Psalm 130
A song of ascents!
1 Out of the depths I cry to you, Lord;
2 Lord, hear my voice.
Let your ears be attentive
to my cry for mercy.
3 If you, Lord, kept a record of sins,
Lord, who could stand?
4 But with you there is forgiveness,
so that we can, with reverence, serve you.
5 I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits,
and in his word I put my hope.
6 I wait for the Lord
more than watchmen wait for the morning,
more than watchmen wait for the morning.
7 Israel, put your hope in the Lord,
for with the Lord is unfailing love
and with him is full redemption.
8 He himself will redeem Israel
from all their sins.
Father God, in You there is Light. Let us forgive for what needs to be forgiven and to the work Joshua did - not to the right not to the left. This is called forgiveness for a reason. Wrong happens. Let us not slide into denial but to do the earnest work of real Christ. Being God we do not hide from you wrong intentions and desires, all is know to You. Let us Love because this is what Jesus did. Remembering in this season, Jesus is Jesus not Santa. In reality Jesus had people who never drew close to Him. Buying the world a coke is Santa. Being merciful to the ones we are given is Jesus saying the one who shows compassion is our neighbor. We can be as loving as You equip us to be and ask for more hearts of love. But YOU are GOD and you are Salvation and Reconciliation.
It would be impossible to be Jesus. But Thank God HE IS. Happy are the people who realize they have a Savior and HE is fulfillment. In this peace, we find the day sufficient and we draw Strength to be Love.
Bless the Christians like Stacey who see the work they did to be love and polite to their son-in-law becomes fruit for thank you. And for her heart saying Hallelu-Yah. (Not everyone would, some people like the excuse to hate.) Thank you and courtesy lead forward to Love. And the work of relationship - the hassle that Scripture says Church is - leads to the fruit of Love. And work towards this leads to the Real Thing. Jesus Christ the Lord. Amen.
The Paintings are by Wolf Kahn. The ideas are the beauty I see in Emporium,PA and around Houston, Texas
Give us the Day - what we are looking for is - Help us Father God in the power of Your Holy Spirit to Bring Your Heaven to Earth. To do that we need more Holy Spirit. Amen.
The Goal of God is to Save the World. Fortunately for us, that is HIS Salvation and His Workmen go home, but the Work of God continues. Today.
We have some realizations and steps to look at to help Him. Biblical steps.
1. PRAY
This isn't anything but Alpha and Omega. The first step is prayer. Why. This is reconciliation. If we aren't in the realization that all - and I mean all - of our thoughts are His, we have missed a crucial step. He is part of our inner workings - creating our brains.
We begin in the same place as Joshua. Most of us have lives that need constant prayer and some fixing. Joshua was fixing a plan of God called the Exodus that seemingly went awry. Yet I bet if you asked Father God, He might say He had this covered with His Plan. A very real demonstration that we have to pray and pay the electric bill.
Joshua - not to the right nor the left. Balance.
We are pressed by facts, circumstance, boundaries He gives us and opinions. God would probably call this weapons of war. And let's prove that with Scripture.
2 Corinthians 10:3-5
For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ
Prayer sees us wander off. He tells us let Him bear our burdens. Come back, our Father gently says to us. This is love. This conversation is only labelled prayer, what we really are saying is dwell in Him.
Jeshua. This is what Jesus was called in His day to day life. Jeshua gave His work to Joshua. I think Jeshua probably really liked Joshua quite a bit.
Reward. Joshua wanted to fix things. God Gave him that desire. Prayer has a reward. God is good with His blessings like that. God is seeking the core - the heart of us called Soul.
1 Peter 2:25
For "you were like sheep going astray," but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
2. LEAVE THE JUDGMENTS TO GOD
You simply will not find a verse in 3,000 pages of Scripture saying help Him Judge others.
Repent. We need to. We heedlessly, needlessly judge others and in fact we have to reveal ourselves and our discernment to label others. Point at someone and three fingers point back at you and one finger hides.
What we are doing when we label someone - is - doing something we have to do. Discern. We are told to acquire Wisdom. Knowledge uses discernment to deal with others doing what...
Zechariah 7
8 And the word of the Lord came again to Zechariah: 9 “This is what the Lord Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. 10 Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.’
This one is even better than Micah 6:
8 He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God.
Zechariah says look out for fatherless people, widows, poor - work for them go out of your way to cross your yard, the hallway, the room to take care of them. God says Reagan Economics works from the top down, but Christians work from the no-reward bottom up.
Scripture has gotten old. Actually Scripture is alive, but the adversaries of good - even Christians - will laugh at the sheer goodness of that. Service can be used as a power game. Leaving the victim too proud to serve when service is completely in His Plan. Alcoholics Anonymous uses a book called the Blue Book. People love that Blue Book. It is the Scripture run through a blender so we cannot recognize the subtitles.
Case in point:
Romans 5:3-5
Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
If we say my dear friend is helping her elderly mother, who is very ill, every day and we sent her a hallmark card and tuck in that Scripture, she might be very busy and say to herself that she is not enjoying her sufferings.
Well the evil one likes us to think HE enjoys our sufferings. And perverts our thinking that hair shirts and failing to communicate to suffer for His Glory is His. Um Nope. God communicates.
If I send her a card and say - Your daily perseverance for your difficult, difficult time shows How Much you Love Him. In this suffering, you will always have the treasure knowing you did so Right by your mom. You will OVERCOME this suffering. Your perseverance shows your character in Him, your great heart that loves. We know in Jesus that our Hope is that He has many rooms for us in His Home and you will not ever hurt forever because God's love assures us that He has given us His promises. The Holy Spirit gives you, dear one, your heart. And this is filled with Him. His Great Love.
Then we have applied God's Word in Love, not thrown up a phrase that needs to be applied. We would hardly go out into our yards and pick up leaves to wear (sounds familiar) but we need to apply the work to the cotton and loom it and fashion it and APPLY THIS.
4. BALANCE ***
Proverbs 4:27
Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.
Isaiah 30:21
Then thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, that ye not turn to the right hand and that ye not turn to the left hand.
Deuteronomy 28:12-14
The Lord will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. 13 And the Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you shall only go up and not down, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, being careful to do them, 14 and if you do not turn aside from any of the words that I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them. (Joshua)(And when there was prayer in schools, our nation was the lender. And we did not see these violent acts.)
All is Lost. Pray. And look for the ways HE will lead you to a Higher Path.
All is well. People who have been helped, actively seek to help others. We do not rest in one angle. Cast your bread upon the waters, in many days it will return to you. Got that handy little verse from my mom, who learned it from Jeshua.
Anger - why. Use big words and keep trying. We are a nation of this. God uses weakness and we need to fight the good fight. Jesus was known to be angry. Just keep Him in the front of your words, prayers and actions. Speak up even if your voice squeaks.
Forgiveness - lack thereof can cause anger. Check it and see.
Cold - are we sure that the Lake of Fire is hot?
Lukewarm - I don't know you well and your troubles are not mine. Locate that in Scripture. God says this He spits out of His mouth. This is what we see when we look up and down our streets and see no visitors. America today has two friends, if they are fortunate. We do FB instead of lunch with co-workers. And gleefully proclaim - didn't see them for two years and still friends - friends reach out. My mom discovered after her divorce, no on wanted a crying woman. And it took her about ten years to recover from the shock of being left - for a friend. And one day she decided - she had a mission. To call people every other day she enjoys - in just a couple of years she has lots of things to do and people who are thrilled to be cared for. She says the secret is - not to expect much back - to give. Good for my mom!!!
Impressions, Nonverbal, and Life. One day tells its tale to another. Life is made up of moments. ***Tim Keller says we rarely have a day that is Major Life Decisions. Life is made up of moments telling the next moment. Tiny nano moments - how we respond to one another. *** One more ounce of patience. One more rebuke with justice fully in our corner -still believing that person Is Worthy and Can do this . Teaching is one more way to encourage and Not be lofty. Love - pray to God who replenishes our heart. Gratitude is the attitude with dig and journaling three things He bring you each day.
Joy - ¨*:•.SUPER.•:*¨¨*:•.AWESOME.•:*¨¨*:•.PERFECT.•:*¨¨*:•.THANKS!!!:*¨¨*:•.
1 Timothy 3:16
the mystery of godliness:
He who was revealed in the flesh,
Was vindicated in the Spirit,
Seen by angels,
Proclaimed among the nations,
Believed on in the world,
Taken up in glory.
Got Joy? Proclaim it! Jesus was known to eat and drink. Share the love. It's the real thing. Jesus.
Perfect Peace - Wow this is elusive. Or it should be.
Really. This is a Gift of God. A miracle.
Life rests in angles. Clark tells the events of his children being in car crashes and his wild ride to the next city at night to find them safe miraculously. And he had peace even in the concern. But Clark is not known for walking around serenely all the time. If Clark were serene all the time, then he is not fighting the Good Fight. The Word of God is about distress and overcoming a lot.
Peace is when life surrounds you with alligators and events known to your heart and still you have hope. And it ebbs and flows. God motivates us in the storms of life and assures us this too will pass. I would bet if you took Paul's BP when the shipwreck was wildly occurring, it was elevated - however Paul Believed that God would see them through.
Evangelism. The TV evangelists who smile all the time - like a mask when we have every right to be affronted are not convincing. This is probably what happened to the Moral Majority. Let Love be Genuine. You have to weep with the weepers, be strong with the strong ones, be aware of the currents around you. Paul said be all things to the people around you.
We Christians have faked being too nice. Be genuine instead. Smiling is Not being nice when the smiling is not appropriate.
We can't believe the subtitles. All of Scripture is usually quite messy. Samson's parents went way overboard from seeing an angel go up in fire. Unwed mothers, deafness unexplained, eating the body and blood of Christ. People have begun to be affronted again with the idea God would have His Son die. We should be impassioned about that. George Carlin did a horrific stand up routine on why our Bible is ridiculous. It was pure evil. Scripture has to be lived, we have to SEEK THIS TO OBTAIN THIS.
5. PERFECTION
NoW WhAt iS ThIs I wOnDerrr.... Oh cmon this is funny.
God calls the righteous.
Jesus actually said God Calls sinners. Look at your minister next time more closely.
~ Noah was a drunk
~ Abraham was too old
~ Isaac was a daydreamer
~ Jacob was a liar
~ Leah was ugly
~ Joseph was abused
~ Moses had a stuttering problem
~ Gideon was afraid
~ Samson had long hair and was a womanizer
~ Rahab was a prostitute
~ Jeremiah and Timothy were too young
~ David was an adulterer and a murderer
~ Elijah was suicidal
~ Isaiah preached naked
~ Jonah ran from God
~ Naomi was a bitter widow
~ Job went bankrupt
~ John the Baptist ate bugs
~ Peter denied Christ
~ The disciples fell asleep while praying
~ Martha worried about everything
~ The Samaritan woman was divorced (more than once)
~ Zaccheus was too small
~ Timothy had an ulcer
~ Lazarus was dead!
Now this list does not include Daniel and John. And you have to say this about them. They were perfect. And then. They saw things. Now that is scary. I think it might be this... The Tower of Babel occurred when mankind was just a little tooo. Paul isn't on the list. Now we know what his problem, privately, unnamed was. Actually, many prophetic people believe Paul had arthritis of the knees and continued to go down the path. Not wanting to complain too much to overcome his mission but realizing the mission was bigger than his results.
Perfection is the fulfillment of God. God is Not jazzing around about all these phrases - - our well worn and too large and too streamlined educational system would not give us the creativity to create.
I've seen, in a dream, the fulfillment of my beloved(!) Grandmother Bit (her nickname). Perfection in Him is Astonishing! In Texas, we have these streams that make gullies and ruts, due to seasonal changes, but in Wyoming that living water is lush and abundant and fills with Glory to the brim.
Which brings us back to ray, A drop of Golden Light. Peace - a name...
If our peace is 'all about us' - are we fulfilled? Happy is NOT Peace. Kabbalah is taking Scripture and Torah and creating a system of numbers and fables and creates an outcome - all about me. This is not fulfilling. Peace is not religious pride. Besides if you sit and think about yourself all the time - this is not going to be interesting and not be fun. It just isn't.
Looking UP to Him is so refreshing. Goodness and Love wanting to save the world. That is how abundant God's Love it.
If we look like we are in HIM and go around smiling and looking fulfilled because we are happy - are we missing this - definitely-------
Romans 5
15 Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. 16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.
My family says we are one part pride and two parts fear - so in the Perfection Category I'd say this is His Teaching. hhhhmmm hmmmm hmmm hmmm
6. HASSLE
On Hassle avoidance. Man, we need to think on this. God says that this is part of life.
The work of God is that Men believe. He says so.
We can absolutely - sterilize our lives - avoiding hassle. Sooo squeaky. Soooo ....
John 6:29
Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent."
All of God's Scripture provides for the fact people hassle each other. God hassled Himself for us, continually. And God promises us HE equips us to do His work. How? We have to believe in the signs and Words He would bring our lives. If you ask Him for a sign and you gittit - do you gittit?
Are you a Christian if you do what is always comfortable to you? Lord, Lord and all who call to Him will be called His.
It's not the comfy chair, this is Fight the Good Fight. Not salmon up.
Ask Him. Earnestly. Christians are supposed to go the extra mile. Because they have been forgiven.
Father God takes all of our doubts about faith and becomes the Father who we can relate Jesus' life to. What we believe God would be. He steps down from His Righteousness and Holiness and says - remembers Jesus lived among us having compassion and love. He takes our doubts and covers them in One Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit and makes us reconciled as One Body of Christ. Jesus bore our sins on the cross. In boldness and confidence, we can run to Him as the Prodigal saw His Father return to him.
If it's uncomfortable - are you uncalled? If you meet the basic requirements are you on the approval list?
We go the extra mile, because we know God has work for us to do. This is a good thing. Solomon said work is what makes life meaningful and worth while. Is work comfortable?
7 VICTORY
To obtain Victory in our bringing Heaven to Earth. We need to effectively speak the language of the person we are talking to. There are love languages and we must understand the person we bring His Love to.
Have we done what Peter does if we say get behind me?
Listening is what Jesus did when HE asks people questions we know HE knew. We have to understand the person we talk with. Not expect them to just follow us. Leading someone to Christ is not leading. And looking like old TV programs of goodness.
We are not Salvation. HE is and HE equips us when this is the work He would bring us. Sometimes we are a seed. Sometimes we are like Lincoln and learning from each non-success. Nervous? God works within us when we do His will. Sometimes nervousness is the genuineness that is needed. HE equips us for our task. Believe this.
Speak up even when you voice squeaks, Fight the Good Fight. Not the comfy chair of relax, relax. All about you and your comfort is boring. Life has to fought over to be meaningful. Surely we can un-tv some. Provide a meal. Learn a new skill. Broaden the adventure when Jesus says Give Us the Day. Living Bread is to be held with Joy.
Speak up even when you voice squeaks, Fight the Good Fight. Not the comfy chair of relax, relax. All about you and your comfort is boring. Life has to fought over to be meaningful. Surely we can un-tv some. Provide a meal. Learn a new skill. Broaden the adventure when Jesus says Give Us the Day. Living Bread is to be held with Joy.
8. THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS ~ AT HAND
Walls
Gates
Languages ~
Redemption
Reconciled.
Did you know the Kingdom of Heaven is written to have twelve Gates?
And Gates in the Scriptures close at night. However.
In Heaven, God is our Light. The Gates of Heaven will never close. Because the Gate is one pearl and the Light of God never ceases.
Walls fall. Barriers like languages - are removed. Because what is spoken is Fulfillment in God.
LOVE is the objective.
This takes us back to prayer, because we began with prayer as the Alpha and the Omega is Him. Reconciliation. HE is the objective. He is Love.
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