Psalm 56 ~ Be Gracious

 

Psalm 56

A Miktam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.

Be gracious to me, O God, for man tramples on me;

    all day long an attacker oppresses me;

my enemies trample on me all day long,

    for many attack me proudly.

When I am afraid,

    I put my trust in you.

In God, whose word I praise,

    in God I trust; I shall not be afraid.

    What can flesh do to me?

All day long they injure my cause;

    all their thoughts are against me for evil.

They stir up strife, they lurk;

    they watch my steps,

    as they have waited for my life.

For their crime will they escape?

    In wrath cast down the peoples, O God!

You have kept count of my tossings;

    put my tears in your bottle.

    Are they not in your book?

Then my enemies will turn back

    in the day when I call.

    This I know, that God is for me.

In God, whose Word I praise,

    in the Lord, whose Word I praise,

in God I trust; I shall not be afraid.

    What can man do to me?

I must perform my vows to you, O God;

    I will render thank offerings to you.

For you have delivered my soul from death,

    yes, my feet from falling,

that I may walk

 before God

    in 

the light of Life.

The Liturgy is a wondrous part of Church History.  313 to 318 AD is another form of the ongoing Life of Christ.  The Edict of Milan was Constantine formally recognizing the Church as the leadership of the Roman Empire. And in 318 AD the first Vatican began to be built over the foreigner's cemetery of Rome and covering the rock placed over the tomb of Peter's grave.  

Psalm 56 perfectly describes the Disciples the week after the first Easter. They were sad. They wondered. The Disciples struggled to understand what this was.  Even after Jesus appeared to them and explained on the Road to Emmaus. 

Romans 8:28

And we know that all things work 

together for good 

for those who love God, 

who are called 

according

 to His Purpose

We want to know how faith is grown and established. To see the Living Jesus Christ and understand how those who surround Jesus in His Kingdom, alive today, grasped and held their faith. Some of the steps of this deep and living faith. To abolish the fear ,we don't hold our faith and are really just weak and wobbly. The Disciples were weak and wobbly in almost every Chapter of the New Testament. They never became Jesus. They Loved Jesus, were forgiven for abandoning Jesus and in this real relationship endured by faith.  God held them in His Hand and would not give them up.

Faith was growing the next Sabbath after the first Easter. It was not the Tree of Life, but really was a growing sapling.

Mark 8:22-26, Jesus healed a blind man in Bethsaida in two stages. After the first touch, the man saw people as "trees walking," Jesus laid Hands on him again, fully restoring his sight to clarity. This unique, two-stage miracle explaining brain recovery in stages.  Jesus did not say to the man, "Not healed! What good are you!"

Nor did Jesus ever say, "Not filled with this Resurrection miracle! Fire these disciples." Like the Prodigal Son, Jesus just kept the relationship. Not forcing Faith upon them, Jesus kept explaining. Jesus believed His Disciples would arrive. 

When people have something overwhelming happening to them, they really need at least 40 days to process. Every Lent we have been given 40 Days.

And in this difficult coping, God says find Praise. Find your joy. Don't wander about. Be within your faith.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. 

For we believe that Jesus died and rose again

And so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him. 

According to the Lord’s Word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord Himself will come down from Heaven, with a loud command, with the Voice of the archangel and with the Trumpet Call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 

After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. 

And so we will be with the Lord forever. 

Therefore encourage one another with these Words!

Proverbs 19:21

Many are the plans in the mind of a man, 

but it is the purpose of the Lord 

that will stand.

Abba, Father God,

We pray the Blessing

of Love and Peace

Shining

The Light of Love Peace and Joy

upon

The Teachings of Jesus Christ.

God of Love

God of Encouragement

God of the Bible. 

The safety 

of those

helping the earth 

to heal.

Let evil and practicing evil

depart 

far 

from us

and our children.

With Your Help

We will act justly

 and to love mercy

 and to walk humbly with You, our God.

Cover us

in peace worldwide.

Give us more of 

Your Strength

and Hope.

Dwell in me,

Dwell in us,

Dwell in those we Love,

Help us to seek You first.

And we will finish well, 

in Jesus Christ. 

Help us seek and find 

and bring,

to become,

 more Heaven

to this earth.

Peace

Thank You

for

our first grandbaby

Arriving this summer

Happy

Easter

Husky and 

Many More!

All Your Love

Blessings upon

this little one.

And in Jesus - This Hope.

Faith and Love - we will rise up Believing Jesus.

Amen

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yes, The Lord Fulfills His Purpose

Thank You, Jesus The Lord

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Psalm 63 ~ I have looked upon You in the Sanctuary. Beholding Your Power and Glory

 

The polls on AI 

are more negative than positive

by a significant portion

Sometimes to talk to the old AI

is like being spoken to

by a not-so-sparky used car guy

Excuses, excuses, excuses

for answers that swerved.

How coincidental

that 

Too Much Information

is

typically

called

FRIED?

Psalm 63

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.

O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek You

    my soul thirsts for You;

my flesh faints for You,

    as in a dry and weary land 

where there is no water.

So I have looked upon You in the Sanctuary,

    beholding 

Your power 

and glory.

Because Your steadfast Love is better than life,

    my lips will praise You.

So I will bless You 

as long as I live

In Your Name I will lift up my hands.

My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food,

    and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips,

when I remember you upon my bed,

   

And 

meditate on You in the watches of the night;

for 

You have been my help

And in the shadow of Your Wings 

I will sing for joy.

My soul clings to You;

Your right hand upholds me.

But those who seek to destroy my life

    shall 

go down into the depths of the earth

They shall be given over to the power of the sword;

    they shall be a portion for jackals.

But the king shall rejoice in God;

    all who swear by Him 

shall exult,

    for the mouths of liars will be stopped.

Frankly, I am fried. Worn out. Hospitals, surgery, doctors, nurses, directions in the dark of early morning, schedules, anesthesiologists. Receiving a fake anesthesiologist bill for almost eight thousand dollars for two routine, small surgeries of 20 minutes each, totaling 40 minutes.  I think this is our second fake bill during a procedure. In 2016, the surgeon had to shut down a bill from cons within a reputable organization. Later that same company had a nationally reported data breach.

What equipment, where, how, reviews and this isn't working and it is the future of Edward's eye.

Then the why, how and what of the retina. 

We have another reason to be glad. The cataract LENS held this together as the retina was beginning to become thin all over. 

I have moved furniture, tables and massive pillows upstairs and downstairs to get Edward into the right 90' angle to have the eye heal.

And this, retinopexy. Retinopexy has significantly improved. The new gas injected into the retina can be healed within one week (to 3 months). 

With our sleeping in short spells before the next hospital visit, surgery, doctor appointments and pharmacist trips. I am weary to the bone. The sore back bone.  

And I have found if we pray and include an idea of us Jumping in the Air like a youth, we have a boost.  A much smaller version of mounting up on Eagle's Wings. Some days, just as we are tired, getting up, walking and thinking, planning to do something else.  A prayerful mental jump. Plus, if I feel really groggy, I add a small jump with this. What wakes the whole being, body and soul, up to God.  This brings me to a small smile. 

Abba, Father God,

Isaiah 40:30,31

Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall. 

31 But those who wait upon the LORD 

will renew their strength; 

they will mount up with wings like eagles; 

they will run and not grow weary, 

they will walk and not faint.

Praise You Father GOD 

for giving us Your Word made Flesh. 

Jesus the Son of God. 

Messiah 

and Lord. 

Dwell within us this day and always, Jesus.

In Your Love, we will see more Heaven on earth.

Be with Your People who need you each second. 

Strengthen, Guide, Protect and Breathe Your Love 

into our hearts, voices and souls.

Thank You for our

Dearest Blessings

and

for healing 

the grandbaby and Your Love

and for our family

and Edward's eyes, without tragedy.

Lord Jesus

Abba, Father

Thank You

 Help the ones we Love 

Asking You dwell in us all.

 Call them in their souls! 

We pray for your overwhelming Mercy. In Jesus. 

We pray for our Nation

in worldwide Pandemic healing 

and 

Living in Your Good Will and plans for a Hope and Future in Jesus.

Your Willing Blessing of Healing

Be with us now and in the hour of our Passing to Heaven, 

Merciful Jesus.

And give us this day, in the adventure 

seeing Your will 

in our lives. 

Amen, Amen 

Always in 

The Highest Name of Jesus.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yes, The Lord Fulfills His Purpose

Thank You, Jesus The Lord

† 

2 Chronicles 6:20 ~ Your servant's prayer

2 Chronicles 6:20

Night and Day 

may

You watch over this temple.

The Place where 

You Promised 

You would live.

Please Answer 

Your servant's prayer 

for

this place

Our posts have been the History of Nineveh, Jonah's witness, Assyrian interest in The Lord. The Chaldeans learning from the defeated Assyrians. The Babylonian Chaldean Empire led by Nebuchadnezzar II, saved Jeremiah, defeating the corruption in Judea. The rebirth of the children of Israel in rebuilding Jerusalem. And continuing to call the area Judea instead of the era Assyria destroyed Israel. 

This week we lived the events sown.

Romans 8:28

And we know that all things work together, interwoven, for good

 for those who love God, 

who are called according to His purpose

Interwoven or all things working together is the Greek word sunergeō. Sunergeō is the root of "synergy" creating layers of cause and effect. The situations of good, some bad, Joy and some painful, producing layers of an effect nothing could produce from only one aspect.

Thursday at 4:45 PM, the cataract Eye Surgeon retrieved Edward to say he had made Edward an immediate appointment with a Rentina Specialist Surgeon. Go now. Edward came home from the 2nd appointment and said we have to go to the ER now to do the tests to show Edward is healthy enough to have emergency surgery on Monday.  The phone rang from the Retina Specialist Surgeon to say he would instead place Edward first on Friday's surgery. Be there at 5 AM.

It's difficult to find an Urgent Care center open at night. The one named after the big hospital chain is open, but they don't have labs to do the lab work needed to acquire the tests for surgery. We headed to the Huge Hospital to do the tests, but the admittance 'clerks' wanted us to leave. We had to flat out refuse to leave and say our surgeon had sent us. They argued. We insisted that Doctor's  Orders would be followed.  As cities get larger, hospital care can wane. It indicates unwellness within the city. Part of the hyperparasitic problem of plague.  

(As I was giving birth to an infant in the 1980s, the baby was going into the neonatal ICU, there was a nurse who wanted to give me a verbal, outraged lesson in why abortion should be normalized. I told her my child was fighting for life in the Neonatal ICU and she needed to find another stadium for her agenda. My son is now 38 years old and an estate attorney)

So Grateful. I had done the Thursday Post in the morning, just felt inspired. And at the ER, there were 2 seats far away from the rest of the ER with real illness, not just testing for wellness.  And hand sanitizer. Lots of that. And the nurses were all good to us as we waited. Cheerful to find our place in the line. 

So we were at the hospital until 10 PM. And up at 4 to make the 5 AM. 

How would we find the layers to find the good?

Edward had cataract surgery twice in December and January.  We found out on Thursday, Edward's retinas are extremely thin.  He will have a second surgery to prevent another retina trying to detach. He had the cataract lens, so less of a screeching emergency.

Edward is still in his mid 60s, so he is young enough to bounce back.

We had discussed his double cataract surgeries and looked at the recoveries. Edward seemed to be blending in for a complete recovery. He spoke more about floaters occurring and eventually he listened to me telling him to go to the doctor. For a month.

My cousin Bob had his retina detach, at age 40, driving into Dallas, he had an hour to have immediate surgery in a city he did not live in. It had to happen so quickly, they called us after the surgery was complete.  And they had to return in a month for the next eye.  Edward had time to have tests and plan the event.

It did not happen during Easter and we were able to go to Church. 

We were home instead of traveling.  Some emergencies are like a rapid fire, this was more like being held by the hand to have a needed medical surgery.  And the place we went took good care of Edward's medical needs around anesthesia. The doctors made time to see him.

I propped a mattress on the floor and set this upon footstools with the nose pillow the surgery center provided. This seems to keep his eye far above his heart for 72 hours and allows his eye to look at the floor. Boxes for arms falling off the mattess. Nothing like midnight inspiration. He was reluctant to listen to the surgeon's advice today, and the words flew. The result of not listening could be blindness. He had been propped up on the sofa's far upturned arm. But not happy.  More equipment arrives tomorrow. Amazon, God bless you.

Now, if I can get Edward to look at the floor for a few weeks, we are golden.

Good! 

The baby's further in utero testing because baby has been scooting out of the sonogram path and has a healthy heart. Thank you so much for your prayers. Much appreciated.

And as I called my son to say Edward was scheduled for emergency surgery, he got a text saying their house offer had been accepted.  Only 4 months of additional surveys and appraisals. Now a first house in time for the baby.

Your Prayers are So Appreciated. Thank you so much. The Lord has been good to us. Thank You, God. 

Abba, Father,

Seek good, and not evil,

    that 

you may live;

and so 

The Lord, The God of Hosts, 

   will be with you,

 as you have said.

Hate evil, and Love Good,

    and 

establish justice in the gate;

it may be that 

The Lord, 

The God of Hosts,

    will be gracious 

to the remnant 

of Joseph.

And in Jesus - This Hope.

Faith and Love - we will rise up Believing Jesus.

Thank You, Father.

Amen!

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yes, The Lord Fulfills His Purpose

Thank You, Jesus The Lord

†