Dress me in Your righteousness as I prepare my day
I dare not go without Your holy armor on display
You provide this for me but I must put it on
I rejoice to meet with You each morning before dawn

Your grace and mercy I request so it’s there to give
You have forgiven me so others I must forgive
I don’t have it in me to love others like You do
Cleanse and purify my heart to make me more like You

Let me feel Your Presence all throughout my day
Sweet fellowship we’ll share as You direct my way
This is my request that I will always feel You near
This is what I seek-that Your voice I’ll clearly hear

Debbie Furey
September 29, 2022

Ephesians 6:13 – “Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.”

1 John 3:2-3 – “Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 3 All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.”

Ephesians 6:10-20
1 John 3

How can I bless You today, dear Lord
How can I make You smile?
Where would You have me go today
To go the extra mile?
I want to be more like You, Lord
So others might see You in me
As I follow Your Spirit
I will shine with the light of Your glory
I pray what I plan to do today
Will matter for eternity
As I believe in Your Word
It becomes my new reality
With my faith and hope
I place all my trust in You
I will walk in Your Spirit of love 
As Your Presence I pursue

Debbie Furey
September 20, 2022

Psalm 37:23 NASB – “The steps of a man are established by the LORD, and He delights in his way.”

2 Corinthians 3:18 – “And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.”

Psalm 37
2 Corinthians 3

Holy Spirit, come and set me free
From the plans and chains of my enemy
Evil forces are trying to bring me down
To make me lose my way and my eternal crown

I ask God’s living water to wash over me
To deliver, cleanse, heal and set me free
I come to You to refresh my weary soul
It is in Your Presence that You make me whole

Priceless to me is Your faithfulness and love
Proceeding from Your throne in heaven up above
Your righteousness and justice flow high and deep
Reaching to the heavens and down valleys steep

I find refuge in the shadow of Your wings
Under Your feathers my spirit worships and sings
There I am safe from my enemies’ hands
I place my trust in Your omniscient plans

Debbie Furey
September 1, 2022

Psalm 36:5-7 – “Your love, LORD, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies. 6 Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, your justice like the great deep. You, LORD, preserve both people and animals. 7 How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.”

Psalm 23, 36

For those arriving in the region of the damned
There’s no way to escape the demonic high command
Powerless are those under the demon’s strength and might
They are led to their chambers in the blackest of hot night

The worst day on earth would seem like heaven there
As stench-filled heat robs their gasping lungs of air
Demons arrive to rip their souls apart
For those who scorned God and from His ways did depart

Fear and torment await those who did not fear the Lord
They did not choose God or believe in His Word
Many are destined for that foreboding land
A place without God called the region of the damned

Debbie Furey
August 21, 2022

Matthew 10:28 – “Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.”

Mark 9:47-48 – “And if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, 48 where ‘the worms that eat them do not die, and the fire is not quenched.”’

John 3:16-21 – “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.”

Matthew 18:6-9
Mark 9:14-27; 42-49
Luke 16:19-31

I see water from heaven flowing free, out-poured
It’s not rain but comes from the throne of my Lord
This water is alive and refreshes my thirsty soul
It comes without cost to heal and make one whole

There is enough for all it will never run out
Ask for the Holy Spirit to see what it’s about
He’ll baptize you with fire and power from above
Love, grace and mercy will descend like a dove

This gift comes to fit you to serve our great King
Great power and boldness you’ll see it will bring
Wait in God’s Presence for Holy Spirit power
Know with a surety you were born for this hour

Debbie Furey
August 12, 2022

John 4:10-14 – “Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

Acts 8:14-17 – “When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to Samaria. 15 When they arrived, they prayed for the new believers there that they might receive the Holy Spirit, 16 because the Holy Spirit had not yet come on any of them; they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 17 Then Peter and John placed their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.”

Acts 19:1-6
John 4:2-26
John 7:37-39
Ezekiel 47:1-12

Why is the pull of this world so strong?
I am a citizen of heaven, that’s where I belong
To be known down here doesn’t carry much worth
Our time is fleeting on this place called earth

One thinks it so grand to have money and fame
Why does it matter that people know your name?
Our search for significance is never wrong
God put in us this desire to connect and belong

I want to be known up in heaven above
That I carried out my duties in faithfulness and love
The only thing of worth that I long to hear
Is the Lord say, “Well done,” as heaven draws near

Debbie Furey
July 26, 2022

Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 – “Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind. 14 For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil.”

Ephesians 2:10 – “For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”

Ecclesiastes 2, 3, 5, 12

If you only knew of the power inside you
When you believe by faith and prove My Word is true
Step into the wondrous that your faith requires
You will be rewarded with your heart’s desires

Faith only works by believing the unseen
Then confess with your mouth before it’s even seen
Change your hope to faith as you pray and then believe
You must maintain you have it before you can receive

Faith operates in dimensions that you know not of
It activates with power when it’s mixed with love
Faith, hope, and love form a cord that’s hard to break
Those who look to Me in faith, I will not forsake

Debbie Furey
January 28, 2023

Hebrews 11:1-3 NKJV – “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.
3 By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.”

Hebrews 10:35-39 – “So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. 36 You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. 37 For, ‘In just a little while, he who is coming will come and will not delay.’  38 And, ‘But my righteous one will live by faith. And I take no pleasure in the one who shrinks back.’  39 But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.”

Romans 10:8-10 – “But what does it say? ‘The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,’ that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim: 9 If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.”

Hebrews 11
Romans 4:18-25

Believe-be convinced by, trust, have confidence in, consider, honest, regard is true, except as true, credit, count on, rely on, depend on, fall for, go for, think, hold, maintain. 

You cannot reap what you do not sow
In heaven above or on the earth below
How can God answer a prayer not said?
Or multiply money, not contributed?

In giving we receive many times again
You must plant a seed to reap a dividend
What you then reap looks nothing like the seed
A bountiful harvest where there once was just a need

In God’s economy love must be your aim
Do nothing out of greed, vainglory, or fame
The fruit you produce in your harvest tells a tale
It’s quality is shown by every small detail

Debbie Furey
January 31, 2023

Galatians 6:7-10 – “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. 8 Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. 9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. 10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.”

Galatians 5:22-25 – “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.”

Philippians 2
Galatians 5:13-26 

Me:
Let the fear of the Lord never depart from me
The way I live determines my destiny
I have a share in Christ if I hold firm to the end
I must follow His ways and on Him depend

Lord:
Your hearing is sharpened by your will to obey
Some believe for a while, but when tested fall away
They cannot enter My rest because of unbelief
Their hearts went astray, the time they loved Me was brief

Some have left their first love and forsaken Me
Repent and return to My ways I plea
Faith without works lead to the place of the dead
Lose your life for Me to gain heaven instead

Debbie Furey
February 2, 2023

Psalm 85:8-9 – “I will listen to what God the LORD says; he promises peace to his people, his faithful servants— but let them not turn to folly. 9 Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that his glory may dwell in our land.”

2 Peter 2: 20-21 – “If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. 21 It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them.”

Hebrews 3:14 – “We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end.”

Revelation 2:4-5 – “Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first. 5 Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.”

Matthew 10:39 – “Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.”

Hebrews 3:6-19
Ezekiel 33:12-20
James 2:14-26 

The highest form of treason is to steal the Lord’s glory
Do not desire the praise that belongs to God only
Let another praise you and not your own tongue
With your words you can be saved or you can be hung

Do not use God’s power to draw people to you
In humility of soul give the Lord His due
The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold
A man is tested by the praise he is told

Don’t let ambition control you or vain conceit
Consider others better or you’ll walk in deceit 
Those who desire greatness must be the servant of all
Glorify the Lord and in your own eyes be small

Debbie Furey
February 5, 2023

Proverbs 27:2 – “Let someone else praise you, and not your own mouth; an outsider, and not your own lips.”

Proverbs 27:21 – “The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but people are tested by their praise.”

Philippians 2:3-4 – “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.”

Philippians 2:1-18
Luke 14:7-14
Ezekiel 1