Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and My laws in accordance with the entire Law which I laid down for your fathers and delivered to them through My servants the Prophets. Second Kings 17:13c

Wig’s Word of God Today 6-25-2012

Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and My laws in accordance with the entire Law which I laid down for your fathers and delivered to them through My servants the Prophets. Second Kings 17:13c

Second Kings 17:5-18, Psalm 60 & Matthew 7:1-5

I am up early today returning to South Florida after an amazing weekend in the LORD at the South Jersey Emmaus Retreat in Vineland, NJ. The weekend was an opportunity to glorify the LORD in all things as I was given an occasion to give a witness of my life’s journey on my own Walk to Emmaus. I am including today my Palanca to the group of men who encountered Christ time-and-time again this weekend allowing our hearts to burn with the “Fire of His Love.” I am hopeful we can see in this the joy of serving the LORD without creating smoke screens to mask selfish acts of lust, greed and sin. Please note there will never be any “grey area” of God’s Truth as pointed out to the team of men noting such topics as abortion, marriage and lust. God is asking us all to turn from our wicked ways to find His Truth of Salvation guided by Laws of morality. Will you help America get its bearings straight and follow God’s Word to the letter?

We all have seen some amazing miracles of God. I pray you can all begin to see God’s Divine Plan for each of you is more in focus than it ever was before. Please know God’s Truth has no grey areas and can only give Truth where untruths seem to take over. When in doubt, turn to your brother’s in Christ and seek discussions of morality, joy and peace never being afraid of human opinion. God’s love can be displayed in every aspect of your life. Your family needs to feel this from the leader of the family in more ways than one allowing Truth to reign in your actions, thoughts and deeds. Live by Christ’s example of charity and your family will respond in kind.

Be not afraid of to go the extra mile for Jesus in every way possible. Maybe that means helping with the kids more. Maybe that means doing the dishes when you’re tired for your wife. Maybe, just maybe, that means taking the time to read Scripture, poetry and words of faith, hope and love weekly or daily in your family’s life. Whatever it is, find the time to live in Christ’s Light for everything you do. As you go forward, you’ll see a daily Scripture study from me that may give you the ability to find the Bible a part of your everyday life in brevity. I include often my own experiences of going above and beyond the call of duty to show real examples of living your life for Christ and how easy and rewarding it really is.

I affectionately call it: “Wig’s Word of God Today” and I include poetry I write in Honor of God’s Truth and His Word. Please know you can call on me for any prayer at any time in response to my daily study. Be encouraged in Christ and live for the Glory of God the Father. Amen. As I close in prayer, I will write a small poem to reflect His Light to brighten your night and your future with His Truth.

Dear God, we pray all men of this NJ Emmaus know Your Truth to be a daily guide in all things. We pray for the fire of Your truth to be everything and more to the men of women of America to retake our land of the free. We pray for the NC Emmaus Team preparation. We pray for the Freedom of Religion to reign as our Founding Father’s believed and protected in our Constitution. We pray for our families. In Jesus Name we pray. Amen.

God Bless His Truth for America,

Thomas Joe Cruz-Wiggins

Romans 8:28

Spirit led God inspired Christ fed

 

The Light of Christ in NJ to forever live and seek

His Light will guide you

On every shore

Seek not ugly sin

Never fear God to ignore

 

The future of the Father’s mercy

Has Truth to implore

Be not afraid

Of Christ’s life to adore

 

For everything you witness

When you practice, pray and preach

Allows God’s love to be gifted

For the Salvation of Christ’s reach

 

The Light of Christ in NJ to forever to live and seek

 

© Thomas Cruz-Wiggins June 25, 2012 @ 3:44 AM EST

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Although you have not seen Him you love Him; even though you do not see Him now yet believe in Him, you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy, as you attain the goal of [your] faith, the Salvation of your souls. First Peter 1:8-9

Wig’s Word of God Today 6-24-2012

Although you have not seen Him you love Him; even though you do not see Him now yet believe in Him, you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy, as you attain the goal of [your] faith, the Salvation of your souls. First Peter 1:8-9

Jeremiah 1:4-10, Psalm 71, First Peter 1:8-12 & Luke 1:5-17

Some people ask me often: “How do you get up and write each and every day bringing about new and simple ways of loving the LORD with all your heart and soul?” My “indescribable and glorious joy” is the faith I have in the Salvation of my soul. The feeling is matched constantly by the faith, hope and love I have in the Promise offered to all humanity by the Truth Christ reveals in His Gospel. This feeling is matched here in the Emmaus Retreat where we as followers of Jesus Christ continue to come back to time-and-time again to share this “indescribable joy” you can live and know each every moment of your life.

There is nothing I have ever experienced before that matches the quality of joy I encounter in the Truth we first discover and then share here in this amazing Emmaus Retreat men and women of faith are drawn back to year after year. I live for this feeling I share daily in my Scripture Discernments and in the poetry I share with over a thousand people every day. We all are craving this love and fellowship we find here amongst the crowds of people who say yes to a weekend of companionship we all long for in God’s Only Son of Redemption. In brevity, you will find ways of knowing the LORD Jesus Christ better to walk-the-walk and talk-the-talk of trust, courage and devotion experiencing a life of complete surrender.

Therefore, gird up the loins of your mind, live soberly, and set your hopes completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Like obedient children, do not act in compliance with the desires of your former ignorance but, as He who called you is Holy, be Holy yourselves in every aspect of your conduct, for it is written, “Be Holy because I [am] Holy.” First Peter 1:13-16 Amen!

So we ask in prayer: Dear Amazing LORD, we pray today we can be Holy for the sake of our Salvation sharing Your Son’s Truth in thought, action and deed. We pray today for the men of the NJ Emmaus who are on fire for Your Truth LORD. We pray for safe travels as we head back to our homes and families. We pray for the wisdom to seek You, for the knowledge to live for You and the love to surrender all to Your Truth. We pray for the NC Emmaus Team preparation. We pray LORD for our families. In Jesus Name we pray. Amen.

God Bless His Truth for America,

Thomas Joe Cruz-Wiggins

Romans 8:28

Spirit led God inspired Christ fed

 

Forgiveness and Truth to regain- In respect of Lou Fonseca

 

Most healing are body and soul

Some may to be healed for hell to know

People must know the Truth to sow

The path to Heaven to eagerly grow

 

To lean on your own understanding

Know not the heart of God

His unlimited knowledge of reproof

Learning from the sting of the rod

 

There is no healing is disrespect

Know the healing God to respect

The tongue can ensue neglect

Curb your lips to find His affect

 

I’m sorry are two words connected

Without repenting sorry is neglected

To admire what you suspected

Find people of faith expected

 

God knows your pain

In His time you’ll gain

Gracious and forgiving the same

Forgiveness and Truth to regain

 

© Thomas Joe Cruz-Wiggins June 24, 2012 @ 6:01 AM EST

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No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Matthew 6:24

Wig’s Word of God Today 6-23-2012

No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Matthew 6:24

Second Chronicles 24:17-25, Psalm 89 & Matthew 6:24-34

I find myself today sitting in a small outreach center for spiritual retreats in Vineland, NJ experiencing the joy of Brotherhood in an Emmaus retreat for the boys of South Jersey. I have to admit the love of Christ is full force today amongst people who up to yesterday were complete strangers but now are Brothers in Christ. You can see every type of person here who seeks to accomplish the Will of God by faith, charity and love and I am excited to say each are filled with the Spirit of God. When I look into the eyes of these men, I see men who love one another for what they are and not for what they bring to the table in possessions or money. They have a genuine desire to be devoted to one another serving God to His fullest expectations.

In my life, I have been drawn to the temptations and enticements of toys, noise and financial worth not recognizing the desires of flesh these items can cause in your life until it was too late to stop my progression of selfishness and sin. In my case, the end result was losing everything living on the streets of despair but God had a different plan for me I accepted when I learned to place His Truth in my life first and seek the comforts of faith, hope and love. I know this is one of the reasons why I am drawn to the homeless of the world for I have felt the sting of thorns sleeping in the bushes of a master of sin. I finally learned to love God by knowing myself first in the Glory of God the Father. It is my prayer to accomplish His Will by serving only His Truth and nothing more, nothing less. Amen.

In prayer we ask: Dear LORD, we pray today to seek Your Truth above all else serving only Your Truth as our Master of faith, hope and love. We pray for the NJ Emmaus weekend to be filled with Your Spirit LORD. We pray for the NC Emmaus Team preparations. We pray for Mike the homeless man whose health concerns are immediate. We pray for our wives praying for us at home. In Jesus Name we pray. Amen.

God Bless His Truth for America,

Thomas Joe Cruz-Wiggins

Romans 8:28

Spirit led God inspired Christ fed

 

My Walk to Emmaus set me free- Tribute to Carlos Z.

 

Looked in the mirror

Finding who you are

Defining your daily actions

To increase my heart’s desire

 

Honesty in my presence

Not here to teach my view

No cult of an angle to experience

Living in Christ anew

 

We are here because God calls us

Not to force any beauty of me

My priorities are driven relentless

By God’s love of Eternity I thee

 

I thought I saw the weakness

In men who hugged a fool

My hole in my chest opened

Finding a liar, a cheat, a drool

 

I watched them be a brother

A husband and a friend revealed

I asked God to show His presence

I learned God was in all unconcealed

 

I witnesses guys in friendship

I was scared at first to see

They shared peace I didn’t know to encourage

Loving God through knowing myself for He

My Walk to Emmaus set me free

 

© Thomas Joe Cruz-Wiggins June 23, 2012 @ 6:01 AM EST

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For wherever your treasure is, there will your heart be too. Matthew 6:21

Wig’s Word of God Today 6-22-2012

For wherever your treasure is, there will your heart be too. Matthew 6:21

Second Kings 11:1-4, 9-18, 20, Psalm 132 & Matthew 6:19-23

Where is your treasure as you live your life each day? Are you worried about losing everything you have to some sort of famine, disease or financial meltdown? Many of us work day-to-day experiencing such an anxiety that we seem to lose focus on what we are seeking and why. We tiredly work year-to-year looking to store up as much financial gain utilizing any type of means to accomplish our goal. We stab people in the back to get ahead or use peoples good to accomplish material gain.

We overextend ourselves to accomplish selfish acts of lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride. Yes, you see the Seven Deadly Sins when you live a life of storing your treasures up on earth but Paul reminds us in Galatians 5:19-21 that the list is actually more than seventeen different categories that drives us to experience the worst type of result; you “shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.” Galatians 5:21g

The act of storing up goods on earth is an act of seeking earthly desires of the flesh as noted by Paul in Galatians 5:19-21. “Now the works of the flesh are obvious: immorality, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, rivalry, jealousy, outbursts of fury, acts of selfishness, dissensions, factions, occasions of envy, drinking bouts, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.”

If we’d only begin to understand what it means to store up treasures in heaven then we’d live a life that agrees with God’s Word and aligns our will with His Divine Plan for every part of our life here on earth. To live the Will of God we must seek the Kingdom of Heaven and its reward by taking the time to practice, pray and preach trusting God’s Plan for us. We mustn’t be afraid of acting in our thoughts, action and deed to be a person who shares the tools of Christ’s Salvation never judging but lifting all in prayer to the Will of God. Human Nature works to prove something in life but I see Human Nature as aligning with God’s Truth in storing up treasures for God’s Kingdom. Amen.

In prayer we ask: Dear God, we pray today to seek Your Truth first to accomplish bringing Your love to the treasures we seek here on earth for the glory of Heaven and You. We pray for the NJ Emmaus weekend. May the Fire of Christ burn in us all. We pray for the NC Emmaus Team preparation. We pray for our family, friends and people we share God’s Truth with each day. In Jesus Name we pray. Amen.

God Bless His Truth for America,

Thomas Joe Cruz-Wiggins

Romans 8:28

Spirit led God inspired Christ fed

 

How great is the Treasure stored for Heaven’s delight- Matthew 6:19-23

 

Jesus spoke in Truth of treasures we seek

Here on earth the storing of treasure makes you weak

The decay of life will destroy all from life’s leak

Where thieves break in and steal at life’s peak

 

Jesus reminds us to store up treasures in Heaven

Where nothing rots more so the Bread of Life He leavened

Nor moth or decay succumbs to His Truth they steal

On earth life’s treasures are overcome by Heaven’s appeal

 

You will find your heart in the Treasure of Mine

Says the Son of God by the eye of body’s design

With sound vision of Me the body is filled with Light

Vision of sin causes the body to be darkness to fight

 

How great is the Treasure stored for Heaven’s delight

 

© Thomas Joe Cruz-Wiggins June 22, 2012 @ 6:47 AM EST

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Give us today our daily bread; lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Matthew 6:11 & 13

Wig’s Word of God Today 6-21-2012

Give us today our daily bread; lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Matthew 6:11 & 13

Sirach 48:1-14, Psalm 97 & Matthew 6:7-15

I have met many a person who is has obliged their life to live on the streets of America. I always ask them; “What drove you to the streets?” Many of them will say they lost their job or they were unable to stop their drinking or drugging. Sooner or later we all know any type of addiction will get the best of you and the end result is death. But somehow many of these people live for years on the streets seeking comfort from strangers and family alike as their only means of support.

They stand on corners with signs saying “Please Help, I’m hungry. I will work for food.” Some 0f you may think, “Sure buddy, you’ll work for food.” But believe it or not many will work for food or accept a meal of some sort if you just give them a chance to accept your kindness. For some reason I seem drawn to these people because of my past experience of living homeless, carless and jobless. Experiencing the effects of losing your job, your family and your life seems to hang on and hang on to the life of a homeless person but I know when I learned to focus on Jesus, I found the escape God intended for me.

This happened by the encouragement of someone like you and me who takes the time to stop and pray with those who are lost, lonely and confused by life’s demands on the streets of despair. Someone began praying with me and talking to me daily encouraging me to find God’s Plan for my life and this encouragement led me to Trust God with everything my life has to offer becoming a teacher of God’s Children in an elementary school and a current congressional candidate. I find the LORD leads me to these people who are homeless and I normally take the time to stop and talk to them introducing myself and sitting down with them for some polite Christ-like conversation.

I converse with them to let them know people care and want to help by discussing the love of Jesus. It may seem hard but really it isn’t. In my summer travels this week, the LORD led me to a man in New Jersey named Mike. After talking with him for a few minutes, I learned he is a homeless Veteran who has been living on the streets for five years. I excused myself after asking what he needed learning he could use a new shirt and some socks. I went and bought him a T-shirt, socks and some cold Gatorade for him adding a can of Chef Boyardee to the bag and went back to his little corner of despair.

At first his tears of pain weren’t evident but I struck a chord when I asked to hold his hands and pray with him. As we finished, I looked at him with his eyes closed and tears of joy and pain running down his cheek asking, “Please stand and let me hug you goodbye Mike.” He replied, “I can’t, my knee hurts so bad” as he held on to his cane. “But I’ll hug you from here” opening his arms wide with anticipation. I held him as tight as I could feeling his warmth and desire to hold me just as tight in return when I began whispering in his ear, “be encouraged by Christ’s love daily my friend. God loves you.” Can you hug a stranger today in need? I pray my words of encouragement will let God work through you to provide His Daily Bread to someone who also needs a hug and some conversation guiding them away from Satan’s evil. Be not afraid, God is with you always.  Amen.

So we ask in prayer: Dear LORD, we pray t0day we can be the arms and feet of Your Son’s kindness, forgiveness and love by providing Your daily bread of hope. We pray for the homeless such as Mike. We pray for an elderly woman named Marie my wife and I met in a restaurant last night. We pray for the NJ Emmaus Team and Candidates. We pray for NC Emmaus Team. We pray for Your guidance LORD in all things. In Jesus Name we pray. Amen.

God Bless His Truth for America,

Thomas Joe Cruz-Wiggins

Romans 8:28

Spirit led God inspired Christ fed

 

His Daily Bread for the Homeless in Dismay- Matthew 6:7-15

 

God is asking us all to greet

Each day with His smile to meet

A stranger in need to comfort and seek

His Daily Bread for the lonely and weak

 

God will use you to simply find

The people who are truly blind

Of His Son’s hands and feet of mine

Encouraging all to be eternally kind

 

God can see all to guide and say

Each day is formed to share the Way

To use Christ’s love for us all to lay

His Daily Bread for the Homeless in Dismay

 

© Thomas Joe Cruz-Wiggins June 21, 2012 @ 7:51 AM EST

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Your almsgiving must be secret, and your Father who sees all that is done in secret will reward you. Matthew 6:4

Wig’s Word of Good Today 6-20-2012

Your almsgiving must be secret, and your Father who sees all that is done in secret will reward you. Matthew 6:4

Second Kings 2:1, 6-14, Psalm 31 & Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18

There are times when people have asked me if it’s okay to skip giving the church ten percent because they are traveling through a rough time in their life and find it hard to part with a portion of their earnings because it’s would be difficult to buy enough food to live on. My answer always refers to this Scripture in Matthew as a directive to guide anyone in almsgiving by recognizing what Christ taught humanity through His Disciples when saying, “Your almsgiving must be secret, and your Father who sees all that is done in secret will reward you.”

I like to point out first that God understands all and knows your needs before you seek them as pointed out by Jesus in Matthew 6:8b, “Your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.” I think it’s imperative to note that God has instructed us that He will give back 100 fold the amount you give by your trust in His Truth. Many will say, “But I can’t because it will cause me distress.” God expects us to live a life of surrender in all capacities experiencing His grace by choice of going without sometimes allowing us to find the full effect of living for Him and not our own selfish desires.

By placing God first in all things you WILL experience a life of abundance in the midst of any trial, toughness or tribulation. What I detail as examples of my almsgiving is only a minor portion of what I truly give to God. I provide them to show how easy and rewarding it is to give. Giving to God is not just for the Church; almsgiving of ten percent includes all areas of ministry work you may provide for. Maybe you want the church to divide your money up for you providing help to those in need at their discretion but I personally like to spread my almsgiving out to help those in need and see the results in secret with my LORD.

Place a portion of the ten percent in other areas of God’s Work and give a portion to the church you attend. Find pleasure in giving all to God and He will find pleasure blessing you beyond your wildest imaginations. “Take care not to perform righteous deeds in order that people may see them; otherwise, you will have no recompense from your Heavenly Father.” Amen.

So we ask in prayer: Heavenly Father, we pray today to place our complete trust in You LORD and give until it hurts finding Your grace around every corner of sacrifice. We pray for the NJ Emmaus Team and Candidates. We pray for the NC Emmaus Team. We pray for the wisdom to make choices based on Your Truth. We pray for our families, friends and neighbors. In Jesus Name we pray. Amen.

God Bless His Truth for America,

Thomas Joe Cruz-Wiggins

Romans 8:28

Spirit led God inspired Christ fed

 

For the LORD repays in secret prayer for His Right- Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18

 

Speaking to His Disciples

He warned them not to proceed

Performing righteous deeds

In public for everyone to see

 

Recompense will leave you

The LORD may pass you by

For when you scream too loud

The LORD has a deaf ear to your cry

 

Giving alms should be done in secret

As the Father sees all you give

Don’t win praise of others

Proclaim His Truth to live

 

Giving alms by not knowing

What your left hand is giving from the right

Because the reward God Promises in Heaven

Will be repaid in Secret by His Eternal Light

 

Praying should be done in secret

Sometimes God wants the sight

Of you praying to Him alone

Giving Him all the delight

 

Go inside and close the door

Praying God guide my fight

To live in complete surrender

Not a hypocrite who displays their might

 

The same goes for the fasting

Of pleasing God in His sight

Do not look gloomy like the hypocrite

Anoint your head living clean for His plight

 

For the LORD repays in secret prayer for His Right

 

© Thomas Joe Cruz-Wiggins June 20, 2012 @ 7:04 AM EST

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I say this to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you; so that you may be children of your Father in heaven, for He causes His sun to rise on the bad as well as the good, and sends down rain to fall on the upright and the wicked alike. Matthew 5:44-45

Wig’s Word of God Today 6-19-2012

When Ahab heard these words, he tore his garments and put sackcloth next to his skin and fasted; he slept in the sackcloth; he walked with slow steps. First Kings 21:27

I was born guilty, a sinner from the moment of conception. But You delight in sincerity of heart, and in secret You teach me wisdom. Psalm 51:5-6

I say this to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you; so that you may be children of your Father in heaven, for He causes His sun to rise on the bad as well as the good, and sends down rain to fall on the upright and the wicked alike. Matthew 5:44-45

First Kings 21:17-29, Psalm 51 & Matthew 5:43-48

Sometimes in life we realize way too late how we should have acted when it comes to following the Decrees of our LORD. We know in our heart how important it is to seek something we want but we forgo the necessary steps of seeking God’s approval first when situating our lives around our desires. King Ahab is one of these people who hadn’t placed God first in seeking his desires and selfishly allowed his wife to make decisions for him instead of taking the time to pray and allow the Spirit of the LORD to direct him in his every thought, action and deed.

Upon learning he was “caught,” he immediately began a fast mourning his decision hoping in that in his failed desires to overcome his lack of attention and control he’d repent and mourn his own undesired decisions. The LORD took notice of his sincerity to find remorse in his heart and took pity on him the same way the LORD will take pity on you for making decisions of haste that result in a need to repent. “Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Since he has humbled himself before Me, I shall not bring the disaster in his days.” First Kings 21:29a

Without placing God first in every decision you make, you find your ways of thinking imploring you to ask God for forgiveness living instead in a form of repentance instead of living in an absolute celebration of God’s Eternal Promises. In your sincerity of heart, God will recognize your sorrowfulness and grant you pardon by your belief in His Only Son Christ Jesus. The secret to living in His Grace continually is to establish an absolute technique of surrender in every aspect of your life finding not your own will but God’s Will in His Divine Plan for your life.

Jesus reminds us today we are to eliminate envy from our vocabulary because God’s Divine Plan for humanity allows the rain to fall on the just and unjust but in the end God’s Judgment will fall on every human alive based on a life of faith, hope and love. We must all eliminate resentment from our hearts and live according to His Will accomplishing every aspect of life God has in store for our lives.

When you practice, pray and preach in secret, God’s Wisdom will fall upon you like the soft snow from the sky. This secret of learning to take possession of His Word to find God’s True Joy of an Everlasting Life will make you a True child of God. Amen.

In prayer we ask: Dear LORD, we pray today to live according to Your Decrees to find the wisdom You LORD will grant us by our submission to Your Truth. We pray for the NJ Emmaus Team and Candidates. We pray for our NC Emmaus Team’s preparation. We pray for our own intentions to live in God’s Truth. In Jesus Name we pray. Amen.

God Bless His Truth for America,

Thomas Joe Cruz-Wiggins

Romans 8:28

Spirit led God inspired Christ fed

 

Our Father wants perfection instead of liars- Matthew 5:43-48

 

Jesus teaching His Disciples

Spoke of an old wise tale

People say to love your neighbor

And hate your enemy to fail

 

Jesus said you should love your enemies

Pray for those who will be going to hell

They persecute you in hate from lies

Be a Child of God by your Heavenly Father to tell

 

On all of humanity who are good or lust

All people have free will to find in detail

For the rain gives life to the just and unjust

For God makes the sun rise and fall to smell

 

Loving your neighbors and friends

Aren’t special to God’s human desires

All pagans do the same in life

Our Father wants perfection instead of liars

 

© Thomas Joe Cruz-Wiggins June 19, 2012 @ 8:58 AM EST

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Listen to my cry for help, my King and my God! To You I pray, Yahweh. At daybreak You hear my voice; at daybreak I lay my case before You and fix my eyes on You. Psalm 5:2-3

Wig’s Word of God Today 6-18-2012

Listen to my cry for help, my King and my God! To You I pray, Yahweh. At daybreak You hear my voice; at daybreak I lay my case before You and fix my eyes on You. Psalm 5:2-3

Give to anyone who asks you, and if anyone wants to borrow, do not turn away. Matthew 5:42

First Kings 21:1-16, Psalm 5 & Matthew 5:38-42

When you surrender your life to Christ, you will live according to His Will seeking to please Him above all other desires or wants. It may take many times in our life to recognize this because we are a hard-headed humanity but we must place our trust in God’s Word and seek only Him when asking for help regarding ANY matter we may be up against. I’ve seen many a man or woman who once lived a life of selfish lust, envy and pain yearning to place God first but they are caught in a rut of secular frustrations and temptations.

They see the flash and flair of sins enticement as a false craving stealing their minds and actions to poison their life of selfish living. I recall with vivid exposition the time and place I surrendered my life to His Purpose but I endured many a day and night seeking the lost hope of Satan’s evil ways before taking the time to know He wanted more for me than a fast-paced life and a fleeting high in a dark corner of evil’s turmoil. God wanted me to put my hands up and say, “I’m Yours LORD.”

I’ve seen how a life in Christ has enriched the life of a man of God who takes the time to pray daily in a fashion that I know God is pleased with. I would say it’s a given he prays bef0re every meal but I have witnessed his daily prayer life that I know God loves and enjoys. His prayers are intentional every day to glorify God in all things.

He begins his day in prayer praying often allowing the Holy Spirit to move his design, desires and deeds laying an example for his nine children that mimic his every prayer. He is my father-in-law who will celebrate his ninety-third birthday this year. If only I can follow his footsteps of example, I will lay my life at the foot of His Cross sharing His Redemption with the world seeking the Promise of Eternal Life. Amen.

Dear Yahweh, we pray today to cry out to You LORD day and night to live in Your Son’s example. We pray for the NJ Emmaus Team and Candidates. We pray for NC Emmaus Team’s preparation. We pray for children who are living a life of selfish wants and desires. We pray for personal intentions to fulfill campaign fundraising needs. We pray we can celebrate Your Truth in all we do. In Jesus Name we pray. Amen.

God Bless His Truth for America,

Thomas Joe Cruz-Wiggins

Romans 8:28

Spirit led God inspired Christ fed

 

Surrounding them with a shield of Heaven’s Flame- Psalm 5

 

David proclaimed his wind instruments

To ask the LORD to give ear to his cause

God would understand his sighing

The Truth would hear the cry of applause

 

Praying aloud in the morning

Asking Him to hear his voice

Pleading in prayer and waiting

A God Who deplores any evil choice

 

Not a wicked person finds refuge

Not in You will they find remorse

The arrogant can’t stand before You

You hate all evil with Divine Force

 

Destroying those who speak falsely

The fraudulent man the LORD abhors

I will bow down before You in Your Holy Sanctuary

An abundance of Your mercy my life implores

 

Seeking Your guidance in Your justice

A straight path my way to ensure

My sincerity of love before You

An open grave their corrupt heart scores

 

As You declare them guilty by their own devices

Drive them out for their many sins

In their rebellion they cursed life against You

All who trust You live to begin

 

To forever shout for joy from protection You acclaim

Those who rejoice in You love Your Name

For the LORD will bless those who feel the same

Surrounding them with a shield of Heaven’s Flame

 

© Thomas Joe Cruz-Wiggins June 18, 2012 @ 8:16 AM EST

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Once it is sown it grows into the biggest shrub of them all and puts out big branches so that the birds of the air can shelter in its shade. Mark 4:32

Wig’s Word of God Today 6-17-2012

Every kind of bird will live beneath it, every kind of winged creature will rest in the shade of its branches. Ezekiel 17:23c

And so whether at home or exiled, we make it our ambition to please Him. Second Corinthians 5:9

Once it is sown it grows into the biggest shrub of them all and puts out big branches so that the birds of the air can shelter in its shade. Mark 4:32

Ezekiel 17:22-24, Psalm 92, Second Corinthians 5:6-10 & Mark 4:26-34

When I walk through a grocery store, I am always amazed at the amount of food we see stretched across endless rows of space. There is everything a stomach could want yet do we offer prayers of God’s grace to illuminate every farmer’s miracle of success? Today we discuss with Christ His Parable of the Mustard Seed yet isn’t He speaking of the seeds that He has charged us with to sow, water and harvest for the Kingdom of God?

We live in a world of instant demand where anything we want is available at our fingertips yet do we give thanks for the things of the world we do not see, smell or touch? Imagine if you will the seeds of the earth growing and living to full harvest without the touch of human effort. Does the sequence of growth occur without God’s Divine Hand? You are the hands and feet of God whereby you sow His Truth in everyone around you by your life of faith, hope and deed. We are the trees rooted in His Word to accomplish the sharing of His Seeds to bring forth Christ’s Salvation for the glory of God the Father.

Once it grows, other birds of paradise will find God’s strength and dwell amongst the branches we have grown to support and shade the people of the earth in our circles of family, friends and acquaintances to live for Christ’s Salvation. While we long to go home with the Father, we live in our exile of loyalty to serve with confidence displaying God’s Eternal Adoration for the humanity He created for His Purpose. “And so whether at home or exiled, we make it our ambition to please Him.” Amen.

Today, as we recognize fathers, I urge you to recognize the Father of All as the Master Grower of mankind Who strives to encourage you all in faith, charity and love. Who can you share the Seed of God’s Word with today? Who will you water with the poetry of His Truth? Who will you fertilize with God’s Only Son of Salvation? Remember, Jesus said “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few.” How will you be His laborer of sowing seeds, fertilizing His crops and harvesting His workers for the future of God’s Divine Plan for this amazing universe? Celebrate the Father of all in thought, action and deed and be a farmer of Christ’s Freedom. Amen.

So we ask in prayer: Dear God, we pray today for all fathers but especially You Father Who are the Creator of all. We give you thanks LORD for everything! We pray today to be a farmer of faith, hope and love to spread the Seeds of Hope by the Salvation Your Son offered the world by His Death on The Cross. We pray for NJ Emmaus Team and Candidates. We pray for the NC Emmaus Team. We pray for those we effect with Christ’s Gospel of Truth. We pray our children. In Jesus Name we pray. Amen.

God Bless His Truth for America,

Thomas Joe Cruz-Wiggins

Romans 8:28

Spirit led God inspired Christ fed

 

The Surrender needed to overcome the World’s Despair- Mark 4:26-34

 

Jesus was speaking to the crowds of needs

Comparing the Kingdom to the scattering of seeds

Though a man scatters seed knowing not how they grow

The plants shoot up in the night with leaves by day to show

 

The land wills fruit by Gods own accord

The blade will harvest the needs to horde

As the ear brings about the full grain to need

The harvest is plenty when the sickle reaps its feed

 

How can we compare the Kingdom of God

Is there a Parable for the Truth’s guiding nod

Keep in mind the mustard seed sown to bear

The smallest of seed but largest branch to spare

 

For the birds of the sky will come and dwell in its care

As the shade created will cool their feather’s fair

Disciples will learn the ways to eternally share

The Gospel explained to those in private to dare

 

The Surrender needed to overcome the World’s Despair

 

© Thomas Joe Cruz-Wiggins June 17, 2012 @ 8:27 AM EST

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All you need say is “Yes” if you mean yes, “No” if you mean no; anything more than this comes from the Evil One. Matthew 5:37

Wig’s Word of God Today 6-16-2012

 

All you need say is “Yes” if you mean yes, “No” if you mean no; anything more than this comes from the Evil One. Matthew 5:37

 

First Kings 19:19-21, Psalm 16 & Matthew 5:33-37

 

For far too long, people of all faiths have sat back and allowed the secular world to step on our beliefs as if they are a joke to be laughed at. It is time that we all stand up and become united to overcome the oppression we are feeling in every corner of America and the world to be a people of faith who take action. This should come in our action of planning by our thoughts, action in planning by our prayers, and action in planning in our battle to start saying “yes,” and display action that celebrates His Affirmative Truth.

 

Collectively, we must stop saying “no” to this action of silence for we are allowing the Evil One to dictate our thoughts, actions and deeds when we sit back and allow our Truth in faith to be eliminated. The time is now for our “Yes” to mean yes and our “No” to mean no; “anything more than this comes from the Evil One.” Look into the history of your heart and find the family of hearts that beat just as yours with God’s Eternal Breath of Truth. Will you fulfill the oath or silence your swears?

 

Again, you have heard how it was said to our ancestors; You must not break your oath, but must fulfill your oaths to the LORD. But I say this to you; do not swear at all, either by heaven, since that is God’s throne; or by earth, since that is His footstool.” Matthew 5:33-35a

 

Dear LORD, we pray today our swears are silenced to live a life of action in Your Son’s Name. We pray for the Emmaus Team of NJ. We pray for all signs of you be protected LORD. We pray for the healing of all memories weighing our hearts and minds. We pray for Team NC. We pray Your Light in us finds safe travels, friendly people and forgiving hearts. For in Your Son give us courage to share His Redemption. In Jesus Name we pray. Amen.

 

God Bless His Truth for America,

Thomas Joe Cruz-Wiggins

Romans 8:28

Spirit led God inspired Christ fed

 

With nothing to ever show- Matthew 5:33-37

 

No broken oath’s of Truth

Our ancestors did live

Compromises chosen

His Eternal Heaven digs

 

Swear not against the King of Great

The Great King of Heaven’s Throne

Nor by the earth will you spat

For its mountains hold His footstool home

 

The great city of Jerusalem

Holds the King’s eternal heart

Life triumphed over death

The King of Kings got His start

 

Find in Him the yes to mean yes

Grant for Him the know to mean no

The Evil One’s speak easy

With nothing to ever show

 

© Thomas Joe Cruz-Wiggins June 16, 2012 @ 4:31 AM EST

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