We keep on praying, asking God that he
enable you to live a life worthy
of His good call. May He give you the pow'r
t'accomplish all the good your faith prompts now.
Which seems to beg re.quest-ions: "What's my faith
thwarting or prompting me to do? Please pray!

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So we keep on praying, asking God to enable you to live a life worthy of His call. May He give you the power to accomplish all the good things your faith prompts you to do. 2 Thessalonians 1:11 (PM Version)

with God.. compassion confirs capacity..

Since your head's every hair is numbered too
you know that someone cares much more than you.
So don't think you'll be one God overlooks,
you are more valuable to God than  chooks,
or flocks of sparrows, yet he knows each bird,
you are his little one, don't be absurd!
He loves you, more than best father that’s known,
& you can rest in that for you're his own.
For when you trust The Lord with all your heart,
(don't try to work things out yourself apart
from God, but then instead) acknowledge him
in all you do, together you will win!

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Every hair on your head is numbered. So don't be afraid; you are more valuble to God than a whole flock of sparrows. Luke 12:7 (PM Version)

Trust in The Lord with all your heart, don't try to work out it out on your own. Acknowledge God In everything you do and He will direct you on the right path. Proverbs 3:5,6 (PM Version)

his love confers value

Since your head's every hair is numbered too
you know that someone cares much more than you.
So don't think you'll be one God overlooks,
you are more valuable to God than chooks,

or flocks of sparrows, yet he knows each bird.

You are his little one, don't be absurd!

He loves you, more than best father that’s known,

& you can rest in that for you're his own.
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Every hair on your head is numbered. So don't be afraid; you are more valuble to God than a whole flock of sparrows. Luke 12:7 (PM Version)

don't worry (or hurry)!

Then Jesus said to them "Don't worry or
surrender to your fear. For you believed ..
("in God we trust" said many times before).

If you believe God sent me, trust in me.

I’m telling you, we're heading for the joy

of God who is the most joyful of all,

(you're living in his dream, right now my boy)

he’s engineering things so you stand tall!

So even through the troubles of this “life”

we're being grown to real maturity.

Be truly glad! For his great joy is rife

ahead, though you have to endure nitty-

gritty-many trials for this “small time”.

These trials prove that your faith is the real-

deal genuine, like gold which is refined

by fire, your faith is purified, & "healed".

For when your faith holds on throughout these trials,

which act like heat, it's strengthened and annealed!

Much praise & glory, honour, & too smiles -

your (ways and stories, with) Jesus, revealed!

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Jesus said "Don't worry or surrender to your fear. For you've believed in God, now trust and believe in me also John 14:1 (PM Version)

Be truly glad!!! There is wonderful joy ahead. Even though you have to endure many trials for a little while. These trials prove that your faith is genuine, being refined by fire, your faith is more precious than gold. So when your faith remains strong through these trials, it will bring you much praise, glory and honour when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world. 1 Peter 1:6-7
(PM Version)

alone? or with?

The things that are  impossible for man are possible with God. Luke 18:27 ( PM Version)

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Oh what a lovely  possibility:
he knows that by ourselves (that's on our own),
we're stymied by impossibilities,
yet he does not just stay up on his throne.

And he is not impassive to our plight.
He kneels right down and dirties up his knees,
and hangs around when we cry though the night,
and whispers good dreams and true thoughts to seize

the chance to work together with us on
a thing that must be done to bring on good,
to work to help us see a great vision
and recognize some steps to take that could

be truly part of making it occur,
and yet he's not just working on a task
& doing so much stuff that life's a blurr,
he's wooing us till that is what we ask

for. He will work with us, if we too will
side with his own will beyond desire,
like all those times when Jesus said "Be still",
or "Do not be affraid", or asked "Why are

you now so scared, or troubled in your heart(s)?
- Did you forget the God of Abraham
(who walked his life before God from the start)?
Creator of the world whom nothing can

outwit or conquor, he makes all from thought.
He speaks & all the universe exists.
Oh what a joy to be teamed up or caught
up in the sharing of a life like his!

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Things that are  impossible for man are possible with God. Luke 18:27
( PM Version)

Daughter once asked for prayer to find the strength to keep going and to feel valued..

Dear daughter, you are loved.
Your value doesn't come
from any skill that's gloved
to look like number ONE.

It is a human hand
that held and gave you life
because that Son of Man
has entered in our strife.

You have been made by God,
well that's only half true,
what does seem very odd
is he is fond of you

(& me also I know)
which makes me very glad
because he loves us so
he let me be your dad.

But he only shares this
for he's your Dad at first
(my love is only mist)
His Love is full to burst.

You are the only 'Belle
with Anna at the front
then Rose Elvita, well
Heer Walker hasn't done't,

for he has a white stone
with your new name on it
for you to know alone
- no speck of shame on it.

xo Paul (means small)

How's your LOVE life?..

Hey, some very good reminders in that book you gave me on letting God grow us to have the patient kindness and love of Christ. e.g. "the 3 Stooges".
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Oh, God we're glad that you are our Father
& you're intent on growing us like Christ
(that's your anointed). We would not rather
have any other leader, he's suffice.

And now I see your great (yet small) design
you wanted many son's and daughters more
so you anointed lives as small as mine
(that's really yours) with your spirit you poured.

So that the culture of eternity,
that's based on fam'ly love from you to us
could be lived out through people here like me,
God now I see why you make such a fuss!

It's true I've seen that many times before,
the point however is not just "to see",
I see that too, but now I see it more.
Please help me now my challenge is "to be-"

I now recall your words to me last night,
what Jesus said to all those who would "do
the works of God" set for them in their plight;
which was "to be-lieve on the person who...

was sent to lead them"* as a shepherd leads
who knows his sheep by name, they hear his word
to them. He keeps them safe, and too he feeds,
and helps them care for lambs - he is a "nerd"

a "nerd" who studied sheep and knows them well
each one has names, and places in the flock.
He's not just paid, he loves, and you can tell!
Please grow your patient love in me. YOU ROCK!

* John 6:29

after “Chris’s piece”...

Txt2PW: Check out John chapter 20:19-31 for context:

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“Chris’s piece-” 

Jesus gave the air of comfort to his disciples, who were trying to trace his steps,
but at the time, they were trusting him less.
He was found to be amongst them, and he said,"peace be with you."And peace they got.
Suddenly, they were a much happier lot.
"Forgiving sins, those mistakes you all make, is good for you,
And the person you'd sue.
Or, maybe they'd sue you too.
But, make that effort to tell them out loud.
Maybe, do it in private,
you'll feel much less proud."
So, help us please lord,
To all get along,
Give  us wisdom to live,
And join in with your song.
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Txt<-PW:

after “Chris’s piece-”...

Then Jesus brought his peace into that place
of fear, and death, & torture, where they were.
That “shallom” peace of “thriving” on his face,
and in his breath his spirit he confired.

And while he did not hide his suffering,
it wasn't quite “The End” of how things went,
in fact this new beginning (buffering)
was coming soon, to “Centre Stage” “hell-bent”.

His own disciples, tracing where he stepped, 
might well 've been scared of what all that meant.
He didn't put them down a peg, but kept
the pressure on, they would go where he went.

Now they would be baptised with his baptism,
and have that same anointing that he had.
Forgive the sins of people (who risen,
need feed), then care for them as mum or dad.

And he was found amongst them, and they got
the pow'r of God, within community
embodied in himself, & then that lot
(he’d prayed to God “Forgive them, they don’t see...”

- but then he’d given them the gift before
their very eyes & ears, they’d know, if they
we're int’rested in love, deeper than law.
Some Teachers of the Law still got away.)

But these of Yeshua, his “dear children”*
he gave from Hea’en above resources to
continue on his mission, with wisdom,
God’s very nature. He said that would do!

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John 20:19‭-‬31 NIVUK :

* John 13:33-35

away for today

Ok. Have a good day!

Hope things worked out with neighbours & container,
& buyers as well. God, give to (this framer
of words, and wording) wisdom there today,
that Truth will be heard in all that folk say...

children's choices

God please give us your wisdom with all this.

And thank you for the way you've helped so far,

identifying things that were amiss

& thinking of fresh ways to serve that are

a-smelling of your generosity,

and service to us as we learn to trust

the one who's given all of our housing,

and bodies, transport, treasure that won't rust.

And save us please, oh God, from fretfullness,

and thinking that we have to "make it work",

as though you weren't around, or wouldn't bless,

we know you can provide, and you won't shirk!

We trust the word of Yeshua. Our King's

command: "Seek first God's kingdom (that's his rule)",

and we will see how God provides "these things",

and if we have to "wait", why that is cool.

Please help us see creative options too,

and other ways to help out Russ & Sue,

to live their lives by walking before you,

to stand and wait in your council that's true*.

* Jem 23: 16-22

This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Do not listen to what the prophets are prophesying to you; they fill you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord .  They keep saying to those who despise me, “The Lord says: you will have peace.” And to all who follow the stubbornness of their hearts they say, “No harm will come to you.”  But which of them has stood in the council of the Lord to see or to hear his word? Who has listened and heard his word?  See, the storm of the Lord will burst out in wrath, a whirlwind swirling down on the heads of the wicked.  The anger of the Lord will not turn back until he fully accomplishes the purposes of his heart. In days to come you will understand it clearly.  I did not send these prophets, yet they have run with their message; I did not speak to them, yet they have prophesied.  But if they had stood in my council, they would have proclaimed my words to my people and would have turned them from their evil ways and from their evil deeds.  Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?’ declares the Lord . ‘Do not I fill heaven and earth?’ declares the Lord .

Jer. 23:16‭-‬22‭, ‬24 NIVUK https://bible.com/bible/113/jer.23.16-24.NIVUK

praying, waiting, accomplishing, trusting, hoping... all to love!

We keep on praying, asking God these few
things: to enable you to live worthy
of His high call. May He give pow’r to you
to bring about, complete then (on earth) the
heav-en-ly good things faith prompts you to do.
And too, we wait upon the LORD, for He
is who it is that makes our strength renewed,
so we will wing it, soar like eagles. We 
will run and be not weary, & then too
we'll walk (not stumble irreparably),
& if we cannot walk we’ll stand in view
(of you) for we are waiters and we’ll see
enough to know what you want us to do, 
and all the while we’ll be singing of “he”
(who taught us to trust God, and then “adieu”
our weak and faithless ways) he faithfully
embodied confidence, & too eschewed
his own will for your will, & then calls me
within this cloud of un-knowing to “glue”
myself to him and stick around to see
what faithful loving hope can make and do,
that what we hope for will quite act-u-’lly 
then happen, come about, accomplish too
- gives certainty about things we can’t (yet) see! 

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So we keep on praying, asking God to enable you to live a life worthy of His call. May He give you the power to accomplish all the good things your faith prompts you to do. 2 Thessalonians 1:11 (PM Version)

I wait on the LORD, for He is the one that renews my strength. I will soar with wings like eagles. I will run and not grow weary. I will walk and not stumble. Isaiah 40:31(PM Version)

Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen, it gives us certainty about things we cannot see. Hebrews 11:1 (PM Version)

praying & waiting

We keep on praying, asking God these few:

enable you to live a life worthy

of His high call. May He give pow’r to you

to bring about, complete then (on earth) the

heavenly good things faith prompts you to do.
And too, we wait upon the LORD, for He

is who renews our strength, so we will wing

it, soar like eagles. We will run and, see,

not weary; as we walk unstumbled, sing!

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So we keep on praying, asking God to enable you to live a life worthy of His call. May He give you the power to accomplish all the good things your faith prompts you to do. 2 Thessalonians 1:11 (PM Version)

I wait on the LORD, for He is the one that renews my strength. I will soar with wings like eagles. I will run and not grow weary. I will walk and not stumble. Isaiah 40:31(PM Version)

after a lovely night

Hey thanks for your help setting up stuff yesterday, for your beautiful singing, and contribution in simply being yourself and being there with your beautiful offspring and attitude... It all added goodness to a motley collection of us motley humans....

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Oh God we thank you for what you're doing
in spreading out goodness through your fam'ly.
We see in Jesus, and those pursuing
him glimpses OF what we'd more like to be

[and do, too, coz they're cool, but we know that
as HE said, they come out of his heart set
on true responding to, or "copy-cat"
(in mind-ful sort of way, not as parrot)

behaviour, attitude that's just like you]!
Please grow that more in me by your spirit,
protect me from my dead-self shadow too,
that wants to focus on all my merit

and play a self-"defensive" game of woe
(or triumph), 'stead of letting all the stuff
of life be like a game, & have a go
at giving my best shot when things are tough,

& learning from the Master who'd love to
first show me how it's done, then tell secrets,
& help me have his attitude, and do
the kind of moves and ways of being he gets

to have himself, and pass on to those who
should like to learn from him, to "play the game"
& have a kind of dignity, which lose
or win, will still enjoy, and treat the same

the other players who are playing too.
Oh God, I love to see "fam'ly culture"
that springs from love, that comes from out of you
(more like an elephant, than a vulture)!😉

my communication depends... (on a mystical connection to Christ)

In Jesus, as James saw him, I can be
not quick to make my point here (with some pow'r),
so quick to make folk listen up to me.
His creativity and love, is ours!

He's given his own spirit to his ones.
He's shared his whole mindset, and method too.
His WAY, is for all HIS daughters and sons,
His "most excellent way"* for me and you.

He doesn't MAKE folk DO so very much,
for that weak kind of power does not bring change
of heart, & mind, with deep commitments such
that people's whole lives are then re-arranged.

The righteousness of God is not just "works",
although it comes to change all them as well,
it's not just stickers he puts on some jerks,
it is a PERSON! - who "does all things well"#.

He even makes the deaf one's ears to hear
their Father God - sometimes through others too,
not just the outward kind, but drawing near
and list'ning for what God would have me do.

And when I am tongue-tied and don't know what
to say, he'll give me what to speak from him,
I might not have an answer in a shot,
but it will make him glad, and not so grim.

And as I grow in him, I shall be like
him: slow to anger drenched in that "hesed"**.
Oh God as I grow up, I want to hike
here in your company°, until I'm "dead".

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'In Jesus I can be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because my mind is set on the righteousness that God desires...' James 1:19‭-‬20 (CR Version)

*   1Cor 12:31-14:1
!   Mal 4:2; Acts 22:14; Col 2:9; 1 Cor1:30; Rom8:10-12
#   Psalm126:3; Luke1:49; Mark7:37
**  "hesed"(Hebrew)=loving-kindness, loyal love, faithful-compassion;  Exod 34:6; Num 14:18 ; Ps 86:15; 103:8; 145:8; Joel 2:13; Neh 9:17; Jonah 4:2; 1Cor13:5;
°  unlike Adam & Eve who hid from the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the evening; like Enoch who walked with God for 300 yrs., "& then God took him".