ELEVATED WAY☝️✝️💎📖

this book i’m reading “Practicing the Way. BE WITH JESUS. BECOME LIKE HIM. DO AS HE DID” by John mark comer has been great. and what he’s written Hits a lot on the head…..the RED LETTERS are clear when you study them. and it’s important that we are not self deceived. there’s a lotta “christian’s” apparently in the world….but how many consider themselves HIS APPRENTICE?! HIS STUDENT? HIS DISCIPLE ?? what a privilege it is for real …. all the benefits of FOLLOWING THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE…. FOLLOWING THE WAY…. it’s more than beliefs…. it’s more than do’s and don’ts…… it’s A WAY OF EVERY DAY LIFE…. HIS HAND IS AVAILABLE TO WHOEVER WANTS TO TAKE IT…..

2024, and the past is over. we only have the Present, which dictates our future (on earth and eternity). let the new YEAR bring in the NEW you!! a NEW PEACE, a NEW real tangible JOY, a NEW PATIENCE, a NEW KINDNESS… some NEW STRENGTH, a NEW PERSPECTIVE, some real HEALING, whether it’s in your heart, mind, body, or relationships. most of all, may you experience a NEW LOVE!!!! a new love for yourself , for others, but most of all, a new and deeper love for GOD. my prayer is that you embrace the CRAZY NEVER ENEDING LOVE that GOD has for you. breathe it in every morning, evening, every week, all of 2025 , and every year after all the way thru eternity!!! be blessed. i love ya world ❤️

a song “no impossible with you” inspired a little tangent, that goes hand in hand with an amazing moment in time. found in daniel 3. when those who “went thru the fire”, were protected by GOD, and reminded, HE IS WITH THEM. be blessed

this is just a part 2 tangent of the last podcast. MAY WE BE HUMBLE, and reject ALL FORMS OF PRIDE!

had to clarify something from the youtube short #2 .

IF we receive HIS light… it’ll naturally reflect to those around us. but if we are in the darkness, there will be no fruit, and nothing will get done for the Kingdom. nothing will be done for eternity. what did He mean “shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life ?”

could darkness be idolatry ? pride ? slothfulness? …. and what does it look like to have “the light of the life?” fruit of the SPIRIT? be blessed

The power of life and death is in our tongue. OUR WORDS are powerful. i’ve mentioned this before , but we all need a reminder including myself. They can build up, and they can tear down. SPEAK LIFE. SPEAK KINDNESS. SPEAK LOVE 💯

i let part my new favorite song play in the beginning (Hard fought hallelujah by Brandon Lake). the lyrics are very fitting for my family & I, as we go thru this rough szn of life. i don’t think there’s anything harder in life than to watch your loved one’s go thru suffering. sometimes ya gotta fight thru the pain n suffering and questioning, and just find a reason(s) to PRAISE GOD, cause HE doesn’t change. i will never stop prayingX never stop believing for the good outcome. i appreciate the recent prayers of all friends and family . side note: there is some serious peace in His presence. be blessed. love ya world ❤️💯

just got the news that mom dukes now has cancer too. i won’t stay stuck on the problem, the obstacle. i will trust God to see her thru it. may the Lord get us all thru all of the B/S life throws at us. our faith will be tested, but GOD is right beside us, every moment of every day, now and FOREVER .

just words from the heart. be blessed

rachel was chillin eatin her ramen, so i figured id press record and ask her the verse she’s remembered and loves to repeat to me at least twice a day.😀 child like faith , nothing like it 😀🎄🎁❤️