James 1 ~ Blessed in doing

Eugene Alexis Girardet - Flight into Egypt - Even the Holy Family moved into a New Year.

How did Mary and Joseph feel leaving Judah and entering Egypt?

James 1:20

For the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

This is James, the brother of Jesus, son of Mary and Joseph - interesting to read the brother of Jesus speak of growing up across the dinner table from the Son of God.

19 Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; 20 for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. 21 Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. 24 For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.

25 But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

26 If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless. 

27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.


Evidently, Jesus traveled going to see people - for the benefit of God. Jesus was doer.

Getting the morning started with Hope and Goodness.


What do we do?
We take care of the people God has given us. As Mary and Joseph are doing.



Looking into the perfect law? The Law of Liberty? Jesus Christ.

Matthew 5:17
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them."

James has witnessed Jesus for many years.

Jesus is quick to hear, slow to speak. Slow to become angry. Not meek and mild.  Jesus told us to be salt. Jesus was not perceiving Himself as Religious, but as pure and deliberate in the use of His Speech. Jesus is the Word with God. Never forgetting Who HE is. Blessing others in His Actions and pure Words.

Jesus is not boastful, using the Word of God as "It is Written" - not as "Religious Law" - using the Word of God to save the ones Jesus came to save - you and me.

Jesus saw Himself as a doer of God's plan - love in action. Loving Father God with all His Spirit.

Jesus' family did tease Jesus to go to the Festival and be boastful, but when Trouble came - they sought to bring Him home to them. Jesus is recorded as going home with His friends - disciples - to attend a wedding and see His Mother.

 


When we have challenges in life - we remember: 

The Exodus is the reminder - God cares very much about the lives of His Children on earth. Our Father God made a huge and sweeping statement - God longs for His Children to have Liberty. And Advantages.

We all can picture Israel as God's viewpoint, and yet God chose His Son to see this of the world. God's viewpoint is different than ours. 

God Loves us. God seeks for each of us to know - He created us to be individuals. God loves us that much to write this Letter to you - His Child - to have power, together with all the Lord's holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,

 


Father God, 

Help us to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Jesus Christ to us personally. To fully know this love that surpasses knowledge.



Today God calls us, the fullness of the earth and Heaven is His. He calls to us from Paradise - Today God's Begotten Son tells us He longs for our lives to be abundant. 

Today we open our hearts to hear His Voice.

Today we come to share our confidence in Jesus Christ. Today, Father God, You are the same as yesterday and tomorrow in Your Love and Steadfast Promises to those who call upon You.

Today, as the Lord wills, we ask He guide us in the right thing to do.

Knowing Tomorrow, we still rely upon You Father God.

And in expectation of Your Word - look for Your promises to us in Faith. 

Thank You, Father God, for James recording his love for His Brother - Jesus. 

We ask more Heaven on earth for ourselves, for our Loved ones, for the Nation and Nations Trusting in God. For all of God's Beloved asking Him for more Heaven

Amen in Jesus.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves!  †

Psalm 90:12-17 ~ Let the favor of the Lord God be upon us

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
 ~ Michelangelo

2019 sees Michelangelo's true work of art beaming with divine perfection of new lighting and newly cleansed. St Paul's Basilica has housed Moses since 1545. The Moses stature received window light replacing a covered up window and directing light upon the marble Michelangelo himself chose. We don't have Moses' body, but Paul's remains are in the wall behind this altar of this amazing Church. The remains of Paul have been very analyzed and shown to be appropriate.

Nothing about the statue of Moses is typical. He is seated (as Jesus was to comfortably teach). However, Moses is stern and his face is direct. The statue of Moses is ready to spring to action, the muscles are tense and the veins apparent. His clothing is thick and durable for 40 years in the wilderness. Moses is intently seeing far away.

And interesting, the 1,200-year-old site of the newly (2nd) built Vatican and St. Paul's Basilica - didn't mind if Latin was incorrectly interpreted and kept the horns.

A New Thought for a New Year

The Scriptures go back to 100 B.C. for the Dead Sea Scroll to compare to the Old Testament and hold firm. Solid.

The New Testament is equally as solid and reliable for the 300 complete Chapters of Papyrus 46 from 90 or 110 A.D.

The variation comes from learning. The Journey. As we all gain experiences. Represented by the horns incorrectly interpreted in the Latin instead of "holiness" beams of light not meant to be horns. The rays of, perhaps, a Spiritual halo.

Time moved along and Scripture records King David and Solomon found Moses worthy of consideration as God was worshipped and learned from. Psalm 90 is Moses as recorded 700 years later.

To realize the Statue today is the best-recognized form of Moses and with the remains of Paul. To look at the points of Moses David and Solomon considered carefully:

Psalm 90

12 So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. 

13 Return, O LORD! How long? Have pity on your servants! 

14 Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, 

that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. 

15 Make us glad 

for as many days as you have afflicted us, 

and for as many years

 as we have seen evil. 

16 Let your work be shown to your servants, and your glorious power to their children. 

17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, 

and establish the work of our hands upon us; 

yes, establish the work of our hands!

Abba, Our Father,

You have brought us another year of Life. 

We wholeheartedly ask Your Blessings, Your Willing Blessings!

We live in Love, Peace and Prosperity being blessed with Your Mercy.

We would always ask as Jesus told His Brother, James, for a heart of wisdom.

For all of our days we would ask to Rejoice.

Speak the Word and we will Rejoice and be glad all our days.
For Your Gladness and Your Works, we ask for ourselves and our children. For Your Favor on us and those we Love.

In Your Willing Blessing, establish Your work in us each and every day!

Let the words of our mouth, the meditation of our heart, and our works be
pleasing and joyous to You at all times.

Your Beloved Children around your good Creation, asking more Heaven on earth.
And for our Nation trusting in You as all Nations Trusting in You.

Speak Your Word, Abba, and we are Blessed, Blessed, Blessed.

In Jesus. Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †  

Deuteronomy 6:4 ~ The Lord our God

Deuteronomy 6:4

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One.

Romans 11:36

For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen.

Ephesians 4:6

one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

When we say God is God of All ~ how far are we talking?

Ecclesiastes 3:21

Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth?

We will know as we read the Scriptures and know the Power of God.

Revelation 5:13

And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea

Colossians 1:20

19 For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him, 20 and through Him

to reconcile to Himself all things,

whether things on earth or things in heaven

Matthew 10:29

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? 

And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.

When the Holy Spirit led the Prophets to know Heaven, God's Kingdom - we find:

2 Kings 2:11
As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind.

2 Kings 6:17
16“Do not be afraid,” Elisha answered, “for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”

17 Then Elisha prayed, “O LORD, please open his eyes that he may see.” And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw that the hills were full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

Isaiah 65:25
The wolf and the lamb shall graze together

Hosea 2:18
On that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that crawl on the ground. And I will abolish bow and sword and weapons of war in the land, and will make them lie down in safety.

Revelation 18:13
cattle and sheep; horses and carriages

Matthew 19:26 

But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Luke 1:37

For nothing will be impossible with God. 

John 1:3

3 All things were made through him, 

and without him was not anything made that was made.

Abba, Our Father,

We ask Your Blessings this Brand New Year of 2019.

All Blessings, we ask.

For All of our Loved Ones, we ask All of Your Blessings.

Lifting up all our cares for Your Everlasting Love.

Blessing All the Nations Trusting in You.

Blessing All of Your Beloved praying more Heaven upon all the earth.

In Jesus Christ, our All in All. Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †  

Deuteronomy 33:13 ~ Blessed by the Lord

Abba,
We pray this Blessing of the nations trusting in You, be given to Your Beloved Children asking as Jesus said, more Heaven on earth doing Your Will. We ask in Jesus this Happy New Year Blessing for us and those we Love. In Jesus, Amen.

Deuteronomy 33:13
May his land be blessed by the LORD with the dew of heaven's bounty and the watery depths that lie beneath

♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †

Jeremiah 31:3 ~ Everlasting Love

Photo by Jannelle Loewen, Fireworks Oaks Park

How shall we approach the LORD. Isaiah wondered.

Jeremiah 31:3 

The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: 

"I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness."

Church at the Arbol de Tule, tree of Tule, Santa Maria del Tule, Oaxaca, Mexico

Micah 6:8

He has told you, O man, what is good;
and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,
and to walk humbly with your God?


Galatians 6:9

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

“They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him."


Abba,

We ask Your blessings. 

May Father God turn HIS face to us with compassion this last day of 2018. And we rejoice knowing Father God hears and answers. Thankful for the day and more and better to arrive.

Asking God to bless our Loved ones and our Nation Trusting in Him. For All of God's Beloved around the earth.

For Jesus blessing upon all His Children as we Pray The Lord's Prayer and ask more Heaven on earth.

 Thank You, Father God. Amen in Jesus Christ.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †

Psalm 136 ~ His Steadfast Love

Expectations of a New Year

Philippians 3

12 Not that I have already obtained all this,
or have already arrived at my goal,
but I press on
to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

The Work of Mankind is to believe.

David and Christmas.

Christmas is a creation of God and includes amazing and true wonders of God. Expectations from Archangel visits and prophetic announcements. Shepherds arrive. Holy men understand and see and profess.

Christmas is about discovering the Light of Christ.
David - 22 years - finding out being anointed of God is really about finding the journey life is. David had rejection, existed where life gave little opportunity. The suffering had sharp right turns. David existed in armies he created, doing what we all would hope not to do. David discovered dreams within his grasp darting away with the on-lookers sure of his failure. David discovered the emptiness of success. When self-serving turns up only disappointment. We are never told, but it's entirely possible a few people told David to ignore the anointing of God and live comfortably with the skills he had.


We are presented with the Glory of God. We have Mountaintop moments.


Hosea 6:3

"Let us acknowledge the LORD!

Let us press on to acknowledge him! 

As surely as the sun rises, he will appear! 

He will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth!”

God's Creation of our lives is every single day. Creation is yesterday, today and tomorrow.

We are not building a flash of a photo. We are building the Light of Christ within our eternal property, our soul.

What tool will we choose of all the Words of God?  What will we use to do the work of believing?

Psalm 136

1 Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.

2 Give thanks to the God of gods, for his steadfast love endures forever.

3 Give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his steadfast love endures forever;

4 to him who alone does great wonders, for his steadfast love endures forever;

5 to him who by understanding made the heavens, for his steadfast love endures forever;

6 to him who spread out the earth above the waters, for his steadfast love endures forever;

7 to him who made the great lights, for his steadfast love endures forever;

8 the sun to rule over the day, for his steadfast love endures forever;

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

10 to him who struck down the firstborn of Egypt, for his steadfast love endures forever;

11 and brought Israel out from among them, for his steadfast love endures forever;

12 with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, for his steadfast love endures forever;

13 to him who divided the Red Sea in two, for his steadfast love endures forever;

14 and made Israel pass through the midst of it, for his steadfast love endures forever;

15 but overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea, for his steadfast love endures forever;

16 to him who led his people through the wilderness, for his steadfast love endures forever;

17 to him who struck down great kings, for his steadfast love endures forever;

18 and killed mighty kings, for his steadfast love endures forever;

19 Sihon, king of the Amorites, for his steadfast love endures forever;

20 and Og, king of Bashan, for his steadfast love endures forever;

21 and gave their land as a heritage, for his steadfast love endures forever;

22 a heritage to Israel his servant, for his steadfast love endures forever.

23 It is he who remembered us in our low estate, for his steadfast love endures forever;

24 and rescued us from our foes, for his steadfast love endures forever;

25 he who gives food to all flesh, for his steadfast love endures forever.

26 Give thanks to the God of heaven, for his steadfast love endures forever.

We will build a Meaningful Christmas when we use the Words and Deeds of Steadfast Love.

When we believe Father God saw the Children of the Exodus through, they didn't drown, starve, dehydrate, they (we) only suffered from lack of faith. And yet merciful God gave them time to process and 'sojourn'.

We are building.
Upbuilding. Like the Exodus. Like the stock market. Like David. Like Mary. Like Abraham. Seasons of sojourning. Learning to make Christmas in our heart every day. To discover the tinkering and helping and annoying and comforting of Steadfast Love. To weep, to laugh, to have joy, to learn to Believe God. Doing the Work He has given us. Believing Days May Come. Believing Steadfast Love.

We are building. We are maturing. We are discovering. We are planting the seeds to present our soul to our Father God with the overwhelming and outstanding Mercy and Glory of Jesus Christ. We persevere for a very good reason - Love.

Abba,

For our blessing, we ask You, Abba gives us Jesus for our blessing. Thank You.

Giving thanks to the LORD, for He is good, for His Steadfast Love endures forever.

We give thanks for Jesus Christ. 33 years Jesus gave us grace upon grace. Jesus our comfort with grace and truth daily. Yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Giving thanks to the LORD, for He is good, for His Steadfast Love endures forever.

Genesis 1:2 And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters Father God planned for the Holy Spirit to live within believers and have talks in the Garden of our soul. 

Giving thanks to the LORD, for He is good, for His Steadfast Love endures forever.

Moses Deuteronomy 18:18 He will tell them everything I command him. Jesus is God's Plan. 1500 B.C.

Giving thanks to the LORD, for He is good, for His Steadfast Love endures forever.

Isaiah 700 B.C. Isaiah 9:6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given

Giving thanks to the LORD, for He is good, for His Steadfast Love endures forever.

The Exodus an instant miracle. 40 years Moses was a Shepherd, 40 years Joshua Loved and served. And in 1000 B.C David secured the tribal lands of the Tribe of Judah.

Giving thanks to the LORD, for He is good, for His Steadfast Love endures forever.

Mary waited for her family to unite. Acts 1. 33 years. Even Jesus waited for His Loved ones.

Giving thanks to the LORD, for He is good, for His Steadfast Love endures forever.

Giving thanks to the LORD, for He is good, for His Steadfast Love endures forever.

Peter asked to walk with Jesus. And immediately, as he drowned, Jesus gave His Hand and lifted him. Peter knew the Words of Life are with Jesus.

Giving thanks to the LORD, for He is good, for His Steadfast Love endures forever.

Jesus overcomes. Jesus is the way, truth and Life.

Giving thanks to the LORD, for He is good, for His Steadfast Love endures forever.


 Jesus is our hope, faith and Love.

We thank You for the Truth of Your Word. To read Your Word and find the truth warming our
souls.

Giving thanks to the LORD, for He is good, for His Steadfast Love endures forever.

All of God's Children, we pray receive His Steadfast Love and know His Tender Mercy.

For all His Believers praying more Heaven on earth,

Amen in Jesus.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Psalm 97 ~ Love the Lord

Psalm 97

1 The LORD reigns, let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad!

2 Clouds and thick darkness are all around him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

3 Fire goes before him and burns up his adversaries all around.

4 His lightnings light up the world; the earth sees and trembles. 5 The mountains melt like wax before the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth.


(our backyard)


6 The heavens proclaim his righteousness, and all the peoples see his glory.

7 All worshipers of images are put to shame, who make their boast in worthless idols; worship him, all you gods!

8 Zion hears and is glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoice, because of your judgments, 
O LORD.

9 For you, O LORD, are most high over all the earth; you are exalted far above all gods.

10 O you who love the LORD, hate evil!

He preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

11 Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart.

12 Rejoice in the LORD, O you righteous, and give thanks to his holy name!

Wonderful Blessings to Pray for the New Year in the Song
Profoundly Lovely. Lovely.

I've had so many conversations this week. We have been Up, Down, Round, Back, Good, Blessed, Concerning, Worrying, Frightening, Joyful, Memories, Future, Full of Guests, let down, Health failing, Hope - all over the map.

And we are all at the time we are all having so many conversations.

Eventually, you reach the discussions of meaningful life. Happiness. Sustained Happiness.

What Paul had to say having observed Jerusalem and Promises, Historic Holy Spirit Places, Danger, Heavenly Antioch, Greece carried the Flame of Jesus for a 100 years and then flamed again, Spain. Victory over Caesar. House arrest. Spain. Joy. Remarkable roots there. More Roman roads. Friends. New Situations. Shipwreck. Mob Riots. Being Stoned. Writing from the homes of Beloved People. Joy. Jesus. Miracles for the Millenniums. Love for the people he spoke to of Jesus.

Philippians 4

Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stay true to the Lord.

I love you and long to see you, dear friends, for you are my joy and the crown I receive for my work.

The God of peace will be with you.

Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. 7Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.

For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.


The most important aspect Paul has learned -

I love you and long to see you, dear friends, for you are my joy and the crown I receive for my work.

When we love, God makes us fills us with Him.

Abba, our Father,

We ask for All Your Blessings in the Song. Astonishingly knowing Your Love.

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. You do more than we ask or imagine.

God Blessing All of us.

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.