So, if you let the devil run
your mouth and think you’ve won,
with fleeting words you’ve not begun
to walk the narrow way.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “fleeting” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted in Poet’s Corner.
James 1:26 KJV –If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
During the regular part of the Sunday service when Brian satirized critics of his ministry, he read, out-loud, a social media post which commanded that the eyes of everyone in his congregation start functioning with “20/20, cataract-less, floater-less, astigmatism-less, whatever-ails-you-less perfect vision”.
“Fat chance that’s going to happen,” Brian mocked just before his six-year old granddaughter sitting in the front row, nearly blind from birth, jumped up and down screaming, “Grandpops, Grandpops, I can SEE!!“
As others in the congregation admitted sudden vision improvement as well, Brian wondered if his own eyes had been healed (hoping not). Looking down at his Bible, a ministry-produced, three-ribboned, leather-bound, authorized version adulterated with his commentaries, he was surprised to clearly make out even the fine print of the footnotes without glasses.
For the next hour Brian read verse after verse. When he finally looked up, all that came out of his mouth was: “So that’s what it says.”
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Denise offers the prompt word “perfect” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Dale offers the prompt “at the shoreline” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Some of our friends visited us last week. We took them to the Atlantic Ocean.
Here are a few photos of the beach.
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I was planning to take some photos of a wooden wall to use as a backdrop upon which I could paste formatted Bible verses.
Once I got close to the wall, I realized there was a door in the wall and I had something I could also post to Thursday Doors.
The first photo shows what I was planning to photograph. The second photo shows the door. The third photo shows how I planned to use the first one.
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Linked to Thursday Doors.
Jeffrey’s reactions were like those of a corpse in an open coffin. No matter how you insulted him, no matter how harshly the wind of cursing blew across his face, he didn’t respond.
And they did insult him accusing him of this and that while lying about that and this. They gave him as much hell as their trapped imaginations could come up with. However, the service Jeffrey and his team agreed to perform demanded that they focus exclusively on the assignment.
They only had a brief period of time to free those brainwashed hostages before the missiles arrived.
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Denise offers the prompt word “wind” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Romans 12:1 KJV – I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Dale offers the prompt “old buildings” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
While walking across the drawbridge connecting Normandy Isles and Treasure Island in the Miami area I noticed a door on the drawbridge mechanism right in the middle of the Intracoastal Waterway.
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Linked to Thursday Doors.
True health is focused on His rest.
With will aligned the body’s blessed
and should the devil come to test,
remind him he’s defeated.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “focus” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. This poem also appears on Poet’s Corner.
Hebrews 2:14-15 KJV – 14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; 15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
“Wield the sword with one hand and protect the baby with the other,” John proclaimed to the devil as it approached.
“What?” the devil responded.
“You heard me,” John replied.
The devil didn’t say anything, but that didn’t stop John from continuing.
“I’m looking for a good fight,” John said.
The devil backed away knowing there must be, somewhere, a softer victim, someone easier to tip over into disobedience.
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Denise offers the prompt word “tip” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Story.
1 Peter 5:8 KJV – Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Ephesians 6:14-17 KJV – 14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 