Isaiah 45:8-10 ~ Let the earth open up and salvation bear fruit

 

Isaiah 45:8-10

Let the earth open up and salvation bear fruit,

And righteousness spring up with it. 

I, the LORD, have created it.

God does not vary, He is the same Steadfast Love yesterday, today and tomorrow.And in the Celebration God has in Creation - 

God said, "Let there be Light!"

Christmas

Luke 19:28

"I tell you," He replied, "if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out."

Before deciding Christmas is a marketing and retail event, decide in faith all mankind is part of the Light of Jesus Christ. Scripture assures us every single person, soul, will see Jesus Christ Triumphant. And wonder if Christmas isn't to call His Light into souls giving with loving intentions.  God does what He does in plain sight, without Trumpets until the Close.

The paths of God, He calls the work of mankind, are filled with internal Love, Joy, Peace and Hope. This hope lifts us from the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Events of every day irritation and dismay.

Isaiah 51:6

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

However 

My salvation will be forever,

and My righteousness will never be dismayed.

God lifts up Ecclesiastes House to the Gospels of Love and Encouragement in Jesus Christ.

Ecclesiastes 1:9

What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, 

and there is nothing new under the sun.

After World War II, the Cathedrals of Europe began to become empty. And God is bringing new life. The Celebration of Genesis, when God gave Light to the world. Light to dwell in mankind. The Allies are celebrating with Europe.


The Return of a type of Festival of Booths.

This might not be the Christmas that The Bells Rang the Most. And I think a lot of people are discouraged. And yet, Salvation is winning. The Plan of God is easy for Him to achieve.

Jesus told us in the Gospels, oil in the lamp was put there by mankind determined to go the distant, to the finish. 

Hanukkah is found in the Greek portion of the Bible, given in the First Council of Nicaea.  The first four chapters of Maccabees describe the horror of war, occupation and being directed to leave belief for a new set of rules for mankind.  We don't even touch the carnage of 165 B.C. Judea. Hanukkah is something Christians love to consider. The great works of God, Moses, Elijah and despair with enduring faith produced Bravery, Endurance and Eventual Victory.

Philippians 4:8

Finally, brothers, whatever is true,

 whatever is honorable, 

whatever is just, 

whatever is pure, 

whatever is lovely, 

whatever is commendable, 

if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise,

 think 

about these things.

Colossians 3:17

   And whatsoever ye do in word or deed,
            do all in the name of the Lord Jesus,
               giving thanks to God and the Father by him.




What will we call the opportunity to Celebrate Life During the time of Christ's Mass?

Cathedrals were built and in the Blessing of the Dedication - people like Charlemagne are mentioned. Consider how many prayers have been given for almost a thousand years for the lives inside and outside of Cathedrals. In Churches everywhere.

Now Apply this Scripture to the reawakening of Christmas in Booths. Prayers answered are the joy of God our Father. So many prayers said for Churches, Steeples and all the People. So many hearts for the Lord Jesus, born in the mess of life to an unwed mother in harsh travels in a barn. With the promise of Love and family.  And Jesus gave them Acts 1 and Acts 2 - praying together daily and sharing.

Luke 1

13 But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

14 And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth, 15 for he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb. 16 And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God, 17 and he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.”


18 And Zechariah said to the angel, “How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in years.” 19 And the angel answered him, “I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news. 20 And behold, you will be silent and unable to speak until the day that these things take place, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their time.” 21 And the people were waiting for Zechariah, and they were wondering at his delay in the temple. 22 And when he came out, he was unable to speak to them, and they realized that he had seen a vision in the temple. And he kept making signs to them and remained mute. 23 And when his time of service was ended, he went to his home.

24 After these days his wife Elizabeth conceived

 

John 8:12

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying,

“I am the light of the world.

Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, 

but will have 

the light of life.”

Abba, Father,

O Come all ye Faithful

Joyful

and Triumphant

and we will sing Hymns.

Asking as Jesus taught us,

More Heaven on earth.

Lifting up Blessings,

Bringing Joy of the Jesus Season.

Asking Your Willing Blessings,

and giving Thanks for Your Love for our Loved Ones.

Dwell in us, in Jesus Christ.

You do more for us,

 than we can ask or even imagine.

Blessing You for this Nation trusting in You.

Blessing Jesus for the Beloved of God praying more Heaven on earth

encompassing all of creation and all of the nations.

Help us to Seek

You first.

In Jesus Christ, we say Alleluia. 

Amen.

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Psalm 130 ~ In His Word I Hope

 

Celtic Carillon, Scotland's national hand-bell ensemble, Morning Has Broken in Dunblane Cathedral

Psalm 130

1 Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord!

2 O Lord, hear my voice!

Let your ears be attentive

to the voice of my pleas for mercy!

3 If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,

O Lord, who could stand?

4 But with you there is forgiveness,

that you may be feared.

5 I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,

and in His word I hope;

6 my soul waits for the Lord

more than watchmen for the morning,

more than watchmen for the morning.

7 O Israel, hope in the Lord!

For with the Lord there is steadfast love,

and with Him is plentiful redemption.

8 And He will redeem Israel

from all his iniquities!

Revelation 21:5

“And He who was seated on the throne said, 

“Behold, I am making all things new.” 

Also He said, 'Write this down, 

for these words are trustworthy and true.”

Philippians 4:8

Finally, brothers, whatever is true,

 whatever is honorable, 

whatever is just, 

whatever is pure, 

whatever is lovely, 

whatever is commendable, 

if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise,

 think 

about these things.

1 John 2:7-8

 Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, 

but an old commandment that you had from the beginning.

 The old commandment is the Word that you have heard. 

8 At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in Him and in you, 

because the darkness is passing away 

Jeremiah 1:12 

 For I will hasten My Word to perform it.

Abba, Father, 

You are Vast and Loving. 

Help us each day to bring Your Love 

to those we would ask You to Gather to You.

 Teach us, guide us, lead us, to be on Your Path.

 Protect us and give us Your wisdom. 

We ask this in the Name of Jesus - patient with His Mother, 

Brothers and His family for millenniums. 

We pray for Your Word to be Spoken.

Our prayers each day

for 

Our Loved Ones

Prayer Requests

this Nation

Food for Your Good Creation

Your Promises

and Peace

We would pray with Jesus Christ 

 let the Spirit give Life to this prayer.

Dwell in us.

Dwell in those we Love.

Help us to seek You first.

And in Jesus, we will finish well.

In Jesus. Amen.

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Matthew 11:29-30 ~ Learn from Jesus Christ

 

Matthew 11:29-30

29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.  30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

This morning my post-Covid strong congestion in my sinuses ceased. To wake me up early as some profound coughing. I'm tired this evening and the cough wants to return.

Please pray for all the people with flu A or B and children with respitory illnesses. And for me to boldly and with strength recover. I'm grateful this has been fairly easy! Cheerful to see I'm not dying.

Abba, Father,

I come to You as one weary. And ask you for only light burdens

in Covid recovery for myself and those with Flu or Respiratory Illnesses and Covid.

We take Your yolk upon us and asked to be yoked to faith

and faithful.  Your Yolk, Jesus Christ, is Your Tunic. Not difficult to carry. Woven for Jesus Christ with love. 

You are gentle Lord Father,  gentle of heart and not boastful or arrogant of heart as You heal us all. Will find rest for our souls and in Your mercy, recovery.

Isaiah 40:31

They who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; 

they shall mount up with wings like eagles; 

they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

To our Father God

and our Jesus, Wonderful

We give You thanks for the instructions

on bringing Prayer to the Holy Spirit and God the Father.

Amen in Jesus.

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Ephesians 1:2-14 ~ Lavished

 

You were planned and in the Book of Life

Proverbs 8

“The LORD brought me forth as the first of his works, 

    the first of his acts of old.

23 Ages ago I was set up,

    at the first, before the beginning of the earth.

24 When there were no depths I was brought forth,

    when there were no springs abounding with water.

25 Before the mountains had been shaped,

    before the hills, I was brought forth,

26 before He had made the earth with its fields,

    or the first of the dust of the world.

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

Then I was beside Him, like a master workman,

and I was daily His delight

    Rejoicing before Him always,

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

Ephesians 1:2-14

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 

who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places

4 Even as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him. 

In love 5 He predestined us for adoption to Himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of His will, 6 to the praise of His glorious grace, with which He has blessed us in the Beloved. 

7 In him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace, 8 which He lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight 9 making known to us the mystery of His will, according to His purpose, which He set forth in Christ 10 as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in Him, things in heaven and things on earth.

11 In Him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, 12 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of His glory. 

13 In Him you also, when you heard the Word of truth, the Gospel of your salvation, and believed in Him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 14 Who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of His glory.

Advent, to me, is the beginning of the Rocks Cry Out About Salvation in Jesus Christ.

Luke 19

“Blessed is the King who comes in the Name of the Lord!”

“Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”

39 Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, 

“Teacher, rebuke your disciples!”

40 “I tell you,” He replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.”

Relationship. The belief our Father would send Jesus to us, again. And will at the end of our time on earth. Again, when the Word is thriving and the earth has become too old. 

Husbands and wives rejoice in the best of their being, knowing if the choice was given, again, they would marry again and go forth in the hell and high water and Hopes of His Glory.

Relationship. In the beginning of our innocent lives, we think about what the world was like before we were born, our parents, grandparents; how we will suddenly not be part of this earth again one day. And where were we before we landed in the lives God has given us.

John 15:27

And you also will bear witness, 

because you have been with me 

from the beginning. 

We aren't simply having Christmas in 2022

We are celebrating the Birth of Jesus for our eternal lives.  The Ten Talents Parables are about trusting God to be the Master of His Plan. Creator of All.  Realizing we have been given blessings and privilege. To bring to the world around us. Love the Lord first, and love yourself. Then love your neighbor.  Exactly as if you are in an airplane and need oxygen. Go to the source, feed yourself and in His Life, feed others. 

Our Father says He loves Mercy over sacrifice. Why?  We are flawed, God says, Come Home as His Child in Jesus.  Our Father and Jesus, His exact nature, never said cringe before God. Instead, bloom and flourish, live for His Glory, be His Light. Find so much Hope, we don't need to nitpick. When we lose Him in our outlook, we will choose Him.

I refuse to let Advent bog me down in what I can't do, reach, heal with love and be.  I will use Advent to be a time of rest from worries and put up the decorations, reaching for His Love. The Lord tells me to Love Him and Love myself. This is celebrated in the Ten Talents Parable. When we lose our confidence, we put down our worries and look at the Lord God Almighty, my Father in Jesus Christ, upholding the Universe in His Word.

I will not react to goading. I won't be pushed to be rocked and socked robot.  I acknowledge the harshness of life and say I will look to the Lord First. Love the Lord. Love myself and in His nurture give to others. My help, my prayers, my hope and my peace. I will, in Jesus Christ live Him as the Way, the Truth and the Life.

If today, you were going to walk into:

Yale Library

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number P.CtYBR inv. 415 (Bib File)

 344 Winchester Ave Dock 8. New Haven, CT 06511

You'd find this Ephesians 1 Chapter. It's from Egypt and has a story before the passage was found.  During the 3rd Century, The manuscripts employing Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus became known to Western scholars as a result of correspondence between Erasmus and the prefects of the Vatican Library. This was the time of St. Jerome. His personality is vividly found. Jerome loved fun. And was brilliant in reading, memory and many languages. Loves Jesus. A priest who retired to Ahhh Antioch in later life to enjoy good company and not wrangle with all the works of God people get fussed about. St. Jerome is very holy, and he enjoyed parties with good conversations and lovely ladies.  The Joy of the Lord. John 14, 15, 16 and 17. 

Jerome! Commissioned by Pope Damasus I, to revise the Vetus Latina Gospels used by the Roman Church. Later, on his own initiative, Jerome extended this work of revision and translation to include most of the books of the Bible. The Vulgate became progressively adopted as the Bible text within the Western Church. 

Because of Jerome's works, we know the Bible passage we look at here is written during the 3rd Century. Not the first Century of Papyrus 46, 300 Chapters. This Biblical Chapter was found just as St. Jerome was taking the recommendations of the First Council of Nicaea and putting the Bible in order. Ephesians is the Tenth Book of the Bible and this was known to be a part of the Word of God since John was alive in Ephesus with the Mother of Jesus.  

Ephesians 1 has something in common with Leviticus and Deuteronomy, this passage says see and be in remembrance of His Lavish Blessings. 

Grace and Peace 

Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 

who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places

Holy and blameless as the Parable of Ten Talents.

He Chose us

before the foundation of the world

In Love,  He predestined us 

for adoption to Himself 

as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of His will

He has blessed us in the Beloved. 

In Jesus Christ

 we have redemption through His blood,

 the forgiveness of our trespasses, 

according to the riches of His grace, 

which He lavished upon us,

Matthew 13:17

For truly I tell you, 

many prophets and righteous people

 longed to see the things you see but didn't see them,

 to hear the things you hear 

but didn't hear them.

Making known to us the mystery of His will,  His purpose, 

in Christ 

A plan for the fullness of time, 

to unite all things in Him, 

things in heaven and things on earth.

11 In Him we have obtained an inheritance,

 having been predestined 

according to the purpose of Him who works all things 

according to the counsel of His will

So that we who were the first to hope in Christ 

might be to the praise of His glory. 

In Him you also, 

when you heard the Word of truth, 

the Gospel of your salvation, 

and believed in Him, 

Sealed with the promised Holy Spirit

Who is the guarantee of our inheritance 

until we acquire possession of it, 

to the praise of His glory.

Abba, Father,

Help us to see and know and cry out to You

Jesus our Savior

Help us to Love and See Our Blessings

Today

and

Every Day.

All Good Gifts are from You.

Thank You.

Help us this Day and each day

as You dwell in us

and those we Love

to be a Blessing to You

especially of Gratitude.

Thank You for Your Son, Jesus,

Who told us to pray for More of Your Heaven

on earth.

Holy is the Name of Jesus!

You could have said forgive us our sins

and instead said

Forgive us our trespasses.

You are the Almighty Lord of All.

Our Lord God.

Our Father, adopted in Jesus Christ,

Our own Father,

Father to our children

Father to His Children,

Tender and Compassionated

having pity on all

who reverence and have awe.

As far as the east is from the west,

He has removed our transgressions from us.

He knows our frame and is mindful of our frailties.

The Lord takes pleasure in us

those who put their Hope in Him.

Malachi 3

At that time those who feared the LORD spoke with one another, 

and the LORD listened and heard them. 

So a scroll of remembrance was written before Him 

regarding those who feared the LORD and honored His Name. 

17“They will be Mine,” says the LORD of Hosts, 

“on the day when I prepare My treasured possession. 

And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him."

We put our Hopes in the Lord!

 

In God's Blessings...

The love of Christ, 

and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, 

that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. 

Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, 

to Him be the glory in the church 

and in Christ Jesus 

throughout all generations, forever and ever. 

We put our Hope of Blessing upon Jesus

Amen  

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