Mark 6:1-6 ~ He healed them †

 

Tell the ones you love

about

your relationship

with 

Jesus.

 

Mark 6:1-6

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He went away from there and came to his hometown, and His disciples followed him.

And on the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things? What is the wisdom given to him? How are such mighty works done by his hands?

Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him. 4 And Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.”

 And He could do no mighty work there,
except that He laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them.

And He marveled because of their unbelief.

And He went about among the villages teaching.

Everyday Jesus. He healed them. We would Marvel! The Disciples said... Jesus only healed a few. Lord God, may your Holy Spirit fall newly afresh upon Your Good Creation. More of Jesus every day, Your Glory. Thank You, Father, You give us Jesus. Amen. Amen.

 

Everyday Jesus dealt with:

 Miracles, adversity, praise, ridicule, problems, solutions, 

love, warmth, hospitality, injustice, 

Glory and God. 

Not just Nazareth. 

All of His ministry.

And on this day, Jesus marveled at the unbelief. And went about His Day.

Others might have said Jesus' life was too hard. Jesus said His Life is Joy.

Jesus calls this life Joy.  

And turns His face to finding: 

the hopeful, 

diligent to God, 

open-hearted, 

newly remade hearts, 

those grateful today 

and those grateful in His Plan down the path.

Jesus took each day and found the Mercy of God.

Watchtowers are also storehouses for extra food and weapons. Nazareth is the only town recorded as being this watchful: being on a plateau, which is a watchtower to begin with. There are at least 3 watchtowers rebuilt from antiquity in Nazareth.

Nazareth is famous in all of Israel, with the 12 tribes, for being a watchtower for safety. 

Probably the people who lived in Nazareth were the people who wanted to be safe and to watch out for danger to have good and comfortable lives. And so, it's not unusual Nazareth is recorded through the millenniums for their observation of the Family of Joseph. And it is a favorable report.

The Scriptures don't say He rolled around on the ground, shook His Fist, became so angry He was purple. Called down fire.  Or hopped.  He didn't say, Peter, come over here, I have to talk to you. Jesus didn't call His Disciples together to explain. Jesus didn't run home and get His Brothers and Sisters. The Scriptures don't say Jesus was angry. Jesus didn't fear. The Scriptures don't say Jesus didn't understand mankind.  Jesus said He knew what was in mankind.  

His Mercies renew every day. Jesus says life is Joy. Jesus was planning on tomorrow as Joy.

Even if He has to have Peter pull a fish out of the Sea tomorrow.

Marvel.

The other time Jesus marveled was in the hometown Jesus picked as an adult, Capernaum. Capernaum has views. Of the Sea of Galilee in many different seasons and weather conditions. Calming and interesting. And of the mountains, something to look up to see. And find the sky making patterns across colors different in different seasons. Like the Sea of Galilee, the meadow flowers would move like waves on the Sea.

Jesus marveled when a man of faith believed the Authority of Jesus.

 And Jesus rejoiced in His Heart, the men believed He acted by His Word. The Centurion believed Jesus could heal his servant for his faith, his belief and his goodness giving God joy. Jesus praised the Centurion and said in all of Israel, the Centurion understood. This pleasure and marvel of God's Son is a study of our prayers today and every day.

We believe God. And treasure His Love.  Giving God Love in return. Father and Child.  Son of the Lord. Daughter of God. Beloved. We are.

Jesus Christ meek and mild is Not Scripture!

Jesus tells us He fulfills every dot and iota of Scripture, especially when we can't. 

Jesus handles different situations differently. Jesus certainly chased the money changers out of the Royal Stoaa on Temple Grounds. 

The Royal Stoaa was a huge building, later the Vatican building copied, built in 400 A.D. would indeed copy the Royal Stoaa.  One Gospel is unclear, Jesus perhaps chased the Money Changers from the 36 acres of Temple grounds. We Believe Jesus could do this.

Jesus tells us He is one with the Holy Trinity. 

Jesus is Teacher, Comfort and Comforter. When Jesus didn't Yell with Authority or out discuss Loving God with your whole heart, making someone close to the Kingdom of God at hand. Jesus is the comfort when we don't have to have the last word. Jesus is the teacher that not all discussions, He has a winning hand. Not every situation is apparently winnable. Jesus just perfectly in God's Wisdom said, go forth to a better, "Give us the Day."

The hometown of Nazareth would later decide to throw Jesus from Nazareth plateau.

Jesus again walked away. This was more spectacular, to avoid violence with a crowd of the people who had known Jesus as a boy. Both times, Jesus chose to walk away. Wisely. And if we want to think about when Jesus didn't set out to win the moment or the conversation, we would have to remember Jesus' own Brothers and Sisters. Not all situations are winning situations.

Yet, Jesus tells us, "Greet all this with prayer and God's Plan to save the world."

Was Jesus right? His Brothers and Sisters are recorded as going out to the world to tell of the Wonders of God in Jesus, God's Son, Messiah.  If we fully face the criticism this was a cult, we would have to also see, the brothers and their wives didn't travel as a team, but two by two. This is more the path of God since Genesis and not clumps of chumps.

Jesus was Right. Wise. Wisdom.

Profoundly Wise. In the early 3rd century, the Emperor sent several highly placed young men in the Empire to go to Nazareth, torture the generations of Joseph and Mary's family to disown and denounce Jesus. Future Emperor Constantine was seen going to do this by Bishop

Eusebius, Bishop Eusebius of Caesarea.

What Constantine saw in his 2 weeks in Nazareth.

Constantine was a potential emperor in the heirship plans of Diocletian, his enslavement to the Emperor by military orders, to prevent political uprising, Emperors did that with competition. Nonetheless, Constantine was a prominent member of the court: Bishop Eusebius was eye witness of Constantine's journey to torture Jesus Christ’s nephew descendants to repent of Jesus. They all refused to give up Jesus as Lord even upon torture and promises. Constantine was a tolerant and politically skilled man who had mixed with pagans and Christians in the reign prior to Diocletian. Events there in Nazareth changed our lives. God's generational plan.

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Our daily explanation of Jesus in our lives,

changes lives for generations.

Pray for Texas and the many in the storms tonight.

Please remember to pray for my mother's roof and the insurance claim

to be merciful and good.

Abba, Father,

We pray

for better weather

and Hope filling

us as we pray

and soothing Your Good Creation.

Father,

We ask for You to dwell in us,

dwell in those we love,

Help us to seek You first

and have the joy of seeing many Love You.

In Jesus Christ, we will finish well.

We would see our prayers, in Jesus, burst into bloom; 

we will rejoice greatly and shout for joy. 

The glory of prayer answered will be given to us, in Jesus,

 the splendor of Your Good Creation; 

We ask to see more Heaven on earth, 

and then we will see the glory of the LORD, 

the splendor of our God.

We pray for Your Plans, Your Good Will,

and ask those we love

will be a crown of splendor in the Lord's Hand

His Love, placing You in the Hand of God Almighty!

For the Lord, our Gracious and Merciful Lord

to take Delight in You

and Your Land, Your home Blessed with the Joys of Heaven

and His Healing with His Abundant Goodness.

The Beloved of God ask for His Favor,

We want to Sing, as the Heavens; and be joyful, 

to hear all break forth into singing, 

Upward, for the LORD hath comforted His people, 

and will have mercy upon His Children

In Jesus:

For ye shall go out with joy, 

and be led forth with peace: 

the mountains and the hills 

shall break forth before you into singing, 

and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. 

Philippians 4:4 

Be cheerful with joyous celebration

 in every season of life. 

Let joy overflow

We pray for relief to help and reach Syria

and Turkey. 6.4 and 4.9 earthquakes this week.

We pray this will cease. Lord, Your mercy upon this land and 

Your people.

We pray Amazon puts back Amazon Smile,

philanthropy is needed today and this program

was wonderful. Many will feel the clip if Amazon Smile doesn't

continue. Please Lord.

Your Words are Living and Active, when we long for Your Words, 

You are there.

To Know Scripture is to Know the Power of God. For Your Glory, Father God.

The times of refreshing, more enduring. 

Meaningful Life. Abundant Life to Look Up and Find 

the benefits You daily give and load us with

. If we don't see our blessings, we cannot live our Blessings.

We have had problems in our neighborhood, 

theft of a mower, acts of violence. 

 Pray for peace, please. 

Worldwide!

My mother's roof is in sudden need of

repairs and we want to find the best solutions for her house.

During the rainy season.

In Jesus, we Live and ask this for those we Love. 

We pray for our own strength, 

Love and ask Jesus to cover this Nation, those who lead this Nation 

and all other nations in this good fight. 

We ask for Your Blessings,

Father,

Thank You for all Jesus daily

gives us.

Amen.

The Light of mankind to shine with Jesus Christ.

Jesus is the Lord, Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yes Bless The Lord Jesus

Yes Jesus Bless Asbury

Matthew 12:15-21 ~ fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah

 

Matthew 12:15-21

15 Jesus, aware of this, withdrew from there. And many followed him, and he healed them all 16 and ordered them not to make him known. 17 This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah:

18 “Behold, my servant whom I have chosen,
my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased.
I will put my Spirit upon him,
and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.
19 He will not quarrel or cry aloud,
nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets;
20 a bruised reed he will not break,
and a smoldering wick he will not quench,
until he brings justice to victory;
21 and in his name the Gentiles will hope.”


1 Corinthians 13:13
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.


Micah 6:8
He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God.



Isaiah 35:5-6
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,
and the ears of the deaf unstopped;
then shall the lame man leap like a deer,
and the tongue of the mute sing for joy.
For waters break forth in the wilderness,
and streams in the desert

Qumran Cave

One of the  Dead Sea Scrolls is a fragment titled "Messianic Apocalypse" (4Q521). Containing three significance sentences in comparing Qumran community beliefs with the Christian Gospels.

 4Q521

[the hea]vens and the earth will listen to His Messiah, and none therein will
stray from the commandments of the holy ones.
Seekers of the Lord, strengthen yourselves in His service!
All you hopeful in (your) heart, will you not find the Lord in this?
For the Lord will consider the pious (hasidim) and call the righteous by name.
Over the poor His spirit will hover and will renew the faithful with His power.
And He will glorify the pious on the throne of the eternal Kingdom.
He who liberates the captives, restores sight to the blind, straightens the b[ent]
And f[or] ever I will cleav[ve to the h]opeful and in His mercy . . .
And the fr[uit . . .] will not be delayed for anyone.
And the Lord will accomplish glorious things which have never been as [He . . .]
For He will heal the wounded, and revive the dead and bring good news
to the poor
. . .He will lead the uprooted and knowledge . . . and smoke

4q521 is a fragment found in the Qumran Community papyrus now called the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Qumran left the Second Temple because they declared the Herod picked Priests and the Herod built Stoa (where the money changers conducted all kinds of Roman led commerce) - to be void of the Spirit of God. The Community believed the end of the world was near and, indeed, that was the truth for them. They were killed in during Titus' 70 A.D. Campaign to annihilate Jerusalem and certain parts of Judea. This is the Qumran Communities belief of the actions of the Messiah. There is thought that John the Baptist spent time with the Qumran Community.

John 4:49-54
The official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” 50 Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way. 51 As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was recovering. 52 So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” 53 The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, and all his household. 54 This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee

The Officials would seek Jesus' life and the Messiah knew this.


John 9:1-7
As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him. 4 We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” 6 Having said these things, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man's eyes with the mud 7 and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.

Jesus was different from the Temple rules - the lame and handicapped were not allowed in the inner Court of the Temple.


Luke 5:12-13
While he was in one of the cities, there came a man full of leprosy. And when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged him, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.” 13 And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately the leprosy left him.

During the time of Kosher, Jesus would touch a leper to heal him.


Luke 18:35-43
As he drew near to Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging. 36 And hearing a crowd going by, he inquired what this meant. 37 They told him, “Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.” 38 And he cried out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” 39 And those who were in front rebuked him, telling him to be silent. But he cried out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!” 40 And Jesus stopped and commanded him to be brought to him. And when he came near, he asked him, 41 “What do you want me to do for you?” He said, “Lord, let me recover my sight.” 42 And Jesus said to him, “Recover your sight; your faith has made you well.” 43 And immediately he recovered his sight and followed him, glorifying God. And all the people, when they saw it, gave praise to God.

The crowd wanted the blind man to be silent, he pursued his faith, his life was changed to the glory of God.

Mark 7:31-35
Then he returned from the region of Tyre and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis. 32 And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment, and they begged him to lay his hand on him. 33 And taking him aside from the crowd privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting touched his tongue. 34 And looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, “Ephphatha,” that is, “Be opened.” 35 And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly.

Jesus heals the individual, not a sign for the public. A demonstration Jesus seeks a loving relationship,  not crowd pleasing.


We see Jesus has fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah was so gloriously given. 700 years before Jesus was born.  The lame walk, the deaf hear and the eyes of the blind see. All of these prophesies are fulfilled. HOWEVER, we have something in our lifetime our great grandparents did not see.....

 Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Jesus Christ is still at work today.


Isaiah 35:6
For waters break forth in the wilderness,
and streams in the desert

Bethlehem looked the same for millenniums. This photo is only 100 years old. This is a barn or stable in Bethlehem.  Our Generation is the FIRST to see Israel plant crops and trees in the wilderness. Streams of water flows in the desert of Israel.  How unfortunate to also say the Bethlehem forest fights for survival as Palestinians and Israel fight over the land and God's promises. 

 

 We live in an unusual time. Father God, you have told us blessed were the eyes seeing Jesus. More blessed are those who only see by faith. In the name of Jesus, we say Thank You. 

Abba, Father

In the Highest Name of Jesus Christ.

 Amen.

The times of refreshing, more enduring. 

Meaningful Life. Abundant Life to Look Up and Find 

the benefits You daily give and load us with

. If we don't see our blessings, we cannot live our Blessings.

In Your Enduring and Prevailing Love, 

Grace and Mercy we Live.

We are Blessed to seek You First. 

Blessed to be finding the High Way of Your Heaven today. 

Blessed to ask to see more Heaven upon earth. 

Blessed to have You as our Daily Bread. 

Blessed to ask to Live Love, Joy and Peace.

Blessed to pray in expectation of Your Love and Willingness. 

Blessed to say Thank You that during Holy Week, 

we have seen the Glimpse of Your Glory 

working to heal the fullness of the earth, Yours.

We have had problems in our neighborhood, 

theft of a mower, acts of violence.

 Pray for peace, please. 

My mother's roof is in sudden need of

repairs and we want to find the best solutions for her house.

During the rainy season.

In Jesus, we Live and ask this for those we Love. 

We pray for our own strength, 

Love and ask Jesus to cover this Nation, those who lead this Nation 

and all other nations in this good fight. 

Thanks for Facebook and the Asbury Revival 2023

The Voice of Revival. Fabulous photos of today.

The Light of mankind to shine with Jesus Christ.

Jesus is the Lord, Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yes Bless The Lord Jesus

Yes Jesus Bless Asbury

2 Samuel 12:1-23 ~ LIVE

 

Greggory Peck's Movie about, "David"

2 Samuel 12:1-23

12 And the Lord sent Nathan to David. 

He came to him and said to him, “There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor. 2 The rich man had very many flocks and herds, 3 but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. And he brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children. It used to eat of his morsel and drink from his cup and lie in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him. 4 Now there came a traveler to the rich man, and he was unwilling to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the guest who had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.” 

5 Then David's anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As the Lord lives, the man who has done this deserves to die, 6 and he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.”

7 Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul. 8 And I gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if this were too little, I would add to you as much more. 

9 Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. 10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’ 11 Thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house. And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. 12 For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.’” 

13 David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” 

And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die. 14 Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the Lord,^{[Dead Sea Scroll the Word of the Lord]} the child who is born to you shall die.” 15 Then Nathan went to his house.

And the Lord afflicted the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and he became sick. 16 David therefore sought God on behalf of the child. And David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground. 17 And the elders of his house stood beside him, to raise him from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them. 18 On the seventh day the child died. 

And the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he did not listen to us. How then can we say to him the child is dead? He may do himself some harm.” 

19 But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David understood that the child was dead. And David said to his servants, “Is the child dead?” They said, “He is dead.” 

20 Then David arose from the earth 

and washed and anointed himself and changed his clothes. 

And he went into the house of the Lord and worshiped. 

He then went to his own house. And when he asked, they set food before him, and he ate. 21 Then his servants said to him, “What is this thing that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive; but when the child died, you arose and ate food.” 

22 He said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows whether the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live?’ 

23 But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? 

I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”

David acknowledges that the child was a unique person. He does not say baby; David is fully acknowledging this as a human being unique in HIS sight.

When we think of our lives, we plan out an idea of what He would have us do with our time. Surely, if we are at the beginning of our lives, few of us raise our hands and say, "Oh, I'd like to be a prophet of the Lord!!"

Look at Nathan, he really worked out how he was going to plunk down this information the Lord sent to Nathan. If you look at the movie Richard Gere did onm "David", you are going to see Samuel is a plotting, murdering, foaming-at-the-mouth Power Man. Hardly a prophet, Samuel is shown to be, but a kingmaker, a king breaker.

How did Nathan end up being a prophet of God?

2 Samuel 5:13-16
And David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to David. 14 And these are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, 15 Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia,15 Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, 16 Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.

Nathan did well in the eyes of David. Why? Nathan Loved. Loved David and David knew this.

2 Samuel 12:13
David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die.

2 Samuel 12:24-25
24 Then David comforted his wife, Bathsheba, and went in to her and lay with her, and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. And the Lord loved him 25 and sent a message by Nathan the prophet. So he called his name Jedidiah,^{[Beloved of the Lord]} because of the Lord.

Nathan was there when David was going to die of old age. Nathan advised David in the ways to obtain old age and stay in Salvation.


Next we are going to consider Samuel.

Samuel knows something about what the Lord desires. Notice, with me, the heart of the matter.

1 Samuel 7:3
And Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you and direct your heart to the Lord and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”


1 Samuel 16:1-2
The Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and be on your way; I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem. I have chosen one of his sons to be king.”

2 But Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears about it, he will kill me.”

Now here is job, career as prophet, a woman is not going to usually check-mark. This is a game where people get Vastly Offended. And notice with me again, Samuel has mourned Saul. How do we know? The LORD says so. Samuel is also in understanding of this is the Lord's Plan and Samuel is going to do what God has for him to do. He is not going to pull a Jonah and run.

So is this prophecy a comfy job - far from that.

1 Samuel 16:4-5
4 So Samuel did as the Lord instructed. When he arrived at Bethlehem, the elders of the town came trembling to meet him. “What’s wrong?” they asked. “Do you come in peace?”

5 “Yes,” Samuel replied. “I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Purify yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.” Then Samuel performed the purification rite for Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice, too.

Samuel invokes the same principal Jesus did when he said the child is sleeping, as he went to raise her from the dead. Samuel is not announcing the purposes of God, he is doing the will of his Father.


John 1:23
John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, "I am the voice of one calling in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way for the Lord.'"


Jonah did not love and still was compelled to do the work of the Lord. He spent time mourning the fact Nineveh  repented.

Jonah 4
9 But God said to Jonah, “Do you do well to be angry for the plant?” And he said, “Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die.” 10 And the Lord said, “You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night and perished in a night. 11 And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”

Surely, many people think Jonah is a fable. However, what reason would Jonah hate the Assyrians so much? It sounds like national pride. However, I believe this to be History and would point out to you, it is one of the wonderful, wondrous miracles of the Bible. Footwork. The Plans of the Lord go on for Generations! Vast Planning of the God of All. Jonah's Billy or Franklin Graham introduction of the Holy Spirit allows the future generation, King Hezekiah, and Isaiah freedom.  (As wonderful as William Wilberforce leading the UK to reject the sugar trade in their lives, to lead to the freedom of slavery worldwide!)  Nineveh was the capital of the Assyrian Empire, this Holy Spirit sympathy did not have Assyrians employ their usual destruction, Assyria did not invade or compel the next door neighbor, tiny Judah, to be destroyed, instead to be a friend of the Assyrian Empire. More than a puppet Judah Nation.  Jonah has saved Israel for another Empire, in time to conquer that. And Nebuchadnezzar is interested as he is compelled by Israel's bad behavior and double dealing with the Persian Empire to be lenient because Jonah's words have caught Holy Spirit Fire in the Assyrian Empire, which led to the Chaldean Persian Empire to Nebuchadnezzar becoming the new leader out of Assyria to form the Persian Empire. A Good Neighbor. 

It's interesting to note, 

God did not send a hater back to Israel to become as part of the Temple. End of Jonah.

We all, ultimately, hope to create a life with meaning. Samuel understood that as a small boy. Here is a heart open to the LORD.

1 Samuel 3

Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord in the presence of Eli. And the word of the Lord was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision.

2 At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that he could not see, was lying down in his own place. 3 The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was.

4 Then the Lord called Samuel, and he said, “Here I am!” 5 and ran to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” But he said, “I did not call; lie down again.” So he went and lay down.

6 And the Lord called again, “Samuel!” and Samuel arose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” But he said, “I did not call, my son; lie down again.” 7 Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, and the word of the Lord had not yet been revealed to him.

8 And the Lord called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” Then Eli perceived that the Lord was calling the boy. 9 Therefore Eli said to Samuel, “Go, lie down, and if he calls you, you shall say, ‘Speak, Lord, for your servant hears.’” So Samuel went and lay down in his place.

10 And the Lord came and stood, calling as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel said, “Speak, for your servant hears.” 11 Then the Lord said to Samuel, “Behold, I am about to do a thing in Israel at which the two ears of everyone who hears it will tingle.

Abba, Father God,

Each day we put out our open hands to You. Let this day not merely be one day tells its tale to another. Use this day in my life to Your glory. Let me encounter the people You would call me to minister with about You. I am much more attuned to let Your love be revealed in my life without words. Should You require words, help those words be from You.

Let me be like Noah, clearly, or unclearly, let Your will be accomplished. Noah knew he was to believe You, believe Your Words were for him, and Noah swung his hammer, each day at Your task. Let my prayer, my words, my work be for You. And let one life bring His will in goodness, mercy and steadfast love. Let love, the grace of Yours, cover a multitude of sin and allow my life to be fruitful to you.

I ask in the name of 

Jesus Christ the Lord, 

each day.

Amen. So be it.

In the Highest Name of Jesus Christ.

 Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yes Bless The Lord Jesus

Yes Jesus Bless Asbury