Put God First!

Honor! Love!
Trust! Worship!
AND
Obey!
Mark The Way To Walk In Fellowship
If We Say God Is Our Lord
When We Pray!

If We Love God
We Will His Commandments Keep!
If We Trust God
We Will Walk In His Ways
No Matter The Way Steep!
If We Honor God
We'll Give
The First Fruits Of Our Increase 
To Help Further The Work Of The Kingdom To Come
AND
If We Worship God
It Will Be With More Than Just Our Tongues
Which In Our Mouths Live!

When We Obey God
God Repays Us
- As Only The Holy God Will Do -
With Treasures Of Peace And Rest Here
AND
Unimaginable Treasures
In The Blessed Kingdom Fair
It Is Promised That We Will Share!
We Will Have No Reason
To Doubt The Payment Of Rewards
For All Will Reap Of His Own Labor
Including The Wicked Fraud!

Honor! Love!
Trust! Worship!
AND
Obey!
Are Not Highminded Concepts
Like Those With Which
The Illuminated Intelligentsia Plays!
These Concepts
These Ideals
Are The Currency Of The Kingdom Not Made With Hands
AND
Are Eternal
Just Like The Godhead
Grand!

Talk Is Cheap!
It Requires No Sweat!
Lying Is Expensive
AND
Gets Us Caught
In Satan's Net Wide And Deep 
BUT
If We Call
The Father
The Son
AND
The Holy Spirit
Almighty God
We Will Do These First Works
To Claim The Reward
Payable At The Coming Of Him Who
Will Claim His Peculiar Treasure
At The Sounding Of The Trumpet Of the Holy God!

Add Endurance
To The Ideals
In The Trial Of Our Faith
For With The Grace Of God
Mercy Shows Its Lovely Face
AND
God's Great Love
Being Ever In Place
We Will Have Nothing To Fear
When God's Justice
Is Executed Against The Wilful Wicked
AND
The Unbelieving
For Whom In Glorious Heaven
There Is No Prepared Place!

Why Would You Choose To Die?

Believe In The Lord Christ
AND
Live!

Keep God's Commandments!
Setting Aside The Lusts Of Carnality
AND
Fear God
Which Together
Is The Whole Duty
Of Humanity!

Keep A Song In Your Heart

And

In Jesus Christ

Be Strong

As You Go On God's Errands!

*********

A Glorious Home In Heaven Awaits!

VESPERS AT THE END OF THE SABBATH: Personal False God

I Once Had A Personal False God
That Daily I Worshipped Lovingly In My Big Wall Mirror!
I Winked!
I Waved!
I Smiled!
AND
I Embraced It
For My God
For Me
Always Would Deliver!

I Was Born With The Sin Nature
AND
I Was In Wilful Opposition To The Living God
Who
- It Appeared To Bright Me -
Desired Just Because He Gave Life To Me
That I Put His Will Before Mine
AND
That My Heart To His Heart Ever Be Inclined!

It Wasn't Working!

You See ...

The King James Bible Told Me
That My Life Is A Gift
AND
The World Tells Me
I Owe No Man Anything But
"Thanks!"
For The Present
So ... I Could Not Understand
Why The Gift Giving God
Wanted More Than "Thanks!"
For His Gifting My Life To Me!

It Seemed Kind Of Greedy To Me!

Then, One Day ...

It Was Brought To My Attention
That The Creator Of My Life
Made Me For His Own Pleasure
AND
His Having Given Me My Life
AND
My Free Will
Was For Me To Give Back To Him Freely
So That He
In Turn
Would Make Me His Peculiar Treasure
AND
In The Fullness Of His Time
When
With My Permission
He Has My Character Refined Into His Image
AND
I Have Endured To The End
All The Tests In This Life That Are Mine
That The Giver Of The Best Gifts
Will Remake Me
AND
Take Me
To His Heavenly Home
Where God's Eternal Light Shines!

Huh?!

Hmmm  ...

Ahhhmmm ...

Uh huh ...

Alrighty Then! Yes! Yes!
I Feel You!

So ...

What About The False God
That You Had In The Wall Mirror?!

It And I
Are Ever In A Battle!
I Must
By Prayers To God
Cause The God Of Self
Daily To Fall!
It Is A Constant Struggle
AND
At Times
I Get Well And Truly Bruised
BUT 
I've Chosen The Gift Giver
For My Leader
AND
Self Has No Choice But To Lose!

I Once Couldn't See My Own Sin
For Self-God Was A Lying One In The Din!
I Placed My Self Before My Soul's Salvation!
I Had Made Peace With The Fraud!
I Was Interesting!
I Was With Self Smitten
AND
I Was A Blinded Fool
Used By Satan Like A Cheap Tool!

I Behaved Just Like Satan!
I Could Only See Self!
I Loved Me To Distraction!
I Cared Not For My Soul's Health!

BUT ...

One Glad Day
A Chink Appeared In The Mirror
AND
A Wrinkle Was Revealed In My Face!
A Wrinkle Was Exposed In My Spirit
AND
Mirror-God Couldn't Fix The Chink Nor The Wrinkles
AND
I Knew Then That A Non-Fixing God Is A Disgrace!

I Bowed My Head And My Heart!
I Stepped Out Of The Den Of The One Dark!
AND
I Apologized To The God Who Gave Me Life
For All The Times I Did Of Him Snark!
I Removed "Constant I" From My Vocabulary
AND
Instituted 
"Yes, Lord!"
"... You, Lord!"
AND
By Faith
This Child Is Avidly Seeking After The Gift Giving God
Who Provides
Without Our Having To Ask!

Thank God For Grace!

Forsaking Sin + PRAYER: Lord, I Come

When We Forsake Sin
We Have The Assurance Of The Approval Of God!
We Have No More Need
To Sorrow Or To Fret
For The God Of Heaven
Paid Too High A Price
To Let A Repentant Soul's Heart Be Out To Let!

Have No Fear Of The Devil
For He Is A Way-laying Fraud!
He Desires All To Follow Him Into Perdition
Unable Ever
To Return Home To Father God!

Let Not Circumstance Bind You!
Let Not Love Of Friends Confine You
AND
Let Not Love Of The Lights
Of A Sinful Fallen World Blind You
Out Of The Sight And Sound
Of Him Who Joyfully Created You!

Almighty God Is Faithful!
His Holy Word Is Sacrosanct!
He Accepts All Repentant Sinners
Even Those Who Believe That He Won't And Can't!

PRAYER:

Lord, I Come To You Today

Burdened With, And Sorry For My Sins

For Which Your Beloved

With His Holy Life 

Once For All Did Pay!

With Your Grace, Lord

And Unfailing Mercy

I Forsake The World

And Humbly Seek 

To Ever Hear And Obey

The Quiet Voice Of God

And Desire To Be Made

As One Repulsive

In The Sight Of The Fraud!

I Know My Way Will Be Difficult!

I Know That I'll Be Tempted 

By The Big, Bright, And Beautiful Broadway

But

Because I Take The Lord For My Shepherd

I Will Not Be Believing

The Winsome Words Of The Leopard!

Oh, Lord

Lift Me Up So That I May Lift Up

The Life Of The Lord Christ

For A Beacon In This World Full Of Darkness!

In Jesus' Worthy Name I Plead And Stand!

I Love You, Lord!

AMEN.

HAPPY SABBATH: It Will Be An Expedient + PRAYER: Lord, Give Us The Victory

Since There Is Nothing New
Under The Sun
It Stands To Reason
That It Will Be Again Expedient 
That One Should  Perish
Instead Of The Whole Nation!

So ...

Just Like Christ Jesus
Christians Shall Be The Scape Goat
AND
Will Be Sold To Bold Sinners
For A Trifling Small Groat!

The King James Bible Says
That The Dragon
Is With The Woman Wroth
AND
Will Seek To Make War
With The Remnant Of Her Seed
AND
I Take That To Mean
That Hate Controls His Noggin
Just As The Drug Would An Addict On Speed!

Christians' Foreheads And Backs Will Bear Targets
For Their Faithfulness To The Eternal God
AND
For Having Repented Of Sin
To God The Father
AND
Holding The Faith Of Jesus Deep, Deep, Within
AND
For Not Paying Obeisance To The False God!

But ... Faith

Faith Speaks Of Confidence!
Faithfulness Speaks To Confidence's Reward!
Walking In Faith Speaks Of Doubt's Decimation
AND
Abiding Faith Speaks To Hope For Rest
In The Peaceful Glade Of The Eternal God!

God Is Faithful
Even When We Are Not
AND
When We Are Faithless
God's Faithfulness
Diminishes Not Even A Jot!

BUT ...

If We Believe In Him Who Is The Word
AND
Who Makes Faith Come Alive By His Covenanted Word
We Will Be Champions Of The Faith
Overcomers Grand
Of The Goat-inspired Wicked Perishing World
Disbelievers In The Son Of Man!

Faith Is The Victory!
Faith Moves Mountains And Trees!
Faith ... When Unbounded
Is As A Shower Of Rain Upon Leaves
For The Sound Is As Music That Makes The Heart Sing
AND
The Soul In Its Witness
Is Ever Joyful
Smiling 
Knowing That Eternity Is Not A Faddish Thing!

PRAYER:

Day Is Dying, Dear Lord

In The West

Sinners Are Right Bold

Denying There Is Sin To Be Confessed

But

I Ask You, Lord

Who Is No Mannish Liar

Whose Word Is Truth

And Is To Eternity Bound Fast

To Please Let Our Confidence

Our Holy Faith In Christ Jesus

Provide Us Seats

At The Royal Welcome Home Children

Celebration Repast!

Oh, Lord

Please Let Our Faith 

In Jesus Christ The Righteous

Give Us The Victory

That Overcomes This World!

We Love You, Father!

AMEN.

*********

Fear Him 

Who Can Kill Body And Soul In Hell!

What Can Man Do Unto Me?

PRAYER Of A Contrite Heart

Thou God Seest Me

Not As I Am

But How In Christ Jesus I Can Be!

Oh, Holy God

Which Inhabitest Light

Because Of Thy Grace

Through Jesus Christ

I Can Forsake The Night!

Most Glorious God

Who Didst Sacrifice Thy All

So That I -  A Vile Sinner

May Be Cleansed Of The Stench Of The Fall

I Bless You!

I Love You!

I Honor The Great Name

And Seek Not For My Self

Power

Riches

Nor Fame!

I Come, Dear Father

Confessing

Repenting Of Known Sin

For

I Know That You Who Inhabit All Ages

Will Never Permit The Unrepentant

Your Holy Presence To Enter In!

I Know,  Dear Lord

That To The Public

I May Pretend To Be All Holy And Clean

Because

They Don't Know 

Of My Committing Public Sin

And

Because Of The Lying Impression

People Will Believe That I Will

Your Glory Enter In

But, Lord

You Don't Look At My Externals

You Look Deep

Into The Heart Of Me

And If My Heart

Is Not In Line With Your Word, Lord

Marooned

From Your Presence

Is What I Will Be

For Ever

For Eternity!

So, Lord

Accept This Offering

As My Prayer Of Confession!

Accept, Dear Lord

My Repentance For My Sin

As My Contrite Heart's Mournful Apology!

I Beseech You, Dear Lord

In The Name Of Jesus Christ The Righteous King

Whose Eternal Merits I Claim

To Help Me To No More To Walk

In The Ways Of The Wicked And Vain

And

To Help Me To Disclaim The Ways

Of Presumptuous Self-righteous Humanity!

Pity Me, Dear Lord

- For I Can Never Pity Myself Enough -

And Help Me To Do Right

To Live Right

And

To Walk Right

So That In The Great Day

I Will Be Well Rid

Of This Moldering

Tabernacle Of Dust

And Put On Your Promised Gift

Of Incorruptible Immortality!

Help Me, Dear Lord

To Always Keep The Life Of My Lord Christ

In Clear And Unobstructed Plain View

That I May Be Changed Into The Divine Likeness

So That

At The Appointed Time

I May Reside 

In The Heavens And The Earth Made New 

Eternally With You!

Lord, I Give You Praise!

AMEN

No Victory Over Sin?!

 

Jesus Is My Shepherd!
I Don't Follow The Goat!
I Take The Time From The Master
AND
I Seek Faithfully
By Standing On The Holy Word
- In This World Of Wickedness -
To Stay Afloat!

Distractions Are All Around Me!
Even Things That Should Never Be In The Public's Face
AND
I Must Endeavor To Stay Focused
So As Not To Become A Christian Disgrace!

Unfaithful Hireling Shepherds
Are Trying To Convince God's People
That There Is No Getting Victory
- In This Life -
Over Sin
AND
I Shake My Head And Ask Wryly:

Who Inspired The "Holy" Word
From Which The False Shepherds Are Teaching?

How Much Are They Being Paid 
To Sell This Offal
That Unsuspecting Believers Are Buying?

"No Victory Over Sin!"
Is A Gross And Satanic Lie
AND
Is One Used By The Devil
To Cause Many With Unconfessed Sin
To Be Lost Forever
When They
Unrepentant
Die!

Jesus Saves The Sinner
Out Of His Sin!
Jesus Will Never Permit 
An Unrepentant Sinner
The Pearly Gates To Enter In!

Please ...

Do Not Listen To The Blind Guides
Who For A Pittance
Are Peddling Bold Lies!
Guard Your Eyes
AND
Your Heart
Out Of Which Comes 
The Actions That Direct Our Lives
AND
Trust The Lord To Be Faithful
To His Promise
To Give To All 
Faithful
Obedient
Enduring
Believers 
New
AND
Eternal Life!

By Beholding
We Are Changed
So ...
Behold The Good Master
Our Lord Jesus Christ
AND
Become Permanently Estranged From The Devil
AND
You Will 
Lead By The Christ Enter Into 
God's Eternal Life!

COMPROMISE : Come Promise Me ...!

Darkness Covers The Earth
And Gross Darkness
Covers The People With Despair
For
There Is Compromise
Between Christianity And Paganism
AND
Oppression Is Everywhere!

The Word Of The Lord
Is Quite Simple:

Do!
Don't Do!
Walk Holy!
Trust Me!
Believe Not Satan's Lies

BUT

"Going Along To Get Along!"

Is Causing God's People
To Practice Artful Compromise
Using Bridge-building Lies!

If Truth Plus Error Is Error
AND
Error Plus Truth Is Error
How In The Name Of The God 
Upon Heaven's Throne
Can Three-Quarter Truth 
AND
Whole White Lie
Plus Wittingly Doth The Living God Defy
Equal
When We Die We To Bright Heaven Fly?!

Why Is It
That When Lie Wants To Masquerade As Truth
That It Speaks Like An Educated Horse With A Rotten Tooth
Whistling Dixie In The Air
While Explaining That
The Documentary Proofs For God's Light Is Unclear
AND THEN
Produces A Lost Found Re-Discovered Document
Same But Different
From Under
Grandfather's Aunt's
Broken Fixed Mashed Up
Technicolor White Rocking Chair?!

Come Promise Me
Is The Initiator-Compromiser's Best Rule
For It Is Outfitted
With An Almost Great Gift
For Its Jewel
BUT
When The Non-Negotiation  Is All Done
It Will Too Late Be Found
That The Instigator
Has Unfailingly Gained
All The Good Solid Ground!

Lucifer-Satan Beelzebub Belial Devil Dragon
The Son Of Perdition
The Opposer Of God
Dread Befouler Of Man
The Lord Of Destruction
Is The Compromiser's Spray Can!
Be It Targeted Spray
Or Wide-Angle Discharge
Mess Is The Medium
AND
Denial Of Service To God
Is Ever The Good Reason!

So ...

Listen Well, I Tell You
Listen Well And Understand
Take A Stand For Jesus
Stand Firm
Even If The Heavens Fall!
Stand
For Even Though Satan Hates You
The Hosts Of Heaven Will
Joyously Applaud 
AND
Support You!

Let Jesus' Faith

Make For You A Firm Foundation

Upon Which

- Though Trembling -

You Will Unmovable

Firmly Stand!

PRAYER : Dear Lord, Help Me To Accept ...!

Heavenly Father, Precious Lord

I Come Before You

As A Child Thankful For Your Grace

And

Seeking After The Measure Of Faith

And Not 

Earthly Rewards And Awards!

Help Me To Accept 

That Without You I Am Weak

So That I By Faith May Glory

In Your Perfect Strength!

Help Me Not To Get Puffed Up

While Glorying In Your Grace

For

Absent Your Presence

I Am Truly Weak 

When The Wicked One

I By Myself Face!

Help Me To Recognise The Truth

In The Fact That Until You Called Me

I Could Not Your Throne Approach!

Help Me To Understand And Accept

The Truth

That Until I Answered Your Call

I Couldn't Hold The Eternal Hand

So That I Will Never Seek To Join

The Man-Is-God Band!

Help Me To Walk Worthy

Of Your Salvation 

By The Merits In Jesus' Name

And Help Me, Dear Father

That Glorious Name Never Again To Profane!

I Love You, Dear Lord!

Have Mercy And Bless

For In Jesus Christ's Name

I Humbly Plead!

AMEN.