Psalm 48 ~ Great is the Lord

 

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Psalm 48

Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised

    in the city of our God!

His holy mountain, 2 beautiful in elevation,

    is the joy of all the earth,

Mount Zion, in the far north,

    the city of the great King.

3 Within her citadels God

    has made himself known as a fortress.

Meeting Jesus Christ for the unprepared. Every knee will bow.

4 For behold, the kings assembled;

    they came on together.

5 As soon as they saw it, they were astounded;

    they were in panic; they took to flight.

6 Trembling took hold of them there,

    anguish as of a woman in labor.

7 By the east wind you shattered

    the ships of Tarshish.

8 As we have heard, so have we seen

    in the city of the Lord of hosts,

in the city of our God,

    which God will establish forever.

 Selah

9 We have thought on your steadfast love, O God,

    in the midst of Your Temple.

10 As your name, O God,

    so your praise reaches to the ends of the earth.

Your right hand is filled with righteousness.

  Let Mount Zion be glad!

Let the daughters of Judah rejoice

    because of your judgments!

12 Walk about Zion, go around her,

    number her towers,

13 consider well her ramparts,

    go through her citadels,

that you may tell the next generation

   that this is God,

our God forever and ever.

    He will guide us forever.

Abba, Father God,

Bless us to live in Your Heart. 

And dwell in us with Your Love and Grace.

Help us to seek You first

and we will see more Heaven on earth.

Thank You for telling us Your Heart to pray for this.

Your Steadfast Love.

We pray all the hopes we have had of improvements will be filled.

We pray our economic situation will be stable and prosperous. 

We thank You for Your People finding Your Blessings Daily.

Pandemics historically have war, violence, anger, illogical thinking;

we pray for cooler tempters, temperate weather and

optimistic faith, hope and Love.

Help us to Chose to be Happy in

Your Blessings You Provide.

The Lord God Almighty is 

Our Blessing and Hope

we will Fight the Good Fight.

Jesus help us in this Nation to be in Your Word and see more Joy.

Covered in God's Love,

Governor Abbott and all 50 Governors and Legislatures.

Senator Tim Scott

Thank You for the Vaccine

In Record Breaking Time.

Help us to have Fair and Good Elections about now, please.

Bless the Legislatures as we re-examine Voting laws.

America is Strongly Polled to Show Extreme Concern.

Bless the United States Churches making decisions

to remember Jesus. To see the other denominations

have pulled themselves from 18 million to 800g congregants.

See the non-participation and polls in the Nightly News Viewership.

See the internet is filled with the people seeking

The Word of God. More than ever.

Be calm. Be strong. Have faith.

Be Strong all the Churches. Believe in the Lord and His Word.

We pray for truthful news.

We rest in the Hands of Our Good Father.

In Jesus Christ. Amen.

  

♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †  

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Psalm 50: 23 ~ the salvation of God

 

Let us bring Thanks

Psalm 50: 23

23 The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me;

to one who orders his way rightly

I will show the salvation of God!”

Part of the Pandemic unified us all. The desire to be safe and bring safety to each other.

And now we face fewer angry people, but still  confusion and unhappiness.

If the fading Pandemic unites us again it is to try to upbuild each other and create a stronger life for ourselves, the people we love, the people we like and God has given us and, then, society as a whole. Always, this huge work, is with our prayers reaching toward what we know and trusting God for what we don't know.

Psalm 50 is a work about fake piety, fake rules and fake ways discerned only by God. 

The counter to Psalm 50 is brutal, honestly. 

Honesty without mercy.  Jesus knew Zacharias' name. God's Messiah Son didn't stand up and humiliate sinners. Jesus never said something like - hey Zacharias, you live at 7867 Mulberry Lane, outside of Hill 3 in Jerusalem. You were fat as a child, your mother dressed you like a silk worm, now you have 5 bottles of wine a week. You live in fear of your brother, who reminds everyone what a loser you are. And today, you have dreadful anxieties and pimples. Most of your conversation and prayers are boring, you are self-centered. Your wife never loved you. Your children are unintelligent because you are never the brightest, shiniest thief of a tax collector. Jesus would sound more like the opposite of God.

Psalm 50 has a lot of God's true discernment into a soul in need of honesty. 

If we do the opposite of what Psalm 50 rebukes. If we find the God of Love to see His Ways.

My grandmother lived next door to Virginia McMurray for almost 40 years. Grandmother had severe hardships, Virginia had severe hardships. They could jab all the wrong buttons, just having a conversation. Grandmother had joy and privilege as a child. Virginia had privileged been the wife of local good guy, Football Coach of Ole Miss. Virginia was known all over the county and then some. Then unexpectedly he fell ill and died fairly young. Suddenly, both women were widows. Grandmother could do this and that. Virginia was filled with good works no one programmed her to do. Rides to Churches. Done. 

Grandmother was in heavy grief in a different decade. Virginia had overcome her widow grief, being a decade a head. Grandmother's only son was talented and sharp. Virginia's son struggled. My father moved away, far away and was selfish. Virginia had the company of her son, sometimes to the very last bone of hmm.

Virginia would brush past criticism and find a new path. Grandmother couldn't do this till she re-married a handsome Episcopalian Priest. Virginia was still a widow.

And then the two women could share a sorrow and remember why they enjoyed each other and find comfort in their being placed by God as neighbors. Virginia was eventually the Grand Marshall of July 4th for the county. Grandmother was in Heaven and her grandchildren would delight in Virginia rolling along. Something that might have irked Grandmother. However, her grandchildren would smile at her with enjoying the irk and Grandmother. Making Grandmother feel fine.

This is a Universal Story of friendship. We can all hope to find and be the honest, forgiving, true, gracious women.

Today, a circle of friends lost a long 40-year friendship. 

I saw women put a true, cheerful, kind, honest remembering. Upon a death linked to the overflow of Pandemic. There was determination to remember the interesting, the witty, the worldly funny, the motherhood, the times we laughed. And a protection of each other from the darker side of a time filled with in-process recovery. A safety net we could all hold on to.

Abba, Father,

Father God, help us each day to put our hands out to do Your will in a way that stretches our lives and our will to find Your Will delightful. 

When we find sad news, far from pleasing to us and to You, call us back to You. 

In gratitude, let us remember all You have done for us. Being so very grateful for the people You bring us.

For the patience to bounce away from criticism. Not to create petty conversations. To be a joy bringer.

Help us find honesty within ourselves. 

To be joy bringers rather than joy absorbers. 

To see what You'd have us to see in the people around us. Admire Your people for their good points. Learning to be encouraging instead of fault finding.  Yet not white-washers. To love with our heart and to love with our actions when the heart is not stirred. Being with Your efforts, joy to the people You give us around us. And wisdom to be the people we are created to be.

Help our sacrifices be Thanksgiving. Not the ashes of normal rituals requiring only the motions. Not to recite the right phrases, but to remember God is Joy and do the work of 'seekng;, when we don't readily find what is good. By faith and hope, discover goodness.

Help us not to take Your quietness, Father, as agreement for appearances without substance.

We ask Your Help to offer thanksgiving and set our lives ordered rightly by Your Love, Grace and Mercy. 

So many areas pull us, Father God. Help us each day to sort out the priority. 

In Your Love and Wisdom. 

In the Highest Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves! † 

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John 1:12 ~ Children of God †

John 1:12

Yet to all who did receive Him, 

to those who believed in His name, 

He gave the right to become children of God 

Romans 1:16

I am not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God 

that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. 

   

Hebrews 4:12

For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, 

it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit,

 joints and marrow; 

it judges the thoughts 

and attitudes of the heart.

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.

Colossians 3:12

Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved,

 clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, 

gentleness and patience.

James 4:6

He gives us more grace. 

That is why Scripture says: "God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble and oppressed." 

Colossians 1:6

That has come to you. In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit and growing 

throughout the whole world –

 just as it has been doing among you 

since the day you heard it and truly understood God's grace. 

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This Memorial Day

This Pandemic

We have quarantined

We have searched the Word of God

The internet has never recorded more Scripture Reading

and in your hopes and faith,

You have prayed

and Loved the Lord

Helping one another.

Faithful, Beloved, Child of God,

Thank You for serving one another.

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