THINKING OUT LOUD. (My Journal)

For my fellow travelers, along this journey. A discouraging, wearying, and "God-wrestling" journey at times. Yes, we sometimes "wrestle" with God, just like Jacob did. "Wresting" is a form of "prayer". God understands our "hearts" when we "wrestle" with Him in "prayer". It isn't a "sin". It's a raw and fervent "crying out" to God. Let's get to praying like that. Amen?

"The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." -James 5:16

For my fellow weary and discouraged and tried warriors, where even breathing is a supernatural feat made possible through God Himself.

Let's pray for, encourage one another, and lift each other up as we journey on.

This is for you.

"We rise by lifting others." Robert Ingersoll

Even if our "tears" (and prayers) seem to be lost and forgotten, even to us, those tears (and prayers) are not lost or forgotten to God. He puts them all in a "bottle" and memorializes them all in a book.

"You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in Your bottle. You have recorded each one in Your book." -Psalm 56:8

"They that sow in tears shall reap in joy." -Psalm 126:5

I don’t know for sure but

Quit copying my shit if you are

If you’re not I apologize

What stuff am i copying?

What i post is straight from my heart, mind, and soul. If i've mistakenly copied any of your stuff, let me know what it was.

i apologize if i may have inadvertently copied any of your stuff.

For those with ears to hear.

God is the Lifter of our downcast heads.

"But You, O LORD, are a shield about me, my glory, and the Lifter of my head." -Psalm 3:3

Speaking the Truth at great cost and at great risk.

"Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes." -Maggie Kuhn

David Wilkerson: When we're mad at God.

"They who sow in tears shall reap in joy." -Psalm 126:5

"A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering wick He will not snuff out." Matthew 12:20

Hatred and bigotry.

In watching this video, just around the beginning of it, i was struck by the seering hatred and animosity shooting from the eyes of the towns people, like fiery darts.

It reminds me of the seering and murderous hatred towards Israel, without rhyme or reason, by those chanting for their death and obliteration, without rhyme or reason, just like nazi Germany did, declaring that they were "life unworthy of life". That they had no right to "exist".

It's insidiously ooooogly, and evil.

For those with ears to hear.

Emmanuelle's testimony: from mourning to dancing.

God raises beauty from the ashes of tragic, soul bludgeoning trauma and woundings.

"....to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair." -Isaiah 61:3

Speaking the Truth at great cost and at great risk.

"Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes." -Maggie Kuhn

We are to speak UP for and DEFEND those without a voice, being tyrannized and annihilated and hated and lied about and gaslit about for the purpose of igniting, once again, the isidiously evil and rabid hatred that declares that Israelis are "life, unworthy of life" and should be annihilated (without rhyme or reason).

"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" -Isaiah 5:20

"Is this not the fast that I have chosen? To loose the bands of wickedness,to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?" -Isaiah 58:6

"And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day." -Isaiah 58:10

My thoughts on this misty, foggy Saturday morning:

i look forward to going to heaven so i can thank God, face to face.

Think about it!

You have a delightful heart, even if i don't have a clue what you're talkin' about hahaaaa

At your prompting, i am thinking about it and meditating on what it all means.

Thank you.

Praying an SOS prayer for Donald John Trump, my country, and us, the American people, and Israel at this most dire and urgent time.

Praying for Donald John Trump, that God strengthens and sustains him, and protects him and grants him all that he needs to carry on in this journey, in Jesus' name, to the God Who makes "possible" the seemingly "impossible", against a tsunami and THEN some, of odds, and Who can bring justice in the midst of a slithering "snakepit" of corruption. i'm praying to the very same God Who asks "Is anything too hard for Me?" (Jeremiah 22:37)

Amen.