The Sabbath Is A Blessing! + PRAYER: Open Our Eyes, Lord

The Sabbath Is A Blessing!

It Gives To All

Quiet Time

To Spend In Worship of 

The Holy God!

The Living God!

The Divine!

Let Us Honor God With Our Worship!

Let Us Honor God By Our Rest!

Let Us Honor God

With Our Quietness

As We Rest In God And De-stress!

God Promised A Special Blessing 

For Resting On His Sabbath Day!

God Promised To Bless Those 

Who Will His Voice Humbly Obey!

God Promised!

God's Word Is Faithful

So

Let Us Be Faithful

For We Will Be Doubly Blessed

On The Holy Sabbath Day Of Rest!

PRAYER:

Lord,

When Will We Accept

That We Are Weak?

When Will We Accept

That You Are Strong?

When Will We Accept

That We Are Blind?

When Will We Believe

That You -  God -  All Things See?

Have Mercy On Us

In Our Folly And Disbelief

And

Grant Us New Insight

As We Face Our Various

Losses and Calamities

To Truly See

And

Accept

That You Are Holy

Wholly Divinity!

Father,

Help Us To Ever Humbly Bow 

To Your Sovereign Will

For You Heal 

And 

Seal

All Of The Faithful Believing of

Teeming Humanity

By Your Love

Through Your Grace

And

In Your Mercy!

Open Our Eyes, Lord

And

Help Us To Call You ...

Our Almighty God!

Have Mercy And Bless

In Jesus' Holy Name!

AMEN.

HAPPY SABBATH! + PRAYER: Lord, Please Bridle My Tongue!

Lord, I Need Inner Resources

When I Feel Put-upon

When The World is Ruffling My Feathers

When Evil is Grinding My Small Toes

And Everywhere I Turn Is A New Foe!

Lord, I Do Not Want To Be The Complainer

But You Are My Lord and My God

So I Am Making Petition

Against My Mortal Enemy, King Fraud!

Please Help Me, Father

For I Am Listing and

Almost Ready To Turn My Flesh Loose

And Ask You To Grant Me Five Minutes

To Tell One or Two People Some Home Truths

BUT

Your Charge To Me

Is to Maintain

A Quiet and Gentle Spirit Always

So I - of Carnal Mind - am Begging You, Lord

Please Do Not Let Me Send The Holy Spirit On

The Proverbial Roman Holiday!

I Love You, Lord, and I Bless You

For Your Constant Blessing on Me!

I am Grateful, Lord, and I am Happy To Know

That You Won't Reject Me When

 I Descend Into A Momentary Round of Folly!

My Actions, Lord, are not Deliberate!

It is just that Turning My Cheek 

Is Really Getting Old

BUT

Because I Desire To Have You as King of My Soul

I am Beseeching, Lord

Please, Won't You of This Poor Life Take Control?!

AMEN.

HAPPY SABBATH + The Inheritance!

Daddy said that when he died, I would have an inheritance
Daddy died - I held out My hand
Inheritance? 
Done gone! 
Run away!

When she married, her husband said
When he dies she will have an inheritance
Hubby died
Inheritance?
Denied!
Bills and taxes multiplied!

She went to Jesus
And he said:
"I died! You have an inheritance!
Glory supplied bona fide!"

But she?
She stuttered
And ... lied:

"I wanted the World!"

And that is when Life became Base 
As she whirled and twirled!

She became ... You Me!
Frolic became Folly!
Dancing was no more Jolly!
Things became a drag! - I was eating ... dust!

I got up out of The Dirt and
Called to Jesus - He didn't desert
And I prayed earnestly for My Cleansing
After behaving like a totally sinful jerk!

My Inheritance from The Divine
Is Mine - take or decline - I make The Choice
Not Circumstance 
Not Human Whim
Never HIM!

I Trust in The Lord!
He is Ever Faithful 
With Punishment and Reward!
My Inheritance is Mine!
I, alone, make The Receipt or Rejection Call.

We can't Hold 

The World and The Lord 

at one and the same time!

Take the World 

and

We Give Up 
Our Heavenly Inheritance!

Take JESUS

and

We Receive 

The Eternal
Heavenly
Unchanging

Unchangeable
Unfailing
Unrecallable 
Totally Touchable
Embraceable
Non-reducible
Non-taxable
Non-divisible
Unsharable
Ever-expanding
Inheritance
of
The Believing
Faithful
Righteous
Overcoming Child 
of 
God All-Glorious!

HAPPY SABBATH + Eyes Outside Time

God is unhampered
With The Constraints of Time!
Even though I get angry
His Eyesight is fine
To see, and to know, what is waiting down the Road -
I need to get over My upsets
And #LetGodTakeControl!

My Eyesight is straitened!
My Knowledge is constrained!
My Actions have consequences and
Someone else gets blamed
When My cockups cause Me tears
And frustrations are frets -
Thank God for Jesus who hasn't failed Me yet.

Time is for Mere Mortals
#EternityIsGod's
Ignore Satan and his messengers
Those blighted, benighted, lying frauds
Who would have us believing that
Time is a toy
And that because of their influence
We will have untrammeled joys
No matter the Matter
No matter the Mode
No matter the Mess
Get your joy
Don't take excuse nor "No!" 

But let Me inform us that
Our God made The Law!
Don't ignore Him!
Don't bypass Him!
Don't give Him no jaw!
Don't call Him a reject -
His Name is Glorious and
He does not have flaws!

Give Him your utmost respect
For His Eyes travel along
Unrestricted through Our My space and His Time
He sees knows what's comings 
Before we have toes, and a look behind!

Sit stand recline ... but listen
When talking to The Lord
He is All knowing
All Seeing
Ever Present
Almighty God
He holds our time, times and Time in His Hand
He is Trustworthy
He is The Lord
Maker of Man's eyes
Giver of Light
Bestower of Sight
Light in The Night
Dealer in Right
Eternity's Might
Giver of Daylight
Pitcher of Starlight
And My God
Yes, Mine!

Universe can't contain Him
But My Heart can hold 
Joy Sublime
The Great God - Ever Glorious
He IS The Divine
The Divine Ruler of ... Time!

No Created Being Is God To Nor For Me!

#AManCanNeverBeGod, and
I am not my own god!
I cannot protect perfect My Self for
Chaos and Confusion follows
And guns get taken off book shelves!

I am a Created Being!
The Living God - Himself - laid me out!
He numbered the hairs on my head
And made it possible for me to skip, and shout, and run about!

My Purpose was set forth for me:
Worship God, Honor and Obey!
And the Freewill that He gave me
I give it back to Him everyday.

I do not choose to be Willful and Wicked!
I do not choose to Sin - just because!
But because I am a Fallible Being
I place My Trust in The Holy God!

God set forth The Plan of Salvation!
His Beloved Son chose to die for me
And because of The Blessings I'm receiving
I choose God - not man, nor vanity!

I am not my own God!
I bow before The Lord - Jesus Christ is He!
I worship and bow down before God Almighty, and
Not some clown who goes to the bathroom just like you and me!

There is No God 

BUT

The God of The Holy Bible!

The Creator of Heaven and Earth

The Seas 

and 

The Fountains of Water 

as set forth 

in 

The Fourth Commandment 

in 

Exodus 20:8-11

as set forth in Genesis 1:1

as set forth in John 1:1-4