November 29th Daily Word and Visions from God

November 29th Daily Word and Visions from God

Galatians 3.21-4.20-I am afraid that all my hard work among you has gone up in a puff of smoke!

Lamentations 1-2-Astonished, passersby can't believe what they see.

Psalm 145- GOD give a hand to those down on their luck, gives a fresh start to those ready to quit.

Psalm 25.1-10-Show me your paths and teach me to follow; guide me by your truth and instruct me.

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Sadie is the good dog! Well, not always apparently. Sarah took this picture as evidence. We teasingly call her dog "Abe" our "Muddy Buddy" because he always seems to be the one that gets muddy. So I wonder if God feels this way when I'm in trouble. Like all his work was for nothing. Cause there I go and get back in the mud again. I astonish others with my sinfulness to the point that they can't believe what they see. But God still picks me up, washes me off and gives me a hand even when I'm down on my luck and rolling in sin. He gives me a fresh start and teaches me his path and truth. Thanks be to God!

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Lord, teach, instruct, clean and forgive me this day. ---Amen

November 28th Daily Word and Visions from God

November 28th Daily Word and Visions from God

Galatians 3.1-20-Something crazys has happened, for it's obvious that you no longer have the crucified Jesus in clear focus in your lives.

Jeremiah 51-52-GOD has set everything right for us. Come! Let's tell the good news back home in Zion.

Psalm 144-I wonder why you care, GOD--why do you bother with us at all?

Romans 10.10-18-All who call out to the Lord will be saved.

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Sarah and Eric took the dogs (Abe, Sadie, and Phoebe) to Wiggly Park at the Voice of America Park to play. Well I'm not sure if they thought they were dogs or pigs. Something crazy has happened for sure. When I loose focus of Jesus in my lives it's like I'm wallowing in the mud. I get stuck on my own selfishness. I wonder why God would even care about me because I'm so sinful and dirty. Why does he even bother with me? He did though! God set everything right for us. And while I'm stuck in the mud all I have to do is call out to him and he is right there to save me. What a great God!

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Lord, when I'm stuck in the mud ---hear my cry! ---Amen

November 27th Daily Word and Visions from God

November 27th Daily Word and Visions from God

Galatians 2-We know very well that we are not set right with God by rule-keeping but only through personal faith in Jesus Christ.

Jeremiah 49-50-Go public with this, broadcast it far and wide...

Psalm 143-Teach me how to live to please you, because you're my God.

Ezekiel 3.16-21-So listen to what I say, then warn them for me.

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Eric and Sarah at Skyline. A place Sarah wanted to take Eric to with a Cincinnati tradition to it. Something new to Eric. In my walk with God I have to be willing to taste new things. To experience things only God would have me do. I must learn that I'm not set right with God by what I do but by my faith. I can't do enough to be set right with God. Christ did that for me. But I can do things ---in response--- Go public with what God has done in my life- tell the great story of Christ in my life. I can learn and live to please God. I can listen to God and speak his word when told. I can become part of His tradition.

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Lord, involve me in your work this day ---Amen

November 26th Daily Word and Visions from God

November 26th Daily Word and Visions from God

Galatians 1- So I greet you with great words, grace and peace!

Jeremiah 47-48-But there's a day that's coming when I'll put thing right in Moab.

Psalm 142-Your people will form a circle around me and you'll bring me showers of blessing!

John 18.33-37-My kingdom doesn't belong to this world.

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Another of the several pictures of Eric visiting Sarah. This is Eric's arrival at the Dayton Airport on Friday morning. I had met Eric once before in Hickory. But even so, I greet him with the great words of grace and peace. Two words taught to me by my Savior. Two words that hold a depth of meaning beyond anything I can begin to express. Two words directly from the Word made flesh and the grace and peace he grants to all of us. Two words that point to that day when he will put all things right. Two words that have showered all creation with blessing. Two words that were brought to us by the Word whose kingdom doesn't belong to this world. Thanks be to God for greetings of grace and peace.

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Lord, teach me to greet all your children with grace and peace. ---Amen

November 25th Daily Word and Visions from God

November 25th Daily Word and Visions from God

2 Peter 3-Grow in grace and understanding of our Master and Savior, Jesus Christ. Glory to the Master, now and forever! Yes!

Jeremiah 45-46-I have more work left to do on you...No, I'm not finished with you yet.

Psalm 141-GOD, come close. Come quickly!

Revelation 1.4b-8-Christ loves us, and by his blood he set us free from our sins.

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Sarah and her boyfriend from North Carolina, Eric, at the coffee shop in Middletown. A friend who took time from his Thanksgiving time off from college to fly from Hickory to Middletown to visit for a weekend. A king and understanding action. Jesus is king and understanding to me also. He came from heaven into my world to be with me. To show me compassion, to help and guide me and to love me as I live my life. I think it may be because God has more work for me left to do. God isn't finished with me yet. So I must listen and act on his directions. Trust and love him and depend on him. I must praise and honor him for the sacrifice he paid for my sin that has set me free. I must be like him to those I care for and even those I don't care for. Yea, I need God- need him so bad! God, come close. Come quickly! Thanks be to God for arrival of friends, especially the friend I have in Jesus.

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What a friend we have in Jesus! ---Amen

November 24th Daily Word and Visions from God

November 24th Daily Word and Visions from God

2 Peter 2-So God knows how to rescue the holy from evil trials.

Jeremiah 43-44-Be on the lookout!

Psalm 140- I know that you, GOD, are on the side of victims, that you care for the rights of the poor.

Daniel 7.9-10, 13-14-He will rule forever, and his kingdom is eternal, never to be destroyed.

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When the power flickers off and stays off for a while this clock flashes 12:00. Well for some time now, even if I set this clock, it doesn't work. So I just leave it to flash 12:00. I guess for this clock, it's time is up. The only hope for this clock is to be rescued and repaired. But it's just not worth the trouble. I'm glad God doesn't feel that way about me when I stop working correctly. When I go through trials, God steps it up even more and is with me even closer than other times it seems. God knows how to rescue me from evil trials. But I need to be on the lookout. I need to be careful myself that I don't fall into temptation and sin. I need to be a little better at this than I am. Even knowing that God is on the side of victims and cares for the rights of the poor---I need to be cautious that I don't fall for sin and evil. But if I do---I also know of a God who will take me back. A God that rules forever and who has a kingdom that is eternal. So on those days I flash 12:00 and go a little bonkers about life--- I'll turn to my Savior---repent---and ask for guidance.

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Lord forgive me and help me---especially when I'm not working just right. ---Amen

November 23rd Daily Word and Visions from God

November 23rd Daily Word and Visions from God

2 Peter 1-So friends, confirm God's invitation to you, his choice of you. Don't put it off; do it now. Do this, and you'll have your life on a firm footing, the streets paved and the way wide open into the eternal kingdom of our Master and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Jeremiah 41-42-I'm on your side, ready to deliver you from anything he might do. I'll pour mercy on you.

Psalm 139-You know everything I'm going to say before I start the first sentence.

Matthew 6.25-33-But more than anything else, put God's work first and do what he wants.

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A cell phone. A link to family, work, friends. A link to those I choose to talk to and those that maybe even invade my life. Sometimes I get invitations through phone conversations to be someplace and do something. Invitations into another person's life. God invites us to be with him. He doesn't force himself in. He invites. He asks for our presence as he is present always. God opens the invitation wide open and invites me into the eternal kingdom of our Master and Savior, Jesus Christ. God is on our side ready to deliver us from anything and he promises to pour mercy on us. God knows everything I'm going to say before I start the first sentence. But he invites. It's time to decide and accept his gracious and loving invitation. Time to put his work first and do what he wants. I've got a phone call to make and an invitation to accept.

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Lord, I'm ready to work in your kingdom. What would you like me to do? ---Amen

November 22nd Daily Word and Visions from God

November 22nd Daily Word and Visions from God

1 Peter 5-God has had it with the proud, but takes delight in just plain people.

Jeremiah 39-40-Meanwhile, the Babylonians burned down the royal palace, the Temple, and all the homes of the people.

Psalm 138-Thank you! Everything in me says "Thank you!"

Psalm 93-Our LORD, you are King!

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The dining room. A little different from the kitchen table. We eat here mostly. Lately it has been for more special occasions. Times when family and friends join us for the blessings of food and fellowship. Blessings of some plain people gathered together in life to live and share lives with one another. Mostly good times. The people of Judah in the book of Jeremiah were experiencing some bad times. Times that resulted from their sin of turning away from God to false gods. Times that resulted in the destruction of the Temple and the homes of the people. Homes where gatherings of lives at dinner tables won't take place again for some time. People either cast into exile in Babylon or the poor left behind in destruction. Sad times. Times to repent. Times to turn back to God. Times to recognize their need of God's salvation. God does provide salvation. God does come to us in exile and offer us his love. I must recognize my times of exile and turn around. Turn around and bump right into a Savior who was always there with me waiting for me to come to my senses. Turn around and give thanks. Thanks for his presence and his gracious love and salvation. Bump right into my Savior and give him a hug of thanks and praise. Out of my exile the contrast becomes oh so clear. Christ is my King! King of my life! Thanks be to God!

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Lord, how about Supper at my house tonight? Maybe while you're at it you can open my eyes! ---Amen

November 21st Daily Word and Visions from God

November 21st Daily Word and Visions from God

1 Peter 4-So if you find life difficult because you're doing what God said, take it in stride. Trust him. He knows what he's doing, and he'll keep on doing it.

Jeremiah 37-38- Jeremiah sank into the mud.

Psalm 137-Yes, a reward to the one who grabs your babies and smashes their heads on the rocks!

1 Timothy 2.1-7-First of all, I ask you to pray for everyone. Ask God to help and bless them all, and tell God how thankful you are for each of them.

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Hard boiled eggs. They have suffered the heat and now are prepared to feed the body. Prepared in the heat of boiling water. Sometimes life with God suffers through the heat of the water. In the heat, God continues to prepare me for service. Prepare me for the service he has planned for me. When I read the Old Testament, it seems that God is pretty tough at times with those who turn from him. Sometimes I see, what at first appears to be a vengeful God. Then I realize that this heat, this vengeance, and this toughness comes from a loving Father wanting with all his heart for his children to become what he knows they can become. In this is Love. So let's pray for everyone. Ask God to help and bless them all, and tell God how thankful we are for each other. Even in the midst of the boiling water.

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Lord, in the heat of the water let my stubborn mind change and worship you in your glory--- Amen

November 20th Daily Word and Visions from God

November 20th Daily Word and Visions from God1 Peter 3- Summing up: Be agreeable, be sympathetic, be loving, be compassionate, be humble.

Jeremiah 35-36-Get another blank scroll and do it all over again.

Psalm 136-His love never quits!

Joel 2.21-27-...you will know that I stand at your side.

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A mop and a bucket. The weekend is time to clean house. When I look at this mop, I see how it picks up the dirt. Then I rinse the dirt out and return the mop to pick up some more dirt. Moving dirt from the floors, to the water, to the drain. Moving the dirt out of the house and down the drain. God does that in my life---In the process of removing my dirt of sin--- In the process of daily rinsing and cleaning---I am freed and learn to be agreeable, sympathetic, loving, compassionate and humble. And God goes through this process with me over and over. Jeremiah had to re-write his message to the king. The king read the first message and burnt it as it was read. But God gave him a second chance. God's love never quits. I may quit, but God doesn't. When I struggle in my dirt, I can be assured that God stands at my side to pick up that sin and dirt and rinse me out once again. His love never quits! Like the mop, I give thanks to God for his continual rinsing.

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Lord, I am dirty once again. Rinse me out and send me back to do your work today. ---Amen

November 19th Daily Word and Visions from God

November 19th Daily Word and Visions from God

1 Peter 2-They called him every name in the book and he said nothing back. He suffered in silence, content to let God set things right. He used his servant body to carry our sins to the Cross so we could be rid of sin, free to live the right way. His wounds became your healing. You were lost sheep with no idea who you were or where you were going, Now you're named and kept for good by the Shepherd of your souls.

Jeremiah 33-34-Call to me and I will answer you. I'll tell you marvelous and wondrous things that you could never figure out on your own.

Psalm 135-Hallelujah! Praise the name of GOD, praise the works of GOD!

Mark 13.1-8-Watch out and don't let anyone fool you!

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A folder with the choir music of the day. We practice and then present our offering to God at the service. We work to do the best we can, then offer it to God. It doesn't come out perfect. But it is work offered to God with joyful, believing hearts. Praising and thanking God. Jesus offered his life to God as a sacrifice for my sins. He worked, he ministered, he healed and he offered himself to God for me. Offered himself to the lost sheep who were going astray in sin. Now those same sheep are named and kept by their Savior. God tells me to call to him and he will answer. When I call to him wondrous and marvelous things take place. God loves each person so much that even in our sin he continues to lead and guide. But we must take care and watch that no one fools us into leaving and rejecting God's salvation. Don't let anyone fool you! Only through our Savior are we saved. And in this salvation I will offer my praise and thanks to God for all his works. And---"I Will Always Give Thanks"---Thanks be to God!

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Jesus, Thanks! ---Amen

November 18th Daily Word and Visions from God

November 18th Daily Word and Visions from God

1 Peter 1-Your life is a journey you must travel with deep consciousness of God. It cost God plenty to get you out of that dead-end, empty-headed life you grew up in. He paid with Christ's sacred blood, you know.

Jeremiah 31-32-"They found grace out in the desert, these people who survived the killing. Israel, out looking for a place to rest, met God out looking for them!" GOD told them. "I've never quit loving you and never will. Expect love, love, and more love!"

Psalm 134-Lift your praising hands to the Holy Place, and bless GOD.

Hebrews 10.11-14, 19-25-But Christ offered himself as a sacrifice that is good forever. No he is sitting at God's right side, and he will stay there until his enemies are put under his power. By his one sacrifice he has forever set free from sin the people he brings to God.

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There are only a few TV shows I really enjoy watching regularly each week. "This Old House Hour" is one of them. I enjoy watching ways to maintain "things" and watching people use the skilled trade techniques to the glory of God. Things are made to be maintained and developed and improved. God uses skilled tradespeople all over the place. And I know God is working on me. Not only maintaining me but improving me. He paid a great price for my soul. Each day God refines me a little more. Teaches me lessons along the way. Maintains, troubleshoots and repairs my soul- day after day. I can expect love, love, and more love! He has proved his love for me in Jesus life, suffering, death and resurrection. Gave his very blood for my life. It's nice to be worked on throughout life. And in his love I will praise his name with lifted hands and loud voice. Thanks be to God for his love! Thanks be to God for my Savior, Jesus Christ! Thanks be to God for maintaining and renewing me day after day! Thanks be to God!

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Lord, bless all those in the skilled-trades. Help them to see the gifts you have given them. Help them to offer their skills to your glory. And most of all --thanks for that carpenter who saved me soul! ---Amen

November 17th Daily Word and Visions from God

November 17th Daily Word and Visions from God

James 5-And if you've sinned, you'll be forgiven--healed inside and out.

Jeremiah 29-20- I know what I'm doing. I have it all planned out--plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for.

Psalm 133-It's like costly anointing oil flowing down head and beard, flowing down Aaron's beard, flowing down the collar of his priestly robes.

Daniel 12.1-3-Some of them will be given eternal life, and others receive nothing but eternal shame and disgrace.

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A downspout delivering water from the sky to the roof to the ground. Through gutters just cleaned of leaves last weekend. Delivering water back to the earth to repeat that loving healing cycle of water. I sin, no doubt about it. But God heals me of that sin. I repent, no doubt about it. God forgives my sin. He expects me to turn from sin and turn to him. God knows exactly what he is doing and has a plan for my life. He not only baptizes me with his life giving water, but he calls me his child and anoints me with oil. Oil that overflows any need I have. Just like the overflow of life-giving water from this downspout, God gives me the gifts I need, blesses me and sends me to do his work in his kingdom. Some people will choose to go their own way and attempt their own salvation. Some people will receive eternal life and others will receive eternal shame and disgrace. I'm going to stick with God's plan. Lord forgive my sin and send me, in your plan. A downspout, to deliver you life-giving message and water to all the world.

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Lord, send me today with the blessing and power of your Word. ---Amen

November 16th Daily Word and Visions from God

November 16th Daily Word and Visions from God

James 4-You don't know the first thing about tomorrow.

Jeremiah 27-28- But listen to me, listen closely. Listen to what I tell both you and all the people here today..

Psalm 132-I'll fill it with light for my anointed!

Psalm 16-Every good thing I have is a gift from you.

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My Mom was over last night for dinner. Dinner and conversation. Catching up on the things of life. Listening to one another. Hearing our joys, sorrows, pains and blessings. A mixture of fellowship and conversation. Watching each other in life. We really don't know the first thing about tomorrow. But for now we can live together and feel the Spirit of God blowing in and through our lives. For now we can listen to what God tells us. Listen for his voice and guidance. Pay attention to the Word and the prophets. One thing though about tomorrow we know. God will fill the Temple with his light. God will fill the place and prepare it and us for his anointed. Jesus will return in glory and light. Jesus will come to us in the here and now. Come to think of it, I can see his presence now. Every good thing is a gift from God. Conversation and living together. Remembering the past, living the presence, and hope for tomorrow. All in the presence of God.

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Lord you have blessed me with the past, blessed me with the present and fill me with the hope of tomorrow. ---Amen

November 15th Daily Word and Visions from God

November 15th Daily Word and Visions from God

James 3-Live well, live wisely, live humbly.

Jeremiah 25-26-Listen obediently to the Message of your GOD.

Psalm 131-Hope now; hope always!

Revelation 8.1-13-Then I saw a lone eagle flying across the sky.

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A noon day sky with light clouds. God directs me to live well, wisely and humbly. This is a humble sky. Beauty of it's own form. When I'm humble I can take on a beauty of my own form. The form God created for all people. When I'm humble I will listen to God. When I'm humble I will have hope and faith in Jesus my Savior. When I'm humble I will listen to the warnings of the lone eagle flying across the sky. A humble, endless, wise, noon-day sky. A humbleness at the noon of life. Listen and be silent for half and hour and feel God's presence at noon.

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Lord, I fall silent in your presence and place my all with you. ---Amen

November 14th Daily Word and Visions from God

November 14th Daily Word and Visions from God

James 2-Isn't it obvious that faith and works are yoked partners, that faith expresses itself in works?...Is it not evident that a person is made right with God not by a barren faith but by faith fruitful in works?...Separate faith and works and you get a corpse.

Jeremiah 23-24- "Time's coming"-GOD's Decree-"when I'll establish a truly righteous David-Branch, a ruler who knows how to rule justly.

Psalm 130-...with GOD's arrival comes love...

Revelation 7.9-17-"Do you know who these people are that are dressed in white robes? Do you know where they come from?"..."These are the ones who have gone through the great suffering. They have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb and have made them white."

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A person dressed up as Santa Claus advertising some apartments for rent. I have seen them dressed up as clowns also. Trying to get the attention of anyone who will look. I wonder sometimes if I look like a clown or a person in a costume when I speak my faith to others. Maybe, but it really doesn't matter. I will look like whatever for Christ. I will do whatever needs to be done to proclaim the message. I think God wants me to not only be willing to proclaim my faith. But also to show my faith in action. If I'm not willing to act on my faith; is faith really present? In my action, I am free to set aside the worries of what people may think. I am free to set aside this emotion and take a bold step in telling about the Truth in God and how God came down to this world for each of us. I am free to go through the great suffering because my robes are washed clean in the blood of the Lamb. In faith, I can see Jesus who led the way on and through the cross and the suffering to a resurrection of my life and all life through the sins of all people. Dressed up as Santa Claus or some Clown, I'm willing to live out my faith in love to proclaim the real message this day. God has arrived in Jesus and in his arrival we have love and faith and action. Thanks be to God!

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Lord, give me the boldness this day to proclaim and act upon your love. ---Amen

November 13th Daily Word and Visions from God

November 13th Daily Word and Visions from God

James 1-Lead with your ears, follow up with your tongue, and let anger straggle along in the rear.

Jeremiah 21-22-I'm giving you a choice: life or death.

Psalm 129- "They've kicked me around ever since I was young"

Revelation 7.1-8-Wait until I have marked the foreheads of the servants of our God.

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Bags of leaves raked up from the yard. We had to work together to accomplish this task. I don't think one person could do this much work in the same amount of time. Leaves that had served for a season. Fallen to the ground in beauty. Leaves that had brought nutrition to the trees they lived on and with and through. Gave their very life for the tree. In life I must first listen. A good leader listens first. With God I must listen before I speak and when I speak leave anger out of it or at least as a last resort. Listen and choose life. Life with the Word made flesh. Listen first. Lead through listening not speaking. Speaking God's words in leading. I may be kicked around. The harsh winter winds may cause me to give my very life for the life of the tree. But listen first. Listen and even in death; when I fall from the tree, I will have the mark of everlasting life on my forehead. Sealed with the mark and love of God. Even in death as I am gathered with the multitude of saints we will then use our tongues together in ceaseless praise of a loving, caring, life-giving God. Bags of leaves raked up from the yard of life. Together singing praises to God for a wonderful life of listening to the Word made flesh.

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Lord, lead me through this life with open ears, open mind and open heart to your love then send me out with a tongue of praise today. ---Amen

November 12th Daily Word and Visions from God

November 12th Daily Word and Visions from God

Philemon-And by the way, get a room ready for me. Because of your prayers, I fully expect to be your guest again.

Jeremiah 19-20-...and preach there what I tell you.

Psalm 128-Enjoy the good life in Jerusalem every day of your life.

Mark 12.38-44-Now she doesn't have a cent to live on.

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Sadly enough the times I use this calculator seem to be on Sunday evenings when Sue and I sit down to review bills. We use it to see if we are going to make it or not for a couple of weeks till the next payday. Living from check to check isn't good advice for anyone and is a poor use of the gifts God gives, but at this point in our lives seems to be what is happening. Sometimes I think I can relate to the widow who gave her last cent to the offering. But not really. I live in abundance and abuse the resources God has given me. When I sit and recount all the blessings I've received from God I'm amazed. I can hear his voice telling me to give myself. He wants me, not my stuff. My stuff is easy for him. But I'm his problem. I'm stubborn and won't come to him and worship and follow him at times. But I have to listen to harsh instruction in his Word and realize that God wants me. And when I give into my own selfishness and give in and follow him. That's when the change takes place. That's when he refines me. But will I be stubborn? Will I walk through the fire and perish? Or will I walk through the fire and let God refine me into what he wants me to be? I want to be refined! But to be refined, I must give up my selfish ways and follow my Lord and Savior. Then he gladly refines, restores, and brings me to the good life in Jerusalem. Every day of my life. Even while I walk through the fire. My faith and hope in Christ will cause me to dance in that fire with Jesus my Savior at my side. And by the way. Get a room ready for me. Because of your prayers I know we will visit once again.

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Yea, Lord, I'm yours. I'm ready to be refined by the fire. Get a room ready. You wanna dance? ---Amen

November 11th Daily Word and Visions from God

November 11th Daily Word and Visions from God

Titus 3-It wasn't so long ago that we ourselves were stupid and stubborn, dupes of sin, ordered every which way by our glands, going around with a chip on our shoulder, hated and hating back. But when God, our kind and loving Savior God, stepped in, he saved us from all that. It was all his doing; we had nothing to do with it. He gave us a good bath, and we came out of it new people, washed inside and out by the Holy Spirit.

Jeremiah 17-18- But I, GOD, search the heart and examine the mind. I get to the heart of the human, I get to the root of things. I treat them as they really are, not as they pretend to be.

Psalm 127-Don't you know he enjoys giving rest to those he loves?

Hebrews 9.24-28-So Christ died only once to take away the sins of many people. But when he comes again, it will not be to take away sin. He will come to save everyone who is waiting for him.

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A new water meter was put in my home yesterday. It sends a signal on a frequency allowing readings to be taken remotely on how much water we use from month to month. This avoids the invasion of our home of a Meter Reader each month. In my Christian life, God doesn't need a signal from a meter to monitor the water poured on me from month to month. God doesn't need to avoid the invasion of my home to take a reading. God freely invades my heart and searches my mind and knows exactly what's up with me. Even when I've done something I shouldn't have and try to run and hide from God. God has no problem with knowing the truth. God is truth. God is truth in Jesus. Pilate asked Jesus; "What is truth?" Jesus is truth and he knows truth. And this Truth will set you free. This Truth will pour more water on me day after day in a baptismal cleaning than any meter could measure. This Truth in Christ is the Truth that died for me and all sinners once and for all to take away and wash away our sin. That is Truth. Yea, God gives me a good bath and brings me out clean day after day. No meter could begin to measure that amount of water, even remotely. And in this washing, I am blessed, called and sent with the gifts of the Spirit to work in his Kingdom. To serve and praise God all my life. Sure, I'll fall down, sure, I'll stumble. But God will continue to pick me up, clean me up and use me as his chosen. And that's why in this Truth, I'll gladly wait for Christ's return to save everyone. No meter can measure God's loving Water in our lives. Thanks be to God!

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Lord, I give you thanks for your endless washing and cleansing and for your faithful love through baptism. I'm ready to serve you in your Kingdom. Where to today? ---Amen

November 10th Daily Word and Visions from God

November 10th Daily Word and Visions from God

Titus 2-Build up courage, and discipline them if they get out of line.

Jeremiah 15-16- "Now, watch for what comes next: I'm going to assemble a bunch of fishermen." GOD's Decree! "They'll go fishing for my people and pull them in for judgment. Then I'll send out a party of hunters, and they'll hunt them out in all the mountain,s hills, and caves. I'm watching their every move. I haven't lost track of a single one of them, neither them nor their sins.

Psalm 126-GOD was wonderful to us; we are one happy people.

1 Kings 17.8-16-The LORD God of Israel has promised that your jar of flour won't run out and your bottle of oil won't dry up before he sends rain for the crops.

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Sarah's dog Abe. My friend. Yea, he's a trouble maker. Yea, he gets into trouble. But he is also a good pal and a good friend. Comes to see me when I feel good and comes to see me when I don't. Greets me all the time happy and ready to be there for me. Abe is one, who if he was a person, could build up courage in me. Could talk to me and keep me in line. I'm sure he would be honest enough with me to discipline me when I needed it. I think Abe would tell me what God has to say through him too. Jesus assembled some disciples and sent them out to tell his news. Fishermen and people of all walks of life. All normal, ordinary people who were special to God. We are all special to God. Even Abe is special to God in some way. God is wonderful to all of us and that's why we are one happy people. Not happy all the time. But happy overall. We are freed in Christ to be friends with one another. To care for one another. Just like Abe does to me, I am free to be a pal to someone else in need. They have the same needs I have and God put us all together to work through us to tend to the needs of one another in the love Jesus has filled us with. That bottle of oil will never go empty, the bag of flour will never run out. The bread and wine of Christ's love never ceases. I, like Abe, must never cease to show that never ending love of Christ to my friends too. Abe is a friend. And we both have an eternal source of friendship and love in Christ Jesus. Thanks be to God, thanks for friends, thanks for love and thanks for Abe.

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Lord, fill me with your cup of love and blessings and send me to share that love with a friend this day. ---Amen