Luke 17:11-26 ~ praising God

 

The Lord loves a just scale. He likes us to tell the truth. And seek the truth. And teach inside our homes the truth.  The Lord Loves Justice.

We like this. 

When we seek the Comfort of the Lord, we are open to understanding All His Word creates a Shelter for Love to Live. 

Jesus wanted those He loves to know His view of His Life and Ministry.

Luke 17:11-26

On the way to Jerusalem He was passing along between Samaria and Galilee. 12 And as He entered a village, He was met by ten lepers, who stood at a distance 13 and lifted up their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.” 

14 When He saw them he said to them, 

“Go and show yourselves to the priests.” 

And as they went they were cleansed. 15 Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice; 16 and he fell on his face at Jesus' feet, giving Him thanks. Now he was a Samaritan. 

17 Then Jesus answered,

 “Were not ten cleansed? Where are the nine? 18 Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?” 

19 And He said to him, 

“Rise and go your way; your faith has made you well.”

20 Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them, 

“The Kingdom of God is not coming in ways that can be observed, 21 nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the Kingdom of God is in the midst of you.”

1 Samuel 10:17-11:15

17 Now Samuel called the people together to the Lord at Mizpah. 18 And he said to the people of Israel, 

“Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.’ 19 But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your calamities and your distresses, and you have said to him, ‘Set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and by your thousands.”

20 Then Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was taken by lot. 21 He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by its clans, and the clan of the Matrites was taken by lot; and Saul the son of Kish was taken by lot. But when they sought him, he could not be found. 22 So they inquired again of the Lord, “Is there a man still to come?” and the Lord said, “Behold, he has hidden himself among the baggage.”

 23 Then they ran and took him from there. And when he stood among the people, he was taller than any of the people from his shoulders upward. 24 And Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see him whom the Lord has chosen? There is none like him among all the people.” And all the people shouted, “Long live the king!”

25 Then Samuel told the people the rights and duties of the kingship, and he wrote them in a book and laid it up before the Lord. Then Samuel sent all the people away, each one to his home.

 26 Saul also went to his home at Gibeah, and with him went men of valor whose hearts God had touched. 27 But some worthless fellows said, “How can this man save us?” And they despised him and brought him no present. But he held his peace.

11 Then Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh-gilead, and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.” 2 But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “On this condition I will make a treaty with you, that I gouge out all your right eyes, and thus bring disgrace on all Israel.” 3 The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Give us seven days' respite that we may send messengers through all the territory of Israel. Then, if there is no one to save us, we will give ourselves up to you.” 4 When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, they reported the matter in the ears of the people, and all the people wept aloud.

5 Now, behold, Saul was coming from the field behind the oxen. And Saul said, “What is wrong with the people, that they are weeping?” So they told him the news of the men of Jabesh. 

6 And the Spirit of God rushed upon Saul when he heard these words, and his anger was greatly kindled. 7 He took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces and sent them throughout all the territory of Israel by the hand of the messengers, saying, “Whoever does not come out after Saul and Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen!” Then the dread of the Lord fell upon the people, and they came out as one man. 

8 When he mustered them at Bezek, the people of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand. 9 And they said to the messengers who had come, “Thus shall you say to the men of Jabesh-gilead: ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you shall have salvation.’” When the messengers came and told the men of Jabesh, they were glad. 10 Therefore the men of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will give ourselves up to you, and you may do to us whatever seems good to you.” 11 And the next day Saul put the people in three companies. And they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch and struck down the Ammonites until the heat of the day. And those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.

12 Then the people said to Samuel, “Who is it that said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring the men, that we may put them to death.” 

13 But Saul said, “Not a man shall be put to death this day, for today the Lord has worked salvation in Israel.” 

14 Then Samuel said to the people, “Come, let us go to Gilgal and there renew the kingdom.” 15 So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the Lord in Gilgal. 

There they sacrificed peace offerings before the Lord, and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.

Abba, Father,

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

without additional surgery

and our family with health

Your Will and Peace

as the little baby has colic fairly intensely.

Help us seek and find 

and bring,

become,

 more Heaven

to this earth.

Praying with Venezuela,

the 3,500 injured, 50,000 tens of thousands missing and the 1,200 fatalities.

Thank, Jesus the Lord, for the Graham Family Samaritan's Purse.

Samaritan's Purse Link

And in Jesus - This Hope.

Faith and Love - we will rise up Believing Jesus.

Amen

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Bless the Lord Jesus

Thank You, Jesus

Proverbs 16 ~ From The Lord

  

Proverbs 16

The plans of the heart belong to man,

    but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.

2 All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes,

    but the Lord weighs the spirit.

3 Commit your work to the Lord,

    and your plans will be established.

4 The Lord has made everything for its purpose,

    even the wicked for the day of trouble.

5 Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord;

    be assured, he will not go unpunished.

6 By steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for,

    and by the fear of the Lord one turns away from evil.

7 When a man's ways please the Lord,

    he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

8 Better is a little with righteousness

    than great revenues with injustice.

9 The heart of man plans his way,

    but the Lord establishes his steps.

10 An oracle is on the lips of a king;

    his mouth does not sin in judgment.

11 A just balance and scales are the Lord's;

    all 

the weights in the bag are His work.

Yes, indeed. The count-down news reports keep asking about people requesting more News about Jesus Christ. I saw at least 6 requests for more facts about Jesus. Listen, honey, Or if you prefer the Biblical use of the word well included, "Beloved". Listen, honey child. If you are keen, eager, wondering, thinking, have a thirst to know more about Jesus, don't ask from the changeable. 

Ask the Steadfast. Ask The Love. Ask The Bible. Seek the fact we all live in a world that can be a hassle. Have the comment. The opinion. And have trouble. Read the Word of God.

Interesting.

The questions have a Theme. Is Jesus Human? Does He Like me? Would I like HIM? 

The situation with asking the people who are changeable. Some of the answers were: Jesus would be astonished, we Celebrate Christmas. Om, no!  Some of the most Celebrated Holidays as Jesus was Born... The Festival of Booths. Everyone camped out or on their flat roof for 2 weeks. The people who walked everywhere, actually like to Sail. In a Boat.  And have fun. Go to Parties. Eat. Drink.  Dance at Weddings. Make Wine. Visit Vineyards, a favorite theme with Jesus.

Didn't think we would Celebrate Christmas?  Rocks instead of brains. Opinion over Biblical Truth. The Host Of Heaven Came and Serenaded. All of them. Singing to the Party. The Shepherds Traveled and had a Birthday Party. Thee, yes, 'Thee' Temple was waiting in GLEE for Jesus to be Presented at The Temple. 

If you are longing to know Jesus as a Human Being.  Who is God.

See the readings from 1000 BC

Heart?

The answer of the tongue is in The Lord's Word. The Lord's Spirit knows far more.

Nothing is worrying God today.

He has the whole World in His Hands. Yes, He does. He has the whole World in His Hands. Yes, He does.

The Lord loves a just scale. He likes us to tell the truth. And seek the truth. And teach inside our homes the truth.  The Lord Loves Justice.

We like this. 

When we seek the Comfort of the Lord, we are open to understanding All His Word creates a Shelter for Love to Live. 

Jesus wanted those He loves to know His view of His Life and Ministry.

John 14, John 15, John 16 and John 17 

is the most Jesus spoke at one time. 

Know Jesus, Know the Scriptures. 

Matthew 22:29.  Jesus even had a time people asked Him about Reincarnation and Heaven marriages. People asked Jesus the wildest questions. Jesus called us His Beloved and He answered.

This Continues today. 

So does John's Gospel, Chapter 17, Today.

What Jesus said in 3000 BC is Today. What Jesus said in the Holy Spirit during the Bronze Age applies today. It isn't up to God to be bendy. It is up to us to have an open Heart and know those who walked with Jesus and knew His Father, called Him, God of Love.

Abba, Father,

Our Father, Who is in Heaven

Come to us, Father. 

Come to us, Holy Spirit. 

Come to us, Jesus Christ.

We welcome You. 

In this unexpected time.

Plague.

Recovery.

No Logic. Missing truth.

United in Prayer.

Father, in Heaven, Thank You,

Know every aspect of us. Every cell. All

Abide in every moment of our Lives.

The Lord God

Father of All

In Every Moment.

Gently Holding our Prayers.

Understanding the Best of us.

Knowing the worst.

Saving the world,

Dwell in us, Father,

we ask in the Highest Name of Jesus.

Dwell, fully, in those we love

Help us to seek You 

first

and we will finish well 

in Jesus Christ.

We pray 

Peace

for Israel

and Your Good Creation.

Continued Healing

and all Good Health!

We pray blessings on 

Peace for the world.

Father,

people say You have no

real plan for us

as a Child of God.

Not individual plans.

The Lord answers

in His Word:

Jeremiah 29:11

 

 For I know the plans I have for you,” 

Declares the LORD, 

“Plans to prosper you

 and not to harm you, 

plans to give you hope 

and 

a future.”

Psalm 139

 O Lord, you have searched me and known me! 

2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; 

 You discern my thoughts from afar. 

3 You search out my path and my lying down 

 and are acquainted with all my ways. 

4 Even before a word is on my tongue

, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.

You hem me in, behind and before, 

 and lay your hand upon me. 

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; 

 it is high; I cannot attain it. 

 Where shall I go from your Spirit? 

 Or where shall I flee from your presence? 

 If I ascend to Heaven

YOU are there! 

Praise Your gift of life 

in Jesus. 

Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

YES, Bless the Lord Jesus

Thank You, Jesus

Hebrews 8 ~ Something to offer †

Papyrus 46 has several pages of Hebrews 8, this photo is amazing papyrus that is two generations from the ministry of Jesus. The early labeling (before Woke ideas) was Papyrus 46 is from the 90 A.D., First Century.  The new complaint is verb usage. Not many manuscripts are written in Greek from the area of Judah.  Fragments are more pervasive. Papyrus 46 is incredibly intact.  And still labeled as First Century.  Not as people say 2nd Century A.D. sometimes today.

For 300 years, Roman Emperors put varying effort into Scripture obliteration. 

Hebrews 8

Now the main point of what we are saying is this: 

We do have such a High Priest, 

Who sat down at the Right Hand of the Throne of the Majesty in Heaven, 2 and 

Who serves in the Sanctuary, the True Tabernacle set up by the Lord, 

not by a mere human being!

3 Every High Priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices, and so it was necessary for this One also to have something to offer.

4 If He were on earth, He would not be a priest, for there are already priests who offer the gifts prescribed by the law. 5 They serve at a sanctuary that is a copy and shadow of what is in Heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”

Shiloh is the first resting place

the traveling Tent of Worship

during the coming time of Moses.

The Ark of the Covenant was here

until the Temple was built in Jerusalem.

The Ark of the Covenant

is

The Mercy Seat of God

2,000 Centuries and counting

But in fact the Ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the Covenant of which He is Mediator is Superior to the old one, since the 

New Covenant is established on better promises.

7 For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another. 8 But God found fault with the people and said:

“The days are coming, 

Declares the Lord,

when I will make a New Covenant

with the people of Israel

and 

with the people of Judah.

9 It will not be like the covenant

I made with their ancestors

when I took them by the hand

to lead them out of Egypt,

because 

they did not remain faithful to My Covenant,

and 

I turned away from them,

Declares the Lord.

This is the Covenant I will establish with the people of Israel

after that time, 

Declares the Lord.

I will put My Laws 

in their minds

and 

write them on their hearts.

I will be their God,

and 

they will be My People.

11 No longer will they teach their neighbor,

or say to one another, 

‘Know the Lord,’

because 

they will all know Me,

from the least of them to the greatest.

12 For I will forgive their wickedness

and 

will remember their sins no more.”

13 By calling this covenant “New,” He has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.

Hebrews 3:5-15

Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later 

Christ is faithful over God's house as a Son. And we are His House, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.

7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,

“Today, if you hear His Voice,

8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,

    on the day of testing in the wilderness,

9 where your fathers put me to the test

    and saw my works for forty years.

10 Therefore I was provoked with that generation,

and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart;

    they have not known my ways.’

11 As I swore in my wrath,

    ‘They shall not enter my rest.’”

12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 

13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 

14 For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. 

15 As it is said,

“Today, if you hear His Voice,

do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

Hebrews begins the Chapter saying, proclaiming, Eternally proclaiming, Jesus is the exact nature of God.

John spent his life explaining Jesus.  Light of mankind!  The knowledge of God Himself living in what is a higher and better path.  The exact nature of God. John finally said: God is Love. God is encouragement.

The Lord God, Ancient of Days, Creator of All said. My Holy Spirit is HELP. Call the Trinity of God's Plan, God's Words, God's Wonderous Works HELPER.  Call The Holiness of God Comfort. And His Plan Comforter. 

And living this is Love, Faith and Hope. The Greatest of these is Love. God Himself.

Abba, Father,

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

without additional surgery

and our family with health

Your Will and Peace

as the little baby has colic fairly intensely.

Help us seek and find 

and bring,

become,

 more Heaven

to this earth.

Praying with Venezuela,

the 3,500 injured, 50,000 tens of thousands missing and the 1,200 fatalities.

Thank, Jesus the Lord, for the Graham Family Samaritan's Purse.

Samaritan's Purse Link

And in Jesus - This Hope.

Faith and Love - we will rise up Believing Jesus.

Amen

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Bless the Lord Jesus

Thank You, Jesus