Matthew 25 ~ Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdQOE8QqWOY&feature=youtu.be

Matthew 25

1 “Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps [torches] and went to meet the bridegroom [and the bride]. 2 Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. 3 For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, 4 but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. 5 As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. 6 But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’ 7 Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps. 8 And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ 9 But the wise answered, saying, ‘Since there will not be enough for us and for you, go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves.’ 10 And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut. 11 Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open to us.’ 12 But he answered, ‘Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.’ 13 Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.



14 “For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants [bondservants] and entrusted to them his property.

 15 To one he gave five talents [talent was a monetary unit worth about twenty years' wages for a laborer], to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. 16 He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more.

 17 So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. 18 But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. 19 Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. 20 And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here I have made five talents more.’ 21 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ 

22 And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here I have made two talents more.’ 23 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ 24 He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, 25 so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.’ 26 But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? 27 Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. 28 So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents.

 29 For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. 30 And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

 

 Color is a gift of God's Creation and we all enjoy something like this.

31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory,

and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. 

32 Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. 34 Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, 36 I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ 

37 Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? 38 And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? 39 And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ 

40 And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers [brothers and sisters], you did it to me.’

41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ 44 Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’ 45 Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’ 46 And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Joel and Rhonda Jurasinski are friends of ours from Church and our Pastorate.

If you have ever wondered about the phrase

Romans 8:28
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Joel is tall to the Filipinos and those children are going to remember them. God calls us to carry His Banner and what is easier to someone tall?

Psalm 20:5
May we shout for joy over your victory and lift up our banners in the name of our God. May the LORD grant all your requests.


Being a Missionary is hard work. The first success in Missions was St. Patrick - driving out the religion of the Druids who required people to be all the negatives of all the virtues. Patrick voluntarily took on the Island of Ireland because he knew his audience.

What Rhonda and Joel have going for them is what Paul and Peter and Timothy and Luke and Mark and Silvanus and Titus have - The Holy Spirit and a great love in their souls making where ever they live a hearth for Jesus Christ.

Hope is present in the Country.
The Philippines is rich in opportunities. Many Missionaries actually go to take seminars on re-energizing and reawakening God's Call. A place where the cities host people wanting to know more about the Flame the Philippines keeps burning for Jesus Christ.

And in the country - the home-sites are small and look like what is built on top of shipping pallets. Each yard is well cared for. Young women look after children who have taken a wheeled back pack and have started using this as a cart pulling friends.

Art and Healing
At first, it looks like an intimate gathering of friends at one of the function rooms of the Marco Polo Hotel in Ortigas, but upon closer inspection, this group is more than it meets the eye. Tonight is a fellowship of Artists in Touch, a gathering of Christian artists in performance arts.

Campus Crusades brings Americans in to help the local Filipinos. This is a huge destination from a very worthy group.

And in the country - the home-sites are small and look like what is built on top of shipping pallets. Each yard is well cared for. Young women look after children who have taken a wheeled back pack and have started using this as a cart pulling friends.

All areas of this nation are being traveled for Jesus - Climbing for Christ - Taking the Gospel to mountainous areas of the world where other missionaries cannot or will not go.




Rhonda has already experienced this - providing medical care for an infected bite - that might have been mortal for the young mother. $15 provides life saving medicine thanks to Rhonda and Joel - this is only their first week here.

Father God we ask you to bless Rhonda and Joel,


They want to bring Jesus, Life and Light of all mankind.
We know in this new time, the Light of Christ is shining as all is new and clouded.

The Light of Jesus will Shine Forth.  Always!
And Angels bless and minister to you in your beginning ministry and always!

We pray for them and their genuine and true witness testifying concerning the Light of Christ Jesus. That all who hear might believe. The Wind of the Holy Spirit making new paths become certainty of Joy, Love, Peace and Happy Memories.

Jesus, You are the Glory of all. You are Grace and Truth. And we ask Your blessing of Grace upon Grace especially as Rhonda and Joel get situated.

Glory to God, Father of All, He hears our prayers from one side of the Globe to the Other!

Bless all their Letter Writing Campaigns for supplies and donations with Cheerful Givers!

We are With Rhonda and Joel ~ in the Holy Spirit! 
With the Lord Jesus
and Father God Almighty!

 Amen and Amen.



Answering one video with His Joy and a Song in our Hearts!!! The Great Adventure!

Let Joy Fill Your Hearts! 

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Psalm 118 ~ This is the Gate of the Lord

East Gate or called Beautiful Gate, today called Gate of Mercy


East Gate

Psalm 118

Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;
for his steadfast love endures forever!

2 Let Israel say,
“His steadfast love endures forever.”
3 Let the house of Aaron say,
“His steadfast love endures forever.”
4 Let those who fear the Lord say,
“His steadfast love endures forever.”

5 Out of my distress I called on the Lord;
the Lord answered me and set me free.
6 The Lord is on my side; I will not fear.
What can man do to me?
7 The Lord is on my side as my helper;
I shall look in triumph on those who hate me.

8 It is better to take refuge in the Lord
than to trust in man.
9 It is better to take refuge in the Lord
than to trust in princes.

10 All nations surrounded me;
in the name of the Lord I cut them off!
11 They surrounded me, surrounded me on every side;
in the name of the Lord I cut them off!
12 They surrounded me like bees;
they went out like a fire among thorns;
in the name of the Lord I cut them off!
13 I was pushed hard, so that I was falling,
but the Lord helped me.

14 The Lord is my strength and my song;
he has become my salvation.
15 Glad songs of salvation
are in the tents of the righteous:
“The right hand of the Lord does valiantly,
16 the right hand of the Lord exalts,
the right hand of the Lord does valiantly!”

17 I shall not die, but I shall live,
and recount the deeds of the Lord.
18 The Lord has disciplined me severely,
but he has not given me over to death.

19 Open to me the gates of righteousness,
that I may enter through them
and give thanks to the Lord.
20 This is the gate of the Lord;
the righteous shall enter through it.
21 I thank you that you have answered me
and have become my salvation.
22 The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone.
23 This is the Lord's doing;
it is marvelous in our eyes.
24 This is the day that the Lord has made;
let us rejoice and be glad in it.

25 Save us, we pray, O Lord!
O Lord, we pray, give us success!

26 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!
We bless you from the house of the Lord.
27 The Lord is God,
and he has made his light to shine upon us.
Bind the festal sacrifice with cords,
up to the horns of the altar!

28 You are my God, and I will give thanks to you;
you are my God; I will extol you.
29 Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;
for his steadfast love endures forever!

Photo of the Western Tunnel towards the Temple Mount

Gates.

If you could pick an adventure. Charles Warren  was the first to go underground to find the archaeology and walk among and touch and breathe and see with his eyes the Temple. The stones had been thrown down nad he was the first to see millenniums of what was left of God's Temple Jesus said would fall. He was the one to research Jack the Ripper and was called and chosen to dig all around the Temple Mount.

No one has found the original East Gate, the Gate called Beautiful Gate. Today, built in 6th century A.D, is called Gate of Mercy. Why is the original gate missing or not found? A really good reason would be:


Ezekiel 44:1-3
Then he brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary, which faces east. And it was shut. 2 And the Lord said to me, “This gate shall remain shut; it shall not be opened, and no one shall enter by it, for the Lord, the God of Israel, has entered by it. Therefore it shall remain shut. 3 Only the prince may sit in it to eat bread before the Lord. He shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gate, and shall go out by the same way.

Are gates important? 182 times in the Bible.




A city gatekeeper - a prominent citizen, judging the trustworthiness of the traveler and a representative to speak wisely.

Mali, Africa where Christians have been shot at and killed while screaming "Allah is God" - very univited to return.

In both the Old and New Testament a lot of towns were built to keep out invaders - the unrighteous. So many gates because the people were unsure. Only in the days of St. Paul's Basilica were they beginning to come out of the fortified cities. The Church open for evening prayer led to a greater trust. The full name of St. Paul's Basilica is St. Paul's Basilica Outside the Walls.

 

Matthew 13

44“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
45“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls, 46who, on finding one pearl of great value, went and sold all that he had and bought it.
†

What shall we say of  the Pearly Gate?  Revelation 21 tells us Heaven has 12 gates named after the Tribes of Israel. And each gate is one large pearl.  And what is like that one huge Pearl??? Jesus had a regular rock rolled from His Tomb. A Father - Like God the Almighty - remembers what His Son has Given.


Because of Jesus.
The Grace and Grace of Jesus:

Revelation 21:25-27
On no day will its gates ever be shut


God does not need Gates. His Gates are open.




Father God,
Open our hearts to being Your's.

Challenge, Call and Charge us to follow the specific plan of being on Your Path. We need Your Righteousness to call up our faith.

We give You, Father, Jesus and Holy Spirit great Thanks for Your gifts. Help us to be part of Your's Son's Body with effectiveness. We want and ask You to be firstborn among those of Salvation.

We ask for You to bless and keep us, shine Your Face upon us, be gracious to us, lift up Your countenance upon us, bless us with Peace, cover us in the Name of Jesus. We ask for Your blessings of predestination to be firstborn. Thank You for Your calling. For Your Justification and for the Glorification of Jesus each day and for eternity.

Help us to be in gratitude for our blessings, because You are for us.

The Lord, The Lord, The Marvelous Lord Jesus.

Father God, when we ask Jesus the Christ, Your only Son, to live in us and be part of us. When we believe in our heart and confess with our mouth," You are Lord"; You stretch out Your arms again for us. Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Hebrews 9 ~ The first part compared with The Second Part showing the Bible is really, really old and not 400 A.D.

Hebrews 9 ~ The Message

^1-5 That first plan contained directions for worship, and a specially designed place of worship. A large outer tent was set up. The lampstand, the table, and "the bread of presence" were placed in it. This was called "the Holy Place." Then a curtain was stretched, and behind it a smaller, inside tent set up. This was called "the Holy of Holies." In it were placed the gold incense altar and the gold-covered ark of the covenant containing the gold urn of manna, Aaron's rod that budded, the covenant tablets, and the angel-wing-shadowed mercy seat. But we don't have time to comment on these now. (Of these things we cannot now speak in detail. English Standard Version)




^6-10 After this was set up, the priests went about their duties in the large tent. Only the high priest entered the smaller, inside tent, and then only once a year, offering a blood sacrifice for his own sins and the people's accumulated sins. This was the Holy Spirit's way of showing with a visible parable that as long as the large tent stands, people can't just walk in on God. Under this system, the gifts and sacrifices can't really get to the heart of the matter, can't assuage the conscience of the people, but are limited to matters of ritual and behavior. It's essentially a temporary arrangement until a complete overhaul could be made. 


^11-15 But when the Messiah arrived, high priest of the superior things of this new covenant, he bypassed the old tent and its trappings in this created world and went straight into heaven's "tent"—the true Holy Place—once and for all. He also bypassed the sacrifices consisting of goat and calf blood, instead using his own blood as the price to set us free once and for all. If that animal blood and the other rituals of purification were effective in cleaning up certain matters of our religion and behavior, think how much more the blood of Christ cleans up our whole lives, inside and out. Through the Spirit, Christ offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice, freeing us from all those dead-end efforts to make ourselves respectable, so that we can live all out for God.

 
^16-17 Like a will that takes effect when someone dies, the new covenant was put into action at Jesus' death. His death marked the transition from the old plan to the new one, canceling the old obligations and accompanying sins, and summoning the heirs to receive the eternal inheritance that was promised them. He brought together God and his people in this new way. 

^18-22 Even the first plan required a death to set it in motion. After Moses had read out all the terms of the plan of the law—God's "will"—he took the blood of sacrificed animals and, in a solemn ritual, sprinkled the document and the people who were its beneficiaries. And then he attested its validity with the words, "This is the blood of the covenant commanded by God." He did the same thing with the place of worship and its furniture. Moses said to the people, "This is the blood of the covenant God has established with you." Practically everything in a will hinges on a death. That's why blood, the evidence of death, is used so much in our tradition, especially regarding forgiveness of sins. 

^23-26 That accounts for the prominence of blood and death in all these secondary practices that point to the realities of heaven. It also accounts for why, when the real thing takes place, these animal sacrifices aren't needed anymore, having served their purpose. For Christ didn't enter the earthly version of the Holy Place; he entered the Place Itself, and offered himself to God as the sacrifice for our sins. He doesn't do this every year as the high priests did under the old plan with blood that was not their own; if that had been the case, he would have to sacrifice himself repeatedly throughout the course of history. But instead he sacrificed himself once and for all, summing up all the other sacrifices in this sacrifice of himself, the final solution of sin. 

^27-28 Everyone has to die once, then face the consequences. Christ's death was also a one-time event, but it was a sacrifice that took care of sins forever. And so, when he next appears, the outcome for those eger to greet him is, precisely, salvation. 

Hebrews 9 ~ English Standard Version

Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness. ² For a tent was prepared, the first section, in which were the lampstand and the table and the bread of the Presence.It is called the Holy Place. ³ Behind the second curtain was a second section called the Most Holy Place, ⁴ having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron's staff that budded, and the tablets of the covenant. ⁵ Above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail.

⁶ These preparations having thus been made, the priests go regularly into the first section, performing their ritual duties, ⁷ but into the second only the high priest goes, and he but once a year, and not without taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the unintentional sins of the people. ⁸ By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the holy places is not yet opened as long as the first section is still standing ⁹ (which is symbolic for the present age). According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper, ¹⁰ but deal only with food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.

¹¹ But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent ( not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) ¹² he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. ¹³ For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, ¹⁴ how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

¹⁵ Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant. ¹⁶ For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established. ¹⁷ For a will takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive. ¹⁸ Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood. ¹⁹ For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, ²⁰ saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you.” ²¹ And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship. ²² Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. 

²³ Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. ²⁴ For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. ²⁵ Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own, ²⁶ for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. ²⁷ And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, ²⁸ so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.

The mystery of faith - as beautiful as we all know the sky can be, day or night. Remember with me - Hebrews, scholars know was written while the Temple was being used daily for sacrifice. So Hebrews is older than 70 A.D. - the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple by Titus.

Take a second and absorb it. This text says the Temple is in operation. It is not written in 400 A.D. In faith the Bible says the daily sacrifice will stop. Do you realize many Jews today do not know when Jews quit sacrificing. I mean during the 2nd Exodus, the slavery in Babylon, which we know occurred 2 Adar (March 16) 597 B.C. Wonder. Wonder of Wonders. We know the Temple was destroyed and the Samaritans were the remnants of 3 tribes of Israel continuing to make the daily sacrifice at Solomon's ruined Temple. The Sacrifice stopped at 70 A.D. - the year Jesus would have died of old age. Why did the sacrifice stop for the last 2,000 years after the 2nd Temple was destroyed, but not for the 1st. The correct answer would be Jesus.

Here are some links to the cuneiform's archaeology show the Bible is the Truth of God's Word. (Can you imagine how many people suffered, died and went to Heaven to bring us Scripture we are so blessed to be able to run to Walmart and just buy it?)

Daniel 2:1-23 ~ O God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise, for you have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we asked

Jeremiah 20:10-13 ~ He rescues the life

Ezekiel 1 ~ The Voice of the Lord

Esther 2 ~ suggested

Ezekiel 39:21-40:4 ~ I will set my glory among the nations

Look at the way this Chapter is constructed. We begin at the top (the heavens), a God Plan and move to the most holy objects. Judaeo-Christians today and at the time Hebrews was written - have something in common - we all would like nothing more than to find Benjamin Netanyahu was right in asking the Vatican - that the Vatican does hold one of the Temple Tools from the First Temple. (And it is not going to be the Ark because Maccabees tells us Jeremiah hid the Ark at Mount Nebo and the Arch of Titus does not record the Ark being recovered.)

Exodus 37 ~ He also made (A list of some of the Temple Tools)

The Table you see here is the Bread of the Presence

There is an interesting story about the Ark written in one of the ancient Talmuds. The Talmud is not the Word of God - it is the Sanhedrin Council and their musings of God. Going back to the time when it wasn't even called the Sanhedrin Council. That the Ark Cherubim moved to face each other when times were good and moved away from each other when Israel fell from His grace. Yet we miss the point and it is a good point - God told David He did not dwell in a Temple - but the Ark is a Mercy Seat. Meaning God is so comfortable and at home in His Temple that He has a seat there. It tells us about God.


Then the next paragraph is about the day to day dealing of the Priests who get so comfortable in the Temple - like John the Baptist's father Zechariah - when the Angel Gabriel appeared, in Luke 1, Zechariah decides to question Gabriel rather than grab hold of the horns of the altar for mercy. Now. Doesn't the second paragraph bring home an analogy to us. We all get so caught up in the life we see and hear - we forget to be in awe of what God brings us.




Which brings us to the 3rd paragraph. Jesus Christ Unblemished as our LORD and Savior. We get to turning on the television at night and reading liberal far out things forgetting the absolute Holiness of GOD. Would you turn on that program if you Know Jesus is sitting with you?

Which brings you to the fourth paragraph. If you believe Jesus died for you - a sinner - you believe in the New Covenant. Which means you believe the Holy Spirit of God dwells in you.

And the fifth paragraph.

1 Corinthians 6:20
For you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Sixth paragraph

1 Timothy 1:15
The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.

Rejoice, Rejoice. The Scriptures use this word over 200 hundred times.

1 Peter 1:7-9
So that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 8 Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, 9 obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Isaiah 55:3
Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.


Hebrews 6:18-20
so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us. 19 We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, 20 where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.











Father God,
Your Word says You is taking care of us, for those seeking HIS Will. We pray that the people we love remember all the times, Your love and comfort have soothed them. For the Nation and the people of the World looking to Jesus.

We trust in Your Goodness for our lives and trust You, we will have Your Wisdom and Your will open our heart to Your Good Plan and Path.

Each day we say, Jesus the Lord in all of us. Most welcome Jesus!

Thank You for this Day. Amen!

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Luke 11:1-13 ~ HOW MUCH MORE WILL THE HEAVENLY FATHER GIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT TO THOSE WHO ASK HIM!!!

Luke 11:1-13

1 Now Jesus (our Hero, our Beloved, our Savior, OUR JESUS!) was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.” 2 And he said to them, “When you pray, say:

“Father, hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come.
3Give us each day
 our daily bread
4 and forgive us our sins,
for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us.
And lead us not into temptation.”

5 And he said to them, “Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves!!!

6 for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him’;

7 and he will answer from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything’?

8 (and Jesus in JOY He tells us fills His Heart in John 16 and 17 says!) I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he IS his friend, yet because of his impudence (!) he will Rise and GIVE HIM whatever he needs!

9 AND I tell you! Ask! and it WILL BE GIVEN to you! SEEK! And you WILL FIND!

KNOCK! And it will be opened to you!!!

10 For EVERYONE who asks receives! And the one who seeks... finds! And to the one who knocks ~ it WILL BE...opened.

11 What father among you, if his son asks ford a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; 12 or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children,

HOW MUCH MORE WILL THE HEAVENLY FATHER GIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT TO THOSE WHO ASK HIM!!!"



Lord Jesus, using the Economies of Father God - Pour out a Blessing of Love!




Malachi 3:10

Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.



Jesus is sooooo close. Close. Close.
What is the tithe God wants? Hearts!
God is so close - He Never Departs. Ever. Ever. Ever.

FatherGODisthatclose!

Psalm 63:6
On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night.



What is the TITHE Father GOD Truly, Truly, Truly Seeks?
Thanksgiving that pours and pours and pours out from a Soul filled with Love.






John, the amazing, closer than a brother, disciple summed Jesus up. Brought us into His Fullness.

God is Love!!!

Was echoed through the Body of Christ in His Fullness to the Holy Spirit as Paul wrote this in Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Comfort, Encouragement, Dignity, Gentleness and Strength!

1 Corinthians 16:14
Let all that you do be done in love. 






Amen and Amen Let Love Resound in the Name, the Highest Name of Jesus!
RESOUND
Jesus The Lord, The Lord, The Lord !
in all of us,
in our Beloved

Let the Banner of Christ BE Love Triumphant.
Let the Joy of His Songs, Sing to our Hearts.
Listen to His Call of Love, His Charge.

Let Justice roll down like waters of righteousness in an ever-flowing stream!
Let our sacrifices be sure Thanksgiving.
And an our prayers an aroma of heart given Joy.

Our God, Our Father, Our Jesus, Our Hero - will open the windows of heaven
for you and pour down a blessing until there is no more need!

Jesus the Lord, The Lord, The Lord. Amen. Amen. Amen.



This is love: not that we loved God,
but that HE loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.          Amen.
1 John 4:10

From His Family becoming Ours!

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Psalm 103 ~ For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast lov

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.

This week I went to the Hallmark Store to buy Valentine's Day cards. I was delighted to see a row of red and white alternating cars in front of the store. Probably about 10 or 14 alternating red and white cars with a white beer truck in front of the parked cars. I felt very lifted by the knowledge that Father God knows the numbers of hairs on my head and the sparrow that falls has His Attention.

We think that our prayers, our thoughts, our hopes, our frustrations, our wondering is far from His sight.

This is not what the Word of God manifest - Jesus the Lord - says.


John 14:13
And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.



Father God,

Thank You for making each day renew in Your Tender Mercies. Thank You for the Joy of seeing those cars all over the front of the Valentine's Day store. The Blessing of this Day, that Valentine's color is sometimes the only color in the month in February.

Your Joy lifts our hearts to You, again. We see Jesus' Grace upon Grace.

Blessed be the Name of Jesus and Blessed are our prayer requests for the Love of God to be manifest to those we love. Thank You for Your Steadfast Love.

Amen in Jesus.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Mark 10:13-16 ~ He took them in His arms and Blessed them

 

Mark 10:13-16

 

13 And they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them. 

14 But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. 15 Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.” 16 And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands on them.


When Jesus was telling of His new Kingdom, He said, what we do to the least of them - we do to Jesus. Jesus was telling of Heaven.

This Lent, let us draw from Jesus blessing the Children to know our hearts to Jesus in open sincerity - this is where He dwells and is pleased. Lent is the preparation to draw close to Jesus in trust, confidence and love.

Father God,
A blessing and good to be near You.

I will make the Sovereign LORD my refuge.

Let us draw near to Father God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with Jesus' Grace.


Father God, for ourselves and the people we love and are given - We will call upon Jesus, knowing we will not die but live, and will proclaim what the LORD has done. We will have confidence to enter the holy places by the Highest Name above all names - Jesus the Lord. Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †