Rededicated  my life to Him tonight, this is my confession publicly, I have had some weak days, as I told my brother the other day, don't think you need to commit to anything other than the requirements of scripture. Just keeping those is enough. I have committed much to the Lord some of it impossible for me to keep, maybe not impossible but seems so sometimes. Scripture says I can do ALL THINGS through Christ Who strengthens me. I say strengthen me Lord as friend said in a post "He is made perfect in our weakness" also in scripture. I take Him at His Word and say perfect me Lord.
As He says we are a branch He is the Vine we can bear no fruit, not a thing without Him. We are connected our life depends on that connection.  Father is the Vine Dresser all that which does not bear fruit is useless and is cut off and cast into the fire.  Children heed this warning. Cease from sin, commit all thy ways to Him, it is a useless life to try and live without Him. So So So many are deceived thinking they can be spiritual without Christ in the center of that faith. They deal with demons spirits occult things and maybe satan himself. 
Satan would just as soon that we fail, Jesus Christ died so that we can succeed. Success is a moving target, one persons success may be another persons stumbling block. I am not bragging just saying I have an anointing similar to one of the Apostles. My life has been similar to this.   
12 I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. 

Yes I know many can say that but the Apostle called this flesh we live in a "Body of death" He was afflicted, the "Thorn in his flesh" a messenger of satan. The Lord left it there. Not that I have attained the level of perfection the great Apostle did or have his intellect. Just what the Lord has shown me through His Spirit and my affliction.
Through it all I say thank you LORD, thank you for Your discipline for the chastisement of Your peace. For Your stripes, for the nail holes in Your Hands and feet for Your pierced side.  All scripture fulfilled.

With God's help and confidence in His Covenant, the covenant sealed in the Blood of His Son. I say, bring it on Lord, I look forward to the new year for I trust in rely on put my faith in You Lord, and though You God our Father and the Blessed Holy Spirit, neither of which you will have without putting your faith in Christ first.Consider. If others are made in the image and likeness of God, they must have worth and value as individuals, whatever weaknesses they display. When I understand that every human being shares the image-likeness of God, I will treat others with respect. I learn to overlook failures and to communicate love. I realize that the existence of God's image-likeness, however distorted by sin, means that the other person can respond, as I have, to the love of God displayed in Jesus Christ. So I reach out to him or her in love.—365-Day Devotional Commentary, The
pretty good maybe reading this devo for 2012 it started out great.  Peace I give you not as the world give but the Peace of Jesus Christ. May He rule your heart for 2012. Love James Reid Ross 

Psalm 51[a]    For the director of music. A psalm of David. When the prophet Nathan came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba. 1 Have mercy on me, O God, 
   according to your unfailing love; 
according to your great compassion 
   blot out my transgressions. 
2 Wash away all my iniquity 
   and cleanse me from my sin.

 3 For I know my transgressions, 
   and my sin is always before me. 
4 Against you, you only, have I sinned 
   and done what is evil in your sight; 
so you are right in your verdict 
   and justified when you judge. 
5 Surely I was sinful at birth, 
   sinful from the time my mother conceived me. 
6 Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb; 
   you taught me wisdom in that secret place.

 7 Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; 
   wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. 
8 Let me hear joy and gladness; 
   let the bones you have crushed rejoice. 
9 Hide your face from my sins 
   and blot out all my iniquity.

 10 Create in me a pure heart, O God, 
   and renew a steadfast spirit within me. 
11 Do not cast me from your presence 
   or take your Holy Spirit from me. 
12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation 
   and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

 13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways, 
   so that sinners will turn back to you. 
14 Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, 
   you who are God my Savior, 
   and my tongue will sing of your righteousness. 
15 Open my lips, Lord, 
   and my mouth will declare your praise. 
16 You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; 
   you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings. 
17 My sacrifice, O God, is[b] a broken spirit; 
   a broken and contrite heart 
   you, God, will not despise.

 18 May it please you to prosper Zion, 
   to build up the walls of Jerusalem. 
19 Then you will delight in the sacrifices of the righteous, 
   in burnt offerings offered whole; 
   then bulls will be offered on your altar.

 Felt a need to look up the Lord's admonition on to "Love your enemies" and wondered what greek verb was used for the word "Love" and it was Agape knew it probably would be but just wanted to make sure, as I said much of what I see in my enemy, people see in me, I am left no room for condemnation however heinous the acts, but Agape is not capitulation or surrender I don't think, it is surrender to God but calls on us to put on the Holy Armor of Ephesians 6 to stand. God Agapes us and how is that love manifested? Surely we think of the Cross, we think of the great miracles of the old testament the healing miracles the Lord performed and the Apostles and some who were not Apostles like Steven, the first martyr. This is God's love that He sought us out, revealed Himself to us in the Person of His Son, "You have seen Me you have seen the Father". 
Fathers love is sometimes a rod a staff that brings comfort, comfort knowing He will not let us stray, but it is a way He controls us to keep us safe. Many are the time I have felt the Lord's and our Fathers discipline their switch like mom used to use. It is for our benefit and I am thankful.  Watched Daniel Bauman's testimony on 700 club online, its Fridays show. How he showed love (Agape) to his captors and watched hatred turn to tears. Who do you hate, revile, or persecute maybe no one may be someone you saw on the news, a criminal, or it may be your neighbor, someone who harmed something or someone you love. We are to Agape our enemies and our neighbors and ourselves, the last may be the hardest. Father has cautioned me to watch what I say, know I am afflicted in many ways as I said we need to see affliction in the light of eternity and endure with Love (Agape) if we don't have this for each other we are as dust, if you are in a church which doesn't Love (Agape) then show that Love to them and Father will bless, I am left nothing to do but love for I want to reap what I sow and I as all of us need to sow Love (Agape). Its a big mountain to climb, the Lord will give us strength for He is made perfect in our weakness. 
God bless love from Windy Hill a place of love and also of pain May the Lord set His foot upon this place and establish and confirm His Love (Agape) once again.  Love James Reid Ross

Reading Choo Thomas book "Heaven is So Real" left me challenging some theories I had developed over the years. Most of what I theorized was based on my personal experience and what Choo wrote is based on her extraordinary experience with the Lord and what He revealed to her to write her book. 
Don't think she is trying to do anything but communicate what she experienced. Also have read Jesse Duplantis book about his visit to heaven.   I will not try to communicate what she wrote but say that I believe you should read the book. It was published by Charisma House.  It seems to challenge many conventional and widely held beliefs about eternal salvation and those who will make it to paradise. Hope you will pick up a copy of it and let me know what you think.  

God bless in Christ  James Reid Ross