Love you all, praying for you

I just love God’s Word. It always surprises me with how it ties everything together. When we seek, we always find.

Proverbs 18:1 says “He who separates himself seeks his own desire,
He quarrels against all sound wisdom.”

If you’re like me, it’s easy to separate. I tend to lean toward the introverted side of the spectrum. But there is a danger on this side. Wisdom is often found in a multitude of godly voices around you. Isolate yourself from outside influence and you isolate yourself from wisdom.

You’re not the only one who sees, hears, experiences God.. and chances are, in your short lifetime, you will not experience every facet of God firsthand. He’s just too big and he likes to reveal himself in special ways to each heart that seeks him.

Being alone then, at the very LEAST eliminates the possibility of you being exposed to these many of the facets of God, OUR Father!

But that’s on the conservative side! More dangerous than simply “missing out” is the danger of completely disregarding Jesus’s invitation to seek the “Kingdom of God first”, and instead to waste your life on being a self kingdom seeker. “My purpose. My calling. My career. My desires. My hobbies. My preferences.”  Isolation is the perfect environment for this type of thinking. In isolation you have no friction. No one else rubbing up against your ways and methods. Your thinking and beliefs.  Your likes and dislikes. This is the OPPOSITE of the Kingdom and will most certainly have major repercussions.

And maybe it won’t be even visible right away, but Paul warns us in 1 Corinthians 3 that if whatever is built with what is inferior in this life, it will not make it through to the next.   

1 Corinthians 3: 12-15 “Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each man’s work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man’s work. 14If any man’s work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward. If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.”

I believe some of the best kingdom building will be with the gold and silver of unity, selfless service, seeking someone else’s benefit over your own…in other words, sacrificial LOVE.

So, if you’re like me, and are prone to this danger, of building the kingdom of self, with the resources of the self. (Aka wood and stubble), is there something you do practically to shift?  I believe so. Ask the Lord, who you are supposed to invest in, and build with? Who you supposed to link arms with?

The kingdom is a family affair. Who is your family?  If you don’t have one…ask him to bring them. The ones who will seek first the kingdom with you and who you will get to watch with you as God adds everything else

Praying we would have eyes to see and ears to hear and hearts to obey and obedient hands to build.

Love you all,
​Klarysa

Love you all, praying for you,

I just love God’s Word. It’s always there to help us. It is quite literally God himself in written form -  extended to mankind in a way that’s digestible for our tiny intellects - so that we can  actually take him in and be transformed. It’s a miracle.

Proverbs 17:3 “The crucible for silver, and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tests the heart.”

What if the Lord’s tests weren’t to prove us impure but a necessary step in order to prove us pure?

Okay, real talk. Sometimes I’m jealous of gold. It may have to go through the fire, but it doesn’t have feelings so why should it care? But if it did, I can imagine that the furnace wouldn’t feel super fun for gold.  But at the end of the day, the goal of the furnace is to make the gold better. To purify.

The fire is not to torture the gold, but to actually serve the gold.

So what if we thought of the Lord's tests in the same way? Hebrews 12:5-6  says “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; for those whom the Lord loves he disciplines, and he chastens every son whom he receives.” Later it says, “No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.”

What could change if we took on this attitude? What if we believed that God, as a loving Father, tests our heart to serve us so that we can be made presentable to Him and yield a good harvest? 

The great thing about Holy Spirit is He doesn’t make it hard on the humble. He knows our weaknesses. He knows that we can’t get rid of the dross in our hearts or produce good fruit on our own.  (If we could, He never would have needed to die as a man on a cross.) So when we cry out to him for help, He loves to answer us! And He is generous! He will spare no expense! He will give the fullness of his power in order cleanse and heal and restore every part of your heart that needs it so you can produce fruit of repentance in your life. 

Praying that we will all begin to submit to His voice in the little exposures and yield to His power so that we may be purified and trained by His discipline and found faithful by his testing.

Love you all,
Klarysa 

Love you all, praying for you,
 
I just love God’s Word.  It tells you truth, what you don’t know, what you need to know, what you wouldn’t know without it.  It gives you truth that will change your life.  It will change your mind, your perspective on things.  It lets you see things as they really are, not just how they appear.  It tells you the secrets of life, and the secrets of success.  I just love God’s Word!  One truth you should know about… Have you ever procrastinated?  Has it ever bothered you?   What is procrastination?  Putting off for tomorrow what you could do today.  One day God gave me a revelation that changed my life.  There is no such thing as procrastination.  It’s just a man-made construct.  When I was young, I felt guilty about procrastination.  I felt embarrassed, upset and guilty about my procrastination.   Why?  The truth is, I wanted to be rich, and I believed that procrastination prevented wealth.  The devil started calling me a procrastinator.  I wasn’t; he was lying (Imagine that) but I didn’t know it, and I believed him.  One day God asked me.  “How can you procrastinate something I never told you to do?  Hmm…  (Have you ever noticed that?  God always asks you things that make you say Hmm…) And instantly, the devil’s lie was broken.  I never believed it again.  It had no hold on me anymore, I could see right through it.  That’s what truth does, it lets you see through lies. So what is the truth about procrastination?  There is no such thing.  It’s either disobedience or deception.  If you didn’t do today, or in this hour what God told you to do, that’s not procrastination, that’s disobedience.  It just sounds nicer if you call it procrastination.  Delayed obedience is disobedience, not procrastination.  And it always costs you something.  Joy first, joy if nothing else…  And the next things it costs you is time and position.  Position because every obedience puts you in position not only for God’s blessing that comes with obedience.  But the position that it brings you to – striking distance.  Obedience puts the next good thing that God has for you  - within striking distance.  First, if you don’t know, you can’t obey.  That’s why PiVAT before dinner is the most important thing you can do today.  So you know what God has planned for you for tomorrow, and so you finish strong every thing He has told you to do today.  So you get the joy of obedience, the blessing of obedience, the increased faith of obedience, the reward of obedience, and the position of obedience… striking distance for God’s next good thing for you!  Other than disobedience, procrastination could only be deception.  God never told you to do that.  The devil just wants to make you feel guilty for nothing.  Usually it’s something that the flesh wants.  Money, Fame, Success, the things that would build your pride.  Things that you think will make you look good in the eyes of others.  When that is a fallacy for two reasons.  #1  The only eyes you should care about – is if it makes you look good in the eyes of God.  If He esteems it.  It doesn’t matter what other people think.  And the embarrassing #2 thing that makes it a fallacy – is your lack of self-awareness… Other people don’t even care. – they’re not impressed by you, they’re consumed with themselves.  What they need, how to pay the bills, how to afford gas or groceries, how to find a soulmate, how to get a new job or house or car…  they don’t care what you drive or how successful you are.  Trying to impress people who aren’t even looking at you and don’t care – is really an exercise in futility – the devil’s continual plan for you – futility.  God’s plan for you is fruitfulness, the devil’s plan is futility.  So delaying what God never told you isn’t procrastination - it’s deception.  Don’t feel guilty about something God never told you to do.  You’re not a procrastinator, you’re a growing obeyer, a walking in joyer, a growing faither, and hoper and prayer, a praiser, and overcomer by the testimony you’re about to get with this next step of obedience!  Praying that you will know God’s will for you today, and do it completely, with a happy heart.  With joy!  Not for what you can get from God, but for what you can give Him.  He needs obeyers to accomplish His purpose – that everyone might be saved (I Peter 3:9)  But you need to be an obeyer way more than He needs you to be one!  It’s infinitely more for your benefit, than for His.  He can get the rocks and trees to praise Him, but if you do, you’ll see Him get up off of His throne and live in your praise, because He inhabits the praises of his people.  He’ll do something!  If you just obey today, Get His plans and Know His Word – so you can do what He planned for you with the mind of Christ, knowing how best to do it, in the perfect time…  Then every good thing He has for you – will keep coming, one thing after another.  Not without trials, or setbacks or struggles, but with victory every time.  So don’t worry about procrastination, there is no such thing, it’s either disobedience or deception.  Praise God the Holy Spirit and the Word of God helps you see right through deception, and His grace helps you obey in this next hour.  So you see the Goodness He has stored up for those who fear Him, for those who walk uprightly, in the plans that He has prepared for them.  That’s you. 
 
Love you all,
dad

Love you all, praying for you,
 
I just love God’s Word.  It tells you God loves you and has things that you need.  Everything. But of all the things that He has for you – there is one thing you need most – maybe its crucial maybe it’s sequential, but of all the things - there is a ‘most.’  What do you need most from God today? Why is that such an important question?  Why is that the best question ever?  First, God said, He knows what you need before you ask. (Matthew 6:8) So… If you don’t know what you need most from God today?   1) You won’t ask God for it because you don’t know,  2) you’ll ask Him for something else, that’s not as good… 3) You’ll ask him for the wrong thing, that’s not good at all, or 4) you won’t ask him for anything.   You’ll either miss out, you’ll have not because you ask not, or you’ll ask and not receive because you ask to spend it on your own pleasures.  That doesn’t just mean greed… it means you ask for what you want - that you think is good.  We ask according to our understanding for our pleasures.  God wants for us according to His understanding for our purpose.  That’s the greatest pleasure in the end – the purpose of God for your life.  God knows what you need most, you don’t.  You won’t know unless you ask Him.  If you do, He’ll tell you.  You won’t get it if you don’t know and don’t ask.  And if you ask amiss, you won’t get that either, because He knows that’s not the best for you.  Or worse yet, he will finally relent, and you will get it, but you’ll choke on it.  If you’re not satisfied and faithful with manna, you won’t be satisfied with roast duck or filet.  And sometimes a wasting disease comes with it.  So when it comes to what you need most from God today… ask to know, and then ask to receive.  If you don’t receive what you need most, you won’t be able to do what He wants you to do today, (if what you need most relates to, and enables you to do what He’s calling you to do today.)  Or, if you don’t know what it is that you need most,  and therefore don’t ask for it - you don’t receive what you need most from God today… that might not be related to what He wants you to do today, maybe it’s what you need most from Him – so you can become.  (a man of faith, a man of prayer, a man of diligence, a man of hope, a man of trust, a man of wisdom, a man of discernment, a man of Issachar, a man after God’s own heart) (or a woman of faith, a woman of prayer… Whatever you need most from God today - you either need most something that enables you to do what God wants you to do today.  Or something that enables you to become what God wants you to become today.  If you don’t walk in His Plan for your day, how will you walk in His plan for your life?  And if you don’t fulfill your purpose today, how will God ever fulfill the purpose for your life.  And if you don’t become what He wants you to become today, how will you become what He wants you to become in your life.  You haven’t even become today’s new you yet… It really starts with today, today is important.   Like a 24 hour trip.  You can do it in 3 days.  But if you don’t drive eight hours the first two days, it’s day three, and you have to drive 24 hours in one day.  Not impossible to do, but unlikely.  And if it’s a 32 hour trip… and you wait three days before driving, you cannot possibly do it on the fourth day, not enough hours in the day.   What do you need most from God today?  If you only knew the GOOD that He has for you, you would want to know His answer to this best question ever.   And if you only new that God has good for you, and what you need most – is the key to getting to that good that He has for you, you’d never eat dinner again, without PiVAT before dinner – asking Him what you need most for tomorrow, what He wants you to do and when, and remembering the testimony of what He did for you today, and revealed to you today – so you overcome by your testimony, and get the joy that comes with it.  And if you walk with someone daily – you’ll both overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of your testimony.  What you need most from God, will become your daily diet.  And what you become will be the greatest adventure you could ever have!   
 
Love you all,
dad

Love you all, praying for you,
 
I just love God’s Word.  It keeps you from wild goose chases.  Have you ever been on one?   The greatest need in a wild goose chase, is how quickly you realize you’re on it.   Have you ever heard famous people being asked, “What are the five best books you’ve ever read, or that have influenced your life the most?  Everyone wants to read the favorite books of the rich and famous, the Warren Buffets, or Bill Gates.  But have you ever asked someone what is the worst book you’ve ever read?  It’s part of my top five that have influenced me the most.  Four are good books, one isn’t.  It just took me a long time to realize it.  Just because a book has great influence, doesn’t mean you are wise to put yourself under the influence of it.  There are some great books that you shouldn’t read, not worth it.  Machiavelli, famous author, probably not worth the read.  Not that there’s no truth to them, but it’s incomplete, misdirection, that could send you in the wrong direction.  Part truth, incomplete truth can be as or more dangerous than no truth.  With no truth, at least you know it, it’s just mindless entertainment (which in itself should give you pause).  But part truth, you think you’re onto something that could help you, when you’re really on to something else – that won’t.   There is a classic that has sold a lot of copies… Very influential, in fact a classic.  I try never to say anything bad about anything or anybody.  But that is a book for me, that I do not recommend.  Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.   Many have read it.  Why read that?  Because you want to get rich, that’s why I did.  That’s why people read it.  That’s why millions of books have been sold on that topic – I would imagine more books have been sold on how to make money or get rich – than any other category of books, period.  Except perhaps love stories.  Money or Love – it seems to be what people want most, but you can’t want both ‘the most’ and get both. You can want some and get some, but you can’t want both the most, and get both.  Those who want to get rich have probably read that book.  Anything you read – always use your New Information Filter.  But be careful, some books are not worth reading, they’re better left unread, better left to others… Just like some movies…  In this book the author cunningly weaves a theme through the book.  It was the ‘secret’ of the book that he never stated plainly.  He even specifically told you that he wasn’t going to tell you, that you had to keep reading til you ‘get it.’ And in the first few pages or chapters if you didn’t get it yet, you started to feel a little inferior to all those who ‘got it already.  Like maybe you might never ‘get it’ and therefore never get rich… So you kept reading - trusting the promise, in the hope that if you keep reading, you’ll get it.  It reminded me of a birthday party I attended in high school.  The host had planned some group games…  For one, they put the group of attendees in a circle with a heavy marble object about the size of a drink coaster, placed in the center of the circle on the floor, with a round hole in the bottom of it.   The game was called “Hug the candle stick holder.” – but “you can’t pick it up.”  It was amazing, quite hilarious, how long it took some guys (that they picked to leave the room) to figure out the game.  As they proceeded to twist their body into impossible contortions, amid the growing laughter – trying to get their arms around this candle stick holder on the floor without picking it up… Until they finally noticed the pretty girl in the circle holding a candle.  Was it me?  Not sayin’…  but I hate books like that.  This book was perhaps the worst I’ve ever read, maybe because of the influence it had on me.  The problem wasn’t figuring out the secret, I did do that… it was the wild goose chase it took me on for years.  It’s effect on the forming of my ‘model.’ And therefore it’s skewing of how I saw things.  The secret to getting rich according to that book…  “What you want… if you want it more than anything else, if you are willing to do whatever it takes to get it, No Matter What – you will get it – if you want it bad enough.  That’s quite a secret.  The problem wasn’t whether that was true or not, the problem wasn’t in the secret they told you, but in the secret they didn’t.  That may be true, but another secret is even more true.  It won’t make you happy.  It costs more than you want to pay.  It’s a wild goose chase.  The next secret they didn’t tell you was just cause you get it doesn’t mean you can keep it.  Just cause you get rich doesn’t mean you’ll stay rich.  Some men have lived their lives by that book… they forfeited their marriage, their children, their happiness, their chance for a good life, rather than just the appearance of one.  They didn’t smell any roses along the way, nor understand what was really important in life, and it wasn’t that…  Only to find years later, that their ladder was on the wrong building.   They should have just read the Best Book of All Time, that tells you “Be careful what you hope for, what you ask for, what you work for, what you dedicate your life to...  If you want something more than anything else.  Is that the thing you should want more… than anything else?  God said those who love money, never have money enough. (That’s a secret best learned early in life, not late).  God said Those eager to get rich do not know that poverty awaits them. (Oops)  And worse than that, “those eager to get rich will not go unpunished.” (Ouch)  God said, “You will either love God or money – you can’t love both.  God said, Seek me first, my kingdom and my righteousness, (Get my plans and do them! Learn to think like I think) and all these things will be added unto you. (I’ll give them to you). That book, just like the devil – he punks people.  Have you ever been punked?  Are you right now?  In some things you believe to be true, or worth it, but aren’t.   What people spend their lives and sacrifice their lives to try and get but never get, or never keep, God would have given it to them.  Wealth that will last forever.  Love God and you’ll get everything you need.  Love money and you’ll lose everything, even money will escape you, or the pleasure you thought it would bring.  What good is money if you can’t enjoy it, and what good is enjoying it, if like the rich fool, this very night your life will be required of you.  Then who will get all that you have stored up for yourself.  Always use your New Information Filter.  Is it True? Where’s the Evidence? What’s In It For Them? and most importantly, What does God say?  If it doesn’t lead to Him, you don’t need your New Information Filter.  Some information isn’t worth filtering, you’d be better off avoiding it altogether.  Praying that You will seek wisdom above all else, true wisdom that comes from God alone, not the things that everyone else seeks after.  That you will seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, so that all these things will be added unto you.  So God can give you – more than you could ask or imagine, because he changes your imagination.  That’s what His Word will do.  It will tell you what to ask or imagine, that’s worth more than gold, so He can give it to you and more!
 
Love you all,
dad

Love you all, praying for you,

I just love God’s Word.  It always gives it to you straight.  What to say is important.  Praise God, He’ll help you if you ask Him.  He’ll give you the words you need, at just the right time.  That’s what His Holy Spirit does.  He promised.   And perhaps as important as what to say, is what not to say – and when not to say… anything.  Praying that you will review the PRISM Topics – Shut Up, Listen, Say, and Speak Life.  Sometimes you just need to shut up a little bit.  Even King Julian knows that…  God says some crazy things about not talking.  Have you ever noticed, it’s really hard not to do something?  Because if you’re trying to ‘not do’ something, you’re still focused on it, and it might still come out.  Better to focus on something else, what you should do, than what you’re trying not to do.  Don’t worry about shutting up.  Know God’s Word, and just focus on listening.  If you’re focused on listening intently, seeking to understand, your focus will consume you with the thoughts and feelings of the other person.  You’ll shut up.  A man of knowledge uses words with restraint… When words are many sin is not absent, but he who holds his tongue is wise.  Praying that you’ll focus on listening today, so you don’t talk too much. 
 
Love you all,
dad

Love you all, praying for you,
 
I just love God’s Word.  It gives you the secrets of life.  Here’s one.  Psalm 116:10 – I believed; therefore I said, “I am greatly afflicted.”  And in my dismay I said, “All men are liars.”  What you say you’ll believe, and what you believe you will say.  Be careful what you say, be careful what you believe.  I believed therefore I said, I am greatly afflicted.  First, you’re not greatly afflicted, it’s all relative.  If you say what’s not true, you’ll believe it.  If you say you’re greatly afflicted it becomes true for you, no matter if it’s true or not, its true for you.  And if you believe you’re afflicted you will soon be in dismay.  First, you’re not afflicted.  Compared to what some people are going through, you are on vacation compared to the struggles they are facing!  You’re not afflicted, why say that? Why become dismayed for nothing?  And even if you were.  You will see the faithfulness of God!  Because He is faithful in affliction.   David said, “In your faithfulness you have afflicted me.”  First, you’re not afflicted, it’s called ‘life.’  And He is the giver of life, He is the overcomer so you can overcome in life.  And even if He allows or even sends affliction some day, it’s so His faithfulness can be revealed.  So you know the God who is faithful in affliction.  And this too shall pass, you’ll come out with a victory, with a testimony, with a story to tell and another reason to believe the One True and Faithful God.  Who loves you and gave His life for you.  Affliction is the time to praise!  For His goodness! not say you’re in affliction.  Or you will be dismayed.  Why?  So all men are liars, of course they are.  How is that new? And what does that matter?  It doesn’t.  God is truth, all men are liars, (so what!) God is in control of all men.  Even the kings heart is in the hand of the LORD, He directs it like a watercourse wherever he chooses.  God is faithful in affliction, and He is merciful and loving all day long.  He’s given you everything you need for Godliness.  He has given you faith to overcome, grace to overcome, The Holy Spirit to lead you into all truth, and Jesus to go through every affliction with you.  He speaks to the storm, calms the waves, brings you through, makes you stronger.  Your life is a testimony of His Great Faithfulness.  Better to say “My God is faithful!” than ‘I’m afflicted.’   Be in Deliverance, not dismay – watch what you say.   God is my deliverer, my strong tower, my fortress and my refuge, I will not be afraid, and I will not be dismayed, I will say the OF The LORD, “He is my refuge and strength an ever present help in trouble.” Say the truth.  God is able to deliver, and He wants to!  He will deliver me again, just like He’s always done.  I will count this trial a joy, this situation a blessing.  He is showing himself strong, proving himself faithful, again and again.  He is the One who is Supreme in Authority over all, and He’s the bossa me.  So His goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever!   Say Deliverance, not dismay.  Don’t say you’re afflicted, Say God is faithful.  Don’t say all men are liars, say “The God of truth is leading me in all truth by His Holy Spirit.”  And every affliction will start and end in praise.   Your tongue determines your triumph, your voice determines your victory, your mouth makes up your mind, and your lips determine your life.  Praying that you’ll review the PRISM Topics, Speak Life, and Say – so you will use your tongue for good.  And see the Faithfulness of God. 
 
Love you all,
dad

Love you all, praying for you,
 
I just love God’s Word.  It tells you the truth, it keeps you from believing something not true, and it tells you what you should do.  Have you ever noticed some people who really want something – that they think – if only they had it, it would make their life so much better, or make their life complete?  If I only had a nicer car, or a house that I owned, or a bigger house, or a better job.  They’re always wishing for something they don’t have, thinking they’d be happy if they only had it.  Be careful, some things you could want - aren’t God’s best for you at all.   Some things you don’t need ever, and some things you don’t need 'til later.  You don’t need a new car, you need to wash the one you have.  You don’t need a new house, you need to learn to steward the one you have (even if it belongs to someone else).  You don’t need a new job, God’s waitin' on you to do a better job at this job.  Be faithful at this job, be excellent at this job.  But it doesn’t pay anything!  Yes it does, and you don’t get paid what you’re worth, you get paid what the job is worth.  But if you learn to add value, eventually you will be paid what you’re worth, only to be underpaid again, because you should always give more value than your getting paid.  If I only had a boyfriend.  You don’t need a boyfriend, you need a husband, but you don’t need him right now.  Why do you say that?  Because either you’re not ready, or He’s not ready.  God has something to finish in you or him, or both of you - for you both to become…  So you will be ready.  And the goal isn’t getting married!  It’s what you both do together when you are married.  The goal isn’t to get to the NFL, it’s that’s you’re only goal, you probably won’t make it, and if you do, you won’t last long.  The goal is not to get there, it’s to be excellent there – so you can win Super Bowls.  And if you’re not excellent yet here, you won’t know how to be excellent there…  Why don’t you have a husband yet?  Or a wife yet?  Because you or they aren’t ready, so rather than wanting that husband, or that wife, want God first, become what He’s trying to grow you to become - so He can bring you to them at His perfect time, because you’ve become what they need, and they’ve become what you need.  But I’d rather have them now…  No you don’t.  You just think you do.  Does a farmer want a chicken now?  Just break open the egg, you’ll get one faster.  But it will never be healthy, it will never be strong or even viable, it will never reproduce, and you wouldn’t want it to.  You don’t want any good thing from God before it’s time, before He’s ready, before it’s ready and you’re ready.  He’s preparing it for you, and you for it.  He’s preparing them for you and you for them…  Or it won’t be as good as it would have been in God’s perfect timing.  Be careful what you long for, it might not be the best for you, or the best at this time.  If only I could have that thing…  It won’t help, you just don’t know that truth yet.  Learn to love what you have, not long for what you don’t.  Be consumed with the joy of obedience in this season, and you will always thrive when the next season comes.  Be thankful, if God never gives you anything else, and you’ll be thankful when He brings you more than you can ask or imagine.  Some people think that means ask or imagine more.  They are so busy asking and imagining, they aren’t doing with excellence what God gave them to do first, right now, so they can receive what He has next.  John and James Mom asked Jesus for a favor… that her two sons could sit at his right and his left in his kingdom.  “You don’t know what you’re asking?  Are you able to drink the cup I’m about to drink?  Yeah, we can do that…they foolishly replied, clueless as to what they were even talking about.  In Gethsemane they scattered like sheep.  Praying that you won’t think ever think something you want - will fix or solve everything.  It won’t help.  If you’re not happy now, neither will you be then.  If you aren’t faithful now, neither will you be then.  If you aren’t thriving now, how will you then?  Whoever is faithful with little is faithful also with much.  Here first, then there!  Praise God! It’s always easier to be faithful with little, than much.  Easier to cut the grass on a quarter acre lot, than a five acre lot.  If you catch yourself, wanting something else, thinking it will make you happy or better or fulfilled…  Learn to be more faithful, thankful and joyful with what you have…  Love what you have, so you’ll be ready for what He has next…  So you’ll be faithful in the next thing that God has for you, not just happy to get there.    
 
Love you all,
dad    

Love you all, praying for you,
 
I just love God’s Word.  It tells what is good and what is evil, what is moral and what is immoral, what is right and what is wrong.  Not everyone agrees, but truth and right are not a popularity contest.  Morality is not subjective, nor is it decided in the legislatures or judicial systems of man.  The Creator of heaven and earth decides what morality is…  Those people and nations who align with His decisions prosper, those who align against Him are ultimately destroyed.  He is the sole judge of what is right and what is wrong.  He is The Legislator, The King of all kings, The Righteous Judge, and The Ruler over all.  Humans don’t get a vote, the created does not get to tell the Creator what is right, and what is wrong, what is moral, and what is immoral.  God is His infinite wisdom, determined to give mankind a choice.  Obey His Word and get life (and life more abundantly) or Reject His Word and get death, the consequence of sin.  Sin always ends in death… Sin has immediate consequence, and eventual consequence, and death is the consequence.  Sin instantly brings spiritual death (a separation in relationship with a Holy God), and ultimately it brings physical death (also a separation, soul and spirit separated from a physical human body).  Have you ever wondered if Adam and Eve didn’t sin, would they have died?  They wouldn’t have.  The wages of sin is death.  Had they not sinned, they would not have died, sin brought the wages of death.  The wages of obedience is life, and life more abundantly. 
 
I find it awkwardly as well as morbidly ironic that the biggest lie in America today (and there are several) is about life and death.  The battle between good and evil, right and wrong, always is.  Apparently a leak of recent Supreme Court deliberations has caused quite a stir in that - from my understanding – the Court is considering a change in the Roe v. Wade decision - which in 1973 made the murder of a baby a legally protected crime.  No longer murder, it was now called a ‘choice,’ a ‘difficult decision between a mother and her doctor.’  Murder of another human being became not only lawful, but a legally protected ‘right’.  It single handedly gave birth to a false morality in America – which many on the left still cling to vehemently.  The stain on this country, a blood stain of over seventy million innocent children, not to mention the export of this immoral abomination to the nations… surpasses even the stain of slavery, already a tragic disfiguration of the United States Constitution, not to mention the law of God.  God said, Thou Shalt Not Kill.   Seventy million defenseless children murdered in America alone since 1973.  The blood of the innocents is crying out from the ground.  Do you think God will do nothing?  But He hasn’t yet… a foolish thing to put your trust in.  Psalms 50:21 – When you did these things and I was silent, you thought I didn’t care (you thought I was just like you), but now I rebuke you and lay out the charges against you.”  Do you think God will remain silent forever as we murder children in this country by the millions?  Like the abominations of the false god Molech whose worship required child sacrifice… It ended in the removal of God’s chosen people from the promised land.  Just like He said, “If you commit the same sins of those nations I removed from the land, you too will be removed… and sure enough…they were. (Sidenote: and this takes the cake.  Microsoft Word auto-corrects a capital M, for Molech, yet type in god, and it doesn’t auto-correct a capital G - This is the country we live in.)   A United States Senator and presidential hopeful – visibly shaken at the news, said this…. “I am angry, angry, upset and determined.  The United States Congress can make Roe versus Wade the law of the land.  They just need to do it… This is what… The Republicans have been working towards this day for decades.  They have been out there plotting, carefully cultivating these Supreme Court Justices so they could have a majority on the bench who could accomplish something that the majority of Americans do not want.  (She’s lying.  That’s not true… but if it were true, what’s that got to do with anything?  Notice she didn’t say they have been plotting – so they could accomplish something that is evil.  It isn’t, it’s the prevention of evil, the reversal of an evil law legalizing murder).  So instead she says – ‘to accomplish something that the majority of Americans want.  But she is lying.  That is a complete lie - she claimed that 69% of Americans want Roe v. Wade to stand… a complete lie).  But murderers will clearly lie. If they have no qualms with murder, they certainly have no problem lying – if it accomplishes their ends – to support their false morality - that God calls evil.  She concluded her comments with – “We’ve heard enough from the extremists.”  If calling for the end of the murder of innocent children gets you called an extremist, then put at least two hundred million Americans in that basket of deplorables.”  And God Himself - is clearly in that basket.  He’s the One who said, Thou shalt not kill.  Here’s the lie.  The biggest lie in America.  “My body my choice.”   Have you ever heard that before?  Every day.  It’s part of the new mental fabric that the left is trying to create in this culture.  But wait a minute… Have you ever stopped to think - about that statement?  “My body, my choice.”  Let’s think - for a minute.  Put on your thinking cap, sit in your thinking chair…  Is it your body?  Or is there another body inside of your body…  Do you abort yourself?  Do you abort your body, by your choice?  Or do you abort another ‘body’ by your choice.  Someone else’s body – by your choice?  The answer is obvious.  It’s not your body that you are aborting, it’s the body of another person…  The lie is as plain as day – for those who just think for a minute – who are not intellectually dishonest, spiritually corrupt, morally bankrupt.  Clearly - it is not your body your choice.  You are choosing to abort someone else’s body.  Who cannot speak for themselves - it's called murder.  You don’t even have to believe in God to figure that out.  But God says to defend those who cannot speak for themselves, not murder them.  If you ended your own life – that is “my body my choice.’  Ending someone else’s life, is not ‘my body my choice,’ it’s ‘their body, my choice.”  This is the textbook definition of murder.  Your choice over someone else’s body – to end their life, not yours.  Not a single one of those children would agree with your choice, if they had a voice.  Being dismembered by a forceps, or burned alive by a salt solution – would not be their choice.  But you would do that to them?  You would if you believed it was a moral right, if you believed that murder was merely ‘your body your choice…’  If no abortions can be filmed or shown on television, or in school classrooms, with every dismembered body part of that poor child who suffered a torturously painful death all accounted for on the abortionist’s cold table.  Why is that biggest lie in America - accepted as truth today?   Someone said, “Repeat a lie long enough, and it will be accepted as truth.”  Remember what the wise do?  A wise person tests and verifies something said… the gullible just go right along with it, like sheep… void of discernment, never stopping to think, just believing what the simple minded believe – anything someone tells them.  God has called you to discernment… not blindly accepting every lie as truth.   Remember your New Information Filter.  Anytime you hear someone say something.  #1 Is it True?  #2 Where is the evidence?  #3 What’s in it for them? and #4 What does God say?  Let God be true, and every man a liar.  This politician did say one thing that was true.  “These people have been plotting this for decades.”  Her word choice is intentionally misleading, it’s not plotting…  It’s called standing up for righteousness, and not allowing legalized evil to stand.  When the wicked bring wickedness even murder, and make it lawful, the righteous will resist them, it’s not plotting, it’s resisting evil.  The question is why has it taken decades?   God said, Proverbs 28:4 – Those who forsake the law praise the wicked.  Those who keep the law resist them (strive against them).   The fact that this politician decries decades of ‘plotting” against this evil law, is merely God’s Word once again proving true.  Any time the wicked in power, legalize wickedness – even murder – the righteous will resist them.  Those who keep God’s laws will strive against them.   Do you?   So what is the conundrum?  The conundrum is created by the weak and feckless Supreme Court.  Four of the nine, don’t even know what a woman is.  (When a three year old could tell you, but they can’t figure it out).  So how could they bring justice?  These cannot.  It’s the other five who are supposed to stand for Justice – but instead they punt?  Sending this issue of clear murder - back to the states to decide… is a huge conundrum about to explode in everyone’s face.  It is cowardly to not rule against murder, to fix what their own Supreme Court got wrong.  The Supreme Court legalized murder since 1973, yet the Supreme Court cannot correct this egregious evil?  This error of the court, cannot be corrected?  They did it, they need to fix it – they need to say – thou shalt not kill.  If not – will they send it back to the States to decide?  This will only result in slave states and free states again in America – heightening the divide on this clear issue of good versus evil.  ‘Murder’ States, and ‘Murder not allowed’ States.  How is this justice in America?  What the Supreme Court got murderously and genocidally wrong in 1973 – they refuse to fix, even though they know it’s wrong – or they wouldn’t be considering a change to Roe v Wade.   Was that the solution for the sin of slavery?  Send it back to the States to decide?  Slavery would have remained!  To subject to slavery a person created in God’s image? Merely because of the pigment of their skin?  It’s an abomination.  And it is clearly unconstitutional – just like murder.  Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness – the first of these is life!  That means the murder of abortion is wrong and unconstitutional.  The second is liberty – that means slavery is wrong and unconstitutional.  What if States decided they wanted slavery – will we let them decide that now?   What about the scourge of human trafficking in this country?  Can some States decide it’s ok to human traffic?  Like they can decide it’s ok to keep murdering babies?  What if they decide that abortion is legal up to 24 hours after birth?  What about 24 days after birth?   Do States get to decide that?  Some surely will.  If a Supreme Court will not correct the evil IT created in 1973… If a Supreme Court cannot even outlaw murder in America – what good are they?  What are they good for?  What’s the purpose of a Supreme Court?  The Supreme Court got it wrong many times.  Slavery in a country that says all men are created equal, is an abomination, it would be embarrassing if it weren’t so purely evil.  And we think murder of innocent children is not equally evil?  How can the Supreme Court let States decide to keep murdering children?  This is a conundrum which will not end well.  Some say this is “a step in the right direction.”  Are you kidding?  May I facetiously offer an even greater step in the right direction.  Let’s just outlaw prenatal abortion.  That would certainly save more babies, and still let mothers murder their children in the States that want to let them.  Just can’t do it before they’re born.  At least wait a couple months –a 60 day trial period – and then you can abort them… Babies are cute, many wouldn’t be aborted then… if mom doesn’t want them, grandma and grandpa or somebody will.   At least half the babies could be saved, and then the states that want to abort them, can still vote to abort them.  What does it matter aborting a 2 month old?  Their DNA hasn’t changed, they are the same person they were two months ago when they were born, just as they were two and a half months ago, in fact the same person they were at conception!  When life begins.  That’s a silly example – merely proving the ludicrous thinking that you can fix the Dred Scott decision – by putting it back to the states to decide.  No, slavery is evil – every person is created in the image of God.  No person should have the choice to enslave another person…  Period.  It doesn’t matter if the State they live in approves it.  States don’t get to decide that.   Just like no person should have the choice to murder another.  States don’t get to decide that.  Hence, the conundrum about to hit this nation, if this ruling is decided in this fashion.  That’s that pesky law of unintended consequence.  America got it wrong on Slavery – because the Democrats refused to sign the Constitution unless slavery was allowed for.  We fixed it as a nation – States didn’t get to decide to still have slaves.  Not everyone agreed, Democrats were upset.  But they couldn’t own slaves anymore – that was a thing of the past – a stain on our nation’s history that remains, but at least was corrected.  So what about the sin of this generation?  Yet again, America got it wrong on Abortion – It’s murder.  We need to fix it as a nation, States don’t get to decide to keep murdering babies.  Not everybody will agree, Democrats will again be upset, just like they were last time.  But they cannot murder babies anymore.  It’s a thing of the past, a stain on our nation’s history, that will remain, but at least will be corrected.   So what do you believe about this great sin? the biggest lie in America…  Are you standing for those who cannot stand for themselves, or do you believe anything someone says…
 
Love you all,
dad

Love you all, praying for you,
 
I just love God’s Word.  He said, don’t worry about tomorrow, He’ll be there… He goes before you. God said even in death the righteous have a refuge.  So go ahead and say this… “I’m not going to let the enemy steal my joy that God has for me today - by wasting one minute worrying about tomorrow.  I’m going to rejoice in the blessing God has given me today, and the promise He has given me for tomorrow.” He is in control, He will never leave you and never forsake you.  He is the fourth one in the fire, He is the one who ​Saves, Delivers, Rescues, Fills, and Restores.  He’s the One who forgives, who Protects, and Provides, and Blesses and Fulfills.  Get busy right now with what He told you to do.  Love and serve, work diligently as for the LORD, not for men.  He is the one who rewards you – and it’s eternal not just temporal.  Someone said the biggest thing to fear is fear itself.  I get it, but that’s still fear.  God said perfect love casts out fear. He is perfect love, so He casts out fear.  And when it comes to you perfect means complete, and to love God is to obey.  So perfect love, is complete obedience.  You don’t even need to fear, fear.  Just obey, whatever God told you to do today, in this hour.  Do it completely, with joy!  There’s a joy that comes with diligence.  You do your part, He will surely do His.  God said Fear Not, for I AM with you.  Do not fret, it only leads to evil.  In everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.  Rejoice in the LORD always and again I say rejoice!  LORD means sovereign, in authority.  When He’s the LORD of you, you are walking in what He said to do.  And there’s always joy in obedience, and there’s always a return.  You’re not fearing God for nothing.  Let Him be the LORD of you, and you can rejoice!  I will bless the LORD at all times, His praise will continually be in my mouth.  Praying that you won’t waste one minute worrying.  That nothing will steal your joy today, not a setback, not anything someone else might say… They don’t define even your day or situation, much less define you.  You are known and loved by God. Powered and empowered by Him.  Think about that!  He knows you completely, even your deepest thoughts, the good, the bad and the ugly, and He still loves you!  Eternally!  Ask Him to lead you, take the first step.  Love Him with all your heart, but running to Him first, spending time with Him before anything else, and doing immediately, completely and joyfully everything he told you to do.  And if you don’t know --  go serve somebody.  Get outside of yourself to help somebody else.  Read His Word so you think like He does.  Do what He told you today so your joy will be full.  If you’re unsure, just ask Him, and step out in faith.  Obedience always brings joy, and it always brings you to a better place.  The next good thing He has for you! 
 
Love you all,
dad