Sailing sensibly in God's high seas intent on getting married to God's written and eternal Word shows that we have got or are getting a lot of pluck and prudence.
Bless you beautiful God for the wonderful covenant that You have established with Your creation who trust wholeheartedly in Jesus Christ and in His finished work of Calvary.
For those of us who have not yet sailed willingly in God's testing waters, the Holy Bible, may the thought of an eternal marriage to Your Creator Jesus Christ soon begin to set your pulse racing in a healthy manner. O God, Our Father we heartily congratulate You for planting a desire in our inner being to commit to Your absolute truth fully.
Draw us back to the stillness of Your shore; so that we can walk together
distant from the shore of worldliness. Draw us back to the stillness of Your soothing shore; so that we can experience the beginning of or continue a golden time together for we long for our love for You to flow with purer and purer delight. O Father God there is nothing pertaining to our life that Your compassionate heart cannot warm.
Touch our fingers whenever they suffer from the frostbite of frustration with Your healing hand; so that we who seek ever increasingly to be intrepid, diligent, loyal and loving pastors in Your service can serve You with a smile on our face instead of a frown.
Touch us today with Your healing truth; so that we can respond ultra willingly to Your righteous voice. Touch Your oft times, muddled mariners; so that the waves of self-interest in our not always clean heart are cleansed and stilled.
Although we worship You Our unique blessing, holy God and how we need Your daily encouragement. We realize that if we are to accomplish sailing feats that Your noble mind will warm to, then we will need Your help daily.
Help us, God Triune, Our Giver of strength, to stretch forth our hands; so that we can find the safety of Your holy, healing, happiness-promoting hands. Touch us again with Your purifying hands so that mightily encouraged, inspired and empowered we can face, surmount and triumph over the seas of uncertainty that every man and woman must journey through, in order for their bond of commitment to You be eternally sealed.
Dear soon to be wed mariners sailing about in the testing seas of God's Holy Bible, warmest congratulations on your inner heart's announcement that you desire to be married to God's living Word. You certainly understand how to seek after Jesus Christ the most prized jewel in God's ocean of love.
Intrepid mariners, be encouraged even if you feel from time to time that you are being splashed about in God's holy waters; for God certainly blesses those who set out determined to go where they have not gone before. He truly delights to bless us to accomplish beautiful things that will bring glory to His name. Novice mariners, congratulations for clinging tenaciously to God's truth.
May God keep you all buoyant as you show yourselves more than happy, despite squally showers and stormy seas, to venture into the unknown. How true it is that courage and sound vision will always rewarded by Our majestic Teacher, God Triune. What a reward you shall bring back intrepid mariners; for in finding God (with an immense amount of help from Him) you will find a greatly to be esteemed Teacher and Friend to treasure greatly in this lifetime and eternity.
Treasure your time sailing closer and closer to God's ark of safety called
"Jesus Christ loves you" and you will soon find that your boat is being
steered and towed around by His ark. Sing forth, day by day, with your voice full of thankfulness for the blessings that God is bestowing upon you salvation-focused mariners.
You are all extremely precious in God's sight, so treasure your time praying together also. Marriage to me is about seeking and finding. This seeking and finding at its purest level is continuous. All the beautiful things in any relationship occur because we ask, seek and knock. Seeking and knocking for God's presence is asking and praying at a deep level and it is always ennobling. Although we strive all too often for self-justification before You Our Saviour God. Although we think it is our God-given right to hoon around on earth.
Although our reasoning drives occasionally recklessly in the wrong lane.
Although our unclean, cold and calculating heart rarely turns from self absorption preferring to prattle on like an out-of-tune rooster promoting
impurity. Although we often prefer to live under rain clouds of self righteousness instead of having praise for Your covenant rainbow which is a glorious memorial to Jesus Christ. Have mercy nonetheless on our conscience which continues to be hammered by an unseemly stench of burdens that we have unnecessarily carried.
Draw us to You Our great Protector, God Triune for where You reign reigns Jesus Christ Your ark of safety. Draw us to Your pure-hearted Teacher; so that empowered by You we can draw closer to loving Jesus Christ's finished
work that He accomplished at Calvary. Draw us to thee, O God Triune, so that we need no longer salivate self-satisfied, self-righteously and smug over our achievements.
Draw us to thee, O heart-warming God; for the more You delight in us the more we can delight in You. Draw us to thee, Our eternal Author of happiness and prosperity, so that we can walk contently hand in hand together. Great warm-hearted Giver of life and listener of our prayers You truly are more beautiful than beautiful. We thank You immensely for taking our faltering faith and thank You immensely for always being our richest blessing.
Touch us Our gracious, just, holy, God and Author of the Holy Bible. Touch our thinking, emotions and decision-making faculties; so that forevermore our hungering and thirsting shall be ever-increasingly to praise You, to thank You and to adore You. O yes, love us so lovingly, so that we can courageously and confidently bear witness that You are Our inspiration.
Restore our soul, so that we can proceed to fight faithfully and victoriously to teach and feed our neighbour Your thoughts, feelings and decisions as expressed in Your Holy Scriptures. As my radiantly, happy heart is reaching out to you, lion-hearted learners, my fervent prayer is that your desire for an intimate relationship with God's eternal Shepherd, Jesus Christ, will deepen even more.
Be brave and conscientious, fellow mariners. Pursue holiness and you will
discover that God is a God of exquisite nearness and justice. All wintry wanderings are just for a season and a blissful Summer awaits
you as motivated by pure desire you keep coming before Your Maker and
the One who sustains with rejoicing, thankful hearts. May Summer always be just a song of thanksgiving away for you, precious friends. And just as in past times many others have found Our Creator's all glorious love, so also seasoned believers, or new seekers like you can breathe in the fresh air of heaven who is Jesus Christ.
Whenever your soul is hungering and thirsting after righteousness call upon
God's mighty High Priest, Jesus Christ by surrendering your time and talent to His safekeeping. Sail on with the spirit that Caleb had and you will discover He is also Your eternal Summer and longs also be considered by you your truest Friend. Humble searchers sing another song in praise of God's beauty. Sail on into God's harbour of holiness singing, studying, praying and working diligently to honour the written and eternal Word of God; so that God can empower and bless you to trust wholeheartedly in Jesus Christ's finished, redemptive work at Calvary.
Sail on, lovers of selflessness and you'll find Jesus Christ' gracious salvation and glory-to glorifying love will wash over and cleanse your heart just like the gentle in-flowing tide washes over sand. Sail on until you find yourself relaxing hand-in-hand with Your Beloved. Sail on until you find yourself sharing His footprints of faith on the sands of God's shore where every human heart sings with delight as it is washed gently clean by Jesus Christ. Amen.
Beautiful Jesus beautiful righteous living Word of God beautiful God eternal
When Jesus spoke the following words He was showing mankind what a blessing He is. Jesus Christ means by this way of talking that He is committed to bless all who hunger and thirst after righteousness!
3 Blessed are the poor (humble)(meek)(lowly)(those with a servant heart)in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 Blessed are they that mourn:(over their the condition of their corrupt heart) for they shall be comforted.
5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake]
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
In order to be blessed by God we must desire to grow more trusting toward Him and our fellowman. Jesus Christ is the author and finisher of our faith. Let us invest our whole being in wanting to grow more meek and in demonstrating increased purity. Let us desire with all our strength to promote peace, administer mercy, and mourn over our failing to glorify God.
Beautiful Jesus, beautiful righteous living Word of God You are our inspiration. We know that we must take off our wigs and put on our school caps in order to come, respectfully, as a student before Our hallowed Creator.
Prayer for sons and daughters worldwide to renounce running away from reconciling with their natural father and eternal Father.
Great shepherd of Our soul and Author and Finisher of our faith, holy God Triune, greet our efforts to hallow Thy holy name with Your grace, so that we are enabled to extend grace to others.
Tender-hearted God, and Builder of newer and stronger bridges between fathers and sons.
Psalm 119: 2 teaches us that Your blessing will be on every aspect of a sons or daughter's life, if they seek You in truth and spirit with their whole heart, mind soul and strength.
Increase, unique God Triune, our love for You and our understanding of Jesus Christ's atoning work of Calvary.
Teach searchers for truth that what they consider is a burnt bridge between themselves and their natural father and mother is really a new opportunity for You to reveal to them the most beautiful bridge of all.
Lord God help our proud old self to utterly die.
Take the diligent-in-love for You to the Cross of Calvary, where Jesus Christ poured out, in selfless love, His pure soul unto death.
Bless You Father eternal for teaching all sincere students and seekers. Bless You Father eternal for inspiring them to hunger and thirst for righteousness.
Thank You for inspiring us all to love Jesus Christ who is the beautiful bridge of reconciliation between sinless God and sinful mankind.
Great Jehovah, great in greatness, glory and grace, We love you because You first loved us with Your most wonderful gift of love.
Sincere, searchers for truth, now is the time for us to come forth out of the secrecy of selfishness into the openness of selflessness, in order to study and pray under the tutorship of compassionate God, Our treasured Teacher.
The opportunity of gleefully gobbling up the glad tidings of the Gospel of Christ awaits everyone with a hungering-and-thirsting-for-righteousness inclined heart.
But, first, our guilt before God and man needs to be admitted and confessed.
Our relationship difficulties need to be admitted in order to learn from them.
Our lives will need adjusting.
So turn now, sons and daughters, and unforgiving children to the Lord of love for forgiveness and help.
Great Jehovah, great in greatness glory and grace, assist all sincere God-seeking sons and daughters to come forth out of the wilderness, so that they can greet their natural father and mother with a humble child's sincere offer of reconciliation.
O let us all dig deeper so that we can learn to trust in the Author of trust believing fully that He will bless our loving efforts.
Triumphant King of glory, strengthen all gentle peace-inclined rebellious doves, until they can sing like winged doves to Thee of Thy mercies that dawn fresh every morning.
Sons and daughters worldwide look alone to Christ Jesus, Our compassionate conqueror.
Jesus Christ, the Lord God, is all we need. Struggling, striving, self-appointed judges of your parents, from now on stop wearing too much impure perfume.
Get out of your favorite prickly porcupine pyjamas right away troubled and tormented sons and daughters; for your spiritual snooze has been called off. Sons and daughters, we were not created to cling to exhibiting crocodile hearts. Resolve to love your father with a loving love! Stretch out now with your partly sensitive and partly insensitive soul to the loving heart of Your Father divine.
Father, Reveal to our heart that repentance involves acknowledgement of sin and acceptance of the divine help offered. Let us speak eagerly to, God Triune, the Healer of our emotional wounds. Let us tell Him that we know and understand that the twins of repentance and forgiveness are birthed if proceeded by great travail in His holy Word, the holy Bible.
Be encouraged precious sons and daughters; for repentance is within the grasp of the ultra sincere. Amen.
