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!!!

VESPERS AT THE END OF THE SABBATH: Be Encouraged!

To Be ... Or Not ... To Be!

Is This Even A Real Question!?!

The Saints Have Marching Orders:

Stand Firm In The Lord Your God!

Hold The Lord God Almighty In Godly Fear!

With The Fallen World The Good News Share

And

Have No Truck With Satan, The Known Fraud

The Wannabe God!

We, The Saints Of God And Christ

Are Called To 

Be Strong ... In The Lord!
Be ... Of Good Courage!
Be Faithful!

Be Not Afraid!

Be Not Troubled!
Be Obedient!
Be Not Dismayed!
Be Ye Steadfast!
Be Constant!
Be Instant ... In Prayer!
Believe!
Be Blessed!
Be Not Weary ... In Well Doing
Beloved!

The Lord God Almighty

Goes Before

Stands Beside

Guards Behind

Is Beneath

Is Above

Surrounds!

He Is Kind!

The Lord Loves Us!

The Lord Forgives

Helps, Heals

Saves, Seals

Leads, Reveals

Guides, Provides

Convicts, Converts

Blesses, Never Perverts

Accepts, Protects

Lifts, Sifts

And

In Him, We May Safely Confide

Even Though He Will Us Often Chide!

With Us, He Abides!

We Are Called To Step Out In Faith

So

Work ...Willingly!

Strive ... Confidently!

Bless Others ... Abundantly!

Serve ... Humbly!

Pray ... Passionately!

Speak ... Truthfully!

Wait ... Prayerfully

And

Watch ... Expectantly!

The Lord Is Coming ... Soon!

Blessings Await The Faithful:

For Unrepentant Sinners

There Is Only Doom!

Every Day Has A Dawn And Dusk!

Every Day Has Sunrise And Sunset!

Every Day Has Beginning And End

And

On The Lord Christ ... Through It All

We May Unreservedly Depend!

The Lord Is Near!

Go Forward, Friend!

The Lord Has Your Back!

Go Forward, Friend!

Do Not Look, Do Not Turn Back!

Go Forward, Friend!

The Lord Has A Place Prepared For Thee!

Go Forward, Friend!

Walk With Him Companiably!

With The Lord, There Is No Fear!

With The Lord, You Will Always Be Prepared!

With The Lord, All Foes Are Fallen!

With The Lord

Glory Is To Be Shared!

Let Not Your Gift Be Cast Aside Forgotten!

Walk Wise!

Look Up!

Speak Truth!

Hold Hope!

Do Not Be Deceived!

Believe The Word!

Receive The Blessing!

Glory Will Be Achieved

When We Accept The Good News Gospel

That We Have, With Acceptance, Heard!

Believe!

Be Blessed!

Be Faithful!

At The World's Wickedness

Do Not Be Stressed!

He That Is To Come ... Shall Come

And

Praise God Almighty

He Shall Not Be Silent!

Do Not Fear Those That Are Violent!

Brethren,

To The Lord Christ ... Be Faithful!
In The Lord Christ ... Be Confident

And

With Obedient Endurance To The Journey's End
Be Eternally, Gloriously, Blessed!
Jesus Christ Saves!

You Are Blessed:

Be A Blessing!

The Lord

Is

To Be Praised!

Soon Comes The Glory Days!

Between

BetweenB AND R
Aka
Believe And Receive (Cross Tribulation Robe/Crown)
Lies
C all To Salvation
D o Not Turn Away
E ntreat The Lord For Mercy
F ling Caution-With-Christ Away
G ive The Living God Glory
H ide No Sin Away
I nvite The Savior - Daily - To Help You
J ustification Is The Christ Way
K eep Your Eyes On Jesus
L et The Good Shepherd Lead You Today
M ake The Lord Your Master
N ever Forget In Prayer To Meet
O pen The Door To Your Heart
P lease Offer Jesus A Seat
AND
Q uit Believing Satan's Lies
AND
R eceive Jesus Christ
For
In Him
IS
Our Soul's Salvation
AND
Eternal Life!

Let Us Not Be Hearers Of The Word Only!

Let Us Be Doers Of The Word Also

For

There Is No Value In Our Belief

IF

We Do Not Accept

The Free Offer Of Salvation!

When You Believe ... ACCEPT The Gift!

When You Accept ... WALK In The Straight Way!

As You Walk ... WORK Out Your Own Salvation!

When You Work ... BLESS Another Soul With Truth

For

Your Spent Blessing

ALSO

Immensely Blesses You!

**--**--**--**

I Pray That We Are All Blessed

With Enduring Faith

For

The Battle That Is Just Ahead!

Jesus Christ IS Lord!

He Took Unto Himself

All Of Our Sin

- Those Besmirching Stains -

AND

We

- Accepting, Believing, Christ-Following, Doers -

Reap All The Glorious Gains!

The Lord In Zion Reigns!

Believe ... AND?! + PRAYER: Father, Please Hold Me!

Salvation
Is Not For A Country
A City
A Community
A Family
Nor
A Church!
Salvation Is For A Seeking Soul
The One Who Sees The Need 
For Jesus Christ
The Savior
The Redeemer
The Living God
Who For His People Works!

Salvation Cannot
Be Begged
Bought
Nor Bartered!
It Is Not Something For Which We Can Work!
It Is Not Something About Which We Can Boast Over
It Is A Gift
Freely Offered To All Men
Something That No Creature Can Pervert!

Believe
On The Lord Jesus Christ 
AND ...
The Small Word
With Eternal Implications For Mankind
Is Followed By
Thou Shalt Be Saved
Which Is A Call 
To Action
Followed By 
A Promise
Guaranteed 
By Shed Blood
To Be Fulfilled
On Almighty God's Very Own
Never Early
Can't Be Late
Specified
Known Only To Himself 
Date!

We Must Believe!
Believing Entails Effort On Our Part
AND
We Must Act According To Our Belief
Living True To The Promissor
Trusting The Word
AND
Believing That Our Belief
Our Faith
To Receive The Blessing
Is One Cost That 
We Can Truly Afford!

Does Your Faith Have Belief?
Does Your Belief Have Trust
That You Will The Promise Receive?
Do You Live As Though The Transaction Is A Done Deal?
Do You Share The Word Of The Blessed Hope
Or
Does Doubt
Cause You Still With Sin To Grope
Butting Around Life
From Pillar To Post
Unfulfilled
Uncaring
Unaware
That Living With Godly Fear
Moves One Out Of Sin's Darkness
Into God's Eternal Light Of Life
Glory To Share?

A Mother Performs As One!
A Teacher Teaches!
An Actor Acts!
BUT ...
What Of The Saved Soul?

Are You Holding Jesus Christ's Hand?
Are You Walking
- With Faith - 
Toward The Heavenly Land
Trusting
In The Eternal Word
Following
The Gentle Shepherd
As A Named 
AND
Hearing Sheep
AND
Not Longing To Run 
With The Disobedient Goats Who Bleat?

Believing Hope Trusts Faith!

Loving The Lord Jesus

Causes Our Love To Love Others!

That Love Lifts Us Up
As Well As It Lifts Up Others!
That Love Looks Up In Hope
Trusting The Word Of The Word
Even Though There Is No Visible Rope To Hold
AND
We
Being Lead
- By The Greatest Lover -
Lead Others To The Knowledge
Of The Living Water 
Well-Knowing
That Living In Hope
Is Better Than Living As One Hopeless
Practically Dead 
Ever Consumed 
By Raging Doubt
Seriously Touched
In The Head!

What

- And By Whom -

Are You Being Fed?

Where

- And By Whom -

Are You Being Lead?

Is Your Leader-Feeder

 The Great Master

The Loving Lord

Almighty God

Or

Is It Some Strange One

For Whom

Getting Your Soul

To Be Lost

Is A Great Reward?

*********

Just As You Are Cautious

Of What

Goes Into Your Stomach

Be

Holy Spirit-Led Cautious

Of What

Goes Into Your Mind!

*********

PRAYER:

Heavenly Father,

Please Guard My Mind!

Help Me Not To Be Consumed

By Those Things Carnal

That The World Calls Divine!

Cleanse My Palate!

Craft Me A New Heart!

Wash My Eyes

And

Unstop My Ears

So That I May Hear

The Heavenly Harps!

Lord,

I Trust You!

I Believe

I Worship

And

I Praise

Only You!

Please Hold Me

In Your Loving Arms

For

This Child Of Faith

Dearly Loves You!

I Pray These Petitions

In Jesus' Precious Name!

AMEN.

Playing With Praying

I Went To "The Magician!"
I Needed A Little Something
To Get Me Through The Day!
I Prayed The Exact Fee
AND
Achieved The Exact Play
AND
Confidently
Pridefully
Walked Away!

It Wasn't Very Satisfying
BUT
I Could Look Right!
I Could Speak Like I Was Walking Right
AND
I Could Pretend That I Was Living In The Light!

...   sigh ...

Go Along
Got Along
Doing Wrong
For A Song.

Not Very Helpful ...

Put In
Get Back!
Put God First
And
Life For You Won't Be A Hearse!

Huh!?!

Get What
You Give!
No Water
In A Sieve!

Hmmm ...

God Is Love
Is God!
Suffering?
Look Away From The Fraud!

Okay, Already!
Out With It!

Stop Looking In!

Stop Looking About!

Cast Your Gaze On Things Above

For There Is Where You Find The King Of Love!

Stop Praying For Temporal Things!

Start Praying For The Things Of God!

Let God Lead

You On The Way

And

Throw The Gotta-Have-Things-Medicine Away!

Say Your Prayers From Your Heart!

Trust God To Provide For You

From His Heart!

God Cannot Lie!

If You Believe

Love

AND

Trust Him

You Will Fly

Home To Heaven

When He Receives To Himself

His Own

By And By!

Put The Living God First

Not Things To Be Purchased

With The Contents Of Your Purse!

God Will Provide!

He Has Blessings For You

IF

For Peace With Him

You Sue For

AND

Pursue!

God Is Real!

Sin Assails!

Jesus Took The Nails - Trust Him

Then Satan

Against You

Can't Prevail!

Real Life Begins

When You Let Jesus Christ In!

Satan Can't You Grope

When Hope In God

Is Your Anchoring Rope!

Believe and Behave!

Believe and Behave

Bless God and don’t be a slave

To the world and its beckoning caves

Of sin where the soul decays!

Believe and Behave

Bless God and don’t be a slave

To the emotional highs and lows

That carry you to Satan through its flows!

Believe and Behave

Bless God and don’t be a slave

To neither money nor men

Nor carnality in the den and glen!

Please, Friend, believe that this life is ending

For your soul there’s contending

Satanic Forces are offending and

Jesus Saves is defending!

Stop and look and listen and STOP

To choose the right side - not the suicide

For there’s either Life with the Loved Glad

Or Loved Life with the Lost Sad!

A decision then must now be made

For even a “no decision” card is the decision played

And the wrong decision equals eternal death in spades

Eternal separation - no Life in Bright Glades!

Believe and know that Christ Jesus Saves!

Behave now as you have for so long prayed!

Pray, pray, and sing His praise in oh so glad song

And you will indeed Live Forever ... e’er long!

The Hidden Meaning Behind the Word IMPOSSIBLE

The Hidden Meaning Behind the Word IMPOSSIBLE

Most days, minding my own business is easy for me but this particular day was not one of them. 

 I sat and openly listened to the conversation going on around me because the theme of it was how “impossible” this is to handle, how “impossible” that was to overcome, and how life was “impossible.” Everything in the conversation was impossible.

I was so intrigued by what I heard that my thoughts went off on a tangent of their own as I tried to figure out why we, humans, believe that impossible is a word worthy of use, and why we automatically default to impossibilities when faced with life’s challenges.

I started writing the various definitions for the word “Impossible” on my notepad and was astounded to notice that there was a pattern emerging:

The Hidden Meaning Behind the Word IMPOSSIBLE
The Light of Life	Parts of Impossible	The Dark Side
Inc(k) - to write what you know Congruous - things that fit In-Us - is the answer to everything (remember that you are the temple of God, and the Holy Spirit lives in you) 1 Corinthians 3:16	Incongruous	Con - I fooled you
Inc(k) - to write what you know Conceive - birth the concept Able - you can do it	Inconceivable	Con - I fooled you
Logic - let’s reason this out	Illogical	Ill - you’re going be sick before you finish
Uni - single mindedness Imagine - the possibilities Able - you can do it	Unimaginable	Un-Able - you can’t do it
Able - you can do it Desire - you must want it	Undesirable	Un-Able - you can’t even see it
Able - you can do it Suit - put on your armor to do battle Suitable - it’s good enough for you	Unsuitable	Un-Able - you can’t do it
Able - you can do it Ten - they’re 10 reasons why you can do it	Untenable	Un-Able - you can’t do it Ten - they’re 10 reasons why you can’t do it
Able - you can do it Think - that it’s possible and doable	Unthinkable	Un-able - you can’t do it Think - impossible
Able - it can be done Work - put your back and mental effort into it	Unworkable	Un-able - it can’t be done AND Un-able - you can’t do it
Probe - dig for deeper meaning Probable - it’s doable Able - you can do it	Improbable	Imp - I’m going to give trouble Bab(b)le - You’re talking nonsense
Proper - it’s all good Prop - lean on the Father Rope - wrap up with truth	Improper	Imp - I’m going to give trouble Rope - I’m going to tie you in knots
I’m Able - yes, I am! Practice - you’ve got to work at it Practicable - it can be done	Impracticable	Imp - I’m going to give you trouble
Able - you can do it Surmountable - you can overcome it Insure - look to your faith for insurance	Insurmountable	Un-Able - you can’t do it
Prep - you need to prepare yourself Poster - write down what you know	Preposterous	peter (out) - your strength will fail before you accomplish this

The more I looked at the word “Impossible” and all the things it means, I realized that there was mischief afoot.

That’s when I saw the “Imp” who freely ran around wreaking havoc whenever we uttered the word “Impossible” which was the Pandora’s box in which he dwelt — obviously, he was not alone.

When I considered the kinds of friends someone like this would keep company with, I realized that it was time to expose him for what he is — a liar and a cheat and a perjurer and a trickster. A demon.

He was carrying his friends, Ill, Unable, Peter, Babble, Con and Rope to confuse, confound, puzzle and perplex us and cause us to throw up our hands in defeat. This is how they do it:

The imp makes us feel ill and useless and the con tricks us into feeling as though our strength has petered so that rope can tie us up in so many knots so that our thoughts defy logic rendering us unable to think of 10 things to put on a poster to give us the will to suit up and mount an attack to work toward our goals. In so doing, we will throw up our hands in disgust and cry “Impossible” and give up the fight.

          Now, since we know how they lead us to failure and disillusionment, here’s how we can fight 

them:

Nothing is impossible with God! Acknowledge it, believe it and live 

it. We need to realize and accept that in each of us is the means to 

solving all our problems. We need to be single-minded in the pursuit 

of our goals, after saying “Thy will be done!.”

We must remember that we are indeed able and that we must suit up 

for our success – must look the part – and make preparations to 

succeed. We must acknowledge that we can’t do “it” by ourselves and 

that our back prop is the Father.

We should then write (ink) down on our poster the 10 things which we 

believe make this “thing” which we desire, possible, after we have 

ascertained that it is indeed good and proper for us to have it.

We must then probe for the truth of the thing we desire, and imagine 

that it is ours for the taking.

We are then required to put all things in perspective to make sure that 

these things match, or belong together.

We should then map out the logical steps to be taken to achieve this

goal, and then take out insurance from the Father against those 

naysayers who are purveyors of self-doubt and indecision.

Thereafter, with work, i.e., mental and physical effort, clear focus and 

faith that all things are possible, we will overcome.

Anything and Everything is now indeed possible! 

Impossible

Impossible is not a word

That I care to conceive

Because it makes a liar of

The King whom I believe!

And since the King whom I believe

Has never let me down

Impossible is not a word

Around me to be found!

For me, all things are possible

Impossible holds no dread

Believe God — He will deliver

And impossible will be dead! **BJC**