Do nothing more. Do nothing less.
Do only what you’re told—don’t guess.
And then rejoice. The Lord will bless
you through each day He’s made.
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Ronovan Hester offers “loyalty” as inspiration for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Psalm 118:24
This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
Although Jeremy and his wife, Martha, welcomed everyone to the warehouse they converted into a chapel, there were signs telling newcomers before they entered to first write the names of any demons they planned on keeping outside on the wall of the building facing the street. Martha waited by the wall for any who were foolish enough to want to keep a demon.
Those who slipped past Martha ran into Jeremy wearing a T-shirt that read: I specialize in scaring the HELL out of stuff. When he asked them if they’d like to get rid of their demons they didn’t completely understand what they were being asked to do, but to be polite and figuring they didn’t have any demons, except maybe little ones, said, “Sure, Pastor, go for it.”
So, in the name of Jesus and in a loud voice, Jeremy rebuked in detail god-awful lists of demonic addictions and disabling stupidities that burned convicting blushes on their cheeks. He then said, “Your demons are gone and you’ve been forgiven for the time you’ve wasted playing games with them, but it’s up to you to decide whether you’ll run after them or stay here to rejoice with thanksgiving.”
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Denise offers the prompt word “game” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Revelation 21:27
And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
Dale offers the prompt “shades of gray” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Without having to change a color photo to black and white, the sand on a beach offers a lot of gray.
These photos were taken on the beaches at the 71st and 72nd streets of Miami Beach.
Dale offers the prompt “corrosion and decay” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
I don’t think the jellyfish washed to shore will survive.
The Shepherd’s voice, the sheep all know.
The goats aren’t sure which way to go.
The tares are bundled quickly so
the harvest can begin.
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Ronovan Hestor offers the inspiration “promises” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
John 10:27
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
Matthew 13:24-30
24 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
Dale offers the prompt “what’s flowering where you are” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
We are currently travelling in southern Florida between Tampa and Miami. I noticed these while walking on sidewalks in the Miami area.
I don’t know what these plants are or even if they are technically flowers, but they were colorful which drew my attention to them.
After the service Steve approached the ministers. He told them he wanted to see people the way the Lord saw them. No one would be worth redeeming, including himself, if the Lord saw people as irreparably damaged and grave-bound as he saw them.
They prayed for him, but his head would not acknowledge even the slightest kick of sympathy toward anyone.
It took time for Steve to receive the blessing he sought. When he did the dam of darkness exploded through the love of God.
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Denise offers the prompt word “kick” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
“I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.” Henry Ward (found on worship leader Toni Bogart Syvrud’s contact card)
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 