Wednesday, July 23, 2025, 07:14
made it back:
pray you have continued on in Proverbs
and have allowed the Holy Spirit to teach you.
Over the last few days i have been looking at tool box organizers,
It has brought me to the though that having our minds,
our lives, organized would make them a lot less complicated.
Removing the clutter the distractions, the worldly teachings
and having a clean clear simple path to walk.
Simple is best,
and as Christians there is no reason that our lives need to be complicated,
Jesus states it well;
If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
John 14:15
“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.”
John 15:10
“If you keep My commandments,
you will abide in My love;
just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.”
John 14:23-24
Jesus answered and said to him,
“If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word;
and My Father will love him,
and We will come to him and make
Our abode with him.
He who does not love Me does not keep My words;
and the word which you hear is not Mine,
but the Father’s who sent Me.”
John 15:9-14
“Just as the Father has loved Me,
I have also loved you;
abide in My love.
If you keep My commandments,
you will abide in My love;
just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.
These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you,
and that your joy may be made full.
This is My commandment,
that you love one another,
just as I have loved you.
Greater love has no one than this,
that one lay down his life for his friends.
You are My friends if you do what I command you.”
1John 5:1-5
Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and whoever loves the Father loves the child born of Him.
By this we know that we love the children of God,
when we love God and observe His commandments.
For this is the love of God,
that we keep His commandments;
and His commandments are not burdensome.
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world;
and this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
Who is the one who overcomes the world,
but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?”
2John 1:6
And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments.
This is the commandment,
just as you have heard from the beginning,
that you should walk in it.
2John 1:9
Anyone who goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ,
does not have God;
the one who abides in the teaching,
he has both the Father and the Son.
If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching,
do not receive him into your house,
and do not give him a greeting;
for the one who gives him a greeting participates in his evil deeds.
The word of GOD, of Christ Jesus the Son of God are clear.
As Christians we are to love, Him and His Father,
The only way to show that love is to love those whom Christ brings in to our path,
and the body of Christ,
Those who also love Him.
The way we know those who are of God is by the way,
the manner in which they live.
We are also directed that if anyone comes to us and does not bring this teaching,
We are not to allow them into your homes,
and we are not to even give him a greeting;
for to do so is to participates in their evil deeds.
That does not mean we are not to love them,
Our love for them can be lived out in praying for their salvation,
The giving of our time to seriously and honestly pray for them.
Do you love the Lord your God?
Does it show?
Do you love those whom Christ brings in to your life?
Do you keep His commandments?
Humbly bring yourself to the feet of Jesus and repent.
Ask His Holy Spirit to teach you how to love.
And disconnect from those who do not live in the love of Christ our Lord.
If you love Him this should not be a difficult or as Christ has said burdensome choice to make.
Saturday, July 19, 2025, 06:11
If you find the post here have opened your eyes and your heart to the Lord,
Please pass it on to those you know and give them the opportunity to read them
It will be up to them to read or not,
Just as it has been up to you,
But give them the link and let them decide.
Give them the option to find out about Christ Jesus and Father God and the Holy Spirit.
on to others
Before time runs out, and they may not have the opportunity to be to find that narrow path leading to the small gate.
The opportunity to except the Christ as their Lord and to the Holy Spirit as their teacher.
Not saying that i am good at teaching but
they by reading the wors here they might except Christ Jesus,
He will ask Father God to send to them the Holy Spirit,
and Father will give the Holy Spirit to dwell in them,
through reading the word of GOD,
the Holy Spirit can quicken their hearts to receive from Him the wisdom and understanding of who Christ Jesus is and how He asks them to live for Him,
so that when the time come they will not hear these dreaded word;
“DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS”
Matther 7:21-23
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven,
but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.
Many will say to Me on that day,
‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name,
and in Your name cast out demons,
and in Your name perform many miracles?
And then I will declare to them,
I never knew you;
DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.’”
or perhaps to
them have the courage to read your bible and tell them yourself.
What will Christ Jesus say about you on that day?
thid could be your way of sharing Christ with them,
before time runs out.
Friday, July 18, 2025, 04:13
Planning ahead for what has been given as an opportunity.
Have you ever had someone in this world give you an opportunity to have or do sometime in the future?
Something that may seem farfetched almost imposable?
And your response was I don’t want to think about or talk about that right now,
it will distract me from what I am doing mow,
and it may not even happen,
and I would be disappointed.
Kind of like the saying “seeing is believing”
A statement straight from satin himself to form doubt in the mind of the believer.
But that seems to be the attitude of a lot who use the title Christian now days.
Even of a few i know who go by the title pasters.
Sad situation if this is your mind set,
Honestly it is a dangers way of looking at things.
We are to come to the LORD as children,
The faith of a child is simple pure faith,
Not doubting but full acceptance,
(it was said and it will happen type attitude)
The faith of a child:
faith like a child here is a wonderful thing,
makes it so much smother to go throw life without worry,
to walk in peace, to have true joy,
and as was mentioned the other have fun.
Christ Jesus said He will return for His bride the Church,
And He will, we are even told what to look for as to when that time will come.
Matthew 24:36-39
But of that day and hour no one knows,
not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son,
but the Father alone.
For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah.
For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking,
marrying and giving in marriage,
until the day that Noah entered the ark,
and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away;
so will the coming of the Son of Man be.
Are you paying attention to the sings of the times?
Or are you to busy playing with the world?
And worrying about tomorrow.
You tell a child on Monday that on Saturday you will take them to the circus
and they will plan for it all week,
when Saturday they will get up expecting to go.
Tell them next month we will go camping
and they will spend the month getting ready to go,
and on that day, they will get up and expect to go camping.
Christ Jesus has not told us the day,
No He has not given us the day nor the hour,
but He has given us the sings to look for.
The question you have to ask your self is:
Am I looking for the Lord’s return?
will I be ready to meet Him in the clouds?
Will I be one of the wise (the prudent) or one of the foolish?
Matthew 24:29-51
“But immediately after the tribulation of those days
THE SUN WILL BE DARKENED, AND THE MOON WILL NOT GIVE ITS LIGHT,
AND THE STARS WILL FALL from the sky,
and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky,
and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn,
and they will see the SON OF MAN COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF THE SKY
with power and great glory.
And He will send forth His angels with A GREAT TRUMPET
and THEY WILL GATHER TOGETHER His elect from the four winds,
from one end of the sky to the other.
Now learn the parable from the fig tree:
when its branch has already become tender and puts forth its leaves,
you know that summer is near; so, you too,
when you see all these things, recognize that He is near, right at the door.
Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.
Heaven and earth will pass away,
but My words will not pass away.
But of that day and hour no one knows,
not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son,
but the Father alone.
For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah.
For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking,
marrying and giving in marriage,
until the day that Noah entered the ark,
and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away;
so will the coming of the Son of Man be.
Then there will be two men in the field;
one will be taken and one will be
Two women will be grinding at the mill;
one will be taken and one will be left.
Be Ready for His Coming
Therefore, be on the alert,
for you do not know which day your Lord is coming.
But be sure of this,
that if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming,
he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.
For this reason you also must be ready;
for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will.
Who then is the faithful and sensible slave whom his master put in charge of his household to give them their food at the proper time?
Blessed is that slave whom his master finds so doing when he comes.
Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions.
But if that evil slave says in his heart,
‘My master is not coming for a long time,’
and begins to beat his fellow slaves and eat and drink with drunkards;
the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour which he does not know,
and will cut him in pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites;
in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Want a bigger view of what to look for and what will take place on that day?
Then read all of Matthew 24 and 25.
Read the books of the profits in the Old Testament
Want to know what will take place before and after that day?
Go read Revelation.
Interested in being prepared?
Read the Bible.
For Christ Jesus said He will return and He will.
The question is will you have the faith of a child, and be ready.
Wednesday, July 16, 2025, 05:34
i would like to take a little side trip today.
Have you ever played T Ball?
Been a parent of a T Ball Player?
Or coached T Ball?
i had the pleasure of being two of these,
a parent of a T Ball player
and a coach of a T Ball team.
Don’t know if you know but T Ball players are from age 4 to 7,
Don’t know if you remember being in that age group, i do.
It was an age that getting my chores dune fast
so i could play with my dog and having fun were the main goal of the day.
Most spring and summer days i was expected to have my bed made,
be dressed, take out the garbage, eat breakfast,
water my part of the flower beads feeding the chickens
help weed the garden and vacuum the liven room rug,
and then i could go out and play.
We got up around 5AM and i could have that all dune 7:30 or 8am and the rest of the day was spent outside riding my trike pulling my red flyer around and playing with my dog.
From around 8:am to 12: noon my dog and i went on grand adventures, saving the world from the bandits,
around 12: noon was called in for lunch and by 1:PM was back out concerning the woods with Roben hood, me and and my trusty dog chasing rabbits and scaring crows out of the corn patch.
My Dad left for work at 5:30AM and got home around 4:PM,
and at that time we would eat dinner and from around 4:30 to 6 we watched tv, then i went to bed.
My Dad was old enough to be my Grandpa, at the time in my life i didn’t know or understand what that ment,
we went fishing and camping on weekends but never played ball and i never thought about sports,
except when the world series ball game was on the tv.
In fall time during harvest season my days were spent picking whatever needed to be picked and the helping processing it.
We normally picked berries; strawberries, raspberries, black berries, blue berries, elder berries, currants, mulberries, chokeberries, goose berries huckle berries and salmon berries and would make jams, jellies, pies and candys.
We picked Apples 4 or 5 different kinds, peaches, cucumbers, squash, apricots, cherries, figs, plums and pears.
We picked Bell Pepper, broccoli, corn, cucumbers, cabbage, onions, carrots, garlic, potatoes, tomatoes, peas, beans, pumpkins and cauliflower.
Apples, peaches and potatoes we picked two to three truck loads.
And we processed it all,
our pantry was 20 feet by 16 feet with thousands of jars of food,
our seller was about the same size and just as full,
we hardly ever went to the store.
And when i say picked, we picked.
We had a 1060 ford pick up my Dad had build a insulated canape on that made the inside tall enough to stack 120 boxes my Dad had built just for picking in.
They were 12” x 12” by 20”. We would fill them and then stack them in the truck take them home and spend the rest of the day processing what ever we had picked our days were long and heard,
my sister and i were expected to work right along with my Mom picking and processing everything,
we normally got up around 3:30 eat breakfast and left the house by 4:am and did not go to bed until after 8:30PM.
We could eat as much of what ever we were picking and had a large lunch and a large dinner,
but we worked,
it is one of the most memorable and satffing times of my life besides camping and fishing with my Dad, i loved it.
Most of what we picked was for our own use,
but we did get paid for some of what we picked,
and i could make almost as much as my Mom made,
i liked to work, and see the results of it.
i bring all that up to say i didn’t have time to play ball much less even think about it.
We forward in time a few years and my Son is 4 and wants to play T Ball,
so i went to the first meeting to find out what we needed to do to get him singed up,
and was asked if i would be a coach long story short my neighbor talked me in to it,
i knew nothing about it and was not truly interested,
but for my Son i did it.
First meeting of the coaches they picked the teems and it was right out stated that the neighbor and i was given the kids no one ells wanted,
the old timers knew their team before the teams were ever picked it was more about them, the coaches winning then the kids having fun.
i remember stating “you have given us the least likely to win so don’t be mad when we do win, our team will be having fun.”
And one coach the one who’s team was all 6- and 7-year-olds and usually won every game and the big trophy at the end of the season,
stated those who play for fun our always losers.
We met with our team and had a talk with the parents,
i straight out let them know how and why their kid was on this team,
and that i didn’t care if they won or loos but if winning was more important to them,
they needed to talk with the managers to the T Ball league and have their child transferred to another team.
But if they stayed and showed up to the games they need to not yell at their kids if they did something wrong,
that if they did, they could take their kid and leave for they would not be allowed to play in the next game,
even if they showed up,
that they should be there to encourage them even when they lost.
That i would do any correction that needed to be done.
Only had one take their kid and leave.
Told the little ones all but two were age 4 the other two had just turned 5
told them we were there to have fun and i didn’t care if they lost every game as long as they had fun,
don’t know if they really understood but it felt good telling them that.
These kids showed up for practice and had fun,
we laughed together we played hit the ball we ran the basses,
we colored pictures, we eat pop sickles we eat pizza and ice cream and we hit base balls off the T ran.
Came time for the games, and yes, we won,
these little ones the one that on one thought would even win one game went out and had fun and won every game they had.
That’s right Every Game.
When the season was over at the last meeting of the coaches the other coaches were outraged,
the one coach the one who’s team was all 6- and 7-year-olds and usually won every game and the big trophy at the end of the season,
the one who had stated those who play for fun our always losers,
was yelling, demanding another game between his teem and ours to prove what team was the best.
My response was
“you already had that game you were the second team our team we played,,, and you lost.”
“No, our team won every game you scheduled, we beet every team in this league and you won’t take that away from them, they had fun and you lost,,,, live with it.”
Long story i know but the point is;
Is your walk with Christ fun?
Or are you trying so hard its work, trying to win the end goal
or are you finding joy in the journey?
One thing i found in coaching T Ball was the simple joy of watching a young child having fun and winning the prize at the end,
unaware of the life ahead of them but living the moment and enjoying every moment of the game, having fun.
Keeping your focus on the Lord not the world as it is yelling all around you,
listening to Him with a still quiet spirit,
finding joy in every thing that He brings your way.
Depending on Him when trials come your way knowing it is for your good,
your growth in Him,
as the Holy Spirit is teaching you to trust and depend on Him and Him alone.
Nehemiah 8:9-12
Then Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people,
“This day is holy to the LORD your God; do not mourn or weep.”
For all the people were weeping when they heard the words of the law.
Then he said to them,
“Go, eat of the fat, drink of the sweet, and send portions to him who has nothing prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord.
Do not be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”
So the Levites calmed all the people, saying,
“Be still, for the day is holy; do not be grieved.”
All the people went away to eat, to drink, to send portions and to celebrate a great festival,
because they understood the words which had been made known to them.
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Hearing the Laws of GOD that were given to Moses for them and us they began to mourn and weep,
But after being told and understanding this day is holy to the Lord
(This day is Holy to the Lord)
They became joyful.
This was a time before Christ came to earth,
And now that He has come to the earth and has been sacrificed for our sins,
been killed and risen from the dead,
victories over death and the grave.
Every day for the Christian should be a holy day unto the Lord.
The joy of the LORD is your strength
And we should constantly have theses words in our hearts and on our minds
“The joy of the LORD is my strength.”
Joy and fun intertwine and the Joy of the Lord makes this life fun.
The question is:
Will you find and operate in the Joy of the LORD
will you exceedance fun in your daily walk,
or will it just be a burden.
The Joy of the Lord is my strength,
it gives me the strength to experience the fun the in this life GOD has given this body He created.
Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop looking at everything as being annoying,
Go win the game, go run the race, approach each day of this life as being fun and find the joy,
the joy of the LORD.
For he who has fun in the LORD is the one who gains the Joy of the LORD.
And wins in the end.
i know fun is not a word that is used when speaking about the word of God or GOD
But think about it;
You have fun, that brings joy,
joy can bring peace,
and peace can bring freedom.
This is probably a different way of looking at it than you ever have,
Faith in Christ Jesus brings freedom,
that freedom brings joy
and that joy allows us to have fun in Christ,
pure clean righteous fun.
Fun = enjoyment
Your time with the Lord should bring you great enjoyment.
Enjoyment = something or someone that gives intense satisfaction.
When i think of when Adom got to walk with GOD in the garden what great satisfaction that must have brought him,
and the joy it will be to someday be able to walk with Christ Jesus in the same manner,
to me that will be the most fun i could ever have.
Fun: Joy in the Lord}}}
Sunday, July 13, 2025, 06:14
Proverbs 7:1-5
My son, keep my words
And treasure my commandments within you.
Keep my commandments and live,
And my teaching as the apple of your eye.
Bind them on your fingers;
Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
And call understanding your intimate friend;
That they may keep you from an adulteress,
From the foreigner who flatters with her words.
{{{ John 14:15
“If you love Me, you will keep My Commandments”
Matthew 22:36-40
“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”
And Jesus said to him,
“ ‘YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART,
AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.’
This is the great and foremost commandment.
The second is like it,
‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.’
On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”
These commandments are the root of all of GOD’s commandments,
The ones that all others are built upon.
For if you love those around you;
You will not commit murder / you will not be angry with your brother,
you will not say about your brother ‘you are good for nothing’, you will not call your brother a fool.
“You will not commit adultery”
Matthew 5:28
but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman
with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Matthew 5:31-32
“It was said, ‘WHOEVER SENDS HIS WIFE AWAY,
LET HIM GIVE HER A CERTIFICATE OF DIVORCE’;
but I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife,
except for the reason of unchastity, makes her commit adultery;
and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Matthew 5:33-37
“Again, you have heard that the ancients were told,
‘YOU SHALL NOT MAKE FALSE VOWS, BUT SHALL FULFILL YOUR VOWS TO THE LORD.’
“But I say to you, make no oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God,
or by the earth, for it is the footstool of His feet,
or by Jerusalem, for it is THE CITY OF THE GREAT KING.
Nor shall you make an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black.
But let your statement be, ‘Yes, yes’ or ‘No, no’; anything beyond these is of evil.
These are just a few of the commandments of God that Christ Jesus brought to the forefront and expanded upon.
And if you get the great and foremost commandment,
The rest will fall into line.
For if you truly love the Lord your God,
you will have love in your heart for the brethren,
and not break the GOD’s other commandments.
Matthew 7:12
“In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you”
Remember this
“No one can serve two masters.”
for either he will hate the one and love the other,
or he will be devoted to one and despise the other.
Matthew 7:13-14
“Enter through the narrow gate;
for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction,
and there are many who enter through it.
“For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life,
and there are few who find it
Matthew 7:21-23
“Not everyone who says to Me,
‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven,
but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.
Many will say to Me on that day,
‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name,
and in Your name cast out demons,
and in Your name perform many miracles?’
And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you;
DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.’
Will you keep the words of the LORD?
Write the commandments of the LORD upon your heart?
Will you treasure His commandments within you?
Will you bind them on your fingers?
Will you say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
And call understanding your intimate friend;
This choice is yours.
Will you choose wisely?