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Great Is Your Faithfulness! Almighty God ... You Are My Father! I Believe With-My Known Deceitful Man's Heart That There Is No Shadow Of Turning With Thee! Things I Didn't Know That I Needed Your Holy Hand Has Generously Provided! Great Is Your Faithfulness, Lord Every Day ... Unto Me! Spring Time Is Now Passed AND Summer Time Is Approaching! The Heat Of The Day Makes Me Desire To Walk Under Your Cloud Where There Is Shade From The Weather AND From The Wicked And Evil Elements That Are Soul Destroyers AND I Am Truly Grateful For Daily Faith AND Available Grace From Heaven Above! My Life Is Not My Own! Lord, Help Me To Follow Where You Safely Lead! Help Me Not To Look Back At The Gay And Noisy Crowd AND Give Me Strength For My Day For I Have A Living Hope Of A Blessed Tomorrow! I Am Grateful That Your Blessings Are Personally Mine So Help Me, In Your Holy Spirit Ever To Confide! A Life Of Sin Is Not Helpful! Disobedience Does Not Profit! Waywardness Leads One Astray AND For Own Sin One Will Have To Pay! Please, I Beseech You Correct Me Of My Backslidings AND Bless Me To Do Your Will So That Heaven-At-The-Last Trump Shall Surely Be Mine!
Well ... The Text Speaks For Itself And It Tells Its Own Story!
To My Mind It Is A Stairway To Surpassing Glory!
Go On! Tell Us More!
Very Well! It Is Like This:
If Something Is True It Will Be Honest!
If Something Is Honest It Should Also Be Just!
Just IS Justice IS Just! It Must Contain Elemental Fairness!
When Something Is Just It Will Also Be Pure!
Purity Contains No Taint! It's Wholesome, Clean!
AND ...
Because Something Is Pure It Is Ever Lovely! Think Pure And Undefiled As In ...
Something That Is God-Given Lovely Is Worth My Speaking aka Reporting On It!
If Something Is Worth Speaking About There Must Be Virtue ie., Strength And Power Behind It! Think Of Jesus And The Woman With The Issue Of Blood!
I Like That!
Very Good Point!
And, Finally ...
Because Praise - Blessing - Comes Of The Holy God For Right Doing Right Living Right Thinking Right Speaking Righteousness We Should Think Aka Dwell Upon These Few Things Which Will Hail Us Before The King Who Is Creator Sustainer Savior Redeemer Help Hope Teacher Guide!
This Word Is Strong! This Word Is True AND As Touching Christ Jesus It Takes Virtue ie., Strength And Power From Him AND Imparts Hoped-For-Healing To Me And To You!
Well Done! I Have Nothing To Add To That! May Our Almighty God
Grant That Knowledge Turns To Understanding And Understanding To Wisdom So That We
What's Going On?! What's The Meaning Of All These Wooden Crosses?! Since When Do You Wear A Silver Cross?! I Have A Gold One! What Is This?! Pastor Said That Everybody Must Bear Their Cross! What!?! He Asked The Question:
Must Jesus Bear The Cross Alone ...?!
... And You All Believed He Meant Bearing Wearing A Literal Cross!?! Sure! He Plain As Day Said:
Now Is The Appointed Time!
Now Is The Day Of Salvation!
Take Up Your Cross
Your Burden
And Faithfully Follow
Follow After The Lord Jesus Christ!
What's Wrong With You People?! What Do You Mean?! Do Any Of You Ever Crack Open A Bible?! I Quote:
You Obviously Are Not RIGHTLY DIVIDING The Word! AND You All Ought To Be Ashamed Of Yourselves! Ashamed For What?! I Didn't Kill Anybody! Come On! What Are You Talking About?! Didn't Your Pastor Explain What Taking Up Your Cross And Following Christ Means?! Sure! That's Why We Are Carrying These Crosses! Lord, Make Peace! Let Me Ask You A Question: What Kind Of Life Did Jesus Live?! A Life Of Self-Abnegation Caring For Others Teaching Others Healing Others And Ultimately Dying For Others! Excuse Me?! What Is Self-Abegnation?! Self-Ab-Ne-Ga-Tion! Jesus Christ In Self-Abnegation AND As Written In Scripture Was Meek And Lowly ... Of Heart Not Proud Submissive ... In Giving His Will To His Father AND Obedient ... Unto Death On The Physical Cross! Jesus Set Aside His Self AND In Despising The Shame We Placed Upon Him Died On The Cross For Us Whom He Was Not Ashamed To Call Brethren! Self-Abnegation Is The Cross That Man Should Bear IF We Will To Be Like Christ! This Pile Of Wood That You All Are Toting Around Means Nothing! Those Gold And Silver Crosses You're Wearing Are ... Are ... Just Decorations Meaningless Useless Good For Nothing But Getting Jewelers Rich! Whose Character Are You Wearing! Can The World See Christ In You! Are You Selfless! Or Are You - True To Human Nature - Totally Selfish?! Well, Ahhh ... Ummm ... Exactly! Outward Adorning! White Washed Tombs Filled With Dead Men's Bones! You Don't Have To Be So Cruel! I Am Not Being Cruel! Somebody Has To Tell You All The Truth! Who Are You Really Serving?! Pastor Says ...! Oh, Lord, In Heaven Save Us From Another "Pastor Says!" Can The Pastor Save You?! No! Of Course Not! Then Who Can Save You?! Jesus Saves! So What Does Jesus Say?! To Obey Is Better Than To Sacrifice! The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth! Wisdom Is The Principal Thing! Let No Man Steal Your Crown! In All Your Getting, Get Understanding! If You Know All That What's With This Pastor Say That And That?! Chagrined, They Held Their Heads Down. One Voice Speaking To Their Shame, Said: I Guess We're Just Lazy Thinkers! Another Voice: Brethren, We Really Should Be Ashamed Of Ourselves! We Are The Hearers And Not The Doers Of The Word! Ohhhh! If I Had My Way I Would Beat All Of You At The Bottom Of Your Feet! How Mean! That Would Really Hurt! Yes! But I'd Never Have To Teach You The Same Lesson Again! You Do Have A Point! Lazy Thinking In A Christian Is A Vile And Abhorrent Thing! Let's Not Have This Conversation Again, Okay?! For Real! Wow! I Feel Better! I Feel As Though A Burden Has Been Lifted! It Was! No More Toting Around This Fire Wood! AMEN! Time To Set Aside Self! Oh, Dear! THAT, My Friend Is Hard Work! Lord, Help Us! He Will, My Friend! You Can Trust Him!
Please, Ma'am What Do You Mean When You Say "Watch Your Words!?" Words Don't Have A Body!
Ah, But They Do! Some Are Heavy Weight Champions Some Are Butterflies Some Are Nasty Nellie's AND Some Are Annoying Flies!
Some Words Push You Some Words Pull Some Words Run You Down AND Some Words Make You Feel Like A Gull!
I Like Gulls!
Oh, No! Not Gull As In Bird! Gull As In To Make One Feel Like An Idiot!
That's Not Very Nice!
Do You Still Think Words Have No Body Aka No Weight?!
Well ... I Am Not Too Sure. ...Yet.
Come, Let's Walk For A Moment!
Ryan, You Are A Kindhearted Soul! Why Is That?!
Well, It's Nice To Be Kind And Mom And Dad Both Teach That What You Give You Get Back And That Soft Answers Turn Away Wrath And Do Unto Others What You Want To Be Done Unto You!
Wouldn't You Call That Ingesting Good Food?
Sure, I Would!
And When You Say Something Nice Wouldn't You Agree That You Are Displaying The Fruit The Benefits From The Good Food That You Ingested ... Ate AND Digested ... Learned Grew From AND Expressed ... Practiced?!
Yes, I Would! I Think I Understand!
If You Understand, Prove It!
I Heard Coach Keene Call Mason A Rather Nasty Name AND I Actually Saw Mason Recoil As Though He Had Suffered A Physical Blow AND Afterward He Looked Physically Ill!
There You Go! So What Do You Now Say?!
Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones BUT Unkind Words Are Sure To Harm Me!
Well Said!
Now I Desire That You Remember This:
People Watch Our Words! Our Expressed Words Come From Within Us Showing Others What Is Inside Of Us AND Very Often A Lifetime's Worth Of Living Can Never Erase The Looped Unkind-Word Recording That In Another Person's Head Plays AND There Is No Pencil Well-Enough Equipped To Erase The Lasting UGLY AND WEIGHTY Bad Impression That We May Have Unwittingly Made!
Watch YOUR Words!
Yes, Ma'am! I Surely Will! Thanks For For Taking The Time To Explain Things To Me! I Appreciate You!
Well, From I Stand All The Men Of The Earth Are Bold Liars AND I Strenuously Maintain That The Word Of The God Is Still AND Ever Always True!
Come On! How Can A Whole Planet Contain Only Liars?!
It Can BECAUSE The Holy Buble The Preserved Word Of The King James Bible Says So!
Ooooh! Now I Understand! You Are One Of Those!
One Of Those What?!
A Fundie!
Huh?!
A Fundamentalist Accent On Mental And Decidedly Off Of Fun!
You Know Bible Alone Christ Alone Straight Truth No Shades Of Gray Christ The Only Hope Faith And Works Striving For Mastery Self-denial ...!
Ooh, Shiver! You Said A Curse ... Self-Denial! I H A T E That!
... Always Having To Think About Lofty Things Lifting Up Others Always Being A Goody-Goody Always Having To Think About Doing Right! BO RING!
You People Suck The Air Out Of A Room! Do You Have Any Joy In Your Life?!
Yes, I Do! I'm Living By Faith AND I Find Joy In Jesus! Do YOU?!
Wow! Did You Hear Those Cliches?!
Yes, I Did And I Also Know That These Two Are Serious About What They Are Saying! Why Is That?!
Now YOU Can't Be Serious! They're Just A Bunch Of Holy Rollers And Gloomy Gusses!
Yesterday It Was Test The Spirits! Today It Is Men Are Liars! What Will Tomorrow Bring?! Is It Holiness Unto The Lord?!
Now That You Mention It Let's Go Back To Testing The Spirits!
Do You Believe Everything That The Preachers And Teachers Say To You?!
Of Course! They're Men And Women Of God! They Are The Visionaries! The Dreamers!
Do You Fact Check Them Against The Law The Prophets AND The Gospels?
What For?! They Are Called! They Are Ordained! They Always Speak For The Lord!
Always?! Nothing Extra-Biblical Mentioned Every Once In A While Because They Had A Vivid Dream AND OR Received An Absorbing Too Real Not To Be A God-Sent Vision?!
No! Yes! Wait A ... Minute!!
There Was ... Last Summer ... Three ...
Problem?!
Problem! I Just Remembered That The Word Says That If They Speak Not According To The Word There Is No Light In Them!
Man, Are We In Trouble!
Let's Sit Back Down!
Why? What's The Trouble?!
I Just - In A Seeming Flash - Remembered All The Times That Our Pastor Went Off Scripture And How Afterwards - When Challenged - It Was Always That We Misheard! We Misunderstood! He Had A Slip Of The Tongue!
Did He Ever Subsequently Revisit The Errors To Set The Congregation Straight?
No! Not Even Once!
Really?! Why Do You Think That Is?!
Popularity! Prestige! Promotion! Pittance!
The Fatal Four?
The Fatal Four!
Lord, Please Help Your People This Day!
What Does This Fatal Four Have To Do With Anything?!
Every Single Thing! When Earthly Desire AND Selfish Ambition Enter The Ministry Of The Gospel Of Truth There Is Always Always - Did I Say Always - Corruption In The Midst!
Those Four Horsemen Ride!!
Come On! Nobody Can Corrupt God's Truth!
No, They Can't BUT They Can Corrupt The Telling The Interpretation AND The Response!
You Just Lost Me! Would You Explain That Further, Please?!
What's The Difference Between God Is! AND Is God ...?!
God Says! AND As I See It, God Says?!
God Will Bless When ...!
AND God Blesses If ...?!
God Knows You Are Weak!
AND God Says Be Strong!?
I Was Once As You Were Until The Day I Heard The Pastor Say It Is Okay To Disobey God To Make Known Willful Sinners
Feel Good About Themselves AND To Feel Comfortable AND Accepted Amongst The Faithful!
I Heard Our Pastor Say That God's Law Changes To Fit The Peoples Of Our Times!
Our Pastor Says - All The Time - That All The People On Earth Will Be Saved!
Our Pastor Also Says That God Has To Save All Sinners Because He Made Them That Way!
Brethren, What Does The Living Word Say About The Holy God His Law His Ways His Character?!
I AM The Lord: I Change Not! The LORD: The Same Yesterday, Today And Forever!
The Law Is A Transcript Of God's Character!
Thy Way Oh, Lord, Is In The Sanctuary!
God Is Faithful And Just!
God Is Way God Is Truth God Is Life ... And Light!
So ...
What Does That Mean To For You?!
God Won't God Can't Change So We Must!
Can You Change God?!
Of Course Not!
Can You Change You?!
Ye ... No!
You Got That Right!
We Need To Take God At His Word That He Can Save Us Through Our Belief In His Word
Father, As A Child I Come Before Thee Confessing And Repentant And Beseech You, Please
Pardon Me From My Sin!
Please Give Unto Me
The Power To Deny The Liar And In The Name Of Jesus, Lord Please Grant Me Your Peace Today
Even Though At My Poor Feet
Satan Lit Himself
A Raging Bonfire!
Father,
I Have Been Foolish!
Teach Me To Be Wise!
Grant Me Wisdom's Understanding
To Use The Knowledge
That For Me
You Did Provide! Help Me To Not Yield To The Terror Seen Of My Eyes So That I From You In Fleshly Fear Do Not Backslide! Blind My Carnal Eyesight And Grant Unto Me True, Seeing, Spiritual Eyes!
Father,
Please Let My Knowledge Of You
Be Not Theoretic!
Teach Me And
Grant Me The Telling Experience, Lord
So That I Can Truly Testify Without Fear Of Contradiction
That I Personally Know You!
Father,
I Desire To Walk
In The Faith Of My Jesus!
I Eagerly Accept Daily Grace And Faith!
Grant Me Courage
For My Long Journey
And
Strength
So That I Will Go The Distance
And
Not Turn Back
Half Way Nor Almost There!
Oh, Lord With The Believer's Heart Christ's Faith And Hope For Your Glory
