Heart, Soul, and Strength

 God is to get all the glory!  i should so what i do for Him, not to get Him to do something for me.  i can survive rejection from little foxes.  I am not addicted to their approval.  i'm not concerned about how others treat me anymore.  i'm more concerned on how i treat them.  i should be hurt, healed, and ready to help!  i have no sense of completeness or fullness with my Lord without studying His Word.  This has come into realization only after having come full circle and realizing i want God and i want to be hooked on Jesus! The only thing that makes sense is what God has to offer.  i'm asking Jesus for favor with the right people, and i'm not going to worry about all the others who don't seem to value me.  i don't identify with being valued and i'm OK  and i'm on my way!  Without anger i'm going out today and i'm taking love, mercy, and forgiveness with me and will use them generously when needed. Thank you, God, for ...

 Make me a man after Your own heart, O Lord.  i can trust You to lead me and guide me.  You are always with me giving me a new beginning each morning.  Your plan is better than any scheme i could ever come up with on my own.  Thank You for being with me each and every day.  Lead me.  Deliver me today.  Put me in Your loving care and make me feel safe, regardless of the circumstances.  With You, i am above my circumstances. Forgive me when i think about those who won't be caught up in the Rapture and i will be.  i know that's wrong to think like that.  Forgive me for giving into my temptation.  Please take away this pain from this thorn in my flesh.  For asking how those people in church Sunday morning got into my room.  Keep me patient as i wait for Your deliverance.  Help me to remain committed to the holiness of You. Heavenly Father, keep me pure and forgive me for my sins.  Help me to live my day in a way...

 My mind may be like a computer that can have a lifetime of wrong information stored in it.  It takes time to clean out the old files and reprogram new information.  I must act on God's Word, not react to old memories.  I am forgiven.  My guilt has been removed.  i'm not going to say what i feel; i'm going to say what i know.  i must be angry at the sin of anger, so i won't be tempted to keep it.  Lord, favor me when it comes to not being angry and being just as guilty as the ones who've done me injustice.  Begin where i finish, Most Heavenly Father. Help me to forgive those who mistreat me, as i already know they've already been forgiven through Christ Jesus.  I've derived my sense of worth and value from outward things rather than from God. Anything i don't deal with will ultimately deal with me.  God wants me to be certain, confident, and solid even when people reject me, just like His Son was rejected. The promises of God are fo...

 There are two kinds of love i can have:  the love i try to deserve and earn and the love i receive as a free gift from God.  i can give the love of God to others because He has given love to me.  i trust God to promote me and give me favor.  i trust God for approval... God, please give me my divine moment and divine connections.  i know  i'm not worthy of Your attention and consideration because i'm still a sinner who hasn't renewed his mind yet.  Please favor me in all i do and when i come across Christians who aren't true blue.  Please humble me.  God is glorified when i have a good attitude during suffering.  i must learn to run to Him instead of running to this addictive behavior...deliver me not into temptation, O Lord.  Addiction, this day the Lord will deliver you into my hand.  He doesn't want me to run away from things.  He wants me to confront them, knowing that He has promised to be with me, never to leave...

 Throwing away ideas is difficult.  Insight is something i must experience for myself.  i'm not concerned whether i am giving anyone else insight.  There is no greater insight than God's foresight, even the insight i think i've accumulated could never hold a candle to the foresight of God.  i'd give up 66 years of insight for just 66seconds of God's foresight. Only with the help of the Holy Spirit can i transform.  i have no intention of transmitting my knowledge--or lack of knowledge--to anyone. Because of Him i have peace and serenity, even in this crazy cacophony of noise around me.  i don't want to get caught up in my own ideas and words.  i am resting in God so that  i can get in touch more and more deeply God's truth that's in me. Enough talk and expressing of ideas:  i want to do something  that has the purpose of glorifying God's name. All that has been dear to me and all the people i love is of the nature to change.  I...

 The Holy Spirit works in me helping me to become the fullness of what the Father wants me to be in Christ.  i am the righteousness of God in Christ and i can produce righteous behavior.  i learn by faith what God says about me in His Word.  i know i do wrong things.  i sin.  Yet i won't continually fellowship with my sin. My fellowship is with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.  Heavenly Father, give me the courage to embrace my divine moment.  Continue to be my Strength, my Stronghold, my High Tower, my Hiding Place, my Refuge.  What Satan has stolen through deception, i allow God to restore double.  May You gain glory for Yourself through me who will not let my personal weaknesses stop You from flowing through me.  i accept me.  i love me.  i know i have weaknesses and imperfections, but with Your help, i will not be stopped by them. Like Jacob, i may limp off from the fight, but may i walk away with Your blessin...

Help me Lord to be humble as i believe i'll be sucked up and not sucked in; and may those who continue to be sucked in, whether they are likeable or not, receive Your blessing when they receive Your gift of salvation.  Help me to be like David--a man after Your heart who will do all Your will.  Where do i see me in five years?  Having been part of the mass vanishing, serving my Lord and Savior, the King of kings, going to scheduled lectures and concerts by David, Jeremiah, Enoch, and Elijah before the Main Speaker --Jesus Christ--each and every day. Satan, you need to stop talking, close the door, and keep walking--stop being such a bore.  i praise You, Lord, and i thank You for making me more aware of Your presence and making me hungrier for the Word, especially in the midst of this motormouth motel.

 Father, i declare that You are sovereign over my finances, my life, my circumstances, so that means i'm above my circumstances with You.  I submit my will to Yours and ask You to help me in every financial decision i make.  I want to make decisions that are pleasing to You.  In order to find true peace, i must go to the source.  Yahweh Shalom  i must repent of my sins that are keeping me from walking in close fellowship with my Savior and i must focus on the wondrous Truth that God is with me. When God looks at me, He sees the righteousness of His Son, not everything that was wrong with me or that i had done wrong. Only the devil can remind me of what i am not.  i often focus on the things i do rather than on what Jesus has done for me.  I'm to be a believer, not an achiever.  i am not living y faith if i believe how i feel more than i believe what God's Word says.  The last "church" i attended had a room filled with Pharisees.  i ...

 The wicked are prosperous and don't seem to be suffering, and i'm envious of that.  They are filled with pride and violence and are abundant.  i envy them because they have more than a heart could wish for. With pride they flap their lips while talking through their asses, they deny the existence of God and God's Word, calling the Bible an ancient, invalid, outdated book.  It isn't fair that the ungodly are always at ease, and they get richer while the godly get poorer.  My righteousness isn't appearing to be benefiting me. But i'm preoccupied with the things of this world which will soon pass away...when i went into the sanctuary of God, then i understood why the world should end.  You'll destroy as You destroyed the world in Noah's day, the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and Babylon.  i get stuck on evil and worldly things.  i fall into temptation, yet i know through the sacrifice of my Lord and Savior on the cross that my sins are forgiven. You...

 Limiting my thinking to this world alone will grind me down into the dust from which i came.  i am to praise God in all situations, in both victory and defeat.  When i'm in need and when i'm experiencing plenty the next time i'm discouraged or dependent i will praise God.  When i feel defeated and unable to break loose from addictions or bad habits, i will praise God. Praise is about what God desires to do, not about the power of my life circumstances.  When i praise God, i'm constantly reminded that He calls me to live and move in the world of the Spirit.  His realm comforts, empowers and heals me.  That's the real world i seek. He camps out with me when i acknowledge, glorify, and desire His presence.  i cling to Him in praise of His love, protection and His faithfulness to me. Father, i declare that You are sovereign over my finances, my life, my circumstances, so that means i'm above my circumstances with You.  i submit my will to Your w...

  There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. Romans 8:1 I've never known myself as God intended.  People say death is to be avoided, postponed, ignored.  The promise from the Living God is that my death will be swallowed up in victory!  Jesus Christ rose from the dead, not just to show me His power, but also to reveal my path.  He will lead me through the valley of death. I experience the perfect will of God by making my body a human, living sacrifice.  By humbling myself.  If I am to prophesy, then i'm going to do it according to the ability that God gave me. I am third in line of teachers behind the authority of the apostles and the prophets.  I cannot proclaim.  I can explain.  I can serve and i can show mercy with cheerfulness.  I can encourage, like Barnabas.  Do i have a supernatural gift of encouraging people?  i ...

 Trust His promises despite the circumstances and receive the gift.  I need a better ear to hear, Abba.  I am a child of the King.  His perfect love casts out fear.  I am moving forward.  I choose my inheritance.  Abba, grant me deeper faith so I can serve You.  Grant my promotion so that I can honor You.  Show me where I can live and best bring glory to Your name.  Give me a partner so I can serve You better, Abba. Abba, I know you shall hate my haughty heart.  My humble heart is quick to acknowledge my need for You, Abba.  I am eager to confess sin.  I am willing to kneel before heaven's mighty hand. My Timber Creek was no forest of humility to me.  What can i do that You already haven't done first?  What do we have that Abba hasn't given to us?  Have any of us built anything that God can't destroy?  Have we created any monuments that the Master of the stars can't reduce to dust? God is so big and me ...

 Immanuel, You are with me.  You became a person and took on flesh.  You became a Savior and took on my sin.  I accept Your gift.  I receive You as my Lord, Savior, and Friend.  Because of You, i'll never be lonely again. I need to get away to think. To ponder.  To rechart my course.  A day set apart for solitude and silence, not-doing.  Being-there. I rebelled and I returned.  I have begun to love myself more with God's help and I still need His help to love my neighbors.  If i had had a son, i would've wanted Mark McCane [Johnny Crawford's role on The Rifleman ].  I wouldn't have seen him as a blank slate awaiting my pen but as a written book awaiting my study. Don't characterize me as being a loner because i'm living out my story.  I'm building on it, not maintaining it.  I'm through with maintenance.  The cure for the common life involves living the overlooked.  Lord, help me to marry my gifts with ...

 If i just say words to see if it'll work, it won't.  If i mix faith with my words, then there will be creative power in my words.  Once i begin operating in this blessing, Satan cannot stop me.  Heavenly Father, i pray that Your Holy Spirit will help me to understand that  when i pray for those who are living from crisis to crises i know that we're all violating spiritual, natural, and emotional laws and are not doing what Your word says; yet we still believe in a miracle from You.   I pray that You would speak this word into our hearts right now to encourage us that it doesn't have to be this way, that we don't have to stay this way, that we can tap into Your blessings and favor...the favor You have spoken to us through Your word.  Open our eyes to see all these wonderful things, all of these exceedingly great and precious promises that You have given us.  Thank You that we don't have to just barely get by, struggling all the time.  Th...

 It's not a matter of me being ready for when You reveal the plan for the rest of my life; it's a matter of whether or not You are ready to do so.  If i have to engage in prayer and fasting in order for You to reveal to me whatever purpose You have in store for me, then I will obey.  I thank You for my confusion at this time because i know that You are blessing me with the hunger for Your Word each and every day and to have constant communion with You. Thank You for showing me that You indeed are the main focus in my life from now until i am greeted by Your angels in heaven, i know there must be something You want me to do, and i'm waiting patiently for Your assignment. You've already shown me exactly what confession is all about, and that in itself is an indication that You've got Your eye on me, and i humbly thank You for sticking with me regardless of my human frailties, especially when it comes to dealing with other humans and their frailties.  In Your time and ...

 Making a list of all the people I want to bite; friends aren't always friendly.  Neighbors aren't ever neighborly.  Coworkers never work, some bosses are always bossy.  Promises made are not always promises kept.  I tend to fight and want to bite back.  To keep lists and snarl lips and growl at people i don't like. God wants me to leave my list at the foot of the cross.  "Just look what I did for you," He reminds me, pointing at the cross. If I am still doing acts of holiness to get God to move in my life, then i am still operating under a "law mentality" that is not faith.  Like Dean Martin, when I've gone to church lately, watching others lifting their arms in fake holiness--at least it would be fake for me--i tend to say, "What's everybody doing in my room?" God, I want your best.  Don't look any further.  I don't want to be second best either.  I don't want to just cope and survive.  Lord, I want to thrive!  I know I...

 Lord, help me to depart from my "toys" permanently, unashamed before You about my having difficulty departing from them.  Be patient with me, O Lord, and enter my heart and mind, to replace the desires I've held onto for so long.  Grant me the closeness and the relationship with You.  I know there are no favorites in Your Household yet let me have an intense perception of Your Spirit so that I may be a blessing to others.   May i not be so preoccupied with the visible things.  I've have made the world mean too much for me.  Make me more aware of Your presence.  May i behold You in and around me.  My strength and safety lies not in noise but in silence.  Help me to listen to the music of Your Living Bible as I learn how articulate You are.  Let us all know that the words on the pages are for all of us.  Let us feel in our hearts that Your Word is for all of us. Lord, teach us to listen to You in these troubled times and as...

 Heavenly Father, Teach me self-control and forgive me for ignoring Your wisdom.  Keep me courageous in facing the adversity and help me to want to rejoice whenever my faith in You is tested.  Let me leave this world having no financial responsibilities.  And thank You, Lord Jesus, for taking my sin debt upon Yourself and paying it on the cross.  In Your name I pray.   Lift up those behind bars.  I know I could've been there myself on a few occasions in this journey You have me on.  I know You forgave me for my sins that would have warranted that.  And I ask You to influence them.  May they seek the truth of Your love through the Gospel.  In Jesus' name I pray. May I never fall into the trap of questioning anybody else's fitness to begin their journey with You!  And show me to love as You loved, even the disagreeable Christians!  May I begin to listen twice as much as I talk. Show me how to disagree without being disa...

When I think about wisdom I think about a hidden wisdom which God ordains in me, so it's up to God whether or not i receive the Spirit and the wisdom through His Holy Word.  They wouldn't have crucified Jesus had they known He was God's wisdom sent to us.  Unfortunately, today it seems there are too many folks who still don't know this.  But God in all His wisdom is patient and i must receive the Spirit that is from God, but it's by His volition.  I won't lay claim that I am filled with His Holy Spirit.  I can only seek first His kingdom and righteousness and the Holy Spirit will be added to me. I haven't received the spirit of the world.  I receive the spirit that is from God, that I might know the things that have been freely given to me by God.  I cannot teach wisdom nor acquire wisdom on my own; but by which the Holy Spirit teaches.  I must make myself a pat of God's plan of salvation by not only hearing and reading His Word with my eyes and e...