This Side of the Whirlwind: Walk the Walk

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Don't Be Afraid!, Love

Here’s Your Chance!

You know how – at times – we’re looking for ways to show our Christian love and charity to our fellow man/woman/kiddo…?

Just like you wouldn’t want to kiss a cat with sticky lips…

(You know I mean – your lips being sticky – not the cat’s lips.  That would be gross) 😦

You wouldn’t want to kiss this opportunity to show your Christian love and charity goodbye.  This is the perfect opportunity for us to live the talk of our faith.  Demonstrate the love God He has sewn in us to all those people who know you’re a living breathing Christian, right?

After all, if we (the Christians) get sick and die the worse thing that happens to us is that we join the Lord in paradise.  Where’s the down side?

1 Corinthians 15:55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

So get out there and share, share, share HIS love and mercy! 

   

Good chatting with ya!

 

This Side of the Whirlwind: Prophetic Confirmation?

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Hearing God’s Voice

Hi Whirlwind Fans.

I am opening Doors for you?

By the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established (2 Corinthians 13:1).

February 9^th 2020, as I was playing my guitar and worshiping the Lord I received this Word, “I am opening doors for you.”  This Word from the Lord was followed by a vision where I was playing at Reid Park, in Tucson, Arizona.  I was set up somewhere near the Southwest section of the park just off the corner of 22^nd St. and Country Club Rd.  In the vision I was sitting at the side of a Ramada simply playing Worship and Praise music.  A short distance away was a sign on a post which read: Come and Worship the Lord with Steve Harrel.

Now for anyone who has read our “True-Life series #5-#7” you’ll understand the significance of that phrase, “I am opening doors for you”.  I had not heard a single whisper from the Lord which included “open doors for you; or eyes that many may see; or ears that many may hear” since that mountaintop experience on the Mogollon Rim of the White Mountains, Arizona.

This Side of the Whirlwind’s: Placement of Faith

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God is Great!, Hearing God's Voice, Love, Meaning of Life

Placement of Faith

Hi Whirlwind Fans.

In one of our last Blogs[1] we touched upon the “Decay Rate of Faith” which is an indicator of how much we actually believe in God and what GOD has written in His Word; you know, the Bible.

The primary question‘s’ posed in the “Decay Rate of Faith” was: do you actually believe what the Bible says.  The blog was premised with this statement:

Our ‘faith’ in God and His Word is directly proportional to how big and powerful we believe or perceive our God to be.

The above statement is true – most however, DON’T know what to do with it!

Eternal Hope? :This Side of the Whirlwind

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From The Heart, Love, Poems

Eternal Hope

Decades passed entrenched in great, deep abiding hope

Decay Rate of Faith: This Side of the Whirlwind

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Decay Rate of Faith

We’re going to begin with this true statement:

Our ‘faith’ in God and His Word is directly proportional to how big and powerful we believe or perceive our God to be.

Does it matter whether a Christian truly believes the Bible’s amazing stories?  What, for example, would it matter if a Christian didn’t believe the Creation or Salvation stories?

This Side of the Whirlwind: Flowers’ Heir

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Flowers’ Heir

Remember, our needs are met in Christ Jesus even as the Flowers of the field.

It’s just that sometimes we don’t feel or understand where God is going with our lives.

For your edification and enjoyment…

Flowers’ Heir

In great beauty you are spun from soil and air,

Light from distant sun and seed of formers fair;

Then with great beauty once again you are spun,

Until in your juniors your face smiles towards distant sun.

 

This Side of the Whirlwind: Just Let it Rise

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From The Heart, Love, Meaning of Life, Steven R. Harrel for This Side of the Whirlwind

Just Let it Rise!

Let the beauty of your walk with God rise within you.

• Fill your heart with worship for His glorious name.

Let your spirit rejoice for His Spirit resides within you.

• Communion, Spirit and Soul,
• Singing “Meet me oh Lord; draw me near to YOU!”

Let your mouth shout His praises – for His glories fill all worlds.

• Then bow both heart and knees to His divine purpose in you.

Let your fears be surrendered – walking in faith – knowing – He will take action as He sees fit!

• Then take your peace for it comes when we truly trust the Lord.

Let your words and actions bespeak your walk in Him.

• Then truly bend your life to seeking Him in all His ways:
• Seek HIM in the morning
• Seek HIM for a move of His hand in your every day
• Rejoice in Jesus for He is THE Savior.
• Seek HIM for HE is good!

Let the beauty of your relationship with our Creator rise within you!

                                  Just Let It Rise!

By: Steven R. Harrel                                                               Finished 10/21/2019

This Side of the Whirlwind: Shaped and Transformed Into?

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Shaped and Transformed Into?

What are you learning?

If you were called upon to prepare a group of people for a wide-ranging existence…

Where they needed to love the unlovable and show kindness to those who did not seem to deserve kindness…

What kind of environment would you prepare for your people?

Would you not create an environment where the principles and characteristics of kindness and love were not generally displayed and seldom offered on a daily basis?

 

Wouldn’t you instead put your people face to face with

This Side of the Whirlwind: Oh God, What If?

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From The Heart, Hearing God's Voice, Love

Oh God, What If?

The Quest:

Oh God, what if –

I were to You obey –

With all my life, through all my days,

endure my cross, obey Your will,

regardless the pain or strife I feel

Bear humiliations and sorrow’s

cold breath

Brave disgrace and live bereft

Face the choice of a martyr’s short, short life

Just to live my life for Christ?

To Sacrifice:

The Cheesy Religion Part 6

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The Cheesy Religion

Part 6

(A short story by Steven R. Harrel)

Tom pulled Joe up eye to eye and said to his face, “Joe, I’m ordering you to take me to Shire; it’s of the utmost importance!”

“Yes sirs, Mister Tom.”

 

“I means, yes Sirs Captain Tom sir”.  Joe just shrugged his shoulders and then left the powder-cart on the side of the road.  “Comes dhis a way Captain, we haves ta go up dhat dhere road to reach Shire”.  Joe points up the road to where many of the refugees were heading.

As Tom and Joe began walking towards Shire, the Sergeant intercepted them, inquiring with his deep Southern accent, “Pardon me Sir!” The sergeant salutes Tom, “May I ask where you’re takin’ my Powder-Nigger?”

At first, Tom was offended, even set-back by the callused manner in which the sergeant referred to Joe; still, after a moment’s thought he remembered when and where he and Joe were.  Tom replied, “I have need of this nigger, Sergeant!  You will get someone else to resupply your powder cart.  Is that understood?”