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Monday, November 13, 2023

Psalm 97 ~ praise His Holy Name, Jesus Christ The Lord

 




Streams of Light, painted by James Coleman
 



Psalm 97





The LORD reigns

Let the earth be glad;
let the distant shores rejoice.

2 Clouds and thick darkness surround Him;
righteousness and justice 
are 
the foundation of His Throne.

3 Fire goes before Him
and consumes his foes on every side.

4 His lightning lights up the world;
the earth sees and trembles.
5 The mountains melt like wax before the LORD,
before the Lord of all the earth.

6 The heavens proclaim 
His righteousness,
and all peoples see His glory.

7 All who worship images are put to shame,
those who boast in idols—
worship Him, all you gods!

8 Zion hears and rejoices
and the villages of Judah are glad
because of Your judgments, LORD.

9 For you, LORD, 
are the Most High
 over all the earth;
You are exalted far above all gods.

10 Let those who love the LORD 
hate evil,
for He guards the lives of his faithful ones
and delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

11 Light shines on the righteous
and joy on the upright in heart.

Rejoice in the LORD
 
you who are righteous,
and praise His Holy Name.

 














I like to read this Blog. I put my heart, soul and voice here. This is part of my Joy in Worshipping the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.



This is a repeat old post, and then, generally, an old post is improved. Oddly enough, at the time of this old writing - the closet has been cleaned for 2 days. The art work was here, already.





Yay! Yay! Yay!  Thanksgiving, Christmas and the New Year. Let's find a reason in this cooler weather to find our Joy. Let's Look Until we find our Joy.

Let's be real.

We have a New Year ahead of us. 

There is a story, I'm sure you've heard, of a man who faces a New Year. He is sixty or seventy years old and he decides that he is called to boot camp his body back into the prior decades by strenuous exercise. The exercise journal goes on to say - a young, blond woman is the instructor and the first week in January, the man is encouraged by her strength, vivacity and tenacity. And the first two weeks are difficult to get into his car, go up the stairs, open jar lids and put on his trousers. By the sixth week, she is boot camp style in his face and he leaves saying he never wanted an old ditch as dross again.

Frequently for students and parents, the New Year is staggered into. Winter darkness is not the most happ, happ, season of all.

Christmas has almost as many obligations and time requirements, financial requirements, emotional commitments and stresses as any other time of the year. Expectation of the School Year has met reality. Christmas Lights for Anglican Christians and the Christmas tree are removed after Epiphany, January 6th - the manifestation of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi. And on January 7th, we are left without daylight savings time, in winter sunlight, to see with faith that the sun is rotating, back to our side of the planet, a minute at a time each day. 

And yet.... the Winds are lifting with new approach. 
A determined positive viewpoint.




Isaiah 40:26

Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: 
Who created all these? 

He who brings out the starry host one by one 
and calls forth each of them by name.

 Because of His great power 
and mighty strength, 
not one of them is missing.

 


God gives us work. Sometimes it is our family and all the mess.

John 9:4

We must work the works of Him! 
Who sent.... me 
while it is day; 
night is coming, when no one can work.


Let's be real.
Sometimes the heaviness has to be there.
Let's be real.
And then in accepting ourselves
as Love yourself,
then 
We can choose to be Blessed.


This Season
This Weird Pandemic Recovery, Shaken Lava Lamp World
has to be allowed to have doubts, pain,
sorrow and upset.

And then say, Jesus is The Lord
and I will tell Him the real situation.
And then the Choice to Choose Joy
is within our reach.
To try, to hope, to dream, to accept,
to say yes. To be polite when down or angry.
To have the Help of God to hit the reset button
and 
to 
Believe in Heaven on earth as 
The Kingdom of our Father
God of Love
God of Hope
God of Encouragement.
Loveable and flawed.

We can be strong enough
to say no,
to what should definitely be said no to.
And to speak up, firmly.


John 11:9
Jesus answered, 
"Are there not twelve hours of daylight? 
Anyone who walks in the daytime will not stumble, 
for they see by this world's Light.






2 Thessalonians 3:10

For even when we were with you, we would give you this command:
 If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.

John 9:4

We must work the works of Him! 
Who sent.... me 
while it is day; 
night is coming, when no one can work.






Now What Is This Work To Accomplish?

John 6:29

Jesus answered them, 
“This is the work of God, 
that you believe in Him 
Whom 
He has sent.”



There is a very HUGE Purpose to Life.


Proverbs 17: 3

The refining pot is for silver 
and the furnace for gold, 
but 
the Lord tries the hearts. 


Malachi 3 says we wonder if serving God is to our benefit. The truth is, we speculate. Yet, we know. The Word of God, Romans 1, says we know the Truth. It depends upon our hearts to let this Call be answered by our lives.



Malachi 3

13 “You have spoken arrogantly against me,” says the Lord.

“Yet you ask, ‘What have we said against you?"

14 “You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What do we gain by carrying out His requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord Almighty? 15 But now we call the arrogant blessed. Certainly evildoers prosper, and even when they put God to the test, they get away with it.’”


16 Then those who feared the Lord talked with each other, and the Lord listened and heard. A scroll of remembrance was written in His presence concerning those who feared the Lord and honored His Name.

“On the day when I act,” 
says the Lord Almighty, 
“They will be my treasured possession. I will spare them,
 just as a father has compassion and spares his son who serves him. 
18 And you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.




Psalm 11:5
The LORD examines the righteous, but the wicked, those who love violence, he hates with a passion.


Behavior involving intention to hurt, damage, control or kill someone or something

There is a story of 2012, ISIS, ISIS was asking children to play with decapitated heads to desensitize young, innocent children to violence. 

Lack of compassion for the frailties of mankind that causes God to love His creation with so much Love. A young man wanted to be a doctor at age 12 - instead - he was coerced and compelled to violence by ISIS of Muslim against Muslim. He had no way out. And volunteered to be the human explosion with a way to blow himself up. Instead, he has turned himself in and the captivity has led to his freedom for his compassion to the creation of mankind by God.

How does this seem to our Western Culture? 

We must look where we are swimming in the great current of the forces of the river of life. 

We should keep our eyes on Jesus Christ to see we are nourished.  Honestly seeing our lives, the people around us - the Truth of our own spiritual journey - the Greatest Adventure.

This is easy to miss. Even today. The Narrow Path calls us to work on your own Salvation.  Rick Warren points out - who missed the Greatest Adventure in the First Christmas? Herod the King, the Political leaders, the Religious leaders, the Business people ~ Joseph, Mary, Elizabeth and Zechariah (family), Shepherds and the Wise Men. 

A narrow path even for this Greatest of All Events.

Test the Spirit, ask the Wind of the Holy Spirit to propel us forward. AGAIN.
And going where we are called and pleased and fed and nourished to be.  
Sustained by Father God.
We are surrounded by people putting their best face on their words, actions and deeds. 
We must have our eyes on Jesus Christ. 

We work on our own salvation - our gratitude in relationship to Jesus Christ the Lord.
He is our Standard Bearer. Looking up to Him.

 



I have quoted this beforeyet this is a great New Year Standard to look at:

Galatians 5

What does it look like to be swimming in the good crowd - moving and shaking - gettin on down the Highway of Life. Remember, with me, the High Places in Scripture are sometimes used for glamour more than earnestness of heart and narrow, meaningful life.

Those who have ears - hear. Blessed are your eyes that see. See the difference.

19-21 Obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies [porn], and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. 

26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.

And if we are swimming, working, to become filled with all the gifts, talents and unique talents and abilities  ----- God has given to us ---- to keep our own lives pleasing to Him and to us.

The fruit of the Spirit is Love, Joy, Peace, Forbearance, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, 23 Gentleness and Self-Control. Against such things there is no law.

Our Savior tells us - True worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” John 4




 






Now.

As you begin your Holy Days, Holidays and to the New Year as a Child of God. To do the work God has given us this season. 

Hebrews 12

All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; 
yet 
to those who have been trained by it, 
afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness. 

12 Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak 
and the knees that are feeble, 
and make straight paths for your feet, 
so 
that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, 
but rather be healed.



John 6:29

Jesus answered them, 
“This is the work of God, 
that you believe 
in Him 
Whom He 
has sent.”

We lean with trust and expectation upon our Father God. I lost my very beloved Grandmother Bit's 18th Birthday Gift to me. She gave me the garnet and pearl cuff links of my great-great-grandfather James Wells Person, 1865, which she had taken and made into earrings for me. I lost one earring. And I mourned. And now, I'm praying for the best (your prayers are appreciated) and I have felt in my heart Father God said to trust Him. This is sorrowful, yet not to be placed in the category of never having experienced the love this brought. The mystery of God's plan is to live the adventure.

Jesus tells us this:

Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the plans I have for you," 
declares the LORD, 
"plans to prosper you and not to harm you, 
plans to give you hope 
and a future."

And this is where this post rests.




Ephesians 2

Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. 
But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 
made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions
—it is by grace 
you have been saved.

And God raised us up 
 with Christ 
and seated us 
with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus

In order that in the coming ages 
He might show the incomparable riches of His grace, 
expressed in His kindness 
to us 
in Christ Jesus.

8 For it is by grace you have been saved, 
through faith
—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God
— not by works, 
so that no one can boast.

Thank God.



Abba, Father God, 

We, who seek You, are all Your beloved, in process, like the Prodigal.

This year has had great moments and hopes 
and some in need of nourishment. 

We place this last Year with You in Gratitude and with earnest Prayer.

We lean upon You for Your Blessings and Promises 
in expectation of Love and Mercy for this next year,
 living Your Plan for us. 

To be living with Jesus Christ 
Centered with Love, Joy, Peace, Forbearance, Kindness,
 Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness and Self-Control 
believing the mystery of faith - we are blessed in Your Plan of Love for us.

Because, Because, Because 
Father GOD You love us just as we are! 

Your Scripture says this in the Words and Actions of Jesus proclaiming You. 
And only the earnest truthfulness 
of a heart leaning to You 
is what You ask. 


We have the privilege of asking 
in 
the Highest Name of Jesus Christ. 
Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †










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Good News for us to remember and Think Upon
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Anger, Jealousy=Trouble




The Bible explains the Bible, Prophetically

Bible - in your hand, today

Bible Accuracy



Blessing







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Blessing - unaware

Boundaries

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


Psalm 135 ~ who is in your midst
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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
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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



























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Prayer Needs




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Restore

Revelation 8:2
Seven Angels who stand before God

Revisionist History - Moses and Jeremiah said
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Deuteronomy 8
Jeremiah 23


Rock


SALVATION! What is needed?

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

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Wrathful, Nasty Old God from the Old Testament

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80 Books of the Bible
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