Just As I Am!#
4/11/2024
September 22, 1871 witnessed an elderly British lady, 82 years young, ushered into her heavenly reward.
Category: Encouragement
The Beauty of Blessing
5/8/2024
Jesus 'launched' new virtues to the world, He called these 'blessings'. Men named them The Beatitudes. This teaching opened His Sermon on the Mount.
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God does not take counsel from your tormentors
22/7/2024
He guides me in paths of righteousness for His names sake.
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Dreaming of Peace?
12/7/2024
When giants arise, so too stress. Mental tension marches up and down the avenues of the mind at increasing speed.
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Walking His line
23/5/2024
I didn't ask for Jesus, but He asked for me. What a joy! Unrequested and invisible.
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Losing sight of Jesus
3/4/2024
John's Gospel carries fresh insights the other three gospels do not contain. This is one.
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UNFLAPPABLE ~ B
24/11/2022
The holy Scriptures sing many songs to anoint all of mankind. But, very few seek such affirmation.
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The highest moral imperative...
15/11/2022
'The highest moral imperative is to keep up a good front. ' ~ Brennan Manning Upon a bed of nails a man's ways of life are exposed.
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Almighty is God's hand...
12/10/2022
"I will uphold you with the right hand of My righteousness. " (Isaiah 41:10)Charles Spurgeon inspires: Fear of falling is wholesome. To be venturesome is no sign of wisdom.
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Blessed into Perpetuity
13/3/2022
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
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Evil Does Not Surrender With Ease#
22/2/2022
The spirit shrieked, convulsed him violently and came out. (Mark 9:26) Evil never surrenders its grasp without a tremendous fight.
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Holding on for the last half-hour!#
20/2/2022
Imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.
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Uncluttered Joy
5/12/2021
Be holy as I AM holy. (Leviticus 11:44) This command is strong. And, not to be diluted. Holiness is the call of truth and virtue.
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The True Price of Resurrection
8/7/2021
Who is more likely to injure me, me or Jesus? The self-made man has no one to blame but himself. (Anon) Ourselves are the greatest snares to ourselves.
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Hounding Righteousness
3/3/2021
There are those who refrain from veering to the left or to the right. They are wise, they fear God and aim for heaven.
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God could have said this to Moses...
2/3/2021
Moses said to the Lord, ‘Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant.
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STANDING ON THE PROMISES
21/2/2021
Do the stars stare down with a distant indifference? To endure in hope through darkness is an easy task to flee.
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The Bible's 2 Best Verses?
11/11/2020
Blessed are those who endure through faith the heartaches and hardships of this life. . . Blessed are those who do not depart the Lord's presence despite persecutions. .
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The Covid Flux
6/8/2020
As this week ends I am reminded of the good Lord’s eternal faithfulness and righteousness. He is seated upon a throne supported by the legs of righteousness and justice.
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The Lake of Forgetfulness
11/6/2020
The loving and merciful God, abundant in grace, has one trait the wise will follow - FORGETFULNESS! I imagine an endless lake. It is signposted The Lake of Forgetfulness.
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The Storeroom of Faithfulness#
23/4/2020
It is both good and smart to ever draw towards the throne room of God.
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Adoption VS Slavery - 18 Differences
2/4/2020
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” (Romans 8:15)Each...
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Blessed are the chain's smallest links#
3/3/2020
There exists a rather unknown character in Jewish history named Hathach - he 'saved' Israel.
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Named by Jesus!
4/2/2020
Any Christian disciple carries Jesus' name. This is observed far more in the heavenlies than it is upon earth.
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We All Want Our Fires Quelled
10/12/2019
Daniel's friends were not released from the fire, instead Jesus entered the fire and stood with His friends in their torment.
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My Image Carries My Beauty!
5/7/2019
The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands. (Psalm 19:1) A gardener's eyes and thoughts wandered past his freshly trimmed hedge.
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Surrounded by Songs of Deliverance
30/6/2019
Mindful of his utter dependence upon the good Lord, King David gazes with faith illumined confidence to his innermost place, he records three truths: You are my hiding place; you will...
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Instinctive Faith
30/6/2019
Where reason cannot wade, there faith may swim. ~ Thomas Watson Sudden storms demand that consuming enemy of faith - fear.
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The Authentic Shepherd
28/6/2019
Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber.
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To Brighten Your Days
13/6/2019
The Bible's intent is to explain righteous living. Its desire is to build mankind up, breathing pure oxygen into his soul.
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The Music of Emmaus
25/4/2019
It was Easter day. As two disciples walked to Emmaus from Jerusalem, their hearts burned within them, for Jesus too shared their journey.
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The Original Sense of Belonging
6/10/2018
The time enters each man's life when he shall begin to call upon the Lord. This has been so since the very first post Eden dawn.
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No Replacing True Friends#
16/8/2018
Hard times will always reveal true friends. ~ anon In 1977, a group of teenagers gathered to form a band. Their names were Rick, Pete, Tony and Joe.
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INADEQUATE
8/7/2018
It is our darkness that frightens us most. This is a mental testing. Too many reminders flood the soul with inadequacy, that sense of self-worthlessness and deficiency.
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Waited Long?
27/6/2018
Long have I wandered in God's word. His trails and tracks with its vistas and views always reach into my soul. Often my wandering opens my wondering.
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Let Me feel Hope - Please?
19/4/2018
Too many, too long have lived at hell's doors. Visiting the vestibule of hell is surely a metaphor to living without hope. For, hell holds no hope.
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Soul Scaffold ~ Temptation's Wrestle
9/11/2017
Temptation uncovers the desires of the heart. Faithfulness reveals the strength of the heart. The wrestles are in the middle.
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Finding Good in God
28/8/2017
Every second of every day, at the point of any suffering God's marketing arm is found wanting.
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There Is No Easy Space
13/1/2017
No easy space exists for those who would bear Christ's cross, surrender their will and audit their life in obedience to Him who was faithful unto death.
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5 Smooth Stones to fell your Goliath#
11/1/2017
Giants still menace every Christian life, those who choose to travel those rocky and thorn edged paths of faith.
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When the Back is too Bent
1/12/2016
There comes the time when the back is too bent or the walking stick too short. . .
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That Day to Trust
30/11/2016
When the day breaks as bleak as the night was lonely. . . When rest flees and health holds its hand. . .
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The Pot that Wept#
30/8/2016
This anonymous tale of two clay pots has raised hearts and bandaged wounds for countless generations in various forms - for: it is from poverty of spirit that the kingdom of...
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If Your Head Hangs Low...
25/8/2016
If your head hangs low and your back is stooped. . . If your heart is empty but your eyes are full. . .
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Abraham, Arabs & God's 'Slow' Promises
17/8/2016
The very nature of promise must first mean a waiting room, that period of eager hope. God promised a man of great age he would become a father.
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The Hose of Desire
27/7/2016
Ambition and righteousness are not bed partners. Confession time. . . I find it far too easy to pursue godliness ambitiously, for personal gain.
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8 Gold Bars of Relationship Bullion
20/7/2016
Maybe your heart has ached and your eyes hunted for a friendly smile, just one? But none was found! Everybody always knows an ache or two inside.
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The Last Station on Freedom's Road
13/7/2016
As oxygen is to the body, so too is freedom an energiser to the soul. Freedom sits at everyone's core to living.
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5 Verses to Agree With
11/7/2016
The Book of Psalms has always held a purple place in first Jews' and then Christians' hearts. The Psalms carry many of the most popular Bible verses.
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5 'Feel Goods' from Isaiah
9/7/2016
For the self-doubters, the troubled, those with a radar for rejection and the weighed down, anchored by tragedy . . .
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The True Meaning of Failure
30/6/2016
Inevitably the fog of failure descends upon all those keen enough to make attempts.
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The Impossibility of Scripting Life
28/6/2016
Boxing imitates life (or death). That great scholar Iron Mike Tyson completely and unwittingly summarised death's experience well when he reflected: everybody got plans until they get hit.
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Enduring Health
14/4/2016
You can be stronger in faith much longer than strength stays in the body.
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But God is a good Father too...#
21/1/2016
Maybe our Heavenly Father has been misrepresented to you? Is your soul tauntedd by a picture of a parent waiving a finger at a departing child? The parent leaves God in...
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4 More Soft Pillows for a Sad Soul#
29/11/2015
Sadness is clear proof that your soul is still alive. ~ anon Sadness can be a cruel taskmaster. The sad person wanders within, sculpting their tears.
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Doubt's Envelope & Archbishop Welby
24/11/2015
The Archbishop of Canterbury has admitted the Paris attacks left him questioning the presence of God.
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HOW to PROTECT the WORLD
19/11/2015
Mark Twain once taught - "I can live for sixty days on one compliment". Hmmm. . .
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Diffusing Yesterday's Time Bombs ~ B
4/11/2015
The past beats inside me like a second heart. ~ John Lagerfield Life gets out of balance as the rhythm of the heart breaks beat.
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Diffusing Yesterday's Time Bombs ~ A
3/11/2015
Sometimes memories sneak out of my eyes and roll down my cheeks. ~ anon Seasons arrive when thoughts draw backwards and the past refuses to be released.
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Preventing Life's Saddle-Sores
25/8/2015
For the saddle-sore, those who are too well chafed by life: Satan wants you to: canvas your life in a pained recall and witness any persistent darkness, that you then curl your...
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God's Plea to the Wiped-Out
29/6/2015
Life's battles sap your self-confidence and tip you upside-down. . . Unshakeable sadness hovers its dark shadow across your soul. . .
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3 Rear Vision Lessons
29/1/2015
Life has been (is?) carnage! You've been (are?) cannoned like a billiard ball and careened against hardened cushions by a blunt instrument others keep belting you with.
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Other's Opinion's of You?
19/11/2014
Soul Snack 222/14 . . . Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me - is a lie.
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The Anticlimax Ache
13/8/2014
Soul Snack 154/14 . . . Anticipation lies! Two decades ago a brisk wind whistled around my helmet as I twisted the throttle of my new bike.
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Whispers to the Soul
11/3/2014
Soul Snack 49/14 . . . An impossibly vast chasm divides those lost in the world from those lost to the world.
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Signed by God
16/11/2011
Soul Snack 200/11 . . . Signed by God Father, most of the time I don't consider myself much of a prize.
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The gold in You
17/11/2010
Soul Snack S17/12 . . . The Gold in You Within each of us is a divinely blended gold-mine.
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Heaven's honey
4/10/2010
Soul Snack 169/10 . . . Heaven's honey God's love for you and His choice of you constitute your worth.
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Hard to believe?
11/6/2009
Soul Snack 9/91 . . . Hard to believe? My delightful nineteen year old princess bought a new skirt most recently.
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Clouds to the Cosmos
18/5/2009
Soul Snack - S1 . . . Clouds to the Cosmos Convincing and sufficient proof were found in forty days of witness and fellowship.
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Treasure Hunting.
15/10/2008
Soul Snack 8/177 . . . Treasure Hunting Adventure was in her eyes as desire was in her heart.
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'I'm framed!'
5/8/2008
Soul Snack S11. . . 'I'm framed!' A verdant sloping pasture-land gracefully fell into a luscious “V” of a small valley.
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Life's Links
16/5/2008
Soul Snack 8/73 . . . Life's Links! Canvassing the globe, every second of every day is the opportunity for good or evil.
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Opening Heaven
2/4/2008
Soul Snack 8/42 . . . Opening Heaven This God has deliberately and generously presented Himself to Israel. This is unique and unheard of in the Ancient Near East.
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Delighting God
3/3/2008
Soul Snack 8/22 . . . Delighting God Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule. . .
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Marriage Mayhem
16/4/2007
Soul Snack 86 . . . Marriage Mayhem 'The master of the banquet had tasted the water that had turned into wine. . .
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The WOW factor!
4/4/2004
SOUL SNACK S16/12 … The WOW factor! To the refuse, the rejected, the rotten and the forgotten of this world . . .