Isaiah 40:26 ~ He calleth them all by names by the greatness of His might

 

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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.

So... where is the Power of God and His daily miracles — we are living this. This just isn't normal times, and we know with the reactions of the people we know, family, our neighborhoods, employment, the fragile emotions of anger, fear and hope. Dismay.

Isaiah 40:26

Lift up your eyes on high, and behold Who hath created these things,

 that bringeth out their host by number: 

He calleth them all by names by the greatness of His might, 

for that He is strong in power; not one faileth.

We are girding up our loins to have faith. This isn't always easy. If it was, we could have called Jesus Christ Pal. Or Bud. Or Hi yah. Instead, we call Jesus Help. Helper. Comforter. Believe Him Life is Joy and look for more Heaven on earth.

We go to Church and leave the fire of our Spirit with God's to hold the Fire going. To know if we feel connected, this is wondrous. And if we only know God is very pleased with our small and willing effort, we know He holds the Prayer. His Spirit prays for us eternally.

Romans 8:28

All Things work together for those who Love the Lord and Work According to His Purpose. 

Do we believe this? I'd say dramatically these days. Even during our wait to find out God's Purpose. Jesus told the important people who scoffed at Him, He was before Abraham. 

When Jesus fed the 5,000, He was there in the Exodus for the 40 years of being fed.

Exodus 12 37 

And the people of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children. 38 A mixed multitude also went up with them, and very much livestock, both flocks and herds

  

 1 Corinthians 10:4  

For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. 

The 40-Year Desert Travelers, Exodus' Children of Israel, received water from a rock two times, Exodus 17:1–7 and Numbers 20:1–14. A first-century  Philo’s Biblical Antiquities states: “But as for his own people, he led them forth into the wilderness: Forty years did he rain bread from heaven for them, and he brought them quails from the sea, and a well of water following them." 

  

We know 3 days of Dehydration kills people.

 And from 1190 BC Seti II and his histories with Mosey, his brother and the killed Egyptian foreman in during the 19th Dynasty have had a part in His Word. In Salt Papyrus 124 and Tale of Two Brothers, the faithful have found God has fed them, had compassion upon them and nourished them faithfully.

No more: 

Egypt had over 2,000 deities in the Egyptian pantheon. Some of these deities' names are well known: Isis, Osiris, Horus, Amun, Ra, Hathor, Bastet, Thoth, Anubis, and Ptah, Rome had the Main gods Apollo Aurora Bacchus Bellona Caelus Cupid Cybele Diana Faunus Flora Fortuna Janus Juno Jupiter Mars Mercury Minerva Neptune Nyx Pluto Proserpina Pomona Saturn Spes Terra Venus Veritas Vesta Vulcan And then the accessory gods. And Greek gods. Persian gods. All available on Wikipedia with sometimes statues and explanations. 

The list is huge and none are believed today. 

Unlike the Temple in Jerusalem going back to Abraham and Isaac. 2150 B.C. None have the Vatican from 325 A.D. and built again from the fire in 1400s by Michelangelo and others to 2021. Bringing the Fire of the Holy Spirit to us today.

34 A.D.   

   

Mark 6:31-34

31 Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.

32 So they went away by themselves in a boat to a solitary place. 

33 But many who saw them leaving recognized them and ran on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them. 

34 When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he began teaching them many things.

Matthew 22:29a 

Jesus answered, “…know the Scriptures, the power of God.”

Abba, Father 

God, what delights You?

You delight with pleasure in those who have great understanding in Your 

might, wisdom and power. 

You delight in those who hope in Your steadfast love.

Father God, You take delight in Your people;

Dwell in us. Help us to seek You First.

And we will finish well.

Father God, You are With us. You are For us. 

You are the Mighty Warrior who saves.

Father God, take delight in us.

In Your Great Love, cover Your People with complete mercy and forgiveness. 

In the Highest Name of Jesus we are flawless. In Your Righteousness. 

Father God, Zephaniah 3 says You will rejoice over us in singing.

God's Spirit loves worship of Him and truth. He delights.

We will stay with You, Father God. You bring us forth to a spacious place. 

You rescue us because You delight in us. 

The Lord our Father God will rescue us because of His Righteousness.

Father God firmly establishes the feet of those on His path

with those who Delight in Father God.

Father God You delight, in the ones You have chosen, in the one You Love,

 where You place Your Holy Spirit,

 where the one you love proclaims Your Justice to the nations.

So don't be afraid, little flock. 

For it gives your Father great happiness to give you the Kingdom.

Help us to dwell in You

and seek You first.

In Jesus, we will finish well.

Jesus said, "Do not be afraid! It is I."

Father God will make known His delight and will continue to make known 

- His order and His love - 

Father God has for us, that this may be in us all and that Jesus may be known in us.

Father God delights so in Jesus that He is our Father. 

We are His Beloved Children, in Jesus, saying, "Your Father and Mine."

 Father God knows your path through this great wilderness and journey. 

These many years, the LORD your God has been with you. 

God has carried you these many years and He will safely lead you Home.

Father God, please dwell mightily in us 

and in our prayers exalt in You. 

We lift up all the ones we love to You in Expectation.

 We pray for our Nation and this World to continue to know You.

Amen in the Highest Name of Jesus.

The Summer has the beginning of Autumn. 

This summer is filled with Life and Love.

Abba, Father,

In Jesus Christ, we will never give up.

Jesus the God of ALL.

Jesus, we pray Life and healing

Joy and Love in Harby and their children.

Jesus, God of Encouragement.

Jesus, Hope and Future.

Jesus the Lord

saves the world

Amen.

♔ LORD JESUS SAVES †

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Mark 9:21-29 ~ deaf and mute

Montgomery County, Texas Covid Results for this week

Mark 9:21-29

21 Jesus asked the boy’s father, “How long has he been like this?”

“From childhood,” he answered. 22 “It has often thrown him into fire or water to kill him. But if you can do anything, take pity on us and help us.”

23 “‘If you can’?” said Jesus. “Everything is possible for one who believes.”

24 Immediately the boy’s father exclaimed, “I do believe; 

help me overcome my unbelief!”

25 When Jesus saw that a crowd was running to the scene, he rebuked the impure spirit. “You deaf and mute spirit,” he said, “I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.”

26 The spirit shrieked, convulsed him violently and came out. The boy looked so much like a corpse that many said, “He’s dead.” 

27 But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him to his feet, and he stood up.

28 After Jesus had gone indoors, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?”

29 He replied, “This kind can come out only by prayer."

Jesus didn't intend for any of us to remain deaf and mute. And the first question of this portion of Scripture about illness asks,  "How long has this been going on?" A paraphrase.

Jesus asks the man to take a look at the history of the illness. 

Houston, Texas' Harris County that has seen high Covid last year.  Aspects of daily life, like garbage pickup, were suspended due to illness and death in Houston City Workers. 

This week in Montgomery County, Texas we are just outside of Houston,  we see we are about 50% vaccinated. 

The reinfection rate is just plain Miraculous. Wow. Thank God.

The age groups involved are younger. 

And the hospitalization isn't increasing or decreasing.

This week, if I wanted to buy the world a Coke, I'd probably stockpile Coca-Cola from Walmart.

Except in our County - remember the jokes about: "No school, no family gatherings, no group employees, no Churches, no large holiday gatherings --- See you at Walmart on aisle Turkey and trimmings instead!!!"

Except this week in Montgomery County ..... Walmart is closed on Woodland's Parkway for "extra sanitation" ie a large number of Covid infections. 

And Houston has closed down non-mandatory Surgeries.  And this week, Lambda Variant of Covid was found in Houston Hospitals.

The most alarming thing to me about this, our Covid spike shows we are at the peak of New Covid Cases. Ever. “How long has this been like this?”

Ok, terrible. Yet, look how small the hospitalizations are. Wow. 

Yet, look at how small the recovery in a week from going to the EXPENSIVE AND HORRID RECOVERY AT THE HOSPITAL.

The number of variants is increasing. We all need to be vaccinated. And if need be, re-vaccinated.

First Praying. Praying. Praying. And we must be praying because as you travel around Texas you see so many people out it looks like Christmas. 

We need Prayer.

We need Jesus and His Blessings. Life.

We need Vaccinations. Slowing and ending the Spread.

We received a miraculous event from Prayer. The Vaccine. Not 32 years from now, like the Malaria Vaccination.

We need Hand Sanitizer! Like the people who avoid Flu Season successfully do!

Cruise Ships are said to be gigantic petri dishes floating in the Ocean.

Several Cruise Lines stopped the Petri/Cruise Situation

by Sanitizing Hands as a Requirement before Covid.

The Cruise Ships with Manditory and Observed Hand Sanitization

were almost clinic visit free during the Cruise.

Please continue to Sanitize and Sanitize your hands.

Friends who rarely have the flu credit Hands Washed and Sanitized.

Facts, Prayer, Discussion, Willing Help and Optimism.  

Avoiding the Hospitalization Number that isn't easily getting people back on the street. Don't be the one.

If Masks are asked for in Texas - I'm with masks.

Abba, Father,

May our Father in Heaven

Bless us and Keep us

and

Make His Face to Shine upon Us

and be gracious to Us.

May our Abba Lift His Countenance

upon Us

and Smile.

Our Abba give us Peace.

His own Peace.

May our Father God in Heaven

dwell in us and place His Name upon us.

In Jesus, dwelling in us

seeking You first,

may our blessings include

those we love,

and spread to us all.

Bless and fill our Nation with You

and Your Love cover our Good Creation, 

our planet.

Jesus our Living Water

Let Jesus roll down like 

cleansing waters,

and righteousness

like an ever-flowing stream.

And we will be blessed indeed. 

Jesus the Lord. Alleluia

and Amen.

Jesus the God of ALL.

Jesus, we pray Life and healing

Joy and Love in Harby and their children.

Jesus, God of Encouragement.

Jesus, Hope and Future.

Jesus the Lord

saves the world

Amen.

♔ LORD JESUS SAVES †

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Acts 18:1-11 ~ Believed in the Lord together †

 

The News in 2021

is like a Tennis Game

of Bad News repetition.

CNN is having fewer viewers nightly than

the USA Episcopalian Church attendance nationally.

Acts 18:1-11

After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. 

2 And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. And he went to see them, 3 and because he was of the same trade he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade. 4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and tried to persuade Jews and Greeks.

5 When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with the word, testifying to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus. 6 And when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.” 

7 And he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God. His house was next door to the synagogue. 8 Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his entire household. 

And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized. 9 And the Lord said to Paul one night in a vision, “Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent, 10 for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many in this city who are my people.” 

11 And he stayed a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

April 8, 1966, cover of Time magazine announced, "God is Dead." Now we see News proclaims Civilization is going to fall to the dark ages by 2040. Fearmongering didn't work for Time magazine, which was looking for mergers and buy outs by 1985.

When we read The Book of Acts, we understand the high decibel change, action packed challenges and disasters of any Harry Potter chapter or Yellowstone's Peacock Drama.

There isn't a Chapter in The Book of Acts, something isn't happening to the Disciples, we hope doesn't happen to us or our children. The History of the Christian Church runs on a 500 year calendar.

Meet History in horse shoes in 2021.

Paul's Missionary Journeys form quite an impressive list of travel in the ship sinks, pirates, unannounced storms, no horse could be found, no hotel chains or reliable, ready food source. No Hospitals. Not to add, being sought out to be killed.

Yet even in every Chapter of The Book of Acts, The Holy Spirit asks us to desire to see God's Heaven on His Good Creation - earth. Daily God. Daily Miracles. Daily Wondrous. 

Paul finds this as Chapter 18 of The Books of Acts becomes a year and a half of growth in the Holy Spirit and Joy in Fellowship.

Politically, we see Mary and Joseph are caught up in the wind's of Caesar Augustus' tax rolls to travel to Bethlehem for the Birth of the Messiah. And Paul is caught up in the winds of change due to Emperor Claudius dealing with the Death of Jesus in a suburb of Syria. 

God was just as in Charge in the First Century as in the Pandemic.

    Some keywords we might recognize in these winds of change:

        Trade - as in jobs

        Claudius commanded - new guy on the block, Politically

        reason, persuade

        occupied, opposed, reviled

        innocent

        worshiper

        believe in the Lord

        household

        do not be afraid

        keep speaking out

        do not be silent

        I am with you

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

We might be tempted to say, all this uncertainty in Pandemic is fine for Paul, Saint of God, in constant assurance. Yet in reality, Paul walked by faith.

Philippians 2:19-24

I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I too may be cheered by news of you. 20 For I have no one like him, who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare. 21 For they all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ. 22 But you know Timothy’s  proven worth, how as a son  with a father he has served with me in the gospel. 23
   I hope therefore to send him just 
   as soon as I see how it will go with me, 
   and I trust in the Lord that shortly I myself will come also. 

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 

Hebrews 11:6

And without faith it is impossible to please God, 

because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists 

and that He rewards 

those who earnestly seek Him.

Acts 16:31

They replied, 

"Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved – you and your household."

Ephesians 2:8

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith

and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God 

Emmanuel, 

Acts 18:9

  I am with you

Abba, Our Father,

We long for You to Speak, "Peace." "Calm."

And Dwell in us, making us the People You long for.

Dwell in those we Love and pray for.

Help us to seek You first.

Strengthen us to do the good works You have for us to walk in.  We will Stand Firm and be Strong. Knowing in this season, stand not be tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine.

Let Love be genuine with Mercy.

Father, we prayed about 2020 Covid looking a lot like the Chapters of the Exodus. We pray for the birds and the problems with quail in Numbers 11. Two weeks ago, we prayed for 8 states declaring not to feed the birds because of mystery bird illness. 

This week, ten states have a ban on feeding the birds.

We can shred newspaper, coffee grounds and eggshells 

and increase the earthworm population for the birds.

We do not have to feel helpless. We can Pray and God will hear us. 

 Harris County, Texas had this problem for two months around March of 2021 and this healed.

Recommendations are for using bleach in the bird feeder, this hurts the paint. So, I'm going with nonporous extra human plates on the ground I will exchange daily 

and sanitize my hands and wash.

John 5:17
Jesus answered them, “My Father is working 

until now, and I am working.”

John 6:29
Jesus told them, “This is the work God wants from you:

 Believe in the One He has sent.”

We long for Your Love and help, Father God, to have Your Kingdom, Power and Glory upon Your Throne. The Fringe of Your Robe placed upon all of Your Good Creation. 

Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of Hosts. 

We pray more of Your Good Will filling the whole earth with Your Glory.

We will remember our answered Prayers. 

Like Harris County and the birds being healed.

 And live this Day. 

Looking in expectation You will strengthen us to Seek You first 

and find Your Kingdom being glimpsed, enfolding us in Your Good Creation.

You are our hope now, always and in the coming weeks.

Covering us with the Name and Power of Jesus,
Covering with thanks the Doctors, Nurses, Hospital Staffs and their prayers.

 The joy of seeing family bicycling and walking. 

Good people. Holding up Life for one another.

We ask Jesus to Bless our Nation to please You

and for Your Love to encourage

and strengthen the earth in goodness and health.

In His Love, Jesus Christ saves us. Amen.

Jesus, God of Encouragement.

Jesus, Hope and Future.

Jesus the Lord

saves the world

Amen.

Abba, Father,

In Jesus Christ, we will never give up.

Jesus the God of ALL.

Jesus the God of Elliott, we pray Life and healing

Elliott's Joy and Love in Harby and their children.

Jesus, God of Encouragement.

Jesus, Hope and Future.

Jesus the Lord

saves the world

Amen.

♔ LORD JESUS SAVES †

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