Hebrews 12:1-2 ~ So great a cloud of witnesses

Hebrews 12:1-2

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, 

let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, 

and let us run 

with endurance

 the race that is set before us

Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, 

Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, 

despising the shame, 

and is seated 

at the right hand of the throne of God.

A recent Gallup Poll said 4 of 5, 81% Americans fully believe in The Lord. Which is excellent to read. About the time for Lent, people were asking numerous sources, where is The Lord? 

In all the concerns, there is optimism. Perhaps this is the Abortion question and how few people rallied for choice. And the almost 250,000 who turn out to show up in DC when weather is permitting.  Maybe it is the Historic trend to believe good will come of the Pandemic. Very Possibly because this is an election year.  Could be the fall of National News when rallies, actual peaceful protests and out-and-out riots display distaste for overt news agenda.

The Unity of Goodness in solidarity in Childproofing education and entertainment.

There is a faith optimism. A taste for sincerity.

Scripture is yesterday, today and tomorrow. We can always find points to have conflict. 

Rise above it, Jesus said several times.

Light from on High

Gallup Poll. WOW.

74% of Church goers believe Prayer to The Lord is both heard and moves His Hand to Action.

 25% of not regular attendance believers say yes about miracles and answered prayers. Ohhhh, look there.  Could be that Church goers have a Majestic Ear.  Better move that rear to the pew!

Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty!

What ARE some things believers will tell you of their own, very personal experiences:

Yes, Hebrews 12 is correct. There is a cloud of unspoken, sincere, heartfelt, life changing, Father Abba prayer life. 

An astonishing number of people dream and dreamed of Jesus sitting with them under a Heavenly tree.

Abraham, with Sarah, lived in Hebron, Israel and under the Great Oaks of Mamre

There is something interesting about all these dreams of Jesus, Himself.  

There is a common pattern when believers gather to discuss seeing Jesus in their dreams. Tears will come to eyes. As they realize, they have seen Jesus, not in Heavenly Perfection, but in an arid climate. With a very tough, Resiliant Oak Tree. A Very Large Oak. Hearts are more than strangely warm. Pure Love is generated. The dream is as real as last night. Even if it was decades past. And you and Jesus are about 75 feet away from your dream or vision eyes. You see yourself out of body.

Where is the Heavenly Realm of Perfection? For all of us, the answer is - The Heavenly Realm is nearby. In Jesus, Himself.

We are in Drought in Texas. This is called Stage Two Drought. 

And maybe in this time of days that can be rather cloudless, we need to let His Light Shine. To tell those who trust us the most about our Dreams and Answered Prayers in Jesus, Messiah, Christ of God. Lord God.

And just possibly, these conversations can lead to a two by two friendships sitting in the House of the Lord. Churches used to be built to look like the interior of Ships. And were called The Nave. The Journey God calls us to. Church has been given the door out recently. When you look at the New Testament, there is no Utopia of everyone has no miffs.  

All of Scripture is about being the Prodigal Son who matures.  In the 1500s, Plague was being overcome. The famous 500 year mark in history. And suddenly, the Church Service wasn't in Latin. Bibles were printed to an increasingly literate world.   In the many languages of Acts 2. The Protestant Church began. 

We all have God upon our hearts in His gifts and unique ways in our hearts. Church is about Worship. And like the Bible is personal. This is your time to stand in the House of God and say Thank You. 

2 Samuel 23:4 

He dawns on them like the morning light, like the sun shining forth on a cloudless morning, like rain that makes grass to sprout from the earth.

Genesis 1:3 

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

Genesis 8:22

While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”

Genesis 1:1-31

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. 

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. 

Matthew 5:45

So that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven.

 For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, 

and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Abba, Father God,

Bless us, we ask in the Highest Name of Jesus, as we speak with You in our hearts.

Malachi 3 ~ The Lord paid attention and heard them, and a Book of Remembrance was written before Him of those who feared the Lord and esteemed His Name.

Lord Jesus Christ, High above every Name.

 And answer us as we set forth to do this Life. To please You.

 To be understanding of Your Guidance each day and in each conversation.

Your Lord's Prayer says Give us this Day. Enable us to build this day and as we ask Jesus to pray with us, we will do the prayer of Your Righteousness 
and have Your ear and availeth much.

More of Heaven upon earth.

Proverbs 2

1 My child, listen to what I say,

and treasure my commands.

2 Tune your ears to wisdom,

and concentrate on understanding.

3 Cry out for insight,

and ask for understanding.

4 Search for them as you would for silver;

seek them like hidden treasures.

5 Then you will understand what it means to reverence the Lord,

and you will gain knowledge of God.

6 For the Lord grants wisdom!

From his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

7 He grants a treasure of common sense to the honest.

He is a shield to those who walk with integrity.

8 He guards the paths of the just

and protects those who are faithful to him.

9 Then you will understand what is right, just, and fair,

and you will find the right way to go.

10 For wisdom will enter your heart,

and knowledge will fill you with joy.

11 Wise choices will watch over you.

Understanding will keep you safe.

Dwell in me, Father God. Dwell in those I Love, Lord Jesus Christ.

 Dwell in this Nation and the Nations seeking You. 

Help us to seek You first. 

And to find and to become more Heaven on earth.

More of Ephesians 3 within families, with Jesus' Help.

In the Highest Name of Son,

 Your Love and Jesus, we shall be Healed. 

We pray for Edward's very sprained right wrist

and my foot.

Thank You for the healing in Elliott's family and the Love

and care they are going forth in Jesus.

We ask only in Jesus. 

We Pray for the Republic.

We the People all have Family and Loved Ones 

we have fought and lived and died

for our Freedoms.

In Jesus, we will finish well!

We the People pray for the Election Process to be Clear.

We pray for the observations to be valid and up close and bipartisan.

We pray for the Legislature Laws of this Nation to be Upheld

One Nation Under God

with

Liberty and Justice for All.

We pray for Way, Truth and Life.

Knowing in the Truth is where Peace and Integrity 

with Love and Courtesy Dwell.

I thank you for my vaccine, we have been

Covid free.

You have told us to always pray with Hope.

Jesus ,help us 

to be in Your Word and see more Joy.

Ukraine and God's Beloved 

Covered in God's Love,

Bless Your Good Creation.

Amen in Jesus, Amen.

Jesus, God of Encouragement.

Jesus, Hope and Future.

Jesus the Lord

saves the world

Amen.

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Matthew 13:54-56, Mark 6:2-4 ~ carpenter

 

You have to remember Scriptures

fully give the Foster Father Nod to Joseph

for Father's Day.

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Going the High Way

High Road

and leaving a footprint

Mark of High Way

Matthew 13:54-56, Mark 6:2-4 

Matthew 13:54-56

54 Coming to His hometown, He taught the people in their synagogue, and they were astonished. “Where did this man get such wisdom and miraculous powers?” they asked. 55 “Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t His mother’s name Mary, and aren’t His brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas? 

56 Aren’t all His sisters with us as well? 

Where then did this man get all these things?”

Mark 6:2-4

2 When the Sabbath came, He began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard Him were astonished. “Where did this man get these ideas?” they asked. “What is this wisdom He has been given? And how can He perform such miracles? 3 Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary and the brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? Aren’t His sisters here with us as well?” And they took offense at Him. 4 Then Jesus said to them, 

“Only in his hometown, among his relatives, 

and in his own household is a prophet without honor.”

Last Post was Psalm 81!

Psalm 81 

Sing aloud to God our strength;

shout for joy to the God of Jacob!

2 Raise a song; sound the tambourine,

the sweet lyre with the harp.

3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon,at the full moon, on our feast day.

4 For it is a statute for Israel,

a rule [just decree] of the God of Jacob.

5 He made it a decree in Joseph when he went out over [against] the land of Egypt.I hear a language I had not known:6 “I relieved your [his; also next line] shoulder of the burden;

your hands were freed from the basket.

7 In distress you called, 

and I delivered you;

I answered you in the secret place of thunder;

I tested you at the waters of Meribah [quarreling]. 

Sela

Joseph has left some pretty large footprints. This isn't a man who hasn't had some very real and present type questions about being family.  

The critics love to say all the 2,000 year old messages left in Peter's house plaster walls don't indicate literacy. We've pretty well debunked the idiocy of the Disciples with Papyrus 46 300 intact Chapters of Scripture housed in The University of Michigan, circa first or 2nd century A.D.

Joseph isn't a man without means to make decisions. Really. He isn't without some large choices.

Placement is part of Joseph.  Matthew 1, first Book of the New Testament, Chapter 1, assures us Joseph's lineage has left him with some plans. Joseph is a catch of a husband in Judea.  His reaction to Mary's pregnancy isn't a warm fuzzy. This is a man of planning.  And he isn't a homegrown shepherd dedicated to Nazareth. Wouldn't you think God would have wanted Joseph to be a Shepherd like David?  Didn't happen.  Joseph is a man who will travel across the Sea to make his way for his family.

Joseph isn't a man who takes the easier path. 

He takes the scandal known through the Temple of Mary's kinsman Zechariah and the Angel, and brings Jesus to be dedicated. 

This is a man who seriously looked at divorce and capital punishment. 

Mary gives her lineage, in the 3rd Book of the New Testament in the 3rd, Chapter of Luke 3 

Placement for women has suddenly increased. Even if a Greek Physician has to be the one to explain this.  We are told, by placement, to look to Joseph.

Look at the times:

Isaiah 7:10-25

10 Again the Lord spoke to Ahaz: 11 “Ask a sign of the Lord your God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven.” 12 But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, and I will not put the Lord to the test.” 

13 And he said, “Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary men, that you weary my God also? 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. 15 He shall eat curds and honey when he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good. 16 For before the boy knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you dread will be deserted. 17 The Lord will bring upon you and upon your people and upon your father's house such days as have not come since the day that Ephraim departed from Judah—the king of Assyria!”

18 In that day the Lord will whistle for the fly that is at the end of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. 19 And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines, and in the clefts of the rocks, and on all the thornbushes, and on all the pastures.

20 In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired beyond the River—with the king of Assyria—the head and the hair of the feet, and it will sweep away the beard also.

21 In that day a man will keep alive a young cow and two sheep, 22 and because of the abundance of milk that they give, he will eat curds, for everyone who is left in the land will eat curds and honey.

23 In that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels of silver, will become briers and thorns. 24 With bow and arrows a man will come there, for all the land will be briers and thorns. 25 And as for all the hills that used to be hoed with a hoe, you will not come there for fear of briers and thorns, but they will become a place where cattle are let loose and where sheep tread.

Consider Isaiah 7 as prophecy on Joseph

Luke 2 

Mary, we heard from, 46 And Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord, 47 and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, 48 for he has looked on the humble estate of his servant. For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed; 49 for he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name. 50 And his mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation. 

51 He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts; 52 he has brought down the mighty from their thrones and exalted those of humble estate; 53 he has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty. 54 He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy, 55 as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his offspring forever.”

What Mary has to say hasn't left Joseph a lot of joy.  She doesn't look meek or mild. 

Given the parental unity after the Annunciation.  You can see the total lack of cohesive sympathy.  Cutting to the movie, "My Cousin Vinnie," someone is bound to be stomping an angry foot, yelling about biological clocks.

Brings us perfectly to consider Joseph, Son of David, Father Award for the Millenniums. For Good Reason.

Isaiah 7:

Joseph is not wanting to hear about Angel Gabriel and does not want anyone to put God to the Test. Mary is now Sheol, dead by stoning or Heaven. 

O House of David, do you feel weary as the family hears about THIS? Immanuel, God with us??? Evil or good? Curds and honey in prosperity? New economy.  Two kings. Herod and Claudius, Emperor of Rome. Not the correct timing to put this free for all on the House of David.  Depart trouble, like Ephraim, to Judea. Yesterday!

This type of Trouble near Pilate kills people like the Assyrian Empire. The Roman Empire has increased Judea when archaeology shows population change is incredibly rare. 6,000 military people taking pastures and cities before the additional trade foreigners show up. Trade people are numerous. New trades, new prosperity: The House of David is not shining up well. Will it be bows and arrows, briers and thorns? 

Current Headlines for Judea could have read:

Get a Job with the Roman Empire for the smart men to collect taxes. The Temple will like you, it's the same Herod employer.

Are you part of the Roman Empire and exporting goods? Or are you the sad zealot? 

Don't put your head up too high in Religious Fervor, Pilate killed men during a Holy Pilgrimage Festival.

It's great to be an old family in Judea, as long as you aren't seen Angels!

Joseph, son of Jacob, Left a Marker

Joseph with the many colors coat.

On a statue of Amenhotep III at Kom el Hetan - Amenhotep’s funeral statue has a base and on the base of the statue is "Joseph-el". Joseph of God. Referring to Joseph who predicted the huge famine, and became Visor to Pharaoh. Joseph Messenger of God.

Joseph, Foster Father of Jesus, left a marker

Matthew 1:16

Joseph, son of Jacob, the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, Who is called Christ

Luke 4:22

All spoke well of Him and marveled at the gracious words that came from His Lips:

"Isn't this the son of Joseph"

Galatians 5:22

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness 

Romans 5:1

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ 

John 16:33

I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. 

John 20:19

On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!" 

2 Corinthians 1:2

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Luke 4:22

All spoke well of Him and marveled at the gracious words that came from His Lips:

"Isn't this the son of Joseph"

Mark 6:3

Isn't this the carpenter? Isn't this Mary's son and

the brother of James, Joseph, Jude and Simon? Aren't his sisters here

with us?

The Scriptures are alive. We feel like we see through a mirror dimly in these matters of faith. By the Plan of God. Faith is unseen. Walking by faith. Since the Huge Day of Ascension. Great is the Mystery of Faith. A day to God is thousands of years. Today, the Disciples have seen Jesus. Today, they learn they won't have all the answers. A Huge Responsibility is on God now. Today the Disciples are trusted with the Salvation of the world for many, many generations. 

Abba, Father God,

Find our souls to be worthy of You dwelling in us.

Help us to seek You first.

Bless our families with Love and Peace.

Encourage us in Your Plan daily, please, in Jesus Christ.

We will finish well in Jesus Christ.

John 17:20 

My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 

 John 17:6 

I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your Word.

To be filled with Your Love, and see Your Glory.

The Wonders of Your Way.

 Your Scriptures and in Your Power, every one of us will bow at the Name of Jesus.

Jesus, You appeared in the Power of the Grace of God offering Salvation to us all.

 In every Nation. For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. 

And this is Your free gift to us.

Father, even on Father's Day

You want all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. 

Faith calls us to Trust in You.

You have planned eternal life, we will know You the only true God, 

and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

We have a hope in You, there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust. 

Freedom in Jesus. 

Father God will render to each one of us according to our life, choices and faith. 

You will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will not be Heaven.

There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven 

given higher than Jesus.

We pray as we face eternity we have told with great effect the name of Jesus - that our families in Heaven not only include our blood families - but include the nobility - the true nobility is those who look to Father God knowing He Loves us. And we will be for us in Jesus Christ.

 We pray for our Nation.

We pray for the healing of God's Good Creation after the Pandemic.

We pray for our families to have Peace.

Thank You, Father God,

Please continue with Your Mercy!!!

 For healing and for guidance we ask 

in Jesus. 

Amen.

Matthew 4:19 "

“Come, follow Me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”

Daniel 4:3

How great are His signs, and how mighty His wonders! 

His kingdom is an eternal kingdom

Isaiah 49:8

This is what the LORD says: "In the time of my favor I will answer you, 

and in the day of salvation I will help you; 

I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people, 

to restore the land and to reassign its desolate inheritances"

Isaiah 49:10

They will neither hunger nor thirst, nor will the desert heat 

or the sun beat down on them. 

He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them

 beside springs of water.

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