Dress Me This Day In Your Array

Father, Holy God,

Dress me today,

Dress me this day in Your Array. 

Hang Your Accessories about my neck

as a Word

to Direct my path

to all

Your Incredible Dwelling Places. 

Place the

Reflections of Your Eyes within mine

so that I have Your Color

mirrored when looked upon. 

May I carry

Your Spirit

like an Aroma that Insists

upon its Place before I enter. 

Cover me with

Magnanimous Moisture of Compassion,

sensing the needs of those around me

as I look past their outer appearance and actions

to see deeper.  

May I wear Your Name

as the Real Class I belong

and offer assistance

to my sisters and brothers

who without a word spoken,

call out in desperate cries to be heard. 

The New Life within

released

as the Flowing Substance of Your Love seen,

crushing all attempts

of the enemy to rule. 

Turn my own pain and sorrow

around

to expose Your Risen Son

as Alive and Triumphant

above and beyond the weight

I might struggle to carry. 

For You are not a myth or fiction,

but Truth that Carry’s all our sorrows,

as Your Love Broke

the chains that burden the soul. 

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Father, Pick my thoughts,

as one would pick amazing routes to a destiny,

to move me to Your Beautiful Unknowns. 

Guide my thoughts by Your Kindness

so that the vision seen

is Your Glory about me. 

For my assignment today

I will purpose to quickly restrict offenses

from penetrating my mind

that endeavors the right to be meditated upon. 

I will tear down all vain imaginations

that are not of Your Covering

by the Righteousness of Jesus within my heart. 

Wearing His Name like an Ornament

as I announce His Worth;

Jesus,

my Savior and Friend

who Carried to You my lost soul.  

Rightful Ruler with Power

and to be Exalted

above all names.

Jesus is worthy

of the First Place

in all my life

as I wait His Coming again after me. 

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Dress me today, Papa,

to reflect You

as I wear my Garment of Praise

Given by Your Spirit of Life. 

Dress me in Your Love.

Colossians 3:12 (MSG)

So, chosen by God for this new life of love, dress in the wardrobe God picked out for you: compassion, kindness, humility, quiet strength, discipline. Be even-tempered, content with second place, quick to forgive an offense. Forgive as quickly and completely as the Master forgave you. And regardless of what else you put on, wear love. It's your basic, all-purpose garment. Never be without it.

Letter To Those I Hurt

A letter to those I hurt…!

I realize that I hold a lot of hurts in my heart because I am convinced that what brings them on is still very actively going on.  So the Sweet Holy Spirit is working on me to gather Godly information instead, and practice leaning on His Truth and not my own.  The last session at Loida’s brought that out very clear.  I ‘feel’ and it has gotten me into working at ‘self’ gratifications rather than leaning on the Gift of Giving and Receiving.  I have prayed this morning that God would give me strength to begin responding with a clear heart rather than from gathered painful events.  My fear… wait, it doesn’t matter what my fear is… fear is not of the Lord, it is from the enemy.  Actions show extreme difficulty but that does not mean I can attack with trash I have.  I am very sorry and ask God’s forgiveness, as well as yours.  I read NO WHERE in His Word that we can take these offenses when not seemingly solved and crucify another.  That is leaning on my own understanding and revenge.  I know I give a lot of grief but I think that the one it hurts the most is the one that takes the liberty of throwing the stone. 

I may not be able to say a lot because I want to sort my thinking and words for better or more Life than death from them.  I apologize for the delay in responding from this point on.  I KNOW I cannot do this on my own, I KNOW that..!  but I am going to seek God’s help and put as much to practice as I can.  If I fall, which I know I will, I am putting this to writing so that I can again come back to it and recall my need to keep trying as His Life and Love Works in me. 

What I think I need is in the extreme of worldly thinking and I can totally see why God’s Love has directed me to ‘Fix my eyes on Him’ for my eyes constantly roam to fleshly satisfactions.  When I redirect my attention to His Kingdom, I find unspeakable Pleasures – and I do mean unspeakable.  I’ve thought about the angels that sing Holy, Holy, Holy unto God 24/7 and how this one Word contains all the vocabulary needed to satisfy God as it Rings His Praise now and into eternity.  I get distracted or full of the enemy’s lies but when I say “Holy” unto the triune God, I share a place of worship with a host of heavenly focus directed to one purpose, one meaning, one satisfaction that wins over all, His Love Connected to my heart.  Taking all other loves and wonders subject to His Giving, where the Realm of His River of Life Flows to me.   Suddenly all things have a different appearance, different reasons for their existence as I look not to the right or left, but straight to the Face of God and cry Holy.  The Brightness of this Holiness strips the darkness of my world’s focus and I want nothing but to stay at His Place, not mine.  Suddenly I have no desires other than His Face; suddenly He IS MY WORLD and I am satisfied. 

So I am sorry that I have demanded rights I do not own.  I release those demands and give my walk to His Plan for His Purpose to be had.  I stop trying to get others to fulfill what the Father has reserved for only Him Self to fulfill.  The Father has made Promises to me that I will focus on and I will pour out His Love without reserves for His Abundance is more than I could ever use up.  The Father’s Love has focused on each of us and it is Supernaturally Huge…!  We are His favorite as He would Love to use me as an instrument for such Love.  I am surrendering to lean and learn His Love with all my heart. 

“Why would you ever complain, O Jacob, or, whine, Israel, saying, "God has lost track of me. He doesn't care what happens to me"? Don't you know anything? Haven't you been listening? God doesn't come and go. God lasts. He's Creator of all you can see or imagine. He doesn't get tired out, doesn't pause to catch his breath. And he knows everything, inside and out. He energizes those who get tired, gives fresh strength to dropouts. For even young people tire and drop out, young folk in their prime stumble and fall. But those who wait upon God get fresh strength. They spread their wings and soar like eagles, They run and don't get tired, they walk and don't lag behind.”
Isaiah 40: 31 (MSG)

Home In His Love

Fantastic … !

oh how fantastic is the Journey

of my God within me. 

Bursting with the Unexpected

and always causing me to draw closer;

closer to the Fire of His Love so Fierce. 

Jealous Love of Sweltering Moves…! 

Drawing me to stretch my faith

and come see the Marvels

of His Way

as I gaze into these Eyes a Flamed. 

Consumed with a Compelling Glow

as I move toward this Life

that wants me. 

Something so unapproachable

as a Holy God

that Rolled out the Carpet

on this earth

for His Son to Walk upon;

Calls me. 

I am offered a Place with Him

and yet I did nothing

to gain this Divine Approval by my own. 

Awarded an Inheritance

along side His Son

simply because this Jealous Love

has Eyes for me.  

Weakness is my name

and yet Power and Might

is the Potency of Life

Building His Kingdom within me. 

He Makes Known His Love

day after day

as I lay in His Arms

early in the sunlight hours

and through the hours of darkness. 

For I suffer so

from my own evaluations

and assumptions

yet

His Voice Remains Soft

and Steady as He Extends His Hand

upon my life to

make myself at home in His Love. 

At times even courage leaves my side

and I’m sure I have been forsaken;

but He Battles for me

and His Amazing Determination

Pulls me through as He Loves me.  

The Ambiance of such battles

have a Warmth

when surrender is the answer.   

Laying my own life down

and allowing His Life war for me. 

Making myself at

home in His Love.

John 15:9 (Message Bible)

"I've loved you the way my Father has loved me. Make yourselves at home in my love. If you keep my commands, you'll remain intimately at home in my love. That's what I've done—kept my Father's commands and made myself at home in his love.

Climbing To See The Face Of God

Beautiful One, Beautiful and Holy God, Beautiful and Righteous are You.  Standing alone in Truth from beginning and yet forever New Understanding to me for eternity.  I am overwhelmed with the Restoring of my thoughts towards who You are.  For my soul is Refreshed as Your Love Invades with Pureness and Wholeness while space holds Your Glory.  All things New as I look into the Realm of a Spirit Filled Existence.  Climbing with bruised knees as I long to find the Beautiful Wonders of Your Face.  Each step has the Unexpected Excitements that keep me trying.  Trying as I explore, I might slip or grab a thorn, but trying - with purpose to find Your Riches; for I stand on a Rock that is Higher than I and He keeps my feet from falling in the enemy’s hands.  Hiding me in His Clefts for I am set Free to Sight See into a Place Designed for me in the Mountain of the Most High God.  I wonder about day and night in His Watchful Eye Protected for eternity’s Plan.  I step out in Trust for this Rock is Solid and His Words Beckon me Upward and not to look back. When everything around me changes, He is Constant and Unmovable with my heart held Secure in His Hands.  I fear no harm for I am no longer saving myself but have laid my life down for His Work to Save.  No longer striving to find a home on earth but a Home of Eternal!  And when I stare at the Son so long that I become blinded from the Brightness of His Love, I will then find total surrender to His Guidance and Live the Abundance past my imagination of any thought.  So I continue to look up and hide in this Wonderful Mountain of Grace and Mercy so His Arm fends off all harm while I climb, climb higher and higher to see the Face of God, Beautiful One, Beautiful and Holy God, Beautiful and Righteous is He.

“You who sit down in the High God's presence, spend the night in Shaddai's shadow, Say this: "God, you're my refuge. I trust in you and I'm safe!" That's right—he rescues you from hidden traps, shields you from deadly hazards. His huge outstretched arms protect you— under them you're perfectly safe; his arms fend off all harm. Fear nothing—not wild wolves in the night, not flying arrows in the day, Not disease that prowls through the darkness, not disaster that erupts at high noon. Even though others succumb all around, drop like flies right and left, no harm will even graze you. You'll stand untouched, watch it all from a distance, watch the wicked turn into corpses. Yes, because God's your refuge, the High God your very own home, Evil can't get close to you, harm can't get through the door. He ordered his angels to guard you wherever you go. If you stumble, they'll catch you; their job is to keep you from falling. You'll walk unharmed among lions and snakes, and kick young lions and serpents from the path.” 

Psalm 91:1 (Message Bible) 

Love So Perfect It Stays Ahead Of My Confusions

The Shine of Your Love this morning, Father, is like the Sun seeking to shine upon every exposed object without prejudice, Warming my heart as I stop and ponder my strong desire to look up this morning with it all, hiding nothing under a shade of doubt or fear.

I am coming with passion, Lord, yet all the while knowing I lack the conversation on how to touch that Place.  The Place where Your Spirit Drenches my thoughts with the Looks of Your Love.

So I surrender my words that fail - open my heart above all else to give you my whole self. For I know Your Goodness has its Purposes Marked in my life like an alarm clock set to precision moments according to Your Knowledge of my choices and steps. 

Love so Perfect it Stays ahead of my confusions

and Waits with Answers before I can ask.  

Arms wide open to Embrace each of my joys and pains with Your Fixed Affection Concerning me. 

So in my state of too much excitement mixed with joys and pains; pouring out with too many words, too many thoughts to sort; I abandon them all and open my heart to the exposure of such an Amazing Love. 

For this morning I carry the ‘ahhh’s’ of such delight from a weekend family gathering and then with that very same breath I carry the pains of struggles I saw among their days.

I was kissed with faces of children, grandchildren and extended family to such a degree I still giggled with its touch that remains; and again, I also carry their weight to search out needs to settle arguments, financial pulls, children’s cries, and blending the mix of personalities to find peace and further the growth of life’s journey. 

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Move us Father, my self, my children, my family…teach us not to build our own kingdom but to build Yours with enthusiasm. You will see to all our needs and cries according to Riches that will Build us in the Pureness of Your Knowledge. 

For Your Love Shows the Directions to conquer and not damage our relationships with one another. Put back the Music in our hearing that Anoints our ears to Hear and Follow. 

Take our hearts for we were made to be Your Image and give Your Name Glory. 

Move us with Your Passion that Captivates our hearts.  Uncomplicate all the noise and cause each extension of our labor to be Fruitful with the Masterpiece of Your Love. 

Not our own love under our own understanding but by the eternal Love that Never Fails. 

God’s Love…! 

Just as Jesus taught us.

Mark 8:32-37

….He said this simply and clearly so they couldn't miss it.

 ^32-33But Peter grabbed him in protest. Turning and seeing his disciples wavering, wondering what to believe, Jesus confronted Peter. "Peter, get out of my way! Satan, get lost! You have no idea how God works."

 ^34-37Calling the crowd to join his disciples, he said, "Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You're not in the driver's seat; I am. Don't run from suffering; embrace it. Follow me and I'll show you how. Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to saving yourself, your true self. What good would it do to get everything you want and lose you, the real you? What could you ever trade your soul for?

Mark 9:7

 ⁷Just then a light-radiant cloud enveloped them, and from deep in the cloud, a voice: "This is my Son, marked by my love. Listen to him."

Sad Countenance

This is the worst day of my life… NO… it’s the BEST day of my life… no, not really, it is by far the worst day of my life, for sure…!  

Wait a minute… what are these wars of emotions?  A war to take control as my soul bears in mind the destruction in view.  Drained and weakened my heart knocks to be heard as it holds Treasures of Phenomenon… for inside is the largest, most awesome-est, most gigantic Joy of the universe. The Strength to Calm a ragging soul, the Power to Speak to that storm and cause the wind to Sing.

BUT I AM SO TROUBLED…!!!! 

WHERE DO I GO?  WHAT DO I LISTEN TO?  WHAT IS THIS ALL ABOUT…?

Why or ‘how’ can I feel so pressed, like an iron weight upon my chest, and yet I have this Jubilant Jump inside that is speaking to the people I meet, words dancing as they escape the heart. 

Psalm 43:5 (AMPLIFIED BIBLE)
Why are you cast down, O my inner self? And why should you moan over me and be disquieted within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, Who is the help of my [sad] countenance, and my God.

I suppose I could have easily written this same Psalm as my soul finds the worries of my day too heavy to carry, too enormous for my knowledge to fix.  Out of despair I am constantly met with proof they are bigger than my abilities to conquer. 

But oh how sweet to go deeper; deeper than the despair. Deeper than the outer surface that blows its hurricane to disarray my whole world.  For where is ‘hope’ on the surface of a soul’s disaster?  Where is the ability to ‘wait’ when I am falling? 

It is in the heart that turns its whole focus upon the Proven God that never fails.  It is in the remembrance of trails I lived through by His Power, not mine.  It is in His Word that gave me Faith when I had none what-so-ever. It is in that Praise that I soar above the worries too heavy to carry, too enormous for my knowledge to fix.  It is in His Ability to Untangle all that I’ve tangled in astounding catastrophes. 

I lift up my heart and offer a \0/ praise \0/ that is true to who He is, not me.  It is the Wonders of His Work daily in my life.  For when I am diminished, He, my God, has never missed a beat.  His Love Busies it Self to Form a Net to Catch my drop. 

Constructing a Relationship

that is so inviting

I am Beckoned to join

as He Sets a Table before me. 

Wooing my heart with the Honeymoon of Love Notes and Passion.

While my soul cries, He is Singing over me.  While my soul whines, He is Moving a Force of Pure Love that will Triumph for my end.  His Love NEVER fails and His Eyes are set to bring me Success.

This is Praise that conquers the soul's despair and takes me to the Place where His Songs Rule while His Work is Accomplished in me.  I feast in a Relationship that is fulfilling His Promise to never leave nor forsake me...!  EVER...!

...for I shall yet praise Him, Who is the help of my [sad] countenance, and my God.

Another's Love

I’m screaming today. 

Just wondering if anyone can hear,

for it is my heart that screams

with such resonance. 

I’m positive it is bursting the skies

for I am so full of

Another’s Love

that has Focused an Inflexible Stare

upon me;

this response is just my soul talking

as the outcome. 

Having Love

that is so Physically Powerful

and Constant

makes me giggle;

makes me want to show off

as it watches my every move

with such Delight.

It’s like everywhere I look

I see smiles

and I am what the smiles are about. 

Can you see it, can you see all the smiles. 

How could I not chuckle? 

How could I not run

with vitality of the Energy? 

Love so Concentrated

I am persuaded by its Warmth

to lay aside all cares and be a child. 

Love so Compelling

I want nothing

but to join its Embrace

as this Love Calls me Close. 

Love that encourages this child

to stay within its Sphere forever. 

I am so full of

Another’s Love. 

Can’t help but lift my voice. 

His Love Covered it all.   

My Papa said…!

Romans 8:31-39 (MSG)

So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? If God didn't hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn't gladly and freely do for us? And who would dare tangle with God by messing with one of God's chosen? Who would dare even to point a finger? The One who died for us—who was raised to life for us!—is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us. Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ's love for us? There is no way! Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture: They kill us in cold blood because they hate you.  We're sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one.

None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us. I'm absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God's love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us.