Mark 10:18
And Jesus said to him,"Why do you call me good?
No one is good except God alone."
Yesterday, we thought about how messy it is to judge history. Different times and seasons and, yet, God is yesterday, today and tomorrow. He provides shelter for love and faith to grow, more, when we look for His Blessings.
One of the main discussions my mother often recalled with her mother about faith, happened around the kitchen table. Often. Jimmy and my mother would goad my Grandmother Anita by saying there is no point to pray for sunshine or rain. God is in His Heaven, doing what He does. And what is God going to do if we pray for rain and others pray for sunshine? No matter who prays, someone will be disappointed. Even if they are faithful in their belief in their prayer.
My Grandmother Anita didn't goad easily, and her answer was usually, "Oh, you." She, probably, was saying, "Owe you." As in, "Do I owe you an answer, again and again?" The question was made as one of irritation with faith.
Maybe this question would be better answered with another portion of the Bible I heard in a Sermon this weekend. I thought this was so wonderful. 10 Lepers were healed in:
Luke 17:11-19
On the way to Jerusalem he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee.
12 And as he entered a village, he was met by ten lepers, who stood at a distance 13 and lifted up their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.” 1
4 When he saw them he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.”
And as they went they were cleansed.
15 Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice; 16 and he fell on his face at Jesus' feet, giving him thanks. Now he was a Samaritan.
17 Then Jesus answered, “Were not ten cleansed? Where are the nine? 18 Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?”
19 And he said to him, “Rise and go your way; your faith has made you well.”
Now, a YouTube video of one leper being cleansed, healed.
The one leper who returned to Jesus, of the 10, in Luke 17
would never forget giving Thanks.
His life was not just healed, he was set on the path with Jesus
in gratitude. A life, a way, a truth to talk to Jesus.
The presbyters always spoke of meeting Jesus
to the incoming pilgrims in the next 2 centuries. The eyewitnesses
and then their children spoke of Jesus. Speaking and being healed by Jesus Christ.
The Jewish Dispersion on Crete came to Jerusalem on Pilgrimage,
they asked Jesus to join them in their travels.
He said His own course was set.
And yet, we know from Titus, this was a peaceful, long-lived
time for the next century on Crete. Probably for asking Jesus!
Why miss out? Why not have the time we spend with Jesus asking? Why not have the Blessing to rejoice in? Trying to pray for the weather. The Word of God upholds the Universe. I have plenty of memories, and most praying Christians have amazing wonders to remember.
When my mother was being prayed for in 1978, Church of the Resurrection in Garland, Texas, the Priest, Father Ted Nelson realized during a healing prayer at the altar, the Lord was working upon my mother. In the pews were all her prayer group, asking Jesus as well. Fr Ted knew something was happening to my mother, and he prayed and asked Jesus for complete healing of the Thyroid tumor. My mother thought she was having a menopause, microwave melt down and spend the entire 15 minutes asking the Lord not to let her pass out. God has a sense of humor. Her healing didn't quit for her determination not to pass out from her heat wave.
Why wouldn't we ask about the weather? Jesus prayed over the weather as well, we walk in His footsteps. Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life.
Abba, Father,
Your Son told us to pray always.
We boldly pray in the Highest Name of Jesus,
we ask for Florida's recovery from Hurricane
and the end of the Texas drought. All drought, Father.
It is very meet, right,
and our bounden duty,
that we should at all times,
and in all places, give thanks unto thee,
O Lord, holy Father, almighty, everlasting God!
We ask we may worthily receive the most precious Body and Blood of thy Son Jesus Christ,
be filled with thy grace and heavenly benediction,
and made one body with Him, that He may dwell in us, and we in Him.
We do not presume to come to this thy Table, O merciful
Lord, trusting not in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold
and great mercies. We are not worthy so much as to gather
up the crumbs under thy Table. But thou art the same Lord
whose property is always to have mercy. Grant us therefore,
gracious Lord, so to eat the flesh of thy dear Son Jesus Christ,
and to drink his blood, that we may evermore dwell in him,
and he in us. Amen.
Lord, trusting not in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold
and great mercies. We are not worthy so much as to gather
up the crumbs under thy Table. But thou art the same Lord
whose property is always to have mercy. Grant us therefore,
gracious Lord, so to eat the flesh of thy dear Son Jesus Christ,
and to drink his blood, that we may evermore dwell in him,
and he in us. Amen.
I love to see priest hands praying.
I remember Tate, so often praying.
We prayed for Julie and her feet were healed
in 5th grade. Tate and our family prayed a long way away
on Sunday at the family dinner table.
Matthew 25
Truly I tell you,
whatever you did
for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine,
you did for me
The Holy Spirit is the Holiness of our
Prayers connecting day or night
all the gates of Heaven are Open.
Thank You so Much, Jesus.
Amen and Amen in Jesus Christ
Lord God
Amen.
goes far
in
Jesus Christ!
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Yay Jesus Christ Love and Lord of All
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