VESPERS AT THE END OF THE SABBATH: You Personally Matter To The Master!

 

I Matter! 

Of Course, You Matter, Marsha! 

I Matter To The One Who Matters! 

And Who, Pray Tell, Would That Be, Marsha Mann! 

Since You Gave Me My Name, Devory Manwaur, I, Marsha Mann, Matter To The Master! There Ain't Nobody Higher Nor Bigger Than He Is, And There Ain't Nobody To Overrule, Nor Undermine, Sidestep, Or Countermand His Commands, Nor Teach Him Knowledge, Nor To Correct His Errors Because He Doesn't Make Errors Because He Is Perfect! 

He Is The God Who Alone Is Wise! I Belong To Him: He Is My Lord And My King! 

I Can Touch The Hand Of God Because I'm In The Heart Of God! I Rest In God Because I Trust In God, And I Have Peace! You May Want To Check Him Out! 

Oh, And By The Way, If You Have A Problem With Me, Please Feel Totally Free To Take It Up With Him: You Will Need To Pray! 

Ooopsies, I Forgot! Praying Won't Work For You Because, Per You, "Praying Is Stupid And Is A Crutch For Weak-Minded People Who Are Afraid To Belly-Up To The Trough Of Life To Get And Take Their Portion Of The Feed For All!" 

Oh, My, Whatever Will Our Dear Manwaur Do! 

Manwaur, We All Get One Shot To Make A Good Impression: There Are No Second-Firsts! Take This Shot To Get Out Of "Hell's Kitchen!" 

Come Out, Manwaur! I Got Out! 

Jesus Christ Saves! 

Prayer Changes Things! Have A Conversation With The King, No Appointment Needed, No Security Buffering, No Nosy Assistants, No Clocks, No Leakers Of Your Past Misdeeds, No Judgment, No Suspicion, No Rejection! 

Look, Marsha, I've Never Heard About A God Who Doesn't Want, Doesn't Demand And Require Constant Gifts And Sacrifices From Its Adherents, Its Followers, To Gain And Retain Their Favor! Why Would Your Sky God Be Any Different!?! 

Mr. Manwaur, I Am Going To Rock Your World Right Now! 

The Sky God, As You Call Him, Is God Almighty, The For-Real God, Not An Impostor! He Lives Above The Sky And Is Holding It Up Even As He Walks With Us Under It! 

He Sacrificed His Life For Us To Give Us The Gift Of Access To Himself! He Daily Gives Us Gifts ... And Our Mercies Are Ever New! 

We May Storm His Throne-Room Whenever We Want, For Whatever Reason, Without Getting Ourselves Tackled, Or Being Left Without Body Heat! 

He Answers Our Hard Questions With Answers Easy To Grasp! Manwaur, He Comforts Me Because He Cares! I May Not Always Be Able To Feel His Presence But ...! 

... You're Kidding, Right!?! You Don't Feel God, You See God! 

My Poor Deluded Manwaur! Every Manufactured God Is A Fiction Of Satan The Damned, And They Are Fronts To Cause People To Worship Demons! 

My Jesus Speaks, Loves, Hears, Touches, Carries, Comforts, Walks, Prays For His People ... He Is Praying For Me! 

He Promised Never To Leave Me Nor Forsake Me, And That Is Why I Can Confidently Say That When I Can't Feel His Presence, I Can Trust His Heart: His Word Is The Truth: He Can't Lie: His Word Is Who He Is! 

Uh, Ummm, That Is Quite A Recommendation, And It Seems That I May Have Been Operating Under A Delusion, If You Will, Marsha! 

You Have, Manwaur, And It Is Time To Correct The Record! 

Dear Marsha, If You Will Walk With Me, I Sincerely Believe That I Will Do The Necessary! I Will Correct The Record! 

Hallelujah! Another Brand Plucked From The Fire! The Holy God Be Praised! 

AMEN!!! 

Peace! 

HAPPY SABBATH + I Like God!

I Like God!
He is My Friend
On Whom I Can Depend!
I Like God!

Seriously, I Really Like God!

"Strange Expression, don't you Think!?!"

No! No! Not at all!

Think about this:

The people with whom I choose to associate are the people I really like, respect, trust, find companiable, comforting, helpful, comfortable, resourceful, loving, funny, smart, and trustworthy. 

We are the same things to each other, and we love each other enough to like being in each other's company ... all the time!

And ... we are all-around good people, with character and faith in The True and Living God. 

Look at God:

• Faithful
• Merciful
• Helpful
• Caring
• Gracious
• Resourceful
• Creative
• Artistic
• Comforting
• Comfortable
• Trustworthy
• Loving
• Just
• Companiable
• Wise, and 
• Funny and 
• Serious and 
• True, and
• Truthful 

God Knows The Best Ways for Me to Walk, all The Best Places where I May Lay My Head, Sets The Best Table, Guards Against Enemy Attacks, and knows where The Living Waters Flow, AND He Gives Me Life!

Best of All, because He does not Pry, and Waits to be called, and is Always Available on Demand, I share things with Him that I will not Share with Another Living Soul, knowing full well that He will not "Desert Me" by Reason of my Weaknesses, and Bad Temper, and Lying, and Cheating and Stealing and Daily Fornications and Adulteries! 

God Listens and He Counsels, but there have been times when He put His foot down and Chastised Me, and stated clearly: "Don't Do That! That is Not The Way for You!"

He doesn't leave Me to "Figure it out!" for Myself!

He Teaches Me The Right Way, and Helps Me to Walk in it!

We have had a few dust-ups over the years, though and, believe me, things were pretty bad for a while!

You see, I wanted to do something that God - Repeatedly - told me not to do, and I got on my high horse, and called Him a few unflattering descriptives and went on my merry way and did my own thing and paid ... BIG TIME!!

I was totally ticked off at God after that Debacle!

"How could You let me do that?!
How could You let that happen to me?!
Why didn't You stop Me?!
I thought you were My Friend!"

Want to hear what He said:

"Beloved, you have Free Will and Free Choice!
I will Never Force you to do The Right Thing!
I will Chastise, and Plead, and Love, and Call you BUT I will let you Decide AND whatever The Decision is that you make, I will be here Waiting for you when you call!"

His Answer totally took The Wind out of my Overblown Sails!

One day, I told Him that I gave Him Permission to yank Me back when He sees me going Astray and, do you know what? 

He has taken that request to His Heart, and He sticks closer to me that even my brother can!

It is Amazing!

On another occasion, we were Talking, and I Wondered how He could be Satisfied to be Always Giving Me Blessings for which I could Never Repay Him?!

Do you know what He said!

"I Love You! 
It is Enough that you Desire to be with Me, and are always Talking Intimately with Me, willing to Follow My Lead, and that you Trust Me, and are Walking - Faithfully ... Steadfastly - on The Highway To Heaven, as you Learn and Grow from Following The Way as Set Forth in My Family Book of Gifts that I Gave to you!"

My Heart Leaped!

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God makes me Laugh - often!

God makes me Think - all the time!

In God, My Life is Complete

By God, I Stand Firmly on My Feet

With God, Bitter Tastes Sweet

For God Has Made Heaven The Prize

To Those who Faithfully Compete!

I Like God

He Is Wise

Uses No Lies

Plans No Way-out Strategies

Wisdom Is His Eye

I Can On Him Rely

By His Grace I Can Satan Defy

With His Mercy

In The Great By and By

I Will Live Forever

Winging To Worlds

Which Imaginings Can't Prophesy!

I Like God!

This Is Not About Obligatory Love

This Is Friendship ... And Beyond

He Called Himself My Friend - Unto The End

And Sought Me Out When I Faced Harm

He Looks Out For Me - Day and Night

He Fights For Me - Dissolving The Blight

He Died For Me - To Give Me His Light

He Carries Me - When Cares Benight

He Comforts Me - When I Take A Fright

He Watches Me - I Am Ever In His Eyesight

And Because Of His Sacrificial Love

I Shall Gain The Winner's Wreath At The End Of The Fight!

I Really, Really, Like God!

God's Love IS ... No Lie!

"Looking for Love!

Will Work for Love!"

Her sign held high

At the corner she stood.

"Don't look for Love!

Love makes you Cry!

Sometimes Love even makes you Die!

Love IS a Lie!"

"Oh, poor is Me!

What is it that I See?

Love dressed in Hate

Going out on a Devil Date?

Oh, Lord, help Me!"

And THEN ...

A Voice was Heard
No arrogant talker he
Gentle, compassionate
Beseeching, fervent
Yet calling ... gently:

Meet Jesus Christ!
The Lord of Love!
The Savior Redeemer sent from Heaven Above
His Love is Pure
His Love is Free
His Love has No Limits that Human Eye can See!

He Is Love Personified!
He came to Earth!
He was Baptized!
The Spirit as Dove upon Him did descend
His Father spoke of His Beloved
His Voice came from Heaven in Love for His Love!

Pure Love as Jesus ... went out to The Desert
Pure Love as Jesus ... was Sore Tempted by The Knave
But Pure Love put down 
The Hungry Temptations in 40 Days
Proving, plainly proving, that He was no Flesh Slave!

Jesus ... In Love ... Taught and Preached
And Loved, and Healed, His People!

And Jesus ... In Love
Went to The Cross That Cruel Day!

Jesus ... By Love ... was Nailed on The Tree!

Jesus ... For Love ... let Sin securely nail Him there
So that You and Me
Wouldn't Eternal Death
Have to share!

Heaven Cried ...
Satan Rejoiced ... Exultantly!

Jesus could have Stepped Down
Jesus could have Stepped Away
 ... Not been Crucified
But Jesus had come
Our Sin for to Pay!

Nails did not keep Jesus on The Cross!
Nails could not have kept Jesus on The Cross!

So ... Let Us Know and Understand and Accept this:

Love for His Lost Loved Ones

Fixed Jesus to The Cross that Day!

The Love of God
The Life of Jesus and
The Spirit's Truth 
Exploded in Three Days
And The Stone on The Tomb by The Angels
Rolled Away! 
Rolled Away!

Loving Jesus
Gentle Jesus
Lamb of The Sacrifice
In Light and Life Gloriously Re-Appeared!

And when Jesus was finally Returning to His Father
Two Angels to the Assembled Believers declared:

This Same Jesus 

That You See Ascending

Will Descend in Like Manner Again 

One Coming Day!

Love IS Alive!

Love is TRULY Alive!

Love is JESUS

And Jesus IS ALIVE!

Love Jesus 

and 

You Dear People 

Will Be Truly Alive!!

GOD'S LOVE IS NO LIE!