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The Effective Working Of His Holy Spirit

  The Effective Working Of His Holy Spirit John 16:7  “ Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. ” Galatians 5: 22  “ But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness , goodness, faith, 23  Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. ”      He knocked me out of reverse and into neutral.   Giving me a choice without blinders, I agreed drive was where I wanted to be.   God’s hyper-theological explanation can be described in this metaphor.   God slammed the gears.   I simply said, “ok.”       He sent down a power.   It charged me to overcome.   Sitting dead on the shelf, He bought me and brought me in.   Hooking me to the grid, I became a little runner or little Christ in the world’s eyes.   Without Him, I had no potential.   So far He separated east from west, now immense power was invested within me to propel
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She Doesn't Tell You That You Are A Loser

She Doesn’t Tell You That You Are Loser Grace:  The incredible pink cushion between your screwed up decisions and the ramifications wrought by them. Mercy:  withholds the rod.  Grace says, “Now what?  Given you’ve gotten yourself into a marijuana muddied bowl of slime, would you like a hand up?”  She gets her hands dirty. “That’s ok, its just something I have to work through.”  And she does.  Her incredible prayer power burns a hole through overhanging clouds of gloom. My ears pierce in my usual confronting atmosphere.  An auto E.Q. does its job to focus the vibrations to the rear-view mirror.  Anger aligns my head to look straight into traffic.  Twenty minutes of a sub-woofer gets my energy out of the windshield. “Hey, you’re messing with my woman!”  We have an understanding.  She is to be under my wing.  I have violated before, running in a tangent to the graph.  I’ve learned not to overreact.  I concern myself with her soul now.  If battle damage does not sink her ship, we
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What Do They Expect?

  What Do They Expect?\ Ephesians 6:14  “ Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; ” 1 Timothy 3:7  “ Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. ” Exodus 3      A picture that comes to mind this morning is TTT, or Tires, Tires, Tires on our calendar wall.   Through the course of the day, they run into more characters.   Not always is it a pretty picture.   Quite often, oil and grease start oozing out from where they are not supposed to.   It is the job of the mechanic to let the owner know of discrepancies.   Hence, the bad news could be a leaking rear main oil seal.   And that would be bad.      Suppressing anger at the door’s entrance, do we fire off at the first available cashier?   Do we brandish tongues getting in the jabs of “overcharge” and “incapable” as if insults could settle a matter.   None of us like to be surprised in this m
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What Drugs Can't Do

  What Drugs Can’t Do John 14:26  “ But the Comforter , which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. ” John 20:8  “ Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed. ”     I heard Led Zepplin had their encounter with the near to far east.   Something about their new funky chord arrangements like the Beatles a generation back.   Sitar and heroin go together when the British funded the addiction like the U.S. in its troops before Normandy.   “Luky Strikes!”   Struck again.      Marijuana was on a mid-Western docket this election day.   I like what Governor Christi Noem said, “I’ve never met anyone who got smarter by smoking dope.”   ‘Bout sums it up. Ephesians 5: 18  “ And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess ; but be filled with the Spirit; 1 9  Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual
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Perhaps You Don't Know

  Perhaps You Don’t Know      Those present sat in the first pew, on the left and on the right.   The ring bearer was my faithful dorm mate.   Nearly my age and goofier to catch my sister-in-law’s eye, his antics spiced the military wedding.   We, known as a couple since high-school, were definitely going ‘steady’.   Mother-in-law held up the Panasonic cassette player to march the bride.   Proud Papa did say, “Her mother and I.”      It was a humble wedding.   A few were invited.   Even fewer braved the September roads.   The medium-sized First Christian Church of Aurora, Colorado let in the light.   Lack of air flow brought sweat under my suited armpits.   Finally, drops found their place to my forehead and I dropped to one knee.   Grandma thought I had already proposed previously.   A bit of confusion hung in the air until I stripped off my outerwear and got comfortable in the fan.   That’s another story worth telling.      I remember her as Anne.   Truthfully, since her face h
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When I Became King

  When I Became A King      Awaiting knee surgery since April, my self-sufficiency has waned.   What was normal action became increasingly strained as movement induced pain.   What I fell into was the glove of God.      Kings are served.   Their wants are forecasted.   Their needs are met in abundance.   In my weakness, no one challenged my throne.   In contrast, others reaffirmed my rightful place by encouraging me.   I continued to fulfill my duty.   I have not suffered loss.      The queen procures.   Princesses wait upon.   They dance in the courtyard in entertainment.   Fellow kings stop by for conversation.   I am surrounded by nobility as all have expressed care.      Real alliances have been realized.   Grouping into council, mutual support has been expressed being four heads represented.      This Kingdom is real.   I have seen Him rule.   As we mutually submit ourselves one to another, His Spirit binds us in peace.   There is one God, one hope, one baptism.   We wal
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The Great Election

  The Great Election Romans 8: 29  For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30  Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.      God’s election or His choosing must have this backdrop.   Unless God had a plan for preparation, His election would make no sense.   In Romans, Paul is saying the gate is flung wide open.   God is turning the chapter of the book.   He has appointed a time to declare men righteous by faith in Christ.   Whether Jew or Gentile, it makes no difference.   His justification is to those who place their faith in the standard. Romans 8:33  “ Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. ”      God is basing His election upon our acceptance or rejection of Christ.   In these last days, He has raised up a Divider.   More
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