John 3:8 ~ born of the Spirit

Paradise, who'd say no?

John 3:8

The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, 

but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes.

 So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.

If we needed a forecast for Thanksgiving - across the entire continent - a perfect forecast for every year it would be - Wind. Comforting wind, family talk. Or hurricane. Gusts that merely banter about. Windsheer shear. Whirling dervish of yada yada. The ahhh of just what you longed for.

With all the micro nano evolution of Nasa and buildings and buildings of computers which eventually became a hand held calculator and then home computer, and now phone and tablet. Where are we heading next?

Not the happiest of all things - wind farms. Birds don't do well. Insects increase. Houses move very, very far away. The expense of the things and the weight uselessly used to create the energy.

What if each Palm branch had a micro device down a trunk sending the electrical pulse where the palm frond waved? Probably, the useless old heavy, expensive things would recycle well and birds would be happier. More energy gathered from a natural process. Plant along major highways and you have winner, winner Catfish Dinner.

So, what was the actual night Jesus was considering this wind?

The Night one of the all-important Sanhedrin decided to find out about the goodness - during the dark - to keep his political thing and power intact.


John 3

3 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again  he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

4 Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” 

5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.  7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You  must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

9 Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?”


Jesus and the complete concept of Shepherd. Jesus is going to do like St. Michael and be polite to the devil for asking for the body of Moses. Yeah, a real situation described in the Scriptures. This is used telling us that being polite is required. Even to the devil. If we consider a real-life drama of this - we could consider having to speak to the Mafia Mob Boss. Polite is a good thing. In Georgia, they call this, "Capeachy!" We could all use more peachy.

And when we adopted to Standard Poodle Puppies, we really learned a good thing from the excellent Poodle Breeder, we say, "Aae instead of No." The goal is to say, "Aae" easily. Off the counter. "Aae." Not to roar, "NO!!!" We want our doggie fur family to blend in, to be comfortable, to BEHAVE, to have Joy. Without upsets. Capeachy?

Excellent travail bon et fidèle. Bon.

Jesus as the Shepherd and friend to Nicodemus is going to give him the truth.


John 3
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”

3 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

4 Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?”

5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’

8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

9 Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?”

10 Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things? 11 Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.

12 If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 13 No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.

14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.


Now we were cruising right along at wind speed, why did Jesus go and throw in the part about the serpent?

Jesus is the manifest Word of God. Jesus became Light of the world, before Abraham existed, by being created by God's Very Word. "Let there be Light." And because God speaks of yesterday, today and tomorrow - Jesus is always going to Shepherd us at the level we need. So each time we read a passage of Scripture, we find New Wind. New Shepherding.

Why throw in the serpent on the Bronze Stick? It's part of the Exodus, a Great Act of God. Nicodemus has 'arrived' because he understands something like Sherlock Holmes, "The game is afoot." Nicodemus is being reminded of the Exodus by the Acts of Jesus of healing all people. Jesus is reminding Nicodemus he is mortal, Nicodemus will stand before God and His Judgement. Maybe Jesus was reminding Nicodemus the Serpent on the Bronze Stick is in history of Pharaoh Seti II and they converse on history and Hezekiah recorded Biblically destroying the Serpent 1100 years later. Maybe is was later a teaching, private, conversation?! An example of Jesus recording His ideas on human conversation??!

And Very Probably,
Jesus was saying to use our words, our wind, with great care not to be the serpent.

We take the advice of Jesus and we apply Him with Love. Mercy. And genuine sincerity.



And we arrive at being able to converse with Jesus with Great Joy!

Abba!

We have returned to speak with You again!

All our Thanks for Your Great Mercies. For Speaking Your Word of Blessings, of Joy, Love and Peace. Forever!

May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart - be pleasing and acceptable within the Tender Mercy and Love You hold for me.

Cover us with Jesus. Wrap Your arms as Great Wings around those I Love and Give them Jesus Always.

Holding Forth with all the Beloved, the saints of God, praying across Your Good, Good, Good, 10 times Good Creation since Light. Filling Your Creation all over the fullness of Your Good earth with the Love of Jesus. Lifting up hearts, souls and lives as We Trust in God.

Forever and ever. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllleluia. In Jesus. Forever and Ever - Ahhhh Amen.

The Lord Bless Elliott and Harby and their family

somehow the photo below reminds me of them.

Jesus continue to heal Elliott.

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Matthew 6:7-15 ~ your Father knows what you need before you ask Him, pray then like this

Matthew 6:7-15

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

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

14 For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, 15 but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Psalm 103:6

He satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s

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.

Deuteronomy 28 

And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. 2And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the LORD your God. 3 Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. 4 Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. 5 Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. 6 Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.

7“The LORD will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you. They shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways. 8The LORD will command the blessing on you in your barns and in all that you undertake. And he will bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. 9The LORD will establish you as a people holy to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in his ways.

Abba,

You have been thinking right along me, all this day, and all of my life.

We can pray to You, knowing You know all the details. Abba, we ask for Your Abundant and Willing Blessings this day. And we will look to see this with renewed ideas and fresh minds. Daily You Loadeth us with Blessings.

We ask as we bring Your Word for Peace, You will do this. To fill each day with Love, Joy and Peace.

And in the Name of Jesus, bring more Heaven on earth for Your Good Will.

Bless us this week as we gather with the People we Love, the People You have given us. Help us to know Your
Blessings.

In Jesus Christ, Surrounding Your Good Creation, we ask for all of our Cares Lifted to You. And Rest comfortably in this prayer. We pray for Elliott to have all the help he asks for this week as his own stem cell transplant testing is done. And thank You with whole hearts and grateful souls for the numbers to be miraculously so low. Thank You.

Thank You for the answers to prayer. Thank You in Jesus. We have sealed us this day and always in the Name of Jesus and for the people we pray for and You have Lovingly given to us. Amen in Jesus. Amen.

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Zechariah 10:6-12 ~ their hearts shall rejoice in the Lord

Zechariah 10:6-12

 “I will strengthen the house of Judah,
and I will save the house of Joseph.
I will bring them back because I have compassion on them,
and they shall be as though I had not rejected them,
for I am the Lord their God and I will answer them.
7 Then Ephraim shall become like a mighty warrior,
and their hearts shall be glad as with wine.
Their children shall see it and be glad;
their hearts shall rejoice in the Lord.

8 “I will whistle for them and gather them in,
for I have redeemed them,
and they shall be as many as they were before.
9 Though I scattered them among the nations,
yet in far countries they shall remember me,
and with their children they shall live and return.

10 I will bring them home from the land of Egypt,
and gather them from Assyria,
and I will bring them to the land of Gilead and to Lebanon,
till there is no room for them.
11 He shall pass through the sea of troubles
and strike down the waves of the sea,
and all the depths of the Nile shall be dried up.
The pride of Assyria shall be laid low,
and the scepter of Egypt shall depart.

12 I will make them strong in the Lord,
and they shall walk in his name,”
declares the Lord.

Matthew 1

1 The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

2 Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, 3 and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram, 4 and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon, 5 and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse, 6 and Jesse the father of David the king.

And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah, 7 and Solomon the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asaph, 8 and Asaph the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah, 9 and Uzziah the father of Jotham, and Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah, 10 and Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, and Manasseh the father of Amos, and Amos the father of Josiah, 11 and Josiah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.

12 And after the deportation to Babylon: Jechoniah was the father of Shealtiel, and Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel, 13 and Zerubbabel the father of Abiud, and Abiud the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim the father of Azor, 14 and Azor the father of Zadok, and Zadok the father of Achim, and Achim the father of Eliud, 15 and Eliud the father of Eleazar, and Eleazar the father of Matthan, and Matthan the father of Jacob, 16 and Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.

17 So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations.

18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. 19 And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly. 20 But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” 22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet:

23 “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,
and they shall call his name Immanuel”

(which means, God with us). 24 When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him: he took his wife, 25 but knew her not until she had given birth to a son. And he called his name Jesus.

Isaiah 66:13
700 years before Jesus arrives as Grace upon Grace

As a mother comforts her child,

so will I comfort you;

and you shall will be comforted in Jerusalem.

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Hebrews 3 ~ The Holy Spirit Says

Hebrews 3

Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, 2 who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house. 3 For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. 4 (For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) 5 Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, 6 but Christ is faithful over God's house as a son. And we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.

7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,

“Today, if you hear his voice,
8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
on the day of testing in the wilderness,
9 where your fathers put me to the test
and saw my works for forty years.
10 Therefore I was provoked with that generation,
and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart;
they have not known my ways.’
11 As I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not enter my rest.’”

12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. 15 As it is said,

“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

16 For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? 17 And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? 19 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.


Our Father tells us in His Word, we will Live by every Word of God. And then, He says we should renew our minds and see old things in new ways.

We always consider God to be so angry in the Old Testament. Really, God did not care for the infant sacrifice for prosperity so common in Baal worship around Israel. God, in fact, said come out from among them. Blood on the fields will grow crops, but what people do this?

And when we consider the Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow video of Israel, we might think of Ezekiel 37. Old Testament...

This surely does not sound very angry.

And the Resurrection? Began to be part of God's Plan as God spoke Light into True Light. Before Abraham. In the Old Testament.

The Bones so dead, would rise up and Live. From God's Spoken Word - Jesus - incarnate Word of God, Jesus, Himself.

Ezekiel 37 is Old Testament.


In the New Testament...
Does God repent of all of the wars the earth has seen from the dawn of time to our time? No. God tells us in Hebrews 3, mankind has free will. Father God desires us to employ Life, given to us to stand every day before God, in Jesus, and we will Live.

Hebrews 3 points out the analogy of making choices to Live during the tribulations of the Exodus. God our Father is still talking about this through out the Gospels and New Testament. God is the same Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. God promised the Children of Israel, Israel would be a land of milk and honey. God knows what God Himself is doing.







Consider what God told Micah, Old Testament, in the Holy Spirit:

Our Father God, Father of Jesus Christ, showing His exact personality, is the same always.

Hebrews 1:3

The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.

Psalm 121 

My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.

Isaiah 66:13
700 years before Jesus arrives as Grace upon Grace

As a mother comforts her child,

so will I comfort you;

and you shall will be comforted in Jerusalem.

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