Showing posts with label Living Sacrifice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Living Sacrifice. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

The ACTS Of Prayer!

Okay!
Now It Is Time To Consider The Act or The ACTS Of Praying!

What Four Words Can We Use

To Create An Acrostic For ACTS!?!

Adoration!


Confession!

Thanksgiving!

Supplication!

Those Are All Excellent Choices
And
Perfectly State The Case
When Before The Lord We Attend!

Here's Our


ACROSTIC

   
A doring The Almighty God
C onfess Christ And Your Sins And Indulge
T hanksgiving To The Eternal Before
S upplicating Him For Others And Self!


But, Brethren 

We, You, Me ... We Have A Problem! 

We Can't Bring The Father Down:
We Must Go Up to Him! 

We Must Not Be Like Discourse
And
We Must Not Be Like Shopping List!

The Lord God Of Grace 
Is Not 
A Heavenly Ebay, Wish, Or Amazon
So Change Your Attitude
If It Is Your Desire To Enjoy Eternal Bliss! 

If It Is Our Desire
To Really Attach Ourselves To Our God
We Must Indulge Intercourse
And
Not That As Promulgated By The Agents Of King Fraud! 

We Are Warned:








Saying Prayers To Our God Holy 
Should Never, Ever, Involve Repeating A Word
A Phrase, A Chant, Or A Mantra Multiple Times! 

I Guess Then That Prayer Beads
Rosaries And The Like Are Given The Kibosh! 

You Got It In One! 
No Beads, No Rosaries! 

The Lord God Is Creator, Savior, Provider, Healer 
And
Friend ... Best Friend
And
He Has Given Unto Us His Outline For Our Prayers
Because
He Loves Us And He Sacrificially Cares For Us
And
Upon His Love, We Can Surely Depend!

Indeed!

If We Diligently Follow The Lord's Leading
We Will Never Go Astray! 

Well Said!
When We Speak To The Lord ... No Appointment Necessary
We May Speak To Him Of Joy, Sorrow, Desire
Pain, Hope
And 
Ask For Help 
And
Listen To His Response ... I Beseech You, Please
And
Give Thanks And Praise 
And
Bless His Holy Name! 
He Is Worthy!

So What You Are Really Saying Is, For Example 

If I Was Telling My Best Friend About
Oh, New Shoes, New Store, New Mall
I Would Talk Color, Purpose, Heel Height, Price
Distance To Mall, Good Time To Go
Ambience ... Smells, Sight, Sounds
Service, Satisfaction, Pleasure Derived
And Tell Of Problems Endured
And Request Commiseration Aka Expect Commiseration
Offer Thanks And Appreciation For Listening
Exchange A Loving Look
Experience A Tender Touch
Enjoy A Hug
Relish A Laugh
Wallow In A Companionable Silence
And Listen Raptly ... Each To The Other 
As Exchanged Thoughts Are Conveyed! 

Wow! Just Wow!

I'm Shook!

Indeed! 

Before We Totally Get Carried Away, Though
Let's Just Bear In Mind
And
Remember Never To Forget 
When We Have Our Real Conversation With Our God
That Above All Else
He Is Holy!

Our God Knows Everything!
You Can't Fool Him!
You Can't Lie To Him!
He Knows What You Need Before You Do 
And 
Before You Express It
And 
That He Loves You Best! 
Remember The Sacrifice!

I Hear That!

The Lord Desires To Hear Our Prayers
Petitions
And
Praises
He Desires Us To Make Big Requests Of Him! 
He Desires Us To Prayer With The Power Of The Written Word ...! 

... What Do You Mean By That!?! 

Simple! 
Dare To Believe His Word
And
Pray Back To Our God 
The Very Promises That He Has Given To Us! 

For Example!?! 

Come Unto Me 
And I Will Show You Great And Glorious Things 
About Which You Know Nothing! 





Create In Me A Clean Heart, Oh, God!

Nice! I Like That!

Have Hope, Brethren
Believe The Lord At His Word
Trust Him And Obey Always
And
Pray With The Power Of 
Your Daily Gift Of Faith ... Unceasingly!
Blessings Be Upon You All!

AMEN!!!


Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Jesus Christ IS Our Perfection!



Some Parents Give Up Some Things of Life
So that their Children may Be Something in Life!

Some Parents Give Up their Lives
So that One Child might Survive!

Some Parents Barter their Lives
So that their Children may have Things!

Some Parents Sacrifice Everything in Life
So that One Child may Succeed!

Some Parents Sacrifice their Children on The Altar of Personal Success!

Some Parents Sacrifice Health to Raise their Children!

Some Parents Are ... Some Parents!

Some Parents are Parents
Some Parents are Not
Some Parents Make Some Parents
Wish
Their Babies could be Bought!

Jesus Loves His Children
For Them He was Callously Sold
For 30 Pieces of Silver
Not even Good and Precious Gold!

Jesus' Life was made Forfeit
They Took It But He Gave It Away
So that Not one Faithful Child
Would For His Own Sin
Have to Eternally Pay
Or
From Heaven Be Turned Away!

Jesus Christ Gave Up His Life
On The Altar of Sacrifice for Sin
So that All who Would Be His Children
Would have His Eternal Life of Everlasting Things!

Bought and Paid For - Sacrificed
Jesus IS Living Still and
The King
Captain and
Commander, and
Righteous Ruler of Everything!

So The Point of This Here Missive 
IS
Earthy Parents are - In Everything - Flawed
Jesus Christ Isn't for 
He's is Our Perfection
And
Our Loving and Almighty God!



** Trust in God! **

Jesus Died
After
Sacrificing His All
to
Give Us All
All of His Good 
and 
Truly Perfect Things!

He Is Coming For Me 
and 
He Is Coming For You!