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Thursday, October 26, 2023

Psalm 1 ~ Delight






 

Psalm 1







1 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the seat of scoffers;

His delight is in the law of the LORD, 
and on his law 
he meditates day and night. 

He is like a tree planted by streams of water 
that yields its fruit in its season, 
and its leaf does not wither.

In all that he does, he prospers.

The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. 
5 Therefore, the wicked will not stand in the judgment, 
nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; 
6 for the LORD knows the way of the righteous, 
but the way of the wicked will perish.





When God says, "No withering, all prosperity." 

I'd have to tell you - in my childhood, my family planted 6 tiny trees to grow into massive trees in my childhood, newly, built house in the 1960s. The Trees met different fates. One hit a chalk rock in the soil and died.

One was stunted to just never grow. It sat while the other trees grew 40 and 50 feet tall. My father and I would look at the Oak tree and wonder. Maybe it's because it's near the swing set, and it thinks it should be a child tree. My father said, could be, it needs iron, it looks a little yellow. So iron was applied. Perhaps, it needs water. Or it's a dwarf. My father went to the library and said no such tree variety. We wondered if it was a variation of the regular tree variety, and we should propagate it. 

My brother was born. My father said maybe the tree, arborist, people should see the Oak Tree. That year it grew some in the spring. A lot, about 3 feet on the 10 feet of a 16-year-old tree. And the next year, it doubled. Now.... we started complaining about how to move the swing set. People! 

And in the next four years, we were telling bored people about the amazing growth of the tree. Uh-huh. And if someone showed up who knew about the dwarf Oak Tree, we all got very, very excited and the story went on and on.








Knowing Jesus,
I think Psalm 100 is never, ever, ever intended 
to make us feel poorly about seasons in our lives. 

I do not believe Jesus would tell us a Psalm story 
and, then, say ... and then there is ... - - - you.

Sea of Galilee looking East



We'd assume the trees in the photos were Psalm 100 - never hit by drought, fire, famine, beetles, disease and timber harvest, bird feeders with nails and screws, girdling/mulching the tree, staking the tree, concreting the holes, over fruitfulness, tying an animal's leash to the trunk, power lines, overcrowding, over salt/pesticide. The tree has a very 'Jabez' life. Blessed and nothing to report.














Instead, these are possibly the Tree of Life, Trees of Heaven. Perhaps it is us, learning to use our Spiritual Gifts, hopefully becoming the Spiritual Tree of Heaven, the Parable of Jesus.




Using the gift, but then not fully understanding the gift



I was at a lovely and large, fairly dressy, engagement/wedding party in 1991.

There were about 75 people and a man came up to me to give me - - -  the Christian Prophetic Word. The 35-year-old man started out telling me facts correlating with my life at present, with my living grandmother, and thoughts for far down the road. Conversations and things a charlatan, would find out and repeat, but we were strangers.  Then the message became harsh. He snarled with sarcasm and said we would not be friends. It surely was a drastic, temperature change.  And in fact, what he had to say, came to be true within 30 years.

As the evening closed, about eleven p.m., his friends were saying, he just loved to find believers and pump them up with false prophecies. He said he loved to do prophecies to people who are Christian because of the utter belief on their faces. I asked him how he could pick out a believer - you know - he had, absolutely, no response and for a moment became speechless and shrugged.

He was so uncomfortable - he pointed at a pal and said, "Remember the time, I said that to Robin, and, unbelievable, it came to be true!  And two or three of his other friends, laughed in after the party wine glow - in the kitchen laughed so loudly - and remembered other times, the joking "prophetics" came to be true!!! Hilarious.  It was so memorable to see these men, sitting in the kitchen, surrounded by working caterers and not knowing they were in the way of the caterers.  Talking about creating scenarios for fun.  The caterers were dodging them to work.




 We went to another entirely different engagement/wedding party, given by my mother

A young couple arrived and said they were the heirs to the local milk farm (we lived in a huge city.)

I could tell they were telling about being wealthy and people were melting all over them. I was having a conversation with an old friend, and this was much more fun. Later in the evening, I was introduced to them and came to find out they were saying their fortune was from the Dairy Huge, Huge Farm belonging to my mother's good high school friend.  

I called out to my mom to come and meet them. 
I said, "That's great, you are the child of ----. You must love Santa Fe!!! How fortunate you are to spend so much time in your new house there! Tell me all about Santa Fe!!!"

 The whole room became aware by their utterly horrified faces - this was Not True At All. 

And the pretenders promptly departed in about 1.5 minutes. 

I don't know whatever happened to the good-looking 35-year-old prophetic guy. But the pretenders were good friends of friends and were said to have settled down and done quite well in life - not pretending to be other people again. Interesting.

Look at that: One group found it hysterical a man goes around compelled to give "prophecies." Which turned out to be true. 

The other group pretended to be wealthy, and they ran like the Police would be called.

It's funny how we respond to the gifts God gives us - because what he said to me is absolutely true. He responded to an urge to prophesy and not care about the soul or the emotion of what he puts down. 


That gift can be prophetic and even self-prophetic in the absence of Spiritual mercy and the desire to shelter or pray.















When you are in the room with Believers of Jesus Christ, they will tell you of answered prayer. Warm assurances when faith is needed. Miracles that just become part of life. Prayer requests. Dreams led them to peace and a new understanding of their soul to Jesus. And if you know them well, they will tell you if they actually hear Jesus. Some people are blessed, like Abraham.

I knew a very, very bible study and a virtuous woman cried out to God and asked Him about misfortune. He replied with what was then learned to be Psalm 50. And that was VERY UNLIKELY. "It came to pass." The phrase occurs again and again in the Old Testament. "It came to pass after four hundred and thirty years that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt," and, "It came to pass."


I believe that to God - Peter had a pretty good idea. And just as shade trees begin to give us thoughts about patios and hammocks, cushions and places to read and bbq - we have this:



2 Peter 3:8-9

Beloved, do not let this one thing escape your notice:

 With the Lord, a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. 

9 The Lord is not slow 
to fulfill His promise 
as some understand slowness, 

But is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, 
but everyone 
to come to repentance.



Revelation 2:7

To the one who is victorious, I will give the right 
to eat from the tree of life, 
which is in 
the paradise of God.



Revelation 22:2

Down the middle of the great street of the city. 
On each side of the river stood the tree of life, 
bearing twelve crops of fruit,
 yielding its fruit every month. 

And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.



Revelation 22:14

Blessed are those who wash their robes, 
that they 
may have the right 
to the tree of life 
and may 
go 
through the gates 
into the city.








Redemption. Sweet, beautiful little girls grow into unlikely teenagers. Drug addicts recover. Sponsors make wonderful friends. Grandmothers come from the wise, who remained with solutions. Old men tell young men. Young men listen to middle-aged men who listen to older men.







Abba, Father,



Let the Circle Be Unbroken
Lord 

And it came to pass.


To live and move and have our being
in
Jesus Christ the Lord.

When the Liturgy Prayer cycle says
this is the week to pray for Israel,
the Church of Jerusalem and priests
and laity. The week of Israel is attacked, horribly.


When the daily prayer is a Compline Collect:
Be our light in the darkness,
O Lord,
and in your great mercy 
defend us from all perils
and dangers of this night,
for the love 
of your only Son, 
our Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.

The evening we make the evening news preempt broadcast
for a Tornado Warning with almost inch sized hail.
For our neighborhoods.
And we are safe indeed. 




We come together to pray 
and ask You to be present, 
hear this prayer, please,
in Jesus Christ.

Dwell in me,
Dwell in us,
Dwell in those we Love,
Help us to seek You first.
And we will finish well, in Jesus Christ. 

Help us to find and bring
to become
 more Heaven
to this earth.

Your Plan, Your way,
Your Son is best.

Establish us on your path,
help keep us near You
and on the path.
Your Wonderful Plan.
You Include All in Your Plan.

Encourage us in Love
Encourage us with Your Joy.
Jesus, teach us to follow You
more closely in Your Word.

Correct us in Your Love
to remain with You.
Help us when the path isn't seen
Protect us to remain with You.

Your Love is
where I want to be.

Forgive me for my 
flaws, weakness and sin.
Because You are God of Love
and I need you in my life.

Help us with our needs
today
and You will help us tomorrow as well.

Bless Israel with peace,
Bless families with living, loving hearts,
Reawaken God being first.
Bless this Nation.
Bless the Nations who need You.



In Jesus,
Amen.





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Who Jesus Is
1 Timothy 1:1-11 ~ God our Savior, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope
Matthew 16:13-20 ~ who do people say the Son of Man is?

Good News for us to remember and Think Upon
Animals are found in Heaven ~ 6 Prophets See Animals in Heaven

Anger, Jealousy=Trouble




The Bible explains the Bible, Prophetically

Bible - in your hand, today

Bible Accuracy



Blessing







Blessing our Father God

Blessing - unaware

Boundaries

Brothers
Christmas - His Word Upholds the Universe - December 25th


Psalm 135 ~ who is in your midst
John 1:1-14, 16, 29-51 ~ He was in the world

Details - Putting it all together and discovering it is about God

Psalm 108 ~ In triumph I will parcel out Shechem

Determine your own path, just love Him

Judges 16 ~ like any other man
John 4:43-54 ~ Doing what Jesus says


Earthquake

Every Day, Still Today
Today, Yesterday, Tomorrow


Exodus - History












Heavenly Hosts
His Messengers of Light












Elements of Nature Displaying HIS Glory
Exodus 40:16-38 ~ In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was erected.

I Decide What is Right and Wrong - God noticed this in the Garden of Eden from Eve

Individualism and Groups

It's the End of the World as We Know it, And I Feel Fine. (One of our most read posts.)
Grandpa - The Bible is Really the Life Story of People and
their Abba









Gates of Heaven


Gifts of God, all of us


Giving - God certainly is





























Glory


God sees His Creation as Good!!!


Gravity






















Good Friday

Gossip

Gratitude

Greatest

Grief, Forgiveness, Homecoming


Hated Emotion - Fear




































History - Is There History Showing Jesus was Alive - VERY EXTENSIVE HISTORY

Holiness


Holy Spirit ~ Manifestations

Homeward Bound, still a sojourner

Honey, Do this

Invitation
John 3:31-36 ~ that God is true

Israel - Destroyed Completely and Rebuilt. A sign of Jesus. Existing today.

Jesus clearly put a Foundation for His Resurrection to be Believed by the Multitudes of all of Israel and the Nations

Jesus and His Childhood Privacy
Nazareth - What Jesus did See Growing Up

John the Beloved Disciple


The Journey of Joseph


























Live It
Psalm 117 ~ Praise the Lord
Psalm 82 ~ rescue the weak and the needy
2 Samuel 4:1-12 ~ David answered
Hebrews 12 ~ Thankful
Psalm 31:3-8,17-21 ~ Thou hast redeemed me
Isaiah 40:1-11 ~ His reward is with Him
Matthew 13:31-32 ~ the birds of the air come and perch in its branches
Matthew 6:25-34 ~ your heavenly Father knows that you need
Luke 11:29-32 ~ Rise up
Psalm 126 ~ shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves
Luke 14:15-24 ~ there is still room
Joshua 1:1-9 ~ I am giving
Acts 5 ~ speak in the name of Jesus
John 1 ~ the Light shines
John 3:5-8 ~ born again
~ they went on from there and passed through Galilee
Judges 20 ~ Israel

Losing a Loved One - Passing ON

Revelation 21:22-27 ~ those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life

Not Being Tossed Back and Forth with Emotion
Ephesians 4 ~ speaking the truth in Love

Marriage
Romans 7:1-12 ~ bear fruit for God
1 Corinthians 7 ~ For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband
Genesis 37:12-24 ~ when Reuben
Psalm 143 ~ Your steadfast love
Psalm 86 ~ For great is your steadfast love

Media... taking it down the path
1 Corinthians 10 ~ Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks or the church of God





Mercy, an Inseparable Component of Truth
Matthew 23:23-26 ~ clean
1 Samuel 12 ~ serve the Lord with all your heart
Matthew 22:34-40 ~ The great and first commandment. And a second is like it

Miscellaneous
Job 38 ~ Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.
Psalm 19 ~ the heavens declare the glory of God
2 Kings 5:1-15 ~ a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper
1 Chronicles 13 ~ the Lord blessed the household of Obed-edom










Peace




Pharisee ~ Religion
Luke 11:42-46 ~ Woe to you Pharisees!


Pictorial Images of the 12 Tribes of Israel








Picture It


















Overcoming, with God's help!


Positive Attitude in Trouble




Prophets - the Law and the Old Men in Robes or People who Love the Lord. Flaws and Virtues. What They Sought in the Lord and What Drew Them to Him.



Praise



























Prayer

Psalm 91 ~ Prayer is always heard, God has an open door policy



Prayer Needs




Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words

Promises

Prosperity Gospel











Repeat and Repeat







Rest

Restore

Revelation 8:2
Seven Angels who stand before God

Revisionist History - Moses and Jeremiah said
there would be days like this
Deuteronomy 8
Jeremiah 23


Rock


SALVATION! What is needed?

Science - Blinded me - No - He Who Opens the Eyes of the Blind - With Science!!!

Second (3rd or 4th) Rate Seventh Level of Heaven

Seventh Level of Heaven







Shepherd

Smile!



Time Management





Life and Travels of Paul

Shroud

Transfiguration



True
The World Changed Rapidly after the first Easter



Trust Him

Uncomfortable Scripture

Video Game Player

Visual







Who is like our God?

Willingly

Works and Grace
Mark 1:4-11 ~ You are my beloved Son; with You I am well pleased

Worry

Wrathful, Nasty Old God from the Old Testament

Yahweh




Years - Thousands of Them are Yesterday in His Sight


80 Books of the Bible
Holy Spirit Approved by the First Council Nicaea and St. Nicholas
Included by the Essenes in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Today included by the Catholic Church
God wants to save the world.
The Apocrypha has Purpose; other cultures blend here.





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