PRAYER: Accept, Lord, My Offering...!

You Gave Me My Life, Lord

And

I Am Giving It Back

Because

In Your Word

You Have Promised

That Of Keeping Your Promises

You Are Not Slack!

In This Vein, Lord

I Am Coming To You

Seeking Your Help

Because I Need It

And

Because I Need You

To Help Me Today

Of My Word To You

To Keep It!

I Am A Mere Man

Mere Mortal, 'Tis True

But

I Have No Desire

To Use That As an Excuse

For

You Could Have Used

Your Divinity As An Excuse

To Destroy Me And My Kind

Because Of The Keeping Your Laws

We Did

And

Often Do

Insolently Refuse!

You Didn't, Lord

And

I 

Thank You

Bless You

And

Praise Your Holy Name!

Pity Me, Lord 

This Child Of The Dust

And

Bless Me With Constancy

Consistency

And

Confidence

To Walk With You

In Certainty

Along Life's Pathways

And

Highways Every Day!

Bless Me With The Voice 

To Tell The Damned Liar

"No!"

Bless Me With The Heart

That Causes My Love For You

To Show!

Bless Me With Steady Legs

And

Narrow-Way Walking Feet

And

The Willingness To Never Indulge

In The Act Of

Planned Deceit!

Lift Me Up, Lord! 

I Love You!

Lead Me, Lord!

Help Me In Your Grace To Grow!

Feed Me, Lord

With Food Fit For My Needs

And

Help Me to Rest In Your Love

For I My Sins Willingly Do Repent

And

Confess!

Your Forgiveness In My Life Shows!

Remember My Brethren

Walking On Zion's Road!

Remember My Brethren

And

To Your Loving Heart

Keep Them Close!

Remember My Brethren

The Sheep In Other Flocks

And

Please

I Humbly Beseech You

Let The Loud Cry Go Out

So That They

Knowing The Good Shepherd's Voice

Will

With Alacrity

To The Safe Fold

Come Pouring In!

Oh, Lord

Call Them Out!

Please Ever Grant Us, Father

Faith For The Day

Courage For The Way

And

Strength To Hold The Almighty Hand

Of

Our Lord Christ

The Holy And Blessed Redeemer

The Eternal Son Of God

The Returning Son Of Man!

We Desire

On Heaven's Table Land

For Eternity To Stand!

Please Accept

This Humble Offering Of Prayer

For

I Ask All These Blessings

In Jesus Christ's Worthy Name!

Hasten The Great Day!

AMEN.

VESPERS AT THE END OF THE SABBATH: Stubborn Heart

Carnal Heart Despises Light
AND
He Is Very Stubborn
So He Is Also Known
In The Kingdom Of The Light
As Stubborn Heart -
He Loves The Dark Night!

Today Is A Beautiful Day!
AND
Much Light Is Shining
AND
Stubborn Heart Is In His Castle's Kitchen Garden!

He Has Laid Out
A Good And Large Vegetable Patch!

He Is Energetically Planting
Rebellion Peas
Neglect Beans
AND
Resistance To Truth Collard Greens
AND

He Ceremoniously Waters Them With
Change-Leader-At-Will
AND
Afterward
Calmly
Confidently
Walks The Path To Comeuppance
Where Free Mercy Has No Skill!

Time Seemingly Slowly Passes ...

He Just Pulled Up The Weeds Called
Rebuking Sin!
Power To Resist!
Eyes Turned To Truth!
AND
Open To Conviction!
AND, THEN 
He Generously Manured His Precious Seedlings
With
Gross Affections Vile
AND
Sin's Open Door
AND
Being Also Very Greedy
AND
Ever Avidly Seeking To Get
The Bumper Crop For Self
He Drip-Irrigates With Yield To Temptation
AND
Has Constructed A New And Wide Barn
For He Knows He Is Going To Have Extra Produce
To Others To Cheaply Sell!
He Tells No Lie On This And That Is Certain Sure!

On The Day Before Harvest
All Walk Ways Are Meticulously Cleaned!
The Path Marked Sinful Indulgence
Bisects The Path Called Molded Character
AND
Not A Shred Of Mercy's Light Can Be Seen
For
Stubborn Heart
Is Become Hardened Heart
A Character
Now Well And Truly Unclean!

Harvest Celebration ...?!

The Eagerly Anticipated Harvest Celebration
Was Changed The Next Day, When
At The First Turn Of The Reaping
Hell And Damnation
Were Unceremoniously Displayed
AND
With A Great Howling
A Fearful Mourning
AND
A Useless Appeal
The Seeds Of Destruction
Their Whirl-Wind Did Yield!

No! 

Not This!

This Is Not My Fruit! 

This Is Gross And Grandly Egregious!

Where Now Is My Hope?!

How Can I With This Fearful Mess Cope?!

Said The Voice Of Justice
Now Untempered With Mercy:

You Cast Your Confidence Away!
You Walked In Your Own Will!
You Put Mercy In Jail
AND THIS ...
This Is Your Harvest!

The Bitter, Bitter Pill!

It Can't Be Undone

For

You Willingly Walked In Your Own Way
Stubborn
Disobedient
AND
To Purchased Comeuppance
You Have Assuredly Come!

You Reap What You Sow!
You Eat What You Grow
AND
You Alone Know The Seeds Sown
Which At This Harvest
You Will Not
You Cannot
Disown!

You Were Weighed In The Balances!
You Are Declared By Truth Wanting!
Your Kingdom Is Finished
AND
There Is No Good Kingdom For You
To Give To Another!

You Hated The Light!
You Despised The Truth!
You Denied Correction!
You Preferred Running Wild 
Unchecked
And Loose!

You Filled Up Your Own Cup!
Meticulous You Were!
You Thought To Switch Sides
At Your Own Will
And, Now
You Are Drinking
The Folly Of That Swill!

If You Had Never Known Truth
Mercy Might Have Intervened
But
You Despised Light's Dignity
AND
Now
You Are Left To Contemplate
The Wretched Wrecked Scene!

No Mercy! No Mercy!
No Hope For A Chance!
You Denied The Crier
AND
You Accepted The Liar
AND
You Made Your Own Bed
By Denying The One
By Whom Your Life Is Daily Fed!

Stubbornness

AND
Disobedience
Are All Part
Of Witchcraft's Stew
AND
There Is Always White Glove Table Service
When Eating At Comeuppance Broth And Brew!

You Are One Special!
He Who Ever Is
Died
To Save You
BUT
You Chose Your Own Voice
To Which To Listen
AND
Now You Are Set For Immersion
In The Accursed One's Fire Lake Damnation!

Mercy Ever Always Calls
Upon The Soul That Listens
Extending A Fair Hand
To Keep That One
In The Straight Way
BUT
The Soul
That Despises
Heavenly Dominion
Will Eventually Find Self
From The Source Of Life
Cut Away

For

On The Way
To Eternal Life
Self-Made Pathways
Ever Always
Give Way!

Lean On The One
Who Is Life, Light And Way
AND
He Will See To It
That To Heaven
You Will Safely
Arrive There!

Oh, That Men

Would PraiseThe Lord

For His Goodness

His Mercy

Toward

The Children Of Men!

Brethren,

A Self-Made Man
Is A Man Damned
For Sinful Flesh Cannot Come Nigh
To The Holy God
- The Consuming Fire -
For It Is Instantly Consumed
Even Before One Can Yell:
"Fire!" 

Want To Save Yourself?!

Get Free Fire Insurance!

Get Christ Jesus

For

He Freely Gives Out

Unburnable

Righteous

Clean

White

Linen Robes
To Those Repentant Ones
Who Ask!

ALMIGHTY GOD: No Convenience! + PRAYER: I Honor You, Lord!

I Go To God For Blessings!
I Go To God For Comfort 
AND
Peace Sweet
AND
I Also Go To God
Because
Without Him
I Am In This Life 
Dreadfully Incomplete!

I Seek Not To Mold God
In My Image!
I Have No Power
To Humble God
At My Feet
BUT
I Do Thank God
That I Know
That He IS God
AND
Sovereign Lord
AND
I Honor Him
For His Love
For Me
Is Blessedly Sweet!

Why Should The Living God
Be To Me
An After-Thought?
Why Should Almighty God
Be To Me
A Mere Bank?
Why Should The Saving God
Be To Me
An Escape Route
When
By Having Him
As My All And All
I Can Be Reformed
Regenerated
Wholly Loved
AND
Made Clean
To Live Forever

In The Day Coming

AND
Because Of Him
Among The Stars
- At Will -
I May Shoot!

God Through Jesus Christ
Is NOT My Convenience!
God IS
My Shepherd
My Very Best Friend!
God IS My First
My Last
My Beginning
AND
My End
AND
By Loving Him
Living For Him
Exercising Jesus' Faith
- Through Work Because Of Returned Love -
I Can Hope
For Things
That I See No Evidence Of!

PRAYER:

Father,

In Heaven

I Beseech You

To Bless Me Again

With Things, Thoughts

And

Insights

That Only A Holy God

Will Freely Share!

I Bless You, Lord

 For Yesterday!

I Thank You For Today's Blessing

And

For The Grace

That Gives Me Hope

For Tomorrow

All Because

It Is To You

The Holy, Loving, God

To Whom I Say My Prayers!

Teach Me, Lord,

To Love You More!

Teach Me, Lord,

To Seek You More

And

Draw Me, Lord

To That Open Door

So That I May Enter

By Perfected Right

To Live

In Bright Mansions

On The Peaceful Shore!

I Love You, Lord!

Bless Me!

I Trust You, Lord!

Lead!

I Am Your Child!

Comfort Me!

I Honor You, Lord!

Please, Speak!

Comfort Me With Your Holy Spirit

And

Let Holy Angels

Protect Me

As I This Day

Come And Go

And

Please Forgive Me

For My Trespasses

Against You

For You Are The God Holy True!

I Ask My Petitions

In The Matchless Name Of Jesus

From Whom All Blessings Flow!

AMEN.

Fear God!

Vice Is A Costly Indulgence
Oft' Brought To Our Door
By One Whom
With Us
Has That Thing Called Influence!
Its Effects Are Like Those Of 
A Great Pestilence
AND
The Cost To Repair The Damage
Is Often The Cost 
Spent In The Arena Of Those
Living The Life Of Affluence
AND
Then ... It  Can Cost The Life!
Even Eternal Life!

Vice Is Not Nice!
In Retrospect
It Is As Lice!
To Pick Them Up
Requires No Effort At All
BUT
To Get Rid Of Them
Requires Every Last Effort
Available For Use 
On The Blue Ball!

In The Call To Vice
Risqué Seems Nice!
To Maintain Vice
Risqué Needs Spice
AND
Pity The Person
Who Says:

Vice Is Just Play!

To Which I Say:

Ask God!

AND
Then Tell Me What He 
In His Living Word Doth Say!

Living Right
Requires Effort Every Day!
Living Like A Louse
Well ... Just Live
For
Anywhere Is Your House!

Let's Trust God For Our Living!
He Is Our Guardian
Our Guide
AND
Our Stay!
Let's Do What He Tells Us
AND
For Own Sin
There Is No Bill To Be Paid!

Living According To The Rules Of Vice
Is Living According To 
Satanic Device!
Doing That Makes Us
Friends Of The World
AND
Marks Us Boldly 
As An Enemies Of The Lord!

Vice Kills
The Mind
The Body
AND
The Spirit
Stone Cold!
The Thoughts Are Beclouded!
Just Ask Solomon Of Old
Who Used His Great Wisdom
To Explore Every Sense
BUT
It Left Him As A Man
Broken
Idolatrous
AND
At Body
AND
Also Great Spiritual National Expense!

But ... GOD

In His Mercy
Opened King Solomon's Eyes
AND
Solomon Repented
Of The Life Of Vice
Which Nearly Cost Him
Eternal Life
AND
As A Word Of Caution
To Those Who Him Walk Behind
That Preacher
King Solomon
Wrote The Book Of Ecclesiastes
As The Book Of Living Life Warnings!

All Is Vanity!
All Is Vanity
AND
A Vexation To The Spirit!
So Hear The Conclusion Of The Whole Matter
AND
Do Not Forget It:

Fear God

And

Keep His Commandments

For They Will 

- Indeed -

Preserve Your Life!

Everything We Do
God Brings Into Judgment!
Secret Things
Good Things 
AND
Evil Things
In This Mortal Strife!
God Is Watching 
AND
Keeping Records On You 
AND
Me, Too
So
This Is Worth Repeating: 

Fear God

And 

His Commandments Keep

For This Is Your Whole Duty

As Long As You Are Living!

VESPERS AT THE END OF THE SABBATH: The Code Of God

Dear Pastor,
I Do Not Know Your Name!

Dear Pastor,
Your Christianity To Me Is Quite Strange!

Dear Pastor,
The Bible Is Not The Book Arcane
AND
Your Preaching Is Foolishness Writ Large!
Can You For Deceived Souls
Before God
Take The Eternal Blame
AND
The Eternal Shame?
Are You Of Heaven - As You Say - Really In Charge?

Philosophy Is Opinion Quite Grand!
Putting God Into It
Doesn't Change It From The Opinion Of Man!
Putting It In Church
Doesn't Bless It By God's Holy Hand
AND
Reviewing It In The Media Doesn't Give It Steady Legs
Upon Which To Grand Stand!

Jesus Saves!
Any Man Can That Understand!
Jesus Saves Man From Sin
Is Knowledge That Blesses
So Don't Hide It From Me
Saying That That Knowledge Is Too High For Me
AND
That It With My Pea-Brain Brain Messes!

Tell God's Truth!
My Brain Is The Same Size As Everybody's
So Don't Sell Me Down The River
Just Because Satan's Filthy Lucre's Wild
And Running
Fast Fit And Loose
To You Thou Fatted Goose!

You Have No Use For Heaven
AND
You Don't Want Me To Get In
So
Tell Me What I Did To You
AND
Why I Am Responsible For Your Sinning?

The Code Of The Living God
Requires My Coming Clean Before Him
Telling The Truth Of My Wicked Past
No Excuses Trivial Making!

God Requires Confession
AND
Repentance
For Our Not Walking In His Right Way
AND
Your Making The Living God A Liar
Is Not Going To Make God's Truth Go Away
Or Keep You Out Of Hell's Unquenchable Fire!

Almighty God Keeps Eternal Records
That You Can't On Your Computer Try To Delete!
You Can't Pay One Of God's Angel's To Change Them
Just Because
You Think That Almighty God Easily Tires and Sleeps!

The Book Of Life Bears The Names
Of All Who Accept Jesus' Sacrifice
Confessed Their Sins
Repented
AND
Received Forgiveness
From The Father For Them
BUT
The Book Of Remembrance Bears Record
Of All The Sins Of Men
Unforsaken
Unforgiven!

Dear Pastor,
I Know You!

Dear Pastor,
I Know Your Name
For
You Are Activated By Profit
AND
You Have No Shame!
The Profit You Covet
At The Cost Of Men's Souls
Will
- If You Don't Repent Of Your Gross Deceptions -
See You Dancing 
With Your Dying god Satan
Amongst The Burning Hot Coals!

P.S.:

Fire-Proof Suits Don't Work In God's Fire Lake
AND
Satan Who Deceives You
Cannot A Drop Of Water Give You
The Burning For To Slake

Sooo ...

Please Take A Page
From The Humble Christians' Ways To Please God Book!

Humble Christians
Who Know They Have Sinned!
Humble Christians 
Know They Need God
AND
They Tell God You're Sorry
For The Holy Way Having At Times Forsaken!

God's Plain Code For Living Life
AND
For Gaining Eternal Life
Is In The Preserved King James Bible
AND
Not In The Bible Written Suitable
For Your Benighted Penchant For Living
The Suite Sweet Life!

Almighty God Is The Eternal God

AND

He Has No Need 

To Constantly Have 

Carnal-minded Men 

Rewrite His Holy Word

To Make It 

Politically Correct

AND

Licentiously Current!

Stop Lying To God's People!

PRAYER: Lord, Keep My Heart

Oh,  Father

I Humbly Beseech You

To Keep My Heart 

Fixed and Faithful

Especially On Those Days 
When I Act Unchristian and Ungrateful!

Help Me Not To Stick People With Labels

And

Not To Believe 

Old Satan's Simple and Elaborate Fables.

I Love You, Lord.

Amen.

PRAYER: Oh, Lord, Shed Thy Light!

Oh,  That God's Peace 

Will Rest Upon The Soul Weary!

Oh,  That God's Grace 

Will Reveal His Mercy To The Soul Strayed

and

Running After The Cure!

Oh, That God's Love 

Will Reveal To The Desperate Soul 

The Hope for Glory!

Oh, That God's Truth 

Will Shed His Light 

On The Path Of The Soul 

Seeking The Heavenly Home Above!

Heavenly Father,

Jesus The Christ - The Lord

Our Creator

Our Shepherd

Our Redeemer,  and

Our Friend Unto The End

Who Knocks, and 

Is waiting Invitation Into Our Living Door

Paid Our Price

So That We May Call You ... Father!

Oh, Lord

Grant Unto All  

-Who Bid Jesus To Enter and

To Fill Our Hearts -

The Promised Fulfillment

The Celebrated Entrance and

The Everlasting Rest

In The Mansions Of The Blessed

On The Glorious and Peaceful Shore

So That We May All

Enjoy Eternity

Honoring

Learning Of,  and

Worshiping You!

Have Mercy, Father

And Keep Us In Your Care

Until The Great Day, and 

Then Forever!

In Jesus' Holy and Blessed Name We Plead.

AMEN.