Mark 8:22-26 ~ Do you see anything

Today was a big news day.
Suicides are up in a large way. Universities debate life after death. Life after death is debated, we could act badly in this life waiting for the next one. Fighting for quarantine or opening. Church is deemed Essential. More than liquor stores!

Mark 8:22-26

22 And they came to Bethsaida.

And some people brought to him a blind man and begged him to touch him. 23 And he took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village,
and when he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands on him

Jesus asked him, “Do you see anything?” 

24 And he looked up and said, “I see people, but they look like trees, walking.” 

25 Then Jesus laid his hands on his eyes again; and he opened his eyes, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly. 26 And he sent him to his home, saying, “Do not even enter the village.”



 A place known for miracles. Miracles occur in an ongoing fashion. The blind man is not forsaken. Worries are not dismissed. Everything becomes clear. Humor is found. Today, we realize this is healed brain damage. For two millenniums we did not know this.

There is a path to the miraculous healing. Just as the news today has a path.

Personally, the fourth story was the reason I found the other stories:

http://www.today.com/health/i-crossed-over-survivors-near-death-experiences-share-afterlife-stories-t12841


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2032591/Woman-comes-back-to-life-after-being-dead-for-17-hours.html

http://www.storypick.com/death-experience/

http://www.today.com/news/pronounced-dead-man-takes-miraculous-turn-2D80555113
Zack's town put up signs all over Oklahoma to pray for him

http://www1.cbn.com/content/dr-chauncey-crandall-raising-dead

https://www.amazon.com/Dying-Be-Me-Journey-Healing/dp/1401937535

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/29/us/to-heaven-and-back/


One of the most famous recorded returns is Pam Reynolds Lowery (1956 – May 22, 2010) was an American singer-songwriter. In 1991, at age 35, Pam died on the table for many minutes and was clinically recorded as brain-dead with no life during a seven-hour operation. She was operated on with ear plugs. When she woke up she was able to tell about floating, knowing the operating conversation, the tools used and being in Heaven with her grandmother. 




Life after death shock: One in ten people have experienced ‘the afterlife’ – have you?

One in ten people have suffered a near death experience (NDE), a study has revealed as scientists move one step closer to understanding the afterlife.

By SEAN MARTIN
Published: Mon, Jul 1, 2019

A new study which had more than a thousand participants from 35 different countries has revealed that 10 percent of people have had a NDE. The most common forms of NDEs include a feeling of time distortion (87 percent), exceptional speed of thought (65 percent), exceptionally vivid senses (63 percent) and feeling separated from, or out of their body (53 percent) when involved in a scenario which could be fatal, such as a heart attack or car crash.

Today we have debates on Covid-19 Shaming. If we believe in Heaven, with 80% of the USA praying daily and believing Father God hears their prayers - do we believe we will either huddle at home in fear - or believe we will foolishly forge ahead.

Wouldn't the existence of Memorial Day prove both ideas are incorrect?

John 15:13
Greater Love has no man, than a man to lay down his life for his friends.

These brave people have fought for Freedom. Believing this life is worth fighting for.

Does God esteem Heaven more than earth? God's Mission is to save the world in Jesus Christ. The Exodus occurs as God fights for life to have good conditions. A Hope and a Future. God fights for us in this life.

Romans 15:13
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

Romans 12:12
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.

Isaiah 40:31
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

1 Peter 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead

Abba, Father God,

When You tell us to Fight the Good Fight, You speak Words of Life. We fight doubt, we fight our fears, and in Jesus Christ You give us Hope and Encouragement in this Life.

Jesus knew, personally, this life has troubles. The Prophet Haggai said we can find joy in all seasons of life as Jesus said in John Chapters 14 to 17.

Father God encourages us individually. We Overcome.

Romans 5

Our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace
in which we stand:

And we exult in hope of the glory of God.

And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations! Knowing that tribulation brings about Perseverance!

4 And perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope!

5 And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God
has been poured out within our hearts
through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

We Pray for all the world in Joy during tribulation as the work of mankind to believe in God, puts us on the steadfast path of Recovery.

For the Blessing found in Jesus in Prayer and in His House. All Joy and Safety.


With Jesus and Your Gift of Faith, we will live in Love, Peace and Joy.
 Having the Blessing from Your Son to ask for more Heaven upon earth for all of Creation. God of Love. God of Encouragement.

Living in the Freedom and Expectation to Seek You first and find Your Kingdom glimpsed around us.

Keep us safe from disasters, quieten storms and keep the Oceans safe. Your Mercy, Father God.

Uphold those we Love. We Trust You.

We ask for the virus to end and Joy in Recovery. And Peace for anxiety, jobs and finances.
We pray for Your Healing Word to be Spoken. Your Living Word to be honored.
Your Help for a vaccine.

God Himself Bless, Sustain, Comfort, Guide
President Donald Trump,
Vice President Mike Pence,
Governor Abbott and these 50 United States Governors and Legislatures.
The Administration Coronavirus Response Team, Dr. Deborah Birx, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Robert Redfield

Jesus Christ, The Beauty of Your Willing Blessings Flow!  Amen!

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Jeremiah 32:17 ~ Nothing is too difficult for our God

Matthew 22:29

Know the Scriptures and the power of God.

When we study Revelation 1, John relives the Transfiguration of Jesus in the Kingdom of Heaven with Jesus - suddenly John went from his home to Heaven to see Jesus. John 6, the boat arrived 'immediately', we know the Scriptures and the Power of God. So many times the Gospels focus on the immediacy of Jesus Christ.

Jesus returned bodily after the Resurrection. And His Disciples did not recognize Jesus immediately. We recall our soul lives, survives and thrives. Not our knees, brain or cardiopulmonary system.

We connect Heaven, the Holy Spirit, Jesus and our Father as we pray.

Jeremiah 32:17

"Oh, Lord GOD!

You have made the heavens and earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. 

Nothing is too difficult for You!

Amos 5:8

He who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name

Psalm 8:3-4

He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names.

Daniel 12:3

And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.

Psalm 8:3-4

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?

Psalm 136:9

The moon and stars to rule over the night, for his steadfast love endures forever;

Isaiah 40:26

Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these?

He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name, by the greatness of his might,

and because he is strong in power not one is missing.

Hebrews 1:3 

The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, 

sustaining, the universe by the Word of His Power.

Jesus tells of the Majesty of God.

John 1

Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” 

49 Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!” 

50 Jesus answered him, “Because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”

Hannah understands. Elijah understands.

1 Kings 19:11-13

11 Then He said, “Go out, and stand on the mountain before the Lord.” And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore into the mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake; 12 and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a still small voice.

13 So it was, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave. Suddenly a voice came to him, and said, 
“What are you doing here, Elijah"

When the Host of Heaven arrived to announce Jesus and His Joyous Life:

We find Jesus, The Light of mankind, dwells in us. Our prayers are heard, and God is present in our lives now.

1 Samuel 1

17 Eli answered, “Go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant you 

what you have asked of him.”

18 She said, “May your servant find favor in your eyes.” 

Then she went her way and ate something, and her face was no longer downcast.

Ephesians 2:22

And in Him you too are being built 
together into a dwelling place 

for God in His Spirit.

Abba, Father God,

The Comforter, He, The Lord always before me,

He is at my right hand, that I may not be shaken.

This Day is Arriving, we hold the Faith.
We believe God will see us through to thrive and live seeing Heaven upon earth. For His Good will to provide for us. To live to Seek God First and Live having Love, Peace and Joy.

Uphold us, Father. Uphold those we Love.

Increasing in the knowledge of God; being strengthened with all power,
according to His glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy.

Finding Peace is finding the Word of God to hold onto Today.

We ask for the virus to end and Joy in Recovery.

God Himself Bless, Sustain, Comfort
President Donald Trump,
Vice President Pence,
Governor Abbott and these 50 United States Governors.
The people working, working tirelessly, and bravely to aid Father God's Good Creation in Health, in Peace, in Prosperity
and the Blessing of Jesus Christ Himself, on earth as it is in Heaven.

In Your Heart, Jesus Christ, Amen.

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1 Chronicles 4:9-10 ~ honorable

1 Chronicles 4:9-10

Jabez was more honorable than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.” 

10 Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from harm so that it might not bring me pain!” 

And God granted what he asked.

We as humans are designed to survey and learn.
God gave us His Word and we learn from other people and their lives and their own histories.

For a number of years I worked in Pro Life and in Bible Studies and Churches have learned from others.

One of the most significant stories, I want to share with you as I thought of life and difficulties, today.

A much younger woman, in her late 20s, I had known for several years came and sat with me one morning, and she said I looked worried. I said I had several things on my mind.

She said did she ever tell me about her adventures in going to college several states away. I said no. We will call her Lily.

Lily went off far off to college because she was tired of her family. Tired of the discord. She chose a University of a different type background from her parents. Where everything was freedom. And in the middle of figuring out what freedom and life was to Lily, she was asked to visit home. She got on a plane one weekend. When she got home, her entire family was there, brother, father, mother and grandmother. They had decided it was time to tell her she was adopted. This explained some distance and discord in her family. She was asked by one of her parents to never discover her birth parents and guilted.

By the time Lily was seated on the plane, what she really was angry at a lifetime of hidden lies. And she was now even more confused about freedom and life. She said she was connected to what? What family? What nation? What system of ideals? What Freedom? And Lily set about at being in sobriety - never. And not answering any phone calls.

Lily, then, was never in her dorm as she was getting - around. Soon her parents were furious with her and were talking of cutting off funding if she did not appear quickly to them. Instead, Lily tossed her phone, got rid of her troubled college roommate and began to live in her car. It was to her - freedom. Without a phone, she was picked up by police, suddenly she had help phoning home. The Police did phone her home. Her parents arrived to find her quite different and with a drunk or something in public. Underage. Flunked out. Living in her car. Proclaiming her new and multiple freedoms. Trying all types of drugs and people. Hideously angry. Being underage, she was returned to her home state and put in Rehab on numerous medications. Her diagnosis was in the horribly severe range. Her family did believe she was in the never to be cured or ok range again.

And this led to many and increasing medications, numerous doctors with ideas about freedoms, and more medications from several doctors. Self-esteem in the dumpster. Lily now believed she would never be able to live independently. Living in a car is homelessness and if this is your willing choice - you are way wacked.


One day, her mother's mother came to visit her. And asked her if she'd ever cared for her mother. Her grandmother said, I'm not sure I care for her even if I love her. They both had to agree that Lily's mother believed life had offered her many disadvantages and Lily was her personal reward. Unfortunately, Lily, being Lily, never worked with her mother's idea of upwardly advancing and ballet lessons. Her adopted grandmother asked Lily if this was why Lily had picked to go so far away and never connected to a boyfriend. Lily said really, in life, she loved her grandmother and her brother and everything else fit into the category of 'borrowed'. She'd never be independent and her mother would always frown upon every natural choice Lily made.

This had been an ongoing 5 year ordeal, after the brief college experience. Her mother's mother sat and had her remember when Lily had felt secure. When they knew she was strong.


Lily said these kind words set her on a journey.
She remembered her core was with Jesus Christ. And just to remember her strength in God. To let go of the years of pain. At the beginning of this, Lily wasn't even allowed to choose her medications in her own home. Quietly, she began to decide. Quietly, she began to ask questions. Steadfastly, she returned to being reasonable with great determination. And her family, with her behavior, began to trust her.

And in Jesus, Lily found her freedom.
She had found a Church to attend. People to tell herself to as herself. Lily had found the Blessing of living without pain and without fear.

Lily expanded her boundaries and found her birth family.
One person in the family seriously objected and was dismissed. Her adoptive family learned to rejoice with her. And in this journey discovered the career she wanted and began a 4 year University, and she graduated. Her life now includes this country and her birth nation. Both families. Her grandmother and then, later, her parents all began to make the long journey to see the completed families. Both, and all, credit Jesus for reaching with great determination to make each day count in Jesus Christ. One day at a time.

Abba, Father,

Help us in all minutes of the day, to believe You have given us a Hope and Future. To be part of Your Vine and fruitfulness. 

Help us to build in all times, each day.

With Jesus and Your Gift of Faith, we will live in Love, Peace and Joy. Having the Blessing from Your Son to ask for more Heaven upon earth for all of Creation. God of Love. God of Encouragement.

Living in the Freedom and Expectation to Seek You first and find Your Kingdom glimpsed around us.

Keep us safe from disasters, quieten storms and keep the Oceans safe.

Uphold those we Love. We Trust You.

We ask for the virus to end and Joy in Recovery. And Peace for anxiety, jobs and finances.
We pray for Your Word to be Spoken.
Your Help for a vaccine.

God Himself Bless, Sustain, Comfort, Guide
President Donald Trump,
Vice President Mike Pence,
Governor Abbott and these 50 United States Governors and Legislatures.
The Administration Coronavirus Response Team, Dr. Deborah Birx, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Robert Redfield

Jesus Christ, Thank You our faith is exactly place in You.
Amen!

♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †  

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Genesis 1 and 2:1-3 ~ it is good

Genesis 1

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 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.

3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

6 And God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” 7 And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so. 8 And God called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

9 And God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.

11 And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so. 12 The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.

14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons,and for days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.” And it was so. 16 And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars. 17 And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18 to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.

20 And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds[g] fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.” 21 So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” 23 And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.

24 And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. 25 And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.

28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” 29 And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. 30 And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. 31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Genesis 2:1-3

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. 3 So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

Finding why God believes His Creation is good yesterday, today and tomorrow.


When Ash Wednesday Church goers were asked for their prayers, many people asked for time to spend with their children. Time was moving on and the parents and children were so busy.

God places seasons in our lives to find something in the day to appreciate. Even if your freezer started to thaw on a Friday and soon on Saturday afternoon someone has correctly diagnosed and saved your Refrigerator.

There are 12 hours in the day, finding the blessing of moving upward.

Finding demonstrations during Re-opening was Peaceful. Livelihoods at stake. Important Questions. Peace is found.

Abba, our Father,

Proverbs 11:27

Whoever seeks good finds favor.

Psalm 18:2

The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

Hebrews 13:8

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Malachi 4:2

For you who revere my name, 

the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. 

And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves.

Malachi 2:10

Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why do we profane the covenant of our ancestors by being unfaithful to one another?

Malachi 2:5

My covenant was with him, a covenant of life and peace, and I gave them to him;

this called for reverence and he revered me and stood in awe of my name.

Malachi 3:12

Then all the nations will call you blessed,

for yours will be a delightful land," says the LORD Almighty.

Abba, Help us each day to remember You find Life Joyful and Good. 

Build us up each day in Your Holy Spirit.

Jesus Christ, pray for us, Speak Your Word, bring more Heaven to earth.

We ask Your Abundant and Flowing Blessings upon us. 
Keep us safe from disasters, quieten storms and keep the Oceans safe.

Help us to seek You first and Your Kingdom.

To Live Love, Joy and Peace. Uphold those we Love. We Trust You.

We ask for the virus to end and Joy in Recovery.

We pray for Your Word to be Spoken. Your help for a vaccine.

God Himself Bless, Sustain, Comfort, Guide

President Donald Trump,

Vice President Pence,

Governor Abbott and these 50 United States Governors.

The Administration Coronavirus Response Team, Dr. Deborah Birx, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Robert Redfield

Jesus Christ Live in us. Amen!

1 Peter 3:9

Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing

knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

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Nones or Mid-Afternoon Prayer (Ninth Hour = approximately 3 p.m.)

John 11

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.”





It's tough work to read The Word of God.

John 11

10 But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

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


And the Rest of His Story:


John 19

19 Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. 

It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.” 

20 Many of the Jews read this inscription, 
for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, 
and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek. 21 So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but rather, ‘This man said, I am King of the Jews.’” 

22 Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.”


26 When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” 27 Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.


John 20
17 Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” 18 Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord”

John 21
6 He said to them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” So they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in, because of the quantity of fish. 7 That disciple whom Jesus loved therefore said to Peter, “It is the Lord!”

12 Jesus said to them, “Come and have breakfast.”

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