VESPERS AT THE END OF THE SABBATH: FICTION FRUIT 'N FACTS: Sin Has A Cost + PRAYER: Forgive Me, Lord

I Was Looking At Myself
And One Day I Saw
Me
Bargaining
With The Lord
And When
Through The Spirit
I Realized What It Was I Had Been Doing
I Knew That I Was Going
Down
The Wrong Path!

In Shame
I Asked My Self:

How Do You Bargain
With The One Who Made 
You
AND
Who Maintains You 
As A Soul Living?

How Do You Bargain
With The One Who Gives 
To You Highest Heaven
As The Blessed Attainment 
For Your Soul?

How Can You Bargain
With The One Who Holds 
The Planet 
Your Home
In The Palm Of His Hand?

How Do You Bargain
With The God Who Knows
The Numbers 
Of Every Beach's Grains Of Sand?

How Do You Bargain
With The God Who Numbered 
The Strands Of Hair On The Head
That You Are Now Holding In Your Hand?

How Do Your Bargain 
With The God Who Knew 
You
Before You First Gripped A Finger
On Your Mother's Hand?

Ashamed
I Turned To My Father
The God Of Heaven And Earth
AND
With Tears Of Contrition
I Said To My Lord:

Father,

I Was Bold

And I Fearlessly Believed

That I Could Bargain With Thee!

I Was Foolish, Dear Father!

I Spoke Arrogantly!

I Indulged Myself In Presumption

Behaving As Though

We Were Mates!

I Was Behaving Like The Very Devil

Whose Sin You Surely Hate!

Father, I Am Sorry!

Forgive Me, I Pray!

Turn My Heart

From That Consuming Broad Way

And Guide Me

Along Your Straight And Narrow Way!

Father, Help Me

To Accept

What I Receive From You

In The Reading Of Your Word

And Help Me To Stop Trying 

To Be A Big Head

Acting Like The Intelligent

Know-It-All's Of The World

Who Are By Satan Fed!

Father, I Desire To Walk 

As Your Compliant Child

No Longer Willing

To Walk On The Wicked And Wild Side!

Lord,

When You Give Me A Biscuit

Instead Of The Loaf Of Bread

For Which I Did Plead

Help Me To Accept 

My Biscuit With Gratitude

Realizing That There Are Others

Who Will Be Grateful

For What I Upon

Daily Freely Feed!

Forgive Me, Lord

For My Presumption

For My Willingness

To Believe I Can Walk

By My Self

And Still Turn To You For Direction

So Humbly 

Yet Lyingly

As I Once Prayed!

Help Me, Dear Father

I Don't Want To Earn Satan's Pay!

Forgive Me, Dear Father

For Heeding Self

And Walking Proud

And Acting The Fool!

I Love You, Lord

Please Continue To Feed Me

With Your Blessed Food!

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.

VESPERS AT THE END OF THE SABBATH: The One Who Did Our God Deny!

Jesus Christ 

Triumphant King

Holy Lord

God All Glorious

The Overcomer

Speaker of Peace

Destroyer of The Devil and The Devilish

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Dear Stewart pointed out 
In the IDE/IED acronym play that Jesus says:
"I Did Enough!
I Even Died!"

Well, let me tell you of
That Other Side
Of The One who Lied
Of The one who did Our God Deny:

Satan is The Copy Cat!
When it comes to Creation
He can not do that for
His method is to pull things out of a "Big Black Hat!" 

Satan speaks to Being Creative
But all he can do is to Abominate!
He never can Bless but he will Dominate
And his basic ingredient is to Always Humans Hate!

Satan brags each day of his Expressed Prowess
Over man and woman whom he will Oppress
Of woman and man whom he doth possess
Being ever the usual False Witness!

Satan, as usual, must follow behind God
But with The Spin
He, The Lie, doth Deploy
He gives The Plus plus The Minus 
And he achieves "Goal!" with a thrusting of Self-trust!

Satan motivates himself each day
By making men believe that:

Sin ever Pays

That Man is god

That to Do Good is to Need Greed

That Feeling Flesh is Staying Fresh, and

Gotcha is Good Growing Seed!

And when Satan takes himself a Non-break
He strokes his Ego
Before he on another victim let's go!
He looks in his mirror
And repeats the vile mantra he wrote, and
Proceeds valiantly Wicked Seeds to sow:

"It's All About Meeeee!

I Will With Ignoble Deeds Humans Ensnare!

I Will Ex-filtrate Souls Every Day!"

And he sings to himself his glory song:

"I ENSNAAARE with ignoble needs

I will daily The Humans' Greed feed

With Putrid Praise

With Petty Pleas

With Puffup Pastry

And Pesky Deed Fleas

Of Self and Sin

Of Song and Dance

Of Vodka and Gin

Of Smoke and Mirrors

Of Conquerable Skies and

Dark Domains enchained

Of Life unfettered

Without restraints

With me in charge

By lies about Him

I'll weave my Web of Deceit

And I will deny Them to Him!"

Dear Ones:

Please remember these points:

(1)

Seeking Self 

Sets Satan's Seal Securely 

Upon 

Sinner's Souls!

(2)

Saints Solemnly Seek After Their Soul's Salvation!

(3)

Seeking The Savior Seals and Saves From Sin!

(4)

Satan is The Lifelong Liar

He will reap Almighty God's Ire

Don't fall and join him on the Funeral Bier

The Holy God is going to rain down Living Fire!

VESPERS AT THE END OF THE SABBATH: The Way Of The Faithful

The Way of The Wicked is Convoluted

Their Speech upon it is Sorely Polluted

They go Two Steps Forward, and take Three Steps Back

And are Always Looking The Righteous to Attack!

The Way of The Faithful Leads to Heaven's Door

Where The Savior Awaits

The Rich, Young, Old and Poor!

There's No Left! There's No Right!

There's No Spinning in The Night for

Our Footsteps are Ordered and

Our "Horse" is Made of Light!

Heaven Awaits!

God's Glories Never Abate!

Trust God To Deliver -

Jesus Won't Be Late!

VESPERS AT THE END OF THE SABBATH: Good Evil Good

One day I met Mr. Evil
His last name was So-Good
He was a stunning bold sinner
And before Me he proudly stood!

Then I came across the Saintly Good Evil
Loving, Faithful, and Kind
He was bruised and battered
But he did not repine!

Some people see these men as interchangeable
Some people thought them twins
But those who listened to The Master
Knew them to be stone cold enemies
Never, Ever friends!

They both had similar missions:

"Go ye into The World!

Take up a Position!

Let Your Voice be Heard!

Create Division! Division!"

Problems very soon surfaced -
Someone had flipped The Script
These gentlemen's Birth Certificates were altered
Information checked out Absurdly Sick!
Messages didn't fit the lip!

Good Good had become Good Evil!
Evil Evil had become Evil Good!
The Masterful Deception was Total
And The People faced The Flood 
Of Right Wrongs
Wrong Rights
Light Darks
Dark Lights
Bitterly Sweet
Sweetly Bitter
Sinful Saints and
Saintly Sins
Both Day and Night
With Glitter Glitter!

Life became Dire
Dire unto The Fire
Which could would turn This Old World
Into a veritable Funeral Pyre!

But ... despite The Deception
In a small glade
Lived Gaude S. Good
Whose son was Savior who
By The Crosswise Way
He always stood
Preaching and teaching
Giving of himself
Warning, ever warning to
Don't trust The Elf
Whose tongue was lizard
Whose words were forked
Who thrived on Deception
Desire and Things Dark!

Gaude S. Good, Jr. - Savior baptized
Outed The Devil
Exposing The Lies
And giving His People
Hope Bona Fides
To hold
To help
To heed
To heal
To feed and to succor
To Salvation Lead
Despite Deadly Deeds
Starving Souls He Feeds!

He Feels for His Fellows
He Prays for their Souls
His Inward Light Burning
His Eyes as Flame Glows
His Passion over-flowing
His Heart is on Show
He will not a Soul surrender!
No! No! No!

All that His Father gave Him
All unto Him go
Full of contrition
Of Sin do repent
He draws and he Shepherds them
Into The Safe Fold
None will be cast out
Into The Night Cold!

Blessed are The Sheep
Savior holds Dear
For Now and Forever
They Abide in His Care
Until The Finale
When All will be Revealed
When The Saints of The Ages
Will before God The Father 
In Holy Worship kneel!

Put a Pin in a Ball Balloon

and

All The Air Flows Out!

Put a Jesus Pin in Your Sin

and

The Devil Flees as He Cries Out!

VESPERS: At The End Of The Sabbath - The Trump Card

He wanted Me to doubt God
But He did not know I had a trump card
God had proved Himself to Me
I was not living in an oil drum in a pan yard!

She wanted Me to doubt God
But she didn't know I had a trump card
God had proved Himself to Me
I was not living like a circus pig covered in thick lard!

They wanted Me to doubt God
But they didn't know I had a trump card
#GodProvedHimselfToMeToday
I did not personally for Sin have to pay!

Satan wants Me to doubt My God
He does not want Me to know My Trump Card
Jesus, the King of All Creation
Loves Me, and washed My uncleanness away
So that I may join Him in Glory
After setting aside the Body of Decay
And putting on the Robe of the Victorious
And with Him to His Kingdom fly away.

I have The Trump Card
Both Sides show The King - one crucified
And I am shouting for Glory
For the Once Dead King IS Alive
And because of His Resurrection I, too
Immortal, Incorruptible, will to Glory rise!

Satan! Get thee hence!

I Love The King, Jesus, My Lord!

VESPERS AT THE END Of THE SABBATH: People! Wake Up! Almighty God Ain't No Fool!

My Almighty God IS Just!

I was HUMBLED!

My Almighty God IS Gracious!

I am RESTORED.

Many are The Ways
In which We Weave
Chords - Cords of Music -
To bring us, Humbled, to Our Knees!

We - Bold and Arrogant - think Self Grand and
Behave as though 
God and Human
Pitch Marbles on Hard Sand!

Look at Yourself!
Jaundiced, Petty, Judgmental, Unkind
Living as though You and God
Have a Meeting of The Minds
Where You do The Talking
He Listens - and Obeys
And Gives You Nice Trinkets
To Block Correction from Your Ears!

You Lift Your Head -
Arrogant!

You Stiffen Your Spine -
Back Square!

You Hawk up the Phlegm of Cold Heart 
And You Spray
Acid and Bile
Hatred and Strife
As You Stick a Sharp-pointed, Dull Knife into Your Brother and 
Hug Him as He Suffers Horribly ... and Dies!

You Go to The House of Assembling!
You Say All the Right Words!
Your Hands in your Pockets -
The Cat ... at Your Feet ... Purrs
As You Utter Sardine
And Yourself Eat Beefsteak
And Tell all The People
Payday ain't Got No date!

You Lie, Cheat and Steal!
You Maneuver, Meddle and Make
All Sorts of Deals with The Devil -
Your Pretty Sweet Date
Who, with Great Malice
Strokes You, and Fake Smiles
And Thinks Fondly of What She Will Do
To Make you Lie while you Wait to Slowly Die!

You Act like The Idiot!
You Smell of The Goat!
Your Name Must be Judas - You're Wearing 
His Coat 
Of Betrayal
Of Wanton Greed for Small Non-gain!
Take Care You don't Get Tarred Marked 
With his Same Pay 'n Black Paint!

You Walk like The Christian
You Waddle like The Duck
Be Careful
You May End Up 
Like The Chicken that Gets Plucked
Or - Worst Yet - like The Goose
Who Done Get Herself Picked!
Stop Being a Useless Heathen -
Experience got Tricks, and 
Share Licks!

The Time for Repentance
Confession and Rebirth
Is when The Four Winds of Strife
Are being Held Back -
Off The Earth!

Stop Playing with That Kitty!
Kitty has got Sharp Claws -
She does Scratch - and
When She Sinks ALL Her Claws in You
There ain't a Fellow that's Going To Do Jack
To Help You
To Save You
To Comfort You
To Care!
The Good God You've Been Abusing
Sits in Yon Judgment Chair!

God Does Not Play Favorites!
He Does Not Bend Rules!
He has a "Big Stick"
To Belabor The Backs of 
Confident, Educated Fools
Who Think He is Foolish
Who Believe He Can't See
Who Reason His Looking Out for Humans
Is Way Beneath He!

Get a Grip of Your Self
Sit Down on Your Company Chair
Jesus Christ is Returning
Whether or Not You Care or Fear!

God has is Keeping Good Records!
The Angels Keep Watch, hear!
Trust God for Your Cleansing
Or Your End will be
Out There
Amongst The Dogs and Whoremongers
Fornicators
Lovers of The Life
Licentious, Immoral
Repent!
Or You Die
Forever
For Always
Separated from God
You are not The Big Wheel
You are only a Cog! Get New Life!

Confess All Your Evil!
Repent Like You Care!
Seek Salvation like it's Nourishment
It's Free! Take it ... IF You Dare!

God is YOUR MAKER!
You didn't Make Yourself!
Bow to Him - He's Your Master Maker -
And be healed ...
You can't Heal Yourself!

The BuilderMakerCreator 

Who Does Not Have 

A 

Kill Switch

To 

#NeutralizeRogueCreations 

Is 

A Fool!

Almighty God Ain't No Fool!

VESPERS: At The End Of The Sabbath - God's Grace Brings Peace and Healing!

Hope and Blessing are sisters!
Truth and Beauty are fast friends!
Friend Friendly and Faith Faithful are brothers
On whom the sisters and friends can surely depend!

Mustard-Seed Hope and Longing-For-Glory are inseparable
‘Tis Grace and Gladness-of-Heart likewise
For without these bonded companions
Neutral and Impossible bring with them Demise!

Hope-For-Glory brings with her Gladness
Faith and Truth hold fast to them Mighty Grace
And Beauty-of-Spirit brings with her, her buddy Blessings
From The Father whom them all did create!

Faithful and Friendly find Favor
For those two Feeling Frazzled and Frayed
Their duty each day holds Neutral and Impossible at bay
So Sin can’t come out playing with Holding-Sway!

Neutral claims Fame by holding No-Position
Impossible has Lime-light by elevating Weak
Who everyone know is twin Siamese
With Cowardice, and brother to Bothersome
Bewildered, Awful, Awesome and Life-Is-Bleak!

At times, one can meet Travail-of-The-Spirit
At times, one will meet Keep-You-Eye-On-The-Goal
But whether you meet, Goodness or Defeat
Constant Companion keeps you - along with Faithful - on steady feet!

So, when Life is plucking your nose-hairs
And The-Enemy-Of-Your-Soul steps with nails on your corns
And Devilish-Delight is flaring fire on your hemorrhoids
Know that Peace-In-The-Valley and Balm-of-Gilead
Are carrying Healing and Prayer in Godly-Hands!

Don’t give Losing-Hope and definitely not that Vain-Glory
Pity-Party nor Deadly-Pain to Strangle-Hold
For the Minions-Of-Hell
Will summon that dreadful Death-Knell
So Get-A-Grip, and
Say-A-Prayer and choose
Deny-The-Liar, then
Spit God’s-Gospel-Is-Heavenly-Fire
And step out with Faith
I’m-Holding-To-Hope and
To-Heaven-I-Aspire!