Luke 7:1-10 ~ worthy to have you do this

 

Luke 7:1-10

 After He had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum.

 2 Now a centurion had a servant who was sick and at the point of death, who was highly valued by him. 3 When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent to Him elders of the Jews, asking Him to come and heal his servant. 

4 And when they came to Jesus, they pleaded with Him earnestly, saying, “He is worthy to have you do this for him, 5 for he loves our nation, and he is the one who built us our synagogue.” 

6 And Jesus went with them. When He was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends, saying to Him, “Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy to have you come under my roof. 7 Therefore I did not presume to come to you. But say the word, and let my servant be healed. 8 For I too am a man set under authority, with soldiers under me: and I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” 

9 When Jesus heard these things, He marveled at him, and turning to the crowd that followed him, said, “I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith.” 

10 And when those who had been sent returned to the house, they found the servant well.

When we compare the size of a mustard seed

to the Universe!

Matthew 11:30

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. 

Yesterday,  we thought about Mark writing the Words of God.  Mark and Luke are both part of the Light Jesus shines, not the original Disciples. And really we could add in from the "Saints of God Hymn" and I mean to be one too. This is part when Jesus said, "Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."  And for us this is great. We blend into Luke and Mark. Jesus Christ making the Word of God better for us in 2026.

Like the Centurion, we see Jesus, His Love and Power, from a distance and yet just as hopefully.

Luke speaks the language of worthy. The dear and glorious physician has seen many births and just as many deaths as a doctor of medicine.  Luke considers Life. 

Good for Mother's Day.  I have been battling pink eye and this solved, but today came back with a painful vengeance. (We now think this has become a draining plugged tear duct, please ask the Lord God to heal me and end the pain quickly!) And we traveled around the city today seeking an outdoor place to have luncheon.  Usually in Church for Mother's Day, I saw a cemetery on Mother's Day for the first time. We were so moved by the love and honor upon the faces of the families in cemeteries on Mother's Day.

Life is always teaching us more about Life in God's Paths.

This look so like our Richardson Family Cemetery

in Richardson, Louisiana

almost everyone has a 1 in their tombstone day of departure.

Meaning if Born in August, Died in July or September.

Or Born in year 28, then died on 27 or 29.

One.

My mother passed on and I said, OH NO, there isn't a one!

I was wrong, she died on the 7th and her birthday is the 18th.

This is an amazing Cemetery and our cousins invited us to be

buried here. 

My Wilson great grandparents died on the same day,

decades apart. 

We think this is a sign of their love and is 

morbidly romantic. 

Romans 16:1,2

 I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae, 2 that you may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever she may need from you, for she has been a patron of many and of myself as well.

The Light continues to shine

 I commend to you our 

(Mother, Grandmothers, Great Aunts, Cousin, Great Grandmothers), 

as servants of Jesus Christ

That You  welcome her 

in the Lord 

in a way worthy of the saints, 

and 

help her in whatever she may need from You, 

for she has been a patron of many

 and 

of myself as well.

Let the Circle

be unbroken

by and by

Lord

by and by

Old Friends

Cherished Days

Giving Love

to the Living

as 

a Living Donation

Memory

Jude 1:2

May mercy, peace, and 

love 

be multiplied to you.

Jude 1:21

Keep yourselves in the love of God, 

waiting for the mercy 

of our Lord Jesus Christ 

that 

leads to eternal life.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Thank You Lord Jesus 

† 

Mark 4:1-20 ~ the sea

Mark 4:1-20

Again He began to teach beside the sea. 

And a very large crowd gathered about Him, so that He got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land. 2 And He was teaching them many things in parables, and in His teaching He said to them: 

3 “Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow. 4 And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. 5 Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil. 6 And when the sun rose, it was scorched, and since it had no root, it withered away. 7 Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain. 8 And other seeds fell into good soil and produced grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”

 9 And He said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

10 And when He was alone, those around Him with the twelve asked Him about the parables. 11 And He said to them, 

“To you has been given the secret of the Kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables, 12 so that

“‘they may indeed see but not perceive,

    and may indeed hear but not understand,

lest they should turn and be forgiven.’”

13 And He said to them, 

“Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables? 14 The sower sows the word. 15 And these are the ones along the path, where the Word is sown: when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the Word that is sown in them. 

16 And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: the ones who, when they hear the Word, immediately receive it with joy. 17 And they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the Word, immediately they fall away. 18 And others are the ones sown among thorns. They are those who hear the Word, 19 but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. 

20 But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the Word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”

John 21:24-25

24 This is the disciple who is bearing witness about these things, and who has written these things, and we know that his testimony is true.

25 Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.

And we find out one of the reasons the Scripture points one way to us and another to another. Yet always the Way of Jesus Christ.

God is not a God of Chaos.  

Yet, so many aspects of Jesus are in the heart, we seem to catch hold of the aspect of the moment. Which is very necessary.  And proper. But can lead to the repetition of the Scripture and we do not glean something Alive and Willing and Loving. 

Jesus begins His Word explaining He teaches us by the Sea of Galilee. 

To see an Ocean is to feel how Vast God is.  Jesus is not just putting forth a reliable story about seeds we can repeat and repeat.  JESUS IS GOING FAR WITH THIS LIVING GOSPEL.

The path 

Jesus Christ uses so many days on the Sea of Galilee. His Ministry accomplishing the Will of God, His Father and our Father.  And some of the Disciples writing His Gospel call the Sea of Galilee the Sea of Tiberias.  And this is largely an aspect of size and location. Large or small? 

More. Eternity. Larger than we can really imagine.

We can realize the scope of gardening in His Parable. 

In our path, we do like Einstein said we should Not, we repeat the paths given to us in this life.  And Jesus speaks of Seeds.  We have a different aspect of seed planting in our decades of life.  And yet, Sarah and Abraham were moved beyond what they did and did not expect.  As were Zechariah and Elizabeth.

God our Father does not intend for us to be stuck in the muck. 

Listening to the same life story we know and the years vanish.  

He intends us to look up. Rise up. 

Rise Up?

See something new in a Parable we know quite well.  Alive. 

Oh good. 

How? 

 Jesus would smile. 

His audience are His Own Chosen People. 

Given the Secret of the Kingdom of God. And they are stuck at corn. Ears to hear. Seeds. 

Given that Jesus is God and He blends Oceans, Sea and Lake to seeds and Life, sitting in a little boat, changing the very world,  we can believe from John 21. 

There is more Planning inside God's Word than we will fathom. 

The Secret of the Kingdom of God.  

This is the Gospel of Mark, his Fourth Chapter.  Mark writes the Gospel Peter has told him to put forth. The History of the Romans asking about Jesus in the first century on the streets and then in the catacombs. Under the dirt. Seeds. These are the pressing concerns of the oral history of Jesus as becomes what Jesus says,

 "It is Written."

So the Disciples know the Secret of the Kingdom of God.

?!?

Not yet, Mark reveals the divinity of Jesus in Chapters 6,8. 9, 14 and 15. And Chapter 1.  Jesus accepts with faith, the Disciples are not fully flush with wisdom and faith, but He feels certain as God, they will. 

The Disciples, us, we have not a seen fact, but in faith the approval of these bewildered Children of God.  

The whole Parable has the Love and Joy and Appreciation of Jesus explaining the Parable. The expectation of this completion of Faith.

Jesus is not only saying in this routine pattern of life, 

He is explaining in Mark 4, going forth until the end of the age. And is explaining Billy Graham explaining Jesus as a candle seen in a Football Stadium. 

The Seeds of Eternity.

The meek inherit the earth. Grandparents explaining to their families about Love. 

Boldly and with life changing Love.  And in turn, the generations like Chronicles and Kings, explain God in our lives, hearts, ways, and choices.  

Not always with a homerun, but creating a life where the echo is heard again to resound

for God

in Jesus Christ

Savior of the world

His Hope is our Glory.

The Parable is not a plod along dog paths of familiarity. The Parable flies well past millenniums yet to unfold.  And in Jesus Christ, this is OUR STORY because HE has Given Us His Plan and Planned for us to Partake. 

Abba, Father God,

We pray the Blessing

of Love and Peace

Romans 8:31

"If God is for us, who can be against us" 

Profoundly we live to Rise knowing

Your

Promise of divine support, 

meaning our God is on our side, 

no ultimate opposition 

or adversary 

will prevail. 

God’s power and love are greater than any challenge, 

fear, or worldly threat.

God in

Jesus Christ

is

our

Hope for Glory!

Thank You

for

our first grandbaby

Arriving this summer

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

† 

Acts 4:23-31 ~ Jesus, Whom You Anointed

 

Earthquakes are not rare

More rare when only one set of people

have the earthquake

Acts 4:23-31

The Believers Pray for Boldness

23 When they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them. 

24 And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them, 25 who through the mouth of our father David, your servant,

said by the Holy Spirit,

“‘Why did the Gentiles rage,
and the peoples plot in vain?

The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers were gathered together,
against the Lord and against his Anointed’ —

27 for truly in this city there were gathered together against Your Holy Servant Jesus, Whom You Anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, 28 to do whatever Your hand and Your Plan had predestined to take place.

 29 And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak Your Word with all boldness, 30 while You stretch out Your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the Name of Your Holy Servant Jesus.” 31 And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the Word of God with boldness.

We are arriving at the idea - The United States has a better and dearer Christianity than we Nationally Believed. And really the true idea would be - we Love Jesus. And we consider Him. And know, know, know in our Knower - Jesus helps me and helps you - personally.

Acts 4 is addressing a New Identity in Jesus Christ. 

Perfect.

We have forgotten something. Jesus is baptized by John the Baptist. Jesus feeds the thousands in the next breath after hearing His Cousin John the Baptist died. A funeral meal. And we find Jesus prays that night, walks on water - and our Peter - is lifted up out of the water. A good thing. Very immediately a very good thing. The Rock is the Church. We need our Jesus-told-us-in-Caesarea this Church would be born.

Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, does something. He always has a 2nd. He had John the Baptist. Ok, yes, loosely. But then the day after John the Baptist died, Peter is raised up.

If we want to say "God Bless you" we might be further encouraged to have assistance. It's not complicated, this is Biblical. We learn this in one of the few organizations held together for 2,000 Years. With a very, very clear history. The first leading mankind out of huddling in city/state/fortresses. Church - planting outside the city walls deliberately; increasing trade. Promoting communication. Church - the first to feed the starving around the world. On many levels. The first to have hospitals during the-why-help-them-they-are-really-going-to-kill-you plagues. The first to bring aid. The first to bring reading. The first to bring education.

How unfortunate that 2,000 years of amazing Acts of Jesus have been beaten down by this phrase, "The Crusades."

Yes. Human beings. Flawed.

Governments with the same problems are 'history'. Not the Church. Relevant fact. Important. We've seen the United States Northeast leave the Church. And everyone said TK. Instead - better words replaced TK. Forgiveness. Redemption. Restoration. Mercy.

Matthew 11: 12, 13

12 From the days of John the Baptist until now, 

the Kingdom of Heaven has been subjected to violence, and violent people have been raiding it. 

For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John.

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

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

†