Isaiah 40:3-5
A voice cries:
In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord;
make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Every valley shall be lifted up,
and
every mountain and hill be made low;
the uneven ground shall become level,
and the rough places a plain.
And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,
and all flesh shall see it together,
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”
When would God speak tenderly to His People?
When would Father God comfort His people?
In the Vast Love, our God of Hope, God of Love, God of Encouragement - we find out. Days would come. We read the news.
When everything is in question. So many changes. To destabilize the world - nothing is comfortable. When we are all uncomfortable - then we are easily scattered. Fake News? Less likely to work for our families and pull for all their future. Hezekiah became so concerned with how huge Assyria and the future was - he just gave up and shrugged when it came time for his children's futures. And Hezekiah was Quite a Saint. Hezekiah was raised to give up Judea to the Assyrians - to become a puppet king to the powers that be. Instead, Hezekiah fought bravely. But we can't give up on our children as easily as Hezekiah did.
We will Give the Comfort of God.
We will Seek the Comfort of God - for our Families and the people He has given us.
We Will. In Jesus Christ.
Days would come.
God spoke so tenderly to His Beloved People - after Jesus died. Brings tears to my eyes. Jesus said not to weep for Him, weep for us.
Father God knew the vast changes coming. In 16 years religious persecution was really upping the ante. At 70 A.D. For 325 years. Father God knew the sheep would come forward looking for our Jesus. They were like sheep going astray, but now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of our souls. Can you fathom it - His Son was Killed. God our Father would comfort us.
To Father God, a day is like thousands of years.
Comfort, Comfort My People
This is what the probable, 2 million people, flooding the 36 acres in the Temple right- after the First Easter - Saw:
Colonnade left from King Solomon's Portico. Could be from the First Temple used in the Second Temple. John 10:23. A portion of the Temple, according to Josephus History of the Jews. 5:5, section 1; Ant. 20:9, section 7, remained from Solomon's time. It rose from a great depth, occupying part of the valley, and supported by a wall 400 cubits high, formed of immense stones, some 20 cubits long. The Chaldeans spared it, for the strength and beauty. This is where the Remnant left from the Babylonian Exile worshiped.
Jesus the Lord walked in the Colonnade left from King Solomon's Portico.
God's Plan is so far back - as the people gathered to find Jesus - this comfort of Solomon, of David holding the material, of Jesus - The Portico was there for the multitudes after Jesus died.
Acts 2:6
And at this sound, the multitude came together, and they were bewildered because each one was hearing them speak in his own language.
Acts 5:12 -15
Now many signs and wonders were regularly done among the people by the hands of the apostles. And they were all together in Solomon's Portico. 13 None of the rest dared join them, but the people held them in high esteem. 14 And more than ever believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women, 15 so that they even carried out the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, that as Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on some of them.
Joel 3:14
Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
A very active time after Jesus was crucified.
We can see this today. Our Grandparents wouldn't have. But Technology has allowed your eyes to see part of Solomon's Portico.
In Crisis. People prayed.
Acts 1:14
All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.
Unified in God's Care.
You are God's Temple
Father God knows your path through this great wilderness and journey.
These many years, the LORD your God has been with you.
God has carried you these many years
and
He will safely lead you.
Mark 9:24
After Jesus questioned the father, Jesus told him,
“All things are possible for one who believes.”
You are God's Temple.
God the Almighty, Creator of All Things. Our Father Who Knows the Heavenly Host by name.
Abba with us as we view the stars, babies, weddings. Moments we know Emmanuel, God with us. God within.
Philippians 1:18-22
Yes, and I will rejoice,
19 for I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance,
20 as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.
21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 22 If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful work for me.
And give You Thanks for the many Years and Eternity where You will Continually Bless us.
Thank You, You Dwell in us.
Help us to always seek You first.
We want to end well.
Please Well Bless our Families
and Loved Ones.
Thank You, Father God for the amazing ways we have all witnessed Healing
and answered prayer. Your Word upholds the Universe. Thank You.
We give You thanks for Your Word telling us You Delight
We give You thanks for Your Word telling us You Delight
to bring Your Good Will and more of Heaven upon earth.
Amen in Jesus.
Amen in Jesus.
Abba, Father God,
I sing a song of the saints of God,
patient and brave and true,
who toiled and fought and lived and died
for the Lord they loved and knew.
And one was a doctor, and one was a queen,
and one was a shepherdess on the green:
they were all of them saints of God, and I mean,
God helping, to be one too.
They loved their Lord so dear, so dear,
and
God’s love made them strong;
and they followed the right,
for Jesus’ sake,
the whole of their good lives long.
And one was a soldier, and one was a priest,
and one was slain by a fierce wild beast
And there’s not any reason, no, not the least,
why I shouldn’t be one too.
They lived not only in ages past;
there are hundreds of thousands still;
the world is bright with the joyous saints
who love to do Jesus’ will.
You can meet them in school, or in lanes, or at sea,
in church, or in trains, or in shops, or at tea;
for the saints of God are just folk like me,
and I mean to be one too.
Our Alleluias
are in Jesus Christ.
Aaaaaaaamen.
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