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• Deeper Magic from Before the Dawn of Time Jan 9, 2019 Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder. ~ St. Thomas Aquinas “Come…
• Ad Ora with Love Himself Jan 2, 2019 On a dark night, Inflamed by love-longing – O exquisite risk! – Undetected I slipped away. My house, at last, grown still. Secure in the darkness, I climbed the secret ladder in disguise – O exquisite…
• The Infinite, Living, Quiet Center of Worship Oct 1, 2018 Worship is really about what is the center focus of our being. What is it that we value most?
• Look into His Eyes: The Power of G_d’s Presence Jul 25, 2018 Having the reality of God’s presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually. ~Oswald Chambers “Let not…
• Deal with It, Or Act It Out – Don’t Fake It, Face It Jun 4, 2018 It is in the dark that God is passing by. The bridge and our lives shake not because God has abandoned, but the exact opposite: God is passing by. God is in the tremors. Dark is…
• Draw into The Presence of G_d Feb 7, 2018 I want the presence of God Himself, or I don’t want anything at all to do with religion. ~ AW Tozer But when Christ appeared as a High Priest of the good things that have come,…
• Post Anxiety Freedom Syndrome Nov 10, 2017 Anxiety is not only a pain which we must ask God to assuage but also a weakness we must ask him to pardon—for he’s told us to take no care for the morrow. ~C. S. Lewis…
• The Pleasure of His Presence: Everything We Have Been Looking For Nov 5, 2017 I regard myself as the most wretched of all men, stinking and covered with sores, and as one who has committed all sorts of crimes against his King. Overcome by remorse, I confess all my wickedness…
• Eternity: So Much More Real Than Time Sep 29, 2017 Both the statement that our final destination is already settled and the view that it still may be either Heaven or Hell, seem to me to imply the ultimate reality of Time, which I don’t believe…
• Stop It! How? Now! Aug 16, 2017 You will lose your way the minute you decide to go your own way. When you seek God’s will alone, you find it everywhere, and you cannot go astray. Wanting what God wants always puts you…
• The Rhythm of His Grace. Jul 29, 2017 Selfishness is a gangrene, eating at the very vitals. Sin is a cancer, poisoning the blood. Peace is the rhythm of our wills with Jesus’ love-will. ~Samuel Dickey Gordon (1859-1936) “Herein is love, not that we…
• Crushed Back into The Presence of G_d Jul 28, 2017 I cannot imagine how religious persons can live satisfied without the practice of the presence of GOD. For my part I keep myself retired with Him in the depth of centre of my soul as much…
• The Presence of G_d: Blue Skies in The Storms of Life. Jul 25, 2017 The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. ~Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God’s grace, which was given me by…
• Missions: Why Do It? What About My Own Life? May 7, 2017 Whoever does not want to know the will of God is mentally walking a path next to a cliff, and easily falls with any wind. If he is praised, he is proud. If he is rebuked…
• The Poverty of Sin vs. Stronghold of His Presence Dec 17, 2016 What if the biggest problem in America is not drugs, or pornography, or abortion, or poverty, or low education, or terrorism, or crime? What if the biggest problem in America is simply the lack of goodness?…
• Power In His Presence Dec 13, 2016 God is not a belief to which you give your assent. God becomes a reality whom you know intimately, meet every day, one whose strength becomes your strength, whose love, your love. Live this life of…
• Crushed to Strength by God Dec 1, 2016 I tell you, if you are serious about wanting to be like Christ, God is going to put you in circumstances where your only true choice is to become like Him. ~ Francis Frangipane O Lord,…
• Our Own Macedonian Call Nov 17, 2016 I have often, myself, sat in darkness, and cried aloud for the Holy Spirit to deliver me from the fantasies that gather round a parched soul like flies round a rotting carcass in the desert. Likewise,…
• Fumbling into The Presence of G_d Sep 21, 2016 When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I love and I hate, I feel bad about feeling good, I feel guilty…
• In The Near Presence May 9, 2016 A re-post on the near Presence of G_d….Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God men are never duly touched…
• The Devil’s Self-Defeating Strategy Apr 16, 2016 Among the small but endlessly abundant and therefore very effective things that science ought to heed more than the great, rare things, is goodwill. I mean those expressions of a friendly disposition in interactions, that smile…
• Here, Now at The End of All Things Apr 14, 2016 In God there is no was or will be, but a continuous and unbroken is. In him history and prophecy are one and the same. ~ A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) He has made everything beautiful in…
• The Certain Assurance of His Presence Apr 12, 2016 Oneness with Christ means to be identified with Christ, identified with him in crucifixion. But we must go on to be identified with him in resurrection as well, for beyond the cross is resurrection and the…
• Sustenance in The Presence of G_d Feb 21, 2016 Today on planet Earth, may you experience the wonder and beauty of yourself as Abba’s Child and temple of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ. ~ Brennan Manning Now even the first covenant had regulations for…
• Benny, The Western Wall, And The Promises of G_d Jan 4, 2016 God is the great reality. His resources are available and endless. His promises are real and glorious, beyond our wildest dreams.~J. B. Phillips (1906-1982) As soon as Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord…
• Forever Now Dec 30, 2015 There is One who is infinite in glory and you will spend an eternity of eternities tracking him down and you will never get your arms even around the foothill of his mountain! ~ Paul Washer…
• Magnificent Drumbeat – Learning to Live Loved All The Time Oct 22, 2015 Our resistance to the furious love of God may be traced to the church, our parents and pastors, and life itself. They have hidden the face of a compassionate God, we protest, and favored a God…
• Fools in Exile Aug 23, 2015 Our Life in Christ. It’s not an easy thing to grasp. Maybe you understand it only by living it. And maybe Augustine was right on the money when he wrote: ‘Give me someone who loves and…
• He Is with Us: Past, Present and Future Jul 29, 2015 To live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness is to let go of cares and concerns, to stop organizing means to ends and simply be in each moment of awareness as an end in itself… We…
• Training in Goodness: Finding Life in Facing Death Jul 10, 2015 Blessing those who have hurt you is a decision of your will that may go against how you feel.~ Tony Evans Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and…
• Bearing Unknown Fruit Jun 2, 2015 We all know of Christians who say that they have never doubted. Their lives seem so pale, so far off from the heroic adventure that is faith. The most fruitful believers tell us shamedly of the…
• Anywhere But Here Jan 12, 2015 Our hearts are restless until they rest in You.~ St. Augustine of HippoOh that you were like a Brother to me who nursed at my mother’s breasts! If I found you outside, I would kiss You,and…
• God Is Not Dead, Nor Doth He Sleep Dec 24, 2014 Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: “God is not dead, nor doth he sleep; The wrong shall fail, the right prevail, With peace on earth, good will to men.” ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), 1867…
• The Key to Victory: His Presence Jul 8, 2014 The Father is not content until you are overwhelmed, until the very fabric of your personality is totally riddled with who He is, until you are overwhelmed in your heart, in your thinking, in the way…
• Utterly in The Presence Feb 19, 2014 Few delights can equal the presence of one we trust utterly~ George McDonaldI was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast towards You.Nevertheless, I am continually with You; You hold my right hand. You guide…
• Now Dec 12, 2013 Let God do His work in you, and concentrate on living, without reservation, a selfless life in each and every moment as though each moment was the whole of eternity. ~François de Salignac de la Mothe…
• In Him… Here… Now… One with Him Nov 13, 2013 My Dear Brother, Laying aside the possibility that you are enjoying the wonders of having gone stark raving mad, I would surmise that you have come to understand that you are utterly one with Christ. One…
• Don’t Seize… Wait Oct 21, 2013 Live while you live, the Epicure would say, and seize the pleasures of the present day; live while you live, the sacred preacher cries, and give to God each moment as it flies;Lord, in my view…
• Redemption And Lift Oct 13, 2013 You have much to learn…. Life will not be long enough to learn all, but you are gaining that Spirit-Vision which replaces the eyes of your mortal body when you enter into a life of fuller…
• Stand We Will Aug 4, 2013 God creates out of nothing—wonderful, you say; yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful. He makes saints out of sinners.~Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855) Now to Him who is able to keep…
• The Freedom of His Presence Mar 18, 2013 It is an overwhelming experience to fall into the hands of the living God, to be invaded to the depths of one’s being by his presence, to be without warning wholly uprooted from all earth-born securities…
• Talking And Walking Mar 5, 2013 I come to the garden aloneWhile the dew is still on the rosesAnd the voice I hear, falling on my earThe Son of God disclosesAnd he walks with meAnd he talks with meAnd he tells me…
• Carriers of The Presence Jan 20, 2013 It is not the nature of what you are doing that determines its spirituality, but the origin of what you are doing. Not its nature, but its origin! ~ Ian Thomas Now thanks be to God…
• Projecting His Presence Jan 6, 2013 If you had any idea how much inward peace you would gain for yourself, and how much joy you would bring to others, by devoting yourself single-heartedly to God, you would certainly pay more attention to…
• Soaking In The Flow of His Presence Oct 28, 2012 Fountain of life, and all-abounding grace,Our source, our center, and our dwelling place!~Madame Jeanne Marie de La Mothe Guyon (1648-1717)Be silent in the presence of the Lord GOD; For the day of the LORD is at…
• Persisting In His Presence Oct 27, 2012 When Christ brings his cross, he brings his presence; and where he is, none is desolate, and there is no room for despair. As he knows his own, so he knows how to comfort them, using…
• Swimming in Joy Mar 13, 2012 To the church, Pentecost brought light, power, joy. There came to each illumination of mind, assurance of heart, intensity of love, fullness of power, exuberance of joy. No one needed to ask if they had received…
• Every Detail Mar 8, 2012 A re-post on intimacy with The Almighty The Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd’s care; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye.~Joseph Addison (1672-1719) O…
• Get into Now Mar 4, 2012 This re-post is to honor PFC Andrew Timothy Morrison – who is growing into the likeness of his name. He is a manly warrior that honors God. He is a soldier and i thought some readers…
• He Is Here Jan 1, 2012 His center is everywhere, His circumference is nowhere.~ Saint AugustineThere are delights that the heart may enjoy in the awesome presence of God that cannot find expression in language; they belong to the unutterable element in…
• Let Him! May 9, 2011 The issue is: The closer we get into the Presence of God; as he draws us nearer, the fact is there’s less room for the stuff of self. The actual flesh, all the junk, all the…

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