Psalm 116 ~ O my soul, for the Lord has been good to you †

 

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Psalm 116

I love The Lord

Because He has heard

    my voice and my pleas for mercy.

He heard my cry for mercy.

2 Because He turned His ear to me, 

I will call on Him as long as I live.

3 The cords of death entangled me, 

the anguish of the grave came upon me; 

I was overcome by trouble and sorrow.

4 Then I called on the name of the LORD: 

"O LORD, save me!"

5 The LORD is gracious and righteous; 

our God is full of compassion.

6 The LORD protects the simple hearted; 

when I was in great need, 

He saved me.

7 Be at rest once more, 

O my soul, 

for the LORD has been good to you.

8 For you, O LORD, have delivered my soul from death, 

my eyes from tears, 

my feet from stumbling,

9 that I may walk before the LORD 

in the land of the living.

 I believed; therefore I said, "I am greatly afflicted."

11 And in my dismay I said, "All men are liars."

12 How can I repay the LORD for all His goodness to me?

13 I will lift up the cup of salvation 

and call on the Name of the LORD.

14 I will fulfill my vows to the LORD in the presence of all His people.

15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints.

16 O LORD, truly I am your servant; 

I am your servant, the son of your maidservant;

You have freed me from my chains.

17 I will sacrifice a thank offering to You 

and 

call on 

The Name of the LORD.

18 I will fulfill my vows to the LORD 

in the presence of 

all 

His people,

19 in the courts of the House of the LORD

-- in your midst, O Jerusalem. 

Praise the LORD.

Isaiah 6:3

The angels were calling to each other, 

“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord All-Powerful. 

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Hosts; 

the whole earth

 is full of 

His Glory 

We pray immediately for help and mercy

 to the Lord God

and 

the 

Catastrophic Event

of

the Death of 150 Gray Whales

in the Name of Jesus Christ

along 

the Western Coast of the USA.

Gray whales are facing a catastrophic die-off along the Pacific Coast of North America, driven primarily by STARVATION and secondary hazards like ship strikes (requiring legal sonar in the ships.)

The eastern gray whale population has dropped from an estimated 

27,000 in 2016 

to roughly 13,000.

Gray whales, are not Humpback whales, and travel 14.000 miles from Alaska, Canada to Baja, Mexico.  

These are American Whales. 

Gray Whales are Moby Dick. They have this fight

and this

forgiveness:

Gray whales eat small sea floor animals, mainly amphipods, mysid shrimp, and marine worms. They scoop up mud and sand from the bottom of the ocean and use special bristled plates in their mouths called baleen to filter out the food.

The Sea Floor

is

not

feeding

the Gray Whales.

Because

Gray Whales eat

bottom dwelling small fish

theses

small fish

eat decaying fish

which are 

overfished.

Alaska has seen and overcome fish being overfished. This is part of the cycle of the sea floor. Management of the Huge Salmon Alaskan fisheries was based on the simple premise that salmon should not be overfished.

We can do this

Fisheries in coves for Gray Whales

Making food to release and for the Ocean Floor

 for small sea floor animals, mainly amphipods, mysid shrimp, and marine worms. 

We can do this.

Sonar for larger vessels

avoiding

whale strikes.

China is fishing out 44%

of all the fish

 taken in the world.

Climate Change

isn't regulated

but over fishing

and fisheries are.

The Gray Whale

travels

14,000 miles

this is key to the

SOLUTION.

With this worldwide appetite for fish

we 

Quickly Prioritize Fisheries

and Fish Farming. 

LORD GOD

we

Pray for 

Your Assistance

for

Gray Whales

Please

Jesus

Amen

Abba, Father God,

Help our prayers be fruitful. 

Let our conversation about joy, need, praise. 

Heal the hurting, 

uplift the families. 

Especially in High Water.

Send Your vast blessings. Father God, we pray,

Speak the Word, Father God, 

and we know Your healing. 

Prayers are being answered. Thank You.

Dwell in us, Father.

Help the ones we Love to have You dwelling in them.

Help us to Seek You First.

And we will finish well in Jesus Christ.

We pray for those facing

difficult days

and for the entire Nation.

Worldwide Peace.

Praise Your gift of life in Jesus. 

Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Bless the Lord Jesus

Thank You, Jesus

Mark 7:24-30 ~ His Presence

597 BC,  March 16th

According to the cuneiform from Babylon Chronicles, 597 BC, in The British Museum, Jerusalem remained blackened burned stones heaped upon each other. It was so burned, it took a century for the stones to be clean again in the ruins. Jerusalem was not going to be enjoyable for the meager remnant.

70 AD
And Judea fell again when destroyed by soon to be Emperor Titus in 70 A.D., when Jesus would have died of natural causes and old age. Titus got to march in with an estimated one million Jewish slaves as part of his Royal Triumph Parade. The Colosseum was built as a spoil of war. The Temple Tools are carved on the Arch of Titus.

81 AD

And the Arch of Titus was completed 81 AD by the Emperor Domitian shortly after the death of his older brother Titus to commemorate Titus's official deification or consecratio and the victory of Titus together with their father, Vespasian, over the Jewish rebellion in Judea.




About 1550 AD 

The Pope used the Arch 

for Oath taking and loyalty ceremonies. And the Arch began to show deterioration.

By 1700 AD it was almost abandoned and a citizen lived in the ruins.

In 1812 

The Pope decided to restore this:

(This) monument, remarkable in terms of both religion and art,
had weakened from age:
Pius the Seventh, Supreme Pontiff,
by new works on the model of the ancient exemplar
ordered it reinforced and preserved.


Good idea.

1948

The Jews had refused to walk under the Arch of Titus, believing Israel would rise from utter defeat almost 1900 years later. Correct!

What will we expect from Jesus - Living Son of God - 

Author of the Living Word of God?

Mark 7:24-30

24 Jesus left that place and went to the vicinity of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know it; 

yet He could not keep His Presence secret.

25 In fact, as soon as she heard about Him, a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an impure spirit came and fell at His feet. 26 The woman was a Greek, born in Syrian Phoenicia. She begged Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.

27 “First let the children eat all they want,” He told her, 

“for it is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”


28 “Lord,” she replied, “even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”

29 Then He told her, 

“For such a reply, you may go; the demon has left your daughter.”

30 She went home and found her child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.



Jesus was always known and IS Known as being approachable.


In our lives, we all come from

different aspects,

seasons and varying degrees of our Journey in Life with Jesus.

Jesus is not the type of Man, God, who will revile someone in their wobbles.


We were not there

We do not know if the Syrian woman approached Jesus with dogged diligence or if her whole approach was filled with trepidation.


If someone greets Jesus for many years and many paths with trepidation - this is just like the Prodigal Son being seen, far, far away. The Father had time to make sure his child was approaching.


The Bible is living and active, Jesus is not going to shame the Syrian Woman for having trepidation, Jesus is going to be with her and work out her worries.


We all will encounter the Living Father God in various seasons of our lives. Some days we read this as Jesus is being quite regal to a gentile. But perhaps this particular gentile expected God to speak to her in ways she found recognizable.


Can you imagine if the woman had approached Jesus and said this to Jesus and He replied, "Oh Ridiculous, your daughter has never ever had a demon. She had Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder and you, being merely at the start of the Gregorian Calendar, surely you are uninformed and stop groveling."

(Yes, I am completely sure Jesus knew of what He was speaking of in Divine Knowledge in the passage - this is an analogy.)


God being God - is going to have to approach us in our highest level of thinking. We cannot attain to filling the Heavens with our Presence. Father Francis MacNutt was a 91 year old graduate of Harvard. He has been involved in healing ministries for 40 years. Father MacNutt says that when someone is healed they want to know right away if the healing is permanent. They begin testing the permanence of the healing like a colt on new found, shaky legs. Father God does not ZAP them for being people of little faith and take the healed miracle back. God allows us to grow. To lean to Him. Francis MacNutt reports the Joy of the realization process of healing.

My mother was healed of a thyroid tumor her decades reliable doctor told her felt cancerous based upon the shape.  She went to Church of The Resurrection, Episcopal, in Garland, Texas and was completely healed. She was terribly afraid to go up to the communion rail for healing. Not because she didn't like and respect Father Ted Nelson, but because she was afraid and in fear for her medical diagnosis in surgery.  She said she felt as if she was being microwaved (a new invention at the time.) Father Ted prayed for my mother about 20 minutes. And we had her prayer group with us.  And in the car home, she confessed she thought she was having a hot flash and was absolutely terrified she would faint. And be declared to be Slain in the Spirit and have to decide if she admitted it was a hot flash.  She did not faint, but her mind was in fear as the tumor became nothing by the next day. Discovered in the pre-operative procedure while all the prayer group and I stood in the hallway.  Father Ted Nelson would go forth to begin Christ Church Anglican in Plano, Texas.


The Vast Mercy of God will agree with the Disciple John working, walking, watching, talking, living, and experiencing Jesus. Saying to us - GOD IS LOVE.

How does Father God like to be addressed in Expectation?

Hebrews 4:16

Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, 

that we may receive mercy 

and 

find grace to help in time of need.

Ephesians 3:12

In Him and through faith in Him

 we may approach God 

with freedom 

and 

confidence.

God is God. Always. His own Word tells us about Father God. We use our talents and gifts to bring them to Father God, in prayer, saying, "I hope I have pleased You." 

Believing of Father God - He is Love and He is easily pleased with earnest hearts who Love Him.

Abba, Father God,

You have placed me in my life - just where I am. You gave me my name, You gave me my circumstances. I have days of plenty and days of want. Help me this day to place my thanksgiving, my gratitude for what has blessed this day - as a gift from You, Father God.

Help us in our circumstances we label as difficult.  Enlarge our Boundaries, You ask us do we see a desert or a patch of land to garden and cultivate.

 Help us to be wise in our own thinking. 

See You are a God in Whom Nothing is Impossible!

Let me place my heart, my talents, my gifts in front of You and ask all things work together for Good. Let every knee bow at the Highest Name of Jesus, let us kneel and worship. You are our God. 

We are the people of Your pasture. We place our cares in Your hands. Thank You for hearing our voice. Let us hear and understand our calling in life from You.

We bring in our hearts, the Ones we Love. Asking You for their upbuilding, to broaden hearts and to create more Heaven on this earth. 

 For healing for those asking Jesus to be healed

. Give us every good gift we need and continually point us in the right direction. 

We ask this for our work, our friends, our Church, our State and Nation. 

Knowing to Know Your Love is to create Love, Hope, Faith, Joy and Peace. 

Help us be led in Upward Goodness 

and not as needing a bit and a bridle.

THANK YOU Abba, Father GOD, 

Your mercies RENEW each day. 

In Jesus. Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Bless the Lord Jesus

Thank You, Jesus

Matthew 13:3-9 ~ He told them many things

 

The tree above is not mine

The one below is the baby Tree

I have an adolescent tree

Matthew 13:3-9

He told them many things in parables, saying: 

“A sower went out to sow. 

4 And as he sowed, 

some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. 

5 Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, 6 but when the sun rose they were scorched. 

And since they had no root, they withered away. 

7 Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. 

8 Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. 

9 He who has ears, let him hear.”

THE PINEY HERITAGE FOREST OF AMERICA

The Fertile Farming Plains 

Coastland of the Mighty Mississippi River

Evidently, this is a Seed Parable Week.

Living in the Great Pine Forest, one of America's Treasures stretching from the East Texas Piney Woods we take care of our large and small trees before Hurricane Season.  Today, Texas is experiencing Tropical Storm Bertha.

And as we had the trees trimmed back, I had to go and look at the volunteer. Like Edward says it's a gangly teenager now.

The original owners 1989-1994 of our house were Hawaiian. 

We have a couple of Hawaiian plants like the tall Red Ginger that blooms and becomes the Hawaiian pinecone as it dries.

 In "2020", we had a tree volunteer. And today it is 20 feet tall and being trimmed off of the garage. A Hawaiian Olapa Tree!!!! The berries grew 25 years later.

WOW! This is the only Olapa Tree we have seen. 

 Grow lifetime good seeds!

Huge Olapa in Hawaii

The seedling I did not notice

The Leaves are about

10 inches wide

and a foot long 

Revelation 22:2 

Through the middle of the street of the city; 

also, on either side of the river, 

The Tree of Life 

with its twelve kinds of fruit, 

yielding its fruit each month. 

The leaves of the tree were 

for 

the healing 

of 

the nations.

Hosea 10:12

Sow for yourselves righteousness; 

reap steadfast love; 

break up your fallow ground, 

For it is the time to seek the Lord, 

that 

He may come 

and 

rain righteousness upon you.

Abba, Father,

A Prayer of Moses, 

the man of God.

Lord, you have been our dwelling place

    in all generations.

2 Before the mountains were brought forth,

    or ever You had formed the earth and the world,

    from everlasting to everlasting You are God.

3 You return man to dust

    and say, “Return, O children of man!”

4 For a thousand years in Your Sight

    are but as yesterday when it is past,

    or 

as a watch in the night.

5 You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream,

    like grass that is renewed in the morning:

6 in the morning it flourishes and is renewed;

    in the evening it fades and withers.

7 For we are brought to an end by Your anger;

    by Your wrath we are dismayed.

8 You have set our iniquities before You,

    our secret sins in 

The Light of Your Presence.

9 For all our days pass away under your wrath;

    we bring our years to an end like a sigh.

10 The years of our life are seventy,

    or even by reason of strength eighty;

yet their span is but toil and trouble;

    they are soon gone, and we fly away.

11 Who considers the power of your anger,

    and your wrath according to the fear of you?

12 So teach us to number our days

    that 

we may get a heart of wisdom.

13 Return, O Lord! How long?

    Have pity on your servants!

14 Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love,

    that we may rejoice 

and 

Be Glad all our days.

15 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,

    and for as many years as we have seen evil.

16 Let your work be shown to your servants,

    and your glorious power to their children.

17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us,

    and 

establish the work of our hands upon us;

    yes, 

establish the work of our hands!

Let Jesus be part of our existence

like Light

Light is required and generated as we are conceived.

In Your Light

we exist and have our being.

The warmth of Light

makes Life possible

in the vast

darkness, of a dark and cold universe

this small, small planet

reflects the Light of The Sun

or Son, Holy Son

And we

exist

To find

You

We ask, Father,

The Light of 

Jesus Christ

We ask all healing of You, Father,

We ask Your Love and Warmth

would be our energy each day

and the Hope

and Faith

and Love

guiding us.

Dwell in me,

Dwell in us,

Dwell in those we Love,

Help us to seek You first.

Peace and the Joy God gives us.

And we will finish well, 

in Jesus Christ. 

Please, Father,

Bless Edward with healthy retinas

Today Edward found out

he has a 3rd surgery

for 3rd Detached Retina

and 

has a Surgeon plan for solid

fix for this retina

and

a necessary second eye 

to follow.

We Pray Glory

of God

to Heal Edward.

The Lord to bless us 

and our family with health

and the dreams we have,

Your Will and Peace

as the little baby has colic fairly intensely.

And slept through the night.

We have had an intense week

Peace and Prosperity for the Godly

Healing

Joy of the Lord

Help us seek and find 

and bring,

become,

 more Heaven

to this earth.

In the Name of Jesus 

fill us

surround us

embolden us

lead us

redeem us

and keep us forever.

Lord Jesus Christ

Only Son of God, our Father.

God Bless

our

NATION

and that

the 
Governance

is

For the People.

Save America

Lord God

without Affidavit!

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Bless the Lord Jesus

Thank You, Jesus