1 John 5:14-15 ~ asked of Him

 Rain in the evening. Answered pray. The trees and wildlife rejoice. Change in Seasons. Rejoice.

1 John 5:14-15

 

And this is the confidence that we have toward Him, that if we ask anything according to His Will He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of Him.

Jesus is the Way maker,

John 1 points out He hears prayer

John 1 49

“Rabbi,” Nathanael answered, “You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!” 

50 Jesus said to him, “Do you believe just because I told you I saw you 

under the fig tree? You will see greater things than these.”

Abba, Father,

Dwell in us,

Give us Your Blessing, we ask.

Let the Joy we have in You

be our Strength.

In Jesus, we want Your help to seek You first.

And we will finish well in Jesus Christ!

For my son Alexander to find employment locally.

For Cal, far away and his safe travel.

For my eye to continue to heal perfectly.

My ankles and feet are better

and to heal each day!

In this day, 

we will make Requests of Jesus.

In the Holy Name of Jesus,

We pray all those who have been

strengthened and encouraged

during the Pandemic

in their faith,

Will Remain in Your Joy and Love.

We Pray for this Nation

and the turbulence we see

we pray for truth.

We pray for Ukraine

and the end of Pandemic.

We pray for Strength.

We pray for our families

not to accept the unacceptable

for their Children.

A Nation protects their Children.

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.

The Mercy of Your Touch, Jesus. Amen.

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Yay Jesus!

John 17:9-23 ~ Your Word is Truth

 

Psalm 100

Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth!

2 Serve the LORD with gladness!

Come into His presence with singing!

3 Know that the LORD, He is God! 

It is He who made us, not we ourselves and we are His

we are His people,

and the sheep of his pasture.

4 Enter His gates with thanksgiving,

and His courts with praise!

Give thanks to Him; bless His Name!

5 For the LORD is good;

His steadfast love endures forever,

and His faithfulness to all generations.

 

Americans and a lot of the news are not on the same page. Autumn and some rain, or snow, has left summer behind, the change in seasons is most welcome. When 1 in 3 Americans say they are struggling financially, with basic needs,  this is different from the wrangling on some of the news stations.

We gear up to vote, there are very few surprises. And we hope. For our future and for the future of our children and grandchildren. We want divisions to seep into the past like pet rocks. Most people have tired of the outrageous.

Thanksgiving approaches. All of us feel better as Autumn brings crisp and cool.  We had a nation of drought according to the University of Nebraska maps on Agriculture. Yet food crops are down barely six percent Nationwide. There are Blessings to rejoice in. And let seep into our bones with gratitude. 

John 17:9-23

I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. 10 All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. 11 And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, 

 keep them in your name, 

which you have given me, 

that they may be one, even as we are one.

 12 While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.  

13 But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, 

that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.  

14 I have given them Your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 15 I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.  

17 Sanctify them in the truth; Your Word is truth. 18 As You sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 19 And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.

20 “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,  

23 I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, 

so that the world may know that You sent me.

And loved them even as You loved me.

Serving the Lord with gladness

Abba, Father,

The blessing of God - is indeed what we ask for in the  Highest Name of Jesus.

Upon us and the ones we love.

To seek God First

and in Jesus Christ to finish well.

For we believe that Jesus died and rose again,
and so we believe God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him.

For the LORD Himself will come down from Heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the LORD in the air. And so we will be with the LORD forever.


Encourage one another with these words.

“It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love.”

“God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‘I love you.

The story does not end with the cross, for Easter points us beyond the tragedy of the cross to the empty tomb. It tells us that there is hope for eternal life, for Christ has conquered evil and death and hell. Yes, there is hope.

“I've read the last page of the Bible, it's all going to turn out all right.”

We believe, we believe, we believe.

Jesus is the Son of God. Jesus our Christ. 

Amen.

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Yay Jesus!

Matthew 13:1-32 ~ Seed

Live your life entrusted to return your soul to Father God.

Gideon did.

David did. 

All have fallen short of... The Glory of God.

Psalm 110

Psalm 110 ~ The Lord has sworn and will not change His Mind

The Lord says to my lord:

“Sit at my right hand

until I make your enemies

a footstool for your feet.”

The Lord will extend your mighty scepter from Zion, saying,

“Rule in the midst of your enemies!”

Your troops will be willing

on your day of battle.

Arrayed in holy splendor,

your young men will come to you

like dew from the morning’s womb.

The Lord has sworn

and will not change his mind:

“You are a priest forever,

in the order of Melchizedek.”

The Lord is at your right hand;

he will crush kings on the day of his wrath.

He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead

and crushing the rulers of the whole earth.

He will drink from a brook along the way,

and so he will lift his head high.

What struggle does the Lord tell us about?

The struggle within us to be whole. Holy. The world putting its best efforts, the Prodigal Son stays apart.  The strength of hope, faith and joy.

1 Thessalonians 2

3 For our appeal does not spring from error or impurity or any attempt to deceive,  but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts. 5 For we never came with words of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness. 6 Nor did we seek glory from people, whether from you or from others

The People who love the Lord Father God are not perfect. Yet, there should be sincerity. A desire to please God more than man. A sincerity witnessed at all times and in all situations and with all types of people. Will mistakes be made? The Bible would say so.

The Bible says generations swing like pendulums - one generation holds fast and the next falls down. Our generations like balance and if we go to Heaven, then we descend to the errors in the seed parable. This is the fallen nature of us all. The Bible would say this holds truth. 

Matthew 13:1-32

 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake. 

2 Such large crowds gathered around Him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the people stood on the shore. 3 Then He told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed. 4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5 Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. 6 But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. 7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. 8 Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop

—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. 

9 Whoever has ears, let them hear.”

10 The disciples came to him and asked, 

“Why do you speak to the people in parables?”

11 He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. 12 Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.

 13 This is why I speak to them in parables:

“Though seeing, they do not see;

    though hearing, they do not hear or understand.

14 In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:

“‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding;

    you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.

15 For this people’s heart has become calloused;

    they hardly hear with their ears,

    and they have closed their eyes.

Otherwise they might see with their eyes,

    hear with their ears,

    understand with their hearts

and turn, and I would heal them.’

16 But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. 17 For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, 

and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.

18 “Listen then to what the parable of the sower means: 19 When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in their heart. This is the seed sown along the path. 20 The seed falling on rocky ground refers to someone who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. 

21 But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. 22 The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, 

making it unfruitful. 

23 But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.”

24 Jesus told them another parable: 

“The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. 25 But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. 26 When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared.

27 “The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’

28 “‘An enemy did this,’ he replied.

“The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’

29 “‘No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.’”

31 He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. 

32 Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come 

and perch in its branches.”

John 8:32
Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free

1 Corinthians 15:52
in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

Revelation 22
22 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2 through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month



The Bible's wisdom is without depth or end. Generational curses have been spoken of since Moses. And Jesus came to set us free from our sins. Jesus is our freedom. 

Jesus sets us free.

Jesus sets us free.

When Jesus offers us Salvation, we should know this is paid for with a Cost.

What have we done with ourselves?
We are offered Salvation. 
We cannot purchase this. We can not redeem ourselves again, saying what Jesus did is unimportant. We can look at our purchased and wiped clean souls,
our two hands and be like formerly blind Bartimaeus, who wanted to walk with His Savior.

Jesus sets us free.

When my soul's eyes see Jesus - I surely know I will need His Grace.

I hope Jesus and Father God will tell me they like what I did with my soul and the souls He has placed near or in my care. Because the fine day will come, where I want to see Jesus and Father God looking for me in the distance - knowing He is smiling - the Prodigal Child has come HOME!

What can we know of Heaven?

Here is what my heart speaks to me of going Home to Jesus the Lord:
We will be with Christ

Luke 23:43

Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.”

Abba, Father,

The Scriptures bring us the Merciful Love of God.

1 Samuel 15:34

Then Samuel went to Ramah, 

and Saul went up to his house in Gibeah.

And the Living Scriptures have blessed us, our fathers and the generations. And will to generations, who will know  God, arriving decades from now. 

We give You our cares, Father God.

We trust our Loved Ones to You. 

The Nation and the Nations to be upheld by Your Word.

Knowing Your Great Joy to have Heaven 

sought to be also on this earth with Your Good Will.

Blessing God with Gratitude. 

And holding up for His Love, all we know

who are struggling. 1 in 3 tell polls they are struggling.

Amen Jesus Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yay Jesus