In Jeremiah, The LORD uses a few different analogies to show how His people have forsaken Him or forgotten Him. One of these, though we will not view it in detail today, is found in chapter two. The LORD says, "can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet My people have …
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Blessings in The Little Things
Cutting grass for a woman whose husband is in the hospital for heart surgery. Trimming is a seemingly small task in cutting the lawn. It takes a relatively short amount of time, and may seem like an insignificant or optional part to the process. But even though it may seem insignificant, it makes a difference. …
Holy Spirit, Our Oil
Trimming and cutting down trees for an elderly widow. When using a chainsaw, one important thing needed is bar oil; this oil is distributed to the blade as the saw runs to keep things smooth. If the oil is not used, it can cause irreparable damage to the blade. The same thing is true of …
Energized by The Spirit
Mowing the grass for a single mom. This particular woman has her own lawn mower for me to use. There is an electric one for the back yard, which is too steep for a tractor/mower. At first It was very difficult and took a lot of energy, but I found out the electric mower had …
Without His Joy
Helping move a single mom/ministry leader into a new home. At the new home there was a peony bush. Though the flowers are beautiful, they were drooping onto the ground, becoming dirty or broken. It is similar to the Christian life without The Holy Spirit’s surpassing joy. As Christians, we have access to the very …
Sanctified by His Glory
In Exodus, as well as in 1 Kings/2 Chronicles, we read about the glory of The LORD filling the tabernacle/temple. The glory of The LORD manifests as a bright cloud. Two passages which show us this are quoted below. "…So Moses finished the work. Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the …
A Second Prayer to God
I pray to God to heal my wounds,the stink and stench of carnality,for I have destroyed myself but Thoushalt bind up and graciuosly heal;transform me by Thy word; by Thy GoodSpirit let rivers flow and quenchthis thirsty and dry abode, which I have made.May my ever wretched body of deathhave its desires struck with blindness,and …
Blessed Son
O blessed Son! likethe heat of morning'sglorious sun, the grandproduction of God's alarm.in His splendid fashion He emergesas a bridegroom released to the bride,incandescent and all-in-all brilliant, beautiful,and bounding upon the hills of holiness,Hind of The Dawn, King of kings,glorious in His passion of love. O blessed Son! likethe breezy wind breathingOn creation, stirring upthe …
The Sweetness of His Word
O taste and see! yea, know assuredlyof the Blessed Redeemer's fruit; of thatLiving Bread not wont to grow stale, laidup for those ravenous souls which flyupon Heaven's ladder, almost violentin their manner of acquisition, yetonly are they met with blessed joyand life most vehement in its flame. O that blessed overcomer who affordshimself a drink …
A Prayer to God
I cry out to God,for the blazing radiance of God's eternal Sonto burn within my bones,to burn within my heart,to burn within my bowels, within my mind,to create a tongue of eternal fire;a pillar of God's consuming heat resting on my head andI ache for the bliss of His presence,the bliss of His words, i …
Bright And Morning Star 