Just add Jesus and you have some churches I have been to… Creepy.

Turn it to the TBN channel and write down the similarities.

I wish i could somehow merge the show Axe Men with this clip.

1 John 3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God:..

Father God…

Help me to temper my self view not only with the glorious picture of me as your purchased possession but as the great enemy of your divine will.

Help me father God obtain the temperance needed to see what can become of my life if I dwell on the desires of my heart apart from yours.

Teach me my greatest weaknesses so I can in turn cling to you for strength.

Father my inward desire is off center.

I have place to highly in my heart reasonings that are soulish and self edifying.

Please continue to tether my eyes to the same cross on which Jesus died.

Please allow my pleasure to have a place of congruency alongside Your will and within Your heart.

I thank you father that it pleased you to bruise Him.

I thank you Lord Jesus that you ever liveth to make intercession for me.

I thank you Spirit that you intercede on my behalf in prayer and provide me with divine unction and all the knowledge of Him who died for me.

May my life as your Son and even the very steps I take today be an offering of the similar selfless obedience you revealed to me at the cross… Amen

Talking with a friend today… I poured out my heart and he sent me the lyrics to this song. I want to thank God for good friends in Christ who through wisdom and prayer lead us to the very razor edge of the living word!

Proverbs 27:6   Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

Psalms 119:63   I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.

I Asked the Lord
©2004 double v music (ASCAP). Words: John Newton (alt. Laura Taylor). Music: Laura Taylor.

1. I asked the Lord that I might grow
In faith and love and every grace
Might more of His salvation know
And seek more earnestly His face
2. Twas He who taught me thus to pray
And He I trust has answered prayer
But it has been in such a way
As almost drove me to despair
3. I hoped that in some favored hour
At once He’d answer my request
And by His love’s constraining power
Subdue my sins and give me rest
4. Instead of this He made me feel
The hidden evils of my heart
And let the angry powers of Hell
Assault my soul in every part
5. Yea more with His own hand He seemed
Intent to aggravate my woe
Crossed all the fair designs I schemed,
Cast out my feelings, laid me low
6. Lord why is this, I trembling cried
Wilt Thou pursue thy worm to death?
“Tis in this way” The Lord replied
“I answer prayer for grace and faith”
7. “These inward trials I employ
From self and pride to set thee free
And break thy schemes of earthly joy
That thou mayest seek thy all in me,
That thou mayest seek thy all in me.”

Ephesians 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

Don’t take this personal but you are probably what happened to your quiet time.

One of my favorite things to do is fish for Ling-Cod a nasty looking fish that is peculiar not only in looks but it’s name, though it bears the name cod, a cod it is not. This fish when hooked is fun to reel in because it is a bottom fish and the bottom is where it likes to stay! While you reel one in it dives to the bottom giving you about the same above water action as you would pulling a 1975 Buick Electra two hundred and fifty feet from the ocean floor. After taking the time to pull one in you will find the ugliest fish you will probably ever see (also similar to the 75 Buick Electra). The mouth of the fish is similar in size to the lead singer of Aerosmith while the rest of its body resembles a boa-constrictor. It’s an ugly, but tasty, monster!

When you take your flesh into your quiet time it does not enjoy pulling up ugly stuff from the deep parts your heart. Time in the word will seem as shallow and uneventful as guppy fishing if you are the one wielding the sword!

Allow the sword to be in the Spirits hands however and you will get a different result.

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Think about the incredible power of the Word of God. When in control of you the Spirit uses the word to dive deep. The Spirit and the word together have the power to discern and drudge up the murky monsters from deep within your soul.

Now go fish… then go tell a friend your fishing story!

Philemon 1:6 That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.

Our faith needs to be made common not only by our mouths but our actions. Calvin said “For although faith has its proper seat in the heart, yet it communicates itself to men by good works.” We need to be authentic and devoted in times of solitude in order to be genuine and truly common with our faiths communication among those who are without. Our communication in the Name of Christ is only powerful or effectual for Him when those to whom we communicating see Him in us and not the handiwork of idolatry.

May Gods effectual power rest on us when we consider His greatness and act in our weakness. How many times do we do a work for Christ and try to steal some of the praise. How many times do we create mechanisms and traps hidden within our “good works” ensuring that others will stumble upon our goodness and beauty when it is Him alone who deserves praise. Jesus in all His majesty and Glory had an earthly ministry of glorifying the Father. Is your ministry the same as our Lords? Are all your works like pointers toward the master? May the Power of God rest on your ministry for Him today.

In Him

Able