HAPPY SABBATH + Where Is The Everyday Thanks?!

Confession

Is Good For The Soul!

Unrepentance

Makes The Sinner Most Bold!

Comeuppance

Has For Herself A Lofty Place

AND

Life

Has An Uncanny Knack

For Dealing Disgrace 

To Those With Pride

Sowed

In Their Heart

And

Marked

On Their Face!

Food Shelter
Clothing Peace
Happy Children Health
License Land Lease
Work Water
No Sorrow To Bear!
Walks Through Willfulness!
Of Pettiness
AND
Foolishness
I Even Had A Substantial Share!

Thoughtlessness
Stinginess
Wildness
Waywardness
Faultlessness
Of Recklessness
I Can Tell You
I Spared Not A Tear!

You Could Have Been Dead!

Dead?! Me?!
You Must Be Kidding!
The World Was My Oyster!
My Life Was My Pearl
AND
I Wore It On A Gold Chain
AND
I Treated The Living God
As One Does A Churl!

But ...

The Day Came ...

...  And Someone Said:

It Would Be Better 

If People Would Try To Give God "Thanks!" 

On A Daily Basis 

Rather Than Waiting 

Until There Is Food Involved!

And Then ...

Contrary 
To My Perfect Conception Of My Life 
Comeuppance Was Glorified ...!

And I ...!

You Should Have Heard Me Praying:

Dear Lord,

Let Me Give You

Thanks And Praise Today

For I Don't Have Tomorrow

Far Less Next Week!

I Don't Know 

How The Tide Of My Life Will Turn

Or That I Will Be Able To Utter 

Even A Tired Mouse Squeak!

Father, My Heart In Me Burns!
Forgive Me For Taking The Life You Gave

And Doing As I Well Pleased!

Forgive Me For Eating My Daily Bread

Without Feeling The Desire To Say In Gratitude:

Thank You, Lord, For Filling My Need!

Lord,

I Have Been A Total Ingrate

Taking Your Bounty For Granted As I Overfilled

My Overflowing Plate!

Please

Accept My Contrite Heart's Apology!

Please Forgive My Descent Into The Realm Of Satan

That Greedy Reprobate

And Help Me To Walk

According To Your Calling

And Doing It Now

Rather Than When It Is Too Late

And

I Am Forced To Say:

Lord, Please Save Me Now!

Thank You For The Tears That Flow!

Thank You For The Grace You Bestow!

Thank You For The Mercies

Seen And Unseen
Known And Unknown
Unexpected And Unappreciated

And

Thank You For Christ's Sacrifice

That Makes This Wretch

By Confession

And Repentance

Forgiven

And

Clean!

It Is Good To Give A Gift 
Of Heartfelt Thanks
And Glorious Praise 
Unto Our Almighty God!
Amen!

Indeed!

Let Us, In Heartfelt Appreciation

- Today And Every Day -

Thoughtfully Say To Him 

Who Daily Provides:

"Father,

I Give Unto You My Heartfelt Thanks 

For All My Blessings

Even Though Your Giving

Is Not Dependent Upon My Thanks!"

VESPERS AT THE END OF THE SABBATH: PRAYER: Confession And Repentance Of Sin

Father,
I Come Before You 

My Sin Confessing!

The Wrong Things That I've Done

I'm Redressing

For 

At One Time, Lord

The Good Had To My Mouth No Taste

But

The Bad In My Mouth Was A Pleasurable Delight

And Now

Between Wrong And Right

Within Me

Is A Constant Fight!

You Promised, Dear Lord

That With Our Sin Confession

We Will, Through Your Faithfulness

Receive Remission

But

If We Don't Confess Our Sins

Today

Which Is The Acceptable Time

For Our Salvation

Your Holy Word Says

We Will Have To

For Our Own Pet Sins

Dearly, Eternally

Pay!

Father, 

I Repent

For Having Kept Sin As A Pet Lizard

For That Lizard

 A Roaring Dragon Is Become

And Its Claws Are Extended

And It Is Hunting Me Down!

Lord, Save Me!

Father, I Acknowledge

With No Love Of It

That A Sinner Is What I Am

But

I Believe

- From Your Written Word -

In Your Savings Plan!

I Have My Deposit Book
Jesus Christ The Righteous 

- The Word Himself -

And I Here Place On Him

Everything

That Will Mark Me

A Joyous Member Of

The Unrepentant Goat Herd!

I Beseech You

To Help Me To Walk Upright

In Your Holy Sight

So That My Prayerful, Persevering, Petitions

For Blessing And Assistance

By You, Lord

Will Indeed

Be Heard!

Father,

Please Also Accept

My Confession Of The Sins

Of My Nation And My People

Who Lift Up 

Prosperity

Self-Pleasure

Self-Pride

Self-Actualization

Self-Preservation

Self-Reliance

Self-Serving

But Never People

Nor The Holy God

Who Can Open Wide The Sky!

Forgive Us, Lord!

I Pray, Lord

For Those In Deliberate Sin Walking

Those Who At The Name Of Jesus

Their Fists At Heaven Are Shaking

Those Who Find Pleasure

In Fair-Promise Making

Leaving The Poor

The Widows

The Orphans And The Down-Trodden

In Destitution

Quaking!

Have Mercy On Us, Lord!

I Ask You, Lord

To Open Our Eyes!

Help Us To See Beyond

The Bits And Baubles Of

That Wicked Destroying

Lord Of Dung

Beelzebub Himself

Who Taints All That He Touches

Who Willingly

Gleefully Destroys

All That He Holds In His Clutches

Unless

Repentance For Known Sin

Grants Us

The Master's Healing

Forgiving

And

Thorough Cleansing Touch!

Purify Us, Lord!

Forgive Us, Today

Even This Moment, Lord

As We Pray!

Lift Us Up

So That We Will Uplift You

For

Without Jesus Christ

We Are Lost

Even Though 

He Has Already Paid Our Costs!

Let Not The Sacrifice Be For Naught, Lord!

Grant New And True Sight, Lord

To Those Who Believe

That Membership In A Particular Church

Or Congregation

Or National Group

Will Give Us A Free Pass To Freely Sin

And Still Gain Unencumbered Entry Into Heaven!
You Save Individuals Out Of Sin And Not In Sin!

Correct Our Egregious Errors, Lord!

Forgive Us, Lord

For Taking Your Mercy For Granted!
The Day Is Shortening!

Create New Hearts Within Us, Lord!

Forgive Us, Lord

Who Take Your Free Grace

For A License To Sin 

In The Erroneous Belief That Grace Will Abound!

Forgive Us Our Presumptions, Lord!

Oh, Lord

Help Us To Let Your Holy Spirit

Have His Way In Us!

Let Your Holy Spirit Teach Our Spirits, Lord!

Help Us To Let Go Of Every Known Sin

No Matter What Clothing It Is Wearing!

Help Us To Call Sin By Its True Name

No Matter The Nom de Plume 

Under Which It's Masquerading!

We Readily Acknowledge That The Devil Is A Gross Liar, Lord!

Help Us, Lord

To Fight The Good Fight Of Faith!

Help Us, Lord

Moment By Moment

Hour by Hour

Day By Day

To Humbly Dwell Upon The Name

The Name, Lord

Which Will Not Bring Our Hopes To Shame

The Very Name

Which At One Time

We Ourselves Did Profane!

Help Us, Father, To Honor The Lord Christ!

Oh, Lord, Most Holy

Help Us To Be True

So That

Through The Vanity Of Living In And Loving Sin

 Our Thus Despised Salvation

Will Not Cause Us

To Be

From You

Eternally Lost!

Forgive Us, Lord!

Heal Us!

Cleanse Us!

Teach Us!
Lead Us!

Feed Us And Help Us, Lord 

To Be Living Lights

In This World's Oppressive Darkness!

Please Make Us Free From The Law Of Sin And Death

And 
In That Glorious Day
Take Us Home To Dwell Forever More With Thee!

In Jesus' Holy Name I Plead And Stand!

I Love You, Lord!

AMEN.

GOD'S JUSTICE & MERCY: Calls For Confession & Repentance

Truth to Tell - I was in a Bit of a Pickle
I Committed Sin
I was Headed for Hell
No "If..."
No "And..."
No "But ..."
My Life was Straight-Up
Living in Duck's Guts!

God Has Very Specific Sentencing Guidelines:

You Sin! - You Die!

I Didn't Know How
To Extricate Myself!
I Knew - For A Fact
That I was Going To Die
For The God of Heaven
Does Not Cannot Tell Lies!

I Tried To See If
I Could Give God A Little "Berry!"

You Know:

A Little Quid Pro Quo! 
(Something for Something)

I Should have Known Better
That This God Was The God Of The Letter
And That His Answer Would Be To Me A Plain:

 "NO!"

I Had Been Around Town
A Time or Two
And So I Knew One or Two People, Too!
I Explained My Plight
I Even Got Into A Fight
AND
Thereafter
I Found Myself Facing 
My 
Darkest 
Night!

I Don't Know
From Whence The Thought Came
But I Uttered A Prayer
Learned From Me Old Gran' Mummy:

"Lord, I Know You Up There

I'm Living In Sin Down Here

Have Mercy - Send Me Some

Even If It's Worth 

Only An Old Bent Penny!"

Now, If I Remember True
Old Gran' Always Tell Trut'
And I Know That She Never Led Me Astray!

I Chose My Own Lot
And Look At What I Got
Fears
Tears
A Runny Nose
And A Stomach Full of Leaden 
Butterfly Knots!

Lord,

Talk To Me!

I'm Finally Ready To Listen -

Hear My Plea!

I Have Nothing Else To Lose

No One Else To Whom I May Turn!

My Ball Ran Out of String

My Bees Lack Honey -

All They Have Left Is Bare Sting

And My Mind Is A Whirl

And Even My Hair

Straight and Curly Got Tight-up Curls!

People Must Understand 
That My Situation Was Desperate
And I Would Have Done Anything
To Get The God To Cooperate
BUT
Almighty God That He Is
Was Having None Of My Fizz!
He Wanted Me
AND
He Was Finally Getting Me -
I Was Down On My Knees!

Now That I Had God's Attention
God Had My Full Attention
God's Truth Came Flooding Into My Soul:

God Is The God Of Justice!

God's Justice Demands Payment For Sin!

Sin Is The Transgression Of God's Law!

God Is The God Of Mercy!

(Sparing Me From Receiving What I Deserve!!)

God's Only Beloved Begotten Son Died ... TO PAY

For My Sin ...!

God's Mercy Gives Me Grace!

(Gifting Me With What I Don't Deserve!)

God Loves Me - A Raw-Mouthed Sinner!

(The Stench and Mark Of Sin Are Upon Me)

God Hates Sin!

(The Line That Separates The Holy and The Human!

(The Thing That Makes Us Profane!)

AND ...

All I Need To Do
To Be Accepted Into Fellowship With The Living God
IS
To Confess My Sin
To Repent For Having Committed My Sin 
AND
Have A CHANGE!
SUBMIT!
SUBMIT 
To A Change Of 
HEART!

PRAYER:

Father, 

I am Sorry!

I am Sorry For What I Did Today Yesterday!

I am Sorry for The Way I Walked

And

For My Associating With The Bad Company

With Whom I Happily Played!

Lord,

I Repent of The Past

My Actions

My Words

And

My Deeds

And, Lord

If You Would Please Heal Me

I Will Serve You

In Whatever Capacity You Need Me!

Make Me Anew

I am Beseeching You, Lord

Clean Me

Renew!

Father, 

I am Through Talking "I Love You!"

I am Through Walking "The Modern Christian" Way

I am Ready, Lord

To Walk In The Way Of Christ

I am Now Really, Really, Listening To You!

Preserve My Soul, Lord

I am - Finally - Truly - Honestly -

With Your Constant Help

Denying All Associations 

With King Fraud!

Lord God Almighty,

I Am Yours

And

By Your Grace

In Jesus' Faith

I Know I Will Fly 

At The End

If I Endure To The End

With King Jesus

And

All The Redeemed Ones

Up Above The Clouds

To Dwell You On High!

I Love You, Lord

Forgive and Bless

In Jesus' Holy Name I Plead

AMEN.

They Are Calling God A Liar!!

I Have No Sin!
God IS A Liar!

I Have Not Sinned!
God IS A Liar!

What Did You Just Say?
God IS A Liar!

Why Would You Say Such A Horrible Thing!?
I am Just Repeating What YOU Said!

I Said No Such Thing!!
So What Did You Say, Then?

I Said That I Have No Sin!
God IS A Liar!

Stop Saying That!

What Else Did You Say?

I Have Not Sinned!
God IS A Liar!

Stop Saying That!!

Why Should I?!

You Are Blaspheming God's Name!
So Are You!

No,  I Am Not!
Are, Too!

This Is Total Rubbish!
I Am A Bible-Believing God-Fearing Christian!
I Would Never Call God A "Liar!"  -  That's Satan's First Name!

You Did Call God A Liar!

Come On!
How Did I Do That?!


1 John 1:8 and 10

8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 

10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.


Is Your Name Jesus Christ?

Did You Become Sin For Mankind?

Did You Die On The Cross?

Are You Human?!

Weren't You Born In Sin?!

Weren't You Shaped In Immorality!?!


No!  No!  No!  Yes! Yes! Yes!


So Why Do You Say You Have No Sin
and
That You Have Not Sinned?


Well, ....

A hmm...

Because,  well ...  Ahhm


Good Answer!!


Don't Be Cruel!


Me?  Cruel?!
I Am Simply Pointing Out To You The Error In What You Are Saying About God! <<>>

Dear Ones:

This Scenario is The Result of Believing in "The Other Jesus Gospel" wherein One is - in essence - told to 

"Be as You are and 

Continue Doing What you are doing 

FOR 

God Knows YOU and Accepts YOU as YOU are 

THEREFORE 

YOU Cannot be a Sinning Sinner because 

YOU Are Saved 

In YOUR Sin now Christened Salvation!"

Please ... Deny The Liar and Accept The Good Lord and His Truth that He Loves The Sinner BUT He Hates The Sin!

Please ... Accept Jesus Christ at His Word in 1 John 1:9:

• Confess YOUR Sin for
• God IS Faithful and
• God IS Just and
• God WILL Forgive OUR Sin! AND
• God WILL Cleanse US From ALL Unrighteousness!

There Are NO Shortcuts To Acquiring YOUR Soul's Salvation, and The Person - Pastor, Priest, Prophet, Pope, President, Poseur, Prognosticator nor Parasitic Personage - who Claims Otherwise is THE Satan-Motivated-Actuated Liar!

A Word (of Truth) To The Wise Should Be and IS Enough!

Be Well, and Be Gloriously Blessed,

BJ