Well, looks like this Post is a little late. The Post was partially published on Friday with the Jesus in the wheat field 7 images. However, we had connection to the internet difficulty due to travel phone being in Victoria, Texas. Then Saturday mid-morning, I was beginning to start the Post again, looked out the 3rd floor window and saw - ARSON.
The Hotel is on a creek with a wide ravine with a major amount of dead grass. Leading up the banks of the creek on the other side to two winter dead grass pastures, then neighborhoods. As I was deciding where I'd sit to Post, I went to the window. Two teens to 20s, were in new black hoodies, matching. Odd because this was pulled sharply over both faces, with matching black shorts. They were prancing like children playing horse. Deliberate, fast movements. Running. Prancing. The movements were pre-planned. Side by side.
Caught my eye, to see them bend over the waist high dead grass and leap back with a fire waist high. Only then did one look at the other as if to say, "We are gonna die in our own fire." Then, as they with again moved with deliberation, ran to escape through a planned exit in tandem. No missteps, no zigzag of direction.
Called the front desk and the Hotel and I saw the Fire Engines arrive so fast within minutes to stop the fire from sweeping within a foot of man-made objects. Serious intent to injure and cause human harm.
When you live in our culture, and start fires like this, these two are not bright. Because these idiots are going to be caught by live cameras. Plural.
Post was delayed by speaking with Hotel and Police.
Mark 2:23-28
One Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and as they made their way, his disciples began to pluck heads of grain.
24 And the Pharisees were saying to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?”
25 And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did, when he was in need and was hungry, he and those who were with him: 26 how he entered the house of God, in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those who were with him?”
Jesus looked into the heart of mankind and said He wants to...
John, told the historian, second-century Bishop Papias of Hierapolis, John affirmed and approved the Gospels of Mark and Matthew. Historians B.W. Bacon, Martin Hengel and Henry Barclay Swete, maintain these references to Papias are credible. Papias wrote five books interviewing the accuracy of the sayings of Jesus by speaking with witnesses. Eusebuis quoted Papias from time to time.
John records Jesus - God is Love.
God is the one who will go into situations of messy behavior - throughout Scripture - and make a Path. A Way. A Truth. A Life. Not just 'a life'. Life! And have it abundantly.
John Donne wrote - Find What Wind Serves to Advance an Honest Mind.
Christians have a response to this Overwhelming Love. We are Temple to His Holy Spirit.
24 And the Pharisees were saying to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?”
25 And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did, when he was in need and was hungry, he and those who were with him: 26 how he entered the house of God, in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those who were with him?”
27 And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. 28 So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”
Proverbs 19:21
Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.
Psalm 30:5
For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.
Jesus is recalling:
The Bravery of David, in hunger, on the run from a murderous king, eats God's own bread to continue. And God is recalling David trusting him, lavishly, a thousand years later. Saul murdered the priests, basically for helping David.
The Bravery of David, in hunger, on the run from a murderous king, eats God's own bread to continue. And God is recalling David trusting him, lavishly, a thousand years later. Saul murdered the priests, basically for helping David.
Jesus remembers David, sees the faith, not as a scandal maker.
Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God,
to them who are the called according to his purpose.
to them who are the called according to his purpose.
God sees this not as a scandal of David's, but of trusting God on the run for doing righteously. Faith. And Abba provides insight, deep into "the wilderness", Jesus draws the Pharisees out to follow Jesus and then judge Him. Odd, the Pharisees would want to follow Jesus so closely.
Merciful
Jesus is that Man. In Genesis, He hovers over the waters of Creation. Through the water, He pushes back the Red Sea for His Children to walk upon dry land. He Stands upon the Water. He will be baptized in water, by one called Least in the Kingdom of Heaven, as His Father asks Him. He reaches down into the water, saving His Disciple, for a man convinced of his own righteousness - immediately saving him. Immediately.
Romans 3:10
As it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God."
Romans 3:23
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
John 2:25
He did not need any testimony about mankind, for he knew what was in each person.
Jesus looked into the heart of mankind and said He wants to...
John 1:4-5,9
In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.
John, told the historian, second-century Bishop Papias of Hierapolis, John affirmed and approved the Gospels of Mark and Matthew. Historians B.W. Bacon, Martin Hengel and Henry Barclay Swete, maintain these references to Papias are credible. Papias wrote five books interviewing the accuracy of the sayings of Jesus by speaking with witnesses. Eusebuis quoted Papias from time to time.
John records Jesus - God is Love.
God is the one who will go into situations of messy behavior - throughout Scripture - and make a Path. A Way. A Truth. A Life. Not just 'a life'. Life! And have it abundantly.
John Donne wrote - Find What Wind Serves to Advance an Honest Mind.
Christians have a response to this Overwhelming Love. We are Temple to His Holy Spirit.
Expectation, Hope, Faith, Rebirth,
We are supposed to recharge. Renew. Just as Jesus was saucy to Nicodemus. We are to be reborn. Tell Him with honesty - when we feel forgotten, left behind. God wants us to have hope and faith - leading to Love.
Abba, Father,
Thank You, Father God, for Your Wonders of a New Year.
You make all things new in Jesus Christ.
Jesus tells us You are working and Jesus with You.
We pray for Texas drought recovery.
We pray for Colorado's recovery.
And we ask for fewer weather incidents.
More of Your Holy Spirit this New Year, having You dwell in us
God of Love.
God of Encouragement.
For our history, our generations
have pleased You
Loving and Caring for our Children.
Look with us, and Bless us, Father.
Smile upon us, remembering
our heart to please our families
and You.
Forgive us when we err
in weakness, need and fear.
Strengthen us in Your Love.
Thanks be to Jesus, for His Grace upon Grace.
I will wait upon God all the days of my life and dwell in the House of Lord for His Word to me. Alleluia.
This is as sure as the Promises of God for us in eternity who call upon Jesus.
Speak the Word God and I shall be well.
Psalm 139:1-18,23-24
O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from afar.
3 You search out my path and my lying down
and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before a word is on my tongue,
behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
5 You hem me in, behind and before,
and lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is high; I cannot attain it.
7 Where shall I go from your Spirit?
Or where shall I flee from your presence?
8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
9 If I take the wings of the morning
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10 even there your hand shall lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,
and the light about me be night,”
12 even the darkness is not dark to you;
the night is bright as the day,
for darkness is as light with you.
13 For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 If I would count them, they are more than the sand.
I awake, and I am still with you.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart!
Try me and know my thoughts!
24 And see if there be any grievous way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting!
Abba,
Your wrath is covered when we believe in Jesus.
Psalm 139 is the perfect reminder in all of Psalm 139.
Jesus helps us daily to find the path of Love and Encouragement.
Abba,
You have Blessed this Nation and believing Nations
with an Open Always Prayer Life
being who we are and believing You make us better and more loving.
We can look at Psalm 139
and remember the generations of people and families
doing all they can for their children in complex life
needing Jesus as Savior.
Your Word
gives us Hope
Love
Faith
Encouragement
We can ask for Your Holy Spirit to know
all of us
every cell
every molecule
Just as water is a wonder
You have created us as Wonders of Your Creation
and as Your Holy Spirit
knows every thought, every molecule
every cell
the hairs on our head
we have been filled with the
Light of Jesus Christ
and only the better
for Jesus to be the Light within us.
Our Prayer this year,
The Light of Heaven,
The Light of the world, God's Good Creation
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
The Light of Nations
The Light of Mankind
will be
the Light filling this complex time
with more
of Your Love, Encouragement
Guidance, Mercy
Grace upon Grace.
We ask simply God
for Your Love
and Your Mercy
Your forbearance with this time.
Knowing Spring follows Christmas
Summer brings warmth
Autumn tells the Glory of God
and Christmas renews us in Hope
New Years is Jesus giving us pause to
remember
Jesus Christ makes ALL things New.
As we are asked to remind God
to bless us with more Heaven on earth,
His Good Will be done.
To You, our Father, be the Glory
Our God is an Awesome God! Amen
and Alleluia
in Jesus Christ and His Glory!
Matthew 13:31,32
Jesus put before them another parable: “The Kingdom of Heaven
is like a mustard seed that a man planted in his field.
Although it is the smallest of all seeds,
yet it grows into the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree,
so that the birds of the air come
and
nest in its branches.”
♔ LORD JESUS SAVES †
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