This week's inspiration...

"An idea is like a virus, resilient, highly contagious. And even the smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you." ~  Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) Inception 

"...By testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect." 

Christ says in John 14:15, "If you love Me, keep My commandments." 

"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind..." Romans 12:2

"Evidence" by Josh Baldwin  listen and watch here

"Face to Face" by Natalie Grant listen and watch here or here for the lyric version

"Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible." Ephesians 6:24

Happy Birthday to Lynette Groton Long Point dive in November!

It takes the love of God to keep the commandments in the spirit—Intent—and It is love working and active when they are kept." source

"Joy heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones." Proverbs 17:22

"Keep His commandments is expressing love. It is working, in action." 1 John 5:3 

"Law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple; the precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes..." Psalm 19:7 

"May our minds, hearts, and our patterns of being be fully renewed. May our souls be filled with the intense abiding presence of God. May this (Kingdom of God) be our deepest desire, our constantly tuned focus (vision) and our treasure that we bring to bear (ointment applied to feet and poured upon the head) to heal the hearts of many. May God give us this bread daily to feed every need." Amen

"Not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasure, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man." Ephesians 6:24

"Old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. —2 Corinthians 5:17⠀

"Put to death, therefore,  your memories which are upon the earth" ~ Colossians 3:5

 Quinnipeag Ave. Quinnipeag Rocks, New London

Renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created [me]." ~ Colossians 3:10

"Seashell in the Sand"  by Jackie Law
“This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left. Isaiah 30:21

Underlying feelings are settled conditions that lie beneath feelings. P. 86 Renovation of the Heart in Daily Practice

Visible manifestation of God: Shekinah 

"Walking with God and Misty" photo by me

break out of our little world of eXperience and step into abandoned devotion to Him... He can present us faultless before the throne of God, ineXpressibly pure, absolutely rectified and profoundly justified. Stand in absolute adoring faith in Christ Jesus, who became for us "wisdom from God, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption." ~ My Utmost for His Highest on Scribd 

"Your part is to be so rightly related to God that His discernment comes through you all the time for the blessing of another soul."  ~ My Utmost for His Highest on Scribd

Zeal: diligence and discipline