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There is faith, and there is Faith. There is the kind of faith in that we have accepted Jesus as our Lord & Savior and do our best to believe. But sometimes we are still hurting or afraid.

But then there is a Faith that is a KNOWING. We no longer believe in Jesus, we KNOW that Jesus is our Savior and Lord. We KNOW that our Father and the Holy Spirit lives in us. And we Know that God loves us and is completely involved in our lives, every single day, and that He helps us with every single hurt and fear because He loves us 🙂

We KNOW our Father is our Daddy; that we are Jesus’s brother/sister, friend and apostle – if we choose to be. We KNOW that the Holy Spirit lives in us and we share Him with all we come in contact with.

And how do we get a Faith like this, a KNOWING of our Lord? We ask Him for it, everyday, until He gives it to us.

And God will give us that kind of Faith, because He loves us so 🙂

“Hold on to Hope. Hold on to Grace… Though I can not see tomorrow, I can Trust Your Faithful Heart”. The Best Thing Coming, still on its’ way”.

“Every tear, every trial leads to something beautiful”

I promise 🙂

And more importantly: Jesus Promises 🙂

“These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” – John 16:33

There can be no doubt that we will be facing harder times. And whether they are caused by the society in which we live or the temptations that we face, Jesus will be the answer:

 “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” – John 8:12

Follow Jesus, Home 🙂

Until then, be the light 🙂

No one wants to hear them. But remember what Jesus said in Timothy?

“For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions” – 2 Timothy 4:3

Some of us prefer to hear from people that tell us that we should do anything we want if it makes us happy. But doing anything we want does not usually make us happy.

And we need to be reminded that God is as Just as He is merciful. We need to be reminded of what sin is, so that we can repent and be free.

We can’t just learn of Christ’s Mercy and Love, although these are good lessons to hold in our heart. We must also learn of God’s Justice and sin. We need to read the entire Bible, not just the parts that make us “feel good”.

God wants all of us; we need to give Him that and walk with Jesus.

All The Way Home 🙂

Looking back, we can not help but be horrified that people who have been murdered for their faith in Jesus. But these killers did not get there in one day.

People who persecute Christians for their faith, whether it be physically or by peer pressure to leave their faith behind, don’t usually wake up one morning and decide to persecute us. It’s a process. A process of sin and more sin, that eventually leads to hearing God’s voice less and less until the person does not hear God’s voice at all. This creates a vacume which Satan is happy to fill.

Sadly, many of these people walk the devil’s pathway, committing evil after evil. They don’t know the difference between right and wrong and between light and dark anymore.

But Jesus still loves them. He still hopes that they will turn back to the Light and Come Home. Until their very last breath, they can still turn to Jesus. Because He loves them.

And although it can be really hard sometimes, if we want to be like Jesus, we have to find a way to love them too.

Be The Light 🙂

As Christians, we can’t help but think about the growing persecution in our country. And if we wanted to forget, even for a moment, there are plenty of church and Christian school shootings to remind us.

The media would like us to attribute these shootings to anything but the growing Christian persecution in our country, but they are wrong. Sometimes on accident; sometimes on purpose.

We know that evil seeks to hurt and discourage those who worship the Lord.

“For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.” – Matthew 18:20

During Covid, many churches were closed. Evil won that battle. We can not let evil win this one. Evil no longer hides behind a disease or feel good lies, it’s outright and we must not let it intimidate us.

“Fear not, for I am with you;
Be not dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you,
Yes, I will help you,
I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’”-Isaiah 41:10

Do Not Fear; God IS With Us 🙂

The Way of the Righteous and the Wicked

1 Blessed is the man
    who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners,
    nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
² but his delight is in the law of the Lord,
    and on his law he meditates day and night.

³ He is like a tree
    planted by streams of water
that yields its fruit in its season,
    and its leaf does not wither.
In all that he does, he prospers.
⁴ The wicked are not so,
    but are like chaff that the wind drives away.

⁵ Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
    nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
⁶ for the Lord knows the way of the righteous,
    but the way of the wicked will perish.

The Reign of the Lord’s Anointed

2 Why do the nations rage^[c]
    and the peoples plot in vain?
² The kings of the earth set themselves,
    and the rulers take counsel together,
    against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying,
³ “Let us burst their bonds apart
    and cast away their cords from us.”

⁴ He who sits in the heavens laughs;
    the Lord holds them in derision.
⁵ Then he will speak to them in his wrath,
    and terrify them in his fury, saying,
⁶ “As for me, I have set my King
    on Zion, my holy hill.”

⁷ I will tell of the decree:
The Lord said to me, “You are my Son;
    today I have begotten you.
⁸ Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,
    and the ends of the earth your possession.
⁹ You shall break^[d] them with a rod of iron
    and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”

¹⁰ Now therefore, O kings, be wise;
    be warned, O rulers of the earth.
¹¹ Serve the Lord with fear,
    and rejoice with trembling.
¹² Kiss the Son,
    lest he be angry, and you perish in the way,
    for his wrath is quickly kindled.
Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

Save Me, O My God

A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.

3 O Lord, how many are my foes!
    Many are rising against me;
² many are saying of my soul,
    “There is no salvation for him in God.” Selah

³ But you, O Lord, are a shield about me,
    my glory, and the lifter of my head.
⁴ I cried aloud to the Lord,
    and he answered me from his holy hill. Selah

⁵ I lay down and slept;
    I woke again, for the Lord sustained me.
⁶ I will not be afraid of many thousands of people
    who have set themselves against me all around.

⁷ Arise, O Lord!
    Save me, O my God!
For you strike all my enemies on the cheek;
    you break the teeth of the wicked.

⁸ Salvation belongs to the Lord;
    your blessing be on your people! Selah

Answer Me When I Call

To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.

4 Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness!
    You have given me relief when I was in distress.
    Be gracious to me and hear my prayer!

² O men, how long shall my honor be turned into shame?
    How long will you love vain words and seek after lies? Selah
³ But know that the Lord has set apart the godly for himself;
    the Lord hears when I call to him.

⁴ Be angry, and do not sin;
    ponder in your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. Selah
⁵ Offer right sacrifices,
    and put your trust in the Lord.

⁶ There are many who say, “Who will show us some good?
    Lift up the light of your face upon us, O Lord!”
⁷ You have put more joy in my heart
    than they have when their grain and wine abound.

⁸ In peace I will both lie down and sleep;
    for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.

Lead Me in Your Righteousness

To the choirmaster: for the flutes. A Psalm of David.

5 Give ear to my words, O Lord;
    consider my groaning.
² Give attention to the sound of my cry,
    my King and my God,
    for to you do I pray.
³ O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice;
    in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.

⁴ For you are not a God who delights in wickedness;
    evil may not dwell with you.
⁵ The boastful shall not stand before your eyes;
    you hate all evildoers.
⁶ You destroy those who speak lies;
    the Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

⁷ But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love,
    will enter your house.
I will bow down toward your holy temple
    in the fear of you.
⁸ Lead me, O Lord, in your righteousness
    because of my enemies;
    make your way straight before me.

⁹ For there is no truth in their mouth;
    their inmost self is destruction;
their throat is an open grave;
    they flatter with their tongue.
¹⁰ Make them bear their guilt, O God;
    let them fall by their own counsels;
because of the abundance of their transgressions cast them out,
    for they have rebelled against you.

¹¹ But let all who take refuge in you rejoice;
    let them ever sing for joy,
and spread your protection over them,
    that those who love your name may exult in you.
¹² For you bless the righteous, O Lord;
    you cover him with favor as with a shield.

O Lord, Deliver My Life

To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments; according to The Sheminith.^[i] A Psalm of David.

6 O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger,
    nor discipline me in your wrath.
² Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing;
    heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled.
³ My soul also is greatly troubled.
    But you, O Lord—how long?

⁴ Turn, O Lord, deliver my life;
    save me for the sake of your steadfast love.
⁵ For in death there is no remembrance of you;
    in Sheol who will give you praise?

⁶ I am weary with my moaning;
    every night I flood my bed with tears;
    I drench my couch with my weeping.
⁷ My eye wastes away because of grief;
    it grows weak because of all my foes.

⁸ Depart from me, all you workers of evil,
    for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping.
⁹ The Lord has heard my plea;
    the Lord accepts my prayer.
¹⁰ All my enemies shall be ashamed and greatly troubled;
    they shall turn back and be put to shame in a moment.

In You Do I Take Refuge

A Shiggaio of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.

7 O Lord my God, in you do I take refuge;
    save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,
² lest like a lion they tear my soul apart,
    rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.

³ O Lord my God, if I have done this,
    if there is wrong in my hands,
⁴ if I have repaid my friend^[k] with evil
    or plundered my enemy without cause,
⁵ let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it,
    and let him trample my life to the ground
    and lay my glory in the dust. Selah

⁶ Arise, O Lord, in your anger;
    lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
    awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
⁷ Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you;
    over it return on high.

⁸ The Lord judges the peoples;
    judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness
    and according to the integrity that is in me.
⁹ Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
    and may you establish the righteous—
you who test the minds and hearts,^[l]
    O righteous God!
¹⁰ My shield is with God,
    who saves the upright in heart.
¹¹ God is a righteous judge,
    and a God who feels indignation every day.

¹² If a man does not repent, God^[n] will whet his sword;
    he has bent and readied his bow;
¹³ he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,
    making his arrows fiery shafts.
¹⁴ Behold, the wicked man conceives evil
    and is pregnant with mischief
    and gives birth to lies.
¹⁵ He makes a pit, digging it out,
    and falls into the hole that he has made.
¹⁶ His mischief returns upon his own head,
    and on his own skull his violence descends.

¹⁷ I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness,
    and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.

How Majestic Is Your Name

To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of David.

8 O Lord, our Lord,
    how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
²     Out of the mouth of babies and infants,
you have established strength because of your foes,
    to still the enemy and the avenger.

³ When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
    the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
⁴ what is man that you are mindful of him,
    and the son of man that you care for him?

⁵ Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings^[p]
    and crowned him with glory and honor.
⁶ You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;
    you have put all things under his feet,
⁷ all sheep and oxen,
    and also the beasts of the field,
⁸ the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
    whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

⁹ O Lord, our Lord,
    how majestic is your name in all the earth!

I Will Recount Your Wonderful Deeds

To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David.

9 I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;
    I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.
² I will be glad and exult in you;
    I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

³ When my enemies turn back,
    they stumble and perish before^[s] your presence.
⁴ For you have maintained my just cause;
    you have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.

⁵ You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish;
    you have blotted out their name forever and ever.
⁶ The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins;
    their cities you rooted out;
    the very memory of them has perished.

⁷ But the Lord sits enthroned forever;
    he has established his throne for justice,
⁸ and he judges the world with righteousness;
    he judges the peoples with uprightness.

⁹ The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed,
    a stronghold in times of trouble.
¹⁰ And those who know your name put their trust in you,
    for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.

¹¹ Sing praises to the Lord, who sits enthroned in Zion!
    Tell among the peoples his deeds!
¹² For he who avenges blood is mindful of them;
    he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

¹³ Be gracious to me, O Lord!
    See my affliction from those who hate me,
    O you who lift me up from the gates of death,
¹⁴ that I may recount all your praises,
    that in the gates of the daughter of Zion
    I may rejoice in your salvation.

¹⁵ The nations have sunk in the pit that they made;
    in the net that they hid, their own foot has been caught.
¹⁶ The Lord has made himself known; he has executed judgment;
    the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion. Selah

¹⁷ The wicked shall return to Sheol,
    all the nations that forget God.

¹⁸ For the needy shall not always be forgotten,
    and the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.

¹⁹ Arise, O Lord! Let not man prevail;
    let the nations be judged before you!
²⁰ Put them in fear, O Lord!
    Let the nations know that they are but men! Selah

Why Do You Hide Yourself?

10 Why, O Lord, do you stand far away?
    Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

² In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor;
    let them be caught in the schemes that they have devised.
³ For the wicked boasts of the desires of his soul,
    and the one greedy for gain curses^[u] and renounces the Lord.
⁴ In the pride of his face^[v] the wicked does not seek him;^[w]
    all his thoughts are, “There is no God.”
⁵ His ways prosper at all times;
    your judgments are on high, out of his sight;
    as for all his foes, he puffs at them.
⁶ He says in his heart, “I shall not be moved;
    throughout all generations I shall not meet adversity.”
⁷ His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression;
    under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.
⁸ He sits in ambush in the villages;
    in hiding places he murders the innocent.
His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;
⁹     he lurks in ambush like a lion in his thicket;
he lurks that he may seize the poor;
    he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net.
¹⁰ The helpless are crushed, sink down,
    and fall by his might.
¹¹ He says in his heart, “God has forgotten,
    he has hidden his face, he will never see it.”

¹² Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand;
    forget not the afflicted.
¹³ Why does the wicked renounce God
    and say in his heart, “You will not call to account”?
¹⁴ But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation,
    that you may take it into your hands;
to you the helpless commits himself;
    you have been the helper of the fatherless.
¹⁵ Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer;
    call his wickedness to account till you find none.

¹⁶ The Lord is king forever and ever;
    the nations perish from his land.
¹⁷ O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted;
    you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear
¹⁸ to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed,
    so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.”

We live in a very difficult time and our time persecution is coming! We can no longer afford to be divided. And whether we are Republican or Democrat – it doesn’t matter. Whether it we are Evangelical, Methodist, Baptist or Catholic – does not matter…And it does not matther if someone is attending a church.

What matters is have we been reborn in the Holy Spirit? Are we truly following Jesus? Are we living as God’s Word has taught us? These are the only things that matter. And under this banner, we must unite!

And Let Hope Rise!

“Be still and know that I am God” -Psalm 46:10

Sometimes bad things happen, but we all have a hole in our heart. A hole that we often try to fill by sucess, by our love for our family and their love for us. And sadly, some turn to alcohol or drugs. But this “hole” can never be filled by anyone but Jesus.

The sadness. The sense of something missing. When we are let down by someone we love or something really difficult happens in our life, its only Jesus who will never let us down.

It’s only Jesus that loves us with a love so unconditional we will always be completely satisfied. And it is only Jesus that walks with us through every single storm that life on earth sends us.

Jesus will fill that hole of pain or fear with peace and joy, but we have to ask Him too! We need to make that turn away from all that is happening on this earth to Him. And when we make that turn, all that is happening on this earth will simply fall away…

And in its place will be Christ’s Love, Joy and Peace.

Follow Jesus & Keep Praying; Prayer Changes Things!

 “but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, ¹⁶ since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” – 1 Peter 1: 15-16

Oh God you are Holy. By Your very nature, You are Holy. And I follow You and seek to seve You, always. In Jesus’s Name Amen!

But what is Holiness? Have we stopped our pursuit of Holiness? One definition of Holiness says we are “set apart from the common or sinful” by God “To be totally dedicated to God”.

Does the majority in our country truly seek to be Holy? To first and foremost serve our Lord Jesus Christ?

And if that is not our first and foremost goal, should it be?

Follow Jesus & Keep Praying; Prayer Changes Things!