John 4 ~ do the Will of Him

John 4

4 Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 

(Although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only His disciples), 

3 He left Judea and departed again for Galilee. 4 And He had to pass through Samaria. 5 So He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, wearied as He was from His journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.

7 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8 (For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 

10 Jesus answered her, 

“If you knew the gift of God, and Who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you Living Water.”

 11 The woman said to Him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” 

13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks of the Water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” 

15 The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”

16 Jesus said to her, 

“Go, call your husband, and come here.” 

17 The woman answered Him, “I have no husband.”

 Jesus said to her, 

“You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” 

19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.” 

21 Jesus said to her, 

“Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know; We Worship what We know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and Truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship Him. 24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must Worship in Spirit and Truth.” 

25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (He who is called Christ). When He comes, He will tell us all things.” 2

6 Jesus said to her, 

“I Who speak to you Am He.”

27 Just then his disciples came back. 

They marveled that He was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” 28 So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a Man Who told me all that I ever did. Can This be the Christ?” 30 They went out of the town and were coming to Him.

31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” 

32 But He said to them, 

“I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 

33 So the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?” 

34 Jesus said to them, 

“My Food is to do the Will of Him Who sent me and to accomplish His Work. 

35 Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are White for harvest. 36 Already the One Who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. 37 For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their Labor.”

39 Many Samaritans from that town believed in Him because of the woman's testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him to stay with them, and He stayed there two days. 41 And many more believed because of His Word. 42 They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this Is Indeed the Savior of the world.”

43 After the two days He departed for Galilee. 

44 (For Jesus Himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in His own hometown.) 45 So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed Him, having seen all that He had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For they too had gone to the feast.

46 So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where He had made the water Wine.

And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill. 

47 When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to Him and asked Him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 

48 So Jesus said to him, 

“Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.” 

49 The official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” 

50 Jesus said to him, 

“Go; your son will live.” 

The man believed the Word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way.

 51 As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was recovering. 52 So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” 

53 The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, and all his household. 

54 This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.

We have spring in Texas and the southern part of the USA. In the North, people are definitely tired of winter in March.  Yet, I notice people used to look around and see more of the joy of spring becoming the summer.  Parents with children point out the beauty. And children start thinking of summer. 

I don't know if it is the finances, post Covid, post plague or the real atmosphere of Lent.  I'm sure we would all say finances, but I'm not so sure in the spiritual world we all dwell in from now until eternity.

The old nursery rhyme goes: The dog won't drink water, water won't put out fire, fire won't make horse shoes and the horse can't pull food to market. Today, we might add, NASA won't get the astronauts.  There is something to the circle of life. 

Texas has lived this with the Massive Dust Storm this week

Massive West Texas Dust Storm

Dust Storm travels to

Central Texas

Meets rain in College Station, Texas

Thank You, Lord.

Leaves a haze in Houston

When we look at John's Gospel, in HIS 4th Chapter, 

We can see past the technology and robes and find our lives today.

Jesus has been doing very well. The dark powers aren't so pleased. And in fact, power begins studying, doing a popularity contest and dissecting Eternal Good Will.  Measurements of achievement and not of the heart. 

Jesus lets power spin and moves on to do His Life. 

Being the shelter, we find Jesus to bring and be. 

Jesus meets a woman who has limited her opportunities, due to emotional needs, immaturity, life realities and scars. She is in stagnation.  And yet is completing the necessary tasks of being alive.  The Light in Jesus presents her with an opportunity for honesty instead of polite lanes of conversation.  Jesus isn't rocking the boat, He is doing exactly like Jacob and sees her as she is and values her.  He is giving her the heart to have Life.  She is reaching and looking up with Encouragement.

Forgiveness.

Doors open. Hearts open.

The people want to hear the Hope of Jesus. 

And Jesus finds, He won't leave like He did the comparisons of power, but now 

He wants to stay.

Jesus is met with faith as He moves forth, giving Grace upon Grace. The more the faith proceeds in the Light, the more goodness occurs. 

This is how we will heal from the Covid and cold of the past.

Abba, Father!

Forgiveness

We ask

Your Mercy

Forgiveness

and more

opportunities

for 

Goodness

and

Good Weather.

And in Jesus 

This Hope.

Faith and Love 

We will rise up Believing Jesus.

Amen

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yes The Lord Fulfills His Purpose

Thank You Jesus The Lord

Jonah 3 ~ The Word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time

 

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British Museum, Assyrian Art

Jonah 3

Jonah from the Sistine Chapel, by Michelangelo

Then the Word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, 

“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.”

3 So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the Word of the Lord. 

Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey in breadth. [9 miles]. 4 Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” 

5 And the people of Nineveh believed God. 

They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.

6 The Word reached the King of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water, 8 but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. Let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands. 9 Who knows? God may turn and relent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.”

10 When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, 

God relented of the disaster that He had said He would do to them, and He did not do it.

We grew up in the generation who said Nineveh never, ever existed. The Hittite Empire used to be in question with the existence of Pontius Pilate. And now we know, again, the Bible is correct. Nineveh was the largest city in the world for 50 years in 612 B.C.

The Bible proves the Bible.

Abraham was also told to go and Abraham did.

Abraham was from Harran, and Harran was a major ancient city in Upper Mesopotamia near modern Turkey, 44 kilometers southeast of Şanlıurfa. The location is in a district of Şanlıurfa Province that is also named “Harran.”

500 km away, Nineveh was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located on the outskirts of Mosul in modern-day northern Iraq. It is on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, and was the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.

David was sent to foreign nations. 

David believed, as Nineveh did ~ God is merciful. David blessed Israel from his travels. 

Romans 5:19 

For as through the one man's disobedience 

the many were made sinners, 

even so 

through the obedience of the one 

shall the many 

be made righteous.

God made the Assyrian Empire incredulous of Israel and God. 

King Hezekiah, with the help of Isaiah, created an oasis doing good business all over the world. Rivaling King Solomon, even if the land amount was vastly smaller. The people pulled together for God, magnificently, partly because Israel, the entire nation of Israel, had been devoured by Assyria. In fact, some of Jacob's tribes would never be seen again. War and disaster were that close.

Jesus did believe Jonah was in God's Plan.

Jesus spoke of Jonah and his day. 

Jonah was not spoken of after his fit with the Castor Oil leaf dying. Jesus seems to think this was a shame. Jesus rounds out so many situations, saying over the ages, The Spirit of God - searches for justice with mercy.


Jesus was comfortable. 

He sat on the ground to teach His people. The people stood. Jesus sat in fishing boats and people stood. Jesus mentioned vineyards 20 times and was accused of being a wine lover. Jesus never altered His thoughts to suit people who complained.

Jesus spoke of Jonah. Jesus spoke with the Samaritan woman. Jesus would not let fire be sent on the Samaritans.

Many things in life are repeats. Scripture repeats to explain the mercy of God, explaining again to win souls.  Look to the Bible of Jesus Christ.

Abba, Father!

Forgiveness

Makes waking up

with 

a

Grateful Heart,

 looking to see the Lord

and 

finding His Blessings. 

And in Jesus - This Hope.

Faith and Love - we will rise up Believing Jesus.

Amen

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yes The Lord Fulfills His Purpose

Thank You Jesus The Lord

John 11:1-38 ~ I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me, though he die, yet shall he live

Lazarus is not found in a tomb in Israel

John 11:1-38

1 Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

2 It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped His Feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.

3 So the sisters sent to Him, saying, “Lord, he whom You love is ill.”


4 But when Jesus heard it, He said, 

“This illness does not lead to death. It is for the Glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”


5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6 So, when He heard that Lazarus was ill, He stayed two days longer in the place where He was. 7 Then after this, He said to the disciples, 

“Let us go to Judea again.”

8 The disciples said to Him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone You, and are You going there again?”

 9 Jesus answered, 

“Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble  because he sees the light of this world. 10 But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles  because the Light is not in him.”

11 After saying these things, He said to them, 

“Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him.”

12 The disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”

13 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that He meant taking rest in sleep. 14 Then Jesus told them plainly, 

“Lazarus has died, and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”

16 So Thomas, called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with Him.”

17 Now when Jesus came, He found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days. 18 Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles off, 19 and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother.


20 So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met Him, but Mary remained seated in the house.

21 Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 22 But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you.”

23 Jesus said to her, 

“Your brother will rise again.”

24 Martha said to Him, “I know that He will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.”

25 Jesus said to her, 

“I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me, though he die, yet shall he live, 26 and everyone who lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”

27 She said to him, “Yes, Lord; I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, Who is coming into the world.”


28 When she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary, saying in private, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.” 29 And when she heard it, she rose quickly and went to Him. 30 Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met Him. 31 When the Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary rise quickly and go out, they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there.

32 Now when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw Him, she fell at His Feet, saying to Him, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.”

33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in His Spirit and greatly troubled.

34 And He said, “Where have you laid him?”

They said to Him, “Lord, come and see.”

35 Jesus wept.

36 So the Jews said, “See how He loved him!” 37 But some of them said, “Could not He Who opened the eyes of the blind man also have kept this man from dying?”

38 Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb

Caves are found on the coast of France with drawings pointing to Lazarus, Mary and Martha.

Mahatma Gandhi gave a very quotable quote — ‘I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.’

A fine point, really. More like a camel and a needle. No one can be Jesus Christ.

Judas wanted to be. Lucifer wanted to be. Moses knew of Jesus. Isaiah knew of Jesus. A good healthy attitude of Jesus is awe - gratitude - Love. No one can do for us what Jesus has done. We live and move and have our being - for the Acts of God.

We, being Christians, can do like John 11:38. We can go to the tomb of the bereaved. And this is a fine thing to do. To rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep.

But we can't do what Jesus did. Jesus saved Lazarus. He saved Mary and Martha. Jesus, according to historians (and old, old, old caves and Church buildings) say Jesus did not bring Mary,  Martha and Lazarus so far and merely drop them on their heads. History records as people began to be martyred for their belief in Jesus as God - the family saved by Jesus - traveled to spread the word. And Churches and tombs and records are found of sustaining faith and of living a Word of Father God - miracle. Sustained life. Sustained Family. Makes sense. What God has done - cannot be undone.

We can't do what Jesus did. We cannot put life on dead bodies.





God has given us His view of Life. From a unique vantage point. God says we can bend over backwards to be peace and find no real joy.

God says sometimes, days will come, to have faith and faith makes life difficult. 

God says the challenge of faith is to believe the One He has sent. Jesus. (Why many biblical artifacts exist and really the heartfelt Word of God changing lives for Love.) And if we cater to transient human beings, we find we have no framework, for the days when we and the ones we love are Lazarus. Mary and Martha.


Jesus went to the tomb, as we should for the people God has given us. To mourn with those who mourn. And the days of .... Rejoice, with those who have joy. Jesus just can do so much more. With awe and gratitude,  Jesus is God.

In Jesus Christ, we will have faith and love , this is where we live, move and have our being. For days of rejoicing. For days of sorrow. God given us strength to rise.




Pope Francis and the last Archbishop of Canterbury have reported being depressed. Not all events and conversations are winnable. Jesus showed us this. We have to trust God when we can't lift up a conversation, an event, someone we love. We can't be Jesus. And even in the difficult times we will all have, eventually, we decide to hope with reality and with a touch of 'God super natural' hope. Or we can just slog on.

We aren't God. GOD IS. And His Mission is God Sized. We don't have to have idle hands - we pray. And the One who Listens Loves the size of the Universe.

In God we Trust. That is really - Good News.

Abba, Father!

WE PRAY 

BLESSINGS 

And

REMEMBER
WHY 

Do ALL the Good put forth for you to do

in His Good Will

Joshua 1:9 

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.

1 Corinthians 

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, 

be strong.

Philippians 4:1 

Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, 

my joy and crown, 

stand firm thus in the Lord, 

my beloved.

1 Corinthians 15:58 

Therefore, my beloved brothers, 

be steadfast, 

immovable, 

always abounding in the work of the Lord, 

knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

Ephesians 6:11  

Put on the whole armor of God, 

that you may be able to stand 

against the schemes of the devil.

Galatians 5:1 

For freedom 

Christ has set us free; 

stand firm 

therefore, and do not submit 

again

 to a yoke of slavery.

Philippians 1:27 

Only let your manner of life be worthy 

of the Gospel 

of Christ, 

so that whether I come and see you or am absent, 

I may hear of you 

that 

you are standing firm in one spirit, 

with one mind 

striving side by side

 for the faith

 of 

The Gospel

and

GIVE THANKS

FOR YOUR BLESSINGS

THANK YOU

The safety 

of those

helping the earth 

to heal.

Let evil 

and practicing evil

depart 

far 

from us

and our children.

Alleluia!

GRATITUDE

for so many answered prayers.

We pray for the United States

not to have

another 

Massive Immigration.

White, brown, red

rich or poor

massive immigration 

is not an answer.

Giving THANKS

to

Our President

Donald Trump

and His Cabinet

for securing a 

PEACE

and

NOT WORLD WAR.

ISRAEL

GAZA

UKRAINE

RUSSIA

And ask You for appropriate leadership

in

THE NATIONAL CATHEDRAL.

Worldwide leaders condemned the erratic and unfaithful Sermon given by Bishop Budde. Who previously condemned President Trump for saving St. John's Church from arson, saying President Trump wasn't kind to the homeless during arson,

and not a person to hold up the Bible.

Then condemning him for following the vote

the Vote of the People

for The Laws of the Land

and ceasing gender mutation on children,

as the Catholic Church Condemns

as a failure to provide Dignity to each Person.

We Pray

for the departure

of what is not good.

The Anglican Church of The United States blessed outreach of the 

Worldwide Anglican Communion

GAFCON

HELP

us

to

be

More Heaven on earth

and LIFE

For the recovery

of fraudulently

spent

tax

dollars

for 

the Nation.

With

GOD

We will act justly

 and to love mercy

 and to walk humbly with You, our God.

For the health

of Pope Francis.

Appreciating Pope Francis

Asking his physicians

to tell the truth about his 

serious lung condition.

Healing in Jesus.

We Pray.

And Thank You, Lord.

The Joy

of the Lord

Our Strength!

Dwell 

in me,

Dwell 

in us,

Dwell 

in those we Love.

Please

Strengthen

our

Families

and Relationships

worldwide

Help us to seek You first.

And 

we will finish well, 

in Jesus Christ. 

Help us seek 

find 

bring,

to become,

 more Heaven

on 

this earth.

Los Angeles

has more water in the canals

Thanks, President Trump.

Lord God,

Help for California

Help for Detroit,

Help for Virginia's floods

Help for North Carolina

THE GRAHAM MINISTRY

SAMARITAN'S PURSE

IS 

DOING INCREDIBLE

Love and Mercy and Work.

GIVE TO

 SAMARITAN'S PURSE

Please.

https://www.samaritanspurse.org/

One of our sons

has had his office announce

they are moving cities.

We pray 

Blessings on the changes 

and ask your prayers.

And in Jesus 

 This Hope.

Faith and Love

we will rise up 

Believing Jesus.

Amen

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yes The Lord Fulfills His Purpose

Thank You Jesus The Lord