Forgive? Because? Because. Because! His love will be and always was and even now in all He does His love has overcome.
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Ronovan Hestor offers the inspiration “survive” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. To survive in style you have to forgive. Or, put it this way, if you should happen to survive without His love, what good is it?
Romans 8:38-39 KJV – 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
From the lyrics: I know who I am cause I know who You are.
Unable to naturally get there from here, Brian began mythologizing. He wasn’t sure if he should make it new-age spooky or stick to his usual pseudo-science.
Trying to make a good impression he began at the beginning with In the beginning the universe popped itself out of nothing and after an eternity it randomly evolved into what we see today.
He realized that no one in his right mind would buy that, but just how many people actually were in their right minds today nobody knew.
Just in case there were still a few around, Brian continued with Then the witch told the wizard that if you keep stirring the pot eventually no one will be in his right mind.
None of this is supposed to make any sense, so don’t worry except for the fact that Brian has been stirring the pot ever since.
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Denise offers the prompt word “impression” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Psalm 14:3 KJV – They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Since I am near huge bodies of water at the moment, I’ll choose the color blue.
To add contrast I’ll also include the reds and yellows of a sunset and the dark silhouettes of trees and maybe even some people if they get in the way.
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Intracoastal Waterway with palm trees blocking the view. I better get more blue in the next photo.That’s the Atlantic Ocean at the horizon.The Intracoastal Waterway. I need more blue.Maybe too much blue, but more Intracoastal Waterway.
Glancing at the channel’s playlists I doubt that I would agree with everything they teach, but the above video I could find no objection to. If you do, let me know in the comments.
The Holy Spirit provides the wisdom we all need to discern the truth.
I plan to select some of the verses presented in this video to use with my photography, such as the following:
The grave is empty. Risen King, the One Who saves, to Him we sing. There isn’t a more joyful thing than walking where He leads.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “release” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. The grave could not hold Him captive. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Matthew 28:2-7 KJV – 2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. 3 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow: 4 And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men. 5 And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. 6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. 7 And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.
“I know the Bible better than you do,” Brian taunted trying to rattle Mark’s brain.
“Even the devil knows the Bible better than I do,” Mark quickly countered unsure just how much the devil actually knew about anything.
“I am – NOT – the devil 😈 😈 😈!”
“How do you know the devil’s not running your month?” Mark wondered -unfortunately out-loud.
“How do – YOU – know 😠 😠 😠?”
Not having a good comeback for this, Mark wondered if perhaps the devil does know the Bible better than he does having heard it from every Tom, Dick and Harry he unsuccessfully tried to harass – not that such knowledge could ever, any more, do the devil any good.
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Denise offers the prompt word “rattle” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Matthew 4:5-6 KJV – 5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, 6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
For the up direction, I chose clouds during a sunset.
For the down direction, I chose an ancient pavement which was so far down it was below the normal walking surface.
For the sideways direction, while waiting for a sunrise, I noticed the moon which thankfully my phone was able to capture clearly enough.
LOOKNG DOWN: Ancient pavement in Jerusalem somewhere below the Western WallLOOKING UP: Colorful clouds during a sunset over the Intracoastal Waterway in FloridaLOOKING SIDEWAYS: Although there will soon be a sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean, look sideways to see the moon
Simon leased a room above the cafe a block from the Charles Bridge. He told them he was a tourist and they told him how to get to Prague’s Old Town. Since they didn’t understand why he was alone nor why he tipped so well in the cafe, some speculated that something was going to happen.
However, while Simon was there nothing happened. Even after he left nothing much happened and nothing at all happened that could be linked back to him.
This story is a tale of what happens when nothing happens – or, look at it this way – from nothing you get nothing unless you have the ability to speak the words (which most of us unwittingly do) to curse or bless the unexpected into existence.