In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.

² Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.

³ And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.

⁴ The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.

⁵ And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.

⁶ After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.

⁷ After this I saw...

Choose wisely. Choose life in Him

Ahh, the hamster wheel. I'm mesmerized by the little creatures endlessly running on their wheel as a never ending treadmill when I go into pet shops.

They seem to enjoy the exercise and jump off when they tire of it. I've noticed for us humans, we too, can easily find ourselves on the "hamster wheel" of life, an endless treadmill of activity going nowhere.

However, we don't seem to figure out how to get off that never-ending cycle of hyper activity.

Watching myself and others over the years it appears that there are several factors that determine our need to stay on "the wheel." I want to address only one of them in this blog. It becomes addictive. We may not enjoy it any longer but now we are addicted to the cycle of continuous chaos and activity. It has become our new normal. We unconsciously or consciously choose to remain irregardless of the detriment to our health, family life and spirituality.

Like an addict we return to our substance of...

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Psalm 84:11-12

NKJV

For the Lord God is  a sun and  shield;

The Lord will give grace and glory;

 No good thing will He withhold

From those who walk uprightly.

O Lord of hosts,

 Blessed is the man who trusts in You!

 

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Galatians 5:6

NKJV

For  in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but  faith working through love.

The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.

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Habakkuk 3:17-19

NKJV

17 Though the fig tree may not blossom,

Nor fruit be on the vines;

Though the labor of the olive may fail,

And the fields yield no food;

Though the flock may be cut off from the fold,

And there be no herd in the stalls—

18 Yet I will  rejoice in the Lord,

I will joy in the God of my salvation.

19 The Lord God is my strength;

He will make my feet like  deer’s feet,

And He will make me  walk on my high hills.

To the Chief Musician. With my stringed instruments.

The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.

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Isaiah 50:7

NKJV

“For the Lord God will help Me;

Therefore I will not be disgraced;

Therefore  I have set My face like a flint,

And I know that I will not be ashamed.

 

I Timothy 1:8-17

NKJV

8 But we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully, 9 knowing this: that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 10 for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound...

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Romans 10:17

NKJV

So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

 

Hebrews 10: 19-25

NKJV

19 Therefore, brethren, having  boldness to enter  the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20by a new and  living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, 21 and having a High Priest over the house of God, 22 let us  draw near with a true heart  in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for  He who promised is ...

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HEBREWS 12

NKJV

1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses,  let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and  let us run  with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith,  who for the joy that was set before Him  endured the cross, despising the shame, and  has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

 

3 For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself,  lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls. 4 You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin....