. Just believe the FATHER.

Our human journeys shall come to an end as well. He gets that! He did it already! The way we will: by faith. Father, into Your hands I entrust My spirit.

Whatever it is. Whatever we are facing today – He knows! He’s done it! We can trust Him!

Hebrews 7:25-27  (CJB)

25 and consequently, he is totally able to deliver those who approach God through him; since he is alive forever and thus forever able to intercede on their behalf. 26 This is the kind of cohen gadol that meets our need — holy, without evil, without stain, set apart from sinners and raised higher than the heavens; 27 one who does not have the daily necessity, like the other cohanim g’dolim, of offering up sacrifices first for their own sins and only then for those of the people; because he offered one sacrifice, once and for all, by offering up himself.  [source]

Hebrews 11:6 (KJV)

6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. [source]

John 8:29 (KJV)

29 And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him. [source]

Until Next Time ~ ~ ~ Kathie
Your Prayer requests welcomed