THE COMFORTER HAS COME: Humble Yourself In The Sight Of The Lord!

Without The Abiding Presence Of 

The Holy Spirit Of Truth Attending Us

Comforting Us

Teaching Us

And 

Feeding Us The Truth That Saves

Not One Of Us Will Know Aka Experience 

A Peaceful Existence! 

The Lord Jesus Said At His Departure

- After His First Advent -

That He Would Send Us Another Comforter! 

We Would Only Need Another Comforter 

If 

The First One Departed From Being With Us! 

We Would Only Need A Comforter 

If 

We Have Sorrow, Hurt, Shame

A Need That The Comforter ... Alone

Can And Does Heal! 

Beloved, 

Whatever Is Your Need

We Have The Power 

The Leave 

The Permission Of Our Maker

To Ask The Lord 

To Pour Out Of His Sweet Spirit ... By Measure ... Upon Us 

And 

Indwell Us Individually, Personally ... Intimately! 

Please, I Beseech Us All

Do Not Permit Tiny Terrors

Big Bills

Lost Loves

Failing Finances

Acute Anger

Lurching Loneliness

Worrying Weariness

Or Creeping Compromise 

And 

Gross Greed 

To Stay Your Heart From Humbling Yourself 

Before The Lord Of Love And Life 

To Ask Forgiveness

To Receive Cleansing 

And 

Experience Needed Comfort 

Without Which We Are Just Like Animals 

Awaiting Approaching Death! 

Dare To Choose Peace! 

Call Out And Pray For The Holy Spirit 

And 

Be Comforted

Be At Rest

Because

The Living God Glorious 

Is 

Waiting ... Willing ... Able ... Ready ...  To Help Thee! 

Peace With Almighty God

Is

To This Very Day

Still Free!

VESPERS AT THE END OF THE SABBATH: DESPISE THE PIERCING SERPENT: Give Almighty God Your Gift Of Praise!

Loving And Knowing 

The Lord And The Living Word Of The Lord 

Is Not 

A Maybe Or A Perhaps! 

It Is An Imperative ... A Must

If We Are Not To Fall Prey To The Adversary

That Roaring Lion

That Piercing Serpent

Who Is Roaming About 

And 

Seeking For Those Whom He May Devour! 

In A World Full Of Busy Work

Cookie-Cutter Seeing, Doing, And Being

We Each Need To Know 

And

Love Truth For Our Own Selves 

So That We Do Not Make Shipwreck Of 

The Holy Faith Given To The Brethren

The Saints Of God And Christ!

Beloved, 

Dare To Walk In The Light Of Life! 

Stand Up For Truth

Speak Peace 

And 

Endure All That The Adversary Throws In Your Berry Patch! 

Remember Whose Child You Are 

And 

Never Forget That 

You Don't Walk In The Vale Of Tears Alone 

To Be Molested By Whosoever Wills! 

You Are Blessed: 

Remain Faithful! 

You Are Loved: 

Love The Lord, Love The Word, Above All Else! 

The Gift Of Salvation Is Free! 

Let Your Light Shine In The World For A Witness That 

You Know The Word 

And 

Are Personally Known By The Word Of God Who Is God 

And Is 

Life ... Life Everlasting! 

Choose To 

And 

Gratefully Give Almighty God Your Gift Of Praise! 

Peace! 

HAPPY SABBATH + Let Your Faith In The Holy God Testify!

The Evil That Men Do Lives After Them! 

The Lies That Men Tell Shall Surely Scald Them! 

The Good That Men Do 

Testifies Of Their Faith In That Holy God That 

Blesses And Keeps Them 

And 

The Truth That They Tell 

Serves To Clean Them

Protect Them 

And

Set Them Apart For Heaven! 

Who Is Good And Faithful

Up To Heaven Shall Surely Rise! 

Who Is Evil And Deceitful

Practicing Lies For Pleasure And Profit

Shall ... With Satan And The Fallen Angels

In The Lake Of Fire Most Assuredly Die! 

Beloved, 

There Is Always Profit 

In Always Doing The Good And The Right 

So Please Do Not Join With Liars And Evil-Doers 

For Supposed Temporal, Earthly, Delight! 

Evil 

Is 

A Ravenous Parasite Within The Heart

A Pus-Filled Stye In The Eye

And 

An Uncontrolled Blight On The Skin Of The Evil-Doer 

Who Carries The Stench Of Death Upon His Person! 

Jesus Christ Calls Us To Life Everlasting

To Good Works

To Walk In Truth And Righteousness

To Live Lives Pleasing In His Holy Sight 

So That In Us He Will Delight! 

Evil-Doers Serve Satan! 

Let Us By Faith

For Grace

With Mercy

Serve The Living God Known Good! 

Walk In The Light ... The Truth!

Living In Truth Is Peace!

How Can Almighty God Forgive Our Sin 

When We Do Not Confess Our Sin!?! 

How Can We Confess Sin 

Which We Refuse To Believe Is Our Very Own!?! 

Surprise, Surprise ... 

Denial Can't Change Truth! 

All Mankind Is Born In Sin 

And 

All Living Are Liars 

So All Of Us Are Sinners! 

That's Bible 101: Book It! 

Beloved, 

It Is Not A Robed, Crowned, Man 

Nor Mankind 

Nor That Damned Satan 

Who Determines What Is Sin 

And 

Designates Who Is A Sinner 

Or What Is Or Is Not The Required Punishment! 

The Lord Jesus 

Is 

The Judge Of All Flesh! 

It Is He Who Wrote The Law 

On The Tables Of Stone For General Moses

And 

It Is He Who Laid Down His Life For Our Lives 

So That We All Have The Opportunity 

To Get Our Hearts Right With Almighty God

Father, Son And Holy Spirit! 

Please, I Beseech Us All

Do Not Indulge In The Prideful Presumption 

Exercised By Then-Lucifer Now-Satan 

By Exalting Your Status In Your Own Mind 

And 

Challenging Your Creator For His Own Throne! 

The Earth Belongs To God Just As We Belong To God! 

Remember, Remember 

Don't Ever Forget ... 

 

The Proud And Presumptuous Will Perish

And

The Humble And The Heeding Are Headed To Heaven! 

The Difference Between The Two 

Is 

That The Humble Heart Hears And Obeys The Truth

And 

Prays For Power To Be Penitent Aka Sorry!

Don't Let Pride Pry Paradise Out Of Your Palm! 

There Is No Condemnation

For Those Who Love

The Lord Jesus Christ

And

Live By The Faith That Saves!

Living In Truth Is Peace! 

Truth Is Peace!

OXYMORON: A Lazy Christian And A Good Devil ...!?!

 

 

Our Shepherd Known Good

Is 

The Lord Most High! 

Our Adversaries Are Self, Sin And Satan: 

We Must Vigorously Deny Them! 

Our Mission 

Is 

To Acquire The Character Of Christ 

And 

Preach And Teach The Truth ... The Gospel

- The Good News -

To All The World 

And

Be Ready To Meet The Lord ... Our Beautiful Savior

In Peace! 

We Have Heaven To Gain! 

We Have The Holy Spirit For Our Comfort ... For Our "Use" 

The Holy Angels To Influence Us And Protect Us

And 

The Good Book For Our Compass

School Book

Pillow

Road Map

And 

Blanket, Sword And Shield

And

We Are To Occupy Ourselves Aka Work 

Until Jesus Christ Comes! 

For Your Information ... 

A Lazy Christian ... Just Like A Good Devil

Is 

An Oxymoron 

So Let Us Be Wise Unto Salvation 

And 

Live In The Light Of Life 

And 

Be Light-Bearers 

And 

Salt-Shakers In This Dark And Tasteless World 

Where Neutrality 

And 

Conformity To Abnormality 

Is 

Prized By The Vocal Majority 

And 

The Monied Minority! 

Beloved, 

You Are The Child Of The Glorious King! 

Dare To Live 

And 

Lovingly Labor 

Like You Know And Believe It!

 

Don't Compromise With Sin 

For Neither Rest Nor Riches: 

Jesus Christ Is Our Perfect Peace 

And 

Our Eternal Rest! 

Heaven ... Our Eternal Home

Has Streets That Are Paved With Gold!

Peace!

Precious Pearl OR Picayune Pawn!?!

He Who Truly Loves You

Created You

Saves You 

And 

Redeems You! 

He Who Truly Hates You

Uses Your Self Against You 

Via Pride 

And 

Greed! 

The One Whom You Choose To Obey 

Is 

The One Whom You Serve: 

You Cannot Serve Them Both! 

Both Of Them Desire You In Their Kingdom! 

Only One  Kingdom 

Is 

Eternal 

And 

Those Who Enter The Eternal Kingdom 

Live By Faith ... Never Sight

Because 

They Are In A Reasoning, Loving 

Knowing ... Always Growing

Grace-Filled, Mercy-Abounding

Enduring Love-Relationship With Their Master! 

Those In The Temporary Kingdom 

Are ... By Fierce Temptation

Enticed Into Its Unfruitful Halls! 

They Are Tempted By The Ever-Bold And Wandering Lust Of The Eye

The Always Excitedly-Hissing Serpent Lust Of The Flesh

And 

That Insatiable, Irrepressible Behemoth

The Pride Of Life! 

Beloved, 

We Have To Choose Between 

Grace And Greed

Lust And Love

Truth And Trickery

Blessing And Blight! 

Jesus Christ 

Is 

Creator Savior!

Satan 

Is 

Accuser Destroyer! 

To Jesus Christ ... The Righteous King

The Shepherd Of Rest

The King Of Love

The Hope Of Every Man

The Lover Of Your Soul 

The Strong Tower

Our Refuge And Strength

Our Ever-Present Help

The Joy Of Man's Desiring

The Word Of God

Food Indeed

Drink Indeed

And

The Light Of Life

You Are The Precious Pearl: 

He Loves You! 

To Satan ... The Damned

The Adversary Of Souls

The Accuser Of The Brethren

The Piercing Serpent

The Father Of Lies

The Murderer Supreme

And

The Wannabe God

You Are A Picayune Pawn: 

He Hates You! 

If You Say You Love Jesus

Please Keep Yourself Only Unto Him! 

Only Jesus Saves: 

Please Choose Life! 

As A Saint Of God And Christ

Solely Serve The Savior! 

Peace

Is Like

The River Glorious!

Our Free Gifts Cost Innocent Blood!

 

In The Realm Of The Flesh

The Song Is Sung: 

"Yuh Know Wha' Yuh Got! 

Yuh Ain' Know Wha' Yuh Goin' Get!" 

This Is Often The Lie 

For There Are Things Received That 

Even With The Passage Of Years

They Do Not Tell The Truth 

Until Someone Gets Tired

And 

Someone Gets Hurt! 

Beloved, 

The Love Of God

In The Word Of God

Is

The Open Book Of Blessings!

In The Economy Of The Living God

And 

In His Dealings With This Mortal Flesh

Our God Announces 

And 

Memorializes 

What He Did

Is Doing 

And 

Will Do For Us ... Individually And Collectively 

And 

We Need To "Belly Up To The Trough"

And 

Ask The Lord Of Life To Help Us Lay Hold Of His Blessed Gifts 

With A Death Grip 

And Also

Help Us To Cease From Permitting Satan 

To Get Between Us And Our Good Gifts 

And 

Our God Holy

Who Gives Us These Great Gifts Of Infinite Love! 

Be Wise ... 

Don't Be Proud! 

Don't Doubt The Giver! 

Don't Trivialize The Gift! 

Don't Underestimate Your Enemy! 

Don't Overestimate Your Strength! 

Don't Ever Forget To Pray! 

And 

Don't Doubt Satan's Hatred For Whom Almighty God Loves! 

Choose Life With Amazing Love ... 

Believe In The Love Of God 

And 

Boldly Let Your Requests For Power

Provision 

And 

Protection Be Known To The Life-Giver! 

Remember, Remember

Don't Ever Forget ... 

Our Gifts Cost Innocent Blood! 

Let's Dare ... As Children Of The Living God

- Homeward Bound -

To Hold Our Purchased

And

Forever Blessed Gifts

With Working, Enduring, Faith! 

Without Faith

It Is Impossible To Please

The Eternal God Of Glory!

We Shall Walk Through The Valley

In Perfect Peace!

Chosen, Purchased, Wooed ... And Won!

 

 

Never Doubt Almighty God's Personal Love For You 

And 

Never Be Doubtful As to Whom You Belong! 

Beloved, 

We Are Loved By 

And 

Belong To The Lord Of Life 

Because 

We Were Chosen By His Heart

Purchased By His Blood

And 

Wooed By That Holy Love Which Will Not Let Us Go 

To be Lost To Sin! 

Jesus Christ Ever Willing

The Holy Spirit Ever Working

The Holy Angels Ever Protecting 

And

We ... Seeing Our Need 

And

Realizing Our Personal Peril Outside Of His Safe Fold 

And

Desiring His Love In Our Own Hearts

Our Hands In His

Our Rest In His House

Our Wealth In His Storehouses In Glory

Our Peace In Himself

Our Rest Where He Is

Our Faith Made Sight

And

Our Blessings Made Eternal

Let Us Choose To Cooperate With Christ

- With His Love Divine -

To Be Won To Be Eternally Blessed

And 

Saved! 

Let Us Daily Choose To Wear Our Ownership

Our Belonging

Our Relationship To Our God 

Privately

And 

Publicly 

And 

Passionately! 

Beloved, 

Claim ... And Relish 

The Love That Works At Loving You 

And 

Let No Created Being

Seen Or Unseen

Spirit Or Flesh

Steal Your Joy In Your Lord ... Your Love

The Soon-Coming King! 

Daringly War Against Known Sin: 

Fight The Good Fight Of Faith! 

Pursue Peace With Shiloh, The Prince Of Peace!

VESPERS AT THE END OF THE SABBATH: The Valley Of Sorek + PRAYER: Pity Us, Lord, In Our Wretched Condition!

You, Beloved, Are In The Valley Of Sorek 

Aka Valley Of The Choice! 

You Must Choose Between Good And Evil

Right And Wrong

War And Peace

Faith And Doubt

Honor And Deceit

Jesus Christ And Satan 

And

Heaven And Hell! 

Will You Trust The Truth

Believe The Promise

And

Walk In The Light Of Life 

Or

Wearing Putrid Pride 

By That Designer To The Fallen Stars, Snatch deJoy

Turn Left On Tek-A-Chance

And 

Dance Indelicately On Broadway And Blight 

For New Nickels 

And 

Old Pyrite Nuggets Aka Fool's Gold  

Redeemable Only At What-If, If-Only

And

Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda ... Did Not!?! 

Open Your Eyes! 

Regret ... Repentance

Is 

An Horrible Thing 

When Viewed Through Once-Deliberately-Closed Eyes

And 

Even Worse When Hope 

Is 

Dead 

And 

Mercy Is Departed! 

We Are Called To Be Wise Unto Salvation 

And Not

Self-Satisfaction! 

Dare To And Be Different! 

Dare To Walk Humbly Before The Lord Of Life

And

Invite The Spirit Of Truth 

To Be Your Soul's Sole Companion 

And 

Forever-Faithful Guide! 

Choose Love, Light, Faith

Truth, Peace, Heaven ... Jesus Christ: 

The Spirit Says "Come!" 

PRAYER:

We Desire Above All Else

To Get Home Safely

And

In Jesus Christ's Holy Name, Father

We Humbly Plead 

Remembering That We Are Dust 

And

That It Is By Your Sovereign Will That

We Live And Breathe

And

Have Any Being! 

Pity Us, Lord, In Our Wretched Condition! 

Open Our Eyes, Ears, Our Hearts!

Cleanse Our Tongues! 

Heal Us From All Unrighteousness 

And

Bless Us To Serve You

To Praise Jesus 

And

To Glorify Your Great Name! 

We Need Help, Dear Father

And

We Plead Our Poverty! 

Please Make The Way Plain 

An

 Help Us To Walk Boldly

Bravely And Unashamedly Upon It! 

You Are God ... Alone: 

We Worship You! 

Have Mercy And Bless Us

Because You Are Love!

Let The Spirit Fall Upon Us

And

Rise Up Mightily In Us

To Bless Us To Willingly Do Your Will!

Please Come For Us Soon!

We Need You!

AMEN! 

HAPPY SABBATH + Jesus Christ Always Saves So .... Always Pray!

  

I Had A Good Feeling: 

It Was A Lie!

I Had Listened To My Deceitful Heart: 

It Made Me Cry!

In Agony Of Despair

I Turned Back To The Word That Always Saves

And

Then I Listened As Jesus Christ Spoke

And

Afterwards, I Sincerely Prayed:

PRAYER:

Our Father In Heaven,

King Of Glory Supreme

Pity Me A Poor Student

A Lazy Worker

A Child Who Away From Your Holy Hand

Did Lawlessly Lean!

Please Forgive Me And Clean Me

Clothe Me

Dress Me

And

Bless Me

For I Confess My Sin Of Presumption

And

Accept With Contrite Heart

That In Your Presence I Am The Least! 

I Repent, Lord, For Greedily Indulging

In The Disobedience Feast!

Feelings Do Not My Soul Sanctify

And

Walking As One Self-Willed

Always Makes Me Cry

So, In The Name Of My Jesus

Who Lowered Himself

To Lift Me Up To You

Forgive Me, I Beseech

And

Make Me Anew!

I Need You, Father

And

I Am Glad!

Please Help Me To Remain Faithful

For Sinning Makes Me Miserable

And

Makes My Dear Savior So Very Sad!

 

I Desire To Be Like My Jesus

So I Plead For The Holy Spirit

To Descend Upon Me And Indwell Me

For Truly, Father, I Yield My Will:

May The Sweet Spirit Who Leads Into All Truth

My Longing, Aching, Hungry, Heart

Truly, Thoroughly, In Time

And

For Eternity

Please Fill!

Thank You For Hearing

And

Answering Prayer

For It Is In Jesus Christ's Holy Name, I Plead! 

AMEN!

NEW LIFE: Dare To Be Faithful!

Is Your Faith Full 

Or Is Your Faith Faltering!?! 

Is Your Trust In Jesus Christ Tremendous 

Or Is Your Trust Timid!?! 

Is The Book Of Truth That You're Avidly Reading 

The Preserved Word Of The Eternal God 

Or Is It The Reader's Digest Abridged Version 

Catering To Your Willful Sinful Self 

And 

Bearing A Version Of The Truth That 

Does Not Disturb You When You Go Shopping 

In The Massive Mall Of Daring Disobedience!?! 

Beloved, 

Let's Get Real Here! 

When The Lord Calls And You Answer:

"Yes, Lord!

I Am Willing!" 

You Mean Willing To Obey

To Endure

To Learn

To Change

To Grow

And 

To Follow Him Faithfully ... With Integrity, Honesty! 

There Is No Provision Made For Wearing Your Own Clothes 

Aka Your Own Righteousness 

Or Eating Your Own Bread 

Aka Manufacturing, Following 

... LiViNg ... 

Your Own Truth

And 

Remaining In The Same Condition 

As When You Eagerly Met The Lord Of New Life Abundant! 

We Come To Jesus Christ As We Are ... Sinners

But 

It Is Impossible To Remain A Sinner 

And 

Live Eternally! 

Brethren,

Please Dare To Let The Holy Spirit Change You 

From The Inside Out!

Dare To And Give The World No Other Choice 

But

To Call You A True Child Of The Great King! 

Grow ... By Grace, For Faith! 

Remember, Remember,

Don't Ever Forget ...

The Lord Of Life

The King Of Glory

Our Creator, Redeemer, Friend

Always, Always, Always

Equips Those Who Are The Called

Soooo ... Be Joyful! 

Jesus Christ's Peace

Passes

Human Understanding!