Morningside Devotionals

View on Vocaroo >>   Remember the courage to overcome. Overcoming is part of faith. When people read the statement in Hebrews, that faith is the evidence of things hoped for, they don't realise that that's a description of courage.  Because anytime that you determine that something actually needs to take place, because it's self-evident. We hold these truths to be self-evident. One of the things about self evidentiary, uh, matters is that it takes courage to jump into them. Let me make that make sense. When you are faced with things that you recognise are evil in their nature and should be corrected, because your faith eyes see them, it takes courage, remember that.  Courage to act upon what you realise what you see and what you hear. So what you're doing is you're recounting the times that your eyes were opened. And your ears were opened and you saw and heard with faith. Don't expect that during those times people are going to applaud your actions....

View on Vocaroo >>   Remember the importance of your presence and the things that you talk about 'n discuss with your disciples; with your learners. You wanna remember that you're pointing them back to Jesus?  As you get involved in their lives, your task is to be with your Saviour and to listen to the Holy Spirit. And to guide your learners to Jesus, that's making disciples, your job is not to do anything else. Because if you get into doing anything else, that's going to be on your own time; and do you have any of your own time? Remember who's life it actually is; remember who's heartbeat it actually is; who's food it is; who air who's everything it is who's life it is we owe our lives to Christ. We are the creation of God, the father. And we do not own anything. We are just sojourners travelling through this existence, and our purpose remember is to do what make disciples off Matthews end chapter of chapter 28.  Recount, The Times that...

View on Vocaroo >>   Are there difficulties in following Jesus? There are; there are many difficulties in following Jesus, not to mention some that are more  and some that are less distracting and less difficult, but following Christ is never easy.  First of all, the word became flesh and dwelt among us. We take that to mean in Jesus as the incarnate. But there's a tertiary meaning to that, which is you, you're a physical being so when you read the Bible, you're reading the word Jesus is the Logos; the word; and it becomes physical when it imparts its power of truth to you, then Holy Spirit interacts with you.  So remember that one of the things that you're a part of is following Christ. You're following him through the word of God through the Bible, through the holy spirits guidance.  So it's not so easy to get off track, but we do get off track, and so one of the things we want to recount, one of the things we want to recount in awareness; is the ti...

View on Vocaroo >>   Sure fire you ever hear something called a sure fire cure for something, was it? How often are sure fire cures really cures? Remember Aha, yes, that's right, remember; that those things that are often called surefire turn out to be fires that had water poured on them.  And one of the things that if we have described as working at, in remembering is remembering with a purpose, remembering with some subtlety and some nuance to it, because we control the memory process, we control what we remember and how we remember it, we control the things that we choose to make significant. And sure fire cures I'm pretty much sure  are guaranteed not to work, aren't they?  So as you're recounting your walk with Jesus, and you're recounting the things that you're remembering recount to things, count them again The Times that so-called surefire. Things it didn't work out. And then take a look at the many things that he accomplished in the mi...

View on Vocaroo >>   Ever get dried lips? I get dry lips all the time. They get cracked even sometimes. And so I use a product called a chapstick@ there's other products Vaseline@, etc.   I'm just a chapstick guy, I like it. So I went and bought two, because with me; I'm going to always leave one somewhere, and do not remember -what? Remember(?)Yeah, not remember where I put it, but I'll remember where the other one is. And I'll go get it.  So with 2 of them, you'd think that I would always have somewhere around where I needed a chapstick. In a nutshell. I managed to wear one of them out, so I was down to just 1 and keeping knowing where that was at;  and lo and behold, somehow it got misplaced. Or got left in a pocket of a Jean somewhere, and I didn't remember where?  So when it comes to recounting things that seem oddly miraculous like odd reminders, this morning, I'm doing wash, and I look at the bottom of the wash basket after I get the ...

View on Vocaroo >>   In one of the scriptures, Paul says, I must be out of my mind to talk to you people this way. And he's talking about his experiences with serving Jesus and the various things that have happened to him; how many times he's been whipped, how many times he's been shipwrecked, and he says that it sounds like boasting at some point and that he would never want to be guilty of boasting. Except in what?  Except in the strength of Jesus, because Paul had realized that when he is weak, Jesus is strong, and there is an ancillary statement to that that we want to remember, we're talking about, remembering it, and what we want to remember is: We're weak. We are weak. And that's beyond honesty and beyond confessional, it's beyond the fact that we're sinners, who find it nearly impossible to escape the lies of satan, he's clever, so we do sin.  But we can what confess and Jesus does what? Forgives and so when we come to recounting...

View on Vocaroo >>   Remember that there are times when what we want to be is still and remember that being still, it's something that actually needs to be practiced certainly in our age, certainly in the United States of America in 2025. Being still is very far from the norm, it would seem there's an awful lot of noise in our culture. For example, almost everything is portrayed with music in midst. You almost never go into any situation without some music in the background somehow being involved in life. I think we got trained to experience that through the movies of the 50 60s and 70s and the 9 into the 80s, 90s in 2000 etc. All of those stories had music in the background. Called background music.  So when we recount those times that we're remembering situations where we were trying to be still, it might be helpful to recount the fact that there are very few moments, where we're not somehow trying to interject music into a life that may not have music. Bec...

View on Vocaroo >>   You may hear some background noise in this recording, because I'm recording on our porch outside. Hearing all the great sounds of nature birds chirping, the wind blowing; whispering through the trees. Surrounded by all this beauty surrounded by these miracles. I'm often reminded, Ah, remember, I'm often reminded of the miraculous powers that we're in the midst of that, we do not realize. So remembering is a way of fronting or bringing to the forefront of your consciousness; it's the miraculous, uh, experience that we are in the assemblage of.  So much matter in creation, in a constant creative force. And what this realization can help us with is a recount of a day. You know, this moment on this porch saying, these things with you that is, in effect, a miracle and it is no small thing to recognize what is actually taking place in terms of creation. We call God Elohim, creator God, almighty. God. We say that almost as a by word or a ...

View on Vocaroo >>   What's the most beautiful place that you've ever seen? The place that just takes your breath away. I can think of so many really beautiful places in nature that I've seen, and some places it architecturally, made by man that I've seen like the Cathedral at Rheims, France; takes your breath away.  The Grand Canyon takes your breath away, really beautiful, magnificent things that are so big and so massive and so awesome and so pretty when you remember them. They bring back that sense of breathlessness, an anticipation in your life. That's a massively important aspect of our emotional component of happiness and joy, isn't it?  When we talk about recounting, that's a moment where you think about that miraculous reconnection, that just took place, you've thought about something so totally beautiful and so magnificent that it took your breath away, and for a moment, your mind goes back to that point and you recount that and is that...