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Saturday, January 24, 2026

1-18-2026 Our turning point

In the seventies and eighties my Spiritual life was starting to grow. I was looking at what parts of my life l had already turned over he the Lord and did I actually know the direction my life was taking. As I looked back from today, at the time Father gave me this song, I realize that I had just begun turning things over to Him and there was a long road to ‘hoe’ yet. I still had a long way to go (in retrospect).

I gave my life to the Lord in 1971, but I realized that a decade later, and as the decades rolled by, I still haven’t turned everything over to Him. He wasn’t completely Lord of my Life! Even today, I’m still finding myself turning things over to Him. Some things are new situations while, even yet, other things pop up out of my past.

The enemy does his best to hold us down or, at least, hold us back from growing Spiritually. From salvation, our job is to learn how to truly live for Jesus! We face many crossroads in life so we have many decision to make over the years, as we decide whether we yield the situation over to Jesus or not. It is not just dredging things up from the past and dealing with them (this shouldn’t be the case … but), but recognizing the new tactics of our enemy.

The song brings out things that may have come into our life, then we recognize Jesus’ authority over them and then deal with them to remove the hindrance to our growth. And each time, we discover that Jesus is the answer.

THE TURNING POINT (@’80’s-‘90’s, adjusted 2026)

(Refrain)

Verse 1

Decisions bring us to a turning point

And we must know who is our Lord

Praying my Lord your wisdom I seek

Guide my steps, hand me your sword

Yielding my life in all that I do

Abiding ever in your Holy Word

(Refsrin)

Verse 2

Life has many turns and crossroads are not a few

I travel the road and wonder oft times what shall I do

Hearing Your voice, abiding in Your Word

The choice becomes clear

My turning point

Refrain

I’ve come to the turning point

I must decide once and for all

Is Jesus just my Savior alone, or is he truly Lord of all

Is he the King of Kings, Master of everything

Did He our God anoint, to give to him my all

My turning point

(I sing the refrain at the beginning, then after each verse).

Even today, I still find new ‘adventures’ which challenge my trust in Jesus. I remember that

Jesus is my Lord and Savior (Acts 2:36). The word translated “Lord” here is kurios (G2962) which is supreme authority, lord, master or ‘sir’ (respect). “Christ” is used in this passage and is the word christos (5547) which means anointed or Messiah [referring to Jesus Christ]. Savior is the Greek word soter (G4990) which is God, Christ or Savior. Luke brings ‘Christ and Lord and Savior together in the same quotes as the angel as said to Mary “For unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Savior which is Christ the Lord (Luke 2:11). And we know that baby was Jesus and it connects Father and Son as One. And we now that the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Father (John 15:26), the unity of the Godhead.

Jesus will never leave us & won’t forsake us (Heb. 13:5). Here the word for ‘leave’ is aniemi (G447) which is to loose, leave, desert. ‘Forsake’ is the word egkataleipo (1459) which means to leave behind, let remain, desert, forsake o leave. The bible says that a thing is established by two or more witnesses (Deut. 19:15, 2 Corinth.13:1), it is considered to be true. When Jesus says ‘never leave’ nor ‘forsake’, He establishes the fact that He will always be with us!

He will guide and direct us – decisions and actions (Luke 12:11-12, John 14:25-26). This doesn’t mean we don’t have to read the bible and/or pray to the Lord. Paul tells both the Romans and the Thessalonians to always pray (Romans 12:12, Thess. 5:17). Does this mean that we are on our knees 24 hours a day? Of course not! If that were true, we’d never get anything done in this world. But as we encounter a ‘decision time’, when we are at home, just outdoors or even travelling down the road we can talk with the Lord. Even though we might be in an inconvenient situation. In our heart we can ask the Lord and He will give us what we need. Remember, Father knows all about us, inside and out, our minds and our hearts (Heb. 4:12, Job 21:27, Psalm 139:1-2). We can talk with Him, anytime, anyplace. And no, we don’t have to shut our eyes, but our heart has to be with the Lord. But even so, speak it out audibly. We can speak in a soft, quiet voice. Ask and we shall receive.

All we need to do is believe Him and Jesus will bring victory into our lives. Whoever is born of God overcomes the world and this is the victory that overcomes the world, “our faith”. Who overcomes the world is he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God (1John:5)? Thank God we have victory through Jesus Christ (1 Corinth. 15:57). For our sakes, Jesus has overcome the world (John 15:33). So we are conquerors through Him who loves us (Rom. 8:37). All this is capped by our faith. Whatever we ask in prayer, believe it and we shall receive it (Matt. 21:22, Mark 11:24).

None the less, when I find myself at a turning point, I find that my decision is “do I fully trust in Jesus or do I do it my way? When we listen to the Lord, how can we go wrong? After all, the Holy Ghost (breath of God) is in us and He will guide us in all that we do (John 16:13) – when we let Him. Ask and we shall receive (Matt. 7-8), so Father will not hold the Holy Ghost back from us (Luke 11:13). After all, Jesus said the Holy Ghost shall be in us (John 14:16-17). Jesus reminded His apostles and disciples (just before He ascended) that when the Holy Ghost is come upon them, they shall have power (Acts 1:8) and the Holy Ghost has been available for us since the upper room (Acts 2:1-18)

Yet fear is our greatest enemy. We fear things we are not sure about. The power of love and a sound mind casts out fear (2Tim. 1:7). When one doubts, he shall fear the day and the night and have no confidence in life (Deut. 28:66). When we don’t fully trust the Lord, we fear. So when we are afraid, are we putting our trust in the Lord (Psalm 56:5)? We know that the Lord is our helper so why should we be concerned about what man can do to us (Heb. 13:6)?

We have several major turning points in our lives.

Our decision to receive and follow Jesus is most important, it opens the door for everything else.

To allow the Holy Ghost full operation in our lives. Baptism in the Holy Ghost. Paul, and Phillip and Cornelius give us examples.

To accept and receive the ”calling” God has placed upon our lives.

To be obedient to Father, no matter what comes our way.

Trust in and know that Father is always with us. After all, aren’t we the temple of God (1 Corinth.3:16)?

Our faith and our obedience give us what we need to succeed in this life.

Yes, there will be a zillion other turning points (decisions) we will have to face in our lives but as we remember these things, the rest will fall into proper place, no matter how many bumps in the road we hit. After all, when the Lord is for us, who can stand against us (Rom. 8:31)?

Amen

Hebrew and Greek references are from ‘Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance’. Having had the opportunity to compare with other concordances, based on other translations of the bible, ieg. NIV, Living Bible, NSV, etc., the numerical references may not always be the same but the Hebrew and Greek words reference are. Oft times, even our computer can help us find the right word and what it means.

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Extraordinary Life CoachJanuary 24, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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THE FIRST STEP

Luke chapter 15 relates the story of a son who took his portion of the inheritance, left home and ‘did his own thing’. He found ‘friends’ in his new surroundings, partied and basically did whatever he felt like doing. His money ran out, his ‘friends’ disappeared and he came upon some very hard times. He finally came to his senses realizing the error of his ways and decided to go back home and tell his father how sorry he was for having left hoping that his father would receive him back into the homestead, not as a son but at least as a servant. His father did more than that. Even though his son had squandered his inheritance dad threw a big party to welcome his son back home where he belonged. Once he was lost but now he's saved.

If we knew Jesus and walked away (for whatever the reason) Homecoming is about coming back into fellowship with the Creator of the universe and re-establishing a relationship with Him. Even if we never truly ever knew Jesus, Homecoming is learning how to fellowship with the everlasting God and securing our eternity by establishing that relationship with Him.

If we never truly ever knew Jesus, our first step is to do just that by giving Him our hearts and lives.

We have to recognize that we have not been not operating in God’s will and done things contrary to the operation of His love. God is love and everything He does or stands for is based in His true love.

When Adam & Eve disobeyed God and fell out of His fellowship by eating the ‘fruit of the knowledge of good and evil', God promised them that He would provide a way that man could come back into His (God’s) fellowship.

He re-enforced this with Abraham by using his son Isaac as an example and then reminding Israel through all the prophets of the coming Messiah.

Finally, the time was right and God found a righteous woman whom he would bless with the bringing of His Son into this world. Everything was just one big void so God had nothing to work with except His Word. So, in the beginning God spoke everything into existence. God spoke and the Holy Ghost put God’s Word into action creating everything that is. God then put His Word into Mary’s womb and as the bible says ‘she was with child of the Holy Ghost (Matt. chapter 2). The Greek word used for 'of' carries the connotation ‘about’ or ‘spontaneously happening’, like she wasn’t pregnant, now she is – boom! Jesus had to be born of this world (via Mary) so He could legitimately deliver us from the world but Jesus’ Father is God so even though He is born into this world, He is not bound by the ways of this world. We believe, as the bible says ‘Jesus is born of a virgin’ but He is the Son of God.

We believe that Jesus pleased the Father as He lived in this world for 30 years as He found favor with God and man.

The last 3 ½ years of His life (here on earth), Jesus spent teaching His disciples and those who would listen, the ways of God, the Father.

Then at the end of that 3 ½ year ministry, He was arrested by the Jewish leadership (yielded Himself to them), turned over to Pontius Pilate for crucifixion which Pilate, though reservedly, obliged the Jewish leaders and did so. Jesus (willingly) was crucified and died on the cross. My understanding is that at death, if the body is punctured, water mixed with blood will come out, confirming death. Spiritually, for us the shed blood is for the atonement of our sins and our sin nature and the water represents our cleansing. Jesus died on the cross taking my sins away (and yours) and was buried.

We believe that on the third day Jesus arose from the grave, alive and well and ministered to His disciples for another 40 days.

After which He ascended back into Heaven (from whence He came) and is preparing a place in eternity for all those who believe and He is coming back for us so we can be with Him throughout all eternity.

We believe this with all our hearts, confess our sins (by speaking them out), repenting our part in doing those things against God’s will, with our voices speak out thanks for what Jesus has done for us and invite Him into our hearts and lives determining to live our lives for Him from now on.

When we pray the ‘sinner’s prayer, don’t mince with a formula of words but rather cover the points and mean it:

Jesus is God, Messiah, Savior

He shed His blood cleansing us of our sin nature and all those individual sins we have ever committed

We need to confess those sins (speak them out loud to God) and repent of those sins (be truly sorry we committed them)

He died on the cross then rose from the dead on the third day giving us access to the Father through His actions

Determine (dedicate our lives) to live for Him by keeping His commandment which is learning about and living in His love.

He will come back for us so we can be with Him throughout all eternity.

If we have known Jesus but have ‘slid away’

Repent of and confess our sins (as with the prodigal son)

Receive God’s forgiveness. Isaiah tells us once we’ve repented God puts those sins behind His back. Should we do any less?

Determine (make the decision) to live for Him by keeping His commandment which is learning about and living in His love.

Once we've taken this first step, that is to connect or reconnect with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, then hold on because everything we experience from that point on is an experience in growth in our life. Everything becomes a stepping stone in our life to help us to grow closer to and and stronger in our relationship with God that we may magnify and glorify His Holy Name in all that we say and do and impact the lives of those around us.

A long time ago Father shared with me that I (we) can walk as close to Him as we dare. It is our choice. How close do we dare?

When the time is come, may we all re-unite in God’s wondrous kingdom.