Ezekiel 39:21-29 ~ I will set My Glory among the nations + † +

Ezekiel 39:21-29

21 “And I will set my glory among the nations,
and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed,
and my hand that I have laid on them.

22 The house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God, from that day forward.

23 And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they dealt so treacherously with me that I hid my face from them and gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword. 24 I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their transgressions, and hid my face from them.

25 “Therefore thus says the Lord God:

Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for my holy name.

26 They shall forget their shame and all the treachery they have practiced against me, when they dwell securely in their land with none to make them afraid, 27 when I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them from their enemies' lands, and through them have vindicated my holiness in the sight of many nations.

28 Then they shall know that I am the Lord their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations and then assembled them into their own land.

I will leave none of them remaining among the nations anymore. 29 And I will not hide my face anymore from them, when I pour out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, declares the Lord God.”

Glory - our God pouring out His Holy Spirit.

When we consider the Creation of God and His Wonders. We find even more wonders as we examine the Wonders of God. Abraham, Abram, was from Ur of the Chaldeans. Genesis 11. When Father God called Abraham to travel to a new Land of Promise - He called Abraham from this, consider Ur, now part of Iran:

We might say Abraham was filled with Vigor and Dreams of making a life with Sarah. God had this Plan!  Incredibly, Abraham is not part of a willing and eager for "Go West, Young Man." Abraham believed God. Abram was 75 Years old. And leaves a well-off family to start as purchasing a small portion of land to dwell in a tent.

Hebron

Vintage 1840

1940

Wonders within Wonders

The Children of Israel complained and complained. Abraham is recorded as being Just and Merciful. Sarah is only have recorded as Laughing once. Best not to in the presence of Angels. She is placed within Mercy by our Father God.

Unimaginable Abraham did not complain.

Abraham had found something greater than his surroundings. He had found Love to sustain him.  Not Sarah, we see this in her being captured by King Abimelek. More within Abraham than beauty externally. More than the comfort of his family's gods. More than the ease of an easy meal. Traveling so far - death was always a risk.


Philippians 4

Wonders of wonders to see the Spirit in Paul to live in Abraham.

9 What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me — practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.


10 I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived your concern for me.

Abraham is a risk taker, for himself, for Sarah, for Lot. And for unknown men - he argues for their lives with God Himself. Abraham risking all his own life to save Lot - who had left to graze flocks more comfortably and be wealthy. Abraham went up against tribal kings - endangering life forever more.

You were indeed concerned for me, but you had no opportunity. 11Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. 12 I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. 13I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

So Many Contrasts Within God's Wonders

Joseph is thrown into a pit and sold as his brothers have a meal.

The family will raise the flocks and shear the sheep.

Joseph is in Egypt. From having told of a dream. By telling God's Word -  the truth is not always crowd-pleasing. Joseph looked apparently as if he were bragging of His Father's Love. And Joseph is in peril, in flight from his master's wife, in jail.

Trusting God in all circumstances. Even when Pharaoh commands his marriage outside of Joseph's faith.

The Children of Israel have rejected God and watch at least a million and a half people die to Nebuchadnezzar II of the Chaldean and Babylonian Empire. They couldn't even find a Bible in the Temple. Josiah had to clean the Temple to find a Bible (Papyrus, Torah - The Word of God.) Abraham was a Chaldean. There are 3 roundups and March 9, 597 B.C. we find Biblical, historical and archaeological evidence the Children of Israel left Jerusalem from being destroyed.

Millenniums later Archaeology shows Jeremiah's servant stood at the pit of the king of Judah's palace and sealed a document. Jeremiah had invested in Real Estate - a home in Judah/Israel as he knew war and devastation had advanced for 70 years.

Men of faith
                       believe God
                                              in incredible adverse circumstance.

And the Children of Israel  Exiles find Babylon to be nourished and well watered between two rivers listed as running through Eden.

In the middle of unbelief, God shows the Children of Israel - the abundance of His Creation. The riches of His Glory. Offering these slaves the comfort of Nebuchadnezzar's interest in their faith. Giving Ezekiel a home by the Kebar River.  A home after - war and annihilation. Giving them the freedom of assembly on their Sabbath.

From seeing 1.5 million people slaughtered, walking 1,000 miles. Psalm 91 Only people of faith would live. Only a Spirit of Hope in God would have them continue. A faith of God in forces unseen.


Psalm 91

1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say to the LORD, "My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust."
3 For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence.
4 He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.
5 You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day,
6 nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.
7 A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.
8 You will only look with your eyes and see the recompense of the wicked.
9 Because you have made the LORD your dwelling place-- the Most High, who is my refuge--
10 no evil shall be allowed to befall you, no plague come near your tent.
11 For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.
12 On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.
13 You will tread on the lion and the adder; the young lion and the serpent you will trample underfoot.
14 "Because he holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he knows my name.
15 When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him.
16 With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation."


God did not care for the ways of Nebuchadnezzar II and his ego. The Prophets told Nebuchadnezzar II of the coming desert. No one believed the lush lands of Babylon would change. God fulfills His Word.

Nebuchadnezzar - flawed and cast down. Would see - like Hezekiah - future trouble; Nebuchadnezzar would prophesy the end of his own royal line. And God had held his place - to bring Nebuchadnezzar back to the gifts of God - God had graciously given Nebuchadnezzar. Can we even fathom the idea in a world of sweeping violence, war, devastation loss of home, family in bloody horrible ways - our God would save a heathen kingdom while Nebuchadnezzar suffered being the literal dog for 7 years. Daniel prophetically and bravely told the Emperor of the Chaldean and Babylonian Empire the news of God putting Nebuchadnezzar aside for 7 years. Does the Bible tell us of the broken line and restoration of Nebuchadnezzar - yes. Babylonian history explains during the illness of Nebuchadnezzar, his daughter Nitocris would do unimaginable works, expanding Nebuchadnezzar's Kingdom in amazing projects during his illness. Her husband would be the one who saw the writing on the wall. The Babylonian and Biblical histories are so close in this history they finish each other's stories. Like a husband and wife.

It's frankly incredible. A wonder within God's wonders.

God's Story never, ever ends with desert.

The children of Israel were told they were going not to an arid climate, but to the land of Milk and Honey. Today. Yes. 2,000 years later Israel is the land of milk and honey. The Arch of Titus in Rome had a firm tradition - Jews would not walk under the destroyer's arch. May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel. U.S. President Harry S. Truman recognized the new nation on the same day. Winston Churchhill the same.

May 14, 1948, Titus is not Proclaimed, instead, in our lifetime,  we have Israel. Not for 2 Millenniums - Israel. Today Israel Lives. The Jews of Europe came to walk under the Triumph of Emperor Titus.

When does March happen in May?

Only once in 2, 000 years. May 14, 1948. Jews marched through the Arch of Titus. Thousands of Jews.

What was before - has happened again. Israel lives.

In an incredibly harsh world.

A man arrived, not owning but a small plot of land.

And he argued the life of men he had never met in his relationship with the Creator of the Universe.


Abraham Believed God.

The Light of Jesus Christ Continues to Shine. In His Beloved.


John 1

Believed in his name,
he gave the right to become children of God,
who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man,
but of God.

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us,
and we have seen his glory,
glory as of the only Son
from the Father,
full of grace and truth.

Abba, Father God,

3 Millenniums later, we are blessed to know the good heart You loved in Abraham.

Increase Your Holy Spirit within us. That each day as we do Your Will, we will have the Love and Joy Abraham displays in most of his ways. We would ask You for Your mercy and grace each day as the Beloved of Jesus.

Lifting up good health and improvement.
Giving You, Father God our heart, cries and delights.
Trusting You with the lives, path and future of the one's we Love.

Rejoicing in the Goodness of Your Creation, yesterday, today and tomorrow. Asking for more of Your Holy Spirit not just in our lives, but encouraging Your nations to Trust You. And in Your Great Love and Delight in us, knowing the Goodness of Your Future You will Willingly bless us with.

Being Covered in the Name of Jesus, We ask Your Blessing. Amen.

Matthew 9:9-13 ~ rose

Matthew 9:9-13

As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.”

 And he rose and followed him.

10 And as Jesus reclined at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Jesus and his disciples.

And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners? 

But when he heard it, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 13 Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Matthew gave Jesus a feast in Matthew's own home. Calling his friends and the people he knew needed Jesus, not tiptoeing around Jesus and being politically correct. Jesus did not just endure life. Jesus was known to pick up children and eat and drink. Matthew was  Pleasing Jesus to have a party, celebrating life. Honoring Him. Jesus brought people JOY and Wonder. Loving them.

Give us this Day! And at the end of the day, rest, renew and restore in Jesus.

Jesus was on the path of a huge sacrifice. Jesus could be happy in all circumstances. And yet Jesus could sleep during a storm, enjoy a meal and be given a party. Jesus trusted God and His Word. We should as well.



Matthew 6:34
So don't worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today's trouble is enough for today.

Psalm 118:24
The LORD has done it this very day; let us rejoice today and be glad. 

Psalm 13:5
I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation.

Proverbs 3:5
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding


Psalm 16:9
Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure

Matthew 11:28-30
Come to me, all of you who are tired and have heavy loads, and I will give you rest. Accept my teachings and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in spirit, and you will find rest for your lives. The teaching that I ask you to accept is easy; the load I give you to carry is light.

Psalm 28 
Blessed be the LORD, because He has heard the voice of my supplication. 7The LORD is my strength and my shield; My heart trusts in Him, and I am helped; Therefore my heart exults, And with my song I shall thank Him. 8 The LORD is their strength, And He is a saving defense to His anointed

John 2:10
and said, "Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink, but you have saved the best till now."

This was Jesus' Love:



John 7

37 On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, 'Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.'" 

39 Now this he said about the Spirit

Abba, our Father,

We ask for Your Blessings.

To have living water of Jesus flow unendingly as Love. To be encouraged and helped as we do Your Willing Plan You do have for us all.

To know as Jesus spoke of Living Water and gave You a new Heaven and a new earth, we find Your Throne in Your Kingdom by walking beside the shining water leading to Your Home.

Flowing, filling, seeping in all areas of our heart and with all our soul and with all our mind, for ourselves and the ones we Love. Filling us.

We are born of Water and Spirit and enter the Kingdom of God.

As we are on Your Path, we ask Your help to stay on the Path. We ask Your Love to know the daily steps. And looking back on our lives, knowing we present our Soul to You.

In Jesus name flow over our Nation and to the believers, today and tomorrow of the world. Amen.

Matthew 2:14 ~ I called My Son

Matthew 2:14

14 And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt 15 and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, "Out of Egypt I called my son."


God goes to amazing lengths to know how deeply He Loves you. Treasured. Planned. Created. Helped. Sustained. Encouraged. Abba Loves us as we really are.

Eve's Mitochondrial DNA is a reality and comes from the Continent of Africa. God adores Africa and places Jesus in Africa.

Exodus 38:26
The number of men 20 years of age and older who could serve in the army as 603,550

Total Israelite population of God's Planned Exodus - estimated - 2 to 3 million.
Begin with 70 of Joseph's Family in the Land of Goshen.
140 people after 27 years
280 people after 54 years
560 people after 81 years
1,120 people after 108 years
2,240 people after 135 years
4,480 people after 162 years
8,960 people after 189 years
17,920 people after 216 years
35,840 people after 243 years
71,680 people after 270 years
143,360 people after 297 years
286,720 people after 324 years
573,440 people after 351 years
1,146,880 people after 378 years
2,293,760 people after 405 years

I'm astonished to realize the Children of Israel didn't even know the name of the God they served as God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. For all of our love of Jews and God's Children, they were the Goy. No Word of God. No Bible. No Temple. No Land. No Messiah. No Name for their God. No Sabbath. This brings to perspective the reason so many fell back in the Exodus from lack of Faith. The Egyptian 'gods' were all powerful. Why this One?

Seti II, Pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty, c. 1250 B.C., records something Egyptian historians would not realize Jesus would speak of. And King Hezekiah.

Seti II expanded the copper mining in Edom - Edom, most of its former territory is now divided between Israel and Jordan - building an important temple to Hathor, the cow goddess, in the region. It was abandoned in the late Bronze Age collapse, where a part of the temple seems to have been used by Midianite nomads, linked to the worship of a bronze serpent discovered in the area.

Mount Nebo is in Jordan and has a beautiful view of the Promised Land, where Jesus would choose to dwell in all of Judah. Mount Nebo is where Moses' watched the Children of Israel go forth to God's Promises.

Why would God use a Serpent on a Pole?

God created the Universe.

Isaiah 42:5
Thus says God the LORD, Who created the heavens and stretched them out, Who spread out the earth and its offspring, Who gives breath to the people on it And spirit to those who walk in it

Father God would use whatever means needed to convey Love.

Mark 7:31-37

Then Jesus left the vicinity of Tyre and went through Sidon,
down to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of the Decapolis.
32There some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly talk, and they begged Jesus to place his hand on him.

33 After he took him aside,
away from the crowd,
Jesus put his fingers into the man's ears.
Then he spit and touched the man's tongue.

34 He looked up to heaven and with a deep sigh said to him, "Ephphatha!" (which means "Be opened!").  35 At this, the man's ears were opened, his tongue was loosened and he began to speak plainly.


The Children of Israel wander unsure, faithfully, grumbling. God gives them something they can relate to. Something a native of Egypt could understand. A crowd of the Children of God who had no touchstone to God. Just as Aaron is invited into God's own earthy seat in the Holy of Holies - God fully knowing Aaron is going to make a mess.


Jesus comes to us - to cover our sin. Our flaws. Our weaknesses. The people of God want God to reign in Holiness.

Romans 8:28
All things work together for Good - for those who love the Lord - and work according to His Purpose.

Oh, what Jesus would Choose.

Our Father,

We will pray for a blessing and
ask Jesus to pray with us from Isaiah's 44th Chapter.

Now hear, O Israel - We the People of God are those, whom He has chosen!

Thus says our Father Lord God who made you,
He formed you from the womb and will help you:

Fear not, His servants, we are His whom He has chosen.

For our Father God will pour water on the thirsty land,
and streams on the dry ground;
Father God will pour His Spirit upon our offspring,
and His blessing on our descendants.

They shall spring up among the grass like willows by flowing streams.
This one will say, 'I am the LORD's,'
another will call on the name of Jesus,
and another will write on his hand, 'The LORD's,'
and name himself by the name of Israel."

Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel
and Our Father's Son, our Redeemer, Jesus,
He is the LORD of hosts:
"I am the first and I am the last; besides me, there is no god.
Who is like me? Let him proclaim it.
Let him declare and set it before me since I appointed an ancient people.
Let them declare what is to come, and what will happen.

Fear not, nor be afraid; have I not told you from of old and declared it?
And you are my witnesses!
Is there a God besides our God?
No.

Abba, Father God, We would ask You to always be our Foundation.
We would ask You to be our Rock.
We would ask Jesus Christ to be our ever Blessing and Flowing Living Water.
Always Present,
Always Loving,
Your Holy Spirit ever Increasing.
Our God the Almighty,
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Doing more than we could ask or imagine.

Thanking You, Father.
Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits,
even the God of our salvation. Selah.

In Jesus Christ, Amen.

Acts 1 ~ The Kingdom to us

Acts 1

1 In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach

2 Until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. 3 He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. 4 And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, "you heard from me; 5 for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."

6 So when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?"

7 He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."

9 And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.

10 And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes, 11 and said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven."

12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey away. 13 And when they had entered, they went up to the upper room, where they were staying, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas the son of James.

14 All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

15 In those days Peter stood up among the brothers (the company of persons was in all about 120) and said,

16 "Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus. 17 For he was numbered among us and was allotted his share in this ministry." 18 (Now this man acquired a field with the reward of his wickedness, and falling headlong he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out. 19 And it became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the field was called in their own language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.) 20 "For it is written in the Book of Psalms, "'May his camp become desolate, and let there be no one to dwell in it'; and "'Let another take his office.'

21 So one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, 22 beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us--one of these men must become with us a witness to his resurrection."

23 And they put forward two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was also called Justus, and Matthias. 24 And they prayed and said, "You, Lord, who know the hearts of all, show which one of these two you have chosen 25 to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place." 26 And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

We know this Scripture. As the Bible closes in Revelation - Jesus is alive and well Rejoicing to be with our Father. John - for his many, many years becoming more loving, more concerned we know God is For His Child - you.

John 14:28
"You heard me say, 'I am going away and I am coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I."

Jesus is having a Joy-Filled Day in Acts 1. He is going to see His Father, Joseph and - potentially - not many others Jesus knew during His Joy lifespan on earth. God is God.

And as The Lord of Lords, God of Gods, True God of True God departs from having suffered,,,
suffered,
suffered,
a heinous, torturous criminal death.
His chosen beloved want to know about comforts.

And Jesus replies as God. And does an incredible act the Pharaohs have 'claimed' for generations. The difference is - Jesus is God - and does this so the Disciples are very informed about Jesus Christ - His Love - His Abilities - His Location.



And then we understand with our heart about Father God saying:

Philippians 4:6-7

Do not be anxious about anything, but in
every situation, by prayer and petition,
with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.


Jesus in John 21 - Jesus looks GOOD. And He is providing a beautiful setting for a beautiful breakfast. With Grumblers.


I hope we are convinced of the Willingness of our Good Father.

Ok, I agree, the angels in the Bible rarely are said to have Wings. However, our Gracious Father has His Angelic Messengers say "Fear Not." And as Jesus departs - God sends Two Angels. Abraham ranked 3 Angels - and we know Abraham thrilled God with his willingness to take on death, ruined life to save Lot and others Abraham didn't even know. Abraham, like Jesus, jumps to cook for the Angels.

The Disciples upon seeing the Two Angels:
These men who walked with Jesus in amazement and awe - do not whine.
These men who saw Elijah and Moses - are not given to asking favors.
These Disciples have even left Jesus when Communion and the Body of Christ is presented as His Ideal. Not this amazing time.
These men argue who is first, several times. Not this time.
And one of his favorites is told Get Behind me - Not this time.
These men who have seen the dead rise to life - go as directed by Jesus.
These beloved Disciples who have seen Jesus walk on water and stop the Sea of Galilee - do not ask for more information.

Edward jokes Peter and Paul were called to Antioch for vacations. We can look up humor in the Bible - I think we found - complete and total - God-Sized Humor. The Father prepares to receive His Triumphant Son. Jesus has done Wonders of the World. All the Bible attests towards Jesus Christ. Two Angels and "they return to Jerusalem."

For once - the Disciples are on track to doing what God wants speedily. We find "immediately" around Jesus constantly. And these are the Wonders and Grace of God. But now we are informed what it takes to have 11 men seeing the wonders of the world - move with righteous speed.

Let's Respond to our Living God Creator and our Father, "God is our Hope and Future. What God wants - I'm for. With Delight to see the Blessings and awe and Joy of Jesus. Jesus who invests in His Beloved - Lavishly. Our Jesus."

Acts 1 has amazing Number of God's Miraculous.

Jesus is Alive and Living as God. Teaching among them. Loving His Beloved. Rejoicing in the Relief of Victory.

Jesus promises more of the Holy Spirit if they do as He asks.

Jesus displays He is God of God leaving witnesses of His Ascension.

Our Father sends Two Angels.

The Disciples choose to Obey God.

Jesus has reunited His Family and Disciples.

Jesus has opened the mind of His Beloved to understand.

Josephus, the Historian of Roman Emperors found this to be astonishing - Jesus followers multiply.

And Acts 1 is a Miracle in and of God Himself.

When the Ipuwer Papyrus of 1250 B.C. is found - it exists because Pharaoh's name is removed. Instead, because God is our Father, He tells us with what rejoicing and impudence the Children of God have crawled all over Jesus, sat in His Lap, complained, poked at their brother John. Asked about political situations.

The Miracle of Acts 1 and John 21 - is prayer. Is Relationship. If God were going to bless you - wouldn't you want two angels to say. And you are on God's Path.

The Miracle of Acts 1 and John 21 - is the Willingness of Your Good Father to have 12 open Gates of Heaven. A 24 7 365 Availability for God's Heart and Ear in Continuous Conversation and Prayer.

The Disciples were - not -  very loving to bicker about John. Were not supremely kind to want all the information. The Bible tells us of people like that. Sinners. All are Sinners. And around Jesus - hearts are revealed.

Jesus tells us about Prayer - He has not called the Righteous - He has called the Sinners. The two people praying prayers - one the Righteous and one the Sinner. Jesus comes to earth - Joyously Lives our lives - and proclaims He is here because He has looked into the hearts of mankind - and Steadfastly Through the Generations - Has Loved you. And Loved me. And we can rely on Jesus, completely, for our beloved. For ourselves. For the People God has given us.

For the sad circumstances, life displays in front of us. We can put the wounded sparrows of life - directly into the hands of Jesus who would have His Disciples be who they are. Really.

How Powerful is God? If God wants to be the size of the Universe - then God is the size of the entire Universe. And if God is indeed the size of the Universe - we have fully comprehended why the Cloud of the Opening of David and Solomon's Temple was so astonishing to God's Children. And we fully and completely understand the Power and the Gentle, Tenderness of God. His Father and our's. The Amazingly appealing Truth and Love of our Jesus available Today.


Abba, Our Father:

Jesus is a God Sized Savior. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Alleluia Alleluia our God listens, hears and decides as God.

And in prayer for this virus with fever.

We will place our Trust in Jesus Christ. Amen So Be the Will of Our Good Father in Jesus.

1 Peter 4:12 ~ do not be surprised

1 Peter 4:12

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.



In 1953, three things happened.

The first is this - my paternal great-grandfather James Lawrence Wilson, father of my grandmother A. Elliott Wilson Anderson Young, largest landowner in Mississippi - owner of most of Bolivar County down Highway 1 (where Rosedale, Mississippi is - of the fame from Cream singing, "Going Down to Rosedale") was alive and his will stated to be shared by his four children.

There graves can be found off of Lincoln Avenue.

2. Pop - James Lawrence Wilson - died. And his cousin, Walter Sillers, presented to three of the siblings that Pop had died broke. Minus The Valley Bank Stock.

3. Two of the siblings died dead broke. One was my grandfather who had his car dealership sabotaged by the now wealthy land owner / car note backer - James Lawrence Wilson Jr. who died screaming in 1968 or 9 of hell and fire.



4. 1953 Suddenly all 4 siblings own 365 acres of land in Jackson Co MS. And My Grandmother paid the taxes from 1953 until her death and I have paid the taxes. The trees - this is tree farming land - were huge. Gigantic. One of the cousins called one day to say the trees have been taken twice. About $350,000 grand per owner. And she and others had elected to not share the monies with A. Elliott Wilson Anderson Young. (She was later removed as a land owner. How and why - dunno.) My family has not seen one dollar in tree Revenue.



In 1995, Edward and I went to the Court House in Rosedale and found the wills of my great-grandmother and Pop and found we had been swindled. After the things started happening - right after -  the lawyer  Griffith - kept our $4,000 in Bolivar Co and said we were up against Fortune 500 people. He smuggled the wills out of the folders. Then Edward's left shoes disappeared in our first home. Then a hunk of the silver spoons. Then we would return from swimming to find the Police Radio was on the kitchen counter and playing. We got an alarm system. Things quit happening - and an added bonus - all of Edward's left shoes returned. After the alarm was functioning. Clothing did disappear.

We moved to the second house. One day I was home alone in the tub and heard a tremendous 'Bang." Suddenly the dead bolted twin front doors had burst open hitting the wall with violent force. The neighbors reported our newly delivered mattress was carried to the side yard and the men whaled on the mattress for a good 15 minutes with jumping with violent force. The mattress appeared to be fine - and quickly disintegrated. We went on vacation - where the pattern was every vacation day - numerous items would go missing. Regardless of the destination. We returned home to find our 3 car carport was collapsed. Neighbors reported men jumped on the carport.

We were transferred to The Woodlands. And in 2005, all of Edward's left shoes were gone. We had told no one. Edward said it was merely coincidence. He had already had the barbiturate based anesthesia that would cause a terminal scar on his Parietal Lobe in 2003. Then every single hangar and every black shirt I owned disappeared. Edward told me I imagined the hunk of missing clothes from the rack. We went on vacation where items disappear every day.  The shirts all returned 3 months later without the hangars - placed on the rack itself.  The clothes taken from 1995 returned to The Woodlands house. 2 houses later. We returned home from vacation to find our kitchen, den and breakfast area were now permanently stained in the grout. Acid wash. No dent. Bleach for 5 days no dent. A perfect floor - now perfectly ruined.

5 years later our perfect floor was fixed when I realized the stain would come out with Shaving cream topped with bleach and allowed to dry. This is an extreme measure - it will tarnish things around the house. But the floor went back to the pre-vacation state of almost new.

2005, Edward began a new business. Every phone number who mildly had a sale for him was called Larry or Diane. For two years all orders had something terrible go wrong. We went broke. And had help from parents. Edward was changing. He was extremely sad. And continued to try to work. I worked with him and our son did too. Same results.

2008, We lost a child - who was stillborn at 30 weeks. A call came from a demented nurse at the hospital telling us we had caused all this and not been kind - the grandmothers couldn't get there fast enough for the birth - but this was our fault. It was a weird, weird 10 minute call from a demented hospital employee. I got off the phone. The Doctor's office asked us to report the person to the Hospital. I didn't  - we were in grief.

Life changed from sadness. My mother began to become less hidden in her sarcasm and insisted I get a divorce, move to her home, get a job selling Real Estate in Highland Park. She was promising riches. She was determined. And it was weird. Edward and I had never discussed divorce.



Then suddenly the disappearances increased again. Like the swimsuit needed for a pinched nerve. Like all bras on vacation. Left me weeping on the floor for an hour. Leaving the building for the store - some weird 6 foot man propositioned me. Edward appeared with my son and the man ran off. My facial scrub disappeared. Next the acne cream. Then Edward's phone charger - which always seems to disappear every vacation along with - this time too - one electric toothbrush - every time.

Who do I think it is - Cousins from Bolivar MS Wilson Cousins - who are unable to cope with their monetary blessings and are disturbed people. Inflicting incredible harm for the deaths in the family 3 - from hopeless bankruptcy.

When I returned home the needed bathing suit was not on the Vacation, not at home. Ankle Swim supports were searched for. Ordered more. And then this afternoon - after the order - returned to the exact spot where not seen for the last two days. Outside.



Miracles occur where evil treads continuously. The AC went out and on Monday wouldn't' cool the needed extra 5 degrees. That afternoon after prayer not to have to inflict the repair on a repair-able-friend - the AC started working perfectly.

The pool service = told us they had closed the skimmers - two knobs for low water. The pump sat running and cooking without adequate water for 3 days. We returned home to the pool - needed for pinched back nerve - filled with discolored water, dirt and yellow algae. I prayed over the pump - it barely began to push water. Edward went out without luck the next day. I went out and primed the pump again - nothing - prayed the Lord's Prayer - and suddenly the pump roared to life.



When does God rush in? Where He is Really Needed.

Ankle Bracelet - we pray for this and an orange jump suit. Or a very, very, very Large Settlement. Preferably Soon. In Jesus. Amen.

TODAY A NEW PAIR OF PANTS WERE FOUND WITH CHLORINE STRIPES ON THE PANT.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves!  †

PLEASE MAKE THIS DISCUSSION LOUD



Jesus bless us with rest and renewal
Amen

Psalm 100 ~ Serve the Lord with Gladness

Psalm 100

Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth!

2 Serve the LORD with gladness!
Come into his presence with singing!

3 Know that the LORD, he is God! It is he who made us, not we ourselves and we are his

we are his people,
and the sheep of his pasture.

4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
and his courts with praise!

Give thanks to him; bless his name!
5 For the LORD is good;
his steadfast love endures forever,

and his faithfulness to all generations.




When we put Scripture on Shirts, bumpers, photos and art, we have to stop and Capitalize the Words referring to God. Jesus told us He has humility and did the Father's Plan. As Easter approaches, I am again amazed at how willing God our Father is to have us near Him. He had Aaron throw blood around the Holy of Holies. Father God has an earnest and all-seeing understanding to the mess of humanity. John 21. I stand in perpetual awe Jesus is abandoned by the men who have seen what the Prophets and so very, very many longed to look. And His response is to make them breakfast. Where they promptly squabble and ask positions and favors and the taking of favors from others.

Solomon in all his Glory was praised for not wanting harm but blessing. Oh, the Glories of Spring Break and the work of being on a vacation with the ones you love. My Reverend Step-Grandfather would say, "Hell is going on vacation with the ones you love, in a small car."


Now let's step back and say - the Glory of Jesus. Not just anyone - Jesus Christ, our Messiah and Savior, making breakfast for errant people.


The Joy of getting up on Sundays and going to Church to praise God. For wellness. For people to love. For errant people. To experience the joy of messages many years old - Living - to experience and feel and be blessed by God our Father for His Lavish Love.

This week, I'd like your prayers, I have fever, rattling sinus, cough and intestines. A Virus. A small fever. And in this time, I am feeling some strong gratitude. This is just a virus. A passing thing. My back is on the mend and was painful. I've had allergies before and felt much more miserable. And headaches. Blessedly Free. Time to rest and see my backyard green up by the minute. The birds flying. The dog sitting happily next to my whooping cough. Ah, to live in the era of menthol cough drops. Doctor says 3 days - I am praying he is just exactly right. Rice is amazingly good when you are starved. And yogurt. I shun bananas, but today's banana is as good as banana bread.

I like Sermons and with this internet age, I am blessed to hear a Sermon any time I want one. Lent is a particularly good time to listen to Sermons. Sermons from the good believers I'm blessed to hear - are from the heart. And are like a good conversation around a table.


And as you listen to souls revealed - my heart is profoundly touched. My soul blessed. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.

Spring Break is not just little children. It's college and grad school. It's vacation while things are hopping. It's the solving of puzzles on how to connect. It's overcoming and overcoming and overcoming - Just Like the Gospels Jesus has given us. We can plod along or we can raise up our eyes deal with all the realities with vim and vigor and Jesus. We can Shine. Pivot - give, good measure running forward. Not indiscriminately, not unwisely. But with Love.

I heard a great and realistic Sermon on families and the joys and sorrows of being in family.
The Scriptures have this exact message with Paul and Peter getting good and glum. Mary is announced to have a baby and Matthew 2 tells us this is Said He will be a Nazarene - a strict look at diet and ways of God - named before Jesus arrived - of the town Jesus would live in. Nazareth. God has unique coincidences He calls a Plan. Remember with me - real life - real Scripture - Mary complained. The Bible is GOOD. And after Mary complained - she lived in Nazareth.


Ecclesiastes 3:1
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.

Two of my college roommates moved as children to live in Hawaii. You know some grandparents were jim-dandy-thrilled. They had to move home, Hawaii was just too routine. Too lush. Too much of the same. One of our favorite and godly late 20s and early 30s told us he really, really, really did not like his parents from about age 20 to 30. Yada yada yada, tell me how I'm different than you. Explain my life. And he is the Prodigal Son.

My father and his mother did not get along. She tried excessively and he enjoyed being plain snotty. Her life consisted of listening to us and trying to solve a problem. Daddy moved on after 25 years of good marriage. Grandmother did not. 3 of 4 of her great-grandchildren are named after her. Daddy said some very, very unbecoming things about Grandmother. He did not win the argument in the long run.


Look at Psalm 100.

Rejoice. Glory to God for teaching us where we are Blessed and being Blessing Finders.
There are plenty of people who make life better for their participation.
Sometimes, like my "Grandmother", they are unsung. My father was her only child.

God assures us this.
Again
Again
Again
Again
Again
Again.

Troubles will arrive. Overcoming is a process just like the incredible amount of physical time and seasons in the Prodigal's Son Return.

Our Glory arrives from our Promises from God. Himself. Our Father who abundantly, lavishly, unendingly is going to arrive and fix breakfast while we moan at the Face of God in Victory of the Eternal Kingdom where we Live - today.

Our identity is fixed. Our salvation in belief is Secure. Our eternity is not our knee, our foot, our brain. Our Eternity is present today in our temporary body. Your Soul is a gift to you from our Father God the Almighty. Eternal property - I'd hazard a guess is shaped like this:

Our willing hands work and we will see the Blessings of God Himself.

God's Mercies Renew each day. It's grand when this is the early morning - but sometimes we find this Wind of the Holy Spirit any time of Day. It wouldn't surprise me - knowing Jesus - to know this Upsweep of Mercy - is always available in Jesus.

God is a Father, Himself. He tells us in Ephesians - families live together.

Take firm hold of Your Faith.

Cover any problem you have with the Rock the people carried around in Exodus for water. A Giant Rock being carried around in the desert. Get happy. We are the Easter People and God has allowed us the Extreme Mercy of placing our Rock by prayer. And upon this Rock, I will climb to pray. The rock has stairs and is open for all. Jesus Christ Living Water and Rock of our Foundation. Waters perpetually flowing. God Abundantly being God Almighty Father God - doing more than we could ask or even - - - imagine. These waters do not turn off. Our Prayers are welcomed by our Father - and yet - Expressly Written - God is the Spirit who Answers and has the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory to answer prayers better than we know. The Spirit gives Life.

Enter into prayer with Joy. I need eyesight prayers in my 5th decade. And upon my Prayer Rock with Jesus I pray the prayer of Jesus and the mud and blindness cured. I pray Jesus saliva in eyes. I pray eyes. And Edward is inexplicably getting renewed eyesight. God does exactly what God wants to do. And Praise God. Seeing God our Father Bless is a Blessing.

I had a dream about Communion. And in this dream, I dreamed having taken the Cup of Christ Jesus, my Lipoma was gone. And yes, the dream was a gift of God. A miracle. In January, I thought I'm going to watch that channel called Freestyle - they always have a good movie. And I was surprised to find it was the 700 Club. A woman caregiving for her husband needed knee replacement and this was not in the budget, there was great pain. She watched the 700 Club and her knee was called out to be healed. And because of Jesus - was healed. That night the 700 Club called out from Jesus that sinus headaches were being healed. Mine was. And in allergy season - I've taken two sets of Aspirin that never worked before and it was just gone after a very few minutes. This is important because sinus meds dry out my eyes. Damaged by tennis ball and by steroids.


If this hits you a little hard, remember all the good news you know around you. All the times people needed and needs were met. God only sounds a trumpet every now and then. I've only had one healing miracle dream and I give thanks to God because I know I need His Mercy and His Grace.

Abba, Our Father,

We ask the Blessing of Jesus and Your Great Word and Will in our prayers.

Going to You in Your Heaven, we are praying
Oh so very much for good health and not illness and fever.

We are lifting up all who are having and have had Spring Break.
Recalling the Blessings of Family and our Blessing from Billy Graham's ministries.
We are Blessed Graham ministries even travel to Houston in Hurricanes to help Local and Ongoing Church Ministries.

We are Thanking You for Our Blessings.
Seeing them with determined freshness each day.
Rejoicing in the woolly Plan and Path.

And on this Path, we say - "Father, Guide us and Love us.
Father, encourage us and strengthen us.
Father, protect us and direct us.
Father, keep us firmly in Your Will and Joy. We want to be there.
Father, give us the Wisdom You told Your Brother James is available.
Father, always nudge us to do the Goodness and Willingness You have for us each day.
Father, help us to be Blessing Finders and Blessing enjoyers.
Father, help us to be Blessing Keepers and Solution Diligent Finders.

We earnestly ask Your Blessing upon us:
On our Loved ones - Jesus Christ Himself
On the cares of the Churches
On the cares of the Nation
Covering God-Sized - His Creation - His Blessing.
We ask for Peace and all gifts of the Holy Spirit.

And in having Jesus - we have His Strength!!!
Amen Amen Amen