PRAYER: Lord, Please Haste The Glad Day!

Lord,

I Cannot Help But Love You!

You Are To Me The God Holy Faithful Ever True!

You Are My Hope

My Blessing

And

I Want To Live Forever With You!

I Am But A Child

So Please Teach Me

To Walk In the Way Called Truth

And

Please Bless Me With Wisdom's Understanding

So That I Will Be A Blessing To Others

Old And Youth!

Father,

The Ways Of The World Are Most Distressing

Even Though They Are Held Up As So Much Fun

And

Great Play

But I Don't Find It All Amusing

And

I Beseech You

To Help Me Keep It That Way!

Often, Lord

I See A Wandering Brother

Sister

Caught In The Straight Betwixt Two

And

My Heart Goes Out To Them, Father

Because I Know For Sure

That They Are Looking For You!

Bless Me, Lord

With A Blessed Though

Bringing To Promised Remembrance

The Living Word Of Hope Help Healing

That I Have Read And Heard

So That I May Share

With The Longing Soul Caught

In The Wild Goat Herd!

Father,

Satan Is, Indeed, Raging

And

Doing His Dread Work

Enticing The Unwary

To Ultimately Do Upon Them

His Destroying Work

And

I Beg You

I Beseech You

In Jesus Christ's Name

To Make Me An Instrument

For Your Blessed Kingdom

To Point The Way To Salvation

So That Your Holy Spirit

Will Get Another Soul Away

From That Lying One Who Profanes

The Holy Name!

Remember Us, Lord, In Mercy!

Pour Out Upon Us Your Grace

And

Bless Us With Spiritual Ears

To Hear The Holy Spirit Calling Our Name!

Bless Us Also With Hearts Of Flesh

For The Lord Christ To Enter In

And

Sit Down To Sup With Us

As We In Joy

Sup With Him!

Help Us To Ask In Faith For The Outpouring

And

The Indwelling Of The Holy Spirit

And

Help Us Not To Fall, Dear Lord

To The Belief

That Living Faith Has No Work In It!

Teach Us Your Way

And

Help Us To Walk In It!

Lead Us To Green Pasture

With Living Water Running Through It! 

Anoint Our Heads With Oil

And

Let Our Cup Of Blessing Overflow

And

Keep Us Until The Great Day

When Our Redeemer

We Shall Face To Face Know!

Bless You, Lord

We Love You!

Bless You, Lord

We Give You All Adoration And Praise!

Bless You, Lord

For Our Souls' Salvation!

Please Haste The Glad Day

For

In Jesus Christ's Holy Name

We Offer Up Our Worship And Our Humble Prayers!

AMEN.

Our God - The Living God - Is Forgiving!

Clear Light And Bright Rays
Are Identical Twin Offspring Of
Living Faith
AND
Godly Example! 
They All Work Diligently
In The Dear Master's Vineyard!

Blessing
AND
Power
Greatly Attend Their Efforts
To Do A Good Work For Their Lord!

I Can Tell You Though ... 

There Had Been A Time
When That Could Not Be Said Of The Parents
Because
Real Selfishness
Great Inward Wickedness
AND
Outward Spiritual Precision
Attended Aka Dogged
Their Way!

They Looked Real Good
BUT
They Weren't!
Their Walk And Their Talk ...!
It Was Just Plain Sad.

For Them
Doing Right Had Simply Been 

An Obscure Blip On A News Reel!
Being Right Was Good For Reward
AND
Living Right Was Not As Important As
Living In The Gardens
The Closes
The Terraces
AND
The Heights
For Close Communion
With The Way Agents Of King Fraud!

They Knew A Lot About The Living God!
They Spoke A Lot About The Eternal God!
BUT
They Did Not Know The Faithful God
Until
One Fine Morning
After Breakfast
AND
Before Lunch
AND
In A Cross Between
Balaam's Ass Speaks
AND
Saul-Paul's Blinding Experience
They Willingly Gave Up
Their Hearts
- Heretofore Unsubdued By Daily Grace -
AND
- Truly Repentant Of Their Past -
Accepted The Great Commission
AND
Started Walking
In The Wise One's Ways!

There Was No Overnight Success!
There Was No Instant Sensation Of Supreme Satisfaction!
There Was No Great And Glorious Public Applause
BUT
There Was Much Humble Praising
AND
Praying From Them
AND
Rejoicing In Heaven
For
The Sinners Returning To The Father's House
Their True Home!

They Had Heard
THE True Word
AND
Had Seen THE Living Light
AND
Had Caught The ONLY Train To Glory
By Getting Off
The Wave Of Sin
Once Upon A Time
A Thing Sure To Delight!

Their New Life Is Neither Accident
Nor Happenstance!
Their New Life Is The Result Of
A Deliberate Decision
To Step Off Of Doing Wrong
AND
Get On To Doing Right
In The Holy One's Sight!

To The Devil Dogs, However
They Had Committed High Treason

By Walking Away From The Pleasures Of Sin

That Only Last A Season! 

To The Prince Of Peace
They Were

They Are

 The Reason That
He Had Given His Life!

To The Eternal Kingdom

The Kingdom Of Light
They Are The Prize
That Was Worth Shiloh's Life

AND

Praise God
His Soul Is Satisfied
For
They Are Now Faithfully Doing ... The Will!

Brethren, 

What Is
Cannot Forever Continue!
The Press Of What Was
Will Be Felt Again Until 
- Repentant -
We See The Light!
What Shall Be
For The Faithful
Is In The Hands Of The God Eternal 
AND
He Desires To Share It
With You And With Me!

Will You Accept The Call
AND
Change Your Ways
So That
- By The Grace Of The Living God -
You Will Be Redeemed
Glorified
Immortalized
So That At The End Of The 1,000 Years
In The Heavenly Realm
You Will See The New Heaven
AND
The New Earth
AND
Live The Glorious Life
That Will Never End?!

Just Say:

Yes, Lord!

AND TODAY

Right This Very Moment
Really Start Living
Because

Our God
IS
The Holy God
Just
True
Faithful
AND
Forgiving!

I Am Walking

By Faith

On The King's Highway!

Please Come And Join Me!

ONE: The Power Of One ...!

One Sin

Any One Sin ... Cherished

Is Sufficient

AND

Has Sufficient Power

To Degrade The Character Of Man

AND

Is Strong Enough To Cause Self
AND
Encourage Others

To Walk Boldly With The Wily Fraud

AND

Despise The Holy God!

All That Any Man Has Or Needs

In This Life

Always Starts With  ONE!

The Thing That Nobody Wants

In This Life

Always Starts With ... ONE! 

How Do YOU Look At ... ONE?! 

One Drop Of Poison

One Bullet From A Gun
One Cruel Wave Of The Sea
One Wrong Answer To The Right Question!

ONE And ... You're Done!

One White Lie
One Black Tale
One Occluding Net
One Broken Sail!

ONE And ... You Fail!

One Bee Sting
One Hornet's Nest
One Venomous Snake Bite
One Broken Headlight!

ONE And ... It's A For-Life-Fight!

One Rejection Letter

One Broken Heart
One Banana Peel
One Peel Of Derisive Laughter!

ONE ... Devious Crafter Of Disaster!

One Don't!
One Run!
One Bun In The Oven
One Mishap
One Miss

ONE ... Mistake!

I Am Sooo Tired Of This ONE!

On The Good Side ...

One God

One Savior
One Comforter
One Heaven
One Salvation
One Hope
One Helper
One Provider
One Teacher
One Great Physician
One Way To The Eternal Home
One Faith
One Baptism
One Right Way
One Narrow Way
One Seasoning Called Salt

One Soon Coming Of Our King

One God To Exalt! 

One Is A Champion

Depending On Right Use ...

A Whip
A Weapon
A Holey Shoe
A Clown Hat
A Riotous Clapback
OR 
A Soft Answer

One Rule Of Righteousness
One Right
One Left
One Top
One Bottom
One Back
One Front
One Son Of God Begotten
OR
One Wicked Satan Rotten

One Decision
- Good Or Ill - 
Life With God

OR
Lake Of Fire
No Chaser To Chill!

How Will You Eternity Fill?!

Will YOU Look

To The ONLY ONE

Who Will Make Life

In His Eternity

For His Children

An Everlasting Thrill?!

Honest Policy!?!

The Age-Old Adage
"Honesty Is The Best Policy!"
ISQuite Frankly
A Straight-up Lie!!

Man, From The Looks Of You
You Drank What You Should Have Anointed Yourself With
Because It Is Running Out Your Mouth
As Bare Ignorance!

Not So Fast, Slow-Poke!
He Is Right!

YOU Have Obviously Had Some Of HIS Libation!

Not At All!
Just Give Us A Hearing!

Simply Put

Honesty

ISYes!
ANDNo!

Policy
Simply Put
IS
Maybe Yes!
Maybe No!
AND
Maybe So!
Probably!
Likely!
Possibility!
To Our Understanding!
By Reason Of ...!
Our Interpretation Is ...!
As A Matter Of Convenience!
Etc. Etc. Etc.

Policy Statements Are Full Of Loop-Holes

Available Only To The Issuer

And Always Leave Room ...!

... For "Improvement!"

... For Escape!

Honesty Do Not Contain Wiggle Room!

Honesty As A Policy Has No Wings
Because
Policy Lacks Honesty
AND
Has Hidden Arrows That Sting!

If Your Honesty Needs A Policy
To Give Your Words Strength
THEN
You, My Brother
My Sister
Will See Almighty God As Your Judge
At Length!

Policy Is All About Craft
Expediency!
Convenience!

Honesty Is Not About Convenience!
Honesty Is Not A Convenience!

Honesty
- Truth -
IS!

So ...

What Do We Really Know?!

We Know That Any "Honest Policy" That Changes

According To Time
Circumstance
Personnel
Administration
Prevailing Conditions
Is A Shifting-Sand Lie!

Honesty Aka Truth
Needs No Color Nor Spin
AND
Policy Masquerading As Honesty
Will Never Get For One
The Everlasting Win!

Remember The Word Of God!

This Is An Honest - Truthful - Statement:

The Lord: The Same Yesterday

Today 

AND 

Forever!

You Should Check Out
The Ten Commandments ...!

... And The Beatitudes!
John 3:16
1 John 1:9
Psalm 23
Psalm 46
Isaiah 55:6-7

And, Then ...

For An "Honest" Comparison
Take A Look At, Oh
I Don't Know ... 

... A Policy Of Insurance!
A Credit Card Agreement
The Tax Code
Your Refrigerator Warranty
Or ...

... The Patient Information Pamphlet 

Distributed With Medicine 

When The Pharmacist "Forgets" To Remove It!

Oh, Dear ...!

When You Put It That Way ... I ... I!

Look At It Like This:

Honesty AND Policy

Can Never
- Will Never -

Cooperate
So 

By Careful Consideration
With Godly Fear
AND
With Jesus Christ As Your Example

Let Strict Honesty
Be The Guide Of Your Life!

Policy

Is

A Convenient Conveyance!

***

Honesty

Is

Precious

Soul-Saving Cargo!

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What Does YOUR Life Say

About How YOU Are Living?!

SELF CONTROL: The Muscle Tussle!

Self Control
Is A Road
A Vehicle On A Road
A Seat In A Vehicle On A Road!

Self Control
In A Man
Is A Steering Wheel
In The Hand Of The Man
In A Vehicle
On The Road Called Life!

Self-Deceit
Sin
AND
Disaster
Are Deep Ruts In The Road Of Life
When Man
- Any Human -
Has No Self Control!

This Man's Vehicle Is Vanity
Intemperance ... His Wheels
AND
His Fuel Is Dirt Cheap
Because
He Buys It 

At Mobile Gas Station I-Feels!

Who  ...  But A Fool
Drives A Vehicle With No Engine
Or Sits In A Vehicle
That Has No Seat Cushion

AND
Whose Brake Line Has No Fluid
AND
Of Direction Has ... No Notion?!

Who ... But A Fool
Will Deign To Have A Feast
In A Speeding Vehicle
Possessing Neither Wind Shields
No Doors?!

Can You Drive A Vehicle
That Has No Spark Plug?!

Who ... But A Fool
Blindfolded
Inebriated

AND
Going The Wrong Way
Gets On The Expressway Of Life
Racing A Vehicle With A Broken Axle?!

Let's Get Real ...

The Man
The Woman
The Child
Without Self Control
Is A Weapon Of Mass Destruction
Stuck

In Self Destruct Mode
Wise

In Its Own Eyes
Confident

In Its Own Prowess
Sure
That Its Cause Is Just
Ignorant
That It Is Being Purposefully Driven
By Lust Of Its Own Eye
AND
Lust In Its Own Flesh
For That That Is
The Pride Of Its Own Life!

Let This Be Made Known ...

Self Control
Is As A Coal
From The Altar
In The Temple Of The Living God
Retrieved By The Good-Influence Angel
AND
Carried With Tongs
AND
Placed With Due Care
On The Tongue Of The Blessed
The Sanctified One!

Self Control
IS
The Gift Of God!

Self Control Is The Great Reminder!

DO NOT ACT LIKE:

KING SAUL  

• Grieving Away The Holy Spirit

GENERAL MOSES

• Striking The Rock At The Waters Of Strife

NADAB And ABIHU

• Placing Strange Fire On The Holy Altar Of Almighty God

ACHAN

• Stealing The Dedicated Things

KING DAVID

• Fornicating With Bathsheba
• Murdering Uriah

KING SOLOMON

• With 700 Wives And 300 Concubines Out Of Known Idolatry

JUDAS ISCARIOT 

• Betraying His Master, Jesus Christ

WARNING:

When You Do Not Control ... Self

Self ... Controls You

And

In The Darkened Eyes Of Satan

THAT

Makes You

- Against Jesus Christ AND To Him -

The Perfectly Useful Usable Disposable Tool!

Exercise Your Self ... Control!

Through The Holy Spirit

Get For It Muscles

Because

If The Known Wicked Spirit

Controls Your Self For You

Against Sin

You Will Lose The For-The-Victory Tussle!

PRAYER: Lord, Keep My Conscience ...!

Dear Lord,

Grant Unto Me A Conscience

That Is Controlled By the Holy Spirit Of Truth!

Bless Me To Do Your Will

So That I May Spend Eternity With You!

I Do Not A Desire An Overworked Conscience

That Is Ever Feeling Guilty ... Just Because! 

I Desire A Conscience That Feels Guilty

When By Sin 

I Have Broken Your Holy Laws!

Help Me Not To Ignore The Pinpricks Of

My At-Work Conscience

So That I Can Go Off And Be Free

To Sin And Do Wrong With Impunity!

Lord,

Help Me To Ever See My Jesus

As He Paid For My Sin

On That Cruel Cross On Mount Calvary!

Help Me, Lord

Not To Rely On My Feelings

Because Feelings Can Be Convinced

To Anything Do!

Help Me Ever To Accept 

The "Thus Saith The Lord!"

Help Me Not To Make Shipwreck Of My Faith!

I Do Not Want To Be To You A Disgrace!

Remember My Brethren

All The World Around! 

Help Those Who Are Calling! 

Help Them To See Light

So That Before The Dark Night 

You May Be Found!

Bless The Brethren To Bank Their Faith

In Jesus Christ The Lord

And

Help Us All Not To Grieve Away The Holy Spirit

By Ignoring Truth

And

Walking Blind In The Ways Of The Fraud!

Take Our Hands! 

We Are Reaching Out! 

Take Our Hearts! 

They Are Calling Out! 

Take Our Eyes! 

Take The Beam Out

And

Make Sweet Our Voices

As Over Sin

By Doing The Right

We Gladly Your Praises

Shout Out!

Let Not Sin Have Dominion Over Us! 

Let Peace Reign In Our Hearts! 

Let Not The Light Of Truth

From About Us

From In Us

Ever, Ever, Depart

For

We Love You, Lord 

And

In Jesus Christ's Holy Name 

We Pray

And Humbly Plead

For Your Great Mercies

Of Which We Stand In Dire Need!

AMEN.

VESPERS AT THE END OF THE SABBATH: SATISFACTION IN SIN: Balaam Beor

Balaam Beor
Was A Fraud
AND
A Prophet
For Whom Satisfaction Came
Only From Profit!

Balaam

Son Of Beor
Beat His Faithful Ass
Until The Lord Gave It A Voice
Which Caused
The Profit-Driven Prophet
To Answer It
As Though It Were Human!

He Didn't Have A Choice!

Balaam
Knew God's Truth
BUT
Being Of Deceitful Ilk
Petitioned The Eternal
- Not In Innocence -
To See If God
Would Think As He Thought
So That He Could Get His Grubby Hands
On King Balak's Coinage
That Would

In His Loving Hands
- By His Ecstatic Rejoicing -
Gloriously Clink!

Balaam Sold Out His Soul To The Devil
Because
Greed
In His Soul's Armor
Was A Really, Really
Really Big Chink!

It Was A Big Hole!

So Big Was That Hole
That A Whole Satan
Walked Comfortably Through
Never Touching The Edges
So That Balaam Thought
- Wrongly -
That
He Was Doing His Own Do
Never Realizing
- I Conjecture -
That Practice
Wears A Nun Robe
AND
Did Not Recognize
That Against The Living God
He Had Become
A Raw Sinner
Another Adversary
- Pretend Friendly -
AND
Studiedly Bold!

A Little Sin
- Cherished -
Becomes
A Lot Of Sin
- Relished -
AND
You Can't Control It
For
It
- Triumphing -
Controls You!

Your Life Becomes Hellish!

The Story Of Balaam
Is
A Cautionary Tale
A Tale With A Tail
That Does Constant Flail
At This Time Of The End
When Men's Hearts Do Wax Cold
Where Love For The Other
Is Something To Be Sold
When Profiteering Is Laudable
Where Faith In God Is Laughable
Where Truth Has No Beauty
AND
Love For The Living God Is A Nasty Cootee!

I Ask You, Brethren
To Sincerely Search Self
For The Chink In Your Character
For That Lesson In Your Book Of Life
For Which You Always Score An "F"
Because
That Is The Lesson
Which Will Continue To Be Your Test
Ever Getting Harder As It Pertains To Jesus Christ
AND
Ever Easier As It Pertains
To The Base Perpetrator Of Wickedness And Vice!

Think On This ... Carefully:

Just As An Innocent Oyster
Is Impregnated
In Under A Minute
- So As Not To Immediately Kill It -
With A Grain Of Sand
To Make It Produce A Precious Pearl
So, Too, Are We ... But In An Instant!

The Difference 

Is Who Is Doing The Impregnating
AND
For What Purpose
AND
Do We With It Agree!

Oysters Have No Say
In Their Impregnation
AND
They Also Have No Say
In What Color Pearl
What Size Pearl
What Iridescence
It Shall Produce
BUT
We Do!

Balaam Beor
Was Known
To Be A Prophet Of God
Known To Work Enchantments
Known To Utter Curses
Knew The Ways Of God
Had Great Light From God
BUT
Willfully
Wickedly
Knowingly
Treacherously
Greedily
Disobediently
Used It All
For The Glory Of Satan
The Base Fraud!

Satan Is A Thief
A State-Line Robber
A Murderer
Who Impregnates
To Kill Twice
BUT
Jesus Christ
By His Holy Spirit
Indwells
To Give Us
Abundant Life Now
AND
Eternal Life Later!

What Is In Your Soul?
Is It The Light Of Life
The Glow Of Heaven
ORIs It The Seed Of The Serpent
The Bloat Of Corrupting Leaven?!

When You Know WHAT In You Grows
You Will Know WHO Causes It To Grow!

What Are You Raising
For Your Harvest?!

Balaam Son Of Beor
Got The Sword Of Damnation
In His Chest
Because
Those Who Willfully Cause Others To Sin
Get The Same Punishment
As Those Committing The Sin!

Think, Dear Ones
On These Things
AND
Convicted
AND
Convinced
Let Jesus Christ
Of Your Whole Life
Be
The Crowned And Reigning
Laboring King And Captain
To Direct Your Life
AND
Fight
All Your Battles
Against The Adversary Of Souls
Who Cherishes The Night!

Look Unto Jesus The Christ
AND
Keep Heaven
In Your Eye Sight
For
Night Comes
AND, THEN

The Getting Up Morning!
Judgement Morning!