Matthew 20 ~ ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend."

Matthew 20

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.

3 “About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. 4 He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ 5 So they went.

“He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon and did the same thing. 6 About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’

7 “‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered.

“He said to them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard.’

8 “When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.’

9 “The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a denarius. 10 So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. 11 When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. 12 ‘These who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’

13 “But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? 14 Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. 15 Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

16 “So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”

Jesus Christ is the Same Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. 

Keeping Peace. Encouraging Love and harmony in orderly conduct.


















Isaiah 45

Let the earth open up and salvation bear fruit, And righteousness spring up with it. I, the LORD, have created it. 

9"Woe to the one who quarrels with his Maker-- An earthenware vessel among the vessels of earth! Will the clay say to the potter, 'What are you doing?' Or the thing you are making say, 'He has no hands '? 10"Woe to him who says to a father, 'What are you begetting?'

Individuals lose their own personal shine from seeing Jesus. As Moses - he covered his face. I've heard this described as humanity holding on to pride, but perhaps Moses was weeping.

The point is to continue - with Gratitude, with Grit, Grins and Love.

And to get there - to get anywhere in the Scriptures - we have to have honesty. Sometimes a good cry. Sometimes a cry of verbal frustration and anger. Jesus told us be angry and do not act on sin. Ephesians 4:26.

David knew.

Psalm 4:4
Be angry, yet do not sin; on your bed, search your heart and be still. Selah

Romans 12:9
Don't just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good.

Luke 3
Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight

The word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness. 3 And he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. 4 As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.


To find the Joy in The Joy of the Lord is my strength - we have to be able to put down bitterness. We have to find the Real Peace worth fighting the Good Fight. 

We have to cry out to find kindness and tenderness and forgiveness. Even when Lucy will continue to move the football, Charlie Brown.

Faith, hope and Love.  To realize these are the joys of life. To know all seasons and all days have good with Joy and Love and all days have some sadness. We learn to live in the moments of Joy and Love and to decrease the strength, the time and the occurrence of sadness. But only with truth.

I had the most marvelous dream Jesus was coming to live with us in brand new, shiny rooms. Making all of us new. We decorated in His favorite colors - red and green. A quilt was found for the wall. And then spent the day in frustration. Joy arrived. Joy was worked for. Joy apparently left.

In fact, I have been grumpy, irritated, sniping and upset.

And when I told Edward - Edward said in comparisons to life God has provided - the hardships are small.  Sometimes to see this - you have to see Eternity. And other days to see this - all you simply have is gratitude in your heart.

To be able to speak to the frustrations - is a Blessing.

We have all heard believe in the Lord when the Sun doesn't shine. 

Rejoice in the Lord isn't the beaming of every golden day. Rejoice in the Lord is the belief that even if you are in your 90's, 9th decade of life, and have incredible back pain - God will hear you. He did for our uncle and the uncle healed in the belief that even at 90 years of age - water therapy and faith exist. Rejoice in the Lord is the belief God is still working. And we can have relief Father God named His Son Yeshua over Joshua holding the faith for 40 years.

It's impossible to believe. And yet we are told - our lives are mapped out as written in Psalm 139.

The Purpose of God is where we live - today. The Blessing we are today - is from God. The difficulties and heartbreaks are Psalm 139 too. Embrace the goodness, have patience with what is heart curdling. And find tomorrow we have endured and overcome again. God, our Father, is still working and Jesus as well.

Abba,

Yours is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory.

And in this Truth, we ask for Your Blessings.

Praying more Heaven on earth
for ourselves and our cares.
For the ones we love in their eternal love and soul.
For this Nation.
For the Nations trusting in God.
For Your Beloved praying for more Heaven on earth.

More Peace, more Joy, more Love, more hope, more prosperity, more health for us all and for our friend numbered among the Greatest. More Jesus Christ - Heal them all.

In the Powerful and Wonderful Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †  

Psalm 104 ~ May the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the LORD rejoice in His Works

Psalm 104

1 Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, you are very great!

You are clothed with splendor and majesty, 2 covering yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent. 3 He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters; he makes the clouds his chariot; he rides on the wings of the wind; 4 he makes his messengers winds, his ministers a flaming fire.

5 He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved.

6 You covered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. 7 At your rebuke they fled; at the sound of your thunder they took to flight.

8 The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place that you appointed for them.

9 You set a boundary that they may not pass, so that they might not again cover the earth.

10 You make springs gush forth in the valleys; they flow between the hills; 11 they give drink to every beast of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst. 12 Beside them the birds of the heavens dwell; they sing among the branches. 13 From your lofty abode you water the mountains; the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your work. 14 You cause the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth 15 and wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine and bread to strengthen man's heart. 16 The trees of the LORD are watered abundantly, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted. 17 In them the birds build their nests; the stork has her home in the fir trees. 18 The high mountains are for the wild goats; the rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.

19 He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows its time for setting. 20 You make darkness, and it is night, when all the beasts of the forest creep about. 21 The young lions roar for their prey, seeking their food from God.

22 When the sun rises, they steal away and lie down in their dens. 23 Man goes out to his work and to his labor until the evening.

24 O LORD, how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. 25 Here is the sea, great and wide, which teems with creatures innumerable, living things both small and great. 26 There go the ships, and Leviathan, which you formed to play in it. 27 These all look to you, to give them their food in due season. 28 When you give it to them, they gather it up; when you open your hand, they are filled with good things.

29 When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

30 When you send forth your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the ground.

31 May the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the LORD rejoice in his works,
32 who looks on the earth and it trembles, who touches the mountains and they smoke!

33 I will sing to the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have being.

34 May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the LORD. 35 Let sinners be consumed from the earth, and let the wicked be no more! Bless the LORD, O my soul! Praise the LORD!



Oh, to have a Work of the Lord for our life. A Work of His Today.
Something amazing.
Miraculous.

Abraham lived in tents in the land he did not own in Hebron, Israel.

Jacob moved to Egypt.

Surely this would end God's Plan and be the end of story.

Moses -  can be part of a miracle of God - that never works on Pharaoh. This never works! And does.
Moses - can be part of a miracle of God - that won't keep us fed, comfortable, not thirsty.
Moses - can be part of a miracle of God - but we aren't strong enough to defeat an army of Giants in the Promised Land.

Moses - can be part of a miracle of God - but God completes taking the Children of Israel into Israel because God is in charge of Works of God.

Gideon - the people believed Gideon is going to destroy the town and God won't help us through Gideon.
Gideon - the people believed Gideon didn't include them in the victory and felt angry.
Gideon - didn't lead well all his life.

Works of God belong to God.

The Scriptures tell us where to find Nebi Samuel - the view from his homesite. Mountains north of Jerusalem.

Samuel not always sure and pleased with what he knows he is to do.
Samuel and his sons were not chosen for the long run. Works of God belong to God.
Samuel is asked to anoint another and Samuel is picked to end God's chosen form of government (Judges self-governing) replaced with kingship.
Works of God belong to God.

Views from David's Palace found in archaeology from reading the Bible.

David 22 years and a descendant of Saul's is found.
23 years and several descendants of Saul's concubines are found.
David danced during his third coronation. Israel became his in bits and pieces.
David assures Life is always going to have Trouble.
David had Civil War.
David decided for a  census and created a plague.
David has family troubles.
David did very well.
Works of God belong to God.

Hezekiah lived in David's Palace - above. 

And we can still see the tool marks of the water tunnels dug by Hezekiah's Judea.

Hezekiah moved the hand of God in prayer. Jesus says pray with Hope.

Hezekiah 3 million person Judah vs the Neo-Assyrian Empire dominated the Near East from 910 BC to around 610 BC. The Assyrian Empire population is estimated at almost 20-30 Million people. Assyria was a garden area now covering Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iran, Kuwait, Lebanon, Cyprus and Armenia.

There was no way for Judah to stand as Israel was conquered. The people of Judah became very, very interested in what God would say. And this period in the Bible has the people doing more for the Lord in works and generosity - - - than any other time.

All of these works have a similarity - certain and seen failure.
Times of high fear and doubt.

Did the Bible ever have times of immediate relief and pure comfort?

The faithful asking Jesus had this. Without doubt. And Jesus had great Joy. Being God, Jesus had God's own Peace. The circumstances daily would not lend to human peace and comfort for the great tension all over tradition, the economy, employment, religion, and division of belief in Judea.

Jesus had the very present Peace of His Father. More peace than David, Moses, Gideon, Samuel and Hezekiah. With more chance of harm.


Peter and Paul had times of pure disappointment and trial. It's probably true their grandchildren wondered at the times and successes and cost. Today, we see clearly.



Is any other time purely decisive?

Nahum 2 - when God takes vengeance - He does not need to strike twice.

Continuance.Jesus is Living Water.

 This Psalm covers God's Plan for the earth. Combined with the Holy Spirit wanting to be near mankind and abiding over the pervasive waters of the earth. Now, what would we do with this as part of our lives?  We would pray for God's love to pour forth as only God Himself could accomplish.

 The Bible tells us our prayers reach the heart of God. The Word of God tells us - only the Spirit gives Life. So our prayers are pleasing to God, but God Himself is the One Who Accomplishes.


Abba,

We ask Your Blessing.

The Psalm is filled with Living Water - we hope our prayers become the Blessing of Your Living Water continually flowing all over us with Your Love, Guidance, Blessing and Protection.

What we could never fill in our loved ones, what we could never do for others - we know we rely upon Your Love. On Your Heart of Mercy for them.

We rest all our concerns upon You, Father. And in comfort, know Your Mercy carries us all.

We ask continued healing for our friend, numbered among the Greatest to go home from the hospital as he heals.

Jesus gave us the gift and the assurance to pray for more Heaven on earth.

Amen in Jesus.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †  

Matthew 18:21-19:2 ~forgave

Matthew 18:21-19:2

 Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” 

²² Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times. [Seven times seventy]

²³ “Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants. ²⁴ When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.^{[a monetary unit worth 20 years' salary]  25}  And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made. ²⁶ So the servant fell on his knees, imploring him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.’  

²⁷ And out of pity for him, the master of that servant released him and forgave him the debt.  

²⁸ But when that same servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii,^{[a day wage]} and seizing him, he began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay what you owe.’ ²⁹ So his fellow servant fell down and pleaded with him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you.’ ³⁰ He refused and went and put him in prison until he should pay the debt. 

 ³¹ When his fellow servants saw what had taken place, they were greatly distressed, and they went and reported to their master all that had taken place. ³² Then his master summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. ³³  And should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you?’ ³⁴  And in anger his master delivered him to the jailers,^[torturers] until he should pay all his debt.  

³⁵  So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.”

Jesus tempered His forgiveness of sins. 1 Corinthians 7 tells us about peace. This is the passage abused people leave marriages. Jesus forgave all in His Salvation and Mercy. And returned to the 500 to have relationship. And with His Disciples.

John Mark went on to be forgiven and became Mark of the Gospels of Mark. Barnabas made sure John Mark, his known to his heart, family was forgiven. We go forth in the forgiveness of God and giving that forgiveness.

And in the balance scale, my grandmother prayed for her son all her life. He was not always very pleasant. Unpleasant mostly. And in his 70th year of life, he heard Joel Olsteen giving free copies of Rick Warren's 'Purpose Driven Life'. And my uncle experienced the Love and Joy of Jesus Christ.

Prayer has no cost - and many benefits.

Good Health.

Deuteronomy 5:32

So you shall observe to do just as the LORD your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right or to the left.

Joshua 23:6

Be very firm, then, to keep and do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, so that you may not turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left,

Matthew 9

9 Jesus stepped into a boat, crossed over and came to his own town. 2 Some men brought to him a paralyzed man, lying on a mat. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the man, “Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven.”

The true feeling of forgiveness is exactly the same as the one we all experienced as a child, when we would swim underwater and come up gasping for air.

The good thing about prayer, this keeps hearts flexible and the soul open to Father God. Leaving the soul a welcome place for Jesus, the Holy Spirit and the internal life in us going to eternity pretty pleased, pleasant and hopeful.

Father God,

2 Corinthians 13

Your Love encourages, sustains, endures, renews, rejoices - the authority the Lord gives is for building up, not for tearing down.

Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Name and Power of Jesus Christ!

Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace.

Because we have seen Father God when we read the Gospels of Jesus Christ and His Willingness. The God of Love and peace will be with us.

God's people pray together.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

We always lift up the ones we love and see each day what God is doing. Psalm 91:3 says God delivers us from snares. He works all things for good and find what Good Purpose to work towards. Look for His signs and solutions. Help bring Heaven to Earth. For the Lord God is MIGHTY. And if this is the circumstance, look for the indwelling of His Holy Spirit.

Father God, we will move within Your plans with gratitude. Rejoicing in Your Grace.

We pray Father God to remove flooding from our southern states. We are grateful for the rain and respite from the heat. Jesus Mercy. Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †  

Revelation 21 ~ the dwelling place of God is with man

Revelation 21

1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 

2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place [tabernacle] of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people [peoples], and God himself will be with them as their God. 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” 

5 And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” 6 And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment. 7 The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son. 8 But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”


9 Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues and spoke to me, saying, “Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.” 10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, 11 having the glory of God, its radiance like a most rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. 12 It had a great, high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel were inscribed— 13 on the east three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates. 14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

15 And the one who spoke with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city and its gates and walls. 16 The city lies foursquare, its length the same as its width. And he measured the city with his rod, 12,000 stadia [About 1,380 miles; a stadion was about 607 feet or 185 meters]. Its length and width and height are equal. 17 He also measured its wall, 144 cubits [about 18 inches or 45 centimeters] by human measurement, which is also an angel's measurement. 18 The wall was built of jasper, while the city was pure gold, clear as glass. 19 The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every kind of jewel. The first was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, 20 the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst. 21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, each of the gates made of a single pearl, and the street of the city was pure gold, transparent as glass.

22 And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. 23 And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. 24 By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it, 25 and its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there. 26 They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations. 27 But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.


A man telling us when he was young; he loved to run everywhere. To his house, to his room, to his bed, to his parents, and as he grew he lost the joy of life we have and the astonishment in his maturity. He drew a point from the Scriptures, when Paul told us to run the race to win, he wasn't droopy, but excited, on fire, joyous about all the possibilities of God. He wanted us to live knowing the Holy Spirit within us! The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand! 

Eternity doesn't start when we pass on, we live Now as Spirits from the time we accept Jesus Christ as our own Savior.

Hebrews 12


1-2 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us

Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. 

12-15 Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed. Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. 

See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled

18-19 For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest and the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them. 25 See that you do not refuse him who is speaking.

  28-29 Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.

Isaiah 40:31 

They who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint!!!!

  Luke 1:37 For nothing will be impossible with God

 Abba, Father God, 

Thank You for Your Daily Blessings.

Please dwell within us each day, be our strength, our hope, our direction. 

Your beloved reaches out hands in prayer, that You will touch each day with Your hope, faith and Love.  We are giving thanks our friend, numbered with the Greatest, is back to eating and walking in a regular room, not the ICU. We ask for Healing.

This is the day that the Lord has made.  Let's be glad to ask for more Heaven on earth.

In You and in us, Jesus Christ dwell in our lives daily. In the highest name of Jesus Christ, all honor and glory to You, O LORD. Amen. 

♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †  

Matthew 1:28-37 ~ and they found Him

Matthew 1:28-37

28 And at once his fame spread everywhere
throughout
all the surrounding region of Galilee.

29 And immediately
he left the synagogue and entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. 30 Now Simon's mother-in-law lay ill with a fever, and immediately they told him about her. 31 And he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and the fever left her, and she began to serve them.

32 That evening at sundown they brought to him all who were sick or oppressed by demons. 33 And the whole city was gathered together at the door. 34 And he healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons. And he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him.

35 And rising very early in the morning, 
while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed. 36 And Simon and those who were with him searched for him, 37 and they found him

Jesus went through so much in His 3 Years of Ministry.

And Jesus is recorded in John 21 as finding the disciples, when they had looked for Him in the beginning, and making the new exactly look like the beginning.


Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever.


Abba,

Thank You for Your many Blessings given.

We will pray for more Heaven on this earth and know Joy to have asked in Your Plan.

Thank YOu for hearing our prayers and for our friend feeling better from Cancer.

In Jesus Christ. Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †