Be Like David

At the Strays meeting I challenged us all to memorize a Bible verse every week. I hope every guy reading this will accept the challenge. 

There is no power greater than the Word of God when fighting the devil.

I will give you a new verse each week on Monday night.

At the bottom of this post you will find the scripture for the week. It's a verse that states how King David felt about the Word of God.

Here are some helpful tips:

Write the verse on a card or a post-it note.

Put it on the mirrow where you shave & brush your teeth. Read it over n over while you're in front of the mirrow.

Tape it on your steering wheel and glance at it while youre driving.

Put it in a note on your phone & read it often during the day. Read it several time during lunch.

Put it on a card on your bedside table and study it before going to sleep.

Im praying for ya. You pray too & ask the Lord to help you remember it. Plus ask him to speak to you through the verse.

Finally, it is important to memorize the location of the verse as well.

I Love ya & I pray for ya everyday.

JD

Here ya go:

Psalm 119:130

"The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple."

Hidden in the Heart

Hello my Brother in Christ. 

As I challenged ya at the meeting Saturday, here is your scripture for this week.

Look it up! Write it on a card or post-it note. Put it on the mirrow where ya shave & brush your teeth. Put a copy on your steering wheel. Hide it in your heart! Hide it in your mind!

Memorize it!

Already know this one? That's great. But treat it just like ya never heard it before. And re-learn it. Ok?

And dont forget to memorize the location  of the verse also. Very important.

After studying it and repeating it several times come back here and read it aloud and fill in the blanks.

Finally. Pray and ask the Lord to help you remember it and to speak to your heart through the verse.

I'm praying for you.

Keep in touch with me ok?

JD

Psalm 119:11

Thy _____ have I _____ in my _______ that I might not ______ against Thee.

Never Perish

Memorize This.♡

John 10:28

And I ______ unto them ______ ______; and they shall ______ ______, neither shall any man pluck them out of my _____.

                                                  John 10:28

My Prayer for You

The Prayer Paul Prayed for Us

Ephesians 3:14-20 KJV

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, [15] Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, [16] That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; [17] That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, [18] May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; [19] And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. [20] Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.

Brother Kurt sent me this scripture yesterday. I'm sharing! Perhaps it is just what ya need to hear. God's word is like that! 

Staying Upright

If ya fall get up!

Ya don't just lay there.

Get up!

One thing about it is you can be sure that ya don't stand a chance if ya just lie there.

But if ya get up, brush yourself off, look around in embarrassment, and get back moving then at least ya stand a chance to fight another day.

Someone said I'm going to quit trying cause I've fallen back into sin so many times.

Still dumb to stay down and wallow in it.

Proverbs 24:16

For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. 

Get up! Get up! Get up! 

Take life a day at a time!

Keep getting up after stumbling.

One day ya may notice well hey it's been 2 days  then 3 then 4 

Then hey  I haven't had to get back up ive stayed on my feet a week.

Me and God are gonna keep on doing this together.

Then one day you may realize I'm just gonna stay on my feet. 

Time Marches On

I thought about a title for this blog. I thought about it a lot. At one point in my thinking I decided to give it the title Spacetime Continuum. However after about two minutes of research into the lofty field of physics i landed on a much simpler label. Time Marches On. And while I do like it better it really doesnt lift my spirits. Not one bit. 

Am I the only one who ever finds himself regretting that time is running out? I bet there are others out there who feel the same way. I mean it's not that I regret the life I've lived. Oh don't get me wrong, of course I have some regrets. But as a whole I am happy with it all. The girl I married for one. I certainly found a keeper when I married Pam. She is so smart, so beautiful and I've loved her all my life, no literally all my life. I'd do that over without hesitation. Plus I'd do it better. 

So I just have this nagging gnawing discomfort in me born of the awful fact that I'm short on time and I've not done a lot of stuff that I want to do. It's hard to put into words this feeling I have. One thing about it is I am kind of jealous of my grand kids. There I said it. I feel better. So look they're young and have the entire world at their feet and their entire life before them. And here I am ...running out of time. 

Why cant I just be content with the past. Just settle to be satisfied with all I have seen and done? I mean I've been around a bit. I've seen the tallest mountain in North America 20,000 foot Mt. McKinley. I've stood on the equator. I've seen the mighty volcanoes of South America. I've witnessed the mighty pyramids of Egypt and visited the little town where Jesus was born. I've stood at the bases of the worlds largest living things, the sequoias of California. I've been on the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Coal River. I've seen the thousands of glaciers of Alaska for crying out loud. I've crossed the mighty Andes mountains. I've swam in the rivers of the amazon rain forests and once I even enjoyed a meal of roasted Guinea pig. I have snorkled around nearly every blue water island in the entire Caribbean. And I live on a semi tropical island in the  Gulf of Mexico. All this and more, much more; so why cant I  just be satisfied? Why do I wish I had another sixty years? Why can't i sit on my back porch? My porch that I truly love, with my plants that I love and with my wife whom I love and be content? I'm askin'! Seriously is there anyone there who can give me an acceptable answer?

while you wait....

While you Wait.

While you wait time marches on.

While you wait to get involved in church your children watch and learn...and miss out.

They miss out.

You're they're example.

They watch and learn from you.

So While you wait....they learn to wait.

While you put it off...they learn to put it off.

If you have children consider this.

The years of a child's development from birth to eight years are called the formative years. Formative because their brains are being formed.

By age 5 eighty five percent of a child's brain has been developed.

So whatever they experience in those first 8 years; whether proper or improper, good or bad, negative or positive, church or no church etc. Their future has been determined.