1 Corinthians 1:30 ~ our righteousness, holiness and redemption

1 Corinthians 1:30

It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption.

Being Pro-life, I have heard 3.5 years of Planned Parenthood stories. Reddit has a story today:


Deborah Netburn Contact Reporter
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-planned-parenthood-texas-births-20160203-story.html


The state of Texas’ sustained campaign against Planned Parenthood and other family planning clinics affiliated with abortion providers appears to have led to an increase in births among low-income women who lost access to affordable and effective birth control, a new study says.

The researchers, from the Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, say their findings offer a sneak peek of what may happen in other states that have cut funding to Planned Parenthood.

The study doesn’t prove that the change in Texas policy was directly responsible for the increase in births, the researchers noted. But after making it more difficult for women to get safe, reliable birth control, women switched to less reliable contraceptive methods, or skipped them altogether. The result is dozens of additional babies born to some of the thousands of women who had been served by the shuttered clinics.


Yesterday, I took a Judith MacNutt class on healing miscarriage and abortion. I've volunteered in this area for 3 and a half years.

Bias?
I have one.
I have listened to people surviving a decision to abort.And not being happy at all about abortion. Planned Parenthood has no plan. No Plan - for recovery of this dramatic event. Planned Parenthood told several of the ladies I talked to this: "The ladies would have a miscarriage anyway because of the crisis. Let P P help them to have that abortion."


This is so circular.
The article states the study "doesn't prove the change is directly responsible for more births." And goes on to say this is ... responsible. Truth. Stand in the Truth.

Planned Parenthood says the pregnancy (a human bean) IS about to end in miscarriage from crisis and says abortion is needed? Parts bring in money, evidently. We need Truth.

Let's follow up this study.
So - - -  it's ok if wealthy women have babies?
We love the underprivileged so much, we want their children to die?
WOW! Talk about Health "Care".

I prefer "Care" with my health.

Have you ever noticed people 20 years old are generally not the wealthy???

Let's Do Follow up this study.
The Way, the Truth, the Life.
Wall Street Journal.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-birthrate-hits-turning-point-1434513662

Six years after the recession ended, the nation’s birthrate has begun to climb again.

For every 1,000 women of childbearing age last year, there were 62.9 births, up from 62.5 births in 2013, according to data released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That is the first increase since 2007, when the recession began.

The nation’s total fertility rate—a statistical measure of how many children each woman is likely to have over her lifetime—also rose slightly, to 1.862 children, from 1.858. That remains below the 2.1 children needed to keep the U.S. population stable, not counting immigration. 

Pro Choice?
Is not Life.

Life!!! 

Applaud babies!

Psalm 139

13 For you formed my inward parts;

you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.

14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.a

Wonderful are your works;

my soul knows it very well.

15 My frame was not hidden from you,

when I was being made in secret,

intricately woven in the depths of the earth.

16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance;

in your book were written, every one of them,

the days that were formed for me,

when as yet there was none of them.

17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!

How vast is the sum of them!

18 If I would count them, they are more than the sand.

I awake, and I am still with you.

Father God,

In Life, You are there. We pray for an increase in Love, Joy, Peace and creation in Marriage.
We give You thanks for the creation of Marriage early in the Word of God.

Let us not fight old battles, when new information requires new ideas.

We ask the facts are known abortion is very low, but Chemical abortion is on the increase. We ask that You would bless us with good entertainment and movies teaching us to plan our lives along Your Path.

Jesus has told us of His willingness to be part of this life, the way life is, with Joy.

Increase our goodness, our light of Christ shining in all of mankind, for the blessing of those we love, the people You've given us, Churches, work places were justice would flow like water, diligence, gratitude, and our states see Justice and Mercy clearly. We pray for the police situation and give thanks for the videos, where police release the videos. Justice for all. For this Nation and in Our God, a prayer for His Blessings. For the People of the World seeking Him - Blessings. Wise people still seek our Father God. Amen in our Savior's Name. Jesus.

John 1:4

In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Psalm 104 ~ May the glory of the Lord endure forever

 

The Temple was Built For Jesus Christ the Lord

Psalm 104

1 Praise the Lord, my soul.

Lord my God, you are very great;
you are clothed with splendor and majesty.

2 The Lord wraps himself in light as with a garment;
he stretches out the heavens like a tent
3 and lays the beams of his upper chambers on their waters.

He makes the clouds his chariot
and rides on the wings of the wind.
4 He makes winds his messengers,
flames of fire his servants.

5 He set the earth on its foundations;
it can never be moved.
6 You covered it with the watery depths as with a garment;
the waters stood above the mountains.

7 But at your rebuke the waters fled,
at the sound of your thunder they took to flight;
8 they flowed over the mountains,
they went down into the valleys,
to the place you assigned for them.

9 You set a boundary they cannot cross;
never again will they cover the earth.

10 He makes springs pour water into the ravines;
it flows between the mountains.
11 They give water to all the beasts of the field;
the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

12 The birds of the sky nest by the waters;
they sing among the branches.


13 He waters the mountains from his upper chambers;
the land is satisfied by the fruit of his work.

14 He makes grass grow for the cattle,
and plants for people to cultivate—
bringing forth food from the earth:
15 wine that gladdens human hearts,
oil to make their faces shine,
and bread that sustains their hearts.

16 The trees of the Lord are well watered,
the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.
17 There the birds make their nests;
the stork has its home in the junipers.
18 The high mountains belong to the wild goats;
the crags are a refuge for the hyrax.

19 He made the moon to mark the seasons,
and the sun knows when to go down.
20 You bring darkness, it becomes night,
and all the beasts of the forest prowl.
21 The lions roar for their prey
and seek their food from God.
22 The sun rises, and they steal away;
they return and lie down in their dens.
23 Then people go out to their work,
to their labor until evening.

 24 How many are your works, Lord!
In wisdom you made them all;
the earth is full of your creatures.
25 There is the sea, vast and spacious,
teeming with creatures beyond number—
living things both large and small.
26 There the ships go to and fro,
and Leviathan, which you formed to frolic there.

27 All creatures look to you
to give them their food at the proper time.
28 When you give it to them,
they gather it up;
when you open your hand,
they are satisfied with good things.
29 When you hide your face,
they are terrified;
when you take away their breath,
they die and return to the dust.
30 When you send your Spirit,
they are created,
and you renew the face of the ground.

31 May the glory of the Lord endure forever;
may the Lord rejoice in his works—
32 he who looks at the earth, and it trembles,
who touches the mountains, and they smoke.

33 I will sing to the Lord all my life;
I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.
34 May my meditation be pleasing to him,
as I rejoice in the Lord.
35 But may sinners vanish from the earth
and the wicked be no more.

Praise the Lord, my soul!

Praise the Lord!

Jeremiah arrived to tear down or build up?

Jeremiah 1:1-10

1 The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, 2 to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. 3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, and until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month.


4 Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
and before you were born I consecrated you;
I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

6 Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth.” 

But the Lord said to me,

“Do not say, ‘I am only a youth’;
for to all to whom I send you, you shall go,
and whatever I command you, you shall speak.
8 Do not be afraid of them,
for I am with you to deliver you,
declares the Lord.”

9 Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me,

“Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.
10 See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms,
to pluck up and to break down,
to destroy and to overthrow,
to build and to plant.”

No one would have ever have taken up the career of Jeremiah willingly.
Except...God - is the foundation of Jeremiah.
A man of God with a desire to please Father God - a message of a hope and a future.

Abraham also believed God and went traveling far from all he knew. Without a computer, a map or even a compass. He just went forth into the Plan of God. Abraham became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared for them a Kingdom of Jesus.

Hebrews 11
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. 2 For by it the people of old received their commendation. 3 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.

32 And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets— 33 who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight. 35 Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life. 36 Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. 37 They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated— 38 of whom the world was not worthy—wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

39 And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised, 40 since 
God had provided something better for us, 
that apart from us 
they should not be made perfect.

Father God,
Nothing in this life could be greater that Salvation.
You would have us to live with us where You Live, Move and Have Your Being.

Nothing we could ever do or say could ever repay the Gift of Jesus.
You opened up Your arms to us. And made the Victory.
You are Unblemished, Holy, Completely Loving.
You are Love.

Apart from You, Father God - we will not be made perfect.
I have seen my Grandmother Elliott in Heaven and I understand Thee
to fill us with the fulfillment of You, God. You, as Father, have wiped every tear from their eyes. No more death, mourning. crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away. The dwelling place of mankind is with Father God.

My cup runneth over. Goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, as I will pray for my loved ones and the people You have given me all my days in Expectation of You. You have willingly answered to Glory what my Grandmother Anita prayed for and shown her faith which in turn fed the next generations. Thank You.  I bless You and Thank You Father. All of mankind will bow and call upon You in Faith, You have said.

Dwell within us Father God and we will see more Heaven and Your Good will done upon this earth. Amen in Jesus.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Luke 23:24 ~ Father, forgive them

Luke 23:24

And Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." And they cast lots to divide his garments.

Why is there suffering. One of my favorite people on the planet used to say, "We know that if someone dies with cancer, it is because God is weak. Satan is so powerful in this world that God is pushed down." No, my brother (s and sisters) in Christ.

Psalm 24:1
The earth is the LORD’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein

- is still the Word of God. God does not lie and He does not change from day to day.

We live in a world where we sacrifice. Man, don't we. We have children and let strangers raise them in day care. We don't have time for a nourishing meal or we have many memories of a meal that was so stressful - that fast food is delicious. We don't have time for friends. We come home so wrung out that we all turn on the television. How great is television?

We need more wholesome, holy things. HopePointe's Father Bryan says his father asks after every movie, "What was the Moral of that?" I have learned when offered space travel, it might be better to wait by the truck instead. Because if you are an unlikely space traveler - man, you Are the extra to get killed. Even unlikely movies have taught you something. Everything has an idea of life.

Find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind.
John Donne


The sole or soul purpose of fiction - someone invested their time in this work - to tell you what their theories of life. You have learned something. Or strengthened the opposite opinion of the work you read or watched.


People tend to stay away from each other because we aren't always nice to each other. Remember summer days and times in the 1970's and before? Time moved slowly. People gathered. People quilted and sewed. If you looked down your street, people did gather. Time was gentle. Is this sentimental clap trap? No. Look at the news. Now people obsess if they are doing enough work or if work is beneficial. People are jealous of others with time on their hands. Just as people are jealous with more items. Our grandparents bought their houses for cash. Our great-grandparents were cared for in our homes (Lord help me with my parent!). Our parents bought our educations as a gift.

Now we are sacrificing. A lot of my professors at Texas A&M still teach. My total cost of education was $12.5 Grand. Not even a semester now.

Look at the Scandinavian countries. Life is easier. Smaller homes, kids in government care very, very early. Less worry over health care. Yet they have given up freedom and a lot of their beliefs. Watered down. In worst case scenario, they are in Bad Shape if the Government goes Bad. In the United States, we believe in God and yet act badly. Things are not as crisp and clean as when we believed in faith to do right and God will care for us.

Faith and the amount of it effects all of us.

Do you remember in the Scriptures, a loan was supposed to be 7 years. Wouldn't we all be or have been happier with a house affordable in 7 years that wasn't in a woebegone neighborhood with hopelessness, danger and drugs? Why aren't we demanding Congress to order our lives in ways that help people instead of this spiral?

Is God truly weakened by this? I would say No. But God will give us enough rope in free will. So many miracles in the Scriptures are like the father crying out, "I believe, help my unbelief." Can't we all relate to that? We have to put our houses in order and give God glory. People are much more interested, ultimately, in God who gives mercy and blessings. Because God is Love. God says work and grow faith. Believe. Give it a leap.

Faith is a leap. We gave a car once to our Church. Now we have two kids with one car. We need to work on being financially generous to our Church, but funds are a financial diet at our house. Lean. Our financial structure is different than others.

(Have you ever thought about communion? Communion is a meal. It is the New Covenant. The importance of communion is this.... at a restaurant, we eat a meal and we are subjected to a conversation behind us. I've heard some that I Still Remember. Awful. Particularly one anniversary meal at Perry's ... the importance of Communion is - we are together. We wait for the person next in line to Receive. And pray for them. It's a symbol of God. And I believe Communion is God.)

So... suffering.... why does it occur. Is it a weakened God? A man is terminally ill (a friend's family). What could one act of God be in this? His daughter is to step up to the plate. To overcome her ingrained and complete self interest. Maybe she is to learn that she loves her dad more than herself, she is supposed to grow. To have to ask others to help her.

Helping others, when they ask, is an act of God. Helping others by forcing your will upon them, is not. Motivations are important and self defining. It builds a house.

Is love day care? Nursing homes? Does throwing money at someone help them? Withdraw support? Avoidance? Or is it time, talent and effort. Business decisions can sometimes be covered with practicality. Practicality is much more easy to rely upon. But they lead to day care and nursing homes. Less real care. If the sole goal in life is money, we have fragmented families and nights spent in front of the television. In the end, did it make us better people?

Jesus took death from us. He didn't take suffering. We have to grow in faith and see God in all things. Rejecting what is wrong. It comes with a cost. Jesus blazed the trail. Giving us His Holy Spirit. We grow in God when life is difficult, there isn't any praise, but we still believe, believe, believe we need to do as God would have us do.

Reprinted from 3/2/12


Father God,
You have told us: "You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

We should listen to the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses. Entrust our time to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others. May the Lord God give us insight, reflect on Father God.

We will speak honestly, present ourselves to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth. God’s solid foundation stands firm. “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness.”

Pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, a knowledge of the truth.

Father God let us see in wisdom what You would have us do and give us Heart to do this well. In Jesus we pray this for ourselves, the ones we love, the people You have given us. This Nation, Churches, workplaces, solutions and the people who profess Jesus in the world. For the increase of His Glory. Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Psalm 130 ~ For with the Lord there is steadfast love, and with Him is plentiful redemption

Psalm 130

A Song of Ascents.

 Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord!
2 O Lord, hear my voice!
Let your ears be attentive
to the voice of my pleas for mercy!


If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,
O Lord, who could stand?
4But with you there is forgiveness,
that you may be feared.

5
I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,
and in his word I hope;
6
my soul waits for the Lord
more than watchmen for the morning,
more than watchmen for the morning.

7
O Israel, hope in the Lord!
For with the Lord there is steadfast love,
and with him is plentiful redemption.
8
And he will redeem Israel
from all his iniquities.






We are told so often Father God was a mean God in the Old Testament.

David knew God to be forgiving and the utmost in willing to Bless. When the Prophet Gad came to David and said David had brought God’s sin to Israel for taking the census after being told not to count all the people (probably prevent pride in himself); David taught Gad about God's nature.

David told Gad, "Let God decide, His Will is the best solution, is the best for healing."

And Father God understood perfectly, David trusted God when David was a flawed man. David would rely upon Father God.




Remember in Matthew 20:
20 Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came up to him with her sons, and kneeling before him she asked him for something. 21 And he said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Say that these two sons of mine are to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom.” 22 Jesus answered, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?” They said to him, “We are able.” 23 He said to them, “You will drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”

Jesus certainly knew the fate of Peter. Short and long term.

Luke 22
28“You are those who have stayed with me in my trials, 29 and I assign to you, as my Father assigned to me, a kingdom, 30 that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.


What is the difference?
James knew Jesus had spoken, trouble was to come. James became afraid and deserted Jesus.

John knew Jesus had spoken, trouble was to come. Jesus needed John, John would stay near Jesus. The cup that Jesus was to drink, did not fall harshly on John.

See John's Patmos view:

This is only about the nature of Father God. When we draw near to God and stay with Him in faith. He wants to bless us.

John truly understood seeing the Father in seeing Jesus. John because he believed was able to do this:


Matthew 6
25“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?g 28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

34“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

 Edward and I celebrated our 30th Anniversary on Monday. This always says love makes a place where hearts are safe, ideas are exchanged, selfishness forgiven and hope, faith and love encouraged. No marriage is without flaws and only in the Grace God gives us can we go forth.


Father God,

Give us Your Holy Spirit to help us please You in our decisions.

When we are concerned, we will pray. And draw upon Your Comfort.

In Jesus. Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †