Father, let me master the simple things in faith that I do not continue to trip over them as I tiptoe through the delicate parts of day. When I believe it seems to flow through me and when I have the greatest demands is typically when I have forgotten to remove my shoes before entering Holy Ground. Reviewing my continued behaviors I am flabbergasted by the little sins that pile up before me, almost forgettable in their leisure and the pleasure but they still carry the penalty of death in your law.  Father I know by those teachers gone before me that this body remains corrupted and I will not be free from its inclusive sin until the day when I am allowed to become more like you.  Is that perhaps how it works Father, that having removed the egregious sins from my performance, now I am left with all the miserable characteristics that are tiny infractions however just as repulsive and distasteful?

Lord, the little fibs, stretched truth to accommodate my envious desires to be love by the world.  Sinful pride as I walk with turned up chin, thinking so highly of myself that I have forgotten the purpose and place of humility.  Avarice within my eyes looking upon everything with covetous intent of a child, “that’s mine and this is mine”, I repeat internally as I review all that I intend to conquer.  Thoughts of retribution and unforgiveness, exalting forms or violent actions as somehow justified when the only true, worthy judge is you and in so doing I condemn myself. Wicked words falling from my brain and almost making it past the pure spring of my lips, speaking ill of people that you created as if I may slander them with doing the same to You. Carefully manipulating situations and people to bring about conclusions that I had planned and pieced together in the topography of mind

Father, I want to be free from these characteristics of the old man, who refuses to realize his place was on that cross in death my belief.  Please give me the power to resist these things to the point of not having the thought about, trapping them in the realm of nothingness.  Lord I want to be so freed of sin that it never even enters the forms of pondering, that they have no hope of deployment in this world.  I truly wish to be the example you’ve called me to become and this is the only route to that achievement.  Father, I know that all this is done in your perfect timing, I ask that I become something more pleasing to your eye and reflective of your glory than I have been capable to date.

Thank you for loving me enough to save me and working all of this wickedness from my soul as we go along through life.  I so do look forward to that day when I am truly free of these ill virtues.  Have mercy on me and forgive me as I continue to mess things up. In Jesus’ Name I pray.

Have you ever craved that pregnant moment? That opportunity where you could play a pivotal, instrumental role in the arrival of your own ship to port? Have you even had the opportunity to make such a monumental decision with clarity that effected your future in such measure that you awaited that single opportunity your entire life? What then of the moment in history upon which you currently reside? Do you hear the wind telling you to act, to take the reins and authority provided you by God to change the world around you?

What then is it for which you have been waiting? Lottery, corporate empire, to be discovered on Broadway or Hollywood, the book signing, are these the things which kindle your aspirations when you imagine the arrival of your custom vessel? Well, my friend these are worldly successes that have nothing to do with Kingdom works. They are symbols of a life lived for this mortal existence not for eternity. Yes, they perhaps survive as pleasant thoughts and daydreams to imagine ourselves being so “lucky”, but we know that luck is a worldly discipline just as is Tarot, astrology, magic and fables. These are not the things of God. So I must again ask for which moment have you been patiently waiting?

Divine opportunities are known through discernment and intention of living for the King. These instances are not born of our own admiration or pursuit of historical glory, for in the achievement of the greatest tasks you may ever perform you may be forgotten by all but those whom you led to salvation. Is that a gift you are willing to give them and to yourself, in fulfillment of God’s plan for your life? That is the pregnancy of our current moment. Historically we stand on that clean slate of history upon which our signature is to be written.

What are you seeking if not but to complete the impossible task that may only be achieved through the surrender to the Holy Spirit of God, the power of its completion?  What more could a man ask for than a chance to do the things for which we were designed and created then to meet the King and be welcomed to his side? He is coming back soon. Do you want to be ready? And if so, are you? What is it for which you pray? I would love to hear.  In Jesus’ Name I pray for your continued provision, protection, strength, courage and health.

What is that power of prayer without establishing a belief and relationship with the God to whom request is offered? A man standing alone, equipped solely with the instruments of my own strength, authority and will.  What power or command do I have against the laws which some call nature and all have been shown were created by God? I am vulnerable at best and completely naked and alone at worst against the tumult of tempestuous demands placed upon my person in travels.

What caused man to reach out to God? Was the overwhelming influences of life’s requirement? That would produce the 300 million gods of individual imagination as each person invented an entity upon which to associate that salvation authority. God’s Word states that “every” man knows the truth having been shown that clarity that there is no one who might claim “excuse” for responsive action associated with those commands God places in each person’s heart. Why then do I pray having no understanding of God’s existence or belief that He will hear, listen, respond and pluck my butt from the fire’s I am facing? A fool’s errand this.

God is God, I am not. He is God therefore He defines the structure, influence, laws and rules within the Creation He Created. He defines that understanding and the guidelines surrounding that precious relationship with heaven and ultimately before the throne, where He Promises to hear and answer prayer. His definition requires the acceptance or salvation, a process of redemption where each person accepts the cleansing associated with having the internal sin’s of the soul removed in order to end the war with God and gain access to the Throne Room where prayers are offered. That process is belief upon the Holy Works of God, leaving Glory in the form of God’s Son, remanding Himself to active participation in the salvation of all mankind as the only way that we might be found righteous and have our sins removed for all time. That belief in Jesus is the only and primary step to finding answer to our prayers which are simply ignored by the ears of God until that surrender, belief and sealing by the Holy Spirit is partaken.

The enemies of God, those who are captured by the insanity of their own intelligence and them who would venture to control the world with their own understanding have had thousands of years and millions of orations to deny, dispel, diminished or destroy this Truth, yet remain unsuccessful and unsaved. That is the understanding required to grasp the words like inalienable, indestructible, impermeable and the like. For those states within matter require some holy permanence outside the frailty of mortal construct. They require a touch of creation and immortality disassociated with the mortal construct of all that live in die in creation.  That relationship is the knowledge and understanding of God through the belief in Christ and the indwelling of God’s Holy Spirit. That is the required connection to the immortal demanded to equip ourselves with authority over the impermanent. It is the only way and though fool’s call it foolish they wear this criticism as the only crown that this life shall ever achieve.

Find Christ, Know God, be sealed by the Holy Spirit in Power and have courage in the knowledge that then and only then will your prayers be heard, considered and answered by Almighty God.  In Jesus’ Name.

Everyone wants to know the whole story of their purpose for construction.  Lord tell me right now everything that I will be given, all the obstacles I must face and the outcome that I might make a choice to follow, obey or bug out. Fortunately for God your purpose is a bit more valuable than allowing you to review the role before signing on and fortunate for you that it will be the greatest thing you could ever do.

We don’t find our purpose for God’s Kingdom by demanding a dossier or timeline.  Apparently we find out where we are supposed to be by being in so places that are not the right fit and discovering the difference? Besides what fun is there in finding out what you are going to achieve before achieving or failing at it, that is frankly rather limited human imagineering.  Don’t you truly want the impossible? Don’t you really want to do something with mystery, intrigue, unreachable odds and the opportunity to either achieve great things or go down in a blaze of glory in the attempt.  And by blaze of Glory I mean the glory that you bring to the Lord’s name in your demonstrated surrender, willingness and courage to continue through the unbeatable odds.

This is not the simple version of life, where you live, you do some stuff and then you pass on leaving a legacy for your kids.  This is the role for which you were crafted.  That exact part that is built upon all the trials, successes, failures, intrinsic characteristics and frailties of the person your life has produced meeting up with the specific set of trials to which those experiences make you the one person to overcome them.  It is really that type of story, one that was written by God in Glory before the beginning of time, casting you in a specific role which you can accept or deny up front and it still may occur against your strongest disagreements.  You see this is about God’s Glory and though my head is hard I at some point realized that “I” was the created thing for His Purpose.

A tough position for an egoist or power control freak, to realize that this life supposedly led by you in joyous realization of power and authority was always operating at God’s design. That is the hardest thing about being a servant is deciding to accept the role or fight the Hand of God in which case you lose anyway.  The joy of surrender in this position is sweet, not like accepting your fate and being treated like slave labor.  It is an inheritance, an adoption into the Kingdom of God and carries with it the greatest Love you will ever know, the Love of Almighty God for His Children.

Somewhere along the way many lost the desire to know the end from the beginning, determining that they mystery and the surrender much more complex reward for a life lived according the God’s Will.  Do you like mystery?  Do you enjoy complex riddles or situations for which the plot may not be known until after all the action passes?  That is this light yoke life of service to the Almighty King of the Universe.  One moment you think you know and the next you realize how little you ever did.

In Jesus’ name I pray that you make a decision for service to the King and then live this life to the fullest, in service, and joy, provision, challenge and Love.

Where do you go when you’ve had enough?  Do you find yourself going the T.V., the pillow, the garden, couch, internet or medicine cabinet?  If you do these are indications that you have not yet surrendered to the Lord and are demonstrating the capacity to be overwhelmed with worldly sensory input.  Your attempts to slow them, reduce them, cope with them or escape them indicate you trying to deal with the problems of the world on your own.  Going to God is not the final destination or last resort when off loading or dealing with problems and data overload.

It is meant to be your first stop on the pathway to peace, for when you leave your troubles, burdens, cares, worries, sins and shame at the throne you will be given that wonderful peace that surpasses worldly understanding.  So stop trying to be so darn strong and learn from the outset how to diminish, dilute or do away with your cares and worries before the multi-step investigation or journey that would end up at the cross eventually.  God is there waiting upon you to give you rest and free you from your weariness.  Why would you make that your last stop?

I must be honest with myself when it is apparent that I am avoiding God.  Why?  Am I ashamed of needing help, well that is prideful enough to indicate that I need to spend more time with him to be free of that sin?  Am I thinking that I am troubling him with the small stuff that I should be able to handle myself?  Have I determined that I am going to do it on my own and only go to him for the things are tough or need a miracle?  Am I going to him only when it has gotten so bad that my life is falling apart, disregarding him when things are good and running to him in the bad times?

When I avoid the Lord it is generally because I wanted to believe that I was much better off now than I had expected upon seeing my concern for these worldly cares.  Rather than admit that I am struggling with the same problem for the 95th time, I again try and bottle it up inside or sweat it out at the gym, instead of taking time to spend time with the Lord and be absolutely freed of these burdens.

It seems that the idea of free will choice may be calamitous in these circumstances as I choose the most difficult method possible to deal with issues that should have been dispensed with immediately.  How close am I to the Father, that when I have troubles I would be reticent to share them with my Daddy?  Seems rather silly to me now but in those instances I still find the time to sit there and have a pity party for myself or carry around burdens looking for a convenient place at which to relieve myself of them.  I don’t make much sense sometimes.

I trust Him. He never fails. He never leaves me standing there with it all upon myself.  If He wants me to deal with something He gives me guidance, hope and healing.  He never forsakes me, always answering my prayers and calls for help.  There is nothing of which He is not yet aware in my life, so it makes no sense to believe that it is somehow secret set of problems meant for my solutions. He told me to bring them to Him for assistance and that He would give me rest.

At some point I must believe these things and stop trying to do it on my own or else I need to stop whining each time I fail to get rid of or escape my cares and worries.  I am not alone and never have been. At what point may I claim to have faith when I do not take the Lord’s promises to heart enough to respond in recommended fashion?  Wow this reflection stuff always hurts, but in a good way.  Time to drop that bag of burdens at the foot of the throne and ask the Lord for change because it is clear I will never, ever, ever, get there on my own.

In Jesus’ name I pray for my own understanding, release and surrender to His Kind and Gentle Will for my life.

Peace,  the desired yet elusive component which seems beyond the grasp of our own creation.  They cry, “Peace, Peace”, yet do nothing to resolve the conflicts that inhibit its revival.  Is it perhaps an error in definition or miscomprehension?  Do we know what peace is that we may achieve it through dedicated measures employed to usher in its arrival?  Or is it a thing ethereal in nature that may not be achieved through efforts but as in salvation only be brought into the heart through surrender?  If everyone wants it so much how is it that we have never seen the firm foundations of its footing?

From common definition peace is a harmonious lack of conflict between societal groups leading to a coalescence and freedom of disturbance, contention or fear.  Yet, to our reckoning one of the internal components of living is conflict and the measure of humanity the mature desire, effort and capacity to resolve those conflicts amicably.  What then of this unrealistic desire to dispel the nature of life’s conflicts.  Are we to clone everyone and come to some collective general understanding, the same opinion set imprinted upon our psyche that there is never a difference of opinion allowing this harmonious state of existence? It is the same unrealistic determination to keep everything the same in our lives, relationships, jobs, age, physical position, authority and wealth when we know the nature of life demands Change.

Is peace then possible in a life that by nature is rife with conflict?  No it is not some mantra laden, trance filled state of being that produces harmony by denying the reality of conflict as a normal function of life.  Is peace then a destination that may be arrived upon or achieved through the collective and committed efforts of the ENTIRE population?  Why did you capitalize Entire Ezra?  Because I am seeking to show you the obstacles to this being a logically truthful statement.  Peace by cooperative agreement requires that agreement be universal in its inception.  So, peace is only possible when all of those who have alternative ideals, as in, all tyrants determine to forever forsake their ambitions and the wicked give up their self-centered desire to consume those around them in lust in order to produce that necessary state by which conflict is removed.  For with the injection of conflict peace is an irrational in-achievable objective.

Oh, you say that I am wrong.  Well, let us subject that claim to the painful reality of evil. Let’s say you determine with 99 of your friends to live in peace and you give up arguing, you appease all differences living in harmony with all your neighbors regardless of belief, practice, ritual, habits or morals.  You unlock your doors, let your children roam free and leave out your wallets and food that all might share in your abundance.  But, that 100th person who was not in agreement continues to argue, rapes your girl friend, kills your dog and continues to enter your house at all hours of the night to play your music, drink your beer and smash your belongings.  Or less yet, he just gives you the finger every time you greet him on the sidewalk or over the fence between your yards. Have you achieved peace in the 99 if the one remains unfettered and ill-dedicated to its harmonious requirements?  Have we seen peace in the history of mankind?  NO.

Somehow the best argument anyone can bring forth in their new age legalistic theory is that at some point we will achieve enlightenment, evolution and become one in our thinking, therefore capable of living without conflict thus erecting the necessary foundation for peace.  Well, isn’t that what Hitler tried to usher in, the destruction of the unfavorable for the collective of the absolute?  When are we going to for once be an honest species?  Peace is not possible because it is a requirement that lays outside of the nature mind set and functions of time and man.  Therefore, those who are crying, peace, peace are either professing false achievements or worse yet they are those evil in nature hoping that you will lay down your defenses so that they can observe all their lusts at your expense.

Peace will be achieved on this planet, not because of some harmonious agreement or global effort of mankind, but because the Lord Jesus, The Prince of Peace will come to rule and reign and do away with the wicked who would subject the innocent to unmerciful grief without restraint.  Father, come soon that we might observe that which is currently outside our understanding and beyond our capabilities.  We find peace here now through relationship with you, that surpasses the understanding of the world.  In Jesus’ Name I pray.

Father, This nation is in desperate need of your intervention. We are deeply divided along the fracture lines devised and implemented via self serving men, drawn from the plans of your enemies.  Many are operating and making these important decisions based upon the misinformation, lies or operative misdirection disseminated by the same group.  It appears that we are headed for a breaking point, now that you have brought anointed wielders of justice into the fray.  Please Father do not let the innocent be harmed, if at all possible use folks like myself to deflect the repercussions. We hold fast in faith and hope that we will again see this nation set free from tyranny’s aspiration to bring honor and glory to your name in our observance of the righteousness of Freedom.

Lord, I will not speak ill of things of which I possess scant understanding. I would humbly ask that you inhibit these influences as they find their way to dividing people who should by all rights be helping and cooperating with each other. I must admit that if you chose to banish this enemy at this moment and send him to the abyss until judgment I would not be upset, but I know that this is not going to happen as your glorious plan unfolds before us. We know that the reason for delay is your great love for man and that you are waiting for the last person to come to you before releasing and quenching your furious wrath upon wickedness and evil.  Give us the courage, patience and endurance of spirit to stand our ground until that moment that you take back this world. Lord, if it be your will it would be a true blessing to us that this nation be restored as the blessing that you gave us, in sovereign resemblance to your glory.  We pray that you forgive us our departure from the road you determined and give us the opportunity to turn our faces back to you in humility, truth and obedience to your commandments.  Let us live just, righteous and free lives making the correct choices not by force but by will of the people to be set apart from the wicked means of enemy intent.

Father, free us from the clutches and hidden tactics of an enemy that remains hidden and powerful.  Fill us with your overwhelming spirit that they might be forced to give way before us as we proclaim the Truth of Your Gospel message.  Let us take back the places of worship that they once again are free of enemy involvement or compelling influences.  Father let us be set apart for you in honesty and truth.  Father give us a compassionate heart that we are merciful to those left in bondage or those around us suffering from the wounds of this caustic world.  Lord give us abundance with which to feed the hungry, clothe the naked and heal the ill or dying that they might have the opportunity to know you in this world in preparation for the next.  We thank you and we love you for hearing our prayers and coming to our aid in effort to restore this nation we were gifted.  I ask these things in Jesus’ Name.  Amen

Simple things like honesty and wanting them to smile,

The reasons for our willingness to fight

Pursuing all our passions within the rank and file,

The purpose of ambition won’t make wrong right

A calm before the storm caused each of us to think,

Deception and the lies that we’d been taught.

We saw ourselves falling as we stood upon the brink,

We never checked the items that we’d bought.

Seeing is believing then we are left no doubt,

We’ve awakened to the danger in our plight.

Revival in our passions causes each of us to shout,

To gather all our Brothers for the fight.

So gladly we assemble as we value living free,

Encouraging our Brothers on the line.

Our eyes scan the horizon as far as we can see,

Looking for their symbols and their sign.

For we will stand for freedom we understand the loss,

Will capture us in the fist of tyrant’s wish.

The rolling stone keeps moving avoiding all the moss,

Resisting their great clutches as a fish.

Yearning hearts for freedom the night awaits the dawn,

Counting out each second that its gone.

Metronome is ticking the dark begins to yawn,

As it exchanges a great bishop for a pawn.

The King will soon surrender into the People’s Hand,

That we might once again proclaim our worth.

He’ll acquiesce to power when We all take a stand,

Our sovereignty arise in proud rebirth.

When liberty again calls this land her own,

And our children make plans to defend their rights.

The seeds of freedom and justice will each again be sown,

Keeping the objective in our sights.

A restoration or building of what we once called free,

This nation that God gave our blessed right.

This beacon of that Freedom will shine from sea to sea,

A lighthouse for those lost  in endless night.

Stand by her this moment in her torn and tattered state,

Loving her as much as when she’s pure.

We may be a bit tardy but it still is not too late,

The Stars and Stripes will certainly endure.

There is freedom, even if is a lengthy discussion with myself about a place where I wish to live.  Times of trouble intrinsically test the limits and ardor of our endurance factors.  If I have taken no time to prepare and even less to contemplate it is tragically apparent my resultant outcome.  Learning to dance is a parlay of forgiveness and joy as we step upon toes, hip check and meander around a crowded room wearing a groove in the carpet or flooring.  These are not the days to be a wanderer, for pilgrims wear a target to those who have staked out defensive position for the assault they technically believe is way over do.  What then are the components of freedom?  It must be a planned event, not occurring naturally in the dog eat dog of secular man.  Is it so simply born of the hope of a group of collective men yearning for some semblance of self-understanding and empowerment?  Or is it the natural occurrence of men subjected to tyranny and oppression for considerable time and determined to never again allow such result?

Do I want to be free so badly that I am willing to march into the teeth of cast iron incarceration to liberate those stuck hopelessly behind the iron clenches of power drunk men?  For I may not live without the knowledge, commitment and agreement between all men that we are going to protect that liberty, for to immediately close our eyes and lay down our defenses leads immediately to the same low point in the flooring.  So freedom is a plan born of hope in release from tyranny and freedom is a shared commitment to defend that liberty of others while they protect yours.  What then of freedom’s future, since it has been proven a thing of past planning and current defense?

The future of men living free, secure in the wisdom and peace armed with solid and reasonable assumption that their lives, property, family and lands shall remain outside the grasp of wanton and wicked is the cornerstone of liberty.  Yet how is this perpetuated to develop that lengthy understanding and surety required to maintain freedom out to some distant time calculated by sight and projection?  The Youth, they are the key to freedom, for they some day will be the protectors of that device if is to be lasting or God help us eternal.  For we are mortal and looking beyond our own expiration requires investment in the administrators and defenders of our liberty that we loved and hope that they shall as well.  What then is the assault point of any enemy hoping to end the successive freedoms given us by hope, defense and investment?  The Youth.

Honesty, what is its primary potency.  I mean it is just a noun, a characteristic a practice that determines reality’s standing in a subject area.  Where does the capacity for its determination arise?  Is it objective, beyond opinion, translation, perspective or whim?  How then if it is not an objective asset beyond the mutation by human perspective do we all arrive or understand its importance in making decisions or coming to collective understanding?  If it is subject to permutation by human design, how then will we ever know the Truth, but rather only grasp at the most reasonable estimation of that which constitutes historical, evidence and believable fact?  We cannot.  Therefore honesty, may never be a subjective analysis, the Truth is then something beyond the adjustments or wiles of men?  Or is it?

If I control the literary or documented history of an event, to include the eye witness testimony and physical elements of the scenes in a particular period, might I, for establishment’s sake change those elements to bring about a specific, custom response in the listener’s of this modified Truth?  We all must admit, Yes?  Okay then, who was in charge of history at the time of Christ or shortly thereafter?  Rome to the greatest extent was at the highlight of its Post Augustan Period.  So arguably if we look upon the texts of Rome then we should easily see the “modified” outcome or adjusted Truth.  Ah, this guy is not as dumb as he appears.  He has now gotten us to agree that if the texts are modified for a specific public or historical outcome it would have done by this authority in this period of time, adjusted to an acceptable permutation for Rome’s desires.  Do we see this, of course we do.  But we are also left with our original problem set is there an immutable Truth, that according to the Gospel of John, states that once it is known it “set’s the reader free”?

This is our dilemma, if we acknowledge that there is an absolute truth we are both committing ourselves to; destruction of the personal excuse due to the lack of knowledge of the defining differences between wrong and right and admitting that God is possibly the only origin of immutable truth.  For repeated attempts over thousands of years and millions of stellar human minds have yet to abolish or transform the absolute truth of Christ’s visitation and sacrifice for all mankind.  Certainly we will acknowledge that the repeated attempts or successes to mutate this original tale have taken place and found adequate footing among those swayed by individual perspectives.  However, the truth of the original Honesty, has not been disestablished, making perhaps the only truth in history that has escape adjustment by those holding political or religious authority.

Oh we do see now that the Vatican, has continued to change the story, adjusting it for personal whim or gain and many other false churches have arisen replacing the truth with their own version.  Yet still we are left with that knowledge that escapes the realm of human capacity that leads us to the knowledge that the Truth is the Truth when we’ve heard it.  For that is a gift described in the Bible that all men have been given the knowledge of the Truth that is God, for He programmed it into each of us.  It is our prerogative to make a decision and active choice to turn away from a belief in that Truth.  At which time, which is also addressed in the text of Roman’s 1 we are turned over to our own decadence and we must construct our own version of reality in replacement.

The only source of indisputable truth is the Lord and His Word.  The greatest evidence for its truth is the understanding that there is a unique quality to the truth which is palpable and that all hands which have attempted to transform it over the years have faced only limited successes.  Turn away from false recordings of the original truth that is God and His rescue of mankind by sending His Son to die for all mankind.  Why would the Vatican change that story if is the basis of something so grand it could be called the only absolute truth, because they, being power had to change the truth to suit their eternal quest for control and power over mankind.  Otherwise they would have left it undisturbed by revisions.  The truth is in the movement to cover their tracks or establish justification for their evil and self-serving actions, even to establish themselves as the Roman Emperors had as the physical manifestation of Deity on Earth.  The truth of their lies in born to light in the manufactured nature of that story to sell the truth they created.  The Truth of God is known without evidence, without question without argument or manipulation.  It simply is Truth.  In Jesus’ Name