I am thankfully traveling this Thanksgiving long weekend. And so I prewrote these… Happy Thanksgiving!

Recently I was walking and a mental thought started to rise from my questioning doubts. It didn’t even get to the surface of question stage but just formulated a thought, about what often crosses my mind: “what should I be doing right now with my life that makes a difference, how do I use my mental energy, my motivation or lack thereof?” This was not a thought-out sentence like that above – had not even made a question of great concern mentally, it mentally was just a whimper of wonder, barely even formulated. Yet the IMMEDIATE newsflash response, that shook me noticeably, well it was quite mind-focus fueling and doubt-shattering! Yeah!!! It was a gift,  maybe silly, of interacting mentally reconfiguring an image in front of me, of the 999 building address – that I could formulate a vision of it upside down then right side up – that the “999” was the upside down correction for the number “666”, which in the Book of Revelation is said to be the mark of evil. WELL! So not silly but seriously serious for me. So the message I got, not a verbal one but a shake up thought, was that God wants me, wants us, to pursue and upside-down the acts of evil, as we come to them, one act or one response or one prevention at a time. 

Well, YEAH!

Profound and yet we CAN’T do this without Him, Jesus crushed and is crushing the evil. We need to call on Him!

It was a unique mental picture that moment, but truth as God is, that He is saying TRY, telling us try without a checkbox or goal requirement but instead let this be a life path, a direction, a request, to upended the bad with good by relying upon ME to help, to flip the tables and flip the evil into something better. Know that for each of those who do try to push evil pursuits, that God already has “got their number”, and the evil one will never pull the darkness over the light – you can not cover over God’s eyes as He sees the Way for Good. SO our efforts are requested gently and matter of fact-ly from the Lord. 

Enlightening YES, just in a simply walk and view I can see this as a goal for each of us BOTH to RELY UPON JESUS to give us direction and make us aware of the situation where we request JESUS deal with the evil 

God always says to take life ONEDAY AT A TIME, one moment at a time. Therefore take one overturning of the tables, one flip at a time.

I continued my walk and I think the most important flip I had at that very moment was a repeat request for REPURPOSE, to stop doubting and start determining that God wants us each in the mix of meddling and yet let Him handle it.

God says: “start with retraining thoughts” even everyday – and put that devil of doubt down, behind, beneath, and tell him to be gone!

Gone

Going 

Going to 

Good!

Turn that frown (and trials of the real clown) upside down. And don’t stress – this is all by God’s Success.

999

Amen!

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 “Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.” – from Revelation 13 

In Genesis 50, Joseph said to his brothers who feared retribution from the evil they had originally inflicted on him – but Joseph at that point knew God meant to bring good out of bad – a great flip, an upside down that took many years and many tears: “But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.”