Psalm 18:1-20 ~ I love you, O Lord, my strength

Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Jesus Christ is still at work today.

Isaiah 35:6
For waters break forth in the wilderness,
and streams in the desert

Psalm 18:1-20

I love you, O Lord, my strength.

2 The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,

my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge,

my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

3 I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised,

and I am saved from my enemies.

4 The cords of death encompassed me;

the torrents of destruction assailed me;

5 the cords of Sheol entangled me;

the snares of death confronted me.

6 In my distress I called upon the Lord;

to my God I cried for help.

From his temple he heard my voice,

and my cry to him reached his ears.

7 Then the earth reeled and rocked;

the foundations also of the mountains trembled

and quaked, because he was angry.

8 Smoke went up from his nostrils,

and devouring fire from his mouth;

glowing coals flamed forth from him.

9 He bowed the heavens and came down;

thick darkness was under his feet.

10 He rode on a cherub and flew;

he came swiftly on the wings of the wind.

11 He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him,

thick clouds dark with water.

12 Out of the brightness before him

hailstones and coals of fire broke through his clouds.

13 The Lord also thundered in the heavens,

and the Most High uttered his voice,

hailstones and coals of fire.

14 And he sent out his arrows and scattered them;

he flashed forth lightnings and routed them.

15 Then the channels of the sea were seen,

and the foundations of the world were laid bare

at your rebuke, O Lord,

at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

16 He sent from on high, he took me;

he drew me out of many waters.

17 He rescued me from my strong enemy

and from those who hated me,

for they were too mighty for me.

18 They confronted me in the day of my calamity,

but the Lord was my support.

19 He brought me out into a broad place;

He rescued me, because he delighted in me.

20 The Lord dealt with me according to my righteousness;

according to the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.

When we look at the Genealogies of Jesus, we wonder the stories we would learn. What was the life of Jesus was growing in Egypt and Nazareth.

My Grandmother was born in 1898, she and the children of her family - 6 boys and 6 girls - would ride in 2 covered wagons and go see their Grandmother. I told this one day to Maxine, my first cousin once removed. I was 23 and she was 70 years old. I said hard to believe Grandmother saw the walk on the moon. Maxine told me she was born in Melissa's house in 1916. I was astonished and said I have a picture of the house, the tin roof and the front porch and the incredibly Amazing Live Oak Tree. Maxine told me the house was still standing. And being born in January, she was born in a very cold snap in the Louisiana house. Maxine said I bet no one has told you an exact quote of your Great-Great-Grandmother Melissa. I said indeed not. Maxine said I just adored my Great-Grandmother and your Great-Great-Grandmother. We were close all our lives. Great-Great-Grandmother Melissa said I was a beautiful baby and she hoped to get me dressed as soon as possible so I didn't just freeze over in that cold, cold January. And getting me dressed in clothes waiting for the tiny baby girl was life coming into the house.

Wouldn't we all want to hear beautiful things Ephesians 3 tells us of Heaven and earth families live in Heaven.

God could have chosen May. June. April. God looked at the fullness of His earth and chose for Jesus to arrive when the world is at rest. Bethlehem (below) really does have snow.

God enriched us.
Ephesians 3 says families live in Heaven and on earth. Father God has told us Jesus lived before Abraham. Father God let Jesus live among us as Grace upon Grace. Gifting us with Jesus. How many of us would wish our child to depart fo 33 or 34 years?

How would you react to the news your child was going on a voyage of 33 or 34 years? Would we flash forth lightning?

David writes easily of enemies. Sometimes our enemies are just our own attitudes and fog. Winston Churchill said enemies are a badge of honor. We have stood for something.

Our God has let Jesus become part of the Fullness of His Creation. Would the top video be what God felt like on the First Christmas morning?

This seems like an off the wall idea. The Scriptures are Real.
Our God delights, warms, is enthralled with faith. Rejoices in Hope for the father bringing his son to Jesus after the Transfiguration. God sorrows for the Children of Israel in the Exodus.
God is known to repent of His anger when speaking of His anger. Any Father has anger sometimes. David always trusted in the overflowing Mercy of God.

The Overflowing Mercy of God.

The Parable of the servants with talents. The Servant with the most talents believed the Master was kind. He believed his master to be Just. Jesus fully knows we despair of the Goodness of God. Jesus, His Exact Nature, says impudently pray at the last hour. For what you need. Jesus says even an evil Judge can change His Mind. Jesus is saying God is fully able to bear the honest opinion of the hearts He sees revealed. God did not smite us for any opinion brought to God with our thoughts and prayers.

Several years back, I went to hear a healer pray over us. Father Mike Endicott is from the U.K. and he spoke of earnestly begging God for his flock, for 35 years, to have a crumb of God's glory on pretty common and pretty severe situations in life. Begging God to relent of crushing problems. And, one cold night, Father Mike had a vision of Light spilling through the stained glass window. And the Voice of Father of All. And He said, "Mike, do you feed my sheep?" Yes, Lord God, I try. "Yes, you do." And His Voice continued, "Mike, do you believe that I am a Good Father?" The priest replied with more automation than conviction and said, with a touch of earnestness, he did believe God was a Good Father.

Father God said to Mike, "Then Pray believing I have a Plan and a Hope and Future for all of My Children." And Father Mike became a healer because Miracles began to happen left and right. To believe God is a Good and Willing Father. To believe in the Willingness of  a Good Father.  And still,  yesterday, today and tomorrow only Jesus Christ Heals all.

Psalm 18 assures us. Jesus delights in me. Jesus delights in you.

Abba,
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with God.

All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.


We Thank You for Jesus. His Light Shines and daily mercies renew and we see Him.


The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him.

The Beauty of the earth and the fullness thereof - we find glimpses of Heaven. Thank You for the blessings of this day. This life.

To all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

We are the Beloved of God. Eternity is ours.

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Let the Name of Jesus cover me. God is Love. Let the Name of Jesus cover those I love to Live in His Light. Let the Glory of Jesus Christ and His Name cover this Nation and the Nations coming to His Brightness. And in this Hope see the unborn generation be filled with the fullness of God.

In Jesus Christ. Amen.

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Luke 13:12-20 ~ Healed on those days +

Luke 13:12-20

12 When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, “Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.” 13 Then he put his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God.

14 Indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, the synagogue leader said to the people, “There are six days for work. So come and be healed on those days, not on the Sabbath.”

15 The Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Doesn’t each of you on the Sabbath untie your ox or donkey from the stall and lead it out to give it water? 16 Then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free on the Sabbath day from what bound her?”

17 When he said this, all his opponents were humiliated, but the people were delighted with all the wonderful things he was doing.

18 Then Jesus asked, “What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it to? 19 It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds perched in its branches.”

20 Again he asked, “What shall I compare the kingdom of God to? 21 It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds of flour until it worked all through the dough.”

Christmas Season - time for vibrantly welcoming The Holy Spirit. Placing our efforts in Him. Nourishing our own soul and those around us. Galatians 5 describes a well nourished soul. Stand firm, Jesus Christ has set us free.

The Passage is telling us Sunday Worship is God putting His Hands on us!

For healing, for nourishment, straightening us up. Praising God.

Come and be healed on those days.

To be delighted with the wonder filled things Jesus Christ is doing.

Be Set Free in Jesus Christ.

The Kingdom of God 

is where we

rest in His Branches.

Where we will Grow and 

Stand Firm in Jesus Christ.

His Steadfast Love

spreads through us and in this Blessing

our lives will see

Father God throw open the floodgates of heaven

and pour out so much blessing

there will not be room enough to contain this.

Christmas,  Father God

opens hearts 

to His Love.

This is being fed and nourished in

Worship of our Jesus Christ.

Going to Church

Worshipping Jesus

Singing Carols

is

AMAZINGLY WONDERFUL

TO BRING ALL GOODNESS

to

A BUSY SEASON!

Abba,

We are blessed every day and renewed in Your Willing Blessings. Strengthen us in Love, Joy and Peace, we ask in Jesus. Remembering all You have done for me and for us and Your Power in the Scriptures.

Paul is described in Acts 20L2 He traveled through that area, speaking many words of encouragement to the people.

David knew the Comfort of Your Holy Spirit.

1 Samuel 30:6

David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.

Hebrews 12:12-13

Lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,

and make straight paths for your feet, so

what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.

1 John 5:4

For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world.

And this is the victory that has overcome the world, our faith.

Ephesians 6:10

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.

We will pray knowing You know our prayers before we have labored to say them. We will delight for
Your Love and Works in our lives.

Remembering one of Your Wonders brought to us, treasure in our hearts - now. And we will remember Dee is better and Elliot has had miraculous healing and for his family we will pray for this continued miracle of Yours. Nothing will take Jesus from Elliot. No one will remove Jesus from us, Your Gift to us in Christmas.

And we will feel Your Peace, Your Love and Your Joy as we sing Your Songs. Tidings of Comfort and Joy.

Covering those we Love in Your Son's Name,  Jesus.

In Jesus Christ Alleluia, Allllllleluia,Alllllllellllllluia. Ahhhhmen.

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Matthew 1 ~ Father

Matthew 1

1 The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

2 Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, 3 and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram, 4 and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon, 5 and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse, 6 and Jesse the father of David the king.

And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah, 7 and Solomon the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asaph, 8 and Asaph the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah, 9 and Uzziah the father of Jotham, and Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah, 10 and Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, and Manasseh the father of Amos, and Amos the father of Josiah, 11 and Josiah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.

12 And after the deportation to Babylon: Jechoniah was the father of Shealtiel, and Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel, 13 and Zerubbabel the father of Abiud, and Abiud the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim the father of Azor, 14 and Azor the father of Zadok, and Zadok the father of Achim, and Achim the father of Eliud, 15 and Eliud the father of Eleazar, and Eleazar the father of Matthan, and Matthan the father of Jacob, 16 and Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.

17 So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations.

18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. 19 And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly. 20 But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” 22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet:

23 “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,
and they shall call his name Immanuel”

(which means, God with us). 24 When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him: he took his wife, 25 but knew her not until she had given birth to a son. And he called his name Jesus.

The birth of any child is Father God's.

And every child is the story. We all have genealogy of Father God's children, in each generation, praying for their own children to have the chance to know the love of being a parent. Each child is the culmination of many prayers. Each child will have burdens, victories and flaws.

The Child is born in a barn. His parents, one a foster parent, are unwed. This Child is born with God's Plan of limitations, disasters and miracles. And this is the Will and Plan of God. We will take time to remember this Child went on to Heal them All. God's Plan became Victory in Jesus Christ. We will all remember Jesus said to pray impudently. And Remember the Victory of God.

A Child born in a barn. God of the Impossible. God of Love.

The people chosen by God, would behave less than perfectly. Treasure things in their heart and have doubts and questions, they would even bump up against the Very Will of God and, for a time, misplace God's Son. And God will continue yesterday, today and tomorrow treasure them, treasure us, in His Heart.

1 John 4:7-8

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, 

because God is love.

Abba,

This season, in the last week, we have heard from the doctor my mother is DNR. She is having trouble remembering who is in the room and who is alive. Another family member is elderly and is quite worried about memory loss. A niece has had cancer. The phone has rung for the first time from a family member in two decades to suggest something too difficult. Edward is ill. Our insurance has gone up a thousand dollars a month.

A long time investment has told us rudely to bite it. Another family member cross continent has told us we are to be envied. Edward was has been turned down for Social Security, saying take on menial jobs and be fired in public time and again - for failure to hold the job. Apply again. He shouldn't be subjected to this with a terminal diagnosis. He doesn't do well with pressure. There is pressure.

And really we know in Jesus Christ, we prayed for our Jackson not to suffer and for a time he did. To see the photos is to realize when we suffered for him, he was actually doing alright. I know I will sometimes take on future burdens and make my life a pineapple and try to swallow all of it today. Jackson was doing better than we knew. And when his life was called to end, we gathered the family and for the first, and so far the last time, a Bald Eagle landed on our pond. We all gathered to watch the Eagle. Where the Spirit is, the Body of Christ is Present.

We learn remembering Answered Prayer.
Fear and troubles can bog us down, we should take time to remember Jackson and live the joy of each day. Not borrowing trouble not present. God told us to pray impudently even in the midnight hour.

We will pray for our family to be living in Peace, Love and Joy. And pray this for all families = we know the world prays all day, all night in the Joy of the Lord's Prayer Jesus has given us. And we will find and remember our Blessings.

Blessed to Pray with Expectation for more of God's Will to bring more Heaven to earth. Blessed to ask with Joy, "Give us This Day." Blessed to know daily bread. Blessed to Honor and ask for the Holy Name of Jesus Christ the Lord to cover us all. Blessed to be forgiven, blessed to be forgiving. Blessed to be protected in Jesus Christ. Blessed we know today and for eternity that the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory of God we will see and Rejoice.

Blessed in Jesus yesterday, today and tomorrow. Amen.

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