journal/WHAT WOULD YOU ASK FOR

GOD OUR FATHER knows what we NEED BEFORE we even know-Dear Father God-like Solomon-
We ask for wisdom, understanding, and discernment during the course of our day today-PLEASE GUIDE
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It is A GREAT DAY to be ALIVE! in God's LOVE for us today



















WITTNESS




5-6-13




WHAT WOULD YOU ASK FOR










As David was dying
He bestowed on his son, Solomon, his kingship


And he told his son-Solomon
To walk in the ways of the Lord
And to keep God’s laws and requirements
As written
In the book of Moses


And that
God would “keep his promise”
That someone from David’s descendants
Would always sit on the throne


After David does in fact die
The Lord appears to Solomon and says,


“Ask for whatever you want me
To give to you” 1 Kings 3:5


So Solomon asks for,


“A discerning heart
To govern your people
And to distinguish between right and wrong” 1 Kings 3:9


In other words---WISDOM


God was so pleased
With Solomon’s answer
That he bestows on him,
“Riches and honor
So that in your lifetime
You will have no equal among kings” 1 Kings 3:13


If you were Solomon
What would you have asked for


Basically, wisdom is practical insight
The skill of living successfully
And it begins
With FEAR OF THE LORD


In Solomon’s own words, he writes,


“The FEAR of the Lord
Is the beginning of knowledge
For fools despise wisdom and discipline” Proverbs 1:7


Unfortunately for Solomon
He made some bad choices with women


Is there any of us men
That can’t identify with that
At least once in our life


The Bible says
That he-Solomon-had over 700 wives
And as he grew older
He let his wives
Turn his heart toward other gods


And that his heart
Was NOT fully devoted
To the one true God
As his father-David’s-had been


So Solomon---As ADAM did before him
Chose to follow a woman over God


God becomes angry at Solomon
Because he DID NOT keep his covenant
With God
So God
Let’s his kingdom become divided


HOW MANY of us
Have become LOST in life
BOTH men and women
By becoming enamored with someone of the opposite sex
With a dubious reputation


So dear friends---like Solomon before us
We pray for WISDOM
But NOT just any wisdom


We pray for SPIRITUAL WISDOM
And the FAITH to see it through


“The man
Without the spirit
Does not accept the things
That come from the spirit of God
For they are foolishness to him
And he cannot understand them
Because they are spiritually discerned” 1 Corinthians 2:14


Dear Lord, humbly, we your people
Ask you for one more thing


That the SPIRIT OF GOD
BE PRESENT IN OUR LIVES


In Jesus’ name, we pray…….


Robert P. Wallman
3-22-12




Ps WITNESS 5-6-13




misc. WITNESS 2-8-14

journal/WITNESS

We are called to be WITNESSES to GOD in today's world to something BIGGER than ourselves
SOMETIMES-it is comfortable-yet that IS what we are called to do

WE just NEED to do it and TRUST that GOD KNOWS what HE IS doing-and KNOW that GOD"S PLAN and LOVE always works-"FOR ALL things work together for GOD"

it is A GREAT DAY to be ALIVE in GOD'S LOVE AND PLAN for the universe



































WITNESS




5-10-13




WITNESS




“A witness is someone who has, or CLAIMS to have, or is thought, by someone
WITH authority, to compel testimony, to have knowledge relevant to an event
Or other matter of interest” (wickipedia)


Many of you may have noticed that my writings have had the word, “WITNESS.”
On them this year


It is MY ATTEMPT-at a NOT-FOR-PROFIT book and MY ATTEMPT to live
Up to the deathbed promise that I made to God-“to live for my family-friends-and
ALL people everywhere.”


I thank each and everyone of you for letting me send my writings to you
It GIVES me motivation and inspiration to KEEP ON LIVING FOR GOD,
FOR OTHERS, and for you and me-and to PROVE that GOD-that LOVE-
Is still ALIVE in today’s world-LIVING in you and me-
And LIVING in each KIND ACT that we do


Witnessing is entrusted by God to his BELIEVERS


JESUS was the ULTIMATE WITNESS-the ULTIMATE BELIEVER
And we-if we are believers
Are to follow in the footsteps of him-
And his apostles and his disciples


“He said to them-‘it is not for you to know the times or dates
The Father has set by his own authority


But you will receive POWER
When the Holy Spirit comes to you
And you will be my WITNESSES in Jerusalem
And in ALL Judea and Samaria
And to the ends of the earth” Acts 1:7 & 8


WITNESSING-with our hearts
WITNESSING-with our minds and souls
And WITNESSING-with our words and actions
IF WE ARE REALLY REALLY BRAVE


I can’t ell you
That someone in authority
Thinks I am here
With compelling testimony


But I CAN tell you
That I am here
ONLY by the grace of God


MIRACLES are extraordinary events
Done through GOD’S POWER


And I can tell you
That there is NO EARTHLY reason
WHY I am alive in today’s world


Other than to say
GOD LOVES THIS WORLD
We are ALL hi children
We are ALL his creation
And he LOVES US
Despite the fact
That many in our country
And many in our world
Have turned their back on him


WITNESSING
WITNESSING-ENTRUSTED BY GOD
To his believers


Then Peter began to speak:


“You know
What has happened
Throughout Judea-beginning in Galilee
After the baptism that John preached-
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth
With the Holy Spirit and power
And how he went around
Doing good and healing
ALL who were under the power of the devil
BECAUSE GOD was with him


We are WITNESSES of everything he did
In the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem” Acts 10:37 & 38


WITNESSING-my calling in life
WITNESSING-my PROMISE TO GOD


Robert P. Wallman


Ps WITNESS 5-10-13


May 9^th, 2013 was the FEAST of the ASCENSION OF THE LORD


IF you have READ ONE WORD that I have written over these many years
I THANK YOU for HELPING my dream dome true




misc. WITNESS 2-7-14

PAY IT FORWARD

PAY IT FORWARD




ONE of my most favorite movies
Is a movie called
PAY IT FORWARD


It is a 2000 movie
BASED on the novel
Of the same name


It boasts a stellar cast INCUDING:
Helen Hunt-Kevin Spacey-Haley Joe Osment
and many other names you would recognize
Including Angie Dickinson


But it is the THEME of the movie
That hit me
RIGHT in the heart


Osment is a seventh grade student
In Las Vegas, Nevada
And his social studies teacher (Spacey)
GIVES the class an assignment
To devise and put into action


“A plan
That would change the world
For the better”


What a novel thought
DO SOMETHING KIND or good
For someone
Rather than
Rape, steal, defraud, etc., etc., etc., someone


“God saw
ALL that he made
and it was very good” Genesis 1:31


MY GOD
What has happened to
This world
BETWEEN then and now-
Some 2,000 years later


“TASTE AND SEE
That the Lord is GOOD
BLESSED is the man
Who takes refuge in him” Psalm 34:8


In the movie,
“PAY IT FORWARD,”
The teacher asks the students
(including Osment)
To do three favors
For others
Rather than paying the favor back


But the favor
Must be a “MAJOR FAVOR”
That the receiver
Can't complete themselves


And isn't that the way
Our own lives are
Without GOD'S FAVOR in it


We were CREATED
In GOD'S own image
And if God can bestow
Life, love, forgiveness, and kindness
On us


Isn't that
The LEAST that we can do
For someone else


“Then God said:
'Let us make man
In our image- in our likeness'” Genesis 1:26


“For you created
My inmost being
You knit me together
In my mother's womb


I PRAISE YOU
For I am wonderfully made
Your WORKS are wonderful
I know that full well” Psalm 139:13-14


Whatever goodness lies in you
Pass it on
PAY IT FORWARD


Use it
To help someone else


In the movie
Osment (Trevor)
DOES FAVORS for three people
Asking each of them
To pass it on


Initially-with mixed results
-And ultimately
Costing Trevor his very own life


But our lives
BY NATURE
Have a cost-death


The BEST that we can HOPE for
IS to have a LASTING EFFECT
By taking all the BLESSINGS
That we have
And passing them on


PAY IT FORWARD


Robert P. Wallman
10-25-13

ps      misc.      WITNESS        2-6-14

journal/GOD'S PERFECT WORD

my mom and dad were married 60 years ago today
I was BAPTIZED into the Catholic 59 years ago today-and began my journey to FIND GOD
in myself and IN ALL OTHERS


it is a GREAT DAY to be ALIVE in GOD'S LOVE for us!






GOD’S PERFECT WORD---COVENANTS AND PROMISES




Has anyone
Ever made you a promise
And not kept their word


Has God


The answers are
Yes and no
At least by the experience
Of my own life


I have been
Let down over and over again
By human beings
But not by God


God always
Keeps his words


A covenant is defined
As an agreement between two parties
A solemn promise or vow
Especially between God and people


God always keeps his covenant
God always keeps his word


God said to Noah
“Never again
Will the waters become a flood
To destroy all the earth
Whenever the RAINBOW appears
In the clouds
I will see it
And remember the everlasting covenant
Between GOD and ALL living creatures
Of every kind”


Man makes promises
Do they keep them
Sometimes yes and sometimes no
Not so with God
God ALWAYS keeps his word


God said to Abraham,
“As for me
This is my covenant with you:
You will be
The Father of many nations
No longer will you be called Abram
Your name will be Abraham
I have made you
The Father of many nations”


Christian, Muslim, and Jew
God always keeps his Word


God said to the Jewish people through Moses,
“You are standing here
In order to enter in to a covenant
With the Lord your God


A covenant the Lord
Is making with you
This day and sealing with an oath


To confirm you this day as his people
That he may be your God
As he promised you
And as he swore to your Fathers,
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob”


Do people keep their promises
Sometimes yes---sometimes no


God always keeps his promises
With God---it is always so


God told Nathan
To go and tell David,
“Your house and your kingdom
Will endure forever before me
Your thrown will be established forever”


God always keeps his word


With people
Promises made---sometimes
Are promises broken


With God---that is never so
God always keeps his word


“This is the covenant
I will make with them
I will
Put my law in their hearts
And I will write them
On their minds”


Through Christ’s perfect sacrifice
And the SPIRIT who testifies


GOD’S WORD IS PERFECT
HE ALWAYS KEEPS HIS WORD


Robert P. Wallman
4-15-11





ps misc. WITNESS 2-6-14

GOSSIP-our lingering sins

“Lingering Sins—Gossip”


There once was a woman
With a physical handicap
She was still the same now
As she was 12 years ago

What about are sins
Are our sins
The same today
As they were 12 years ago

No one
Stays the same
Are we improving
Are we regressing

Once
There was a woman
Who gossiped

When she went to confession
The Catholic priest
Told her to go to the market place
And buy a chicken
What an easy penance
She thought

Then the Catholic priest
Told her
To pluck the chicken
An spread the feathers every where

Strange she thought
But she did this too

Then the priest told her
To go and gather the feathers
And put them
Back on the chicken

I can’t do that Father
She said
The feathers are every where

Exactly the priest said
This is what happens
When you talk about someone

What about my lingering sins
What about
Your lingering sins

Where are we
In relationship
To where we were
12 years ago

ARE WE IMPROVING

Robert P. Wallman
5/10/10

*Based on the teaching of Father Leo Clifford


ps        misc.        WITNESS        2-5-14

TURN TO GOD

“Turn to God”

When you’re down

When you’re sick

When science and God

Just don’t mix

Turn to God

Turn to God

For love and understanding

Turn to God

To help you get through

When you have nothing and no one

Turn to God

Turn to God

Turn to God

He’ll know

Just what to do

When your debts are high

And your troubles are many

And when you don’t know

What to do

And as far as money

When there just isn’t any

Turn to God

Turn to God

For love and understanding

Turn to God

To help get you through

And when you don’t know

Exactly what to do

Turn to God

And when you’re in love

With that certain someone

And they don’t feel the same way

Turn to God

Turn to God

For love and understanding

Turn to God for mercy too

Just turn to God

6/06/06        Robert  P.  Wallman

Ps        mis.c        WITNESS          2-3-14

ARE YOU CONSISTENT?

WITNESS




4-13-13




CONSISTENCY




Are you consistent
In your love of God
And in
Your love of others


By that-I mean
Do you love every day
Not just
The days when you feel good
Or-just when-you feel like it


Our Lord said
The people of this world
Are smarter
Than the people of God
In just one way


They are consistent
In serving themselves
They are consistent
In their selfishness


We are living in this world
But we have to make a choice
Are we living
By the world’s values
Or-are we living by God’s values


“No one can serve two masters
Either he will hate the one
And love the other
Or he will be devoted
To the one
And despite the other
You CANNOT serve both GOD and money” Matthew 6:24


So we know
We ALL have to make a choice


“For where your treasure is
There your heart will also be” Matthew 6:21


The people of this world
Are consistent
In serving themselves


ARE WE—the people of God
CONSISTENT in serving the Lord


Robert P. Wallman
4-13-12


Ps WITNESS 4-13-13




In Luke 12-Jesus tells the story about a rich fool who has an over abundance
Of crops and desires to store them-he says to himself:

“You have plenty of good things stored up for many years
Take life easy; eat, drink, and be merry”


But God says to him:


“You fool-this very night your life will be demanded from you
Then who will get what you have prepared for himself”


“Serve wholeheartedly
As if you were serving the Lord, not men” Ephesians 6:7


Misc. WITNESS 2-3-14