TEMPTATION: You Know The Devil's Devices!

There Is No Sin In Being Tempted

But

There Is A Problem With 

Being Regularly Tempted By The Same Sin!

Falling Into Divers Aka Different Temptations 

Suggests Onward, Upward, Mobility In Our Christian Growth! 

All Christians Must Grow Up In Grace!

Beloved, 

Nobody Plans To Fall! 

Falling Happens When One Is Unaware Of A Pitfall

Is Careless About One's Surroundings 

Or One Just Loses One's Balance! 

We Are Warned Of The Devil's Devices 

And

We Know 

And 

Should Be Within The Hedge Of Protection That 

The Lord Provides For His People! 

When We Find Ourselves Being Tempted By 

And

Giving Into The Same Temptation 

And

Committing The Same Sin Repeatedly

We Need To Take Stock Of Our Thoughts

Look At Those With Whom We Are Walking

And

Reevaluate Our Commitment To Christ 

And

Our Growth In His Grace! 

The Temptation

That Is Not

Forcefully Resisted

The First Time That It Appears

Comes Back Harder And Harder To Resist

Each Time That We Fail To Overcome It!

Think Carefully ...

A Healthy And Fit Person Crawling Like A Baby 

Has A Problem Which Must Be Patiently Corrected 

And

Likewise The Christian Who Is Not Forcefully

Patiently, Prayerfully

Daily Conquering The Minor Temptations 

To Grow Strong Spiritual Muscles 

To Deal With The Major Temptations Known Up Ahead! 

Be Wise ... 

Don't Play With Temptation! 

Chop Off Temptation's Head By The Word Of Truth

And

Stay Constantly In Prayer:

Take Your Burden To The Lord

Pray For The Outpouring Of The Holy Spirit

Take The Living God At His Holy Word

And

Dare To Walk ... Enduringly ... In Unfailing Faith!

Jesus Christ ... Alone ... Saves!

Your Temptation

Is

Dressed To Thrill You!

Have A "Thus Saith The Lord"

At The Ready To Decimate It!

VESPERS AT THE END OF THE SABBATH: The Best Doctors Are Free Today!

We Are Told That 

The Six Best Doctors For Good Physical Health Are 

Sunlight, Water, Rest, Air

Exercise And Diet! 

By The Word Of The Lord

And

For A Healthy Spiritual Life

We Need Truth, Faith, Peace

Love, Trust And Prayer! 

The Truth Of Almighty God 

Is 

The Light Of Life That 

Guides The Soul To Eternal Life! 

Faith In The Living God 

Is 

The Water Of Life That 

Cleans And Calms The Soul! 

Peace With The All-Seeing God 

Is 

The Rest That Restores The Soul! 

The Love Of The All-Knowing God 

And

Our Love For Ever-Present God 

Is

The Pure, Clean, Air 

Without Which We Will Surely Die! 

Trust In The God Of Grace And Glory

Is 

Targeted, Vigorous, Exercise 

For Mind, Spirit 

And 

Bodily Strength For The Strenuous Journey 

To Our Forever Home In Zion! 

Heartfelt Prayer To The Giving And Forgiving God 

Is 

Food To Make Us Alive 

For It Takes Us Up To The Lord Of Life 

Who Gives Us Abundant Life Now

And

Promises Us Eternal Life Hereafter! 

A Christian Who Doesn't Pray

Is Easy Prey Aka Cheap Meat

For Satan The Damned!

Beloved, 

The Six Best Doctors ... Medical And Spiritual

All Work In Tandem Aka Together 

To Keep Us In Optimal Aka Good Health! 

If You Neglect One Doctor

He Will Not Complain 

But

You Will Feel The Lack And The Loss 

And 

You Will Become Unbalanced In Your Experience: 

Don't Be Like The Prettified, Over-Stuffed, Three-Legged Chair! 

The Chair You Can't Sit Upon

And

The Tree That Will Not Fruit

Are Both Utterly Useless!

Let's Be Wise 

And 

Bless The Lord Who Blesses Us With Perfect Doctors 

Whose Services Are Free-Free 

To Me And Thee ... Today 

And 

Today! 

Tomorrow's Sun Will Never Rise!

HAPPY SABBATH + MERCY AND GRACE ARE KISSING: Wait On The Lord!

We Who Wait Upon The Lord 

Shall Renew Our Strength! 

We Who Diligently Seek After The Lord 

Shall Surely Find Him! 

Beloved, 

When You Choose To Wait Upon The Lord

It Is Because You Know, Believe, That 

You Will Receive Some Desired Blessing From His Holy Hand: 

You're Waiting Patiently 

On Him Who Is Faithful To His Word! 

When We Seek After The Lord 

It Is Because We Desire To Know 

And

To Be Known 

By Him Who Already Knows Everything About Us! 

The Difference There, Then

Is 

That There Is Give And Take

Hear And Listen

Rest And Refreshment

Direction And Correction

Provision And Protection 

And 

All Because We Choose To Have Communion

Communication

A Committed Relationship With Him Who Calls Us

Is 

Able To Help Us

Has Bought Aka Redeemed Us 

And

Is Waiting To Reform

Regenerate

Recreate Us In His Image

In His Likeness 

So That We May Dwell In Peace With Him Forever! 

Waiting On The Lord Christ 

Is 

Not Laziness 

But Is 

A Time Of Preparedness! 

Get Ready ... And Stay Ready

And

Don't Fall The 

"Nothing Has Changed Since The Fathers Died!"

Crock O' Snot That Willful Minds Employ

To Ignore Correcting Bad Habits

To Reject Pursuing Truth

And

To Dismiss Doing What's Right In The Living God's Holy Sight!

Be Ye Warned And Blessed ...

The Door Of Mercy 

Is 

Open For Business Now: 

Use The Door! 

Reach For And Touch The Hand Of Mercy 

Until The Connection Is Dynamic! 

The Day Is Coming When Mercy Will Demit 

Aka Get Up From The Throne Of God 

And 

Man Will Have No Intercessor:

It Isn't That No One Is Interceding!

It Is That There Is No One To Intercede

And

There Is No One To Intercede For

And

All That Is Left Is Dread Judgment!

Confess And Repent Of Known Sins Now!

Take Christ As Your Eternal Portion!

Be Humble

And

Hold To God's Unchanging Hand Of Grace

- The Bringer Of Mercy -

Which Has Hope, Help And Healing

Available For Whosoever Desires

To Believe The Word

And

Receive The Abundant And Infinite Blessings!

Brethren, Beloved

Dare To Seek For 

And 

Wait On The Savior  ... Now

While Grace And Mercy Are Kissing!

CHRISTIANS: Peculiar Privileged People

The Word On Everybody's Tongue Today 

Is 

Privilege! 

We Are Being Asked To Check, As In Arrest, Our Privilege 

As Though Privilege 

Is 

A Bad Thing!

All Privileges Are Not Created Equal!

Beloved, 

We Are Christians ... Christ's Followers

And

By Virtue Of Our Faithful Association

We Have Access, Reach, Grasp And Hold!

We Are Peculiarly Privileged

So I Encourage Us All To Embrace 

The High And Holy Privilege That 

We Each Have Been Accorded By The Lord Of Life

The Creator-God

The Joy Of Every Man! 

Consider That We Are The Apple Of The Eternal God's Eye 

Even As He Holds The World In His Hand 

And 

He ... Personally Invited

Lives In Each Of Our Hearts! 

Think On These Things ...

We Have The Free And Open Invitation 

To, At-Will, Boldly Approach The Throne Of Grace 

In The Heavenly Sanctuary! 

We Are Encouraged To Reason With Our Maker! 

We Are Asked To Let Our Requests 

Be Made Known Unto The Living God! 

We Are Given Freedom

Free Will 

And 

The Choice To Worship Him

- Or Not Worship Him - 

Who Could Easily Deprive Us Of Life: 

No Force Is Employed! 

If These Things Are Not Privileges

We Will Never Ever Know 

What Makes Something A Real Privilege! 

Our God Is Holy, Kind, Loving

Giving, Forgiving

The Mighty Healer

The Sealer Of Souls

The Revealer Of Truths That Never Die!

We Are Invited To Enter His Courts ... Without Fear

So Let's Dare ... Today

To Ignore The World 

And

Choose To Embrace The Privilege 

Personally Given To Each Of Us 

To Become A Son Or Daughter Of The God Of Love 

Who Inhabits Eternity 

And

Has A Personal Place Prepared For Each Of Us 

In His Heavenly House Of Peace And Joys Forevermore! 

Remember, Remember 

Don't Ever Forget ... 

Earthly Privileges Are Ours To Enjoy

If

We Please ... Or Are Of A Benefit To ... The Giver

But

Heavenly Privileges Are Ours 

To Accept Or RejectUse Or Ignore!

No One Can Force Us To Use Our God-Given Privileges

And

No One ... Human Or Spirit

Can Force Us Not To Use Our Privileges! 

The Lord God Almighty Calls Us To His Side

And

To Be Like Him

By Taking Hold And Fully Utilizing 

The Privileges He Lovingly Accords Us! 

We ... Taught Of God And Faithful ... Know Who He Is! 

We Know Who We Are Because Of Sin! 

We Know Who We Will Be By, In, And Through Him

Through His Free-To-All Salvation! 

The Final Outcome ... Our Final Outcome

Will Always Be According To Our Exercised Sovereign Will! 

Brethren, Beloved

Please Choose Your Final Port Of Call Wisely!

 

Having ... And Being In ... Perfect Peace With 

The Eternal God Of Grace And Glory

Is

The Blessed And Sacred Privilege Of

The Saints Of Almighty God And Jesus Christ The Lord!

TINY TERRORS: Jesus Christ Is The Joy Of Living!

Answer The Door! 

"But There's No One Knocking!" 

Listen Again, Beloved! 

Jesus Christ The Lord Is Softly Knocking! 

He Wants To Be With You

But

He Is A Gentleman 

And 

He Will Never Barge Into Your Life! 

Think About It ... 

Things, Mostly Good, Happen In Our Lives 

And 

We Walk Around Glad, Grateful, That 

We Are Blessed Of The Lord! 

But, Then, Other Things Happen 

Which Are Often Hurtful

Sometimes Harsh

Many Times Downright Cruel 

And 

We Cry Foul, Asking The Lord 

"Why Me!" 

Without Realizing Or Even Understanding That 

These Events Are Actually Knocks At Our Door 

Encouraging Us To Invite Dear Jesus Into Our Homes

Into Our Hearts

And

Into Our Confidence 

And

To Appeal To Him To Be The Kindly Light That 

Will Lead Us Safely, Gently, To His Heavenly Home 

Despite The Tiny Terrors

Gruelling Griefs

And 

Sorry Situations Of Daily Living! 

Dear Ones, 

When The Storms Of Life Are Shaking Your Lemon Tree 

And 

You Have An Unexpected And Bountiful Crop Of Lemons

Open Your Mind

Your Heart

Your Hand 

And 

Your Home To Jesus 

And

Bid Him To Take Control Of

And

Sweeten Your Life! 

Storms Don't Control Our Lives: 

Jesus Christ The Lord, The King Of Love, Does 

And

Since He, The Lord Of Life, Gives Us Life

Let's Let Him Be In Total Control Of Our Living! 

He Is Our Creator And Re-Creator!

Jesus Christ The Righteous Judge

And

The Kind And Faithful King

Is 

The Joy Of Living 

So Choose To Bless Yourself Today

By His High, Holy, Helpful And Healing Hand!

He Thinks On You Personally!

Open The Door 

And 

Enjoy Peaceful Living For Sure! 

Let Your Light Shine Before Men!

We Christians Are Called ... By Jesus Christ

The Light Of The World! 

How Sad It Is Then, That 

Most In The World Look Questioningly, Cross-Eyed

Or With Raised Eyebrows 

Wondering What Kind Of Christians Many Of Us Are

And 

Asking What Kind Of "Light" We Are Shedding! 

Beloved, 

Let's Take Heed To Ourselves!

 

Be Careful How You Walk! 

Be Mindful Of What You Say And Do! 

Be Wise Unto Your Own Soul's Salvation 

And

See To It That Your Behavior 

Is Not 

Causing A Longing, Wandering, Seeking Soul 

To Turn Away From Saving Truth 

... And ... 

Be True To Your Calling 

To Be An Honest Steward

A Willing Witness

And 

A Loved, Loving, Child Of The Eternal God 

Through Jesus Christ Our Lord! 

From This Moment On

By The Available Grace Of Our Loving God

And

By The Holy Spirit's Leading, Teaching, Feeding 

And 

Correcting

Let No One Have Cause To Question Your Christianity 

Or Your Commitment To Our Lord Christ! 

You Didn't Buy Your Name: 

It Wasn't On Sale! 

Your Name 

Is 

Blessed, Holy, Everlasting

A Gift Of The Holy God

A Deposit ... If You Will ... Toward The Great Day 

When Having Assimilated The Total Character Of Christ

You, Perfected, Immortalized, Glorified

Shall Enter The Family Home On High 

To Live Eternally! 

Pray For Oil And Light Up! 

Shine, Dear Christian!

Shine!

Don't Be Free Food For Satan!

 

When The Angel Of The Lord Sets Up Shop In Our Vicinity

We Can Rest Assured That 

Deliverance Will Be The Outcome For Us 

Who Fear Aka Hold The Almighty God In Awe: 

We Reverence His Majesty And His Power! 

Conversely, It Is Safe To Say That 

Those Persons Who Do Not Fear The Living God

Are Subject To The Malevolence Of Satan And His Fallen Angels 

Who Are Determined To Accomplish Their Destruction! 

Beloved, 

The Angels Of The Living God 

Are Here To Minister To Us 

Who Shall Be The Inheritors Of Christ's Free Salvation! 

Those Who Choose To Walk Under Their Own Banner

Doing Everything That Carnal Flesh Desires 

Are Free Food For Satan

The Roaring, Always-Hungry, Lion 

Looking For Someone Easy To Devour! 

Remember, Remember

Don't Ever Forget ...

You Forfeit The Protection Of Holy Angels 

When You Walk In Willful Disobedience To  

"Thus Saith The Lord" 

By Going Where You Shouldn't 

And 

Doing What You Ought Not To Do! 

The Holy Fear Of The Lord In Our Hearts 

Is 

Our Sure Safeguard Against Indulging 

In Presumptuous Aka Planned Sin Aka Iniquity! 

Doing Wrong When You Know To Do Right 

Is 

Lawlessness 

And

Lawlessness Is Sin 

And 

The Wages Of Sin Is Death! 

Be Wise: 

Walk Enduringly Faithfully 

And 

In The Will Of The Lord Of Life 

Who Constantly Blesses Us With Awesome Goodness! 

Dare To Fear Almighty God 

And 

Choose To Be Eternally Blessed!

Don't Rob Yourself!

Who Are You!?! 

Are You A One-Talent

Two-Talent 

Or A Five-Talent Servant In The Service Of Our King!?! 

Are You ... Like The One-Talent Servant

Not Even Trying To Work 

But

Are Condemning Your Lord 

And 

Burying Your Talent In The Cold Earth Like It's A Dead Rat!?! 

Are You Like The Two And Five-Talent Servants 

Who Multiply Their Talents 

By Willing Service 

And

Giving To Their Lord Double His Investment Upon His Return!?! 

Are You Being Wise And Faithful 

And

Being Blessed For Having Trust In Your Lord 

And

Embracing The Confidence That He Reposed In You 

By Doing Well In Your Work For Him!?! 

Beloved, 

None Of Our Lord's Workers 

Should Be An Unprofitable Servant! 

The Lord Our God ... Our Creator

Who Knows Us Each Better Than We Know Our Own Selves

Gives Us Talents According To Our Ability 

So Don't Look, Or Stop Looking, At What Others Have 

And

Stop Judging The Living God 

By Your Corrupt Thinking And Innate Laziness:

We All Suffer From The Same Disease!

 We Are Free Agents With Freedom 

And 

Free Will! 

We Know Right And Wrong: 

Because Of Sin We Know Good And Evil! 

Please Don't Short-Change Aka Rob Yourself! 

Please Deny Sinful-Self 

And

Choose To Be A Saint Of God In This Age 

Using Your Gifts, Talents, For Our Lord! 

The Fields Are Ripe For Harvest

But

The Available Workers Are Few!

Be Warned ... 

Like It ... Or Not

Accept It ... Or Not

Whatever Talent We Receive From Our Lord

- Improved Or Not - 

Must Be Accounted For In The Judgment

So Do Yourself ... Your Soul ... A Favor

And

Willingly Choose To Know Your Gifts

And

Use And Improve ... Increase ... Them 

In The Service Of The Great King Blessed Forever! 

I Beseech Us All, Brethren

Dare To Work Wise Until Jesus Christ Comes! 

The "Well Done Good And Faithful Servant!" 

Awaits You, And Me, Too! 

Every Child Of Almighty God

Every Servant Of Almighty God

Has A Work To Do For Almighty God!

VESPERS AT THE END OF THE SABBATH: Righteous Living Is Not A Jail + No Repentance After Death!

Speak Softly! 

Be Kind! 

Do Good! 

Act Right! 

We Represent Jesus Christ

Who Does Everything That Pleases His Father! 

Jesus Was Abused, Denied, Rejected

And Yet

He Preached, Prayed, Taught

Healed And Fed The Multitudes

Giving No Heed To His Detractors

Because

He Knew What Was At Stake

What Trial

What Triumph 

Laid Ahead! 

No Cross ... No Crown! 

No Hope ... No Glory! 

No Prayer ... No Power! 

We Must Firmly Stand Upon The Truth

Found Only In The Good News Gospel Story! 

Brethren, Beloved 

Let's Not Let Sinful-Self 

Choose Neither Our Attitude Nor Our Altitude

But

Let Grace, Faith And Prayer 

Order Our Steps To Glory

If It Is Truly Our Heart's Desire 

To Dwell Forever With The Kind King 

Who Is Eternally In Residence There! 

Fear Almighty God ... Not The Great Unknown

For Almighty God ... Alone 

Is In Control 

And

To Him

The Unknown Is Known! 

Let Jesus Christ The King

Who Rules And Reigns

Judges And Justifies

Saves And Sanctifies

Heals And Helps

Teaches And Tests

And

Loves Us And Leads Us

Love Us And Lead Us

For He Is Our Only Peace 

And 

Our True Rest! 

Let Us Cease From Our Wanderings

Our Going Astray

And

Trust The Love That Cannot Fail

Who Gives Us Faith That Cannot Fail

Who Blesses Us With Grace That Is Really Real

And

Pours Mercy Upon Us

That Will Not Our Lives Derail! 

Follow Our Father! 

Be The Head And Not The Tail

And

Live Commendably To Rejoice 

And

Not Condemnably To Wail! 

Righteous Living Is Not A Jail! 

THOUGHT

FOR

THE WEEK AHEAD:

 

We Are Warned By Our Dear Savior That 

Anything Done In The Darkness 

Shall Surely Be Brought Into 

The Glaring Light Of Judgment! 

People Whose Deeds Are Evil

Who Despise Correction And Chastisement

Always Choose To Operate Under Cover Of Darkness 

To Avoid Detection! 

Beloved, 

Be Ye Warned And Thrilled ...

The All-Seeing, Ever-Present Eye Of The All-Knowing God 

Sees And Records Every Last Thing That We Do! 

We May Hide From Man 

But

Hiding From Man Achieves Nothing 

Because 

It Does Not Hide Or Erase Our Record

In The Courts Above! 

Think Carefully ...

If You Have To Hide To Do Anything

It Is Certain That 

You Already Know That What You're Doing 

Or Contemplating Doing Is Wrong

Will Not Pass The Sniff Test

And

Is Definitely Not Pleasing To Our Maker, God And King! 

Be Wise ...

If You Would Not Wish To Be Caught 

Doing Something Iffy Or Sniffy By Your Parents

Children, Husband, Wife, Friends Or Family

You Should Back Up Off Your Intended Action:

A Working Conscient Is An Asset!

Avoid Mistakes By Walking In The Light

And

Dare To Correct Your Errors While Life Is Spared! 

Tomorrow Is Not Promised To Anyone 

So Do Not Let The Last Act Of Your Life 

Be A Dark Deed Of The Damned! 

There Is No Repentance After Death 

So Do Not Stifle Your Conscience: 

Do Right!

 

HAPPY SABBATH + Almighty God's Mercy Showered Upon Us Is Free!

 

The Door Of Mercy

Is

Still Open! 

The Lord Is Light! 

I Am Human ... With Needs!

 

When Light Falls Upon Me

I Cast A Shadow 

Because 

I Absorbed The Light! 

My Shadow 

Is 

Either On The Ground Or Upon A Wall: 

Shadows Are Seen! 

When I Pray To Almighty God Who Is Light 

And

Mercy

An Inexplicable Thing Happens: 

My Prayers Of Supplication Become Mercy's Long Shadow! 

Prayer ... Praying ... Generated By Faith

Turns Me Into A Light Source That 

Impacts Mercy ... Via The Throne Of Grace 

Where I ... By Personal Invitation

Had Been Encouraged To Boldly Approach 

To Find Grace ... Unmerited Favor

To Help Me In The Times Of My Need! 

Just So You Know ... 

Faith Makes Us Humble 

And

Humility Makes Us Pray 

And

Prayer Causes Heaven To Work Opening Heaven's Storehouses 

To Bless Us With Our God's Infinite Blessings And Bounties! 

Beloved, 

Do Not Neglect To Pray: 

The Prayerful Are Powerful!

The Prayerless Are Powerless! 

We Have Been Given An Holy Power To Bless Ourselves 

By Blessing Our God Eternal With Our Requests 

For His Available And Able Assistance 

Through The Prayer Of Faith! 

Remember, Remember 

Don't Ever Forget ... 

Faith Without Prayer Is Useless! 

Prayer Without Faith Is Useless! 

Since Prayer Is Light

Let's Light Up Our Own Lives 

And

Our World By Praying 

Which, In Turn, Will Cause Our God's Free-To-All Mercy 

To Cast Long Shadows Over Us All: 

Mercy Helps And Heals! 

Mercy Is Free! 

Grace Is Free! 

Truth Is Free! 

Blessings Are Free! 

Faith Is Free! 

Hope Is Free! 

Healing Is Free! 

Heaven Is Free

And

Praying To The Father

In The Name Of Jesus Christ His Son

Under The Ministration Of The Holy Spirit

Is

Free! 

The Protection Of The Holy Angels

Who Personally Watch Over You As You Pray 

Is 

Free! 

Dare To Pray Like Your Life Depends Upon It

Because

It Does! 

Truth Is Light! 

Light Is Life! 

Walk In The Light Of Life!!

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Joyfully Embrace Mercy!