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Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Psalm 143 ~ In Your Faithfulness answer me, in Your Righteousness!


Joy I



Psalm 143

A Psalm of David.

Who Always Prayed Very Well.



Hear my prayer, O Lord;
    give ear to my pleas for mercy!

    In Your Faithfulness answer me, 
in Your Righteousness!





David certainly knew how to pray very well. He asks Jesus to pray with him,
in the Righteousness of Jesus.




2 Enter not into judgment with your servant,
    for no one living is righteous before you.

3 For the enemy has pursued my soul;
    he has crushed my life to the ground;
    he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead.
4 Therefore my spirit faints within me;
    my heart within me is appalled.



5 I remember the days of old;
    I meditate on all that you have done

    I ponder the work of your hands.

6 I stretch out my hands to you;
    my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. 

Selah



David isn't praying in a composed and thoughtful manner in Psalm 143
David is doing as the New Testament says not to be rocked by waves.
Scripture is very real.
The last verse gives a time to reflect and celebrate.
And the next verse really asks Abba to pick up the speed of answering and hurry.


Answer me quickly, O Lord!
    My spirit fails!
Hide not your face from me,
    lest I be like those who go down to the pit.

 Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love,
    for in you I trust.
Make me know the way I should go,
    for to you I lift up my soul.


Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord!
    I have fled to you for refuge.
Teach me to do your will,
    for you are my God!
Let your good Spirit lead me
    on level ground!


11 For your name's sake, O Lord, preserve my life!


    In Your Righteousness bring my soul out of trouble!

And in Your Steadfast Love 
You will cut off my enemies,  and You will destroy all the adversaries of my soul,
    for I am your servant.



Joie De Vivre


Joie De Vivre

More, Please.

And this is precisely why we will look at Pierre Roger. A Merry Soul with humor and style, panache.
Pierre Roger loved to promote his family. Nepotism was a favorite of his. Born in a Château. His brother married 3 times and had 13 children. His other brother married well and with his wife's dowry, this brother became Seigneur de Chambon to King Philip VI.

Pierre Roger loved: Learning, even in the 1300s Pierre Roger loved the higher studies and went to the College de Sorbonne. And he began to look for work to supply him in a manner, more grand, and we would call simply moving on up. King Charles IV recommended Pierre to have a Doctorate in Theology. Not bad work, if you can get it. Pierre had done well in theology and cannon law. Pierre was now 31 years merry.

After moving to the Vatican in Avignon, Roger kept back Temporal Encroachments on the Church's ecclesiastical jurisdiction. And aided in French dominance in the Church. Because Pierre Roger became Pope Clement VI.  He had been elevated creating peace between the French and English King.



And Pope Clement VI wanted to his court to have splendor in his Papacy. Composers. Music Theorists. He loved art figures and his love for his family included 44 statues of relatives around his sarcophagus. 

Evidently Clement VI was quite pleased with yellow velvet shoes.  The Pope enjoyed dancing. 


Reportedly, Pope Clement VI's first quote was: "'Our' predecessors did not know how to be Pope." 


And Pope Clement opened the Church coffers in a generous gesture and ...

"Pope Clement promised gifts to every cleric who presented himself at Avignon within two months. Such a multitude of poor clerics appeared in Avignon that a computation was made that the number of poor clerics in all the dioceses of the world was around 100,000, a number which Peter de Herenthal was quite prepared to accept. 

When Clement VI, at the very beginning of his pontificate was making reservations of abbacies and prelatures, and declaring elections in monasteries and Chapters void, in order to acquire benefices for papal use in granting favors, it was intimated to him that his predecessors had not engaged in reservations of such a sort." - Wikipedia


Every party has a closing time. Even Papal parties.

Just as our famous Great Employment Figures and Stock market met Pandemic, Clement VI became famous 800 years later.


Pope Clement VI of the Black Plagues, 1347

Famous for living sequestered in a large fur coat between two giant fires while shunning everyone during the first Black Plague. 

Pope Clement was the fourth Avignon Pope. He rejected a life of poverty. 
Clement helped secure 1346's election of the German king Charles IV, who allied with the papacy. He abandoned his vow of monastic poverty and opposed the Spirituals, Franciscan extremists who observed absolute material poverty.

 Enlarging the papal palace, Clement lived like a secular prince, patronized artists and scholars, and elevated his court to one of the most sophisticated of its time. Clement recruited composers and music theorists for his court, including figures associated with the then-innovative Art Nova style of France and the Low Countries.

The Truth: As the Black Plague approached, Pope Clement was busy with the Crusades. 

Pope Clement received information from Guy de Chauliac to place himself surrounded by torches and remain there. Blacksmiths were surviving the Black Plague. One fourth of Clement’s staff died at Avignon. Pope Clement VI attributed the plague to divine wrath, like many theologians of the time, he undertook measures saving both himself and many people from certain death. 





Clement soon became concerned about this torch fire recommendation.

And stayed in Avignon supervising sick care, burials, and the pastoral care of the dying. 

He never contracted the disease, even though there was so much death around him. 

The cities ran out of ground for cemeteries, and Clement consecrated the entire Rhone River allowing the consideration of holy ground and bodies could be thrown into it. Clement organized the bodies of the dead to be removed at a time bodies were just abandoned. Clement continued hearing the confessions of the sick and dying.

Blame had to be fixed in the disaster. 

Popular opinion blamed the Jews for the plague, and pogroms erupted throughout Europe. Clement issued two papal bulls in 1348 (6 July and 26 September), the latter named Quamvis Perfidiam, which condemned violence saying those who blamed the plague on the Jews had been "seduced by that liar, the Devil."


Pope John Paul II was invited by Israel to Say a Christian Mass at Mount Nebo, where Moses chose to buried.


 Clements went on to emphasize: “It cannot be true that the Jews, by such a heinous crime, are the cause or occasion of the plague because through many parts of the world the same plague, by the hidden judgment of God, has afflicted and afflicts the Jews themselves and many other races who have never lived alongside them.” Pope Clement urged clergy to take action to protect Jews, as he had done.






Who is upset? ... Who isn't???

Clement went on to deal with Pandemic Brain. Wars broke out for three years and the Plague was over in 2.5 years. After the wars of Pandemic Emotion calmed down, calm and peace returned.



Clement rose to the demands of Father God to love others.
He was saved in his Faith, in his Relationship with God and in his Legacy.

The needs of God's Call for the Sheep of His pasture.
In finding Peace, the Pope led the world to have Peace.
This History is a Wonder of God.






We should see the Presidential Nomination Night at the White House and the Scheduled Event of January 6 Protests didn't have the necessary Police Protection. 

Crowd Control is a routing part of the Capital Police and the 3 types of Police around D.C.

The Congress is Upset. We are Upset. Every one of us is Upset. Congressional members who are more theatric are crying about nearly dying. This is not the time to jump up and down in the pothole to find out the road isn't any smoother. We have to have some Faith in the Light shines in human nature again.

We all read the reports of mental suffering, months of confusion in recovery. Let's see the Pandemic Histories just include war, flopping around frantically and power stabs. There has been a lot of talk to gain Bait Click Popularity and Viewers of every extravagant and cruel word we can threaten. I watched a newsreel of Right explaining Left. It was a lot like World War II beginning. But if you really look at the Left saying how afraid and angry they are, you find the person sitting next to the verbal rant on the Left side of the Left news looking shocked and horrified at the rant.

Rants are everywhere. Fear and anger and threats. Don't jump into the pothole. Jump out.

Rants are part of Pandemic Brain. 
Our part is - Praying. Living with Hope. Believing Historically this is a pattern. Knowing we don't have to just complain and be unhappy we can listen to Christian Radio, YouTube Sermons, read History of Pandemic Recovery. Pray. And do all we can to be what we surround ourselves in life with. Calm grocery shoppers, people who go to Church, friends who help friends, letting go of old stories because now is a serious time and a Great Opportunity to let the water pass under the bridge - long gone - of old wounds in the face of Dramatic Events requiring more deliberate need to bolster each other up.

Dump the Depression. 
If it reeks of Theatrics, give it a Theatric label and draw peace and hope into your being instead. Roll past the pothole. Don't clickbait. Try not to rant. We all will a little. But give it another go not to rant. Eek.

Try with all your deliberation, not to feed the Pothole.



Change the Channel. Don't do Depression and Rants and Doom. 

Believe God. Believe History. Life is going forth.


Another Truth.

As you go to do your grocery, your chores, your exercise - the Vast Majority of the whole world is being calm and waiting for the Pandemic Brain to mature and heal. The percentage of Americans who pray believing God really hears their prayer is 80%. 



Jesus and I



Abba, Father God,

2 Samuel  4:1-12  
David answered, May the words of my mouth 
and the meditation of my heart 
be pleasing 
in Your sight

Oh Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.



Abba, We pray You to enfold those who have been so afraid and
have upsets within themselves.

We pray for us all to be Brave and Believe
Better Days are ahead for us in Jesus Christ.

We ask Your Wisdom to Guide and Lead us
not to enflame, not to enrage
but to
Love One Another
Encourage and Build Up.

One of our Church Pastors, Dr. Stew Grant, had his father survive serious, grave Pneumonia. Doctors were amazed to discover his lungs in advanced old age were like those of a 30-year-old.
Because Dr. Stew Grant's Good Father loved to sing 
in the Church Choir.
His father called this, "Practicing for Heaven!!!!"

Father God,
God Bless Donald Trump and all his administration for their many, many
Great Victories and Accomplishments.

God Bless this Republic
to be Brave, Generous, Wise in God's Holy Spirit
and Merciful to one another. 
To live in God's Justice and Righteousness
As long-lasting and good government is always.
May God Himself Have Mercy on us ALL
and May
GOD BLESS THE USA
Please.


Dwell in us, Jesus Christ.
Help us to see more Heaven on earth.
And in seeing more Heaven on earth, we will be more Heaven on earth.

Give us Your Love for One Another
and we will have more prayer Joy
and see Your Love Flowing into Those we Love.

Jesus Bless us we ask
Amen.




Hebrews 7:16 
Jesus has become a priest not based on a regulation 
as to His ancestry


but on the basis of the power
of an indestructible Life.











Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Exodus 20 ~ And God spoke all these Words, Saying:


Exodus 20


And God spoke all these words, saying,

2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

3 “You shall have no other gods before me.

4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

7 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

13 “You shall not murder.

14 “You shall not commit adultery.

15 “You shall not steal.

16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

17 “You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.”

18 Now when all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraid and trembled, and they stood far off 19 and said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, lest we die.” 20 Moses said to the people, “Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you, that you may not sin.” 21 The people stood far off, while Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.

Laws About Altars
22 And the Lord said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the people of Israel: ‘You have seen for yourselves that I have talked with you from heaven. 23 You shall not make gods of silver to be with me, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold. 24 An altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I cause my name to be remembered I will come to you and bless you. 25 If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones, for if you wield your tool on it you profane it. 26 And you shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness be not exposed on it.’



The Lord God, The Almighty Maker of Heaven and earth, Creator of All Things, He calls the Heavenly Host by Name and knew you before your creation, enjoys telling us about Rocks.

Allow Jesus to be the Foundation of Your Life. Father God tells us.

Jesus is the Cornerstone of the entire Temple.

Your Life built upon God is a House with a Firm Foundation.

Your Body is a Temple of God. And Jesus the Cornerstone and your Foundation.

The Exodus had the 600,000 people carrying a Huge Boulder with them because the Rock produced Living Water. Jesus tells us before Abraham, "I am." And the New Testament assures us Jesus is Living Water and part of the Exodus.


Two times in Exodus 20 we are told not to have hewn, carved stones. One is not to think a work of mankind is as wonderful as God's Nature and Good Creation, not to idolize a mere carved stone. The other tells us not to have a hewn set of stones for an altar.

One is not to allow talent, art, touch stone to become something we need, like a pacifier. To understand its place in God's Good Creation. Ethiopia turned to Walking Crosses. A fine replacement. The mightiness of God triumphs over the Impossible, even Death. Our Heavenly Father who can bring nourishing Living Water from mere rock.




Why? Isn't a Hewn Stone Altar valuable to God?


An Altar is an Epiphany, a time of Realization and a Love and Warmth for God's Love for us. To pass by and find someone enjoyed re-engineering a Joy is a sadness. To find Inner Beauty depleted and forlorn. The hewn stones unknowingly invite dissembling. A Breach of Trust.  

God tells us about Good and Goodness of His Eternally Alive Creation in the very start of His Word. 

The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. 

God intends us to see His Works and have Awe and Wonder and to examine what we think His Promised Eternal Life will personally bring to you, His child.


God intends for us to value Goodness in His Creation. Goodness in mankind. Honor, Valor, Integrity, Sacrifice for the Sacred and to have Holiness within our dreams and hopes. God wants us to have Touchstone Moments to remember God's Amazing Love for you.



God Intends to tell us something is far Larger, more Compelling and amazingly more Honorable than we are daily. 


God intends us to Marvel. And in this Goodness, of the Works of His Hand, find Him as our Foundation.



Without Surprise, we find Father God loves to place Shining Water, Reflecting Light as Living Water displayed with Magnificent Rock.





Mankind has the Light of God within them. The Light of Christ in all of mankind. Genesis and the Flood point out the Light of God's Creations, mere animals have God's Holiness and consideration for Eternity. And in this making Life part of Father God's Creation, we innately know of the purity in His Creation. 

And if we feel we have failed to earn this Father's respect, we can run from Him with all of our hopes. We don't recognize God never asked for His Children to sacrifice an innocent to Him.


The Integrity and Warmth of placing Others as Dear to God. Without God's Love, we have a chillier life.


It's difficult to see the Ten Commandments. We are not in the Success Ratio at all times. The Law points out death, but the Spirit of God points to Life. God is making a Tent, a Place, where rules create enough Peace where Love can Dwell. Harmony. Peace. 

The Gospels tell us a wilderness has straight paths put in place and becomes a Garden. The Gospels open telling us about the wilderness. And Family to live in Love, Peace, Prosperity and Hope. The Purpose of the Exodus was the Strengthening of the Family. Stability of home and farm business to prosper God's Plan of Hope and Future. For you. To build the family in hopes for enduring Family.

All of mankind has fallen. Father God invites us, before the Covenant Supper, before the Holiness of Jesus, immediately we are invited to make the wilderness a Garden of Harmony. In the Strength of the Holy Spirit is Joy. 

The Spirit Gives Life.

Immediately, when Peter fell into the water, Jesus reached to pull him up and place Peter with Him.




Abba, Father God,

Quietly, and with life, we ask You to dwell in us,
this day and always.

Help us to seek You first.
And we will find more Heaven on earth.
Placing our Loved Ones in Your Love
to know
Love, Peace, Joy and a Rock Solid Foundation to Fully Realize
the Depth of Your Love and Care.

To fully live the realization of
God's Light in us.

The Holiness of God pulling us up past grey skies
into Your Light and Life.

We Pray for the Nation.
To have this Hope and to Renew our Minds.
Renew our Strength of Joy in Your Holy Spirit.

In finding Your Holy Spirit
Giving Life to us all.

Jesus Christ, Son of God,
He fulfills the Word of God, every dot and every iota. Always.

To the Right
Our Celebration of President Donald Trump
and his accomplishments and help during this worldwide
and national crisis. Thankfulness for his achievements 
and the Presidential Administration.
We hope to see a fleet of State Governors in the coming years.
And Legislatures.

To the Unity of all Parties
We pray for the Republic
The Lawful Vote
Our Freedoms
Hard won by our Family and Fathers.
God Bless America, Please.

To the Left,
The Glory of Life. The Love for One Another.
The Challenge of Goodness in Difficult Days of Angry People.
The Challenge of a 3 Class System.
The Beauty of our Heritage and the Joy of Dreams of Goodness.
Government with Love, Joy and Respect is the Long Term
Government.

To the Whole World
we pray
the Joy of helping each other during Peace
and during Covid
we pray Jesus Christ Peace and Prosperity of His Plans
to Hold us to Higher Ideals.

Thanksgiving for Wayne going to the Hospital and finding he is in healing and looks good.
His family, especially Dee, rejoiced to see his X-Ray. Blessings of Health on all of us.
We ask God in Confidence.
Blessings of Jesus on Elliot and Harby.


Jesus Christ, God's Salvation and Peace.
God's Love Enduring and Strong. Always.
Amen.








Monday, January 11, 2021

John 2 ~ And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me. My hour has not yet come.”

 



20 or 30 Gallon Vats were used regularly


This Amazing Vat is reclaimed pieces from the 2nd Temple in Jerusalem







Pottery Jugs would have carried the wine to the table. 
These are 1st Century found in the Museum of Israel


John 2



On the third day there was a wedding (Feast) at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Jesus also was invited to the wedding with His Disciples. 3 When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” 

4 And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me. My hour has not yet come.” 

5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

6 Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. 7 Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” 

And they filled them up to the brim. 

8 And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” 

So they took it. 9 When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom 10 and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.” 

11 This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.

12 After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother and his brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.



13 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 
14 In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. 15 And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. 16 And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a house of trade.” 17 His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”

18 So the Jews said to him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?” 

19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” 

20 The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” 

21 But he was speaking about the temple of his body. 22 When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing. 

24 But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them because he knew all people 25 and needed no one to bear witness about man, 
for he himself knew what was in man.


John has the amazing beginning of the Ministry of Jesus. Jesus is already doing His Wonders and The Awe of God Himself surrounding Jesus in Chapter One. 

And Jesus is in conversation with His Mother. She is telling Him what to do, while He is answering His Ministry isn't in full swing. Yet, we know Capernaum has already witnessed what Jesus can do, John the Baptist knows and definitely Nathaniel.

It's an interesting thought, if this is what Jesus considers not His Time. Capernaum and the crowds know Jesus is doing something Amazing already. In this Season of the New Year, we've thought about what Jesus was doing His first 30 Years of Life.

Jesus has answered what He was doing. Joy.



Given the year, it hardly seems the time to speak of Joy.

But Judea wasn't but a Suburb of Syria. And not even Pilate wanted to be sent to Judea. And Judea wasn't thrilled with Rome.

And Jesus perfectly managed to find Joy.







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I’m always profoundly moved by your years of experience, Dr. Robb, sharing, Shepherding in such love and wisdom through the many changes Life brings. Best of His Blessings to you, Bev and your family




Abba, Father God,

Your Disciples arrived abruptly and asked to be told how to Pray.
Proverbs Eight tells us Jesus delighted in the Master Workmanship of His Father.

Jesus delighted knowing He is Your Exact Representation. And You, were going to give Jesus all the Master Workmanship He Required.

We ask You, Father, to Pray with us in Your Righteousness of Jesus' Name,
knowing the Prayers of the Righteous Availeth Much.

Father God, Jesus immediately went with
Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as
in Heaven.

We pray all of our heart's longings beginning with
Dwell in us Jesus Christ.
Help us to seek You first.
Help the people we Love know Your Love.
And help us all to be more Heaven on earth.

 Your Word tells us when we Seek You first
we find all the Blessings and Promises of God.

Finding the Joy Jesus tells us He Lives.

We all have So Many Ideas Right Now
how to make the World far Better.
Let this be a Path of Joy
instead of the burden we place on ourselves.

We pray for the Republic.
Really, it doesn't matter who stands up and tells us what Justice looks like.
We have an outcry right after we know Covid affects mood and mind
far longer than the virus lasts.
The Worries of the World have arrived in full force.
And in the next phase of Anger and Justice to be found.
We pray for Peace for All.

When I have anger, I picture holding on the bottom of the Robe of Jesus Christ.
I expect His Mercy.  I let the Robe flow in me and over me. And I know I have the
Privilege and Joy of being heard by my Father God.

When I have anger, I picture Jesus as Living Water
flowing where I do not know water is even needed. Water flows where 
Water has the will and might to do so.

This Last Sunday is the Liturgy of Jesus' Baptism.
After a Life of this much Available Joy for Jesus:
God has been sought in a journey out of the way, to the wilderness.
The People seeking God expect to confess their flaws and sins
and be washed into New Life.
Even Jesus in His Righteousness has Sought Baptism.
Beginning with God First.

Jesus didn't say He is Baptism.
Jesus tells us He is Living Water.
Renewable, Sustainable, Nurture and Life.


The Great White Horned Owl has returned to my neighborhood, unseen since 2018. 
And my prayer life returns to when Life was pretty easy to pray for.
This day has had glad reminders of people who are Treasure in Heaven
and Blessings on earth.

We Pray for God's Loving and Good Plans to be Filled.
We Pray our Hope of Love and Joy for ourselves and those we Love is Filled.

We pray for the Nation to remember
the anger of mankind
does not bring the Righteousness of God.

We ask for the Light of mankind in Jesus Christ
to find humility, true peace and not arrogance of words.
We seek Jesus to find the Peace.

Being Grateful for what we have Received.
And Hopeful for God's Plan.
Not accepting what is unacceptable.
Finding Love to be a Path for All.

We have a few more days to give thanks to This President
of this Nation, The United States
has been given such good leadership to squabble over words
and not the despair of Violence Unrequited.

To Applaud Employment Rising Again
and not sit huddled in the dark without Reliable Warmth and Energy.

To have enough to buy in the Grocery Store for food chains
relentlessly helped and encouraged in Pandemic.

To look forward to the Vaccine
when the Malaria Vaccine took 20 years.

To have Social Media to attend Church anytime.
To be able to Chose to Attend Church in the Freedom of Religion.

To watch the Stock Market hit new prosperity
even in the Years of Pandemic.
To realize Publicly Traded Companies must be Good to keep our Business.
Including Social Media. We own them, they do Not own us.

Instead of complaining, Boycott. Boycott. Boycott. Boycott.
Instead of Complaining - email, email, email Legislatures relentlessly.
Success instead of Complaints.

To have Peace flowing in the Middle East.

To have our Troops hoping for Peace again.

For the Pandemic Government Checks, this Administration worked for.

The European Leaders also sought the help of the USA
for Ventilators and Assistance during the Pandemic.

We pray for the millions of people who are angry and upset.
Pray the Right Methods of Congressional email is the step that is taken.
Pray for Health Care not to be a system of Control instead
of a Blessing.

We pray our Righteousness is Love, Joy, Peace and Patience, Kindness with Mercy.
And not berating moral theories and suggestions with sarcasm.

Pray for the Health of the Nation!
Pray please for my family to be Healthy! 
Praying for Elliott and Harby to be Cancer Free. Forever and Healthy.
We pray for Love and Hope to abound for those suffering from Covid in all manners.
Pray for Dee and Wayne and their family households of 7 people to recover quickly from Covid.

In Jesus Christ, We pray Amen


Romans 10:13
For, "Everyone who calls on 
the Name of the Lord 
will be saved."


















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This blog is pretty simple, but for a reason. This blog isn't about agenda or me, it is for the joy and love to found by reading the Scriptures. Ultimately, it is you and the Lord.

The Scriptures are Father God's letter to you. He wanted you to know more, to know He loves you.

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Email registry at bottom.! “All Scripture is inspired by God” (2 Timothy 3:16). Men “moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God” (2 Peter 1:21). The Holy Spirit carried men along, moving and guiding them as they wrote in their own words what God wanted them to say. The Bible is unique; comprised of 80 separate books, & written over a period of thousands of years by more than 40 writers with one Author, spanning the centuries, different states of peace & war & different situations in life. The Bible answers the question: of who is God, who is man & what can their relationship can be. Although the Bible was written on perishable material and copied by hand for many centuries, its accuracy is not in doubt, proven by Dead Sea Scrolls and papyrus from 2,000 years. The Bible has survived persecution & criticism to be read with great interest in each generation. The Bible gives witness to the greatness of the Creator. A loving Father concerned for all of his creation. With each verse of the bible witnessing to God is love and the multitude & vastness of His attributes. The Bible was written for you. <><

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Who Jesus Is
1 Timothy 1:1-11 ~ God our Savior, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope
Matthew 16:13-20 ~ who do people say the Son of Man is?

Good News for us to remember and Think Upon
Animals are found in Heaven ~ 6 Prophets See Animals in Heaven

Anger, Jealousy=Trouble




The Bible explains the Bible, Prophetically

Bible - in your hand, today

Bible Accuracy



Blessing







Blessing our Father God

Blessing - unaware

Boundaries

Brothers
Christmas - His Word Upholds the Universe - December 25th


Psalm 135 ~ who is in your midst
John 1:1-14, 16, 29-51 ~ He was in the world

Details - Putting it all together and discovering it is about God

Psalm 108 ~ In triumph I will parcel out Shechem

Determine your own path, just love Him

Judges 16 ~ like any other man
John 4:43-54 ~ Doing what Jesus says


Earthquake

Every Day, Still Today
Today, Yesterday, Tomorrow


Exodus - History












Heavenly Hosts
His Messengers of Light












Elements of Nature Displaying HIS Glory
Exodus 40:16-38 ~ In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was erected.

I Decide What is Right and Wrong - God noticed this in the Garden of Eden from Eve

Individualism and Groups

It's the End of the World as We Know it, And I Feel Fine. (One of our most read posts.)
Grandpa - The Bible is Really the Life Story of People and
their Abba









Gates of Heaven


Gifts of God, all of us


Giving - God certainly is





























Glory


God sees His Creation as Good!!!


Gravity






















Good Friday

Gossip

Gratitude

Greatest

Grief, Forgiveness, Homecoming


Hated Emotion - Fear




































History - Is There History Showing Jesus was Alive - VERY EXTENSIVE HISTORY

Holiness


Holy Spirit ~ Manifestations

Homeward Bound, still a sojourner

Honey, Do this

Invitation
John 3:31-36 ~ that God is true

Israel - Destroyed Completely and Rebuilt. A sign of Jesus. Existing today.

Jesus clearly put a Foundation for His Resurrection to be Believed by the Multitudes of all of Israel and the Nations

Jesus and His Childhood Privacy
Nazareth - What Jesus did See Growing Up

John the Beloved Disciple


The Journey of Joseph


























Live It
Psalm 117 ~ Praise the Lord
Psalm 82 ~ rescue the weak and the needy
2 Samuel 4:1-12 ~ David answered
Hebrews 12 ~ Thankful
Psalm 31:3-8,17-21 ~ Thou hast redeemed me
Isaiah 40:1-11 ~ His reward is with Him
Matthew 13:31-32 ~ the birds of the air come and perch in its branches
Matthew 6:25-34 ~ your heavenly Father knows that you need
Luke 11:29-32 ~ Rise up
Psalm 126 ~ shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves
Luke 14:15-24 ~ there is still room
Joshua 1:1-9 ~ I am giving
Acts 5 ~ speak in the name of Jesus
John 1 ~ the Light shines
John 3:5-8 ~ born again
~ they went on from there and passed through Galilee
Judges 20 ~ Israel

Losing a Loved One - Passing ON

Revelation 21:22-27 ~ those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life

Not Being Tossed Back and Forth with Emotion
Ephesians 4 ~ speaking the truth in Love

Marriage
Romans 7:1-12 ~ bear fruit for God
1 Corinthians 7 ~ For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband
Genesis 37:12-24 ~ when Reuben
Psalm 143 ~ Your steadfast love
Psalm 86 ~ For great is your steadfast love

Media... taking it down the path
1 Corinthians 10 ~ Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks or the church of God





Mercy, an Inseparable Component of Truth
Matthew 23:23-26 ~ clean
1 Samuel 12 ~ serve the Lord with all your heart
Matthew 22:34-40 ~ The great and first commandment. And a second is like it

Miscellaneous
Job 38 ~ Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.
Psalm 19 ~ the heavens declare the glory of God
2 Kings 5:1-15 ~ a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper
1 Chronicles 13 ~ the Lord blessed the household of Obed-edom










Peace




Pharisee ~ Religion
Luke 11:42-46 ~ Woe to you Pharisees!


Pictorial Images of the 12 Tribes of Israel








Picture It


















Overcoming, with God's help!


Positive Attitude in Trouble




Prophets - the Law and the Old Men in Robes or People who Love the Lord. Flaws and Virtues. What They Sought in the Lord and What Drew Them to Him.



Praise



























Prayer

Psalm 91 ~ Prayer is always heard, God has an open door policy



Prayer Needs




Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words

Promises

Prosperity Gospel











Repeat and Repeat







Rest

Restore

Revelation 8:2
Seven Angels who stand before God

Revisionist History - Moses and Jeremiah said
there would be days like this
Deuteronomy 8
Jeremiah 23


Rock


SALVATION! What is needed?

Science - Blinded me - No - He Who Opens the Eyes of the Blind - With Science!!!

Second (3rd or 4th) Rate Seventh Level of Heaven

Seventh Level of Heaven







Shepherd

Smile!



Time Management





Life and Travels of Paul

Shroud

Transfiguration



True
The World Changed Rapidly after the first Easter



Trust Him

Uncomfortable Scripture

Video Game Player

Visual







Who is like our God?

Willingly

Works and Grace
Mark 1:4-11 ~ You are my beloved Son; with You I am well pleased

Worry

Wrathful, Nasty Old God from the Old Testament

Yahweh




Years - Thousands of Them are Yesterday in His Sight


80 Books of the Bible
Holy Spirit Approved by the First Council Nicaea and St. Nicholas
Included by the Essenes in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Today included by the Catholic Church
God wants to save the world.
The Apocrypha has Purpose; other cultures blend here.





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