PRAYER: Father, Help Me To Look Up To You

Have Mercy, Dear Father

And 

Forgive Me

For All The Times

I Have Raised My Self

Above

My Creator

My Healer

My Helper

My Provider

My Defender

My Protector

My Perfector

My Savior

My Sealer

My Friend To The End

My Lord

And 

My God!

Help Me, Father

To Look Away From Self

And 

Look Up To You

To Step Outside Of Self

And

Step Up To Glory In You

To Give Up Self

And 

Give In To You

To Walk Holy

And 

To Live Wholly For You

In Whom My Hope Rests!

I Pray, Lord

For The Indwelling

The Chiding

And 

The Direction 

Of The Blessed Holy Spirit!

I Also Pray, Lord

That In The Day

That I Must Need Be Chastised

That You, In Mercy

Will Help Me To Accept Graciously

The Reproof 

As A Blessed Child

Of A Loving And Holy Father!

I Also Beseech You, Dear Father

To Help Me

- No Matter The Earthly Reward -

Not To Grieve The Holy Spirit Away!

I Love You, Lord

And 

I Thank You For The Many Blessings

And 

For Hearing 

And 

Answering Prayers

Even With The Unwanted 

Yet Often Necessary

Fatherly "NO!"

In Jesus' Holy Name 

I Come

I Stand

And 

Plead!

AMEN.

HAPPY SABBATH + Prayer: Oh, Lord, Lift Us Up!

Oh, Lord, have Mercy on Your People!

Without Your Comfort and Aid

Protection and Provision

We are as Storm-tossed, Leaking, Listing, Ships in The Angry Sea!

Open Our Eyes So That We May See The Changing Tides and

Make our Skins Sensitive to 

The Disturbances and Direction of The Evil Winds of Prevailing Change!

Open our Ears to Enable us to Distinguish Safe Harbor from Wrecking Rocks!

Help Us to Understand The Height of Hypocrisy and 

The Depth of Deception 

Willing to Be Forced Upon Us by Those Who Avidly Seek After 

Our Hurt and Destruction, and

Cause Us Who Are - and Are Seeking To Be - The Holy People 

To Call, Walk, Run, Crawl

To You

To Bend Our Will to Your Way

To Follow You Faithfully

Fervently and Fully

No Matter The Provocation

The Occasion

The Location

Lust  or License

Time or Tempest

Torture or Terror

Temptation or Tyranny

Foisted Upon, and Fomented

Against Us who Call Jesus Christ

Savior,  Lord

Captain

Commander

Redeemer

True Friend

Eternal King

Beginning and End!

Oh,  Lord,  Lift us Up

So that We Will Lift You High

As Our Holy God!

Remind Us,  Lord

That You Are Always Available to Us

That You have No Desire for Our Hurt

That Your Hands Are Not Short

That Your Vision Is Not Fore-Shortened

That You See All

Know All and

Are In All!

Remind Us, Lord

That You Know All of Our Days, and All of Our Years

That You Are The God of All Graces

Who Keeps The Book of Life 

and

The Book of Remembrance

With The Steadfast Heart which Turns Not

and

In The Unchanging Hand

Balanced By Firm Justice

and

Tempered with Fair Mercy!

Remind Us, Lord

That Your Loving Heart Faithfully and Unfailingly 

Forgives The Sin Confessed and Repented of

By The Contrite - and Penitent - Soul!

Sanctify Us - Christ Marks and Makes us Worthy!

Save Us - You Delivered Up Jesus Out of Your Great Love For Us Sinners!

Seal Us - Your Holy Spirit Calls, and We Willingly Answer

So, Help

Heal

Save, and Eternally,

Eternally,  Lord

Eternally Hold Us, and Seal Us

By Your Great Love

In Your Holy Care

For We Do, Indeed, Love You, and

Praise You, and

Worship You

For You Are Our Holy God!

AMEN.

VESPERS AT THE END OF THE SABBATH: Is God Really Real?! + PRAYER: Remind Me Who Daily Blesses Me!

How is it that we Find it so Easy to Trust  Man Born of Woman, but find it so Difficult to Trust The Good God who Made The Man and The Woman?

How is it that we Put so Much Faith in a Relationship with a Faithless Human Being but Find it so Very Hard to Trust Him Who is Ever Faithful?

How is it that we Trust The Profane and Doubt The Holy?

Why are we so Lacking in Faith when The God of All Grace Shows His Hand Time and Again as The Great Physician, The True Provider, and The Loving Shepherd, The Faithful Friend?

Why is it that Our Faith Is Not Increasing?

Is Our God Really Real?

We are Not Called to Blind Obedience!

We are Called to Reason with God - there will be not one Soul in Heaven who gets there "Just Because...!"

We are Called to Know God through Jesus Christ!

We are Called to Repentance!

We are Called to a Saving Knowledge and Faith in Jesus Christ!

We are called to Trust and Obey God!

We are Called to Walk by Faith and Not By Sight!

We are ... CALLED!

If we Say we Love God, then we MUST Trust God which, by extension, means we MUST have Faith in God!

We have Heard The Word - The Word is Truth!

We have Faith in The Word Delivered 

BUT

We Doubt The Giver of The Word

Who is Himself, THE WORD!

This Does Not Compute!

RECALCULATING ...

"Sanctify them through thy Truth. Thy Word is Truth!" John 17:17

DESTINATION RE-CALIBRATED ...

• Live in The Light
• Walk by Faith
• Distrust Eyesight
• Pray for Provision of Peace, Rest, and Quiet Night
• Keep Heart Focused on The Father
• Don't fall for Satan's Hoaxes
• Dismiss Christ Deniers and Man-made Gods as Liars and Lies

Time is Coming
When Believers will be The High Fliers
And Unbelievers will be The Gut-wrenching Criers!

FAITH and TRUST go Hand in Hand:

If You Know God ... Go to God!

If You Want to Know God ... Go to God!

When You Go To God ... TRUST GOD!

When You Trust God ... WALK 

By God

In God

Through God

For God

Because God 

IS

Real

and

Returning

to

Settle All Accounts! 

REMEMBER ...

The Good Word Eternally Stands!

PRAYER:

Father, 

The World Often Seeks to Overwhelm Me

Even Unto Wanting Me to Distrust Deny Thee!

Please Have Mercy 

Even Though I am of Myself Not Worthy

And, Again, Remind Me 

Why I Know and Believe that You are 

The Almighty God 

Who Daily Blesses Me!

I Love You, Lord.

AMEN.