Shine - Collective Soul
Matthew 20:1-16
1 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. 2 After agreeing with the laborers for a denariusa day, he sent them into his vineyard. 3 And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, 4 and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’ 5 So they went.Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same. 6 And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing. And he said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’ 7 They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’
He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too.’
8 And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.’ 9 And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius. 10 Now when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more, but each of them also received a denarius.
11 And on receiving it they grumbled at the master of the house, 12 saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’
13 But he replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius? 14 Take what belongs to you and go. I choose to give to this last worker as I give to you. 15 Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’
16 So the last will be first, and the first last.”
So the last will be first, and the first last.
Jesus told us the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
He didn't mean just for that moment. Jesus was telling us when we confess with our mouths and believe with our hearts - we have eternal life. Beginning ..... stop watch click...... at believing.
All of God's promises are for us - now.
Life isn't Perfect.
Jacob having the full weight of God's blessings behind him
- Yet a lot of Jacob's life looked pretty similar to Job. It was within Jacob's soul that God's blessings lived, multiplied and were given out. Jacob lived His promises.
Hiring people to make Mother's home up to selling is not just cleaning, sorting, memories, sorrow, joy, it's meeting with the people who bid and keeping them going and doing the job
well, on time, on budget, completely and caring for my entire family.
Who else would be first and last in God's blessings?
Jesus' own brothers.
Jesus knew they would shine.
Just as God knew Gideon would shine as well. It is fairly, understatement, important to treat people like they have it within them to Shine.
Pray hard - with hope. God is still at work today. An uncle of mine found the Lord at age 78. Dancing in Heaven, yes, my grandmother would.
John 7:1-5 Jesus' brothers, act like people, want Him to see some trouble.
After this, Jesus went around in Galilee, purposely staying away from Judea because the Jews there were waiting to take his life. But when the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near, Jesus' brothers said to him, "You ought to leave here and go to Judea, so that your disciples may see the miracles you do. No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world." For even his own brothers did not believe in him.Matthew 12:46-50
After Jesus declared the ruling people of the temple to be vile and evil, His brothers want the trouble to die down. In reality, they didn't want that much trouble for any of them.
While Jesus was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to him. Someone told him, "Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you.
"He replied to him, "Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?" Pointing to his disciples, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother."
Mark 6:3
Jesus records how his brothers think of Him; Jesus' family is seen by others as a very loving, all of a kind, family.
His family didn't whitewash all the aspects. They lived who they really were. Even when they were last in Jesus' daily life, they were part of His Plan, Hope and Future.
"Where did this man get these things?" they asked. "What's this wisdom that has been given him, that he even does miracles! Isn't this the carpenter? Isn't this Mary's son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?" And they took offense at him. Jesus said to them, "Only in his hometown, among his relatives and in his own house is a prophet without honor."
This is Jesus loving His brother in clear light. He understands the situation, not whitewashing it. So, 1 Corinthians 13 tells us love conquers all.
1 Corinthians 9:5 Paul tells us of Jesus' brothers.
Don't we have the right to take a believing wife along with us, as do the other apostles and the Lord's brothers and Cephas [Peter]?
The Books of the Bible, James and Jude are Jesus' brothers that their Nazareth hometown saw them as a seamless family. They have Jesus dwell with them. As we can do this today.
Acts 1:14
They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
Hebrews 2:10-12, Jesus speaks of us as His brothers, but also His own brothers.
In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering. Both the one who makes men holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers. He says,
"I will declare your name to my brothers;
in the presence of the congregation I will sing your praises."
I pray the Psalms. Fly into the Hands of God. I'm placing the one I love in His Hands.
Psalm 87
1 On the holy mount stands the city He founded;2 The LORD loves the gates of Zion
more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.
3 Glorious things of you are spoken,
O city of God.
Selah
4 Among those who know me I mention Rahab and Babylon;
behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Cush—
“This one was born there,” they say.
5 And of Zion it shall be said,
“This one and that one were born in her”;
for the Most High himself will establish her.
6 The LORD records as he registers the peoples,
“This one was born there.”
Selah
7 Singers and dancers alike say,
“All my springs are in you.”
1 Corinthians 13:13
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.
And the greatest of these is love.
Jesus has Joy.
In His Blessings, Jesus wants to give Blessings.
In studying prayer, people who have had a blessing, are very capable of praying this received blessing on to others. We are fully capable of blessing each other with Prayer.
Abba, Father God,
Our Abba, as we open our hands to You in Prayer.
We consider by grace we have been saved through faith.
And this is not our own doing; it is the gift of God.
Help us always to seek Your First, Jesus Christ.
In this comfort and Love, help us be able to know
You will love and dwell with those we Love.
Having gifts, let us use them: in proportion to our faith.
Even the Disciples had fear.
The huge change is going on in my family. It's just a very emotional time,
please pray for peace with our family. Edward has done an awful lot to be very supportive.
Please pray for peace during this time.
My dear friend told me, there isn't really a great emotion in this. We go on being transparent, asking for help, being in Father God and ask His Help. Peace within the family.
We thank You for hearing our Prayers, Abba.
We will ask for each day, each opportunity, each decision, every day - Father God who gives generously to all without reproach, we will ask for Wisdom and to see Your Willingness and it will be given to Your Beloved.
We pray this for our concerns, our lives, our hopes. We pray this over the people we love. The People You have given us. Healing, life, hearing, eyes, provision, opportunities. Hope, Joy, Love. Protection. And for this Nation to love You more.
And for the Beloved of God - everywhere to have this of You, their Father.
Always we want to Listen to Jesus.
Bless this Nation with mercy and tolerance, remembering the historic anger and ill-logic
following Pandemics. The sweep of History shows Pandemics have recovery.
Lord Jesus we ask Your Love and Help.
Amen in His Highest Name
Ephesians 3:14-21
14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,
from whom
every family
in heaven and on earth is named,
That according to the riches of His glory
He may grant you to be strengthened with power through His Spirit
in your inner being,
17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith
—that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints
what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge,
that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
20 Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly than all
that we ask or think,
according to the power at work within us,
21 to Him be glory in the church
and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever.
Amen.
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