SALT!! + PRAYER: Father, Please Raise Us Up!

S.A.L.T.
Used To Be
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
BUT
S.A.L.T. ... To A Christ-Following Christian
Means
Seeking After Light And Truth
That Stops Satan
AND
The Machinations Of The Minions
AND
Benefits And Blesses
Both Me And You!

Salvation Awaits!
The Lord's Truth I Speak!
Let No Man Or Devil Shortchange You!
Head For Glory
AND
Gain Immortality
AND
Eternal Youth!

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Heyyy! How Are You?

Stomach Empty!
Bed Warm!
Eyes Cloudy!
Trusting God!
What About You?

Eating ... But Thirsty!
Walking And Waiting!
Looking For Light!
Suffered A Fright!

Wow! Do Tell!
You Sound Serious!

I Am Very Serious!
I Sat In The Congregation
Hoping ...

Do You Think That God
Would Encourage A Professed Christian
To Do Evil To Gain A Good?!

No! That Is Sinful!
God Cannot Sin
And By His Own Word
Be Still God!
God Does Not Operate That Way!
God Does Not Tempt Man!
It Is Man's Lusts
Which When Conceived
That Bring Sin!
...  And We Know Where THAT Leads!

You Ever Ate A Meal That Left You Really Thirsty?
Sure! If Too Much Salt Was In The Food!

The Last Sermon At Church Was Like That!

The Food Supposedly Coming From The Lord
Had Too Much Salt Of The Earth!
Only Problem Was
The Salt Had No Savor
And All It Was Good For
Was To Be Thrown To The Ground
And As A Result
Everybody Washing Out Their Mouths On God
On All The Christians
Willfully Sinning Or Not!

And, Now, I Am Thirsty
Really Thirsty ... For God!

I Won't Go Into The Nitty Gritty
But I Will Give You A Hint:

Inside The Head Of Man
Is A Brain Not Made Of Lead!
Below The Navel Of Man
Is A Little Brain
By Which Lust Is Fed
AND
I Will Broadly Ask You This:

How IS It
That We Know When Others Commit Sexual Sin
But When The Pastor Has Got
A Girlfriend
A Boyfriend
Children And A Wife
Everybody Important Says
He's Misunderstood
And That Those Not Illuminated
Need To Get A Life!?

You're Kidding, Right?!
Wrong! So Very Wrong!

Don't They Know
That Judgment Begins
In The House Of God?
Don't They Understand
That Leading People Astray Is A Tenet Of The Fraud?!
Don't They Believe That What God Says He Will Do
He Will Do?!
Don't They Know That They Will Be Held Responsible
For Another's Soul
When They Know Of Sin
And Don't Warn A Brother Sister
Who Is Not Walking True?!

Ezekiel 14:21
Says God Has Four Big Sticks:
Famine
Sword
Noisome Beasts
AND
Pestilence!

Famine 
Is Not Just For Food 
But Also For The Word
That Is Roundly Despised!
A Sword 
Can Cut You Down To Size
Or Take Your Life!
And There Are Noisome Beasts
Things That Are
Annoying, Unpleasant, Offensive, Harmful 
To Expose Your Life
Or To Take You And Your Life Apart!
AND
Pestilence aka Dread Disease
To Menace
AND
If Unstayed
To Even Destroy Your Life!

Those Big Sticks Are Progressive
AND
They Do Worse And Worse
To Gain Our Attention
If We Do Not Humble
Or Refuse To Humble
Ourselves!

We Should Know 
Not To Play With God!
We Can't Surprise Him!

We Should Know 
Not To Try To Tempt God!
We Can't Outwit Him!

We Need To Know 
That We Can't Deny God
For Our Defiance
Won't Deny Him His Authority Over Us!

AND ...

We Really Need To Accept That
We Can Really And Truly Walk Away From God
For The Final End Of A Man's Life's Journeys
Is In The Presence Of Almighty God!
Judgment Day Is There For Us All Waiting!

We Need To Recognize Our Need
For Jesus Christ The Lord
AND
Repent!

Amen! Amen! AMEN!

PRAYER:

Lord, Pity Us

And Forgive Us

For Our Acts Of Folly

And

Have Mercy On Us

When We Are Then Caused To Walk

In Disgrace

And

When We Bow Our Heads In Supplication

As We Avidly Seek After You

To Take Shame From Our Face!

Father,

Please Raise Us Up 

So That We May Lift You Up!

Please Hold Our Hand

So That We May Firm On The Word Stand!

Please Take Us Under Your Sheltering Wings

When Satan Does

Hell's Flames Fan

And

Help Us To Honor

Worship

And

Faithfully Praise

Our Redeemer

The Living One Holy

The Risen Son Of Man!

Lord, Help Us

To Walk The Straight And Narrow Way

So That For Our Own Sins

We Don't Have To Eternally Pay!
In The Name Of Jesus Christ

The Only One Who Saves

We Humbly Plead 

And Also Say

We Love You, Lord!

AMEN.

PRAYER: Father, Help Me To Pray With Diligence ...!

Father,

I Come As A Child!

Please Hear My Prayer

For

By And In Jesus Christ's Faith

I Choose To Follow After Thee

Because

I Do Not Desire To Face

A Rolling Stone's Destiny!

I Desire, Lord

A Place Of Rest

An Anchor

A Shelter

In That Place Of Honor

Where Believing Souls

Are Truly Blessed!

Father,

Help Me This Day

To Live In Your Light

Finding Heavenly Love

Joy's Laughter

And

Grace's Delight!

Let Knowledge Of Your Word

Bring True Wisdom

And

Understanding

And

Help Me Not To See Myself

As One Flying High

For, Lord

I Fear Folly's Crash Landing!

Father,

Help Me To Pray With Diligence

For Your People

That You Promised Are In Other Flocks

To Pray For The Advancement

Of The Words Of Life

That They, Too

May Find The Love Of The Lord Christ

A Fulfilling And Heavenly Delight!

Lord,

Help Me To Speak Kind Words

To Bridle My Tongue

To Extend A Helping Hand

To Give A Genuine Smile

And

Not To Ever Display

An Off-putting Selfish Man's Frown!

Oh, Lord

I Pray For The Former Rain

That Causes Seeds To Bud!

I Pray For The Latter Rain

So That There Is A Great Harvest

For Our Holy God

The King Of Love!

I Pray For The Loud Cry

To Go Forth

Calling The Sheep

Who Know My Lord Christ's Voice

And

I Pray For The Outpouring Of The Holy Spirit

So That There Will Indeed Be

A Joyous Celebration

In Glory Land

Where The Holy People

Will

Immortalized

Praise God

And

Rejoice Unendingly!

Lord,

When You Shall

In Your Eternal Kingdom Come

Remember Me

And

All Who Call Upon That Name

In Faith

With Hope And Love

Trusting

That The Oracles Of God

Are Sacrosanct

Truth

Walking In Obedience

Moment By Moment

Believing In The Promise 

Of The Newness Of Life

And

Living By Christ's Faith

Not Trusting In Man's Sight!

Almighty God,

You Who Is The Only One Faithful

Please Increase Our Faith!

You Who Is The Only One Just

Please Lead Us Home

By Your Promise To The Just!

Help To Live Right

Not Spoiling For A Fight

So That We

As Children Of The Peace-Giver

Will Live Godly

By Doing Right

And

Not Grandly

By Abusing Might!

Please Forgive Us

Who To You

For Forgiveness Do Pray

For We Love You, Lord

And

In Jesus Christ's Holy Name

We Humbly Plead!

AMEN.

Unforgiven! + PRAYER: Lord, Please Heal Our Backslidings!

I Have Not Met Him
AND
I Do Not Want To
For I Fear
If I Do
That He Will Look Like Me!
That He Will Look Like You!

Huh?!
Who Are You Talking About?

Fuamwils!

What!?
Who Is ...What Is ...?!
Explain Yourself!?!

It Is Like This ...

God Has A Sea Of Forgetfulness!
God Hates Sin!
God Sent His Son To Die For Our Sins ...!

... Everybody Knows That!
What's Your Point?

People Gotta Confess Their Sins ...!

... Yadda! Yadda! Yadda!

Fuamwils!

Isn't This Where We Started?!

Yup!

Ooookay!

If You Would Stop Interrupting
Maybe
Just Maybe
I Will Finish My Point!

Okay!
Mouth Zipped!
Ears Pricked!
Brain In Gear!
Let 'er Rip!

Unconfessed Sin Is Unforgiven!
Jesus Christ Died - His Heart Was Riven!
We Can Go Home
BUT
We MUST Accept The Gift
Or
There Will Be No
Eternal Living!

God Cannot Forget!
God Cannot Remember!

Brudda Man?!
Wha' You Sippin'!?!

... As I Was About To Say!!

God Cannot Forget
Unrepented Sin
AND
God Cannot Remember
Confessed Sin!
Problem Is
There Are Folk
Who Will Go For Broke
Blurring
Even Obliterating
Clearly Marked Lines
As If That Is Their Right
BUT
God Has Clearly Identified Who They Are
AND
That Ain't No Joke!

Those Who Go To Jesus
Will Never Be Hungry!
Those Who Believe In Jesus
Will Never Thirst!
They Will Have The Right
To Enter The Gate
AND
To Live In The City
BUT
All The Fuamwils
Get Left Outside
Condemned
AND
In The Lurch!

WHAT ... WHO IS FUAMWILS!

Oh! That's How I Remember That The:

• Fearful
• Unbelieving
• Abominable
• Murderers
• Whoremongers
• Idolatrous
• Liars, and
• Sorcerers

Will Not
Cannot
Enter
God's Glorious Kingdom!

Gobsmacked
Is What I Am!
Sam, You Are The Man!

Alright, Then!

PRAYER:

Lord,

I Beseech You, Please

In The Name Of Jesus Christ

The Righteous

Increase Our Faith

And

Help Us To Accept The Blessing

That Bought Us

And

Brought Us

Out Of What Is

To The Unbelieving

The Eternal Disgrace!

Heal Our Eyes!

Heal Our Ears!

Lord, Heal Our Hearts, Too!

Please Heal Our Hurts

And

Our Backslidings

And

Help Us Not To Sinning To Revert

So That In The Fullness Of Time

After Our Acceptance Of Your Best Blessing

We May Reach Our Heavenly Home

And

Live Eternally

In Prosperous Peace

With And In You!

Lord, Save Our Souls!

AMEN.

How Curious?!

It All Started

In

Eden's Garden

With

A Question?

And

A Lie!

The Satan-Indwelt Serpent

Issued Forth

The First Lie:

Hath God Said ...?

Thou Shalt Not Surely Die!

AND ...

From Thence Until Now

Man Listens To Lies!

Man Loves Lies!

Man Tells Lies!

AND

Man Kills!

AND

Man Dies!

Almighty God Said:
Be Fruitful and Multiply!
Man Says:
Mother Earth Is Too Small!
Kill The Babies! - Let Them Die!
Don't You Dare Overburden Mother Earth
By Becoming A Fruit Fly!

Almighty God Said:
Thou Shalt Not Kill!
Man Says:
Euthanasia And Suicide
Are Not Problems!
Red Alert! Red Alert!

Pain In Neither Mind Nor Body Should Hurt!

We Are Commissioned To:
Worship And Bow Down
Before The Lord Our Maker!
Man Says:
I Am God!
AND
Satan Laughs Loud And Long
For
He's Got Himself Another Taker!

It Is Required That:
All Hail The Power Of Jesus' Name!
BUT
Hail Satan Is The Rebellious Ones' Choicest Refrain!

Almighty God Says:
Train Up A Child
In The Way He Should Go!
Man Says:
That Is A Gross No! No!
Discipline Is Abuse 
Of The Darling Child's Delicate Ego!

Almighty God Says:
To Obey Is Better Than To Sacrifice!
Man Says:
Obedience Is For Fools!
Do What Thou Wilt
Is A Strategic Tool!

Almighty God Says:
Be Not Wise In Thine Own Eyes!
Man Says:
Chart Your Own Course!
Be Wise! Devise!

The Holy Word Says:
Unjust Weights And Balances
Are An Abomination Before God!
Don't Move The Old Land Marks!
Theft And Robbery Are Bad Business!
Man Responds:
Says Who?!
We're Just Adding More
To The Money Tally List!

The Living Word Says:
Dig A Hole For Your Brother
Dig One For Yourself!
Man Says:
If His Feet Don't Have Eyes
He's A Fool!
I Know The Terrain!
Life's Cool!

The Living Word Says:
Wine Is A Mocker!
Strong Drink Is Raging!
He That Is Deceived Thereby Is Not Wise!
Man Says:
I Only Drink The Good Stuff!
Can't Get Enough!
Good Stuff!
Good Stuff!

Almighty God Says:
I Am The Lord!
I Change Not!
Man Says:
Times Change And People Change!
Relevance Is Elegance!

Almighty God Said:
Man Leave Your Father And Mother
And Cleave To Your Wife!
Man Says:
Pick Any Partner!
Make A Way! Any Way!
Sex Is Sex!
Don't Get Me Vexed Today!

The Living Word Says Of God:
Man And Woman
Created He Them!
Man Says:
Poor Old God Didn't Understand
The Prime Mistake He Was Making!

The Living Word Says:
In The Beginning God ...!
Man Says:
What God?!
Aliens Made Us To Evolve
In The Primordial Soup!
Stupse! Stupse!

The Living Word Says:
Repent And Be Baptised
For The Remission Of Your Sins!
Man Says:
What, Really, Is Sin?!
Your Sin Is My Salmon!
Sin's In The Eye Of The Beholder!
I Want What I Want!
I
S how
I nitiative When I Have A
N eed!

God Said ...!
Man Says ... Otherwise!

AND ...

By Our Folly
We Deny Truth
AND
Him Who Is The Truth
AND
Whole-Sale Swallow Satan's Lies!
We Refuse Right-Living Easy
To Live Devilish Hard
AND
For This Reason
Many Will Receive
The Outcast's Red Card!

Yes ... The Lies 
Continue 
In This Modern Day!
Truth Is Relative
AND
Self-Aggrandizement
Is Said To Be
The Only Way To Play
BUT
Almighty God Is Alive And Almighty
AND
All Men Are Liars
AND
Almighty God's Word Eternally Saves!

Wha' Sweet'n Goat Mout'

Does Bu'n 'e 'n 'e Bam-bam!

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Presumptuously

Living In Sin Is Like

Maliciously

Calling The Emergency Service

For An Ambulance

To Go Shopping

And

Getting Hauled Before The Judge

For Fakery And Law Breaking -

You WILL Pay!

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Even In The Face

Of Rank Opposition

When You Know Right Do Right!

Trust God ... And Walk! + PRAYER: Father, We Want To Go Home!

Acquisition Of The Bounties Of Life
Did Not Make Me Happy
BUT
Having A Derth Of Life's Bounties
Did Not Make Me Sad
For
I Recognized
It Is A Matter Of Priorities
AND
I Am Thankful
That I Am With The Faith Of Jesus Christ Clad!

I Enjoy A Good Book!
Needles, Hooks And Thread I Will Not Overlook
AND
Making A Meal For Another Brings Joy!
I Have Reached The Stage In My Life
Where It Is Not Things I Want
BUT
Jesus Christ
AND
I Am Striving Through His Faith
For Eternal Life!

Money Rusts 
Rots
Gets Eatern
AND
Loses Value!
Clothing Decays
AND
Fast Friends Walk Away
AND
Love ... Even Love
Dear Love
Can Disappear
BUT
I Am Determined
At My Holy God
To Ever Look
AND
I Pray For Mercy
That I Do Not Fall For The Scams
Of The Eternal Life-Crook
AND
So I Seek For Christ's Righteousness
AND
The Comfort Of The Comforter 
Spoken Of
In Almighty God's Own Holy Book!

I Pray
AND
I Walk
AND
With God's Holy Spirit
I Talk (Commune)
Willing To Led
Taught
Corrected
AND
Comforted
Along The Lonely Narrow Way!

I Indulge In No Ritualized Pray
AND
I Do Not Care What Others Say
When Even Over My Lunch
I Say My Prayers
For
I Am Into Pleasing None Other Than
Jesus Christ My Lord
In Whose Name
I Approach The Father
When E'er Prayers I Committedly Say!

Every Man Has His Own Soul
- Not A Soul Is Second Hand -
AND
He Has For Himself
To Determine
Future Life Goals
AND
Not Be Concerned About Fleeting
Fluttery Things!
I Am Determined 
To Trust The Word Of The Holy God
AND
Not The Machinated Words Of The Willy Fraud
AND
By God's Grace
"I SHALL OVERCOME!"
AND
I Shall Win
In Jesus' Name
The Way To Eternal Life Walking Race!

So, Brethren ...

Think For Yourself
AND
Do
All That The Lord Places Before You
For
There Is No Place That He Sends
That He Will Not Provide The Means
To Achieve The Goal!
Remember!
He Promised In Blood
To Take Care Of You!
... And Me, Too!

Look Not At The Challenge Ahead!
Look At The Lord
Who For Your Victory Over Sin
Rose From The Dead
AND
Take The Brakes Off Your Feet
AND
With The Faith That Works
Because Of Love For Our Lord
Hit The Accelerator Of Your Heart
With Convincing Lead
AND
Strive For The Prize Given
By Our Lord Christ
Who Is Alive!
Alive!

Trust
 AND
Walk!
Trust! - Don't Balk!
There Is Work To Be Done
So Get At It
So That The End Of Time
May Quickly Come
AND
Eternal Life In Peace May Start
With Our Knowing That From It 
We Shall Never Depart!

Even So, Lord Jesus, Come!

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PRAYER:

Father,

We Want To Go Home!

We Want To Live

In Peace

With Your Beloved Son

Who Is Interceding For Us

In Heaven's Most Holy Place!

Haste The Day, Dear Father!

We Desire To Depart 

This Cruel, Wicked, Place

And

Dwell In The Light 

Of

Our God's Holy Face!

May Your Grace

Be Always Sufficient

In Jesus' Name!

AMEN.

GOD IS NOT DEAD: The World Laughs!

Our Lives Are Often Beset By Dangers

 AND

Duty Seems Hard To Perform!

Our Imagination Paints Pictures

Of Impending Gloom And Ruin

AND

Our Faith

Born Of Belief And Obedience

Hears The Voice Of God Clearly Saying:

“Child Of Love, Move Briskly!

Move Along In Faith! Move On!”

The World Laughs!

Friends Snicker!

Beloved Family Turn Away

AND

All That Is Left

Is The Love Of Jesus

AND SO

Walk Is What We Do

For

In Holy Him

We Wholly Trust

For His Living Word Is Eternally True!

Mortals Working For Salvation

Is A No No!

BUT 

Working Because Of Faith

Is A Christian Must - Faith Works! -

For If Satan Can Cause Us

To Doubt The Word Of God

Christ Jesus

Our Eternal Hopes

Will Be Rendered

As Choking, Killing, Dust!

Wherever We Go

Let's Take With Us

Our Own Lamps

Lights

From The Living God

Let Us Not Let Ourselves Be Dazzled

By The Brilliant Light-Show Work

Of The Fraud

In Whom Is No Viable Reward!

Let Us Work

In Faith

While It Is Yet Day

For The Night Cometh - Pray!

Pray!

Ever Pray!

Trust The Lord - He Will Deliver!

Trust Him

Who Created Me And You

For

He Is Faithful

AND

He Has Prepared Places For Us

In His Father's House Of Many Mansions!

I Desire One To Call My Home!

What About You?

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I Desire To Go To Heaven

Even If I Go Alone!

It Would Be Nice To Have Company

BUT

The Choice Is Yours To Make!

Yours Alone!

Come ... If You Will!

Stay ... If You Must!

BUT

I Desire To Possess 

That Promised Home In Heaven

Even If I Go Alone!

God Is Not Dead!