Psalm 34 ~ The Lord Heard

 

Psalm 34

I will bless the Lord at all times;

    His praise shall continually be in my mouth.

2 My soul makes its boast in the Lord;

    let the humble hear and be glad.

3 Oh, magnify the Lord with me,

    and let us exalt His Name together!

4 I sought the Lord, and He answered me

    and delivered me from all my fears.

5 Those who look to Him are radiant,

    and their faces shall never be ashamed.

6 This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him

    and saved him out of all his troubles.

7 The angel of the Lord encamps

    around those who fear him, and delivers them.

8 Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good!

    Blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!

9 Oh, fear the Lord, you His saints,

    for those who fear Him have no lack!

10 The young lions suffer want and hunger;

    but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

11 Come, O children, listen to me;

    I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

12 What man is there who desires life

    and loves many days, that he may see good?

13 Keep your tongue from evil

    and your lips from speaking deceit.

14 Turn away from evil and do good;

    seek peace and pursue it.

15 The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous

    and His ears toward their cry.

16 The face of the Lord is against those who do evil,

    to cut off the memory of them from the earth.

17 When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears

    and delivers them out of all their troubles.

18 The Lord is near to the brokenhearted

    and saves the crushed in spirit.

19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous,

    but the Lord delivers him out of them all.

20 He keeps all his bones;

    not one of them is broken.

21 Affliction will slay the wicked,

    and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.

22 The Lord redeems the life of His servants;

    none of those who take refuge in Him 

will be condemned.

Romans 8: 27, 28

And He who searches our hearts 

knows the mind of the Spirit, 

because the Spirit intercedes for the saints 

according to the will of God. 

28 And we know that God works all things 

together for the good 

of those who love Him, 

who are called according to His purpose. 

Romans 1:7

To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: 
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 1:9

God, who has called you into fellowship with 

His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.

Romans 8:30

And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, 
He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.

Romans 11:29

For God's gifts and His call are irrevocable.

1 Corinthians 1:2,3 

 To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus 
and called to be holy, 

together with all those everywhere 

who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

 their Lord and ours: 

 Grace and peace to you 

from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

We are told God gives us abilities to walk in Good Works. Sometimes when we don't even deserve the mercy, God is very merciful inside us. And strengthens us. To Love again.

Blessed are the Merciful, they shall receive Mercy. I am blessed freely and without fully deserving.  We have been so fortunate to have Texas rain in July, during a heat wave. To have air conditioning and live in the antibiotics generation. Daily He loads us with benefits. Be blessing seekers and blessing finders.

Abba, Father,

Worship the LORD in the splendor of His Holiness;

 tremble before Him, all the earth.

Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His Name. 

Jesus.

Psalm 145

One generation shall praise Your works to another, 

And shall declare Your mighty acts. 

On the glorious splendor of Your majesty

 And on Your wonderful works, I will meditate. 

Men shall speak of the power of Your awesome acts

 And I will tell of Your greatness.

Our Father God is God of ALL Things,

Ancient of Days,

A Wellspring,

Living Water.

We in confidence and jubilation lift up our Loved Ones 

and their care to You.

The People You have given us shall know Our God Reigns.

We ask this Nation Rise up in the Name of Jesus 

for His Glory and our Hope.

We pray of the Goodness of His Creation 

to Proclaim the Love of Jesus and His Saving Mercy.

And we shall know the Greatest of All of God's Miracles 

- The Salvation of Jesus - 

And we proclaim 

Thank You for Jesus. 

Amen.

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Yay Lord Jesus 

Psalm 139 ~ The wings of morning. And the uttermost parts of the sea.

 

The American Independence Day Celebration with fireworks started July 4, 1777

John Adams. On July 2, 1776, two days before the Declaration of Independence was signed, he wrote this letter to his wife: "This day will be most memorable in the history of America," he predicted. "I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival... It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade... bonfires and illuminations [fireworks]... from one end of this content to the other, from this time forward forevermore." ...and so it was. On July 4, 1777, the first anniversary of America's country-hood loved their illumminations!

 Psalm 139

1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me!

2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;

you discern my thoughts from afar.

3 You search out my path and my lying down

and are acquainted with all my ways.

4 Even before a word is on my tongue,

behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.

5 You hem me in, behind and before,

and lay your hand upon me.

6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;

it is high; I cannot attain it.

7 Where shall I go from your Spirit?

Or where shall I flee from your presence?

8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there!

If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!

9 If I take the wings of the morning

and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

10 even there your hand shall lead me,

and your right hand shall hold me.

11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,

and the light about me be night,”

12 even the darkness is not dark to you;

the night is bright as the day,

for darkness 

is as light with you.

13 For you formed my inward parts;

you knitted me together in my mother's womb.

14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Wonderful are your works;

my soul knows it very well.

15 My frame was not hidden from you,

when I was being made in secret,

intricately woven in the depths of the earth.

16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance;

in your book were written, 

every one of them,

the days that were formed for me,

when as yet there was none of them.

17 How precious to me are your thoughts, 

O God!

How vast is the sum of them!

18 If I would count them, they are more than the sand.

I awake, 

and I am still with you.

19 Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God!

O men of blood, depart from me!

20 They speak against you with malicious intent;

your enemies take your name in vain!

21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord?

And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?

22 I hate them with complete hatred;

I count them my enemies.

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart!

Try me and know my thoughts!

24 And see if there be any grievous way in me,

and lead me 

in the way everlasting!

Abba, Father,

Every part of creation is under God's intuition and influence.

Praise be to You, Oh Lord, Father and God 

of all.

And blessed be your Son, Jesus.

Amen.

May the Lord God Almighty

Bless us

and Keep us

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Yes Bless The Lord Jesus

Yes Thank You Father

Luke 7:11-14 ~ Arise

 

 Luke 7:11-14

11 Soon afterward, He went to a town called Nain, and His disciples 

and a great crowd went with Him. 

12 As He drew near to the gate of the town, 

behold, 

a man who had died was being carried out, 

the only son of his mother, 

and she was a widow, 

and a considerable crowd from the town was with her. 

13 And when the Lord saw her, 

He had compassion on her and said to her, 

“Do not weep.” 

14 Then He came up and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. 

And He said, “Young man, I say to you, arise.”

Earlier in Luke's 7th Chapter, Jesus marveled at the faith of the Centurion, believing Jesus could heal at a distance. Jesus carries this further into this chapter, healing the dead, without touching the body. Also, ending any debate over the Kosher cleanliness of the dead rising. 

If Jesus ended the weeks and months of debating the cleanliness of the dead being raised to life, from Jesus not touching a dead body, Jesus was thinking of the conversations held in Nain and moving with the Great Crowd. Jesus has brought attention to salvation. Imagine the conversations at the house of the widow with the living son.

Luke 4:21 

And Jesus began to say to them, 

“Today this Scripture has been fulfilled.”

Ezekiel 37

37 The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones. 2 And he led me around among them, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and behold, they were very dry. 3 And he said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord God, you know.” 4 Then he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. 5 Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. 6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the Lord.”

Jesus did fulfill Ezekiel 

15 The word of the Lord came to me: 16 “Son of man, take a stick and write on it, ‘For Judah, and the people of Israel associated with him’; then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph (the stick of Ephraim) and all the house of Israel associated with him.’ 17 And join them one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand. 

18 And when your people say to you, ‘Will you not tell us what you mean by these?’ 

19 say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am about to take the stick of Joseph (that is in the hand of Ephraim) and the tribes of Israel associated with him. And I will join with it the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, that they may be one in my hand. 

20 When the sticks on which you write are in your hand before their eyes, 21 then say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and bring them to their own land. 

22 And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. And one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms. 23 They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. But I will save them from all the backslidings in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 36:26

And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. 

And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh

 and give you a heart of flesh.

 John 1:4 

In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men.

Abba, Father,

Dwell in us, please, Father.

Dwell in those we Love.

Help us to seek You first.

In Jesus Christ, we will finish well.

To see

to bring

to be

more daily

Thy Kingdom come

Thy will be done

on earth

as in Heaven.

May the Lord God

give us Justice,

Righteousness,

Goodness,

Joy and Love

to sweep the Nation

and those who

want All of God's Blessings

to surround His People.

May we see Victory of Jesus

Soon

for those who bring

Goodness and Hope and Prosperity

pleasing the Lord.

In Jesus Christ is 

Our Love, Joy and Hope.

Thank You for Jesus.

To You, our Father, be the Glory

Amen and Alleluia

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Genesis 12:1-8 ~ you will be a blessing †

 

This Summer, if you are going on your first airplane ride, or 142,343 th business trip, learning to swim, sitting in an ER, visiting the Assisted Living, water-skiing, or tennis lessons, trapped in rush hour traffic, waiting 7 back in the grocery line.....  we all have something in common. Especially, if you are learning to ride a bicycle. 

We would all like our Lord God, the Almighty, to call us His Friend or even Beloved.

Everyone!

How did the Shepherds receive this Call?

Genesis 12:1-8

 

Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him

And Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan, 6 Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. 

At that time the Canaanites were in the land. 7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him. 8 From there he moved to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the Name of the Lord.

Where is the Waldo in Genesis 12?  If you see this in the 8th verse...Remember, Moses had to ask!

Abraham must have done something good. Worth considering.

Genesis 15:6 

And he believed the Lord, and He counted it to him as righteousness.

 James 2:23 

“And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, 

“Abraham believed God, 

and it was counted to him as righteousness”

—and he was called a friend of God.” 

 

And when we consider Jesus told us, the exact nature of God explained, we sometimes find God as distant or incorrect or unfair or slow to move:

Luke 18 

And Jesus told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. 

2 He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. 3 And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ 4 For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’” 

6 And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says. 7 And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? 8 I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily.

And how did the Disciples greet Jesus? His chosen Disciples? In John's Gospel, the 21st Chapter, and Acts 1, they argued with the tortured and risen, Victorious Jesus, God's Only Son, about John's length of life and the Kingdom of Israel restored from Romans. Exactly as Luke 18.

And 

Luke 9:1,2

1Then Jesus called the Twelve together 

and gave them power and authority 

over all demons, 

and power to cure diseases. 

2 And He sent them out to proclaim the Kingdom of God 

and to heal the sick.

We know the Book of Acts and the powerful, powerful works of God. And we know John the Beloved Disciple didn't live to be a 1,000 years old and more like the 120 years of Moses. And the Kingdom of Israel dots A.D. history and is splendid today. 

Jesus said something amazing about Luke 9:1,2

John 10:34

Jesus replied, "Is it not written in your Law: 'I have said you are gods'?

Psalm 82:6 

“I said, ‘You are “gods"; you are all sons of the Most High.’

 

The Disciples and people of faith know God's miracles today. The hindsight prayer miracles are also of key importance. Yet, the Disciples, and Job, didn't control our Father, who upholds the Universe with His Word. His Good Will Be Done. God of gods, Light of light.

What did Abraham do? Argued with God. Like the Disciples to the face of the Risen, Victorious Jesus Christ.

Genesis 18

23 Then Abraham drew near and said, “Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? 24 Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city. Will you then sweep away the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it? 25 Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?” 26 And the Lord said, “If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

27 Abraham answered and said, “Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes. 28 Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking. Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?” And he said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.” 29 Again he spoke to him and said, “Suppose forty are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of forty I will not do it.” 30 Then he said, “Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Suppose thirty are found there.” He answered, “I will not do it, if I find thirty there.” 31 He said, “Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord. Suppose twenty are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of twenty I will not destroy it.” 32 Then he said, “Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again but this once. Suppose ten are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of ten I will not destroy it.” 33 And the Lord went his way, when he had finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

Abraham felt he could speak to the Lord as Job spoke to the Lord. And Abraham forgot to struggle like Jacob and the Angel when God asked for Isaac. Would the Lord have demolished Abraham to insist the Lord is the One in charge of Life and death?

Luke 12

47 And that servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating. 48 But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.

If you disagree with Jesus' statements in Luke 12, we will have to think about Job! Job was also a Beloved of the Lord. And puts our thoughts about prayer, we treasure in our own hearts, to consider.

Jesus gave us interesting History and ideas in the Word of God about God and prayer.

Luke 18 

And Jesus told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. 

Your Will be Done, On earth as it is in Heaven.

Abba, Father,

Dwell in us, please, Father.

Dwell in those we Love.

Help us to seek You first.

In Jesus Christ, we will finish well.

In Jesus Christ is 

Our Love, Joy and Hope.

Thank You for Jesus.

Thank You for memories,

that fill our eyes

and roll down our face.

Before the Great Reunion!

To You, our Father, be the Glory

Our God is an Awesome God! 

Amen and Alleluia

in Jesus Christ and His Glory!

In the Highest Name of Jesus. 

We Pray Amen with our Alleluia. 

Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yes Bless The Lord Jesus

Yes Thank You Father