I apologize for the daily thoughts,being a weekly thought this week :-) We’ve been plowing snow for three days in a row :-) All I could think about last night out in the brutal cold,and all that white snow crunching and getting plowed, that everything I’ve done wrong and sinful in my life could be made ascclean and as white as all of that snow. When you stop and look at it that way,about what the cleansing power of Christ’s Blood can do,it’s unbelievable. To take all of my filthy rag unrighteousness,and make it as white as snow, What a friend we have in Jesus :-) Hope you know Him today,if not, what a great day to invite Him into your heart :-) Enjoy your Thursday, I think it’s Thursday :-)
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Just a couple quick thoughts today, as for me and my sons we’ll be a little busy plowing this winter storm that’s coming through today, but I found two good verses for us to think about today!!! Psalm 37:4, where it says to “delight yourself in the Lord and he will control the desires of your heart” and then Ephesians 5:16 where we’re told to redeem time. Another words,work is a blessing and when we stay busy our bodies are in better shape and our mind has less time to wander into the sin pool. The devil loves idleness, so let’s get busy today and if it’s not physical labor you can do,there’s always your prayer life :-) A good way to look at it is like this,spend some time today on something that will outlast time, such as a witness, or telling someone about Christ, because if that person is saved because of your willingness to stand tall for The Lord that will definitely outlast the test of time here on earth!!! What we do with this vapor, or blink of an eye,here on earth sets up our destination as to where we spend eternity!! SELAH !!! You have a good Monday, and in your prayers if you could remember Kelli,Oliver, Lyle,Maverick and my buddies at Kingman!! Thanks
Yesterday I got a reassuring shot of still having faith in humanity. My son Kenny, was driving back to Hastings from a birthday party we were having, here in East Lansing, for one of my granddaughters,Avia,and on the way back home a magnetic sign that we have on our trucks blew off. A gentleman by the name of Charlie, saw the sign blow off,he stopped put it in his car,and gave me a call to tell me that he had our sign and where we could pick it up. Here’s where the story gets unbelievable, like myself he’s a believer, he helps people with a ministry also, and we had a fabulous talk about Our Savior,and why we do what we do with our lives for Christ!! It was so refreshing to hear from a fellow believer, who is willing to stop on a bone chilling cold day, and pick up a sign off of the roadside and call me.I still can’t get over his generosity. It reminded me of the storiy when Jesus healed the lepers, only one took the time to come back and thank Him!! It took a special person,like Charlie,yesterday to do what he did, these are the type of foot soldiers that Jesus wants in His army :-) Out there doing constant patrol work to lead others to the kingdom, I hope you’re attending worship today where the pastor himself, would’ve stopped and picked up that sign and did with Charlie did, I doubt very much if a 1-800 “mega pastor”would’ve done that!!! The wouldn’t have, way beneath them!! Once again Charlie, can’t thank you enough, for not only picking up the sign, but being who you are and the example that you’re living, as I’ve said before in my daily thought page, I’d rather see a sermon then hear one,and yesterday I saw one !!!! Have a great Lords Day, and this week let’s all try to be a Charlie!!!! And for those of you who put on The Prayer Warrior Hats, if we could uplift Kelli,Lyle, and all my buds in Kingman Arizona, Jesus will know their needs!!Many Thanks!!
I remember growing up as a kid in the 50s, our idea of a video game was that little white dot that you hit back-and-forth with those little white paddles and then it would bounce off the boundaries, and you’d try to hit it back to the other side :-) Unfortunately the games of today are about war, violence, and conquering. You may want to take a peek once in a while as to what those games really contain. The Bible tells us that if we stay within its boundaries and we try to do what’s in there, and feed our mind with God‘s Word, we should be able to smile once in a while :-) You are what you read, you are what you watch, and you are what you eat!!! Get back to simple, ping pong video your life, keep within God‘s boundaries, you’ll be a winner :-) Enjoy your Saturday!!!!
Jeremiah tells us in 45 :5, “not to seek out great things for yourself “!!! And my good buddy, John The Baptist, “He must increase; I must decrease !!!!!! Wouldn’t it be nice if some of these so-called righteous, mega preachers,could get a hold of those two verses!!! When you are trying to attract the general attention of people and taking away from the Glory of God,those are the kind of guys we couldn’t wait to meet at the bus stop!!! LOL Yupp, “God is love”
but He gets jealous, when someone puts the focus on themselves In His Name!!! The only time I can walk on water is usually in January and February, here in Michigan, :-) Can you imagine Christ asking you to baptize Him,John’s answer was not a 1-800 number for you to donate so you could get his latest CD and book,”I’m not worthy to loosen your sandals”but just think, Heaven opened right there on that river when he baptized The Son Of Man!!! Have a Good Friday!!! I’ve said this before, but there’s nothing more miserable on the face of this earth then a Christian that’s not living out their life for God and His Will!!! The devil loves to let you think neutral is a good gear to be in, it’s not. So tell Satan to go back to hell, where he belongs today, and give Jesus the wheel!!! He’ll have you in four-wheel-drive going forward in no time at all!!! Which by the way, Praise The Lord, our trucks all held together during this last snowstorm :-) You can’t plow snow without a good transmission and four-wheel-drive, you can’t live your life without Christ being both for you :-)Enjoy your Thursday
This is a true story that I have heard about the Rolls-Royce company. And Englishmen was touring France on vacation when the rear axle broke. The local garage of course contacted the company to tell them what had happened. The Rolls-Royce company sent two mechanics and a axle to that garage to replace it. There was no bill or paperwork involved in the repair, and when the guy got home from his vacation, there was no bill in the mail. So he called Rolls-Royce and asked what was going on, the company said we have searched our records carefully and we can’t find the paperwork. Another words Rolls-Royce stood firmly behind their product, and repaired it at no cost and didn’t even write a bill up for it. That’s how we can stand before God,blameless, but the only way we can do that is by believing in the salvation that we can have through His Son and by His shed blood on the cross. Another words if we ask for forgiveness, and we have Christ in our hearts, that bill of sale or repair won’t be waiting for us when we get to Heaven!!! On judgment day, there will be no record of that forgiven sin!!!’ SELAH :-) I guess it’s good to go with the best!!!! So by receiving Christ as Savior,the filthiest “bill”we could ever have written up,while here on earth, by living the way we do, and I’ve done plenty-can be forgiven,if we’re sincere about asking for forgiveness!!! Have a great Tuesday!!!
Psalm 31:2,is great news for this Monday, 21 January, “be my rock of refuge,a Fortress of defense to save me”!! If you truly know God, through His Son, Jesus Christ,and you begin to trust His power by reading His Word,you should start to experience more peace and not panic.With God’s strength and power in your life you won’t live in limbo, you’ll try to live in righteousness, and there is nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing more peaceful ,when you can pull that off for 24 hours at a time. Praise the Lord for the snow that fell, I’m in the snow removal business, peace, not panic, with Your Savior!!!! Let HIM be your rock today!!!!!!!!
In First John 1:9, it says “If we Confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”We know we’re forgiven because God said we are through His Word!! If you believe that God‘s Word is true,which I do,each time we screw up we can rejoice in the fact that we become a cleansed vessel through His Blood in the asking of our forgivenes. Every time I enter God’s presence in this realm of my life, I realize what’s going on here, here’s an idea Ken, go and sin no more !! Have a good Saturday !!! It’s Snowing:-)
Thank Ya Jesus !!! (I’m in the snow removal business) Today I couldn’t help but think of the unbelievable privilege that I have, with all of my new made friends out in Kingman Arizona. I couldn’t help but realize this morning,in my studies, how many different times the Lord used incarceration to work with people. The apostle Paul wrote half of his books,of the New Testament while in prison. Can you think of a better place for a testimony to stand tall. The response that I get back from my “new friends” out there is so heartfelt it’s unbelievable. The cards, letters, and the thank you‘s from these men are all so sincere!! I send them my Daily Thoughts,write,and even send a bus ticket here and there, and then I hear that my Daily Thoughts are passed around throughout the prison, I literally cry and pray over that daily!! How exciting to know that Christ really does make a difference in peoples lives. If you “Truly Know Christ” you’ll know by the way you treasure HIS Word, HIS fellowship,and understand HIS concern for you,like my friends do out in Kingman. So when you put on your “prayer warrior hats”today let’s all pray for the men of Kingman, where Christ is alive and well :-) Have a good Thursday!!!!
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