I have been up since 3:30 a.m., meditating and praying. I do personal soul searching during this time. I want God and I want all God has for me, and then, I want to share what I have found with all my family and friends. One thing I have found and the Lord has reminded me of at critical times is that there is no stopping place in this quest. It is a life-long quest with no place for rest. I want all God has for me. I need to be able to “see” what He “sees.” The world has parasites and infections that it would try to deposit in our lives. We need medicine and the only real Healer I know is Jesus Christ. We are reminded, “Let this mind be in you which is in Christ Jesus!” I am not there yet, but I want to be. I don't know of anyone who has plumbed the depths of understanding and wisdom. I certainly haven't, but there are those I have come into contact with in this spiritual journey who came to me with gifts. I have had a lot of people come and go in my life, but I have also had a lot of people stay. They are good teachers and we share a common hunger. I would remind them all this morning of how I need you and am grateful that you decided to stay and walk with me. Can I share again, “There is no stopping place in this life quest!” There is so much we don't know and more we can't see. I am hungry for the “greater works will you do.” I am not satisfied and I guess I can honestly say, I have never been satisfied. Oh! I have lived and enjoyed the moment. I committed and dedicated my life to the Lord in October of 1969. I look to the mountains from where my help comes and it has been a long climb. The only part I would like to have traded now was to have been smarter, younger. I don't know any other way and my ambition is like the Apostle Paul's, “I press toward the mark for the high calling of God! (can I say now, “in the high calling of God?) I cannot please men and please God. I will not “go along” to “get along.” I can't because to do that I have to stop and I can't do that either. I share that feeling knowing it is a common feeling among my friends. I don't know it all and I am a long ways from perfection, but I want to know and I do want to continue to strive for perfection. The promised land is somewhere out in front of me and hell and my enemy is behind me. The day will come when I will cross over to higher ground and the enemy and hell will not be able to follow me. It will be similar to what the Hebrews experienced crossing the Red Sea. Canaanland ahead, the crossing of the Jordan near....no stopping place here. LUKE 3:15-22 15) And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he was the Christ, or not; 16) John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but One mightier than I comes, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire: 17) Whose fan is in his Hand, and He will thoroughly purge His floor, and will gather the wheat into His garner; but the chaff He will burn with fire unquenchable. 18) And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people. 19) But Herod the te'-trarch, being reproved by him for He-ro'-di-as his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done, 20) Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison. 21) Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened, 22) And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, You art My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased.
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