You counsel me to succumb, give up, pack it in convinced that dreams are simply folly.  You’ve seen me before it appears.  You know the familiar ease with which I slink away from danger, seeking the path of least conflict, resistance and absent glory.  Evidence of self motivation.  Yes, it is never sweet this moment of capitulation, but it saves me having to write home of greater failure.  This is the voice of my own flesh, that inevitably directs me to the shortened and assured glory of escape to the satisfaction of my latest addictive sin.  The mobius venture of a man without purpose, seeking to just do it, knowing but hoping that this time the euphoria will last, forfeiting forever the obligation to try.

What then am I, if a man condemned to perpetual resignation in avoidance of eventual failure?  Where is the courage I learned of in the books we read as children?  Was it simply an idea, a fantasy or maybe something only given to them who would be heroes?  Selectively distributed to men made of steel and me of clay.  Does that comfort my spirit in a knowledge that I shouldn’t be concerned for I was never meant to amount to anything anyway?  Is that why they tell us as children we will likely never succeed, to prepare us for the slow comfortable numbness associated with realization of a life meant inclined to continual and successive losses?  Have I been convinced in my hopelessness or is this the truth of deceptive reasoning?

The answer is found firmly seated within my failures.  For in them I am invited, nay acquainted with the need for assistance.  It has been my blessing this inclination toward failure, quitting and resignation as it brought me to the inevitable sensibility associated with needing God’s intervention or suffering miserably for the duration of my existence.  You see, I was the man of perpetual successes, the best at whatever endeavor I challenged, but thankfully, mercifully, my God, my Father, my Friend allowed my string of lucky, arduous or talented wins to sour, leaving me floundering upon a beach of desperation where a kind fisher of men saved me from near demise.  Since, even my individual successes taste bitter unless enveloped in the fulfillment of His Purpose.  Now, even my failures taste of candy as they somehow uncannily end up as successes for His Glory.

My courage is no longer my own, my sin no longer a place of succor for fear of failure, because there is no failure in service for God.  I am free of the whispering reminders of flesh and fallen, because my lack of qualification, proper breeding, wealth, education or public suitability have no gravity in eternal construct.  I am free to simply stand in the knowledge that in so doing, God and subsequently I will always be successful.  My success no longer requires my own or public definition/recognition, it doesn’t even matter how I felt about the circumstances for God will have His victory in my obedience to purpose.  That is freedom.  I simply must love Him enough to obey and let the proverbial chips fall wherever He deems suitable, comfortable in the certainty of His Victory without regard for my failure or success at performance.  The whispers have themselves found desperation falling now upon the ears of an unwilling recipient, not by resistance but by the unavoidable logic and Truth.

I have found courage in faith, God’s Faithfulness.  He has already overcome this world and everything in it then so by relation so have I.  My willingness to stand in this knowledge commits me to continual success for God’s Good Purpose and Glory.  His name be praised in the Mighty, Living Worship of Jesus Christ the King.

Ezekiel 38:7

Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.

A Marine that is not currently in battle is diligently preparing for the battle to come.  We as the body, have for reasons which I will discuss, failed to heed this biblical warning and remain sadly and negligently unprepared.  Much focus is placed upon the great commission as a collective Christian responsibility, one I might add that we have also sadly neglected.  But so much emphasis has also been placed upon the message, given “to Christians” repeatedly.  Jesus spoke of it, not only in parables but also directly.  The Apostles continuously counseled us to readiness.  Why then have we disregarded these deliberate warnings regarding being prepared?

First, we are facing a clever enemy in the fallen.  He has had millennia to prepare and institute an effective attack upon the Body of Christ.  How better to stop us from being used of God, out in the world, then to convince us that we are safe, adequate and self-righteously segregated from the wicked world by remaining holed up in our churches?  As the book of Jude clearly proclaims the church will be infiltrated by wicked spies of the adversary pent upon corrupting and paralyzing the church.  We have forgotten the cleverness of God’s enemies and for that we ought to repent.

We have forgotten that God, in His Holy Spirit, is among us.  We have forgotten that it is the power of the Holy Spirit that seals us for eternity, without which we have never been saved.  We have forgotten that it is the power of the Holy Spirit that allows us to be called the Sons of God.  We have forgotten that without the power, guidance, counsel, conviction or presence of the Holy Spirit we are essentially defenseless against the enemy and impotent when it comes to testimony, healing or bringing the lost to Christ.  We have so effectively quenched the Holy Spirit from the Church that He stands outside knocking waiting for them that will invite Him back in to sup with us.  This forgetfulness has allowed us to transform the church into a business, run by professional clergy and bankers that has little regard for trusting, serving and being directed by God’s Spirit.  Our current structure essentially assures that we will not be answering God’s knock upon the door, thus remaining unfilled by the Holy Spirit.

We have neglected prophecy and its clarion call to be prepared for what God says will swiftly come to pass.  We have forgotten that in these last days our responsibility for service, discipleship and readiness takes on larger gravity as the time shortens where the work may be performed.  We have forgotten that the work of God’s harvest is “out there”, in the world, not in the relative safety of our fellowship halls.  We have even forgotten our identity in Christ.  We are warriors, princes and priest, made for intervention, prayer and courage to stand against the whiles of our enemy knowing God’s victory.  But we are teaching neither this identity nor the implications upon our duty to become fully prepared for each of our specific purposes.  We have forgotten the responsibility for watching over our brothers and sisters in Christ as they are assailed by an incessant enemy, we simply leave them to their own devices, knowing fully how relentlessly God’s enemies remain.

Finally, how does it negatively effect us to be prepared and find that danger never comes?  The answer is obvious, it doesn’t have any negative impact.  Why then have we failed to institute a readiness plan for discipleship, spiritual warfare, use of God’s Armor, missionary, medical, emergency services or financial disciplines?  The answer is the enemy has effectively lulled us into self dependence and a truly inadequate reliance upon God’s Word and direction.  We have fallen to comfortable slumber in our air conditioned churches, knowing that it is now the pastors job, as the professional clergy to do the work of ministry.  We have failed to fill our lamp with the oil of the Holy Spirit, ignoring parables, thinking ourselves immune to God’s return as a “thief in the night”.  We are collectively inadequately prepared for the tribulation, persecution and enemy onslaught of the unholy world, even when God has commanded us to be ready.

I understand that your first inclination will be to muddy the messenger, proclaiming me uneducated, uncredentialed or inadequate to deliver God’s message.  You are completely correct.  I am inadequate to be called even a poor messenger, but it is not the messenger with whom you contend, your conflict is with God, as this message is His.  Ready your body, prepare your hearts, minds and spirits for battle and hazard.  I will accept your slight if even one of you looks past my inadequacy and finds it in your heart to obey God’s Word and be ready for what is swiftly and certainly headed our direction.  In Jesus’ Name I pray.

Strategic Preparation for defense of your family life.  http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/love-worth-finding/player/preparing-for-the-battle-543797.html

When I reject absolute Truth, I am left with the necessary task of constructing a reality built upon my own projection.  My new reality will reflect my imperfections, my illusions, my denial and will demand that no one in my sphere of influence deny its omniscience.  I will be master of my own domain, so to speak and I will accept the challenge of transforming, converting or compulsively changing the perspectives of everyone around me to match the harmonic vibrations emitted by my constructed reality.  Everything that I do will be dedicated to maintaining the solidity of that which I have constructed for if it is disrupted, shattered or challenged my entire universe will consequentially crumble, tumble and dissolve.

I am wicked, I am a tyrant and left to authority I will emotionally subject those around me to my version of how this world should transpire.  That is the truth of my flesh.  However, thanks be to Almighty God, His Truth rules, guides and permeates my reality.  Life does not look to my feeble construct for definition it depends upon God’s Perfect Word.  People do not have to depend upon my inadequate philanthropy for sustenance, depend upon my fickle love for their edification or my imperfect judgment for their forgiveness.  They have a Holy, Righteous and Adequate God from which to receive these foundations.  I am glad that I do not create, define or administer this life.  Who rules in your world?  Is it God’s perfect Word of Absolute Truth?

Just as I am not God and therefore did not create this or any world of substance, I equally, by my inadequate nature am incapable of finding, earning or working my way into an eternal relationship with a Holy God.  Only He can remove the tarnish of my sin, only He can remake me into the holy man of resemblance for which I was designed.  My efforts are illusion, certainly they play some part in demonstrating my intention, reliance and Faith upon His Holy Guidance, but all in all they amount to very little in the Grand Plan of Salvation.  My sole purpose is to love Him, love you and find great joy in fulfillment of my small role in God’s Glory revealed.  I will not be led astray by my own ego, the whispers of fallen servants or the desires of a world lost in its own decadent projection.  For mine is a life owned by God, created by God, for the realization of God’s purposes.  It just so happens that I accept and believe in His Absolute Truth and am delighted to be a part of it.  Serving His Glory is the greatest thing I could ever do.

In Jesus’ Holy Name I pray for our collective surrender to God’s Will for each of our lives.

What brings you close to God?  Are you inspired by conviction, the personal whisper of the Holy Spirit through expository?  Does the glory of the created world instantly remind you of God’s Creative Majesty?  Do you see His smile in the laughter of small children, reminding you of His presence in their innocence?  What brings you into fellowship with the Almighty?  Do you hear His voice, calling, directing, leading you to relationship or do you search His Word for that moment when He reveals wisdom through discernment?  Do you know Him, can you approach Him, do you follow, obey, love and reconcile your thoughts, actions and worries at the throne of Grace?  Does He discipline you, do you miss it when He doesn’t?

Are you drawn to congregation with other believers or do you avoid them, seeking your own brand of worship, study and accountability?  Does His Word linger in your mind, rolling over, recycling, taunting, changing and sponsoring your next thought or action?  Do you find comfort in the tragedy, the fire, the snare, trial or trouble, because you know that He is right beside you, or do you seek to escape any trouble and be returned to comfort’s bosom?

What purpose does God serve in your life?  Is He a listening post, designed to hear your deepest cries for mercy and relief?  Is He another spirit,  a lantern upon which you rub in hope of reaching your greatest achievable wishes?  Is He a friend, a confidante, a Brother?  Does His Yoke weigh heavy upon your spirit?  Is God a fearful giant, one who will reach out and cause your great difficulty if you fall short of holiness?  Is He the voice of condemnation or does His opinion matter much of anything?  Do you speak to God daily or is it only when you need Him that you find it necessary to inquire of His intervention?  What part does He play in your script?  Or are you playing the role which He designed for You in the revelation of His Kingdom to mankind?

Don’t you want to know, after all, didn’t you tell me that you are a Christian, saved by grace, forgiven and reconciled to God?  What does that mean if it means anything at all, shouldn’t we know?  Shouldn’t we be “ready to give a defense of our faith”?  Where do we end up at the end of the last scene, on some puffy cloud, some distant planet a inexplicable place called heaven?  Wouldn’t it astound you to know that we serve the living God and that we will live with God in the Holy City of New Jerusalem, here on Earth, after its remaking?  What, I never heard that.  Then my friend you ought to read the last chapters of Revelation, I recommend picking it up at around Chapter 20.  What is reconciliation, relationship and fellowship if we don’t have to know God to say we have them?

Crying out to God, a place where conversation begins.  Lord, the sobs, the throws of my weary soul, my indefensible record of consistent and constant failure, these things, hopefully have prepared me for your molding hand.  There is no delusion in reserve.  Without your intervention I would rightfully be at the mercy of all condemnation whether earthly or above.  Reason demands explanation why this lump of humanity would be acceptable for shaping by a Holy and Righteous God.  I do not understand it, but as the angels desire to look into this mystery I know that I am not alone in my awe-stricken repose.

Father, I surrender to Your Shaping Hand.  I will not fight where you bid me stand.  I will not run where you bid me fight.  I will not stand upon the Holy Ground of our fellowship, but joyfully kneel at the foot of Your Throne.  I will not ask pity where conviction is discerned.  I will not ask mercy in my disobedience of Love.  I will not ask for answers without a desire to listen to righteous questioning.  I will not demand where you bid me wait. You are my God and I Your man.

Father, my failures are consistent with your call upon my heart for service.  I have been delaying, ignoring and avoiding the implication busying my self in idle service.  What is discernment that is ignored, but ignorance?  You designed it is voluntary this thing of purposeful completion.  How can I avoid your will and remain within Your Will?  The path is straight my thinking crooked.  I would rather stand firmly in the middle of this skinny path then take one more step of my own volition if that footfall should land me even one centimeter from Your intention.

This pain I am receiving is the necessary quickening of my soul.  Let me never forget its bitter sweetness.  I accept and acknowledge Your Loving Discipline for I am after all Your Son.  Teach me Father that I may limit my propensity to stray.  Show me Your wonders.  Let me see the miracle in the middle of my impossibilities.  Grant me peace by freeing me from my apparent repeated capacity of resounding failure.  Let me see Your victory, where Your Grace, Honor and Glory shine through my every action, thought and prayer.  Have Your WAY in my heart, soul, mind and life.  I implore you, may you hear my prayer this very moment.  Praise You in Jesus’ Name.

At war with God, at peace with God.  On Earth, yet seated in the heavenlies with Christ.  Cleansed yet still susceptible to sin.  Serving God or serving sin.  Reborn yet maintaining the characteristics of the previous man.  Two things in contradiction yet both true.  Alive in Christ, dead to sin.  Holy yet corrupt.  Resurrected without rebirth.  Impoverished prince.  Complaining in victory.  Consistent with prophecy yet not absolutely True.  Saved without obedience born of love.  Priests without intercessory prayer.  Warriors without knowledge of weapons usage.  Daylight without coming night.  Orders without subsequent action.  Leaders without following.  Seed without germination.  Crops without rain.

God without rules.  Love without adoration.  Kindness in selfishness.  Peace in anxiety.  Calm in the midst of storm.  Belief without faith.  Song without emotion.  Gifts without glory.  Courage without enemies.  Thought without meditation.  Sin without corruption.  Price without cost.  Freedom without payment.  Power without subjugation.  Seasons without change.  Silence in shouting.  Fear  without palsy.  Standing in the presence of an overwhelming and almighty God.

Debt without collection.  Penitence without humility.  Led yet self-serving.  Discerning yet confused.  In awe without reverence.  Truth without dependence and reliance upon it.  Puzzles without pieces.  Secrets without yearning for resolution.  Oppression without end.  Reconciled without relationship.  Impossible.

God be praised in the name of Jesus the King.

Are you trusting God?  Are you developing your own plan of maximum efficacy or are you being led into your next impossible task by the Voice of the Shepherd?  How do you view fear’s influence upon your current ambitious walk for Christ?  Do you hear the voice of your husband, wife, kids, flesh or desire flooding out the precious voice of Spirit?  Do you even recognize God’s voice when you hear it, or have you quenched it with the luke warm price of disobedience and inaction?  God told you to pray unceasingly, are you?  He told you to be Holy are you?  He told you to spread the good news of Christ’s Gospel, are you?  He told you to be ready, study to show yourself approved, follow Him and give Him all the Glory, are you?

What is  your evidence for salvation?  What fruits has your new life born?  Show me your likeness to Christ.  Show me your kinship to the Holy Spirit.  Show me your faith without which it is impossible to please God.  What is the rock upon which you stand if you do not know the voice, path, discernment, teachings, prophecy and Peace of the Prince?  Will you instead offer up deeds, works, thoughts and piety in place of the required faithful action?  Show me how the Holy Spirit has made you humble, reverent, Holy, sanctified, obedient and more like Christ, then we shall see your salvation.

Two paths, one serves Him and the other serves false gods of self or sin.  They are mutually exclusive, there is no symbiotic cumbaya, no parallel, no tolerance, no co-existence, only inclusion and its inverse.  Certainly, we wish to fashion a god of our own devices, something more consistent with our personal desires for gain, no pain and lasting pleasure or prosperity.  That is deceptive sin.  For God is God and does not need my definition, direction or approval.  He made me not the other way around.  His purpose upon which my service or disobedience have little affect against His intention, since I am a tool and He the tool maker, user and completer.  He may negate or turn to good anything I ill intended.  I know that I would like more influence upon the universe in my pride and demanding ego, but that just ain’t the way things are.  Ignoring reality is ineffectual.  Our existence is finite, there simply is or isn’t, no wiggle, no middle, no position for passivity with regard to our fateful decision.  We are either with Him or against Him.  Simple, clean, precise, undeniable, yet this world continues to seek gaps in omniscient Truth where no loophole ever existed.

If you are not hearing the Holy Spirit in your Church, shouldn’t you be asking why not?  If the Holy Spirit is our seal for eternity, our guide, our counselor, teacher, friend and conveyor of our prayers to God, wouldn’t it be insanity to proceed without Him?  If the Holy Spirit is not present in your church, fight until they listen and invite Him back in or run until you hear His Voice clearly.  Be prepared for tribulation and if you aren’t don’t stand around like and ill-informed maiden, find out how to fill your lamp with oil and do so out of obedient love for God, working out your salvation with fear and trembling.  Anything else is utter foolishness and none of should ever be considered fools that have first known the mind of Christ.  In Jesus’ Name.

Looking at life, I am compelled to ask, is there an objective toward which I have been injecting specific tasks?  When reviewing singularly or collectively my behaviors they should reflect a general strategic focus otherwise I would be living a life without purpose or direction.  Am I consciously aware of my guiding objective or am I captured by fulfilling the needs of a wanton form?

Within Christianity there are clearly defined strategic objectives; faith, belief, discipleship,  transformation, hope, readiness, service, holiness, constant prayer, courage and sin repentance/avoidance.  This list is not all inclusive but clearly demonstrates that there are defined, focused, worthy and unavoidable directions associated with Kingdom participation.  Now the difficult part, have you chosen one or many of these objectives or has the Holy Spirit of God directed you toward that purpose?  Is your faith a thing of personal works, power, authority, strength and gifts or is it an impossible task made real by the filling of His Spirit?  Am I led by me or Him?

If we were left at this point in our walk it might seem quite desperate, but we have never been alone with these questions, thoughts or subsequent actions.  God gave us His Word to guide, protect, encourage, direct, feed and shelter us from all obstacles, threats and confusion.  He invites us to relationship through study, meditation and prayer, a relationship providing edification beyond this world’s capacity to erode or deconstruct.  Trusting in man leads toward the reality of chaos, entropy and asset utilization where God’s Word leads to hope, possibility and promise.  We were never meant to walk through the fire alone, we were never meant for idle travel through life, we were designed with specific purpose and that is what gives our life meaning, peace and perfection, a perfection realized in the fulfillment of Divine Design.

Do you know who you are in Christ?  Do you know where and toward what the Holy Spirit guides?  Can you hear His voice and if not why not?

This story has a beginning a middle and an end.  The war began between God and man, the battles continued with God providing a way out for all who would surrender and the war will end with a single victor, God.  Do you know how it began?  Do you know how man struggled through the battles, some finding rescue through God’s guidance, prediction and protection?  Do you know what happens next?  What are doing about it?  If you don’t know the end of the story you certainly will not take the necessary steps to prepare for it.  Ignorance is capitulation.  How can you prepare for something you continue to ignore?

We only have so much time and as it is an unknown quantity, simple logic dictates a focused usage of an asset.  A continued misuse of that most precious asset would be akin to insanity or worse, addictive escapism.  I implore you toward an active investigation of who God is, who you are in Christ, what He planned as your purpose for His Kingdom and the rational steps associated with preparing yourself for what we all should know is coming.  Start with the Book of Hebrews and read, deliberately toward and through Revelation.  This will give you the meat to feed your hunger for direction and preparation consciousness.

Jesus called all of us to be ready.  Don’t you think it essential to know what that means for you?  Lord give us discernment in these most-important times.  Thank you Father for all you have given and continue to give.  In Jesus’ Name.

I completely understand your reluctance in accepting or agreeing with my following assertions, but they are all consistent with God’s Word.  If you can show me where they are inconsistent, I will be gladdened both by the humility it brings my spirit and the fact that you took the time to read God’s Word enough to find evidence with which to convict me.

Can you stand on the side of the river of worldly events and rationally deny the current is speeding up, perhaps even channeling toward rapids or an unseen precipice?  What manner or level of denial, avoidance or escapism does it take to refuse the facts of a “coming storm” upon the horizon?  Are you willing to investigate why we as a church or as individuals would hold so strongly to an ideal, wishing it to remain, desperately wanting our lives to be undisturbed by the radical throws of Biblical predicted change.  If we are unwilling to serve God’s call upon our lives, are we then serving God or are we serving another master?  There are only two sides in this battle.  Do not consider yourself the only person capable of sitting on the fence.  Christ is coming and though you may argue His return may still be a number of years off, you will not argue that the time prior to His return is nearing its end.  The question then becomes what should we doing during this remaining hours, days, weeks, months or years?

I see no revival in our future.  I see no revival mentioned in the Bible.  Yet I hear men saying that is what we need.  I totally agree, but God’s qualifications for revival require that Christians, “Those who call themselves by my name”, go through true repentance as a precursor to our humble cries being heard by God.  I see no such repentance.  I see churches concerned about church business, fellowship, raising money for fellowship halls, child care, buildings, salaries, furniture and programs.  I do not see churches, individuals or even myself investigating God’s call upon our lives and obeying out of love, humility and a sense of obedience.  James is very clear that if a man knows what is right to do and doesn’t do it then that is sin.  Taking my own medicine I must then ask myself what God is calling me to do right now that I am refraining, reluctant or out right disobedient in doing?  What the Bible indicates is that we will not be humble enough to begin a necessary revival but instead this world, which the Bible says is a wicked generation will not turn its face back to God but almost demand His retribution, wrath and tribulation.  God will give this world the tribulation it requests because He loves us enough to provide the devastating impetus sufficient to waking us from slumber, ignorance, pride or disobedience and driving us back to crying out to Him for Mercy and Grace.  Who would argue against this having always been God’s intention for introduction of calamity so that His glory and love may be revealed?

The Lord called us to be Holy.  So, am I keeping myself Holy?  Am I voluntarily allowing accountability in my life by others to keep me on the path to Holiness?  Am I voluntarily allowing the Holy Spirit of God to convict me and change me, sanctifying me in preparation of meeting a Holy and Righteous God?  The Lord calls me to be ready.  Am I studying His Word relentlessly?  Am I preparing my spiritual understanding, my spiritual gear and my spiritual health for the day when I will be called upon to be ready for the battle that rages in the heavenly’s as we speak?  The Lord calls us to make disciples through the use of our testimony, His Word and His Love.  Do I understand in a practical sense the use of those assets to bring the lost, lame, wounded or captive to the cross for a meeting with a Holy God?  Am I loving people enough to go out where they are in the interest of demonstrating that loving care or am I simply waiting around, unprepared, unprayed, hoping that God doesn’t really have any work to do through me.  Am I in continuous prayer with the Lord?  Let me say emphatically, I fall short in this area and I believe that I pray a lot.  Most of my friends beat themselves up about their prayer lives, yet I don’t see them praying more.  Isn’t that sin, this lack of prayer in our lives, especially since we know consistent prayer indicates our reliance, dependence and trust in God?

This past month God has been showing me my inherent spots of wickedness.  I have cried openly, regretting my current state of unholiness.  It has been both effective and good for my walk with Jesus, because it has again shown me that I am no longer full of darkness but now spotted with darkness, a darkness that the Holy Spirit is currently and consistently removing from my spirit.  I am being made Holy by a Holy Spirit because I volunteered to the Hands of the Master Potter.  Unfortunately, He isn’t done and He needs to show me the remaining works yet to be completed, so that I remain in humility, a necessary state for a Holy relationship with God.  I am not worthy, but that is the point of His having died for me.  I am not capable, but that is exactly why He may use me as a vessel for His capable hands.  I have no power, but that is why when I do works of great power His Glory is inescapably evident.  I am exactly where He needs me to be, now I need to get about doing exactly what He has called me to do and leave the rest to Him.  This is belief, sponsored by love leading to repentant, consistent and true actions of obedience to God.  In Jesus’ name I pray.

What is this road, the one I am on?  To Glory, to ruin, chance, dreams or change?  How may I love them with no knowledge of or love for myself?  I look, I listen, I pray and am left wanting nothing but the rare silence that comforts my head and heart this moment.  For God, You Lord have always been a thing of quiet to my heart, my spirit rests when we fellowship, it is good, a place where we see contentment.  Your Word as guide, I wish to wander through this world with purpose, seeking wounds and beat-down hearts needing Jesus.

My complacency certain witness to Kingdom Palsy.  I am not a good man, never was, thought that I could cajole, conceal or deceive all into thinking that falsehood, but my attempts were the only deception.  Some saw through, but not I.  I was forced by my own compulsion into believing my surreptitious lie.  I have always learned through trial, but for the Lord’s crucible I would remain bereft of any wisdom, courage or maturity.  God has not intended this life, my life to be one of comfort, complacency and satisfaction for these are not the sponsors of Holy, Righteous or experiential, battle-tested saints.  That only thing that makes me strong is Jesus, His Goodness, Love, Kindness, Strength and Sword.  Without it I would be a thing of this world, finite, unworthy, expendable.  Oh, but now, since I am His, there are no terms of explanation capable.

Father, there isn’t a thing I have stood against without You.  My will to run, stronger than the heart given by Father to Son.  Yet, here I stand, with shield and buckler, girding my loins with the truth of my own existence, resolved in the certainty of salvation.  I am a thing for You to use, but now they know I love them and that feels good.  Don’t let me fear anything but Your Glory, for all that may take this life has limited effect upon a man bent for eternity.  Let me live wholly for Your Reason, dedicating this short life to assisting in Your edification of humanity.  Let me be an obedient, trustworthy and useful tool in Your Hand as You shape future unseen.

This is my being, as if existence were the definition of man.  Possibly as You are the God who “IS”, then in being my living reflects Your image upon me.  Father, let us come to You.  I am sorry that it will take Your persistent wrath to convince us, but I am still overjoyed that so many shall be received into Your presence.  We are a wicked generation dedicated to self-service, happy in our pursuit of happiness.  This talk of revival is one for Christians, revived to service for the Lord’s Good Purpose.  Risen from our slumber serving false gods and enemies of the Almighty, we find the courage to listen and follow Your Holy direction.  Let us hear and obey with joyous spirit.  In Jesus Name I pray for all mankind today.  Run from the wrath to come and find rest in peace through Jesus, the King of Everything.