VESPERS AT THE END OF THE SABBATH: Plant Good Seed + PRAYER: I Shall Emerge As Gold!

Just Like Good Seeds
Bad Seeds Grow
And 
What Grows
Grows Up To Be Harvested For The Table 
To Bless Body And Soul 
Or 
Grows To Be Cut Down 
And 
Cast In The Furnace
Cast On The Pyre, The Rubbish Heap 
Or Discard Pile As Fuel 
Because 
It Serves No Otherwise Profitable Purpose! 

Beloved, 

Let Us Not Deceive Ourselves:
We Cannot Deceive The Living God!

We Who Follow The Lord Christ 
Must Sow Good Seeds Of Kindness
Love, Sharing, Caring And Helping
Believing The Word
Trusting The Lord
Living In Light And Ever Doing Right
Always Pleasing Almighty God 
And 
Blessing Ourselves As A Result! 

Please Let Us Permit The Holy Spirit 
To Have His Way With Us
Feeding Our Souls 
And 
Maturing A Clear Conscience 
Because 
To Do Otherwise ... To Resist The Sweet Of Truth Spirit
Is 
To Mark Us As Among The Unwise Who Shall Reap 
Their Preferred Harvest Of Destruction 
In The Lake Of Fire! 

Be Wise
And 
Choose To Have A Heart Tended By The Holy Spirit! 

Plant Good Seed!
Enjoy The Water Of The Word!
Reach For The Sun Of Righteousness
And 
Look Forward With Joy 
To The Harvest Celebration
The Coming Of Lord Christ
Our Loving, Kind, Great And Glorious King 
Who Cares And Utterly Saves! 

PRAYER:

Lord,

By Your Grace

I Will Covet No Man's Silver Or Gold Or Raiment

And I Will Daily Choose To Be Contented

With Such Things As You Provide For Me!

Most People Have Nothing

But I Have Much To Be Thankful For!

I Give You Praise And Say: "Thank You!"

Father, You Lead Me To Green Pastures

And I Am Substantially Fed!

You Teach Me The Ways Of Righteousness 

And I, Contented, Rest Easy In My Bed!

You Chastise Me Because I Am Not A Bastard

But Am Your Child Greatly Beloved!

By Your Will And Under Your Supervision

I Know I Will Pass Through The Crucible Of Affliction

Leading To Character Perfection

And At The Moment Of Your Choosing

I Shall Emerge As Gold

Revived And Reformed

Suitable To Dwell Forever

In The Presence Of Your Holy Fire!

You Equip Me To Serve You

In The Harvest Field Ripening

And I Enjoy The Pleasant Work!

I Thank You For The Spirit That

Makes Me The Worker Willing!

Father, 

I Trust You!

I Love You!

I Praise Your Holy Name!

I Look Forward To The Great Day Of Small Things

And While I Am Patiently Waiting

In The Here And The Now

I Humbly Beg You, Please

For The Holy Spirit's Infilling!

By You, Dear Lord

I Live And Breathe And Have My Being 

And I Desire To Arrive Safely At The Place

On The Appointed Day Prophesied 

When Your Dear Sweet Face 

In Perfect Peace

I Shall Surely Be Seeing!

Father, 

Please Keep Me Faithful

Please Keep Me Spiritually And Physically Fed

And Bless Me Out Of Your Great Supply Of

Mercy, Grace, Goodness And Righteousness

As I Daily All My Known Sin Repent And Confess!

Remember The Holy People

The Praying People

The Waiting People

And Bless Us All To Do Your Bidding

Without Murmur Or Complaint!

Thank You For The Daily Victories Over Sin And Self

And Bless Us, Lord, Bless Us

So That In The Final Analysis

It Is Noted In Our Record That

To You, We Are Indeed The Child Called

Spiritual Success!

Please Provide For Us All According To Our Need

And Grant Us These Few Petitions

For We Ask All In The Wonderful Name Of

Jesus Christ The Righteous

Our Soon-Returning Kind King!

AMEN!!! 

I Know That My Redeemer Liveth!! + PRAYER: Draw Us Nearer, Lord!

People Of God,

I Challenge You!

Do Not Charge God Foolishly With Your Mouth!

Those Who Will Live Godly Lives

Must Suffer Persecution!

Into Every Life

A Little Sorrow Will Come

BUT

Not Because Almighty God Cannot Shield

BUT BECAUSE

From Your Character

All Dross

Must Be Rooted Out!

Take For Your Example

Old Job

Him With The Faithless Wife

Him With The Fair Weather Friends

AND SEE

That This Godly Man

Knew

Without A Single Doubt

That Almighty God The Righteous One

Was In Total Control

So He Could Say:

I Know ...!

I Know
That My Redeemer Liveth!

I Know
That He Will Stand At The Latter Day

On This Earth!

I Know
That Worms

- After My Skin -

Shall Destroy This Body!

I Know
That With My Own Eyes

- Not The Eyes Of Another -

And

In My Own Flesh

I Shall See My God!

In Jesus' Faith

- The Faith For The Ages -

Old Job Said:

I Came Into This World With Nothing

And

It Is Certain

That I Will Take Nothing From This World

When I Am Come To Die!

Righteous Job Also Plainly Said

In Defense Of The Faith

Given To The Saints:

Though My God Slay Me

Yet Will I Trust Him!

The Living God Was Job's God!

So ...

In The Hour Of Your Sore Trial
When You Remember Old Job

Think Also Of Kind David
Who Was Also Sorely Oppressed
Having Been Bitten By His Own Pet "Dog"
AND

Who Understood Life In All Its Facets
Who Plainly Stated:

BECAUSE ...

There Is Nothing 

On This Dying Earth

That We Should Feel Satisfied
Or Well Pleased Over

Since 

All Beings On It

Not Purified By Christ

Under The Agency Of The Holy Spirit
AND

All Things Perishable

Shall Be By Unquenchable Fire Consumed!
Nobody Can Put It Out!
That Fire Has To By Itself Burn Out!

Don't Conform!
Reform In The Image Of The Creator-Redeemer
Friend Savior Sustainer God Able!

Think Deeply About It  ...

Reformation

Is

Better Than

Conflagration!

So, Brethren Beloved ...

If In Your Short Life

A Little Rain Must Fall

AND

The Rose's Thorns

Your Finger Pricks

AND

The Storms Of Life

Collapse Your On-Sand-Built House

Be Grateful

For The Unsettling Of Your Life

Now Lived By And With Complacency

AND

Rejoice

That The God Of Your Salvation

Calls You 

- Known Child Of The Dust -

A Blessed Child Of His Heart's Own!
Don't Groan!
Accept The Gift Of The One
Who For Your Sin
Your Life
Did Sacrificially Atone!

PRAYER:

Father,

Reform Us!

We Are All Out Of Shape!

Remake Us In Your Image

So That From Condemnation's Damnation

We Shall

In White Robes Of Christ's Righteousness

Escape!

Conform Us, Lord

To Your Image!

Give Unto Us Hearts Of Flesh

Primed

And

Working

Willing To Do Your Bidding

Never Gainsaying Your Wisdom

So That We May

By Right

Cross Over The Separating Line

Unto The Day

That Knows Not Night!

We Are Yours, Lord!

Draw Us Nearer!

We Are Yours, Lord!

Help Us To See You Clearer!

We Are Yours, Lord

Help Us Be Bold Gospel Sharers

So That In The Day Of Harvest

We Will Not Be Among

The Bright-Light Fearers!

Grant Us Your Peace

And

The Pleasure Of These Few Blessings

For

It Is In The Name

Of

The Holy Jesus

In Heartfelt Prayer

That We Plead!

We Love You, Lord!

Come Soon!

AMEN. 

VESPERS AT THE END OF THE SABBATH: Encumbering The Ground!? + PRAYER: Lord, Please Do Not Cast Me Out!

I Came Upon A Tree One Day
In The Beautiful Garden Of God!
It Was Lush And Large
For It Had Been There For A Great While
AND
I Thought To Linger There
To Contemplate The Word
AND
To Pray To The Living God
The One Who Gave Me My Smile!

I Sat Contented
BUT THENI Noted Something Strange!
All The Other Trees Bore Fruit
Save The One Under Which I Sat
AND
Truth Be Told
That Made Me Rock Back ...!

An Unfruitful Tree?!

In The Garden Of God?!

That Is An Impossibility! 

Could This Be

An Encumberer Of The Ground?!

I Got Up From There Quickly
All The While Talking With The Lord
Within Myself
AND
Trusting The Word Of The Living Book Of Life
Took Thought Of What I
- For The Kingdom -
Was Doing Myself
To Redeem The Time
AND
Recognize That The Days Were Evil
AND
That I Worked For The Divine!

I Was Pulled Up
- Real Short -
By A Sharp Jabbing Pain
That Afflicted My Heart
AND
Made Me In Exclamation

Pray:

Father,

Forgive Me!

Please Give Me Another Chance!

Please Till My Soil

And Manure Me

And

Let Me ... Cherished

Grow In Grace

Just For A Little While

So That In The Harvest

I Shall Bear Good Fruit

Perhaps 30 Fold

60 

Even 100 Fold! 

You, Lord

Know The Truth!

I Am Willing - Work On Me! 

I Am Willing - Pass Me The Crucible Through! 

Keep Me Faithful - I Am Pleading! 

Bless Me, Lord God Almighty

So That I May Bless The Living Kingdom

By Laboring To Bless Others

And

Bless You!

Forgive Me, Lord

For Celebrating

All The Wrong That I Did Not Commit

All The While As I Was Neglecting

Doing The Good Required Of Me - 

I Should Have Been Laboring

As One Truly Faithful

Provisioned By Your Grace!

Please, Lord

Do Not Dismiss Me

Casting Me Out

As An Emcumberer Of The Ground! 

Please Fit Me For Your Service

For

I Desire In The Living Kingdom

To Be Found!

I Love You, Lord!

I Need You!

I Seek You, Lord

In Godly Fear!

I Desire To Be Your Fruitful Tree

So

Prepare My Heart, Lord

For

For Your Faithful People

I Do Dearly Care!

I Yield Myself, Lord

 To Your Heavenly Care!

The Heavenly Gardener
Turned The Sod At My Feet!
The Son Shone Light In My Heart!
The Holy Spirit Rained Down Upon Me

AND
The Angels Kept The Sin-Bugs Away
AND
Soon

Soon I Knew
That In Me
There Was Good Fruit A-Growing
For
I Could Feel Those Blossoms Poking Through!

Ouch!            Ouch!            Oww!

Time Flies ...

The Day Of Harvest
Is Mere Moments Away
AND
Only Then Will I Know
My Tally Of Production
BUT
Whatever It Is
Of A Surety I Know
That I Am Not A Tree
Marked
For Damnation's Destruction!

Take Heed To Yourselves
All Ye That Are Trees
In The Beautiful Garden Of God!
God Almighty Expects A Good Harvest
From One And From All
AND
It Is He That Knows Of Each Tree The Amount
So

Heed The Call

ANDDo Your Duty

AND
Bear Good Fruit
AND
Leave It To The Living God
To Declare In The Harvest Celebration
Your Just 

AND

True 

Good Produce Count!

Get Your Strength

From

Jesus Christ

The One Righteous

The Blessed Blessing Fount!

HAPPY SABBATH + FARMLAND: The Sower And The Seed

The Planter
Cast His Seed Abroad
Thinking Ahead
To The Day Of Harvest
When He Would Fill
His Barns To The Full
AND
Then Rejoice At
The End Of Harvest Celebration
Which Will His Heart Thrill!

He Said In His Heart
As He Planted Near
AND
He Planted Far:

My Seed Is Good!
My Ground Is Well Tilled
And At The Appointed Time
The Reapers
Will My Waiting Barns Fill!

The Seed Fell
On The Wayside
On Stony Ground
Among Weeds
AND
The Seed Fell On Good Ground -
All Areas
Got The Seed!

The Seed On The Wayside
The Birds Of The Air 
Picked It Up!

The Seed On The Stony Ground
Sprouted
BUT
With No Root
Soon Died ... Shriveled Up!

The Seed Among The Weeds
Grew
BUT
Were By The Weeds Of Life Choked!

BUT ...

The Seed
Which Fell On Good Ground
Grew All Out
AND
The Planter
At The Harvest Celebration
Was Able To Shout:

Not A Thing
Was Wrong With My Seed!
Sixty
An Hundred Fold
On The Good Ground
My Seed Did Yield!

The Point To This Missive
All Christians
Should Take Hold
Else
In The Great Day
For Your Own Sin
You Will Pay!

All People On The Whole Earth
Will Hear The Good News!
Don't Let The Devil - The Birds
The Weeds -  The Love Of This Life
The Stony Ground - No Roots
Prevent You
From Being Good Ground
Ready To Receive
Able To Believe
Harvest Time To Achieve!

There Is Not A Thing Wrong
With The Preserved Word Of The Lord!
The Problem Lies Within Us
The Ground Called The Heart
Within Which It Is Received!

Some People Choose To Be Satan's!
Some People Want To Elevate Self!
Some People Choose To Be The Savior's
AND
Some People Want To Recline 
On Life's What-Not Shelf!

The Problem  . . .

With The Idea Of Self
AND
Shelf, Though
Is Greatly Problematic
For With Jesus Christ
The Living 
The Holy
The Eternal God
There Are Only Two Classes
No Matter What Says The Fraud:

By Decision
Nothing Automatic
It Is Either
For
OR
Against Jesus Christ!
Not A Position Is Static
AND
Your Willed Way Makes The Decision
Dynamic!

All Trees Grow
BUT
All Trees Don't Fruit Bear
AND
In The Kingdom Of God
Unprofitable Fruit Trees
Essentially Ensure That
Fire Wood Is Not Scarce!

So ...

Think For Your Self!
Reason With The Living God!
Make An Informed Decision
For 
OR 
Against Life
AND
Bear Your Own Consequences 
At The End Of Life's Strife!

Force Is Not A Factor

When Dealing With 

The Living God!

Force Has Not Faith

And

The Fraud Cannot Make You

His Will

Obey!

Just Remember

That Almighty God Tells All

In Advance

So That We Know

The Salary

That Disobedience Pays!

We Know The Gifts Of Obedience

AND

We Know The Cost Of Disobedience

BUT

Never Will The God Of All

Break Your Resistance!

Choice ... Your Owner Is Man!