Photo by MS O’NeillThat Your Joy May Be Full
The Joy of the Lord…
Can you imagine what the Lord’s Joy is like…?
Not sensual, no manipulative motive, it is open and honest, His Joy shines bright…
Pure, unadulterated, clean, refreshing like the morning light
A breath of dawn, holy inhaled, then exhaled, exuberant flight…
His Joy is full; it’s a penetrating delight…
Like peppermint, refreshing and cool…
Like a summer rain, and a dip in the pool…
Running in fields of soft lush grass
His Joy lasts….
Like flowers bursting open in Spring
Allow his Joy to sing….
His Joy is like, first love’s kiss
His Joy is never remiss…
His Joy He freely gives…
Open your heart, to His…
~Marla Shaw O’Neill January 2, 2018
The Soul Takes Flight Poetry by: MS O’Neill
John 15:10-12 Tree of Life Version (TLV)
If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and your joy may be full.
“This is My commandment, that you love one another just as I have loved you.
Spirit of Joy
January 2, 2018
When someone would criticize me and I’d let it upset me. My mom would say, “be like a duck, just let it roll off your back…”
Years later I understood why she would say that.
When a duck is swimming or out in the rain, the bird secretes an oil from glands near its tail. With its bill, the duck rubs the oil over its body.
The oil keeps the water from soaking through the duck’s feathers, making the bird “waterproof.”
So, the water didn’t affect the duck. Someone’s critical opinion is like the water. Let the oil of the Holy Spirit saturate your being, his oil will cause the fiery darts to just roll off your back.
No matter what comes at you on a daily basis, and it will come…let the oil of Joy, be applied to your heart and mind, and the offence will just roll off your back. Be a duck!!!
Psalm 30:4-6 GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)
Make music to praise the Lord, you faithful people who belong to him.
Remember his holiness by giving thanks.
His anger lasts only a moment.
His favor lasts a lifetime.
Weeping may last for the night,
but there is a song of joy in the morning.
When all was well with me, I said,
“I will never be shaken.”
Psalm 45:7New International Version (NIV)
You love righteousness and hate wickedness;
therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions
by anointing you with the oil of joy.
Words for 2018 Celebrate, Happy, Joy
Today is January 1, 2018, Happy New Year!
So last year the Lord gave me a word for 2017, it was the word ‘Write.’
So I wrote.
This morning before getting out of bed I asked the Lord what my word is, for 2018. Now I don’t hear an audible voice, it’s more like a perception. But his voice is very distinctive like a thought but heavier…is the only way I know to describe it.
He said, ‘It is more than just a word. Be happy; joyful. This year will be a year to celebrate. Be involved. Take action.”
I don’t know exactly what he has in mind, but I am willing and open for this year’s adventure…
Taking one day at a time…I will rejoice and be glad.
And I invite you all to come along for a joyful, happy year!
~Marla Shaw O’Neill January 1, 2018
Philippians 4:4-8 King James Version (KJV) Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.
Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Three Hundred Sixty five in 2017
As I sit here with only a few hours of 2017 left I listen to fire crackers going off in the distance. I’ve posted 364 posts in my blog this will be the 365th for this year. It occurs to me that I have no idea if people actually read this blog. I know a few do because they have liked it, and some have even commented on some of them. But that doesn’t matter.
Last year God gave me a word for the New Year of 2017. (Challenged by the group, Christian Poets and Writers) I prayed and it was the word “write”. Each morning as I would wake I’d hear the Holy Spirit speak different things to my heart. I’d get up, eat something then I’d write. I didn’t want to just write about random things…I wanted to write what God wanted me to write. I hope and pray that if you have read these posts that they have encouraged you maybe even inspired you. My heart’s desire is to please the Lord. He is my reason for living. I will turn 64 on January 3, 2018. To tell you the truth I’m really amazed that God has blessed me with this many years. I am also grateful. I don’t know what 2018 holds for this world, but I certainly know who holds 2018 in the palm of His hand. I accepted the Lord Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior when I was about six years old, baptized when I was about eight, and was filled gloriously with my prayer language when I was twelve. I take what he has given me very serious. I knew that I was a sinner and I wanted to be born again. I didn’t understand everything and I didn’t have to…all I had to know was that I accepted Jesus into my heart, that He is the Son of God and I wanted to make Him the Lord of my life. From that point on, my life had meaning and purpose.
I’ve made many mistakes along the way…and I’m sure I’ll make some more before he calls me home. But this I know beyond a shadow of a doubt…I am His child and I am forgiven. I never, ever want to walk away from him or the calling he has on my life.
Romans 8:1-5 New International Version (NIV) Life Through the Spirit
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.
God bless you my friends…I pray you know Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior and if you do not, it only takes a moment and you can know him. Confess to Him you are a sinner, tell him you want him to come into your heart and that you believe he is God’s only begotten son, and ask him to be the Lord of your life. He will do it in a heartbeat. Find a Church that teaches the Word of God and let the Holy Spirit lead and guide you. I promise you, you won’t regret it.
Lord, be with everyone who reads this blog. You be lifted up O Lord, be glorified and honored for without you we are nothing. Thank you, Jesus. Amen.
I hope you come again!
Love and blessings in the coming New Year! May it be happy and you have great success. Most of all I hope you meet Jesus.
~Marla Shaw O’Neill December 31, 2017
From One of My Mama’s Journals – 2012
With two posts to go to reach my goal for the year 2017, on December 31, 2017, I am going to write from one of my mother’s journals. She’s in heaven now but her words are still heard loud and clear. She preached for over fifty years…in honor of my mom, here ya go!
WORDS
Words can be destructive, if they are not faith words.
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, Oh, Lord my strength and my redeemer.
Words heal or kill.
Don’t yell, when you are angry people are watching, we can be a good or a bad influence.
Gen.1:1 In the beginning God, created the heaven and the earth
Gen. 1:3 God spoke and said: Let there be light—and there was light…
Gen. 1:6 God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters and let it divide the waters from the waters
Gen. 1:9 God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place and let the dry land appear and it was so.
John 8:31 and 32 Jesus said to the Jews which believed on Him…If you continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed. And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.
John 8:31…If ye continue in my words…Jesus never encouraged his disciples to place confidence in the mere fact of past faith or experience, It is only as we continue in HIS WORD that confidence in salvation is warranted. Genuine Disciples of Christ continue to obey the words of Christ.
John 15:6 New International Version (NIV) If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.
Prayer: “Lord, help us to continue in your word. Let your word abide in us richly, so that we will not back slide or offend you. You are able to keep that which we have committed unto you, I love you Lord Jesus.
~Pearl Jeannette Gandy Holman in the year – 2012
Salvation Only Through One Name
I have nothing of real value to give you, nothing for your eyes to behold, no precious gems, no silver, no gold…
No earthly possessions worth very much, nothing to mend a broken heart or make you whole or such…
But I have something more precious than rubies, finer than the finest gold, more valuable than all the money, or trinkets, you could hold.
To the sick it is a healing fountain, to the lost salvation free….To the blind, deaf and dumb it is a miracle you see.
To the prisoner with shackles and bars, it is freedom to reach for the stars…
To the dying it is life
To the lonely a husband or wife
To the destitute a new beginning of hope
To the mute he can talk
I have no silver or gold to give to you, but this one think I know
That in the name of Jesus Christ you can rise-up and walk…
Walk in faith and victory
Worship the King of Glory
His value surpasses all wealth
He’ll give you freedom, peace and good health…
But do not follow for what you can obtain from him
Riches, fortune or fame
There’s no greater gift you can ever receive than to be delivered in Jesus name!
~Marla Shaw O’Neill July 2, 1988
Acts 4:12 The Message (MSG)
With that, Peter, full of the Holy Spirit, let loose: “Rulers and leaders of the people, if we have been brought to trial today for helping a sick man, put under investigation regarding this healing, I’ll be completely frank with you—we have nothing to hide. By the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the One you killed on a cross, the One God raised from the dead, by means of his name this man stands before you healthy and whole. Jesus is ‘the stone you masons threw out, which is now the cornerstone.’ Salvation comes no other way; no other name has been or will be given to us by which we can be saved, only this one.”
The Wounded Angel – 1997
See her there, broken and wounded
Shattered hopes and dreams of ever flying
As I looked closer I could see her tattered broken wing…
The pain she bore was pain that could not heal.
Wounded angel dry your tears
Wounded angel you have nothing to fear
Help is coming and soon you’ll be flying away
To new heights on heavens highway…
You will soar with mended wing
Over mountains and plains, you’ll see the bright and morning star
All your hurts and pain will be over
As your wing is made brand new and your strength restored
The wounded angel is made whole
She is free from the pain and hurt that held her bound
Her wings are open, soaring high, a beautiful sight to see
The wounded angel is flying
You see, that wounded angel, was me!
~Marla Shaw O’Neill – written in November 1997
Isaiah 40:31 New International Version (NIV) …but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
