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GOOD NEWS from Genesis 50: 20 As for you, you meant evil against me. EVEN SO, as far as I am concerned, God turned into good what you meant for evil, for He brought me to this high position I have today SO that I could save the lives of many people! EVEN SO Dear Heavenly Father God and Faithful One, Thank You for my heart which is bound to You in Love!  I belong to You EVEN in the chaos of the world that would take me out and EVEN when I am walking through the barrenness of the winter season. I know that You are with me, EVEN when it feels like everything is dormant, and EVEN when I struggle to see hopes of a beautiful Spring Season coming again.  EVEN though I know that Seasons change,  I need You to give my mind the perspective it needs to fully trust You today, in the current season. EVEN SO, You are the giver of life, Lord. You restore broken things, EVEN me, and You redeem all situations with life surprises, EVEN mine. You uplift hopes, EVEN mine, and You find me whe...

GOOD NEWS from Isaiah 57: 14 I will say, Rebuild the road! Clear away the rocks and stones. PREPARE a glorious HIGHWAY for my people’s return from captivity!  A WAY PREPARED  Dear Heavenly Father God and Lord, Thank You for allowing me to rely on You in more WAYS than I can express. I am always welcomed anew by You whenever I come to You with my constant needs. You are a Kind and Patient Father Who is always PREPARED to welcome me warmly everytime I approach You. May my heart become calmed by the Peace in Your Presence as I make my WAY to You again today. Lord, You have led me up until now as I link my life to Yours and Your WAY that You have PREPARED for me. I trust You to continue guiding me in Your WAY toward the  Goodness You have PREPARED for me. I can see a stark difference between a life I live for myself trying to hack my own WAY through the weeds, versus walking along the WAY You PREPARED and on a road You Built especially for me. Why do I try to go my own WAY wh...

GOOD NEWS from 1Peter 4: 7 The end of the world is coming soon. Since we are approaching the end of things, be intentional, purposeful, self controlled, earnest, thoughtful, EYES wide OPEN people that can be given to prayer. EYES OPEN Dear Heavenly Father God and Yahweh, Thank You for BEING purposeful in everything on which You set Your EYES. Your Promises are f!ulfilled even when my EYES have yet to see and the wait seems far too long. As You are resolute in love, so may I be firm in faith. You are Constant, Omnipresent, and You always remain the same. Your character is Victory oriented, even in my dark nights of grief. I will remember Your Love always has a hold on me. You are finishing in me what You do best for me, and that is  restoring and redeeming me. Lord, when my EYES are straining to SEE You at work in my life, direct my GAZE to where You Are. You are always here and Your EYES always SEE and believe the best in me.  I will continue calling Your Name, relying on You ...

GOOD NEWS from Proverbs 27: 17 A friendly discussion is as stimulating as the lighting sparks that fly when iron strikes iron. As iron SHARPENS iron, so a friend SHARPENS a friend! A Journey of Faith supported by community is much more effective than a solitary journey of faith. SHARPENED Dear Heavenly Father and Merciful God,  Thank You for Your Very and Everpresent Love, The Greatest Gift i have ever known! Flood my senses with Your Compassion and SHARPEN me in a new way today. Your Friendship is the best I have ever known, iron SHARPENING iron. You are more faithful than a brother and more Loyal and more SHARPENING than my closest friend. You see my need for fellowship with skin on that SHARPENS me in the flesh and in the blood. You Created us for companionship and for community. Lord, remind me today of Your Goodness through relationships that SHARPEN me by pointing me to You. Whether my circle of trusted friends is small, or the community I am in is large, I am thankful that t...

GOOD NEWS from James 4: 15

GOOD NEWS from Proverbs 18: 24

 GOOD NEWS from John 13: 5 So He got up from the supper table, took off His Robe, wrapped a towel around His Loins, poured water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel He had around Him, with which He was gilded. HUMBLE HEART Dear Heavenly Father God and Beautiful Lord, Thank You for walking this earth in HUMILITY, and for revealing the tender heart of Our Father so clearly. Though You were a King. You laid down Your Crown and became like a HUMBLE Servant to all humankind. I have yet to conceive thinking that our Creator of the universe and Creator of everything within it would HUMBLY go incognito, clothed in flesh and bones loke mine. While the Israelites were waiting on a warrior king to rescue them from earthly governments, You came as a HUMBLE Savior, like a lamb. Father,when I begin to think I deserve more than what I am walking through, redirect my gaze to the HUMBLE Life of Jesus.  Though He was perfect in a fallen world, He ...

GOOD NEWS from 1Peter 4: 12-13 Dear friends, Be free from bewilderment and SURPRISE when you go through fiery trials, for this is a usual thing that is going to happen and which comes upon you for your testing. Be really glad and thankful because to the degree you share them with Christ, these trials will make you partners with Christ. Keep on rejoicing through them so at the revelation of His Glory, you will again rejoice in exultation with Him and have the wonderful joy of EXPECTING and sharing His Glory in that coming day when it will be displayed! NOT A SURPRISE  Dear Heavenly Father God and Holy One,  Thank You for BEING The One I EXPECT and look to through every season of the soul. You are my EXPECTED Help when I need Strength and love. You are my Confidant when I bare my heart and soul before You. You are full of Joy and Celebration. You are everything I EXPECT and need and so much more. God, in the times of testing, be especially here with me with Your Powerful and Com...

GOOD NEWS from Romans 5: 8 But God showed His Great PASSIONATE LOVE for us by resurrecting Christ to life for us while we were unborn! PASSIONATE LOVE Dear Heavenly Father God and Wonderful Lord, Thank You for your Fervent, Continual and PASSIONATE LOVE in its intensity and its  intentions! Your PASSIONATE and Fiery Heart of Pure LOVE is reaching out to purify and restore me. I've only just begun to understand all the lengths You went to in order to restore a PASSIONATE and right relationship of LOVE between humanity and Yourself. You want everything to clear the way for Your PASSIONATE LOVE and Forever Affection to flow toward us. May this truth reach me today with the revelation of your incredible, unrelenting, irresistible Mercy and PASSIONATE LOVE. A good friend might lay down his life for another friend; but who else lays down their life for one who doesn't know, or barely acknowledges them?  Your Goodness Jesus is the only Goodness in this world. You are consistently PAS...

GOOD NEWS from John 14: 27

 GOOD NEWS from Philippians 3: 20

GOOD NEWS from Matthew 14: 29 All right,” the Lord said, as He INVITED Peter to “COME along! Peter accepted our Lord's INVITATION, came down out of the boat, and went over the side of the boat and walked on the water toward Jesus! INVITATION Dear Heavenly Father God and Lord,  Thank You for INVITING me into Your Known, Calming, Encouraging, Uplifting Presence, and into Your Possible! Help me trust that The One Who calls to INVITE me is the same One Who is with me. When Peter fixed his eyes on You, Peter accepted Your INVITATION and he  walked on water.  With my eyes fixed on You and Your INVITATIONS, all things are possible! Let my gaze stay tuned into Yours until I flow into worshipping You in all my situations and circumstances. As soon as I call out for Your Help, You accept my INVITATION and you are here lifting, and raising me up and out. Likewise, I am recognizing that I have to learn to accept Your INVITATIONS, even when they require me to step out the boat of my c...

 GOOD NEWS from LUKE 16: 10 For when you are honest and RELIABLE in small matters, you will be honest and RELIABLE in large ones. If you are honest and RELIABLE even with a little responsibility, then you will be honest and RELIABLE with greater responsibilities. They who are RELIABLE and faithful in very little things are also RELIABLE and faithful in much and those who are RELIABLY righteous in very little things are also RELIABLY righteous in much. Dear Heavenly Father and Gracious God, Thank You for Your Infinite RELIABILITY and Your Faithfulness! You always come through on Your Promises and You always fulfill every intention You Set. I do want to be like You in RELIABILITY. I choose You and I choose to offer myself  to Your Love over and over again. Transform me into Your Likeness until I can see YOUR RELIABLE light lighting my way out of the valley. I know Your RELIABLE Faithfulness is leading me. May my heart remain pure in love knowing I am covered by Your Great and RE...

GOOD NEWS from Romans 14: 19 Let us pursue the things that make for JOY and PEACE and the things that edify one another. In this way we are aiming for harmony in and outside the church, and trying to build each other up.

GOOD NEWS FROM Habakkuk 3: 2 O Lord, now I have heard Your report. The time is yet to come for your Message to come true and that time is coming soon. I worship You in awe for the things You are going to do. Although it may seem like a long time coming to me, I'll patiently wait for Your Message because Your Message will surely come. In the MEANTIME of my deep need, begin again to help me, as You did in years gone by. Show me Your Power to save me. Remember Your Mercy. IN THE MEANTIME  Dear Heavenly Father God and Holy One,  THANK YOU for the waiting times in life. In the MEANTIME would You make it easy for me to be encouraged? In the early days of hope it seems easier to believe. When days turn into weeks; weeks turn into months; months turn into years; years turn into decades, when my heart waivers in believing, during that MEANTIME, would You remind me that Your Promises are always VICTORIOUS? You were faithful to give Abram and Sarai a son, though it took much longer than ...

GOOD NEWS from 2CORINTHIANS 12: 10 Since I know it is all for Christ’s Good, I am quite happy about “the VULNERABILITY thorn,” and about delighting in insults and hardships, persecutions and difficulties; for when I am weak, then He is strong—the less I have, the more I depend on Him. VULNERABILITY  Dear Heavenly Father God and Lord,  Thank You for loving me even when I have yet to echo Paul's statement of delighting in weaknesses and VULNERABILITIES! I have known Your Power in my VULNERABLE weaknesses. I have experienced Your Strength in my VULNERABLE frailties. I realize my worth to You is completely contingent on You, rather than what I do, what I enjoy or how VULNERABLE I am. What a wonder that whatever VULNERABLE state I am in, You completely and affectionately embrace me as Your Own. I am Loved because You love me.  You Love me because You Are Love. Your Love only has an on switch, a continue button, always. You Love Me. As I walk through the valley of loss, I can o...

GOOD NEWS from Psalm 16: 11 You have let me experience the joys of life and the FULLNESS of Your exquisite pleasures forevermore by making known to me the path of life in Your Own Eternal Presence where there is FULLNESS of Joy at Your Right Hand! FULLNESS OF LIFE Dear Heavenly Father God and my Lord, Thank You for Being Infinitely Wise in Your Leadership! 

GOOD NEWS from James 5:16 Admit your faults and confess your sins to one ANOTHER and pray for each OTHER so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. LEAN ON OTHERS Dear Heavenly Father God and Wonderful Counselor,  Thank You for Your Mercy in which my heart has found its home! It is within Your Family of OTHERS that I have found strength and comfort to keep going. When I am encouraged by OTHERS I tend to gather, connect, and relate, reminded of Your Power found in community with OTHERS. I know that You are the only perfect parent, and you lead me and direct me in Your Kindness. May my heart be encouraged as I meet OTHER kindred spirits who know you and are following You along Your Path of Love!  Give me courage to share Your Victories with OTHERS who are also journeying along this life with me. For those OTHERS who I know love You and love me, may I be open and transparent. May we be like iron sharpening i...

GOOD NEWS from 1 Corinthians 16: 13 Remember to stay alert and hold firmly to all that you believe. Keep your eyes open for GOD'S Holy Spirit; stand true to the Lord; act like God's beings; be strong; be mighty; be full of courage! A nd whatever you do, do it with kindness, compassion, and love.

GOOD NEWS from HEBREWS 13: 8 Jesus Christ is OMNIPRESENT:  the same yesterday, and again today, and on into forever! Dear Heavenly Father God and Brother Jesus,  Thank You for FOREVER Being Constant in Your Love and Your Mercy! You Who humbly lay down Your Throne in Heaven and Your Life in Love are the same Gracious One that sits at The Right Hand of Our Father, yesterday, today, and FOREVER. God our Father, Jesus, His Son, and God's Holy Spirit are FOREVER unified and perfect in Mercy and Love. As I look to Your Life, Jesus I find that You Always and FOREVER pursue the forgotten and are quick to call out truth. You are FOREVER inclusive and choose to share Your Message of Love with everyone. Rather than the religious elite, You Choose the normal everyday person to follow You. Lord as I follow after You, I am humbled and grateful to Be Yours. I am also relieved to know that you accept my personal best rather than my perfection, and You want my transparency with You rather than...

GOOD NEWS from Job 11: 18 You will have courage and confidence because you will have HOPE. You will take your time, be protected and REST in safety! Dear Heavenly Father God and my Refuge, Thank You for sheltering me today. When the storms keep on raging in my life and sometimes it's hard to tell the night from day, I can run into Your Sanctuary and REST.in Your Presence. You are my Help, my Defender, and my Hiding Place. You are more than able to take good care of me. Your Love covers me all the days of my life. Let Your Mercy be my protection as I trust, HOPE, and REST in You. Though I walk through many valleys, Your Love always sustains me. You are always faithful to come through as my Faithful Leader and the Victor in my every situation and circumstance. You are The Master Redeemer Who plants seeds of Your Goodness into every situation. I watch the fruit from them grow later on. I will be brave and steadfast because Thou Are with me. I will have HOPE because You a...

GOOD NEWS from Genesis 49: 25 Because of our father's God Who helps us, May the same God of our fathers, the Almighty God, bless us with blessings of heavenly skies above and from the DEEP earthly SPRINGS below —blessings of the breasts and blessings of the womb! DEEP SPRINGS Dear Heavenly Father and Almighty God. Thank You for Your Wealth of Wisdom and every Treasure ever conceived that SPRINGS forth in my life! You are a Constant Help at ALL times and You are Reliable in Mercy whenever I need it to SPRING forth. Every situation and every circumstance is DEEPLY covered by Your Love; You heal everything in Your Comforting SPRINGS of DEEP Peace.  Every imaginable blessing is found in Your Presence, Lord.  HOLY SPIRIT,  Lead me and Guide me into the DEEP SPRINGS of Your Mercy today. I want to be DEEPLY washed in The Waterfall of God's Kindness and Mercy. You see where I am dry and parched, and desperate for Your Living SPRINGS of Water to quench my thirst. Come with the Abu...

GOOD NEWS from Psalm 66: 19 CERTAINLY God has heard me. He listened! He heard my prayer! He paid attention to it and He has attended to the voice of my prayer! IT'S CERTAIN 

GOOD NEWS from Matthew 7: 12 Do for others what you want them to do for you. This is the meaning of the LAWS of LOVE from Moses in a nutshell and also, it is the teaching of the prophets! LAWS OF LOVE Dear Heavenly Father God and LOVING Lord, Thank You for being the barometer for  justice and LOVE in this world. It is Your Job to put everyone in their place, in fact, when it comes to others, You are very clear that Your People are to exibit the kind of LOVE they would like to receive. It is with Your Infinite Kindness and LOVE that I have been shown Your Mercy and Your LOVE. Help my heart to reflect Your same Kindness and LOVE. You are full of Compassionate LOVE toward ALL Your Children, may I also be. Holy Spirit, fill me with Your Living Water of LOVE again today that I may give out from the overflow of Your Affection. Give me eyes to see LOVE for others as they are, rather than see them as objects of frustration or inconveniences. We all walk through frustrating and inconvenient...

GOOD NEWS from Luke 6: 36 Try to show as much Mercy and  COMPASSION for others just as my Heavenly Father overflows with Mercy and COMPASSION for me and all others! COMPASSIONATE HEART Dear Heavenly Father and Gracious God, Thank You for helping me follow Your Examples of COMPASSION throughout this life. May my heart become more COMPASSIONATE with Your Love. As I practice offering the same Mercy and CCOMPASSION I've received, may my COMPASSION capacity grow. Whenever I choose to treat others with COMPASSION, I know I am following Your Way of Life. Jesus, as I look to Your Example, I see how Merciful and COMPASSIONATE traits marked Your Ministry. You always receive a hungry heart with COMPASSION, regardless of the package it is in. In Kindness, Mercy and COMPASSION, You bring the Heart of Our Father to all people, outside the walls of religion.  In the same way today Lord, I know that You still work in Love, Mercy and COMPASSION. Your COMPASSION and Mercy are everlasting. I am ...

GOOD NEWS from Psalm 119: 111 Your laws are my joyous TREASURE forever; they are my heart's delight! TREASURE Dear Heavenly Father God and KING of kings,  THANK you for Guiding me into The TREASURE House of Your Wisdom and Your Truth. You lead me into Your TREASURE house with love in all that You do. Your Example is the ultimate expression of TREASURES and TREASURES of Mercy. When I follow Your Examples, I Victoriously Succeed in finding Your hidden TREASURES. As I press into Your Nature and Character I TREASURE becoming more and more like you. As I take on Your Likeness, I reflect Your Compassion in my life. As I TREASURE and reflect Your Compassion to others in my daily life, then KINDNESS becomes a ready response to all those around me, especially Larry! In all that I do, may my life be attuned to Your TREASURES of  Goodness, Compassion and Kindness. You continually cover me up with Your TREASURED Mercy. I am far from perfect and always will be, because only Thou are Perfec...

GOOD NEWS from Proverbs 28: 13 Anyone who admits their mistakes can be successful and prosperous. When they confess and forsake them, they will obtain Mercy and get another chance! BE OPEN Dear Heavenly Father God and Merciful One,  Thank You for my heart which I AM OPENING up to You and laying it out like an OPEN book before You. I have everything to OPEN up about and reveal to You plus You already know what lies in every crack and  crevice. You OPEN up Heaven's Windows and pour out Your Rich Mercy and Lavish Love on me. I choose to OPENLY share everything with You. When I OPEN up my vulnerabilities to You, You meet me with Kindness. You OPEN up ways to Gently Guide me into submission and ease me into doing the right thing according to You. I come to you freely with OPENESS because I know Who You are, Whose I am, and What You are like. You are Kind and Compassionate and when correcting, Your Words are laced with Love. You do everything out of Love. You Lift me up. You are a p...

GOOD NEWS from Hebrews 12: 28 Since we have a Kingdom that is completely SOLID, let us please God by serving Him with thankful hearts and with holy reverence and awe. We can be thankful because we have a Kingdom that is more SOLID than a boulder, on which we can firmly stand to WORSHIP God in a way that respects and pleases Him! UNSHAKABLE Dear Heavenly Father and Mighty God, Thank You for speaking Your SOLID Words to which all the earth responds! When Your Winds of Peace blow over, then chaos is calmed and Your People find SOLIDARITY and rest. Your Word is SOLID, the first and the last. It is The Ultimate Authority by which Heaven, Earth, and everything within them find their place. Lord, when I am just going through the motions of honoring You in front of others, bring me back into heartfelt alignment and SOLIDARITY with You. What matters to You is how my heart is atoned and SOLIDLY attuned to You when no one else knows. Let the attitude of my heart forever be malleable by Your Holy ...

GOOD NEWS from Job 10: 12 You GIVE me life and You are so kind in showing Your Love to me. I am preserved by Your Care, and in Your Providence, You Watch over my Spirit! GIVER OF LIFE Dear Heavenly Father God and Creator,  Thank You for breathing Your LIFE into me from the beginning. My very LIFE is dependent on Your Kindness. Quiet my soul with Your Love and revive Your LIFE in my heart with Your Spirit. I know everything I face is an opportunity to see You in a new way. Your Love always has a hold on me and Your Mercy is always with me. Continue to watch over me all the days of my LIFE until I dwell in Your House O Lord forever. Today be The Source of LIFE and Strength I so desperately need. Show me your Kindness again as you empower me to trust Your Everlasting Love in my LIFE. Carry me through the valleys in this LIFE and lift me high above the snakeline and above the crags. Whenever the faith inside my heart weakens You are still the same powerful God who gives me LIFE. Redire...

GOOD NEWS from 2Peter 3: 9 The Lord is right on time about His Promised Return. Even though it sometimes has yet to seem that way, He is PATIENT toward me and PATIENTLY waiting for me because of the good reason that He wants everyone to survive, including me. He is therefore giving more time for everyone to come to atonement! PATIENCE  Dear Heavenly Father God and Lord, Thank You for Your Wisdom and PATIENCE which are far above my own understanding. As I PATIENTLY meditate on Your Word, my heart aligns with Your Truth that is higher than the laws that hold the universe together. You see to every detail, and you seize every opportunity to extend Your Mercy and Your PATIENCE to me. Let my heart PATIENTLY rest in Your Peace today, trusting that You do remember to fulfill every promise You have made. Your PATIENCE and Your Faithfulness is more reliable than rising and ebbing tides. Your Love is more PATIENT and more Loyal than Sonrises and Sonsets. When I consider Your Seasons of the P...

GOOD NEWS from Matthew 26: 41 Keep Watching and Keep Praying! So that I will bypass temptations. For my Spirit is willing, but my body is weak! Keep alert and pray that temptation will cease its quest to overpower me. For my spirit indeed is willing, but how weak my grail human body is!”

GOOD NEWS from Hebrews 11: 3