PSALM 18
A King’s Thanksgiving for VictoryFor the leader. Of David, the servant of the Lord, who sang to the Lord the words of this song after the Lord had rescued him from the clutches of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.He said: I love you, Lord, my strength, Lord, my rock, my fortress, my deliverer, My God, my rock of refuge, my shield, my saving horn, my stronghold!Praised be the Lord, I exclaim! I have been delivered from my enemies. The breakers of death surged round about me; the menacing floods terrified me. The cords of Sheol tightened; the snares of death lay in wait for me.In my distress I called out: Lord! I cried out to my God.
From his temple he heard my voice; my cry to him reached his ears.The earth rocked and shook; the foundations of the mountains trembled; they shook as his wrath flared up.Smoke rose in his nostrils, a devouring fire poured from his mouth; it kindled coals into flame. He parted the heavens and came down, a dark cloud under his feet. Mounted on a cherub he flew, borne along on the wings of the wind.He made darkness the cover about him; his canopy, heavy thunderheads.Before him scudded his clouds, hail and lightning too. The Lord thundered from heaven; the Most High made his voice resound. He let fly his arrows and scattered them; shot his lightning bolts and dispersed them.Then the bed of the sea appeared; the world’s foundations lay bare, At the roar of the Lord, at the storming breath of his nostrils. He reached down from on high and seized me; drew me out of the deep waters. He rescued me from my mighty enemy, from foes too powerful for me.They attacked me on a day of distress, but the Lord came to my support. He set me free in the open; he rescued me because he loves me. The Lord acknowledged my righteousness, rewarded my clean hands. For I kept the ways of the Lord; I was not disloyal to my God.His laws were all before me, his decrees I did not cast aside.I was honest toward him; I was on guard against sin. So the Lord rewarded my righteousness, the cleanness of my hands in his sight. Toward the faithful you are faithful; to the honest you are honest. Toward the sincere, sincere; but to the perverse you are devious. Humble people you save; haughty eyes you bring low. You, Lord, give light to my lamp; my God brightens the darkness about me. With you I can rush an armed band, with my God to help I can leap a wall. God’s way is unerring; the Lord’s promise is tried and true; he is a shield for all who trust in him. Truly, who is God except the Lord? Who but our God is the rock? This God who girded me with might, kept my way unerring.Who made my feet swift as a deer’s, set me safe on the heights, Who trained my hands for war, my arms to bend even a bow of bronze.You have given me your protecting shield; your right hand has upheld me; you stooped to make me great. You gave me room to stride; my feet never stumbled. I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back till I destroyed them. I struck them down; they could not rise; they fell dead at my feet. You girded me with strength for war, subdued adversaries at my feet. My foes you put to flight before me; those who hated me I destroyed. They cried for help, but no one saved them; cried to the Lord but got no answer. I ground them fine as dust in the wind; like mud in the streets I trampled them down. You rescued me from the strife of peoples; you made me head over nations.A people I had not known became my slaves; as soon as they heard of me they obeyed. Foreigners cringed before me; their courage failed; they came trembling from their fortresses. The Lord lives! Blessed be my rock! Exalted be God, my savior! O God who granted me vindication, made peoples subject to me, and preserved me from my enemies.Truly you have exalted me above my adversaries, from the violent you have rescued me. Thus I will proclaim you, Lord, among the nations; I will sing the praises of your name.You have given great victories to your king, and shown kindness to your anointed, to David and his posterity forever.
Psalm 17
A prayer of David.
1 Hear me, Lord, my plea is just;
listen to my cry.
Hear my prayer—
it does not rise from deceitful lips.
2 Let my vindication come from you;
may your eyes see what is right.
3 Though you probe my heart,
though you examine me at night and test me,
you will find that I have planned no evil;
my mouth has not transgressed.
4 Though people tried to bribe me,
I have kept myself from the ways of the violent
through what your lips have commanded.
5 My steps have held to your paths;
my feet have not stumbled.
6 I call on you, my God, for you will answer me;
turn your ear to me and hear my prayer.
7 Show me the wonders of your great love,
you who save by your right hand
those who take refuge in you from their foes.
8 Keep me as the apple of your eye;
hide me in the shadow of your wings
9 from the wicked who are out to destroy me,
from my mortal enemies who surround me.
10 They close up their callous hearts,
and their mouths speak with arrogance.
11 They have tracked me down, they now surround me,
with eyes alert, to throw me to the ground.
12 They are like a lion hungry for prey,
like a fierce lion crouching in cover.
13 Rise up, Lord, confront them, bring them down;
with your sword rescue me from the wicked.
14 By your hand save me from such people, Lord,
from those of this world whose reward is in this life.
May what you have stored up for the wicked fill their bellies;
may their children gorge themselves on it,
and may there be leftovers for their little ones.
15 As for me, I will be vindicated and will see your face;
when I awake, I will be satisfied with seeing your likeness.
February 16, 2022
Saved by Your Right Hand
The Right Hand of the Father – the Hippocampus
Hippocampus is a complex brain structure embedded deep into temporal lobe.of the midbrain – It has a major role in learning and memory.
It is a plastic and vulnerable structure that gets damaged by a variety of stimuli and excess alcohol – Studies have shown that it also gets affected in a variety of neurological and psychiatric disorders.
Psalm 16
A miktam[a] of David.
– A small collection of pslams –
1 Keep me safe, my God,
for in you I take refuge.
2 I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord;
apart from you I have no good thing.”
3 I say of the holy people who are in the land,
“They are the noble ones in whom is all my delight.”
4 Those who run after other gods will suffer more and more.
I will not pour out libations of blood to such gods
or take up their names on my lips.
5 Lord, you alone are my portion and my cup;
you make my lot secure.
6 The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;
surely I have a delightful inheritance.
7 I will praise the Lord, who counsels me;
even at night my heart instructs me.
8 I keep my eyes always on the Lord.
With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken-
February 14, 2022
Keeping eyes always on the Lord – The Psalm says
The prayer of David is my prayer as well
the ‘noncom’ – officer commissioned to stand in the wake of being
Quakes – shaken only to be jarred but not broken
the law of the eye is the inheritance guaranteed –
Those who run to praise other gods – suffer greater that staying true to the God made man –
Not feeling pain – slack in the Mind of Christ
The Prefrontal fare – Growing the Mind of Christ – through the midbrain – His holy Mother Mary – the conduit of our prayers
Detractors – prayers not knit but remain in the memory of man – not God – become idols and blood running cold – co create
Distractions have legs – walk away – leaving requium
PSALM 15
The Righteous Israelite
A psalm of David.
Lord, who may abide in your tent? Who may dwell on your holy mountain?Whoever walks without blame, doing what is right, speaking truth from the heart; Who does not slander a neighbor, does no harm to another, never defames a friend; Who disdains the wicked, but honors those who fear the Lord; Who keeps an oath despite the cost, lends no money at interest, accepts no bribe against the innocent.Whoever acts like this shall never be shaken.
Blameless – HT Wagner
Blameless – Shameless
The Way of the Cross –
Abiding in the Holy Tent –
In the Holy Mountain of the Prefrontal sierra – the Mind of Christ
Mental Prayer through Mary –
Mother of the modern Mind – a Miracle of the our time-
PSALM 13
Prayer in Time of Illness
For the leader.
A psalm of David.How long, Lord? Will you utterly forget me? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I carry sorrow in my soul, grief in my heart day after day? How long will my enemy triumph over me? Look upon me, answer me, Lord, my God! Give light to my eyes lest I sleep in death, Lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed,” lest my foes rejoice at my downfall. I trust in your faithfulness. Grant my heart joy in your help, That I may sing of the Lord, “How good our God has been to me!”
PSALM 12
Prayer against Evil TounguesFor the leader; “upon the eighth.”
A psalm of David.Help, Lord, for no one loyal remains; the faithful have vanished from the human race. Those who tell lies to one another speak with deceiving lips and a double heart. May the Lord cut off all deceiving lips, and every boastful tongue. Those who say, “By our tongues we prevail; when our lips speak, who can Lord it over us?” “Because they rob the weak, and the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord; “I will grant safety to whoever longs for it.” The promises of the Lord are sure, silver refined in a crucible, silver purified seven times.Lord, protect us always; preserve us from this generation.On every side the wicked strut; the shameless are extolled by all
PSALM 11
Confidence in the Presence of God –
For the leader. Of David. In the Lord I take refuge; how can you say to me, “Flee like a bird to the mountains! See how the wicked string their bows, fit their arrows to the string to shoot from the shadows at the upright. When foundations are being destroyed, what can the upright do?”The Lord is in his holy temple; the Lord’s throne is in heaven. God’s eyes keep careful watch; they test all peoples. The Lord tests the good and the bad, hates those who love violence, And rains upon the wicked fiery coals and brimstone, a scorching wind their allotted cup.The Lord is just and loves just deeds; the upright shall see his face.
PSALM 10
Thanksgiving for Victory and Prayer for JusticeWhy, Lord, do you stand at a distance and pay no heed to these troubled times? Arrogant scoundrels pursue the poor; they trap them by their cunning schemes. The wicked even boast of their greed; these robbers curse and scorn the Lord. In their insolence the wicked boast: “God doesn’t care, doesn’t even exist.” Yet their affairs always succeed; they ignore your judgment on high; they sneer at all who oppose them. They say in their hearts, “We will never fall; never will we see misfortune.” Their mouths are full of oaths, violence, and lies; discord and evil are under their tongues. They wait in ambush near towns; their eyes watch for the helpless. to murder the innocent in secret. They lurk in ambush like lions in a thicket, hide there to trap the poor, snare them and close the net. The helpless are crushed, laid low; they fall into the power of the wicked, Who say in their hearts, “God pays no attention, shows no concern, never bothers to look.” Rise up, Lord God! Raise your arm! Do not forget the poor!Why should the wicked scorn God, say in their hearts, “God doesn’t care”? But you do see; you do observe this misery and sorrow; you take the matter in hand. To you the helpless can entrust their cause; you are the defender of orphans. Break the arms of the wicked and depraved; make them account for their crimes; let none of them survive. The Lord is king forever; the nations have vanished from God’s land. You listen, Lord, to the needs of the poor; you encourage them and hear their prayers. You win justice for the orphaned and oppressed; no one on earth will cause terror again.
PSALM 7
God the Vindicator
A plaintive song of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning Cush, the Benjaminite.Lord my God, in you I take refuge; rescue me; save me from all who pursue me, lest they maul me like lions, tear me to pieces with none to save. Lord my God, if I am at fault in this, if there is guilt on my hands, if I have repaid my friend with evil, I spared even those who hated me without cause. Then let my enemy pursue and overtake me, trample my life to the ground, and leave me dishonored in the dust. Rise up, Lord, in your anger; rise against the fury of my foes. Wake to judge as you have decreed. Have the assembly of the peoples gather about you; sit on your throne high above them. O Lord, judge of the nations. Grant me justice, Lord, for I am blameless, free of any guilt. Bring the malice of the wicked to an end; uphold the innocent, O God of justice, who tries hearts and minds. A shield before me is God who saves the honest heart. God is a just judge, who rebukes in anger every day.
PSALM 6 – Prayer in Distress
For the leader; with stringed instruments, “upon the eighth.”
A psalm of David.– Do not reprove me in your anger, Lord, nor punish me in your wrath.– Have pity on me, Lord, for I am weak; heal me, Lord, for my bones are trembling.– In utter terror is my soul – and you, Lord, how long…? Turn, Lord, save my life; in your mercy rescue me. For who among the dead remembers you? Who praises you in Sheol? (Hebrew underworld – the land of the Dead)- I am wearied with sighing; all night long tears drench my bed; my couch is soaked with weeping.– My eyes are dimmed with sorrow, worn out because of all my foes. Away from me, all who do evil! The Lord has heard my weeping.The Lord has heard my prayer; the Lord takes up my plea.– My foes will be terrified and disgraced; all will fall back in sudden shame.
PSALM 5 – Prayer for Divine HelpFor the leader; with wind instruments.
A psalm of David.Hear my words, O Lord;
listen to my sighing. Hear my cry for help, my king, my God! To you I pray, O Lord;
at dawn you will hear my cry;
at dawn I will plead before you and wait. You are not a god who delights in evil;
no wicked person finds refuge with you;
the arrogant cannot stand before you.You hate all who do evil;
you destroy all who speak falsely.Murderers and deceivers the Lord abhors. But I can enter your house because of your great love. I can worship in your holy temple because of my reverence for you, Lord. Guide me in your justice because of my foes;
make straight your way before me. For there is no sincerity in their mouths;
their hearts are corrupt.Their throats are open graves;
on their tongues are subtle lies.Declare them guilty, God;
make them fall by their own devices.Drive them out for their many sins;
they have rebelled against you. Then all who take refuge in you will be glad and forever shout for joy. Protect them that you may be the joy of those who love your name.For you, Lord, bless the just;
you surround them with favor like a shield.
Translate – Wicked Ways Rebel against the fullness of God
PSALM 4 – Trust in God
For the leader; with stringed instruments. A psalm of David. – Answer when I call, my saving God – In my troubles, you cleared a way; show me favor; hear my prayer.
How long will you people mock my honor, love what is worthless, chase after lies? Know that the Lord works wonders for the faithful;
the Lord hears when I call out.
Tremble and do not sin;
upon your beds ponder in silence. Offer fitting sacrifice and trust in the Lord – Many say, “May we see better times! Lord, show us the light of your face!” But you have given my heart more joy than they have when grain and wine abound.– In peace I shall both lie down and sleep, for you alone, Lord, make me secure. Psalm, 3 – A psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom.How many are my foes, Lord!How many rise against me! How many say of me,
“God will not save that one.”But you, Lord, are a shield around me;
my glory, you keep my head high. Whenever I cried out to the Lord, I was answered from the holy mountain. Whenever I lay down and slept, the Lord preserved me to rise again. I do not fear, then, thousands of people arrayed against me on every side. Arise, Lord! Save me, my God!
You will shatter the jaws of all my foes;
you will break the teeth of the wicked. Safety comes from the Lord!Your blessing for your people
Translate – Holy Mountain – Prefrontal Mind of Christ – Initialized by HS on 1st Pentecost
PSALM 2
For A Royal Coronation – Why do the nations protest and the peoples grumble in vain? Kings on earth rise up and princes plot together against the Lord and his anointed:”Let us break their shackles and cast off their chains!” The one enthroned in heaven laughs;
the Lord derides them, Then speaks to them in anger, terrifies them in wrath: “I myself have installed my king on Zion, my holy mountain.” I will proclaim the decree of the Lord, who said to me, “You are my son;
today I am your father. Only ask it of me, and I will make your inheritance the nations, your possession the ends of the earth. With an iron rod you shall shepherd them, like a clay pot you will shatter them.” And now, kings, give heed;
take warning, rulers on earth.Serve the Lord with fear;
with trembling bow down in homage,Lest God be angry and you perish from the way in a sudden blaze of anger.Happy are all who take refuge in God!
Translate – “I myself have installed my king on Zion, my holy mountain.”I will proclaim the decree of the Lord, who said to me, “You are my son – Prefrontal brain evolved when the HS Pentecost – Mind of Christ – compassion – Break shackles of human kind – cast off chains – Father – the Binary Brain – You are my Son – The Prefrontal brain though the Midbrain – the Blessed Virgin Mary – His Mother –
PSALM 1
True Happiness In God’s Law
Happy those who do not follow the counsel of the wicked, Nor go the way of sinners, nor sit in company with scoffers.
Rather, the law of the Lord is their joy;
God’s law they study day and night.
They are like a tree planted near streams of water, that yields its fruit in season;
Its leaves never wither;
whatever they do prospers.
But not the wicked! They are like chaff driven by the wind.
Therefore the wicked will not survive judgment, nor will sinners in the assembly of the just.
The Lord watches over the way of the just, but the way of the wicked leads to ruin.
Paul the Apostle Quotes and Sayings
https://www.inspiringquotes.us/author/3431-paul-the-apostle
- “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds”
Renewing Minds by Prayer –
“If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.” St Paul
January 26, 2022
THE SURRENDER NOVENA –
January 15, 2022 –
After a hundred years – Emily Dickinson
Nobody knows the Place
Agony that enacted there
Motionless as Peace
Weeds triumphant ranged
Strangers strolled and spelled
At the lone Orthography
Of the Elder Dead
Winds of Summer Fields
Recollect the way —
Instinct picking up the Key
Dropped by memory —
January 15,, 2022
Motionless as Peace – (E. Dickinson) – HT Wagner
Remembering the Way
Raw winds of Winter’s Way
Bleak is the changes of the Will to be
He died to set us free
Motionless He lay
Until the Stone was rolled away
January 13, 2022
Abraham to kill him — Emily Dickinson
Was distinctly told —
Isaac was an Urchin — mischievous child
Abraham was old —
Not a hesitation —
Abraham complied —
Flattered by Obeisance
Tyranny demurred — misgivings
Isaac — to his children
Lived to tell the tale —
Moral — with a Mastiff
Manners may prevail.
January 14, 2022
Living a Tale to Tell – HT Wagner
When life seems not for living
There is still a tale to tell
Always giving
Not receiving
Taxes the psyche
Not renewing
When bitten by the bite of enmity of the harrowing kind
It clouds the growth
Drowns the living
It is a mission to turn foes to friend
Befriending the lost and lonely
Beaten down by levy of the living
A tombstone can become
January 14, 2022
When Anxiety Smothers – HT Wagner
When turned around on low road – lost
the air to breathes static
Road paved with thistles and thorns
Heart pounds panic and fear
The river of blood is clogged with barbs of hate
In the bushes are the misers and
Rock throwers hide to wait
January 14, 2022
World War Three – HT Wagner
World Wars I and II were apocalyptic
But WW III eclipses all wars of history
Man-Made to end all wars
Profiteers vs the common good-
Processing – Altering foods
Extends shelf life and profits explode
Over-milling sweet whole grain robs life for the prefrontal fare
Over-heating sweet oils for frying
and dairy create Modern Inflammation – rebounds – astounds
Genetic Modification magnifies the no longer needed mechanism of the seed –
Taxing the body to accomodate the removal of no longer needed seed locks and lectins – the life guards that keep the predators away
Best kept secret – Medicare the footprint
The doctors office and not the beach
Inflammation – from food substrates no longer viable for life
Sustaining the Money Changers of modern days
Who is to throw them out of the Temple of the Holy Spirit –
When taste rules unabashed – nobody cares
Processed food thinking – The Office – a farce to showcase the method of thermal mindless mind.
Making modern man a slave to white lies, political correctness
Anxiety Depression the only way out –
Instead of the Way to Truth – Holy replaced with worldly wanton malicious modern mindlessness
Living the Life of the Mindless
Being in the Lost land of the binary fare
the language –
Booze – the fluid of the blood
Where pathos is the path to hide
Other – never there
Self is the only Way
Truth is a lie
Covered with covertness – not openly acknowledged or displayed
Truth – treads not on the feelings of others
more important than what is real
Reality exists only in – what is hidden
Everyone knows the deception but no one talks about it
The lowly is the highest form of being
The hints mean- denotes – is non existent
No one know or even cares
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds” St Paul
Renewing the binary mind is ‘doing the same stupid thing and expecting different results’-
Never to tread on the parcel of life not known
– the heavenly fare
Nothing more lonely than viewing the back of a head reading nothingness
Confluence and Cosmic Influence – HT Wagner
Two rivers converge and for a mighty flow
The River of life
The River of the senses
Census taking
Heart breaking
The blending of the Matter and the Spirit
Creation heaves and stutters
Shutters
When life hop scotchs
Unwary of the pull and drag
of the tick tock of the Cosmic Heart
The Autumn Mist – HT Wagner – ‘Living in God’s Space’ (Amazon books )
Like Puff in the Morning Mist
Mist in the Autumn
This Descends on the sleepy world
To remind us the He is everywhere
Here to cover
Here to be
Here to heal
My octane
Why not
He has nothing to do
But to exist min the Cosmos
He Loves
Breathes love
How He loves is the story of the Live
Living, Loving & being in the Being
No ‘set way to be’
Only grace
Love
& Others
The Great AM – the Autumn MistInsensibility –
Enmity
St Paul _
- “If God is for us, who can be against us?”
God For Us – HT Wagner
Sometimes it seem all is lost
Lonely is the Way
Friends nowhere to be found
Folly the other Way
all the is left is Surrender
Wisdom prevails & all is found in the magnificent Way
- “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart.”
- “For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain”
To Die is Gain – HT Wagner
Holy Death
We might destroy the one who has the power of death –
Life without purpose
Purposely lost
Comes in many shades of grey
Leaves in bubbles that burst
What is gained is lost
Holy life knits bonds of brass
Golden strands in the the Mind of Christ
Connecting the subconscious uptick to the vast Universe of eternal life
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- “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places . . . He destined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace that he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.”
“Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, Jesus himeself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil.” - “For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.”
- “We were by nature children of wrath, even as others.”
Children of Wrath – HT Wagner
Children of Wrath
The sons and daughters of Eve
we presume
We judge
We hate all that is not like us
- “Brethren, do not become children in sense: but in malice be children, and in sense be perfect.”
On Children – Kahlil Gibran – 1883-1931
And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of Children. – And he said-
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.
From The Prophet (Knopf, 1923). This poem is in the public domain.
- “Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.”
God’s Gifts-How God Works! – HT Wagner from ‘Living in God’s Space’
I asked for patience-
And He gave me a computer that runs like molasses
I asked for a new computer
Sent one that did not like me
I asked to learn to pray
And He gave me depression
I asked for wealth and grace
And he gave me aging parents to care for
I asked to be closer to my brother
And his business folded
I prayed for removal of obstacles that stood in the way of my son’s destiny
He moved them away-
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St Paul –
- “There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.”
- “Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grapsed, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearnace as a man, he humbled himself and becamse obedient to death-even death on a cross!”
Rocks in my pocket – HT Wagner on attitude from Living in Gods Space – Amazon Books
Rattling around
Wanted to throw
Thought better
Free Will
Dwelling on thoughts that judge
Thought it okay
As long as the consequences are known
Not so
Thoughts that hate, revenge
Cause regrets
Will steal time from creation
Thought again
Free will
Tool for making choices
God has set them before us
Chose live or choose death
Review your blueprint
Study what serves
All of God’s capital
Like coins
Let fly
Or Bury in the Sand
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- “For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.”
- “I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”
- “And thus I aspire to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named so that I would not build on another man’s foundation.”
- “If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.”
- “Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Can’t you see for yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you – unless you actually fail the test?”
Lord Make My Prayer – HT Wagner on attitude from Living in Gods Space – Amazon Books
Fold it into Your arms
Make them gentle-loud
Make it from my heart
To Your Sacred Heart
From our Connected
Collected Subconscious
When I am tired
And if my eyelids close on You
Read my mind
Find those petitions that
My ‘File Clerk’ misplaced
Pray with me on my morning walk
When I am anxious
Wrap me in layers and layers of
Your grace for safe keeping
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All PAUL THE APOSTLE Quotes about “Earth”
- “God has overlooked the times of such ignorance, yet now he is telling mankind that they should all everywhere repent. Because he has set a day in which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and he has furnished a guarantee to all men in that he has resurrected him from the dead.”
- “If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.”
- “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”
Ami Christi – Lord Make My Prayer – HT Wagner from Living in Gods Space – Amazon Books
Sanctify me
Save me
Within Thy wounds hide me
State of Grace
By Invitation only
Grace to hear
Grace to see
Grace to feel
Hidden from those Who choose fear
Instead of faith
Wounds—Hiding place for the Saints
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- “I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do everything through him who gives me strength.”
“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” - “Therefore, I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.”
The Will to Give – HT Wagner – Legacy Poems
In my early morning haze,
I find myself hugging my coffee cup,
Waiting for that moment of energy.
As I wait, I watch my mother and my dog.
Sadie lies silently at the old woman’s feet,
Moving only when she moves or
To catch a fat laden morsel dropped sneakily to the floor—
Like food smuggled to a prisoner.
Caught!
The old woman is caught in the act.
Confronted!
“That’s why the ants come in!” I say.
They lower their eyes knowing that they have been scolded!
Somehow we know that
The dog can always count on her treats,
The ants will come in
And the Forgetful Old Giving Tree will remember the only thing that’s important…
The will to give.
- Grace
- https://www.inspiringquotes.us/author/3431-paul-the-apostle/about-grace
- “For he who has died has been freed from sin…14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.”
- “By entering through faith into what God has always wanted to do for us – set us right with him, make us fit for him – we have it all together with God because of our Master Jesus. And that’s not all: We throw open our doors to God and discover at the same moment that he has already thrown open his door to us. We find ourselves standing where we always hoped we might stand – out in the wide open spaces of God’s grace and glory, standing tall and shouting our praise.”
The Fabric of God – Ami Christi – Lord Make My Prayer – HT Wagner from Living in Gods Space – Amazon Books
Listen with Your Eyes
But do not judge
Presume Positive
The jerk who cut you off
May have lost a loved one
The short tempered
May be distracted by an unintended chaos
Our hearts open
Insults frustrated
Foiled and Vanished
When never expressed
More space for kind
Profitable bricks of creation
Mortar
The Fabric of God
- “Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
- “For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.”
For Insight – – HT Wagner from Living in Gods Space – Amazon Books
Mindsight
For Friends that share
For Friends that wear
and tug at heart strings
and make tears
Tarry Unfairly
Put in Path
For a reason to be found
The lessons learned through hardship
Patient awareness of Your mysteries
Creation Wheels
Waxing and Waning
Wanting to be born
Anew
Refreshed and Restored
To Love another day
♱♱♱
- Teaching
- https://www.inspiringquotes.us/author/3431-paul-the-apostle/about-teaching
- “Your teaching must have the integrity of serious, sound words to which no one can take exception. If it does, no opponent will be able to find anything bad to say about us, and hostility will yield to shame.”
- “preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching.”
- “Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
— Paul the Apostle
#Remember #Reap
“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”
— Paul the Apostle
#Giving Up #Harvest #Doing Good - “Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another.”
— Paul the Apostle
#Love One Another - “I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do everything through him who gives me strength.”
— Paul the Apostle
#Giving #Secret #Want - “Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”
— Paul the Apostle
#Men #Adultery #Stealing - “God has overlooked the times of such ignorance, yet now he is telling mankind that they should all everywhere repent. Because he has set a day in which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and he has furnished a guarantee to all men in that he has resurrected him from the dead.”
— Paul the Apostle
#Ignorance #Men #Judging - “So, then, let us pursue the things making for peace and the things that are upbuilding to one another.”
— Paul the Apostle
#Peace - “Bad company ruins good morals.”
— Paul the Apostle
#Morality #Moral #Good Moral - “Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh!”
— Paul the Apostle
#Dog #Evil #Danger - “We walk by faith, not by sight.”
— Paul the Apostle
#Faith - “There is nothing love cannot face; there is limit to its faith, its hope and endurance.”
— Paul the Apostle
#Endurance - “Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.”
— Paul the Apostle
#Husband #Wife #Affection - “The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body, but the wife.”
— Paul the Apostle
#Husband #Wife - “Hope does not disappoint.”
— Paul the Apostle
#Hope #Disappoint - “For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.”
— Paul the Apostle
#Discipline #Peaceful #Painful - “preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching.”
— Paul the Apostle
#Teaching #Convince - “And I want women to be modest in their appearance. They should wear decent and appropriate clothing and not draw attention to themselves by the way they fix their hair or by wearing gold or pearls or expensive clothes. For women who claim to be devoted to God should make themselves attractive by the good things they do.”
— Paul the Apostle
#Gold #Attention #Appearance - “who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.”
— Paul the Apostle
#People #Desire - “Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor- not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways.”
— Paul the Apostle
#Passion #Pagan #Knowing God - “I died to the law so that I might live for God.”
— Paul the Apostle - “Brethren, do not become children in sense: but in malice be children, and in sense be perfect.”
— Paul the Apostle
#Children #Perfect #Malice - “There are, for example, so many kinds of tongues in this world; and none is without voice. If then I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him to whom I speak a barbarian; and he that speaketh, a barbarian to me.”
— Paul the Apostle
#World #Kind #Speak
“Yea, much more those that seem to be the more feeble members of the body, are more necessary. And such as we think to be the less honourable members of the body, about these we put more abundant honour; and those that are our uncomely parts, have more abundant comeliness. But our comely parts have no need […”
— Paul the Apostle - “Absent in body, but present in spirit.”
— Paul the Apostle
- “Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.”
— Paul the Apostle
#Husband #Wife - “Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grapsed, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearnace as a man, he humbled himself and becamse obedient to death-even death on a cross!”
— Paul the Apostle - “Bottom line: Outbursts of anger – including screaming, throwing things, banging inanimate objects, slamming doors, squealing tires, stomping around, making threats, shoving, restraining, cornering, or yelling down, all carry the threat of physical harm -even if that threat is not intended. All these things are abusive, and completely unacceptable. Nothing a woman or man does (including any of the above) justifies doing any of these. If you are doing any of these, you have a problem – PLEASE deal with it before it escalates.”
— Paul the Apostle
#Men #Yelling #Doors - “There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.”
— Paul the Apostle
#Jesus #Greek #Males - “Your teaching must have the integrity of serious, sound words to which no one can take exception. If it does, no opponent will be able to find anything bad to say about us, and hostility will yield to shame.”
— Paul the Apostle
#Integrity #Teaching #Yield - “You can’t fall off the floor.”
— Paul the Apostle