Day 24...X day in 26 Days of A.R.

Today is 'X' Day in my Alphabetical Resoluting..In 2018, I'm Resolved to take Passion for serving others & the Church to an XTREME level! 
Like an XTENSION ladder, I want to XTEND myself & 'Rise above XPECTATIONS....
XALTING Him while XERCISING my body, XORCISING my demons...So many X-words!
& XERTING myself to XPRESS my thoughts and actions in 2018...
"Pressing on toward the mark for the Prize of the high calling of God in Jesus Christ." (Phil. 3:14)...

Giving a little XTRA that I might be XTRAORDINARILY Kind and Helpful.... Even though my wife says:
"Get yourself X-RAYED and see what people see in you!" LOL..

XPOUNDING on a healthier lifestyle while X-ING out 40 pounds...Hey! Anything's possible with God's help!

Remembering that I don't hafta be an EX-Spurt, cause an EX is a 'has-been' ....& a Spurt is a 'Drip' under pressure...LOL

Just read about a Persian king named XERXES, who ruled Persia from 486-465. He commanded an army approaching a million in number, and once after failing to cross the Hellenesport in Greece, due to a storm & bridge failure, XERXES actually had the waters lashed by his men.. Even putting shackles on the water...XCENTRIC I reckon!

Praying that those with X-RATED mouths will reconsider their word choices, and the XTENT the impact of their word choices have on others...The English language has So Many Great.... Uplifting & Positive Words!

Now what did I do with my XYLOPHONE?

Have a Most XCELLENT WINSday & 2018 on God's Footstool...

Get really X-CITED!!!!!!!!

Day 25...Y words in 26 Days of A. R.

'Y' Day...in 26 Days of Alphabetical Resoluting for January the 25th...2018...When I think of Y, I think of YOU, and God does too: "See, I have engraved YOU on the Palms of my Hands; YOUR Walls are Ever before Me. (Isaiah 49:16)...At Calvary, Jesus engraved us with nails in His palms.
Thinking with certainty that when Jesus gave The Great Commission that His command to "Go YE...also applies to Go me...& Go YOU...LOL...True, for Jesus did indeed say this before ascending back to Heaven to be reunited with His Father God..In preparing for this post, I listened to Elvis Presley sing 

YOU SEND ME...Pretty sure that Elvis was thinking about a romantic send-off into la-la- land instead of in a spiritual sense...LOL...But Elvis could make everyone feel YOUNG at heart with his soulful voice. 
I also listened to Elvis sing the nostalgic song YESTERDAY. We all have a tendency to dwell on the past (Throwback Thursdays...?)... when times were less fast-paced, and perhaps a little gentler on our mind........

But we (YOU) must 'Go Forward'...Today, Thursday the 25th, is the Tomorrow we (YOU) worried about YESTERDAY. LOL

There are a few songs with Y words that I love, like the chorus, YOU ARE MY GOD, which is so very awe-inspiring. Also, the song At Calvary, which starts off: 
YEARS I spent in vanity & pride; caring not my Lord was crucified....Praying that YOU & I both care today...God cared enough to send His Very Best to redeem mankind back to Him..... 

Genesis 3:5: "The Serpent said to the woman, 'YOU surely will not die!...For God knows that in the day YOU eat from it YOUR eyes will be opened, and YOU will be like God."

Satan was speaking to Eve in the Garden of Eden of course. This was the 'first' temptation, for as we (YOU) know, Eve did eat of the 'One' tree God said not to...Probably an Apple Tree...When Adam & Eve partook, mankind lost the close loving relationship with our Creator...Opening the door for 'Sin'..(transgression of God's Law) to enter the world...

Causing God to provide a way through His Son, and His Holy Bible to Redeem (Buy Back!) His 'Crowning Creation'...YOU & even me! Praise God!

Psalm 90:4: For a thousand YEARS in YOUR sight are like YESTERDAY when it passes by, or as a watch in the night.

Psalm 65:11: YOU have crowned the YEAR with YOUR bounty, and YOUR paths drip with fatness.

Matt.6:19-21: Do not store up for YOURSELVES treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for YOURSELVES treasures in Heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; for where YOUR treasure is, there YOUR heart will be also....

Feeling confident that 'All Christians' take to heart the following admonition I saw on a church sign once:
YOU were born to win;
You were told to tell...
YOU were saved to serve

Matt. 11:29-30: Take my YOKE upon YOU and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU will find rest for YOUR souls, for my YOKE is easy and my burden is light. 

(There is No comparison between the YOKE of Sin and the YOKE of God...The first brings misery & death..... the second, Joy & Life, both Now & Forever!)

Godspeed to YOU my friends.

Day 23...W WORDS in 26 Days of A.R.

The Apostle Peter mentions those that have turned away from God, and compares them to a sow that has been WASHED... returning to her WALLOWING in the mire. (2 Peter 2:22)...
Day 23...'W' Day in my Alphabetical Resoluting 2018...And as Simon Peter said to Jesus in John 6:38: "Lord to WHOM shall WE go, You have the WORDS of eternal life."...(My WIFE & I had WORDS once, but I didn't get to use mine.)..LOL..
Praying WE WILL look to God today and WORSHIP Him on this WONDERFUL day God has given us.

WHERE Could I Go But To The Lord? Other Songs of WORSHIP: WE Are One In The Spirit, WE Bow Down, WE Praise Thee O God, What A Friend WE Have In Jesus, WHEN WE All Get To Heaven, WHERE He Leads Me, WONDERFUL WORDS Of Life, WHITER Than Snow, WHEN The Roll Is Called Up Yonder...(All Teachers love this one & since I taught school for 36 years, just wondering how many Roll Calls I made... But my favorite 'W' Words song is WHEN I Survey The WONDROUS Cross...

Romans 8:25: But if WE hope for that WE see not, then do WE WITH patience WAIT for it.

In the Garden, Jesus told His disciples to WATCH WHILE He WENT into the Garden to pray...WHEN He returned HE found them asleep, and said,

"WHAT, could ye not WATCH WITH Me one hour?

WATCH and Pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is WILLING, but the flesh is WEAK.
(Matt. 26: 40-41)

Psalm 143:8: Cause me to know the WAY WHEREIN I should WALK.

Mark 4:41: "WHAT manner of Man is this that even the WIND and the WAVES obey Him?"..

Thus said the men on board the ship WHEN Jesus calmed the Raging Storm on the Sea of Galilee.

Romans 6:23: The WAGES of sin is death, but the Gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

John 3:5: Except a man be born of WATER and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God...(Every person that became a Christian in the Book of Acts WAS Baptized..)...Hm-m-m..Must have been a requirement for Salvation... as the Ethiopian Eunuch told Phillip, after Phillip taught him:
"SEE, here is WATER, WHAT doth hinder me to be Baptized?"

(WHEN WE Obey God's Commands, He performs a 'Saving Operation')...
Col. 2:12: "Buried WITH Him in baptism, WHEREIN also you are risen with him through the faith of the Operation of God, WHO has raised Him from the dead.

Rev. 22:17: WHOSOEVER WILL let him partake of the WATER OF LIFE freely.

Gal. 6:9: Let us not be WEARY in WELL doing; for in due season WE shall Reap, if WE faint not.

Godspeed! 
Let us WORK For The Night Is Coming....
WHEN man WORKS no more...