Have you walked in the door at home and seen a particular look on your spouses face and knew something was not quite right?

Have you looked at a friend while meeting them for lunch and knew something was amiss?

This is true for both genders in our
specie.

If you do not notice the look on your spouses face or on a friends face… it might be that you are not really looking at them.

To notice some things you must hold the look for a bit.

If you never notice these looks…
you are blind …
or most likely unwilling to admit it because you fail in desiring to know what the look means or you fail in wanting to take the steps to address it.

Early in a relationship everyone notices each other.
And wants to help.

The real concern is with what happens after years together…. and growing accustomed to a face.

An encouragement…
work on looking at the face of your spouse, and holding that look… to decipher what might be going on in their heart and mind.

There is a commercial running on television currently regarding depression.

It shows various men and women in social circumstances holding up a happy face… while behind it they have a look of pain on their actual face.

As adults and mature humans,
we should possess the ability to look and see, either in the eyes or maybe the way they are holding their mouth… the emotions they are feeling or the
pain they are carrying….
or maybe the weight that the events of their day has burdened upon them.

I believe very few things are more important than taking the time to look and notice the look on that face you should be seeing when you or they walk through the door.

I used to tell my nieces to smile with their eyes and not merely show their teeth as they were having pictures taken.

One can figuratively
“put an hanger in your mouth”
and show a smile.

A mouth can smile
even as the eyes show great pain.

You know that look….
you see it at a funeral on those people standing next to the box. It’s called a “brave face.”

If you see a “brave face” when you walk through the door…
understand you need to address it.

You must look and notice it first.

As we notice that something is not
quite right…
we must take the next and difficult step to ask the question.

And, not to accept what many times is an answer like….”I’m Fine”.

When I have had that answer spoken to me….
I usually reply that I can see another answer written all over their face.

At times they do not want to bother you with it.

Be willing to be bothered a bit.

The person you care about behind that hurting look or that furrowed brow is worth the bother.

Many times, after holding the look, and not merely walking by and blowing them off, the next thing you hear will be a stating of the problem.

Know that your reaction to that might determine their attitude for some time to come.

If you curl up your mouth or roll your eyes because you have “heard it before” ….
you might get shut out for some time.

You might need and they might need you to say nothing other than “Talk to me”.

You might need to do nothing other than to go hold them for a minute.

If you have ” heard it before”….
be careful to not say that….
and refrain from finishing any sentence beginning with …
“I told you………..”

These moments are not for scolding.
They are more for listening and making an attempt to understand.

Silence with your ears willingly open
to their monologue might be the remedy they need.

Much of psychological consultation is allowing a person to talk and simply get their feelings or emotions out and expressed.

None of this can happen though if you do not notice the look on their face.

Notice the look on their face.

Look…….
at the people in your life.

Look long enough to notice and see
them and what they are carrying on their shoulders.

Look……
notice….
and inquire …
and give them some time to vent,
to express their burden
and share
what only you might be able to fix.

Heard a football coach talking about the upcoming season today.

In a passing comment he said….

“In order to improve, you have to be able to self-assess”. 

Difficult to do.

That’s what we leave up to parents, teachers and coaches when we are young. They assess our performance, our efforts and our results.

They make judgements. They consider what it might take for us to maintain or improve. They change or affirm what we are doing.

They assess us.

In that passing comment, the coach gave insight to what it really takes to improve and succeed.

For parents, teachers and coaches can do everything within their power and  ability to influence us.

That outside influence and instruction teaches and can motivate and even bring good results.

However, until we become able to look at ourselves, with truthful honesty and clear introspection…and assess our own selves…and our own abilities and performance….we will not have lasting success.

Athletically, Michael Jordan looked at himself honestly after losing to the Detroit Pistons in the 1990 playoffs. He saw a great player. A league leading scorer. A top level talent.

But he knew that Detroit was going to put him down on the court when he drove toward the basket. He knew they were going to play overly physical with him to tame his ” high wire” game.

He also knew that to take the next step toward a title… he and his team from Chicago would need to get past Detroit.

He looked at himself and saw a physical frame that was too thin. Perfectly athletic and capable of great things… but not capable of enduring the rigors of surviving the physical play.

He inspected himself and saw something lacking.

To improve…he did a self-assessment.

He surmised that strength was needed. A more muscled frame was needed. A frame that would enable him to withstand the push and pull of physical play.

He went to the weight room.

After his assessment of himself he committed to changing his body into what he knew was needed.

Along with the stronger physical frame…and as an after effect of the commitment…came a stronger and tougher mindset. His team followed suit.

That Assessment and the subsequent commitment led to six championships and the label of being the greatest of all-time.
“To improve … you have to be able to self-assess.”

No coach could have created that change or that committnent in Michael.

No coach or trainer or parent or teacher can create the needed change and committnent in you or me…enough to realize a success that can endure.

Outside influence can bring momentary success.

Inner assessment and committment though, can develop the one given to them into a champion that can create a success process which paves the way to a continual and memorable achievement.

I have done this myself.

In the Summer of 1994, I came upon an additional way of doing business, Through a relationship with a great man from Mississippi, I learned a method of business that brought and still to this day brings great business and results.

 In late February, 2003  I sought out research to better able me to do what was needed. I was lacking.  That research lifted me to another level of ability to better serve the people I served.

Early in 2010, after hearing what a client wanted, and knowing it was not in my “sweet spot” at that time, I did an assessment, made a decision and formed a partnership with another advisor, who was experienced and efficient in what I was not efficient at. That decision and the subsequent partnership has benefitted many clients, that  fellow advisor ….and myself with business and added ability and insight.
In the late spring and summer of 1971, a very successful football coach decided that in order to continue the success he had realized to a great level…he would have to change.

He self-assessed.

He had won championships. He had great and national acclaim.

But he and his team and his system had grown stale, outdated and suffered through two seasons of mediocrity. There were calls for his dismissal.

In that summer of 1971, Paul Bryant took his coaches away from their campus to learn a new System.

He told them they were going to learn a new offense called the  “wishbone”…and furthermore, they were going to sink or swim with it.

He knew that committed change was necessary and needed.

He was willing to take a great risk, change and execute the effort to excel with a new way…rather than stay safe and fade into the mediocrity his team had faded into.

He won over 100 games in the next ten years, three championships and won more games than any major college coach had, by the time he retired.

After reaching a point of crisis, he assessed himself and his program and took necessary, although risky steps. Greater success followed than had been achieved before.

The same thing has occurred with so many great successful people. 

“To improve…. you have to be able to self assess.”

Spiritually. Physically. Maritally. Occupationally.

Do it.

Be courageous and do it continually, before a crisis arises.

It goes against human nature to get introspective when all is well.

Weather changes.

So do situations.

Do the assessment.

Ask the hard, but necessary questions of yourself.

It is worth the risk.

August, 2017

Have you felt the push of the Holy Spirit?

It can be a physical experience.

It might be only an emotional thing.

I feel it in my chest and in my throat.

It’s a push that is not like any other
Inclination or feeling.

It occurs in me in response to certain music, the words to a song, the words of a talk or sermon, the words I read.

There is a stimuli.

And there is a response.

The stimuli comes to us.
The response is from us.

Stimuli occurs more often than we respond.

If I am pursuing the Presence of The Lord, if I am reading His Word…. if I am reading something written by
someone guided and directed by Him…stimuli will occur.

He says if we seek Him …..
we will find Him.

When that stimuli occurs…

humility arises

conviction can come

It’s not condemnation…
but conviction will come if there is separation or distance because of our decisions of disobedience or our lack of confession.

Truth is revealed.

The falseness of what we might be involved in fades and truth gets its clarity……

when we seek His Presence.
Listen to Francesca Battistelli sing her song, HOLY SPIRIT.

It rings with a call to His Presence,
of His Majesty, of the opportunity and then the need to welcome Him to wherever you are.

Some think it is a call for The Presence to be welcomed to a corporate worship service.

It is.

It is also much more.

I spoke those words to myself during a Sunday service a while back and an awareness arose in me.

That song and the desire for God’s Presence is not limited to a church service.

For me,
it is a call for God’s Spirit to

settle upon me

to dwell in the chambers of my heart and the corridors of my mind.

It can be for everyone in a gathering…and for me individually.

As when you dive into a body of water…

you are engulfed in the water as is anyone else in it….

but, that water is on you.

It remains on you after you exit the
water…and you look and feel drenched.

Until it drys or you towel it off.

The Spirit of God can engulf you.

It will be in and on you. 

More penetratable than water, it will enter into you.

If The Presence enters into your
own individual heart….
the true place of worship…

your worship is more long lasting and effective

because it is within you.

You made a choice to receive Its Presence into the Church you control more than the Church you attend.

The worship center of your mind and heart,

 that you have dominion over 

is the place where God’s Spirit needs to be …

more than the place you drive to and attend on Sundays.

Seek daily that Presence.

Pursue that Presence.

Request that Presence to abide in you.

It was granted to you the day of your spiritual birth.

But just as your child is granted to you the day of their physical birth and will always be your child …

your awareness of them and your
familiarity with them is enhanced and will deepen the more you are around them.

So it is with the Spirit of God.
And more so because you are not merely around It…..
It will be present within you.

Pursue It.

He will push you toward it because He longs for communion with you.

Be aware of the Push.

Respond to the stimuli.

To quote The One Who gave It to us…
“Receive ye  the Holy Spirit”.

A few years ago, a friend was playing in his front yard with his four year old son.

The ball they were playing with rolled out onto the street.

The boy naturally went to get the ball.

My friend stopped him and gave him the words all parents have spoken many times…. 

“Don’t go out in the street”.

All the child saw was his ball.

It’s what he wanted.

My friend, standing there watching his son look out toward the ball, knew of other, greater concerns.

The boy looked up at his father…
looked out towards his ball…
and
without the voice telling him and then the firm hand on the small shoulder… 

the boy would have gone out into  “danger”.

My friend knew the boy only saw his ball…..
and did not understand the stern warning or firm hand holding him.

If you have the ability to reason…
you know where this thread is leading.

But the young boy did not possess that same reasoning ability.

He was four years old.

Likewise….
we do not possess the understanding to completely trust and be comfortable in the events orchestrated by The Father Who stands next to us as we look out at what we feel we must have.

Boys grow to be men.

We will not grow to be Him.

Christ told the men He chose and led…that there were things He could not tell them then.

We, also, will never possess enough reason or wisdom to grasp all of why …The One Who guides us …. does what He does.

It’s like the boy standing and looking out toward his ball.

We want what we want
when we want it….
and we cannot fathom why we cannot have it.

It’s beyond us.

Its beyond a four year old to be able to grasp an adults reasoning.

Take that to an infinite multiple
and you have our position with God.

We do try….
and with age
and gifted discernment from scriptural studies,
and maybe some spiritual impartation…
we can grow into a surface understanding or maybe a submitted mindset in relation to the things we see Him do.

Understand this….
there are unseen things He does
of which we will not know
nor may ever understand ….

even when we see Him as He is.

As the young boy looking out at the ball in the street…
seeing what he wanted…
looking up at his father saying,
“It’s just right there”…

don’t do it.

We cannot understand the reasoning.

Never will.

Not enough capacity.

July 2017

No matter the age, no matter the number of years one has lived, we all know our own faults and weaknesses.

Some are visible.

Some are known only to one’s self.

A few years ago a writer, local to
me, wrote a very introspective book….

The True Measure of a Man.

One statement in the book stood out to me ….
“One of the greatest fears in a man’s life is the fear of being found to be a fraud.”

I spent the trip I was on while reading that book looking inward and inspecting my life and work and walk ….and found myself remembering moments of failure, times of fraudulent words or behavior.

If one truly examines their life there will be times such as I recalled in mine.

Some were unintentional.

Many were fully intentional.

Introspection such as this will lead
you into shame, humility, maybe fear of being unmasked.

Introspection such as this is good and proper …..
only to the extent it results in cleansing ….

and the recollection of Who it was that rescued us from the depths of regret and shame.

Continual dwelling in those recollections can be a sin unto itself.

Once, I found myself dwelling in the recollection of a behavior which was diametrically opposed to who and what I was and aspired to be.

And I caught myself glorying in it.

Glorying in what initially brought me to feel shame.

That, to me, can be the worst type of iniquity in a Believers life.

I am grateful that the One Who leads me in paths away from that thought process and behavior… Intervened and led me away from remaining in that darkness.

For that is what a spiritually guided life is….we may get caught in the weakness brought on by ourselves or this world….and before we set up a household on that cliff…
we are reminded of who we are and drawn back into the life we have been purchased into.

The Second King of Israel had a closer-than-blood friend. After the friends death, David came upon the son of his fallen friend.

Mephibosheth was brought in by the King to dwell in the Palace…. given great privilege and prominence only because he was Jonathan’s son.

He was crippled.

He was afflicted.

Yet, even with those visible afflictions, he was given that prominent position and special privilege ….and appeared perfectly normal ….. 

sitting with his feet under the table of the King.

His faults were covered by the
Kings Favor at The King’s Table.

My faults and fraudulence are covered by The Kings Favor….at His Table.

I cannot venture away from that
gifted privilege or I will appear uncovered and my weaknesses and the darkness I chose to walk into will be revealed.

If Mephibosheth walked out of the
privileges granted him he would have also seen his own faults. 

Remembered them.

Maybe been brought down by them.

I must keep my feet under that table.

I must continually make my dwelling in those Courts I was brought into by The One Who watches over me.

For I am Mephibosheth….
living a gifted existence,
having my numerous deficiencies
excused and covered by The Favor of One I can never repay.

July 18, 2017

Yesterday, Fathers Day, you were most likely honored in some way by your children.

Could be you took the day “off”

If your children are young….
up to about 35….
they still need you to take very few days “off”

You should never quit “fathering”

Our Heavenly Father does not.

Never abdicate your role.

If your children are under college age….
they need a large QUANTITY of your time.

Please do not subscribe to the fallacy of “quality” time.

It’s a pacifier for the guilt of a father too busy to give himself to his children…..or wife.

It’s a tease.

You can tease your children with
“quality” time.

They will take it because any thirsty
human will take a small drink of water.

But it will harm them eventually.

And they will seek that drink from another “cistern”.

Choose to give them the best parts of you…..

not what’s left over.

This was the day the Power came to us.

John 14:12 gave foresight to it.
Acts 1 reads that Jesus told of the Power to come.
Acts 2 tells of it happening and the result is still being played out.

Read it.

I hope you are living it.

The works Jesus did, we can do, because He went to The Father.

He told us The Holy Spirit would come, come into us…when He went to The Father.

These statements told us The Power would come to us.

We need to be more cognizant of that.

We need to rehearse that in our minds, hearts, souls and spirits.

The Disciples were called and chosen by Jesus.

So were you….
if you are His follower.

The same Power that rushed in like a roaring wind upon those chosen and called fishermen…. will come to you ….
as a chosen and called church-age believer.

The Spirit came upon them in the
Church age …for when Jesus ascended …it became the Church age.

We are in the Church Age.

The Spirit is here for the Church Age.

For us.

This should be a day believers celebrate as much as when Jesus was born.

For on Pentecost ….
an equal Gift was given to us.

If The Trinity is three-in-one and all are God… as Jesus was the Presence of God on earth…
then the empowering gift of The Holy Spirit is the Presence of God in me…in you.

Jesus walked with the Disciples.

The Disciples saw Jesus minister, preach and perform miracles.

They became more than spectators
though when the POWER came upon them …as Jesus had told them earlier.

They were empowered to do those same things….
back to John 14:12.

They were empowered because they were filled.

We can be empowered that same way because we can be filled the same way.

The Disciples watched, walked and learned from Jesus for those three years. They were trained, not to be spectators, but to carry out the same work Jesus did… after being filled with His Spirit.

We watch and learn and are trained as well. But as The Twelve, we are not trained to forever be spectators watching from the seats.
Being filled…
we are to be putting the gift to full use.

It started in Acts …
and It’s still being played out today.

Pentecost….
the day the POWER came to us.

 

On Monday,  we traditionally remember those who served in the Armed Forces, who served and defended our country.

Concord, Tripoli, Cantigny, Omaha Beach, Iwo Jima, Khyber Pass… all battles fought and eventually won….for our security.

I would recommend something…

take this “Memorial” and before remembering American soldiers… remember the Soldier who gave His Life for you physically and spiritually.

 

Those men and women who have served and sacrificed for our country deserve honor and acclaim and remembrance. They trained, prepared, traveled, fought and hopefully realized the victories and freedoms we have enjoyed.

The Spiritual Soldier Who won freedom for all people of all nations deserves HONOR, ACCLAIM and REMEMBRANCE. Unlike the trained soldiers who did not know what was out there before them…He knew what was to come. He knew there would be victory, but a great price was to be paid.

 

Those American soldiers physically defended our country and won wars against aggressor nations who attacked us or our allies.

Christ battled physically and spiritually the common enemy of every nation, every tribe, every person who has walked on the ground He created.

 

He, Himself, won our freedom.

Our Eternal Freedom.

 

Those who have served America won wars and battles which sometimes have had to be repeated.

Generals and Admirals have strategized and led troops into battles ….achieved victory … and then gone home.

And in the twentieth century, sometimes had to go back and fight on the same ground their soldiers’  blood was spilled on earlier.

Wars fought and won between nations have many times not been permanent. Ground has been taken, only to be vacated and fought over again.

My father called me in 1972, after I had been involved in the last Draft…
and told me never to consider signing up to go fight in Southeast Asia because the war was not being fought to win…. he said it was not worth the lives being lost.
And he was a MARINE.

The ground taken by Our Single Soldier was won forever and always, and that War will never need to be fought again. The blood spilled was His, the Price paid was and is permanent.

Only one life was lost…
or voluntarily sacrificed…
and that was temporary.

As in the battles between nations…
ideas and philosophies are debated afterwards…and other wars may later arise.

Ideas and philosophies may be and are debated in regard to what Christ achieved…by people who hold those varying thoughts.

However…

that spiritual struggle for the souls of every created being …

was decisively and convincingly
won when the Single Soldier rose
out of Joseph’s tomb.

If Douglas McArthur intended to humiliate the defeated foe at the signing ceremony of surrender…on the USS Missouri

how much more did The Greatest Warrior humiliate His and our enemy only three days after the most important battle began.

While not discounting the honor and esteem due so many
American Soldiers…

remember
commemorate
never discount
pronounce and acclaim

the Single Soldier Who won the War for our souls.

 

May, 2017

 

I have been thinking about how we,
as a nation, have become so
permissive.

So permissive of so many things.

And my train of thought betrays that very topic.

I have time and comfort to THINK about something like this.

That must mean I am not threatened with harm or hunger, and that I am not worried enough about shelter for tonight or income for next week.

Going back into history, when a nation is on the edge of survival,
when a threatening strongman hovers over them or food lines are the daily normal … there are more immediate necessities that must be dealt with.

These immediate necessities lead to a more strict adherence to rules and measures that help meet what is needed that day.

When a nation is in a conflict for survival, when a military is in the midst of war….there is no time for social experiments or rationalizing about existence.

It’s all about simply preserving that existence.

Since the cessation of hostilities in 1945, our nation has been progressing toward the comfort we enjoy today.

It was interrupted in September, 2001. The sense of fear, threat and harm became real… for a period of time.

Church attendance spiked for a short time.

Prayer was no longer taboo in public and political forums.

Fear was present…therefore the presence of God was sought and His Name was invoked often.

But even then…our personal dwellings and daily provisions were not threatened.

We are a comfortable nation.

When one grows more and more comfortable there is a tendency toward an increasing level of permissiveness.

The thought that ” it will be okay”
or ” what’s so bad about that”….
becomes common thought.

In those times, we have seen that stretching the accepted norm toward an extreme fails to interrupt our level of comfort.

We fail to see the long term effect of a short term decision.

An example……
when Harry Blackmun,
made up the discovery of a clause in the Constitution that gave him the backbone to push his agenda …
we arrived at the approved decision that taking a unborn life for the convenience of the mother was Law. Yet there was a failure to see that there would eventually be about 59 million young lives never realized since that time.

For those who say we need more workers and revenue….
that number is roughly equivalent to the current populations of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada and Arizona.

Reread that.

For a child born in 1973 would today be a voting taxpayer of 46 years of age. Probably with at least one or two children. Add that up.

Might there have been one more Steve Jobs or another Martin Luther King in that number…who could positively impact society…?

 

Comfort does bring good things.
Comfort is what we seek.
We should not negate the comforts we enjoy.

However, comfort can also bring a relaxing of both the adherence to and the acceptance of rules and guidelines that worked in the past, therefore are time-tested.

It’s a cycle which brought down the strongest civilizations.

Consider the temporary problem
Nebuchadnezzar had and the shortened life of Belshazzar….in the Old Testament.

My point is made….if you are thinking  that reference to be out-dated, or not applicable today.

Comfort causes human nature to rationalize that everyone should be allowed to engage in or practice whatever leads them to be “happy”….and that old ways no longer apply because we have “evolved”.

The pursuit of happiness.
It’s in the Constitution.

May we be in pursuit of comfort and happiness, though, without forsaking those behaviors  and practices which brought us to the level of comfort we enjoy today.

If one forgets what led to the success of a business….the success will eventually disappear.

Absolutes,
of which there are many,
do not fail to exist and matter,
merely because they have brought about success.

May we not permit the comfort we now enjoy to draw us away from those things we did to get here.

That brings to mind Paul’s  words …
in Hebrews 2……
“Therefore, we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip”.

A Supreme Court justice nominee once called it….
” slouching toward Gomorrah”.

Slouching is not attractive or allowed in your child and
Gomorrah is universally accepted as a place where comfortable decadence brought destruction.

It’s a place to stay away from.

Had to spend a week in the hospital in March.
Felt fatigued, thought it to be the flu.
Was checked, no flu.
Flu-like symptoms.

After three days of more fatigue and
being mostly in the bed, and upon a 100’+ temperature and an infected spot on my left foot… my wife insisted I go back to the hospital.

She was wise.

Staph infection in my blood.
Not knowing if its was MRSA or
simple staphylococcus…
I was admitted to the hospital.

Immediate infusion of antibiotics and blood tests were done on a consistent basis for the next several days.

A trans-esophageal echogram was performed on me to determine if the staph had gone to my heart.

After the blood work and cultures
had been done for a few days a particular approach was developed by the infectious disease doctor.

He visited me and outlined the infection in the blood, what that meant and the method of treatment he was considering.

Two days later he visited again with his determination and the results of the echogram done inside the esophagus.

The staph had not attached to the heart and he outlined the next round of antibiotics.

I had a chance to ask him questions about the infection.

He told me I was the cause of it.

He said I was my own worst enemy.

Having varying levels of atopic dermatitis since I was 23 years old,
the Doctor relayed to me that this infection came upon me because I had scratched open a place on my skin. Staph… which exists in so many places… entered the bloodstream through the open wound in my skin.

He said I had probably had this before but it had not risen to this level.

My skin, which is supposed to be a shield against germs and bacteria, protecting all of the inner elements of the body, had been compromised….
and the intended protection it is created to provide,
failed.

It failed …. not of its own accord…
but because I compromised it myself.

I was sick….
and I had brought it upon myself.

We talked about diseases and their origins and then I asked the Doctor a question I have had in my mind for about a year.

“If I had lived in earlier or ancient times ….with the condition I have currently…how would I have survived without steroids or modern skin treatments???

He answered….and it’s what I thought might have been the case.

“You would have been a leper”.

“You would have damaged your skin and without modern medicine, you would have contracted Leprosy.”

I thought about that conversation during the next few days of the hospital stay… once again the Grace of God led me to another realization of Thankfulness.

As I have resumed normal life, with a renewed appreciation for modern medicine ….the events of March and April have led me to another thought.

As the skin is created with the intention of being a shield and a protection against the harm of bacteria and infection…
so the Armor of God is intended to be covering us and shielding us against the approach of the germ and destructive infection of evil.

And just as I broke my own shield of protection by opening the skin, I caused it to fail.

It did not fail on its own accord.

The Armor of God does not fail if it is allowed to do its work as it is intended to do.

We can fail to put it all on….

We can fail to ALLOW it to do its powerful work…

It….in and of Itself
does not
and will not fail.

For it is forged spiritually,

We are, however,
spiritual beings in physical bodies.

I brought and caused weakness in the protective shield of my skin.

I can break my body….
I cannot break Armor forged by God.

The only breakage possible in the
functioning of God’s Armor is in our
role allowing It to do Its work.

Initially, we fail the potentiality of It if we refuse SALVATION.

Or by failing to use the SWORD of the SPIRIT….and not knowing or using SCRIPTURE.

Or by not appropriating the SHIELD of FAITH….
by not operating in TRUTH…
by not walking in PEACE.
by not living in the given gift of
RIGHTEOUSNESS.

As I might have in earlier times
suffered physically from leprosy…
I have an Advocate Who will not allow a leprosy of my spirit.

As I recall the Doctor telling me that I am my own worst enemy in maintaining the protection my skin allows…

I realized I don’t need a second enemy…for I have a spiritual enemy seeking the theft, death and destruction of all God has gifted and given me.

Therefore,
may I be further committed to
hear everyday and
consistently obey
the urging of Gods Voice
to put on His Armor
to stay in my place
to allow His Armor It’s Work.