and your righteousness to the royal son! 2 May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice! 3 Let the mountains bear prosperity for the people, and the hills, in righteousness! 4 May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor! 5 May they fear you while the sun endures, and as long as the moon, throughout all generations! 6 May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth! 7 In his days may the righteous flourish, and peace abound, till the moon be no more! 8 May he have dominion from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth! 9 May desert tribes bow down before him, and his enemies lick the dust! 10 May the kings of Tarshish and of the coastlands render him tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba bring gifts! 11 May all kings fall down before him, all nations serve him! 12 For he delivers the needy when he calls, the poor and him who has no helper. 13 He has pity on the weak and the needy, and saves the lives of the needy. 14 From oppression and violence he redeems their life, and precious is their blood in his sight. 15 Long may he live; may gold of Sheba be given to him! May prayer be made for him continually, and blessings invoked for him all the day! 16 May there be abundance of grain in the land; on the tops of the mountains may it wave; may its fruit be like Lebanon; and may people blossom in the cities like the grass of the field! 17 May his name endure forever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May people be blessed in him, all nations call him blessed! 18 Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things. 19 Blessed be his glorious name forever; may the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and Amen! 20 The prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are ended.
David has a unique prayer for the king - as his prayers end.
To go forth with God.
His hopes for his son. His hopes for the kings to carry on the Davidic line. Jacob left all for starvation. David prays for his people and the Nation not to face this hopelessness. David prays for the nation to have prosperity.
What we hope for our children, goes along with what we will find in Our Father, God Himself.
Let the Glory of our Father God, Lord of All, let His glory fall on our families. To build up the Kingdom of God. Let the righteousness of His Love fill our lives, our homes and our families. In all times and seasons.
What we hope for our children is the Holy Spirit living in us. Love.
1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear.
For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
What does David say about God?
For he delivers the needy when he calls,
the poor and him who has no helper.
13 He has pity on the weak and the needy,
and saves the lives of the needy.
14 From oppression and violence he redeems their life
and precious is their blood in his sight.
15 Long may he live
David had times he fussed at God. 2 Samuel 6.
Uzzah hoped to help God when the Ark seemed about to fall over. God felt He could look after Himself. Weeping is in the night - Joy, of God, comes in the morning. Uzzah went to the Kingdom of God. David felt God was unfair and David was going to fuss at God. Until God blessed the Keepers of the Ark. Uzzah tried to be a keeper of the Ark. I have faith Uzzah would like the outcome. David put away his fuss with Thee Almighty and went to collect the Ark.
Romans 8:28 All things interweave for good for those who Love the Lord and work according to His Purpose.
David believed this. Jesus had faith in His Father for this. We can do as God said and do the work of Believing the Word of God made manifest - Jesus.
Abba, Your Blessings fill our Lives and give Life. Every day. Help us to see and know and love Your Blessings. Let the Glory of our Father God, Lord of All, let His glory fall on our families. To build up the Kingdom of God. Let the righteousness of His Love fill our lives, our homes and our families. In all times and seasons. Help Your Holy Spirit to know all of us, dwell in us and have Your Good Will done to bring more of Heaven to the earth. We give Thanks to You for prayers across the world day and night in the name of Jesus. For Love, for Joy and for Peace. All of Your Willing Blessings upon us and our children and children's children to all the generations. In Jesus Christ, Amen.
Immanuel (which means, God with us). 24 When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him
So much of what Mary, Elizabeth, Zechariah and Joseph did during the preparation for the First Birthday of Jesus - First Christmas, we do today.
Joseph stops what he is doing and takes a pregnant woman 80 miles to Bethlehem. Joseph was not going to put off what God had asked him to do.
When Gabriel met with Zechariah and Mary, why did he bypass Joseph? It's probable Joseph prayed to meet Gabriel. Instead upon Joseph's mercy, he has a dream. Dream. Plans. Goal. A man betrothed to Mary has had an idea of what he wants life to look like. It's an important dream - the direction of their lives. Joseph's dream for his own life with his betrothed is overshadowed. Joseph's dream is less important.
How are we similar today?
Giving up what we want, to Love God's Plan sets us on course for seeking God's Righteousness and Heaven first. Joseph is barely mentioned in the Gospels, but the family he raised is made seamless in the Gospels. Jesus is seen as part of the family.
We aren't waiting, lists and to do and expectation is going on. Going forth.
How does Joseph's preparation for the First Christmas - have something to do with what we do today? We put aside financial plans, pleasing ourselves - to bless the people we love and God has given us.
The Plans of Christmas planning are Pleasing to God. Open hearts to God's Love.
Seriously - Can you imagine, setting off down the road immediately with someone so very pregnant with God's Child?
Deuteronomy 31:6 Be strong and courageous; do not be afraid or terrified of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you." Isaiah 40:29 He gives power to the faint and increases the strength of the weak. Isaiah 41:13 For I am the LORD your God, who takes hold of your right hand
Abba, This day we are blessed by You. Help us to bless the people You have given us. Even when schedules get busy. On days our feet drag and our heart does sigh. Help us to remember Joseph's Amazing Dream and his being awake. Let us have the Joy of Love as Joseph has given. And the Peace he has to accomplish Your Plan. We ask in all of the Jesus given Expectation. More Heaven on earth for Your Good Will and our prayers!!! In the Name of Jesus. Amen.
What week are Groceries on Sale?
Ephesians 1:16
I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers.
75 in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.
76 And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High;
for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,
77 to give knowledge of salvation to his people
in the forgiveness of their sins
78 Because of the tender mercy of our God,
whereby the sunrise shall visit us from on high
79 to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the way of peace
This is the song from our Spotify usually beginning our car journeys. I think of fun. Adventure. Life. Rolling, Rolling down the 'High Way'.
We've just begun Daylight Savings Time.
Sparking the annual debate over changes by law taking us to Benjamin Franklin. We will find a list of States opting out. What the process will be. It's as annual as the changing of the seasons.
For some, this is dire.
They will now wake up in the sunlight and return home from work in the dark. Sunlight deprivation and Vitamin D intake. Take more Vitamin D. I have memories of people with misty eyes speaking of coming home in the dark. The day is done and some are seeing their children for the first time. When people are unhappy - we search our memories for when we enjoyed the changes. What we will do now to choose Joy. It's solutions, innovation and imprivations.
Finding Joy. The dark is not dark to the Lord. Finding His Light!
Psalm 139:10-17
Even there your hand shall lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me.
If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,
and the light about me be night”
Even the darkness is not dark to you;
the night is bright as the day,
for darkness is as light with you.
For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed substance
In your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.
How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
In all situations, we can find Joy and Love. As a process. Discovering the Light of God in our process.
Some of the mature part of the nation, are coming home to an much emptier house than decades past. And in the Choice of Joy, they are delighted to find the Holidays, Holy Days, are arriving. Families can be spread to the other side of the continent and the state. Distance is just plain distance.
Retail Employees say some of the Halloween decorations are so gory, it's a Blessed Relief to put up Good News.
I've been told by store employees gore decorations are gloomy and depressing to look at. Looking away from dog bones and dead people. One worker told me the horse skeletons were the absolute worst. Especially the year their horse died, which was the year after the treasured dog died.
Gone are the days when Christmas trees were to be put up strictly on Christmas Eve.
Gone are the times that Advent was told not to sing Christmas Carols.
People are in preparation for Christmas.
Love. An opportunity with the Birth of Jesus that even long - very distant - families have the opportunity to dust off the "Love is Appreciated" ability. No one is going to say readily, "Oh, don't bother. I don't Need That. " Love - pour it on. Give.
What are we going to do with Thanksgiving. Love God.
Live lives that Give Thanks and Do Giving.
Real.
We live in so much abundance, even if it's not the glory of former days. So many life habits and patterns and trends are evolving to new needs of us - the people of God. We need to keep God, His Son Jesus, Love, Faith and Hope the priority over starched Thanksgiving napkins.
† Real. Christmas is about Loving Father God and Loving Jesus. The abundant Love Father God has for us is spilling over to care for those we love and love us.
Real. Christmas is being celebrated around us now. Lights are being put up to save 15%. Shopping is being done to avoid the frantic last minute call. Christmas like Charles Dickens said is to be celebrated in our heart every day.
Real. People are already putting up Christmas trees. I see this as I walk in the neighborhood.
Dire. To avoid Christmas as the Kris Kringle on going Parade of goods and retail therapy. Not the Sunday, Sunday, Sunday World Wide Wrestling Shopping Event.
Real. Why should we allow dictates to ruin one month instead of the slow steady warmth of Love.
Father God said prepare your light and lantern. Put oil in your lamp. Don't be caught burned out, frazzled, overwhelmed. Find the Kingdom at hand have Love, Peace and Joy.
Putting down what was never supposed to be dire.
We were never supposed to fight over Halloween or Autumn is in this box and Thanksgiving is in this container and Christmas is here. If someone works on their tree to have joy and beauty and handiwork and happiness and put the tree down after Valentines Day - who cares?
Faith. I know an agnostic atheist hilarity finder who wants us all to enjoy hunting and have massive gun control. Who is not going to want to miss a speck of Christmas. Someone who used to watch the nightly news. And doesn't now. And is a totally changing his decades of political party allegiance. Why mention That? We are all being changed by Life. We are in change. He sees Christmas like a child. And this ain't no child. However, he will get into his vehicle and drive all over and back to see who has put up the most Christmas Lights on their house. Looking for the Light. And if the display is raucous - mismatched enthusiasm of Sheer Joy - So Much The Better.
† This is a Season where people are Supposed to ... allowed i.e. ... to Celebrate Life. To Give Joy. It's a time when so much Joy is overflowing, you might see God's Mission to find the lost.
Being Thankful for Open Hearts
Taking what exists to find where God would rush in!!!
Finding the Light of Jesus in mankind is discovering the process of Life.
Christmas is like Mother's Day. You get your family to Celebrate a Hallmark Event by asking for something they want and love to do. If they want to hike - ask to go hiking on Mother's Day. Ask to go to a Drive in Movie and car trip there. Make it filled with Life. Because Mother's Day is like Christmas - Love covers a multitude of Sins. And God is Love.
I know people who handiwork and have Supreme Joy over three trees.
On one Christmas Tree. Fall ornaments go on for the lack of Halloween admiration and stay until after Thanksgiving. Christmas ornaments come down after the Magi Left on January 7th. And what goes on next are the hearts. Valentines Day approaches in the winter. Even if it's a bleak mid-winter.
In fact, we have family putting up a small Christmas tree and then running past it until they realize it's Spring. Yes, they have a clean house but a schedule of two full-time hard-working jobs. This might have been considered poverty in the 1960s. Yet Maids come. But you have 2 jobs, homework, commutes, soccer, boy scouts, friends, appointments and out of town to see family. Illness in the family, more trips here and there. And my family says I'm giving up the guilt on the tree being there and this weekend, I'm tired, and I'm turning the lights on again. The maid dusted it - why not.
It's not tupperware boxes - this is life. It's not without humor because the lights on the tree are half appreciation and half a sigh. With the comment, "I'm not sure I got to sit down and see the tree till March, so this weekend, it's the Christmas Tree and a glass of wine."
Innovate. Put the Tender Mercy of God on life. God Himself, Jesus, the Holy Spirit want to give you Tender Mercy
What were Elizabeth and Zechariah doing? What about Mary?
Mary's family? What's Sukkot? Well, it's Jewish and in October and it's camping and it's Harvest Gathering. Remembering God in the Exodus. Gathering. Building. Having Leisure. Now it's a sort of quilt of all different aspects.
Sukkot is the Jewish time to Remember God in many different aspects.
When I was a small child, we lived on the Mediterranean and saw the brilliant colors of France. Winter the colors were very basically grey. Without Light, the colors are flat. Mardi Gras was incredibly important with confetti and cartoon characters costumes. The food markets produce were arranged as colors. It was a feast for Joy. Celebration of Life. In the Give us the Day. And being an expatriate family, our English speaking Church was a very, very important Day. The Sermon was Really Speaking to us and was discussed all week. This was Light.
I saw the artist Wolf Kahn's work in a magazine and worked diligently to find out who this was. It's the neoclassical movement of impressionism. It's not subtle like the French turn of the last Century. This announces boldy what the impressionists found. I just love this. It's the purple announcing the majesty of Autumn.
The Orange announces the passion of, "I get to go home." The windows are purple. Light is reflected. Majesty. The journey has many colors. Dull to exciting. The lawn is not just fading - it's vibrant. We see what we usually see, God is just now Celebrating. We see what is Old with new vision.
The Peace of July. Or August. The grass is tired of being mowed and finds a new thing. This is the season of all is well and the windows are blue. Reminding us - every day life doesn't spark on just for all of us at the same time. Red for steadfast. The home, the family is going to last well past the brilliance of new paint. The flowers are blue - Joy is found from the hard work struggles of solutions and time to adjust. The flower explains blue isn't all bad. Celebrate.
God's Tender Mercy gives us Life. LIFE!!!
We see in Scriptures, one generation is vastly different from the next. Wouldn't you agree, no one has life today - what they expected. However, this Generation with all the amazing Jane Jetson irritations of what? What? The Phone Reception for the Satellite is taking longer - What? We all basically feel Summer Fireflies are missing. Something is a new flavor. And when we get to that point - we want God to answer us - when we feel like the compass has changed.
The Compass might be moving, but not really. God is the Compass.
Say again:
What were Elizabeth and Zechariah doing? What about Mary?
Mary's family? What's Sukkot? Well, it's Jewish and in October and it's camping and it's Harvest Gathering. Remembering God in the Exodus. Gathering. Building. Having Leisure. Now it's a sort of quilt of all different aspects.
Sukkot is the Jewish time to Remember God in many different aspects.
The Tender Mercy of our God is, was and will be moving forth.
Elizabeth didn't feel boldly adventuresome and was at home. Preparing. We find Hezekiah left many seals on honey. Food was put up. Elizabeth was considering what her son would need. She probably was singing. Singing baby songs.
God's Tender Mercy defines the Process to find His Comforter
Zechariah was blue. Just Plainly Freaked Out. No wonder they weren't going out much. He'd met Gabriel who stands in the Presence of God and he was in argument mode. He was a Priest doing something in the Temple with prayer and privilege and got upset and bossy. Now Zechariah is in uber think mode. While Mute. When Zechariah pours forth what He thinks God Himself is doing - Zechariah has spent time examining God. Zechariah is pre - singing. Pre - Mercy - something to remember when holidays and times of expectation are very unsettling.
Mary was on the run from life. She left her family in great haste. Sure she is having all these great facebook pictures of her travels. But Heli isn't in them much anymore. Singing is part of this Preparation for Christmas, Mary is feeling afraid and with great expectation of Christmas.
When is all this going on this Pre-Christmas - months before Christmas. Weeks before Christmas. Advent. Jesus says life is Joy. Choose Joy.
The Disciples were known to complain to Jesus. In this Preparation of Christmas - there could be a lot of complaining - instead sights are set forward.
Sing it....Oh - - - You better be good! You better be nice! Saints will know if you are naughty or nice . Saints are coming to town. If you complain - we're writing Santa to ask him to make you like Zechariaaaaahaaa. Okay, I'm kidding.
The joke is useful. Holidays, Holy Days, Christmas - we don't need more upsets. We need the Joy. Life. Hope. Goodness. Even Luke 1 had their struggles. And that is Real Scripture. For Real Life. From our Living God Himself.
Abba, Daddy, Father,
Let us Give Thanks for This Day. Taking the time to notice when the Holy Spirit blows fresh air in our lungs. When the day has possibilities. Gifts of God. Give Thanks.
Discover this Day as a gift of God. Blessed to know Jesus. To know the Scriptures. To know the Power of God. Adventure. Fun. Boldly and with confidence - approach Father God to explain the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. To impudently complain to our God by His invitation. To worship. To share Love and Life. To travel as a beam of thought to the open 12 Gates of Heaven. To fly past the streams of Shining Water to the Amazing Throne of God in His Home. Where aroma is bringing us to You, God our Father. Abba.
Tenderly we place the cares of those we Love in Your hands. With all Joy. We ask for the Living Waters of God to seep in and nourish more than we can ask or imagine. This is our God. Camels will go through the eye of a needle. Prayers answered in the 12 hour. By invitation.
Surrounding all of His Good creation with the communion of the saints all the hours of the day. More Jesus. Lifting Elliott up in His Word to healing. Calming the waters of family frightened. Rejoicing in the health of Dee. Praying for this nose cold to heal and joyous fresh breathe and breathing to return. And good willpower.
Father God's Love is flowing. We will find Joy. We know Jesus Christ. The Light of Jesus Christ is Not Limited and is Filled with Tender Mercy
Jesus the Lord. Jesus the Christ of God. Jesus our's. Amen.
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