Mark 7
And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not be hidden.
But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet.
Now the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. 27 And he said to her, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.”
But she answered him, “Yes, Lord; yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs.”
29 And he said to her, “For this statement you may go your way; the demon has left your daughter.”
30 And she went home and found the child lying in bed and the demon gone.
Psalm 91
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust.”
3 For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler
and from the deadly pestilence.
4 He will cover you with his pinions,
and under his wings you will find refuge;
his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.
5 You will not fear the terror of the night,
nor the arrow that flies by day,
6 nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness,
nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.
7 A thousand may fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand,
but it will not come near you.
8 You will only look with your eyes
and see the recompense of the wicked.
9 Because you have made the Lord your dwelling place—
the Most High, who is my refuge—
10 no evil shall be allowed to befall you,
no plague come near your tent.
11 For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways.
12 On their hands they will bear you up,
lest you strike your foot against a stone.
13 You will tread on the lion and the adder;
the young lion and the serpent you will trample underfoot.
14 “Because he holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him;
I will protect him, because he knows my name.
15 When he calls to me, I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble;
I will rescue him and honor him.
16 With long life I will satisfy him
and show him my salvation.”
Is Christmas meaningless to Father God?
This is an unusual question with some ideas of the Sovereignty of God.
His Ways are Mysterious.
Something new to consider.
A Facebook friend, Malone, has said today:
As I listen to Christians in America, it seems to me that the vast majority of us are de facto Semi-Pelagianists.
God’s grace makes us uneasy. Grace doesn’t feel right or fair. It’s like we’re getting something we don’t deserve or didn’t have to work for at all; that we didn’t get it the old fashioned way by earning it. It’s as if Someone gave us something exceptionally amazing at Christmas, something it turns out that we really loved and needed, and it’s not that we just forgot to get Him anything in return, we actually chose not to get Him anything at all. EXACTLY. And, for me, that’s what puts the “Merry” in Christmas. My tracking number is saying missing bracelet I need help. I do not deal with terrorists of the antichrist hate kind. I pray for them to go the hell away from me permanently. I swore to JESUS THE LORD I will never gruntation you again or go blind.
A Shepherd who leaves the herd takes a chance. A Shepherd who make the sheep dislike him finds they would rather run to starvation and harm to be away. You may pick away but continue to threaten and pull mean, abuse is to be avoided. Currently, I pick separate from this or another state with kindness of peace. I'm ok. I don't pick fake friend any more. I don't pick abuse as a form of interest. I pick leave the conversation for mean. I pick no more hours in here with a typewriter. I pick now. You have increased truth. I thank you. Don't take a goodness and run it into disrespect and mean tricks. If you fear or dislike, send us to a new state.
I will respect you to not name call most of the time.
Now you respect me with kindness. And we feel better inside our souls. Respect generates respect sorry for names more sorry you were mean. He says Peace is found in kindness and you are learning today about respect for this. You would agree yes would go stupid.
You and I have Word of God so lets live to say good job instead of Samson and parents. I have love but CMON we all got to be fed watered nourished and kindness. And I have the new situation of newlywed love again. That is a gift of His. Please do kindness instead of gargoyle.
I pick someone who wants to be respected and loved and give that. Sorry names I called incorrectly. With respect and kindness you can have peace us. You pick. Empty another state penpal honest with signatures. Im good with better no lies no visits no take no mean. Im happier with signatures and honest. I remain married and with my sons.
Span return my ring my pants and can have some tangerines. Communicate to my sons and Edward your kind regards. I'd like Edward to make a living without trouble. I'd like to be prayed for daily and my family. I'd demand respect. And not call you rude names more than a dozen times a year. And continue to be honest. I guess id prefer no visits over lies. Ow. Ow.
I'm grateful for honeymoon time. And lack of lies at home. WOW Amazing. Wow. And Mom is doing better about the correct space and respect. I think I will get paid for the Administration no formal away papers are presented. I cried hard for worked hard for family and got zip response and my mom wasn't caring. I'm a little embarrassed to be known as unfriended and rememeber my grandmothers were ok with that's the way it goes. I'm glad people tell me when they have a problem like a boiler explodes and I pray with them and care. I'm glad when people tell me about their bds.
I'm ok here hope you are as well HI.
Father God I love Edward I have no desire he suffers and I want to go in bed asleep I am still praying his soul feeds his brain and heart. I'm not an adulterer and I'd like to be trusted for 28 years of good behavior. Not getting a long and fighting is so unhappy. Three years of trust and then screaming is shocking. I'm sorry for suffering and I should be trusted implicitly in the name of Jesus Christ the Lord this is true. Amen.
An idea we have been thinking on for two millenniums - what we owe God and His ability, in effect, to come out of the larger Tupperware box we place Him in.
We debate Christmas.
The commercialism. What goes around comes around. Oliver Cromwell made England without Christmas for 18 years. If you had a ham on Christmas Day - you might be placed in the stockades. "Christ's Mass" had a ring of Roman Catholicism about it, the season was changed to "Christ tide" and any celebration confined to one day - of fasting. Shops were forced to stay open - business as usual.
Jesus has told us Love the Lord Your God with all your heart and your Neighbor as yourself. Jesus did tell us the one who shows mercy is our neighbor. And then He said pagans love those who love them. God loved telling Joshua not to the right or the left. We have to remember all the time about our Father God of love - what I read yesterday morning.
Galatians 5
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
The Fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
The Joy of God is remembered far longer than all other -
that is honest. OK.
The Christmas Truce (German: Weihnachtsfrieden; French: Trêve de Noël) - unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front of World War I around Christmas 1914. In the week leading up to the holy day, German and British soldiers crossed trenches to exchange seasonal greetings and talk. In areas, men from both sides ventured into no man's land on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to mingle and exchange food and souvenirs.
We say to each other smugly - this is not the actual birth of Jesus Christ.
Are we sure???
Psalm 115:3
Our God is in the heavens; He does all that He pleases.
And THAT - is what our faith says!
Christmas is not the working to the bone to provide evidence of love. Christmas is the Joy and Love in Celebrating what Linus told us via Charlie Brown.
If you were God Almighty and You had one Son to give. And You worked with the statement of the Son through the Father - "Blessed are the eyes that see, more blessed are those who do not see and yet Believe."
Jesus also told us His Father and Jesus are working today. John 5:17. Rejoice in Love. And let fear go. Rejoice in being loved.
Jesus told us to have Life Abundant. Be salt. Be Light.
Why party like it's 1999?
Why Christmas as if we missed the "real" day to Celebrate?
God loves us just as we are. If the actual birth day to celebrate Jesus brings real joy - perhaps God first had His Son on December 25th and the pagan celebrations fell into this -
Proverbs 16:9
The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.
Job 42:2
“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted."
Isaiah 46:9-10
Remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose."
We love to tinker with grand ideas and philosophies. God is Sovereign. He says He will do something He will. We believe the center of the Bible is Jesus. Why do we believe we actually cannot have lucked into celebrating the right day?
Today. This is the Day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it!
Christmas - Jesus Christ the Lord - is a Gift.
Ephesians 2
7 so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.
John 21
20 Peter turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them, the one who also had leaned back against him during the supper and had said, “Lord, who is it that is going to betray you?” 21 When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, “Lord, what about this man?” 22 Jesus said to him, “If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow me!” 23 So the saying spread abroad among the brothers[b] that this disciple was not to die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he was not to die, but, “If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you?”
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.
Hello
Edward
Tony Cousin
Larry Cousin,
We have ourselves in corners and i wondered if we could have a discussion and time to think.
Edward would like work. I'm not sure he was in belief the Wilsons were helping him. And now he
doesn't have amazing clients calling from the past. in fact, 'coasters' on Galveston delivered on January 15th was an
announcement that coasting was over on Larry's January 15th birthday.
To be fair, Edward was worried Tony was going to show up and take his love. Actually, I don't think that is true.
Tony hasn't been in contact with us for real since Feb 2014. We never planned on an affair or met. Tony has been a friend to us. Hence several business deals to say sorry for our years of familial lack of understanding.
I'm asking for an agreement if Edward would be in agreement to trust me. I'd like to have my penpal without font and allow Edward to read the messages. Because Tony actually would like to be the co-editor of the blog after I write. And I'd like to have some editor help on writing my book. Edward would have access to read the words.
Tony is a Christian. I am his family. I understand something important. Life is about preparing for eternity. I want us all to be proud of our lives and stand with Jesus and say, "I did my best. I need Your Love and Promises." We have all made this messy. To straighten this out requires some humility for all.
Ephesians 3 says family will live together in Heaven. Jesus in the Lord's Prayer says bring Heaven to earth. Forgive. Do our best. Honor vows. Be good to one another.
If you trust me Edward. You said once very mildly two weeks ago that it was ok if I sometimes talked to Tony because you read that I keep telling Tony for real, I'm married. If this is acceptable, please say so clearly. I think you will find the cousins will bring you enough business to be happy and productive. The going forward is saying I trust you to look out for me. I trust you love me. I want to live in forgiveness and not anger or lack of privacy in private rooms of the house. I want us to all trust each other and have better lives. For all of us I hope we realize we all have a place at the table. Our children to be appreciated and honored. I would like us to be able to email each other freely. And meet again using our real names and identities. No one really enjoyed the misdirection of identity.
I think honesty is best. And help for Edward to have business and enjoy his days with all the family wishing him and each other to have good events with our words and actions.
With Love and Sincerity,
Anne-Laurel
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