Psalm 84 ~ Joy to the Living God

Psalm 84

How lovely is your dwelling place,
O Lord of hosts!
My soul longs, yes, faints
for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and flesh sing for joy
to the living God.

Even the sparrow finds a home,
and the swallow a nest for herself,
where she may lay her young,
at your altars, O Lord of hosts,
my King and my God.
Blessed are those who dwell in your house,
ever singing your praise! Selah

Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
in whose heart are the highways to Zion.
As they go through the Valley of Baca
they make it a place of springs;
the early rain also covers it with pools.
They go from strength to strength;
each one appears before God in Zion.

O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer;
give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah
Behold our shield, O God;
look on the face of your anointed!

For a day in your courts is better
than a thousand elsewhere.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
the Lord bestows favor and honor.

No good thing does he withhold
from those who walk uprightly.

O Lord of hosts,
blessed is the one who trusts in you!

The Comfort of the Holy Spirit, God's Gift

We have been thinking how we will take this time and live in the Spirit of Power and not fear. Fear is a reasonable emotion. The Disciples were never fired.  Father God tells us we can find the Spirit of Power and lift our lives and thoughts  Upward.

Saturday, July 11, 2020

1 John 1 ~ The Word of Life

We can find, even for the very new believer, our God will send His Comfort. His Path. His Love. His Word. With Father God, Love isn't the earned credit of many years - instead His Mercy guides His Comfort and Joy.

Sunday, July 12, 2020

Matthew 24:32-51 ~ From the fig tree learn its lesson +

We take to heart and calm the suffering of this year, Father God has given us the ability to read His Word and correctly gauge the season, within His guidance of all His Word. His Words are also clear as well as in His Own Plan.  Learning of His Nature and His Comforting Words. Assurance.

Monday, July 13, 2020

Nahum 1:1-9 ~ The Lord is good. A stronghold in the day of trouble

Jesus is the Exact Nature of God our Father.  He is not wispy. God is not only a stronghold, His Plan has Purpose and Power. God will never need to take Powerful, Definitive Action twice. We find in this year - God has upheld life and given us strongholds.

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Exodus 40 ~ and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle

We have lived out of the ordinary this year. Called 2020.
Churches saw Ash Wednesday prayers focused on having time to spend with families with children. A common prayer with a lot of heart. This time in life, our family together, comes around once. And with these situtions of 2020, we found families had to discuss urgent matters not resembling chicken parts wrapped in styrofoam. A time of Prayer.

Usually we live the ordinary. This year we had time to think about Works of God.
The Histories of Empires, the Archaeology of the Bible. The wall of evidence reflecting Glories interacting of Empires of Vast Histories - our technology world doesn't provide. The wonder of the ancients. The sustaining ability of Scripture - not presenting clean and neat people with sufficient abilities. The absolute definition all people are flawed and sinful. The Glory of God is seeing the warmth of His Living Word in our Heart. The Words reaching beyond time - so very far back, and yet we can catch strong ideas in our imaging. And then quick and sudden responses to technology taking us up,. And Yet Eternity is Today in our Heart; in Jesus we will go without trepidation far further than we asking or imagining. With a glimpse of Heaven within life and within God's territory, our own soul.

Not just the solid wall of written Histories among Cultures revealed with the Solid Core of Scripture,
the interweaving of God with all layers of all of our knowledge, the vast jungle in all of us. Mark's Gospel begins with taming the wilderness. Good point. The Jungle of thoughts, dreams, fears, reality, goals, vanity, Love, children, boredom, revelation and even failure. God sorting all this within us floating as stars in His Universe.  To find His Love bridges all gaps; we are whole. Holy in Jesus Christ. Traveling the Hills and "High Ways" of Heaven.

In God the Almighty, His Love, we are free.

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Acts 1:1-14 ~ Jesus began to do and teach †

We are sometimes put apart from one another. Physically, emotionally, a dwindle of effort and longing. Life pulls at the seams we thought would be our bond. All is lost. Jesus shows us a real Family belonging to God's Highest to find foolish, mistaken, accidental, forgetful, doubting, annoying, abandoning, selfish ambitions - reuniting. Awakening. A Living Water flood of nourishing, relentless Love. Love keeping us in Emmaus with Jesus and making all things new. Heaven where families live with each other on earth as in Heaven. Named by God with His Love.

Thursday, July 16, 2020

2 Peter 3 ~ Beloved

The Scriptures explaining the Scripture revealing the layers of the Word of God letting us find the living men, mankind God delights in enough to save the entire world in Jesus Christ. We find History, emotion, life, changing seasons and enduring to find an Overcoming leaving only incredible Hope. The Word of God is Eternal. Working. Today.

Saturday, July 18, 2020

Exodus 33:17-23, Exodus 34:1-10 ~ And the Lord said, “Behold"

The Exodus explains Father God allows us to have suffering and hardship to provide a framework of His Provision. The purpose: Allowing Love to Flourish. We find the Light of Christ in mankind is complaining and enduring and hoping and seasons of good and evil. If we see God first, we will find God isn't providing coincidences - God is Love. God is Life.

Where is our Shield Located?

 Our Shield is located where we put our Heart.

Just expect to be very cautious everywhere. God tells us not to fear a lion in the street.


Where is the Shield?
Continuance demonstrates the shield exists.

Why do we need all of these layers of - mess? To provide for families. To provide a place for love to exist. Working out the puzzles of life with some grim determination and the hope of Heaven. On earth.


We put our Shield where our heart is located. When we put our Trust in God, we find we are sustained, enduring, hopeful, resilient. Because our heart is with Jesus Christ.

When we pray the Lord's Prayer we identify Father God as our Heavenly Father. Why? We are being shown God loves us so dearly we will have to work to identify God apart from our earthly Dad. Jesus says Daddy. Abba.  And unlike our earthly Dad, God lives in our heart and soul. We invite Father  God to know all of us and live and move and have His Being in us.

The 84th Psalm tells us about God's Love for me and for you.

God dwells in you and in me,  as we say and believe Jesus is Lord. And we are His chosen dwelling place as the Holy Spirit lives in me and in you.

Abba, Father God says:
Our dwelling place welcoming Jesus Christ, God with us is - Lovely.

We Long for God.
And will sing for Joy in this Love and longing. The moments of the day become more interesting.

Even the least of us - sparrows - will understand the Tenderness of God.
Father God would hold our soul as a nest for the heart to be held in this tenderness.

Blessed
Father God is so gentle, the little tiny - without feathers and ability to cope - children - are held in this tenderness to hold forth hope and trust.

God reminds us He is God the Almighty. He is not a waiter or merely exists to be a  nest holder. God is a Father with an Altar. King and God from Alpha to Omega.

Blessed are all who find this wholeness of Holiness is where we place our Heart in God's Good Will.

Blessed
With Strength to want His High Way
Hardships become places to find His Blessings, just like these floods in Coastal Texas. Springs, Pools, Living Water, Strength to Strength.

Blessed
To have our prayers heard. Blessed God listens to us.

Blessed
To have a shield and to plan ,with hope, a future in God. To hope God's Heart will keep us in His High Way.

Blessed
To want to be in the Number when the Saints go Marching In.

Blessed 
To say Let the Plans of Jesus be established because our Home is in Jesus forever.

For the Lord God is a sun and shield;

the Lord bestows favor and honor.

No good thing does he withhold

from those who walk uprightly.

O Lord of hosts,

blessed is the one who trusts in you!

Abba, Father God,

Your willing Blessing renews each day. Let us seek You first and glimpse Heaven becoming more of earth. Especially for those we Love.

The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you 

and be gracious to you; 

the Lord lift up his countenance, smile, upon you and give you peace.

Cover you in the Name of Jesus.

God is able to make all grace abound to you, 

so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times,

 you may abound in every good work.

Father, we pray daily and know our prayers are heard and answered.
Jesus help us in this Nation to be in Your Word
Covered in God's Love,
President Donald Trump
Vice President Mike Pence
The Presidential Team
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Robert Redfield, Dr. Deborah Birx
and their families.

For Liberty and Justice for All.
In the Name of Jesus, Amen.

From His fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.

For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

They who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God,

In the Name of Jesus we pray our Father God's Willing Blessings and His  Peace upon us, covering us, flowing from us having His Love indwelling 

Ongoing, Ongoing in His Love.

Our Amen is in Jesus Christ.

The Roads of Heaven and Eden the Genesis Garden

find Gold.

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Exodus 33:17-23, Exodus 34:1-10 ~ And the Lord said, “Behold"

Exodus 33:17-23

17 And the Lord said to Moses, “This very thing that you have spoken I will do, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.” 

18 Moses said, “Please show me your glory.” 

19 And He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The Lord.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. 20 But,” He said, “you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.” 

21 And the Lord said, “Behold, there is a place by me where you shall stand on the rock, 22 and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by. 23 Then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back, but my face shall not be seen.”

Exodus 34:1-10

The Lord said to Moses, “Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. 2 Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain. 3 No one shall come up with you, and let no one be seen throughout all the mountain. Let no flocks or herds graze opposite that mountain.”

4 So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first. And he rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand two tablets of stone.

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, 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.” 

8 And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped. 9 And he said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us, for it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

10 And he said, “Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the Lord, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.

Moses spoke to the Lord, "Here I am, Lord."
They were so tender, Moses and the Lord, Moses began with His Name.

Moses asks the Lord to see Him.
The Lord provides Shelter for this.

The Lord is not coincidental. Our Father God has a plan for our Hope and Future.

Now to Father God, Who is able to do far more abundantly

 than all that we ask or think, 

according to the power at work within us, 

to Him be Glory 

in the Church 

and 

in Christ Jesus 

throughout all generations, 

forever and ever. Amen.

God Repeats His Plan to Moses

Now to Father God, Who is able to do far more abundantly

 than all that we ask or think, 

according to the power at work within us, 

to Him be Glory 

in the Church 

and 

in Christ Jesus 

throughout all generations, 

forever and ever. Amen.

That day Moses woke up, he had no idea of God's Plans for him.

Abba, Our Father

In Expectation, we ask for Your Blessings. Your Willing Blessings.

With Joy in Your Strength and Mercy, we are so Grateful to be in The New Covenant.

Know us and dwell within us, Jesus Christ.

We want to seek You first and to see Heaven on earth.

Bless those we Love in Jesus.
For my son's Bar Exam to go well.

We pray for the earth, Your Creation You call Good.

For All to have enough to eat and have Your Comfort, Father God.

We are so grateful for Peace. Let Peace be Victory for us All.

In Summer, we pray for rain and calm seas for Your Good Earth.

Especially in Texas.

Father, we pray daily and know our prayers are heard and answered.
Jesus help us in this Nation to be in Your Word
Covered in God's Love,
President Donald Trump
Vice President Mike Pence
The Presidential Team
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Robert Redfield, Dr. Deborah Birx
and their families.

For Liberty and Justice for All.
In the Name of Jesus, Amen.

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2 Peter 3 ~ Beloved

2 Peter 3

This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, 2 that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles.

3 Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. 4 They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.” 

5 For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, 6 and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished. 7 But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

8 But do not overlook this one fact, 
beloved,
 that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 

9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you.

Not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. 
10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.

11 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, 12 waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! 13 But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

14 Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace. 

15 And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, 16 as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. 

There are some things in them that are hard to understand, 
which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. 


17 You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability. 

18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 
To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

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Timothy 

Became St Paul’s disciple, constant companion and co-worker in preaching.

Paul mentored Timothy by equipping him for the tasks of ministry, empowering him for success, employing him for effectiveness at the Church in Ephesus, and by communicating his love, respect, and appreciation for Timothy as a son, brother, and messenger of Christ.

In the year 52, Paul, Silas and Timothy journeyed to Macedonia. Timothy may have been subject to ill health or "frequent ailments", and Paul encouraged him to "use a little wine for your stomach's sake"

The apocryphal Acts of Timothy explains in the year 97 AD, the 80-year-old Bishop of Ephesus, Timothy, tried to halt a procession honoring the goddess Diana, by preaching the gospel. The angry mob beat him, dragged him through the streets, and stoned him to death. 

Proverbs 16:31

Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.

Isaiah 46:4

Even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save.

Job 12:12

Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.

Papyrus 3535b- University of Michigan circa late first or second century. Depends on usage of verbs.

Papyrus 46, within two generations of Jesus, lists this 2 Timothy 2 as part of the pages, but it's missing. It's interesting Papyrus 46 survived 1900 centuries in remarkable, miraculous condition. Interesting - very - Papyrus 46 shows larger handwriting when Paul speaks of Paul's larger signature. The art is sometimes beautiful when the titles change and there are florid swirls just to be pretty. Personality!

This 3535b is 1st or 2nd Century A.D., still remarkable at this age, and the handwriting is far more relaxed.  Papyrus 46 is profoundly scholarly and perfect. The 1st Century saw Christianity widespread and accepted, the 1st Century needed to be precise to be clear.

About the time this was written, the Disciple John was being exiled to Patmos. 95 AD

Why was friendly, kindly, loving Timothy killed?

The Corinthian Church and the Church in Ephesus were angered because Jesus had not returned - this is a major theory in the upward, sudden mobility, of violent goddess worship.

When Peter was writing about some people being angered at God's Promises being slow, he was not exaggerating.




We wonder about the end of the earth.
So did First Century Romans. Weather was increasingly a concern with droughts. And savage storms.

Ptolemy in Alexandria
A weather diary, compiled by Ptolemy in Alexandria c.120, mentioned rain in every month except August and thunder throughout the summer. It helps to explain the agricultural prosperity of Roman Africa (the granary of Rome), and the prosperity of southern Spain in the Roman era.

During the Second Punic War, the Mediterranean coast saw such powerful storms that the Roman fleet was destroyed twice (in 249 BC and 225 BC). This was followed by drought in Italy in 226 BC, which lasted six months. In December of 170 BC there was a blood rain in Rome. Written sources from about 75 BC to c. 175 AD also emphasize moisture, mainly in the form of the Tiber floods in Rome. Large Tiber floods occurred in 5 (lasted seven days), 15, 36, 51, 69, 79 and 97 AD. Starting from the Roman annexation of Egypt in 30 BC and until 155 AD favorable floods occurred more frequently in the Nile.

Tacitus
The winter of 69/70 AD was the driest known to Tacitus when he wrote his Histories around 100 AD; exactly at the same time the dry season persisted in the Americas. Dry conditions returned during the reign of Hadrian. In Timgad – on Hadrian's visit to that city in 133 rain fell for the first time in five years.Some parts of the empire, however, saw better precipitation.

Almost all generations have asked if disaster was the end of the world.
Hitler was the end of the world. The French Revolution trying to burn down Notre Dame was the end of the world, destroying all the art. The Second Century of the Roman Empire had massive, sudden lightning strikes killing people merely walking.

We are certainly able to find an answer in the Words of Jesus. A Road to Emmaus question.

Luke 18:8
When the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on earth?


6 And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says. 7 And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? 8 I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”

I think we know. We have prayed for Italy, prayed for New York City and the greater area. We pray for these times. We see where television ratings are good - TBN. We are connected to our Churches on Zoom and You Tube. Today, I went to the Grocery Store and the kindly man working there said, "God Bless you." Out of the blue. Kind words are the cream and butter of Father God's working world.

I think we have an idea.

God Bless you!

Studies show 1 in 10 people have either a near death experience or real dream of Heaven. 80% of the USA prays daily. We pray so much we are recorded to pray as hard as 3rd world emerging Nations. Almost all praying people have a miracle in their lives they can tell you about. The Churches opened their hearts and said let's have Equality, Liberty and Justice for all.

Timothy's life tells us good times arrive and fade, the Word of Jesus is our Foundation.

Jesus has Holy Spirit Comfort today for us in 2 Peter 3

Beloved, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure position.

beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability. 

Instead grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 

To Him be the glory both 
now
and to the day of eternity. 
Amen.

Abba, Father God,

THANKS AND THANKS AND THANKS AND THANK YOU

In times of fear, we will live in faith with Your Love.

You will Pull us to You.

Hebrews 11:1
Now!
Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

Romans 10:17
Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message,
and the message is heard through the Word about Christ.

Hebrews 11:6
And without faith it is impossible to please God
Because anyone who comes to him must believe.
Believe He exists and
Believe He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.

We Believe! We Believe! We Believe! We Believe! We Believe! We Believe!We Believe! We Believe! We Believe! We Believe! We Believe! We Believe!

Thank You, Lord!!!

We so want to see more Heaven on earth
Help us to Seek You First, Father God.

And in seeing more Heaven empower
us to give more Heaven on earth.

In Your Righteous Love, Cover and Uphold
Those we Love. We Trust You.

Comfort us ALL. Your Promises.

Jesus help us in this Nation to be in Your Word
Covered in God's Love,
President Donald Trump
Vice President Mike Pence
The Presidential Team
Dr. Anthony Fauci,  Dr. Robert Redfield, Dr. Deborah Birx
and their families.

And in Your Word, Jesus, You fill all
by fulfilling every Law of God,
Jesus fills every dot and iota...

Now to Father God, Who is able to do far more abundantly

 than all that we ask or think, 

according to the power at work within us, 

to Him be Glory 

in the Church 

and 
in Christ Jesus 
throughout all generations, 
forever and ever. Amen.



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