Ouch. Got some of that..or a whole lot?

Have you suffered loss? So SO sorry about that. 

Was it your career or some friends? Has someone died, attacked, or ditched you? 

Where will you run to, in what direction? 

Don’t go hurt yourself.. or others. God hurts with you -- He understands and is there for ya. Can fully comfort and restore. Can give beauty for handfuls of ashes. Was betrayed and sent to a cruel cross. Didn't do anything wrong..ever! 

"You have taken account of my wanderings; put my tears in Your bottle. Are they not recorded in Your book?" Psalm 56:8 

Did you trust, and then get burned? Don’t get bitter, get better. There’s actually life beyond the betrayal, after bein’ ripped off, or the rejection, or miscarriage, or great loss. But where? 

Jesus is 100% RIGHT for everything WRONG in your life and Land.

Back in the day He suffered for you and me, but is now alive and free from that.

He is the same yesterday, today and forever. Yep, he hasn't changed.

I don't want religion or this lame world system. I'd rather have Christ more than anything.

Am thinking about the 40,000 people are on the rolls as members in my local church in Plano. It kind of makes one wonder. Billy Graham estimated that 70% of all churchgoers are spiritually lost. Going to a healthy church is important but knowing the Lord is far better. It's imperative, Bucheroo.

Q. Did you know what hypocrite means.. to wear a mask. : )

Live free, even mask free. Remember.. religion is external, judgemental, hypocritical, legalistic, temporal, and all about works and fakeness and death, but the Gospel is internal, life giving, just, eternal and real. Jesus is alive, honest, and just.

A real biblical revival and a 5th great awakening could help to restore a whole lot here. So many need God's healing and comfort.

The fame of past biblical revival can help to spread the flame of future revival to this generation.. if there’s true repentance and believing prayer.

So let’s preach the word and do revival kind of stuff like turning from sins like lust, greed, and ditching other idols ..and trusting Jesus, intercession, expecting revival. If you can’t yet believe God to send a citywide or nation-wide revival, then simply believe Him to pour it inside of you by His Spirit.

Sure, if He can get it to you and in you, then He can get it through you and out to others.

Have you yet suffered for the truth some?

I’m glad that there aren’t multiple gods, but only one who spoke the truth in love. Less complicated that way. God is love, simple huh – and He and His great love are so alive today. True. God loves you and me everyday! 

Yep, and there’s only one way to this God of love — through Jesus Christ, who said, “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14: 6). The essence of truth is the Lord Himself.

- Truth frees us. Jesus said, “You shall know the truth, and the truth
shall make you free” (John 8:32).
- Truth guides us. “When He, the [Holy] Spirit of truth, has come, He
will guide you into all truth” (John 16:13).
- Truth guards us. When we “receive the love of the truth,” we arm
ourselves against the insidious power of deception (see 2 Thessalonians 2:10 and Matthew 24:4).

What was the primary plan of Paul the Apostle? To biblically worship the Lord. And then what? “To make known the truth that there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus” (see 1 Timothy 2: 5).

Are you a high school student? Perhaps you are. You know lying and cheating are art forms today. Are you in college? Objective truth is daily ridiculed on today’s campuses. Are you in business? Too often, truth is abandoned for expediency and financial gain.

Lord, I really don't want to suffer more, or cause that for someone else... but am willing to suffer for the truth of Your word. Help me obey and follow You. 

But you matter and truth matters. God calls on us as believers to know and hold fast to the truth, no matter the cost. “Buy the truth and do not sell it.” Proverbs 23:23. I dare ya if I may to.. tactfully, prayerfully, respectfully go share the truth with your friends. 

Fear not. No one can take you out of God's will for you. Choose to trust the One who made you and has a plan. "A broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise." Psalm 51:17

Had a friend come visit me today who is really hurting cuz his wife is leaving him.  Said he fears being alone, but in his head he knows God is near and hasn't rejected him.  I hate that kinda fear!

Some people fear the future–the silence of being alone after a lover leaves. Some fear lack, or ISIS, and some fear future rejection. Have you had fears too? So sorry about that. I pray grace come near like a warm blanket to cover you today. 

My friend has tried everything to fix his relationship gone sideways, but the wife has a new lover and other plans. So I've been praying that God will comfort.. and give Him along with their kids extra grace just to get through this hard uber-whacked time. For they are all indeed loved with a perfect love. I told him this is why the Bible teaches that God hates (not just dislikes or is disturbed by) marital infidelity and divorce that crush hearts. Some people just don't recover well. 

Have you been forsaken by a friend? Have you suffered loss? Have you also been feeling alone, or afraid.. of whatever? Have you talked it through thoroughly with God. He loves you fiercely!!! Listen… 

"Such LOVE has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear."(1 John 4:18, Bible)

Let God overwhelm you with His great PEACE today. He is greater than all your trials, testing, problems or feelings. 

When the worries and anxieties of life overcome you ..just remember that you can find satisfying REST in God's warm loving arms. He wants to be close forever and has a good plan for you. No one here can mess up his plan for you. I pray that you via taking hold of his grace by faith.. will sense His nearness and love like never before. Have you blown it and feel some level of guilt or shame? Simply ask God to forgive you in Jesus' Name. He will. 

And after you freely receive from Him, you will sense such great JOY inside. You will fall in love in this new relationship that none can take away. Just go from there and bring God's PEACE to others you meet.. or even to one other person! So SO many people feel so alone today. They've been hurt from relationships that have fallen apart and their dreams have been crushed. 

"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God." (Matthew 5:10)

There might be times when you fumble or stumble or fall again. Try not to, but if you do just get back up again. Run to Jesus Christ (the one you see in the pages of the Bible–the only living Son of God). 

Never forget that God will not leave you ..even if you have made a mistake. He can make a way for you for me ..even when it looks like no one else can. And God is still committed to you no matter what. He says to you "Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you."

The Lord is my ROCK, my FORTRESS, my SAVIOR, my REFUGE. See Psalm 18:1-2

Lord, thank You for my friend and for all that You are doing in his life. thanks for being the God of the impossible. We know that no request is too big or too difficult for you! Today I want to serve you oh Lord. Please help me focus my eyes on you so I may be a witness in all I do. I Love you Lord. You are my STRENGTH, my PROVIDER AND PEACE.  facebook.com/shareJesus

"So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God.  I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand." Isaiah 41:10

"When I am afraid, I put my trust in you." Psalm 56:3

"Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.  And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:6-7  

Divorce or annulment, wouldn't you call em the same thing?

Check it out, God basically calls both the same thing. Doesn't like either, but He can forgive any sin. 

Marriage in Christ can be beautiful--a wonderful picture Christ's love for His Bride the Church. 

I don't look down on any here who have been through either cuz I don't know if someone cheated or the facts and circumstances. Personally, I like people safe, unbattered, and some people I've met were so often not safe and now not married. Brokenhearted. Dreams crushed. So sad. Won't judge em. But God can totally heal and restore people. 

Mr. Lu-Cifer a.k.a. the Devil likes to divide people; tear em apart. Resist Him. He does exist and he does all that he can to get unmarried couples to have sex early before their weddings, and then after that date he does what he can to keep married couples from having sex with each other.. instead of others. Deny Him, this world system and your own fleshly emotions and sinful desires when they tell you to go do what's wrong. There's unseen consequences.

Some quality decisions of commitment that you've made in the past require many quality follow-up choices that correspond with the initial good choice. Intentionally and prayerfullyReFallInLove.. with the one you already fell in love with.

"Two are better than one.. and the threefold cord is not easily broken." Take the time ..make the time for Him and each other.

I personally don't really care if people call it divorce or annulment, but God cares about those involved in doin' either. And He cares about you too. Hates to see people needlessly getting hurt or hurting each other. Sin is so destructive, and some are more than other ones.   

God hates divorce, not those who have been divorced (see Malachi 2:16). You know this. He hate the sin because He loves to bless protect us from its effects, and also because He keeps His commitments and expects us to keep ours. Some commitments are more important than other ones. 

Jesus cut to the heart of the marriage matter. When asked about this divorce thang, Jesus quoted Genesis 2:24 and said, "Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate"(Matthew 19:6). Other than cases of sexual immorality, the Bible doesn't permit divorce. When even well-meaning men revise God's commands, nothing good can come of it. When asked why Moses allowed divorce, Jesus said, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so" (Matthew 19:8, referring to Deuteronomy 24). 

"I am my lover’s. I’m all he wants. I’m all the world to him! Come, dear lover—let’s tramp through the countryside. Let’s sleep at some wayside inn, then rise early and listen to bird-song. Let’s look for wildflowers in bloom, blackberry bushes blossoming white, Fruit trees festooned with cascading flowers." ~ Solomon

I say have a soft playable heart in the Holy Spirit. He invented marriage and can make it work if we choose to do it God's way instead of our own way. 

I say be real ..in prayer together.. and close to the Lord. Authenticity—what is that? It's the simple decision to via grace.. close that gap between who you appear to be and who you really are. I say.. it's better to be real, to pre-think before speaking but maintaining a spontaneous style, an upbeat, light and really candid mind-set. I say choose authenticity, transparency outside dark shadows, a non-inverted or egotistical attitude, but from the heart genuine, sincere upwards, inwards in your marriage and then outwards. That's Intimacy = into me see.

If your heart is hard. Please forgive. God can fix so many broken things and people. Turn if you've blown it. All have. Be born again and spiritual in Christ. Not half-hearted like a poser would do and be. Be diff. Christ sent His disciples out and they “preached that people should repent.” (Mark 6: 12). Sure He did, who can really appreciate the Good News if they first haven’t heard the bad news about where sin gets people. 

Hardheartedness turns people from God, and husband and wife from each other. Christians can witness well through a healthy Christ-centered marriage. Please seek God together and stay together in His love. 

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Was it once so nicely arranged n delicately put together?...

..but has now somehow just painfully fallen apart and left you there wondering? I know a person that can with great care, reach down and pick up all the pieces of a broken life once again. Christ has wept and He can fix anything. 

Has the lovely dream been shattered or turned to dirty ashes in your fingers? Listen, He's gentle, loves you deeply, is way better than the dream, and He can give beauty for ashes.

“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you shall find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My load is light.” Matthew 11:28-30

"Remember the word to Thy servant, In which Thou hast made me hope. This is my comfort…" Psalm 119:49-50

"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress… in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us." Romans 8:35-37

Sure you remember, believer.. God says to you, "Do not fear, for I am with you…" Isaiah 41:10. The date and the day of the week has changed, but He hasn’t. Dare ya.. go read and prayerfully meditate upon Romans 8 today. facebook.com/shareJesus BTW: Just had a friend ask me for my personal bio and thought someone else might want to see it too. 

On The Verge Of Losing It All ..Or Have You Already?

Rainy days and Mondays never get me down. And that's what we had early this week together ..a rainy Monday. How 'bout you? It's been raining a lot here in Dallas lately. The plants, lakes and trees really need it too--they've been very thirsty. How has it been there where you live? What's the weather like there? What's your favorite thing to do or see in the area where you live ..when you get time off with your friends there? Just curious. Anyways, Liney and I trust that you are doing well spiritually. How can we pray for you? Please do feel free to let us know how we can better add practical value to your life, or challenge you, or simply minister to you with this blog etc. Please do pray that we can help more people as well. Thanks! Oh.. about that photo I attached above. No, Liney and I didn't start drinking to escape troubles or anything, but I simply scratched out a quick devo this morning at home (see below) that deals in part with people who are struggling under cruel habits and addictions that will sooner or later make them lose out and we do not want anyone to lose anything good that God plans to bless them with, or already has blessed them with. 

Ready To Lose It All?

I hate loss… don't you? It's so needless and obviously some things hurt to lose more than other things.. they have far more value than other toys and junk that are easy to replace.

A week or so ago after returning from California, my wife lost her diamond wedding ring right down the bathroom sink accidentally. She cried real tears and I just felt sick for her.. and for me. How would I be able to save up enough to replace that temporal thing that had sentimental value to her? We did what we could to recover it, but no use.

It was totally gone ..we thought ..until a week later when she pulled it out of the dryer with some clean laundry. Don't ask me how (We both remember praying about the matter though).

Are you currently on the verge of losing something valuable and have you even prayed about whether God wants you to lose it? Sure some destructive relationships need to be cut off at different times, but are you about to lose your spouse due to their sin or yours? Are you willing to fight spiritually to keep this from happening? Now you know that God hates divorce but allows this in certain instances, but please don't under-value your spouse! There can be grounds for forgiveness there due to what Jesus already accomplished.

Maybe you are about to lose a job, some commissions, or a car that you've had trouble paying on ..and then subsequently your good credit.

Perhaps you are clinging to your own life of pleasure or you idol (that which you have put number one ahead of everything else).

He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor. —Jesus, John 12:25-26, nkjv

What are you so tightly holding on to today? Jesus Christ basically encouraged His followers not to cling to their own life, to their own stuff, to their own way, to their own agenda, to their own ingenuity, plans or lifestyle, but He was promising life everlasting to anyone who would follow Him completely.

I'm talking about life during life here and then some ..a lot more, with no end.

In the context of those verses, Jesus was talking about dying so that life could come forth and help others. Man, He was and is our greatest Example of this type of thing.. when He chose to do the Father's will instead of His own even to the point of dying on a cross for our sins. And to prove the validity of those words He said, He is alive today!

Yes, Jesus said, "where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor." Have you been looking for acknowledgement, approval, respect and honor in all the wrong places? Jesus indeed wants the closeness with you and to meet all your needs as He leads you, not visa versa.

He desires to be your Lord and Savior… not just Savior alone as you insist upon living as a bullheaded carnal Christian that refuses to trust. May I ask.. is He either to you? You might have thought that you've been a real Christian for a long time now, but is there evidence to back this up? Sure, maybe you've served in a church, sung in a choir, given to some charity, but all that can be worthless-chaff and doesn't save anybody.

Maybe many of your friends think you are a real Christian too. Will it all stand up under the fierce light of the soon coming Judgment Seat of Christ?

Is there fruit from a biblically born again experience in Christ? I know those terms have been over used and misused, but Christ was the One who said you must be born again (see John 3:3). Do you even desire the things that a real Christian desires? Going to church regularly, prayer meetings, evangelism, fellowship with growing believers, meditating and memorizing Scripture, worship, talking and listening to the Lord while all alone and all through the day, intercession for others in need? Do you have your priorities in the proper order today?

Jesus commanded, "Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness" (Matt. 6:33). And a literal rendering of that in the original language means, "Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness!"

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