August 29, 2025
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Philippians 2:5-11
I’m quoting this in after singing God Is Able, and leading into Dominion.
Anyway, let me go ahead and just …go. I need to type. I need to stop thinking, and I need to let stuff out of my head, I need to let stuff out of my mind and my heart. It’s all been stocked up here and it all needs release. All this pressure, all this tension, I just need to go ahead and stop thinking and just start flowing. I need to say that God is good. I need to say and share that God is here, with me now, in all things withoiug my control, and out of my control. I need to say that it is still in the LOrd that I place my trust – and, if I’m being honest, there’s been a lot in thesese recent days that have been throwing me to trusting in the Lord.
There’s situations beyond my control. There’s circumstances that I’ve never thought I’d stay in extended times in. There’s mountains that are possible to climb, but still, difficult.
Oh, Lord, I need you. I need you more now than ever. I’m in need of Your presence, Your help, You – ALL of You – in all that I’m dealing with from within, and in all that’s happening around me. I need YOU, Lord, in my dealings with the past, the preparations and anticipations for the future, and here and now, in the present. I need Your help.
I need Your everlasting love, that love that extends from the beginning of time and past the end of all things. I need Your mercies, for here and now – I need Your mercies that are fresh and new and abundant with every morning… Especially considering that there’s more and more being put on my plate with each and every day, especially as of late.
Oh, Lord, I just need You. I KNOW You’re here. I KNOW You’re with me, close to me as You’ve ever been and ever will be, never leaving me, never forsaking me… Oh, Lord, I suppose I’m just taking this moment to release, as I’ve said earlier – only because all that my senses perceive are seemingly more apparent and real, than Your presence. Forgive me, I suppose that’s something that I’m still working on.
Help me, Lord. Help all that concerns me. Help all I’m concerned with. The folks in situations and circumstances. Actually, help us all. We’re in need of healing. We’re in need of Your provision. We’re in need of Your intervention. We’re in need of Your revelations, Your realizations; We need You, Lord, we need You so freaking much.
If I’m insinuating that Your presence doesn’t cut it, or that Your peace isn’t exactly helping – Forgive me, Father. Actually, thank You. Thank You for reminding me to go back to the cross. Rather, thank You for reminding me to go back to Christ. For through Christ I see the vacated cross, where my Savior was nailed in my place. Through Christ I remember the empty tomb, which is the receipt of my absolute forgiveness and my complete reconciliation with You.
Thank You, Father, here and now, for reminding me of my forgiveness. By the power of the Holy Spirit I’ve been transferred from writing about how I need help, to thanking You for forgiveness. I suppose I’m playing along with ‘formulas’ to ‘get’ Your attention, but on the other hand, I’m just adhering to the Word that You gave me, and the Word You gave all us all.
5 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, 6 and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, 7 and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. 8 For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins.2 Peter 1:5-9
I’ve been meditating on our completeness and perfection in Christ, beyond baptisms and cleansings, beyond repentance from dead works. I’ve been thinking of how this was written to the Hebrews, and not necessarily to the Gentiles, but still for our perusal, lest we deceive ourselves into staying focused on religion. I’ve been writing on the last verses of Hebrews 5, and the first verses of Hebrews 6 – but, here, I suppose this is something from the Apostle Peter, which would be for us, the Gentiles.
If the Word would have the Hebrews moving from baby food to meat, telling them to take in the completeness and perfection that they have, telling them that it is Christ’s finished work, and not their works, that brought them to it.. We Gentiles – or any of us ‘who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ‘ (2 Peter 1:1) are to keep coming back to the forgiveness we have in Christ. We’re to keep coming back to the foundation, that Christ’s finished work that rendered us clean from our former sins.
We build upon the foundation of forgiveness, towards perfection – all this time, giving glory to Christ, who paid the ultimate price for both.
Thank You, Lord, for everything. Thank You, Lord, for this moment. Move in our midst, move in me. Move, Lord, and bring us to move, firmly upon the foundation of forgiveness, knowing that we have been made whole and complete, perfect in Christ our Savior.
Be exalted and glorified, now and forever. Amen.
September 06, 2025
I will build my life upon His love; His love is a firm foundation.
I will put my trust in Him alone, and I will not be shaken.
We give all glory and praise to the Risen King, our Savior, now and forever. He is worthy, worthy of all recognition, all adoration.
We give all thanks and gratitude to the Living Word, and the Word of Life – He has saved us, He has reconciled us and redeemed us, now and forever.
Thank You, Lord. Thank You, Jesus. Through Your death we have died to the power of sin and flesh. Through Your death we have been rescued from the Eternal Lake of Fire, and we have been forever reconciled to the Father.
Thank You, Jesus, for through Your resurrection all that You have purchased and paid for by Your death has been authenticated, certified and guaranteed.
Death could not hold you down. According to the prophetic Psalm of David, and according to the apostle Peter, You have not abandoned Him to Hell and Sheol, nor have You allowed Your Holy One to see corruption.
Thank You, Jesus, for through Your ascension we have received Your presence in each and every one of us by way of the Holy Spirit poured out upon us, a receipt of (1) our reconciliation, and (2) our being seated in the heavenly places, as You have been seated at the right hand of the Father.
Thank You, Lord, for all of this is so much to take in, and by Your grace You gently take us to trusting all of it, and the understanding and maturity and growth follows.
Father, continue to work in our midst, in our lives – Let more and more people come to the knowledge of Your saving grace, and of the finished work of Your one and only begotten Son; That Your will be done.
Oh, yes, Father, continue to bring people in, continue to bring people out, continue to move in the hearts and minds of all whom we are concerned about – that more and more people would see Your goodness that leads to repentance.
Oh, Father, indeed, our hearts have been aligned with Your heart – for none to perish, but for many to come to repentance unto salvation.
Glorify Your name in all my plans and endeavors, in all my desires, Father. I give thanks, because You are here with me – Father, Son, and Spirit, never leaving nor forsaking me, thinking with me, feeling with me, plotting and planning with me, praying with me – Lord, Your faithfulness, Your unfathomable trustworthiness is what I’m so thankful for here and now.
Show me the heights and the depths,
Show me the length and the width;
Fling wide the doors of my chest;
Fill me with the fullness.
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