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Dish for Dish

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In the quiet of this morning doing morning blessings I heard Chuck Swindoll. He was speaking of kindness. Random acts of kindness. And with that, Scripture came to mind. I did not recall it verbatim nor even its Bible Address, but I got the message.

Here’s where I started.

What do ye more than they?

It’s the LORD speaking to the people reasoning with them that loving those who love you is no fine accomplishment. Loving those who hate you is the standard. And so when we dish back what is dished to us the question is WHAT DO YE MORE THAN THEY?

How different are we from the ones who railed upon us when we render railing back to them?

It’s a good question – JESUS asked it? How will I answer it? How will you answer it?

Matthew 5:

43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR and hate your enemy.’
44 But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
47 If you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?
48 Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
via Matthew 5 NASB – The Sermon on the Mount; The Beatitudes – Bible Gateway.

The Apostle Paul took his cues from JESUS and got in on the instructions too. We are only wise when we heed.

Romans 12:17 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

17 Never pay back evil for evil to anyone. Respect what is right in the sight of all men.
via Rom 12:17 NASB – Never pay back evil for evil to anyone. – Bible Gateway.

Random acts of kindness, deliberate acts of kindness in response to deliberate acts of meanness, oh ABBA, what a huge and perfect standard. None of us are capable of doing it, but YOU LORD JESUS enable us. Thank You. What an honor and a privilege and a joy it is to rise above the normal and embrace Your enable-ment to do right in the midst of wrong. That is what I want. It is for that I pray for myself and for each who come here to read and pray. And in our coming to You this morning we bring our needs and the needs of others. Take a reading, LORD, on our hearts. See all the needs, see all the ills and disease and weaknesses, hidden and plain, and work miracles in us and through us. Heal our sick and raise the spiritually dead we pray. Amen and . . . .   .

We have the God-given Right to do right in this wrong World,
Praying (PFT)!

Christian Living, KWT Paraphrasing

Nothing

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I revealed to my beloved the other day that on any occasion that I might respond, “nothing”, should he ask me, “What’s going on in your mind.”, to just know that ‘nothing’ meant I’m not ready to tell you yet, because at NO Time is there nothing going on inside my head.  :)

I said that to say this. This morning while loading towels into the washing machine tub an account in Scripture came to mind.  This one:

John 5: 8 “Get up,” Jesus told him, “pick up your mat and walk!”
9 Instantly the man got well, picked up his mat, and started to walk.

Now that day was the Sabbath,

via John 5:7-9 HCSB – “Sir,” the sick man answered, “I – Bible Gateway.

And the message is it’s a GOD thing to pick up after yourself — JESUS said so!  He did not tell the man to get up, walk and leave his mat for someone else to pick up.

So in a general way what is the will of GOD for me and for you today?

Get up, make your bed and walk for JESUS!

ABBA, I find humor in this as I do believe You have the greatest sense of humor in the Universe. I also see avenues of wise counsel in this simple account of what You did, LORD JESUS, for this lame man. And I am thinking, HOLY SPIRIT, that many of us are lame and You are saying to us get up, pick up after yourself, stop waiting on others to do for you what you can do, get up, make your bed and walk with ME today. I want to do that, ABBA. I want to pick up and not leave undone those things You have given me to do. So I pray that for me today and for every soul who will come here to pray in agreement with what You have spoken over us this morning. Thank You for each email subscriber and for each who just happens by; I pray our knowledge of You will mature and grow and our love for You will deepen today. And I am mindful in this moment of many needs, the health and wealth of Ones dear; not a soul who comes here to pray is without concerns, ABBA, for themselves and others. So I pray for Your Kind Attention to our hearts; first and foremost that we will choose to allow You to align our hearts with Yours, particularly about these matters we are bringing to You this morning and as You align our hearts, we wait in confidence to see You work miracles.  Thank You for loving us so much. Amen and

We have the God-given Right to do right in this wrong World,
Praying (PFT)!

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And All DADDY GOD’s Sons and Daughters said

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Romans 8:31-39 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

31 What then shall we say to these things?

And what do we say?

My Journey nailed me this morning. It read: “. . . Kim mentally recited her failures for the day. I didn’t exercise. I certainly shouldn’t have eaten that cake. I was probably too harsh with my sister. I’m behind on laundry and the house needs some heavy cleaning. I haven’t mailed that get-well card or RSVP’d to the wedding invitation. What a disorganized, unproductive mess I am!”

Does that sound familiar? I very well recognize the language; I speak it fluently!  But I should not! Here’s why:

If God is for us, who is against us? 

I confess I have enemies; not many I think, but a couple here and there, and yet I think perhaps even they are not as rough on me as I am rough on me. This should not be for them or me. And here is why:

32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?

How indeed!!

33 Who will bring a charge against God’s elect?

Oh, charges can be brought and you and I know they have been; BUT they will not stand.  :)  Here’s why:

God is the one who justifies;
34 who is the one who condemns?

Lucifer!

And sometimes he wears the faces of friends and strangers — we must remember to look beyond their faces and see the real enemy but that’s another lesson; lets get back to this TEXT.

Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.
35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

No! None of these will separate us from the Presence of the LORD; but my attitude about them can cause me to FEEL separated, even when I am not.  And feelings don’t last but FAITH does! 

36 Just as it is written,

“FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG;

WE WERE CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED.”

Yikes! Nothing separates us from Him but we can surely get the hurt beat out of us in this cruel and hostile world. So we must remember:

37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.
38 For I am convinced

Am I? Are you? I don’t always act like it. Do you? But we are not going there again. We are going to press on believing, receiving and experiencing this:

that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

And all DADDY GOD’s sons and daughters said, “Amen and amen!!”

via Romans 8:31-39 NASB – What then shall we say to these things? – Bible Gateway.

Sweet JESUS blessings to you all!

Got some Ones dear, dear to me on my mind this morning I am believing ABBA to glorify Himself in the messes that have been dumped on them through no fault of their own, just troubles that come with this territory we live in; believing Him for strength, courage, wisdom, helps and an overflowing abundance of His love and grace manifested in His very own immeasurably precious Presence with them.  If you have such concerns too, thank Him and receive these same helps and blessings in JESUS name.

Praying (PFT)!

We have the Right to do right in this wrong World,

KWT Paraphrasing

Root Rest

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Suddenly as I was relating an incident to my beloved this morning, a message came that I am eager to write.  I want to see how it develops.

Snow.

Snow is our beta. If in keeping with our previous betas that would be S.T.  :)  Each of them have been similar and yet different. I think Snow is the laziest one. And perhaps that is because we provided him with something that we did not provide the others.

A peace lily growing in his water.

I dropped food pellets in his water vase this morning and he barely noticed. Took one bite and went back to his root rest. You see the peace lily (plant) is such that he can swim into a space within the roots just beneath the water and just rest and sleep; when he needs a fresh whiff of air he can just lift his ‘head’ gulp and then lower again to continue his resting. And were it not for this morning’s happening I could think oh the poor thing he is old and infirmed.

Not so.

Not sure what possessed me but this morning, I lifted the peace lily from the water leaving Snow with no place to rest and he began to devour the food pellets. I’ve never seen him each so much! Two pinches of pellets!!

So I replaced the peace lily and he returned to his root rest.

What’s the lesson?

Truthfully, I am not so worried about Snow’s resting. He’s a fish!  It’s not like he can raise a family, build a city, and preach the gospel in his vase world.      Or can he?? :)

But people? Excluding real infirmities, of course, are not people prone to laziness as is Snow?

If the ‘root rests’ were pulled out from under them perhaps they would work. You think?

Multiple scenarios are coming to mind – adults and children alike.

2 Thessalonians 3:The Message (MSG)
6-8 Our orders—backed up by the Master, Jesus—are to refuse to have anything to do with those among you who are lazy and refuse to work the way we taught you. Don’t permit them to freeload on the rest. We showed you how to pull your weight when we were with you, so get on with it. We didn’t sit around on our hands expecting others to take care of us
via 2 Thessalonians 3:9-11 MSG – Our orders—backed up by the Master, – Bible Gateway.

I think from time to time for Snow’s own good I pull his root rest and force him to swim before he eats.

Thoughts? Comments? Actions, anyone?

Praying (PFT)!

We have the Right to do right in this wrong World,
Snow waiting for the water treatment to work so he can get back to root resting.

 

 

Ahh!