Seeking Your Kingdom

Dear Lord please be with us this day and please may Your Holy Spirit be guiding and protecting us in every thing that we say and do. Thank You for all of the great gifts and blessings and the protection that You give us and please forgive our sins the same as we forgive the mistakes of others.
Dear Lord please lead us into areas where we may assist others in their search for Your presence and Your guidance in where to turn for thoughts of quality and thoughts that would pertain to the directions that Your Word would be dictating as we listen to what is on the winds of time, as we mix and mingle with Your Children in Your Creation as we all would be seeking Your Kingdom, in Jesus Christ's name we pray, amen.

KJV*
Pr 17:6 Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

Ps 128:3 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

Ps 52:8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.

Ps 128:5 The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

Pr 3:13 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
Pr 3:14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Pr 3:15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.

Mt 13:44 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
Mt 13:45 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:
Mt 13:46 Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
Mt 13:47 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:
Mt 13:48 Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.
Mt 13:49 So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,
Mt 13:50 And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Mt 13:51 Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord.
Mt 13:52 Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.

To Be Lacking

Dear Lord please be with us this day and please may Your Holy Spirit be guiding and protecting us in every thing that we say and do. Thank You for all of the great gifts and blessings and the protection that You give us and please forgive our sins the same as we forgive the mistakes of others.
Dear Lord please lead us into paths of gentle thought and the treatment for others that would come from love and forgiveness for lacks caused by want and not right thinking as the lives progress while we mix and mingle with Your children in Your Creation even as we have not the understanding that we should, because of weaknesses in our abilities to explain direction as we all are seeking the Peace and Joy of Your Kingdom, in Jesus Christ's name we pray, amen.

KJV*
Pr 8:14 Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.

Pr 8:17 I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.

Ps 23:1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
Ps 23:2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
Ps 23:3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Ps 23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Ps 23:5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Ps 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

Isa 43:2 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

Not To Be False

Dear Lord please be with us this day and please may Your Holy Spirit be guiding and protecting us in every thing that we say and do. Thank You for all of the great gifts and blessings and the protection that You give us and please forgive our sins the same as we forgive the mistakes of others.
Dear Lord please lead us into paths of fruitful exhibitions and plentiful times in our future as we mix and mingle with Your Children in Your Creation as we all are seeking the peace and joy of Your Kingdom as we try to understand the rules that we must follow as we tread these paths in this time of want and need please show us patience, in Jesus Christ's name we pray, amen.

Quotation:*
Understanding is the reward of faith.  Therefore seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but believe that thou mayest understand. -St. Augustine

KJV*
Eze 3:10 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.
Eze 3:11 And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.
Eze 3:12 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place.
Eze 3:13 I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and a noise of a great rushing.
Eze 3:14 So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.

Ps 119:104 Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.

Ps 119:128 Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
Ps 119:129 Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.
Ps 119:130 The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.

Pr 2:6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

2Ti 2:7 Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.

Jas 1:5  If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
Jas 1:6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
Jas 1:7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
Jas 1:8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
Jas 1:9  Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
Jas 1:10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
Jas 1:11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
Jas 1:12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
Jas 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
Jas 1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Jas 1:15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Jas 1:16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
Jas 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Jas 1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
Jas 1:19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Jas 1:20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
Jas 1:21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
Jas 1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Jas 1:23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
Jas 1:24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Jas 1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Jas 1:26 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.
Jas 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Isa 1:16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
Isa 1:17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

To Seek Order

Dear Lord please be with us this day and please may Your Holy Spirit be guiding and protecting us in everything that we say and do. Thank You for all of the great gifts and blessings and the protection that You give us and please forgive our sins the same as we forgive the mistakes of others.
Dear Lord please lead us into the order of the life of seeing the good that is in the world as we mix and mingle with Your Children in Your Creation as we seek Your Kingdom in the twist and turns of the disorder while we try to fix this in our minds when You must mend it in Your Own good time and according to Your Plan for Your Creation as we all are seeking Your Peace and the Joy of Your Kingdom, in Jesus Christ's name we pray, amen.

KJV*
Ps 119:133 Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
Ps 119:134 Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.

Ro 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

Ps 19:13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.

Joh 15:1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
Joh 15:2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
Joh 15:3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

Php 4:5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.

Joh 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
Joh 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

Php 4:6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Php 4:7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Joh 15:6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
Joh 15:7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

Php 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Joh 15:8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

Seeking Direction

Dear Lord please be with us this day and please may Your Holy Spirit be guiding and protecting us in every thing that we say and do. Thank You for all of the great gifts and blessings and the protection that You give us and please forgive our sins the same as we forgive the mistakes of others.
Dear Lord please lead us into paths of unity and understanding as we muse and explore Your Word and Thoughts to the best of our ability while mixing and mingling with Your Children in Your Creation as we seek Your Kingdom inside the mysteries of Your Precepts and care for those that You Love, in Jesus Christ's name we pray, amen.

KJV:*
Ps 119:13 With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
Ps 119:14 I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.
Ps 119:15 I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.
Ps 119:16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
Ps 119:17 Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word.
Ps 119:18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
Ps 119:19 I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
Ps 119:20 My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.
Ps 119:21 Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.
Ps 119:22 Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.
Ps 119:23 Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
Ps 119:24 Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
Ps 119:25  My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
Ps 119:26  I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes.
Ps 119:27 Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.
Ps 119:28 My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
Ps 119:29 Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
Ps 119:30 I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.
Ps 119:31 I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame.
Ps 119:32 I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
Ps 119:33 Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.

Ps 119:94 I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.

To Find Strength, Hope, and Rewards

Dear Lord please be with us this day and please may Your Holy Spirit be guiding and protecting us in every thing that we say and do. Thank You for all of the great gifts and blessings and the protection that You give us and please forgive our sins the same as we forgive the mistakes of others.
Dear Lord please lead us into paths where we may find the rewards of Your Love and realize when it is there for us and how to receive it as we mix and mingle with Your Children in Your Creation as we continue to seek Your Kingdom among the temptations of this world, and please help us find successes when it is time for us to succeed, in Jesus Christ's name we pray, amen.

KJV*
Ps 31:1 In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.
Ps 31:2 Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.
Ps 31:3 For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.
Ps 31:4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.
Ps 31:5 Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.
Ps 31:6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
Ps 31:7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
Ps 31:8 And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
Ps 31:9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
Ps 31:10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
Ps 31:11 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
Ps 31:12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
Ps 31:13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
Ps 31:14 But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.
Ps 31:15 My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
Ps 31:16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.
Ps 31:17 Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.
Ps 31:18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
Ps 31:19 Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
Ps 31:20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
Ps 31:21 Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.
Ps 31:22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
Ps 31:23 O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
Ps 31:24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.

The Thought Of Our Destiny

Dear Lord please be with us this day and please may Your Holy Spirit be guiding and protecting us in every thing that we say and do. Thank You for all of the great gifts and blessings and the protection that You give us and please forgive our sins the same as we forgive the mistakes of others.
Dear Lord please lead us into paths where we will feel that we are doing Your Will as we make progress in the things which are of little importance as we mix and mingle with Your Children in Your Creation while seeking Your Kingdom in this world of only the serious thoughts that are in mixtures of pain and anguish as we can only let Your Will be done as the time is ready while we leave our safety to Your Happenstance as we live in this world of Your Choices and the outcomes branded by the thoughts of those who are not always qualified to to make such serious decisions, in Jesus Christ's name we pray, amen.

Quotation:*
Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen. --T.S. Eliot

KJV*
Ac 17:22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
Ac 17:23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Ac 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
Ac 17:25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

Isa 42:5 Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
Isa 42:6 I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
Isa 42:7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
Isa 42:8 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
Isa 42:9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
Isa 42:10 Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.
Isa 42:11 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
Isa 42:12 Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands.
Isa 42:13 The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.
Isa 42:14 I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.
Isa 42:15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
Isa 42:16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
Isa 42:17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
Isa 42:18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
Isa 42:19 Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD'S servant?
Isa 42:20 Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.
Isa 42:21 The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
Isa 42:22 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
Isa 42:23 Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?
Isa 42:24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
Isa 42:25 Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.

Ps 31:14 But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.
Ps 31:15 My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
Ps 31:16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.
Ps 31:17 Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.
Ps 31:18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
Ps 31:19 Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
Ps 31:20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
Ps 31:21 Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.
Ps 31:22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
Ps 31:23 O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
Ps 31:24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.