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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Constant Conversation W/God Sept 21 Wed

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

AWE- ALMIGHTY GOD!

Make My Life Excellent In You-Constant In Your Courage

I Kimberly Ann McCarthy will not participate in the ease and excess of my culture today, I will simply-significantly be completely Yours, being found on the path of Your Kingdom purposes at play all around me, therefore, stepping out in this day with an eternal edge keeps the sacrifice in salvation and makes a forever difference!

Jeremiah 32: 38-41

And they will be My people, and I will be their God. 39 And I will give them one heart and one way, that they may [reverently] fear Me forever for the good of themselves and of their children after them. 40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will not turn away from following them to do them good, and I will put My [reverential] fear in their hearts, so that they will not depart from Me. 41 Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly and in truth with My whole heart and with My whole being.

My Thoughts About This:

What an amazing AWE-GOD promise! I am overwhelmed by God's excellence. Infinitely So! I love how everything God is and is being in us and for us is done in an everlasting way. There is nothing half done, temporary or disposable about our AWE-GOD! Our Way-Maker makes a way for us and it is a way of magnificent superiority! What blesses me the most about this verse is all God is in His Mighty Being and He still makes room in the Omnipotence of His life purposes to rejoice over us. This touches my soul in AWE and overwhelms my understanding in reverence of Him. Our God does nothing in part, He sees everything in whole and we can be assured that He does everything for us with an excellence that we could not even begin to imagine or hope for. There is no one like our AWE-GOD, there is nothing in this world as excellent as His Works, Ways, Word and Love! Thank you Father GOD!

My second thought as I read this scripture is: God does nothing in part! God sees nothing in part! God finishes everything He starts with excellence! Today in the LIGHT of this scripture I stand in AWE of God's wholeness. Nothing is complete or whole in my part of the world I live in, most everything is excessively temporary and dysfunctional in part. Nothing completely satisfies my self-indulgent human nature, a human condition wrapped up in a cultural discontentment where enough is never wholly complete. Unless... yes there is a flip-flop side to my life... unless I find my way to the feet of Jesus, bowing before Him in reverent-respect and submissive-willess-surrender. Jesus is our wholeness, in Him there is complete satisfaction. Jesus is the only wholeness that can shape my human nature into Kingdom design. I am whole in Jesus Christ and Jesus has made a way for me to be set in a permanent position, in the flow of His Kingdom purposes as I walk in the wholeness of His Sovereign Will. He will be my God and He will give me wholeness of heart, way, truth, covenant in the WHOLENESS of His Being. AWE-GOD!

A radical response of love is a remedy for being isolated by an unjust person. Will you return evil for evil, or will you extend grace in the face of extreme frustration?

Boyd Bailey

Notes From Joyce Meyer TV program

God Change Me! It is "grow up" time in the Body of Christ! Face your Goliath! Joyce Meyer

Blessed is he who endures from tragedy to perseverance.

Learn to pray before the temptation comes that you will recognize it and not go with it. Joyce Meyer

Endurance is outlasting the devil like Jesus did. Jesus make us like You this day! Help us to sidestep temptation today by Your Spirit and Truth!

Luke 4: 1-

1 THEN JESUS, full of and controlled by the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led in [by] the [Holy] Spirit2 For (during) forty days in the wilderness (desert), where He was tempted (tried, tested exceedingly) by the devil. And He ate nothing during those days, and when they were completed, He was hungry. 3 Then the devil said to Him, If You are the Son of God, order this stone to turn into a loaf [of bread].4 And Jesus replied to him, It is written, Man shall not live and be sustained by (on) bread alone but by every word and expression of God. 5 Then the devil took Him up to a high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the habitable world in a moment of time [in the twinkling of an eye].6 And he said to Him, To You I will give all this power and authority and their glory (all their magnificence, excellence, preeminence, dignity, and grace), for it has been turned over to me, and I give it to whomever I will.7 Therefore if You will do homage to and worship me [just once], it shall all be Yours.8 And Jesus replied to him, Get behind Me, Satan! It is written, You shall do homage to and worship the Lord your God, and Him only shall you serve. 9 Then he took Him to Jerusalem and set Him on a gable of the temple, and said to Him, If You are the Son of God, cast Yourself down from here;10 For it is written, He will give His angels charge over you to guard and watch over you closely and carefully;11 And on their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone. 12 And Jesus replied to him, [The Scripture] says, You shall not tempt (try, test exceedingly) the Lord your God. 13 And when the devil had ended every [the complete cycle of] temptation, he [temporarily] left Him [that is, stood off from Him] until another more opportune and favorable time.14 Then Jesus went back full of and under the power of the [Holy] Spirit into Galilee, and the fame of Him spread through the whole region round about.

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My Thoughts About This:

The one thing that really jumps out of this scripture is that Jesus was led by the Holy Spirit into this cycle of temptations. It almost suggests a season of time! I can see in my life that temptations and trials have come in seasons and they have been one after another at times. Been there and felt that. I notice that Jesus did not get defensive at all with the devil, even though He could have proved Himself. Jesus took an offensive stand was consistently aiming and hitting the bull's-eye with the Word of God-His Truth!

This makes so much sense to me, especially after hearing what Joyce Meyer said yesterday: "satan moves us off the path of God's Will by getting us to try to prove ourselves, using who we are in our human position to impress others. Joyce Meyer said: "You will be truly free when you no longer have to prove or impress others."

VS 13 is eye opening to me! The devil could not get past the word of God, so he "temporarily" left Jesus, deciding to wait for a better more opportune-favorable time to tempt Jesus. For me, that opportune time would be when my weakness trumps the truth in my life and is leading. That happens way too much. I need to be more prayed up about temptation. I need not to pray for God to deliver me from it as much as make me ready for it, position me, align me in YOU, Jesus in Your truth and grow me through it so I might gain the experience of Your Wisdom. Jesus I hope huge You keep me in a Holy Alliance with Your supernatural power and not my human strength which fails every time.

"Joyce said: Whenever the devil starts something, say: 'I am not impressed'! If you don't let yourself get impressed by the trials and temptations the enemy throws at you, then you won't get depressed or oppressed or possessed by the trials instead of by God.

Devil! "I am not impressed"! Therefore I will not be depressed, oppressed or possessed by this trial, I will be found in Jesus Christ. Joyce Meyer

Philippians 4:12-13 I can do all things through Christ Who strengthens me.

My Thoughts About This:

Every time we grow in Christ Jesus during a trial, the tricks the devil plays become less painful and less distracting.

The most important thing you can do in a trial is face your Goliath in the power, wisdom and strength of AWE-GOD!

Our goal as Christians should be to endure everything with good temper.

We need to "grow through" our trials, everything and anything life throws at us and remain positioned in Christ: His character, His love, His truth, His Holy Spirit.

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Faith forged on the anvil of adversity becomes solid steel in mental toughness, emotional stability and spiritual maturity Boyd Bailey

Will you return evil for evil, or will you extend grace in the face of extreme frustration?

Humility pays off in respect and results. Boyd Bailey

Am I consumed with trusting Christ or with my unjust treatment? How can I, by God's grace, love the unlovely? Boyd Bailey

A radical response of love is a remedy for being isolated by an unjust person.

Boyd Bailey

Will you return evil for evil, or will you extend grace in the face of extreme frustration?

Boyd Bailey

It is in your trapped condition that He wants your intimacy with Him to grow deeper and sweeter.

Boyd Bailey

Sometimes good people experience bad consequences, so that the glory of God can be made known through their lives Boyd Bailey

God is wanting to work the quality of His character in us, perfect our love and with it transform the world around us. Be patient!!

Am I consumed with trusting Christ or with my unjust treatment? How can I, by God's grace, love the unlovely? Boyd Bailey

Godliness is always moving towards perfect love as God pushes our patience to new limits, working in us excellence of character!

We pray for Your Salvation to be present, to draw people to You Jesus this day in twitterverse. Awake our souls http://ow.ly/6AAuV #mwanted

Impossible: position-person-situation? This is an opportunity to grow in patience and to learn to submit to God. @worthyemail

Have You Bowed Today? Bow! Fall Down B4 #AWE-GOD! Humbly-Reverently Bow! Fully Face God's Holiness! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKgVORwSv9E&feature=related #tworship

Hallelujah! Remember today that all your needs are met by turning towards the One who is the living Temple of God- Jesus! Pastor Elliott

Yeshua/Jesus – gave His life for us in Yerushalayim and will, one day, return there to reign. Hallelujah! Pastor Elliott

Worthy News Brief @worthyemail.com

Kimberly, patience - oh what a lesson!

2 Peter 1:5-7 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

Patience is one of those attributes that you cannot learn by reading about it. It's a quality that can only be acquired by persistent, enduring, practice– and for me it's a drill that I go over, and over, and over again!

The original Webster's dictionary offers this definition of patience: "the suffering of afflictions, pain, toil, calamity, provocation or other evil, with a calm, unruffled temper; endurance without murmuring or fretfulness, from a kind of heroic pride, or from a Christian submission to the divine will."

Reading this definition two things really struck me – first, "endurance without murmuring". I, for instance, get so frustrated sitting in a traffic jam... counting the wasted minutes when I could have been doing something useful! Yet, what an opportunity for me to choose to quench the inner fumes – and use the delay to work on my patience!

The second thing that really hit me was, "a Christian submission to the divine will." How many times are we placed in a difficult position, or forced to deal with an "impossible" situation? Or perhaps, an "impossible" person? These circumstances are always opportunities to grow in patience – or to learn to submit to God's providential will, and often, to minister in some special or unique way.

Kimberly, is your patience being tested today? Great! Remember, love is (first of all) patient. [1 Cor. 13:4] The Lord is training you toward godliness –- and godliness is moving toward perfect love. With so much work to be done, He is really wanting to work this quality into your character now -– to perfect your love, and with it to transform the world around you for His glory!

Your family in the Lord with much agape love, George, Baht Rivka, Elianna & Obadiah

My Thoughts About This:

Yes, my patience is being tested today!! GRRRRR!! I hope I pass and move on to the godliness God is teaching me God character, He is training me for and what He has planned for my life. God is wanting to work the quality of His character in us, perfect our love and with it transform the world around us. Be patient!! I think the wasting time thing hits me the most at my weak spot of always trying to be scheduled and administrative, sometimes our strengths are our greatest soul-problems! Impossible: position-person-situation? This is an opportunity to grow in patience and to learn to submit to God. Godliness is always moving towards perfect love as God pushes our patience to new limits, working in us excellence of character!

http://wisdomhunters.com/ Boyd Bailey

Unjust Treatment

"When Jesus heard that John had been put in prison, he withdrew to Galilee." Matthew 4:12

There are days of mistreatment that come from disloyal and jealous people. Sometimes good people experience bad consequences, so that the glory of God can be made known through their lives. John boldly took a public stand for his faith and was punished for his courageous obedience to God. Do you feel like you have been wronged for doing right? Has your faith been put on trial and were you convicted for speaking the truth?

Your circumstance of ill treatment may not result in a physical rescue from Christ. It is in your trapped condition that He wants your intimacy with Him to grow deeper and sweeter. Your authorities at work may have broken a promise or used an unscrupulous process to get their desired results. You feel used and abused. So how will you respond? Will you return evil for evil, or will you extend grace in the face of extreme frustration?

"Do not repay evil for evil"… "If your enemy is hungry, feed him: if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head" (Romans 12:17a, 20). A radical response of love is a remedy for being isolated by an unjust person.

What are you learning as a result of feeling rejected or misunderstood? Has your determination grown in its resolve and do you have more focused attention on the mission of the organization? Loss of freedom and/or resources aligns us back to the essentials of an effective strategy and efficient execution.

Use this time of limited options to build sustainable systems and the most productive processes. Cling to your core values as your compass for behavior. Your optimism is an insurgent against others' insecurities. Lastly, let the Lord be your source of strength. Faith forged on the anvil of adversity becomes solid steel in mental toughness, emotional stability and spiritual maturity.

When people see Jesus in your humble, non-defensive attitude they hear His voice of truth. Learn your lessons from the Lord during stressful situations and leave it with Him to change others as to what needs to be done. Humility pays off with respect and results.

Am I consumed with trusting Christ or with my unjust treatment? How can I, by God's grace, love the unlovely? Boyd Bailey

Related Readings: Psalm 23; Psalm 109:5; 2 Timothy 3:2; Revelation 7:12

My Thoughts About This:

Wow that was power packed in God's Wisdom! I liked so much about it and so much about it convicted me greatly. Optimism adds value to other's insecurity, I like that. Faith pressed forward in adversity yields mental toughness, emotional stability and spiritual maturity. That is very cool.

Non defensive attitude- I need help with this one and the truth that humility pays off with respect and results is a big help a big motivator to not cop a defensive attitude. I realize too that a defensive attitude is me taking control of something Jesus is working through. Let God Work. I have to keep reminding myself of that. I am His workmanship, this is His work. I like what he said about good people, doing good things are still subject to bad things happening and all for the Glory of God.

****My Prayer! I Place All My Expectation In You, Almighty God!*****

Psalm 62:5 (amplified) My soul, wait only upon God and silently submit to Him; for my hope and expectation are from Him. He only is my Rock and my Salvation; He is my Defense and my Fortress, I shall not be moved.

September 21^st, 2011

Jesus hold Kevin in your healing hands as he goes through a heart catherization today, be His strength, protection and peace. Healer! Heal his heart! Jesus!

Father God, guide Rebecca's son, help him to find Your will, to step into the flow of Your Kingdom purposes for his life. Jesus.

Father touch Sandy, draw her to You, encourage her mom's heart and touch her daughter, may she follow after Your will, may she find her place in You and in the Body of Christ. Draw her Jesus.

Father be with Tina, encourage and strengthen her at school today, bless those students and draw them to You.

Jesus heal Summer's back by Your Spirit, give her strength today and keep her close to You, depending upon You.

Jesus touch Amy's Co-Worker, draw him to YOU, open up his heart to You, to a personal relationship with You.

Jesus be with Amy and Andrew, guide their steps, from moment to choice may they hear Your Voice and step out in complete followship of You. Jesus!

Jesus be with ED, open Your door of opportunity for Ed by Your Spirit and power. Jesus.

Father keep David strong in you, heal his heart and strengthen his health by Your Spirit. Jesus.

Jesus I pray for those who do not know you today, I pray that You would open the eyes of their spirit and awaken their soul to You. Father use every tweet out today to open the hearts of people everywhere under the sound of Your Truth. Jesus. Salvation! Savior!

Father touch Kevin by Your Spirit, hold him in Your healing hands. Jesus! Heal his heart.

WE pray for an awakening in the heart of this co-worker. Awake his soul and ours too Jesus. Make us into what You want us to be. For You and You alone may serve You 1^st! Jesus! Bless each of us in this online ministry and wake us up to You, the newness that You want in our relationship with You. Jesus!

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Awakening

Father God I pray for Lee, I ask you to strengthen His faith as he "grows through" these trials. Help Lee to see that everything that You purpose to touch his life, has an endgame of growth of character and strengthening of spirit in Your Character. Help Lee to endure by clinging tighter to YOU and digging his roots deeper in Your Kingdom. Increase His Faith Jesus – Increase in Him Holy Spirit!

What Faith Can Do By Kutless

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQp75TsnpSA&list=PL7EA8BF2A897439F6&index=2

Father touch Alta's sister and brother in law. I pray You would heal this soldier, so beaten up by war heal his heart in that way that only you can. Reach him Jesus, heal him. I pray for his wife, strengthen her with Your hope, heal her broken heart and set her in the path of Your Kingdom purposes. Touch Alta, increase her faith and help her to trust in You more and more with her sister's and brother in laws life. Salvation, I pray for this situation, bring Your salvation Jesus, be the solution, the healer, the restorer. Jesus! So BE IT! Seed this promise in these lives:

Isaiah 41:9-10

You whom I [the Lord] have taken from the ends of the earth and have called from the corners of it, and said to you, You are My servant--I have chosen you and not cast you off [even though you are exiled].10 Fear not [there is nothing to fear], for I am with you; do not look around you in terror and be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen and harden you to difficulties, yes, I will help you; yes, I will hold you up and retain you with My [victorious] right hand of rightness and justice.

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Father Touch Johnny and his family who are separated from each other because of work. I pray You would strengthen them and help them grow through this time, closer to You, depending more on You, knowing you more.

Jesus touch Larry, strengthen him spiritually, emotionally, physically and mentally and bless his relationship with You.

This day our hearts approve with gladness what our reason can never fully comprehend, even Thine Eternity, O Ancient of days. A.W. Tozer

A Minute With Maxwell

Permission:

A wonderful word, especially when someone we respect gives us permission to enter their life and become a friend, to be a part of their life in friendship. A word that opens the gate to friendship and relationship. Unless a leader has permission to lead people, they will not lead them affectively. If they have to follow you, they don't follow well or long. But when they give you permission to follow you or lead you and people give you permission to lead them they are saying I trust you and I think that you want my best interest in your heart. he greatest compliment of a leader is when someone says to that person, I give you permission to lead my life.

My Thoughts About This:

That was really good and it kind of helps me understand why God gave us the free will to chose Him. We honor God when we say: Lead my life, Lord God – I choose You. I can see also that we follow Him better and longer when we choose to do so with all of our heart, when we in all willessness say: Lead me Jesus, make me into what You want me to be and I will follow only after You. I can also see how "religiosity" in all its rules and regulations only make shallow followers, who fall by the way side according to their own will and, who do not follow well or long. Permission may have been instituted first by Jesus when He created in us our free will. Lord I give You permission to lead me today, I know you have my best interest at heart and I will follow You. AMEN!

A Seasoned Servant Of God Has Encouraged Me Today

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Kirk Franklin He Loves Me

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Isaiah 30:21 ~ The Amplified Bible

18And therefore the Lord [earnestly] waits [expecting, looking, and longing] to be gracious to you; and therefore He lifts Himself up, that He may have mercy on you and show loving-kindness to you. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are all those who [earnestly] wait for Him, who expect and look and long for Him [for His victory, His favor, His love, His peace, His joy, and His matchless, unbroken companionship]!

A Seasoned Servant Of God Has Encouraged Me Today

Deuteronomy 12:5

You are to come to the place where Adonai your God will put His name, which is where He will live (abide).

Even before Joshua led the children of Israel across the Jordan into the Promised Land for the first time, God had declared that He would choose a place somewhere in the Land in which to manifest his Name. That place is Jerusalem (Yerushalayim). Under David's son, Solomon, the Temple was built on that spot (that spot is now covered by the Muslim Gold Dome Mosque).

At the dedication of this Temple (1 Kings 8), Solomon prayed that God would meet the needs of Israel when they came before the Lord in the Temple, or if they would pray toward Jerusalem in faith, from a distance. To this day, in synagogues around the world, Torah scrolls are located so that when the worshipers face them they are also looking towards Jerusalem.

Why was prayer so effective when directed toward the Temple and toward the holy city? That was the place where God provided the means for sinful humanity to reconnect with him by sacrifices, providing forgiveness and purification.

Similarly, turning to Yeshua/Jesus in faith is how we touch the manifestation of God's presence, where forgiveness and cleansing can be realized. We can still face Yerushalayim when we pray. However, the answer to our prayers comes not from the place, but from the person – Yeshua/Jesus – who gave His life for us in Yerushalayim and will, one day, return there to reign. Hallelujah!

Remember today that all your needs are met by turning towards the One who is the living Temple of God.

Shalom,

Pastor Elliott

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2 Corinthians 13:14

The grace (favor and spiritual blessing) of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the presence and fellowship (the communion and sharing together, and participation) in the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen (so be it).

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Listening to 2 Corinthians 13 Notes:

Every matter must be with two or three witnesses. God is not weak in dealing with us, but is powerful among us. He was crucified in weakness but lives in God's power. We are weak but in God's power we serve. Christ Jesus is in us. We cannot do anything against the truth. We are glad when we are weak, and He is strong. Our prayer is for your perfection. Authority God gives us is for building others up, not tearing them down. Aim for perfection Be of one mind and live at peace and the God of peace will be with you. Grace of Jesus, love of God be with you all.

My Thoughts About This:

I think living at peace with one another may be the hardest command ever, because it takes a bending of our will and humility which is not natural to our human condition. Without people, Christianity would be easy. People say and do things from their perspective and it at times clashes with our life perspective. Maybe humility starts with a decision to respect other people's life perspectives, because theirs will be different than ours, because our shapes are designed so differently by our creator. Maybe the key is to accept that God has made us all different, shaped us in ways that we would sharpen each other by differing perspectives…. Whatever it might be, living at peace with other people is very humbling and it takes a laying down of our personal life-view and a willingness to look at things through their life-perspective and gain a new perspective. Maybe it is not the "right" perspective but humility will always lead the way to truth and agreement in what is Right and True.

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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Constant Conversation W/God Sept 20 Tue

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

AWE- ALMIGHTY GOD!

Make My Life Excellent In You-Constant In Your Courage

Today, It is my, Kimberly Ann McCarthy, passion that He, Jesus Christ must increase in me by having His Way in Me and I must decrease by yielding my earthly expectations to Him and submitting to His Heavenly Plan for my life

Colossians 1:9-11

For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,[a] 10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience,

My Thoughts By His Holy Spirit About This Verse! AWE GOD!

I pray this scripture for all of us today. Strengthen the Body of Christ, strengthen Your Bride Jesus by Your wisdom and understanding by Your Holy Spirit. Jesus may we live out today, a life worthy of YOU, being people who please You from moment to choice. Strengthen us Jesus that we might have great endurance and patience with the foolishness of our culture and the folly of those who speak out of deceit.

Sometimes even now I get so tired of people and the foolish things they say, but I have no idea what true persecution would be like, I pray Lord Jesus for endurance to not swerve from my course, which is YOU. Holy Spirit guide me, teach me and train me, I do want to be one who in the last days of lawlessness, disorder and chaos calls upon the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY.

People who have turned their ears from Jesus will spout foolishness and my choice, my response can't be in defense of God. God does not need me to defend Him, His Word stands on its own. When I take up a defensive stand, I have no peace. Followship is the way to peace.

The intercessory work of the saint through prayer is the work behind the scenes, the silent ministry that the world knows little of, yet more powerful than any weapon on earth unleashing power from above that makes demons tremble! Worthy Email

Proverbs 13:16 A commonsense person lives good sense; fools litter the country with silliness.

Folly-Endurance You Version Note

People engrained in counter cultural foolishness say the most aggravating things. We need the patience and endurance of God in this world! Or should I leave you out of it and say I NEED the patience and endurance of Jesus Christ. Sometimes I get so tired of people and the foolish things that they say, but I truly have no idea what true persecution would be like. I pray Lord Jesus for Your endurance to keep me, to help me not swerve from my course, which is YOU, Your Holy Spirit and Your Truth. Holy Spirit guide me! Holy Spirit teach and train me in patient endurance, in knowing that this is all on YOU, You have got this. Jesus strengthen the Body of Christ in Your wisdom and understanding. I pray we will live out today, a life worthy of YOU, being your Bride who seeks to please You, out of love for You from moment to choice. Strengthen us Jesus that we might have great, unshakeable endurance and patience with the foolishness of our culture and the folly of those who arrogantly speak out deceit. Jesus may our endurance and patience be held up by Your Spirit, Your Truth, Your Love. So Be It! AMEN!

Psalm 32: 6-10 For this [forgiveness] let everyone who is godly pray--pray to You in a time when You may be found; surely when the great waters [of trial] overflow, they shall not reach [the spirit in] him.7 You are a hiding place for me; You, Lord, preserve me from trouble, You surround me with songs and shouts of deliverance. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!8 I [the Lord] will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you.9 Be not like the horse or the mule, which lack understanding, which must have their mouths held firm with bit and bridle, or else they will not come with you.10 Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but he who trusts in, relies on, and confidently leans on the Lord shall be compassed about with mercy and with loving-kindness.

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Psalm 5:8-12

Lead me, O Lord, in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make Your way level (straight and right) before my face.9 For there is nothing trustworthy or steadfast or truthful in their talk; their heart is destruction [or a destructive chasm, a yawning gulf]; their throat is an open sepulcher; they flatter and make smooth with their tongue. 10 Hold them guilty, O God; let them fall by their own designs and counsels; cast them out because of the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against You.11 But let all those who take refuge and put their trust in You rejoice; let them ever sing and shout for joy, because You make a covering over them and defend them; let those also who love Your name be joyful in You and be in high spirits.12 For You, Lord, will bless the [uncompromisingly] righteous [him who is upright and in right standing with You]; as with a shield You will surround him with goodwill (pleasure and favor).

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Marriage is a team effort that sees outstanding outcomes when you are both on the same page of love and obedience to Christ. Boyd Bailey

Notes From Joyce Meyer TV program

Joyce Meyer TV Show Notes

Stay Ahead Of The Devil. You have to learn to stay one step ahead of the devil's temptation.

Pray for maturity and growth. In Him no matter what happens we can behave the same in hard times as good times.

It is not about how you feel but how you behave. Joyce Meyer

We must control our behavior because people are watching our lives not our bumper stickers. Joyce Meyer

We have to conquer the enemies of our flesh.

Matthew 6:15 Lead us not into temptation. We fall into rather than conqueror, because we don't pray that when we are tempted that we don't fall into temptation.

What are your weaknesses, pray about these so you won't fall into them, being tempted by them.

I know that temptation will come my way, so I am praying now to recognize it immediately when it starts so I won't fall into temptation.

Luke 22:40 Jesu sprayed through resisting the temptation. VS 46 Why are you sleeping? Pray so you don't enter into temptation.

We don't overcome because we don't pray when we are tempted. We can't pray the temptation away, it is a part of life, we can pray we won't enter into it.

James 1:12 Blessed is he who endures!

From Tragedy to Perseverance. There is a treasure in this trial. Lord strengthen me to be the woman you want me to be in this trial.

God please change me. We want other people to change so they will stop bothering us-God wants us to change and let Him change them. Joyce Meyer

God wants to change us from the inside out, but when we don't respond to His Holy Spirit, the outside presses in and crushes our flesh.

My determined purpose is to know God and His power not to get rid of my problems. Joyce Meyer

It is our trials that tempt us to do things and act in ways we should not.

Satan uses trials to push us to do things out of our weak areas, things we don't want to do. Yet God won't take away the trial-He wants us to grow through-experience our weakness being strengthened by Him

Verse Of The Day@biblegateway.com

"Be glad, people of Zion, rejoice in the LORD your God, for he has given you the autumn rains because he is faithful. He sends you abundant showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before." Joel 2:23 NIV

Sound the alarm! The day of the Lord is coming, it is close at hand. Like dawn spreading across the mountains. Not swerving from their course, they do not jostle one another. The earth shakes, the skies tremble, the stars no longer shine. Mighty are those who obey God's command. Who can endure the Day of the Lord- return to me with fasting, rend Your heart. Return to the Lord, He is compassionate, He relents. Call a fast, gather the people, weep and repent. Spare your people Oh Lord, do not make Your inheritance an object of scorn. Why should they say Where is Your God and the Lord will have compassion. Never again will I make you an object of scorn. Surely He has done great things, do not be afraid… the open pastures will become green, the fig tree will provide you riches. God sends abundant showers, the fleshing floors will be full of grain He will repay us for the years the locust has eaten. You will have plenty and You will praise the name of GOD Who will work wonders for you. Never again will my people be ashamed I will poor out my spirit and your sons and daughters will prophesize. Your young men shall dream dreams… I will show wonders, the sun will be turned to darkness, the moon to blood and everyone Who calls on the Lord will be saved.

My Thoughts By His Holy Spirit About This Verse! AWE GOD!

Worthy News Brief @worthyemail.com

Kimberly, in this day and age, when you can feel the winds of spiritual warfare swirling all around – when faith will be tested to the extreme – my prayer is that you will stand perfect and complete in the will of God! With so much work to be done, and so many of us under severe attack, never neglect the power of prayer – for this silent ministry counts so much more than you may realize, not only here on earth-- but also, where it really counts...in heaven!

talk it up! twitter

Jesus, increase in me-I give you my expectations-I submit to Your plan for today. Make me what YOU want me to be. @worldprayr #prayer

Strengthen us Jesus W/endurance-patience for the foolishness of our culture-the folly of those who speak out of deceit.@worldprayr

Sometimes people say things that are just so foolish in the LIGHT of the WISDOM of God that I can't even respond. Silence is best. LET GOD!

@Kmac4him SO agree, learned that the hard way... :) wisdom is a precious gift, when to pour and when to clam up from @librTBellstbls

PS 32: 8 I [the Lord] will instruct you- teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you

The human condition is held in peace only through a holy alliance with God. No inner peace? What are you aligned with? http://ow.ly/6v7ir

Holy Spirit Inspired…. He speaks, I listen and obey… Thank you for teaching Me!

Galatians 1:12 (NLT) I received my message from no human source, and no one taught me. Instead, I received it by direct revelation from Jesus Christ.

Page 56 in Seeking God in the Psalms By Boyd Bailey

Psalm 32:1-2

BLESSED (HAPPY, fortunate, to be envied) is he who has forgiveness of his transgression continually exercised upon him, whose sin is covered.2 Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man to whom the Lord imputes no iniquity and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

Amplified Bible

Forgiveness is full of blessing. The blessing of guilt's removal is a fruit of forgiveness. Boyd Bailey

The freedom to follow God's will, passionately and unashamedly, is fueled by daily forgiveness. Boyd Bailey

Forgiveness takes away the stain of selfishness and dyes it with service. Boyd Bailey

When we justify our bad attitudes-behavior without repenting, we get into a crazy cycle of self sufficiency. Boyd Bailey

Unconditional forgiveness is freeing. Indeed, one reason you forgive others is for your own sake. Otherwise, unforgiving relationships cause a root of bitterness to go deep into your heart and rob you of joy. Avoid withholding forgiveness to hurt others. Instead you get hurt. Let go and give to God your unfair friend, insensitive superfisor, proud parent, uncaring spouse or selfish child. Pray for them to be healed and you will be healed. Forgiveness does this, it heals the soul with eternities' elixir. Boyd Bailey

Let go and give God the hurt. Forgiveness does this: heals the soul with eternities' elixir. Boyd Bailey

John 5:24-25 Inner Peace! YouVersion Note!

Hear the voice of God and live! I love the Sovereign authority, promise and hope in this verse. It settles any chaos in my spirit and with Sovereign Authority ushers in God's perfect peace. No Doubt About It! God's voice always brings inner peace to my soul. When my spirit is disabled by anxiety and my peace muddied by the cultural conflict around me all day, God's Word always restores to my soul a purified and renewed inner peace. The wisest thing I can do for my inner peace is to hear and listen to God's Voice of Truth every single day, because this is how my inner peace stays stabilized and firmly set in the Kingdom authority, purpose, power, promise and provision of my AWE-GOD!

Excerpts-Thoughts From The Bridegroom's Voice

A Book Written By Jesus For His Bride! Available In 2012 For Info Email: kmac4him@maxforcepublishing.com

***************Day SIX… #6 Of Week Three ********************

Tue. Sept. 20- 201 1 My Thoughts: From The Bridegroom's Voice Week 3

Oh I have learned that lesson. A true peace stealer! Walking by the light of a fire kindled by my own hand. It burns out quickly.

Self-made men have temporary peace, that flares out quickly, going out with anger and frustration

Independence breeds arrogance, Dependence yields inner peace, stability and grows a humility that is life saving.

A Holy Alliance with God, heart to heart is the strength that feeds my weakness with God's power.

There is no inner peace in an unholy alliance with human strength. We were created to need our God

Fickle wisdom fizzles out in frustration. There is no stability in the wisdom of this culture.

Culturalism fabricates a short lived will-power that can't stand through the tests of time and does not hold its peace.

The human condition is held in peace only through a holy alliance with God. No inner peace? What are you aligned with?

John 5:24-25

I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, the person whose ears are open to My words [who listens to My message] and believes and trusts in and clings to and relies on Him Who sent Me has (possesses now) eternal life. And he does not come into judgment [does not incur sentence of judgment, will not come under condemnation], but he has already passed over out of death into life.25 Believe Me when I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, the time is coming and is here now when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear it shall live.

My Thoughts About This Verse:

Hear the voice of God and live! Not only live, but live with the inner peace God lavishes upon those who are His.
I need to listen to God's Voice, God's Truth every single day, opening my ears to it. In this my inner peace is stabilized! http://ow.ly/6v7ir
When my spirit is feeling disabled-my peace shattered, I can hear the Voice of God and be restored!
God's Word brings eternal life to those who are dead, peace to those who have none. Wake Up! Receive Christ! The Word Of God!
There is so much promise in this verse when You hear God say: the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God and live. What peace it brings. It settles things. AWE-GOD!
The Sovereign authority and promise of God's word is a great establisher of inner peace. AWE-GOD!

2 Timothy 4:1-8

In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: 2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. 3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. 5 But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry. 6 For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time for my departure is near. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8 Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.

My Thoughts About This Verse:

I think the key to our inner peace is the very words that this verse starts out with: In The Presence of God and of Jesus Christ. We can't do this life without God's Presence and without Jesus in our heart, there is no real peace.

How do we "keep our head" in the midst of hardship? We seek the mind of Jesus Christ, for in His thoughts, there is great peace.

Taking our focus off of this season of our lives and putting it on the hope of our future in Christ Jesus gives us such inner peace.

If I want to fight the good fight of faith, I need to grasp tightly to my future and hope in Christ's Kingdom. This is my peace- my strength to persevere!

This is the generation of the self-made man who walks by the light of a man made fire! It will burn out. http://ow.ly/6v7ir

Unholy alliance W/ human strength-the fickle wisdom of this culture, fabricates a short-lived will-power-not persevering in nature. http://ow.ly/6v7ir

This is my Groomsman's Journal in my journey with God through the Book "The Bridegroom's Voice! This book is an amazing God-Adventure it was written by Jesus for His Bride and penned by Kimberlymac. It will be available for online purchase in 2012. If you are interested and want to know when it is published and available to the public, send your email address to: kmac4him@maxforcepublishing.com God Bless You!

leadership wisdom from Ron edmondston blog

Just because you fix a problem from your perspective, doesn't mean you've solved the problem in the eyes of those you lead. Ron Edmonson

I should attempt to understand the real problem from other's perspective and what solving that problem would even look like. At that point, I can determine whether I can truly solve the problem to their satisfaction. Sometimes I'll be able to and sometimes not, but everyone should at least know what's considered resolution to the problem. That keeps me from spending time and resources attempting to fix a problem I can never solve. As leaders we need to learn how to move from fixing the problem to solving the problem from our perspective.

****My Prayer! I Place All My Expectation In You, Almighty God!*****

Jesus be with Tina today, I pray that YOU would strengthen her with endurance, peace and YOUR stability in her inner personality. Jesus. Help this school of students as they grieve the loss of their Physical Education teacher. Be with them in comfort. Be with the twin boys who lost mother and father, comfort them Jesus, be with the families Jesus draw them to YOUR strength and hope. Jesus.

Father be with Bob today, help him to LET GO and LET YOU Work. Holy Spirit whisper this wisdom into his heart today. Strengthen him physically and emotionally. Jesus.

Father give Peg and Zeljko, Your wisdom on their decisions for their future. Give them YOUR discernment and be their favor. Open the doors that man cannot open, the way that man cannot see, Only YOU. Jesus. Be their door opening. Jesus.

Father be with Ed Fernandez today, make YOUR WAY for him, be His Way-Maker Jesus, His provision and his peace.

A Seasoned Servant Of God Has Encouraged Me Today

Debra Ray! Thanking God For You!

Holy Is The Lord: Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaLx0A5wgWk&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL55C979F7F2738BC3

Psalms 94 ~ The Message Bible

^12-15 How blessed the man you train, God, the woman you instruct in your Word, Providing a circle of quiet within the clamor of evil, while a jail is being built for the wicked. God will never walk away from his people, never desert his precious people. Rest assured that justice is on its way and every good heart put right.

What an amazing promise that is! God will never walk away from us. Never. He will work all things out towards His perfect justice for us. In the midst of outer chaos, God will provide a circle of inner quiet for us by His Spirit in us.

http://wisdomhunters.com/ Boyd Bailey

Travel Temptations

"My husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey. He took his purse filled with money and will not be home till full moon." Proverbs 7:19-20

How do you deal with temptations when you travel? Conversely, what is your behavior when you are the spouse left back at home? Is your house a palace of peace, or a prison of confinement? Not only must the weary traveler be wary of wrong behavior, but so must the one left 'holding down the fort' at home. Perhaps as a couple you craft together guidelines defining what you will, and will not do while separated by travel. Distance can grow the heart fonder and more faithful, or it can fire the flames of lust and infidelity. If you travel for your work, you most likely are motivated to meet the needs of your family. However, every assignment is for a season. So, maybe it's time to get off the road and reconnect with your child who is approaching their teenage years, or be there more often for your spouse because she is starved for extra emotional support. Always be willing to adjust to the situation.

Moreover, do not drift into travel temptations that become divisive and deteriorate your marriage. One boundary may be to avoid bars and be back at your room soon after work and dinner. A righteous routine on the road gets the right results. Make it a priority when at all possible to travel with another person of similar values.

Always be bold by becoming an influencer of integrity: good, clean fun without flirting with sin. On the other hand, your role in the marriage may be to daily support the children and manage the home. Take pride and not pity during this season of unselfish service. By God's grace you are molding their minds to the things of Christ, and how they can influence the culture with His Kingdom priorities.

You are as valuable as the one out working to provide for the family, since you are working to preserve the family. Stay occupied in prayer, bible study, their school and being available for those who need you. Marriage is a team effort that sees outstanding outcomes when you are both on the same page of love and obedience to Christ. Travel temptations are terminated on both ends through trust in the Lord, and trust in each other.

The Bible says, "He trusts in the LORD; let the LORD rescue him. Let him deliver him, since he delights in him" (Psalm 22:8).

What behavioral boundaries do I need to co-create with my spouse related to our time apart?

Related Readings: Numbers 5:11-15; Isaiah 46:6; Luke 12:39-46; 1 John 3:9

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Monday, September 19, 2011

Constant Conversation W/God 9-19 mon

Monday, September 19, 2011

AWE- ALMIGHTY GOD!

Make My Life Excellent In You-Constant In Your Courage

I am forever grateful to You, Heavenly Father and it is with Thanksgiving that I Kimberly Ann McCarthy step into this day shod with the shoes of gratitude that walk me into the Presence of Jesus with an undivided heart of timeless praise from now unto forever.

Psalm 46

God is our miracle! We can't fix anything or anyone. He can. He will. He is the solution. #AWE-GOD! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xWGhVSswjs&feature=related #tworship

Family PRAYER

Ephesians 3: 14-21 Draw Us (BOB, KIM, BRAD, BONNIE, KIELE, RYANNE, CHRIS, SUMMER, NOAH, BABY M, KENNETH, TINA, BABY D) To You That We Might Walk With You This Day And Forever! May He grant us BOB, KIM, BONNIE, BRAD, KIELE, RYANNE, CHRIS, SUMMER, NOAH, BABY M, KENNETH, TINA, BABY D out of the rich treasury of His glory to be strengthened and reinforced with mighty power in the inner man by the [Holy] Spirit [Himself indwelling within BOB, KIM, BONNIE, BRAD, KIELE, RYANNE, CHRIS, SUMMER, NOAH, BABYM, KENNETH, TINA, BABY D innermost being and personality]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rh7t_I7s4I&list=PL55D3D8481D0B9995&index=50

Blessings Precious Family!

Precious Family,

This morning I am reminded how short our lives are. Today is the day, God has given us, I pray we love each other well, I pray we bear with one another and live this day in the most excellent way we can by the strength, grace and power of our precious Jesus Christ. Let's encourage, pray for and love each other well this week my precious family. There is so much tragedy in our world right now, all around us people are dealing with more than they could imagine possible. This like no other time in history is a time for us to develop community and not isolate ourselves from one another. We need our God, we need one another. So pray for each other this week precious children and call, email, facebook, whatever it takes for us to encourage each other, let's do it. Love each other in your homes, in your family, neighborhood, workplace and in your community, love each other well through the compassion of God's heart. Where God has placed you, is where His legacy of love should remain as your living legacy, so be His this week, be His love!

I sense God wants us to learn to cling harder to Him, dig our roots deeper in His Kingdom during this season of our lives where we do experience the suffering of in our lives and our world all around us. Sudden tragedy seems to be the hardest to bear, especially when you can't even begin to wrap your mind around it. Tragedy never makes sense – Truth does – Hope does – God's promise does. Sometimes when tragedy strikes those close to us or even us, our heart fails and we cry out to God: Why God? We begin thinking and over thinking and trying to make rational sense out of something we were not created to understand. There are times in this life, we may not get an answer that satisfies our human understanding, there are places in God's Sovereignty, that we are not meant to go. There are times when the answer may only be: God is Sovereign! It is during these times that we cling to God, to the all of the everything that we know Him to be.

Psalm 46

GOD IS our Refuge and Strength [mighty and impenetrable to temptation], a very present and well-proved help in trouble. 2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change and though the mountains be shaken into the midst of the seas, 3 Though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling and tumult. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! 4 There is a river whose streams shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High. 5 God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved; God will help her right early [at the dawn of the morning]. 6 The nations raged, the kingdoms tottered and were moved; He uttered His voice, the earth melted. 7 The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our Refuge (our Fortress and High Tower). Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!

When we yield our questions to His Sovereignty, we bow before Him and we grieve and cry out of the pain of human tragedy, it is in this willessness of our frail humanity, that Jesus gives us an unyielding, impenetrable strength and peace. I hope this for us precious family!

Psalm 29:11

The Lord will give [unyielding and impenetrable] strength to His people; the Lord will bless His people with peace.

There are times in this life that are so hard, that we feel we can't bear them without knowing something to make sense out of it. We are striving so hard at times to understand. We ask, and God does not answer. So what then? God is the solution. He knows the answer, He see's all and His
Sovereign silence protects us from our human inability. God tells us what we can handle, He keeps things from us to protect us and to bring forth the fullness of His Kingdom purposes at the best timing for our growth in Him. God is always being, He knows our pain, He is with us. God is always working out His purposes in the unseen and when He is ready and we are ready for Him to reveal them, we will miraculously step right into His Kingdom Flow. So wait on God, precious family, silently submit to Him!

Psalm 62:5-8

My soul, wait only upon God and silently submit to Him; for my hope and expectation are from Him. 6 He only is my Rock and my Salvation; He is my Defense and my Fortress, I shall not be moved. 7With God rests my salvation and my glory; He is my Rock of unyielding strength and impenetrable hardness, and my refuge is in God! 8 Trust in, lean on, rely on, and have confidence in Him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts before Him. God is a refuge for us (a fortress and a high tower). Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!

When life hits you hard and a suddenly sweeps your soul right off its feet and you feel you don't have the strength to stand back up, your emotions are broken, your will to do what is right is shut down and your spirit is underneath the circumstances, remember that God has commanded your strength. Omnipresent Reality Check! God is with you. God's Got This! He will take you at the place of your human condition and He will strengthen you with His might, power, purpose, provision, peace and promise. No doubt about it! He will!

Psalm 68:28

Your God has commanded your strength [your might in His service and impenetrable hardness to temptation]; O God, display Your might and strengthen what You have wrought for us!

When you feel like a sudden tragedy is more than what you can bear, that your emotions are all over the place and you can't settle down, turn and fully face YOUR GOD! Stand in His Presence, let HIM saturate your soul with HIS HOPE! You can be anchored in the position of His Grace and "grow" through every situation God allows to touch your life. Family, we are anchored in a sure hope, our faith will stand. I pray this for us today precious family, that we (Bob, Kim, Brad, Bonnie, Kiele, Ry, Chris, Summer, Noah, BabyM, Kenneth, Tina, Baby D) will have a sure and steadfast anchor for our soul, Jesus Christ! So Be It! AMEN!

Hebrews 6:18-20

This was so that, by two unchangeable things [His promise and His oath] in which it is impossible for God ever to prove false or deceive us, we who have fled [to Him] for refuge might have mighty indwelling strength and strong encouragement to grasp and hold fast the hope appointed for us and set before [us]. 19[Now] we have this [hope] as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul [it cannot slip and it cannot [a]break down under whoever steps out upon it--a hope] that reaches [b]farther and enters into [the very certainty of the Presence] within the veil, 20 Where Jesus has entered in for us [in advance], a Forerunner having become a High Priest forever after the order (with [c]the rank) of Melchizedek.

Jesus, I pray for this family today: (Bob, Kim, Brad, Bonnie, Kiele, Ry, Chris, Summer, Noah, BabyM, Kenneth, Tina, Baby D) Let Faith Arise! Jesus be our refuge and our strength! You are faithful - forever. We lift our lives to YOU JESUS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbNK50T35wY&feature=related

Lift Your Hands! Believe in Jesus! #Tworship

Tragedy comes suddenly and you can't wrap your mind around it, but you can cling harder to Jesus, dig the roots of your being in His Peace. Jesus! Jesus! His Great Name Is Our Strength! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuuLBPOYcI8&feature=youtu.be #Tworship

I Will Not Be Moved By Natalie Grant

Cling To God's Hand Of Hope! In The Face Of Life's Sudden Tragedy – You Will Not Be Moved!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyEMJBhCtU8&NR=1 #Tworship

Psalm 27

The LORD is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life—

of whom shall I be afraid? 2 When the wicked advance against me to devour[a] me, it is my enemies and my foes who will stumble and fall. 3 Though an army besiege me, my heart will not fear; though war break out against me, even then I will be confident. 4 One thing I ask from the LORD, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple. 5 For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling; he will hide me in the shelter of his sacred tent and set me high upon a rock. 6 Then my head will be exalted above the enemies who surround me; at his sacred tent I will sacrifice with shouts of joy; I will sing and make music to the LORD. 7 Hear my voice when I call, LORD; be merciful to me and answer me. 8 My heart says of you, "Seek his face!" Your face, LORD, I will seek. 9 Do not hide your face from me, do not turn your servant away in anger; you have been my helper. Do not reject me or forsake me, God my Savior. 10 Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me. 11 Teach me your way, LORD; lead me in a straight path because of my oppressors.

12 Do not turn me over to the desire of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, spouting malicious accusations. 13 I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. 14 Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.

Even in human tragedy, God's endgame is good! AWE-GOD! We trust You today Lord and we submit to Your Sovereignty.

charles spurgeon devotional

"The liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free."

Galatians 5:1

This "liberty" makes us free to heaven's charter--the Bible. Here is a choice passage, believer, "When thou passest through the rivers, I will be with thee." You are free to that. Here is another: "The mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart from thee"; you are free to that. You are a welcome guest at the table of the promises. Scripture is a never-failing treasury filled with boundless stores of grace. It is the bank of heaven; you may draw from it as much as you please, without let or hindrance. Come in faith and you are welcome to all covenant blessings. There is not a promise in the Word which shall be withheld. In the depths of tribulations let this freedom comfort you; amidst waves of distress let it cheer you; when sorrows surround thee let it be thy solace. This is thy Father's love-token; thou art free to it at all times. Thou art also free to the throne of grace. It is the believer's privilege to have access at all times to his heavenly Father. Whatever our desires, our difficulties, our wants, we are at liberty to spread all before him. It matters not how much we may have sinned, we may ask and expect pardon. It signifies nothing how poor we are, we may plead his promise that he will provide all things needful. We have permission to approach his throne at all times--in midnight's darkest hour, or in noontide's most burning heat. Exercise thy right, O believer, and live up to thy privilege. Thou art free to all that is treasured up in Christ--wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. It matters not what thy need is, for there is fulness of supply in Christ, and it is there for thee. O what a "freedom" is thine! freedom from condemnation, freedom to the promises, freedom to the throne of grace, and at last freedom to enter heaven!

SUNDAY SERMON NOTES!#SGLEAM

Ephesians 2:1-3 "And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you

once walked, following the course of this world, following the

prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in

the sons of disobedience—among whom we all once lived in the

passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the

mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of

mankind." (ESV)

God's Wrath! Doesn't mean people are without value, if they weren't God would not have sent His Son to die for them.

Our "Before" Picture: DEAD, Disobedient,

Depraved and Doomed

I loved what Pastor Todd said about me being a person God values and how He valued me so much He sent His Son to die for me. That set well with my soul because my human condition comes with an independent- impulsive nature. That was my Before picture, and God gave me a Rhema life lesson in Isaiah 50, showing me that I was kindling my own fire, walking in my independence, by the light of a man made fire and as long as I did that, I would lay down in torment. My emotions were tormented for years by my independent nature, until God changed me and now My After picture is this…. And Oh, it comes with incredible peace!

2 Kings 20:5 Thus Says The Lord, The God Of David Your [Forefather]:

I Have Heard Your Prayer. I Have Seen Your Tears; Behold, I Will Heal You!

God Will Heal You!

September 19^th

Father be with Tina today, strengthen her with Your mighty power from the inside out, be her peace, be the voice of comfort in her.

Jesus be with Summer today, heal her back, touch her body and renew her strength, help her to grow through this day with YOU in control of her every moment. Jesus

Jesus be with ED Fernandez, undergird him with your strength and hope. Feed His faith by Your Promises. Jesus make a way for him. Be His Way-Maker. Open the door that no man can open for him. I pray You hear his heart's desire to be near his children. Jesus.

Jesus deliver Lorlie from two strongholds that she hopes to get free from. Be her deliverer Jesus, help her to work her way to freedom by Your direction, truth, peace and desire. Jesus

Father make a way for Imasinger4Jesus. I pray for the business that Imasinger4Jesus started in Alabama and pray for YOUR hand of blessing and favor upon it. Jesus. Help Imasinger4Jesus Lord to hold fast to Your precepts and principles and expand the territory of this business Jesus by Your Mighty hand of favor and grace. Jesus.

Father God, touch Chad Granese today and give Chad strength as he fasts from facebook, open up YOUR life to Him Jesus and reveal to Chad a deeper vision of You, strengthen Chad's relationship with You, Jesus. Be with Chad today, he starts a new job, give Chad strength and confidence and help him to learn as much as he can from these next 4 weeks of training. Jesus!

Jesus be with Liesa who accepted Jesus online yesterday and draw her to a personal relationship with You, disciple her and teach her and keep her free in You Jesus.

Father be with Amy and continue to strengthen her self-confidence, seed it in Your Wisdom and Hope and connect her heart to heart with Your confidence, your love for her.

Father I pray for David, continue to heal and strengthen his heart, draw him closer to you.

Jesus I pray for all the soldiers under the sound of Your Voice yesterday at Ft. Benning. I pray Your Word will accomplish what You set it out to do. Strengthen them in their training and keep them focused and bless those who are graduating this week.

Father make a way for Bob this week, where there seems to be no way. Motivate all the Subs working on this job to finish what they started. Jesus give Bob strength and inner peace. AMEN!

Lord, touch my cousin Wesley and help him as he is healing, strengthen his heart, heal his soul and help him to cling to YOU. Jesus!

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"Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen." Ephesians 4:29 NIV

Notes From Listening To Ephesians 4

Prisoner for the law, be humble patient bear with one another in love… there is one body, one spirit, one hope, one Lord faith baptism…. Over all through all in all… Grace has been given to each one of us, gifts to men…. He ascended because He descended… He filled the whole universe… He gave some to be evangelist, pastors, teachers so the body of Christ may be built up, become mature attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ no longer to be tossed to and fro from the wind of teaching, speak the truth in love we will all grow up, from Him the whole body is held together an built up in love as each part does it work. No longer live as the gentiles do in the futility of their thinking to the hardness of hearts… loosing all sensitivity to God they give themselves over to immorality with a full lust for more… we are taught to put off old self corrupted by deceitful desires, made new in the attitude of your mind, created to be like God in righteousness and holiness, put off lies speak truthfully do not sin, do not let the sun go down while you are angry and do not give the devil a foothold, do not let any unwholesome talk go out of our mouth, do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God… get rid of slander, malice be kind and compassionate to each other, forgiving each other just as in Christ, God forgave you.

My Thoughts About This:

If you want to be enslaved by something, then make sure it is the truth and not sin. I would much rather be enslaved to truth than to sin. We human beings always find a way to be enslaved, it is silly because Jesus died to make us free. Yet our enemy is always trying to enslave us in some kind of sin, rule or regulation that is outside of relationship with God. Anger is always a trip up for me, especially if it is about my "rights". If someone accuses me of something I have not done or of an attitude that is not in my heart, this is a real stumbling block that can turn into a self righteous attitude, I always need to guard my heart from this. As far as loosing sensitivity to God, I think we all are capable of doing that and it does lead to some pretty radical places that you could never imagine yourself going. A God-Consciousness is a huge thing, it is so important to me to continuously be doing Omnipresent Reality Checks, yes God is with me, yes I am still positioned in a Holy Alliance with Him, Aligned in Right Living, Right Attitudes, Right Thoughts…

When a team or team member has no opportunity to rest, they soon lose their ability to maintain motivation and momentum stalls. Good leaders learn when to push to excel and when to push to relax. This may be different for various team members, but everyone needs to pause occasionally to re-energize. Quote By Ron Edmonson

A Seasoned Servant Of God Has Encouraged Me Today

I Look To You By Selah

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Joshua 1:8 ~ The Message Bible

Don't get off track, either left or right, so as to make sure you get to where you're going. And don't for a minute let this Book of The Revelation be out of mind. Ponder and meditate on it day and night, making sure you practice everything written in it. Then you'll get where you're going; then you'll succeed. Haven't I commanded you? Strength! Courage! Don't be timid; don't get discouraged. God, your God, is with you every step you take."

My Thoughts About This:

Lord that is all I can hope for, that You will be with me from each moment to every choice I make. Help me to turn to You, to Fully Face YOU in the all of my everything. Jesus! I pray to be strong in You Jesus, to be everything You have designed me to be. Jesus make me into what You would have me to be. Jesus!

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Philemon 1:4-7

4 I always thank my God when I mention you in my prayers,

5 because I hear of your love and faith toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints.

6 I pray that your participation in the faith may become effective through knowing every good thing that is in us for the glory of Christ.

7 For I have great joy and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

Dear Bob and Kim,

Welcome to my daily (almost) devotional. I hope you are blessed by these morning devotionals. I suppose the reason God wakes me up so early and gives me these thoughts is to help you (and myself) just as he did for the Apostle Paul. Paul, in this letter to Philemon, has great confidence in what God has done and is doing through the ministry in which he has been called. Can't you feel the boldness he has in telling Philemon of his prayer that Philemon "will become effective through knowing every good thing that is in 'US'."? He is speaking of himself and the disciples he has trained. It also applies to us today. Paul's confidence was not in his own ability, but in the LORD Jesus Christ, and that hasn't changed for us today, either.

What is the main point of the scripture today?

In verse 4, it is the prayer of thanksgiving for Philemon.

Verse 5 is about Philemon's reputation for love and faith.

Verse 6 is about Paul's prayers for Philemon's effective use of what has been given to him for the glory of the LORD.

Lastly, in verse 7,Paul receives great joy and encouragement as his disciple puts into practice what he has been taught.

The Apostle John makes a similar statement to Gaius in 3 John 1:4, "I have no greater joy than this: to hear that my children are walking in the truth."

The main point of today's devotional is this: there is great joy in witnessing the results of all those days and hours of prayer and training that we invest in others. As a pastor, I can now really understand how Paul felt.

In whom are you investing today? God grants us knowledge, skills and disciplines that we ought to pass on to others so that HIS Kingdom will flourish and grow. Are you fulfilling your calling as a Christian to invest in others?

I can tell you from my own personal experience, there is no greater joy than this: "to hear my children (my flock) are walking in the truth". Pastor Elliott

You are a welcome guest at the table of the promises. Scripture is a never-failing treasury filled with boundless stores of grace. Charles Spurgeon

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Conflict

If you work with people you have conflict. The good news is about people and the bad news is about people. There is the good and there is the bad, there is the ugly, the dysfunction in people. There are no two good consecutive days in a leaders life because you are leading people and there will always be conflict. We can't get rid of conflict no matter how hard we try or how good we treat people. Embrace conflict, take it as a challenge. Conflict will always be with leaders, take it as a challenge, you will never be rid of conflict. There is always conflict, people are messy. Embrace conflict as a challenge, take the conflicted and help them find peace. Take parties in conflict and help them find compromise. Conflict is always with us take it as a challenge, you don't get rid of conflict, you just help people through it.

My Thoughts About This:

Thank you that was so good. I guess I am not really good with conflict, I want to run from it, I usually do not face it head on. I too strive really hard to keep conflict out of my relationships, but now I see I was wrong in that. I get it! I can't believe after all these years it was that simple, just embrace it. Don't' run from it, that is very tiring and don't try to fix everyone, that was very frustrating and impossible and lead to a lot of personal disappointment. Embrace conflict. I like it! Conflict is a challenge I will be embracing it from now on.

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Kimberly, you're at war

2 Corinthians 10:3-6 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

As the threat of war looms on the horizon in Israel, I'm all the more reminded that we in the Body of Messiah are already at war spiritually. Constantly contending in our minds, we battle over thoughts and emotions which flow through them. The enemy often attacks by bringing up issues from our past. Failures, regrets, wounds, and traumas all have the potential to drag us down into doubt, darkness and despair. Our tremendous challenge is not to respond to these memories with old destructive thought patterns. Our victory lies in responding to these thoughts and feelings with the mind of Messiah as new creations in Him.

While we don't necessarily ignore thoughts and feelings from the past, it is vital that we don't allow them to control our souls and emotions, but that we take them captive through prayers and declarations inspired by our spiritual mind. For example, is the enemy speaking rejection to me causing me to feel unwanted and unloved? I will respond that I am ACCEPTED IN THE BELOVED and that the Lord has shown His love to me in many ways by His spirit and through His Body.

A powerful illustration from the Old Testament is the Lord's forbidding the levitical priests from entering His Presence if they had touched any dead thing. This is a lesson for us – leave the old, dead mindset behind, the ways that you used to respond to things in the past– instead, enter the Holy of Holies and commune with your Lord!

Kimberly, the battle over past issues is won when the Mind of Messiah in us takes authority over their meaning, purpose and definition in our lives With Yeshua (Jesus) on the throne of our hearts and minds, everything in our past is brought under His authority and works together for our good!

Your family in the Lord with much agape love,

George, Baht Rivka, Elianna & Obadiah

Negev Desert, Israel

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Mon. Sept. 19th 201 1 My Thoughts: From The Bridegroom's Voice Week 3

Inner peace lasts when it rests on a foundation of God's Word
God's Word endures, it lasts from the beginning of my trial and keeps on giving as I "grow through" the season at hand.
God's Truth endures through everything we "grow through" and shapes in us God like characteristics
Say-so is sullied by culturalism in our generation and I don't want the misinformation of worldly Say-so and the chaos it brings. I want God's peace!
The Truth sets us free from every form of misinformation by keeping what is true up front and center in our minds.
It is so easy to stumble over misinformation when we are not in the Word. God's truth sifts out deceit and gives peace.
I pursue God's peace more than I do mediatic misinformation. I read the Word 1^st and soak my soul in its precepts; in this there is peace!

Romans 12:1-5

I APPEAL to you therefore, brethren, and beg of you in view of [all] the mercies of God, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies [presenting all your members and faculties] as a living sacrifice, holy (devoted, consecrated) and well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable (rational, intelligent) service and spiritual worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you]. 3 For by the grace (unmerited favor of God) given to me I warn everyone among you not to estimate and think of himself more highly than he ought [not to have an exaggerated opinion of his own importance], but to rate his ability with sober judgment, each according to the degree of faith apportioned by God to him. 4 For as in one physical body we have many parts (organs, members) and all of these parts do not have the same function or use, 5 So we, numerous as we are, are one body in Christ (the Messiah) and individually we are parts one of another mutually dependent on one another].
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My Thoughts About This Verse:

My mind yielded over to God brings great peace to my soul. Yet in yielding my mind, I also have to choose what I listen to. What goes in, comes out in attitude, thought and action.
Culturalism has a great affect on all of our minds. Mass media attempts to soak us in their way of thinking and doing. This can conform our minds if we take in too much and it can steal our peace.
Read the word more than I take in the world's superficial media. Dig deeper with God and renew my mind with His Word, His Truth, this is what I need to be doing, so I can be found in His peace.
Pride is a huge peace stealer, because it is so exhausting to hold it up and so frustrating to battle with it. Humility brings with it a sweet God-peace that can't be shaken, will by damaged cultural emotions.
God's peace stays stable in every situation because it is propped up by His Grace and positioned in His Truth
Peace comes from fellowship with one another, where we come in contact with the gifts of God that we each have been given so liberally by our AWE-GOD!

Psalm 85:7-12

Show us Your mercy and loving-kindness, O Lord, and grant us Your salvation.8 I will listen [with expectancy] to what God the Lord will say, for He will speak peace to His people, to His saints (those who are in right standing with Him)--but let them not turn again to [self-confident] folly.9 Surely His salvation is near to those who reverently and worshipfully fear Him, [and is ready to be appropriated] that [the manifest presence of God, His] glory may tabernacle and abide in our land.10 Mercy and loving-kindness and truth have met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.11 Truth shall spring up from the earth, and righteousness shall look down from heaven.12 Yes, the Lord will give what is good, and our land will yield its increase.

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My Thoughts About This Verse:

I think expectancy has a lot to do with our inner peace! Is it an expectancy that is fed by dread or is it an expectancy that is paid forward with hope and by God's promises.
Of course there is a self confidence that is driven by pride and I don't think that ends up with a person being peaceful.
Self confident folly is surely not a reasonable path to inner peace, but more often than not it leads to frustration and failure.
Mercy, Lovingkindness and truth! That is a combination that will certainly yield inner peace.
Right choices will always have an endgame of peace and the kiss of peace on our souls is always preceded by Righteousness.
When righteousness and peace embrace, this is where you will find a consistent and thriving intimate relationship with God

My Bride, the inner peace you seek, it is in My Words, by My Spirit! I AM the only message that has endured for 2000 years!

Listen to My epistle and shut out the sullied clamor of say-so that bombards your spirit with misinformation!

Yielding my mind over to God brings great peace. Yielding has actions of right choices. In every moment to every choice, I must be aware of what I am subjecting my mind to. What am I listening to? Culturalism has a great affect on our way of thinking and it trickles down to our attitudes and actions. Too much of our cultural excesses and self indulgent messages can make us harried with the chaos that keeping up with excess and self indulgence can bring into our lives and it steals our peace. The Word will keep me in Holy Alignment with God's Spirit and Truth. It is the Word of God that I need to shape my attitudes, therefore my actions will be a living legacy of the character of Jesus Christ. What is my mind yielded to? Yes it matters! Infinitely so!

Expectancy is tied to our inner peace in ways we fail to realize. Is my expectancy fed by dread or is it an expectancy that is paid forward with hope, by God's Promises? Is my expectancy played out by my own self confidence that is pride driven? I am thinking the only place this kind of expectancy will drive me is to chaos and frustration. Expectancy wrongly placed in my self confidence is a folly that is not a very reasonable path to inner peace, but more often leads to disappointed failure. God's Mercy-Lovingkindness-Truth, now this is a trio that will truly fire up my expectancy and direct it straight forward with an endgame of faithful peace. I am thinking that right choices, inspired moment to choice, by an expectancy in God, is likened to a kiss of peace on our soul. Truly when righteousness and peace embrace, this is an intersection of life where you will find a consistent, thriving, intimate relationship with AWE-GOD!

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