Month: July 2026

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Renew Your Faith in God

“And do not be conformed this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you might prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” Romans 12:2

Be renewed in faith, and learn again to trust in God. For He is our hope and salvation. The one true and living God who watches over us

Remember

Rouse up your memory, so that you might be restored

Recall those days when He was alive in you, and your life was found in Him

Lift up your heart. Clear out the haze that has cloaked your mind

Purify yourself, so that you might know His fellowship again. Seek His forgiveness for sins with a spirit of repentance, so that the road ahead would be clear

Seek after your God!

Call out to Him. Spend time in prayer each day until the eyes of your heart sees Him, and your life is filled with His Spirit again

Don’t wait for another day, until it is convenient. Delay no more, for He is waiting besides you

Sing out to Him and lift up your praises unto Him

Give thanks for everything you can think of, for He has given it all to you, and more

Walk towards Him. Follow the one true path that leads to life

Hurry, if you have the strength

Rest upon His promises

Work towards His upward calling

Enjoy the peace of His love and salvation. The only sure thing that exists in this world

Stand upon the life of Jesus Christ, the one true savior of all mankind

Renew yourself

Cease from sin and from worthless distractions. Steer clear of the traps that are laid all around, and follow all the good ways of God

He is trustworthy

He is our strength

He loves us with a power that is beyond our understanding and rejoices over those who have faith

Be strong and don’t give up

For all those who seek to continually renew themselves in Him, each day, will surely taste the sweetness of His love and salvation. 12/23/2010

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Blessed Things

As I prayed this morning, my mind focused on a project I was in the middle of. The construction of a new shed. There was some details that had come up with the builder and my mind was awash with solutions and problems… all the what ifs. Then something interesting happened. Since I was in prayer and the moment should be more God focused, I turned the ownership of my shed around and decided to dedicate it to the Lord. I asked Him to bless it’s construction and its existence in this world, so that it might honor Him in any way it could. And this, made all the difference in my perspective.

I started thinking about when I had asked God to bless things of mine before in my life, There was a house, a property, and a truck that I needed to buy. There were gardens and jobs, trees that I had planted, and even the pages of words that I have written that were put into print. These became my blessed places after I had asked God to take them and use them through me for His Glory. It changed my whole attitude and the way that I valued these things and it stayed with me all the days that I ‘owned’ them.

It’s amazing how God can power us through a simple act as this. In truth, I should be placing everything in my life before God. Isn’t it amazing and humbling that all we have is His to begin with. Each thing that God brings into our lives are really just gifts that we can use to glorify Him in whatever way we can. He owns them all, but He has allowed us to own them for a time, a chunk of this and a part of that. Tools that I use, spaces He allows me to manage, even my friends, family, and the people I come into contact each day. These people whom He considers His most precious possesions. This is God’s intention of how we should conduct ourselves in this life.

Our loving God created us to live in this place, and He has given us all that we need. Indeed, we pass through this world in a blip of time within the span of a great eternity. And yet He made us, so that we might live before Him and enjoy the wonder and beauty of all His goodness. It is therefore, our duty to honor Him and live our lives according to His Will. So that we might consecrate our lives, and all the things He has given us, into honoring Him for all that He has done.

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Mercy’s Prayer

Lord God, help me always follow Your will and Your Way

Let me not to get too caught up in the ways of the world

Show me the right path, that You desire of me

By Your Spirit and through Your Word. Give me insight into Your truth. Mend my heart, and soften my tendency towards stubborness

Let me show mercy, goodness, and grace towards others, as You bring them before me each day

When I have been quick to judge and shown contempt for those I do not even know, help me not be too swayed by the rhetoric of these times. Which only works to consolidate power towards those who are already powerful, and shows contempt for the weak and lowly among us

Jesus Himself, once stood in a temple ruled by the religious authorities of that time, and behold, before Him stood a man who was both a cripple and poor

There, the leaders of the temple stood and watched Him. They positioned themselves as the ones who were holy and righteous above all others

In all power and authority they ruled over God’s people and they looked upon Jesus with great contempt

Jesus stood before them, full of the Spirit of the living God. He was the very incarnation of God Himself, filled with the supernatural beauty of His love and grace

Jesus looked upon the injured man, whose life had become such a struggle, and He desired to heal him and make His life complete again; To openly show the love of God for a man who had simply come in faith that day

In their selfish hearts, the temple leaders gazed at the very Son of God, waiting to see if He would sin against their man made rules 

They glared at Him in utter hatred, because He was not like them at all

In the rigidity of their own laws, they had neglected God’s mercy. Because of the hardness of their own hearts, they showed their own hatred, but not God’s grace

For when Jesus reached out and took hold of the poor man’s hand, and healed him. They reacted in anger, jeolousy, and hatred; seeking a quick way to destroy Jesus’ life

Oh, how can we get it wrong so often? Is it because we trust in our own ways and not in God’s?

What ugliness wells up from us, when we act out in pride and selfish ways. It obscures the beauty of God’s love that exists as His banner for all to see

The Word of God is clear

The Gospels of our Lord Jesus Christ show us without any doubt

That We need to live our lives before Him and renew our faith each day, so that we may show His mercy, goodness, and grace to all. So that we may express, as best we can, the essential nature of our Lord

My God and Savior, help me each day to not be led away with the doctrines of man

Show me the right path, as You lead me by Your Spirit and by Your Word

Help me see the love You have for Your people, so that I may not be quick to judge them

But that I might be willing to help them in any way that I can  3/26/2025

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Morning

I awoke earlier than I had expected this morning. Fumbling around in the dark to find my socks, my phone does a belly flop on the hardwood floor. Smack, my dog grumbles her disapproval. You see it was her doing that I had arose so early. Her mumbling growls awoke me from a deep slumber. Something was up outside that her keen ears had detected, some critter stirring, an unfamiliar sound… a distant bark from one of her buddies.

So it was out into the morning we went. The storm from the night before was long past. A few clouds remained and skidded low over the nearby hills. One, which appeared avian, like a Sparrow gazing out across the valley. Its hopeful eyes studied the new day to come. There was light off to the east, a general glow out towards the horizon. Venus was stationed there her white brightness shone like a small bright searchlight. Always preferring the beauty of twilight, she announced the coming of this new day.

There were stars up there, too, though they were finishing up their closing act from last nights show. I was surprised to see some familiar actors from other seasons up there. The stars from some of my favorite nights out. Oh those fond memories of a balmy late summer evening laying back on a flat slab of granite high in the Sierra. Looking up to see the sparkle of a thousand stars sprinkled across the heavens. Of course the glowing stream of the Milky Way must have been up there, too, adding both depth and grandeur to the wonder of those nights.

But now, the flow of sunlight rising up from just below the arc of our earth has outshone those billions of worlds that resided above me. Only the brightest stars remained. Finding the Big Dipper, I followed its two pointer stars to the north. Ah, there it was, the north star, slightly to the left of where my eyes had searched. Geographical orientation locked in, I studied the heavens anew. Ninety degrees right, looking due east, I stood firm riding this spinning earth directly towards the sun. Bonzai!

What wonders lie just outside our doors; Incredible sights and sublime beauty. It calms and heals my soul to look upon these things each day in wonder. With deep gratitude, I give thanks to the maker of all that this morning has given me. What a great God He is!

The Sparrow has disappeared, the glow in the east grows brighter. The air is crisp and still, yet there is the sound of things beginning to stir. Birds are chirping, a car rolls by on a distant road. Soon I will be moving out into this world, getting things done, pursuing the things that this world demands. But, I will remain grounded in the things I have seen early this day and be assured that all is well. Because our God and creator, the one who has made all this has shown me a greater perspective this morning. I know that He is greater that all the petty things we have dreamed up here and that He still reigns over all this earth and also, across the heavens above. 1/17/2024