United for ever in love
United forever in God's love
Slapping on the make up of temporal merriment is not our first priority: being united forever in God's awesome inspiring love is.
Father, we bow our heads before You and shall endeavour to speak sensibly and softly in Your ear.
Love us loyal lover of our soul; for without Your love many of us would not be able to kick box our way out of a kick boxing movie.
Beautifier of the unbeautiful, we commit ourselves to hallow You.
Father, You have given us legs of faith and love; so that our hearts can dance with calm assurance to the beat and rythm of righteousness that is found in Jesus Christ.
Help us to grasp doting dutiful Father, that the pursuit of the warmth of Your character far outweighs in importance the pursuit of other considerations.
Your enthusiasm will supply us with all the oomph we need.
Love us, lover of our soul, for without Your love many of us would not be able to fall out of love with the world's top therapists and self-help gurus.
Beautiful Jesus, beautiful God, thank You for taking the spiritually ailing out of trying to prove to themselves and others into the knowledge that in faith in Christ Jesus we are approved of.
Pure adorable Friend, help us to make You known to the multitudes who continue unpeturbed to smoke early and late night television's cigarette of muddled thinking.
Intelligent, compassionate, life-edifying Friend, thank You for Your affectionate love.
Wine of eternal wisdom, bless You that as we sip at the sweetness of Your holy Scriptures we can find You.
Yours alone is the light that lights our soul's stage when spiritual blindness threatens to hold us caged in indefinitely.
Yours is the glow of truth that offers solace to humble seekers.
Teach us, treasured teacher, not to trust in the false glitter of our own twitter; so that Your glow glows more gloriously in us.
Precious readers, let us not play hide and seek with Our God, the only true God who understands us.
Humorous rewarder of those who put their best foot forward on the dancing floor of life, I love You.
Precious lovers of truth, the sunshine of understanding is holy-God sent.
He is the only one who can rescue the hideously unholy out the sinking sands of smut that our souls have fallen into and sludge through.
Precious giver of truth and object of our gaze,
You are the unique author of wisdom assist us to live fully submitted to Thee; for a successful and productive life is all we long to see.
Father much of the world's population are babbling not for Your attention but for their own.
Much of the world's population are running around their private patches like secular rabbits, religious robots and monkeys with no morals.
Inspire us Father to look up from our looking down on each other pose; so that Your heavenly ears will flicker with interest.
Father, we all got our sums wrong.
We thank You, praise You and adore You for Your song of victory that You sung through Jesus Christ's Passion at Calvary.
Sing to us, day by day, for we love Your prayer to be united in love.
God triune, there is no Friend like You.
You are fallen and redeemed mankind's best Friend.
Your name is committed to nurturing.
Your love that knows no limits is available to young and old.
No matter how beaten up a human heart is under Your nurture it can bounce back.
No matter how roughly the bite of boredom has bitten there is no bed of crushed dreams that can't be risen from.
Call out to Jesus Christ, Your Friend of Friends and He will supply you with new dancing shoes,
and empower you to toss back the years and win back a joyful inner cheer.
Our eyes first met when I was unable to find my dancing shoes.
You will discover, like me, that after the first whirl that His spirit is alive with beauty and passionately purity-promoting.
God triune, even if from time to time we step on Your toes slapping on the make up of temporal merriment will continue to hold no appeal for us.
Our joy-bringing God-inspired mission is cherished and treasured.
Our mission, lovers of truth, is to speak of the sunshine of God's fidelity, hope and love that comes only from trusting and obeying Him. Amen
When we study diligently John 1:1-18 with six other verses from the Holy Bible we can prove the Deity of Jesus Christ.
These special verses are:
Psalm 33:6
Ephesians 3:9
Colossians 1: 15-17
Hebrews 1:10
1 For our study purposes John 1:1-3 can be rewritten
in the beginning was Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ was with God, and Jesus Christ was God.
2 Jesus Christ was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by Jesus Christ; and without Him was not made any thing.
Psalm 33:6 states that
By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.
Clearly God's Word comes forth by the breath of His mouth.
The Word, the Word of the Lord and God's Word all refer to Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 3:9 states that
And to make men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which was from the beginning of the
world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
Rewriting the last line we see clearly that God created all things by Jesus Christ!
Starting at Colossians 1: 15-17
Who (Jesus Christ) is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
For by him (Jesus Christ) were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible... all things were created by Him: (Jesus Christ) and for Him.
Not only did Jesus Christ create all things, not only does He sustain all things, not only does He judge all things, not only is He, through faith
in Him and His atoning work, fallen man's Redeemer -all things belong to Him even the light of heaven!
Hebrews Ch.1 teaches that Jesus Christ is God.
Let's look at verse 10:
And, THOU, LORD (Jesus Christ) IN THE BEGINNING HAST LAID THE FOUNDATION OF THE EARTH; AND THE HEAVENS ARE THE WORKS OF THINE HANDS:
Father when we study Genesis 1: 1-3 we read
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2...And the Spirit of God (the Holy Spirit) moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Father as soon as You spoke these words we know that Jesus Christ, the true Light, was involved in bringing forth light and then the dividing of the light from the darkness.
Precious Jesus Christ, Your Beloved and
Our Beloved Savior Shepherd, is truly God.
Bless You Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Our triune God, for being the most superb delightful Friend anyone could desire ever to know.
Hidden beyond the hills of self�s sight.
Father eternal, as You teach us it hurts us to see that the world's people, Your people, are soul-battered sore.
Father, help us to see more clearly the senselessness of our own moaning.
Bravely enduring neighbor, henceforth, we must
learn to be your encourager, as Our Creator God has long since been ours.
Remain courageous and conscientious in your pursuit of purity; for even in your severest tests you'll find and continue to find that your heart can always reach out to Your righteous Ruler, God eternal.
Be encouraged neighbor in need, our hearts can always be still from anxiety and know through diligence of study in the Holy Bible that the God of creation is with us: sustaining us, healing us, restoring and transforming us.
As soon as the beauty of eternal wisdom steps into the arena of our severest need, step-by-step He brings back the step in our confidence in Him; for hidden beyond the hills of self�s sight dwelling in thanksgiving, praise and adoration for God triune and compassion toward mankind His noble presence is to be found.
Circumstances test us our soul sore, yet always God will be honored by our decision to be grateful for His cherished gift of time and talent.
Always God�s Name is honored by our decision to sing a song of praise unto Him -Father, Son and Holy Spirit and His creation.
God is Spirit and gratitude, praise and adoration are always spiritual offerings that are acceptable unto Him.
Heavenly Father, great is Your Name and greatly to be praised.
Heavenly Father, You treasure all Your creation.
We long for You to reach out with Your arms of compassion to our ailing neighbors.
Assist us to love them so lovingly, so that their heart is stirred to look to You as humanity�s Healer, Restorer, Redeemer, Sanctifier, Glorifier and God.
Reveal to all in hot holy pursuit of Thee that You are the restorer of our soul!
Your Word informs us that �blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God�.
Faithful Heavenly Father, even in adversity we are committed to love Your Word which is the source of life when brought alive by the power of Your Holy Spirit.
Your pure Word lights up our heart.
Faithful Father, stay close to us in our new adventures tomorrow; for our heart's desire is always to seek You, thank You, praise You, and adore You.
Lord God eternal, unique Author of the Holy Bible, we long for Your love, we need Your love be Our Teacher true as we study and pray to learn to trust and obey You.
How thankful and blessed we are Father eternal that You planted a dearly loved father as spiritual head of our families and a wonderful mum to also be our teacher.
Her anchoring support and his single mindedness to share his pleasure and love of the Holy Bible over the years has inspired and will continue to inspire all sons and daughters.
Father, Mathew 6: 9-13 is very important to me.
Today I want to focus on verse 13:
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom the power and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Father, Satan is an evil teacher and we know that only as we repent, shun evil and reverence You can You lead us into a blameless and upright walk as You lead Job (see Job 1:8).
Father, we know through studying Your Word (see Job 1: 17-18) that You test us.
We also know that You do not tempt Your creation; for James 1 :14 states that every man is tempted , when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
James 1: 13
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth He any man:
Beautiful gracious treasured prize of heaven, help all earnest seekersfor truth to see the purity that is unique to Thee.
For thine is the kingdom the power and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Racing about on unrighteous unrepentant lawless legs called "my life's deeds deserve to be recognized by My gracious God" without handing over the reigns of our soul to the giver of Our soul will end in tears of torment.
Let us be clear when mankind deems his deeds are more important than Jesus Christ's gracious deeds at Calvary only selfish-inclined students of
Satan, the father of lies, will be on hand to increase the tears of the tearful after Judgment day.
Ladies and gentlemen wrestling rebelliously against the unique Author of the Holy Bible, God Triune, is an uncomfortable unproductive God dishonoring way to live.
Now is the time to call off your life's cherished dream of endeavoring to discover your true self by looking into the mirror of your own efforts.
Don't trust what you see in that flattering lying mirror. Turn instead and look into God's mirror, His Holy Bible, where truth radiates from God's wisdom more powerfully than heat from the sun.
Start flapping your somewhat faithless wings and come down from your clouds self absorption.
Cherished reader caught up in vain struggles let go of the fog of unbelief.
Start desiring, instead, to swim in the soothing serene seas of the holy Scriptures; for God Triune desires to teach you to catch real wriggling-about-fin-less fish.
Be encouraged restless-for-repose fugitive of true faith; for you can still take lessons in biblical faith from Jesus Christ, Your Teacher true, and land safely in God's lap.
Call out through the frost of faithlessness to Jesus Christ, Your Mediator and God's Messiah, before your memories of God's grace frost over totally.
Don't say, immediately, with your look "you have got to be kidding me" and that you have no taste to wade waist deep in the waters of His wisdom.
Fellow searchers for ultimate truth we all need to taught and helped by Jesus Christ before we can be gainfully employed as God's ambassador.
Neighbors of beautiful potential, I promise you that there is no screaming six inch shark in the waters of God's Word whose first thought is to bite you lingeringly on a soft spot on your conscience.
Wise-in-the-future neighbor, come down from the ceiling of striving; for there is a fishing rod waiting for you to practice using.
Come down, conscientious explorer for truth; for there is a complete answer to your predicament right here in God's haven of tranquility.
Mankind is not defined by his or her emotional responses.
Any burdened neighbor who starts knocking on the door of today will discover once again - as I did, not too many bumpy rebellious rides ago, that
when God's truth is our staple diet tomorrow follows today and can be totally trusted.
Fellow searchers for Jesus Christ, dwelling on the ceiling of unbelief can only ever show us that our confidence is crawling around our ankles.
Let us come down from our high lifted up throne; for we have sniffed the drug of self-deception from Satan's autobiography for far too long.
Come down, neighbor, and allow Christ Jesus to grow you up majestically in goodness.
Even though we have all made a lot of mistakes, merciful God, promises us that all will work out for the good, if we love Him wholeheartedly with all our mind, heart, soul and strength.
Come down voluntarily, prodigal son or daughter, and you will discover that Jesus'love is boundless, timeless and pure.
You will discover God's greatest gift is Himself.
Friendship with Him is to be cherished above all else.
Jesus Christ's triumph over Satan at Calvary shows that He is a gift so precious and so truly worthy of everyone's highest attention and adoration.
Faithful Father, we praise You that our love, happiness, dreams, hopes, and destiny unfold when You unfold them.
We thank You for Jesus Christ in whom we are entirely joyously fulfilled.
How thankful we are that the Holy Spirit inspires and helps explorers for truth; so that they can deepen their relationship with Your Beloved Jesus
Christ.
Our cherished and treasured prayer is to always respond with such hunger for holiness in our hearts; so that we might always hallow Jesus' Name and holy voice to Thy glory.
Blessed beautiful Redeemer king and Creator God, faithful Jesus Christ, we long for You to bless our heart and restore our soul, so that we might be blissfully and triumphantly wed to Thy righteous Word for eternity.
For Thine is the power and the glory, wonderful all-wise compassionate Triune loving God. Forever and ever. Amen.
I am a 17 year old girl living in the U.S. I have been in the Salvation Army more than 1/2 my life, and have had God in my life for as long as I can remember back. Just a few months ago, I finally woke up and answered God, and decided to WHOLE heartedly follow him. I have such a passion and I feel called to lead. However, I have the support of my fellow church members, but no support what so ever from any other surroundings.
My parents use grounding me from church as a punishment, and not one person at my school understands. I feel really pressured by my dad especially, because he tries to tell me that women have no place in the church. I really don't understand why God would call me to do something if he did not want women in the Church.
Also I can feel that God is going to do something really big. Something that will shake the world. Can anyone else feel that.?????
Hi Kristi, I have a 'sense' that I may have read /heard a similar story to yours before.
Hope someone from this site is able to respond sensitively and appropriately to your deepest (and True heart felt) needs and inner desires to WHOLE heartedly follow Him in truth and in spirit.
May our loving Father Bless you.
Congratulations young kristi for deciding to wholeheartedly follow God. This is God-honouring.
As God triune is the true leader and plants the passion in His creation to lead give Him daily the glory for this.
A moments perspective is called for.
At your tender age you are still dependent on your parents and you must continue to honour them.
Even though you feel pressurized seek by sensible living to bring calm into your life.
It is advantageous to remember what your parents have done for you so far in your young life and praise God daily for them.
Remember also that even good aspirations need preparation and planning. Remember the whole of our life involves holy service unto God.
I suggest that you communicate and demonstrate your growing interest in glorifying God�s Name, by acts of helpfulness, within your family.
One possible way is by desiring to contribute financially into your families lives or by committing yourself to some form of studious study.
Families need obedient children; for cooperative children are becoming an endangered species.
Seek therfore to offer by example(behaving well at home) to demonstrate that your faith is living rather than lament lack of understanding from those around you.
It is sufficient that God understands! Children need to get their priorities right. We can't honour God properly unless we are desirous to input wisely into our families.
Let us count our blessings.
Remember, Kristi, that God is compassionate!
He brings those He is allowed to teach into favourable situations.
He will improve your prospects if you show yourself eager to learn from Him.
Remember, too, that even if your parents were currently more supportive of your attending Church life for the relatively inexperienced has its challenges.
Even if you were twenty years older bringing God�s word faithfully to fallen humanity opposition towards you would not be small. Take your eyes off yourself and breathe in a breath of hope.
Look at me! I'm close to half a century old and not everyone pats me on the back for my leadership efforts.
Kristi, your time for excelling before God will come, if you patiently persevere in seeking out a life of purity.
God's love opens doors.
The doors of opportunity will be flung open by God Himself when men or women and teenagers are deemed by God ready to walk through them.
To truly love God we must desire to grow faith-focused and put off any unhealthy feeling focus.
Kristi, Young lady of promise, God is a God of joy and understanding and as you draw closer to Him He will transform your tinges of frustration into assurance.
Above all seek to bring the name of Jesus Christ into your correspondence; for He is the author and finisher of our faith!
Teenage years are tough, testing yet rewarding times.
I personally believe that you should concentrate more on studying the holy Bible. Let all eager leaders be very careful that they can be led by the Lord one step at a time before they desire to lead their neighbour two steps at a time!
To God be the glory!
Young kristi, what a brave, young lady you are. The Salvation Army are a very good God-honoring association. I encourage you to keep your association with them going strong.
Kristi,you are one of God's treasured tortoises.
Now that you have poked your head out your house and woken up and answered God, and decided to wholeheartedly follow Him, you will notice that your passion to lead will increase; for it is God's loving holy Spirit who increases our confidence to lead.
Hold tight to God's truthful teachings, brave young tortoise, and you will notice that the pressure on you will begin to petter out as you carry on praising God's faithful character with renewed vigor.
Although I don't understand fully why your parents would punish you by grounding you from attending church. The thing to understand is that imperfection exists - even amongst parents.
I hope that your dad understands that women have a special place in the God's eternal church.
God's eternal church are the very people He saves.
Jesus Christ is the High Priest of God's Church and true believers, male and female, are pastors unto Him.
This means that the saved are the true church of God.
Be encouraged, young very beautiful Kristi, God is certainly calling you to do something and He wants women in His eternal Church.
You are right. Your feelings are reliable. God is going to do something really big and that something could shake the world. Certainly as a fellow tortoise I can feel that so keep on desiring to to input wisely in this world.
Be encouraged, brave Kirsti, as long as tortoises like you and me are intent on pleasing God and go about His work gradually, methodically, generously and joyously miracles will happen.
Surely God's goodness will follow all who follow Him.
Father, our tortoise-like neighbors are in urgent need of teaching. Father, multitudes slumber in spiritual hibernation.
Help us to teach them wisely; so that You will desire to awaken them.
Our prayer is that You will be able to delight in the sight of their heads poking out of their houses to the glory of Your holy name. Amen.
Listening avidly to the hollering of the words ho, ho, ho will never help us to understand the vital importance of hallowing the words holy, holy, holy Lord God Almighty.
As you join me I am enjoying strolling around the children's section of our local public library.
Like the parrot clinging impeccably to my shoulder I have noticed almost straight away that the artwork of the creative and God-blessed children exasperatingly exalts the person of Santa Claus.
We noticed also almost straight away, that parents are virtually nowhere to be seen in their artwork nor is any knowledge of the Holy Bible exhibited.
But most appallingly of all nowhere to be seen is the precious, treasured, holy name of Jesus Christ.
Dads and mums, when Santa is considered cool and Jesus Christ virtually not at all clearly our celebrating of the character of Jesus Christ during the Christmas holiday season is not at all right.
Dads and mums, holy righteous long-suffering God never said: this is my beloved Santa Claus in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.
Why then are you and your children so absorbed by his ho, ho, ho?
Why then do so many of you also take your children on Santa parades where glory is given to his name?
All time is a gift of holy God and God commands us to rejoice in the Lord always.
When children are encouraged by adults to idolize mankind even the parrot currently pecking my ear understands very well that lack of understanding is on parade.
Dads and mums, do you still not understand, like Precocious my parrot, that your behaviour falls short of glorifying God?
Our patient, longsuffering God commands us to pray "Our father which art in heaven hallowed be Thy name" and not our cool Santa that cometh to earth give me a nice treat for I know your heart is kind.
Faithful Father, may our hearts always rejoice at the sound of the Lord Jesus Christ's name.
Holy Father help us, like my peculiarly special parrot, to refuse to develop pre-teen and teenage crushes for Santa.
Dads and mums and children, let's endeavour to emulate and copy Precocious; for she has absolutely no delight in Santa's ho, ho, ho; for she understands pretence when she sees it.
Dads and mums the sooner we sanitize ourselves from the unsavoury habit of sitting serenely on Santa's lap and stop clapping his highly misunderstood heart the better.
Come then, somewhat confused dads and mums, Jesus Christ's voice is the voice of truth.
He is the giver of true gifts - not Santa.
Our future and the future of our children is with Jesus Christ and with no one else.
His lap is the only lap that is loyal.
Beloved Jesus Christ is the only name we will listen to.
Such a gracious heart as His is not to be found in anyone else.
Jesus prays for us with the very voice of God and weeps for us with the very heart of God.
Let us remember too, treasured dads and mums, this Christmas that Jesus incarnate died on Calvary's Cross pouring out His pure soul unto death; because He loves us uniquely.
Restorer of the unrighteous have mercy on the duped followers of those who go around in praise of the ho, ho, ho-ing; so that they and their children would have more and more opportunities to sing, full of praise, holy, holy, holy God Almighty.
Dads and mums, Holy God is a jealous God. He is jealous for us to understand Him.
He isn't clapping His hands when we, without thinking too thoroughly, fall into foolishness.
Loving Triune God and lover of lovers of parrots, we seek to love You passionately and true; for You are Our all-wise God whose awesome compassion and divine mercy is within grasp of mankind's outstretched contrite and purity-seeking heart.
Faithful, forgiving Father, teach us that Christmas is only truly understood if we are desirous also to remember the events of Calvary.
We understand that the physical eye will always be unconvinced about the events of Calvary.
Assist us all as we seek to search diligently and sincerely for You; so that we might gain a new spiritual eye that trusts God's word.
We love You beautiful Lord God; for such an eye, even when pecked by an over zealous parrot, will always be convinced of Christ's triumph over death and utter defeat of Satan.
With such a glorious eternal eye not even a precocious parrot, in search of increased wisdom, can prevent us from celebrating Christmas and Calvary correctly.
A warm welcome to everyone. This is the website of Josef Sefton. I know that God Triune
will bless you richly as you give your best effort to trust and obey Him.
Teens, can I encourage you to fill your mind with truth? Teens, can I
encourage you to immerse yourself in the holy Bible?
Teens, can I encourage you to start in the books of Mathew, Mark, Luke and
John.
Start here and you'll discover that regular Bible reading is tremendously rewarding.
Start here and you will be taught how to deal with life's pressures.
Start here and you can delight in the process of knowing Jesus Christ better.
Start here and really seek after Him and He will lift your level of interest in Him.
Start here and before long you will desire ever increasingly to put into practise His
holy teachings.
Teens, if you are looking to be inspired look no further than at God's best.
God's best is Jesus Christ.
Commit yourself to His living word and you will find He shall graciously delight to
commit to you.
The risen Christ is Our God with us. He is with us in our personal life transforming our speech and deed
life. All our praise and adoration belongs to Him.
The greatest life ever lived awaits you to explore and examine Him.
Discoveries are exciting. Your rewarding discovery of Jesus Christ is just a sensible decision away.
Draw closer to Christ and He will draw closer to you.
Young explorers, strength can be drawn from daily studying Scripture.
Get started and you will soon be convinced that biblical literacy enriches your life.
Get started and you will soon be convinced that biblical literacy is relevant and strengthening your
family and societal engagement.
Teens the greatest life ever lived awaits you to explore and examine Him. Get started and you will soon
be convinced hat biblical literacy and its sincere demonstration gives you a heightened sense of place and
purpose before God and man.
You say sometimes that you are baffled by the holy Bible.
You say sometimes what is
that book all about?
One thing is certain you can not do yourself justice if you seldom or never bother
to read God's love letter to you.
Treasured teens suffering from biblical illiteracy, let us start at
the beginning: Eve wasn't created from an apple tree, but by God.
What has to change is that we have to stop saying in our heart that reading the Bible seldom dishonours
God's name. It does.
What has to change is that we have to stop saying in our heart that reading the Bible hardly ever
never dishonours God's name.
It does.
Let us start at the beginning God is far superior than the god that you think you know.
You say you want a God who helps those who help themselves. God does. The true God helps those who can't
help themselves. That is far more impressive.
The true God helps those who hate Him; for when God punishes us we are given a chance to put things
right.
Let us talk honestly together the average person has a general education and biblical education that is
grossly out of balance.
Let us talk honestly together the average person is a biblical illiterate, even
if they can look pious from time to time when they make a huge effort!
Let us talk honestly
together, without a knowledge of the Holy Bible we are all at a huge disadvantage.
Can I ask you why you still enjoy putting on a hat called my biblical ignorance is impressive?
Treasured teens, you have a unique opportunity to discover the greatest book of all.
Reading the
holy Bible should be an essential part of your education, so you've got some catching up to do.
I know that the education system has been have starving you of the opportunity to study the Bible by shoving other books before your eyes which are no substitute for it.
I'm on your side and Jesus Christ is too.
Learn from Jesus Christ and you will discover that He is by far the most capable Teacher of all.
Go searching for God's best now and you will love every minute of this glorious challenge.
May God bless you richly.
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