Joshua 24:15 ~ As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord

 

Joshua 24:15

As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.

Jesus, please.

Before World War II, it was considered to be impolite to speak of the news being so incredible, to point to a world in some fierce turmoil.

The Challenge in tough news times is to believe The Holy Spirit would be pleased for us to join together as we watch these demonstrations - to pray for God's Spirit to hold them to Him in Love. To change the atmosphere of every soul to realize what is needed is our Father God. To ask God for His Miraculous Holy Spirit.

The personal Challenge of this time is to believe your prayers are heard by Father God for Love and Encouragement of His Holy Spirit. The personal Challenge today is to believe your prayers join with others praying for the ricochet of investigations all over the political map and hollow indictments.  CNN Town Hall BOOED these charges.

For the other side of the aisle, feeling discouraged as Voters do on both sides.

For the unfortunate caught in the path. To pray for the people in a situation the voters never asked for. To pray for those caught up in all this, emotionally, and physically not to fall desperately concerned. Praying for the people who love their communities and want the scar to be healed on the land and on the people.

We will pray Love prevails and not fear.

Romans 5:8

God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners,

 Christ died for us.

Jesus, please. Establish the Righteous.

We witness this news and pray for Honorable Actions to admire. We pray for the Holy Spirit to make Love live in these souls.

Ezekiel 37:5-6

This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: 

"I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. 

 I will attach tendons to you 

and make flesh come upon you 

and cover you with skin; 

I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. 

Then you will know 

that I am the Lord.’”

Jesus, please.

Our Nation to display Integrity and Calm at all levels.

Not reports of Power flexing itself.

We see cruel actions. We pray the merciful and mindful of families and children to have God's heart in Prayer. In the Highest Name of Jesus Christ.

1 John 4:10

And love consists in this:

not that we loved God, but that He loved us

and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Jesus, please.

We know many, many are praying, don't sink into despair, at the volley of news. Hope in God our Father. Hope in Jesus.

Romans 8:31

What then shall we say in response to these things? 

If God is for us, who can be against us?

Jesus, please.

When we feel discouraged, we will fight on in the Good Fight to Pray with all Expectation of God's Righteousness. Even if the number of angry people is overwhelming. God knows us all.

Isaiah 40:26

Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these?

He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name;

by the greatness of His Might

and because He is strong in power,

not one is missing.

Jesus, please.

Abba, Father God,

Help our prayers be fruitful. 

Let our conversation about joy, need, praise. 

Let it be humble, let it be uplifting. 

We ask Your mercy and forgiveness

when we all fall short of Your Glory.

Help the people crying to Your Mercy, Father.

Thank you, Father, You incline your ear whenever we call upon You. 

Heal the hurting, uplift the families and the Nation.

Send Your vast blessings. Father God, 

You are truly are as vast as the Universe itself and as gentle as a breeze. 

Speak the Word, Father God, and we know Your healing. 

Prayers for healing in health are being answered.

We pray for the work being done at our house

to be well, in patience and in kindness. Completion of the Project.

Dwell in us, Father.

Help the ones we Love to have You dwelling in them.

Help us to Seek You First.

And we will finish well in Jesus Christ.

Jesus the Light of mankind

Jesus the Light of Nations.

Jesus the Light of the world.

Jesus the Light of Heaven.

Shine, Jesus Christ, Shine.

Praise Your gift of life in Jesus. 

Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yay Jesus

1 John 4:7-19 ~ Bless the Lord. Thank You, Father, Jesus and Holy Spirit

 

Found in 1920, this was identified as 100 A.D. until we suddenly had "New Knowledge" not extending to Roman Histories, the Talmud, or Babylonian Chronicles. Nor Latin texts.  What is interesting, John's Gospels are debunked, Now, not because they are suddenly not commonly known as 400 A.D. myths, but not commonly criticized because John couldn't have had such complex ideas of theology..... He was a fisherman.

Except. Minus walking with Jesus Christ to see the Messiah on earth. Eyewitness he tells us over and over in "John's Gospel." Gospel, is of course a word meaning, "Truth." 

Minus making a promise to Jesus not to reveal the Transfiguration and, yet, starting "John's Gospel" explaining the Transfiguration, meeting Moses and Elijah, seeing, witnessing the Majesty of the Son of God.

And history is, now, conceding historians can say the Gospel of John was written before 70 A.D. True, Peter would have been alive when John wrote  "HIS" Gospel.

1 John, the First Epistle of John, is written in 100 A.D., when John had left Patmos and was again in Ephesus. His theme, rather HIS Theme, is love and fellowship with God. John had grown past the horror of finding the utmost evil on earth to take the life of Jesus Christ, Alpha and Omega. 

After the Book of Revelation. Later than the 65 years, John suddenly found himself in Heaven one Sunday afternoon, we can place because History speaks of John of Oleo in Rome,  A Historian, lawyer and married to a Christian wife - Tertullian disliked mysticism and wrote this was fact that John was boiled in oil and unharmed by Emperor Domitian intended the death of a man worshiping Jesus as God. Tertullian's book is The Prescription of Heretics. The precise written event - John was banished to Patmos after being plunged into boiling oil in Rome and suffering nothing from it. Tertullian wrote the whole audience of the smaller games area than the Colosseum was converted to Christianity upon witnessing this miracle. The smaller arena was used because, first, the dogs refused to attack John in the larger Colosseum.  Dogs were deemed less grand than lions. The smaller arena was packed for the second oil boiling event.  This event would have occurred in the late 1st century.

Psalm 103

Bless the Lord, O my soul,

    and all that is within me,

    bless His Holy Name!

2 Bless the Lord, O my soul,

    and forget not all His benefits,

3 who forgives all your iniquity,

    who heals all your diseases,

4 who redeems your life from the pit,

    who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,

5 who satisfies you with good

    so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.

6 The Lord works righteousness

    and justice for all who are oppressed.

7 He made known His ways to Moses,

    His acts

 to 

the people of Israel.

8 The Lord is merciful and gracious,

    slow to anger and 

abounding 

in steadfast 

love.

9 He will not always chide,

    nor will he keep His anger forever.

10 He does not deal with us according to our sins,

    nor repay us according to our iniquities.

11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth,

    so great 

is His steadfast love toward those who fear Him;

12 as far as the east is from the west,

    so far does He remove our transgressions from us.

13 As a father shows compassion to his children,

    so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear Him.

14 For He knows our frame;

    He remembers that we are dust.

15 As for man, his days are like grass;

    he flourishes like a flower of the field;

16 for the wind passes over it, and it is gone,

    and its place knows it no more.

17 But the steadfast Love 

of the Lord 

is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him,

    and his righteousness to children's children,

18 to those who keep His Covenant

    and remember to do His Commandments.

19 The Lord has established His throne in the heavens,

    and His kingdom 

rules over 

all.

20 Bless the Lord, O you His angels,

    you mighty ones who do His Word,

    obeying the Voice of His Word!

21 Bless the Lord, all His Hosts,

    His ministers, who do His Will!

22 Bless the Lord, all His Works,

    in all places of His Dominion.

Bless the Lord, O my soul!

John's Gospel and John's Epistle show growth and healing in this life.

1 John 4:7-19

7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 

8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 

9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 

11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and His love is perfected in us.

13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 

15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 

17 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. 

18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. 19 We love because

He first loved us

Abba, Father,

Help us to go before the Lord to prepare His ways

To give knowledge of salvation to his people in the forgiveness of their sins

Because of the tender mercy of our God

 His sunrise shall visit us from on high 

Giving light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death

Guiding our feet into the way of peace.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ

He has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms

By grace you have been saved through faith

 and that not of yourselves

 The gift of God

not as a result of works, so that no one may boast

Faith is a gift of God

by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ

May grace and peace be multiplied to you

 in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord

We pray for all facing injustice

and those who face the injustice

in a system called Justice.

We pray this Land

is Home of the Free

the Brave

and 

the Honest.

FREEDOM!

1 John 3:1

See what kind of love the Father has given to us,

 that we should be called children of God

Dwell in us, Father

Dwell in those we Love

Help us to seek You first

and in Jesus Christ,

we will finish well.

Blessed be the Name of the Lord

Jesus Christ, Savior of God.

Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yay Jesus

Psalm 126 ~ shall come home with shouts of joy

 

Have a heart than never hardens, 

& a temper that never tires, 

and a touch that never hurts.

 - Charles Dickens

Psalm 126

1 When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion,

we were like those who dream.

2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter,

and our tongue with shouts of joy;

then they said among the nations,

“The Lord has done great things for them.”

3 The Lord has done great things for us;

we are glad.

4 Restore our fortunes, O Lord,

like streams in the Negeb!

5 Those who sow in tears

shall reap 

with shouts of joy!

6 He who goes out weeping,

bearing the seed for sowing,

shall come home with shouts of joy,

bringing his sheaves with him.

How will Psalm 126 appear to you today? 

Will you see it as God's promises of Heaven? Will you see it as gratitude ? 

Gratitude for the gifts in your life?

Lets look at this Psalm today as..... the Willingness of God.... to hear, to bless, like: 

Psalm 23:5b-6

My cup overflows.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me

all the days of my life,

and I shall dwell 

in the

House of the Lord

forever.

I love the Truth of the Scriptures. 

Never the glass is full or empty, it's.... real. We anticipate God being like us. I only have so much of my casserole for my dinner group.... I hope Jack won't have too much.... but Edward needs more and so his plate needs a bit more.

God doesn't give us a couple of ties or a sweater and say to us - now feel full. Love with me, please, how real Psalm 126 is. We acknowledge our blessings..... we've celebrated life with people we love. We give God thanks for our eyesight, for hearing, for health. For a job, for opportunities to come. For the people we were, and are, fortunate enough to love. And have been fortunate to be able to give the gift of giving to.

Psalm 126 acknowledges our lives are blessed and could use some more blessings. It gives us hope and assurance, God doesn't say, "Nope, you are blessed enough and my warehouse of blessings is spent."

Amazingly, Jesus Christ has been celebrated for good reason for over 2000 years. 

God doesn't just give us His blessings for a day, for the continuation of eternal life - for the next life; 

God gives us the hope of blessings to come. The blessings He will willingly provide.

Abba, Father,

Shouts of joy! 

Will be needed!

Praise to You, Father, for Your great Glory. 

In the Highest Name of Jesus Christ. 

Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yay Lord Jesus