Matthew 8:5-13 ~ Appealing to Him +†+

Capernaum - entering by hike. There is a 40 mile Hike called the Jesus Trail. I am sure Jesus has traveled the Universe calling the Stars by Name and all of the Heavenly Host.

Matthew 8:5-13

5 When he had entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, appealing to him,  “Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, suffering terribly.”

7 And he said to him, “I will come and heal him.”

8 But the centurion replied, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof, but only say the word, and my servant will be healed. 9 For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. And I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my servant,  ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” 

10 When Jesus heard this, he marveled and said to those who followed him, “Truly, I tell you, with no one in Israel[ have I found such faith. 11 I tell you, many will come from east and west and recline at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, 12 while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” 



13 And to the centurion Jesus said, “Go; let it be done for you as you have believed.” And the servant was healed at that very moment.

1 John 5


5 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. 

2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. 4 For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. 5 Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?


6 This is he who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. 7 For there are three that testify: 8 the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree.


9 If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God that he has borne concerning his Son. 10 Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son. 11 And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.




13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life. 14 And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

16 If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God[a] will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that. 17 All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death.

18 We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.

19 We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. 21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

New Letter Read from the Dead Sea Scrolls 2018

Examine in great detail. Today - The Dead Sea Scroll may have only one more letter to be pieced together.  Yet using Nasa technology - we have a new letter from the Dead Sea Scrolls. Fragments previously unplaced are also worked in to their source.  The new letter tells of Temple festivals and seasons were determined back to Moses by looking at creation. The moon and the stars told the time interpreted by the High Priest. The Essenes used a 364-day Calendar and the date was always the same. What would be better? Easter follows the exact way Passover is determined by the moon and the stars of God's system put in place in His Creation,. And Christmas and other holidays are the same time every year.

Using Nasa technology, the Israel Antiquities Authority has been able to analyse dozens of fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls to discover “traces of ink on many fragments that appeared blank to the naked eye.”

The newly discovered texts have been identified as belonging to the books of Deuteronomy, Leviticus, and Jubilees, also known as the Lesser Genesis. Psalm 147.

Fragments have also been discovered from The Temple Scroll, the longest of all the Dead Sea Scrolls and gives information on how to properly conduct Temple services.


God, evidently, favors both systems  - of finding days for Holy Festivities - and Nasa with combined efforts of the Israel Antiquities Authority.

Mercy interests God most.








Luke 7

Is found in the National and University Library. 2677 Strasbourg France about 400 A.D. Unfortunately, the Library does not display a photo of Papyrus 82. The Papyrus is part of system of Papyrus connecting the idea of the way our worship is put together in the Traditional Liturgy. Amazing the way we all tie in together in history, in life and in the Body of Christ. Encourage each other to display the Glories of God to the public.

7 When Jesus had finished saying all this to the people who were listening, he entered Capernaum. 2 There a centurion’s servant, whom his master valued highly, was sick and about to die. 3 The centurion heard of Jesus and sent some elders of the Jews to him, asking him to come and heal his servant. 4 When they came to Jesus, they pleaded earnestly with him, “This man deserves to have you do this, 5 because he loves our nation and has built our synagogue.” 6 So Jesus went with them.


1 John 1:7
Walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.


Leviticus 17:11
For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one’s life.

The Spirit of God displays His Willingness to participate in the healing of the Centurion's Servant.

Jesus comments on some things we tend to brush off.

There is a balance going on in these two passages.

Jesus is fully telling us - some situations do not win. Some souls are not going to Rise up to the Goodness of Jesus. Prayer does not fully rest on our faith efforts. We are relieved of being God and feeling we failed. Luke 7 compliments Matthew 8 - the Centurion is seen to have works to show his inner soul. We can be sure - being part of the Roman Army would have times when Pontius Pilate calls for obedience in violent acts ultimately causing Pilate to be fired. There is a mess in life. Requiring God to have to be Alive and Working. To be involved in Salvation. To ask us to participate in our salvation and the small efforts of dust in the wind humanity. We are sometimes said to be the hands and feet of God - I don't think we are all the hands and feet of Salvation - when Jesus is God and is the entire culmination of Salvation. The Good Samaritan is our efforts. Salvation is a gift of God.

What is the Centurion, and those around him, creating - a meaningful life pleasing to God. Not shirking what God has put in our path - to reach up to Jesus - to join together and with Jesus.

God is telling us the balance. Faith, works, His Blood. His Spirit.

The Healing would occur in the blood - Life is found in the blood. The Blood of Jesus willing to be present. Water - Living Water - willing to go where Father God would have the Living Water. Water is known to follow the course water wants to take. Nurturing and soaking.

Psalm 130

1 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!

3 If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? 4 But 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.



That... that... that is
An Awesome and Worthy God.

Willing to be in the depths of humanity. Able to bring us up to the Glory of God Almighty. Ancient of Days. Redeemer of mankind in giving us His Only Son. Jesus.
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John records thinking about the miracles of Jesus for quite some time. Going into the details of Jesus to see where God's Willingness Lives, Works and Acts. John is giving us decades of his life - considering his eyewitness of Jesus.

Capernaum

The miracle involves Jesus doing what God Himself has done for Abraham. Abraham asked God for Mercy for others in acts like of sin. The Kidnapping of Lot. Immediately we are shown God will move to Mercy in Prayer.

We have complete assurance God Himself left his motive, that day, to be for the Children of Israel to give Life. God puts aside His Daily Planner to be Merciful.

Also giving us the assurance to know we are not God. God, Himself, will decide where He puts His Spirit. We are told in both passages - some will not rise to God's Goodness. And then we are assured God will go where we wouldn't assume God would dwell. God decides. And we can be very pleased with His Will. And when. really, we are not - we are welcome to explain to God why this is just, reasonable, filled with mercy - our prayer requests. God allows Jesus to give us the analogy - God is an unjust Judge. This is indeed, indeed, indeed the elevator God takes dooooown to us to have us understand God. (Lately, we have been unable to create our own DNA molecules.)

The Comfort of God - somethings are not winnable. We should not despair.

Always Pray with Hope. God is Working.

Today - the view from John's Cave on Patmos

Abba, Holy Father,

Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. We ask Your Willing Blessings.

God our Father, in Jesus, fill us with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit we may abound in hope.

The Kingdom of God is of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Aren't we Glad to know. Rejoicing in Life we know can only be explained as a Miracle - the reason we Hope and Lean and Dwell and Yearn for God. Knowing, knowing, knowing - God is Alive and working for us and for others. We want to know Daily - the Works and Miracles of God.

Thank You God. Thank You God. Thank You Father - for giving us the working knowledge - You are Working. Today. Thank You for Dee's Miracle. Thank You for Edward's eyesight. Thank You for my headaches being gone.

These things You have spoken to us, that our joy may be in You, and that our joy may be full.

Abba, David always took time to Hope in Your Mercy.

So we will rest for ourselves, for the ones we Love, the People You give us. Rest believing Your Goodness for our Nation. The Nations trusting in You. And all Believers asking in the Name of Jesus.

Thank You God for Today. We always have the choice exactly like Alzheimer's patients' children. Life or Death. We can be glad for the joys the parent has. Rejoice with them or mourn for normalcy and yesterday. In Rejoicing - we have Hope. And Joy. In the fruitless yearning of time past - we have only loss and hurt. 

Thank You for Today. We will be the Easter People seeing and looking for what is good and noble in today. 

Jesus is God.


Amen.

yay
nay

Matthew 6:6-13 ~ Our Father

Prayer is spontaneous

Psalm 68: 19, 32-35

19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up; God is our salvation. Selah

32 O kingdoms of the earth, sing to God; sing praises to the Lord, Selah 33 to him who rides in the heavens, the ancient heavens; behold, he sends out his voice, his mighty voice.

34 Ascribe power to God, whose majesty is over Israel, and whose power is in the skies. 35 Awesome is God from his sanctuary; the God of Israel--he is the one who gives power and strength to his people. Blessed be God!

Prayer is our ongoing God conversation

1662 Anglican

Our Father, which art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy Name;
Thy kingdom come;
Thy will be done
in earth, as it is in heaven:
Give us this day our daily bread;
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive them that trespass against us;
And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil:
(When before the Collect the priest alone recites the prayer, the people here respond: Amen.
When after all have communicated the people repeat each petition after the priest, the prayer ends)
For thine is the kingdom,
the power, and the glory,
For ever and ever.
Amen.








We all have a time when something positive came out of "a learning opportunity". One of the interesting things about the Lord's Prayer:

Matthew 6:6-13

6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

7 “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. 9 Pray then like this:

“Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
10 Your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread,
12 and forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.



Right before the Lord tells us to honor the Father, ask for God's will, ask for daily provisions, forgive us our sins, asked for forgiveness for the ones who hurt us, lead in safe paths, deliver us from evil...... He tells us not to offer up empty phrases. We all know the Lord's prayer, but He isn't asking for us to assume any particular type of position to pray. Father God does indeed ask for a sincere and open Heart, Mind, Soul to God as God, Father and Almighty. He isn't asking us to recite. He is asking for a conversation.

Psalm 68, the whole thing, like many Chapters, is about the Lord's Prayer. It's about a time when something looked grim, but the Light shone. It's about the hassle to gather the family together. This is lovely. It's feeling bitter over a hurt and realizing it doesn't matter. It's realizing we have flaws and we want to be forgiven, not only to the Lord. It's taking time to realize the beauty around you. It's the joy in knowing it is a gift.

It's realizing when we don't take time to really count and appreciate our blessings, they fly past us without the joy. It's when life is so rough, to have hope. It's when hurt becomes a prayer for the loved one. Trusting in God.


Father God, help our prayers be fruitful. Let our conversation about joy, need, praise. Let it be humble, let it be uplifting. Thank you Father, You incline your ear whenever we call upon You. Heal the hurting, uplift the families. Send Your vast blessings. Father God, You are truly are as vast as the Universe itself and as gentle as a breeze. Speak the Word, Father God, and we know Your healing. Praise Your gift of life in Jesus. Amen.

We thank You for being with us as we pray over the news.

And

Father God
We ask Your Gracious Mercy and Thank You You end all problems as Your Word Says. We Believe You.

Thank You for seeing recent prayers of community answered. Health Restored and miraculous ways.

Thank You for protecting my dog from the water moccasin near the pond.

The line at the gas station where it jumbled up and one man pointed at me and correctly said - started with her. Being handed a "God of Encouragement and Good News" pamphlet at the door by another man holding the door open to passersby-ers. Ain't that America something to see!!! Gentlemen going through a crowded Gas station making sure they politely hold doors for ladies - nodding as to say, "Yes I was raised to be courteous."

Hearing people say "I'm so sorry to hear that." With empathy.

Listening to local radio stations because the cell phone has to be charged - All Things Work Together for Good. The Local Christianity explained.

Thank You for helping me avoid 3 car accidents and an 8 hour car trip with an elderly parent. With Pneumonia Recovery and some Dementia. And my family preparing the kitchen clean up and study/bedroom set up with emotional support. Amen Jesus God. Amen and Amen 

James 2:12-19 ~ Law of Liberty

Today I was looking at a Church in Brazil praying for a Pastor held hostage in the Middle East. And the article was discussing the prayers of the faithful are answered. I've been told in the last 25 years, it's difficult to travel in Brazil due to orphans and gangs. And our neighbor was teaching an International Law School living 60 miles out of Rio, with pure enjoyment of the freedom to travel and see the Beauty of Brazil.

I was very surprised to find this photo was a Large Church in Brazil.

The same with a Church friend and another neighbor who found how much they loved Cape Town, South Africa.

This is not just a Christian Revolution of Believers in the USA.

We are living a time of the Oscar Winning movie Mrs. Miniver. Searching a lifetime apart from world wars - what makes life meaningful. And in this prayer of the Holy Spirit - we are crossing borders Jesus told us we would.


The Church of England was in its Glory of 1500 years during World War II. The Churches were packed. The Liturgy was read and The Daily Lectionary or The Daily Office - a two year program to read the Bible worldwide and a good and joyful thing. But the reading was wooden to be reliable. We Understand.

Inside, with the stress - to live during the bombings. Put the children in the country for years. See the young men killed and maimed.

The woodenness created this in the 1960s and 70s. "Are you a Christian?" "Yes, I'm...  Presbyterian/Catholic/Methodist/Episcopalian." Splendid. We understand. And millenniums who are interested in film and movie as a cultural/historical/entertainment/art form are stunned to see the movies represent a very ethical lifestyle.

Enter the years expressed pretty well by "Forest Gump". This would be when the establishment decided we could use a two income family for tax revenues and the tax dollar is WAY up over the luxury suits worn to work after World War II of $40. Gone was the housing a man could afford to pay for his house in cash for 3 to 5 years of income saved. Winston Churchill was Very Afraid the lack of farms for Europeans to inherit would drive the world to Communism.

So what's happened? When I went in to look at my Real Estate Taxes I found 8 homes in my area sold and one was a foreclosure. We live in a world where we have forgotten the loss of small-time farmers, but we don't even know a 30-year mortgage can be extremely frightening. The home isn't labeled: "Quarantine", "Rabid" or even "Deplorable." It's simply for sale.

Bill Gates said the loss of affordable College Education is a form of Serfdom.

Why are people rude and cold to each other?

There is a difficult world going on. Where the 20 somethings feel that housing is held by few people and rented out at rates that if you could afford the house - you'd buy it. We say Trade School is the New Modern. But the divorce rate for non-college is more than or about 50%. 2/3rds to life stay married with College Educations.

What are we doing? 

We are denying the loss of freedoms. And the basket is on fire for the candle underneath.

How are we going to solve this?

We are solving this. Slowly. We are finding more of our Sermons address real life. We are not seeing wooden values that hammer so well into the familiar slot.

Jesus knew this about mankind from Genesis 1. The life put in us is from God when we are looking for His Holy Spirit.




God, Himself, has favored us with His Example.


Mark 2

"Follow me."

And he rose and followed him.

15 And as he reclined at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him.

16 And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, "Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?"

17 And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners."

Hammer.

So many times in an argument - this is my verbal weapon of choice. Pound out the argument win. Win. Jesus had a hammer inflicted upon Him as He gave us Life. Jesus did not hammer upon His people. His values did not require a Hammer.

James 

The First Council of Nicaea did something so Spirit-filled. Something Jesus would applaud. In 325 A.D., the physical Brother of Jesus was given precedence over Peter in the Books of the Bible. Jesus and James discuss there the Magnificat of Mary is taught to the family of Mary and Joseph. James - The Book of the Bible we are privileged to see the home in Nazareth were the sons of Joseph and sisters of Jesus were raised.

Mary and Joseph found more and more room at their table. Blessed of God.


James 2:12-19

12 So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty.

13 For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.


14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? 

Can that faith save him? 

15 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? 17 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

18 But someone will say, "You have faith and I have works." Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. 19 You believe that God is one; you do well.

We have the real flavor of the Household of Mary and Joseph. Not a stodgy place. A place of welcome. Where Love grows and meaningful life is a day to day reality.


When we fail to Hammer at each other. And find the Law of Liberty is looking to Father God, Living and Abiding in God - we are blessed to find the Mercy we can give each other. When we take less of a firm death, hammer hold on our worries, - We are able to give the Generosity and Graciousness of Favor God displays to us.

When we live Graciously - we find the ability to behave graciously to one another. We find we want all of the world to be blessed to see our own blessings. We govern differently. We educate differently. Our children have gracious expectations. We are able to give generously. Gracious people make a Gracious world.







Abba, Father God,

Jesus is where we want to be Blessed.

Jesus could take all of the Bible, all of God's Word and make summary for every situation. Jesus told us He needed no new Commandment to explain all of Your Word.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

This is the great and first commandment.

And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

Love One Another.


Father God, We ask the Light of the world. The Way, the Truth and the Life to live in us. We ask Your Blessing of Life to be in the people we Love. We pray Your Holy Spirit in the People You have given us. We pray for the Nation trusting in You. Reaching to our schools, our employment, our communities. We lift up the Nation to You. We Lift up the Nations Trusting in You. We lift up the people of Your Creation - helping the Holy Spirit to search and know the Beloved of God in prayer. God is Love enfolding and encircling the Creation - God finds good yesterday, today and tomorrow.

The Blessing of Jesus Live in our hearts to give the Light of Jesus Christ.

Amen.

Matthew 2:9-11 ~ worship Him

Matthew 2:9-11

9 After listening to the king,

they went on their way.

And behold, 
the star that they had seen when it rose went before them until it came to rest over the place where the child was. 10 When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy. 11 And going into the house they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him.


Matthew 4:4
Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"

Matthew 5:18
For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.

Every Word of God is Law - therefore, accomplished.





We can listen to Elvis, The King. Bruce Springsteen, The Boss. Queen. Or the entire list of Royalty nicknames https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorific_nicknames_in_popular_music. There are too many nods at bosses and royalty nicknames to even want to count.

We can listen to bad family advice, bad friend advice - as well as popular culture. We can follow the example of Eve and Samson determining their own path. Or Solomon's son and David's grandson to apparently lose the Kingdom given to David.

We are always determining the true path of faith. Diligence to God is important. Honoring Him and His enduring and Steadfast Love to us.


However - when we are following our soul to find Jesus, Behold, God leads us diligently.

1 John 2:1-14


2 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2 He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. 3 And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, 5 but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: 6 whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.


7 Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard. 8 At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because[a] the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. 9 Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. 10 Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him[b] there is no cause for stumbling. 11 But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

12 I am writing to you, little children,
because your sins are forgiven for his name's sake.
13 I am writing to you, fathers,
because you know him who is from the beginning.
I am writing to you, young men,
because you have overcome the evil one.
I write to you, children,
because you know the Father.
14 I write to you, fathers,
because you know him who is from the beginning.
I write to you, young men,
because you are strong,
and the word of God abides in you,
and you have overcome the evil one.

Abba Father,

We ask Your Blessings,

Help us to have Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. Diligently guide us, in all our ways acknowledge You, Father and You will make straight our paths.


We will trust You, Father, You are the Way, Truth and Life and we will come to You in the Glory of Jesus.

We ask to Delight You with our life. And the lives of those we Love. The people You have given us. To the Nation blessing our schools, jobs, cities and Churches. Asking Your Blessing on our Nation. Asking You to bless the Nations Trusting in You. Blessing all of those believing in You around all of Your Creation.

All life is given in the Goodness of God. Let our prayer bring more of Your Heaven to earth. More of the Holy Spirit.

Goodness in Jesus Christ. Amen.

Matthew 1:1-17 ~ Father

Matthew 1:1-17

1 This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah the son of David, the son of Abraham:
2 Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob,
strike one- Ishmael

Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,
strike two the blessings thief to blind father
3 Judah the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar, Perez the father of Hezron,
strike three Judah did not help Tamar
Hezron the father of Ram,
4 Ram the father of Amminadab, Amminadab the father of Nahshon, Nahshon the father of Salmon,
5 Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab,
strike four Rahab

Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth, Obed the father of Jesse,
6 and Jesse the father of King David.
strike five - with the Prophet Samuel. Jesse showed very poor parenting

David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah’s wife,
strike six Uriah was killed
7 Solomon the father of Rehoboam,
strike seven failed to live wisely until old age
Rehoboam the father of Abijah,
ok unstrike seven Rehoboam was unwise and lost Israel
Abijah the father of Asa,
8 Asa the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat the father of Jehoram,
Jehoram the father of Uzziah,
strike seven -failure to honor God

9 Uzziah the father of Jotham, Jotham the father of Ahaz,
strike eight - plans to melt down the Temple for a client state existence.
Ahaz the father of Hezekiah,
unstrike eight - Wow Hezekiah!

10 Hezekiah the father of Manasseh,
Strike 9 poor parenting Hezekiah

Manasseh the father of Amon,
Amon the father of Josiah,
Unstrike one for Josiah had to clean out to discover there was a set of Papyrus called the Bible.


11 and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.
Strike 10 Josiah was prophetically warned and chose not to listen and died.

12 After the exile to Babylon: Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel, 
Strike 11 lost Jerusalem for unholy behavior
Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,
13 Zerubbabel the father of Abihud, Abihud the father of Eliakim, Eliakim the father of Azor,
14 Azor the father of Zadok, Zadok the father of Akim, Akim the father of Elihud,
15 Elihud the father of Eleazar, Eleazar the father of Matthan, Matthan the father of Jacob,
16 and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, and Mary was the mother of Jesus who is called the Messiah.
17 Thus there were fourteen generations in all from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Messiah.

Proverbs 8 is the heart declared in Genesis One. We see Father God declare the goodness of His Creation. And learn Father God delights in His Only Son Jesus, the Light of the world. Jesus delights in the Father. And they delight seeing into mankind.

When we read the struggle of mankind with Father God and see how flawed all of the people are - we could wonder why Father God delights in us. Instead, God rarely declares over and over and, yet, He does.

This is our God and He tells us what He sees in His mankind. We are people. We are the Sheep of His Pasture. The Light shines and we would have more of our Father God.

Abba, Holy Father,

We will be Blessed to wear Your Words in our mind, heart and soul with Love.


Romans 5:8
God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for you

1 John 4:16
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for you. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in you

1 John 4:8
God is love

Zephaniah 3:17
The Lord your God is in our midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing

Romans 8:37-39
In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth,
nor anything else in all creation,
will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.


Blessed be the Name of Jesus. The will of Your Love Father God, please cover our lives with Your Great Blessings upon me, upon you, upon our Loved ones, upon our prayers, upon our thanksgiving, upon our delights and upon our challenges. Upon the people You have given us. Upon our communities, cities, Churches, jobs, gifts and talents. Upon our Nation and the Nations Trusting in You.

The Name of Jesus and Will of You, our Good Father on our prayer to do far more than we could ask or imagine. Giving thanks for miracles of healing and miracles to be ourselves and delight in You, Father God.

Covered in the Name of Jesus today and always. Amen.

Psalm 20 ~ in the Name of Jesus

Psalm 20

1 May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble! May the name of the God of Jacob protect you!

2 May he send you help from the sanctuary and give you support from Zion!

3 May he remember all your offerings and regard with favor your burnt sacrifices! Selah

4 May he grant you your heart's desire and fulfill all your plans!
5 May we shout for joy over your salvation, and in the name of our God set up our banners!
May the LORD fulfill all your petitions! 

Now I know that the LORD saves his anointed; he will answer him from his holy heaven with the saving might of his right hand. 7 Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God. 8 They collapse and fall, but we rise and stand upright. 9 O LORD, save the king! May he answer us when we call.

Our Jesus had many unpleasant moments in the midst of Life Jesus told us, with all His Goodness, was Joy.

John 14:12
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father

We spend time wondering when we encounter John 14:12 what we would see. And in knowing Jesus is God, believe with all good purpose - Jesus was incorrect. I believe Jesus is telling us - when we know someone miraculously is cancer free - Jesus has been at work. When a child grows a leg 4" to be able to walk for the first time from prayer - we know Jesus has been at work. When the brain damaged recover - we know Jesus has been at work. The Miracles of God.

Jesus is at work - and we have gathered to ask Him in hopeful prayer. Jesus is pleased. I believe John 14:12 is Jesus being gracious to those who love, honor and worship the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It would be impossible to create a solar system, gravity, water molecules creating vapor, liquid and solid. It would be impossible to create soil without the tools God gives us. It would be impossible for Life to form without God. How could we see greater than God? I believe this is Jesus being gracious to us - the Children of God who pray with Hope.

Jesus created Love, Joy and Peace daily. He did this with one God given tool. He trusted God and moved without fear. Jesus lived daily with Faith.


Jesus took the incredible wind, wave and storm of the Sea of Galilee and made calm. When days may come, the decision is to Trust God. To love God. In the storm - the answer is to believe God. To be who we are.  To answer sincerely and with empathy. Because of Jesus and His Gift of Salvation - Believing doing our best with all of His Holy Spirit is pleasing to God daily. Trusting God to carry us forth - bought with the Price of God's Son.  Believing in the Name of Jesus. Doing His will.

Abba, Holy Father in Heaven,

You have given us Jesus who Loves us.

In turbulent life, when events move swiftly near us, help us to see You first. Ask You first. Rely on You.

When decisions are needed, Grant us Your Help. Let us always move swiftly to Love. To be in Your Mercy. There is no Victory without Jesus and Your Amazing Love.

Daily life moves routinely, with Jesus we will nurture our Faith to be in Your Word and in prayer to You, Father God. To make Sunday holy in Your House. We surround those we Love in Prayer. Lifting up our concerns with Hope. Asking for Your Love to the people You have given us. Covering the place we live, to our Nation and the Nations trusting in You. Covering us who believe in Jesus with Your Name and Love.

In Jesus was ask for more of the Holy Spirit and more of Heaven on earth. In Jesus, Amen

Mark 12:18-27 ~ the Power of God

1 Kings 9

Mark 12:18-27

18 And Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection. And they asked him a question, saying, 19 “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. 20 There were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and when he died left no offspring. 21 And the second took her, and died, leaving no offspring. And the third likewise. 22 And the seven left no offspring. Last of all the woman also died. 23 In the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife.”

24 Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are wrong, because you know neither 
the Scriptures 
and the power of God?

 25 For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. 26 And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

 27 He is not God of the dead, but of the living. 
You are quite wrong.”


What do people do in the boundaries they are given?

We have to see where we are and work with God gives us - daily seeing His Blessings.


Exactly. God gives us willing Blessings. Perhaps not to rule Israel,  we'd all sign up for Love, Joy, Peace, Kindness, Mercy, Patience, Self-Control.


This Passage of Jesus' conversations - multiple marriages - seems to indicate Jacob's son Judah and his daughter in law Tamar. An ancestor of Jesus, Lion of the Tribe of Judah. God wanted Tamar to bring forth a child of Judah and in doing His Will, Perez and Zerah were born.

If we skip the details of working out the Path God gives us, we miss a great deal of possibilities where life is made meaningful and worth living. 

Little is known of Perez.

A Descendant of Judah,
 further down the line:
Little is known of Jabez. 

The one we would all like to have part of his blessing for asking God to enlarge his boundaries and a life of no pain. And God did for being honorable.

The Power of Scripture.

Deuteronomy, can be boring, Chronicles in the list of descendants - dry. And really the truth is this... The Blessings are in the Pentateuch. 

1 Chronicles 4:9
Jabez was more honorable than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.”

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

This IS where the Blessings are.





And the Bible. How we are going to present our lives and innermost self to the Lord Jesus. To be covered in the Name of Jesus for our faith and His Goodness. Covering us and blessing us and leading us from sin.

The Power of God.

David knew he was anointed and spent 22 years feeling all of the Psalms. Defeat, agony, victory, defeat, victory, defeat, Victory, sin, defeat, defeat, Victory.

And then David took Saul's Kingdom - the first map - and in obedience to God made - the second map.

Saul had boundaries. And he refused to believe the Scriptures and the Power of God. He refused to be grateful for today and to let God have tomorrow.

Gratitude is very important.

David had gratitude. And obedience. He believed God was as good as His Word. And in being obedient to God. God's Will Roared like the Lion of Judah.

All of the Blessings of God involve - Trusting God so much you will find gratitude and willingness to believe that the Will of God - is Good - Today.


And in seeking to find the good in today - you will have - Joy, Hope, Faith, Love. And Love is the Greatest of All. Creating endurance, character, hope. Lack of Disappointment. Gentleness, Loving oneself as others.

And in believing God will create a framework For His Will. You will find like Israel - the ups and downs of generations.


Psalm 100

5 For the Lord is good;
his steadfast love endures forever,
and his faithfulness to all generations. 

Father God

“Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?

And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord God. You have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and this is instruction for mankind, O Lord God!

You know your children, O Lord Father God! Because of Your promises, and according to Your own heart, You have brought about all this greatness for Your Glory.


And we delight, Your Name will be magnified forever, saying, ‘The Lord of hosts is God over Israel,’ and the house of Jesus will be established before You.

For you, O Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have made Your revelation to your children, saying, ‘I will build you a house.’ Therefore your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to you.

And now, O Lord God, you are God, and Your Words are true, and You have promised this good thing to your servant.

Now therefore may it please you to bless the house of your servant, so that it may continue forever before you. For you, O Lord God, have spoken, and with your blessing shall the house of your servant be blessed forever.

But to all who did receive Him, who believed in His Name, Jesus. 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.

In Expectation of His Word to our generations, we say, Thank You Father God.

In Expectation to fill Your Plans. To help our children. To bring love, joy, peace, kindness, mercy, wisdom, patience, self-control to our Family on this earth and in Heaven as You told us in Ephesians.

Giving God Thanks for answered prayer and the Willingness of God. 

 In Jesus, Amen.