“I AM YOUR STRENGTH. This truth about Me is especially precious on days when your inadequacies are screaming at you, telling you that you just can’t go on. Knowing Me as your Strength is like having a guide who is always with you–showing you the way forward, clearing away obstacles, empowering you to take the next step. I hold you by your right hand, and I guide you with My counsel. Since I AM omniscient, knowing everything, My counsel provides the best wisdom imaginable (and unimaginable).” Jesus Christ, via His Word (and ‘Rhema Authoress’, Sarah Young, in her Jesus Always devotional book, pg. 256).
Author: Living Letters Community
Prayer-surrender prerequisite to Love-power
“Jesus cleaned House, proclaimed it a Place of Prayer, welcomed the children (AKA ‘had a Youth Revival’), then the miracles came.” Pastor-teacher, Writer, Missionary Joe Sweet, Shekinah Worship Center
Assemble…with Allies.
Unfortunately, we frequently “forsake the assembling of ourselves together” (contrary to the Bible’s command). When we speak of prayer, we talk of private prayer. We are swiftly becoming less a society of homo-sapiens and becoming more (like) silos of ‘solo-sapiens.’ Pastor-teacher and Author, Ken Gurley, in The Book on Prayer, pg. 105
Choose the ‘Weapon’ of…Forgiveness.
“When we choose forgiveness as our weapon, we recognize that God will redeem what was lost…and that He wants to not only redeem our loss but also salvage the lives, time, and families of both parties. In the end, forgiveness releases us from getting entangled in the world’s idea of justice and gives us the freedom to move forward.” Shawn Bolz
Casualness…Kills.
“The Greatest Casualty is…Being Forgotten.” The Wounded Warrior Project.
Dead ‘Living’
“A life devoted to things is a DEAD LIFE, a stump; a God-shaped life is a flourishing tree.” Proverbs 11:28, MSG.
Prayer…WORKS!
“It is high-time to return to the power and practice of united prayer.” Pastor Ken Gurley.
Relational Fun
Relationships and Ministry…or Things and Fun? Our priority must be, gets to be, on the former. Yet the latter can be a tool to assist us in succeeding with our Relational/Ministry focus, if we keep things and fun in their proper perspective.
My Song in the Night
“Faith is the bird that sings to greet the dawn…while it is yet dark.” Resurrected(!) Man of God/Brother in Christ, Rev. Lee Stoneking, SoCal Camp Meeting, O.C. Fairgrounds, CA, Summer ‘14
SATISFYING…
“A wife is the only legitimate channel on the face of the earth for a man’s sexual satisfaction. She’s God’s stream of mercy and grace on her husband’s path to sexual purity…” Fred Stoeker, Every Man’s Marriage, pg. 245.