Good morning and happy Friday.  I love to hit the snooze in the morning sometimes. I mean I really like to put off the inevitable. ( sarcasm ). Then I wake up and realize I'm running late and things are going to be a mess. How many people do you know that are hitting the snooze of the alarm calling them to a relationship with Jesus.? Thy just keep putting it off because the "sleep" feels so good. But what happens when they finally wake up and realize the mess they're in? I don't wanna know that I could've helped and didn't. If you've been following along this week you've seen a pattern in God's messages. He has stressed this more this week to me than ever before. Remember this is His words and not my own. Don't leave friends and family or yourself asleep when you can wake them. I don't always stand in His light, but when I do, I love it and can't believe I ever get out if it. That's the power this world and Satan can have on us. Wake up,  WAKE UP. Don't fall asleep on this one. Don't keep hitting the snooze. It's time to be about the Fathers business. In love always. <>< 

Good morning and happy Thursday. As we talked about yesterday and last night at class, how do we bring The Book of Revelation to us today? How does it impact us? The angel unlocked the abyss and a swarm like locusts invaded the earth. They were like horses for battle with faces like humans and breastplates of armor and long beautiful hair and teeth like a lion and a tail like a scorpion sent to torment but not kill the unsaved for 5 months. So have you seen that walking around today?  It's graphic and a little scary. It's hard to explain, but bottom line is its demons and they are doing the work for Satan as God has allowed them. So as this happens, those who have come to God in this tribulation time are safe and are seeing this take place. So who do you see today that is being tormented by their own demons? Who do you see today that is struggling with life on a daily basis. It's very relevant to today. You have turned to God and are safe. If your life is in His, death is welcome so there is no fear. But if not, the torment of this world is only worse for eternity. Who's going with you? What seeds are you planting among the fields you walk through everyday. There is rich fertile soil that's lost and needs to hear the words you have been given. Today is someone's tribulation time. Show them the Way and all in Heaven will rejoice at their salvation. Be Jesus today. In love always. <>< 

Good morning and happy Wednesday. We've been studying the Book of Revelation on Wednesday nights and we've gotten to chapter 9. Man, if I was to just start there I would have a hard time believing God loves us. John paints a very vivid picture of events that are still to come and we will be a part of. It's an ugly picture of the end but it's also a beautiful one if you can see how God is doing battle for us to push those who have resisted Him to turn to Him now. This is the last chance they will have. It's so bad at this time that they beg to die and can't. That's an ugly feeling I imagine. To want to die and have that same torment forever than to turn to Him and hail Him as King. Why would we wait? It's real and it's coming. The end is coming and we will be before His throne. Don't wait and if you're already there then get more to come with you. We have  work to do and I don't want anyone going through the tribulation times because I didn't share the Good News with them. Be Jesus to the world around you. In love always. <><

Good morning and happy Tuesday. Why have we complicated life so much? God gave the Israelites 10 rules and they turned em into thousands because it made them feel more special when they done more righteous stuff. God didn't change a thing when Jesus was on the scene and getting the word out to the gentile nations. His rules stayed the same and Jesus showed us the simplicity of following God's word. It really is simple, love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your mind, and all your soul, love each other the way you love yourself. So what's gotten in the way? We've forgotten the root of the original ten. The bar is set high and for a reason. We need Him to reach it. We cannot do it on our own. But our society has become about ourselves through the years and slowly moving away from the simpleness of what God has for us. He didn't want it to be hard, but He also didn't want it to be just a given. We have to commit ourselves to Him and not this world. Jesus was love in the flesh. Action you could see and today read of. Is your love hidden and reserved for the things you want to give it to? Or does God lead you to give it and you choose to keep it?  There is the dilemma of todays chaos. We don't love each other the way we should. Know this for sure; if you're reading this from a text from me this morning, I love you. I really do. You mean something to me. And if you're reading this from the Internet page, the same goes for you. No one is different and no one is above another. When we fall in love with God, all this becomes simple. The world will make it hard, but faith in the promise God has made will overcome the world. Wait, He's already done that. So move on to the next place in the journey before you. Loving God and others the whole way. In love always. <>< 

Good morning and happy Monday. I had an interesting question asked, of a group I was in, about reflection. Rewording it a bit to fit more than just that group, I will ask you. Looking back, what in your life have you fought with or struggled with that you have put down and now have picked back up?  Why is it that we find peace in God and in living in His will as best we can, and we can't stay there? Do we feel lost without some sort of control over our lives? If so, then we never really died to ourselves and surrendered to God?  This is a slippery slope, but given how we all fail, it's about how to stay in the light of God the best we can. That is done with daily time, and for some of us, hourly time, with God. We have to get in His Word and read and study and begin to apply it. It does still apply and in case we forgot, there's a big part of it still to come. We can't put it off as history and not think it does not go along for us today. I think sometimes that may be why we disregard it. I don't know. Each of us has to find the way that keeps us close to Him. I think about Jesus'  apostles and how they we're with Him and knew Him but never really got what was going on until the Holy Spirit filled them. Then they lived and died for the Name of Jesus Christ. It's no different today. We know Him, and if not really staying in the Word, miss what He's doing until we give in to the Holy Spirit that is given to us by God Himself. Trust Him and live for Him. Stay near Him and His church will grow by Him through you. In love always. <>< 

Good morning and happy Friday. I didn't have time  ______. You can fill in the blank with anything you want. We say this a lot throughout our lives. And on the receiving end is someone else saying, its ok, I understand, no problem. But really we've hurt them some. They weren't important enough to us to matter at that time. It's not true but for a second that's how we make them feel. My grandparents grew up in a much slower time than ours, they see how busy we've made our lives and say they understand why I haven't been by in a while. I've got to make time to see them. They're important to me and they won't be here a lot longer. Sometimes we feel like we have forever with someone and then they're taken away from us. I wish I would've spent more time with them, that's what we'll say. One day though, a trumpet will sound and all time will be still and the Judge of judges will be on His throne and we will be before Him. I hope that we've spent some time getting to know Him. I hope we had time for Him. I pray that we made time for Him, because as we hurt Him in not knowing Him, we will pay in the end for Him not knowing us. Spend time with family and friends. Spend more time with God.  Can you imagine, I didn't have time God. In love always. <>< 

Good morning and happy Thursday. Do you know where that place is that you meet up with God? You know, that place each of has where God is right there waiting on us. He's never failed to be there and we know how safe it is to be there with Him. And even when we've walked away from that place and gone on our own, He's still right there waiting. And not one time has He ever walked away from us when we return. Why do we choose to leave that place? What moves us to move away from Him? Jesus was tempted by Satan in the wilderness and he found the power of rebuking him in the words of God. There's our answer. He's been our example for all this time. The Bible says that Jesus was tempted in everything we would. It only lists three but by them we can learn that in all things, God's word is where we are saved from it. That's where we find Him. We need to stay in His word daily. It's our only defense against a world that doesn't really care at all about us. Go there to that place and meet Him today. He's still there waiting. In love always. <>< 

Good morning and happy Monday. Take a look around. Are you where you want to be? Are you where God led you or just where you fought Him to get to? How comfortable are you? That's what will really tell you which road you took. I know I've fought Him on what I thought He was really leading to me to do. I mean I really felt like I was doing His will but the whole time I was really just allowing myself to be convinced of it. So how do we know? How do we find the path He has before us? It starts on our knees. Our prayers to Him are our surrender to His will. They are our obedience to Him. Our need to lean on Him for guidance. Too often we grow impatient with where our life is at the moment and want to do something to change it as if that will make it happen faster. We've all prayed for rain, but it will rain when God wants it to. Maybe He teaching us to take better care of our resources right now. So do we stop praying because there's no answer and He'll get to it later?  Of course not. That's the obedience and expectation of relying on God to provide. He longs to hear form us just as we do from Him. But we are too busy or need gratification now. We lack the patience it takes to see it through so that He gets the glory. Look at Moses and the trek through the desert. Talk about getting impatient. Be in prayer daily for all things, not just the big stuff. Talk to Him like you would your best friend. When we begin to talk to Him the path gets easier to see and to follow. In love always. <>< 

Good morning and happy Thursday. I was reading a bunch of posts on a page about the Chic-fil-et hoopla yesterday. I was amazed to find how many people slammed the place and made some horrible remarks. Most though didn't even address the real issue of what was said and just made some assumptions of being attacked yet again. This is a country were 85% of it professes to be a Christian. If I lived across the way and looked back at our country from a religious  view, which is how the entire world but us look at things, it would be easy to say that Christianity is wrong. We haven't stood our ground. We're afraid of hurting the feelings of someone else. But would you do it if it was gonna save their soul. Save them for eternity. Christians have to begin the revival of the new age. We've sat back too long and this world is falling into chaos. Change is brought about when the majority get tired of letting the minority have its way, and obviously the 85% is not doing a good of it. We've become too tolerant of hurting feelings and so we let things against our beliefs go and then it grows to what we have today. A mess of country that's lost it's Godly views of how this should be. But if 85% of the population took a stand, change would happen in and instant. In love always. <>< 

Good morning and happy Wednesday. I missed yesterday because I was trying to get to work early and get ahead of some stuff. We have an "auditor" type person here this week and I was trying to make sure I had some stuff ready. Gee shouldn't I have already been ready?  I do my job and do it well but I let some of this stuff slip by. It's not the important stuff but it's still something the auditor wants done. How many of us are doing a good job with God but not doing all we need to be?  How many of us need to go in early to get ourselves caught up so that we are where we should be with God? Hell will be full of good people and I don't wanna be one of them. Just like in my work, sometimes we just do enough to get the job done, and done well, but not enough to have the "Boss" be pleased fully. Get caught up today. Let His awesomeness drive you to being the best at what He wants you doing. Be bold in claiming Him as Father and King. In love always. <>< 

Good morning and happy Monday. Visiting with a friend yesterday who had his leg amputated recently, and he was having some phantom pains. He said his missing foot was hurting. He joked that his legs were crossed, but one day in PT he could feel his foot on the floor and his shoe was too tight. It's amazing how the body works and what it does and feels. With tha,t it made me think about the tribes of people who are found performing rituals to a god they worship. They know that something is missing and they can feel it. It's a part of them that they can't see but still feel. It's the same for us as we know too something is missing. We've tried to fill it with everything but to no avail. We feel our heart longing for something but we just can't find it. It's God and He is all that will ever fill that void because He put Himself there as a part of us. He gave us the choice to keep Him there. For many of us we live a long time without anything there and feel the pains of the missing part the whole time. What great joy and comfort it is when we allow ourselves to be filled with the Spirit of God. Call me a quack but it hasn't been proven wrong in thousands of years. And trust me, I've done my own experiments in what can and cannot fill the void. Thank you God for letting me make it to the day I filled it with you. In love always. <>< 

Good morning and happy Friday. TGIF. A lot of folks use those letters at the end of the week. What about TGIM ? Nobody likes Monday. Nobody thanks God its Monday. You might if you nearly died over the weekend or your child came home from a weekend camp outing. We are quick to blame God for stuff or at least ask why He let something happen, but really slow to thank Him for just the air that we breath every second of the day. Why is it so hard to be thankful? Or maybe just to let God know we're thankful? Do we assume He knows? Are we taking Him for granted? Well He knows how we feel about the bad things but we don't mind talking about those. It's relational, that's what this whole thing is. We tell each other thank you all the time because we're friends or we're doing business together, whatever. Stop and tell God thanks. Thanks for letting me wake up this morning and go about a day that I can give praise and thanks to you. And thank you for Monday. TGFE, Thank God For Everything. In love always. <><

Good morning and happy Friday. TGIF. A lot of folks use those letters at the end of the week. What about TGIM ? Nobody likes Monday. Nobody thanks God its Monday. You might if you nearly died over the weekend or your child came home from a weekend camp outing. We are quick to blame God for stuff or at least ask why He let something happen, but really slow to thank Him for just the air that we breath every second of the day. Why is it so hard to be thankful? Or maybe just to let God know we're thankful? Do we assume He knows? Are we taking Him for granted? Well He knows how we feel about  the bad things but we don't mind talking about those. It's relational, that's what this whole thing is. We tell each other thank you all the time because we're friends or we're doing business together, whatever. Stop and tell God thanks. Thanks for letting me wake up this morning and go about a day that I can give praise and thanks to you. And thank you for Monday. TGFE, Thank God For Everything. In love always. <><

Good morning and happy Wednesday. Forgive me Father for I have sinned. Powerful words, especially when heart felt and meant. We all have  sinned and fall short of the grace of God. We don't deserve His forgiveness. But since He loves us and can do that for us, why are we not able to do that with each other?  Are we above God that we can't forgive?  Of course not, but we hold on to stuff that we thought we let go of and it eats us from the inside out. Forgiveness. Powerful, freeing and so amazingly hard to do and for some even harder to receive. Why? I can't wrap my mind around it at all but find myself always in need of it. Father thank you for your love for us that we can come to you for the grace you give us. Help us to do the same for each other. Help us to bless your name by showing what your love does for all of us, no matter where we are or how far away we feel. Forgive those who have hurt you and receive the free gift of forgiveness they give to you. Ours lives will change forever. In love always. <>< 

Good morning and happy Tuesday. It felt so good having a day off yesterday. So good in fact I forgot today was Tuesday and thought it was Monday again. Reminds me of when I find myself back in the grove with my Bible studying and relationships period. With God and people. It's just refreshing to get that second wind feeling and push forward through the stuff of the day and come out unscathed by it all. Trust and faith in Jesus is the only way this is possible. Staying in relation and then being removed only for a day puts the importance on the relationship. It's like thinking its Monday and finding out its really Tuesday. I'm stoked. I love the fact that it's Tuesday. I love when I refresh my time with God and feel so good inside about it. Like a new start. But isn't that what He offers us anyway?  He cracks me up with His reminders of the things I should already know. I love Him so much and I've wasted a lot of my life missing Him. Not any more. I hope you feel the same. In love always. <><