Ephesians 3 ~ the promise in Christ Jesus

Ah - best to add all this with anonymity: Gentile (sometimes the term describes outsiders), goat or zombie.

Ephesians 3

3 how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly. 4 When you read this, you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ, 5 which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit.

6 This mystery is
that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, 
members of the same body, 
and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.


God is so very interesting in His timing.
Jeremiah proclaims the New Covenant when his culture has completely rejected Father God. We are so blessed Father God responds:

Jeremiah 31:31-34

“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts.

And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 

And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”


The Amazing and Wonderous Grace of Father God.


This grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, 
9 and to bring to light for everyone 
what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God, who created all things, 
10 so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. 1

1 This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord, 
12 in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him. 
13 So I ask you not to lose heart

Jesus, just like Father God, knows all the prayers of all the parents.

4 For this reason, I bow my knees before the Father,
15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named

16 According to the riches of his glory
he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,
17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith

—that you, being rooted and grounded in love

18 may have strength to comprehend 
with all the saints
what is the breadth and length and height and depth,

19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge,
that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

20 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us

Remembering the Mothers with us and alive in Heaven!

My Grandmother Elliott (Bit) who loved wind chimes.

Abba,

You alone are Good. And You arrive in the small voice within us Elijah found.

Your blessings prevail when we want to find Your Abundant Blessings.

Bless us to be covered in Jesus before, after, surrounding and within us.

Jesus Bless the ones we Love with Your Love, mercy and guidance. Jesus bless our cares to be placed firmly with Father God.

Jesus bless our lives and Nation to Trust in You.

Jesus, please, cover the Nations finding Your Brightness.

Father God, You send us Your Comforter and Helper knowing all the Children of God surround Your good creation asking for more Heaven on this earth and  give Thanks for Your good will.

Amen in Jesus Christ.

 

Luke 10:27 ~ your neighbor as yourself

Matthew 2:15
where he stayed until the death of Herod. This fulfilled what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: "Out of Egypt I called my Son."

Jesus, God's Son, the Exact Nature of God - has traveled far to explain God's Love.

Luke 10:27

27 And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”

Exodus 4:22
Then tell Pharaoh that this is what the LORD says: 'Israel is My firstborn son.'

Mark 10:45
For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.

Isaiah 60:3
Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.

Matthew 28:19-20
19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”



Mother's Day. Brave women arrived to protect their children. Moses was not the firstborn son of God, Moses was carried by water to be saved. Jesus is Living Water.

We are carried by Jesus to be saved.

In the similarities of the story, we find how far God has gone to explain to the generations and generations how He Loves us.

Jesus has fed not just the multitudes, Jesus has fed the millenniums. Jesus has fed us.



Our Abba,


You are the Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

You make  me lie down in green pastures,

You lead me beside quiet waters,


Jesus refreshes my soul.

He guides me along the right paths

for His name’s sake.


Even though I walk through the darkest valley,

I will fear no evil, for You are with me;

Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.


You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.

You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.


Surely your goodness and love will follow me

all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.


Uplift those I Love and people that are given. Bless us to have Love and wisdom.
Watch over, lead and guide our Churches, Communities and Nations. We look in Expectation of Jesus. Amen.

John 2:1-12 ~ do what He tells you

Mother's Day. So 20th Century.

Jesus is yesterday, today and tomorrow. WWJD?  We'd
have to say The Wedding in Cana. Jesus brought all His Disciples to visit His Mother and stayed for a few days. Vacation! Wine! Was there anything remarkable... let's remember.... Something in the water?

Gifts - What if we remember to tell Father God we remember the Widow of Nain and her son. There is a Mother's Day Gift!!!

What other Gift? Jesus caused division in His Mother Mary's household among her children. Jesus gave again - Acts 1 and Acts 2. The sons of Mary - Brothers of Jesus Christ - came together to pray daily.

Jesus was asked by the mother of John and James if Jesus would give her sons the Right Hand Seat of Jesus in Heaven to her sons. Jesus said this was for His Father to give and declined. Who would Father God give this to? I'd guess Mary and then Joseph for rescuing the infant Jesus, who is God. Rescue God and God is pleased for the love of the rescuer. Mary probably more than Joseph - for going in to save Jesus, as an adult, setting up His Brothers to tag along in the rescue.

If you want to be intensely drenched in the Mother's Day Discussion - notice with me - There are two Genesis Creation Chapters explaining Creation Twice, Twice. And in one of the Chapters, God explains He is not only Father but, also, Mother because Adam is created with an extra rib, created in the image of God.

High Comfort is our Father God to the Children of God who have only experienced one parent instead of both.

John 2:1-12

On the third day
there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples.

3 When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.”

4 And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.”

5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

6 Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. 7 Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. 8 And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it.

9 When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom 10 and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.” 1

1 This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.

12 After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother and his brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.

The Kingdom of Heaven is Love, Joy, Faith, Peace and Goodness. There is no shortage. Blessings Abound.

Father God,

Yours is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory. You have given us Your Word, Jesus Christ. The Manifest Word of God has told us Families Live on Heaven and earth. 

In the Seeds of Faith, we will come and Nest in Your Branch, Jesus.

We Thank You for the Blessing Jesus has shown families in Acts 1 and 2. We know the Power of the Scriptures. And Pray with Expectation to Finish Strong in Jesus Christ.

Let us live more Heaven on earth Jesus has planned for us to do the work of believing each day. Mercies renew to find what God has loaded us with - Blessings.

For all of God's Children, we ask in Jesus. Amen.

Luke 7:36-50 ~ Say it, Teacher

Luke 7:36-50

36 One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee's house and reclined at table.

37 And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was reclining at table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment, 38 and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.

39 Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, for she is a sinner.”

40 And Jesus answering said to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.”

And he answered, “Say it, Teacher.”

41 “A certain moneylender had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. 42 When they could not pay, he canceled the debt of both. Now which of them will love him more?”

43 Simon answered, “The one, I suppose, for whom he canceled the larger debt.”

And he said to him, “You have judged rightly.” 

44 Then turning toward the woman he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.

45 You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in she has not ceased to kiss my feet.

46 You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment.

47 Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven—for she loved much.

But he who is forgiven little, loves little.”

48 And he said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”

49 Then those who were at table with him began to say among themselves, “Who is this, who even forgives sins?”

50 And he said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”

I love the look of the actor in Jesus of Nazareth. He looks like the Shroud of Turin. The edges of the Shroud of Turin were repaired in the 14th century but the center is far older and contains remnants of unexplained radiation. Surely we could agree the Shroud is a Wonder of God. Even Popes wait to be there when the Shroud is brought out. There is a face cloth matching this in Spain and the material has been tested to be the same.

Perhaps Michelangelo had thought of Salome coincidences. The Altar has a painting of the Pope's Biagio da Cesena (1463–1544) was a 16th-century Italian official who served as Papal Master of Ceremonies. Rumor for many years said he was painted as both angel and fallen by Michelangelo. Historians today say Biagio da Cesena was only painted as fallen for being a critic of the Sistine Chapel.


We live in an interesting time in History. Never have so many advances been recorded and how different the generations are in expectations.

We know for certain the Bible is not a made up 400 A.D. oral history. Papyrus 46 explains how intact the Scriptures are from the late first and early 2nd century A.D.

We have witnessed so many archaeological finds. Opinions have been vastly changed about the Bible. The Pew Report shows the USA changes denominations to reflect their faith. We don't sit warming the pew any more. Lives change.

The old litmus tests of Faith in the last century have all but faded to distant memory.


Astonishing to find how active the United States is in faithful prayer daily. All of this isn't old or broken as we look at photos of people in Middle Eastern formal attire from the time of Jesus Christ. We may live close to the Jetsons we never expected to see in our lifetimes, but faith - real faith - is very real.

Changes.
Teaching has changed. Two or three generations past teachers paddled hands with rulers to get results. Today we know we offer rewards to children. Good behavior all week gets a reward like frozen yogurt or a trip out with parents. Jesus taught with forgiveness. He forgave and Jesus then healed.

Steadfast God of Love.
To remember the gracious style of Jesus we should always remember the Parable of the Talents.

Where we Aim High. Or as Jesus said Rise. The one who expects to work with the Kingdom of God and be within His Blessings works with Joy. The Goodness of God is expected with ten talents. The lowest talent says God is harsh and is unhappy with our failing to really try hard enough to pull for the Kingdom of God. We are the people of the New Covenant. We pray and know Father God Loves us.

God tells us, again and again, He is our Parent. He delights in us. Aaron was invited into the Holy of Holies again and again. Father God certainly knew Aaron was going to sprinkle the whole place with blood. We surely do not hope someone to sprinkle us all with blood. Or our home. God finds the delight of His heart is with mankind. And God arranges Holiness to come to us because we could not obtain holiness.

Matthew 5:41
1 and if someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two.

We might do this once. Father God has certainly gone very, very far further to provide Our Righteousness and Holiness in Jesus Christ. Not as our waiter for prayers to fill, but as our Father, our Savior. The Righteousness of God is all inspiring. Jesus accepted the Disciples.

Jesus had 72 Disciples beyond the 12. After Jesus fully explained the New Covenant and Communion - a lot of Disciples left Jesus. Walked away. From Jesus. I'd bet you - if we looked at every Chapter in the Gospels even the 12 Disciples could have reason to have pain they failed God in every single Chapter. The Disciples were the Swiss Cheese of Goodness. And Jesus did not leave nor forsake, nor grind down those Jesus felt could leave one talent and become Ten Talents.

Jesus forgave and forgave. Jesus loves very, very much. Jesus delights in mankind upon looking into them. Jesus has assigned, credited, planned and Loved people with all numbers of talents in many seasons of their lives.

Father God, our Abba,

We pray with supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for senators, representatives, governors, vice presidents and presidents and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.

This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all

We pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling. We are saved through wanting to provide a safe, good and respectful life for our children. We continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

We ask for our Nation to find purely peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere leaders.

We are petitioning Father God for Him to bless and keep this generation with so many changes. That His Face will shine upon those who are in need of Him. That Abba will be gracious to this culture and time. That our Merciful God will Lift His Face upon us, to smile with His favor and help us to be at Peace being Covered with the Name of Jesus.

We will never cease to pray for the people God has placed in our lives, those we Love. We will pray with Hope for our cares and for this Nation. The Churches of Jesus Christ the Lord. And for the people all lifting prayers to our Lord.

Praying for a voyager going to the other side of the Planet for Blessings and Safety.  For Loved Ones with critical health issues for hope, comfort, Joy and Mercy. In Forgiveness, we are healed in Jesus. 

More Heaven on earth with expectation of Your Goodness, Amen in Jesus Christ.

Psalm 37:39,40 ~ The salvation of the righteous is from the Lord

Psalm 37:39,40

The salvation of the righteous is from the Lord

He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.

The Lord helps them and delivers them.

He delivers them from the wicked and saves them,

because they take refuge in him.

Hezekiah walked with faith and he had times he tore his clothes in despair and put himself apart in prayer. Hezekiah had plenty of times he was sure certain doom had arrived.

All of his worries did not appear. The fortifications worked for the good of those who love the Lord and worked according to His Purpose. Something like the Disciples were known to worry intently from time to time.

Walking or working with faith - in the opposition to the Might of the Assyrian Empire led Hezekiah and the Children of Israel to walk with faith. Not always a comfortable journey - yet living and moving and having their Being with Father God gave Hezekiah Life. Life to the Children of Israel.



Isaiah 14:1
For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and will set them in their own land, and sojourners will join them and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob. And the peoples will take them and bring them to their place


2 Kings 18:3
And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done.

Numbers 23:19
God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it


2 Kings 19 The Lord's Battle
35 And that night the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. 36 Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went home and lived at Nineveh. 37 And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword and escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.


2 Chronicles 29:30
King Hezekiah and his officials ordered the Levites to praise the LORD with the words of David and of Asaph the seer. So they sang praises with gladness and bowed down and worshiped.

Matthew 13
31 Jesus put before them another parable: 
“The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man planted in his field. 32 Although it is the smallest of all seeds, yet it grows into the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”

Olive Trees Mount of Olives - Josephus records the Olive Trees in the History of the Jews 70 A.D. Theorized to be the same trees by the death of some of the Olive Trees and the size of the trunks. Trees from the life time of Jesus Christ.


2 Chronicles 32:5  716 B.C.
To protect the large number of refugees who scrambled south after Assyria invaded the northern kingdom twenty years earlier, King Hezekiah built a wall around the western hill of the city of Jerusalem.



Abba,

We thank You for the Salvation of Jesus Christ, our righteousness.

The Glory of God continues forever. Thank You we will see Your Glory.

Broad Wall of Hezekiah for the Assyrian Fight that did not occur


2 Chronicles 32:7-8
Be strong and courageous, do not fear or be dismayed because of the king of Assyria, nor because of all the multitude which is with him; for the one with us is greater than the one with him. With him is only an arm of flesh, but with us is the LORD our God to help us and to fight our battles

For more Heaven on earth.
For the Lord's Glory. For ourselves. For those we love. For the people God has given us. For our cares. For this Nation Trusting in Him. For the nations of the World who Love His Brightness. And all the Children of God - enfolding His Good Creation.

In Jesus Christ, because of His Love, His Joy, His Mercy - we will become eyewitnesses and partakers of His Home. Love and Kingdom. Our Salvation in Jesus.

Amen.

Psalm 18 ~ Delighted +

Psalm 18

I love you, O Lord, my strength.
2 The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,
my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge,
my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
3 I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised,
and I am saved from my enemies.

4 The cords of death encompassed me;
the torrents of destruction assailed me;
5 the cords of Sheol entangled me;
the snares of death confronted me.

6 In my distress I called upon the Lord;
to my God, I cried for help.
From his temple, he heard my voice,
and my cry to him reached his ears.

7 Then the earth reeled and rocked;
the foundations also of the mountains trembled
and quaked, because he was angry.
8 Smoke went up from his nostrils,
and devouring fire from his mouth;
glowing coals flamed forth from him.
9 He bowed the heavens and came down;
thick darkness was under his feet.
10 He rode on a cherub and flew;
he came swiftly on the wings of the wind.
11 He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him,
thick clouds dark with water.
12 Out of the brightness before him
hailstones and coals of fire broke through his clouds.

13 The Lord also thundered in the heavens,
and the Most High uttered his voice,
hailstones and coals of fire.
14 And he sent out his arrows and scattered them;
he flashed forth lightnings and routed them.
15 Then the channels of the sea were seen,
and the foundations of the world were laid bare
at your rebuke, O Lord,
at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

16 He sent from on high, he took me;
he drew me out of many waters.
17 He rescued me from my strong enemy
and from those who hated me,
for they were too mighty for me.
18 They confronted me in the day of my calamity,
but the Lord was my support.
19 He brought me out into a broad place;
he rescued me, because he delighted in me.

20 The Lord dealt with me according to my righteousness;
according to the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.
21 For I have kept the ways of the Lord,
and have not wickedly departed from my God.
22 For all his rules were before me,
and his statutes I did not put away from me.
23 I was blameless before him,
and I kept myself from my guilt.
24 So the Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness,
according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.

25 With the merciful you show yourself merciful;
with the blameless man you show yourself blameless;
26 with the purified you show yourself pure;
and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.
27 For you save a humble people,
but the haughty eyes you bring down.
28 For it is you who light my lamp;
the Lord my God lightens my darkness.
29 For by you I can run against a troop,
and by my God I can leap over a wall.
30 This God—his way is perfect;
the word of the Lord proves true;
he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

31 For who is God, but the Lord?
And who is a rock, except our God?—

32 the God who equipped me with strength
and made my way blameless.
33 He made my feet like the feet of a deer
and set me secure on the heights.
34 He trains my hands for war,
so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

35 You have given me the shield of your salvation,
and your right hand supported me,
and your gentleness made me great.

36 You gave a wide place for my steps under me,
and my feet did not slip.

37 I pursued my enemies and overtook them,
and did not turn back till they were consumed.
38 I thrust them through, so that they were not able to rise;
they fell under my feet.
39 For you equipped me with strength for the battle;
you made those who rise against me sink under me.
40 You made my enemies turn their backs to me,
and those who hated me I destroyed.
41 They cried for help, but there was none to save;
they cried to the Lord, but he did not answer them.
42 I beat them fine as dust before the wind;
I cast them out like the mire of the streets.

43 You delivered me from strife with the people;
you made me the head of the nations;
people whom I had not known served me.
44 As soon as they heard of me they obeyed me;
foreigners came cringing to me.
45 Foreigners lost heart
and came trembling out of their fortresses.

46 The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock,
and exalted be the God of my salvation—
47 the God who gave me vengeance
and subdued peoples under me,
48 who delivered me from my enemies;
yes, you exalted me above those who rose against me;
you rescued me from the man of violence.

49 For this I will praise you, O Lord, among the nations,
and sing to your name.
50 Great salvation he brings to his king,
and shows steadfast love to his anointed,
to David and his offspring forever.

Proverbs 8

Before the mountains had been shaped,
before the hills, I was brought forth,
26 before he had made the earth with its fields,
or the first of the dust of the world.

27 When he established the heavens, I was there;
when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
28 when he made firm the skies above,
when he established the fountains of the deep,
29 when he assigned to the sea its limit,
so that the waters might not transgress his command,
when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

30 then I was beside him, like a master workman,
and I was daily his
delight,

Rejoicing before him always,

31 rejoicing in his inhabited world
and delighting in the children of man.

32 “And now, O sons, listen to me:
blessed are those who keep my ways.
33 Hear instruction and be wise,
and do not neglect it.
34 Blessed is the one who listens to me,
watching daily at my gates,
waiting beside my doors.

35 For whoever finds me finds life
and obtains favor from the Lord,

Abba, In all seasons, we strive diligently to see the Blessings both Apparent and with work.

Abba,

Thank You for Your Daily Blessings. Thank You.

May the words of my mouth, the meditations of my heart, be pleasing and acceptable to You. Dwell within me, please.

Bless those I love. 

Thank You for listening and carrying me. Bless those I Love.

Let the Children of God delight in finding more Heaven on earth. We ask for ourselves, our beloved ones, this nation and the nations of the earth seeking You.

In Jesus. Amen.