Isaiah 49:15-16 ~ engraved on the palms of His Hands

Isaiah 49:15-16

 “Can a woman forget her nursing child,
that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb?
Even these may forget,
yet 
I will not forget you."

 "Behold, 
I  have engraved you on the palms of my hands"




John 10:29
My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.

Isaiah 41:13-14
For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand;
 it is I who say to you, 
“Fear not, I am the one who helps you.”

Isaiah 48:13
My hand laid the foundation of the earth, 
and my right hand spread out the heavens; 
when I call 
to them,
 they stand forth together.

1 Peter 1:5
Who by God's power 
are being guarded through faith 
for a salvation 
ready to be revealed 
in the last time.

John 10:28
I give them eternal life,
they will never perish, 
and no one will snatch them out of my hand.


John 3:16 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 28:20 
Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. 
And behold, 
I am with you always, to the end of the age.

In Loving Remembrance 

Isabelle Claire Gardere

September 23, 2008

Romans 14:17

For the Kingdom of God is

of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit

Matthew 6:21 
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also

Joshua 1:9
The Lord your God 
is with you 
wherever you go

Abba, Father God,

Where You are, the Great I Am, we will dwell and have our Joy with You Forever in Jesus Christ.

I have seen my loved one smile as Joy unbelievable in the sleep in death

We do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope.

We Believe Jesus died and Lives

And so we Believe God will bring with Jesus.

So many people are told misfortune, life, death and grief end our lives.
No. We have the sweetest of all expectation in the Fulfillment of God's Word.

For the Lord himself will come down from Heaven,
with a loud command,
with the voice of the archangel
and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

... for this reason I bow my knees before the Father,
from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.

We pray of the riches of His glory
He may strengthen us with power
through His Spirit in our inner being.

Covering us in Jesus. Our Loved ones. The People He has given us.
Our Nation trusting in Him.
The Nations of the world trusting in Jesus.
And His Children
covering His earth
with their prayers of more
Heaven on earth.

In Jesus we ask. And will have our Joy
and Blessings each day Renew.

Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †

Luke 2:48-51 ~ He went with them

Luke 2:48-51

49 And he said to them, "Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?" 

50 And they did not understand the saying that he spoke to them. 

51 And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. 

And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart.

Jesus Later Life -

Jesus wanted and planned to live over on the other side of Mt. Tabor - right beside the Sea of Galilee - the life of Jesus shows us. We saw the Valley of Jezreel in yesterday's photo. And we learn of the walk Jesus went on to Nain, so really, Jesus stayed in the neighborhood.

Jesus and His Childhood Years

Mary and Joseph seemed pretty convinced regular life and ordinary life is going on. Jesus tells us Life is a test of our soul's fiber. Their usual life is our regular life and - - - yet - God has a different idea and is pointing us in His Direction.

If we want a small taste of the life of Jesus before His Ministry - we, yes, read the early life of Jesus in the Gospels. And - an important and - you may read Luke 1:44-55 and see many of Mary's lifelong viewpoints. With Scripture being real, honest and true - you will find the family lived together for decades - the viewpoints are so similar in the Books of James and Jude - both follow Luke 1:44-55. Indeed, indeed, indeed Jesus, James and Jude were children of Mary.

The Book of James
Jude

 1800s Vintage photo of Nazareth - didn't really change for millenniums.

 Interior of a typical house.

Families added on and lived in Family.

 Most homes would have a sheepfold - a place the sheep slept.

Typical Kitchen for the time in Nazareth.

Abba, Father God,

We welcome Your Blessing. Come, please, and find our heart, soul and mind open to You. Bless us with Jesus Christ, Your Son's Love, Joy, Peace and Salvation.

Find the words of my mouths and the thoughts of my heart to be pleasing to You, I pray. You are welcome in all aspects of me. Come to my eternal being and bless my life to be in the Joy of You. Let me Live and move and have my being finding You load us with Blessings daily.

Bless our homes. May our homes be places of Love and encouragement. May this dwelling bless all the family living here and living in our heart and mind. As we have our family memories, encourage our soul to remember the days of warm blessing. We ask this Blessing to be carried in our Nation. Trusting in You.

We pray for our cares to held as You'd want us to do. Knowing the Comfort of Your Holy Spirit to guide our lives. And know the homes and cares of Your Children all over the world carry the prayer of Bringing More Heaven to earth - in The Holy Spirit.

Thanksgiving for our answered prayers of health in our family and healing we are asked to pray for.

The Blessing of Jesus is ours. Amen and Amen and Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †

Ephesians 1 ~ He chose us

Ephesians 1

1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus: 

2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.


3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.

In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.

7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, 8 which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight 9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ 10 as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.

11 In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, 12 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory.

13 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.



15 For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, 16 I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, 18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might 20 that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.

22 And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

Verse 15 to 21 is One Entire Sentence.

Why? Paul is completely taken up with the Extraordinary Plan of Jesus Christ.

Paul has a lot of insight.

Paul says his generation is the first to Hope in Christ to the Praise of His Glory.

Verse 15 to 21 is the most heartwarming run on sentence in the History of All Things.
As Paul considers the amazing blessing of being given Life Forever - Paul is recorded in every and all of his Books - to show so much love for the people he explains Jesus. This Love spills out and Paul just has to testify and raise his voice to explain how lavish is God's Love for the people He has named and called His Children. Everything Paul touches to explain - dissolves into Love.

Paul loves the people in front of the Unknown God Statue.

Paul loves Priscilla and Aquila as they make tents and speak of Jesus.

Paul loves Titus. Paul loves the people he prays for. Paul calls Timothy his son.

And all this Love is for the Praise of God's Glory. Paul says he has learned to be happy in good circumstances and bad situations. Paul anticipates today will have Blessings. Paul is certain in God good circumstances will be seen again. Paul wrote this suffering will not compare to the Glory to arrive. Paul can remember overcoming shipwrecks and bitten by snakes and Lived to Enjoy Overcoming.

When you talk to Christians, they smile about uncertain circumstances because we agree there is more Hidden Goodness than any of us anticipated. We have Hope. And this is a little of being blessed in the misfortunes we all gasp to think might land upon us in the Beatitudes. Rarely does someone say, "And the Blessings of the Beatitudes Be Upon You!" Jesus is not recorded as having said that. Thank God.

Jesus always, as God, says something more rich and enduring. Forgiveness, Healing and Heaven have Arrived!!! We are reassured knowing Jesus knew where every single person was He set out to find.
In being Zacchaeus, we Know Jesus Knows right where we are. Today.




We are able to give God a gift He has not given us.
We can be slow speaking, quick hearing and slow down when in anger. Meek. Solomon had another word for this - "Wise". We can be Merciful. And obtain many more pathways leading to the fulfillment of being with Father God. We can be Merciful and show our gratitude to what and whom God has given us. Gratitude. Peacemakers are assured they will see Father God - assuring us this - Peacemakers are Children of God and Therefore Invited Before God Himself. His Written Word has issued the invitation to - you.

Father God,
Cover us in all weathers and all seasons, that we will grow in Hope, Faith and Love.
In Your Goodness, Righteousness and Mercy. We will rejoice as we see prayers answered.
Knowing with gratitude, these Gifts come from Your Love. Thank You, Father God and Your Son, Jesus.

We are still praying for rain on the West Coast and for help in North Carolina and the Hurricane Recovery.

We give all our cares to You and say Your Will is Good for our lives. 
Praying and being glad for my dog's ear infection recovery and for Jackson.
Praying for Edward who has not felt well.

We trust in You and fling ourselves, 
the ones we love, 
the people You give us and this Nation in Your Goodness. 

The Nations trusting in You
and More Heaven on earth as the Children of God cover 
His creation in expectant Prayer.

Amen in Jesus.

Jezreel Valley, Israel

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Psalm 91:5 ~ You Will

Psalm 91:5

You will not fear the terror of the night,
nor the arrow that flies by day.


No one feels more strongly about not having fear than Jesus.

Psalm 91

4 He will cover you with His feathers; under His wings you will find refuge;
His faithfulness is a shield and rampart.

5 You will not fear the terror of the night, or the arrow that flies by day,
6 the plague that stalks in darkness, or the calamity that destroys at noon.



Jesus has joy in life. And takes the time to explain this in several Chapters of the Gospel.

What Jesus believers about Father God as He lived this life:

Romans 8:35-39
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 
 As it is written,

“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”

37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

38 For I am sure that neither death nor life,
nor angels nor rulers,
nor things present nor things to come,
nor powers, 3
9 nor height nor depth,
nor anything else in all creation,
will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.


The Comfort of being in the Hand of Jesus:

John 10:28
I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand.

Matthew 14:31
Immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and took hold of him, and said to him, "You of little faith, why did you doubt?"

Matthew 8:3
Jesus stretched out His hand and touched him, saying, "I am willing; be cleansed." And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

Revelation 1:17
When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man And He placed His right hand on me, saying, "Do not be afraid; I am the first and the last"

Acts 4:12 
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. 

Jesus' View.

Luke 10:20
"Rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

God is sure about God.

Daniel 12:1
“At that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book."

Abba Father,

To pray is never a burden, we bring You our heart and You carry and lift to fill with Your Love.

We bring You those we Love to be carried in Your Love.

We place all of our Lives and our cares with You.

The Victory is Already Won. We let our Prayer join with our Nation, trusting in You.
We join the Communion of Saints praying and covering this world with
more Heaven on earth, Your Holy Spirit.

Thank You, Jesus. Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †

1 Corinthians 13:1-4 ~ Love

Jesus perseveres

1 Corinthians 13:1-4

 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 

2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 

3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient and kind



The Path of Jesus leads to the Salvation of the world in Jesus.

Jesus is identified not by acclaim and not by popularity. Jesus is identified by this:


1 John 4:7-21
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.


Romans 15:5
May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had


Romans 15:13
13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

The Path of God is defined by God. To believe the One He sent - Jesus. We believe and know the Word of God to see God's Promises filling the day to day.

Jesus told us all life presents trouble.

1 Corinthians 3:9-15

For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building. According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.

And how shall we do this test together?

1 Thessalonians 5:11
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

The path of God to follow is Love.

1 Corinthians 13 speaks to the very real and human fear of loss. We all have people and circumstances and hopes and fears in life. Jesus lived a life of bravery and a determined and Joyful path of this life. Jesus did not have these fears of loss. No one takes from the Hand of Jesus. Jesus has God's own courage.

If we were to have our fears realized and we will - endure - lives requiring courage. We are determined by our ability to hold God's Love in our Soul. We hold the Very Light of Jesus Christ within us and we light the path of others. People we love, even the unborn of our family years after we pass to the Gates and Kingdom of Heaven.

We find out - in part - by discovering our lives hold meaning. And in real Love inside of us - we have discovered the Meaning of Life of Jesus Christ within us. We discover the Kingdom of Heaven is not shaken. This does not mean Jesus did not cry, feel sorrow, cry out to God. This does not indicate the Disciples God chose were not wondering and fearful. This is discovering meaning in each day. Discovering renewal of Father God's Mercies. The Kingdom of Heaven.

To live with Love is always to make mistakes. The Word of God points this out again and again.

John 20

28 Thomas replied, “My Lord and my God!”

29 Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen Me, you have believed; 
blessed are those who have not seen 
and yet have believed.”

We are blessed to overcome doubt. And believe Father God is Good and His Will is Good. To believe God is God of Love. God of Encouragement. God of Hope and when we see the people of God doing the faith of God asks, we will have this:


Hebrews 11:6
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.

We are not only comforted for our own lives - we Trust Father God to work, live and move and have His Being in the Lives of His Children. Prayer is not pain, to carry pain to pray, but to lift up and have God Win the Battle. God to carry His Plan in Goodness. Knowing God is the Willing and Good Father.


I love this quote:

Success is not Final.
Failure is not Fatal.

Courage to continue Counts.

          ~ Winston Churchill


This explains Love.


1 Corinthians 1

Truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails.

Abba,

The Disciples of Jesus had an argument started among the disciples as to which of them would be the greatest.

Jesus answered, "The greatest of these is Love."

Today and each day let our prayer be for ourselves, 
Those we Love, 
The People You give us,
This our Nation.
The Nations Trusting in You.
The Children of God all over the world praying more Heaven on earth,
this Prayer:

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


We ask in the Highest Name of Jesus Christ, Son of God and our Salvation and Savior.  Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †

James 1 ~ Count it all Joy

James 1

1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,

To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion:

Greetings.

2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. 6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

9 Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation, 10 and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away. 11 For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

12 Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him. 13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. 14 But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. 15 Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. 18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.


19 Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; 20 for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. 21 Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. 24 For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. 25 But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

26 If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless. 27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

When People are very interested in the Bible and the First Council of Nicaea - a lot of questions are asked. In fact, it was well said in the 1500's - a discussion, not a fact - the Disciple John was not as close to Jesus in Heaven as His Brother Jude. Hence the list of Books of the Bible - Jude is closer to Revelation than John.... We all want the personable side of Jesus. And this is why Jude is placed so close to Revelation. It's interesting and cute but not exactly the seriousness of the Sphinx. More like a Care Bear.


Now if we have a yen for this to be true, we might instead look at something a little more durable in the Bible.

In the Photo - Copy of the 500 or more year old thoughts on the Bible of Martin Luther.

The Book of James, Brother of Jesus Christ is listed before that of the Disciple Simon. Because James and Peter lived something neck and neck. Chapter and Verse. Both of them knew Jesus and...

The First Chapter of Books of the Bible is interesting. This is Important to the Author. Thee Author. And because this 1st in importance to James, the Brother of Jesus Christ - he tells us of Temptation and fully explains from eyewitness, been-there-done-that with the necessary and most important ingredient - Redemption.


Forgiveness is fully Redemption. John 7 tells of Sibling Conflict.  James starts with the Dispersion as in relationship and ends with being kept in holiness - wholeness. We know Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit write the Chapter with James - and even with the disagreements, James is bold enough to say count it all Joy. Giving us even further reality and eyewitness of the depth of God's Mercy.




Abba,

We lift up the drought and flood situations. And ask for their comfort and hope with assurance of safety.

Giving Thanks for the Beaux Springer Spaniel's increase in ear health. And for me included in the list of people beginning to feel the effects of fall allergies. Your Blessing of Health, we ask in the Name of Jesus.

As we celebrate Harvest, Hallowed Days and Thanksgiving - we have the Blessings of Christmas giving to begin to not rush Your Birthday. To have the Blessing of relaxed gift giving. Creating more Jesus for the Season of Christmas. - If you are so inclined.

Thank You, Father God for the summer and the beauty of Family Time. With inspired prayers for cooler temperatures.

For Your Name to Cover those we Love. Jesus to cover this Nation. The cares we pray about. All Nations Trusting in You - to be Blessed. And the same for the Children of God in loving communication with You.

Jesus Christ is God!

Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †