Luke 12:32
Fear not, little flock,
for it is your Father's good pleasure
to give you
the Kingdom.
Matthew 22:36-40
“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”
37 And He said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment.
39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
Luke 12:32
Fear not, little flock,
for it is your Father's good pleasure
to give you the kingdom.
When the majority thinks about death, they believe there is truth in the message of Heaven. And believe when they pray, God hears them. Then they believe, yes, Jesus is the Son of God.
Some blur the lines there, but mostly. And then the difficulty, is blending in human components.
We need to address how people feel deficient. And let healing come forth, from Jesus Christ.
The reason for the departure from traditional hope. Traditional marriage. Traditional values and the decline of the Church goers.
The Lord is Gracious
As we begin this Post, let's be clear, there are signs of promise, some of the Pandemic rubber band bounce is calming down.
The Lord will be Gracious.
Romans 5:7–8;
Ephesians 5:2
7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person
—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die—
8 but God shows His love for us
in that while we were still sinners,
Christ died for us.
And then we begin, as adults, no one is putting our latest achievement on the refrigerator. We need, sheets, light bulbs, shoes, work clothes, a car and shelter. When we are married, this is team work. And increasingly, life has been less gracious. Very few Gift Shops. Placing the needs of the young, out of the hands of their parents. And in this need to make necessities occur, the safety net seems thin.
People want to be independent. When ProLife offers clothing, formula, baby food, maternity clothes to women who want to parent - regardless of income, race, any fact. But in exchange, for Bible Studies, women and men, will do this. Earned path. Yet, if ProLife offers Morning Prayer or Morning group Bible Study, the clients won't come. It isn't part of a program. This requires a sharing of need, few people want to live.
37 And He said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment.
39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
When Samuel, Hezekiah and even Hannah, crying, said their family was moving beyond their capacity to help them, we are finding this to be part of our own lives. The need is too large.
Don't many Churches feel the pain of a congregation diminishing? Their Church family.
When you consider Jacob, who became something so large, Israel, he moved boldly past the harm and into the Way, the Truth and the Life. Blessings. Distribute Blessings. Love them and be honest, even the erring Reuben. Jacob wasn't sugarcoating, he was telling the Truth. Jacob had the capacity to tell the truth about Joseph and Reuben had loved Jacob's Bilhah, mother of Jacob's children, Genesis 35:22.
David moved past the problems and filled his life with Love. Sometimes too quickly, to the warring detriment of his own children.
John 14
In my Father's house are many mansions:
if it were not so, I would have told you.
I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you,
I will come again,
and receive you unto myself;
that where I am, there ye may be also
What we feel, in our heart, is the independence from needing something we can't wear on a t-shirt. Without the gracious part of life, we all begin to suffer, in various capacities. Then the hearts become wrapped up in doing what we can, which feels like shrinking. Making hearts feel small and unneeded.
With the make due of life. Parents can't give their children an education, huge wedding, healthcare and house with household. The hearts and lives diverge to make a life. James 3:16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.
Proverbs 13:12
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick:
but when the desire cometh,
it is a tree of life.
12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
but a desire fulfilled
is a tree of life.
Understanding the gift, but then not fully able to give the gift.
Come they told me, pa rum pa pum pum
A new born King to see,
Our finest gifts to bring,
To lay before the King,
Rum pa pum pum,
So to honor Him,
When we come
Little Baby,
Well, I am a poor boy too, pa rum pa pum pum
I, well, I have no gift to bring,
That are fit to give a king,
Rum pa pum pum
Luke 12:32
Fear not, little flock,
for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Proverbs 12:10
A righteous man takes care of his animal, but the wicked?
Even his compassion is cruel
We need to be the gracious portion of the Blessing of God. Given the opportunity, to do what Jesus said many times, Rise. Rise to being gracious. And Rise to expect to love ourselves. Jesus didn't just say love someone else, Jesus said stand firm in the Word of God. There is a definite inclusion of the importance of self, Jesus has Blessed. Without doubt.
Deuteronomy 25: 4
You shall not muzzle a horse, a cow or an oxen,
when it is treading out the grain.
God even provided a miracle,
that a mere donkey won't be beaten.
Why would we ignore the circle, included in the Word of Jesus Christ
to want and expect, respect and affection - for ourselves.
Stand firm in the small verses of God's Word, as well.
Cold direction, use of repeat cold phrases,
derision, old hurts
or use of false and exaggerated flaws.
Outrageous expectations!
These are not the flavor of God.
God is not a Bully.
Nor a Pharisee.
There is a huge difference.
Hate is not a motivator of Jesus.
Jesus lifted up the blind, the deaf,
the lame and the women. Many.
Jesus cared for children, in an age
children frequently die
and could be replaced.
Jesus understood the widow
giving her few pennies.
Proverbs 12:2
A good man obtains favor from the Lord,
but a man of evil devices he condemns.
We see small changes, indicating, people have hope, this whole debacle we have been living, will be within God's Gracious Favor. We have hope. Ultimately, we rely on the Favor, Grace, Mercy and Power of God to fulfill us, our hopes, our families and this time in history. The Nature of God presented in His Only Son, Jesus.
Matthew 9:36
When He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion on them,
because they fainted,
and were scattered abroad,
as sheep having no shepherd.
Isaiah 55:1
Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters;
and you without money, come, buy, and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!
Why spend money on that which is not bread,
and your labor on that which does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,
and your soul will delight in the richest of foods.
Edward and I went through a season in the last few years, when Edward had to retire in necessity, due to his health. Just as the family we had hoped to help, faced old parents with dementia, unable to comprehend. We had every rational hope of all times working out, but it was fearful to address paying all the bills. Which made large philanthropy impossible. And in the illness to the right and left, north, south. Even the beloved Husky Dog, Jackson, was dying. A sad time. And with the struggle to be brave, people tired of their situations, bored with the aging, fear of their own futures, made part of the culture wars and Pandemic even worse. There wasn't a reason to be very forthcoming, we were being brave and believing in faith. We all can understand being caught up in repeat trouble, with the wearing out of patience.
Matthew 5:6
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.
Matthew 10:8
Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers,
drive out demons.
Freely you have received; freely give.
John 4:14
But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst.
Indeed, the water I give him
will become in him a fount of water
springing up to eternal life."
John 7:37
On the last and greatest day of the feast,
Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice,
"If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
38 Whoever believes in Me,
as the Scripture has said:
‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’ ”
♔ Lord Jesus Saves †
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