Isaiah 41:1-13 ~ I Am the One who helps you

Isaiah 41:1-13

Listen to me in silence, O coastlands;

let the peoples renew their strength;

let them approach, then let them speak;

let us together draw near for judgment.

2 Who stirred up one from the east

whom victory meets at every step?

He gives up nations before him,

so that he tramples kings underfoot;

he makes them like dust with his sword,

like driven stubble with his bow.

3 He pursues them and passes on safely,

by paths his feet have not trod.

4 Who has performed and done this,

calling the generations from the beginning?

I, the Lord, the first,

and with the last; I am he.

5 The coastlands have seen and are afraid;

the ends of the earth tremble;

they have drawn near and come.

6 Everyone helps his neighbor

and says to his brother, “Be strong!”

7 The craftsman strengthens the goldsmith,

and he who smooths with the hammer him who strikes the anvil,

saying of the soldering, “It is good”;

and they strengthen it with nails so that it cannot be moved.

8 But you, Israel, my servant,

Jacob, whom I have chosen,

the offspring of Abraham, my friend;

9 you whom I took from the ends of the earth,

and called from its farthest corners,

saying to you, “You are my servant,

I have chosen you and not cast you off”;

10 fear not, for I am with you;

be not dismayed, for I am your God;

I will strengthen you, I will help you,

I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

11 Behold, all who are incensed against you

shall be put to shame and confounded;

those who strive against you

shall be as nothing and shall perish.

12 You shall seek those who contend with you,

but you shall not find them;

those who war against you

shall be as nothing at all.

13 For I, the Lord your God,

hold your right hand;

it is I who say to you, “Fear not,

I am the one who helps you.”

These Boys have lost both parents within 2 weeks of each other. 14-year-old Isaiah Garcia and his brother are giving thanks to move with his uncle, who has 4 children. The Family is seeking support and has set up a Go Fund Me Page. Their grandmother, Naomi's mother, says as Christians they will accept God's Plan. We will pray for this family to have this sadness see the Goodness of God.

Isaiah 61:1

The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners

Houston, and all of Texas, (as well as other states) have had quite a difficult month.
And this weekend we will probably see a Tropical Storm, Hanna, of some kind. The Hurricane Hunters prepped and flew over the Gulf as the tropical disturbance quickly gained organization.Flooding rains will be our biggest concern, with half a foot of rain or 2-3 inches in areas of the coast surrounding Houston.

Tropical Storm Gonzalo. It is expected to become the seasons first hurricane tomorrow. Hurricane Watch is up for Barbados. It is expected to move into the Caribbean this weekend and weaken. Weaken these storms, we pray, Oh Father God! And Thank You the Gulf will cool down.

Abba, our Father God,

We pray for a new, Healing, day for Houston's Greater City and the Coast land areas of Texas.
No storms or calm rain, please.

Thank You, Father, so many are surviving Covid-19.
You have helped the medical avalanche of information to provide more and more medications.

We pray for Isaiah Garcia's family and those who will regain their loved ones in
Your Heavenly Kingdom.

Isaiah 40:31

Those who hope in the LORD 

will renew their strength.

They will soar on wings like eagles; 

they will run and not grow weary,

they will walk and not be faint.

Father, we would all ask for Peace.

Peace in our Nation. 

Inner Peace, peace in the cities, peace for the Nations, peace inside all those we Love.

Refresh us and strengthen us.

Renew us to Seek You First. Reassure us of Heaven on earth. Nourish us to strengthen weak knees and build strong hands to see Your Good Creation again.

Let Your Living Water be Your Word fulfilled in our heart, mind and soul.

You give Willing Blessings, we know and Believe.

Father, we pray daily and know our prayers are heard and answered.
Jesus Blessing our 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.

Praying for our eldest son, to travel and pass his Bar Exam.
Saying a profound thank you for the dog healing nicely after an accident.

You never Leave us. Thank You.
For Liberty and Justice for All.
In the Name of Jesus, Amen.

Ephesians 3

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I ask that out of the riches of His glory He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being.

Father, we pray this Prayer goes very far

and in Your Kingdom makes Your Willing Blessings

be our hope and expectation in Your Goodness.

Amen in Jesus.

The Lord our Gracious Father

be pleased

to see such loving hearts fill

this Nation.

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Psalm 47 ~ God is King of all the earth

Psalm 47

Clap your hands, all peoples!

Shout to God with loud songs of joy!

For the Lord, the Most High, is to be feared,

a great king over all the earth.

He subdued peoples under us,

and nations under our feet.

He chose our heritage for us,

the pride of Jacob whom he loves. Selah

God has gone up with a shout,

the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.

Sing praises to God, sing praises!

Sing praises to our King, sing praises!

For God is the King of all the earth;

sing praises with a psalm!

God reigns over the nations;

God sits on his holy throne.

The princes of the peoples gather

as the people of the God of Abraham.

For the shields of the earth belong to God;

he is highly exalted!

You can now buy at-home COVID-19 test kits at Randall's Pharmacies in the Houston area


Houston's Harris County and other Counties in Texas are adjusting Covid-19. We have 38,790 Active Cases in Harris County and Recovered Cases of 19,129. We have all put on masks and followed our Governor and Federal Guidelines. Since July 13th, this has begun to show some slight improvement. This is different from the singing we saw in fear in Italy. It's different from the fear we all held for NYC.

We have hope the masks and the guidelines are going to work within a month - if we adhere to this pattern. And we are all back in a Team Helpful Pattern. In the Suburbs, if you are unmasked, not at a Restaurant table, you will have some concerned and unhappy glances. Shops and restaurants insist on those without masks to exit.

Instead of fear, healing. Instead of isolation, more concern and conversation. Texas understands to keep moving and praying and healing. I'm sure we are all getting with the prayer and the help others guidelines.

Father God asks us to reach for the song in our soul and find Rejoicing. The Lord is our Strength and our Joy.

Abba, Father God,

Proverbs 24:14
Know also that wisdom is like honey for you: If you find it, there is a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.

We want to be known to You, to seek You first. And find Heaven on earth and give Heaven to others.

Jesus we Lift our concerns to You. You will tenderly handle them. We lift our Loved Ones. We lift our communities and Churches. And this Nation. Rejoicing people all over the World call upon Jesus from Knowing His Love.

Asking prayers for our son taking the Bar Exam. And our injured dog.

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.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †  

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Revelation 1:8 ~ The Alpha and Omega, Who Is, and Who Was, and Who will Come.

Leviticus 17:5-6

5 This is to the end that the people of Israel may bring their sacrifices that they sacrifice in the open field, that they may bring them to the LORD, to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and sacrifice them as sacrifices of peace offerings to the LORD. 

6 And the priest shall throw the blood on the altar of the LORD at the entrance of the tent of meeting and burn the fat for a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

Genesis 1:27-31

27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.

28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” 29 And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. 30 And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. 31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.



David, of course, had a very good look at the Ark of the Covenant because the people of God - carried the Ark with them. It had not yet occurred to the people of God to place God behind a Curtain. The Ark could be very uncomfortable to live with - as David experienced.

And having seen the actual Ark of the Covenant, Moses and the Lord had discussed the Ark of the Covenant, David well knew (and from his experiences in the field with the flock telling Father God all of his emotions and thoughts) David knew the Merciful and Steadfast Love from God. The Ark is a Seat of Mercy. Asking Father God to sit down, live, have His being with us and have Mercy upon us.



David knew the Mercy of God.

The people of God knew such Glory in God - today Shiloh, Israel has a copy - a solid building of the Tabernacle Tent holding the Ark of the Covenant. Today.

Archaeology of the Actual Tabernacle in Shiloh

The Building Copy of the Tabernacle in Shiloh

God knew all of mankind - seeing into mankind. And in the Creation, In the endurance. In the acceptance of God's Son and His Sacrifice. God even in Leviticus is inviting us into Revelation 1 - His Home, His Throne. Surrounded by the aroma of prayer as incense and the Shining Water aroma of His very Home.

Proverb 8

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, Our Father,

To Know the Scriptures
is to Know the Power of God.

Great is His steadfast love toward us,

and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever.

Praise God!

Deuteronomy 7:9

Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations

1 Corinthians 1:9

God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord

1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Jeremiah 29:11-13

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil,

to give you a future and a hope.

Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, 
and I will hear you.

You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.

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?

Hebrews 10:23

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering,

for he who promised is faithful.

Abba,

We will trust in You with all our heart!

We want to be known to You, to seek You first.

And find Heaven on earth and give Heaven to others.

For great is His steadfast love for us, our loved ones, the people  faithfulness of the Lord endures forever.

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.

In Jesus, we pray the Glory of God to shine upon us. 

Amen.

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1 Corinthians 13:13 ~ the Greatest of These is Love

1 Corinthians 13:13

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

The message of Jesus Christ's salvation is much more compelling and eternal than I could every be privileged to say.

Salvation is from the Lord Jesus.

Isaiah 51

Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness,

you who seek the Lord:

look to the rock from which you were hewn,

and to the quarry from which you were dug.

The faith and bedrock I saw my family do life with. The people who live long lives of hope.

2 Look to Abraham your father

and to Sarah who bore you;

for he was but one when I called him,

that I might bless him and multiply him.

Our blessings only come from God.

3 For the Lord comforts Zion;

he comforts all her waste places

and makes her wilderness like Eden,

her desert like the garden of the Lord;

joy and gladness will be found in her,

thanksgiving and the voice of song.

This is a wonderful verse. And not for the days when we feel comforted. The memory of comfort. I believe in the Son when the sun is not shining. When parents are frail and loved ones have a terminal diagnosis. When the path tells you, you must be strong to Jesus. Jesus is where you need comfort the most. We come into this world, usually alone, and to Jesus we bring our soul with Him alone. And in reality, this is the Person, This Son of God, we need the most.

4 “Give attention to me, my people,

and give ear to me, my nation;

for a law will go out from me,

and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples.

THIS is the LIGHT of Jesus within us. This is our bedrock. Weep when we must weep. To be real. To be genuine. To be sincere. To go forth. To go far.



What is Heaven? His People. To hear Jesus say, "My People."
To hear Him call us "His Nation."

5 My righteousness draws near,

my salvation has gone out,

and my arms will judge the peoples;

the coastlands hope for me,

and for my arm they wait.

6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens,

and look at the earth beneath;

for the heavens vanish like smoke,

the earth will wear out like a garment,

and they who dwell in it will die in like manner;

but my salvation will be forever,

and my righteousness will never be dismayed.

7 “Listen to me, you who know righteousness,

the people in whose heart is my law;

fear not the reproach of man,

nor be dismayed at their reviling.

8 For the moth will eat them up like a garment,

and the worm will eat them like wool;

but my righteousness will be forever,

and my salvation to all generations.”

9 Awake, awake, put on strength,

O arm of the Lord;

awake, as in days of old,

the generations of long ago.

Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces,

who pierced the dragon?

10 Was it not you who dried up the sea,

the waters of the great deep,

who made the depths of the sea a way

for the redeemed to pass over?

11 And the ransomed of the Lord shall return

and come to Zion with singing;

everlasting joy shall be upon their heads;

they shall obtain gladness and joy,

and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

12 “I, I am he who comforts you

who are you that you are afraid of man who dies,

of the son of man who is made like grass,

13 and have forgotten the Lord, your Maker,

who stretched out the heavens

and laid the foundations of the earth,

and you fear continually all the day

because of the wrath of the oppressor,

when he sets himself to destroy?

And where is the wrath of the oppressor?

14 He who is bowed down shall speedily be released;

he shall not die and go down to the pit,

neither shall his bread be lacking.

This is Prayer.


Norman Vincent Peale wrote this:

A man in Toronto at a gathering of advertising and sales people to whom I had been asked to speak. He confided to me, “I have found two things in life that made everything different for me. The first—and it was the greatest single experience I ever had—was finding Jesus Christ and committing my life to him. And the second thing was that I learned to pray. These two things,” he declared, “revolutionized my life.” And he added, “What a pity that so many human beings never find Christ and never learn to pray! They miss the greatest things in this life.”

This is what Jesus has been saying to us through the years, and really astute people make this discovery. Christ can change your life. Prayer can change your life. Some people think you only come to such a change in one certain way. Nothing could be more false. 


One way in which prayer can change your life is by teaching you to think creatively. The way you think spells the difference between living life well and living it poorly. Prayer is an activity that sharpens the mind and thereby brings the believer into harmony with the great Mind. Now the mind, by which we remember and perceive and understand and dream and think—this is the divine within us. Through mind and soul, an individual has contact with God. Prayer is the con- tact of the soul with God through the mental process whereby the individual conquers his own weaknesses and enters into life abundant.

True prayer requires discipline, it requires pain, it requires the agony to think. But when you do think prayerfully with Jesus as your guide, you break free from the defeats which have encompassed you. I do not believe there is any problem, any defeat, any difficulty that cannot be overcome through prayer.

I have a friend who runs a big bakery business, which he built up from nothing. He was himself the company’s first baker, as a matter of fact, and he claims he can still make better bread and cakes than most of the present bakers. And one day he described to me a significant experience he had some years ago. He was faced with an extremely worrisome problem. He would pace the floor half the day trying to figure out a solution. He lay awake at night brooding over it. 

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Then, one day as he sat in his office feeling completely baffled, he chanced to glance at his mother’s picture hanging on the wall. “My mother,” he told me, “was a Kansas woman reared on the farm where I was born. She had never had much schooling. But in the hard, good life she and my father lived together she had learned many things in the school of experience. And she used to say to us children, ‘When you have a problem and you’ve worked as hard as you can at it, given it all you’ve got, and still you haven’t solved it, the thing to do is just walk away from it and think about God. But don’t talk to God about the problem. Talk to him about himself. Tell him how much you love him. Talk to Jesus and thank him for all he has done for you. Tell him you want to be his faithful follower. Have fellowship with God and with Jesus.’” 

So my friend in his perplexity looked at the picture of his mother, departed long since but still living and still speaking to him in thought. And he decided to leave the problem for a while. He took out his Bible and read some passages his mother had marked in this same book. He thought about Jesus, and he rededicated himself, acknowledging that he felt he had not been growing as he ought, that he’d been less than himself. Then after a time he turned back to the problem. Did he get an answer immediately? No. But now he felt calm about it. He was confident he would somehow be able to handle it. And presently—later that same day, as I recall it—he did find a satisfactory solution. So prayer is a mental process.

Oftentimes a person will complain, “I’ve prayed and prayed and I didn’t get what I wanted.” You didn’t, eh? Well, who said you were supposed to get what you wanted? Prayer isn’t a device to get you what you want. Prayer is a means of bringing you to the point where you will accept what God wants. If you’re using it just for getting what you want, you’re engaging in an improper and degraded use of it.



Why did Jesus say we get what we want if we are abiding in His Word?

Because to Live in His Word is to Abide in His Will. When His Will and our hopes align.

This is why all the family of Jesus and all the Disciples met daily to pray. Their hopes and their faith and their Love - aligned in Jesus Christ.

Abba, Father God,

Help us to pray in a manner pleasing to you. To have the understanding that life is a series of rejoicing problems are solved and to continue to have hope faith and Love in all seasons.

We want to be known to You, to seek You first. And find Heaven on earth and give Heaven to others.

Jesus we Lift our concerns to You. You will tenderly handle them. We lift our Loved Ones. We lift up our communities and Churches. And this Nation. Rejoicing people all over the World call upon Jesus from Knowing His Love.

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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