Psalm 107:4-9 ~ Thank the Lord †

 

 

Psalm 107:4-9

Some wandered in desert wastes,

    finding no way to a city to dwell in;

5 hungry and thirsty,

    their soul fainted within them.

6 Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,

    and 

He delivered them from their distress.

7 He led them by a straight way

    till they reached a city to dwell in.

8 Let them thank the Lord 

for His Steadfast Love,

    for His 

Wondrous Works to the children of man!

For He

 satisfies the longing soul,

    and the hungry soul 

He fills with good things.

This morning, I didn't look at Blessings, I didn't have an attitude of gratitude and felt all my flaws and difficulties. Upset, angry and sad. Edward was lovely to me.  And I headed off to Church, fellowship and Eucharist. 

Edward pointed out to me, we tend to have one of us upset, but kindly we take turns. Edward had to visit a specialty doctor. And this doctor told us, as we collect years, our hormone levels drop and the general age groups begin to complain more and be upset. Usually something to consider as gratitude is an attitude we attain. I had the right to remain silent and this wasn't within reach.

Job 7

11 Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; 

I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; 

I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. 

12 Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, 

that You must keep me under guard?

And all troubles we have, we feel might be too heavy for Church. I was the prayer person for Church a few years ago, and a woman came to pray about crying in Church. We all sometimes have emotions. And we can put stairs on them to climb up, with faith in God's Goodness.  KSBJ Christian Radio has callers who say, all the time, the song made the outrageous, push down portions of life - lifted way up. We were outrageously chewed out for attending my mother-in-law's 90th Birthday.  And you have to realize, it's not you being chewed out. It's life, to chew out, for no purpose, is sunk in the times and sad circumstances, without the tools to be calm and encouraging instead of angry.   

Our next door neighbors are so disturbed, and they live to bother the neighbors to the north and the south of them and others. To the point they want their young, happy dog to bark uncontrollably. The dog is a very good-natured little pup. Last weekend, for at least two hours, they kept him on a small leash in a fenced yard and praised him for being in torment and barking. We live on a 3 acre, wonderful pond, all the neighbors on the pond could see and hear. The very strange neighbors have thrown dead ducks into the other neighbors' yard. And the Game Warden was called.  The weird actions of these people, making multiple false calls to the police - I guess preemptively. The police told me a few months back, they have false reported at least 11 calls, and it's multiple neighbors they complain about.  And outraged our upholsterer, who called for me to call the police on them. There are outrageous portions in life.  The police are watching them and when they set off commercial grade, golf course sized, Roman Candles when neighbors left their house, during the drought, the police were there within a mere set of moments. And God lifts us up to pray for the poor dog and his nice life. For the neighbors all to be released from such unhappy neighbors with boom boxes of coyotes and coyote attacks.  These unequipped and confused, weird people should want to get away from the reputation they have made and move to a fresh start, with more tools to learn to be less unhappy and very odd.  To pray for the south neighbor who has had the ambulance due to high blood pressure.  Lord Jesus, we ask Your Help, Amen.

We can feel life brings us to our knees emotionally, and then stay home. And then we see Sunday morning:

It don't have a job, don't pay your bills

Won't buy you a home in Beverly Hills

Won't fix your life in five easy steps

Ain't the law of the land or the government

But it's all you need

And love will hold us together

Make us a shelter to weather the storm 

- Matt Meyer, Love Will Hold Us Together

Nothing about Scripture telling us about life promises perfection. But to be in Church, with the people on their knees asking God's Love, mercy, joy and peaceful victory. To be greeted all morning long by the people who love others and want to know God's Goodness. Wow. Then we are overcoming.  We see what good. We live what is good. We put ourselves in the Mercy and Blessings of God. Our feet have taken us to a great place. Our choices, given to us, are made well and beyond satisfying. Victory is seen. Hope has taken us where faith has believed. 

Philippians 4:8

Whatever is good, whatever is noble 

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, 

whatever is right, whatever is pure, 

whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable

—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy

—think about such things.

Is to see the people asking God to direct them in His Goodness. 

No one has every day or every Church experience as perfection, but to meet the people trying. Is to understand Heaven. This kindness won't pay the bills, or the other lyrics. And then again...really.... to be collected, nourished, sustained, forgiven, given the Joy of the Lord, is the Hope and Faith to make Life worth living. Meaningful. 

But it's all you need

And love will hold us together

Make us a shelter to weather the storm 

As we find more Heaven on earth

S0 many people are asking the Lord about our nation, culture, families and values.  We pray for renewal. To go to Church, we all realistically recognize, has bumps and bruises, but is the Renewal each week we hope for all of us. The Joy of the Lord is our Strength. Renewal is seeing Heaven come to earth. Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.

Hope for everyone.

My mother-in-law had her 90th Birthday, living in Assisted Living. The family gathered to fill the Assisted Living Birthday for her, including their weekly great singer, with balloons, cake, ice cream and sandwiches.  And everyone was so pleased. A room with smiling and singing faces. Judy has a new gentleman admirer resident, who is a well-known person in Dallas. He was sitting next to her and Judy was so pleased to have all the joy life gives. Evidently, 90 is a very good year. 

My grandmother Anita also had the talent of taking what is given and finding joy. After her stroke at about 90 years old, Grandmother Anita's room in Assisted Living was where the nurses gathered. She always had some interesting things to say. Her room was the one where the nurses were laughing and chatting. 

Grandmother Anita is the one dancing in Heaven. Her 70-year-old adopted son, after a lifelong hatred of Christians, and Christian women, heard Joel Olsteen on TV and became a believing Christian who loved Jesus.  Grandmother's rooms in Heaven have dancing. She liked Prohibition! They danced a lot, when they went to the bank at night to have a party. 

7 He led them by a straight way

    till they reached a city to dwell in.

8 Let them thank the Lord for His Steadfast Love,

    for His 

Wondrous Works to the children of man!

For He

 satisfies the longing soul,

    and the hungry soul 

He fills with good things.

David said, when my baby was alive, I had hope. And then God gave a new set of circumstances, and we go forward in God. 

When we have Life, God gives us worship, our opportunity for our good choices. Being Thankful. Glad. And seeing so many reach for the Lord, know the goodness in a life with difficulty. Finding the good, knowing renewal and Hope. The forgiveness of God makes a path of Renewal. Church is a privilege to worship with His community, loving the Lord God.

Go to Church.

Find God of Love, God of Mercy

God of Encouragement

Find the actual Word of God Honored

Look for the Good.

Shake off the meh 

Outrageousness and coldness, are what

we leap past.

Be kind, be merciful,

look to find what is noble, good and

praiseworthy.

Meh to outrageous cold!

Abba, Father,

You alone are the LORD. 

You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, 

and 

all their starry hosts,

 the earth and all that is on it,

 the seas and all that is in them. 

You give life to everything, 

and the multitudes of Heaven worship you.

You are God of all grace, 

calling us to Your glory 

in Christ eternal,

with only small suffering,

You will,

 Yourself, restore us 

and make us strong, firm and steadfast.

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, You are for us. 

Cover us, the ones we Love and You Love 

with the Strong Name of Jesus.

 Covering all of us, the world, You will save in Jesus Christ. 

Thank You, Father,

You have given us Jesus Christ

and

Dwell in us,

dwell in those we Love, God of Love.

God of Hope. 

God of Encouragement.

Help us to seek You

First

and 

we will finish well in Jesus Christ.

We know Your Love, Salvation, Promises

and Blessings. 

Thank You.

Knowing we are very Blessed in Jesus.

We continue, in expectation, to pray for rain for ourselves

and the Nation.

Gentle weather.

God provides relief and peace.

Thank You, Abba.

Thank You, Jesus Christ.

Alleluia 

Amen.

Psalm 19

1 The heavens declare the glory of God;

the skies proclaim the work of His hands.

2 Day after day they pour forth speech;

night after night they reveal knowledge.

3 Without speech or language,

without a sound to be heard, 

4 their voice has gone out into all the earth,

their words to the ends of the world.

Abba, Father,

We pray as the Gulf and oceans cool,

the weather will come to us

in relief and gently.

And as we deal with one another.

Gently and to ask respect

and brotherly love.

Jesus is the Lord

and is working,

we ask in this prayer,

in the Highest

Name of Jesus 

Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Thanks be unto the Lord

and His Blessing

to all who Love Him

bringing

more Heaven to earth

Hebrews 11:1-35 ~ By faith

 

 

Hebrews 11:1-35

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, 

the conviction of things not seen. 

For by it the people of old received their commendation. 

By faith

 we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, 

so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.

By faith

Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. 

By faith

Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. 6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. 

By faith

Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

By faith

Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. 9 By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. 10 For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God.

By faith

Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised. 

12 Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.

By faith

13 These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. 14 For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. 15 If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.

17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son, 18 of whom it was said, “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” 19 He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back. 

By faith

 Isaac invoked future blessings on Jacob and Esau. 

By faith

Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, bowing in worship over the head of his staff. 

By faith

Joseph, at the end of his life, made mention of the exodus of the Israelites and gave directions concerning his bones.

By faith

Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of the king's edict. 

24 By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, 25 choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. 26 He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward. 

27 By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible. 28 By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.

By faith

By faith the people crossed the Red Sea as on dry land, but the Egyptians, when they attempted to do the same, were drowned. 

By faith

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days. 31 By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had given a friendly welcome to the spies.

32 And what more shall I say? 

For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets— 33 who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight. 35 Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life. 

If we wanted David to be placed, Biblically, in Hebrews 11, what would we look to find in the Scriptures?

Psalm 18:29

For by You I can run against a troop, 

and by my God 

I can leap over a wall.

Psalm 131:3 

Put your hope in the LORD 

both now 

and 

forevermore

2 Chronicles 20:15

Thus says the Lord to you, 

'Do not be afraid 

and do not be dismayed at this great horde, 

for the battle is not yours 

but God's.  

Lamentations 3:23 

Great is His faithfulness; 

His mercies begin afresh each morning.

Hosea 6:6

Mercy I delight in and not sacrifice

Abba, Father,

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses,

 let us throw off every encumbrance 

and the sin that so easily entangles, 

and let us run with endurance 

the race set out for us.

Isaiah 6:1

And the Train of His Robe filled the Temple

Ezekiel 10:4 

Then the glory of the LORD rose 

from above the cherubim 

and moved to the threshold of the Temple. 

The cloud filled the Temple, 

and the court was full

 of the radiance

 of the glory

 of the LORD.

Fishers of men

By faith

By their example

their witness

the cloud of their witness,

we encourage each other:

May God himself, the God of peace, 

sanctify you through and through. 

May your whole spirit, 

soul and body 

be kept blameless 

at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

The one who calls you is faithful, 

and He will do it.

Brothers and sisters, pray for one another. 

Greet all God’s people

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ

 be with you!

Bless the Nations seeking You.

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

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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Yay Lord Jesus 

Psalm 107:1-3 ~ Oh give thanks to the LORD, for He is Good, for His Steadfast Love endures forever!

 

Psalm 107:1-3

Oh give thanks to the LORD, 

for He is Good, 

for His Steadfast Love endures forever! 

Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, 

whom He has redeemed from trouble 

and gathered in from the lands, 

from the east and from the west, 

from the north and from the south 

 Abba, Father,

Thank You for the rain You have sent.

Thank You.

We pray to be resilient like the Trees, with the rain.

Help the people to be resilient

as we seek to recover from

this Covid cold and the Pandemic 

stress creating so much hardship.

Bless the Nations seeking You.

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

In Jesus Christ is 

Our Love, Joy and Hope.

Thank You for Jesus.

To You, our Father, be the Glory

Amen and Alleluia

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yay Lord Jesus