Micah 4:4 ~ Everyone shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and no one shall make them afraid, for the Mouth of the LORD of Hosts has spoken

Jesus told us Angels would arrive if He merely asked. The Heavenly Host arrived at His earthly beginning - we can well imagine God could call this out.

Nahum knew the Power of God.

Nahum 1:9
Whatever they plot against the LORD he will bring to an end; trouble will not come a second time.

The Old Testament has a bold statement from God saying He can bring the end of conflict, to any conflict. It's difficult to find the exact verse because we live in a world with conflict resolution being a process. God the Almighty says He brings Peace. His Word. In Great Power of His Being the Lord.

Micah 4:4

Everyone shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and no one shall make them afraid, for the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken.



Psalm 147:14
14 He makes peace in your borders; 
He satisfies you with the finest of the wheat. 
15 He sends forth His command to the earth; 
His word runs very swiftly.



Leviticus 26:6 
I will grant peace in the land, 
and you will lie down 
and no one will make you afraid. 
I will remove wild beasts from the land, 
and the sword will not pass through your country.


Consider this Gospel:

Matthew 22

23 The same day Sadducees came to him,
who say that there is no resurrection, and they asked him a question,

24 saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.’ 25 Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died, and having no offspring left his wife to his brother. 26 So too the second and third, down to the seventh. 27 After them all, the woman died. 28 In the resurrection, therefore, of the seven, whose wife will she be? For they all had her.”

29 But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong because you know neither

The Scriptures and the Power of God.

30 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. 31 And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God: 

32‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

 He is not God of the dead, but of the living.”


33 And when the crowd heard it, they were astonished at his teaching. 34 But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.

This passage is one of great importance and a favorite of mine:

The Word of God manifest applauds the Living Scriptural Word of God. We all might hope Jesus shook the earth as He said, "The Scriptures and the Power of God."

God gave us Jesus. Jesus gave us Salvation. 
The Word of God made manifest could have peace anytime He wanted Peace.

Jesus sets the witnesses for Resurrection in the son rising alive for the Widow of Nain and Jesus' Blessing.

Jesus sets the Blessing in understanding - God didn't have to have Jesus spar with Words. God's Word stood Alive and Active as Today.

Jesus is God's Word as Power.

Jesus is without fear.

The people saw Jesus and Jesus daily loadeth them with benefits.
Living Water reaching us two millenniums later.

The Word of God - the Disciples find  Jesus can end the storm and the wind
and we discover that believing in His Word we are part of this.

The Promises of God are sure.






Father God,

When Jesus prays with us, we have the results of His Love. We ask this Blessing.

When we ask You, You are present. And the meal is more nourishing than the food for the people living in Love.

When we consider the summer - we recall days of our life where summer would never end. The day lasted a long time and we have an idea of Heaven's days. We have a glimpse of Heaven. And our hearts remember Joy of memories You have given us of Abundant Life. These remembrances are Joy.

Cover our Loved ones with this Joy. Jesus tells us He had such Joy in this life.
Let the people You have given us know these blessings of Your's.

Help the Nation trusting in You to have the gratitude in them of God - guiding us.
Bless our employments, dreams, efforts and striving. In the Strength of God, we will go farther than we ask or imagine.

Bless the Bible and Jesus believing Churches to radiate the Love God has - and all are blessed.
Bless all the Nations trusting in You to have more Holy Spirit and more Heaven on earth. We build when we believe and trust - our words and deeds build us all.

Bless us in our hopes - that as we please You daily - our will rejoices in Your Will. Our Father's Gracious Will for our heart, hearth, family, health with Joy and Love.

Let us Bless us renew from vacation and to rest and to be productive. For security. For our friend dealing with cancer to be healed.

Returning home from vacation to find our 25 year old Magnolia - fall over.

Amen and Amen and Amen in Jesus.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †  

Exodus 3 ~ Here I am

Saint Catherine's Monastery on Mt Sinah is habitable. See the city way in the distance!

Exodus 3

Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. 3 And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.”

When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” 5 Then he said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”

And he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” 

And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.

Vintage Photo of Shepherds in front of Mt. Sinah

Was this the appearing of the Heavenly Host or the Bush on fire?


Luke 2


8 And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear. 

10 And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. 11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. 12 And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.” 

13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,
“Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”







Let's ask a question. If our Father God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow; Why is Moses afraid, while the Shepherds are told to "Fear Not"? The Shepherds encountered the Heavenly Host of God - the angels.Same story. Fear Not!!! Moses went on to have a conversation with God and Moses felt "Yar" Respect - Very Heavy Respect. God the Almighty does not need fear.


God has told the Angels to cut to the point - not a discussion - fear overcome by,  "Fear Not

The Shepherds and Mary and Joseph behold God made flesh dwelling among us.

The emotional response to Jesus?

18 And all who heard it wondered at what the shepherds told them. 19 But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart. 20 And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.



Moses yearned more from his relationship to God. And asked to see the Glory of God.

Exodus 34

5 The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. 6 The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, 7 keeping steadfast love for thousands,a forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”


The path of the Lord is preferable to the Frank Sinatra Song "I did it my way".


The Exodus did repeat for the birth of Jesus, this time God relied more upon His Angels to create more Joy. The Father was preparing the path of His Son. And Father God did descend in a cloud, as He did for the Dedication of Solomon's Temple - in the Transfiguration. God the Father was clearing a path for His Son, ,again, in the Transfiguration.

 Jesus would ascend to tell us exactly where Jesus is. We did not need to wonder.


Abba, 

The Blessing of Being Your child. Your Mercies Renew. Dwell in me, Lord Jesus Christ.

No longer do I call you servants.

 We are the Beloved of God. And ask His Help and Blessings.

Thanks be unto our Father God for The Lord giving His Word to Abide in Jesus. And so we ask His help. To have His Peace knowing the Holy Spirit dwells in us. The Blessing of the Kiss of Peace.

Amen in Jesus Christ.

 

Bless our friend to have good health in Jesus. Your Willing Blessings!

♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †  

Titus 1 ~ Hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined

Crete

Titus 1

1 Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness, 2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began 3 and at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior;

4 To Titus, my true child in a common faith:

Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.

5 This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you— 6 if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination. 7 For an overseer, as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, 8 but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined. 9 He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.

10 For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party. 11 They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach. 12 One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” 13 This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, 14 not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and the commands of people who turn away from the truth.

15 To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled. 16 They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.



In law cases, sometimes evidence is presented for months and eventually there is a moment where "The Moose Head Truth" arrives. Summation of proportion arrives where great truth is presented and the fact is Established.


Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Crete.

The dispersion of Greeks arrived.  This is understood to be the close tie to Crete. These are the faithful who board 'cruise' ships and arrive for High Holy Days in Jerusalem. Josephus records Passover and other Holy days can have up to 2 million people arrive in Jerusalem for Pilgrimage. Makes you realize that 2 millenniums ago - people were - similar. Human nature and God's nature show Scriptures repeat.

Crete.

Perhaps you have noticed with me. Jesus is wonderful. Jesus in John 21 is invited by the Greeks from Crete and Jesus replies: 26 If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

Jesus said the fate of Bethsaida, Chorazin and Capernaum. All fates were exactly correctly spoken. Jesus is God.

Jesus went back to the Samaritans having been thrown out of the rebuilding of the Second Temple for not keeping ancestral records correctly and brought the Samaritans into being the first to be told by Jesus said clearly in John 6, "I am the Christ." This is a Great Honor.

And the Greeks from Crete did not get to speak with Jesus and yet, they had wanted to honor Jesus. To offer him the service of living with them in Crete. To escape Herod.

And what happened to the Cretes with troubles listed - showing flaws?

The correct Aramaic is this:

Romans 8:28
And we know that for those who love God all things work together "interweave" for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Now the truth is - weaving - is a process.

Like David's 22 years.
Joshua's 40 years.
Peter's 30 years.
Noah's 20-30 years.

And in Titus' life we find pray without ceasing - knowing Jesus is at work with the Father. This was a process and history records the paradise of work filled in Christ Jesus.

What happened to Crete a place where the Scriptures record "“Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” This testimony is true."

So many people are disheartened to find so many apostles of Jesus died. And if you look to Titus set on a journey by Paul, and Crete blessed for honoring Jesus - you find this. Titus lived to very old as a Christian. 

Crete was considered to be a place where God was honored. A haven. An Oasis.

And in Titus' life we find pray without ceasing - knowing Jesus is at work with the Father. This was a process and history records the paradise of work filled in Christ Jesus.


Psalm 87


1 On the holy mount stands the city he founded;
2 the Lord loves the gates of Zion
more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.
3 Glorious things of you are spoken,
O city of God. Selah

4 Among those who know me I mention Rahab and Babylon;
behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Cusha—
“This one was born there,” they say.
5 And of Zion it shall be said,
“This one and that one were born in her”;
for the Most High himself will establish her.
6 The Lord records as he registers the peoples,
“This one was born there.” Selah

7Singers and dancers alike say,
“All my springs are in you.”

The preservation of Crete. Other paradise areas like San Francisco, Taiwan are not preserved in their Beauty.





Isaiah saw this of Heaven and recorded this in Isaiah 6 as sung to the God of all in Heaven - concerned with mere earth as important to Him in Heaven:

“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
the whole earth is full of his glory!”







We have encountered the mercy of Christ Jesus to those of Crete following the footsteps of the life in Jesus.. And in seeing the beauty we see this of the Eternal Father we have in God.

1 Corinthians 13:12
For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully


And for interest in our Father God, let's think upon what God has said about Heaven - our Eternal Home in Jesus Christ. Paul told us he knew a man who was caught up in the 3rd level of Heaven. The First Council of Nicea, 325 A.D., was confirmed by the world changing Love the Christians gave they received from Jesus. And on that Council sat a Saint called Nikolaos of Myra, St. Nick- let out of prison because the former Emperor of Rome had called him to prison for believing upon Jesus as Christ. These men knew well of the miracles of The Acts of the Apostles. And they, filled with the Holy Spirit affirmed the Scriptures witness to the Truth and more believable to other faiths than the background of Christianity.

The Book of Enoch tells us more about Paul's visit to the 3rd level of Heaven. And says that the Garden of Eden now exists in the 3rd Level of Heaven. What happened to the Garden of Eden? Scriptures tell us this remained on Earth and was guarded by Angels to keep mankind out. Until the Flood and the Garden of Eden ceased to exist on earth. Heaven is the place! And His work is explained in

Colossians 1:18-20
in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him
to reconcile to himself all things,
whether on earth or in heaven,
making peace by the blood of his cross.



In my opinion, the question is not 'if a tree falls in the forest, does it make a noise' but is instead all things are reconciled to God in Heaven. Not just sparrows, but forests and beauty passed on to Heaven.

Jesus Himself told us about Heaven. 

We will be with Him in Paradise.






We have seen some truly beautiful kites. Today was a wheel in the sky. I told Edward it reminded me of the song.

And then a few hours later, we had a beautiful full rainbow at the beach on South Padre Island, Texas today.

 It did not look like Crete, exactly, but we didn't have a storm - so the Rainbow was very beautifully impressive. We could see one side and then the other, a complete rainbow. 

A beautiful rainbow at the beach today. 


Genesis 9:13-17 

13 I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant
 between Me and the earth. 

14 It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, 
that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; 

And I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. 

16 The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”

 17 And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant
 which I have established 
between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

Father, our Abba,

You are our help and our shield.
We reverence You,Lord,
and will fully trust in our Lord!
You are our help and our shield.

You Lord remembered us; You will bless us;
You will bless us;
You will bless us;

Bless our friend to heal completely from cancer.

Our God will bless those who reverence the Lord,
both the small and the great.

May this please our Lord Father to give us increase,
and our children!

May the willingness of God be blessed by our Lord,
who made heaven and earth!

We pray for California to have peace and our nation and nations.

The heavens are the Lord’s heavens,
and the earth You has given to the children of man.

We will bless our Father God
from this time forth and forevermore.

Praise Jesus Lord God for His continued care for our prayers, loved ones, Churches, Jobs, Provision, Nation and the people around the World praying with Jesus in Joy, Faith, Love, Hope and Expectation and continuing to walk in the good deeds You have prepared for us! Alleluia in Jesus, Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †  

Luke 2:1-7 ~ Decree

One of the most spectacular aspects of God the Almighty, Creator of All, Father of Jesus Christ Triumphing over Death into Life, is the aspect of God as God. His Word is Law. Not a suggestion.

Wondering about God is filling us with Life. If God wanted to be the size of the Universe, He could be as gentle as the air filling our lungs. One of the common threads of near-death experiences is to realize, Heaven is at hand. The Walls melted and Heaven and Jesus are present. Filled with Love and Joy with incredible Peace.

Father God promises He is Steadfast. To find that the Resurrection echoes the Birth of Father God's Only Son - is a comforting and sustaining idea of God Himself. God has always worked towards eternally protecting His Children in Eternal ways.

Luke 2:1-7

In those days

a decree went out from Caesar Augustus

that all the world should be registered.

2 This was the first registration when 
Quirinius was governor of Syria.

3 And all went to be registered, each to his own town.

4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, 
5 to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child.

6 And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth. 

7 And she gave birth
 to her firstborn son 
and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.

In those days 
a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered.

Isaiah 49:6.
"Yea, He saith, 'It is too light a thing for you to be My servant, to establish the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the scions of Israel, and I shall submit you as a light unto the nations, to be My salvation until the end of the earth'

John 1
Jesus is the Light of the world.

John 12:19
So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the world has gone after him.”


Acts 5:14
And more than ever believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women







2 This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 And all went to be registered, each to his own town.

The Light of the world

Isaiah 9:6
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given,
and the government will be on his shoulders

Luke 23:27

26 As the soldiers led Him away, they seized Simon of Cyrene on his way in from the country, and put the cross on him to carry behind Jesus.

27 A great multitude of people followed Him, including women who kept mourning and wailing for Him.



Luke 24.
All of Israel knew. 

4 And Joseph 
also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, 5 to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child.



John 19

38 After these things Joseph
of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews

Asked Pilate 
that he might take away the body of Jesus, 
and Pilate gave him permission. 

Bethlehem - stables are built into the hills. Like Tombs of Israel often are.

So he came and took away his body. 

39 Nicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds in weight. 

Magi brought spices and ointments of perfume.

40 So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.




Palace of David - King of the Jews. David chose the view of Gardens.

41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid. 42 So because of the Jewish day of Preparation, since the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.


Matthew 27
57 Now when evening had come, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who himself had also become a disciple of Jesus. 58 This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given to him

59 When Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 and laid it in his new tomb which he had hewn out of the rock; and he rolled a large stone against the door of the tomb, and departed.

Firstborn Son

Jeremiah 31
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.”

Abba,

When Isaac was born, Abraham saw his flocks multiply and multiply.

When Jesus ministered to His People, the multitudes arrived immediately.

When Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, Jesus was there immediately.

All times, and Plans of Yours are in Your Hands. Your Living, Working Hands.


Isaiah 9:7
Of the greatness of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this.

Let all the Beloved of God, lift up our Beloved with all Joy to Jesus, Son of our Living God.
Let all Nations of God, look to Him with anticipation of our Father's Willing Blessings.
Be so near, always, Your breathe is our lungs, Father God.

Let all of our cares rest in Your Love.
Let this Nation rise up as we Trust in You
For our dearly loved friend to be healed of cancer. Overcome. Healed by Jesus Christ. We ask Your Willing Blessings.

In the Name of Jesus, we will see the tender mercy of God asking for more Heaven on earth. His
Good and Gracious Will be done. Lord Jesus.

Your Amazing Love for us has no end and is always with us. Psalm 139 describes Your Circle around us. 

Amen in Jesus.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †