Luke 11:1-13 ~ HOW MUCH MORE WILL THE HEAVENLY FATHER GIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT TO THOSE WHO ASK HIM!!!

Luke 11:1-13

1 Now Jesus (our Hero, our Beloved, our Savior, OUR JESUS!) was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.” 2 And he said to them, “When you pray, say:

“Father, hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come.
3Give us each day
 our daily bread
4 and forgive us our sins,
for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us.
And lead us not into temptation.”

5 And he said to them, “Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves!!!

6 for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him’;

7 and he will answer from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything’?

8 (and Jesus in JOY He tells us fills His Heart in John 16 and 17 says!) I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he IS his friend, yet because of his impudence (!) he will Rise and GIVE HIM whatever he needs!

9 AND I tell you! Ask! and it WILL BE GIVEN to you! SEEK! And you WILL FIND!

KNOCK! And it will be opened to you!!!

10 For EVERYONE who asks receives! And the one who seeks... finds! And to the one who knocks ~ it WILL BE...opened.

11 What father among you, if his son asks ford a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; 12 or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children,

HOW MUCH MORE WILL THE HEAVENLY FATHER GIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT TO THOSE WHO ASK HIM!!!"



Lord Jesus, using the Economies of Father God - Pour out a Blessing of Love!




Malachi 3:10

Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.



Jesus is sooooo close. Close. Close.
What is the tithe God wants? Hearts!
God is so close - He Never Departs. Ever. Ever. Ever.

FatherGODisthatclose!

Psalm 63:6
On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night.



What is the TITHE Father GOD Truly, Truly, Truly Seeks?
Thanksgiving that pours and pours and pours out from a Soul filled with Love.






John, the amazing, closer than a brother, disciple summed Jesus up. Brought us into His Fullness.

God is Love!!!

Was echoed through the Body of Christ in His Fullness to the Holy Spirit as Paul wrote this in Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Comfort, Encouragement, Dignity, Gentleness and Strength!

1 Corinthians 16:14
Let all that you do be done in love. 






Amen and Amen Let Love Resound in the Name, the Highest Name of Jesus!
RESOUND
Jesus The Lord, The Lord, The Lord !
in all of us,
in our Beloved

Let the Banner of Christ BE Love Triumphant.
Let the Joy of His Songs, Sing to our Hearts.
Listen to His Call of Love, His Charge.

Let Justice roll down like waters of righteousness in an ever-flowing stream!
Let our sacrifices be sure Thanksgiving.
And an our prayers an aroma of heart given Joy.

Our God, Our Father, Our Jesus, Our Hero - will open the windows of heaven
for you and pour down a blessing until there is no more need!

Jesus the Lord, The Lord, The Lord. Amen. Amen. Amen.



This is love: not that we loved God,
but that HE loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.          Amen.
1 John 4:10

From His Family becoming Ours!

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Psalm 103 ~ For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast lov

Psalm 103

Bless the Lord, O my soul,
and all that is within me,
bless his holy name!


2 Bless the Lord, O my soul,
and forget not all his benefits,
3 who forgives all your iniquity,
who heals all your diseases,
4 who redeems your life from the pit,
who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,
5 who satisfies you with good
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.

6 The Lord works righteousness
and justice for all who are oppressed.

7 He made known his ways to Moses,
his acts to the people of Israel.

8 The Lord is merciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

9 He will not always chide,
nor will he keep his anger forever.
10 He does not deal with us according to our sins,
nor repay us according to our iniquities.

11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;
12 as far as the east is from the west,
so far does he remove our transgressions from us.

13 As a father shows compassion to his children,
so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.

14 For he knows our frame;
he remembers that we are dust.

15 As for man, his days are like grass;
he flourishes like a flower of the field;
16 for the wind passes over it, and it is gone,
and its place knows it no more.

17 But the steadfast love of the Lord
is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him,
and his righteousness to children's children,
18 to those who keep his covenant
and remember to do his commandments.

19 The Lord has established his throne in the heavens,
and his kingdom rules over all.

20 Bless the Lord, O you his angels,
you mighty ones who do his word,
obeying the voice of his word!

21 Bless the Lord, all his hosts,
his ministers, who do his will!

22 Bless the Lord, all his works,
in all places of his dominion.

This week I went to the Hallmark Store to buy Valentine's Day cards. I was delighted to see a row of red and white alternating cars in front of the store. Probably about 10 or 14 alternating red and white cars with a white beer truck in front of the parked cars. I felt very lifted by the knowledge that Father God knows the numbers of hairs on my head and the sparrow that falls has His Attention.

We think that our prayers, our thoughts, our hopes, our frustrations, our wondering is far from His sight.

This is not what the Word of God manifest - Jesus the Lord - says.


John 14:13
And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.



Father God,

Thank You for making each day renew in Your Tender Mercies. Thank You for the Joy of seeing those cars all over the front of the Valentine's Day store. The Blessing of this Day, that Valentine's color is sometimes the only color in the month in February.

Your Joy lifts our hearts to You, again. We see Jesus' Grace upon Grace.

Blessed be the Name of Jesus and Blessed are our prayer requests for the Love of God to be manifest to those we love. Thank You for Your Steadfast Love.

Amen in Jesus.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Mark 10:13-16 ~ He took them in His arms and Blessed them

 

Mark 10:13-16

 

13 And they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them. 

14 But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. 15 Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.” 16 And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands on them.


When Jesus was telling of His new Kingdom, He said, what we do to the least of them - we do to Jesus. Jesus was telling of Heaven.

This Lent, let us draw from Jesus blessing the Children to know our hearts to Jesus in open sincerity - this is where He dwells and is pleased. Lent is the preparation to draw close to Jesus in trust, confidence and love.

Father God,
A blessing and good to be near You.

I will make the Sovereign LORD my refuge.

Let us draw near to Father God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with Jesus' Grace.


Father God, for ourselves and the people we love and are given - We will call upon Jesus, knowing we will not die but live, and will proclaim what the LORD has done. We will have confidence to enter the holy places by the Highest Name above all names - Jesus the Lord. Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Titus 2 ~ our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ

Titus 2

2 But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine.

2 Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. 3 Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, 4 and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, 5 to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. 

6 Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled. 7 Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity, 8 and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us.

9 Bondservants are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, 10 not pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior.

11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, 12 training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, 13 waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, 14 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.

15 Declare these things; exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you.

Mistake
Sin
Carrying High  - Jesus Christ as a Banner of Love and Forgiveness.

Titus is a progression in the 12 Disciples.



Titus 1

1 Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ to further the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness— 2 in the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time, 3 and which now at his appointed season he has brought to light through the preaching entrusted to me by the command of God our Savior,

4 To Titus, my true son in our common faith:

Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.



Jesus is leaving us a map of what being led by Jesus Christ looks like. Peter, married, was not a mistake. Oops - Jesus goofed. Actually, Christianity was born, died and Killed Death in Victory in a Syrian suburb. in a non-media world, 16 years later the Emperors trembled at the Name of Jesus.

The New Testament was not echoing the Exodus with Moses being told to stay on Mt. Nebo and watch the progression. Right. Peter is just as active as Paul and his life has mattered. Fully. Almost 100 years of archaeology has decided Peter's grave is 80 feet below the Vatican Alter showing, again, Jesus as God knew exactly, totally, completely, what was happening.

80 feet below the St. Peter altar is the grave of Peter, the fisherman, friend, follower, forgiven, fisher of men - Peter. And the Rock the Gates of Hell have not prevailed against for 20 sets of centuries.

Peter, was not oops. Peter was making a life people made sure his home and his grave were completely graffitied to keep the Fire of Jesus burning. His skeleton shows his feet were cut from the cross.

What is the Map?

Saint Titus is not in the Gospels. Titus is not recorded in the Book of Acts. This is the second generation. Men who had witnessed the power of the Name of Jesus, changed lives, careers, patterns of being shy, saw people rise from the dead, life time problems healed.

Titus is like Paul, like us. Jesus has found us.  We have not gone to sit at the feet of Jesus in this life.

The miracles of Jesus reach through time, and, immediately, Jesus is with us.


8 years, 80 years, 180, 580, 1000, 1800, 2080 - people witness the Name of Jesus is Life.


How has Paul reached the point, he not only fellowships with the men who did walk with Jesus in awe; Paul has shown himself as sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Paul has zeal for good works, but over and over Paul has told us - we can never earn the Grace of Jesus.

With this fruit of the Spirit that adds on to Love, Joy, Peace, Patience of Galatians 5 - We find Timothy, Titus. Silvanus. Luke, Mark.



The Scriptures are not about dusty roads and robes with sandals, the Scriptures explain to us of where faith leads. Growth.



Proverbs 31:25,26   is Spiritual Growth:


She is clothed with strength and dignity;
she can laugh at the days to come.

She speaks with wisdom,
and faithful instruction is on her tongue.


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.


Titus had a long life. Just as Jesus told Chorazin and Bethsaida woe to them for not believing. Titus was placed on the Island of Crete. Where the Greeks of the dispersion welcomed Jesus. Is this unusual? Father God is good to those who pray and call upon Him with faith.

Psalm 91
15"He will call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him. 16"With a long life I will satisfy him And let him see My salvation."


Psalm 40:5
Many, LORD my God, are the wonders you have done, the things you planned for us. None can compare with you; were I to speak and tell of your deeds, they would be too many to declare.


Lent is the preparation of Easter. Everyone prepares differently. Some branches of Christianity practice beautiful Easter music and what they will say to visitors. Some reflect on what they did last year that would be done better to please Father God. This Lent I am going to be grateful to Jesus for my given Salvation. Jesus walked this life going to people who needed Him. He appeared and healed sometimes to the entire crowd.

This is still amazing.

This Lent I am going to lift someone I love in prayer who has asked for more of life to provide a way forward. I will look to see the answer Father God provides. He may say "No. in His Time, or Yes." But I believe this Lent asks us to hold up those we love to Jesus. I am going to do as Jesus said, I am going to fast in ways that are healthy, for me that is giving up sweets, exercising more.

We are preparing for the Celebration of Salvation. Jesus' Victory over death. And I will lift up a specific prayer for a loved one who has told me how much that person needs His help. And something will advance for the Kingdom of God.

If you are going to pray more and fast for Lent, why not decide who would need more of Jesus the Lord and pray and fast for His blessing upon that person. This is someone I have known for decades and decades.  Jesus Himself told us fasting and prayer make huge difference. This loved one had defended the faith, has wondered about the faith, has proclaimed the faith and has lately been down. Wondering if Father God cares and loves. I am in complete expectation of the joy of eternal life of my loved one, but this is the Season to pray for this lamb of God. We will pray for God's blessing of faith, hope and love.


May the Power of Jesus Christ fill our petitions and prayers for more of the Love of Jesus Christ within us and those we Love. May our fasts be pleasing to Father God and our expectation of Joy be tender upon His Heart. In Jesus the Lord. Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Luke 18:9-14 ~ God be merciful

Luke 18:9-14

9 He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: 10 “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 

11 The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ 

13 But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”



This joyous email was sent to me ~ to share we are deeply committed to offering Jesus our lives, hearts, souls - we are flawed and fallen in sin. Jesus in His Grace, Power and Mercy lives to bring us God as our Joy and Strength. Nothing we could do would earn His Grace.  Jesus is our Feast in our souls.

Thank You, Father, for this Morning's Service. 


By Dr. Peter Leithart


Jesus' instructions about fasting:

He tells His disciples to fast with anointed heads and clean faces (Matthew 6:16-18).
Washing and anointing are normally preparation for feasting (Ruth 3:3);
they mark the end, not the beginning, of a fast (2 Samuel 12:20).

Jesus turns fasting inside out.
He wants us to dress for a feast when we're fasting,
dress for a feast when we are feasting,
dress for a feast for every occasion in between.

We can be allegoric: Jesus Himself is our festal clothing, His Spirit the oil anointing our head, baptism the water that cleans our faces. Whether fasting or feasting, we have this anointing and this washing. Fasting or feasting, we wear Jesus and His Spirit, our festal robe and light-giving oil.

But there's something else going on.

Jesus came to inaugurate the Feast of the Kingdom. That feast is still ahead of us! Jesus began the Feast of the Kingdom already here and now. The feast is future, and the feast is present. We do not have to wait for a joy already granted.

Our practice fasting should reflect the reality of the new covenant, the maturity we have reached in the risen Son. When we're children, there's a chasm between hunger and satisfaction, between suffering and glory, between losing and winning. As - if - we mature we learn to see a glimmer of success embedded in our failures, the glory of our sufferings, the joy in sorrow.

Jesus tells us to discover the feast in the midst of the fast, the fullness at the center of our hunger.

As you enter Lent, act the part of grownups: Wash your face; put on that pomade; let the joy of the Spirit fill your heart. The feast that is ahead has already begun, and it has invaded our fasting.

Father God, 

We are the Easter People! We Expect Jesus. Jesus is Here. Jesus lives, celebrates and strengthens us for all joy and all storm. Jesus has washed us with His needed Grace.
Our Savior our Hero.

And our Alleluia is present with us at all times. No one will ever earn the Grace of Jesus. Alleluia will be held in our hearts, even in silent expectation of God, with love, joy and hope  - Jesus is alive. 

We will only endure Good Friday, knowing the Fulfillment of Easter.

Jesus our Hero. And we will hold His Feast continually in our hearts, in all seasons. I will exult in the LORD, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation. Come be in my soul and in the ones we love.

Let us always remember Jesus telling us of His willingness and joy, from Christmas to the Feast of the New Covenant and in His Vast Forgiveness.

We will hold High Jesus in our Souls. Amen and Amen always in the Highest Name of Jesus.

Habakkuk 3
Though the fig tree should not blossom And there be no fruit on the vines, Though the yield of the olive should fail And the fields produce no food, Though the flock should be cut off from the fold And there be no cattle in the stalls, 18Yet I will exult in the LORD, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation. 

Jesus the Lord!

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Luke 1 ~ And there appeared

Luke 1

1 Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us, 2 just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us, 3 it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, 4 that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught.

5 In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah,[a] of the division of Abijah. And he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. 6 And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord. 7 But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and both were advanced in years.

8 Now while he was serving as priest before God when his division was on duty, 9 according to the custom of the priesthood, he was chosen by lot to enter the temple of the Lord and burn incense. 10 And the whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense. 11 And there appeared to him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense. 12 And Zechariah was troubled when he saw him, and fear fell upon him. 13 But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John. 14 And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth, 15 for he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb. 16 And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God, 17 and he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.”

18 And Zechariah said to the angel, “How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in years.” 19 And the angel answered him, “I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news. 20 And behold, you will be silent and unable to speak until the day that these things take place, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their time.” 21 And the people were waiting for Zechariah, and they were wondering at his delay in the temple. 22 And when he came out, he was unable to speak to them, and they realized that he had seen a vision in the temple. And he kept making signs to them and remained mute. 23 And when his time of service was ended, he went to his home.

24 After these days his wife Elizabeth conceived, and for five months she kept herself hidden, saying, 25 “Thus the Lord has done for me in the days when he looked on me, to take away my reproach among people.”

26 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, 27 to a virgin betrothed[b] to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin's name was Mary. 28 And he came to her and said, “Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!”[c] 29 But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and tried to discern what sort of greeting this might be. 30 And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. 31 And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, 33 and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.”

34 And Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, since I am a virgin?”

35 And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God. 36 And behold, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. 37 For nothing will be impossible with God.” 38 And Mary said, “Behold, I am the servant[f] of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.

39 In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a town in Judah, 40 and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. 41 And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, 42 and she exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! 43 And why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? 44 For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. 45 And blessed is she who believed that there would be[g] a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.”


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.”

56 And Mary remained with her about three months and returned to her home.

57 Now the time came for Elizabeth to give birth, and she bore a son. 58 And her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her. 59 And on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child. And they would have called him Zechariah after his father, 60 but his mother answered, “No; he shall be called John.” 61 And they said to her, “None of your relatives is called by this name.” 62 And they made signs to his father, inquiring what he wanted him to be called. 63 And he asked for a writing tablet and wrote, “His name is John.” And they all wondered. 64 And immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed, and he spoke, blessing God. 65 And fear came on all their neighbors. And all these things were talked about through all the hill country of Judea, 66 and all who heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, “What then will this child be?” For the hand of the Lord was with him.
Zechariah's Prophecy

67 And his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying,

68
“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
for he has visited and redeemed his people
69
and has raised up a horn of salvation for us
in the house of his servant David,
70
as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old,
71
that we should be saved from our enemies
and from the hand of all who hate us;
72
to show the mercy promised to our fathers
and to remember his holy covenant,
73
the oath that he swore to our father Abraham, to grant us
74
that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies,
might serve him without fear,
75
in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.
76
And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High;
for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,
77
to give knowledge of salvation to his people
in the forgiveness of their sins,
78
because of the tender mercy of our God,
whereby the sunrise shall visit us[h] from on high
79
to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

80 And the child grew and became strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day of his public appearance to Israel.

Oh. No. Not the Christmas Story. Again.


I heard from a man going to Church a lot, that as he faced crisis in his life, what helped him were the sayings of Buddha. Well, a very large and divorced man gives enlightenment on love, self control, loyalty and life about 5 B.C. Did he go to the Temple in Jerusalem and read the Old Testament? No. This is a soul seeking the Lord. Wise men still do this.

Father God is not going to turn away a man in crisis reading Buddha.

Yet the truth is, Einstein said he could see the personality of Jesus soaking the Scriptures.




Seeing our lives with gratitude and Scripture ~

We have to look at our passages God says is His Word is Alive and see with our eyes anew.

And there appeared to him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.

All of his questions...
about the meaning of his life, were about to have clarity from God.
A clarity so big and so longed for, the man scoffed and he was a ... Priest.

Jesus came, - not an angel - and He deal with Nathaniel with some wry God humor. John 1.
Jesus dealt with Pharisees sharply, because they did not want a solution just the swirl.
Jesus dealt with the loss of disciples saying this group that stays has something for me.
Jesus dealt with the loss of the remaining disciples and forgave them.
There is a cost to kick out at people unwisely.


We want to be John, who alone saw with clarity - THIS IS GOD.

John is not God, and Scriptures tell us there are like minded people. Mark stayed. Luke stayed. Silvanus and Timothy were not always there. Instead, They were added as years went on. Titus was given a beautiful place for Christianity to flourish. Crete was the same Island the Greek dispersion Jews were trying to welcome Jesus to come and see.

John the Baptist
A GREAT EXAMPLE OF
Not the precursor to the Camel Hair Sports Jacket -

Oh man, you had GOD and you blew it.
And Jesus gives John a funeral the world will talk about for the end of days. Telling us John just is not perfect. And God will complete John. And then Jesus cheers Himself up by walking as Light of God on the water to surprise the disciples who didn't even say, "Oh God, Your Cousin, we are So sorry, what can we do." You'd think 4 Gospels would say - 'Poor Jesus, that must worry You.'

John the Baptist, was given Words Jesus knew would help John on that day, a very had day for John. John needed to be told. Jesus tells us Jesus has a huge place for John in His Eternal Kingdom. Jesus again, being God, makes this right.

We Thank You, God for giving us people who will be with us. Just at You are with us. THANK GOD IN JESUS CHRIST for Jesus. Amen.







God is like the Book of Acts, He is present in the storm.
He has made us, not we ourselves, God in Jesus Christ will see us through.

When we put God First, we are less swirled, confused, easily swayed. We know we are God's. God makes us strong to make good choices. Father God, Isaiah tells us, wants to dwell in us and strengthen us.

To guide our lives to be truly meaningful, we connect with why this planet has green, blue, water, sun, gentle breeze, cold gale and our earth and our lives are held in sheer space - and this is a dark space. Earth is an oasis given by God in creation. The Plan of God to save the World, the Light of Christ in mankind, becomes - what my life means to Jesus.



Father God, Dwell in me, help me make a life, a soul, a hearth, a home, a Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Comfort, Determination, Wisdom life today - Pleasing to You, for Jesus Christ Lord. Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †