Lifting It All Up – Devotions, July 07-09, 2025 (245/365)

I sing praises to Your name, oh Lord,

Praises to Your name, oh Lord;

For Your name is great, (and) it is greatly to be praised.

We give thanks to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords; We recognize the glory and grace of the Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last.

We are forever grateful for all that the Beginning and the End has done; For by being the Word that was made flesh, He dwelt among us…

…and He did not end there, because He lay down His body and shed His blood – He became sin so we who believe would become His righteousness.

He cried, ‘my God, my God, why have You forsaken me?!‘ so we can see God, and we can run to His throne of grace at our time of need, crying out, ‘Abba, Father!

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow!

Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, Ye heavenly host!

Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost!

Yes, we thank God, and we praise Him. With all that we are, and at any given moment, we praise Him.

No matter what we are feeling, no matter what we are going through, we find cause to rejoice in Him – all because of the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ, and by the power of the Holy Spirit.

So even now, with so many folks in mind, with their own hopeless or complicated cases and issues on my shoulders to pray with them for… I can say, I continue to rejoice in the Lord, because He truly is my very present help – Much as He is a great help to the entire Body.

In our worries, He encourages us – and more than saying that we can do it, He gives us cause to praise Him and to celebrate Him, reminding us that in more than our works, His finished work has guaranteed our security in Him, no matter if we fail or succeed.

He encourages me to keep on going, not only for myself, but also for the rest of the world that just happens to be following whatever I’m going through – that ALL would see that those who trust in the Lord shall NEVER be put to shame, and that this goodness would lead one and all to true repentance, salvation and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

Thank You so much, Lord! Move in my heart and my mind, and in my body; Move in my future and in my past, move in the present.

Father, move in all that concerns me, and in all that I’m concerned about. I trust You fully, my Good Father, to help me, please! For I am fully aware of how I am nothing without You.

Help me, Lord, in the things to come – guide me with the right words to say in each calls, help me to understand everyone clearly without having any need to have them repeat themselves; Direct me, Heavenly Father, to which process to follow, what tool to use, and what protocols to observe and follow.

Help me, Lord, with the desires of my heart – help me to release unreasonable standards and to stick to Your promises – ALIGN my desires with Your will, my Good Father. Reprogram my mind so the false narratives and the deceptive suggestions from both in and out are repurposed or downright erased, to give way to code and systems aligned to Your infinite power and eternal wisdom.

Through it all, my Lord, be praised, be worshiped and be glorified.


July 8, 2025

To the One who has rescued my soul,

To the One who has taken me home

To the One who is Savior of all,

I sing forever!

What a good and great God we have. What an awesome Father we have, a Father who loves us, THE father who loves us fully and absolutely, loving us with an everlasting love. It is to our Father that we place our full and complete trust – for who are we, and what can we do without Him? Sure, we can actually accomplish much, but in the long run, or given enough time, it’ll all be worth absolute nothing.

We trust in our Father because it’s the best thing to do. We give thanks to Him because of Christ, who gave His best and who gave everything for us to be so saved and reconciled. Take in that Truth – the Creator of the Universe and all that is seen and unseen, from the smallest of atoms to the greatest of eternities; He is not only a God who look in regal favor upon us, but He is a Father to whom we could run in our time of need.

We trust in our Father because it’s the ONLY sensible thing for us to do.

Oh, minister to my heart, my mind, my soul, and my body, my Good and Great God! Search deep into my heart and delete, reprogram, reassign all that brings death, and shine Your love, light and life in us!


July 09, 2025

Praise the Father, praise the Son,

Praise the Spirit, Three-in-One!

God of glory, Majesty;

Praise forever to the King of Kings!

Praise forever to the King of Kings!

Praise forever to the King of Kings!

We give thanks to God, for we call Him our Father, through no One else but Jesus Christ, and by the power of His Holy Spirit.

We can behold the great glory of our God, because He is our Father – and not only are we able to see Him, but we are able to RUN to Him in our time of need.

And we continue to praise our God, our Father, because He has more or less taken care of us for all eternity, again, by way of the finished work of His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior.

But for all that we have in this existence, for all we endure in this reality, it could not be helped for us to cry out to the Lord, coming from our experiences and encounters in the temporal…

And though it may give us cause to doubt, we give thanks, because by the power of the Holy Spirit, we are constantly reminded that all this is no deterrence, but more of confirmation to the fact and Truth that our God is ever faithful to us.

For, indeed, it is in the darkness that we experience here, that we see the Light of our Father more.

It is in the lonely times that we appreciate how God is with us, never leaving us, and never forgetting or forsaking us.

It is in all the confusion and the deception that we seek Christ more, and indeed, we do see Him and realize Him, because He is our Truth.

It all points back to Christ. ‘Good’, ‘Bad’, ‘Right’, ‘Wrong’, it all points back to Christ, and we could not help but speak and sing about it. We have beheld the goodness of God in Jesus and His finished work, our minds have been renewed, and we have been transformed by the renewing of our mind.

We were built to praise the Father. We were re-built as testaments to the finished work of Christ; Having the mind of Christ, we are constantly aware of the Holy Spirit counselling us, and more importantly, convicting us (as He convicts the world) of sin, judgment and righteousness; That Christ would be glorified… We are truly temples of the Holy Spirit.

So in all things seemingly impossible before me, in my life, right here and now, I give thanks and I give praise to God. I rejoice always, and I give thanks in all things – not out of positive thinking or any other ritual or work that the world suggests, but all coming from the power of the Holy Spirit alive in me, with me, for me, by me and through me. Christ is glorified, and the goodness of God shines forth all the more.

Thank You, Jesus. For in these times I am reminded of how Your peace is superior to all intimidation. I am reminded of how Your grace and Your lovingkindness endures and keeps me standing, even in all things that I am tempted to buckle against. I am reminded of how I am overcome by Your everlasting Love, more than I am overwhelmed by the responsibilities before me. I am reminded of how I have the mind of Christ, in all things that I have trouble figuring out or enduring.

Yes, Jesus, You do all this, You’ve done all this, and so much more. Thank You so much for everything. Be glorified, magnified, and praised in all.

Halleluyah! Halleluyah!

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